House of The Dragon Season 2
There's that Marcellus Wallace line about "getting medieval" on the sorry ass of Zed in Pulp Fiction, which eternally echoes through all proceedings in the GRR-Martin-verse of Game of Thrones and House of The Dragon. The medieval-looking-but-grimmer lives of these characters are Hobbsian. Everything is rather nasty, brutish, and short. It's sort of appropriate that Hobbes' book was 'Leviathan' and these shows deal with the difficult house-training of fire-breathing dragons.
Emma D'Arcy is a revelation. She's singularly the best thing in this show. I'm not sure I like the lesbian scene that developed between Rhaenyra and Mysaria to be honest, but it's an HBO show. They can't resist a prurient turn of plot somewhere along the way.
Still only 2 seasons in, there are plenty of ways this show can go bad still, but for now it is holding its keep. I'm still a bit lukewarm about the whole show, but in most part I want to know what happens next. It's utterly unlike the Disney+ shows where I just don't want to know what happens next.
Beverly Hills Cop - Axel F
Good God was this necessary? It's hard to say. As of this writing, it's holding up credibly over on Rotten Tomatoes so we should not be too mean to it. They brought back the gang, nobody got missed, but the laughs weren't as uproarious. It was more of a chuckle-fest with call backs to the old films.
It's a bit Nietzschean in that the whole enterprise is beyond good or evil. Netflix is doing it because it knows from data that people will click on it out of curiosity. It is emblematic of how people who used to support action comedy releases at the cinemas are now sitting at home watching Netflix instead. It's a lot tougher to get them out of their daily routines to get back to the cinemas. I imagine Deadpool & Wolverine will do okay at the box offices because it is full of nostalgia for when the same demographic used to go see these movies in the cinemas 15-25 years ago.
It kind of provides the proof that the demographic that used to support this kind of content at the box office are now staying at home watching Netflix. I really can't imagine anybody younger than 44 would like or enjoy this film.
2024 Paris Summer Olympics
Thanks to the pandemic moving the Tokyo Olympics 2021, with Beijing winter Games in 2022, it's beginning to feel like there's too much Olympic Games going on. I'm not watching any of it. I'm not saying out of a sense of hostility, but more out of a sense of exhaustion. I understand Paris chose to do it differently this year, showcasing the culture in the city. They urged Brisbane to do the same, and not build dumb stadia that fall into disuse after the Olympic Games move on. First of all, there is no culture to showcase in Brisbane. Secondly, the only thing you can showcase is the 'Gabba - a veritable cultural landmark of a stadium. I get the feeling that the city of Paris, having won the right to host the games realised in the 7years since that maybe it wasn't that much into the idea of a global sporting event to shut down the country's main city for 2 weeks, just for sport.
They're not crazy for thinking that. Of course, it would not be how Australians think about the subject.
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