Streaming Services: First 2023 POWER RANKINGS (And what's up with Prime?)

[pukunui]

Touche should have added kids to the MCU/Star Wars stuff.

They have been. Skewing more towards the teenage end of kids but there are some younger ones (like Wanda's boys; all those Asgardian kids in Thor 4, not to mention Love; that new magical child in GotG 3).

Star Wars, again, skews more towards the older kids (e.g. Ezra, Lieda Mothma, etc), but the new Visions series includes some kid heroes, and then there's that whole brand new Young Jedi Adventures series.

 

[Zardnaar]

They have been. Skewing more towards the teenage end of kids but there are some younger ones (like Wanda's boys; all those Asgardian kids in Thor 4, not to mention Love; that new magical child in GotG 3).

Star Wars, again, skews more towards the older kids (e.g. Ezra, Lieda Mothma, etc), but the new Visions series includes some kid heroes, and then there's that whole brand new Young Jedi Adventures series.

Recently TVNZ on demand gas been impressing us. The appkinda sucks but it's free. Star Trek, Halo, Taskmaster, Grand Designs, British comedies.

Amazon has 2-3 shows we lole plus legacy stuff, Disney's pretty much an archive for us. Neither of us care aboutMCU and the TV shows and Eternals kinda sucked.

Haven't watched anything post Eternals or Loki after the shows.

 

[wicked cool]

For me
#1 Criticize Netflix all you want but it has the best interface of all the platforms and when they get a hit it dominates such as Netflix and Bridget ton plus others. They have in my opinion the best standup comedy etc
2 prime-has the Boyz and jack ryan plus I agree with clearly other prime viewers that big promising shows haven’t delivered
3 HBO. Lotus was great along with house of dragon but and I’ll go there for original content only. Search function is awful
4 Disney-I go there for Andor and most Star Wars content plus some marvel but nothing else. Otherwise it’s a little kid channel and I can see why it bleads money. I do like categories for content but mandalorian is the reason it’s viable
5 apple- I just entered the apple ring. Loving Ted lasso it deserves all the praise it gets . Finding foundation to be slow but will get through it. Price is right but interface isn’t great and content is so so
6 Hulu-I’ve watched Boston strangler in the last 6 months. They always have some of the worst movie selections and if I’m searching for a movie it’s desperation time. Original content is poor and in my opinion handmaiden ran its course after it really deviated from the book

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Dig deeper into Apple TV+, @wicked cool. They have very few duds. If the average Prime content gets a C-, the average Apple TV+ content is a B+, which is nice.

But yes, Foundation takes a long time to get where it's going and seems a little unsure of itself, even late in the season.

But Slow Horses, For All Mankind and Schmigadoon, off the top of my head, are all aces.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

But yes, Foundation takes a long time to get where it's going and seems a little unsure of itself, even late in the season.

Foundation is a slow burn at times, but my god, I loved that show by the end.

Then again, ever since watching Halt and Catch Fire, I've been a fan of Lee Pace. And he nails this role. That scene, in the garden (you know the one) .... it still gives me chills.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The three emperors stuff is the kind of stuff you want in your far future science fiction. Life thousands of years in the future should feel different and the imperial storyline was wild, all the way around.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Speaking of Foundation, this looks awesome:

 

[pukunui]

Speaking of Foundation, this looks awesome:

It does look like compelling sci-fi, but it doesn't look anything like the books it is supposedly based on. Reminds me of Jurassic Park II: The Lost World. The movie shares a name with the book but the plot is entirely different.

 

[MarkB]

It does look like compelling sci-fi, but it doesn't look anything like the books it is supposedly based on.

They weren't exactly the easiest tales to adapt. So long as it captures some of the themes of the stories, as the first season did, it'll maintain my interest.

Then again, I quite like I Robot, so take that as you will.

 

[pukunui]

They weren't exactly the easiest tales to adapt. So long as it captures some of the themes of the stories, as the first season did, it'll maintain my interest.

Indeed, although it's really only book one that is hard to adapt to television. A more faithful adaptation could be in the vein of a Jackson Lord of the Rings / Hobbit film with the bulk of book one summarized in an historical intro providing context and then the bulk of the series could focus on books two and three, which have a more traditional narrative structure and more consistent characters and so on. Basically it would be the story of the Mule and the Second Foundation, with the story of the rise of the First Foundation as background for context purposes.