The internet really does have everything if you search for it…
Is this post about “Cobra Kai”?
I like watching it and yelling “WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE ADULTS DOING WHILE THIS IS GOING ON???” and “WATCH OUT FOR THOSE STAIRS!!!”
It shows 5 mins of surfing if you’re lucky. More likely it shows him about to drop into his first big wave with cheering in the background, then fades to black
Forgot to mention that his star-crossed love interest, a gay priest and silver mirror salesman whose whole value system was turned upside down by their forbidden love, is shown cheering in a close-up after their tumultuous breakup earlier in the season
Don’t stop believin’
It is then canceled while season 2 is in pre-production. The head writer eventually reveals S2 would’ve dealt with the rivalry between Dracula and up-and-coming surfer Nosferatu(played by the same actor as Dracula. Absolutely no one acknowledges their resemblance), leading up to the big Surf championships
Nosurferatu?
Yesurferatu
Nosurferatu would be the name of the vampire that wants to ban surfing.
I also really hate that Surf Dracula 2024 was released all at once. With some shows, you can come to an online forum to talk about the latest episode every week, but these fukken binge shows just appear and get like one day of discussion and if you miss it you’re fucked.
I literally got the ending of Surf Dracula 2024 spoiled for me at work the DAY AFTER IT CAME OUT! Like who has time to watch all 24 episodes in one evening, let alone have the audacity to talk about it out loud in a public setting…
I do like the idea of serf dracuala with the intent on telling how he came to be a count but I don’t want a humanising tale I want it to be pretty much a horror movie with just one troublesome person managing to run away at the end
Drink the blood of the rich.
One reason I prefer watching older shows is that the format made the writing so concise. They can fit two plots and some character development into 42 minutes, unlike newer shows where it’s twenty minutes of dialog and narration every episode. For example, the last season of Discovery had as much happen as two episodes of TNG.
Also the ducking voice over at the end hammering home the moral of the story. No matter if it makes any sense at all.
Because sometime we all need to <verb> a <noun>, even if <unrelated thing>. There is so much <emotion> that causes us to bla bla bla I can’t even write this bullshit.
Gave up on the Handmaid’s Tale, as half of each episode was a flashback to one of the characters visiting a cafe in the times before Trump’s second term - which the writers probably thought was brilliant character and world building, but was actually wheelspinning.
Wait, I just described Lost too.
I feel like the only show ive seen recently that does a good flash back system is the Fallout TV show. Also as an aside that show needs a date system to show how long has passed between scenes.
On the other hand, those shows hit the big reset button every week. I’d love something episodic, but what happens in previous episodes still has an effect on future episodes. Star Trek started to do that a little with DS9, but even there… O’Brien is in a mind prison for what he thinks is 20 years and he’s fine in the next episode?
He’s not fine on the inside
We call that Star Gate.
Surely you meant Farscape?
Why not both?
I loved SG1 but they didn’t do nearly enough of that. I never watched Atlantis or the other one though.
SG-1 had a huge forward progression. At the beginning they were basically a hiking team, but by the end they had tech that surpassed Trek.
The whole episodic vs serialised thing was pretty much during that time.
It’s pretty obvious from the shows of the era.
House, for one. Earlier seasons being rather strictly episodic, and last season being a serialised joke about how ridiculous the rigid episodic nature of the earlier seasons were. Not ecactly, but…
Disney Marvel shows will have the pacing of a 20 episode season but end on episode 8.
Pretty much the same with movies of the superhero and other genres. You gotta start at the beginning and only in the last 15min is Surf Dracula at max power. Then you get a couple of uninspired sequels (because sequels print money regardless), and eventually a reboot where they retell the same old Dracula-Finds-Surfing-In-His-Time-Of-Grief origin story but with a younger actor.
Nah, the first two movies are building up to showing you Surf Dracula a full power, with things being mostly in place at the end of movie 2. Then movie 3 comes along and Dracula is already over the hill and has given up on surfing.
I had AI write me a script for a pilot episode now I really want to see it.
