Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 01, 2013, 08:29:02 PM
But I thought this thread was for movies, not TV shows. If it were about serials, I'd post here a lot more frequently.
Then let's make it about television! I am working my way through Breaking Bad before it returns next Sunday. I have also been watching Under the Dome, which is amusing in its sheer ridiculousness. And of course I could not miss the triumphant return of Who's Line Is It Anyway? but the (restored) novelty is waning. Catfish: The TV Show has had some interesting stories this season although I didn't care much for the few episodes of season one that I saw. But that's just if I have time and remember to stream it. It's all about the Nev-Max bromance.
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
The Tudors for about the 500th time and Vikings. Starting Downton Abbey season 3 next week when I finish up the Tudors.
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 02, 2013, 05:03:37 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
I'm rather like one of those guys, and the show's kinda insulting. It seems that being a geek/nerd is the punchline of every joke in the episodes I've watched. Basing myself on the laugh track, you're not supposed to laugh at the references (not that such lazy humour is actually funny), but simply because they say 'nerdish' stuff. And Sheldon is quite obviously a stereotypical Asperger without any redeeming qualities.
Like you, I'm watching Breaking Bad. I'm halfway into season 4 now. Not sure why it's so popular among folks in this forum, beyond it being entertaining in general. I appreciate the "ordinary" approach the show takes, right down to the plain-looking actors.
Besides that, I mentioned elsewhere that I watched the entire Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra earlier this summer. Definitely one of the best animated shows ever, and is better than most live-action shows for adults. I recommend it to everybody.
Couldn't find an intro for the original series, but this is the second series' one.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLyJtI-ZeM[/yt]
I've also been watching a series called Copper, which is an unusual hybrid of the police procedural and the period drama. It's set in New York City in the year 1865, so it's basically Gangs of New York: The Series... except from a cop's perspective, of course.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMWhtjgmC3U[/yt]
Do not own a Boob-Tube.
Madmen
The Americans
Walking Dead
Longmire
Oddities
Black's Books
Parenthood
V (getting bored of this)
The Killing
Quote from: Older Salt on August 02, 2013, 07:58:17 AM
Do not own a Boob-Tube.
Presumably you posted on a computer, so you can watch television serials on the same device.
Random episodes of MST3K
How I Met Your Mother
Continuum
Fringe
Mad Men
Walking Dead
Quote from: Older Salt on August 02, 2013, 07:58:17 AM
Do not own a Boob-Tube.
I think the only person I know who watches "TV shows" on an actual television is my grandmother.
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 02, 2013, 11:13:49 AM
Quote from: Older Salt on August 02, 2013, 07:58:17 AM
Do not own a Boob-Tube.
I think the only person I know who watches "TV shows" on an actual television is my grandmother.
To be fair, I hate watching or playing anything on a small screen. I use a large HDTV connected to a desktop computer. It doesn't have any cable or broadcast channels, though.
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 02, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
Parenthood
Love this show.
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 02, 2013, 11:13:49 AM
I think the only person I know who watches "TV shows" on an actual television is my grandmother.
Not only do I watch TV on a TV, I own a TiVo.
I was looking forward to a new season of telenovelas, particularly La Tempestad, but so far it has proven disappointing. :(
We've been watching the Regular Show non-stop lately. Yeah-ya!
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2bphLfjMg&feature=share&list=PLKlLnJSJkPKXNy_gY3Fyz5Y7sAkIdf-Cc[/yt]
We don't have cable but do watch a decent amount of tv shows on Netflix and Hulu. We watch Parks and Recreation and Breaking Bad, but with those shows on hiatus I've been watching Cheers lately.
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 05:15:17 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 02, 2013, 05:03:37 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
I'm rather like one of those guys, and the show's kinda insulting. It seems that being a geek/nerd is the punchline of every joke in the episodes I've watched. Basing myself on the laugh track, you're not supposed to laugh at the references (not that such lazy humour is actually funny), but simply because they say 'nerdish' stuff. And Sheldon is quite obviously a stereotypical Asperger without any redeeming qualities.
Yeah, I can see that. I hung out with the nerds and was a nerd of a different type myself so to me it's just like ribbing a friend. Sheldon is funny, but his character is over the top. Also I have never seen any University professors that live in a small apartment. Also what is with the hair and clothes the guys wear. It is set in contemporary times, but it looks like the nerd version of That 70's Show. ???
I forgot to add-- Since I received the complete original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series on DVD for my birthday, I'm occasioinally watching that, too.
Didn't ask for it, and it was a total surprise...but I would've bought it anyway.
EDIT: Forgot to add Psych to my list.
Quote from: vakarian on August 03, 2013, 09:30:27 AM
I forgot to add-- Since I received the complete original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series on DVD for my birthday, I'm occasioinally watching that, too.
Didn't ask for it, and it was a total surprise...but I would've bought it anyway.
Nice. I wish someone would think of something like that for one of my birthdays.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 03, 2013, 11:47:15 AM
Nice. I wish someone would think of something like that for one of my birthdays.
Just do what I would do: tell people what to buy you. Usually what I actually want is so obscure that no one would ever guess anyway. Even a "can't miss" topic like Borodino is suboptimal... I already have the best treatments in my library. If Mikaberidze has a new book coming out on The Great Redoubt then I'm sure I know about that months before any of my intimates would, etc.
Of course, my wife is the only person who actually ever buys me anything, but if I did get presents, that's how it would be.
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 03, 2013, 11:58:38 AM
Just do what I would do: tell people what to buy you. Usually what I actually want is so obscure that no one would ever guess anyway. Even a "can't miss" topic like Borodino is suboptimal... I already have the best treatments in my library. If Mikaberidze has a new book coming out on The Great Redoubt then I'm sure I know about that months before any of my intimates would, etc.
Of course, my wife is the only person who actually ever buys me anything, but if I did get presents, that's how it would be.
Was about to say, I have entertained the idea of creating a wishlist, but nobody buys me anything for my birthday, anyway. Maybe I should create one anyway to build up expectations.
During the Summer hiatus, been re-watching The Office (both US and UK, though I remembered the UK version being funnier the first time I watched them).
When Fall gets here -
Walking Dead
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
The Mentalist
Psych
Once Upon a Time
I watch on an actual TV -- I like being able to have the laptop out for typing and browsing while still having TV on.
I'm a Downton Abbey fan. I also watch Once Upon a Time and various talent competitions -- America's Got Talent is the main one now. Turns out a girl I grew up with is in the competition this year. She hasn't had her crack at the live shows yet, but I'll be voting for her once she does.
Quote from: totiusque on August 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
During the Summer hiatus, been re-watching The Office (both US and UK, though I remembered the UK version being funnier the first time I watched them).
When Fall gets here -
Walking Dead
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
The Mentalist
Psych
Once Upon a Time
I feel like I'm the only one out of my friends to not have seen
The Walking Dead yet. Hard to convince me to get into the zombie genre, I guess. But I've heard both the original comics and the games are also good.
I'm also looking forward to
Person of Interest resuming. Tried to get into
Once Upon a Time, but, I dunno. Guess I could try again....
As for other shows in the fall, I'm gearing up for:
Luther series 3 (a police procedural on BBC set in contemporary London starring Idris Elba, not anything to do with Martin)
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5yY7MOUKIs[/yt]
And of course,
Downton Abbey and
Boardwalk Empire, which are both set in the 1920's but are.... well, thematically quite different.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 03, 2013, 11:03:25 PM
Quote from: totiusque on August 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
During the Summer hiatus, been re-watching The Office (both US and UK, though I remembered the UK version being funnier the first time I watched them).
When Fall gets here -
Walking Dead
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
The Mentalist
Psych
Once Upon a Time
I feel like I'm the only one out of my friends to not have seen The Walking Dead yet. Hard to convince me to get into the zombie genre, I guess. But I've heard both the original comics and the games are also good.
The first season was good. It has started to go down since then though. I watched them with a friend though I also am not into the zombie fad. I am looking forward to Dracula on NBC this fall with Henry Rhys Myers of The Tudors. I hope they dont screw it up too bad. I am very leery of anything Vampire since TIm Burton butchered Dark Shadows
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 03, 2013, 11:03:25 PM
I feel like I'm the only one out of my friends to not have seen The Walking Dead yet. Hard to convince me to get into the zombie genre, I guess. But I've heard both the original comics and the games are also good.
I'm also looking forward to Person of Interest resuming. Tried to get into Once Upon a Time, but, I dunno. Guess I could try again....
I don't consider myself a big fan of the zombie genre, but sometimes they just make for good entertainment. I really liked
Shaun of the Dead and
Warm Bodies, though they're not exactly your typical zombie flicks. I didn't really care for
World War Z as it seemed to me just another version of
Outbreak. As for
The Walking Dead, I really like the characters and the moral dilemmas they face. I preferred the first 2 seasons to the last one (first one especially), but here's hoping Season 4 will bring back some of that early magic.
The same goes for
Once Upon a Time. I really enjoyed the first season, but the second season wasn't as good, IMHO. It's really just a show that I can watch with the wife without having to think too much. The acting isn't that great, the stories are far-fetched, and the characters are unbelievable, but it can still be a lot of fun to watch. Go figure.
Quote from: totiusque on August 03, 2013, 11:47:15 PM
The same goes for Once Upon a Time. I really enjoyed the first season, but the second season wasn't as good, IMHO. It's really just a show that I can watch with the wife without having to think too much. The acting isn't that great, the stories are far-fetched, and the characters are unbelievable, but it can still be a lot of fun to watch. Go figure.
Don't know what it is, but I can not stand Once Upon a Time. A girlfriend of mine loved it and tried to get me to watch it finally after about 4 episodes on the third try of watching it I had to be like "look I just can't do this, this show is beyond bad."
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 03, 2013, 11:50:04 PM
Don't know what it is, but I can not stand Once Upon a Time. A girlfriend of mine loved it and tried to get me to watch it finally after about 4 episodes on the third try of watching it I had to be like "look I just can't do this, this show is beyond bad."
If I had to give you a reason why I watch it, I'd be hard pressed to give you a good answer. It's definitely not one that I excitedly await each week for new episodes. I think now I've just got to the point where I've gone too far and I should probably find out what happens or else all my time the past 2 years would have been wasted.
I will say this, though. I can honestly say that I enjoyed the first season, even with all its faults. I liked the way they tied in the "real" world with the fairytale world. I've also liked Gold/Rumplestiltskin's character development over the series. Snow White, on the other hand, is one of the most annoying characters on TV. In fact, if it wasn't for that ultra-annoying girl on Revolution (which I had to stop watching because of her), Snow White would win hands down.
Baseball. We're having a terrible season.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 03, 2013, 11:50:04 PM
Don't know what it is, but I can not stand Once Upon a Time. A girlfriend of mine loved it and tried to get me to watch it finally after about 4 episodes on the third try of watching it I had to be like "look I just can't do this, this show is beyond bad."
That's basically how it panned out for me.
I initially heard about it because Rafael Sbarge (the guy who plays as Jiminy Cricket) is also a voice actor for some games like
Mass Effect. I liked the evil queen, and that's about it.
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 03, 2013, 09:27:40 PM
America's Got Talent is the main one now.
Talk about a show that went down the toilet. I can't stand the judges much less the ridiculousness that passes for "talent".
Currently the only shows we're watching is the Next Food Network Star and random episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot on youtube.
Shows we're waiting for the next season of...
Sherlock
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
Blue Bloods
White Collar
We don't have cable but I watch some things online or on DVD. I expect that I will watch Legend of Korra, since I watched the previous season and all of A:TLA. It was a great show. I have been watching Continuum, but am not sure if will keep going. I will probably watch Sherlock, Person of Interest, and Elementary, since I watched their previous seasons.
My youngest son (age 12) asked me to watch Doctor Who with him and we started near the beginning of the summer. We have watched a few classic episodes and are systematically going through the new ones starting from 2005. We are up to 2010 now. So we will probably be ready to join in when the next season starts in November. We aren't just watching. We are reading up on background and analysis and memorizing trivia. We have contests to see who can name all the Doctor actors fastest. Everyone else is pretty busy this summer so DW has been "our thing".
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Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 03, 2013, 09:27:40 PM
America's Got Talent is the main one now.
Talk about a show that went down the toilet. I can't stand the judges much less the ridiculousness that passes for "talent".
Yeah, a lot of the people suck. I'm hoping this bodes well for my friend and the rest of her act.
Quote from: Spooky on August 02, 2013, 12:32:15 PM
We've been watching the Regular Show non-stop lately. Yeah-ya!
That was lol-tastic!
Ye...Breaking bad is also awesome and Hell on Wheels has some merit too.
Netflix has a slew of good documentaries. I just watched one on Rome's most famous gladiator.
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 04, 2013, 12:42:40 AM
Baseball. We're having a terrible season.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tApveIrJWg0[/yt]
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 04, 2013, 12:55:11 PM
Ye...Breaking bad is also awesome
I can't seem to get into this one. It is the most popular show out there and I just can't finish it. It is my secret shame.
X Games!
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 04, 2013, 12:42:40 AM
Baseball. We're having a terrible season.
"We." :rofl:
Oh, and my hubby and the dog like to watch Too Cute and The Dog Whisperer together. Seriously, the dog likes TV, but only when there is a dog on the screen. Cats? Piglets? Baby rabbits? Zzzzzz. Dog? Ears up, eyes tracking all movement.
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:54:31 PM
Oh, and my hubby and the dog like to watch Too Cute and The Dog Whisperer together. Seriously, the dog likes TV, but only when there is a dog on the screen. Cats? Piglets? Baby rabbits? Zzzzzz. Dog? Ears up, eyes tracking all movement.
That's awesome. I need to figure out how to get my dog to like TV dogs.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 04, 2013, 06:55:22 PM
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:54:31 PM
Oh, and my hubby and the dog like to watch Too Cute and The Dog Whisperer together. Seriously, the dog likes TV, but only when there is a dog on the screen. Cats? Piglets? Baby rabbits? Zzzzzz. Dog? Ears up, eyes tracking all movement.
That's awesome. I need to figure out how to get my dog to like TV dogs.
Do you have an HDTV or a tube TV? Because their eyes don't actually see the picture on an old style TV correctly.
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:56:24 PM
Do you have an HDTV or a tube TV? Because their eyes don't actually see the picture on an old style TV correctly.
An HDTV. The old cathode-ray tubes are forbidden from my house on pain of excommunication.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 04, 2013, 06:57:29 PM
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:56:24 PM
Do you have an HDTV or a tube TV? Because their eyes don't actually see the picture on an old style TV correctly.
An HDTV. The old cathode-ray tubes are forbidden from my house on pain of excommunication.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Just checkin.
Next question -- are you a directv customer? Because they have a free trial of dogtv right now -- I'm wondering if other dogs like it because mine seems to prefer the Dog Whisperer and Too Cute.
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:58:52 PM
Next question -- are you a directv customer? Because they have a free trial of dogtv right now -- I'm wondering if other dogs like it because mine seems to prefer the Dog Whisperer and Too Cute.
I'm not. My girlfriend introduced me to clips of Too Cute on Youtube, but my dog didn't seem to take notice of them onscreen.
For those with Netflix.... Arn, the Knight Templar is quite superb. The best TV I have viewed for some time. I have watched 4 of the 6 episodes so far.
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 05, 2013, 04:31:54 PM
For those with Netflix.... Arn, the Knight Templar is quite superb. The best TV I have viewed for some time. I have watched 4 of the 6 episodes so far.
I never finished the first episode. :-[
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 05, 2013, 04:31:54 PM
For those with Netflix.... Arn, the Knight Templar is quite superb. The best TV I have viewed for some time. I have watched 4 of the 6 episodes so far.
That's one of my favorites. I've watched it in full at least three times.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAqu28Dd-M[/yt]
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 05, 2013, 05:14:47 PM
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on August 05, 2013, 04:31:54 PM
For those with Netflix.... Arn, the Knight Templar is quite superb. The best TV I have viewed for some time. I have watched 4 of the 6 episodes so far.
That's one of my favorites. I've watched it in full at least three times.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAqu28Dd-M[/yt]
Have you seen the movie version?
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Have you seen the movie version?
I'm not familiar with all the versions. I rented the Blu-ray disc version from Netflix, which as far as I know presents the entire thing as a single film including
The Kingdom at Road's End.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 05, 2013, 05:33:36 PM
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Have you seen the movie version?
I'm not familiar with all the versions. I rented the Blu-ray disc version from Netflix, which as far as I know presents the entire thing as a single film including The Kingdom at Road's End.
Whats the running time? The DVD I have is Called Arn the Knight Templar the complete series and is 265 minutes. Make sure you watch that one. The movie version that is edited is 130 minutes long. So much is cut out it isn't even watchable compared to the full version.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 05, 2013, 10:19:22 PM
Whats the running time? The DVD I have is Called Arn the Knight Templar the complete series and is 265 minutes. Make sure you watch that one. The movie version that is edited is 130 minutes long. So much is cut out it isn't even watchable compared to the full version.
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I feel so cheated. Okay, is this the full version? http://www.amazon.com/ARN-The-Knight-Templar-Complete/dp/B007K7IB84/ref=pd_cp_mov_0
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 05, 2013, 10:29:52 PM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 05, 2013, 10:19:22 PM
Whats the running time? The DVD I have is Called Arn the Knight Templar the complete series and is 265 minutes. Make sure you watch that one. The movie version that is edited is 130 minutes long. So much is cut out it isn't even watchable compared to the full version.
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I feel so cheated. Okay, is this the full version? http://www.amazon.com/ARN-The-Knight-Templar-Complete/dp/B007K7IB84/ref=pd_cp_mov_0
YES! Ever see Red Cliff? There is a two 1/2 hour US version which is good, BUT there is a 5 hour Asian version which is PHENOMENAL. It's the same type of comparison. (Arn is good, but not as good as Red Cliff. Just saying that is how much you have been cheated) ;)
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 05, 2013, 10:56:44 PM
YES! Ever see Red Cliff? There is a two 1/2 hour US version which is good, BUT there is a 5 hour Asian version which is PHENOMENAL. It's the same type of comparison. (Arn is good, but not as good as Red Cliff. Just saying that is how much you have been cheated) ;)
D'oh! There's a 5 hour version of Red Cliff??? Gonna have to find that one....
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 05, 2013, 10:56:44 PM
YES! Ever see Red Cliff? There is a two 1/2 hour US version which is good, BUT there is a 5 hour Asian version which is PHENOMENAL. It's the same type of comparison. (Arn is good, but not as good as Red Cliff. Just saying that is how much you have been cheated) ;)
Red Cliff is one of my favorite movies. I did make sure to get the International Version. Damn Amerifats and our goldfish attention spans.
I'm getting this Arn movie.
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 06, 2013, 12:23:33 AM
I'm getting this Arn movie.
Be sure it's the mini series version
I'm fully caught up on Breaking Bad now, just in time for the final episodes.
In honor of the event, here are some "better call Saul!" commercials and testimonials (not actually in the series, but relating to events within).
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPR9ORpwBEU[/yt]
I'd also add this: I didn't know one of the actors who played as one of the Salamanca cousins was actually a gangster before he became an actor. That helps explain why they were so believable.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvnHHJAvQk0[/yt]
They showed the cold open to the new episode at Comic Con and apparently it's quite shocking. I'm very excited about Sunday.
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 05:15:17 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 02, 2013, 05:03:37 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
I'm rather like one of those guys, and the show's kinda insulting. It seems that being a geek/nerd is the punchline of every joke in the episodes I've watched. Basing myself on the laugh track, you're not supposed to laugh at the references (not that such lazy humour is actually funny), but simply because they say 'nerdish' stuff. And Sheldon is quite obviously a stereotypical Asperger without any redeeming qualities.
Read this.
http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory
The Big Bang Theory is just mocking nerds.
Quote from: LouisIX on August 02, 2013, 01:56:31 PM
We don't have cable but do watch a decent amount of tv shows on Netflix and Hulu. We watch Parks and Recreation and Breaking Bad, but with those shows on hiatus I've been watching Cheers lately.
Dude, Cheers is good.
You should watch Frasier after that.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 04, 2013, 06:57:29 PM
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on August 04, 2013, 06:56:24 PM
Do you have an HDTV or a tube TV? Because their eyes don't actually see the picture on an old style TV correctly.
An HDTV. The old cathode-ray tubes are forbidden from my house on pain of excommunication.
Do you not like that 60Hz hum?
I watched the first Arn movie in 2009, and recently saw some fragments of the second (?) one.
I didn't knew these where edited parts of a miniseries!
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 08, 2013, 08:17:10 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 05:15:17 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 02, 2013, 05:03:37 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 02, 2013, 04:35:16 AM
I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
I'm rather like one of those guys, and the show's kinda insulting. It seems that being a geek/nerd is the punchline of every joke in the episodes I've watched. Basing myself on the laugh track, you're not supposed to laugh at the references (not that such lazy humour is actually funny), but simply because they say 'nerdish' stuff. And Sheldon is quite obviously a stereotypical Asperger without any redeeming qualities.
Read this.
http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory
The Big Bang Theory is just mocking nerds.
They are doing a bad job of it then. All the girls I know think Sheldon is hot except for the one that prefers Leonard . I know some guys that aspire to be like them.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 08, 2013, 08:17:50 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 02, 2013, 01:56:31 PM
We don't have cable but do watch a decent amount of tv shows on Netflix and Hulu. We watch Parks and Recreation and Breaking Bad, but with those shows on hiatus I've been watching Cheers lately.
Dude, Cheers is good.
You should watch Frasier after that.
I definitely plan on it.
I don't know what it is about Cheers that I like so much. It's not overly funny. It's not exciting. And it's not nostalgia, because I was only 6 or 7 when it ended, and never watched it as a child. There's just something about the bar and the characters that I find comforting. Watching Cheers puts me in a good mood.
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I'm currently watching both the IT Crowd (which people recommended to me after I watched Big Bang Theory and really disliked it) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. So far they're both quite good.
Big Bang Theory can be a bit vulgar at times, but I went to School with nerds just like those guys so I can relate. However I have never had a neighbor that looks like Penny so I can not relate to that. 8)
I'm rather like one of those guys, and the show's kinda insulting. It seems that being a geek/nerd is the punchline of every joke in the episodes I've watched. Basing myself on the laugh track, you're not supposed to laugh at the references (not that such lazy humour is actually funny), but simply because they say 'nerdish' stuff. And Sheldon is quite obviously a stereotypical Asperger without any redeeming qualities.
Read this.
http://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory
The Big Bang Theory is just mocking nerds.
That exactly described my feelings. Hmm, I'll see if I can find this Community the writer talks about.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 08, 2013, 09:25:33 PM
They are doing a bad job of it then. All the girls I know think Sheldon is hot except for the one that prefers Leonard . I know some guys that aspire to be like them.
I know a guy like that too, but he just wants to appear smarter than he actually is.
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We don't have cable but do watch a decent amount of tv shows on Netflix and Hulu. We watch Parks and Recreation and Breaking Bad, but with those shows on hiatus I've been watching Cheers lately.
Dude, Cheers is good.
You should watch Frasier after that.
I definitely plan on it.
I don't know what it is about Cheers that I like so much. It's not overly funny. It's not exciting. And it's not nostalgia, because I was only 6 or 7 when it ended, and never watched it as a child. There's just something about the bar and the characters that I find comforting. Watching Cheers puts me in a good mood.
Frasier is one of my all time favorites.
I watched some of one of my favorites today: King of the Hill. Absolutely my favorite animated show.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 09, 2013, 05:22:19 AM
I watched some of one of my favorites today: King of the Hill. Absolutely my favorite animated show.
Love this show.
I'm finally catching up with Game of Thrones, season 3 is airing now.
Quote from: Othmar on August 09, 2013, 07:25:39 AM
I'm finally catching up with Game of Thrones, season 3 is airing now.
Have you read the books as well?
And one more for
Breaking Bad fans: there's a free digital comic that recaps the entire series up to this point on AMC's website. NOT to be used as a substitute for actually watching the show!
http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad/all-bad-things
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I'm finally catching up with Game of Thrones, season 3 is airing now.
Have you read the books as well?
I've considered it, but I don't think I'll be finding them second hand any time soon, and I can't bring myself to spend serious money on softcovers, which is what most stores seems to carry here. The last time I've spend serious money on a non-study related book was on a leatherbound copy of Lord of the Rings a year or two ago. Perhaps they'll have editions like that for A Song of Ice and Fire as well, once the writer finishes his series.
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Quote from: Othmar on August 09, 2013, 07:25:39 AM
I'm finally catching up with Game of Thrones, season 3 is airing now.
Have you read the books as well?
I've considered it, but I don't think I'll be finding them second hand any time soon, and I can't bring myself to spend serious money on softcovers, which is what most stores seems to carry here. The last time I've spend serious money on a non-study related book was on a leatherbound copy of Lord of the Rings a year or two ago. Perhaps they'll have editions like that for A Song of Ice and Fire as well, once the writer finishes his series.
I have a couple of solutions: first is the old-fashioned way by checking them out at a local public library. I created a library account for myself just last week. Don't know why I didn't think of it before.
Second option: buy from an online used bookseller. This one (http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10766164137&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26amp%3Btn%3Dgame%2Bof%2Bthrones), for example, sells the first book at only $1, plus $2.75 for shipping. I use the AbeBooks used book finder all the time. If you spend a little more time searching, you may be able to buy several books in the series from the same seller while paying only one shipping charge. So in theory, you could potentially buy five books for, say, $8 to $10.
:edited to add: I just remembered that you're not American, so shipping will not be the same. You might, however, find similar deals in your region. I also don't know if you prefer to read in the original English or in translation. So those are more variables.
I have two episodes of Breaking Bad left! Been hearing a lot lately about a British show call Broadchurch which just started airing on BBCA this past week. I set it to record at my parents' house for laundry days so I'll let you know how it is.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 08, 2013, 09:25:33 PMAll the girls I know think Sheldon is hot except for the one that prefers Leonard .
Your friends are weird. Sheldon is hilarious but how could anyone consider an overgrown child attractive?
Quote from: Othmar on August 09, 2013, 03:11:00 AMHmm, I'll see if I can find this Community the writer talks about.
Highly recommended.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 09, 2013, 01:45:01 PMI created a library account for myself just last week. Don't know why I didn't think of it before.
:rofl: :lol: :grin: :eek: I've had a library card since before I could read. There are four systems that I can easily access (Alameda County, Berkeley, Oakland, Contra Costa County) and a few farther out that I check occasionally. They get almost all the new cds.
Quote from: LouisIX on August 09, 2013, 02:09:32 AM
I definitely plan on it.
I don't know what it is about Cheers that I like so much. It's not overly funny. It's not exciting. And it's not nostalgia, because I was only 6 or 7 when it ended, and never watched it as a child. There's just something about the bar and the characters that I find comforting. Watching Cheers puts me in a good mood.
Yeah, I can understand that. For me, though, a bit of it is nostalgia. I remember being really little and wanting to watch Cheers with my parents before going to bed. I assume it was in syndication at that point.
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Quote from: Othmar on August 09, 2013, 03:11:00 AMHmm, I'll see if I can find this Community the writer talks about.
Highly recommended.
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 09, 2013, 01:45:01 PM
I have a couple of solutions: first is the old-fashioned way by checking them out at a local public library. I created a library account for myself just last week. Don't know why I didn't think of it before.
Remembering my experience with Harry Potter back in the day, they'll probably be lent out. That is if the library even has them.
One thing they did have was a very worn ancient translation of Lord of the Rings, and the only Dutch translation with the appendices included I've ever seen. I stumbled upon it while I was looking for Narnia, which they didn't have.
Quote:edited to add: I just remembered that you're not American, so shipping will not be the same.
Shipping from America to Belgium is horrible. I once purchased the D&D core books from Amazon, and they were confiscated by Customs. Cost some time and money to get them back.
QuoteYou might, however, find similar deals in your region. I also don't know if you prefer to read in the original English or in translation. So those are more variables.
I've checked already. People tend to ask ridiculous prices. The original translations were quite obscure. I remember being unable to find them some 7 years ago, after people recommended them. The Belgian-Dutch book market is rather lousy for fantasy.
Once the TV series is over and done with, people will probably sell their copies. By then, I'll have forgotten the details of the plot and will probably enjoy the books even more. Everyone wins. ;D
Quote from: piabee on August 09, 2013, 03:43:01 PM
I have two episodes of Breaking Bad left! Been hearing a lot lately about a British show call Broadchurch which just started airing on BBCA this past week. I set it to record at my parents' house for laundry days so I'll let you know how it is.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 08, 2013, 09:25:33 PMAll the girls I know think Sheldon is hot except for the one that prefers Leonard .
Your friends are weird. Sheldon is hilarious but how could anyone consider an overgrown child attractive?
No argument there. And probably for the same reason most men find bimbos attactive. I admit Penny is hot. She is a bimbo par excellence.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 09, 2013, 10:09:00 PM
No argument there. And probably for the same reason most men find bimbos attactive. I admit Penny is hot. She is a bimbo par excellence.
But at least she is a functional adult.
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Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 09, 2013, 10:09:00 PM
No argument there. And probably for the same reason most men find bimbos attactive. I admit Penny is hot. She is a bimbo par excellence.
But at least she is a functional adult.
True, but the guys work at a University they have Doctorates. They can't be that bad off. Which is why I have always found the idea of Sheldon and Leonard sharing an apartment ludicrous. Not many College professors I know of who need a room mate for a crappy apt.
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No argument there. And probably for the same reason most men find bimbos attactive. I admit Penny is hot. She is a bimbo par excellence.
But at least she is a functional adult.
True, but the guys work at a University they have Doctorates. They can't be that bad off. Which is why I have always found the idea of Sheldon and Leonard sharing an apartment ludicrous. Not many College professors I know of who need a room mate for a crappy apt.
You might be surprised.
I know a number of engineers who live at home/with their families, primarily to save up money for the future (and they like their families). They are in the approximate age group the BBT cast is in (in-show, of course).
As to professors with doctorates, not all of them make bank, especially if they are at certain universities.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 10, 2013, 12:49:38 PM
As to professors with doctorates, not all of them make bank, especially if they are at certain universities.
They only begin to make bank if they're tenured. If one is not on the tenure track, is only a lecturer, or is adjunct, they have no bank.
Finished Breaking Bad. Who's watched Friday Night Lights? That's on my list. Five network-length seasons is intimidating, though.
Quote from: piabee on August 10, 2013, 02:31:51 PM
Finished Breaking Bad. Who's watched Friday Night Lights? That's on my list. Five network-length seasons is intimidating, though.
I thought the same thing when I was unsure whether to watch
24 with it's then-current 6 seasons. By Season 5 I had to pace myself because I was devouring the series too fast.
Quote from: vakarian on August 10, 2013, 05:31:45 PM
I thought the same thing when I was unsure whether to watch 24 with it's then-current 6 seasons. By Season 5 I had to pace myself because I was devouring the series too fast.
My wife and I did the same thing with
24, only during Season 3 instead of 6. It sure didn't take us long to get caught up, as Netflix was sending us 3 DVDs at a time back then. And speaking of
24, I can't wait 'til May 2014 when the new 12 episodes come out. I wonder if Jack Bauer will have a walker.
Quote from: piabee on August 10, 2013, 02:31:51 PM
Who's watched Friday Night Lights? That's on my list.
That's what high school was like. Except it was single ed and NO.
I started Mr. Selfridge last night because it was on the TiVo and I had nothing else to do. I have finally come to terms with my love of shopping so at this point I am way more interested in the historical aspects of the store than in the characters. Also, I am not familiar with Jeremy Piven, so I don't know if he's trying to be American and overacting, or if it just seems like he's American and overacting because it's Masterpiece.
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Quote from: piabee on August 10, 2013, 02:31:51 PM
Who's watched Friday Night Lights? That's on my list.
That's what high school was like. Except it was single ed and NO.
Ha, my little bro's comment was "Why did I play football in high school when I could have just watched FNL?"
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on August 16, 2013, 08:51:24 PM
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of
Keeping Up Appearances.
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 06:13:36 AM
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Quote from: LouisIX on August 16, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
Most excellent.
Anyone here watch Top Shot on History Channel? Or Mountain Men?
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:58:35 AM
Anyone here watch Top Shot on History Channel? Or Mountain Men?
I was watching TopShot on Netflix but it's no longer available.Good show
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AM
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
I haven't got a single drop of Irish blood, nor any quarrel with the Englishmen. Furthermore, I don't see what the Irish question has to do with some fictional English aristocrats.
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Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AM
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
I haven't got a single drop of Irish blood, nor any quarrel with the Englishmen. Furthermore, I don't see what the Irish question has to do with some fictional English aristocrats.
Not pinpointing you specifically. I notice here that this show is popular and most traditional American Catholics have Irish lineage, which has been and currently is, viciously and unscrupulously oppressed by English overlords. If the doings of Cromwell, the Crown, and the famine don't upset you, then by all means, enjoy the vicarious tea and biscuts.
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 07:38:31 AM
Not pinpointing you specifically. I notice here that this show is popular and most traditional American Catholics have Irish lineage, which has been and currently is, viciously and unscrupulously oppressed by English overlords. If the doings of Cromwell, the Crown, and the famine don't upset you, then by all means, enjoy the vicarious tea and biscuts.
