I definitely grew to miss that really dark aesthetic of the early seasons. I remember a later episode where they're with Rowena rounding up souls in this suburban Canadian neighborhood and it was so bright outside. Like distractingly so.

(It was also one of the few episodes that was very obviously in Canada because the street signs were unlike any I'd seen in the US. But I digress)

I'm a Tolkien fan, a stupidly obsessive one with the reddit history (complete with pathetically obscure Tolkien reference of a username) to prove it and I like it well enough (not all of it, eg anything Sauron was a big meh, but enough) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Didn't even get a Kit Kat. Fuck off with the 'actual fans' gatekeeping twattery.

I remember back when it was cancelled people were praying that SciFi would pick it up. I think it would have been a good fit for them.

Yep, exactly what Chris Carter intended. Despite him not knowing how to finish the myth arc, he made the right call regarding how the show should look and feel.

Those first 5 seasons are so great to me, too, cause I’m from the PNW and having a show set/filmed in that area just gives it that extra mood. Anytime I drive through Tillmook forest I think of some of the X-Files episodes that take place out in the middle of nowhere. It’s even better at night: no streetlights, dark forest on both sides of a windy road. Always makes me think just for a moment I’m gonna turn a corner and come across some cryptid or alien encounter.

Yeah, Galadriel 'In him [Fëanor] she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared, though she did not perceive that the shadow of the same evil had fallen upon the minds of all the Noldor, and upon her own' of the house of Finwë would never make that mistake.

One of these things is not like the others...

Extremely good? I mean come on. They are OK. Its a good thing to have on in the background while you're doing something else. Its B level quantity over quality television, which is fine. There's nothing really outstanding about it. Its entertaining enough, but the writing, acting, cinematography, are all pretty meh.

But you have those rare examples like Lost or Heroes. Kings was a show along those same lines, with a mythology. I guess the ratings just weren’t there. The show wasn’t perfect but it was so different and I just wanted to learn more about the world they were building. Definitely a show where I wish I could visit some alternate timeline where they ended up making 5 seasons or so of it.

Exactly. Galadriel's family (including Galadriel herself) are the people who were mad enough to cross the equivalent of the Arctic on foot rather than simply ask forgiveness of the Valar and return to Valinor. And then early Second Age Galadriel herself is the woman who's seen more or less her entire paternal family die as a result of said pride, and is the only survivor (except for maybe one insane cousin) out of her entire generation of 10/11 cousins + 3 brothers... and still says 'eh, nope, still not going to ask the gods for forgiveness or heed their advice!' The show just dramatised her hubris.

The only time I watch any PGA golf (not this LIV crap) is the back nine on the last day. Just get me to that point and I'll tune in.

One of my favorite episodes. I watched it when it aired and loved that they were willing to take a risk with making a gritty, grim, brutal episode. There was really nothing like it at the time. Even rewatching the show now it’s kind of a shocker cause the rest of the episodes are pretty tame in comparison. If it came out today it’d be tame compared to shows like Hannibal.

Plus, you got Scully quoting the sheep from Babe which always cracks me up.

So, what I get is that ChatGPT with all its faults, it's already as creative as a network exec.

Cheers, Taxi, The Office, Fawlty Towers

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Alec Baldwin slapped a crumpet.

I'm an actual fan and I quite enjoyed it. Read through the main series every 2-3 years and have read The Silmarillion twice.

I rewatched the remastered season one on BluRay after getting an OLED TV in December. Holy crap it looks so good.

Would love for a 4K scan of the series to come out with HDR cause I bet it’d look amazing. Maybe with this year being the 30th anniversary they’ll announce something? Doubtful, but one could always hope.

You know this show will probably outlast Zaslav's term at WBD, lol.

For streaming, they swapped it with Backwater Rising by Tom Coerver.

https://www.tunefind.com/show/supernatural/season-1/5260

Since when does Rings of Power criticism get downvoted on reddit?

Seriously, have you seen the comments in this thread?

World wide game changer in television? Dial back the PR speak a bit.

OP didn't say bring it back for seven more seasons, they said it might be fun to do a handful of special episodes. Obviously if Julia/Armando had the itch and good ideas too. It doesn't necessarily have to be a cash grab.

I too am wary of how seemingly every new show has to be attached to an existing IP but I don't think a wholesale rejection of that makes sense either, especially when "new" stuff can also be "corporate bland mediocre" as well.

It is the show the show runner made..

No it wasn't. It was moronic.

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