TV, movies, and books (oh my).
Apr. 23rd, 2025 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452++ Pit Babe S2 full trailer just dropped! So much is going on, but I'm ready.
++ We also have the official trailer for The Next Prince, a Thai BL drama. After seeing the small teaser for this a little while ago it quickly was among my list of anticipated BLs and I didn't know when it would be coming out, and now we not only have a full trailer but also a premiere date of May 3rd. And the trailer itself looks amazing. The outfits, the production value, and already I'm intrigued by the story. I do love a good body guard/royalty love story and this has that plus whatever royal politics are going to be featured.
++ In other news, it seems that the Oscars are changing some rules which includes a requirement that all Academy members must watch all of the nominated films before voting. How this wasn't an already implemented rule from the start I have no idea, but it does further confirm what I think most of us already knew. Just based on what I've seen over the years, most Academy members don't like watching films. Many have outright admitted they don't care, only watch the movies that they see are popular and ignore the rest, or don't watch a movie in its entirety before turning it off. Even worse when it's animation or anything foreign or obscure which most will claim they're not worth seeing. Again, not surprising but it's disappointing all the same since this really skews the votes and robs films that are deserving of such recognition. Of course how this new rule is going to be enforced, I don't know.
The bad news of this rule change is that now films made by AI can still be eligible for nominations and can potentially win despite controversy surrounding it. Further demonstrating how this ceremony continues to be a farce. Boo. :/
++ GRRM admits that "The Winds Of Winter" is "the curse of his life".
Now, I don't particularly care for anything related to ASOIAF anymore, but I just find it so funny (both in an amusing and in a sad way) with how things turned out with this series. What was supposed to have been just a planned book trilogy became an extended book series that he regrettably wrote himself into a corner with. I also have my suspicions that upon seeing the reactions to how the Game of Thrones show ended he became less and less motivated to finish the books. On one hand, I don't believe in pressuring writers to finish things that aren't ready, however for over a decade he has promised and posted excerpts without actually delivering, meanwhile working and releasing other projects during this time. It's really telling in that sense, to be honest. While I do think The Winds of Winter might be finished and released at some point in the (distant) future, I don't think A Dream Of Spring, the final book, is ever going to be written. I think fans of the books have long accepted that they will most likely never get a conclusion to the series.
++ We also have the official trailer for The Next Prince, a Thai BL drama. After seeing the small teaser for this a little while ago it quickly was among my list of anticipated BLs and I didn't know when it would be coming out, and now we not only have a full trailer but also a premiere date of May 3rd. And the trailer itself looks amazing. The outfits, the production value, and already I'm intrigued by the story. I do love a good body guard/royalty love story and this has that plus whatever royal politics are going to be featured.
++ In other news, it seems that the Oscars are changing some rules which includes a requirement that all Academy members must watch all of the nominated films before voting. How this wasn't an already implemented rule from the start I have no idea, but it does further confirm what I think most of us already knew. Just based on what I've seen over the years, most Academy members don't like watching films. Many have outright admitted they don't care, only watch the movies that they see are popular and ignore the rest, or don't watch a movie in its entirety before turning it off. Even worse when it's animation or anything foreign or obscure which most will claim they're not worth seeing. Again, not surprising but it's disappointing all the same since this really skews the votes and robs films that are deserving of such recognition. Of course how this new rule is going to be enforced, I don't know.
The bad news of this rule change is that now films made by AI can still be eligible for nominations and can potentially win despite controversy surrounding it. Further demonstrating how this ceremony continues to be a farce. Boo. :/
++ GRRM admits that "The Winds Of Winter" is "the curse of his life".
Now, I don't particularly care for anything related to ASOIAF anymore, but I just find it so funny (both in an amusing and in a sad way) with how things turned out with this series. What was supposed to have been just a planned book trilogy became an extended book series that he regrettably wrote himself into a corner with. I also have my suspicions that upon seeing the reactions to how the Game of Thrones show ended he became less and less motivated to finish the books. On one hand, I don't believe in pressuring writers to finish things that aren't ready, however for over a decade he has promised and posted excerpts without actually delivering, meanwhile working and releasing other projects during this time. It's really telling in that sense, to be honest. While I do think The Winds of Winter might be finished and released at some point in the (distant) future, I don't think A Dream Of Spring, the final book, is ever going to be written. I think fans of the books have long accepted that they will most likely never get a conclusion to the series.
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Date: 2025-04-24 04:18 pm (UTC)I also think he spread his characters out really far and realized it took 4 books to get them all where they are and now they're supposed to be back in book 5. I wish he'd have just set it however many weeks/months into the future and explained that people had travelled home, start with them arriving wherever they need to be. Readers will get it and the story could go on!
Also yes, the response to the show likely hit hard but I feel like readers get that the show was already not showing things correctly. In the books we know Dani was getting her leadership wrong right from the start. She'd free a town and then we the reader would realize that once she left they'd be enslaved in even worse ways. When I was watching the show that didn't come across. People watching had no idea she was going to wind up the way she did but I'd say in the books it's telegraphed pretty clearly.
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The fact Oscar voters were voting without having seen all of the movies is just bananas. The audacity to not see every film but believe you know what should win is a lot. It sounds like they're going on the honour system though so I expect nothing will change.
Gross about AI movies. I don't want AI written anything.
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Date: 2025-04-25 01:43 pm (UTC)And yeah, the longer the books went on passed what he had initially planned for the story to be it's obvious that it got too convoluted and complicated that I think he's pretty much lost the plot at this point.
The fact Oscar voters were voting without having seen all of the movies is just bananas. The audacity to not see every film but believe you know what should win is a lot.
I know, right? Why even be an Academy member if you're not going to take that responsibility seriously? I think those who don't take such a position seriously should have those memberships revoked. I doubt that'll happen though, and I doubt that they'll take the newly changed rule seriously either because, again, I don't know how they'll enforce it.