Cromwell was a regicide, if it were to me each and every statue and bust of him would be beheaded. The Irish Federation was allied to the King. The famine was a tragedy that could have been prevented, but it was no holocaust. The governmental inaction was influenced by laissez-faire capitalism. Speaking of Americans, what the government could have done would be decried as socialist nowadays. Ought I canonize the violence of the Irish Republican Army? Should I ignore all the Unionists? The Irish question is much more nuanced than you make it to be, with all due respect to all victims. This isn't a story about bad guys and good guys. All of these pseudohistorical ravings have nothing to do with a fictional show either.
Say, what about the Indian wars? The Indian Removal Act? Enjoy your vicarious beer and burgers. And must I associate your fondness for German with the Shoah? My grandparents were oppressed by them during the War too. Prosit!
Quote from: LouisIX on August 16, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on August 16, 2013, 08:51:24 PM
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
What a great show.
Quote from: Archer on August 17, 2013, 08:29:07 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 16, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on August 16, 2013, 08:51:24 PM
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
What a great show.
The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 06:13:36 AM
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
You should watch the show. It actually deals with this very theme.
I'll take the time to answer your question since I am both Irish and very much like Downton Abbey. As a monarchist who believes very much in aristocracy, you can imagine that immediate appeal. The dynamic of the house itself, with the interaction of the aristocrats, the townsfolk, and the servants is great to see. One of the great things about Downton is that it does not preach against aristocracy in favor of some "utopia" of equality (as we have today). In that way, the show is very Catholic. The characters are told that everyone has their own role in life and in society.
Apart from the fact that some on the show are outright monarchists, and the fact that the show portrays them very favorably, you also have an appreciation for the place of the aristocrats in that society. One of the main characters shows up (I think sometime during season 1) and immediately parallels can be drawn between him and Pope Francis. He's put into an aristocratic position that he does not like, and wishes he could leave, but tradition makes it necessary that he adapts to his new role. He begins by wanting to throw off all of the trappings of tradition, to fight against them in the name of humility. Fortunately, he learns quite quickly.
What Downton portrays is a favorable view of a world which was much more Catholic than our own, and surprisingly so. When one of the homosexual manservants is found in a compromising position with another man, he's chastised and nearly fired for his perversity. Keep in mind that this show is not about the monarchy itself. I do not place the blame for the rape of Ireland on the British citizens themselves, even the aristocrats (especially aristocrats from the 1920s, who have nothing to do with Ireland). These are simply the societal traditionalists of their time fighting against the pull of modern values, and I think most trads find a lot that they can identify with in that.
Ireland was itself aristocratic and monarchical. The clans were headed by kings, and at one point the O'Neills had control of a High Kingship over the entire island. For that reason, the themes dealt with in the show are universal, and apply even to those of us with Irish descent.
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Quote from: maryslittlegarden on August 16, 2013, 08:51:24 PM
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
What a great show.
The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!
I know I shouldn't be, but I am surprised that I found two other people who like this show on SD, and even more surprised that they're both (also) males in their 20s.
Quote from: LouisIX on August 17, 2013, 11:13:09 AM
I know I shouldn't be, but I am surprised that I found two other people who like this show on SD, and even more surprised that they're both (also) males in their 20s.
Doesn't everyone enjoy British comedy? :D
From classics such as Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder to the newer sitcoms, there's something for all to enjoy.
Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 08:05:24 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 07:38:31 AM
Not pinpointing you specifically. I notice here that this show is popular and most traditional American Catholics have Irish lineage, which has been and currently is, viciously and unscrupulously oppressed by English overlords. If the doings of Cromwell, the Crown, and the famine don't upset you, then by all means, enjoy the vicarious tea and biscuts.
Cromwell was a regicide, if it were to me each and every statue and bust of him would be beheaded. The Irish Federation was allied to the King. The famine was a tragedy that could have been prevented, but it was no holocaust. The governmental inaction was influenced by laissez-faire capitalism. Speaking of Americans, what the government could have done would be decried as socialist nowadays. Ought I canonize the violence of the Irish Republican Army? Should I ignore all the Unionists? The Irish question is much more nuanced than you make it to be, with all due respect to all victims. This isn't a story about bad guys and good guys. All of these pseudohistorical ravings have nothing to do with a fictional show either.
Say, what about the Indian wars? The Indian Removal Act? Enjoy your vicarious beer and burgers. And must I associate your fondness for German with the Shoah? My grandparents were oppressed by them during the War too. Prosit!
Othmar, I am not assailing you directly, but rather, an aggregated fondness of SDers for the type of folk(in a tv show) who represent those who are responsible for enslavement and murder, mayhem and destruction. I respect the time Louis IX took to write a well thought out reply, but I am not convinced in principle to watch this show because of its charm and internal conflict. And you are correct, Manifest Destiny was a destructive element of the expansion westward and those responsible are paying dearly, I am sure. Just as the many rogue Republicans are, too. I am not a hypocrite nor apologist for murder.
BTW, at this time the beer and burgers are certainly of the vicarious sort since I am undertaking a regimented diet.
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 01:23:49 PM
Othmar, I am not assailing you directly, but rather, an aggregated fondness of SDers for the type of folk(in a tv show) who represent those who are responsible for enslavement and murder, mayhem and destruction.
Well, an Irishman did state such a thing in the episode I watched today. He disapproved of Lord Grantham as a representative of the oppressive class. Of course, this character is a socialist, and he was talking about class warfare. I hardly see what their personal responsibility would be.
QuoteAnd you are correct, Manifest Destiny was a destructive element of the expansion westward and those responsible are paying dearly, I am sure. Just as the many rogue Republicans are, too. I am not a hypocrite nor apologist for murder.
Let us hope so. :)
Downton Abbey is a soap opera with a bigger budget. Entertaining, but I can see where Heinrich is coming from. It doesn't matter that Lord Grantham wasn't personally responsible for the sins of the Empire. He can represent, to some folk, those who have power but do nothing to right the injustices against the colonial folk (of which I include the Irish, as Ireland was basically like practice before taking on the rest of the world); at least as far as we can see.
In other words, Robert is pretty good to his employees and tenants (his "serfs" in another age), but the Irish problem, or the Indian problem, or the Chinese problem, are "not my problem". In the 21st century context, it's like how we buy stuff from Walmart without thinking about where they come from. Guilty myself, as I was at Walmart just the other day.
Edit: Ah, nevermind, there isn't really a point in going on about this. :)
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AMWhy are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Are most people here of Irish descent? We should conduct a poll...
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AM
Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 06:13:36 AM
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats?
I think it's because people want to pretend they are them for an hour. I at least would love to have been a English Aristocrat in the Victorian or Edwardian times. What I DO find odd is how people myself included Idolize them yet most of us financially speaking probably wouldn't even be as well off as one of the Grantham's Servants.
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Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AMWhy are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Are most people here of Irish descent? We should conduct a poll...
I'd be willing to bet a large chunk of Catholics in the USA have at least a bit of Irish in them.
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on August 17, 2013, 04:50:50 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AMWhy are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Are most people here of Irish descent? We should conduct a poll...
Oddly enough the tiny bit of Irish I have were Protestants in Northern Ireland. Initially they were Catholic and fought against Elizabeth I with Hugh O'Neill, but converted when granted land by Cromwell. So yeah...kinda traitors. Paradoxically its my German side that is Catholic.
Now back to TV. Anybody looking forward to the Dracula TV show this fall on NBC? Looks interesting to me.
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on August 17, 2013, 04:50:50 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 06:53:27 AMWhy are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Are most people here of Irish descent? We should conduct a poll...
Do it.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 17, 2013, 03:16:01 PM
Downton Abbey is a soap opera with a bigger budget. Entertaining, but I can see where Heinrich is coming from. It doesn't matter that Lord Grantham wasn't personally responsible for the sins of the Empire. He can represent, to some folk, those who have power but do nothing to right the injustices against the colonial folk (of which I include the Irish, as Ireland was basically like practice before taking on the rest of the world); at least as far as we can see.
In other words, Robert is pretty good to his employees and tenants (his "serfs" in another age), but the Irish problem, or the Indian problem, or the Chinese problem, are "not my problem". In the 21st century context, it's like how we buy stuff from Walmart without thinking about where they come from. Guilty myself, as I was at Walmart just the other day.
To further this, I am a monarchist through and through and respect right privilege and social class. It does make the world work better. Good stuff remains good, and people know their limits. It is just this English thing I have a problem with.
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 17, 2013, 03:16:01 PM
Downton Abbey is a soap opera with a bigger budget. Entertaining, but I can see where Heinrich is coming from. It doesn't matter that Lord Grantham wasn't personally responsible for the sins of the Empire. He can represent, to some folk, those who have power but do nothing to right the injustices against the colonial folk (of which I include the Irish, as Ireland was basically like practice before taking on the rest of the world); at least as far as we can see.
In other words, Robert is pretty good to his employees and tenants (his "serfs" in another age), but the Irish problem, or the Indian problem, or the Chinese problem, are "not my problem". In the 21st century context, it's like how we buy stuff from Walmart without thinking about where they come from. Guilty myself, as I was at Walmart just the other day.
To further this, I am a monarchist through and through and respect right privilege and social class. It does make the world work better. Good stuff remains good, and people know their limits. It is just this English thing I have a problem with.
In many ways, the English aspect of the show is incidental. It's a quintessentially English show, but a lot of the themes are those of aristocracy and monarchy in any European society.
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Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 06:13:36 AM
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats? It is repulsive to me that most here, who are of Irish descent, are lamming away in front of the tube, tickled by a bunch of oppressors.
Blarg.
I've got more English blood than Irish, by a long mile. I do have a drop of Irish blood or two, but I don't identify with it in any way, if I'm honest.
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Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
What a great show.
The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!
'Allo missus Bucket!
;)
Quote from: Heinrich on August 17, 2013, 07:28:50 PM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on August 17, 2013, 03:16:01 PM
Downton Abbey is a soap opera with a bigger budget. Entertaining, but I can see where Heinrich is coming from. It doesn't matter that Lord Grantham wasn't personally responsible for the sins of the Empire. He can represent, to some folk, those who have power but do nothing to right the injustices against the colonial folk (of which I include the Irish, as Ireland was basically like practice before taking on the rest of the world); at least as far as we can see.
In other words, Robert is pretty good to his employees and tenants (his "serfs" in another age), but the Irish problem, or the Indian problem, or the Chinese problem, are "not my problem". In the 21st century context, it's like how we buy stuff from Walmart without thinking about where they come from. Guilty myself, as I was at Walmart just the other day.
To further this, I am a monarchist through and through and respect right privilege and social class. It does make the world work better. Good stuff remains good, and people know their limits. It is just this English thing I have a problem with.
I don't think English people (as a general group) are to be faulted for the political issues you cite any more than German or Japanese people nowadays as a general group should feel badly about WW2. If they do, they have been brainwashed unfairly.
And, as you say, good stuff is good, and some good stuff is English. Clearly, not everything that comes from England is evil or else you would refuse to write your posts in English.
Quote from: Adeodatus on August 17, 2013, 12:40:20 PM
Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 08:49:27 AM
Quote from: Archer on August 17, 2013, 08:29:07 AM
Quote from: LouisIX on August 16, 2013, 09:04:55 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on August 16, 2013, 08:51:24 PM
Anybody else like the really good BBC stuff? Like Are You Being Served?
I'm a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.
What a great show.
The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking!
'Allo missus Bucket!
Make that four of us. I'm surprised too.
I love Richard. He deserves husband of the year every year.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 17, 2013, 05:41:53 PM
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Quote from: Othmar on August 17, 2013, 06:13:36 AM
I just started with Downton Abbey.
Why are so many here enthralled by English aristocrats?
I think it's because people want to pretend they are them for an hour. I at least would love to have been a English Aristocrat in the Victorian or Edwardian times. What I DO find odd is how people myself included Idolize them yet most of us financially speaking probably wouldn't even be as well off as one of the Grantham's Servants.
I would want a castle and a title, but I'm not sure whether I would want the life of a Victorian or Edwardian aristocrat.
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 17, 2013, 05:50:06 PM
Now back to TV. Anybody looking forward to the Dracula TV show this fall on NBC? Looks interesting to me.
I looked this up just now.
That Dracula poses as an American is .. um.. rather lame. No cool foreign accent. :(
Quote from: LouisIX on August 18, 2013, 02:33:21 AM
I love Richard. He deserves husband of the year every year.
Haha, absolutely. Onslow has some good lines too.
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Quote from: LouisIX on August 18, 2013, 02:33:21 AM
I love Richard. He deserves husband of the year every year.
Haha, absolutely. Onslow has some good lines too.
My favorite characters :)
I missed the beginning of Breaking Bad so I have to wait for the 11:30 repeat.
Repeat here is at 10:40.
Quote from: Othmar on August 18, 2013, 02:43:07 AM
Quote from: Der Kaiser on August 17, 2013, 05:50:06 PM
Now back to TV. Anybody looking forward to the Dracula TV show this fall on NBC? Looks interesting to me.
I looked this up just now.
That Dracula poses as an American is .. um.. rather lame. No cool foreign accent. :(
Normally I am a Dracula snob. It is one of my favorite Gothic novels and I am picky about the film adaptations, however this does look interesting. The actor who plays Dracula is a favorite of mine and from the trailers I have seen he is at least a bad guy. Anything that will get rid of the Twilight version of Vampires in the Pop culture is fine with me.
Quote from: Othmar on August 18, 2013, 02:43:07 AMI looked this up just now.
That Dracula poses as an American is .. um.. rather lame. No cool foreign accent. :(
I hadn't heard of the show, but totally agree about Dracula. The accent is an intrinsic part of the character.
I had a Romanian boyfriend in college, and at times he sounded like Dracula. It was awesome! :)
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Quote from: Othmar on August 18, 2013, 02:43:07 AMI looked this up just now.
That Dracula poses as an American is .. um.. rather lame. No cool foreign accent. :(
I hadn't heard of the show, but totally agree about Dracula. The accent is an intrinsic part of the character.
I had a Romanian boyfriend in college, and at times he sounded like Dracula. It was awesome! :)
The Romanian accent is awesome. I love watching the old Bela Lugosi film and just listening to him. As a side Christopher Lee who has played Drac in the most films played it with an English accent as well. But, it works because of what a great voice he has.
I've been watching Breaking Bad on Amazon. The 6th season is the best season this show has had since season 1, so I've really been enjoying it.
The premiere was certainly better than the last episode.
My Veronica Mars dvds arrived from the Kickstarter finally so I started on those.
Breaking Bad tonight. Wow.
Heisenberg just out heisenberged himself, and Jesse clinched the episode.
Unfortunately, my TV lost signal several times, so I missed most of the first part of the episode.
Dude someone kinda spoiled it for me. Stop.
[spoiler]I heard that there was some desert scene, and I'm pissed. Apparently Walt tried to kill Jesse. Fuuuu[/spoiler]
hence, why I tried to be as vague as possible
Quote from: MilesChristi on August 25, 2013, 08:16:52 PM
hence, why I tried to be as vague as possible
[spoiler]If what I posted above is true, did I miss a lot? It's not ruined, right?[/spoiler]
Who wouldn't play this, though?
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUK4WgQ3vk[/yt]
Quote from: Bonaventure on August 25, 2013, 08:17:42 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on August 25, 2013, 08:16:52 PM
hence, why I tried to be as vague as possible
[spoiler]If what I posted above is true, did I miss a lot? It's not ruined, right?[/spoiler]
[spoiler]The confession scene was epic. I really thought that he was gonna 'fess up to save Skyler's ass, but his plan is clicking.
I thought Saul was gonna shoot Jesse in the desert as they hugged. The "talk a walk" line could have worked.[/spoiler]
The only relevant pic that came up on Google, and it has a typo. Alas.
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Anyone else watching Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
I watched it. I half expected the black guy to be Power-Man, and I thought
my idea of Nicholas Cage: Power Man was finally shut down.
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He has indestructible skin, like diamond
I'm hoping I can watch SHIELD on demand, I forgot it was on last night.
Quote from: piabee on September 24, 2013, 10:11:21 PM
Anyone else watching Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
I'm a bit afraid to watch a show where Whedon is involved. My son watched it and told me there was a bantering couple in it. My reaction was, "Oh no, one of them is going to die!"
(Can you tell I haven't gotten over the death of Wash yet?)
Quote from: RealJayneK on September 25, 2013, 09:52:14 AM
I'm a bit afraid to watch a show where Whedon is involved. My son watched it and told me there was a bantering couple in it. My reaction was, "Oh no, one of them is going to die!"
Did he mean the scientists? Because that felt more to me like a sibling vibe.
Overall I thought it was fun. Definitely something different from the rest of the shows on tv. I hope they tone down all the pseudo-technology talk because that got old real quick.
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Quote from: RealJayneK on September 25, 2013, 09:52:14 AM
I'm a bit afraid to watch a show where Whedon is involved. My son watched it and told me there was a bantering couple in it. My reaction was, "Oh no, one of them is going to die!"
Did he mean the scientists? Because that felt more to me like a sibling vibe.
Probably. I asked my son if there was sexual tension and he said no. So they do have a chance at survival.
Quote from: piabee on September 25, 2013, 11:08:16 AM
Overall I thought it was fun. Definitely something different from the rest of the shows on tv. I hope they tone down all the pseudo-technology talk because that got old real quick.
I'll probably watch it when I can get up enough nerve. But you just can't trust a show by a man who kills off the plucky comic relief.
Quote from: Larry S. on September 25, 2013, 07:40:09 AM
I'm hoping I can watch SHIELD on demand, I forgot it was on last night.
They're running an encore on Thursday night.
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Quote from: Larry S. on September 25, 2013, 07:40:09 AM
I'm hoping I can watch SHIELD on demand, I forgot it was on last night.
They're running an encore on Thursday night.
In Canada you can watch it online on the CTV site. I took the leap and watched it. Sure I liked it, but I'll regret it when he starts killing my favourite characters.
And I read a review which also predicted death for one of the scientist couple, although slightly different reasoning than mine. They're so doomed. And Whedon is so Whedon.
Quote from: piabee on September 25, 2013, 02:50:13 PM
Quote from: Larry S. on September 25, 2013, 07:40:09 AM
I'm hoping I can watch SHIELD on demand, I forgot it was on last night.
They're running an encore on Thursday night.
Excellent. Thanks for the info! :)
DOWNTON ABBEY. Yes I'm cheating.
Quote from: piabee on October 13, 2013, 10:48:58 PM
DOWNTON ABBEY. Yes I'm cheating.
What do you think so far? I'm disappointed in Season 4, especially with the latest episode (#3).
Only seen episode 1 so far but I enjoyed it.
I've seen 3 episodes of this season's Downton. It's alright, but I never come to that particular series with high expectations. I just treat it like a period soap opera with a bigger budget.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 14, 2013, 01:45:16 AM
I've seen 3 episodes of this season's Downton. It's alright, but I never come to that particular series with high expectations. I just treat it like a period soap opera with a bigger budget.
Yeah, I suppose I can see your point, but...
Only read this if you've seen Episode 3 -[spoiler]I just think they pushed the envelope too far with the last episode. It seems like they created this new drama of Anna's rape and her subsequent lying about it to Bates to keep things interesting, as if all the other stuff going on at Downton wasn't enough to keep people entertained. I don't know, it just seemed about as contrived as Matthew's death at the end of last season. [/spoiler]
Quote from: totiusque on October 14, 2013, 02:42:42 AM
Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 14, 2013, 01:45:16 AM
I've seen 3 episodes of this season's Downton. It's alright, but I never come to that particular series with high expectations. I just treat it like a period soap opera with a bigger budget.
Yeah, I suppose I can see your point, but... Only read this if you've seen Episode 3 -[spoiler]I just think they pushed the envelope too far with the last episode. It seems like they created this new drama of Anna's rape and her subsequent lying about it to Bates to keep things interesting, as if all the other stuff going on at Downton wasn't enough to keep people entertained. I don't know, it just seemed about as contrived as Matthew's death at the end of last season. [/spoiler]
[spoiler]The rape did seem more fitting for
Game of Thrones than
Downton, yeah. As for Matthew, it was contrived because Dan Stevens was bored of the role and didn't want to come back for the next season, so the writers had to kill him off. If I were in charge, I would've just recast him, but to be honest, the character was so milquetoast, I can't say I miss him at all.[/spoiler]
Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 14, 2013, 02:51:55 AM
[spoiler]The rape did seem more fitting for Game of Thrones than Downton, yeah. As for Matthew, it was contrived because Dan Stevens was bored of the role and didn't want to come back for the next season, so the writers had to kill him off. If I were in charge, I would've just recast him, but to be honest, the character was so milquetoast, I can't say I miss him at all.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Yeah, I don't miss him either, but the car accident was just silly, IMHO. He could've died in the war or any other countless ways that would've been fitting. The actor put the writers in a bind, and they couldn't write their way out of it, I guess. And right after seeing his new baby for the first time? Puhleeze.[/spoiler]
Star Trek Continues
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes/#.UlvebUYo7IU
Episode 2 just felt like filler after that contrived plot point at the beginning. Re episode 3, Mrs. Hughes seemed far too matter-of-fact even if it were a known problem at the time. [spoiler]I just hope Anna isn't pregnant. And I automatically hate Lord Gillingham based on his valet.[/spoiler]
Y'all lucky you been using spoiler tags.
just burned through Lost a couple of days ago
Netflix recently put out "Human Target" which I had never heard of before. I liked it. I enjoyed the characters. The hero is really heroic and also a reformed bad guy which is my favourite kind of hero. Also lots of action and great fighting.
Jayne, I've been watching a series which you may possibly like. It's called Arrow, and it's about Green Arrow (the DC Comics character). For a show on the CW, it's surprisingly good.
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 14, 2013, 01:51:23 PM
Jayne, I've been watching a series which you may possibly like. It's called Arrow, and it's about Green Arrow (the DC Comics character). For a show on the CW, it's surprisingly good.
I did take a look at it in its first season because I usually do like comic book adaptations but I didn't get into it for some reason. I can't remember why. Maybe I should give it another try.
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 14, 2013, 02:36:58 PM
I did take a look at it in its first season because I usually do like comic book adaptations but I didn't get into it for some reason. I can't remember why. Maybe I should give it another try.
It was slow-going at first. The whole thing was basically building up to Season 2, which should be good. The action and dry humor is great.
Quote from: piabee on October 14, 2013, 02:53:11 PM
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 14, 2013, 02:36:58 PM
I did take a look at it in its first season because I usually do like comic book adaptations but I didn't get into it for some reason. I can't remember why. Maybe I should give it another try.
It was slow-going at first. The whole thing was basically building up to Season 2, which should be good. The action and dry humor is great.
Is there a lot of romance? I prefer to avoid it.
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 14, 2013, 03:35:49 PM
Is there a lot of romance? I prefer to avoid it.
Sort of on and off.
More on Downton: [spoiler]I hope that publisher gets his German divorce and then Lady Edith dumps him.[/spoiler]
Quote from: MilesChristi on October 14, 2013, 12:29:27 PM
just burned through Lost a couple of days ago
What'd you think? It still ranks as my top TV series of all time.
Quote from: piabee on October 14, 2013, 04:16:53 PM
More on Downton: [spoiler]I hope that publisher gets his German divorce and then Lady Edith dumps him.[/spoiler]
LOL. [spoiler]With Lady Edith's luck, though, he'll probably end up meeting another woman or getting killed or something. I don't think the show's creators like her very much.[/spoiler]
Getting back to Downton for a bit, I'd say it is necessarily one of those shows where the plot becomes exponentially more implausible each season, because if it didn't, then it wouldn't continue to be interesting. The problem is that the Crawleys live in a world which is mostly "real", as opposed to a sci-fi or fantasy where we can easily suspend our disbelief as necessary.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 14, 2013, 07:25:16 PM
Getting back to Downton for a bit, I'd say it is necessarily one of those shows where the plot becomes exponentially more implausible each season, because if it didn't, then it wouldn't continue to be interesting. The problem is that the Crawleys live in a world which is mostly "real", as opposed to a sci-fi or fantasy where we can easily suspend our disbelief as necessary.
Perhaps, but if that's the case, they should have just agreed to do a set number of episodes and ended it on those terms. Season 3 would have been a perfect end to a good show, and they could have done that with limited implausibilities. Same goes for shows like
Breaking Bad. I'm glad they ended it when they did, because the show ended at the top of its game and didn't have to create new dilemmas to keep viewers interested.
I'm in favor of all shows writing 3-5 season story arcs and then ending them.
Lost probably got too carried away in its 6th season;
24 could have been better minus a couple of its seasons;
OUAT is already getting tiring in its 3rd season, so I hope it's coming to a close. Doing this would prevent the great shows from getting prematurely cancelled, and give audiences the satisfaction of closure. It's better than playing the ridiculous 'ratings game', which I believe is flawed now that most people either stream their shows or watch it off their DVRs.
On the Downton recent episode, I was so impressed with the way [spoiler]Mrs Hughes handles the whole Edna trying to sleep her way upstairs thing. She has this stuff down! Anna should have listened to her, though I'm sure the writers will find some way out of it. Of course, the best solution might be to go to Lady Mary and tell her the whole thing. Mary can then get Gillingham to fire his valet without a reference, ensuring that he'll spend the remainder of his days in the unemployment line.[/spoiler]
I agree. Downton's prime was in season 2, during the Great War. Season 3 should have tied up loose ends and called it quits.
Video game franchises are especially guilty of this in that everything has to be a 5-part series, but it's a little more forgivable considering the constantly evolving nature of the medium.
I liked episode 4. Finally some movement in the story.
Back on Duck Dynasty.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 14, 2013, 06:08:24 AM
Star Trek Continues
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes/#.UlvebUYo7IU
Thanks for this. I watched it after seeing your link. I thought it was surprisingly well done.
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 16, 2013, 10:04:04 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 14, 2013, 06:08:24 AM
Star Trek Continues
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes/#.UlvebUYo7IU
Thanks for this. I watched it after seeing your link. I thought it was surprisingly well done.
Yeah, reminds me alot of the original series. I wish they would do more full episodes.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 16, 2013, 10:41:30 AM
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 16, 2013, 10:04:04 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 14, 2013, 06:08:24 AM
Star Trek Continues
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes/#.UlvebUYo7IU
Thanks for this. I watched it after seeing your link. I thought it was surprisingly well done.
Yeah, reminds me alot of the original series. I wish they would do more full episodes.
I did not expect them to manage so well to get the feel of the original. It looks like it takes them a while to produce one of these so it will be a while until they have more, I suspect.
Vikings
The History Channel Drama. It is very very good. Just came out on DVD tuesday.
The T.V. is incidentally WATCHING YOU watch it.
Smile and say cheese. :D
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117493/Samsungs-latest-TV-sets-built-cameras-spark-concerns.html
;D 8)
Dragnet, Adam 12 annnnnddd.....
FRASIER!
I am so addicted. :-[
Quote from: totiusque on October 14, 2013, 07:18:27 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on October 14, 2013, 12:29:27 PM
just burned through Lost a couple of days ago
What'd you think? It still ranks as my top TV series of all time.
I loved it, thats why I burned through it so fast. What was really interesting, is that besides the last scene, the only religion that gets any serious attention (and it does get a lot of attention) is Catholicism. Except for maybe the black woman that might be protestant. There is some scenes with Muslims, but that was really only connected to Sayid's story. The only overarching religious themes, I see came from Catholicism.
I've moved to Quantum Leap,
next on my list may be Doctor Who, but I have no idea where to start, 50 years to catch up on.
Quote from: MilesChristi on October 18, 2013, 02:11:54 PM
I've moved to Quantum Leap,
next on my list may be Doctor Who, but I have no idea where to start, 50 years to catch up on.
I used to watch QL when it first aired and I liked it a lot. But when I tried watching it recently, I kept noticing all the liberal themes in it and found it preachy and annoying.
Being a trad has ruined TV for me. :D
Doctor Who makes sense if you start at the modern episodes. They assumed a lot of the audience wouldn't have seen the classic ones. But the show runner is an atheist and "out and proud" homosexual and it constantly creeps into the show in subtle ways.
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 18, 2013, 02:21:31 PM
I used to QL when it first aired and I liked it a lot. But when I tried watching it recently, I kept noticing all the liberal themes in it and found it preachy and annoying.
Being a trad has ruined TV for me. :D
I watched a few minutes of Quantum Leap many years ago, but I noticed right away that every episode was intended to teach some politically-correct lesson. The time travel was just an excuse for politically-correct preaching. Not entertaining.
There was a whole genre of this fake sci-fi at the time, with movies like "Pleasantville" where the excuse of time travel is just a way to teach lessons in political correctness.
Quote from: Maximilian on October 18, 2013, 02:43:26 PM
I watched a few minutes of Quantum Leap many years ago, but I noticed right away that every episode was intended to teach some politically-correct lesson. The time travel was just an excuse for politically-correct preaching. Not entertaining.
That's it exactly. Very well said. I must have been completely bought into those values back then because I did not notice this. It was my favourite show at the time.
Quote from: Guapo on October 17, 2013, 08:10:05 PM
The T.V. is incidentally WATCHING YOU watch it.
Smile and say cheese. :D
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117493/Samsungs-latest-TV-sets-built-cameras-spark-concerns.html
;D 8)
My TV is a CRT.
:P
I love Frasier! :) I watch it on Netflix. Really, I watch so little TV these days, I should get rid of it altogether.
Watching Deep Space Nine.
Tombstone Territory.
Cheyenne
I highly recommend Korean drama. It's developing a growing popularity around the world.
There is no bad language, immodest dress, sexual immorality or violence outside of the context of wars, etc. That's true of the series we have watched, it might no be true of all of them, however, the media there is still highly censored, so even the more modern series will not be as bad as Western TV or Japanese. The most popular dramas are historical, set in various centuries, but they are so well done that the people from 6th century Korea seem just like people you know in real life -- except a lot more interesting.
Besides the bad stuff that is missing, a lot of good stuff is included that is missing from Western media. The stories revolve around real love and loyalty. There is a simplicity and naivete about real emotions that you cannot find in our sophisticated world full of irony. People sacrifice themselves for a higher cause. There is a sense of dedication to family that is missing even from older Western media from 50 year ago.
Here is the series we are watching right now:
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/ (http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/)
Quote from: Maximilian on October 19, 2013, 11:44:12 AM
I highly recommend Korean drama. It's developing a growing popularity around the world.
There is no bad language, immodest dress, sexual immorality or violence outside of the context of wars, etc. That's true of the series we have watched, it might no be true of all of them, however, the media there is still highly censored, so even the more modern series will not be as bad as Western TV or Japanese. The most popular dramas are historical, set in various centuries, but they are so well done that the people from 6th century Korea seem just like people you know in real life -- except a lot more interesting.
Besides the bad stuff that is missing, a lot of good stuff is included that is missing from Western media. The stories revolve around real love and loyalty. There is a simplicity and naivete about real emotions that you cannot find in our sophisticated world full of irony. People sacrifice themselves for a higher cause. There is a sense of dedication to family that is missing even from older Western media from 50 year ago.
Here is the series we are watching right now:
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/ (http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/)
Jumong is a very good series. My best friend is Korean and I have watched my fair share of Korean dramas. Have you watched Dae Jang Geum? When it comes to historical dramas, I highly recommend Dae Jang Geum, Bridal Mask( set in Japanese occupied Korea in the 1930s) and Comrades( Korean War)
Quote from: Christknight104 on October 19, 2013, 01:13:23 PM
Have you watched Dae Jang Geum? When it comes to historical dramas, I highly recommend Dae Jang Geum,
No, we haven't watched that one. We have it on our list, but I was a little worried it might have feminist themes about the first female doctor. Other than Jumong, the historical dramas we've watched have been "Dong Yi" and "Queen Seon Deok." We enjoyed both of those a lot.
We watched the 3 historical dramas, in reverse chronological order, Dong Yi then Queen Seong Deok then Jumong, but I'm glad because they keep getting better, and I might have been disappointed if I had watched them the other way around.
Interesting historical sidenote: We're now watching Jumong who founded Gokoryeo, after finishing watching Queen Seon Deok about Kim Yu-shin, the leader who destroyed the empire of Gokoryeo. And the drama series make each one the hero of his own drama.
Quote from: Maximilian on October 19, 2013, 11:44:12 AM
I highly recommend Korean drama. It's developing a growing popularity around the world.
Is it dubbed or with sub-titles?
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 19, 2013, 04:35:52 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on October 19, 2013, 11:44:12 AM
I highly recommend Korean drama. It's developing a growing popularity around the world.
Is it dubbed or with sub-titles?
Sub-titles.
We watch Japanese anime too, and we also choose subbed over dubbed. Half of the fun is listening to the original language.
With Japanese media, however, you have to be really careful what you choose. There are some good things and some really really bad things, and sometimes you can't tell them apart at first.
Here is a Japanese anime series called "Trapp Ikka Monogatari," same basic story as "The Sound of Music," but it's a 40-part television series.
http://kissanime.com/Anime/Trapp-Ikka-Monogatari (http://kissanime.com/Anime/Trapp-Ikka-Monogatari)
It's amusing how Japanese anime portrays the West. In our media, Catholicism = corruption, gay monks, and crotchety old pedophile priests.
In anime, Catholicism = 20-year old demon-fighting kung-fu priests in swooshing cassocks and robes. And with a couple of exceptions, Catholicism is the only form of Christianity in existence.
