slowly watching Star Trek Discovery...a little faster with Babylon Berlin
Well, I've seen up through episode 6 ("Lethe") of Star Trek Discovery now, which I'm watching with my dad...
...And on Netflix my mom and I are watching Babylon Berlin.
Both good, but different sorts of shows. I'll put my comments under separate cuts here if you're worried about being spoiled for one thing, but not the other? Or something like that- I don't have any intent to be specifically spoilery here, but just in case.
When my dad and I sit down to watch an episode of Star Trek Discovery, we do it together/simultaneously. I'm sure you've seen some photo of our living room that shows the small, square table I draw at lot these days/months/years. Well, I set the iPad there and sit on one of the pillows like usual and my dad sits on a pretty wooden seat my mom bought him for Christmas, which puts us at comfortably different heights to watch at once.
I thought the real, creepy, horror-esque feeling they gave the salvage mission on the destroyed USS Glenn was very effective.
I'm not as involved in the details of all the Klingon stuff yet, but because what's happening onboard/adjacent to Discovery is so compelling, I'm certainly willing to give it time to grow on me.
Discovery definitely wants to be like...I want to say the "HBO Star Trek" but it's obviously waaaaaay more sedate than many a show I've watched from HBO*. *my dad thinks the intro of Discovery looks very much like Westworld's
I mean, you definitely don't know who might be killed off? And, uh, so much for professional boundaries/chain of command, huh, Admiral Cornwell? XD; Ultimately I was most rattled by Tilly's 'so fucking cool' remark though? I was surprised. It jolted me out of my immersion a bit... So, sure, creepy stuff, violence, death, (implied) sex, allegories to real world issues...all fine by me but once the language gets to a certain level?! XD; A little less Star Trek-like, I guess.
-basically for me, the story about "Babylon Berlin" went like this...several weeks ago I saw some awesome fanart on Tumblr of the main character (Gereon Rath), a police detective and veteran of WWI. "Hey, what is this fanart of?" I wondered, "Oh, it's a German TV show- that's pretty neat."
Then, I don't know at the very beginning of February, I saw it listed on Netflix as 'new' and remembered what I'd seen. "You want to watch this with me?" I asked my mom. "And we could talk about it together? :D"
She agreed and so we've been watching an episode a day basically, but what's funny about this is that we don't watch 'together' like my dad and I do? Sometimes we're both watching in bed at night, but on separate devices and in separate bedrooms... And sometimes she watches an episode in the afternoon and then I catch up at night...
I know it's based to some degree on some novels, but I don't want to look up anything too much and spoil myself. Here is a general article about it from NPR.
I think it's a very well-written show. You know, a character is walking and her shoes are making a loud sound and she's going to try and sneak around. "Ohhh, take off your shoes," I think and...she does!
The costumes are beautiful and there's some amazing dancing at the clubs (some very talented extras were hired for this show, I'll tell you!).
I love the weird, almost hallucinatory opening sequence- it's like a kaleidoscope? It says 'Babylon
Berlin'in the middle (almost arranged like a clock) as different images and colors fill the four sort of sections around it and it keeps changing colors...until it almost...explodes-like at the end? It suits the...temperament?/tone? of the show very well.
...And on Netflix my mom and I are watching Babylon Berlin.
Both good, but different sorts of shows. I'll put my comments under separate cuts here if you're worried about being spoiled for one thing, but not the other? Or something like that- I don't have any intent to be specifically spoilery here, but just in case.
When my dad and I sit down to watch an episode of Star Trek Discovery, we do it together/simultaneously. I'm sure you've seen some photo of our living room that shows the small, square table I draw at lot these days/months/years. Well, I set the iPad there and sit on one of the pillows like usual and my dad sits on a pretty wooden seat my mom bought him for Christmas, which puts us at comfortably different heights to watch at once.
I thought the real, creepy, horror-esque feeling they gave the salvage mission on the destroyed USS Glenn was very effective.
I'm not as involved in the details of all the Klingon stuff yet, but because what's happening onboard/adjacent to Discovery is so compelling, I'm certainly willing to give it time to grow on me.
Discovery definitely wants to be like...I want to say the "HBO Star Trek" but it's obviously waaaaaay more sedate than many a show I've watched from HBO*. *my dad thinks the intro of Discovery looks very much like Westworld's
I mean, you definitely don't know who might be killed off? And, uh, so much for professional boundaries/chain of command, huh, Admiral Cornwell? XD; Ultimately I was most rattled by Tilly's 'so fucking cool' remark though? I was surprised. It jolted me out of my immersion a bit... So, sure, creepy stuff, violence, death, (implied) sex, allegories to real world issues...all fine by me but once the language gets to a certain level?! XD; A little less Star Trek-like, I guess.
-basically for me, the story about "Babylon Berlin" went like this...several weeks ago I saw some awesome fanart on Tumblr of the main character (Gereon Rath), a police detective and veteran of WWI. "Hey, what is this fanart of?" I wondered, "Oh, it's a German TV show- that's pretty neat."
Then, I don't know at the very beginning of February, I saw it listed on Netflix as 'new' and remembered what I'd seen. "You want to watch this with me?" I asked my mom. "And we could talk about it together? :D"
She agreed and so we've been watching an episode a day basically, but what's funny about this is that we don't watch 'together' like my dad and I do? Sometimes we're both watching in bed at night, but on separate devices and in separate bedrooms... And sometimes she watches an episode in the afternoon and then I catch up at night...
I know it's based to some degree on some novels, but I don't want to look up anything too much and spoil myself. Here is a general article about it from NPR.
I think it's a very well-written show. You know, a character is walking and her shoes are making a loud sound and she's going to try and sneak around. "Ohhh, take off your shoes," I think and...she does!
The costumes are beautiful and there's some amazing dancing at the clubs (some very talented extras were hired for this show, I'll tell you!).
I love the weird, almost hallucinatory opening sequence- it's like a kaleidoscope? It says 'Babylon
Berlin'in the middle (almost arranged like a clock) as different images and colors fill the four sort of sections around it and it keeps changing colors...until it almost...explodes-like at the end? It suits the...temperament?/tone? of the show very well.