Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files?

• LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For example, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are two series I could watch on repeat. Absolutely solid.

  First few seasons of Orange is the New Black (really ran out of steam after that imo)

  Now, sci-fi specifically … it’s been a while since I’ve seen a good one. Some people I know really, really like The Expanse, though for me it just didn’t connect. Black Mirror is hit and miss, but when it hits, it’s amazing (the stinker episodes are real stinkers though).

  I mean … Game of Thrones. Just not the finale lol

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  • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Expanse

    Funny, this is another one of those shows I hated after watching an episode.

    maybe it’s me. maybe I should move on to maybe comics or cartoons or something idk anymore

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Expanse spent the first three episodes setting things up; it got much better after that, although eventually it stopped being as good to me; kind of like Battlestar Galactica in the day.

      Give The Expanse another try; it does truly get good before it gets derivative in later seasons.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t have Netflix anymore, but there are some good cartoons on it. I can’t recommend Kipo enough.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      S1 is good, though a bit rough imo. Later seasons (after Bezos bought the rights, said “finish the story”, and threw money at it to make it happen) do have a much more polished feel. Overall, I found it to be a very good adaptation of the source material.

      The books are excellent - can’t recommend them enough.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of people didn’t like season 1 of the Expanse (I enjoyed it) and said it got much better after that. I will say the Amazon seasons aren’t too great either as it looked and felt more like a low-budget soap opera.

      Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad were both made by Vince Gilligan who worked on X-Files as well so they’re a good choice assuming you’re one of the few who haven’t already seen them.

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  • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    edit2: I hate HATE HATE game of thrones with a passion, I gave it a shot twice! (2x) What’s worse is the entirety of society gaslighting you into it not being an awful show.

    Admit got is no-where near as good a time as x-files. I just watched a humanoid leech escaping through a system of sewers. I witnessed alien abductions. Intrigue within the fbi. Secret allies, even more secret conspirators and classified government units on even more classified government missions.

    got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

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    • Skavau@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…

      It has nothing in common with Xena other than being in the fantasy genre.

      You may not like GOT, but that doesn't make it awful.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It also relies on a great deal of tits to sell itself.

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      • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are right, my dislike of GOT in no way makes it an awful show

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Things like good an awful are subjective, so yeah. Sometimes I feel like a lot of people insist something is good based on their own connection to the media, but nothing is really objectively good or bad.

      People warned me against playing Final Fantasy 15, the critics trashed it, yet it’s one of my favorite games in the franchise.

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      • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        what’s so great about final fantasy 15?

        why in the world are there 15 games in that series???!??

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  • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tried Breaking Bad - hated it. I never gave Better Call Saul a chance as there is nothing that seemed promising about it. I guess I could watch an episode of Better Call Saul, I just don’t see this being a good idea. Now I can’t hate it because I never watched, it once I watch an entire episode, I have a hunch I won’t remain so indifferent… :/

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It might not be your thing, and that’s okay.

      Like I said, I’m surrounded by people who love The Expanse, yet it just isn’t my thing.

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      • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah it’s the worst when you hate something and society insists it’s the best thing since sliced bread…

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• Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Firefly. Watch the one season before the Movie. Then there are 8 novels now and comics by both Dark Horse & BOOM! Much disagreement about BOOM!'s but they got canceled too. It’s at least critical to read up on Wash’s family history and more, I think, but whatever.

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  • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    why ty, I will give firefly a try.

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    • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You likeitt enough, gimmie a buzz and we’ll set up signal and video chat you into participating the original board game.

      Here in a couple months or so I’ll be excited to do exactly that as the decade celebration of the original publish of the game has been conducted to issue an upgrade with minor extension elements, a make on quality parts for the game, and some extra things like options for player ships and whatnot.

      Thentherec’s Firefly: Adventures which is a co-op game I got a friend who is excited to learn and play as I am seeing as we haven’t gotten to do so successfully yet. I have all the extensions and all that for everything too.

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