One of my friends, a philosophy grad, uploaded this clip from the anime Reign: The Conqueror onto YouTube. The series is about the life of Alexander the Great. In the clip, Aristotle meets the ghost of Plato. It's full of LOL's since no westerner could possibly conceive of depicting the philosophers this way.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57oKnziHF2Q[/yt]
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 19, 2013, 05:07:48 PM
One of my friends, a philosophy grad, uploaded this clip from the anime Reign: The Conqueror onto YouTube. The series is about the life of Alexander the Great. In the clip, Aristotle meets the ghost of Plato. It's full of LOL's since no westerner could possibly conceive of depicting the philosophers this way.
A saw a couple episodes of this series on Cartoon Network quite a few years ago, back when they showed anime (or anything decent). It's a sci-fi/fantasy version of Alexander the Great, which is not supposed to be realistic. They also had "Inuyasha" on CN back then. It was the first time I had ever seen any Japanese anime.
http://www.animeplus.tv/inuyasha-anime
(http://www.animeplus.tv/inuyasha-anime)
Quote from: Maximilian on October 19, 2013, 08:46:31 PM
It's a sci-fi/fantasy version of Alexander the Great, which is not supposed to be realistic.
Of course. But not even Frank Miller (of
300 fame) couldn't have come up with this. It's a distinctly Japanese take on western history.
Quote from: Maximilian on October 19, 2013, 08:46:31 PMThey also had "Inuyasha" on CN back then.
They still do, but it's only Sunday morning at like 3 or 4 AM. ::) Cartoon Network in general is a pathetic shadow of its former self.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on October 19, 2013, 08:55:50 PM
It's a distinctly Japanese take on western history.
Right. Which is what makes it fun. Not necessarily that series in particular, (which I couldn't watch because of the gay clothes), but just the whole Japanese view gives us the chance to see ourselves from the outside. And notice how their cartoons discuss things like Plato and the nature of
ideas. They have a real hunger for the supernatural. If only we had a new St. Francis Xavier to feed them.
Upstairs Downstairs
Quote from: Maximilian on October 18, 2013, 02:43:26 PM
Quote from: RealJayneK on October 18, 2013, 02:21:31 PM
I used to QL when it first aired and I liked it a lot. But when I tried watching it recently, I kept noticing all the liberal themes in it and found it preachy and annoying.
Being a trad has ruined TV for me. :D
I watched a few minutes of Quantum Leap many years ago, but I noticed right away that every episode was intended to teach some politically-correct lesson. The time travel was just an excuse for politically-correct preaching. Not entertaining.
There was a whole genre of this fake sci-fi at the time, with movies like "Pleasantville" where the excuse of time travel is just a way to teach lessons in political correctness.
Agreed, QL was one of my favorite shows back in the 1990s before my conversion, but yes, it was very preachy. The episode with the gay serviceman was the worst one of the bunch. I will say, though, Scott Bakula did a heckuva job as Sam Beckett.
I think I need to start watching Downton Abbey. And old Honeymooners reruns.
I'm falling behind on everything already. Even Sleepy Hollow, which is probably the best new show of the fall. I don't like it quite as much as I liked (the somewhat similar) Grimm when that started, but it has good characters and it's going places.
Parks and Rec is on hiatus.
NBC sucks.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 20, 2013, 12:46:50 PM
Upstairs Downstairs
The original? I found the original on Youtube, and I love it! My favorites are Mr. Hudson, Rose, and Edward. And Lady Marjorie. :-\
Catching up on HIMYM. About 10 episodes behind.
Quote from: Bernadette on October 23, 2013, 10:05:50 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 20, 2013, 12:46:50 PM
Upstairs Downstairs
The original? I found the original on Youtube, and I love it! My favorites are Mr. Hudson, Rose, and Edward. And Lady Marjorie. :-\
The most recent one - I got it from the library. I love the original. The new one was ok - Rose is the only character that carries over (unless you count the house as a character. :) )
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on October 24, 2013, 11:06:56 AM
The most recent one - I got it from the library. I love the original. The new one was ok - Rose is the only character that carries over (unless you count the house as a character. :) )
I haven't seen the old one but the new one is ridiculously soapy and just gets worse as it goes on.
The first of the final six episodes of Nikita.
We just finished watching the final episode of "Jumong" (also spelled "Chumong"). The series was awesome.
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/ (http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/)
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[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmYrWGLL-0I[/yt]
Quote from: Maximilian on November 23, 2013, 08:17:44 AM
We just finished watching the final episode of "Jumong" (also spelled "Chumong"). The series was awesome.
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/ (http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/)
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bia-cinema.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fjumong.jpg&hash=a67552f423112b794a29884d62b91b288edda4b8)
That looks awesome! Do you have a particular interest in Korea, Maximilian?
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on November 25, 2013, 10:15:59 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on November 23, 2013, 08:17:44 AM
We just finished watching the final episode of "Jumong" (also spelled "Chumong"). The series was awesome.
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/ (http://www.dramafever.com/drama/11/Jumong/)
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bia-cinema.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fjumong.jpg&hash=a67552f423112b794a29884d62b91b288edda4b8)
That looks awesome! Do you have a particular interest in Korea, Maximilian?
I do have a particular interest in Korean culture dating from some years ago when I studied Buddhism under a Korean Zen Master. I learned to like Korean food and culture at that time. We have some home-made kim chee in the refrigerator.
The interest in Korean television, however, is much more recent. It mostly comes from the fact that Japanese anime and drama have so much good stuff, but it's just too dangerous to watch because it's mixed with so much stuff that's immodest or outright pornographic. But in Korea, the media still follows censorship guidelines, so mostly everything is safe for family viewing.
And more than just the absence of negative stuff, what I really appreciate is the presence of positive stuff. The emotions portrayed are simple and naive feelings of love and loyalty and devotion to family and nation. There is no irony, no sophisticated winking at the audience to say "You and I are above these childish things."
The theme of "Jumong," for example, is that a true leader is the one who follows the "will of Heaven." The leader who follows his own will always fails to inspire his followers. The leader must be obedient to the will of heaven, and then everyone else must subordinate their own will for the common good of the cause. People cry tears of real emotion, especially if they have disappointed the leader.
Also, good people are the ones who accept suffering and humiliation. When something goes wrong in the drama, the good characters immediately take the blame, even when it's not their fault. They examine their conscience to see what they could have done better. You can tell who are the bad characters because whenever something goes wrong the first thing they do is blame someone else instead of examining their own consciences.
And then at the very end of the series, when you expect to see the final
mano-a-mano confrontation between Jumong and his step-brother who has been the villain throughout the series, instead of killing each other, they unite to confront a common enemy, which is the Han empire. So the ultimate theme is about drawing everyone together under the aegis of a common goal of doing the will of heaven, winning over even your enemies, not by force but by getting them to serve the will of heaven together with you.
Jumong was a huge hit around the world, drawing 80 - 90% ratings in Iran. Korean drama is becoming very popular in Japan, it's called the "Korean wave," kind of like the "British invasion" that hit American in the sixties, I think for a lot of the same reasons that I listed above, for the Japanese people who are sick of their own pornographic culture. The poster above is all in Chinese characters, not Korean or Japanese, so I'm guessing that it was created for the broadcast of Jumong in Taiwan. It wasn't shown in mainland China because the censors objected to the portrayal of the Han Chinese as the villainous bad guys.
Quote from: Maximilian
Quote from: Ancilla Domini
That looks awesome! Do you have a particular interest in Korea, Maximilian?
I do have a particular interest in Korean culture dating from some years ago when I studied Buddhism under a Korean Zen Master. I learned to like Korean food and culture at that time. We have some home-made kim chee in the refrigerator.
The interest in Korean television, however, is much more recent. It mostly comes from the fact that Japanese anime and drama have so much good stuff, but it's just too dangerous to watch because it's mixed with so much stuff that's immodest or outright pornographic. But in Korea, the media still follows censorship guidelines, so mostly everything is safe for family viewing.
And more than just the absence of negative stuff, what I really appreciate is the presence of positive stuff. The emotions portrayed are simple and naive feelings of love and loyalty and devotion to family and nation. There is no irony, no sophisticated winking at the audience to say "You and I are above these childish things."
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I have seen some episodes of various Korean dramas, and are way better than the western series regarding the elements you are menctioning.
About anime and manga, I avoid the ones with that kind of stuff. Before watching or reading a series, I check reviews and a wiki sites, and I usually get a detailed descirption of the contents and elements present in the work.
I've really only been watching the Amazing Race, NFL football, and some basketball on the television.
Other than that, nothing has really piqued my interest, besides wanting to watch a few documentaries (BBC's Life, with Attenborough, comes to mind).
Quote from: Maximilian on November 26, 2013, 06:48:33 AM
I do have a particular interest in Korean culture dating from some years ago when I studied Buddhism under a Korean Zen Master. I learned to like Korean food and culture at that time. We have some home-made kim chee in the refrigerator.
The interest in Korean television, however, is much more recent. It mostly comes from the fact that Japanese anime and drama have so much good stuff, but it's just too dangerous to watch because it's mixed with so much stuff that's immodest or outright pornographic. But in Korea, the media still follows censorship guidelines, so mostly everything is safe for family viewing.
And more than just the absence of negative stuff, what I really appreciate is the presence of positive stuff. The emotions portrayed are simple and naive feelings of love and loyalty and devotion to family and nation. There is no irony, no sophisticated winking at the audience to say "You and I are above these childish things."
The theme of "Jumong," for example, is that a true leader is the one who follows the "will of Heaven." The leader who follows his own will always fails to inspire his followers. The leader must be obedient to the will of heaven, and then everyone else must subordinate their own will for the common good of the cause. People cry tears of real emotion, especially if they have disappointed the leader.
Also, good people are the ones who accept suffering and humiliation. When something goes wrong in the drama, the good characters immediately take the blame, even when it's not their fault. They examine their conscience to see what they could have done better. You can tell who are the bad characters because whenever something goes wrong the first thing they do is blame someone else instead of examining their own consciences.
And then at the very end of the series, when you expect to see the final mano-a-mano confrontation between Jumong and his step-brother who has been the villain throughout the series, instead of killing each other, they unite to confront a common enemy, which is the Han empire. So the ultimate theme is about drawing everyone together under the aegis of a common goal of doing the will of heaven, winning over even your enemies, not by force but by getting them to serve the will of heaven together with you.
Jumong was a huge hit around the world, drawing 80 - 90% ratings in Iran. Korean drama is becoming very popular in Japan, it's called the "Korean wave," kind of like the "British invasion" that hit American in the sixties, I think for a lot of the same reasons that I listed above, for the Japanese people who are sick of their own pornographic culture. The poster above is all in Chinese characters, not Korean or Japanese, so I'm guessing that it was created for the broadcast of Jumong in Taiwan. It wasn't shown in mainland China because the censors objected to the portrayal of the Han Chinese as the villainous bad guys.
I understand completely. I've watched Latin American and, more recently, Turkish series for similar reasons.
Inspector Morse. This is after finishing all the Lewis, Foyle's War, Luther, and Wallander (with Kenneth Branagh) that Netflix had to offer. I'm a sucker for BBC detective series...
Deep Space Nine DVDs
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on November 27, 2013, 04:07:32 PM
I understand completely. I've watched Latin American and, more recently, Turkish series for similar reasons.
Turkish? That's a new one on me. How do you watch a Turkish drama, and what are they like?
Quote from: Maximilian on November 27, 2013, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on November 27, 2013, 04:07:32 PM
I understand completely. I've watched Latin American and, more recently, Turkish series for similar reasons.
Turkish? That's a new one on me. How do you watch a Turkish drama, and what are they like?
You can watch them online. My favorite so far was a historical drama Muhte?em Yüzy?l (The Magnificent Century) based on the life of Suleiman the Magnificent. It was unique in portraying both his public and private life, especially his relationship with his wife Hürrem, a slave who eventually became sultana. The series was popular internationally, especially in Eastern Europe. Overall, it was well made, visually stunning, with an engaging plot, and it promoted traditional values. You can watch it on YouTube. Unfortunately only the first episode has been subtitled in English, so unless you speak one of the other European languages it has been show in, or you are interested in learning Turkish, as I was at the time, it might be awhile before the series is available in English. But I've heard that it is coming our way! :)
Here is the first episode:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XCwGCIKD0Q[/yt]
Just started Friday Night Lights...
I'm not actually watching anything during Advent, but I discovered a new show last week that looks promising. It is called Almost Human. It is set in a near future in which police officers are partnered with androids. So it is a science-fiction buddy cop show.
Just finished Season 2 of Continuum. Kinda hokey, but I still enjoyed it and look forward to Season 3.
I hadn't really thought about Sound of Music Live beforehand but I put it on and it's fun.
Just finished Ripper Street. Great writing. Great acting.
Mad Men
Person of Interest
Yesterday I watched the final few episodes of Nikita. A satisfying conclusion to a good show.
On the way to America, Virgin was showing the entire series 1 of Breaking Bad. I watched it all on one sitting. Can't wait to get home and get the DVD's so I can carry on.
Working my way through season 2 of Downton Abbey. Sucks not to have cable
Frasier, on Amazon. I love that show. The dad is my favorite, closely followed by Niles. :)
Quote from: Bernadette on January 02, 2014, 06:14:28 PM
Frasier, on Amazon. I love that show. The dad is my favorite, closely followed by Niles. :)
I'm a fan of Martin, Roz, and Frasier. Niles, as well, but to a lesser extent.
Started watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
I gave up tv during Advent so I've catching up on everything and it's glorious. Once Upon a Time felt like it was floundering all season but they pulled it together and hit reset in the latest episode. A daring move but I think it will pay off.
Quote from: Archer on August 04, 2013, 07:38:05 AM
Currently the only shows we're watching is the Next Food Network Star and random episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot on youtube.
Shows we're waiting for the next season of...
Sherlock
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
Blue Bloods
White Collar
Archer, what do you think of the current season of White Collar? Just watched the most recent episode tonight.
I am kind of disappointed with what Peter did. I was hoping they would really play out the implications of what Neil did.
Quote from: totiusque on August 10, 2013, 05:55:57 PM
Quote from: vakarian on August 10, 2013, 05:31:45 PM
I thought the same thing when I was unsure whether to watch 24 with it's then-current 6 seasons. By Season 5 I had to pace myself because I was devouring the series too fast.
My wife and I did the same thing with 24, only during Season 3 instead of 6. It sure didn't take us long to get caught up, as Netflix was sending us 3 DVDs at a time back then. And speaking of 24, I can't wait 'til May 2014 when the new 12 episodes come out. I wonder if Jack Bauer will have a walker.
Yikes! This shows how little TV I watch or keep up with. 24 used to be one of my favorites. I had no idea they were making a new one.
The only 2 shows I watch are White Collar and the GK Chesterton show on EWTN.
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 03, 2014, 10:56:52 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 04, 2013, 07:38:05 AM
Currently the only shows we're watching is the Next Food Network Star and random episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot on youtube.
Shows we're waiting for the next season of...
Sherlock
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
Blue Bloods
White Collar
Archer, what do you think of the current season of White Collar? Just watched the most recent episode tonight.
I am kind of disappointed with what Peter did. I was hoping they would really play out the implications of what Neil did.
Joyful which season are you watching? We've seen up through season 4 on netflix. I know they're airing season 5 on TV now but we haven't had a chance to catch up.
Quote from: Archer on January 04, 2014, 12:14:26 AM
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 03, 2014, 10:56:52 PM
Quote from: Archer on August 04, 2013, 07:38:05 AM
Currently the only shows we're watching is the Next Food Network Star and random episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot on youtube.
Shows we're waiting for the next season of...
Sherlock
Downton Abbey
Person of Interest
Blue Bloods
White Collar
Archer, what do you think of the current season of White Collar? Just watched the most recent episode tonight.
I am kind of disappointed with what Peter did. I was hoping they would really play out the implications of what Neil did.
Joyful which season are you watching? We've seen up through season 4 on netflix. I know they're airing season 5 on TV now but we haven't had a chance to catch up.
I stay current with the broadcast episodes, so I guess that is Season 5. Probably the ONLY TV show I make sure to stay current on. ;D
I am glad I didn't say too much in the post - wait til you see the season 4 finale/cliff hanger.
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 04, 2014, 09:29:15 AM
I am glad I didn't say too much in the post - wait til you see the season 4 finale/cliff hanger.
I haven't watched the last episode that aired yet, but I haven't been too impressed with this season so far. I don't think Peter [spoiler]would have compromised his morals so much to help Neal[/spoiler]. Neal is being far too spineless and needs to commit either [spoiler]to being a criminal or to being honest with Peter about what's going on[/spoiler]. It just doesn't seem true to either character, which throws off the entire mood of the show.
Quote from: piabee on January 05, 2014, 03:46:11 PM
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 04, 2014, 09:29:15 AM
I am glad I didn't say too much in the post - wait til you see the season 4 finale/cliff hanger.
I haven't watched the last episode that aired yet, but I haven't been too impressed with this season so far. I don't think Peter [spoiler]would have compromised his morals so much to help Neal[/spoiler]. Neal is being far too spineless and needs to commit either [spoiler]to being a criminal or to being honest with Peter about what's going on[/spoiler]. It just doesn't seem true to either character, which throws off the entire mood of the show.
Piabee
You will be disappointed with the latest episode.
Peter compromises the high ethics he has always had [spoiler]by not turning Neil in for what he did or revealing that the confession was false.[/spoiler].
But Peter says at the end that "things are going to change." What that means is anybody's guess.
I hope they return the characters to what made the show so successful in the first place.
Ack, I will watch it tonight! I dvr it at my parents' house and I'm usually there for Sunday dinner.
Doing Breaking Bad marathons to catch up. Currently S3 E5.
Is it just me or have the writers done a bad job with Skyler? Am I meant to hate? I'm not sure if I am. I certainly don't pity her. Miserable wretch.
I don't think you're meant to pity Skylar. Your response to her is the same as most people that watch the show. I felt the same way.
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 05, 2014, 04:12:57 PM
You will be disappointed with the latest episode.
It was not too surprising given the trajectory of the season so far. I'm sure their actions will come back to bite them.
I'm kind of hoping they do Piabee. It would be more consistent with the way the show began. If it doesn't come back to bite them, I will be disappointed.
Just finished season two of The Killing with Mireile Enos. Very good.
Quote from: JoyfulMother on January 07, 2014, 12:16:17 PM
I'm kind of hoping they do Piabee. It would be more consistent with the way the show began. If it doesn't come back to bite them, I will be disappointed.
Did the lesbian FBI agent ever end up marrying her "partner"? My wife and I stopped watching the show when they really started pushing their relationship on the viewers. Not only that, but that same week we saw a gay rights promo by Matt Bomer (Neal), who also came out of the closet around that time. We loved the show, but it was just getting too blatantly pro-homosexual for us. If you guys are all still watching it, I'm guessing it got a lot better?
Quote from: totiusque on January 09, 2014, 05:00:28 PM
Did the lesbian FBI agent ever end up marrying her "partner"? ... If you guys are all still watching it, I'm guessing it got a lot better?
No, they break up, but they wrote in the actress's pregnancy as a sperm-donor baby. She has been on maternity leave and not even in the past few episodes. I never thought that the show pushed homosexual views more than any other show, really.
Alaska: The Last Frontier (Netflix) I'm amazed at the number of shows about Alaska that are on TV these days! I prefer ones like this, which focus on a group of people as they live throughout the year, rather than something like Alaska State Troopers or that one where people are looking for houses to buy in Alaska. My dad watches them all, though. :tongue:
Sherlock season 3! We managed to convince BCC one's website that we are in the UK. Third episode is on Sunday, looking forward to it.
Quote from: piabee on January 09, 2014, 05:40:38 PM
No, they break up, but they wrote in the actress's pregnancy as a sperm-donor baby. She has been on maternity leave and not even in the past few episodes. I never thought that the show pushed homosexual views more than any other show, really.
You know, you could be right. Maybe it just hit my wife and I at the wrong time, like after a few states just legalized it or something. That coupled with the fact that the lead actor was gay didn't help sway us to keep watching.
I just remember one specific episode (middle to end of Season 3, I think) where that lesbian agent was talking about her fiancee that basically turned the scene into a commercial for gay marriage. That's when we both just gave up. I watch a fair amount of TV, and I don't remember any other show putting that much effort to promote the issue.
Agreed, totiusque. I saw Bomer doing an ad for some pro-homo stuff around the same time I was through most of White Collar, and was really sad they were pushing the homo agenda heavily through that. I try not to watch much TV now, mostly because I don't have all that much time, and because things like that perturb me.
Maybe I'm just jaded.
I watched the first two episodes of Prison Break, then skipped the the episode where they tie up the warden and escape and the one after that when they are on the run and make it to the runway only to find the jet fly off over their heads.
Seemed like a lot of death and mayhem just to get one guy out of jail who was a screw up anyway and had shacked up with a woman he did not love and produced some teenager with her who hated him.
Would it not have been easier to just let his brother be executed rather than killing a score of people just to free him to carry on his screwed up life?
Quote from: VeraeFidei on January 10, 2014, 11:27:03 AM
Sherlock season 3! We managed to convince BCC one's website that we are in the UK. Third episode is on Sunday, looking forward to it.
How did you manage that? I can usually find them online to stream but I didn't bother with this season because it's airing here in a couple weeks anyway. I re-watched the first episode with my brother last night because he hasn't seen them. It was interesting to go back to it after watching a lot of Elementary. Sherlock Holmes NEEDS to be in London.
I just bought a pair of pink shoes like the corpse's. :o
If you need a way to watch TV shows online when they are being blocked because your location, use ProxMate (a quick google search will give you the extension).
It's awesome. Works for Youtube, and lots of other places.
Current Downton Abbey discussion starts on page 11 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=3269.msg72864#msg72864).
Downton Discussion:
[spoiler]Episode 3 what? I don't know. One of my friends told me someone got raped on the show, and right from the get-go, I could tell it was Gillingham's valet and Anna. Which perturbed me. I think the writers are trying to push the envelope and continue to rack in ratings, which is disappointing. The annoying thing too is that there is hardly any calm for Bates/Anna. Like, can't they just be settled and happy and married for more than two episodes until someone comes along and jibbers it all up?
And, whomever said it before - the show currently has more than enough drama than needing to throw in a rape in there. Like, cmon. Between Edith (who hardly gets any screen time, even though they threw an entire story arc with Sybil over two seasons), Tom (whiny Irishman - oh I don't fit in even though I'm living the life, have few worries, and most of my fellow men are probably working in factories or some such thing right now, I don't belong and have it SO rough here, because social skills are HAAARD!), Mary and her orphan.
Bah. It's almost getting to be a little TOO soap opera for my tastes. [/spoiler]
Lol. The man barely ever has to tend to his kid. Neither does Mary.
Re watching seasons 1-2 of Game of thrones. Can't wait for Season 3 to come out on dvd.
Quote from: Greg on January 12, 2014, 08:18:22 PMWould it not have been easier to just let his brother be executed rather than killing a score of people just to free him to carry on his screwed up life?
"Love" is used to justify anything and everything these days. Besides, the brother was probably wrongfully convicted, so they'll argue that the end justifies the rather extreme means. :tongue:
Quote from: The Harlequin King on January 13, 2014, 05:28:39 PM
Lol. The man barely ever has to tend to his kid. Neither does Mary.
That's the funny thing. They act like raising a kid is so hard. They don't do anything! The nurses and nannies take care of them.
Grumble grumble.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on January 13, 2014, 04:58:03 PM
Downton Discussion:
[spoiler]Episode 3 what? I don't know. One of my friends told me someone got raped on the show, and right from the get-go, I could tell it was Gillingham's valet and Anna. Which perturbed me. I think the writers are trying to push the envelope and continue to rack in ratings, which is disappointing. The annoying thing too is that there is hardly any calm for Bates/Anna. Like, can't they just be settled and happy and married for more than two episodes until someone comes along and jibbers it all up?
And, whomever said it before - the show currently has more than enough drama than needing to throw in a rape in there. Like, cmon. Between Edith (who hardly gets any screen time, even though they threw an entire story arc with Sybil over two seasons), Tom (whiny Irishman - oh I don't fit in even though I'm living the life, have few worries, and most of my fellow men are probably working in factories or some such thing right now, I don't belong and have it SO rough here, because social skills are HAAARD!), Mary and her orphan.
Bah. It's almost getting to be a little TOO soap opera for my tastes. [/spoiler]
We probably won't even bother with this season.
Quote from: Archer on January 16, 2014, 11:35:09 PM
We probably won't even bother with this season.
It gets better. Still not as good as the first two seasons, but the rest of the season is much better than those first few episodes (my wife and I almost gave up watching as well). And the Christmas Special ends on a much more positive note than last season.
Quote from: totiusque on January 18, 2014, 09:23:31 PM
Quote from: Archer on January 16, 2014, 11:35:09 PM
We probably won't even bother with this season.
It gets better. Still not as good as the first two seasons, but the rest of the season is much better than those first few episodes (my wife and I almost gave up watching as well). And the Christmas Special ends on a much more positive note than last season.
This is not saying much. :lol:
Call the midwife. Great show based on the memoirs of an English midwife in the 50s in London.Season 1 on netflix.
The Winter Olympics. Men's half-pipe on Tuesday!
Idiot Abroad on Netflix. Pretty hilarious
With nothing new on tv I've gone back to season 2 of Veronica Mars. Half of that and season to get through before the movie!
I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Lots of boxing on Fox Sports, as well as the UFC fights on the weekends.
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I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Thanks for this recommendation. Those series look great. I had never heard of them before your post. I've bookmarked it on Youtube for future viewing.
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I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Thanks for this recommendation. Those series look great. I had never heard of them before your post. I've bookmarked it on Youtube for future viewing.
If you're like me, you'll be interested in
The Victorian Kitchen,
The Victorian Kitchen Garden, and
The Victorian Flower Garden, too. They follow a gardener and a cook who were employed before WWII, as they show the audience how to do the various jobs the way they were done in the old days. There's a
Wartime Kitchen and Garden, too, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
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I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Thanks for this recommendation. Those series look great. I had never heard of them before your post. I've bookmarked it on Youtube for future viewing.
If you're like me, you'll be interested in The Victorian Kitchen, The Victorian Kitchen Garden, and The Victorian Flower Garden, too. They follow a gardener and a cook who were employed before WWII, as they show the audience how to do the various jobs the way they were done in the old days. There's a Wartime Kitchen and Garden, too, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I'll keep an eye out for those as well.
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I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Thanks for this recommendation. Those series look great. I had never heard of them before your post. I've bookmarked it on Youtube for future viewing.
If you're like me, you'll be interested in The Victorian Kitchen, The Victorian Kitchen Garden, and The Victorian Flower Garden, too. They follow a gardener and a cook who were employed before WWII, as they show the audience how to do the various jobs the way they were done in the old days. There's a Wartime Kitchen and Garden, too, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I'll keep an eye out for those as well.
Last night I discovered a farm series with the same people set in 1620, called
Tales from the Green Valley. I think it was the first one done, because everyone seems younger and there's a different narrator. And to round off the series (and just in case you want to watch the shows in historical order) there's
Tudor Monastery Farm, set in the reign of Henry VII, and
Wartime Farm set in the 40s. They've pretty much covered the history of British agriculture, except for before the Plague.
I watch tv rarely, if I do it's sitting down with my family and watching Duck Dynasty or something. I'll watch some things on EWTN, like Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen or a movie.
Downton Abbey Season 4 below.
[spoiler]Saw the Downton Abbey Season Four Christmas special. At least it ended on a happier note than last year! Haha.
I enjoyed the final episode. It was nice to see the Bates plotline resolved (and in the manner it was - I think a lot of folks wanted Green dead. I'm glad they tied up the Ivy line, as well. She was somewhat of a bother and seemed only to serve as a female foil to Daisy's romance interests. Thomas is, as usual, annoying, but someone has to drive the plot along and antagonize. Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes was adorable. I think Carson remains my favorite character in the series. Tom needs to think a bit better about his actions, but it's not surprising a man doesn't think when he's interested in a woman.
I'm not sure what they'll be up to next season. There isn't any major plot point to be advanced, unless they're going to go on about Mary finding a husband.
Oh well. I'll keep watching. lol [/spoiler]
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I've been watching Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm on youtube. Fantastic! I love this kind of historical reality series, especially these particular ones because the people are archaeologists and a historian, so they're interested in what they're doing and eager to explain it to their audience.
Thanks for this recommendation. Those series look great. I had never heard of them before your post. I've bookmarked it on Youtube for future viewing.
If you're like me, you'll be interested in The Victorian Kitchen, The Victorian Kitchen Garden, and The Victorian Flower Garden, too. They follow a gardener and a cook who were employed before WWII, as they show the audience how to do the various jobs the way they were done in the old days. There's a Wartime Kitchen and Garden, too, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
I'm defiently going to have to check this out ... really want to get back into gardening and I love "historical reality" (for lack of a better phrase).
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 24, 2014, 01:13:34 AM
Downton Abbey Season 4 below.
[spoiler]Saw the Downton Abbey Season Four Christmas special. At least it ended on a happier note than last year! Haha.
I enjoyed the final episode. It was nice to see the Bates plotline resolved (and in the manner it was - I think a lot of folks wanted Green dead. I'm glad they tied up the Ivy line, as well. She was somewhat of a bother and seemed only to serve as a female foil to Daisy's romance interests. Thomas is, as usual, annoying, but someone has to drive the plot along and antagonize. Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes was adorable. I think Carson remains my favorite character in the series. Tom needs to think a bit better about his actions, but it's not surprising a man doesn't think when he's interested in a woman.
I'm not sure what they'll be up to next season. There isn't any major plot point to be advanced, unless they're going to go on about Mary finding a husband.
Oh well. I'll keep watching. lol [/spoiler]
Me to. Yeah, it will be interesting to see what they do with the Carson / Hughes connection in season five. *spoiler altert*: consider the last season of the origional series of Upstairs / Dowstairs ... they might go with that plot line, but yeah, it was cool (if they were real life acquaiteces I'd be wishing them well, they seem suited together).
I'm supposing Lady Mary will eventualy "hook it up" but I'm down for whatever. My two fav characters remain the Dowager Countess and Tom the Irish chauffeur. Maybe he will connect with the local school marm, but there were (in my none literary / artsey sense) some possibilities with Lady Edith, as least as "soul mates".
The Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) IS NOT going to "hook up" with anybody (nor does she have any suitors at her age) but I LOVE her "attitude", LOL. It i intriging to watch her interaction with Mrs. Crawley ... hope they continure to play on that in the nexe session.
Dowager Countess is just so terribly fun! Her dialogue is also hilarious.
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Right now, I'm watching season 2 of House of Cards (the American remake on Netflix, though I've also seen a good bit of the British version from the '80s as well).
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.zap2it.com%2Ffrominsidethebox%2Fhouse-of-cards-season-2-poster.jpg&hash=41bb923a1b1ab4904222c4267906e1c21c4932c6)
Last resort....Roku box...Amazon prime.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwl6f4yFIs[/yt]
Thanks PHEO!
Inside Combat Rescue from National Geographic Channel.
Dont know how catholics can watch dowton abby when the very first episode showed a. Full on man on man french kissing session.....
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on February 25, 2014, 10:57:54 AM
Dont know how catholics can watch dowton abby when the very first episode showed a. Full on man on man french kissing session.....
You've never seen any TV show depicting any kind of sin? Or do you mean because of the occasion of sin? It wasn't an occasion of sin for me.
It was actually surprised at how the show depicted the homosexual relationship - furtive, potentially shocking, and potential for blackmail by one of the couple - the detestable Thomas. The show did not glorify the relationship.
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Dont know how catholics can watch dowton abby when the very first episode showed a. Full on man on man french kissing session.....
It was actually surprised at how the show depicted the homosexual relationship - furtive, potentially shocking, and potential for blackmail by one of the couple - the detestable Thomas. The show did not glorify the relationship.
If they're going for historical accuracy, instead of trying to force modern opinions onto the characters, then this makes sense. I didn't like how one episode dealt with a ouija board, though: even though such things
were gaining popularity at the time, it's hard to believe that no one in the group would have seriously protested that such a thing was a sin (contrast with the episode of the original
Upstairs, Downstairs dealing with spiritism: Rose's employer leaves her in no doubt that meddling with things like that is a sin, and recommends that she go and see the local vicar for help in her grief instead of attempting to contact the dead.).
Yeah, considering the homosexual is possibly the biggest antagonist in the entire show, I don't think it was treated with kid gloves.
Also, the ouija board was protested by at least one person, no? Everyone seemed wary.
At times, though, they seem to strive to place a modern mindset to them period folks.
Mindset schmindset......it portrayed in full closeup...a real senaual and deeply active man on man snogfest. Homoerotic porn. Such things were once considered XXXrated stuff.
Les revenants ( The Returned) This is a pretty great show so far. French - subtitled On netflix. Some brief nudity on occasion.Great soundtrack by Mogwai:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtG6pnx2_lU[/yt]
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on March 13, 2014, 10:22:41 AM
Les revenants ( The Returned) This is a pretty great show so far. French - subtitled On netflix. Some brief nudity on occasion.Great soundtrack by Mogwai:
I heard good things about this and recorded it at my parents' house but I am not sure when I'll ever get around to it.
