Hopefully, someone knows what I'm talking about.

Here is what I'm certain about: It was an educational show. The three main characters were kids. one older boy, a girl, and a younger boy. they traveled to the past to learn about how things were discovered. One episode I remember was about the discovery of GLASS.

What I think is true but I'm not 100% sure: The older boy was wearing a yellow shirt and blue shorts. the girl was wearing a pink dress, her hair was on two ponytails? and the younger boy was maybe wearing a white and green shirt?? they had to SKATEBOARD?? through the portal.

At the end of each episode they get back to their original place and another discovery the next episode and so on.

So I watched this cartoon with my sister when we were young, early 2000s on a tv channel that was not a kids' channel they just showed some kids' shows at cerin hours of the day. around that time they also aired another cartoon called something Sophie and that show I found to be French in origin so maybe this is the same? idk. Anyway both the cartoon were dubbed in Arabic because it was an Arabic channel (not really famous or widespread) But since they aired these shows I suppose they are known and have been aired on other channels, probably in English.

NOTE: NOT timewarp trio, time squad, or doc eureka, Superbook, or the future is wild (obv).

if you know what I'm talking about help me or If anyone remembers anything similar please share

The advert hit before I found out what was going to happen and I never reached the end. Has been bugging me for a long while, so here I am! Please help!

Feel like I should specify the blue thing wasn't a rat in this show, but was a rat in a movie.

This is referring specifically to the Animation.

Nana does this in both English and Japanese, and as far as I can understand in German as well. No one seemed to point this out or fix this translation.

Nana smells the crepes and asks for one.

The shopkeeper tells her 500 yen.

Nana frantically searches her pockets and bag for 500 yen.

How the fuck does Nana know that yen is money, and it's kept on your person?

2nd of all, why the fuck does Nana not understand the 10,000yen bills in her purse are not money?

How does Nana understand the money situation but does not recognize the enormous amount of cash she has on her?

The scene even shows Nana watching the 2 women drop clearly labeled 500 yen coins, and she clearly looked at the stacks of yen bills in a previous scene.

And another issue....

3rd, How the fuck does Nana know how to start a fire? Why would she even start a fire in a coffee can? How the fuck does she know she needs fire? This is really really weird.

What the fuck were they teaching this poor kid?

Really these 2 situations kinda make me scratch my head.

Thanks for all your help, I don't know how to comment on iPad

I've been a fan for the last year and a half since I ended the books, and I have more or less enjoyed the TV series, although I felt kind of let down by the finale.

Some things that have helped me understand or partially forgive the changes have been the COVID restrictions and Barney Harris departing, both of which I guess affected a lot of their plans. But there is a thing I noticed that also helped me appreciate it a little bit more, and I don't know if it has been brought up elsewhere.

I'm talking about Agelmar and Amalisa, and the parallelism of their story with the fall of Manetheren. I don't know if it is intentional or just a coincidence, but I think it helps tie up a little bit more the season. The fact that he sacrifices on the front line holding as much as he cans, and then she burns out with all the channeling women of the town destroying the invading trolloc army, seems too similar to be a coincidence. Also, them being siblings and not a couple like Aemon and Eldrene does not affect the parallelism in my opinion, as they showed they have a strong bond regardless.

I don't know what do you think, but I hope it helps some of you feel more at ease with the finale and hopeful with what we maybe get on season 2.

He was tired of being pushed around

English isn't my native language (not even my second language).But I do love to watch british series in english and if available with subtitles(not often the case somehow). Imagine my confusion when a unrelated looking 30 year old calls the older women character Mom. Because it didn't happen to often on my viewings (maybe Ma'am isn't that common) I was confused but I put it always aside as me being not attentive enough. Only with the magic of subtitles was I able to understand how much of an moron I was.

Inspirired by the guy who wrote down his excellent thoughts on restructuring the plot of the whole cycle, I thought about how one could structure the plot in different seasons, if a TV series should ever happen. 4 Seasons are not enough for a modern TV show imho. 5-6 seasons is the sweet spot (i.e. Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos). So how could the plot be restructured in a proper way without changing too much but still with great season finales etc.?

