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ToxicKittyCat In reply to BlueFluffyDinosaur [2017-09-07 10:32:46 +0000 UTC]

How come you HaVE NoT SeeN ANyTHiNg X men? (It's my current obsession), it's a Harry Potter rip-off (about magic teenagers in magic school ran by headmaster that has a Pheonix, but craeted in 1960s) based on poorly understood Darwinian theory of evolution (super powers as a next step in evolution, stupid, but cool) with metaphor for margin groups.
 The movies are -vary from meh to god terrible- the director that makes them has not read comics and it shows. (But Legion, wow, Legion the TV show beats Breaking Bad in quality and execution, no doubt. If you have to watch anything X-related, watch FX TV show Legion). ON plus side they have Michael Fassbender playing a Polish character, (only Polish character in wider Pop-culture) and poor guy cannot speak the language or do an accent.

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BlueFluffyDinosaur In reply to ToxicKittyCat [2017-09-10 19:29:48 +0000 UTC]

I'm mildly aware of it's premise but I have never stumbled upon it when I was younger and now I never felt like it was something I really should look into  

I heard that Legion is amazing, but I didn't have time to watch it this summer, as I binge watched Game of Thrones (which really lived up to it's hype) and House of cards (I gave up on it in the middle of second season, since I lost track on the abundance of background characters whose only characterization was that they were middle-aged white men, stupider than the main protagonist). 

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ToxicKittyCat In reply to BlueFluffyDinosaur [2017-09-10 19:48:12 +0000 UTC]

Welcome to "I-dropped-out-mid-S2-in-House-of-Cards", like House, it never changed. Underwood was always the same scheming character, and storylines seemed to be on a predicatble loop. I don't watch Game of Thrones, too much hype and not a fan of the books (too many characters!).
 Getting into comics is my recent-ish thing (past few years), and it's the most unfitting hobby- for one, the trade volumes are abmyssaly expensive (£80 per collected series! God no!), and there are just two reputable comic book stores in entire 3 million-people metropoly. (And from what I know, not much of Marvel is translated to Polish) (and 80% of comics are god-awful, no one reads them despite huge movie following). Community, on the other hand, is great!

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BlueFluffyDinosaur In reply to ToxicKittyCat [2017-09-10 20:09:18 +0000 UTC]

It's exactly like you said. Every episode could be summed up in a sentence. The very same sentence for every episode. 
I liked House. It was arguably the best show that Polish television was broadcasting at the time and it was fun to watch it every evening with family. But that was before the serial boom and now I have more expectations. 

The only comics I have ever bought was W.I.T.C.H series, and that was way back when I was kid.
I wanted to start reading more serious ones, when the MCU started to be a thing, to be that smartass who knows all the origin stories, but I really didn't know where to start. And as you mentioned they are extremely difficult to get, especially reasonably priced, so I gave up.    

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ToxicKittyCat In reply to BlueFluffyDinosaur [2017-09-10 20:20:01 +0000 UTC]

There are mysterious ways of the internet...) It's most reasonable to give up. Do you have comic cons in Poland?
 Sherlock was my family watch, up until god-awful S4, so was Dr WHo up until God-awful last two seasons. Black Mirror, if you have chance to watch it, is amazing- it's an anthology, which is refreshing. Breaking Bad, while very good, over popularised (so is walking dead). I adore Fargo (Kafka-esque post modernism with Coen/Tarantino dark humour and violence.)
 AND I actual loathe MCU, everybody adores it, I cannot sit through a screening (save for Netflix Daredevil, which is wow)

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BlueFluffyDinosaur In reply to ToxicKittyCat [2017-09-10 21:00:11 +0000 UTC]

There is Warsaw comic con I think, but the biggest con in Poland is Pyrkon in Toruń. Its more fantasy oriented, but there are panels for everything. Personally I have never been there. Being a student and living in an ass end of nowhere, I can't just casually travel on the other side of Poland.
I binge watched new Dr Who last year. I kind of liked season 9. Of course when it was bad it was stupid and uninspired, but when it was great, there were the best episodes ever. I haven't watched the newest season yet, and from what I hear it's not worth it.
I watched BB just after it finished, and the whole hype missed me by some bizarre miracle. And it was great. The rest I don't even know, but will look into when I have time.
Now I'm more of a casual fan, going to cinema, because MCU movies are the only good blockbusters these years. The only ones that I particularly liked were CA: Winter soldier, Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy I and II. But couple years ago I was hit by Hiddlestone mania. Pretty hard lol    

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ToxicKittyCat In reply to BlueFluffyDinosaur [2017-09-10 21:13:23 +0000 UTC]

In UK comic cons became a little of an overkill- our town has two annual ones (and I'm in charge of running a third one, first one in UK where panellists are FREE!), with two major ones in Manchester (these have 8,000s of visitors) and globally biggest comic fest (Though Bubble, in few weeks, and I don't have cosplay ready!). Never been to the big boys in London. This year cosplaying either as Laura from X-men or Harry Hart from Kingsmen.
Never liked MCU, even when fully immersed in Marvel comics- the production values of these movies are atrocious; cut-and-dry three parter structure is a bullet to the head. And I was dying of boredom during Spiderman or Avengers.

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