Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-28 (Friday)

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!
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AGE OF THE LIVING DEAD (2018) Prime and Plex.
A.k.a. Era of the Living Dead
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It's a six episode miniseries about which almost nothing is known and what
is known is wrong. For instance, IMDb says there are three seasons of six
or seven episodes each but it's pretty clear they only made one six
episode season. There's also a video game that nothing is known about.
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This is an absolutely dreadful incompetently made series that's pretty
much like "Hey kids, let's remake the strain with the grade school video
club"
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You may recall that I can't stand the strain.
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I am pretty sure this suffers from Defiling Gravity syndrome, where the
first and last episodes are written by one person and the rest is just
fill-in. Credits say the same guy wrote them all, but the credits are
standardized and identical for every episode so I suspect they lie.
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10 years ago vampires somehow took over New York City and now there are 250
million of them occupying the East Coast of the United States from the
Atlantic to about Chicago. The 150 million remaining American humans live
pretty much in California. In between is a no man's land, that works
pretty much like Star Trek where nobody's allowed to go in it at all.  The
vampires haven't leached over the Canadian or Mexican borders at all and
the British seem to think they don't exist anywhere else in the world even
though many of them talk like a bad satire of Bela Lugosi and have been
around for hundreds or thousands of years.

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Wait.. If there's 250 million vampires on the East Coast what the hell
are they feeding on? You say the remaining humans in America are in
California. So the vamps are living on the East Coast but what has
traditionally been their food source is on the West Coast with a no
man's land between them. So what are they feeding on? Or are these
vamps like zombies and don't really need to ever feed themselves?
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The entire rest of the world refuses to talk to America for reasons that
are unclear.

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Well, I wouldn't want to talk to America either when I'm most likely
talking to a vampire.