I’m begging you guys - you need to watch this show. It’s fricking amazing. Lead dude is giving the best alien performance I’ve seen since Jeff Bridges in Starman.
The story’s just miles beyond what I was expecting to get, and they use Faraday(the alien) to highlight what’s both beautiful about humanity as well as what’s inexplicable. On occasion, they even use him to highlight the “alien” behaviors we see among our tech/business “geniuses.” This is a show that is using its alien character to shed light on the human condition, and in my opinion, that is the very essence of good sci-fi.
Great show, and I will keep right on unashamedly “shilling” for it. Seven episodes in and there hasn’t been a slouch in the bunch. Great cast, great acting, great writing, and the special effects, while sparse, are tastefully done.
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This show is way too good for Cinemaphile
I don’t want you to be right, but I kind of know that you are.
These last two episodes have been so fricking good, I’m essentially speechless.
Created, written and directed by Alex Kurtzman.... I'd rather put a bullet in my brain before I watch anything by that price of shit.
I’m glad you mentioned that. Kurtzman is a poor fit for Star Trek, but he’s spot-on perfect for this. My principal complaint about him is that he writes modern ideologies into Star Trek and they have no place there. Star Trek is supposed to be a utopian society. This is a show about a man trying to bring about one out of all our present bullshit.
why is every shill thread full of chinks? it's unreal lmao
That's racist as hell to think I'm asian if you are right, it's just a really really good show.
>That's racist as hell to think I'm asian if you are right
????
Just because my parents are chinese shouldn't matter what I post since this is anonymous posting and about a great show I didn't even mention race but you are racist??
>nooooo ahhhh-me no hahhh-chinese!
>me from kentuckyarabama
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>you a big guy!
>me sucky sucky five dorrah, rove you rong time mista
I’m from Alabama.
you're a chink posting on a VPN.
Green Top Barbecue is the best restaurant in the entire south.
Cinemaphile blocks VPN's
the firm that owns the chink shills (they're like dogs basically) pays to be able to spam here. Hence why the mods cater to their whining and don't delete their offtopic garbage.
>the firm that owns the chink shills (they're like dogs basically) pays to be able to spam here. Hence why the mods cater to their whining and don't delete their offtopic garbage.
unironically this
Roll Tide fellow BamaBlack person
Roll Tide Roll!
Uhhhh you ever watched the original star trek? Taking on modern issues was like, the entire show.
Not the way that Kurtzman writes it, which is why he’s a poor fit. Original Trek had a very bright, very optimistic message about humanity. All our present social dilemmas were projected onto alien cultures. Kurtzman couldn’t help himself and introduced elements that make it seem as if humanity never really “evolved” culturally beyond any of our present woes.
You talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic but you make some good points. I will now watch your show (pirated of course).
Shut up Herbert.
Not watching anything made by that israelite rat. frick off
The Virgin Youtube Clickbaiter
>waaah Kurtzman is bad coz sjw waaah
The Chad Television Appreciator
>Alex Kurtzman is a talentless hack who has gained his present position through a combination of nepotism and claiming credit for the work of others, and is bad because he and the shows he makes are shit for babbybrained homosexuals for whom JJ Abrams plots are too nuanced and complex.
> Created, written and directed by Alex Kurtzman..
Thanks for telling me all I needed to know
>black lead
>black sub lead
>alex kurtzman
there is 0% chance of this being good much less watchable
In all honesty, least amount of usual Cinemaphile bullshit here, the original is one of my favorite films because of the subject matter, tone, and Bowie at his best, who's my personal hero. I have not liked a single fricking thing Kurtzman has ever done, quite the opposite, and while the team seems solid on paper, I do not trust this at all to exist in the modern day. I do not expect it to cut such a deep, soulful, personal philosophical exploration like the original in lieu of being mired in serving as a mouthpiece for the creative team.
Plus, not on any of my myriad fricking streaming subscriptions, so that muddies it. I will say I'm surprised they actually put it in continuity and have Newton back, that's actually an interesting choice and almost makes me interested. That being said I already know how Bowie wanted the rest of it to go because that's what Lazarus was, not whatever this is. C'est la vie.
