The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[blakestree]

Watched Castlevania at work earlier and was pretty into it. Super short so it feels like a glorified pilot, but I'm looking forward to them finishing it off with the next 8 episodes soon. Dumb, violent and as cliche'd as you'd want an animated show on Castlevania to be.

Watched the first two episodes.

[Invisible Man]

You just get continually blueballed waiting for action that usually doesn't happen, and when it does, it's really boring.

Yeah, this. Mystical, interdimensional gateway cities? Invincible fists? Don't you think we'd want to see some of that stuff?

[MechaGodzilla]

Watched Castlevania at work earlier and was pretty into it. Super short so it feels like a glorified pilot, but I'm looking forward to them finishing it off with the next 8 episodes soon. Dumb, violent and as cliche'd as you'd want an animated show on Castlevania to be.

It'd be a good 1hr pilot. Why is it so slooooow? I'm kind of hyped for more, but I wouldn't say it's "good" yet.

[MechaGodzilla]

Watched Castlevania at work earlier and was pretty into it. Super short so it feels like a glorified pilot, but I'm looking forward to them finishing it off with the next 8 episodes soon. Dumb, violent and as cliche'd as you'd want an animated show on Castlevania to be.

Watched the first two episodes.

It gets slightly better

[BitchPudding]

NEVER FEAR, TREVOR BELMONT IS HERE

[oscillateur]

I watched Castlevania (just because Warren Ellis wrote the script), and I quite liked it. It's not House of Cards or something like that and it's obviously bounded by the genre and the background of the games series but I think Ellis did a pretty good job at it given these constraints.

[Olin]

For a second I misread th Warren Ellis as soundtrack and was really, really excited to hear the musician get spooky.

[MechaGodzilla]

They got the look of it pretty perfect, actually. The castle and Alucard are the perfect cartoonified versions of the Ayami Kojima artwork

[blakestree]

I love that it's drawn. And, when I saw it was written by Ellis I thought it had to be good. But...

I guess I'll finish watching it.

[The Eristic]

It kinda felt like Vampire Hunter D to me, but then I looked it up and that isn't a coincidence, apparently.

[blakestree]

Finished it. I reckon it did get slightly better.

[ck3]

Vampire Hunter D was way better IMO (though this is probably my anime bias talking). I made it 10 or so minutes into the first episode of Castlevania and felt unable to continue. The art was decent, and the American voice acting wasn't too abysmal, but the pacing was like a bad ADHD simulation. Is there actually any depth or direction at some point in the narrative? This post almost progressed into a tirade about Michel Bay, et al recently shitting on staples of my youth until I recognized a change in perspective since first experiencing Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, etc during childhood. Either way, my inner child still thought Castlevania was crap.

For now, I recently wrapped up the delightfully darker, but somewhat nebulous third season of iZombie, am still plodding through Supergirl, and could almost imagine a drinking game related to CW tropes. Maybe it's time to add some more Wentworth into the mix and an additional Iron Fist supplement, as the first episode of the latter more or less held my interest.

[MechaGodzilla]

This might be old news to most (it's only recently come to UK Netflix) but how disappointing is Archer S8? It's like they had a clean slate to do something completely different, and they go back and tell the same jokes and even mostly the same plot without a coherent story and WAYYY too much Cheryl.

Cheryl is easily the laziest and most annoying character. In a show where MOST of the characters do things for no reason, the writers lean on Cheryl's random acts of chaos to move the plot forward far too much.I say this as someone who fuckin loves Archer seasons 1-6. 7 has its moments but suffers from a lot of the same problems as 8.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Disappointing to hear as I haven't seen it yet. Will still check it out but after the last season and this review I'm not too hopeful

[MechaGodzilla]

It's not terrible, it just feels a long way from prime Archer.