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Hopefully The Walking Dead Season 7 Will Be Known As The Lost Season!

Hey do you like shows where things happen, people grow, and mysteries form?  Well then you shouldn’t watch The Walking Dead Season 7.  It was sooo booooring.  We all knew the whole season that Rick’s gang would get all the settlements together to battle the Saviors, but they managed to do it in the slowest and least interesting way possible.

It starts out with Rick lost and unsure.  Only knowing that if he gets stuff for Negan that his people will live.  It turns out his people hate that idea, so they keep getting killed anyway, or at the very least talked to by Negan for long amounts of time.  Which is like getting killed.  We did loose a few people we didn’t care about.  This goes on for the first half of the season.  It is slow and dumb.  Then the second half is about Rick finding guns and people to fight Negan.  This is also slow and dumb.

Finally in the last episode they fight Negan, kind of, but of course Negan gets away, so I am guessing they are going to build up for a full season again until the ‘war’ happens.  Sure the last episode was fun because something actually happened, and it showed what this series is capable of, but it was terrible that we had to wait through the entire season to get there.

I am hopping that the producers are listening to their fans and their dwindling viewer numbers and start doing something interesting.  That way we can all just forget that season seven ever happened.  It was bad, and worse still, bad in the most boring way possible.  Please get interesting again The Walking Dead!

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The Paladin vs The Iron ZZZzzzzzz

Shmee is recovering from his night with Neil Gaiman (PHRASING!) so I’ve decided to actually write my review of Netflix’s Iron Fist.

It’s OK.

Now what to talk about?

Fine, I’ll tell you more. I went into this show knowing the reviews weren’t great, but I had read a few that gave me some hope that Marvel’s Kung Fu Master would be a worthy entry in the NMU (Netflix Marvel Universe). While both Daredevil Season 2 and Powerman weren’t as good as Daredevil Season 1 or Jessica Jones, they had that certain something that made you keep watching. Iron Fist does not have that certain something.

People have wanted to blame Finn Jones’ portrayal of Danny Rand, rich white kid, turned plane crash survivor, turned child forced to learn kung-fu, turned The Living Weapon, turned rich white guy again and while his performance isn’t perfect it is the best one can do with the character as he was written.

Danny Rand or the Iron Fist seem to change from episode to episode or even from scene to scene. There are moments were he is a standout character, like at the beginning when he’s shoeless and just wanting to talk to the Meachum’s. Then he’s the conflicted The Living Weapon. Now he’s in an insane asylum. Now he’s Buddhist. Now he’s suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. The character is far too scattered to make any sense.

The writers in wanting to not stray too far from the mold tried to shoehorn comic book ideas into a more gritty and broken NMU character and it neither makes him interesting or different from the other three. Iron Fist had the potential to be the more wild and free one, the CW’s Flash to the CW’s Arrow if you will.

Of course character and plot could have been ignored if the Kung-Fu had been excellent. I’m talking about Danny just walking down the street and getting jumped by a gang for no reason in the middle of the episode; just to have a fight scene. Iron Fist should have reveled in the Kung-Fu origin of the character and just had him fighting all the time, in all sorts of place. Danny’s eating soup at the soup kitchen? BAM! Fighting off the local toughs because they’re taking food from an old man. Iron Fist listening to his iPod in central park? BAM! Ninjas! The fights would be wild, constant, and at the end of it Danny would shrug his shoulders and move on.

Instead we got only a few fight scenes, usually very slow and not very interesting.

The rest of the cast do a great job though, so its worth watching it for them for the most part. Their characters also don’t seem to know who they are, except Clair Temple, she’s knows what’s up. But Jessica Henwick, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, David Wenham, and Carrie Ann Moss all do their best with what they have.

About five episodes in I wasn’t sure I wanted to finish the show, but my wife actually enjoyed it and kept turning it on as soon as the kids were in bed. I’m glad I finished it, but I’m not sure I want more adventures with the Iron Snoozefest by himself. Hopefully he and all the others come together in an epic adventure in The Defenders.

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Legion Is My Favorite Show So Far This Year!

I am kind of mad.  Because besides Archer I never had a reason to watch FX, but now I can’t wait for the next season of Legion.  It was finally an X-Men show/movie about that wasn’t about superheroes.  It was just about mutants trying to figure out how to live in a hostile world.  Sure there was some hero-y stuff, but that is mostly because they have cool powers and they need to use them from time to time because bad people want to hurt them.

Another great part of the show is that because of David’s mutation and his disease Legion is unendingly weird and trippy.  It is like they let Stanley Kubrick take a crack that the superhero genre.  Every episode had something cool to show us, and because it was only eight episodes long it was relatively light on filler.

While this is definitely Dan Stevens’/David’s show, Aubrey Plaza as Lenny stole every episode she was in.  She was incredibly watchable.  The rest of the cast was delightful as well.  Though I did feel that Rachel Keller as David’s love interest Sydney could have used more to do.  However, she did serve as a good fill in for the audience taking in all the crazy things happening around her.  A non-comedic straight-man if you will.  Because things really did get super nuts.

We have twelve long months before Legion is back on the air, and now I have to figure out how to keep FX as part of my cable package.  Whereas before I could have lived without it, and they are making another X-Men show to compliment this one!  Curse you good TV!!!!!!!!  Oh well, I might as well enjoy it.  Queue the X-Men theme!

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Here Is The First Trailer For The New MST3K!

MST3K has been off the air for eighteen years, but that is about to change!  With a new cast and a new channel (platform?), they are ready to make fun of terrible movies for our delight, and I for one cannot wait.  Check out the trailer above then start counting down the days until April 14th!

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The American Gods TV Show Looks A Lot Like The Book!

There used to be a time when you wondered if they would dare to put everything from a book in to a TV show or a movie, not anymore.  All the crazy and horrifying things from American Gods seemed to have made their way to the small screen for the upcoming Starz TV series.  It looks a lot like what I imagined it would look like (for better or worse).  A word of warning, the trailer has no age restriction, but it really should.