My suggestion:

Season 1 should show the plot until Brom's Death. Brom's and Eragon's relationship would have enough time to develop in a proper way and the series could use so many callbacks to these episodes in later seasons. The season could end with a nice cliffhanger: Eragon wakes up imprisoned in Gilead.

Season 2 should start with Eragon's escape from prison with Murtagh's and Saphira's help and should end with Eragon and Saphira arriving in Ellesmera and the revelation of Oromis and Glaedr. The battle under Farthen Dur could be the penultimate episode and the journey to Du Weldenvarden could be shortened drastically. I never understood why this trip took so much chapters, although nothing super important happens. Season 2 should already include Roran's storyline, because it wouldn't be smart to introduce Carvahall in the beginning of the series and then wait for season 3 until we get back there.

Season 3 would be the rest of Eldest, focusing on Eragon's Apprenticeship, the journey of the villagers to Surda (much action as a good contrast to Eragon studying in Ellesmera) and I'd like to see more of Nasuada's storyline when moving to Aberon with the Varden etc. The season could end with the get-togetber of all POV-characters and the battle of the Burning Plains and the Revelation of Murtagh's Fate.

Season 4 would be more or less like Brisingr, although I've never been a fan of the whole storyline of Eragon in Tronjheim during the election of the new dwarf's king. This could be shown in Orik's perspective while Eragon and Saphira stay a little longer in Ellesmera than they do in Brisingr. The whole election of the dwarf's king could be completely removed imho, one would just have to leave out Murtagh killing Hrothgar on the Burning Plains. The time which could be saved through this would be enough to put Brisingr and Inheritance completely in two seasons (4&5). Leaving something from Brisingr out, one could put a little plot of Inheritance already in Season 4. For example one could put Roran

So my brother tonight is sitting down to watch Star Wars IV with his son for the first time and we were talking about shows that we wish we could see again for the first time.

So I ask you, what is the one TV series you wish you could rewatch but with fresh eyes for the first time?

My Top 3

Globally speaking,  2021 wasn't that much better than 2020. And yet, for me, it was a great year both personally and professionally. So here's hoping 2022 won't break the spell.

I've read quite a few spectacular books this year. Here's the list of my ten top reads from 2021. One could say we still have time and things can change BUT I'm currently bingeing Matthew Corbett's series by Robert McCammon and I don't think I'll read anything else before I finish it (3 more books to go). I'll probably listen to one or two audiobooks, though.

Anyway, these are the books that stayed with me and that I can't get out of my head. Hopefully, some of you will find something worth attention here.

I'm happy to hear what made your list of favs in 2021 :) If you've read any of those, have you shared my enthusiasm?

Cover art by Sarah Evenson

1. Last Days by Brian Evenson - Wow. Just wow. Last Days is brilliant, deeply disturbing, and unforgettable. And definitely not for the faint of heart. The story follows Kline, a maimed detective kidnapped by a cult that believes amputations bring people closer to God. It blends body and psychological horror with black humor. In fact, it's way funnier than it has any right to be given the subject matter and brutal narrative.

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2. Speaks The Nightbird (***r/fantasy review***) by Robert McCammon - Speaks the Nightbird is a masterpiece. It's been on my Kindle for a while, but the daunting page count terrified me. Silly (or lazy?) me. It's magnificent. It is one of the best books I've ever read. A slow burn, sure, but with depth, intelligence, and a fascinating story to tell. Despite tackling dark themes and showing both violence and disturbing deviations, it doesn't lack subtle humor and hope. And did I mention it contains mysteries within mysteries and visceral action scenes?

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I’m a long time fantasy fan. I read the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit at a young age and a host of Forgotten Realms books. Some of my all time favorites are the WoT series books.

So when big screen adaptations of the landmark fantasy novels began coming out, I was thrilled. As a general observation, the closer the movies or TV series have stuck to fictional cannon, the greater success they have enjoyed and the more they have been accepted and praised by hardcore fans of the original, written works that put them on the map. Consider the movies produced by Marvel Universe and the Lord of the Rings movies. They stuck to the script, so-to-speak and are huge hits.

