What Are You Watching Now

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Full House with the kids on Hulu. Watched some Star Trek: Enterprise earlier. On the fourth season now and Jared is right, the writing gets bad.

It was already canceled by this point - clearly the writers didn't care anymore.

That makes sense, it really feels that way.

See, I felt it was dead by Season 3 and stopped watching.

yeah I hated the Xidi war... I had high hopes for season 4, but when they announced the final season before season 4 started, I knew it would blow.

Yeah, the Xidi war was SO dumb.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Full House with the kids on Hulu. Watched some Star Trek: Enterprise earlier. On the fourth season now and Jared is right, the writing gets bad.

It was already canceled by this point - clearly the writers didn't care anymore.

That makes sense, it really feels that way.

See, I felt it was dead by Season 3 and stopped watching.

yeah I hated the Xidi war... I had high hopes for season 4, but when they announced the final season before season 4 started, I knew it would blow.

Yeah, the Xidi war was SO dumb.

I think they thought that a Dominion-like war would increase viewership, like it did for DS9. ehhh wrong.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Full House with the kids on Hulu. Watched some Star Trek: Enterprise earlier. On the fourth season now and Jared is right, the writing gets bad.

It was already canceled by this point - clearly the writers didn't care anymore.

That makes sense, it really feels that way.

See, I felt it was dead by Season 3 and stopped watching.

yeah I hated the Xidi war... I had high hopes for season 4, but when they announced the final season before season 4 started, I knew it would blow.

Yeah, the Xidi war was SO dumb.

I think they thought that a Dominion-like war would increase viewership, like it did for DS9. ehhh wrong.

That it was a clear repeat, done badly, made it so much worse.

coliver

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

It gets better, too. A LOT better in Season two. It's like they realized that the jokes would wear thin and that they had an opportunity to blow Star Trek out of the water in serious sci fi and went for it.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

It gets better, too. A LOT better in Season two. It's like they realized that the jokes would wear thin and that they had an opportunity to blow Star Trek out of the water in serious sci fi and went for it.

While I'm not completely in sync with Scott here - I agree, season two is much better. I'm glad to see much of the crap/toilet humor gone.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

It gets better, too. A LOT better in Season two. It's like they realized that the jokes would wear thin and that they had an opportunity to blow Star Trek out of the water in serious sci fi and went for it.

While I'm not completely in sync with Scott here - I agree, season two is much better. I'm glad to see much of the crap/toilet humor gone.

I guess I need to add this to my list of things to watch.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm a few episodes into The Orville. It's really enjoyable so far. Seth MacFarlane may actually be the weakest actor in the show. The humor is decent and not over the top (like Family Guy or American Dad) and it feels much more like a Star Trek show then some of the recent ones.

It gets better, too. A LOT better in Season two. It's like they realized that the jokes would wear thin and that they had an opportunity to blow Star Trek out of the water in serious sci fi and went for it.

While I'm not completely in sync with Scott here - I agree, season two is much better. I'm glad to see much of the crap/toilet humor gone.

Yeah, that stuff was funny for fifteen minutes, then got old. But they seemed to realize it pretty quickly. They still get little jokes in here and there, but the main plots and stories really go deep which is nice. And they seem to tackle head on a lot of what Star Trek got wrong or was afraid to cover.

scottalanmiller

Stuff coming to Netflix on February 1st...

About a Boy
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
As Good as It Gets
Billy Elliot
Black Sea (Feb. 16)
Final Destination
Hairspray
Hostel
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Jaws: The Revenge
Pretty in Pink
NEW ORIGINAL SERIES – Russian Doll (watch the trailer here)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Feb. 16)
The Edge of Seventeen
NEW ORIGINAL MOVIE – Velvet Buzzsaw (watch the trailer here)

scottalanmiller

And to Hulu...

The Big Lebowski
The Bourne Ultimatum
Cabin Fever
Caddyshack
Caddyshack II
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dazed and Confused
Escape from Alcatraz
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Legion, Season 2
License to Kill
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Mystic Pizza
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Royal Tenenbaums
Space Jam
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Thelma & Louis
Three Identical Strangers (Feb. 26)
Unforgettable
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2
Wedding Crashers
While You Were Sleeping

scottalanmiller

And finally, to Prime...

Along Came Polly
Foolish
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Little Miss Hoover
Marathon Man
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Blues Brothers
The Border Legion
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Portrait of a Lady
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Violent Years
Thelma & Louise
Unforgettable
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2