I’m OP and a fan of the original, too. Never once has Kurtzman not let me down, and with each new episode, I’m terrified that this will be the one. That said, so far it’s had a bittersweet, perilously hopeful tone in contrast to the original, which largely revolved around the pitfalls of addiction. The intro to the show has us witness Faraday on-stage, very much the polished self-promoter, a far cry from the character as we’ve thus far witnessed him in the show, and that’s the central mystery of it - is that a fallen Faraday or merely the facade he and Newton have constructed to save us from ourselves? I find it fascinating.
If you're a shill you're a new breed of dedicated shill who actually knows what they're fricking talking about with thematic specificity. More likely just another weirdo with a genuine opinion. Good job, this has convinced me more than anything so far, I'll at least watch the first episode and see. "Perilously hopeful" is worrying, but maybe it's what we need these days, I don't know.
Thanks, just a genuine weirdo here. If you make it as far in as I currently am, episode six legit made me tear up. The last show to do that to me was Legion.
You're good, man, we're so few and far between these days, even here, solid recommendations and thoughts are appreciated.
>Legion
Been meaning to work through it, got through the first couple episodes and loved it. If your taste trends along mine as much as it seems, I'd recommend Fargo Season 3 specifically. Lot of people shit on it, and exact opposite sort of tone, but same level of craft, has legitimate moments of emotion too, and a lot to say about evil in the modern world, way I read it.
Awesome to hear that. I’ve been meaning to pick Fargo back up. Legion’s crazy weird, like “The Prisoner” levels of weird and I doubt it would be as enjoyable to someone who isn’t an old comics geek with a penchant for creative headcanonry, but the aesthetic alone is very nearly worth it. Hands down favorite episode is S02E01. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it. To me, it’s something of a masterpiece.
Legion s1 and s2 up to the finale were absolutely breathtaking and then the writers went full fricking moron making Syd into an actual incompetent in the face of literal brainwashing. Frick shadow king and frick everybody for buying into his psycho bullshit and frick his corny redemption he deserved death! Also Melanie got shafted poor b***h
I agree. I still liked S3, but mainly because I like the dude who was playing Charles. In my opinion, he brought a warmth to the character that no one else has. His Charles just seems way more human and compassionate.
Conveniently, I'm an old comics geek with an overactive imagination and a penchant for the strange too, so hey. Frankly I like more of what they did with David that what I read of him in the comics (Hard to get over that hair), at least from what I saw, so I do look forward to it.
On the subject if TMWFTE, I don't know how much you cared about the Bowie angle as much as the Sci-fi and philosophy, but if you can find a way to watch Lazarus, I'd recommend it. They did stream a filmed version of the original production a few years back, which I haven't had luck finding but haven't tried too hard. It's worth a watch, or at least read the script. It tackles a lot more about identity, grief, and accepting one's mortality while still continuing Newton's story in a way I found logical. Very much an inspection of Bowie himself and has his music in it, as a musical of course, so if you're a fan I'd say look into it. Very layered importance to me on that front, personally.
Thanks! I’ll definitely check it out.
I used to like this actor before the George Floyd riots. Now all I see is a Black person.
I used to be fine watching nig nogs all my life, before Obongo became President and the whole OscarSoWhite shitshow. The Floyd riots only proved my point that black people are nothing more than parasitic leeches and their history or the pathetic one they have made sense to me.
yellow chinese hands typed this
it's not good lol
I'm guessing this used to be a white guy before the friction from the fall blackened his skin, and his lips swelled upon impact.
This is the least organic thread I’ve ever seen.
why do LA peeps seethe so much about silicon valley? it's the same kinds of people who succeed in either business except silicon valley peeps have 1 percenter IQs.
It’s not so much about Silicon Valley as it is the corporate sharks like Zuckerberg and Jobs that market themselves as world-breakingly smart when the reality is they’re just amoral.
zuckerberg literally is "world-breakingly smart" tho, he was smart enough to market a whole team's efforts as his own, smart enough to repurpose code someone else made as his own with enough changes it didn't trigger any patents.
like it or not that requires brains, you can't just have a 100 IQ and fool a buncha engineers with avg of 140(google facebook founding dev team, it's insane how high the IQ is there)
Yeah, but I’d argue that what you’re calling “smarter than” actually translates to “less moral/ethical” than the other guys involved.
I guess ill check it out
>I’m begging you guys - you need to watch this show.
