Been kind of binge watching \u201cNightflyers” on Netflix. The show doesn\u2019t make much sense to me, and all the characters are kind of weird \/ dumb and yet I am intrigued and keep watching. There\u2019s probably a better way to spend 10 hours of my life than watching this, but I dunno \u2026 part of me wants to see where this goes. I guess it\u2019s because the show began on a high note, with one of the characters killing others (killing everyone maybe?) and so I want to know how that came to be. But I just can\u2019t make sense of the actions of the characters. There\u2019s just a lot of things – alien race, some Teke energy, some humans called L\u2019s, computers, virtual reality, a girl who can plug into computers \u2026 it\u2019s like someone decided to blend all these together and see what comes out of it. There\u2019s not story or direction as such. It\u2019s just going somewhere and the only thing keeping me interested is why the killings in the beginning happened, and that maybe all these irrational behavior is due to the alien Volcryn influence. If I had to pick a crew for an alien space expedition, this would definitely not be the bunch I go with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am still very surprised I didn\u2019t just dump it. Goes to tell how a suspenseful beginning can keep you hooked. Maybe that was the idea of the writers too. :)\u00a0<\/p>\n
I ditched “Titans\u201d after about 4-5 episodes. It was similarly pointless and I stopped caring for the characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking of stuff worth spending time on though, I loved this podcast interview<\/a> with M. Night Shyamalan. I love M. Night Shyamalan movies, and I especially loved \u201cUnbreakable\u201d. To me, \u201cUnbreakable\u201d is a story idea that I had (seriously) but much much much better executed by M. Night. For me it was just a cool idea in my head of how the world might be, but seeing it on screen was just magical. I didn\u2019t know the movie didn\u2019t fare that well until recently though. For me \u201cUnbreakable\u201d and \u201cSigns\u201d are two of M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s best movies (and top in my list of favorite movies). Both are kind of similar in one level – faith, reason, why – but very different too. I haven\u2019t seen his \u201cThe Visit\u201d, so got to watch that now. I dunno how but I missed that out (well I know how, I lost interest in his movies after \u201cThe Last Airbender\u201d and that TV show me made – \u201cWayward Pines\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n Another good podcast episode I listened to recently is this interview<\/a> with Christina Warren. I had previously heard Christina on the TWiT but this was my first time hearing her being interviewed and it was a fun episode. I came across some interest Mac app suggestions too from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Been kind of binge watching \u201cNightflyers” on Netflix. The show doesn\u2019t make much sense to me, and all the characters are kind of weird \/ dumb and yet I am intrigued and keep watching. There\u2019s probably a better way to spend 10 hours of my life than watching this, but I dunno \u2026 part of … Continue reading Nightflyers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[145,143],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}