I now share the frustration that many readers have while watching Amazon’s WoT series. First, most people, like me, understand that something will be lost in translation when reducing a work of hundreds of written pages to a video format like a television show or a movie. I get that some plot lines will disappear or details may be “tweaked” out of necessity. But what has happened to the WoT in the television series are rewrites that have fundamentally changed the entire series.

Be aware: what you are watching on Amazon is loosely based on Robert Jordan’s works. It does not follow the script. We can speculate about the reasons for some of the changes, but saying that they were made out of necessity would be an immediately obvious misstatement.

Changing races: This is a sensitive issue. Some of the characters’ races have been changed and some people view that as a good thing. While others, like me, just view it as a deviation from the original work of fiction. You could cast Clark Kent as an Asian American in a Superman movie. Clearly there would be mixed feelings about that. In Amazon’s WoT TV series, they made more than a few controversial changes. Consider this: before his death Robert Jordan had described what actors and actresses he thought of as his characters while witing the books. They are:

Rand: a young Ben AffleckMat: James Garner at age 21Perrin: a young Val KilmerEgwene: Audrey Hepburn at age 18Nynaeve: a young Jacqueline BissetAviendha: a young Sophia LorenElayne: Nicole Kidman at age 18 Min:  Isabella RosselliniTuon: Halle BerryMoiraine: Hedy LamarrLan:  Liam Neeson in one of his craggier rolesBirgitte: Lucy Lawless of XenaFaile: Cher at age 19Thom: Patrick Stewart with hairVerin: a young Margaret RutherfordSiuan (after stilling): Renee Zellweger (before appearance change)Gar

now that the show has aired 5 episodes, i would like to give my thoughts on it and see if there are others who feel the same way as i do. not zealous fans and not haters, but some where in the middle :)

EPISODE 1

i always thought it would be nice to see nynaeve and egwene doing women's circle things. but upon seeing the episode, the problem is, it took time a way from the episode for more important things. we could have completely cut the women's circle scene as it does absolutely nothing but some world building for emond's field. where as that time could have better been used for the farewells. rand asking his dad about the sword, lan seeing the sword, tam teaching rand about the flame and the void (we still haven't seen rand practice with the sword 5 episodes in, we still haven't seen him learn about the void and the flame 5 episodes in, like WTF!!!!!), matt saying good bye to his sisters, how he comes to terms with leaving them behind with his deadbeat parents. egwene making her peace to go with them after just losing nynaeve. the farewell scene could have added some world building and a lot of character building for the characters as a whole that impacts them throughout the series rather than the initiation at the start that does almost nothing for the rest of the series. "well it was foreshadowing for egwene learning saidar man" you might say. to which i will reply with, it was pointless because in episode 2 moiraine walks her through that exact thing either way.

PERRIN!

i understand they made him married and killed his wife for the whole weapon vs tool conundrum. great. now he can't get together with faile because what kind of monster dates again within 5 years of accidentally killing his wife let alone a year or 2. yea not his fault, that shit is still traumatizing tho.

now there are 2 ways the showrunners can try and write them selves out of this corner.

A) make her a darkfriend so perrin killing her was fine.

B) use the aelfin/eelfin/dalinar night mother method and now he has no memories of his wife.

these are both really bad game of thrones season 8 levels of bad writing. because it would nullify the impact of perrin killing his wife to a major degree and make the entire scene completely pointles. like it was done for the sake of fake shock value. one of the best things about the first 4 seasons of Game of Thrones was that every action had consequences. you play the game without knowing the rules? you get beheaded, you make a po

Something similar to Peaky Blinders, Hannibal or Breaking Bad would be ideal.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. After much careful consideration I have decided to go with The Wire

Consider this just a rant from an Asimov fan.

