Okay, so I wasn’t planning to watch this show as it looks pretty stupid. However, I was doing some cleaning at home and put the first episode on for background noise. Come to find out that series director James Gunn made extensive use of the music by two of my favorite bands, Gogol Bordello and The Dresden Dolls for the “mood” of the show. To the point that one of the bands actually shows up early in the show during a fight montage.
To be honest, the GB and DD songs Gunn uses aren’t a pefect fit and they feel a little jarring at times. But these are both punk adjacent bands so jarring kinda works and I fucking love it. Probably would not watch the show if I wasn’t invested in seeing which Gogol Bordello or Dresden Dolls songs are going to be used each episode.
Have an okay video my SO grabbed when they decided to do a duet of Red Right Hand while I ran to the bathroom in between their sets.
The video does not give it justice. when Brian hits those chimes the sound of it was so loud and penetrating it was like he hit you with that dammed hammer.
There is now an official channel on YouTube showing the classic (pre 2005) Doctor Who episodes. One of the nice things is, they are showing the animated adaptions of the lost episodes where live action footage does not exist.
Thanks to this effort, classics can now be watched for the first time. Arguably one of the best episodes “The Evil of the Daleks”, was posted recently https://youtu.be/UzLHntXZs4g?si=x7mzjCWZlBLA_SOG
Wheel of Time season 3 just released the first 3 episodes on Prime. They are probably the best episodes they’ve done so far. There was a pretty clear jump upwards in quality between seasons 1 and 2, and there is another major jump upwards for season 3. I cannot wait to see what they do with the rest of the season.
