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The Terminal List
2022 · TV series · 2 seasons
Created by David DiGilio
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
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I agree. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power are unbearably boring. But let's wait.
Anyway, IMDb ratings are getting totally unreliable to me. I wasted hours of my life that won't come back, watching some show called The Terminal List that scored a solid eight. Carnage of Asimov's Foundation is 7.4 and that... thing, The Wheel of Time 7.1.
I wonder if there's a way to see evolution of rating, for me Star Trek Discovery seasons are nine, seven, two, pass... but it's holding at 7 right now.
Sure — that’s why we’ve spent five years with terrible Star Wars and Marvel movies pandering to a niche audience.
But eventually the music stops and everyone leaves… which is what we’re seeing now:
Those companies haven’t produced quality within easy memory (5 years) and so people are overcoming their decades of inertia to find new properties.
You can look at the different receptions of Reacher and Terminal List versus Wheel of Time and Rings of Power, though, to see that putting The Message over quality doesn’t work.
> After Googling a bit, that Rippaverse thing seems like it's an opposite-polarity reaction, so it's still part of the problem.
You should listen to Rippa’s own description rather than the press around it:
He’s just trying to make a quality comic book, no explicit message.
That’s portrayed as “anti-woke” because not putting The Message front and center is a revolutionary act, these days.