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[King Zultan]

Glad to hear those have both come out, been waiting for them quite a while now. Gonna need to pirate them find somewhere to watch them.

[scriver]

After spending a decade in the Cryo-Tube, Futurama has defrosted and resumed airing new episodes on Hulu!

Was it good? I'm so leery of restarts/long-since-sequels

[Folly]

We are 6 episodes into the 20 episode eighth season of Futurama. So far reception is generally positive. We've gotten a healthy mix of old story arcs being continued and completely new content being added, all with quality comparable to the previous seasons.


On a related note, Disenchantment just dropped it's entire fifth season! I have way too many shows in my backlog atm, but this is getting pushed close to the top of the list...

[Folly]

Disenchantment has ended with it's fifth season.

Yet another rushed finale, with lots of different story arcs all being pushed to conclude all at once, and several of them coming out far short of their potential.
The Trogs and Scientists on the Moon stuff made absolutely no sense. And the gay orgy cult felt extremely underdeveloped. But mostly I disliked how Bean started the season choosing to forego love in favor of her duty to her kingdom, then ended the season by abandoning her kingdom to the whims of an utterly unqualified minor so that she could retire with her fish girlfriend whom she had known for approximately 2 days. Also, the battle between Bean and her mother amounted to a series of them knocking each other down with blows that appeared deadly but turned out to be completely harmless, until one of the attacks inexplicably decided to stick so that their conflict could be resolved.

So yeah, lots of shortcomings. But at least it's one more show that I can count as being concluded, so I don't have to wait for new seasons any more.

[Folly]

I just finished catching up on Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. We are currently 6 episodes into the 10 episode season which should conclude this month.

Seeing Fionna and Cake as one of the weaker non-canonical subplots from the original show, I was very skeptical that it could be spun into an enjoyable show on it's own. Also, Distant Lands provided a very satisfying conclusion, so I didn't particularly want more. But Adam Muto has really gone all out to bring Fionna and Cake into Adventure Time continuity, and allowed them to revive old unfinished plot lines while also creating whole new elements to breathe fresh life into this world. The music is great, the animation is great, the stories are great, and I'm happy to be engrossed in Ooo all over again.

[Telgin]

I randomly started watching the SWAT Kats series last week, and boy there's so much I forgot about it.  The casual nature of magic and supernatural things in the setting really caught me by surprise.  In the first episode, some people dig up a wizard, who immediately summons some reanimated skeletons.  A gunship shows up afterward and the crew are just like, "Oh, skeletons.  Hey you, get back in the ground.  Not going to do that?  Okay."  An they just blast them with ambiguous laser-bullets.

The series is a bit better overall than I remembered, but is also a bit sillier and crazier than I remember.  Also kind of stupid at points.  One episode is literally about a guy with eyes in the back of his head who gets turned into a sludge monster.

[King Zultan]

Been a long time since I last thought about that show, kind of want to see it again now but I'll have to find out where I can watch it first.

[Telgin]

I have it on DVD so I can't really help there.  There's probably a streaming service that hosts it, but I kind of refuse to buy into 10 streaming services so I can't keep track of what's on what.

[King Zultan]

DVDs sound like the way to go, just gotta get a hold of them.

[Folly]

I just finished watching Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix.

A mashup of various Ubisoft IP's, half of which I've never played and the other half I haven't touched in decades, with a title and cover that seem like they're trying way too hard to be cool, I nearly passed on this one. But after hearing some positive feedback I decided to give it a chance.

Captain Laserhawk is honestly a masterwork in subverting viewer expectations. Every time that I thought I had this show figured out, they completely flip the script and turn everything upside down. Those 6 short episodes were a nonstop thrill ride of twists and turns, and I absolutely loved every minute!

No word yet on a second season, but the epic finale left the door wide open and I very much hope to see more one day.

[Folly]

Scavengers Reign has concluded it's first season.

I was really hoping for more 'initial impressions'. Like, show the scavengers when they first arrive, and their reactions when they discover various flora and fauna which act in unexpected ways. Instead we just jump straight to the point where they are already bored of the world and just looking to get off of it.

Still an interesting and entertaining show. Just not everything I hoped for.

[Maximum™]

So I've been watching the new season of Rick and Morty and honestly compared to the last couple of seasons it's great.

Packed full of tons of interesting links to backstory, dumb callback gags, and dare I say a much less toxic vibe than it had been giving off.

Apparently the most recent one is getting panned on imdb or some shit because they took a throwaway gag from early in the show and built an episode around it, but honestly the stupid jokes were great.

Like, not clever or thought provoking, but great in the worst groan inducing pun+dadjoke combo ever sense.

[Folly]

Meh.
I can appreciate a bad premise when writers choose to run with it and turn it into something awesome. But 'Rise of the Numbericons' did not feel that way at all to me. Every bad pun and every plot point, they all felt extremely low-effort, like the writers just took whatever first bad idea popped into their heads and went with it.

[Maximum™]

Normally I'd agree, but for the periodic commentary through the episode about "well, that was easier than I expected" or "so we should just go do this thing to move the plot now?" tickled me.

Plus... the ceiling was poisoned?

[Folly]

I have concluded observing the initial season of Strange Planet, an animated feature about Beings who exist on an orb orbiting a star, where they wear foot-tubes while sipping jitter-juice and mild poisons while perched precariously over an infinite void.

Gratitude for this entertainment.