Psych the Musical is hilarious.
"Sugarfoot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcERIQlTC2k
I'm watching:
The Following season 1
TMNT season 2
Psych season 3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1
The Blacklist.
Sometimes, the news channel, even though these days, the only thing you need to be in news is good looks.
Does baseball count? If so, I've certainly enjoyed myself this week. 8)
Quote from: Angelorum on April 03, 2014, 10:23:09 PM
Does baseball count? If so, I've certainly enjoyed myself this week. 8)
Only if it is the Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, or Boston Red Sox. If it's the LA or NY teams, then it is single A, San Diego chicken calibre baloney.
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
Quote from: Angelorum on April 03, 2014, 10:23:09 PM
Does baseball count? If so, I've certainly enjoyed myself this week. 8)
Only if I can include paint drying:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVZr3WbMQ6w[/yt]
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
It is certainly well-produced and entertaining. What I have a problem with is, ironically, the historically inaccurate depictions of Catholicism.
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Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
It is certainly well-produced and entertaining. What I have a problem with is, ironically, the historically inaccurate depictions of Catholicism.
Actually the viking depictions are also inaccurate. The crucifixion scene was just silly.It has more of a graphic novel feel to me.
Discussed here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/04/04/vikings-portrays-crucifixion-normal-church-punishment-apostates
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Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
It is certainly well-produced and entertaining. What I have a problem with is, ironically, the historically inaccurate depictions of Catholicism.
Actually the viking depictions are also inaccurate. The crucifixion scene was just silly.It has more of a graphic novel feel to me.
Discussed here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/04/04/vikings-portrays-crucifixion-normal-church-punishment-apostates
To add: the ad populus Mass with unleavened bread and, of course, the noble savage's
amicus curiae rendering of humane justice to the peasant woman contrary to the barbaric tradition of the Christian king.
The Fall with Gillian Anderson
I watched an episode of Chrisley Knows Best on USA. I really, really disliked it.
I saw the first episode of Turn, a drama on AMC about a spy ring during the American Revolutionary War. I enjoyed it, though not everyone will.
Quote from: Bernadette on April 09, 2014, 09:29:59 AM
I watched an episode of Chrisley Knows Best on USA. I really, really disliked it.
It's sad to see men going down the attention whore road. Especially when you can see they have some good fatherly instincts ("Class, not ass") but let the world take them so they can look good.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on April 09, 2014, 10:01:17 AM
I saw the first episode of Turn, a drama on AMC about a spy ring during the American Revolutionary War. I enjoyed it, though not everyone will.
Why is that?
Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
They have nudity on the History Channel?
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Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
They have nudity on the History Channel?
Ratings, bro
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Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on April 06, 2014, 05:05:59 PM
Vikings season 2. Awesome show. and not so much nudity this time round.
They have nudity on the History Channel?
Ratings, bro
I just didn't know it was possible. I thought cable still had censorship.
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on April 09, 2014, 10:01:17 AM
I saw the first episode of Turn, a drama on AMC about a spy ring during the American Revolutionary War. I enjoyed it, though not everyone will.
Why is that?
A lot of reviewers have been complaining about how, hmm, conventional it is; evil redcoats, virtuous rural patriots, that sort of thing. I think that a.) we've been spoiled by modern television and expect serious shows to all have the grittiness of Breaking Bad or the lavish costume and set budget of Game of Thrones/the size of George R.R. Martin's waistline. And b.) the show might be considered boring to those who aren't already interested in American Revolutionary War history because of its pace and subject matter.
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Quote from: The Harlequin King on April 09, 2014, 10:01:17 AM
I saw the first episode of Turn, a drama on AMC about a spy ring during the American Revolutionary War. I enjoyed it, though not everyone will.
Why is that?
A lot of reviewers have been complaining about how, hmm, conventional it is; evil redcoats, virtuous rural patriots, that sort of thing. I think that a.) we've been spoiled by modern television and expect serious shows to all have the grittiness of Breaking Bad or the lavish costume and set budget of Game of Thrones/the size of George R.R. Martin's waistline. And b.) the show might be considered boring to those who aren't already interested in American Revolutionary War history because of its pace and subject matter.
Is it clean?
Archer: the pilot had no nudity and relatively light gore/onscreen violence for a war drama.
Top of the Lake with Elizabeth Moss.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on April 09, 2014, 03:01:32 PM
Archer: the pilot had no nudity and relatively light gore/onscreen violence for a war drama.
Ok good to know.
Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped. Thats about all I watch nowdays
The Deadliest Catch
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Quote from: Der Kaiser on April 12, 2014, 05:11:18 PM
Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped. Thats about all I watch nowdays
I love Chopped! Now I'm getting into Iron Chef America and Cupcake Wars. Can anyone say Food Network addict? :lol:
Quote from: Der Kaiser on April 12, 2014, 05:11:18 PM
Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped.
"Chopped" -- that's one of our favorites.
Just started Walking Dead Season 3. Mad Men Season 7 premiere is primed to be DVR'd tomorrow.
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Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped. Thats about all I watch nowdays
I love Chopped! Now I'm getting into Iron Chef America and Cupcake Wars.
Oh yes, Iron Chef too. Have you watched the original "Iron Chef" from Japan?
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Quote from: Der Kaiser on April 12, 2014, 05:11:18 PM
Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped. Thats about all I watch nowdays
I love Chopped! Now I'm getting into Iron Chef America and Cupcake Wars.
Oh yes, Iron Chef too. Have you watched the original "Iron Chef" from Japan?
Yes, I've seen a couple of them. It seemed to be much more intense than the America one. Very interesting.
I've continued watching Turn, and can say now, 5 episodes in, that this is probably the best series running on television right now. Started slow, but it's gotten better with every episode. As an additional note, while I'm certainly not proclaiming it as a fount of historic accuracy, this show also features the most realistic and believeable portrayal of General Washington I've ever seen. Our portraits have an unfortunate habit of rendering him as a passive, distant, or grandfatherly/geriatric old man. Turn's Washington is undoubtedly a warrior, a stern disciplinarian when needed, and has the bearing of an aristocrat.
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Quote from: Der Kaiser on April 12, 2014, 05:11:18 PM
Turn, Game of Thrones, Ghost Hunters and Chopped. Thats about all I watch nowdays
I love Chopped! Now I'm getting into Iron Chef America and Cupcake Wars.
Oh yes, Iron Chef too. Have you watched the original "Iron Chef" from Japan?
The original Iron Chef is the best. The American version doesn't even come close.
I love Chopped, too.
Breaking Bad. I think my wife and I are the last people to get into it.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on May 15, 2014, 10:51:27 AM
I've continued watching Turn, and can say now, 5 episodes in, that this is probably the best series running on television right now. Started slow, but it's gotten better with every episode. As an additional note, while I'm certainly not proclaiming it as a fount of historic accuracy, this show also features the most realistic and believeable portrayal of General Washington I've ever seen. Our portraits have an unfortunate habit of rendering him as a passive, distant, or grandfatherly/geriatric old man. Turn's Washington is undoubtedly a warrior, a stern disciplinarian when needed, and has the bearing of an aristocrat.
You need to watch Sleepy Hollow. Completely different type of show, but lots of fun. Turn records every week on my parents' DVR but I just haven't gotten to it yet. Maybe I do less laundry than I used to?
The Following season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 3
Psych season 4
Mad Men season 7 (as it broadcasts)
Bates Motel again (I can't believe it's over for another ten months... My Norman...)
my DVDs of the first three seasons of Community (I can't believe it's over for good... :'()
Mad Men as it airs
I just finished the first season of The Fall on Netflix. Pretty good. The killer is gross as all get-out ugh.
Once Upon a Time just ended for the summer, but I was watching that. I liked the finale, but isn't Frozen a bit recent for them to be doing their thing with it already?
Frontier House
Quote from: vakarian on May 15, 2014, 01:56:33 PM
Mad Men season 7 (as it broadcasts)
I am, too. It's the only TV show I'm watching.
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Mad Men season 7 (as it broadcasts)
I am, too. It's the only TV show I'm watching.
I only watch TV shows on DVD or Netflix, but Mad Men is the one show that I have to watch as it's being shown 'brand new'.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 15, 2014, 06:09:05 PM
Frontier House
I liked Manor House and 1940s House the best. I'd love to watch Outback House, about the Australian sheep stations, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
I'm watching a Chinese soap opera on Netflix. The subtitles are hilarious! Like reading an instruction manual for something made in China, only in dialogue. :lol:
I've got a question for the Mad Men watchers here. I'm new to this series and am wondering about Joan. Is she a partner in the agency? Who is Kevin's father? Thanks. :)
[spoiler]She becomes a partner in Season Five, by rather... unsavoury means.
Roger is Kevin's father, though his legal father is her (ex?-)husband Greg.[/spoiler]
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Frontier House
I liked Manor House and 1940s House the best. I'd love to watch Outback House, about the Australian sheep stations, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
Those are my favorites, too. I can't pick between them. Frontier house is OK. I didn't like it when it first aired because it reminds me a bit too much of Survivor (in a bad way.) It wasn't too bad this time around.
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Frontier House
I liked Manor House and 1940s House the best. I'd love to watch Outback House, about the Australian sheep stations, but I can't find it anywhere. :(
Those are my favorites, too. I can't pick between them. Frontier house is OK. I didn't like it when it first aired because it reminds me a bit too much of Survivor (in a bad way.) It wasn't too bad this time around.
What about Texas Ranch House? That one was just
painful to watch! A pity, too, since it had potential to be really interesting. I have to wonder whether the network had any idea that the ranch family would end up like that, when they were first cast? :huh:
Pulled the plug about 5 years ago and have never looked back. :)
Quote from: Gidge on May 20, 2014, 06:38:32 PM
Pulled the plug about 5 years ago and have never looked back. :)
Aaah, but Netflix, Gidge. Netflix. It's like TV, but no commercials. :)
I love your avatar, by the way.
My roommate is watching dancing with the stars tusk goodness the curtain is up and I can't see the immodest fluffy outfits
Quote from: Bernadette on May 20, 2014, 06:26:55 PM
What about Texas Ranch House? That one was just painful to watch! A pity, too, since it had potential to be really interesting. I have to wonder whether the network had any idea that the ranch family would end up like that, when they were first cast? :huh:
You know, I think that is why the casting people choose them, at least in the US. I think they figure it makes it more "watchable." Colonial House was similar, some of the people should never have been on that project.
The Americans
Turn
I don't watch TV.
You following me around to make your quips?
.... -shifty glance-
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I think I like it.
:-[
Quote from: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 29, 2014, 10:42:35 PM
.... -shifty glance-
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I think I like it.
:-[
This is a shame-free thread! I've been meaning to watch Buffy for a while. Maybe this summer.
Quote from: piabee on May 29, 2014, 10:53:34 PM
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.... -shifty glance-
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I think I like it.
:-[
This is a shame-free thread! I've been meaning to watch Buffy for a while. Maybe this summer.
that was a great show!
Reruns of Batman the animated series!
24 (the new series)
On Netflix:
SALAMANDER
I LOVE IT!! Skip first scene (husband and wife)
and middle of Episode 6 when our man enters the hotel room and rebuffs the seduction attempt.
Thoroughly satisfying anti Mason series, good action very sympathetic actors , a glimpse of Bruxxells .
Sherlock
24 - Live Another Day
Still going through Buffy. I'm on the third season now. It's really good! I'll probably watch Angel's spin-off when I finish... Oh, I'm also watching The X-Files intermittently. And some Twin Peaks. Thinking of going through Firefly; is it good?
... Wow, I didn't realize how much I've been living in the 'Nineties lately.
Firefly is pretty good. Be sure to watch the sequel movie Serenity afterwards, if you do.
I'm watching (intermittently):
The Twilight Zone - season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - season 3
Pysch - season 5
24 - season 9
Quote from: zork on June 24, 2014, 02:50:39 AM
Firefly is pretty good. Be sure to watch the sequel movie Serenity afterwards, if you do.
I'm watching (intermittently):
The Twilight Zone - season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - season 3
Pysch - season 5
24 - season 9
I was going to comment about the outstanding choices you had listed, but then I saw TMNT on there and decided not to.
Quote from: totiusque on June 24, 2014, 02:57:48 AM
Quote from: zork on June 24, 2014, 02:50:39 AM
Firefly is pretty good. Be sure to watch the sequel movie Serenity afterwards, if you do.
I'm watching (intermittently):
The Twilight Zone - season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - season 3
Pysch - season 5
24 - season 9
I was going to comment about the outstanding choices you had listed, but then I saw TMNT on there and decided not to.
Oh, but they're ALL outstanding.
Someone lent me the Gilmore Girls boxed set so I've started on that. It's taking some time to get into it again but after four episodes the characters seem more like how I remember.
The guy next to me is watching "extreme weight loss"
Gag me with a spoon
Only TV I am watching is World Cup soccer.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on June 24, 2014, 08:41:49 PM
Only TV I am watching is World Cup soccer.
:madsmiley:
Hey, you sinners can continue to be inundated with your immoral television shows from the boob tube, whilst I enjoy the skillful precision and gameplay of the beautiful game....
:lol:
Good man, KK. Even better than the Olympics.
Quote from: Pheo on June 24, 2014, 09:51:51 PM
Even better than the Olympics.
Man, I can't believe those were this year. It feels so long ago already.
I watched the first two seasons of Longmire on Netflix and am now watching the third season as it airs. It is a contemporary Western, with a "strong, silent" protagonist. It echoes many of the admirable qualities of old Westerns. There are some immoral relationships in it, but the hero is truly heroic.
Quote from: Chestertonian on June 24, 2014, 06:36:08 PM
The guy next to me is watching "extreme weight loss"
Gag me with a spoon
:rofl:
I've been watching "Kitchen Nightmares" on Netflix lately. As someone who has worked in several restaurants, it's pretty entertaining. I'm certain that the first place I worked at could have been featured on the show.
The 2014 MLB All-Star Game.
Quote from: FaithByProxy on June 26, 2014, 01:25:42 PM
I've been watching "Kitchen Nightmares" on Netflix lately. As someone who has worked in several restaurants, it's pretty entertaining. I'm certain that the first place I worked at could have been featured on the show.
Gordon is a mans man....in top ten of blokes Id like to have dinner and drinks with....I just dont ever want to work for him.
Quote from: FaithByProxy on June 26, 2014, 01:25:42 PM
I've been watching "Kitchen Nightmares" on Netflix lately. As someone who has worked in several restaurants, it's pretty entertaining. I'm certain that the first place I worked at could have been featured on the show.
Oh, this is going on my list!
Orange is the New Black, and I'm mad at my mom for watching an episode without me >:-(
Alternating in betwixt "The Rockford Files" and "Hawaii 5-0" the real ones.
Still working on Twilight Zone Season 1 and Alfred Hitchcock Present Season 2. (I don't watch them every day.)
I've been watching an anime called Tokyo Ghoul. There is a lot of violence in the show so it's not for everyone.
Just started Arrow. So much better than Agents of Shield, as far as comic book TV shows go.
Quote from: totiusque on July 18, 2014, 12:15:21 AM
Just started Arrow. So much better than Agents of Shield, as far as comic book TV shows go.
Yes, yes it is.
Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Quote from: Basilios on July 18, 2014, 07:50:39 AM
Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I miss
The Last Airbender. Spoiler alert: Zuko is in the currently ongoing season of
The Legend of Korra.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 18, 2014, 08:30:00 AM
Quote from: Basilios on July 18, 2014, 07:50:39 AM
Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I miss The Last Airbender. Spoiler alert: Zuko is in the currently ongoing season of The Legend of Korra.
Apparently Zuko stops firebending and moves on to become the leader of some lost group of kids or something...
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fneverpedia.com%2Fwiki%2Fimages%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fcc%2FRufio-full.jpg%2F250px-Rufio-full.jpg&hash=bebbaaec37ca854f0a8908101634ea7cd57932f0)
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 18, 2014, 08:30:00 AM
Quote from: Basilios on July 18, 2014, 07:50:39 AM
Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I miss The Last Airbender. Spoiler alert: Zuko is in the currently ongoing season of The Legend of Korra.
I'm watching the current season of The Legend of Korra.
How they are going to surpass the level of danger of the second season villain?
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 18, 2014, 09:55:10 AMHow they are going to surpass the level of danger of the second season villain?
That's what I'm wondering. On top of that, there is at least one more season guaranteed after this one.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 18, 2014, 07:18:10 AM
Quote from: totiusque on July 18, 2014, 12:15:21 AM
Just started Arrow. So much better than Agents of Shield, as far as comic book TV shows go.
Yes, yes it is.
I tried
Arrow again, based on your recommendation, and I really like it. I think I missed the first couple of episodes when I tired it before so I did not get into it. But this time I started right at the beginning.
Agents of Shield greatly improved in the episodes that aired after
Winter Soldier.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 18, 2014, 08:30:00 AM
Quote from: Basilios on July 18, 2014, 07:50:39 AM
Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I miss The Last Airbender. Spoiler alert: Zuko is in the currently ongoing season of The Legend of Korra.
Zuko was my favourite character in TLA so I was really pleased to see him in Korra.
Quote from: Jayne on July 19, 2014, 09:50:36 AM
I tried Arrow again, based on your recommendation, and I really like it. I think I missed the first couple of episodes when I tired it before so I did not get into it. But this time I started right at the beginning.
Agents of Shield greatly improved in the episodes that aired after Winter Soldier.
Funny, that's about when I stopped watching
Agents of Shield. Perhaps I should give it another try. I just didn't really care about any of the characters except Coulson.
I prefer
Arrow because of how they integrate his backstory on the island into the current plot. I could do without all the romantic triangle garbage, but I guess it could be worse considering it's the WB.
Quote from: totiusque on July 19, 2014, 10:02:00 PM
Quote from: Jayne on July 19, 2014, 09:50:36 AM
I tried Arrow again, based on your recommendation, and I really like it. I think I missed the first couple of episodes when I tired it before so I did not get into it. But this time I started right at the beginning.
Agents of Shield greatly improved in the episodes that aired after Winter Soldier.
Funny, that's about when I stopped watching Agents of Shield. Perhaps I should give it another try. I just didn't really care about any of the characters except Coulson.
I prefer Arrow because of how they integrate his backstory on the island into the current plot. I could do without all the romantic triangle garbage, but I guess it could be worse considering it's the WB.
Now that I am into second season, I find that the sexual immorality of the characters is bothering me more and more. The protagonist has had sex with 4 different women over 2 years and this is not portrayed as a bad thing. It is taken for granted as normal behaviour. Also some lesbian relationships are introduced and all the good guys are completely fine with it. Just knowing how this sort of subtext erodes people's understanding of right and wrong really interferes with my ability to enjoy the elements of the show that I would otherwise like.
You've gotten further than me, Jayne. I've only seen the first episode of season 2 so far.
Quote from: The Harlequin King on July 24, 2014, 10:43:16 AM
You've gotten further than me, Jayne. I've only seen the first episode of season 2 so far.
I'll be interested in your opinion as you get further into it.
The pacing of Arrow Season 2 is uneven but some fun stuff happens.
Quote from: Jayne on July 24, 2014, 10:31:48 AM
Quote from: totiusque on July 19, 2014, 10:02:00 PM
Quote from: Jayne on July 19, 2014, 09:50:36 AM
I tried Arrow again, based on your recommendation, and I really like it. I think I missed the first couple of episodes when I tired it before so I did not get into it. But this time I started right at the beginning.
Agents of Shield greatly improved in the episodes that aired after Winter Soldier.
Funny, that's about when I stopped watching Agents of Shield. Perhaps I should give it another try. I just didn't really care about any of the characters except Coulson.
I prefer Arrow because of how they integrate his backstory on the island into the current plot. I could do without all the romantic triangle garbage, but I guess it could be worse considering it's the WB.
Now that I am into second season, I find that the sexual immorality of the characters is bothering me more and more. The protagonist has had sex with 4 different women over 2 years and this is not portrayed as a bad thing. It is taken for granted as normal behaviour. Also some lesbian relationships are introduced and all the good guys are completely fine with it. Just knowing how this sort of subtext erodes people's understanding of right and wrong really interferes with my ability to enjoy the elements of the show that I would otherwise like.
A question not only for you, but for everyone. What you do when you find these contents in a show or movie?
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 24, 2014, 04:43:10 PM
A question not only for you, but for everyone. What you do when you find these contents in a show or movie?
I have started another thread for this question. I hope you don't mind. http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0)
Quote from: Jayne on July 24, 2014, 05:46:54 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on July 24, 2014, 04:43:10 PM
A question not only for you, but for everyone. What you do when you find these contents in a show or movie?
I have started another thread for this question. I hope you don't mind. http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0 (http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0)
Thanks!
Quote from: Jayne on July 24, 2014, 10:31:48 AM
Now that I am into second season, I find that the sexual immorality of the characters is bothering me more and more. The protagonist has had sex with 4 different women over 2 years and this is not portrayed as a bad thing. It is taken for granted as normal behaviour. Also some lesbian relationships are introduced and all the good guys are completely fine with it. Just knowing how this sort of subtext erodes people's understanding of right and wrong really interferes with my ability to enjoy the elements of the show that I would otherwise like.
Well, this is troubling. I'm almost finished with Season 1 and am loving the show, but if this is the direction the show is taking, then I may end up giving up on it.
White Collar did the same thing, and I stopped watching that one as well.
I think this is the norm with mainstream shows nowadays. Start a show with excellent characters and plot development, and once you've hooked the audience, start throwing in the homosexual garbage. Most of the audience is too addicted to care, and you end up winning an Emmy because of it.
Totiusque, I replied to your post in Jayne's linked thread.
So far we are watching Seinfield, Peppa Pig, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and I like to watch some of those shoes like Selling Alaska to see the beautiful area or my husband and I like Mountain Men to see what life would be like there.
Fargo..the Tv Series..season one Amazon prime...very very well done.
Just finished rewatching Season 5 of 24. I forgot how packed with action this season was. I also liked it because it didn't have any of the distracting side stories they normally include.
Quote from: Archer on July 26, 2014, 08:05:49 AM
Just finished rewatching Season 5 of 24. I forgot how packed with action this season was. I also liked it because it didn't have any of the distracting side stories they normally include.
Season 6 was such a letdown after the greatness of Season 5, though. It was larded with side stories and had too many 'WTF' moments. Season 7 was an improvement, thankfully.
Quote from: zork on July 26, 2014, 11:17:27 AM
Quote from: Archer on July 26, 2014, 08:05:49 AM
Just finished rewatching Season 5 of 24. I forgot how packed with action this season was. I also liked it because it didn't have any of the distracting side stories they normally include.
Season 6 was such a letdown after the greatness of Season 5, though. It was larded with side stories and had too many 'WTF' moments. Season 7 was an improvement, thankfully.
I just started season 6 and already want to beat my head against a wall every time Wayne's sister opens her mouth. I'm not sure if I'll end up finishing it since I'll have less time now anyway.
Quote from: voxxpopulisuxx on July 25, 2014, 07:00:30 PM
Fargo..the Tv Series..season one Amazon prime...very very well done.
Fargo as in the coen bros movie
Project Runway is back!!!
Season 4 of "The Rockford Files".
An occasional episode of 30 Rock, and 24.
I am watching Burn Notice. I like the main character and premise. It reminds me of Macgyver in some ways. Unfortunately, it is set in Miami and has a lot of women in bikinis and otherwise immodestly dressed, so I do not recommend it for anyone who would have a problem with this.
Southcliffe with Sean Harris who played Micheletto in the forgettable Borgias. And Shirley Henderson who was marvelous.
About a mass murder in a small English town. How peoples lives were shattered. Very real. Grim and depressing. Some of the scenes
were hard to watch.
Quote from: Jayne on August 17, 2014, 06:46:15 AM
I am watching Burn Notice. I like the main character and premise. It reminds me of Macgyver in some ways. Unfortunately, it is set in Miami and has a lot of women in bikinis and otherwise immodestly dressed, so I do not recommend it for anyone who would have a problem with this.
It's so fun.
The ending is pretty legit too. (Like, the series). One of the few well-done endings of a show.
And, cmon. Bruce Campbell!
Has Hell on Wheels ever been mentioned? Mrs. H and I are wrapping up season 3 on Netflix. Fine show.
i have been addicted to top gear lately.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 17, 2014, 12:47:22 PM
Quote from: Jayne on August 17, 2014, 06:46:15 AM
I am watching Burn Notice. I like the main character and premise. It reminds me of Macgyver in some ways. Unfortunately, it is set in Miami and has a lot of women in bikinis and otherwise immodestly dressed, so I do not recommend it for anyone who would have a problem with this.
It's so fun.
The ending is pretty legit too. (Like, the series). One of the few well-done endings of a show.
And, cmon. Bruce Campbell!
you had me at bruce campbell, i will have to chec k it out
wonder.... if you could accurately portray something taking place in miami without women in bikinis... i mean, if you had all the women wearing those burquini uber modest ladies suits would it be accurate?
Currently watching:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 2
Psych - season 5
Continuum - season 3
Twin Peaks - season 1
Watching the Yankees! 8)
I just watched the finals of the 2014 Pokémon World Championships video game tournament on Twitch.
edit - Oh, it's not over yet...
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 17, 2014, 12:47:22 PM
Quote from: Jayne on August 17, 2014, 06:46:15 AM
I am watching Burn Notice. I like the main character and premise. It reminds me of Macgyver in some ways. Unfortunately, it is set in Miami and has a lot of women in bikinis and otherwise immodestly dressed, so I do not recommend it for anyone who would have a problem with this.
It's so fun.
The ending is pretty legit too. (Like, the series). One of the few well-done endings of a show.
And, cmon. Bruce Campbell!
I don't always like Bruce Campbell, but I like him in this.
Quote from: Lynne on August 17, 2014, 02:27:59 PM
Watching the Yankees! 8)
Aren't you from Massachusetts?
Quote from: Chestertonian on August 17, 2014, 01:11:06 PM
i have been addicted to top gear lately.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on August 17, 2014, 12:47:22 PM
Quote from: Jayne on August 17, 2014, 06:46:15 AM
I am watching Burn Notice. I like the main character and premise. It reminds me of Macgyver in some ways. Unfortunately, it is set in Miami and has a lot of women in bikinis and otherwise immodestly dressed, so I do not recommend it for anyone who would have a problem with this.
It's so fun.
The ending is pretty legit too. (Like, the series). One of the few well-done endings of a show.
And, cmon. Bruce Campbell!
you had me at bruce campbell, i will have to chec k it out
wonder.... if you could accurately portray something taking place in miami without women in bikinis... i mean, if you had all the women wearing those burquini uber modest ladies suits would it be accurate?
Every episode, they do establishing shots that don't have anything to do with the plot, panning over women in bikinis. These could be left out.
Quote from: zork on August 17, 2014, 01:12:57 PM
Twin Peaks - season 1
Great show, but not for everyone.
3 episodes in, and I can see why. I like it pretty well so far.
Ken burns America: the dust bowl
Season 1 The Wire. Very good.
Quote from: Chestertonian on August 31, 2014, 07:00:58 PM
Ken burns America: the dust bowl
Very good. I love all of his documentaries. :)
Quote from: Bernadette on September 05, 2014, 06:51:54 AM
Quote from: Chestertonian on August 31, 2014, 07:00:58 PM
Ken burns America: the dust bowl
Very good. I love all of his documentaries. :)
me too! i have seen several of them. he has a way of making history come to life.. however he did make FDR look kind of like a hero in the story
they talked about how after the first few dust storms, there were motorcades of people leaving the Plains, but then it talke dabout the hardships of the ones who stayed, hoping that just one more year and the rains would come and the land would be fertile again..... i would have been the first in line to get out of there!!
I'm currently watching:
Twin Peaks - Season 1
Twilight Zone - Season 2
Continuum - Season 3
Psych - Season 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZGhf1HyQE
The Politician's Husband with Emily Watson. A very good BBC production but not for kids.
Last Tango in Halifax, via Netflix. So far, so good.
We just watched the first two episodes of the first season of "Downton Abbey"
It is entertaining but it is very much soap-operaish.
I could have not done with the doorman and the duke smoochin though.
The youngest daughter Sybil, is the best looking of the bunch.
I would rather live in Maggie Smith's house than that gigantic chill trap.
Quote from: Older Salt on September 09, 2014, 12:14:07 PM
We just watched the first two episodes of the first season of "Downton Abbey"
It is entertaining but it is very much soap-operaish.
I could have not done with the doorman and the duke smoochin though.
The youngest daughter Sybil, is the best looking of the bunch.
I would rather live in Maggie Smith's house than that gigantic chill trap.
You and I have similar tastes I see....I'd be trying to court the heck out of that if I was alive back then.
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 09, 2014, 02:02:10 PM
Quote from: Older Salt on September 09, 2014, 12:14:07 PM
We just watched the first two episodes of the first season of "Downton Abbey"
It is entertaining but it is very much soap-operaish.
I could have not done with the doorman and the duke smoochin though.
The youngest daughter Sybil, is the best looking of the bunch.
I would rather live in Maggie Smith's house than that gigantic chill trap.
You and I have similar tastes I see....I'd be trying to court the heck out of that if I was alive back then.
I'm guessing that 95% of the male population would agree with Sybil being the best looking of the bunch.
No argument from me.
I am the 5%.
I am all about Lady Mary.
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Quote from: Kaesekopf on September 09, 2014, 10:46:15 PM
I am the 5%.
I am all about Lady Mary.
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I believe the correct term for you is "that guy"
Make that 6%. Definitely Lady Mary.
Watching the 1st season of White Collar that I never saw. I didn't find it til Season 2. Love it.
Did they show new episodes this summer? If so, I need to catch up on those before winter season on USA.
7%. Lady Mary FTW.
Sybil is a close 2nd. Edith a distant 3rd, despite (or because of?) her nose.
Update on the shows I'm watching:
Twin Peaks season 1
Twilight Zone season 2
Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 3
Continuum season 3
Psych season 5
24 season 8
And no, I don't watch all these shows every day--just once per week.
Quote from: zork on September 10, 2014, 05:38:39 PM
7%. Lady Mary FTW.
Sybil is a close 2nd. Edith a distant 3rd, despite (or because of?) her nose.
I thought for a moment that you were giving number 2 spot to a member of this forum with a similar name. I could not process this at all until I noticed the spelling. :doh:
Good man, zork. I actually tend to like Lady Edith more than Lady Sybil.
But, yeah. Lady Mary is the tops.
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Quote from: Kaesekopf on September 10, 2014, 09:02:53 PM
Good man, zork. I actually tend to like Lady Edith more than Lady Sybil.
But, yeah. Lady Mary is the tops.
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You are wrong. Dogmatic fact.
Quote from: Spera In Deo on September 10, 2014, 05:34:42 PM
Watching the 1st season of White Collar that I never saw. I didn't find it til Season 2. Love it.
Did they show new episodes this summer? If so, I need to catch up on those before winter season on USA.
I think the previous season wrapped up in the spring. I record it at my parents' so I never remember when it's on. It's returning for a six-episode final season in the fall.
Quote from: piabee on September 11, 2014, 05:04:05 PM
Quote from: Spera In Deo on September 10, 2014, 05:34:42 PM
Watching the 1st season of White Collar that I never saw. I didn't find it til Season 2. Love it.
Did they show new episodes this summer? If so, I need to catch up on those before winter season on USA.
I think the previous season wrapped up in the spring. I record it at my parents' so I never remember when it's on. It's returning for a six-episode final season in the fall.
Are they cancelling this? I wondered how long they could keep it going. At some point, Neal needs to make his choice.
Quote from: Spera In Deo on September 11, 2014, 05:16:37 PM
Are they cancelling this? I wondered how long they could keep it going. At some point, Neal needs to make his choice.
Yes, they're going to tie up loose ends with the final season.
eta: Premiere date is November 6, to be exact.
I'm watching tons of Russia Today... :whistling:
Hey, Peebs is here.
Quote from: piabee on September 12, 2014, 10:16:16 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on September 11, 2014, 07:13:04 PM
Hey, Peebs is here.
I've been here. This is my thread.
I mean on this forum. Didn't know that you were anywhere trad related. The online tradverse is big enough for people to vanish in, I guess.
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on September 12, 2014, 07:05:34 PM
Quote from: piabee on September 12, 2014, 10:16:16 AM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on September 11, 2014, 07:13:04 PM
Hey, Peebs is here.
I've been here. This is my thread.
I mean on this forum. Didn't know that you were anywhere trad related. The online tradverse is big enough for people to vanish in, I guess.
is there a black hole that absorbs trads
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on September 12, 2014, 07:05:34 PM
I mean on this forum. Didn't know that you were anywhere trad related.
I'm the token cradle trad.
Quote from: piabee on September 12, 2014, 11:23:05 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on September 12, 2014, 07:05:34 PM
I mean on this forum. Didn't know that you were anywhere trad related.
I'm the token cradle trad.
But you're not cray cray! :)
I have been watching Foyle's War a British detective show set during WWII. The main character is a highly principled man who is concerned with doing what is right. He has a great respect for life and there is a bit where he corrects someone who speaks of the death of a pregnant woman as a terrible waste of a life. The detective says "two lives."
His driver says "Tickety boo".
Just finished the final season of Psych. They brought back some of the zaniness from the earlier seasons which was great. A single tear.
