Cephus' Corner

A Place for my Geeky Side

Being Accurate to the Book Doesn’t Matter!

July 1st, 2023

This is one of those things that kind of drives me crazy. Whenever a movie or TV adaptation comes on, based on a book or a video game or whatever, and people scream that “it isn’t accurate!”

Who cares? If you want accuracy, go read the book or play the video game. I want entertaining. I want something close enough that I can see the source, but that is it’s own thing and has value on its own.

Sadly, I seem to be largely alone in this.

Why I Hate Reality TV

November 30th, 2022

I was poking around YouTube, as I often am, and saw this video with Chris Gore. Now I could say a lot about hate watching but I don’t engage in it, I wanted to say something about the other subject that he brings up in passing: reality TV.

I hate reality TV. Let’s get below the fold and I’ll explain why.

Hate to Say it, MST3K Sucks

May 13th, 2022

I’ve been a fan of MST3K for 30 years. Unfortunately, that has recently changed. It isn’t that I didn’t try to like it but what they’re putting out now, it just doesn’t gel with me at all. In fact, it’s been going downhill for a long time now, this is just where I’m going to cut ties. This just isn’t the show that it used to be.

It’s Hard to Have an Intelligent Conversation These Days!

April 30th, 2022

This is an ongoing problem that I’ve noticed before but today, I saw it in action once again. Over on a forum, we’ve been discussing the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, now that the trailer has been released and a lot of us are very skeptical. The trailer looks okay, not amazing but very reminiscent of the older shows, for a reason. The Star Trek series are all hemorrhaging money and viewers. So we have good reason to doubt that this will be any different.

So then this happens…

Can We Just Stop?

October 23rd, 2021

I mean seriously, Hollywood, can we just stop doing this woke crap? Because this year alone, I’ve walked away from three shows (more or less) that suddenly, out of the blue, started marching around with far-left ideologies and I’m really tired of it.

Can you please just knock it off?

Prodigal Son Goes into Woke Overload

May 19th, 2021

There are some shows that I don’t even start watching until they finish their season so I can binge the whole thing. One of those, until very recently, was Prodigal Son. The first season was excellent, although certainly not perfect and most things with Michael Sheen, I tend to like.

So, now that it finished up it’s abbreviated second season at episode 13, I sat down to watch it last night and honestly, I don’t know that I will continue. Rabid woke culture strikes again.

9 Shows Worth Watching?

March 7th, 2021

So, WhatCulture did a video that I caught on 9 shows that everyone should watch. Except most of them just aren’t worth watching, or weren’t back in the day. So here’s my quick look at all of their 9 shows and why even though I saw most of them, I either dropped them or didn’t care when they got canned. There are very few exceptions to this rule.

Good vs. Bad Reboots

December 19th, 2020

Recently, a couple of reboots have appeared on the television landscape, some good, some bad. Now keep in mind, I am not a fan of reboots, reimaginings or any of that in general. I think Hollywood needs to be original, not just produce half-assed copies trying to relive past glories, but that’s not the world we live in. So let’s take a look at the good and the bad of late.