July 12
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas, as vindicated in the NYT
If you slept on it, Wyatt is still there for you.
The Second Season is a must-watch if you want to think "What does 're-opening' schools mean in the middle of a pandemic?"
HBO published all the episodes on Youtube in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
Earlier Fanfare posts 1 and 2 [more inside]
July 3
Disney+ Exclusives - Protocol?
I just finished watching Hamilton which is exclusively on Disney+. I'd like to discuss the production with other people, but its presence on a paywalled streaming service is, well, a barrier to entry. What is our protocol for discussing media when its behind this kind of gate?
June 12
Midnight Diner
Anyone watching Midnight Diner? [more inside]
June 10
Summer 2020 Anime Season
Anichart. MyAnimeList. A little bit enka and a little bit visual-kei. [more inside]
June 9
FanFare Book Club?
I just went through the book posts for the last three months. There's lots of books I'm considering reading, and one book I read a while ago but don't remember well enough to do deep insightful commentary. In order to get more synchronicity on this, does anyone want to start a book club? Or even a couple in different genres? I would love a romance, science fiction, fantasy and/or nonfiction book club.
May 30
Ten Forward
Hello, I suggest a rolling thread here in FF Talk which can serve as a catchall chatroom for Trek topics. This could be it, or maybe not. I was just musing about the range of upcoming Trek stiff coming up and our current on going TAS and TNG threads and thought, hm, sometimes I see a Trek thing I wanna share here but am always uncertain where.
So, if you’re open to the idea and MeFi’s UI can make it work appropriately, please step into Ten Forward. Rumor has it that Guinan will be returning in s02 of PIC, but in the meantime, I’ll do my best, and of course you’re all welcome to step behind the bar as the, er, spirits move you.
May 15
Star Trek comes full circle
CBS announced this morning that they've placed a series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the ninth Star Trek series to be aired. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck will all be returning as their ST:Discovery versions of Captain Pike, Number One, and Spock.
The series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
May 14
What books haven't you been posting?
I know there's an Amazon bug (or something), and they're working on it. But in the meanwhile, there's a Fanfare books DESERT out there! So: what haven't you been posting lately?
May 13
MCU Movie Rewatch in Chronological Order
Sooooo since I have a bit of time on my hands, I figured I'd catch up on the MCU movies. (I haven't seen all of them, but most.) I rewatched Captain America and realized that there wasn't a FF post and put that up earlier this week. Would anybody be interested in a chronological rewatch/first watch of the MCU movies? Is that a thing that we've done before? How would that work anyway? Would we just add commentary to any existing FF posts?
Chronological-order list pulled from here.
May 5
Ryan Murphy's "Hollywood" won't verify?
IMDB won't automatically pull up Ryan Murphy's Hollywood on the add a show request page.
May 3
NT Theatre Live: Frankenstein - what category to post under?
I'd like to start a FanFare post on the National Theatre Live recordings of the 2011 production of Frankenstein, as briefly discussed here. Both versions (Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Frankenstein and the Creature) are on the NT's YouTube channel, so under what category do I post them?
April 29
Hugo Awards 2020
I'm planning on going ahead with doing the Hugo Awards club again, doing one post a week between May 1st and July 31st. [more inside]
April 27
Add a series to Recent Activity?
Is there a way to add an entire series to recent activity? [more inside]
April 12
Xena Warrior Princess & Battlestar Galactica full-series SyFy marathons
Per TV Line - starting on 4/16, SyFy will air 10 episodes of Xena every Thursday, hosted by Lucy Lawless with various guest stars. There will be a Battlestar marathon of the miniseries and all seasons plus the tv-movies hosted by Tricia Helfer, starting 4/20 at midnight thru the morning of 4/23. [more inside]
April 7
Can we watch something that's on an "archival" stream?
There are certain shows, for example anime in the middle of decades long production disputes, that are on hosted at locations that are archival streams. These streams have varying legalities. Could we point towards a potential stream in a way that suggests their location despite locality in order to afford discussion?
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Seeing the new TNG Rewatch, I'm reminded of the conversation that took place just before the ENT rewatch started. I don't think it makes sense to start it up right now opposite the TNG reqatch, but I'd love to lead a TAS rewatch here at some point. Thoughts? Ideas about when might be a good time to start it?
March 21
Watch Losing Ground by Kathleen Collins on Criterion Channel together
I just heard this came to Criterion after being really hard to see for years. Let's watch some beautiful filmmaking while we wait out the apocalypse. Tomorrow evening?
I loved her book Whatever Happened to Interrracial Love. Any takers?
Kathleen Collins.
