The pictures are an angel and a demon from the Amazon Prime series "Good Omens", if you were wondering.
Is it worth watching? I'm not sure what kind of show it is....I watched about 10mins of the first episode and couldn't get into it. Couldn't figure out if it was fantasy, comedy, comedy-horror, or something else. It felt weird. An angel and demon meet up and chat about the apocalypse?
Does it get better?
The first season is incredible. Tennant and Sheen have an amazing chemistry together and they're both phenomenal actors. The story is very Pratchetty if you're familiar with his work. Second season is a bit so-so but still good, mostly because I didn't really like the ending.
I concur, first season was incredible, one of the best series I've watched in the last few years. And it had a real ending + finished storyline: no aggravating cliffhangers or loose ends, no endless milking or filler episodes to uselessly extent the viewtime, just a very good finished story that never left me bored. This feels so rare these days.
I'm now watching the 2nd series and so far it's been so so indeed. I'm not very far yet though.
Yeah the second season honestly felt a bit like a fan fict. Not bad, per se, just an excuse to keep using the characters but nothing new in terms of message.
Probably nothing to be done about that with Pratchett's death.
yeah it was absolutely a fan fic, but tbh I'm still glad it was made! If you have the time and money to create a work of art (that isn't meant to just be a cashgrab) flipping go for it, and Neil clearly had fun making it, and brining the shipping crowds to their knees lmao
Apparently the sequel was planned by Pratchett and Gaiman a while ago. Season two only took some elements of it, and the rest of it should be what season three is about. I trust Gaiman to make it work.
IF we get a season three. It hasn't been renewed yet, and won't be until after the actors strike, if it is renewed. But, Gaiman has promised that if a season three doesn't happen on TV, he'll write it as a book, so as to not leave everyone hanging.
I read Diggers as a lad and enjoyed it but I've never bothered to get into his Discworld stuff cos it seems too vast. I'll watch the first two episodes and see if it clicks. Thank you. 👍
While there are many connections between discworld books, none of them are required reading. You can jump in anywhere. I'd recommend starting at Guards! Guards!
It's based on a book by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU Terry Pratchett, you shall be missed) and Neil Gaiman. If you know Pratchett then you know it's mostly going to be an absurdist comedy.
Other works I recommend from Pratchett are Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Guards! Guards!
GNU Terry Pratchett, you shall be missed
My favorite 'intro' to the discworld is Wyrd Sisters, even if it's not the first Granny Weatherwax book. It feels like it's the first one that's really got its footing, and is a fun subversive parody of Macbeth amongst other things.
I definitely enjoyed watching the first two seasons, and will wait eagerly for the next. I'm sure it would be disturbing for someone with fundamentalist Christian views, but the story and humor were right up my alley.
It's comedy, mostly. Not horror at all.
And it's more that an angel and demon who are friends (because they've spent so much time on Earth they felt they ended up having more in common with each other than their own side), and upon finding out about the approaching apocalypse, decide to try to avert it (without actually going against their own side) because they don't want Earth to end, as regardless who wins The Final Battle, it will suck.
The book is better. Good TV and good acting. But the book is so good.
I think it gets better, but it is a bit of a slow burn. It's just a comedy that's a satire on religion and systemic oppression, that uses an angel and a devil being friends to convey that.
I enjoyed it, but I wasn't glued to the screen. I think it's absolutey worth the watch, but it did take an episode or two to gain my interest.
The Powers That Be: "Why do you have that hammer?"
Angry Masses: "To destroy and/or repair the system. Your pick, depending on how cooperative you are."
“The whole fucking city is on fire cause of what you did.”
“I know, isn’t it beautiful?”
We are going to need a whole lot more than pitchforks...
We collect those from fallen enemies. We were taught in the US military that if you are facing an unarmed hostile force that outnumbers you 5:1, you need to retreat and withdraw, as your position will be overrun, and you just armed the hostile force.
Didn't work out so well in tianamen square
Sometimes the only way something can be fixed is by dismantling it first.
You want just the right amount of dismantling to accomplish your goal. Too much, and we create extra unnecessary work for ourselves.
The "Turn it off and back on again" method, which has been in my house nicknamed the "Take out the trash and put it back in." method
One thing y'all gotta understand: the strongest proponents of 'the system' who are not an active controller of that system do not belive there even IS a system.
Every fault, every tragedy, every bit of corruption? They hold it as the fault of an individual who failed only themselves. It's why they took 'bad apple' and 'bootstraps' idioms and misinterpreted them as individual successes and failures, not systemic ones
Title says "Either way is time to sharpen your pitchforks" but depending on where you live the more obvious choice for the Top Picture would be political activism. If you were to live in like China or North Korea, then yeah, Pitchfork Time. If you live in Israel then Pitchfork Time was 3 years ago when you lost your chance to remove Netanyahu peacefully.
And neither can agree on what “the system” once it’s fixed/dismanted should be so the rest of us suffer while the world burns.
The real debacle is between the people who agree that in our nation with such vast resources and technology, everyone should get their basic needs met, and the people who want to live larger than others, and insist some people deserve to die in the streets for not being hard enough workers, or making mistakes, or whatever other bullshit irrational false narrative they come up with to revel in the suffering of others.
The saddest bit to me are all the non-wealthy at all Americans who will fight you to the death for the second one. They refuse to live without an economic class of people to look down on as they drink in the dopamine hit of schadenfreude, watching those suffering human beings, and declaring "good, that's what you deserve for your bad decisions or something, suffer more!"
That's why I agree with you that the world will burn, but why I don't find it that sad in the US with our near univeral punch down attitude. We tell our most victimized citizens to fuck off and die on the sidewalk, we throw them away like the defective capital batteries our owners consider them, so unlike the increasingly rare societies that care for one another rather than worshipping capitalist economic growth/metastasis at all costs, we won't get, nor do we deserve a future.
The systems not broken. It was built this way.
I even wrote a song about it !
I get The Matrix vibe out of this
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