Fricking shills man
I’m serious, dude. If you refuse to support quality shows, you got no room to b***h about the garbage you get.
I'll watch the first 20 minutes but if it sucks I'll only become more racist and you'll have yourself to blame.
>HE FELL FOR THE SHILL!
You’re going to fricking love it. Bear in mind, the title has dual meaning, so the unfolding story is revealing what might or might not be his fall.
the dual meaning is clever ngl
I'm back. Frick you, Black person.
>6.7 on IMDB
good job OP moron
>Lead dude is giving the best alien performance I’ve seen since Jeff Bridges in Starman.
Best is Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave
Nah this guy takes the cake
I just dislike this guy in general. He gets on my nerves in roughly 95% of his roles. I get that sometimes that’s intentional, but it doesn’t help.
Just wait till you get a little insight into Anthean culture. They’ve got their own form of intellect-based slavery.
I rember enjoying this guy playing as the antichrist but then I stopped watching for some reason, does it get really jokey or something?
Nevermind that was resident alien, I don't think I've seen your Black person show. Is the alien in your show also a nig?
Okay - filthy stinking jigga-Black folk get on my nerves in roughly 95% of their appearances, in fiction or otherwise, so I'll take the good alien fish out of water show that has a native chick with an ass that could smother a continent.
>native girl with big ass
Not who you replied to, but picked up. Thanks.
Fish-out-of-water takes this one about three-ish episodes in. From that point forward, it becomes about how he and Thomas Newton(Bill Nighy) are going to turn him into a figure that humanity can’t ignore, mainly by the benefit of Newton’s experience of humanity. Nighy’s killing it, by the way.
12 MILLION YEARS A SLAVE
no
Can I trust you OP? I don't know if I can trust you op! I mean its Alex Kurtz man
OP here. I can say with complete honesty that this is the first time Kurtzman hasn’t let me down. Yet.
I'm just gonna torrent it, at most if it's actually good (which i highly doubt), and this is absolutely at most, i would recommend it to other Cinemaphileners who will also torrent it. I don't understand why shills still shill on Cinemaphile. Like on reddit, sure, but on here?
Maybe I just want to have other people to talk about it with. The Severance threads are cool and all, but we’re between seasons and other than Strange New Worlds, there’s basically frick-all to talk about.
n i g g e r
I thought it was woke shit because of the all black cast
But I might give it a chance
I might to but cmon, its Alex Kurtzman
just watch the cat from Outer Space instead. a much more charming rendition of an alien taking the form of a lower life form.
Get fricked, Showtime shill.
I don't watch anything with Black folk at the front of the show's poster.
+1 based for good taste
-1 based for engaging in a shill thread and encouraging troll copycats
I like it too.
Not relatable enough for me, I'm white and straight you see.
Is the antichrist in this show a black or not google won't answer me
So will he become alcoholic and waste time or was he different like in the book with trying to take over the world
Is it a remake of Gay Black folk from Outerspace?
It is an enjoyable show so far, but it has 6 too many Blacks to be properly discussed here.
Black1 is a literal space bug who comes from an organized society. He yells at old people that they should all be dead if they are not serving a purpose and he yells at children for not following the instructions on lego.
Black2 is a smart but not yet sassy physics genius who burnt out after killing Black6, and now struggles to provide for Blacks3and4 while watching Black4 slowly die
Black3 is her daughter, smart but not talking like an adult.
Black4 is her father, jamaican, smart but cripple-dying, becomes less Black as the show continues
Black5 is her slightly sassy friend, but has only taken 10 or so minutes of airtime thank god.
Black6 is her dying boyfriend in a flashback.
everyone else is white.
no alphabet people except CIA, no slavery alegories yet even though Black1 is from the worker caste on his home planet. It is an extension of the 70's movie with the same name and all white people, you can try to watch that if you are keen, but it is a bit of a slog. Rip Torn wiener warning.
Episode 2 introduces Kate Mulgrew and that William guy from westworld, as well as Bill Nighy but he is only in the show for 10 minutes tops and is portraying an ancient David Bowie.
obligatory Black person
Good synopsis. I kind of dig how the Antheans are really alien, as in a completely alien culture, what with their caste/slave system and their reverence for efficiency. The previous episode was really cool, hearing him describe us to his wife back home.
