The Trailer Park

I'll be overjoyed when this fad of varying jerkiness to the animation is long gone and forgotten. A few of those Love, Death And Robot thingies were guilty of it and there are a couple of TV adverts at the moment that are particularly bad but this Spiderverse thing, with all the other gimmicks thrown on top, is by far the worst. I understand that they're trying to make you think of those old stop-motion techniques but they were consistent. This smooth camera motion mixed with jerky characters seemingly stuck on their keyframes never stops being horrible. I feel like I'm having a seizure!

Managed to get another TV freebie, this time an AppleTV+ thingie for a few months. So I watched that Tom Hanks/doggie/robot movie called Finch. Didn't think I'd like it due to the rather awkward start but it gradually won me over and I did end up enjoying it.

Surprisingly there isn't really that much on that particular service. 90% of the content is stuff that you have to pay extra to watch. A bit like Amazon... but even worse! They have those new Star Trek Discovery shows but charge £2.50 for every episode.
Won't be watching that.
But I'll definitely try to watch Foundation sometime.

But in the meantime that other NowTV freebie is running out this week so I'm trying to squeeze in season one of Billions which is one of those shows where I hate all of the characters.

I am now watching the first episode of Arcane even though it'll probably have some of that jerky animation that I don't like plus I don't know anything about League Of Legends anyway.

...well that was surprisingly good. It didn't give me a headache at least.
The only thing I really disliked was the character Mylo who seemed to be a completely different design to everyone else with his pointy chin and ridiculous "Anime" hair. Oh and the animated smoke seemed weirdly flat too.
I still don't know anything about League Of Legends but I understood enough about the world and the story to not worry about it and will return for episode three.

I liked the older setting of the British one and it started out pretty good but fell apart fairly quickly.
I also quite like the Tom Cruise one. Even if the idea of buried machines isn't great that scene where it first emerges from the ground is amazing and the sound effects/design are incredible.