March 13
Spring 2020 Anime Season
Anichart. MyAnimeList. They fight crime! [more inside]
Better Things final season?
Anyone interested in discussing the final season of Better Things? I have...opinions.
March 8
Friday the 13th - 2009
It has only been a few months since the last Friday the 13th, but we have one coming up at the end of this week. Amazingly, this is the final movie in the series, so my work here is just about done.
Anyway, if you want to see the previous movies / posts / discussions you can click through. Otherwise, I hope someone is interested in watching this last movie. [more inside]
February 29
Altered Carbon S02
Any interest in a "Books Included" episode postings?
February 24
Making The Cut
I’m pretty fucking psyched about seeing Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum back at work together. I’m hoping that Amazon will have given them enough money for longer and more substantial design challenges.
January 31
Fast And Furious 9 Trailer ***HAN IS BACK***
I need a place to freak out about FaF 9. [more inside]
Star Trek: The Next Generation
It came up in the Picard threads that the crew of the USS MetaFilter has yet to instantiate a TNG watchthrough. Currently, Cheeses and Jack are helming the last season of ENT, and of course PIC is underway as well. I think ENT should be wrapped before PIC is over, so it would seem time to boldly go where no threads have gone before. [more inside]
January 10
Star Trek: Picard
We’re just about two weeks out from Star Trek: Picard, which will release in ten episodes on a weekly basis on CBS All Access.
The show has, roughly, telegraphed its’ intent to provide a final arc for Jean-Luc, with Michael Chabon writing directly about working on the show in the context of both his lifelong Trek fandom and the loss of his father, and Patrick Stewart drawing comparisons between the show and his last performance as Professor X in Logan.
My assumption has been that roughly the same crew of posters who populate the DISCO threads will show up here. Has anyone made plans to lead posting on the shows? Most importantly: what shall the three letter code be? STP? PIC? Something else? [more inside]
January 9
MST Club Season 11 Rewatch Posts
We're showing Season 11 episodes in our poll-decided episode encore, which presents a problem: all the Season 11 episodes already have Rewatch posts. There is nothing saying we can't make more, but rather than litter main Fanfare with an indefinitely increasing number of Rewatches, I'm going to announce these episodes in the MST Club Talk subsection. Please look there for the upcoming episodes.
January 6
2020 Morning News Tournament of Books
The Morning News announced back in December the list for their 16th annual Tournament of Books. The theme is “The Future Is Getting Here Awfully Fast.” Last year tofu_crouton got this more timely post which resulted in a book club to organize everything.
Previously here.
December 22
Me... Metafilter has spoiler tags now?
What sorcery is this? [more inside]
December 16
Discussing the Watchmen ending in context of The Leftovers
Consider this a sidebar for people who have thoughts about the finale of Watchmen that relate to the finale of The Leftovers. Spoilers permissible for both series within.
December 15
Winter 2020 Anime Season
Anichart. MyAnimeList.. And, anime of the season is ... [more inside]
December 9
The Expanse Season 4
So last year I posted episode-by-episode coverage of The Expanse season three. MeFans responded to it well, and I intended to do the same for Season 4. But I plan to be sailing around Guadeloupe on the release date of December 13… [more inside]
December 8
Friday the Thirteenth - Jason X (Repost)
It has only been a few months since the last Friday the 13th, but we have one coming up at the end of this week. Jason X is the next movie up in the slow burn Friday the 13th movie club, but it has already been posted so I will post the fan movie Never Hike Alone (Available in its entirety on Youtube) in its stead. [more inside]
December 5
Meta meta meta
I see posts here asking if anyone would like to discuss a particular item. Is there a reason to not just toss a FanFare post up about the thing you'd like to talk about, and see what happens? At the worst, nobody replies.
November 20
Leverage (re)watch?
There is no Leverage on fanfare. This is saddening. Would anybody be interested in a (re)watch of s1? [more inside]
November 19
MST Club 2019 Christmas Marathon suggestion thread
This is the public planning/suggestion thread for the Christmas Marathon. If you have any awesome examples of Yuletide Ridiculousness to suggest, you can do it here!
November 11
The Morning Show
I want to add The Morning Show to FanFare, can I get some feedback on whether I should add all four episodes separately, or start at episode four?
November 7
Watchmen - the book?
With the new Watchmen HBO series airing, would this be a good time for a post about the original book? [more inside]
October 31
His Dark Materials thread thoughts
Before HBO's 'His Dark Materials' series starts on Monday, I thought it might be good to have a Fanfare Talk thread going for book vs show spoiler discussions, to avoid the actual episode threads going off into derails or unhappiness -- the question being, will the 'books included' threads encompass the original trilogy only, or also the new 'Book of Dust' books?
