Sometimes the recognition isn't about using bait...

[rogueslayer452]

++ I didn't watch the Oscars, I only paid attention to everyone reacting to it in real time, but I am so very happy that The Shape of Water won Best Picture. Part of me wishes that Get Out could have gotten it, as I feel like it deserved more wins (and it really would have stuck it to the Academy members who had really racist opinions about the film itself), but if there was to be another film to win instead anything by Guillermo del Toro would do. At least Get Out won for best original screenplay, which makes history as Jordan Peele is the first black person to win the award. The Shape of Water, Get Out, and Coco were the highlight wins of the event, which makes me happy.

++ The teaser for the second season of Luke Cage looks absolutely hype.

++ Krysten Ritter speculates that there won't be another season of The Defenders. I'm not even remotely surprised by this, considering how lukewarm and blah the first season was. The basic concept had potential but combined with the bad writing and execution of plot it just didn't deliver and was a huge letdown. Though I guess it served its purpose of getting the main characters together in some way, but it still could've been much better than it was. It's disappointing since it didn't take full advantage of the time they had, you know what I mean? At least now we can have them appearing and guesting in each other's respective shows.

++ We have a trailer for The Expanse S3 and it looks so good, I can't wait.

Comments

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I think they could and probably would improve a lot if it continued, but it would take resources and attention away from the solo series and at the moment I'm more interested in those.

Yeah, I agree. There probably would be room for improvement from the first season, but honestly, the entire purpose of the show was to get these characters together, which it more or less achieved. And getting them all together again would kind of disrupt their own storylines to fight another Big Bad together, which in theory is great, but we've seen how the writers handled The Hand and that's not something I want to experience again. I would much prefer them visiting each other on their own shows, because crossover potential is endless and I'm all about having them help each other own in their own storylines.

[perpetual.livejournal.com]

Ideally, the next time it happens will be in...like five years. And everyone will be shocked because we weren't expecting it, and the series will have such a history by then that the story really will seem epic.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

This is very true, actually. Since it's taken this long for Jessica Jones S2 to come out since it first premiered, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to actually do another season of The Defenders further down the line after all the others ended up having at least two more seasons of their own respective shows, not to mention having probably crossed over with each other numerous times. At least by then, I would hope, that they would have had enough time to gather new people (showrunner, writers, etc) and improve what failed from the first season.