- Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:16 pm
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I started Marianne from Netflix over the weekend. I'm 3 episodes in and enjoying it quite a bit. Some genuinely creepy imagery. My only issue at this point is the awful book transitions, they feel cheap and don't match the atmosphere the darker elements of the show set up. Excited to continue though.
Any of you watch the show on Netflix, The Toys That Made Us? I tried to watch it in the first season and just couldn't get into it. The overall production is super cheesy and feels like a VH1 docu-series. Well they did an episode on TMNT and me being a complete turtle fan boy I had to watch it. It's still the same show, it flies by glossing over most of the stuff but it did have interviews with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. For those that don't know or care they are the original creators of the comic starting in the early 90's it got a little heated between Kevin & Peter, Kevin was notoriously a dick and wanted money over their integrity, eventually he was bought out and no longer had anything to do with the Turtles. Fast forward to now, Peter sold his rights to the Turtles to Viacom for a couple million dollars and retired, Kevin was actually brought back into the fold by Viacom and has been involved in the shows and comics ever since. History lesson over. I bring this up because there is a scene at the very end of the episode that actually has Kevin & Peter getting together at an old office, they are looking at stuff and reminiscing, it's kind of sweet. Peter is older than Kevin and showing his age, he looks like a frail old man now. There was one scene in particular where they went into a room and Peter starts talking about how they had this window installed so him and Kevin could pass pages back and forth for inking, at the end he pauses and just says "but we never got to do that did we?" It wasn't said to be mean, it was an old man who was hurt (still is) that this never happened. It made me tear up and I looked over at my wife and she had tears running down her face. It was the most honest and emotional part of that entire episode and while sad at least made it worth watching through to completion. On the bright side Kevin & Peter are working a Turtles comic mini series at IDW called The Last Ronin coming next year. It will be nice to have Peter do a little more Turtles before he draw any more.
Sorry for the long winded write up but I didn't expect that episode to have that effect on me and figured I would share the story because you're the only folks who read my blathering about film and TV.
Any of you watch the show on Netflix, The Toys That Made Us? I tried to watch it in the first season and just couldn't get into it. The overall production is super cheesy and feels like a VH1 docu-series. Well they did an episode on TMNT and me being a complete turtle fan boy I had to watch it. It's still the same show, it flies by glossing over most of the stuff but it did have interviews with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. For those that don't know or care they are the original creators of the comic starting in the early 90's it got a little heated between Kevin & Peter, Kevin was notoriously a dick and wanted money over their integrity, eventually he was bought out and no longer had anything to do with the Turtles. Fast forward to now, Peter sold his rights to the Turtles to Viacom for a couple million dollars and retired, Kevin was actually brought back into the fold by Viacom and has been involved in the shows and comics ever since. History lesson over. I bring this up because there is a scene at the very end of the episode that actually has Kevin & Peter getting together at an old office, they are looking at stuff and reminiscing, it's kind of sweet. Peter is older than Kevin and showing his age, he looks like a frail old man now. There was one scene in particular where they went into a room and Peter starts talking about how they had this window installed so him and Kevin could pass pages back and forth for inking, at the end he pauses and just says "but we never got to do that did we?" It wasn't said to be mean, it was an old man who was hurt (still is) that this never happened. It made me tear up and I looked over at my wife and she had tears running down her face. It was the most honest and emotional part of that entire episode and while sad at least made it worth watching through to completion. On the bright side Kevin & Peter are working a Turtles comic mini series at IDW called The Last Ronin coming next year. It will be nice to have Peter do a little more Turtles before he draw any more.
Sorry for the long winded write up but I didn't expect that episode to have that effect on me and figured I would share the story because you're the only folks who read my blathering about film and TV.