For something with nigs in it, it sure lacks SOUL.
So is he still claiming to have been Jesus now that he is a subsaharan Black?
Lol sorry, no chance in hell I’m wasting ku time on this guaranteed garbage. You’ve fooled me too much over the past decade.
is this a remake of the Bowie movie?
No, it’s a continuation. The new guy is another Anthean summoned to Earth by Newton.
why choose a nog then?
Because it's 2022
Pretty much. It doesn’t bother me because he’s just another alien in a skinsuit and not Bowie’s character.
strange times we're living in...
there are two nogs in Brannagh's Death On The Nile
>s this a remake of the Bowie movie?
Not likely. Also, the original story is a book.
>Not likely
well
>The same novel was later adapted as a television film in 1987. A 2022 television series with the same name serves as a continuation of the film 45 years later, including featuring Newton as a character and showing archival footage from the film.
just got up to him being mentioned in ep1 ok op i'm watching it because Ejiofor and I always like this story, ok this better not be shit
I hope you enjoy it. I sure am.
he is doing a great job at being the autistic alien
It’s great stuff.
I’m still chuckling over pawn shop scene.
yea
>MONEY FRICK NOW
Sorry but I have Black fatigue. It's pretty obvious the lead being black isn't motivated by creative decision but rather woke social politics. Hard pass.
Why is he black?
why not?
I liked the David bowie one
Me too, but it’s been years since I’ve seen it. I really should go back and read the book it was based on.
Not interested. I have Black overload. I can't stand watching schvartzes in movies or shows now, especially science fiction. There's something REALLY incongruous about nogs in science fiction.
These are just about the least nogged nogs I’ve run across in a while.
Nogs are nogs. They have no place in science or science fiction.
Literally ever great sci fi author would despise you. Not even because you're racist but because of your aggressive close mindedness towards a genre that's all about exploration and pushing the boundaries of what humans can perceive, and not circle jerking to your homosexual political ideas.
Absolutely fricking based.
Can confirm this is a shill post. Watched half the first episode and it’s just as bad as any other Showtime show
..yeah but on a scale of "white people bad!" to "jordan banana peele" how bad are the white people portrayed, blamed and shit on for no reason besides anti white racism? You see I really cant go without my daily hollywood dose of "frick all white people"
Not in the slightest. We have well-intentioned, guilt-ridden, alcoholic white people, uptight, super-hot corporate shark with daddy issue white people, opportunistic, back-stabbing CIA operative white people, earnest, just-doing-their-job CIA white people, half-crazed alien/fallen angel white people, and monolithic corporate giant white people.
So... all the whites are bad, and the nogs are the epitome of decency? As usual in fantasy-land.
The black girl got the father of her child killed trying to create a sustained fusion reaction.
frick you still on ep one shut the frick up, so far everyone is an butthole, apart from the alien, I'm liking this whole hes a 'drone' thing, makes sense he's so inept
>The black girl got the father of her child killed trying to create a sustained fusion reaction.
Women of Color nuclear scientists LMAO
It *is* a science fiction show, you know. Did seeing a black woman on the bridge of the Enterprise drive you to apoplexy?
>Black person
too many blacks
hard skip
>shooting tame horses with paintballs
tf is wrong with everyone on this show?
>I’m begging you guys - you need to watch this show. It’s fricking amazing..
no
>who is mandate is this
? what's with all the chinks lately?
Pardon me
>WHOSE MANDATE IS THIS
thanks chang, don't frick it up next time and I won't have to out you.
I'm freckled, just a little drunk and careless I guess
grammar was never my strong suit
>I'm freckled
that's not true, there are no freckled chinks, you're a chinese "person" posting from a VPN.
You’re like a broken record, emphasis on the “broken.”
lmao mustve summoned the entire chinsect hive
FEAR THE DRAGON AMERIKEK
why vpn?
Is china banned or something?
>why vpn?
so they can flick the VPN when they need a new IP. But they're too cheap to pay for enough for it to matter.