Surf Dracula - Pilot Episode: “The Tide of Terror”## INT. HAWAIIAN BEACHSIDE BUNGALOW - NIGHT*The camera pans over a collection of surfboards, each more colorful than the last. A full moon casts a silver glow through the open window. We see a figure, DRACULA (50s, charming, with a mysterious aura), dressed in an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and board shorts, looking out at the ocean.DRACULA(contemplative)*The night is young, and the waves call to me. But duty beckons…
A knock at the door. Dracula turns, his eyes flashing red for a split second.## EXT. HAWAIIAN BEACH - NIGHT*Dracula opens the door to find DETECTIVE LEI (30s, sharp, no-nonsense) holding a flashlight and a notepad.DETECTIVE LEIDracula, we need your… unique skills. There’s been another incident. DRACULA(smirking)Lead the way, Detective. They walk down to the beach where a crowd has gathered around something in the sand.## EXT. HAWAIIAN BEACH - CRIME SCENE - NIGHTDracula kneels by the body of a local surfer, his board snapped in two. The crowd murmurs with fear and curiosity.DRACULA(examining the body)*No water in the lungs, no signs of a struggle… This was no ordinary drowning. *Detective Lei looks on, skeptical but intrigued.DETECTIVE LEIWhat are you suggesting? DRACULA(standing, addressing the crowd)This was the work of something unnatural. And I intend to find out what. The crowd gasps. Dracula’s eyes meet Lei’s, a silent promise of collaboration and mystery.## INT. DRACULA’S BUNGALOW - NIGHTDracula sits at a desk covered in ancient texts and modern forensics equipment. He’s deep in thought when his trusty sidekick, FRANKIE (20s, surfer dude with a secret intelligence), bursts in.FRANKIEDude, the whole beach is talking about the “Curse of the Tidal Fiend”! DRACULA(dryly)Superstitions often have a kernel of truth, Frankie. Help me look into the local legends. They dive into research, the camera focusing on a particular legend: “The Tidal Fiend, a creature of the deep, comes with the high tide to claim the souls of the unwary.”## EXT. HAWAIIAN BEACH - NIGHTDracula and Frankie set a trap for the Tidal Fiend, using a special surfboard as bait. The moon is high, the tide comes in, and a shadowy figure approaches from the water…DRACULA(whispering)*Get ready, Frankie. The hunt is on. *The screen fades to black as the sound of the waves crescendos.*VOICEOVERNext time on Surf Dracula, the mystery deepens, and the danger grows. Will our heroes catch the Tidal Fiend, or will they become its next victims? Tune in to find out!
The 80s synth-pop theme song plays as the credits roll. FADE OUT.
TBH I’m kinda over seeing AI generated content in discussions like this. It used to be novel and quite impressive, but now that I’ve seen this type of thing so many times and the reality of the negative impacts of LLMs has set in, it just doesn’t hit for me at all. It’s fun to speculate about an LLM writing TV scripts, but my worry is that this will become an actual thing in the near future: soulless generated “content” companies can sell us without having to pay hardworking and talented writers, and that shit just bums me out.
Anyway, nothing against you, and I don’t fault you for posting it, but that’s my thoughts. Maybe I’m in the minority though, who knows?
Nah, it’s drivel.
Nostalgia good, modern bad, blah blah, whatever. I just want to see Surf Dracula.
I’m guessing it’s a mystery and Surf Dracula is trying to find out why there’s so many vampire killings when vampires decided to chill out and live along side humans or maybe the vampires are getting to close to attacking the human love of their life or something and there’s gonna be an episode where Surf Dracula has to dress in a big, rubber, human suit to go day surfing (you know so the sunlight doesn’t kill them) to crack the case.
No, that would mean they will have to wear the suit every episode, it can’t be a one off goof.
Just have them apply liberal amounts of waterproof suncream. Or just say vampires can survive the sun in this universe and that stereotypes are mean.
Don’t worry, I heard Surf Dracula sucks.
lol no, it’s a three part miniseries about how Surf Dracula uses the power of painting in watercolor to help those with general anxiety disorder.
In the latest movie adaption of the Surf Dracula (2024) by DC they already introduced the less grounded and more magical elements of the Surf Dracula franchise and even allready introduced the Surfer Werewolves to sell more toys and build up an expanded universe. They also did not even use Van Chil’sing as his archenemy but made him fight a gigantic sky hole that spawned an army of faceless minions.
F&&k you, you F&&king F&&k!!
I had to Google this because I thought it was an actual thing!!
Take your upvote and die a horrible painful death!!
[have a great weekend!]
And don’t forget the movie length credits at the end of every episode
Some recent animes too.
Maybe I’m basic, but I love exposition over pretty much all else. I watched the entirety of Adventure Time despite not really being a fan of the humor or the main characters just because I craved more information about the history of Ooo.
i barely even watch adventure time but i spent a lot of time reading the theories of nuclear war and all that stuff
Isn’t that what Wikipedia is best used for?
Wikipedia is information that’s already been interpreted and retold by someone else. Nothing beats going to the source for your info
When it comes to a TV show you don’t like but want to know what happens, I would say it does beat it because you won’t spend time watching something you don’t like.
Adventure Time’s exactly the right show for that addiction. Most episodes aren’t moving along some overarching plot, and don’t neatly tie off and return to the status quo. They’re like - that happened, it was fucked-up, you gotta deal with it. The show hardly goes three consecutive episodes without dipping into mortality salience or outright existential horror. And then what becomes crucially important two seasons later was a cutaway gag with the tiny elephant grandma.
To anyone who hasn’t watched the show: there is an episode where the main characters are transformed into a bowl of soup and a runny egg (respectively) when they attempt to stop two wizards from going to Mars so they can kill God. It is titled “You Forgot Your Floaties.”
Lemon guy : Aaaaaaaaaaaa
Oh right, the show’s breakout character, a screeching narcissistic tyrant.
They were ahead of their time.
I hope you like sad acoustic covers of beach boys songs, cause you’re getting sad acoustic covers of beach boys songs.
Give me the beach boys and free my soul
Throw in a few pipe organ covers and you have yourself a deal.
So close so close
Where can I watch that? The plot is awesome.
If you have a library card, it is on Kanopy.
