Since each episode is ~2 hours long, it’s equivalent to a 12 or 24 episode commitment to most series. >_>
I could live with 6 episodes per year, actually.
Thanks for that. I did check it out, and saw they had Moon Zero Two, which is something that didn’t seem to be on any of the DVDs I got from the library, so I watched it. Especially good since that was a movie I even knew about from my SF in the movies books.
The Bad Astronomer would have a field day with it.
More like 80 minutes for this season (last season averaged a little under 90 minutes), but point taken.
Ninety minutes has usually been the average. Two hours with commercial breaks when it was on cable.
Somehow, I never noticed until Netflix that they must actually shave off a good bit of the movies they feature. I just always assumed they riffed over the whole movie, but clearly they cut like a quarter to a third of them. I guess it’s cause I’ve never seen any of the films they’ve used in their entirety, to my knowledge.
Having finished the season…
They didn’t really do much with the ‘Gauntlet’ idea. A couple jokes about ‘binge producing’, and a few comments about how it would certainly drive Jonah and the Bots mad…but that’s it. No sign that it was driving our heroes out of their minds, and no sign that Kinga was disappointed by that failure.
(And…yeah…oops on the number. Still…equivalent to 9 or 18 episodes, so a pretty solid commitment - and about even with most Netflix Originals.)
Also, rewatching part of the first season (since Netflix did that thing where they put the new episodes at the front, so the older ones autoplay after them)…I do not miss the faux-commercial break eyecatches, and I think Jonah and the Bots were more entertaining (both riffing and skits) this time around, but I think Kinga and Max’s segments were better during the first season. Like…a lot.
Finished the season today and I would hope for 6 episodes like this per year.
Ator was actually my favorite one of the season. I did not realize Cave Dwellers is actually the sequel to this. I’ll have to rewatch that one, now.
I actually didnt understand the end until it was explained to me by the Faith Take Youtube channel…something about the last ep goes straight into the Live Show which had already finished by the time the show was put on Netflix.
So far, the best episodes of the Jonah era are Wizards of the Lost Kingdom I and Mac and Me.
I’d say that the best ones with Jonah are:
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 1 and 2(loved both)
Cry Wilderness
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
It’s actually impressive how quickly the show improved. Cry Wilderness is a big step up in quality after Reptilicus.
I’ve watched all of the previous season and all but one of the current. Enjoy it overall, but I’m still not a fan of Gypsy’s drive-by comments.
Me too, they are distracting and not funny.
I thought this set of 6 was less good than the initial 14. Having said that, a few stinkers were in that group, too.
This is baffling to me.
I found Cry Wilderness, by far, the worst episode of Jonah’s run.
Every Country Has a Monster, alone, has more entertainment packed into its 3 minutes than Cry Wilderness had in its entire hour and a half. The riffs and host segments were weak and unmemorable, and the movie itself merely boring.
Personally, I think Cry Wilderness is an overrated episode.
I liked Every Country Has a Monster, but the first host segment to make me laugh was the time portal one in Time Travelers.
I greatly enjoyed Cry Wilderness. I liked how they made a big deal of rescuing that woman in the ambulance and it randomly goes off a cliff cause the driver is a moron.