The Foundation series are my favorite books ever and I have been telling people about the books since ever.. I own the whole series and it was really an adventure to get since I'm from a city in Mexico where really the reading culture isn't a thing and sci fi books are really rare. I took my time and I read a lot of Asimov online and decided to start my collection, the only book I could find was the Foundation trilogy in Spanish and that's how it started, I fell in love with the books right away and I knew I needed to have the rest, in the next few years I got the whole series from the US and SPAIN, some books are in English and some are in Spanish and that's ok with me, after reading the foundation series twice I love everything about R. Daneel Olivaw and moved on to the Robot books, I bought a couple of books on my last trip to nyc (surprised how easy it was for me to find those) and I currently own a little collection of the robot series too my favorites being Robot Dreams, Robot Visions and Caves of steel.. I also use the names Hari Seldon, Raych Seldon, Gaal Dornick and Demerzel on many of my very serious and not so serious accounts..

Now that you know where I am coming from lets get to the point, a friend of mine who is the kind of guy that consumes all "mainstream media" recently told me about the "Dune" movie and the "foundation" tv series, I have never even heard of the foundation tv series but I saw a lot of Dune ads, so I said why not and I watched Dune, to my surprise it was actually really well done and even if there were a lot of details missing I enjoyed it because it was fairly close to the book and some of the actors actually looked like I pictured them in my mind so I said to myself "Well if this is how they are doing things now I might as well give the Apple TV Foundation series a try".. And I did and lets keep in mind the tv series is called FOUNDATION.. I saw the first two episodes yesterday and well...The first one was a little confusing as it didn't start the way I would like it to start and it begins in a part of the Foundation series that I would say it is very advanced with what I presume to be the "hari seldon vault" and a female version of the great Salvor Hardin, I said to myself, ok this is a modern version they made Salvor a woman that's fine with me, moving on we see Gaal Dornick's story and Gaal is also a woman now, a young woman that solves some math problem and is sent to Tr

I don't know if this question has been asked before but I will ask it anyway. What movie do you think would have been better suited as a TV Series?

Some films try to cram wayyyyy too much into too little and feel overstuffed as a result, personally, I think the recent Matt Damon film Stillwater would have been better as a crime miniseries since there was just too much put into the film it felt overstuffed and questions were left unanswered

What films would you say?

I need a new tv as my current one doesn’t have 4K. Should I look at getting a tv with the 2.1 hdmi? Or with 120hz? I don’t know too much about TVs. Will a 4K 60fps tv do?

Let's be honest, everything I'm about to write here is just wishful thinking. The Manhunt series only gets love from its right holders in form of Easter Eggs these days, so a TV series production is totally out of the question for now.

Still, this doesn't change the fact that the first Manhunt game has most of the core elements needed for a great series. You just have to add some things to spice it up a little and let's be honest, there is so much content and unutilized/underutilized lore to choose from, you are bound to find something.

Let's begin with the overall structure of the game. The original Manhunt is pretty clearly divided into parts/chapters, which are divided by up to four scenes.

The parts are easy to categorize because each of them has only one main enemy faction. For example: in scenes 1 to 3 Cash has to deal with the Hoods, in scenes 4 to 5 with the Skinz, and in scenes 6 to 7 with the Wardogs.

Enemy factions rarely mix, the only notable exceptions would be scene 13, "Kill The Rabbit", which includes Cerberus soldiers right before the end, and scene 14, "Divided They Fall", which I personally would include in the Smileys chapter, while it contains exclusively Wardogs enemies. Other than those two, Cash only has to deal with one gang per chapter.

This whole One-Chapter-One-Gang structure lends itself really well to the popular Monster-Of-The-Week-structure used by many series.

Simply put, episodes of Monster-Of-The-Week series productions revolve around one monster, the monster being a stand-in for one particular problem or adversary, which is defeated in the course of its episode, after which it rarely appears again in the series.

Most of the Monster-Of-The-Week series productions have the main plot that takes place parallel to the Monster-Of-The-Week-case and is advanced during it in some way through it, be it practical (the case brings in new information for example) or in other ways (the case teaches a moral lesson to the main characters, which are deciding to act upon it).

My idea is as follows: in a Manhunt series, the main character (which hasn't to be Cash by the way. I personally would like to see Pigsy.) is part of a snuff film production and has to deal with one gang per episode.

