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[Raid]

I'm not normally excited for revivals of classic sitcoms, but I'm at least optimistic for this one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7gdr65x0o

I re-watched the entire series of Malcolm in the Middle a couple of years ago, and it absolutely still stands up because of how amazing Cranston and Kaczmarek are in it.

[Animalmother]

And on an unrelated note, a new anthology series by the creators of Love, Death and Robots is coming to Prime in December. It's called Secret Level, and it's a set of stories based on well-established game franchises.



There's a bunch of properties mentioned; Warhammer, God of War, Unreal Tournament, D&D, Spelunky and Pacman, of all things. It doesn't appear to be stories contained entirely within each game's own setting - there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of Kratos walking through what looks like a relatively modern city.

I think this is quite exciting, it's a chance for fairly popular franchises to have a beautifully animated adaptation, but without the need to sustain an entire series. How much they'll intermingle is something I'm curious about though; I've never seen Ready Player One, but I understand people criticised it for just throwing recognisable elements in without any real care for why people loved them in the first place, and that's not the kind of stuff I'd really want to see more of.

Anybody else started watching this yet? I LOVED the Warhammer 40k episode.

Watched the first 3 episodes. I found the first, the D&D one to be bland pish. Looked great but everything else was awful. The second was better although I'm not sure what it was based on. The third with Arnie doing the voice was great, very funny and again looked amazing.

[Raid]

I watched the first couple at the weekend. The D&D one was a strange choice to lead a new short-story anthology series given that there's no way you can do justice to D&D in quarter of an hour. The second, based on Sifu, is a pretty niche reference to carry a second episode. I haven't watched further, I think the third is based on something I played the beta of (didn't think much of it) and have absolutely no knowledge of the story or setting (it's a fantasy MMO), and I'm tempted to just skip it. I definitely want to watch the Unreal Tournament and Warhammer 40K ones, probably the Armored Core one as though I know nothing of the series, Big Robots = Good.

I was genuinely quite excited when this series was revealed, but the reality is that if you've no interest (or prior knowledge) in the property it's based on, it doesn't really work. They're just not long enough to get you invested by themselves - I was expecting 30-45 minutes worth, but some of them are barely ten minutes long if you take out the intro and credits.

[Animalmother]

The 3rd one might be based on New World maybe? That doesn't matter, I had no idea what it was and still really enjoyed it. It's genuinely funny.

Looking forward to the 40K one, think I might have seen a brief gif of it an that was just pure Warhammer carnage.

[Mantis]

The Warhammer one is pretty much just murder from start to finish. It is very slick animation though, very fun to watch.

I feel like this isn't really as strong as the Love, Death and Robots series, which I absolutely loved. It seems to be in an awkward place where the episodes aren't long enough for fans to really feel satisfied and are too short for people with no idea of the franchise to really get a grasp of what's what. I think being confined to the setting of a game franchise is quite limiting for them, considering how seriously cool some of the stuff on LDR was.

[Alan]

"Alien: Earth 27 years post-Prometheus in the franchise timeline, instead taking place just two years prior to the events of the original Alien."

So it's going to be super small scale on an island that gets nuked at the end to cover it up. I feel this is yet another crap addition to a story that should have died with Ripley.

[Animalmother]

"Alien: Earth 27 years post-Prometheus in the franchise timeline, instead taking place just two years prior to the events of the original Alien."

So it's going to be super small scale on an island that gets nuked at the end to cover it up. I feel this is yet another crap addition to a story that should have died with Ripley.

The timeline of this franchise is completely fucked now. I did actually enjoy Romulus but everything that came out after Alien 3 has been a waste of effort.

[Hatredsheart]

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