The Netflix Thread
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Harshaw
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I get bored with these documentaries. I was kind of excited for that Age of Samurai thing, but it ended up being like this.
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Kirun
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I thought Age of Samurai was awesome. I knew about some of the Nobunaga/Oda clan stuff, but I had no idea about the whole invasion of Korea thing.
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The Searchers is fantastic. Used to watch it at least once a year with my step dad who passed away recently. Was his favorite movie.
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spronk
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saw about 20 mins of Irregulars, the TV show about Sherlock Holmes street urchin information squad. Watson is a handsome young black man. The "gang" consists of a 17 year old asian girl, her sister a white girl, and her two step brothers a black guy and a pasty white guy. They are all super clean, can read and write, and talk back to the Prince of England without getting flayed alive. Its hilariously bad, like a CW teen drama crossed with Hamilton and Downton Abbey.
There is absolutely no way any 30+ year old adult could stick with it, but it is pretty fascinating to see as an insight into what young adults want in entertainment. A rewriting of history so that every time period is full of racial equality, there is no racism or sexism, women are treated the same as men by everyone, and power is never abused openly, only in the shadows. Its amazing to me that history is being erased of the fact that for most of history, most people got treated like absolute shit.
On the positive side Ip Man 1-4 is on Netflix, and is really great
There is absolutely no way any 30+ year old adult could stick with it, but it is pretty fascinating to see as an insight into what young adults want in entertainment. A rewriting of history so that every time period is full of racial equality, there is no racism or sexism, women are treated the same as men by everyone, and power is never abused openly, only in the shadows. Its amazing to me that history is being erased of the fact that for most of history, most people got treated like absolute shit.
On the positive side Ip Man 1-4 is on Netflix, and is really great
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Gavinmad
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faille
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You know Sherlock Holmes if fiction too right? You're annoyed that one person's made up version of history doesn't align with another person's made up version of history.
Neither is going to be accurate, and we'll probably never know to what degree.
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spronk
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I'd prefer escapism in the future (Star Trek) to show what we can achieve, not to escapism the past so people don't forget how shitty life was before us. Its hard to argue about facts if we create a million versions of the past but its pretty much too late now anyways.
i get it though, no 20-something would want to watch a tv show where a group of young white boys solve mysteries for Sherlock Holmes and any women on screen is beat up or sexually assaulted, and the nobility is all white and weird looking and kill, torture, murder, and rape anyone they want with zero consequences. But that is reality.
i get it though, no 20-something would want to watch a tv show where a group of young white boys solve mysteries for Sherlock Holmes and any women on screen is beat up or sexually assaulted, and the nobility is all white and weird looking and kill, torture, murder, and rape anyone they want with zero consequences. But that is reality.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Give it 50 or 100 years and we will get the replay of the above.
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Then they can make up their own version of history that doesn't include someone else's made up character. We've said it countless times in these threads, don't call something by a recognizable name just to trick people into watching it, if you have no intention of actually doing right by it. Make up your own fucking character or world, and let it stand on its own, if you think your idea is so much better than the one you stole it from. Make a black Sherlock clone if you really want, but don't call him Sherlock Holmes. To me, that just shows you have zero faith in your own abilities without that extra boost from the established franchise.
Shit like this is how you get a giant iguana called Godzilla, and piss off hordes of fans.
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spronk
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the first episode of the Lost Pirate Kingdom is pretty bad, like a college level drama play in terms of costumes, production, acting, etc. If you can push past that its ok, some interesting pirate trivia and history but obviously Black Sails or the various pirate podcasts are infinitely better.
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