October 23
Tana French -- books and/or TV show
Any interest in discussing either her books, or the currently airing in the UK (and about to air in the US) Dublin Murders tv show (covering the first two books)?
October 2
The Haunting of Netflix House VII: Wes Craven’s New Netflix
Collected FF posts from the beloved annual list of "good or good-adjacent horror or horror-adjacent movies available for streaming on American Netflix for your falltimes enjoyment." As seen here on the blue. [more inside]
MLB Playoffs?
Any interest in a thread? Technically it's already started with the NL Wild Card game last night, but we still have the AL Wild Card game, both division series, both championship series, and the World Series ahead of us.
October 1
I can't not ask - Joker?
Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I'm wondering if there is interest in posting on Joker here. I'm a little worried that it might get overrun by people who haven't seen the film. [more inside]
Fall 2019 Anime Season
MyAnimeList. AniChart. Do I see ... grownups? [more inside]
September 27
Like a Streak of Light, He Arrives Just in Time
Following up on this post on the blue (now closed, otherwise I'd put it there), Sony and Disney/Marvel have cut a deal to keep Spider-Man (Tom Holland) in the MCU. [more inside]
September 18
Fall 2019 TV season general post
US Network television fall premiere season starts on Monday (9/23/19), just wanted to make a general planning post (and a heads-up for the impending slew of threads on pilots of dubious quality). Various tv-sites' premiere calendars linked below. [more inside]
Masked Singer Season 2
Fox aired a "super sneak peak" Sunday night. There are new costumes, rumors abound about who's under the mask, and rampant speculation from Martha Stewart to Marshmallo are being thrown around. [more inside]
Country Music
Anyone watching the new Ken Burns doc Country Music? Thoughts? [more inside]
September 16
Alphabetical books
Where can I go to see all the books in alphabetical order?
September 13
Dollhouse?
Dollhouse? After it stopped being the Eliza Dushku Show, it got good.
Olivia Williams, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman, Enver Gjokaj. What happened to them?!
The season-end 'Specials' were really great. [more inside]
September 8
Friday the 13th - Jason Goes to Hell
It has been about fifteen months, but finally the next Friday the 13th is right around the corner (and it is on a full moon, spooky!). We are up to the ninth movie in the franchise, Jason Goes to Hell. You can catch up with the previous 8 on our club page. [more inside]
August 27
Interest in discussing The Woman Upstairs?
Learned about this book via the blue (previously). I'm still reading it but as a spinster there are things that resonate very intensely and I think there's a lot to talk about. [more inside]
August 13
Linking to publisher?
It would be nice to be able to link to publishers when posting books to fanfare in addition to the automatic amazon link. It feels like not giving full credit when the publisher doesn't get a shiny link, too. Maybe this feature already exists and I just don't know about it? [more inside]
August 11
Youtube shows?
I'm currently watching a show on youtube and would love to be able to share my love of it with fellow Fanfare members. Is there any way that can happen? [more inside]
July 26
Community discovery: what are you enjoying right now?
In the spirit of more open-ended conversations on MeFi, I'm just wondering what TV shows, films, books, podcasts, or Youtube channels you're enjoying right now? (Old or new, but if it hasn't been discussed much yet on FanFare, so much the better.) FanFare lurkers, we'd enjoy hearing from you too. [more inside]
July 23
Guidance on making a FanFare book post for the first time
I want to make my first book post! And I'm curious where people get the little blurbs? Are you writing them yourself, copying them from the book jacket, or something else? Thanks!
July 16
Glee rewatch?
Glee is now on Netflix, and I'm watching it for the first time. Anyone else interested in a rewatch?
July 10
Albums and music?
Any place for albums or music in FanFare? [more inside]
June 29
Order of rewatches
Maybe this is nuts, but once a rewatch is complete, would it be possible to have the option to reorder the posts to go from first to last? I wanted to skim through the posts on an old show I like, which has been completed, but it's a bit of a pain to have to go back through them in inverse order.
June 27
GLBTQ Fantasy/Science Fiction Novels?
So with only a few days left in Pride Month, would anyone want interested in some fanfare posts on fantasy/SF featuring GLBTQ protagonists?
Mainly I want to do posts on Dreadnaught: Nemesis and Dreadnaught: Sovereign. Other books I've read recently include
Fire Logic
The Murderbot Diaries
Daughter of Mystery
Does anyone else have any recommendations?
June 22
Summer 2019 Anime Season
MyAnimeList. AniChart. The summer of isekai... [more inside]
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