Steven discusses Attack on Titan a new anime channel
Coming up on this week's episode, Steven tries out anime show Attack on Titan. Find out where. While, guest panelist Paul, shares the latest on the new season of Only Murders in the building.
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00:00 can't stand anime. Really? I would have thought that was kind of up your street actually you like
00:04 a bit of anime in general. Yeah I've given the big ones a try like the Studio Ghibli movies and I mean
00:09 Spirit Away is fairly good but recently I saw Your Name which was a really good anime film and I
00:16 thought well I'll give Attack on Titan a try because it's supposed to be like one of the best
00:20 series of that. Huge disappointment I thought it was okay still but it looked like it had so much
00:28 potential. I don't know if you guys have seen it. No I remember when it came out being very excited
00:33 it had like a really tight premise and an excellent trailer and then I didn't even make it
00:38 through the first 20 minutes I don't think. Oh no. It was a mess, a mess of a movie. And it's long as well
00:44 it's like two and a half hours and I think it could have been a really good 90 minute
00:49 sort of thriller. It's clearly inspired by like Quentin Tarantino like the Reservoir Dogs.
00:57 I think Hateful Eight might have come out after but it's very similar to Hateful Eight except
01:01 the payoff is the execution is just not there. They get rid of the most interesting character
01:10 very early doors. Yeah sort of every act along the way it sort of went in the wrong
01:18 direction and got worse as a result if that makes sense. Stylistically it looks very good.
01:24 The acting's pretty spot on but the writing I think really really let it down unfortunately.
01:30 I do like a bit of Jeff Bridges. Where did you watch that? Well I watched it on Disney plus
01:35 but I wouldn't necessarily recommend anyone else. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right so
01:41 Paul over to you. What have you been watching besides a lot of Taggart obviously? Last night
01:47 I was watching the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building. Oh you're way ahead of me. I'm
01:53 going on the first series too. It's quite fun. The streaming service still kept this season
01:59 and all rugs as well. So yeah they're rolling out all the stars. I think it's a nice one
02:08 and it's on Disney plus if anyone wants to check that out. Also there I've been trying
02:13 Ahsoka which is the new Star Wars television series. Oh we mentioned it last week. Yeah yeah go ahead.
02:19 So the third episode dropped. Again they're doing it in a linear fashion with a point with
02:25 television. The third episode dropped today. I haven't watched that yet but from the first two episodes
02:30 it seems promising in terms of the acting and the attempt to kind of create a...
02:36 it's almost like a detective series as well. They tend to
02:42 kind of drop into different genres within the Star Wars universe and this feels a bit kind of
02:48 like piecing together a puzzle as they search for a long lost admiral from the empire.
02:56 The only concern for me is I didn't grow up with the animated series that was the
03:04 precursor for this live action version and a lot of the scenes and the setups and
03:10 the visuals seem like it's ultimately fan service.
03:16 Fan service rather than progressing the story so I'm sure that if people had grown up watching
03:22 Rebels and other series that they will be you know... More affinity with us.
03:30 Yeah just like super impressed by the visuals but for me just coming new to this aspect of the
03:36 Star Wars universe I'm yet to be yet to be fully immersed I suppose but you know
03:44 it's got promise.
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