Obvious paid shill by the way you write. Have you ever been on Cinemaphile before?
i dont watch shit with a Black person on screen ratio that is 2:1
its ejiofor, he's not a Black person he's a rich guy from a very rich family, highly trained British theater actor
And he’s amazing.
aye always has been, great actor
not going to lie when i was being spammed the trailer on YouTube it did seem pretty compelling i really wanted to check it out, but my Black person fatigue won't let me i bet it's a great show, but I'm just so tried
if you can't accept chiwetel ejiofor killing it as the super autistic alien student of newton, played by bill nighy then their is no hope for you black people are in this, it is not a racial thing in the slightest so far, as far as faraday can tell, everyone is a dickhead or stupid
>as far as faraday can tell, everyone is a dickhead or stupid
And that’s a big part of why I love it. We’re utterly incomprehensible to him.
I loved the
>that horse will soon learn he can kick that kid to death
I found the thought of Anthean “horses” being predators both cool and a little creepy. Carnivorous horses …
maybe not carnivorous, just dangerous af, a pissed off herd of wild horses of which their use to be endless number of is aus, their version was likely more evolved and so more dangerous, but maybe an omnivore sure
How far in are you - just starting?
yea 1/2 way ep 2, best leave this thread now, closing thread last post for now, really i'm out shill or not good ork op, this is pretty good so far
>really i'm out shill or not good ork op, this is pretty good so far
lmao based chink moron outing his own operation
Enjoy, fren.
> their is no hope for you black people are in this, it is not a racial thing in the slightest so far, as far as faraday can tell, everyone is a dickhead or stupid
if you don't see that Black person fatigue is real that's the problem tell that to you're shill boss you troony how about picking the best actor no matter the race
Well, the lead guy is fricking phenomenal, so …
>takes David Bowie out of the story
nah
Well on complete honesty, they’re doing their best. Bowie’s character, Newton, is in it, but being played by Bill Nighy. I like him so I’m more than cool with it.
The movie is a downer. Seeing Newtons message home being changed from a dying yawp to a last ditch plan for survival for two planets is rather kino
The title of the final episode sounds grim tho
So this show is based on the David Bowie kino? I imagine this show sucks
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in (you)r philosophy
>da homie who done fell ta erf
DEY HEA!!
Nice try, israelitelberg
No. The first two episodes are okay, but light on the woke stuff (cops screaming and holding a gun on a clearly deranged man who is of ZERO threat, and then the casual racism during the cop house). Third episode on goes full comedy woke (EVIL WHITE CIA MEN ARE CRAAAAAZY AND AN OMEGA butthole(S)). Just the antagonist forces are so fricking cartooney, the tone feels wrong.
But those guys really did torture Newton back in the day.
I mean with how one became a troony, another a complete innawoods nutter and current year CIA man is complete dick because.
>I mean with how one became a troony
Seriously? I must have missed that. Which one are we talking about?
The one that kills themself via bee stings was one of the guys experimenting on Newton. Probably more accurate to say crossdresser, but it was meant to be a female only commune.
No it wasn’t. That was his old girlfriend that turned him into an alky.
Part’s played by Juliett Stevenson, a 66yo bong.
OP, the source material has almost nothing to do with a sci-fi plot, it's just about a foreigner succumbing to the temptations the west offers. Is this theme maintained in the series? If not, I'm not watching.
It is, but whether or not the “Westernized” alien has learned from his experience and is really using it to guide his fellow Anthean remains to be seen. It’s pretty fricking compelling.
I will watch the pilot. Im pirating it too in case youre a fricking shill keeping count
recommendation sounds legit, I'll give it a go, OP.
why does he love water so much?
I don’t know yet, but I suspect they’re higher-dimensional beings, that he can sort of process water into other shit, like I kind of half-suspect that’s where the gold rings came from.
watch the original ffs
Cut me some slack. I’ll get around to it.
I drink a lot of water, but this guy in on another level.
I wish I could explain why I like this guy. He’s a piece of shit, but the fact that he seems perfectly aware of it somehow makes him still kind of likable.
The Showtime app is complete shit. I get it free with my spotify and every movie buffers every 20 seconds
When I looked up the cast for
, I noticed it’s free on Amazon, so there’s always that route. That’s where I watch Strange New Worlds.
1st episode was fun at times, but not convincing enough. will it get better?
>I’m begging you guys - you need to watch this show
Frick right off, shill.
Shill: the thread
frick off i see Black person i turn off, the fact youre going in so hard to make this a thing ensures its a steamer