I'm catching up on hunter x hunter (http://www.animerelief.com/watch-anime/hunter-x-hunter-2011/) before the inevitable end (soon!) is anyone else here watching any anime series?
Quote from: TheButler on September 21, 2014, 04:34:24 PM
I'm catching up on hunter x hunter (http://www.animerelief.com/watch-anime/hunter-x-hunter-2011/) before the inevitable end (soon!) is anyone else here watching any anime series?
Yes, some series, although nowadays, with some productions I think watching until these are finished is better.
Quote from: TheButler on September 21, 2014, 04:34:24 PMI'm catching up on hunter x hunter (http://www.animerelief.com/watch-anime/hunter-x-hunter-2011/) before the inevitable end (soon!)
Me too. Well, not catching up but I've been watching all the episodes as they come out. Hard to believe just 2 more days till the last episode.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 21, 2014, 04:55:55 PMYes, some series, although nowadays, with some productions I think watching until these are finished is better.
Yeah the really great thing about HxH was that there were only 2 filler episodes for the ENTIRE series! Compare that to a lot of other series now where like a third of the episodes end up being filler.
Quote from: Recovering NOer on September 21, 2014, 06:59:11 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 21, 2014, 04:55:55 PMYes, some series, although nowadays, with some productions I think watching until these are finished is better.
Yeah the really great thing about HxH was that there were only 2 filler episodes for the ENTIRE series! Compare that to a lot of other series now where like a third of the episodes end up being filler.
Recently, I was reading that the anime caught up with the manga, -that is entering into hiatus- and is going to end soon.
I saw the first two episodes of the new series. How is it? anything problematic? (immodesty, nudity, homosexuality, etc)
Some series of 24 episodes more or less, are divided into two cours, one 3 months after the other... some of them have the first cour end with a cliffhanger. One of the reasons to watch already finished series.
Ken Burns's The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on PBS.org. I'm really enjoying it. :)
Tried the new Downtown Abbey last night on ITV but turned it off after an hour. Boooooooring. No offense to fans.
Quote from: Basilios on September 22, 2014, 12:03:30 AM
Tried the new Downtown Abbey last night on ITV
Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to find it tomorrow.
Eta: I liked the dowager countess's snobby butler. And it was great when Cora put down Barrow. Anyone else planning to watch in advance?
I don't watch much tv except for peppa pig and Winnie the Pooh- however I really like Hell on Wheels and want to get it from the beg to catch up on the storyline.
Quote from: piabee on September 22, 2014, 01:18:57 AM
Quote from: Basilios on September 22, 2014, 12:03:30 AM
Tried the new Downtown Abbey last night on ITV
Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to find it tomorrow.
Eta: I liked the dowager countess's snobby butler. And it was great when Cora put down Barrow. Anyone else planning to watch in advance?
Nope.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 21, 2014, 07:02:25 PMRecently, I was reading that the anime caught up with the manga, -that is entering into hiatus- and is going to end soon.
I saw the first two episodes of the new series. How is it? anything problematic? (immodesty, nudity, homosexuality, etc)
Some series of 24 episodes more or less, are divided into two cours, one 3 months after the other... some of them have the first cour end with a cliffhanger. One of the reasons to watch already finished series.
Yes, tomorrow is the last episode in fact. The manga itself goes on hiatus all the time.
There are some parts that have pretty suggestive dialogue with some of it being debatably homosexual in nature, but these aren't very frequent at all. There is also a little bit of immodesty (again, not frequent) but they're only drawings anyway so...
It would probably be an issue having a child watch it, but for an adult I don't really see how it could be an occasion of sin or anything like that. You wouldn't believe how I've actually heard of immodest
anime characters being a trigger for lust with some guys! I can't really understand that, but since it seems that's actually a thing they should know before watching HxH that there are about a handful of such instances in this anime they may have an issue with.
GOTHAM
Quote from: Recovering NOer on September 22, 2014, 07:17:25 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 21, 2014, 07:02:25 PMRecently, I was reading that the anime caught up with the manga, -that is entering into hiatus- and is going to end soon.
I saw the first two episodes of the new series. How is it? anything problematic? (immodesty, nudity, homosexuality, etc)
Some series of 24 episodes more or less, are divided into two cours, one 3 months after the other... some of them have the first cour end with a cliffhanger. One of the reasons to watch already finished series.
Yes, tomorrow is the last episode in fact. The manga itself goes on hiatus all the time.
There are some parts that have pretty suggestive dialogue with some of it being debatably homosexual in nature, but these aren't very frequent at all. There is also a little bit of immodesty (again, not frequent) but they're only drawings anyway so...
It would probably be an issue having a child watch it, but for an adult I don't really see how it could be an occasion of sin or anything like that. You wouldn't believe how I've actually heard of immodest anime characters being a trigger for lust with some guys! I can't really understand that, but since it seems that's actually a thing they should know before watching HxH that there are about a handful of such instances in this anime they may have an issue with.
Suggestive dialogue that could be homosexual in nature... in recent series that sort of thing has gotten worse. Usually I tell people to avoid watching series like that. And it was a recent topic of discussion here:
http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0
About the third paragraph (some women too, not only guys), because of that and other reasons I'm very careful with recommending series. There is a very interesting anime that I'm watching but has some beach and two bathtub scenes (without showing explicit nudity)... I think that it could be a problem for some people, so I'm careful before mentioning that one.
And now Sleepy Hollow. TV is BACK!
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 22, 2014, 09:40:31 PMSuggestive dialogue that could be homosexual in nature... in recent series that sort of thing has gotten worse. Usually I tell people to avoid watching series like that. And it was a recent topic of discussion here:
http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0
About the third paragraph (some women too, not only guys), because of that and other reasons I'm very careful with recommending series. There is a very interesting anime that I'm watching but has some beach and two bathtub scenes (without showing explicit nudity)... I think that it could be a problem for some people, so I'm careful before mentioning that one.
Can you give some examples of current animes that you don't have any issues with? It seems like even the older ones usually have at least a little bit of suggestive material, but I really haven't seen THAT many compared to other people I know.
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Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on September 22, 2014, 09:40:31 PMSuggestive dialogue that could be homosexual in nature... in recent series that sort of thing has gotten worse. Usually I tell people to avoid watching series like that. And it was a recent topic of discussion here:
http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=7926.0
About the third paragraph (some women too, not only guys), because of that and other reasons I'm very careful with recommending series. There is a very interesting anime that I'm watching but has some beach and two bathtub scenes (without showing explicit nudity)... I think that it could be a problem for some people, so I'm careful before mentioning that one.
Can you give some examples of current animes that you don't have any issues with? It seems like even the older ones usually have at least a little bit of suggestive material, but I really haven't seen THAT many compared to other people I know.
I haven't finished the recent shows I'm watching yet.
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GOTHAM
How was it? I've heard good things.
Excellent, although obviously it will take some time for the story to get going.
We just finished year IV of Downton Abbey.
I guess we will never find out if Bates killed Greene?
On a side note, is it worth getting season 3 of POI?
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On a side note, is it worth getting season 3 of POI?
I just finished catching up this week. It was enjoyable, but a different feel from the first two seasons. It got more into the mythology and arc of the show than the person-of-the-week cases, especially the second half.
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Quote from: Older Salt on September 24, 2014, 01:30:49 PM
On a side note, is it worth getting season 3 of POI?
I just finished catching up this week. It was enjoyable, but a different feel from the first two seasons. It got more into the mythology and arc of the show than the person-of-the-week cases, especially the second half.
Do you mean it dealt more with "The Machine" than what "The Machine" is supposed to do?
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Do you mean it dealt more with "The Machine" than what "The Machine" is supposed to do?
Exactly.
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Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to find it tomorrow.
Eta: I liked the dowager countess's snobby butler. And it was great when Cora put down Barrow. Anyone else planning to watch in advance?
Yes, I was impressed with the season premiere of DA. It took me about 15 minutes to get back into the characters and remember what was going on, but it was definitely worth the watch. I loved that dinner party scene.
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Quote from: Older Salt on September 24, 2014, 01:30:49 PM
On a side note, is it worth getting season 3 of POI?
I just finished catching up this week. It was enjoyable, but a different feel from the first two seasons. It got more into the mythology and arc of the show than the person-of-the-week cases, especially the second half.
It wasn't bad, it did have a different feel to it. I'm glad they stayed away from the lesbian relationship although I suppose the potential is still there.
The season 4 premier of Person of Interest had some funny moments. They seem to be getting back to the roots of the show again.
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The season 4 premier of Person of Interest had some funny moments. They seem to be getting back to the roots of the show again.
Yeah that's what I meant, season 4 not 3.
My earlier post to Old Salt was about season 3. Season 4 just started this Tuesday.
Just watched Gotham. It is an interesting interpretation and I am looking forward to seeing how it continues. I like what they are doing with Bruce Wayne and the "surly Alfred" is a cool direction for the character.
But the "future villain" cameos... I would have preferred more originality in introducing people than just "blink and you'll miss them" appearances crammed into the pilot.
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But the "future villain" cameos... I would have preferred more originality in introducing people than just "blink and you'll miss them" appearances crammed into the pilot.
They are the whole story. They will all be back.
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My earlier post to Old Salt was about season 3. Season 4 just started this Tuesday.
Yeah I just said that.
I've actually started watching The Biggest Loser on Hulu. The only thing that I don't like about it is the voting/elimination aspect, which I think is unnecessary.
4 days left til the new season of Walking Dead!
Season 3 The Wire. Just as good as the first two.
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4 days left til the new season of Walking Dead!
I'd like to watch that but my wife would never go for it.
Has anyone kept up with GOTHAM? I watched the first episode and thought it was okay(not great), but haven't been able to watch the others. Now I'm reading that one of the subplots in the show is that Gordon's future wife had a lesbian affair with Rene Montoya(!). If that's true, I'm not gonna bother watching it again. Has anyone else watched past the first episode?
I watched the second episode of Gotham. The show is very well done, and I like a lot of the actors, but it's kind of boring. I might give it another episode or two.
My problem with the first episode is how contrived it was. Little Catwoman just happens to be present for the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The main suspect's daughter is going to be Poison Ivy. The Riddler works for the police already and says "riddle me this!". And so on. Sounds like I'm not missing much if I don't bother with watching it again.
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4 days left til the new season of Walking Dead!
I'd like to watch that but my wife would never go for it.
A loving sacrifice for her. You know where your priorities are. :)
News special on the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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I saw the first episode of The Flash.
Anyone here is watching Arrow? I was reading about it today. I found that the Canary and Nyssa (two women) had a relationship... some series I want to watch, end up with details like that.
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Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on October 08, 2014, 09:03:55 PM
4 days left til the new season of Walking Dead!
I'd like to watch that but my wife would never go for it.
A loving sacrifice for her. You know where your priorities are. :)
That's a good way to put it.
We just started
Larkrise to Candleford.
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on October 22, 2014, 05:47:31 PM
I saw the first episode of The Flash.
Anyone here is watching Arrow? I was reading about it today. I found that the Canary and Nyssa (two women) had a relationship... some series I want to watch, end up with details like that.
Yeah Arrow is awesome, I'm burning through it currently. I just about yelled at the screen when I saw that they had to bring that up...again.
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Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on October 22, 2014, 05:47:31 PM
I saw the first episode of The Flash.
Anyone here is watching Arrow? I was reading about it today. I found that the Canary and Nyssa (two women) had a relationship... some series I want to watch, end up with details like that.
Yeah Arrow is awesome, I'm burning through it currently. I just about yelled at the screen when I saw that they had to bring that up...again.
At least they it only comes up a couple times, but then you wonder why they bother at all. I'm a couple weeks behind on the current season, but it looks like it will be interesting this year.
Futurama
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Peaky Blinders
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
I'm pretty sure sprungli is a girl...
Quote from: red solo cup on October 26, 2014, 06:37:03 AM
Peaky Blinders
I watched this last night because I was too lazy to change the channel. Wasn't too bad however I have a problem with it (that's common amongst a lot of drama series, and I'm not the first to point it out) is that all the characters do not enunciate. They have this really over-dramatic whisper-like drone to their voices. I am young and spritely but had to turn the volume up quite a bit to hear what they are saying. Nevertheless I found it an interesting show and I may watch the rest.
Even though Downton Abbey is crap at least they speak so you can hear them.
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
I'm pretty sure sprungli is a girl...
She is.
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
I'm pretty sure sprungli is a girl...
She is.
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haha, yeah I am a girl. but also not opposed to being called dude.
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
I'm pretty sure sprungli is a girl...
She is.
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haha, yeah I am a girl. but also not opposed to being called dude.
Right on, dude.
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Dude, don't fill your mind with that smut.
I'm pretty sure sprungli is a girl...
She is.
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haha, yeah I am a girl. but also not opposed to being called dude.
Right on, dude.
I still say it shouldn't be watched.
My husband and my daughter were watching Cut-throat Kitchen on the Food Network. I wasn't really watching it, I was just cooking while overhearing the show and watching bits and pieces. One of the contestants said in her bio that she was the daughter of two moms. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to draw attention to it. Hopefully it just went over our little one's head. Then, the contestant kept talking about making her "moms" proud several times throughout the show until they finally turned it off.
Has anyone seen the final "Hercule Poirot"? Don't want to give it away, but it was dramatic and compelling..particularly the end.
I'm half way through Season 2 of House of Cards. I really like that show even if it's chock-full of immoral themes....but the sad part is people like Claire get abortions so they can further their careers all the time...sickening really.
Later tonight there's hockey on ;D I've watched more hockey in 2 months living in Eastern Europe than I did last year in Canada. 8)
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Has anyone seen the final "Hercule Poirot"? Don't want to give it away, but it was dramatic and compelling..particularly the end.
Is that Murder on the Orient Express?
The 100
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Has anyone seen the final "Hercule Poirot"? Don't want to give it away, but it was dramatic and compelling..particularly the end.
Is that Murder on the Orient Express?
No. It is the last Poirot with David Suchet, the quintessential Poirot. It was on "Masterpiece Mystery" Thansgiving night. Hercule is dying but has one last mystery to solve. That doesn't give too much away. It is well worth watching.
Babylon 5 marathon. :) :) :)
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The 100
Thoughts on the "acting"? I lasted 2.5 episodes.
Hit and miss depending on the actors. The kid from Diary of a Wimpy Kid is decent, so is the kid who plays the revolutionary leader in Continuum, the guy who plays the leader of the space station people is decent, the rest are ok or moderately tolerable.
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The 100
Thoughts on the "acting"? I lasted 2.5 episodes.
It isn't the sort of thing I would normally watch but I watched the last couple of episodes with my 17 year old daughter, as well as the first episode so I could understand the premise. I find most of the characters annoying which is more of a problem for me than the acting. However, there is one character who started out as a "bad guy" who has changed into an idealistic, self-sacrificing hero. A reformed bad guy trying to find redemption for his past mistakes is my favourite trope, so I like the scenes that have him in it.
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Babylon 5 marathon. :) :) :)
My daughter who was born during the original run of B5 almost got named Delenn.
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Babylon 5 marathon. :) :) :)
My daughter who was born during the original run of B5 almost got named Delenn.
That's cool. :)
I forgot how much I like this series. It's held up pretty well over the years.
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Thoughts on the "acting"? I lasted 2.5 episodes.
It isn't the sort of thing I would normally watch but I watched the last couple of episodes with my 17 year old daughter, as well as the first episode so I could understand the premise. I find most of the characters annoying which is more of a problem for me than the acting. However, there is one character who started out as a "bad guy" who has changed into an idealistic, self-sacrificing hero. A reformed bad guy trying to find redemption for his past mistakes is my favourite trope, so I like the scenes that have him in it.
Uh oh... um... if the character you're talking about is the one I think you're talking about, you may not like the episodes coming up. :P
Right now I'm watching:
Suits...makes me want to be a lawyer if it weren't for the fact I like having a soul
Africa..A BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough. I love these documentaries and Africa is so unique compared to the rest of the world.
Auschwitz...another BBC documentary to brighten up an otherwise gloomy, rainy day :P
I knew laus is a Nazi.....
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Well, I did start learning German recently ...but that's purely by coincidence :o
Just finished the first year of the Fargo series. The one with Billy Bob Thornton. Loved it.
Just started watching Agents of Shield last week. Got caught up today.
Just finished The Following season 2.
Currently (and intermittently) watching:
- Twin Peaks season 2
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 3
- Psych season 6
- random episodes of MST3K
About to begin Twilight Zone season 3
obnoxious Hallmark Christmas movie. They are so terrible they fascinate me---I keep watching them. Somebody, HELP ME.
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obnoxious Hallmark Christmas movie. They are so terrible they fascinate me---I keep watching them. Somebody, HELP ME.
Ha, been there. There is no escape.
I found some episodes of Have Gun Will Travel on Youtube. It was a 1950s Western series. Its underlying moral values are much closer to Catholicism than those of modern shows.
Hyouka (Literature Club)
Excellent anime with wonderful discussion of virtues and moral values.
Beautiful artwork and appealing characters.
The plots revolve around a series of mysteries.
Great show for middle school or high school kids.
http://www.animeplus.tv/hyouka-online
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Quote from: Maximilian on December 16, 2014, 07:39:28 PM
Hyouka (Literature Club)
Excellent anime with wonderful discussion of virtues and moral values.
Beautiful artwork and appealing characters.
The plots revolve around a series of mysteries.
Great show for middle school or high school kids.
http://www.animeplus.tv/hyouka-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1561.jpg&hash=8bc205ed60394b51c30e751f011443a8e73bce77)
ihave never seen that one
haven't watched much anime
Quote from: Maximilian on December 16, 2014, 07:39:28 PM
Hyouka (Literature Club)
Excellent anime with wonderful discussion of virtues and moral values.
Beautiful artwork and appealing characters.
The plots revolve around a series of mysteries.
Great show for middle school or high school kids.
http://www.animeplus.tv/hyouka-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1561.jpg&hash=8bc205ed60394b51c30e751f011443a8e73bce77)
Yes, the artwork is beautiful.
I watched some episodes. I remember one where Chitanda Eru was discussing the seven deadly sins.
You finished it?
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Hyouka (Literature Club)
Excellent anime with wonderful discussion of virtues and moral values.
Beautiful artwork and appealing characters.
The plots revolve around a series of mysteries.
Great show for middle school or high school kids.
http://www.animeplus.tv/hyouka-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1561.jpg&hash=8bc205ed60394b51c30e751f011443a8e73bce77)
Yes, the artwork is beautiful.
I watched some episodes. I remember one where Chitanda Eru was discussing the seven deadly sins.
You finished it?
No, we're about halfway through.
Chitanda Eru, what a great model for girls. And during a later mystery plot arc, it turns out that she is an amazing cook as well.
Oh, and someone reminded me to point out that if you watch the anime, it's best to stop viewing as soon as the episode ends, because while the series is very innocent and has nothing immodest, the artwork during the ending credits can be considered objectionable.
Spider-Man The '67 Collection: 'The Power of Dr. Octopus'
Not really 'watching' it. Mostly hearing the music and dialogue while I organize goals for 2015 and doing stuff around the house. In a weird way, can actually focus with that old school jazz drum beat in the background.
Afterwards, a toss up between Charlton Heston's The Omega Man vs. Somewhere in Time with the late Christopher Reeve vs. an Ed Warren video over his ghost hunting oddities.
Quote from: Jayne on December 16, 2014, 06:12:51 PM
I found some episodes of Have Gun Will Travel on Youtube. It was a 1950s Western series. Its underlying moral values are much closer to Catholicism than those of modern shows.
Paladin with Richard Boone. That was a great show. Very thoughtful for that time period. Do you remember Checkmate? With Sebastion Cabot?
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Quote from: Jayne on December 16, 2014, 06:12:51 PM
I found some episodes of Have Gun Will Travel on Youtube. It was a 1950s Western series. Its underlying moral values are much closer to Catholicism than those of modern shows.
Paladin with Richard Boone. That was a great show. Very thoughtful for that time period. Do you remember Checkmate? With Sebastion Cabot?
I was born at the end of the 50s so this is my first time watching them. I have not gotten to that one yet.
I've been watching the "hard" sci-fi miniseries Ascension on SyFy that finishes up tonight.
It is about a generation ship launched in 1963 by the United States that is headed for Alpha Centauri to establish a colony. The purpose of the launch was to keep humanity going in case of an all out nuclear exchange. The generation ship is based on the real life Project Orion.
The show talks a lot about how the six hundred people in the ship left Earth before events like the sexual revolution and the civil rights movement, but despite the platitudes, there is a lot of sex (nudity included) and black people can climb the social ladder as easily as whites. The main conflicts aboard ship are class related (who gets to reclaim water and who gets to fly the ship) and conflict among those at the top.
Aside from the nudity and occasional sex scene, it's not bad. The first night was heavy on exposition that could have been worked in more organically, but the second night was pretty good. I'm looking forward to seeing how it will all wrap up tonight.
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i watched this when i was a kid and they called it "shining time station" it had Ringo starr in it
i forgot how boring this show is.... my son is sucked in but i do not have the attention span for this
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i watched this when i was a kid and they called it "shining time station" it had Ringo starr in it
i forgot how boring this show is.... my son is sucked in but i do not have the attention span for this
You wouldn't believe the crap I watched for my kids sake.
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i watched this when i was a kid and they called it "shining time station" it had Ringo starr in it
i forgot how boring this show is.... my son is sucked in but i do not have the attention span for this
You wouldn't believe the crap I watched for my kids sake.
what did your kids watch
i think a lot ofchildrens tv is allowed to be crap now because networks like nickjr, disney, pbs kids have to churn out enough tv shows to fill an entire day so that there's always something on for kids
when I was a kid it was on satutday mornings, after school, and really early before school. if you had nickelodeon you could watch kids shows all day but at 8pm if you were still up you were stuck with boring shows like dragnet and flipper.
One show I did like was Mr. Rogers. I'd come home from work all tired and watch him with the kids. I'd immediately fall asleep his voice was so soothing.
Though meow meow Henrietta meow meow Pussycat made me nuts. I also suspected chef Brockett had a drinking problem.
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i forgot how boring this show is.... my son is sucked in but i do not have the attention span for this
Is he watching the new ones, because they're terrible.
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Hyouka (Literature Club)
Excellent anime with wonderful discussion of virtues and moral values.
Beautiful artwork and appealing characters.
The plots revolve around a series of mysteries.
Great show for middle school or high school kids.
http://www.animeplus.tv/hyouka-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1561.jpg&hash=8bc205ed60394b51c30e751f011443a8e73bce77)
Yes, the artwork is beautiful.
I watched some episodes. I remember one where Chitanda Eru was discussing the seven deadly sins.
You finished it?
No, we're about halfway through.
Chitanda Eru, what a great model for girls. And during a later mystery plot arc, it turns out that she is an amazing cook as well.
Oh, and someone reminded me to point out that if you watch the anime, it's best to stop viewing as soon as the episode ends, because while the series is very innocent and has nothing immodest, the artwork during the ending credits can be considered objectionable.
I'm at the part where they solved the mystery of the old magazines in the club.
For the ones watching the Legend of Korra:
(Spoliers for the ending)
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelDanteDiMartino/posts/742679445801043
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For the ones watching the Legend of Korra:
(Spoliers for the ending)
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelDanteDiMartino/posts/742679445801043
[spoiler]
I just found out recently that there were people claiming that Korra and Asami have a homosexual relationship. There is nothing ever shown on screen to suggest that these women are anything other than good friends. This makes me sick.[/spoiler]
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For the ones watching the Legend of Korra:
(Spoliers for the ending)
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelDanteDiMartino/posts/742679445801043
[spoiler]
I just found out recently that there were people claiming that Korra and Asami have a homosexual relationship. There is nothing ever shown on screen to suggest that these women are anything other than good friends. This makes me sick.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]The composition of the scene is similar to other instances of couples in the series, plus it was the producer of the show that linked the article. But the scene could be interpreted as deep friendship, though, and in many anime involving girls there are various scenes like that.[/spoiler]
There is not much question that the creators deliberately made it open to being interpreted that way. A kid's show should be safe from this sort of thing.
Quote from: Jayne on December 20, 2014, 04:10:03 PM
There is not much question that the creators deliberately made it open to being interpreted that way. A kid's show should be safe from this sort of thing.
I wonder if that was planned motnhs ago, or they just caved to acertain subset of "shippers" in the fandom.
It seems it was planned long time ago:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/23/the-legend-of-korra-co-creator-explains-the-finale-and-korrasami
http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/
That sucks. The show was decent.
Just finished season 2 of Ripper Street. Very good.
The :trainwreck: that is the Bachelor.
Trying to get caught up on It's Always Sunny. I have a dark sense of humor...
been watching a little of that brooklyn nine-nine. the captain holt character is a black homo, which i wasn't impressed by, but his gayness is not really put in your face like in other shows and he is shown more as a regular character who just happens to be gay which is possibly the best you can hope for in today;s world. usually when his gayness is referred to it is in context of him coming up through the ranks as a "gay, black policeman" in the 80s which i'm not sure if its meant that way but comes across to me as a subtle joke about token minority placement in television... could be wrong on that though.
mike tyson mysteries, best show out at the moment. really brilliant stuff.
Justified season 5.
Quote from: Arun on January 20, 2015, 03:08:22 PM
mike tyson mysteries, best show out at the moment. really brilliant stuff.
i looked it up on youtubes cuz i never heard of it. it looks sorta like scooby doo with eff words. lol
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mike tyson mysteries, best show out at the moment. really brilliant stuff.
i looked it up on youtubes cuz i never heard of it. it looks sorta like scooby doo with eff words. lol
Tyson is hard to follow irl, so I would think a cartoon would actually do him justice. Make him a little more human and all. :ack:
He's hilarious in that show
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The Biggest Loser (hulu). Trying to motivate myself to keep going at the gym. :P
Twilight Zone Season 3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4
Downton Abbey Season 5
On the back burner:
Twin Peaks Season 2
Revenge Season 2
Psych Season 6
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http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
Season One The Bridge
Quote from: zork on January 25, 2015, 10:07:59 PM
On the back burner:
Revenge Season 2
You might as well give up now while you're ahead.
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http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
Thanks for posting about that series.
I've seen some episodes of various k-dramas and overall these seem better than other soap operas and live action series from other sites.
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http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
Thanks for posting about that series.
I've seen some episodes of various k-dramas and overall these seem better than other soap operas and live action series from other sites.
Yes, we have watched several Korean drama series, and have been pleasantly impressed with:
1. The lack of bad things like immodesty, bad language, etc.
2. The presence of good things like moving dramatizations of virtues such as love, loyalty, sacrifice, submission to a higher cause, etc.
And in the case of Pinocchio, the importance of telling the truth and the unforeseen consequences of telling lies.
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 06:52:47 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on January 26, 2015, 06:45:15 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 25, 2015, 11:17:16 PM
http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
Thanks for posting about that series.
I've seen some episodes of various k-dramas and overall these seem better than other soap operas and live action series from other sites.
Yes, we have watched several Korean drama series, and have been pleasantly impressed with:
1. The lack of bad things like immodesty, bad language, etc.
2. The presence of good things like moving dramatizations of virtues such as love, loyalty, sacrifice, submission to a higher cause, etc.
And in the case of Pinocchio, the importance of telling the truth and the unforeseen consequences of telling lies.
That's good!
Which ones have you watched?
Historical Drama series:
Dong-Yi
Queen Seon Duk
Jumong
Modern Drama series:
Shining Inheritance
49 Days
Pinocchio
Movies:
War of the Arrows
Le Grand Chef
Le Grand Chef - Kimchi Battle
Doenjang
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:07:24 PM
Historical Drama series:
Dong-Yi
Queen Seon Duk
Jumong
Modern Drama series:
Shining Inheritance
49 Days
Pinocchio
Movies:
War of the Arrows
Le Grand Chef
Le Grand Chef - Kimchi Battle
Doenjang
Thanks!
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on January 26, 2015, 07:09:14 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:07:24 PM
Historical Drama series:
Dong-Yi
Queen Seon Duk
Jumong
Modern Drama series:
Shining Inheritance
49 Days
Pinocchio
Movies:
War of the Arrows
Le Grand Chef
Le Grand Chef - Kimchi Battle
Doenjang
Thanks!
These series really tug at your heart. They are shameless about making you cry. They must have test audiences, and if they see they aren't sobbing, then they tell the director to go back and re-shoot it. They also make you laugh a lot too. Koreans turn out to have a surprisingly good sense of humor.
That's what drama is supposed to do, as explained by Aristotle. But modern American productions are too sophisticated to stoop to the level of making you laugh and making you cry. They want to be ironic.
Irony is the one thing that you won't find in Korean drama. Guaranteed to be irony-free, they wear their heart on their sleeves.
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:17:20 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on January 26, 2015, 07:09:14 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:07:24 PM
Historical Drama series:
Dong-Yi
Queen Seon Duk
Jumong
Modern Drama series:
Shining Inheritance
49 Days
Pinocchio
Movies:
War of the Arrows
Le Grand Chef
Le Grand Chef - Kimchi Battle
Doenjang
Thanks!
These series really tug at your heart. They are shameless about making you cry. They must have test audiences, and if they see they aren't sobbing, then they tell the director to go back and re-shoot it. They also make you laugh a lot too. Koreans turn out to have a surprisingly good sense of humor.
That's what drama is supposed to do, as explained by Aristotle. But modern American productions are too sophisticated to stoop to the level of making you laugh and making you cry. They want to be ironic.
Irony is the one thing that you won't find in Korean drama. Guaranteed to be irony-free, they wear their heart on their sleeves.
That sounds good!
Irony in some series is tiring... some authors are very pretentious.
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:17:20 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on January 26, 2015, 07:09:14 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on January 26, 2015, 07:07:24 PM
Historical Drama series:
Dong-Yi
Queen Seon Duk
Jumong
Modern Drama series:
Shining Inheritance
49 Days
Pinocchio
Movies:
War of the Arrows
Le Grand Chef
Le Grand Chef - Kimchi Battle
Doenjang
Thanks!
These series really tug at your heart. They are shameless about making you cry. They must have test audiences, and if they see they aren't sobbing, then they tell the director to go back and re-shoot it. They also make you laugh a lot too. Koreans turn out to have a surprisingly good sense of humor.
That's what drama is supposed to do, as explained by Aristotle. But modern American productions are too sophisticated to stoop to the level of making you laugh and making you cry. They want to be ironic.
Irony is the one thing that you won't find in Korean drama. Guaranteed to be irony-free, they wear their heart on their sleeves.
I tried to watch a Korean series called
One Hundred Years' Inheritance on Netflix, after watching a Chinese series and really enjoying it, but I found it to be too melodramatic and unbelievable. I'll give the Pinocchio one a try.
I've been watching a Japanese series on Youtube called
Oshin. Apparently, it has quite a cult following. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshin
My grandma had loads of old Japanese historical series on VHS, but they didn't have any subtitles so I couldn't watch them. If anyone knows where to find any with English subtitles, I'd really appreciate it.
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Quote from: zork on January 25, 2015, 10:07:59 PM
On the back burner:
Revenge Season 2
You might as well give up now while you're ahead.
Sigh.
I was afraid that might the case with this series...
Quote from: Bernadette on January 26, 2015, 07:39:08 PM
I've been watching a Japanese series on Youtube called Oshin. Apparently, it has quite a cult following. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshin
That sounds fascinating.
Quote from: Bernadette on January 26, 2015, 07:39:08 PM
My grandma had loads of old Japanese historical series on VHS, but they didn't have any subtitles so I couldn't watch them. If anyone knows where to find any with English subtitles, I'd really appreciate it.
You'll have to brush up on your Japanese.
Quote from: zork on January 26, 2015, 09:07:41 PM
Sigh.
I was afraid that might the case with this series...
It was fun for the first half of season 1. They've killed off so many people at this point it's like a whole different show.
Quote from: piabee on January 26, 2015, 11:11:44 PM
Quote from: zork on January 26, 2015, 09:07:41 PM
Sigh.
I was afraid that might the case with this series...
It was fun for the first half of season 1. They've killed off so many people at this point it's like a whole different show.
Sounds like Game of Thrones
Interesting. I'm halfway through Season 2 and it seems they're loath to kill off almost anyone.
Not that I'm doubting you, Pia--I'm just mentioning this for the irony, because my most recent impression thus far before hearing (well, reading) your view is that people on that show keep on apparently dying and then immediately show up again more or less unscathed.
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http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
It says it's not yet available in my country. Are there other places I could get it from?
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http://www.dramafever.com/drama/4544/Pinocchio/
Korean Drama "Pinocchio"
It's all about telling the truth versus lying, and their unforseen consequences.
It says it's not yet available in my country. Are there other places I could get it from?
Here's another source for Korean dramas:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/videos/drama/alpha
They don't have Pinocchio yet. It's probably too soon since it's a new series that just concluded. They do have some of the other dramas on the list above, like Dong-Yi and Jumong.
Here's another site which looks like it is more international and not aimed just at the United States. They do have "Pinocchio" available. For Pinocchio it says "Subtitles available in 41 languages." So you could watch it in Polish! You can watch for free, or if you pay for a subscription then you get HD and no commercials.
http://www.viki.com/videos/1055371v-pinocchio-episode-1
Thank you! :D It works!
octonauts
Quote from: Chestertonian on January 27, 2015, 01:50:39 PM
octonauts
Just the other day I heard good things about Octonauts from a young mother with 4 young boys. She really likes the show for them, and she said that she learns things as well.