In each episode, the main character learns something new about the whole snuff film ring, which helps him in the end to stop it. Each gang could also represent some aspect of the snuff business, for example, the Skinz could stand for the ha

We just finished the second season and I feel like the second season is just as good if not better than the first season. I've read the books up to where they're at in the show. There's a lot of changes, especially in the second season, mainly expanding and adding characters (the broad strokes are still pretty similar), but I think overall they're more positive than negative. What does everyone else think?

So, for those of you who don`t know there is a trope created by TV Tropes called Complete Monster (also known as Pure Evil). They are regarded as the very worst of the worst characters from a certain franchise. There are a lot of requirements for these trope but the main ones are the following:

1. The character has ABSOLUTELY NO REDEEMING QUALITIES. Even if a character has some redeeming qualities at the start of the story he/she could still become a Complete Monster if he/she loses them. Even one single redeeming quality is enough to disqualify a character from this trope.
2. The character in question commits horrible, atrocious crimes that are presented seriously within the story and their actions are worse than the actions of most other villains in the story. We also take into account their resources and their ability to cause harm to other people. This means that if a character has more resources (if for example he/she is a ruler that commands thousands of people), then he/she needs to comit bigger atrocities in order to stand out. If a character has less resources to harm people (for example, if he/she is a lone serial killer), then he/she qualifies if their crimes are heinous enough considering their resources. If a character`s actions are not heinous enough by the standards of the story then he/she can`t be a Complete Monster. The character`s crimes must pass several different heinous standards in order for the character to count as a Complete Monster:

- The baseline standard - This is a common standard that all villains need to pass, no matter the work they come from. This means that the villain needs to commit crimes that are worse than animal cruelty, theft, abuse (unless the abuse is REALLY extreme but that rarely happens) and trying to kill the main characters (because this is something most villains try to do).

- The standards of the work - This means that the villain should be compared to other villains from the same work (or franchise) to see if his/her actions are bad enough to make him/her stand out. This means that a villain who comes from a lighthearted series like My Little Pony needs to be compared to other villains from My Little Pony and not to villains from grimdark franchises such as Warhammer 40000, A Song of Ice and Fire and Berserk. Similarly, a villain who comes from a work with high heinous standard should  be compared to other villains from the same franchise and not to villains that come from My Little Pony.

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I have a 13 year old Deaf sister. She's been Deaf all her life. We watch a lot of movies together. It's one of the things she can actually enjoy doing with other people. We've seen all the Marvel movies and series and she's watched them too. Anyway. When she saw Hawkeye was hearing impaired she beamed with a smile because she felt he was like her now. I too love how the show handles deaf and hearing impaired characters. It really gives representation to the deaf and hearing impaired people in the super hero world.

Just wanted to share as this was something that just made me smile.

Was it someone who only ever read the Cliff Notes of the books? I don’t mind the casting at all, and obviously a Prime show is going to have sex for no reason (just like Netflix and HBO shows), but I’m only one episode in and there already SIGNIFICANT plot and character changes that are completely unnecessary.

Spoilers:

Egwene possibly being the Dragon Reborn. The problem with the Dragon is that he is male and must use saidin and therefore risk going insane. Making it seem like the Dragon Reborn could be a woman just doesn’t work.

Perrin is married. And then accidentally kills his wife. Wtf? Just why?

Nynaeve apparently knows she can channel, also not born in the Two Rivers, also kidnapped. None of that works.

There are other weird little problems that I can excuse because all adaptations change things, but these are major changes.

I felt this way about The Nevers, it seemed like a generally interesting period drama with superpowers but it wasn’t so amazing that I really wanted to watch it all the way through then the big reveal at the end of how (no spoilers) was like “okay, whoa, I’ve got to keep going.”

What other shows have worked that way for you?

I’d say I’m new to reading, really enjoyed the Wheel of Time series. I was very excited to see it becoming a TV series. But holyyyyy the fandom finds every little thing to complain about. I understand you really enjoy the books, but to assume EVERY little detail in the books will be the same in the show is crazy. Every day I see a post about someone finding something to complain about.

I for one, am excited to finally watch something after reading the books first!