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octonauts
Just the other day I heard good things about Octonauts from a young mother with 4 young boys. She really likes the show for them, and she said that she learns things as well.
yeah it has some elements of x
star trek which is fun
someday he will get to watch the next generation
Better Call Saul isn't far away; been looking forward to that, hope its good.
Finished my Babylon 5 marathon and am on to China Beach
Ashita, Mama ga Inai (Tomorrow, Mama won't be here). About foster children living in an orphanage and being adopted. Very good. The subtitles are less than ideal, but they're better than nothing. This is the first modern Japanese series that I've watched, and I'm pleasantly surprised.
Too many Marvel things...
Final episode of Parenthood.
European Handball...what a stupid "sport"
HOLY S**T I TAKE THAT BACK, THIS SPORT IS AWESOME
:lol:
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Season 1 Alpha House.
Quote from: Arun on February 01, 2015, 04:39:04 PM
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 01, 2015, 09:04:51 AM
HOLY S**T I TAKE THAT BACK, THIS SPORT IS AWESOME
hahahaha
Poland took a good lead, then Spain went ahead and was up 3 with like 2 minutes to go, but Polska tied it in the last second...it was pretty intense
watched puppy bowl
I noticed Netflix was carrying Fated to Love You and decided to try it since Maximilian had recommended Korean TV. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a show this much. It is engaging and has underlying values that I actually agree with.
There was an episode in which a character was planning an abortion and just about every other character realized that this is a horrible thing and was trying to stop her. I doubt that a Western show would even try such a thing or get away with it if they did try.
Atsu Hime (Princess Atsu) Tells the life story of the woman who became the wife of the 13th Shogun, at the time when Japan first opened its ports to trade with the West. Fascinating. I especially appreciate the sense of duty, and how selfless the main characters are.
Season 1 Alpha House. Amusing rather than funny. Fair amount of vulgarity.
Quote from: Jayne on February 02, 2015, 08:22:53 AM
I noticed Netflix was carrying Fated to Love You and decided to try it since Maximilian had recommended Korean TV. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a show this much. It is engaging and has underlying values that I actually agree with.
There was an episode in which a character was planning an abortion and just about every other character realized that this is a horrible thing and was trying to stop her. I doubt that a Western show would even try such a thing or get away with it if they did try.
That's a relief. When I first started reading your post, I was worried that your experience might have been the opposite. I've only seen less than a dozen series, and so who knows what kind of terrible things could be lurking in all the hundreds of series that I haven't watched?
I could just imagine you saying, "Maximilian recommended Korean drama, and just look at the horrible things that were in the series that I watched."
I'm glad you're enjoying the show, and actually it looks rather promising. This is a very standard motif in Korean drama. Usually, however, the reason why the low-level office lady and the company president get together is because their grandfathers were best friends and promised them to each other. This one-night-stand plot element is a bit different, but the rest of the series probably follows the same major conventions.
One classic example is "Goong." The conceit of this series is that the Korean Royal Family still exists in a constitutional monarchy like England. A very ordinary high-school girl finds out one day that she was engaged at her birth to be married to the crown prince. Then lots of drama ensues. But you can see how it has the same basic "Cinderella" storyline as the series you're watching.
For future reference, compared to Korean television, Japanese television is a real minefield where you have to carefully choose a small number of good shows amidst a sea of trash that sometimes crosses the line into pornography.
Korean broadcast, in contrast, is heavily censored, and so even while there are a lot of shows that look stupid and pointless, they are prevented by law from crossing certain lines, so they can never be really so terrible.
I had misgivings about the "one night stand" device when I read it in the description, but it was actually done in a way that was not offensive, although it involved a convoluted and improbable series of events. And they were both as horrified by it afterwards as they should have been.
At any rate, Maximilian, your record of giving me good recommendations remains intact. :)
Quote from: Bernadette on February 02, 2015, 08:28:50 AM
Atsu Hime (Princess Atsu) Tells the life story of the woman who became the wife of the 13th Shogun, at the time when Japan first opened its ports to trade with the West. Fascinating. I especially appreciate the sense of duty, and how selfless the main characters are.
This looks like it could be very good. Thanks for this recommendation.
Where are you watching it? On-line, or it seems like you own some Japanese videos?
Quote from: Maximilian on February 02, 2015, 01:50:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on February 02, 2015, 08:28:50 AM
Atsu Hime (Princess Atsu) Tells the life story of the woman who became the wife of the 13th Shogun, at the time when Japan first opened its ports to trade with the West. Fascinating. I especially appreciate the sense of duty, and how selfless the main characters are.
This looks like it could be very good. Thanks for this recommendation.
Where are you watching it? On-line, or it seems like you own some Japanese videos?
Found it here:
http://www.gooddrama.net/japanese-drama/atsu-hime
They also have the other series that you mentioned:
http://www.gooddrama.net/japanese-drama/ashita-mama-ga-inai
Quote from: Maximilian on February 02, 2015, 02:04:05 PM
Found it here:
http://www.gooddrama.net/japanese-drama/atsu-hime
They also have the other series that you mentioned:
http://www.gooddrama.net/japanese-drama/ashita-mama-ga-inai
Yes, that's right.
Atsu Hime turns out to be a Taiga Drama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_drama.
Oshin was a "morning drama," which is why the episodes are so short and there are so many of them.
My grandma's videos were, sadly, thrown out after she died, since no one else in the family speaks Japanese well enough to watch them. I'm only to the point now where I can pick up phrases and words, but these Japanese shows online are really helping. :)
Quote from: Maximilian on February 02, 2015, 11:55:27 AM
For future reference, compared to Korean television, Japanese television is a real minefield where you have to carefully choose a small number of good shows amidst a sea of trash that sometimes crosses the line into pornography.
Korean broadcast, in contrast, is heavily censored, and so even while there are a lot of shows that look stupid and pointless, they are prevented by law from crossing certain lines, so they can never be really so terrible.
Pinocchio is one of the few series that I don't think I need to check reviews before watching it. Also, I stopped caring about spoilers and such since some time ago. I'd rather read some spoiler in a wiki or review that to watch something morally objectionable in a show.
Something I dislike, is how some series have high quality in artwork and designs, but have various objectionable elements. A waste of talent. And, shows like that, are one of the types that lots of people are more prone to try to find excuses to watch them, or to defend them.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on February 02, 2015, 11:54:16 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on February 02, 2015, 11:55:27 AM
For future reference, compared to Korean television, Japanese television is a real minefield where you have to carefully choose a small number of good shows amidst a sea of trash that sometimes crosses the line into pornography.
Korean broadcast, in contrast, is heavily censored, and so even while there are a lot of shows that look stupid and pointless, they are prevented by law from crossing certain lines, so they can never be really so terrible.
Pinocchio is one of the few series that I don't think I need to check reviews before watching it. Also, I stopped caring about spoilers and such since some time ago. I'd rather read some spoiler in a wiki or review that to watch something morally objectionable in a show.
Something I dislike, is how some series have high quality in artwork and designs, but have various objectionable elements. A waste of talent. And, shows like that, are one of the types that lots of people are more prone to try to find excuses to watch them, or to defend them.
Yes, I agree that you should check every series before watching it, even the Korean ones and not just the Japanese. And a lot of the Korean ones I wouldn't consider watching. Still, the limit of how bad they can be is less than television from Japan or America.
Quote from: Maximilian on February 03, 2015, 06:43:54 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on February 02, 2015, 11:54:16 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on February 02, 2015, 11:55:27 AM
For future reference, compared to Korean television, Japanese television is a real minefield where you have to carefully choose a small number of good shows amidst a sea of trash that sometimes crosses the line into pornography.
Korean broadcast, in contrast, is heavily censored, and so even while there are a lot of shows that look stupid and pointless, they are prevented by law from crossing certain lines, so they can never be really so terrible.
Pinocchio is one of the few series that I don't think I need to check reviews before watching it. Also, I stopped caring about spoilers and such since some time ago. I'd rather read some spoiler in a wiki or review that to watch something morally objectionable in a show.
Something I dislike, is how some series have high quality in artwork and designs, but have various objectionable elements. A waste of talent. And, shows like that, are one of the types that lots of people are more prone to try to find excuses to watch them, or to defend them.
Yes, I agree that you should check every series before watching it, even the Korean ones and not just the Japanese. And a lot of the Korean ones I wouldn't consider watching. Still, the limit of how bad they can be is less than television from Japan or America.
I do do that, for the majority of series, and movies.
In the recent years I've found the admiration some people have (even Catholics) towards various objectionable series as something worrying. Various elements of fan subcultures too.
Art, series, etc, don't reside in a vacuum, these are not outside morality.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on February 03, 2015, 07:49:59 AM
In the recent years I've found the admiration some people have (even Catholics) towards various objectionable series as something worrying. Various elements of fan subcultures too.
Art, series, etc, don't reside in a vacuum, these are not outside morality.
Yes, these are both good points.
Quote from: Maximilian on February 03, 2015, 07:58:07 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on February 03, 2015, 07:49:59 AM
In the recent years I've found the admiration some people have (even Catholics) towards various objectionable series as something worrying. Various elements of fan subcultures too.
Art, series, etc, don't reside in a vacuum, these are not outside morality.
Yes, these are both good points.
Being "art", or having various types of messages, symbolism, etc, are some of the common excuses I've seen.
There are lots of low quality vulgar series, and not many are going to even try to defend them, but the high quality ones? ah, that's one of the most frustrating things in these topics.
The people working on series like that could do so much good if they produced better things.
Quote from: Maximilian on February 03, 2015, 07:58:07 AM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on February 03, 2015, 07:49:59 AM
In the recent years I've found the admiration some people have (even Catholics) towards various objectionable series as something worrying. Various elements of fan subcultures too.
Art, series, etc, don't reside in a vacuum, these are not outside morality.
Yes, these are both good points.
so is the nudity on the sisteen ceiling immoral because the "it's art" excuse is invalid..?
Season 1 DCI Banks
Rugby.
Top Gear...about to watch the infamous Patagonia special for the first time 8)
Rocky and Bullwinkle. Decided it's time for some Saturday morning cartoons.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 20, 2015, 08:30:38 PM
Rocky and Bullwinkle. Decided it's time for some Saturday morning cartoons.
:thumbsup:
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 20, 2015, 08:30:38 PM
Rocky and Bullwinkle. Decided it's time for some Saturday morning cartoons.
well it is officially Saturday morning
Series 22 of Top Gear....hilarious so far
Don't have a television; but I do watch movies - am a Jacques Tati fan, and am now re-watching him. Watched Mon Oncle last night; and shall watch Jour de Fête tonight. He's just extraordinary. 8)
Edwardian Farm
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 26, 2015, 04:13:17 PM
Edwardian Farm
I LOVE these series! I've watched all of them on youtube. I wanted to go back and watch
Victorian Farm again, but it was taken down the last time I looked. I also love
The Victorian Kitchen Garden and
The Wartime Kitchen Garden, and any of Lucy Worsley's series. Britain has the best social history shows!
I'll probably watch
Kiki's Delivery Service (subtitled) tonight.
I just started watching The Borgias series on Netflix. I'm expecting it to be anti-Catholic, but it's a historical drama which I like so I'll try not to get too jaded while watching it
Anyone else watching Better Call Saul?
Quote from: Bernadette on February 26, 2015, 05:05:51 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 26, 2015, 04:13:17 PM
Edwardian Farm
I LOVE these series! I've watched all of them on youtube. I wanted to go back and watch Victorian Farm again, but it was taken down the last time I looked. I also love The Victorian Kitchen Garden and The Wartime Kitchen Garden, and any of Lucy Worsley's series. Britain has the best social history shows!
I'll probably watch Kiki's Delivery Service (subtitled) tonight.
Did you see Tales From The Green Valley? That was excellent.
Kiki is a cute movie :)
Quote from: Rose on February 27, 2015, 12:09:46 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on February 26, 2015, 05:05:51 PM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on February 26, 2015, 04:13:17 PM
Edwardian Farm
I LOVE these series! I've watched all of them on youtube. I wanted to go back and watch Victorian Farm again, but it was taken down the last time I looked. I also love The Victorian Kitchen Garden and The Wartime Kitchen Garden, and any of Lucy Worsley's series. Britain has the best social history shows!
I'll probably watch Kiki's Delivery Service (subtitled) tonight.
Did you see Tales From The Green Valley? That was excellent.
Kiki is a cute movie :)
Those are all on my watch list. I looooovee them. Edwardian Farm House is excellent.
Quote from: Rose on February 27, 2015, 12:09:46 PM
Did you see Tales From The Green Valley? That was excellent.
Yes. I actually went back and watched them in order of the time period. :lol:
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on February 26, 2015, 08:37:13 PM
Anyone else watching Better Call Saul?
I was thinking about it - how is it?
In other news, season 3 of
House of Cards came out today....#nosleep
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on February 27, 2015, 06:01:07 PM
Quote from: LoneWolfRadTrad on February 26, 2015, 08:37:13 PM
Anyone else watching Better Call Saul?
I was thinking about it - how is it?
In other news, season 3 of House of Cards came out today....#nosleep
So far, not dark like Breaking Bad. Except for a leg breaking thing, but it's not very graphic.
Any recommendations on Netflix?
(ASAP. I cancelled it as I'm giving it up for Lent, but I can watch on Sunday before it expires.)
mother angelica
Twin Peaks - season 2
Revenge - season 3
Twilight Zone - season 3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 4
Psych - season 7
Does Netflix count as TV or a movie?
Either way, I watched "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger and I am currently watching the 25th anniversary edition of Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011). WAAAY better than the lousy Gerard Butler movie. Butler couldn't sing.
This one has a Phantom worthy of the name, even though no one will ever do it as well as Michael Crawford.
veggie tales with a sick kid
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
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Does Netflix count as TV or a movie?
Either way, I watched "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger and I am currently watching the 25th anniversary edition of Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011).
Those are both movies, but Netflix does have tv shows.
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I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
Pirates is one of my favorites.
My son (now a teen) used to have a Junior Asparagus that lit up when he hugged it and sang "God is Bigger then the Bogey Man". I wish I still had it - it got ruined in a basement flood. It was so cute. He still remembers it & misses it too.
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
Jonah is my favorite too.
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
Jonah is my favorite too.
One of mine too. Netflix now has some new version of
Veggie Tales that I'm not liking so much.
King of Queens
Everybody Loves Raymond.
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
Jonah is my favorite too.
One of mine too. Netflix now has some new version of Veggie Tales that I'm not liking so much.
yeah that's what he was watching they are itritating
they have some older ones we have a silly songs with Larry one that's my favorite
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One of mine too. Netflix now has some new version of Veggie Tales that I'm not liking so much.
Oh? I haven't seen any of the new ones. What gives?
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veggie tales with a sick kid
I watched Veggie Tales with my kids as well. Which episode & do you have a favorite?
We've watched "The Pirates who dont do anything" movie a million times, and also "Lord of the Bean".
We've got both of those too. Jonah is a personal favorite.
Pirates is one of my favorites.
My son (now a teen) used to have a Junior Asparagus that lit up when he hugged it and sang "God is Bigger then the Bogey Man". I wish I still had it - it got ruined in a basement flood. It was so cute. He still remembers it & misses it too.
My 3yo would loooooooove that. I will have to remember for his birthday this summer.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It's funny but not as funny as everybody is saying.
Star Trek Original Series Season 1
Poor old Jonah. Now he's all alonah.
On Tuesday, we'll be watching the Veggie Tale short about St. Patrick. That one is probably our favorite. We like the pirates one, too....we left it at the beach a few summers ago, though 😕
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Poor old Jonah. Now he's all alonah.
On Tuesday, we'll be watching the Veggie Tale short about St. Patrick. That one is probably our favorite. We like the pirates one, too....we left it at the beach a few summers ago, though 😕
Mr T watched it with the kids yesterday, he said it was pretty good.
Face Off It's a show on the SyFy channel where contestants work through different challenges using makeup and prosthetics on models. Some people are so talented! It's amazing what these people can do in such a short time.
I watched The Untold Story of The Sound of Music last night on ABC. Diane Sawyer took Julie Andrews back to the abbey church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondsee_Abbey) where they filmed the wedding. I was interested to see that the high altar was still in place. There seemed to be something up there in front, but I couldn't make it out as a table altar. Diane went on to visit Nonnburg Abbey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnberg_Abbey). Mother Abbess was in a full habit; there is only a small group of nuns left.
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I watched The Untold Story of The Sound of Music last night on ABC. Diane Sawyer took Julie Andrews back to the abbey church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondsee_Abbey) where they filmed the wedding. I was interested to see that the high altar was still in place. There seemed to be something up there in front, but I couldn't make it out as a table altar. Diane went on to visit Nonnburg Abbey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnberg_Abbey). Mother Abbess was in a full habit; there is only a small group of nuns left.
Nonnberg Abbey is pretty inside. A little bare, as I recall, but nonetheless pretty.
Dying (pun intended) to watch iZombie. C'mon, Sunday!
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Face Off It's a show on the SyFy channel where contestants work through different challenges using makeup and prosthetics on models. Some people are so talented! It's amazing what these people can do in such a short time.
I love this show.
I'm now in season 2 of Battlestar Galactica, and they just killed off the hottest guy on the show :lol:
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I'm now in season 2 of Battlestar Galactica, and they just killed off the hottest guy on the show :lol:
You like guys who are younger? ;)
So does anybody here like Gravity Falls? I find it to be highly enjoyable. The writing is pretty clever and it is highly rewatchable with all the secret codes and what not.
For those who have not watched it, it is sort of like a mixture between Twins Peak and the X-Files with a little Simpsons thrown in. I especially like the focus on Mabel and Dipper, the shows two protagonist. Usually siblings don't get along very well in TV shows, but the portrayal of their relationship is quite sweet.
Killing Jesus later tonight.
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Killing Jesus later tonight.
*Spoiler* Already been done - He came back.
The new Flash has been meh so far, but the episode with Mark Hamill was really funny.
The Emperor of All Maladies.
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The new Flash has been meh so far
I kind of like it. They're all so earnest.
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The new Flash has been meh so far
I kind of like it. They're all so earnest.
I'm several episodes behind at this point, but I like it, too. It's kind of a refreshing change in tone from the eternally grim superheroes we are usually given.
The Jinx
Catfish
Frontline, on pbs.org. I watched a timely episode on plea bargains. They interviewed about five people who had each taken a plea bargain and later regretted it, and one person who was completely innocent and refused to take a plea bargain. The latter spent over 20 years in prison for murder and robbery (misidentified as the driver of the getaway car), and about 20 years in she appealed and the state offered her a plea bargain: plead guilty to robbery for time served. She could have walked free, but refused to plead guilty to something she didn't do. She just couldn't square it with her conscience. She was Catholic, and said that if she ever got out of prison, she wanted to go to the convent and become a Franciscan. She was eventually released after the Frontline episode originally aired. I was absolutely astonished.
Call the Midwife, because there's a whole new season :grin: :thumbsup: :beer: :cheesehead: :thumbsup: :grin: :swoon1: :popcorn: :knit: :thumbsup:
Um, are there really no crying smilies? I know you're German, K, but that is going too far.
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Call the Midwife, because there's a whole new season :grin: :thumbsup: :beer: :cheesehead: :thumbsup: :grin: :swoon1: :popcorn: :knit: :thumbsup:
Um, are there really no crying smilies? I know you're German, K, but that is going too far.
How is that show? Try to answer from what you imagine a male's P.O.V would be :)
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Call the Midwife, because there's a whole new season :grin: :thumbsup: :beer: :cheesehead: :thumbsup: :grin: :swoon1: :popcorn: :knit: :thumbsup:
Um, are there really no crying smilies? I know you're German, K, but that is going too far.
I love that series -have your read the books that it is based on?
Dirty Jobs on Youtube. Funny and interesting.
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How is that show? Try to answer from what you imagine a male's P.O.V would be :)
If you like British dramas, you'd like it. It's really well done. But there a lot of childbirth scenes--at least one in every episode--and not everyone wants to see that :laugh:
It's better to start with the first season, though. They're on Netflix.
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I love that series -have your read the books that it is based on?
Yes, at least two of them--maybe all three? They are amazing. There's some really weird stuff in them though--she basically condones incest at one point. (Same with the show.)
Shark Tank marathon on Youtube.
The Bible on Netflix. I'm enjoying it so far.
On the back burner:
The Walking Dead - season 4
Psych - season 7
Actively watching:
Twin Peaks - season 2
The Following - season 3
Revenge - season 3
Twilight Zone - season 3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 4
Mad Men - season 7
Finished the first season of Homeland. Very good show.
I plan to watch House of Cards and The Americans this summer break. Maybe, somewhere along the lines, I may start Downton Abbey.
I cannot wait for the second season of The Knick to be released.
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Revenge - season 3
Series finale Sunday so you've only got one more season to go! It's gotten a bit more interesting the past couple episodes.
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Revenge - season 3
Series finale Sunday so you've only got one more season to go! It's gotten a bit more interesting the past couple episodes.
Ironically, I watched the Season 3 finale during the Season 4/series finale (and not intentionally, by the way!).
Updated:
The Following - season 3
Twilight Zone - season 3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - season 4
Psych - Season 7
Mad Men - season 7
Finally finished Twin Peaks last night.
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Mad Men - season 7
Same here. These last two seasons have been middling at best, but I'm still going to miss it. A mediocre season of
Mad Men is still good TV. And its brilliant early seasons will stand as some of the best television ever made. Although it's gone on for longer than it should have, I rank it beside
Rome (which didn't go on for long enough) as the best show of the new millennium.
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Mad Men - season 7
Same here. These last two seasons have been middling at best, but I'm still going to miss it. A mediocre season of Mad Men is still good TV. And its brilliant early seasons will stand as some of the best television ever made. Although it's gone on for longer than it should have, I rank it beside Rome (which didn't go on for long enough) as the best show of the new millennium.
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I was never able to get into it. I watched the first two seasons, and I think a couple of episodes of the third, and just gave up. I recognize that it's a quality show, and I love Jon Hamm, but I found it a bit lugubrious, and it just never grabbed me.
Quote from: aquinas138 on May 11, 2015, 09:57:14 PMI was never able to get into it. I watched the first two seasons, and I think a couple of episodes of the third, and just gave up. I recognize that it's a quality show, and I love Jon Hamm, but I found it a bit lugubrious, and it just never grabbed me.
Lugubrious—good word. It's a fair charge. Those first few seasons are certainly the darkest, but they're also my favorite.
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Quote from: aquinas138 on May 11, 2015, 09:57:14 PMI was never able to get into it. I watched the first two seasons, and I think a couple of episodes of the third, and just gave up. I recognize that it's a quality show, and I love Jon Hamm, but I found it a bit lugubrious, and it just never grabbed me.
Lugubrious—good word. It's a fair charge. Those first few seasons are certainly the darkest, but they're also my favorite.
Yeah, I don't know why I didn't like it - I love dark shows and morally ambiguous characters, but it just didn't hit for me.
I've been watching Wolf Hall on Amazon Prime. It's woefully inaccurate history; but it is superbly done drama. I feel guilty liking it so much. lol.
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I've been watching Wolf Hall on Amazon Prime. It's woefully inaccurate history; but it is superbly done drama. I feel guilty liking it so much. lol.
Yes - I've broken out the "hiding under chair" smiley for the same thing!
I've been watching DVDs of Dad's Army. Very funny!
I've been late getting on the Mad Men train, but here I am, glued to any reruns they want to throw at me. I just found out the library has all the shows on disc, so guess where I'm going tomorrow! I'll have to say a few prayers for mortification of the brain so I don't go overboard. :o
I've been watching season 2 of Turn: Washington's Spies. This series is really good, and it's sad that I'm the only person I know who watches it.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxtpvbSvjk[/yt]
I saw an article about Turn titled "The best show you're not watching". I noticed it's now on Netflix and might give it a chance after I finish up a couple other shows.
I tried getting into Turn in the first season and just couldn't do it. I don't even really know why. Maybe I'll try it again soon.
I like Jamie Bell but my TV list is too long as it is. And the commercials always look so boring...
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I like Jamie Bell but my TV list is too long as it is. And the commercials always look so boring...
Yeah, I know how that is. I only watch 1 half-hour program most days, so it's hard for me to add new shows to my 'to-watch' list.
Anyway, here is an update:
Actively watching:
Twlight Zone - Season 3
AHP - Season 4
Mad Men - Season 7
Random episode of MST3K if I have 90 minutes to spare
Started, but now backburner'd:
The Following - Season 3
Psych - Season 7
Future List:
Thriller - Season 1 and 2
AHP - Season 5
Twilight Zone - Seasons 4 and 5
Walking Dead - Seasons 4 and 5
Continuum - Season 4
Psych - Season 8
Revenge - Season 4
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Mad Men - season 7
Same here. These last two seasons have been middling at best, but I'm still going to miss it. A mediocre season of Mad Men is still good TV. And its brilliant early seasons will stand as some of the best television ever made.
^This, though I disagree about the last 2 seasons; I thought they were great.
I'm going to miss it too. The only currently-running show I'm watching (but behind on) after Mad Men ends on Sunday will be The Walking Dead.
I watched season 1 of Turn and liked it at first, but towards the end it got soapy. I really don't have much interest or sympathy for the adulterous couple.
Daredevil, the Netflix series, was terrific and I can't wait for the next season.
Arrow was pretty lame this season, though I'd enjoyed the previous two. At this point, Starling City should just announce an automatic evacuation every May to avoid their annual terrorist attack.
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I've been watching Wolf Hall on Amazon Prime. It's woefully inaccurate history; but it is superbly done drama. I feel guilty liking it so much. lol.
We've been watching Wolf Hall on PBS and, while I liked the novel better, isn't that [almost] always the case? We thought they did a good job compressing all the events that transpired in the novel into the series of six one-hour episodes and that the actor portraying Thomas Cromwell was very good. Of course the dialogue was not exactly authentic for the period and who knows exactly what Henry VIII said to Cromwell about Anne Boleyn, or anything else, but why do you think it was "woefully inaccurate history"?
Was supposed to be the Grimm finale but I couldn't get a clear signal. DON'T TELL ME WHO DIED. Might check out Wayward Pines in a bit.
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At this point, Starling City should just announce an automatic evacuation every May to avoid their annual terrorist attack.
Hahahaha
BBC's Ground Force. Love that show! ;D
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Was supposed to be the Grimm finale but I couldn't get a clear signal. DON'T TELL ME WHO DIED. Might check out Wayward Pines in a bit.
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At this point, Starling City should just announce an automatic evacuation every May to avoid their annual terrorist attack.
Hahahaha
is Wayward {Pines the one that's kind of like Twin Peaks was?
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Was supposed to be the Grimm finale but I couldn't get a clear signal. DON'T TELL ME WHO DIED. Might check out Wayward Pines in a bit.
is Wayward {Pines the one that's kind of like Twin Peaks was?
Yes, or at least seems to be from the promos I saw.
I've only seen the first few episodes of Twin Peaks. I've heard Wayward Pines described as Truman Show meets The Prisoner. The characters are not all as quirky and secretive as TP because everyone is stuck in the town, so most of them sympathize with the agent. Next week is the big reveal episode so we'll see!
Flipping from X Games to the A's game at my sister's place. I want cable. Jealous.
...and they just referred to one of the players as The Green Monster. How apropos.
Psych - Season 7
Golden Years - 1991 mini-series by Stephen King
Beyond the Veil - "lost" 1958 anthology hosted by Boris Karloff; a proto-Thriller, which would premiere in Fall 1960.
A few new shows on SyFy and AMC, hmm...
watched the leaked s02e01 episode of Rick and Morty today... awesome as always. looking forward to the actual season kicking off. most adult swim is total shite but Rick and Morty always entertained me.
Mr. Robot. Pretty entertaining, if not a bit full of despair.
Psych - Season 7
Z Nation
Between
Beyond the Veil
Starting today: 201 episodes of The X-Files in 201 days to prep for Season X.
Also, Suits, Wayward Pines, The Astronaut Wives Club.
How is astronautwives club?
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How is astronautwives club?
Mindless.
I was really hoping you'd say "Awesome and astronauts are so cool."
Truth.
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It is out there.
I've been watching this season of The Last Ship. After the end of last season, the shine kind of wore off, but I've gotten over my disappointment that the show wasn't trying to be serious and am back to liking it.
I really need to watch The X-Files start to finish.
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I really need to watch The X-Files start to finish.
Start now! Day two of 201 days. This episode and the pilot are in the list of ten essential eps according to Chris Carter here (http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/30/chris-carter-picks-his-top-ten-essential-x-files-episodes).
That is a whole lot of X Files in one 7 month period. :lol:
Watched the Daredevil series on Netflix. I enjoyed it quite a bit; it's pretty violent, but less bad language than I would have thought. The superhero element is a little down-played, as Matt Murdock gets it handed to him regularly. Vincent D'Onofrio is great as Wilson Fisk.
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Watched the Daredevil series on Netflix. I enjoyed it quite a bit; it's pretty violent, but less bad language than I would have thought. The superhero element is a little down-played, as Matt Murdock gets it handed to him regularly. Vincent D'Onofrio is great as Wilson Fisk.
I had to fight the urge to binge watch that show soooo hard.
It is very violent, yes, but I could mostly deal with that (well, except the third episode and then that Russian incident).
I think Murdock getting whooped adds to the character.
But, someone made a funny point on Reddit recently about the show (about how he tends to his wounds a lot and stuff) that I enjoy:
That's part of the point of his character, especially in this version. Its [sic] all about suffering for him, he's a proper Catholic.
I really enjoy the pretty fair treatment the Church gets, and his Catholicness gets.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2015, 01:03:29 PM
That is a whole lot of X Files in one 7 month period. :lol:
Lim and I crammed almost the whole series into one summer the first time we watched. And that was before Netflix, so you have to factor in the time it takes to change a DVD.
Quote from: piabee on July 08, 2015, 01:01:34 PM
Start now! Day two of 201 days. This episode and the pilot are in the list of ten essential eps according to Chris Carter here (http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/30/chris-carter-picks-his-top-ten-essential-x-files-episodes).
Nah. I seen me plenty of X-Files back in the day already. :)
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That is a whole lot of X Files in one 7 month period. :lol:
Lim and I crammed almost the whole series into one summer the first time we watched. And that was before Netflix, so you have to factor in the time it takes to change a DVD.
TIL how much Piabee loves the XFiles
Rewatching White Collar.
Star Trek:Enterprise
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Watched the Daredevil series on Netflix. I enjoyed it quite a bit; it's pretty violent, but less bad language than I would have thought. The superhero element is a little down-played, as Matt Murdock gets it handed to him regularly. Vincent D'Onofrio is great as Wilson Fisk.
I had to fight the urge to binge watch that show soooo hard.
It is very violent, yes, but I could mostly deal with that (well, except the third episode and then that Russian incident).
I think Murdock getting whooped adds to the character.
But, someone made a funny point on Reddit recently about the show (about how he tends to his wounds a lot and stuff) that I enjoy:
That's part of the point of his character, especially in this version. Its [sic] all about suffering for him, he's a proper Catholic.
I really enjoy the pretty fair treatment the Church gets, and his Catholicness gets.
Yes, I think the Catholic side of it gets a really good shake; the priest is a good character, too. I liked their conversation about the Devil. I really hope that the Catholic aspect of the Punisher is explored next season as well; the way Catholicism rears its head in the Punisher books was always interesting given his methods.
Quote from: aquinas138 on July 08, 2015, 02:34:33 PM
Yes, I think the Catholic side of it gets a really good shake; the priest is a good character, too. I liked their conversation about the Devil. I really hope that the Catholic aspect of the Punisher is explored next season as well; the way Catholicism rears its head in the Punisher books was always interesting given his methods.
I don't watch the series. But I would be interested in knowing this as well. Especially if they address the Punisher's time in seminary.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 08, 2015, 01:36:34 PM
TIL how much Piabee loves the XFiles
TIL what TIL stands for.
ITT: smh because someone has to ELI5 Reddit acronyms
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ITT: smh because someone has to ELI5 Reddit acronyms
DAE feel left out?
IAmA forum admin, post questions below.
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Why won't you bring back Victoria?
You are now banned from /r/paoyanyang
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You are now banned from /r/paoyanyang
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shadow banned or banned banned?
:lol:
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is there anywhere to stream full length episodes of that Br John or whatever it's called from EWTN?
kids have been watching heaps of Masha and the Bear now; thanks Greg hahaha.
Burned through House of Cards
Been watching DVDs of Hancock's Half Hour, Doctor Who, and Blake's 7 lately.
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You are now banned from /r/paoyanyang
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shadow banned or banned banned?
it's alright just log into TOR and i'll sell you a new account
i been thinking of trying to get a hold of the full season of that old show Miracles (with Skeet Ulrich) to rewatch and see if it was as good as i remember it... for some reason in my memory it had good Catholic themes woven through it... probably not really though lol.
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Burned through House of Cards
Francis Urquhart or that poser Frank Underwood?
How is Season 3?
Frank Underwood fights Putin clone.
ols episodes of gi joe
Falling Skies.
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Frank Underwood fights Putin clone.
That's all I need to know, cheers.
I forgot to say that the whole Russia hates gays thing is a big part of it.
Dr Who -season with the 10th Doctor
Humans. Rick and Morty. Mr. Robot.
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Rick and Morty
is s02e04 out yet?
just about to sit down and watch Baki the Grappler with the kids. heard it was good so we're gonna check it out.
The Last Ship.
I thought Rick and Morty episode two of season two was yesterday.
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I thought Rick and Morty episode two of season two was yesterday.
last one i watched was episode 3. i watched the leaked online ones tho...
also, don't watch baki the grappler with kids... oops... the fighting is cool and fine for my kids but then baki's mother walked up to him and full on mouth kissed him. come on, japan, clean your bloody act up...
Started Ascension last week. It was interesting.
I plan on re watching my favorite cartoon series as a kid -- Darkwing Duck. I had forgotten how much I loved the show until I saw something for it just recently that made me want to go back.
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I plan on re watching my favorite cartoon series as a kid -- Darkwing Duck. I had forgotten how much I loved the show until I saw something for it just recently that made me want to go back.
i remember that one
Quote from: Hiero of Syracuse on August 08, 2015, 05:04:09 PM
I plan on re watching my favorite cartoon series as a kid -- Darkwing Duck. I had forgotten how much I loved the show until I saw something for it just recently that made me want to go back.
Nice. I too loved that show.
Let's. Get. Dangerous.
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i remember liking darkwing duck in the 90s.... and daffy duck, duck tales, count duckula.....duckitty duckitty duck
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...duck tales....
that reminds me;
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODvyfBL5Vs[/yt]
DuckTales was (and still is) awesome. I heard there is going to be a reboot in 2017.
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I thought Rick and Morty episode two of season two was yesterday.
have they aired the one with the hive mind "Unity" over there yet?
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I thought Rick and Morty episode two of season two was yesterday.
have they aired the one with the hive mind "Unity" over there yet?
Yeah, this past Sunday.
WABALUBADUBDUB!
I'm also watching alot of Russia Today.
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I thought Rick and Morty episode two of season two was yesterday.
have they aired the one with the hive mind "Unity" over there yet?
Yeah, this past Sunday.
WABALUBADUBDUB!
I'm also watching alot of Russia Today.
yeah i don't know why that one was out so early online but the next one doesn't look like it'll be available till this coming Sunday - or Monday over here cos we're faster than you.
haven't seen a new one since my post on August 3... well actually awhile before that, when i watched it.
"The Middle"
Don't have a TV. I do go to the pub every day to watch 'Jeopardy, however.
Project Runway is back! I enjoy it more when I can binge, though.
finally got around to watching s02e04 of Rick and Morty
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Project Runway is back! I enjoy it more when I can binge, though.
Yay! I hope it's better than last year. No fringe! I DVR 4 or 5 episodes before I watch them as well.
Everything is a high/low hem this season.
Downton Abby season 5
just finished watching latest Rick and Morty.
"Prison Break" on DVD
I caught up on a big chunk of Elementary while doing laundry yesterday.
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I caught up on a big chunk of Elementary while doing laundry yesterday.
Is that a clean show, Piabee?
I started Mad Men last night. The first time I watched it, I did not apparently watch the first episode. Weird.
Giving it another go as I pack things up.
Finally got around to the last season of Breaking Bad.
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Finally got around to the last season of Breaking Bad.
it's brilliant eh
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Finally got around to the last season of Breaking Bad.
it's brilliant eh
Absolutely. Glad I binge-re-watched the first four before watching it! Now on to Better Call Saul...
Hinterland
Witnesses
Ascension
Also:
Revenge - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
Zork, is that the sci fi mini series Ascension about the generation ship?
I've gotten sucked into Elementary, a show I haven't watched at all before. It is an interesting take on Sherlock Holmes.
Yes it is, Jacob; it's been interesting so far. I've been watching it slowly since there are only 6 episodes.
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Yes it is, Jacob; it's been interesting so far. I've been watching it slowly since there are only 6 episodes.
I watched it when it was first on SyFy. It was interesting. When you're done, we'll have to talk.
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Yes it is, Jacob; it's been interesting so far. I've been watching it slowly since there are only 6 episodes.
I watched it when it was first on SyFy. It was interesting. When you're done, we'll have to talk.
Sounds good. I'll let you know when I finish.
Brideshead Revisited.
The one with Scar.
looking forward to TUF 22. Ryan Hall is in it, i am interested to see how he gets on.
Anyone here seen Wayward Pines? Are you able to tell me whether it has sex in it or not? The IMDB write-up says two characters begin to make out, but what does this entail? Cheers!
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Anyone here seen Wayward Pines?
From what I remember, it was cleaner than you'd expect from network television.
Fear the Walking Dead. It's a spinoff of Walking Dead, but set on the West coast before the outbreak begins and shows how society broke down since Walking Dead starts with the protagonist, Rick Grimes, waking up from a coma several weeks after the zombie virus outbreak and takes place in Georgia.
this January it's time to Michael down your Vincents
when's 11.30pm ET man? pain in the ass. it's monday afternoon i'm waiting to watch a show that airs on "sunday" you guys gotta catch up mang...
I've begun to watch the second season of Sherlock (all 3 episodes!) on Netflix. It's an excellent show except for the gay innuendos all over the place.
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Brideshead Revisited.
The one with Scar.
:lol: I love watching the first episode of that. When everybody's happy. :'( And the last little bit, of course. :)
Call the Midwife season 4
The Following - Season 3
Revenge - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
Walking Dead - Season 5
Psych - Season 8
Limitless. I'm a sucker for gimmicks and started-from-nothing stories.
i'm still reeling from last week's Rick and Morty finale. right in der feelz...
Bought my toddler Samsam and the magic card tree. Its cool lol, a little superhero for toddlers.
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Brideshead Revisited.
The one with Scar.
:lol: I love watching the first episode of that. When everybody's happy. :'( And the last little bit, of course. :)
I can't decide if I like the book or movie better on that one.
Finished watching The Flash
now onto Arrow...
Heroes Reborn as well...
Anybody seen much of the new Dragonball series? used tow atch that when i was akid, just heard about the new series. i remember when goku rode off on the dragon's back at the end of GT i thought it was all over.
Corner Gas
I binged on the first four episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. It's hilarious.
Arrested Development
The Americans
The Man in the High Castle Chilling. Thank God we won the war.
River with Stellen Skarsgård. Intense. Haunting. Loved it.
Year 2 of "Psych"
Very funny.
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Year 2 of "Psych"
Very funny.
All that's left for me to watch of that show is the series finale. Right now I'm trying to savor the thought of still having new (to me) Psych to watch.
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The Man in the High Castle Chilling. Thank God we won the war.
Is that something you are comfortable watching with your husband? These made for on-demand services are creative and can be highly entertaining with their wit, depth, and intelligence. However, the token salaciousness can ruin an otherwise crafty piece of cinema.
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The Man in the High Castle Chilling. Thank God we won the war.
Is that something you are comfortable watching with your husband? These made for on-demand services are creative and can be highly entertaining with their wit, depth, and intelligence. However, the token salaciousness can ruin an otherwise crafty piece of cinema.
I'm not married. And I watched it in the background while sewing. If there was any 6th Commandment stuff I missed it.
Quote from: Bernadette on November 22, 2015, 03:52:12 PM
The Man in the High Castle Chilling. Thank God we won the war.
Same here.
I watched the first two episodes as well. I was disappointed. They seemed to need to beat you over the head about how everyone wanted to be free. And they said that Thessalonians was in the Old Testament. Really? The entertainment industry should stay away from the bible. I found myself rooting for the Nazis.
24 - Season 9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
The Walking Dead - Season 5
Revenge - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 4
Continuum - Season 4
The final season of Downton Abbey.
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Revenge - Season 4
Almost there!
Page Eight: The Worricker Trilogy. Another excellent show from the BBC.
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Revenge - Season 4
Almost there!
Yes! Only 4 episodes left to go at this point. I hope the finale is somewhat satisfying.
Speaking of which, I just finished the final episode of Psych last week. It was good.
"White Collar" year 2.
Sherlock. Excellent. :)
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Sherlock. Excellent. :)
Oh yes.
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Season 4 Downton Abbey
Jessica Jones
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Jessica Jones
I have read bad things about that one. Mostly about the type of content featured.
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Jessica Jones
I have read bad things about that one. Mostly about the type of content featured.
I can understand how some would not like it or would object to some of the content. Certainly if someone doesn't like the "morally ambiguous protagonist," it could be a problem.
Random episodes of Dad's Army on dvd.
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Jessica Jones
I have read bad things about that one. Mostly about the type of content featured.
I can understand how some would not like it or would object to some of the content. Certainly if someone doesn't like the "morally ambiguous protagonist," it could be a problem.
I was thinking more about the homosexual characters, the abortion part, the explicit scenes, etc. Not only the morally ambiguous character.
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Jessica Jones
I have read bad things about that one. Mostly about the type of content featured.
I watched the first episode because I tend to like comic book based shows. I could not go on. I was bothered by the content and also found the overall tone way too dark.
Demetri Martin Live
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Season 4 Downton Abbey
Which daughter is your fave?
#rehashingoldarguments
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Season 4 Downton Abbey
Which daughter is your fave?
#rehashingoldarguments
At my age it's Countess Grantham. But if I had to choose a daughter it would be Lady Sibyl.
Anybody else planning to watch the Sherlock special episode on PBS tonight? You can watch it online, too ;D:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/live-stream/sherlock-abominable-bride/
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Anybody else planning to watch the Sherlock special episode on PBS tonight? You can watch it online, too ;D:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/live-stream/sherlock-abominable-bride/
The feminism theme was unbearable.
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Anybody else planning to watch the Sherlock special episode on PBS tonight? You can watch it online, too ;D:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/live-stream/sherlock-abominable-bride/
it was weird. couldn't fllow it
also kept falling asleep
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Anybody else planning to watch the Sherlock special episode on PBS tonight? You can watch it online, too ;D:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/live-stream/sherlock-abominable-bride/
The feminism theme was unbearable.
I know! :( Why, WHY did they have to throw that in and ruin it?! What's WRONG with these people?! >:(
I'm watching old Survivors (1975) episodes.
I re-watched Survivors recently on YouTube. I was 7 or 8 when it was first shown on British TV and remember it well.
It actually lasted quite well. Sometimes TV from a generation ago can be terrible crap. Like "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo", for example. I can't understand how I ever watched that from start to finish. It's appalling.
I Claudius is another BBC Drama that still works well today.
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I re-watched Survivors recently on YouTube. I was 7 or 8 when it was first shown on British TV and remember it well.
It actually lasted quite well....
I was only 1 when it was made, so I'm watching it for the first time. (I got the DVDs for my hubby for Christmas.) Seen five episodes so far, and it's very good.
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Anybody else planning to watch the Sherlock special episode on PBS tonight? You can watch it online, too ;D:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/live-stream/sherlock-abominable-bride/
The feminism theme was unbearable.
Oh no! Ugh...
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Bikeman4u. Channel on youtube. Everything you ever wanted to know about fixing bikes.
Season 5 Downton Abbey.
Star Trek (original series)
A whole season of Celebrity; Worst Cooks in America. It's amazing how many people really have no idea what they are doing in the kitchen. :lol:
My mom likes Real Housewives series.
I used to watch The Big Bang Theory all the time. Before that, The Simpsons. Since October, I've put on the TV about half a dozen times.
the man in the machine.... About Steve Jobs. had no idea he was such a narcissistic sociopath
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the man in the machine.... About Steve Jobs. had no idea he was such a narcissistic sociopath
I'll bet that was interesting. Which station was it on? Do you think they'll run it again?
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the man in the machine.... About Steve Jobs. had no idea he was such a narcissistic sociopath
I'll bet that was interesting. Which station was it on? Do you think they'll run it again?
it was a CNN documentary
apparently you could tell you were driving behind steve jobs on the highway because he always drove the same silver mercedes with no license plates. he didnt want license plates on his cars so he found a loophole in the state of california..if a car is leased for under 6 months you arent required to have plates so he made sure to lease a car for 6 months then turn it in and lease an identcal silver mercedes.
ha also always parked in handicapped spaces
I should check that out. I heard things about Jobs along those lines in the past, but it sounds like this documentary will provide me with with proof. Not that there is none out there, but I'm glad I can view something someone already put together and not have to track down stories concerning Jobs myself.
Bosch on Amazon Prime. Uneven. Poorly written. Titus Welliver can't act.
Downton Abbey - Season 6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
Twilight Zone - Season 5
Thoughts on Downton, anyone? I've watched the whole final season so I'm curious what you think.
SEASON TEN: BRING IT ON
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The Hour seasons 1 and 2. It portrays the early years of BBC TV with a backdrop of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution. It showed what it was like to put together a show from behind the scenes. Giant ancient cameras. Tiny TVs. Everyone smoked like chimneys. The first season was rather spotty. Some episodes were intriguing while others were boring. The second season dealt with local corruption and was outstanding.
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Movies too?
Football :cheer: :beer: :patriot:
Making a Murderer
The X-Files was interesting. David and Gillian have chemistry that cannot be extinguished, even after all these years. The spin on past events in this new season is interesting.
The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
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The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
can't wait to see that one
Z Nation - Season 2
Downtown Abbey - Season 6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5
Twilight Zone - Season 5
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The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
can't wait to see that one
Wish I could first erase the plot from my memory.
I don't actually get TV but eventually see such goodies online or on DVD.
I watched the NHL All-Star Game last night. John Scott is a legend. Gary Bettman and Mike Milbury are utter tools.
Mad Dogs from Amazon Prime. The first episode was very good. Showed a lot of promise. The subsequent episodes were not. Pointless meandering
drivel. It made Prison Break look like Masterpiece Theatre. Even the wife who has a high tolerance for bad entertainment called it excruciating.
The writers should be dragged from their cars and beaten.
Outback House.
https://www.ovguide.com/video/outback-house-episode-1-01e3e554885a11e38c261231391e5ce4
That shepherd kid's a wuss.
People v OJ Simpson
Gilmore Girls season 4, now that the X-Files rewatch is done.
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People v OJ Simpson
Next on my list.
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The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
There's lots of ads for this during War and Peace. Is it based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians?
American Crime on ABC.
I finally caught the first episode of War and Peace and couldn't stand it. The high-def is just too high-def for me and the camera is constantly moving.
Season 1 of Call Saul. It dragged a bit here and there but still entertaining. The episode with the talking toilet was hilarious.
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I finally caught the first episode of War and Peace and couldn't stand it. The high-def is just too high-def for me and the camera is constantly moving.
I didn't like it, either.
Season 3 Ripper Street
Chocky, the 1984 ITV adaptation of John Wyndham's book.
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The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
There's lots of ads for this during War and Peace. Is it based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians?
It is, and I was surprised to find out that this is the only English language version that has ever kept the author's original ending.
It was extremely well done overall, with only a few problems. I gather that the actor playing Lombard is the new BBC heartthrob, so they shoved in lots of shirtless shots whenever they could. Annoying.
The mini-series Run from the BBC. How four different people's lives interconnect in London's underclass. Grim but very well done.
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The new BBC And Then There Were None. About halfway through and very good so far.
There's lots of ads for this during War and Peace. Is it based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians?
I have a copy of an Agatha Christie book called Ten Little... well,
somethings but it definitely doesn't say "Indians"..?
Two different books? Or did they change the name?
Edit: Oh yes I Googled it now, they did change the name. I suppose I can understand why but I think it's kind of stupid that the liberal media made them do something like that. The name of the book is the name of the book.
Mine looks like this:
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My understanding is that its original title is Ten Little Niggers, later sanitized to Indians, later sanitized further to And Then There Were None.
Quote from: zork on February 23, 2016, 06:14:51 PM
My understanding is that its original title is Ten Little Niggers, later sanitized to Indians, later sanitized further to And Then There Were None.
Yes, I ended up Googling it. I think it is stupid that they had to change it, the book was written in a time when that was the way people talked, and is set in a time when that was how people talked. It's not an accurate reflection of the time period to sanitize it in such a way. It's basically a form of revisionism.
The Great Train Robbery (2013)
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Chocky, the 1984 ITV adaptation of John Wyndham's book.
I've watched
Chocky's Children and I'm starting
Chocky's Challenge now. I remember seeing them in the mid-80s, and they're still really good.
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Quote from: zork on February 23, 2016, 06:14:51 PM
My understanding is that its original title is Ten Little Niggers, later sanitized to Indians, later sanitized further to And Then There Were None.
Actually, And Then There Were None was Agatha Christie's rewrite of Ten Little Niggers as a play. IIRC
When she rewrote her novels, she completely changed endings and everything.
"Medium" with Patricia Arquette.
Ax Men
Gold Rush
Dual Survival
Moonshiners
Has anyone here seen True Detective? Is it as good as people are saying?
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on March 06, 2016, 04:58:41 PM
Has anyone here seen True Detective? Is it as good as people are saying?
It can be vulgar. A fair bit of violence and sex/nudity. Though the good thing is they don't really "glorify it", though, and it's not shoe-horned in into every episode like some HBO shows (looking at you, Game of Thrones.)
Beyond that, though, I found both seasons to be incredibly "Catholic," implicitly rather than explicitly. I won't go into spoiler territory, but in season 1, one of the main characters is a staunch philosophical atheist after the death of his daughter (which also lead to a divorce and estrangement from his wife.) Yet he is still a homicide detective, and hangs a crucifix on his wall so that he might "contemplate the moment in the garden, the idea of allowing your own crucifixion."
Season 2 (different character/setting/plot) has similar themes. Divorced homicide detective (though no dead child this time), and he struggles with his relationship with his son. He's also a crooked cop, in cahoots with a local gangster. A lot of people thought season 2 was considerably worse than season 1. I thought it was more original and the characters were a bit more interesting, and would actually say I prefer it.
It's one of my favourite shows, to be honest. I'm not super melodramatic, but I'm a 25 year old man, and both seasons got me a little teary-eyed. They're incredibly dark, like I said, but the "darkness" isn't of a totally nihilistic source, but rather more like the darkness in Gethsemane and at Golgotha.
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Has anyone here seen True Detective? Is it as good as people are saying?
Season 1 was outstanding. One of the better things I've watched in a long time.
Season 2 was dark, nihilistic and confusing. It was a relief when it ended.
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Quote from: LausTibiChriste on March 06, 2016, 04:58:41 PM
Has anyone here seen True Detective? Is it as good as people are saying?
Season 1 was outstanding. One of the better things I've watched in a long time.
Season 2 was dark, nihilistic and confusing. It was a relief when it ended.
Really? I loved 2. I thought Ray Velcoro was a much more interesting character than Rust Cohle. And I really liked Antigone Bezerides as a character, which I didn't expect to.
Chacon a son gout.
Thanks for the replies!
I'll go watch an episode or two tonight I think
Daredevil Season 2
Tried watching "Fuller House"... :P
Went back to watching "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" - Season 5
On the horizon, I'll be watching:
Twilight Zone - Season 5
Thriller - Season 1
Night Gallery - Season 1
Season 2 Fargo. Very good. Love Peggy.
Currently watching "NCIS" and "NCIS: New Orleans," as well as "Kitchen Nightmares".
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Season 2 Fargo. Very good. Love Peggy.
How's Fargo?
I'm rockin' season 4 of House of Cards....it's good.
I got half way through season 1 of Fargo. It was undeniably well done, but it was quite dark. I'm not sure if I am going to finish it. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it. I did, very much so, but I'm not sure if it's suitable.
I felt the same way about House of Cards, as well, actually. I haven't watched the two newest seasons. Didn't he spit on a crucifix?
I've seen all four seasons of House of Cards. Very good. I don't recall Frank spitting on any crucifix. Though I'll admit my memory isn't what it used to be.
Both Fargos were excellent.
Last two seasons were garbage comparably to the first two.
Then again, I basically treated it as a radio drama most of the time.
Quote from: LouisIX on March 26, 2016, 05:43:58 PM
I felt the same way about House of Cards, as well, actually. I haven't watched the two newest seasons. Didn't he spit on a crucifix?
Yes, he did. I remember my sister telling me that she immediately turned off Netflix and never watched House of Cards again, as it had disgusted her that much.
Now watching The Returned.
Just finished season 4 of House of Cards. I was watching Rescue Me but the blasphemy was too much so I stopped. I think I'll watch a couple episodes of Turn: Washington's Spies and see how that is.
Quote from: zork on March 27, 2016, 10:16:25 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 26, 2016, 05:43:58 PM
I felt the same way about House of Cards, as well, actually. I haven't watched the two newest seasons. Didn't he spit on a crucifix?
Yes, he did. I remember my sister telling me that she immediately turned off Netflix and never watched House of Cards again, as it had disgusted her that much.
That's terrible! I remember when Larry David urinated on a picture of Our Lord once, why do these people think this is entertaining? Hellions...
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on March 29, 2016, 06:47:24 PM
Quote from: zork on March 27, 2016, 10:16:25 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 26, 2016, 05:43:58 PM
I felt the same way about House of Cards, as well, actually. I haven't watched the two newest seasons. Didn't he spit on a crucifix?
Yes, he did. I remember my sister telling me that she immediately turned off Netflix and never watched House of Cards again, as it had disgusted her that much.
That's terrible! I remember when Larry David urinated on a picture of Our Lord once, why do these people think this is entertaining? Hellions...
Seems like most modern TV shows are crap. Thank goodness for sports and TMC (Turner Movie Classics).
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on March 29, 2016, 06:47:24 PM
That's terrible! I remember when Larry David urinated on a picture of Our Lord once, why do these people think this is entertaining?
Because Christophobes are the scum of the earth. A pox upon all of them...
Quote from: Ulrich Von Lichtenstein on March 29, 2016, 06:47:24 PM
Quote from: zork on March 27, 2016, 10:16:25 PM
Quote from: LouisIX on March 26, 2016, 05:43:58 PM
I felt the same way about House of Cards, as well, actually. I haven't watched the two newest seasons. Didn't he spit on a crucifix?
Yes, he did. I remember my sister telling me that she immediately turned off Netflix and never watched House of Cards again, as it had disgusted her that much.
That's terrible! I remember when Larry David urinated on a picture of Our Lord once, why do these people think this is entertaining? Hellions...
Here's a hint: Starts with "J" and rhymes with "you!"
Ja Rule? Pronounced the ghetto way "ja roo" of course
Star Trek original series season 3
Season 2 of the BBC's Happy Valley. Very good.
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on March 30, 2016, 01:32:10 PM
Ja Rule? Pronounced the ghetto way "ja roo" of course
How else would you even say his name?
Cmon now. :lol:
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk
Quote from: red solo cup on April 06, 2016, 12:59:25 PM
Season 2 of the BBC's Happy Valley. Very good.
Ive only seen season 1 and I liked it. But I found it kind of weird....the commercial of it made it seem like a comedy almost; Its much darker than that. And of course they kill off a cute girl in ep. 2.....sad Laus.
Season 2 sounda promising. Anyone seen Peaky Blinders?
Seen all the Peaky Blinders. Watch them with the Mrs. It can be a bit melodramatic but it has it's moments.
Another interesting one is Silk. Am I the only one or is the British legal system incredibly confusing? Could one of our English posters explain the difference between a barrister and a soliciter?
Quote from: red solo cup on April 07, 2016, 08:48:21 AM
Seen all the Peaky Blinders. Watch them with the Mrs. It can be a bit melodramatic but it has it's moments.
Another interesting one is Silk. Am I the only one or is the British legal system incredibly confusing? Could one of our English posters explain the difference between a barrister and a soliciter?
One is able to present cases in court, the other is not. (I'm sure there's a better explanation but that's what I remember from A Fish Called Wanda).
11.22.63
I'm hooked.
Quote from: Bonaventure on April 17, 2016, 03:48:19 PM
11.22.63
I'm hooked.
Haven't seen the tv version, but the book is fascinating.
Back to Gilmore Girls again.
Season 2 of Dreamland. It does a great job of portraying the stupidity and frustration of a bureaucracy.
I watched the 60 Minutes special on Morley Safer tonight. I don't watch the show regularly, but they showed quite a few of Morley's stories that I remember having caught over the years.
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
Going to finish the French series Les Revenants Season 2 tonight. Really good show; very eerie, and without horror and gore.
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on March 29, 2016, 03:52:40 PM
Just finished season 4 of House of Cards. I was watching Rescue Me but the blasphemy was too much so I stopped. I think I'll watch a couple episodes of Turn: Washington's Spies and see how that is.
The 1st season was good, but the 2nd went immediately into soft porn, so no thanks.
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
Quote from: erin is nice on May 18, 2016, 05:39:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
Right. There's no sex. But don't watch it with young kids.
Seasons 1-3 of Whitechapel. Nothing to write home about.
Quote from: Maximilian on May 18, 2016, 05:45:53 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 18, 2016, 05:39:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
Right. There's no sex. But don't watch it with young kids.
I finished the series last night... and there are no more until next year! Noooo!
Well, now I'm back to Clannad After Story ;D
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 07:32:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 18, 2016, 05:45:53 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 18, 2016, 05:39:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
Right. There's no sex. But don't watch it with young kids.
I finished the series last night... and there are no more until next year! Noooo!
Did you check the link I posted?
They have 9 "special episodes" plus 3 OVA's plus 2 movies plus a 2-part sequel.
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 07:32:55 AM
Well, now I'm back to Clannad After Story ;D
Most kawai theme song ever.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgyKPQO9g8[/yt]
Quote from: Maximilian on May 19, 2016, 08:53:32 AM
Most kawai theme song ever.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgyKPQO9g8[/yt]
I annoy the mister by insisting we listen to the ending song every episode :lol:
He has been calling me 'bean jam dango' now for a month...
If we're talking anime theme songs...
[yt]2uq34TeWEdQ[/yt]
My favourite anime and my favourite anime intro.
Quote from: Basilios on May 19, 2016, 01:38:38 PM
If we're talking anime theme songs...
[yt]2uq34TeWEdQ[/yt]
My favourite anime and my favourite anime intro.
This is our next series after we finish AOT and Clannad.
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 01:43:41 PM
Quote from: Basilios on May 19, 2016, 01:38:38 PM
If we're talking anime theme songs...
My favourite anime and my favourite anime intro.
This is our next series after we finish AOT and Clannad.
Nice, I think its the best anime made. Perfect IMO. Action, humour, philosophy, emotion (PM me when you're crying for 5 straight days after watching Episode 4 with Nina and when you hear Roy Mustang saying "No, its raining alright"... even thinking about it tears me up).
I hate to sound like a disgusting weeaboo but please only watch the sub. Dubs = shit.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/unh1qLKRgdPXjjKFy2jgMsN9v6SGC8cOnioQ3LEw-c4ZUWfclkmvNey3HXqUz7h-wr82IRvb=w418-h209-p-no)
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 11:42:07 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 19, 2016, 08:53:32 AM
Most kawai theme song ever.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgyKPQO9g8[/yt]
I annoy the mister by insisting we listen to the ending song every episode :lol:
He has been calling me 'bean jam dango' now for a month...
Well, that's sweet. At least he identifies you with the adorable one.
Quote from: erin is nice on May 18, 2016, 05:39:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
I've read that there is an implied lesbian pairing, later confirmed by one of the anime staff members. Although I don't know how relevant is to the story, or the focus on them. I only watched some episodes years ago.
Quote from: Maximilian on May 19, 2016, 08:53:32 AM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 07:32:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 18, 2016, 05:45:53 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 18, 2016, 05:39:55 AM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:39:53 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 17, 2016, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 17, 2016, 07:23:19 AM
I'm almost finished with the anime series Attack on Titan. It is so good, I can't believe there isn't a second season.
It looks like there are a couple of sequels:
http://www.animeplus.tv/anime/search?key=shingeki+no+kyojin&search_submit=Go
I just watched the first episode, and I have to warn people: Not exactly family viewing.
It's very violent and a lot of people get eaten... But other than that...
Right. There's no sex. But don't watch it with young kids.
I finished the series last night... and there are no more until next year! Noooo!
Did you check the link I posted?
They have 9 "special episodes" plus 3 OVA's plus 2 movies plus a 2-part sequel.
Quote from: erin is nice on May 19, 2016, 07:32:55 AM
Well, now I'm back to Clannad After Story ;D
Most kawai theme song ever.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgyKPQO9g8[/yt]
I've read good things about Clannad, how it is?
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
The most safe recommendations would be Studio Ghibli works (although Grave of the Fireflies is not for kids), and World Masterpiece Theater series.
Quote from: Basilios on May 19, 2016, 02:23:25 PM
I hate to sound like a disgusting weeaboo but please only watch the sub. Dubs = shit.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/unh1qLKRgdPXjjKFy2jgMsN9v6SGC8cOnioQ3LEw-c4ZUWfclkmvNey3HXqUz7h-wr82IRvb=w418-h209-p-no)
I don't know what weeaboo means, but I hate dubs — I like to hear the original voices even if I can't understand what they are saying.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on May 20, 2016, 06:50:33 AM
I've read that there is an implied lesbian pairing, later confirmed by one of the anime staff members. Although I don't know how relevant is to the story, or the focus on them. I only watched some episodes years ago.
It is so vague that a lot of people wouldn't even notice (my husband didn't catch it, but I did). And in all the regular 25 episodes, I think it came up twice, and like I said it was extremely subtle.
I love Clannad, but it does have a little suggestive humor (embarrassing a character by implying he's gay, etc, silly high school stuff). Nothing horrible, but I thought I should mention it because some people avoid stuff like that completely. It's very funny at times, and heartbreaking at other times.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
As far as movies go, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are great. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is great as is Summer Wars. A lot of people recommend Akira and Ghost in the Shell as starter movies but I think they're not that great an introduction to anime.
For series, FMA:Brotherhood is the best introduction IMO along with something like Death Note, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan and Cowboy Bepop.
The thing is there is a lot of anime, and a lot of different types. You need to watch a few to decide what you like in the genre. Slice of life, romance, comedy, sport, thriller, weird/philosophy, shonen, seinen... etc.
QuoteI don't know what weeaboo means,
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-Weeaboo
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weeaboo
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
If you're looking for some good comedy, try One Punch Man.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
I am more of a koreaboo than a weeaboo, but my favourite anime is
Moribito: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito (http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito). From what you have posted in the past, we have pretty similar taste, so there is a good chance you will like it too.
On subs vs dubs, I preferred dubs for decades and only recently got into subs. While I did not like them at first, it took me only a few weeks to adjust to them completely. It feels as if I were listening to the characters speaking English.
Quote from: Basilios on May 20, 2016, 07:41:02 AM
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-Weeaboo
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weeaboo
Pretty hilarious.
Never heard these term before, but sounds like me alright.
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
I always recommend "Trapp Ikka Monogatari" (The Trapp Family Story), which is part of the "World Classics" series where the founders of Studio Ghibli got their start.
http://www.animeplus.tv/trapp-ikka-monogatari-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F2598.jpg&hash=6532c437960748652674f4f5a4bbade46600f2a7)
This is where it pays to have kids around so that you have a plausible excuse to watch things like this. "I'm just doing it for the kids." However, I've watched the whole series through twice (with different groups of kids), and really enjoyed it both times.
Right now we are watching "Major." I highly recommend it for anyone who has boys. The first season will have everyone sobbing, both kids and adults. After that it focuses more on baseball and less on drama.
http://www.animeplus.tv/major-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F625.jpg&hash=ca7eb31fb4f720ebac6c29bb4a76de1fe093d22c)
Quote from: Jayne on May 20, 2016, 08:32:12 AM
my favourite anime is Moribito: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito (http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito).
Hmm, not familiar with this one. So you recommend it?
Quote from: Basilios on May 20, 2016, 07:41:02 AM
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is great as is Summer Wars.
Yes, these are both great suggestions.
You can watch them here:
http://www.animeplus.tv/summer-wars-watch-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1432.jpg&hash=1623bc5184af8900f601246926b6940705eb55d5)
http://www.animeplus.tv/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo-movie-watch-online
(https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animeplus.tv%2Fimages%2Fseries%2Fbig%2F1168.jpg&hash=8141be9391100031130a5683c742b63157b1068d)
Lots of good recommendations :).
There is an anime rendition of Ursula Leguin's Earthsea novels, it varies from the source material greatly but is still very good.
I prefer to watch subtitles vs dubs as Dutch dubs can be hard to come by...
G.T.O. Great Teacher Onizuka was pretty good.
My favorite anime movies of all time:
The Wind Rises -- best Miyazaki movie, in my opinion. Loved the symbolism, motifs, character development, artwork, abstract concepts, musical score... Just a brilliant piece of film.
Hotarubi no Mori e (Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light) -- short anime movie. Not as well known, but I guarantee that it's worth watching. The beauty and simplicity of the animation and story were very heartwarming and bittersweet. Really loved this one. Makes you miss your childhood and the blissful simplicity of things like running around in the grass with a mind full of imagination.
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal -- prequel to the TV series. The action, drama, story, character development, and MOOD are awesome if you want something more intense. I really liked the animation style in this; very dark compared to the anime series, and I thought it brought out the bloody historical era very well. It also shows Kenshin as much more human and vulnerable than in the TV series.
Honorable mentions:
Wolf Children
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
5 Cm. per Second
Kakurenbo
As for anime series, my favorite of all time has got to be:
Steins;Gate (dubbed). Dubs usually suck, but the dub for Steins;Gate, in my opinion, was better than the sub, mainly because the dub took a bit more freedom in translation, causing the English to flow better and be more poetic and the jokes to be more clever. The script is probably the strongest element of this anime, and I really, really liked the dub. The sub, for me, was too literal. Translating word for word often doesn't come out right in English, and because of that, I found the sub quite stale. The humor, drama, plot, and romance in this anime was perfect. I am rarely impressed by humor in animes, but I thought the humor in this series was very witty. And rarely do animes make me feel emotional, but this one definitely did in the latter half and upon finish... it's actually one of those animes that you can't get off your mind for a few days after finishing. WARNING: there is some fan service, a tranny character, and some sexual jokes (not recommended for watching with children)...annoying, because otherwise it would have been the perfect anime in my opinion. It starts off a bit slow but definitely gets more fast-paced and intense as the series goes on.
Others:
Clannad: After Story (Season Two to Clannad) is also pretty good. Teared up a bit. However, I didn't like a lot of the side characters (and even to some extent the main female character). I found them a bit cheesy and unbelievable/one-dimensional. You have to watch the First Season to understand the characters' backgrounds, and I found the First Season quite boring. But the second half of After Story was still very good. Season Two is the anime during which a lot of people say they couldn't stop crying.
Attack on Titan started out really good, but as the series went on...filler, filler, filler...(!) and the pace slowed down to unbearable levels. Still enjoyed it though, very fun to watch (albeit traumatizing)...and have been waiting for Season 2 since forever.
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series -- a parody series, made by LittleKuriboh on YouTube. Very hilarious if you watched the real series as a kid. Things that you thought were so COOL and never questioned as a kid are shown to be utterly ridiculous. Best anime satire out there. This series has me cracking up to this very day. Episodes are roughly 4-5 minutes long, so you can binge watch 'em pretty easily.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -- just a good, well-rounded story overall. I agree with Basilios that FMA is probably one of the best anime series (if not the best anime series) in terms of having every element: action, plot, character development, etc., going for it. However, I still put it as #2 after Steins;Gate, because while Steins;Gate isn't as perfect in checking off all the boxes, it evoked much stronger emotions in me. Perhaps this is because I had already watched the original FMA so Brotherhood wasn't as unpredictable...who knows.
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If there are any other ones (aside from the obvious Miyazaki movies) that I forgot about which I really liked, I'll post them.
On a tangent, I recently watched Akira, which is supposedly considered by critics the best anime movie of all time. I thought it was freaking weird. And so did my fiance. It seriously made no sense. It reminded me of modern art, where "experts" are all crowded around praising how original and brilliant it is, when it's just a bunch of paint randomly splattered on a piece of paper. Then again, I could be wrong. I'm no film expert or anything, so maybe I'm missing the revolutionary creativity of the movie.
Quote from: Maximilian on May 20, 2016, 09:01:51 AM
Quote from: Jayne on May 20, 2016, 08:32:12 AM
my favourite anime is Moribito: http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito (http://myanimelist.net/anime/1827/Seirei_no_Moribito).
Hmm, not familiar with this one. So you recommend it?
I had some misgivings before watching since the main character is a female warrior and these are often associated with feminist themes (Western tv shows Buffy and, more recently, Supergirl are good examples), but Moribito was not like that. The hero is given a back story to explain her fighting abilities which are recognized as unusual and even problematic for a woman. She ends up as the protector of a child and develops maternal feelings for him.
It is a fantasy setting so there are spiritual beings involved in the story. This does not bother me in fiction set in alternate universes, but it might be a problem for some.
Quote from: Basilios on May 20, 2016, 07:41:02 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on May 20, 2016, 06:56:45 AM
Hmm... maybe I need to start watching anime. Any suggestions on some starter series'?
Edited to add:
Rewatching Babylon 5
As far as movies go, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are great. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is great as is Summer Wars. A lot of people recommend Akira and Ghost in the Shell as starter movies but I think they're not that great an introduction to anime.
For series, FMA:Brotherhood is the best introduction IMO along with something like Death Note, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan and Cowboy Bepop.
The thing is there is a lot of anime, and a lot of different types. You need to watch a few to decide what you like in the genre. Slice of life, romance, comedy, sport, thriller, weird/philosophy, shonen, seinen... etc.
QuoteI don't know what weeaboo means,
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Becoming-a-Weeaboo
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weeaboo
Yes, Akira and GiTS are not that good for starter anime. Also, as a warning there is some nudity in both of them.
About Gurren Lagann, while I agree that Death Note and Cowboy Bebop work well as introductory anime, that one doesn't seem to be like that, from what I've read (I haven't watched the entire series). Warning: the clothings of the girl protagonist are very immodest.
Quote from: Flora on May 21, 2016, 12:39:56 AM
My favorite anime movies of all time:
The Wind Rises -- best Miyazaki movie, in my opinion. Loved the symbolism, motifs, character development, artwork, abstract concepts, musical score... Just a brilliant piece of film.
Hotarubi no Mori e (Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light) -- short anime movie. Not as well known, but I guarantee that it's worth watching. The beauty and simplicity of the animation and story were very heartwarming and bittersweet. Really loved this one. Makes you miss your childhood and the blissful simplicity of things like running around in the grass with a mind full of imagination.
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal -- prequel to the TV series. The action, drama, story, character development, and MOOD are awesome if you want something more intense. I really liked the animation style in this; very dark compared to the anime series, and I thought it brought out the bloody historical era very well. It also shows Kenshin as much more human and vulnerable than in the TV series.
Honorable mentions:
Wolf Children
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
5 Cm. per Second
Kakurenbo
As for anime series, my favorite of all time has got to be:
Steins;Gate (dubbed). Dubs usually suck, but the dub for Steins;Gate, in my opinion, was better than the sub, mainly because the dub took a bit more freedom in translation, causing the English to flow better and be more poetic and the jokes to be more clever. The script is probably the strongest element of this anime, and I really, really liked the dub. The sub, for me, was too literal. Translating word for word often doesn't come out right in English, and because of that, I found the sub quite stale. The humor, drama, plot, and romance in this anime was perfect. I am rarely impressed by humor in animes, but I thought the humor in this series was very witty. And rarely do animes make me feel emotional, but this one definitely did in the latter half and upon finish... it's actually one of those animes that you can't get off your mind for a few days after finishing. WARNING: there is some fan service, a tranny character, and some sexual jokes (not recommended for watching with children)...annoying, because otherwise it would have been the perfect anime in my opinion. It starts off a bit slow but definitely gets more fast-paced and intense as the series goes on.
Others:
Clannad: After Story (Season Two to Clannad) is also pretty good. Teared up a bit. However, I didn't like a lot of the side characters (and even to some extent the main female character). I found them a bit cheesy and unbelievable/one-dimensional. You have to watch the First Season to understand the characters' backgrounds, and I found the First Season quite boring. But the second half of After Story was still very good. Season Two is the anime during which a lot of people say they couldn't stop crying.
Attack on Titan started out really good, but as the series went on...filler, filler, filler...(!) and the pace slowed down to unbearable levels. Still enjoyed it though, very fun to watch (albeit traumatizing)...and have been waiting for Season 2 since forever.
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series -- a parody series, made by LittleKuriboh on YouTube. Very hilarious if you watched the real series as a kid. Things that you thought were so COOL and never questioned as a kid are shown to be utterly ridiculous. Best anime satire out there. This series has me cracking up to this very day. Episodes are roughly 4-5 minutes long, so you can binge watch 'em pretty easily.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -- just a good, well-rounded story overall. I agree with Basilios that FMA is probably one of the best anime series (if not the best anime series) in terms of having every element: action, plot, character development, etc., going for it. However, I still put it as #2 after Steins;Gate, because while Steins;Gate isn't as perfect in checking off all the boxes, it evoked much stronger emotions in me. Perhaps this is because I had already watched the original FMA so Brotherhood wasn't as unpredictable...who knows.
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If there are any other ones (aside from the obvious Miyazaki movies) that I forgot about which I really liked, I'll post them.
On a tangent, I recently watched Akira, which is supposedly considered by critics the best anime movie of all time. I thought it was freaking weird. And so did my fiance. It seriously made no sense. It reminded me of modern art, where "experts" are all crowded around praising how original and brilliant it is, when it's just a bunch of paint randomly splattered on a piece of paper. Then again, I could be wrong. I'm no film expert or anything, so maybe I'm missing the revolutionary creativity of the movie.
I think one of the reasons that Akira is considered good, has to do with that movie being one of the first ones that was known in the west, also, because it was different from the anime series imported in these years.
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on May 21, 2016, 06:29:34 AM
I think one of the reasons that Akira is considered good, has to do with that movie being one of the first ones that was known in the west, also, because it was different from the anime series imported in these years.
This is worth keeping in mind, absolutely. Another thing about Akira is that it is based on the manga Akira, which is like twelve big thick volumes long. There was no way they were ever going to cram all the stuff in the manga into the anime movie. And without all that detail, the movie is rather disjointed in places.
But as Cesar said, it was one of the first real movies known in the West and it was definitely far and away more sophisticated than Voltron or any of the other robot/mecha series imported during the 70s and 80s.
Quote from: Flora on May 21, 2016, 12:39:56 AM
[/u]Clannad: After Story (Season Two to Clannad) is also pretty good. Teared up a bit. However, I didn't like a lot of the side characters (and even to some extent the main female character). I found them a bit cheesy and unbelievable/one-dimensional. You have to watch the First Season to understand the characters' backgrounds, and I found the First Season quite boring. But the second half of After Story was still very good. Season Two is the anime during which a lot of people say they couldn't stop crying.
The only part that has really made me cry is in the first season when everyone starts to forget Fuko. For some reason that really got to me and I was bawling :lol:
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 07:12:08 AM
The only part that has really made me cry is in the first season when everyone starts to forget Fuko. For some reason that really got to me and I was bawling :lol:
Nowadays everybody wants to talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish and mothertruckers act like they forgot about Fuko.
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Quote from: Flora on May 21, 2016, 12:39:56 AM
[/u]Clannad: After Story (Season Two to Clannad) is also pretty good. Teared up a bit. However, I didn't like a lot of the side characters (and even to some extent the main female character). I found them a bit cheesy and unbelievable/one-dimensional. You have to watch the First Season to understand the characters' backgrounds, and I found the First Season quite boring. But the second half of After Story was still very good. Season Two is the anime during which a lot of people say they couldn't stop crying.
The only part that has really made me cry is in the first season when everyone starts to forget Fuko. For some reason that really got to me and I was bawling :lol:
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
NHL playoffs
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
:lol: I really liked the blue hair.
Purple innit? Maybe I'm colour blind. Mary Beard's documentary on the Romans, shown last Wednesday, watched yesterday.
Quote from: Bernadette on May 22, 2016, 07:41:07 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
:lol: I really liked the blue hair.
Blue was fun too, but purple is really perfect with my green eyes :lol:
I finished the AOT parody specials last night-- so funny if you've watched the whole first season.
I saw a mini series on the plane called Tyrant, on the FX channel. Pretty engaging stuff.
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Quote from: Bernadette on May 22, 2016, 07:41:07 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
:lol: I really liked the blue hair.
Blue was fun too, but purple is really perfect with my green eyes :lol:
I finished the AOT parody specials last night-- so funny if you've watched the whole first season.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warning
Quote from: erin is nice on May 23, 2016, 06:21:59 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on May 22, 2016, 07:41:07 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
:lol: I really liked the blue hair.
Blue was fun too, but purple is really perfect with my green eyes :lol:
I finished the AOT parody specials last night-- so funny if you've watched the whole first season.
Love the purple. :):):)
I, Claudius
Watched something last night on BBC4 on FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Quote from: Greg on May 23, 2016, 07:12:22 AM
I saw a mini series on the plane called Tyrant, on the FX channel. Pretty engaging stuff.
I am looking forward to Season 3. I've seen all the episodes since summer 2014
Quote from: erin is nice on May 22, 2016, 05:53:07 PM
Quote from: Maximilian on May 22, 2016, 03:07:37 PM
What? New photo, but your hair is still purple?
Is that for real? Since you're posting on an anime thread, it almost looks like cosplay.
It's very real. My real life is kind of like cosplay :lol:
You could play a good Bulma, erin is nice. ;D
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Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on May 20, 2016, 06:50:33 AM
I've read that there is an implied lesbian pairing, later confirmed by one of the anime staff members. Although I don't know how relevant is to the story, or the focus on them. I only watched some episodes years ago.
It is so vague that a lot of people wouldn't even notice (my husband didn't catch it, but I did). And in all the regular 25 episodes, I think it came up twice, and like I said it was extremely subtle.
That is becoming more common in recent series. Years ago, these type of characters were villains or comedic characters. Recently, they show more one-sided and implied relationships.
Vertigo.
Quote from: Lynne on May 30, 2016, 09:48:29 AM
Vertigo.
Hey! That's my story. Constant vertigo. It maybe my story, but would like something more unvertigoish.
binge watching Star Trek Enterprise
I started Hunter x Hunter last night!
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Between - Season 2
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1 (Thanks Laus!)
Stranger Things
I've been seeing Tyrant on T.V. for awhile now.
Burned through Empire season 2 last weekend.
Finishing up Elementary.
Started Stranger Things.
Poirot (Netflix). Not bad.
Poldark. :swoon2:
Quote from: zork on August 22, 2016, 11:10:33 AM
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Between - Season 2
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1 (Thanks Laus!)
Stranger Things
No worries man. Awesome show.
For those of you who've watched
Stranger Things how is it?
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 11, 2016, 12:30:19 AM
Quote from: zork on August 22, 2016, 11:10:33 AM
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Between - Season 2
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1 (Thanks Laus!)
Stranger Things
No worries man. Awesome show.
For those of you who've watched Stranger Things how is it?
My daughter and her husband rave about it.
Let's see:
Once Upon A Time
Babylon 5 (Just acquired the first three seaons 2 weeks ago)
Dark Matter
Star Trek (Usually DS9 or Next Gen)
Babylon 5 is one of my favorites.
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 11, 2016, 12:30:19 AM
For those of you who've watched Stranger Things how is it?
The first few episodes were intriguing but then it lost steam.
Blue Jays vs Rays right now. Toronto better pick it up.
Well, now that Tyrant got cancelled, I guess there is nothing good for me to watch. :/
Slowly working my way through these shows:
Stanger Things
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 5
The Walking Dead - Season 6
Random episodes of MST3K
I never binge watch, as I don't have enough patience to sit through TV episode after TV episode.
About to watch JJ Watt and the Texans murder the Pats. Gonna be good.
Also finishing up season 5 of House, M.D. - loved that show but never made it through all 8 seasons, so I'm trying.
Slowing making my way through season 2 of both The Killing and Lillyhammer
Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 22, 2016, 06:21:16 PM
About to watch JJ Watt and the Texans murder the Pats. Gonna be good.
I clearly know what I'm talking about ....
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Quote from: LausTibiChriste on September 22, 2016, 06:21:16 PM
About to watch JJ Watt and the Texans murder the Pats. Gonna be good.
I clearly know what I'm talking about ....
Oh well. :cheeseheadbeer:
New TV is back! Caught some pilots this week. Will most stick with This Is Us and Pitch, but drop Designated Survivor (boring).
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
Quote from: verenaerin on September 24, 2016, 04:34:29 PM
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
I haven't watched this before. I take it you like it?
::)
Quote from: Lynne on September 24, 2016, 04:36:25 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on September 24, 2016, 04:34:29 PM
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
I haven't watched this before. I take it you like it?
::)
You can watch the first Season on Amazon Prime for free. It's the caliber of Pride and Prejudice the BBC version (the only version worth watching). It's based on a book, or maybe books? About a guy who comes back from the Revolutionary War, only to find the girl he was engaged to, marrying another man (his cousin). Also, if you watch the series you will learn about the putrid throat. Now, everytime my sister or I get sick we say we have the putrid throat.
You have to watch it.
ETA- There is one scene, in one episode that is suggestive/ iffy/ you know what's about to happen- it's not very long and easy to skip.
Quote from: verenaerin on September 24, 2016, 04:34:29 PM
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
I binge watched the first season the last time my husband was on a long business trip. I enjoyed it, too! Does the new season come out soon?? I haven't checked in awhile....
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on September 24, 2016, 09:32:16 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on September 24, 2016, 04:34:29 PM
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
I binge watched the first season the last time my husband was on a long business trip. I enjoyed it, too! Does the new season come out soon?? I haven't checked in awhile....
Season 2 starts tomorrow. Not sure where or if it will be on Amazon. Hopefully it will be included in Prime again.
These types of shows are best binged watched.
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Quote from: MundaCorMeum on September 24, 2016, 09:32:16 PM
Quote from: verenaerin on September 24, 2016, 04:34:29 PM
POLDARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in 24 hours.
I binge watched the first season the last time my husband was on a long business trip. I enjoyed it, too! Does the new season come out soon?? I haven't checked in awhile....
Season 2 starts tomorrow. Not sure where or if it will be on Amazon. Hopefully it will be included in Prime again.
These types of shows are best binged watched.
I hope so, too....especially before November. I need a good series for labor!
Poldark is on Masterpiece (PBS).
Quote from: zork on September 19, 2016, 12:23:07 PM
Slowly working my way through these shows:
Stanger Things
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 5
The Walking Dead - Season 6
Random episodes of MST3K
I never binge watch, as I don't have enough patience to sit through TV episode after TV episode.
We LOVED Stranger Things. :)
Quote from: OCLittleFlower on September 26, 2016, 02:45:37 AM
Quote from: zork on September 19, 2016, 12:23:07 PM
Slowly working my way through these shows:
Stanger Things
Trailer Park Boys - Season 1
Bob's Burgers - Season 4
Twilight Zone - Season 5
The Walking Dead - Season 6
Random episodes of MST3K
I never binge watch, as I don't have enough patience to sit through TV episode after TV episode.
We LOVED Stranger Things. :)
I am now exactly halfway through it, and really like it. Piabee said that it loses steam though, at some point. :-\
Watching the Presidential Candidate's Debate tonight at 2am.
Quote from: zork on September 26, 2016, 08:47:24 AM
I am now exactly halfway through it, and really like it. Piabee said that it loses steam though, at some point. :-\
Maybe the pacing works better when you don't binge.
I loved Stranger Things. I didn't feel that it lost steam, either. In fact, I wasn't entirely hooked until after the first two or three episodes but then I was all in.
It didn't lose steam for me at all -- and we "semi-binged" it.
Not saying you're wrong, Piabee, but just that it built up well in terms of tension and followed a normal three act structure to me.
Quote from: Greg on September 26, 2016, 12:40:49 PM
Watching the Presidential Candidate's Debate tonight at 2am.
Yer a grate american.
Quote from: Greg on September 26, 2016, 12:40:49 PM
Watching the Presidential Candidate's Debate tonight at 2am.
Let us know what you think. I watched about 5 minutes but it was so tame, it didn't seem like a debate, more of a friendly discussion. So I turned to the Jays game
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Quote from: Greg on September 26, 2016, 12:40:49 PM
Watching the Presidential Candidate's Debate tonight at 2am.
Yer a grate american.
I just think it MIGHT be a defining moment in history. Just have a sneaky feeling about it.
Really, I find that no one really moved much afterwards
I've been laughing at every other line in Designated Survivor. I don't think they meant it to be a comedy...
Been watching baseball playoffs.
Go Tribe.
Though as long as the Cubbies don't win, I'll be happy.
Quote from: YeOldeFustilarians on October 19, 2016, 04:46:28 PM
Been watching baseball playoffs.
Go Tribe.
Though as long as the Cubbies don't win, I'll be happy.
I was very happy with the Cleveland win. :cheer:
Is the Tribe actually going to the World Series?
Are you sure it isn't TEOTWAWKI?
Fail-Safe.
Always have to watch the end of Fail-Safe.
One night a long time ago I watched that movie alone in the dark. The screeching telephone at the end was very effective.
Dr Who marathon
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!
Been watching the Indians beat on the Cubs.
Hope the Cubs get blown out tonight.
Quote from: Greg on September 27, 2016, 10:52:19 AM
Quote from: Heinrich on September 26, 2016, 09:20:08 PM
Quote from: Greg on September 26, 2016, 12:40:49 PM
Watching the Presidential Candidate's Debate tonight at 2am.
Yer a grate american.
I just think it MIGHT be a defining moment in history. Just have a sneaky feeling about it.
You nailed it Greg.
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Binge watched all four seasons of Luther. Quite good though it gives the impression that London is mostly inhabited by sadistic serial killers.
Quote from: red solo cup on November 20, 2016, 04:40:42 AM
Binge watched all four seasons of Luther. Quite good though it gives the impression that London is mostly inhabited by sadistic serial killers.
Really disappointed with the fourth season though, and the sympathetic normalization of deviancy. Sadly becoming more and more common.
Seasons 1-3 are excellent, though. Idris Elba is something special.
Watched, not watching. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Finished Friday.
Quote from: piabee on November 28, 2016, 03:23:33 PM
Watched, not watching. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Finished Friday.
I could get hooked on that again...
Season 3 of The Fall with Gillian Anderson. Very good.
"When Calls the Heart" Hallmark series. I really like these.
Quote from: piabee on November 28, 2016, 03:23:33 PM
Watched, not watching. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Finished Friday.
Quote from: Lynne on November 28, 2016, 05:56:03 PM
Quote from: piabee on November 28, 2016, 03:23:33 PM
Watched, not watching. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Finished Friday.
I could get hooked on that again...
Watching season 1. Not sure how I missed this the first time around
Quote from: piabee on November 28, 2016, 03:23:33 PM
Watched, not watching. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Finished Friday.
I skimmed. Are they making a second season?
A second season is not confirmed, but it is likely.
My 600 lb life
Up to episode three of The Crown with Claire Foy and Matt Smith. So far, it is excellent.
I've been watching the new Lethal Weapon series because I liked the movies. It's pretty good. It hasn't done anything to annoy me so much that I stop watching yet. Although I suspect it is merely a matter of time.
I'm watching The Crown as well. Can watch it for free on Putlocker.
My wife going a month of Amazon Prime for free as well so I may downloaded the app on the Wii over Christmas and see if there is anything worth watching.
I'm watching 4 seasons of "The Sweeney". It is a UK ITV Cop show from the 1970's.
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Quote from: Greg on December 16, 2016, 07:16:32 AM
I'm watching The Crown as well. Can watch it for free on Putlocker.
What do you think of it so far?
Is the Netflix Medici, Masters of Florence any good?
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Quote from: Greg on December 16, 2016, 07:16:32 AM
I'm watching The Crown as well. Can watch it for free on Putlocker.
What do you think of it so far?
Little slow, but watchable.
I watched "Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective". It was very loosely based on the book, with a completely different characterization for the eponymous hero. In some ways he was more like Dr. Who than Dirk Gently. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I can see it appealing to SF genre fans but I don't expect it to have general appeal. Those who liked "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" (the better known work by the same author) have a good chance of liking this.
Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton. Lots of vulgarity and profanity and some brief nudity. Still reasonably watchable.
Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle. Shudder. Strange how the Nazis in the show never use the word "Jew." :huh:
Quote from: Jayne on December 19, 2016, 03:49:46 PM
I watched "Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective". It was very loosely based on the book, with a completely different characterization for the eponymous hero. In some ways he was more like Dr. Who than Dirk Gently. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I can see it appealing to SF genre fans but I don't expect it to have general appeal. Those who liked "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" (the better known work by the same author) have a good chance of liking this.
I loved it and I can't wait for the next season. I typically find Elijah Wood obnoxious but he was fantastic.
Endless football. It always seems to be football season at my brother house. College yesterday, NFL today.
Walking Dead - season 6
Bob's Burgers - season 5
Twilight Zone - season 5
Watched the first episode of The OA. At one point it suddenly portrayed graphic sex. Come to find out they were supposed to be high school students. Even though the actors may be of legal age, I'm pretty sure to portray them as underage fits the definition of kiddie-porn.
The other problem I had was most of the protagonists were high schoolers. I always find myself wanting to slap them. Too bad because the show was kind of intriguing.
Binge watched the first 4 episodes of Breaking Bad Season 1 last night. I really enjoyed it.
Merely following my philosophy of trailing edge TV (along with trailing edge technology).
Trailing Edge - allowing the passage of time to determine if something is any good and then buying it. This has the advantage that you benefit from all the best stuff and that the price is a lot less.
I am watching Narcos on Netflix.
Very good so far and no faggots in the storyline.
Trouble is, I am beginning to like Pablo Escobar.
Watched some bletchley park or whatever it was on Netflix. Team of four bletchley park women from the war solve crimes and stuff.
Makes for interesting fiction. Similar to a post war Sherlock Holmes, really.
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Quote from: Greg on January 04, 2017, 05:16:38 AM
I am watching Narcos on Netflix.
Very good so far and no faggots in the storyline.
Trouble is, I am beginning to like Pablo Escobar.
I saw you listed as the most recent poster in this thread, and I got
really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of
Sherlock over there. :(
Quote from: clau clau on January 04, 2017, 04:54:46 AM
Binge watched the first 4 episodes of Breaking Bad Season 1 last night. I really enjoyed it.
Merely following my philosophy of trailing edge TV (along with trailing edge technology).
Trailing Edge - allowing the passage of time to determine if something is any good and then buying it. This has the advantage that you benefit from all the best stuff and that the price is a lot less.
I'm a trailing edge kind of person too.
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2017, 08:37:22 AM
I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
Quote from: piabee on January 04, 2017, 12:26:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2017, 08:37:22 AM
I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
That was my take on last season. If is continuing like that, it probably is not even worth watching. The whole thing has become a big in-joke for fans.
Before that I watched the recent TV adaptation of "And Then There Were None," which was also big on atmosphere, but they did it in service to the story and not the other way around.
Quote from: piabee on January 04, 2017, 12:26:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2017, 08:37:22 AM
I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
Wait, what?! Season 4 is out? Hold the phone! :eek:
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Quote from: piabee on January 04, 2017, 12:26:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2017, 08:37:22 AM
I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
Wait, what?! Season 4 is out? Hold the phone! :eek:
Edit: Oooh, this one's based on "The Six Napoleons." :)
Quote from: Bernadette on January 05, 2017, 09:12:59 PM
Edit: Oooh, this one's based on "The Six Napoleons." :)
It's really annoying that I can't remember the plot of that story from the title alone. But if I grab the book and start reading it, I'll instantly remember the whole thing so it's not like I can reread it as if it were a new story.
The thing is, my mind seems to recall the
Six Napoleons as being a Father Brown mystery and not a Sherlock one.
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Quote from: Bernadette on January 05, 2017, 09:12:59 PM
Edit: Oooh, this one's based on "The Six Napoleons." :)
The thing is, my mind seems to recall the Six Napoleons as being a Father Brown mystery and not a Sherlock one.
:shrug: I've never read the Father Brown stories. Planning to, though. :)
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I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
That was my take on last season. If is continuing like that, it probably is not even worth watching. The whole thing has become a big in-joke for fans.
I liked it. :) I'll enjoy watching it over and over (and over and over), picking out all of the little details, like nutmeats. :)
I haven't seen the new Sherlock shows but I have watched quite a few of the ones Jeremy Brett starred in.
Binged the first three episodes of broadchurch.
It's a bit long.
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Medici Masters of Florence. Not great. Not awful. Just meh. Fair number of inaccuracies.
Giants vs green bay
Quote from: Chestertonian on January 08, 2017, 04:15:59 PM
Giants vs green bay
GO PACK GO
:D
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Sherlock. All the Sherlock. Eventually I'll break down and get them on DVD, but why bother when streaming is available? :lol:
Quote from: Bernadette on January 08, 2017, 10:59:39 PM
Sherlock. All the Sherlock. Eventually I'll break down and get them on DVD, but why bother when streaming is available? :lol:
Which Sherlock series is the best in your opinion?
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Quote from: Bernadette on January 08, 2017, 10:59:39 PM
Sherlock. All the Sherlock. Eventually I'll break down and get them on DVD, but why bother when streaming is available? :lol:
Which Sherlock series is the best in your opinion?
I've always been partial to series 3. I love the wedding episode the best. :) This current episode reminds me of "The Abominable Bride": it's as though the viewer is inside Sherlock's
brain! :o Which I love, since there's so much going on in there! :lol:
Season Two of Call Saul. Better than the first.
Quote from: Bernadette on January 08, 2017, 10:59:39 PM
Sherlock. All the Sherlock. Eventually I'll break down and get them on DVD, but why bother when streaming is available? :lol:
Gah! I wasn't expecting another episode so soon! It's like Christmas all over again! :cheer: :swoon:
Quote from: red solo cup on January 10, 2017, 04:40:27 AM
Season Two of Call Saul. Better than the first.
That's good to hear. I'm a few episodes into the first. It's not bad but seems a bit confused and plodding. But Gilligan's an excellent story teller so I'm sure he has something up his sleeve.
Manhatten
The new Gaffigan, Cinco. Everything you would expect from him.
C'mon, guess. :grin:
:o Whoa. That was incredibly disturbing. :o :o Stop the ride, please, I'm not enjoying it anymore!
Binge watching Poirot
Not on TV per se, but I just got done watching the first episode of The Young Pope.
Picked up Ohisama again, over on Drama.net. Interesting to see what daily life was like during the war, also the dynamic between a bride an her in-laws. So different. My grandma really was ahead of her time.
Quote from: Jayne on January 04, 2017, 01:04:37 PM
Quote from: piabee on January 04, 2017, 12:26:04 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 04, 2017, 08:37:22 AM
I got really excited, thinking that you were watching the new season of Sherlock over there. :(
I watched it here on PBS. It was okay. The recent episodes have abandoned the concept of a logical plot for the sake of atmosphere and frenetics.
That was my take on last season. If is continuing like that, it probably is not even worth watching. The whole thing has become a big in-joke for fans.
Episode 2 was better. I might have a chance to watch episode 3 this weekend. Bernadette didn't like it?
Restarted Suits and watching The Crown
Quote from: piabee on January 20, 2017, 01:35:35 AM
Episode 2 was better. I might have a chance to watch episode 3 this weekend. Bernadette didn't like it?
Bernadette most certainly did not like it. :( I couldn't suspend my disbelief
that much, and it was just...
disturbing. So I'll just never watch it again, and pretend it was never made. :lol:
^ I liked it. She's Samara from The Ring!
The part that really freaked me out was the part about "Redbeard." Gah. :ack: :hide: I definitely prefer the "old Redbeard." Waaay less creepy.
Going to watch "When Calls the Heart". A new season has started already.
Quote from: martin88nyc on January 23, 2017, 02:57:24 PM
Going to watch "When Calls the Heart". A new season has started already.
Oooooh,
Canadian pioneers. ;D Watching!
Gah! A Mountie! :lol:
Quote from: Bernadette on January 23, 2017, 08:32:05 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on January 23, 2017, 02:57:24 PM
Going to watch "When Calls the Heart". A new season has started already.
Oooooh, Canadian pioneers. ;D Watching!
Gah! A Mountie! :lol:
I better not sense any sarcasm Miss
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Hey hey back down ;)
Jack is a cool Mountie alright ;D
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Quote from: Bernadette on January 23, 2017, 08:32:05 PM
Quote from: martin88nyc on January 23, 2017, 02:57:24 PM
Going to watch "When Calls the Heart". A new season has started already.
Oooooh, Canadian pioneers. ;D Watching!
Gah! A Mountie! :lol:
I better not sense any sarcasm Miss
Stand down, Laus. My favorite (intelligent, virtuous) college professor was Canadian, and had formerly been a Mountie. So I like them for his sake. Plus, those uniforms! :thumbsup:
Well, I love Canadians so much that I married one. :P
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 12:18:20 PM
Well, I love Canadians so much that I married one. :P
Wow. That takes the cake, I'd say. ;D
Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta on January 27, 2017, 12:18:20 PM
Well, I love Canadians so much that I married one. :P
Smart choice :canada:
Watching vintage Family Feud at the moment. Gotta love leisure suits and polyester.
Frontier on Netflix about the Hudson Bay Company. Lots of violence and profanity. Tried to give it a chance but gave up after 5 episodes. The writing was pretty bad. I find it hard to believe Indians in the 1700's used the word paranoid etc.
A Series of Unfortunate Events. :lol:
I'm almost fully caught up on the current shows I watch, which is surprising. So I went back to season 4 of Person of Interest for variety.
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
ETA for you Sherlock Holmes fans:
QuoteFather Brown is a Catholic who pokes fun at the mechanical thought processes of the Protestants and the book is basically an apologia of the Roman Church as against the Anglican Church. Sherlock Holmes is the 'Protestant' detective who finds the end of the criminal skein by starting from the outside, relying on science, on experimental method, on induction. Father Brown is the Catholic priest who through the refined psychological experiences offered by confession and by the persistent activity of the fathers' moral casuistry, though not neglecting science and experimentation, but relying especially on deduction and introspection, totally defeats Sherlock Holmes, makes him look like a pretentious little boy, shows up his narrowness and pettiness. Moreover, Chesterton is a great artist while Conan Doyle was a mediocre writer, even though he was knighted for literary merit; thus in Chesterton there is a stylistic gap between the content, the detective story plot, and the form, and therefore a subtle irony with regard to the subject being dealt with, which renders these stories so delicious.
-Antonio Gramsci
Quote from: Hat And Beard on February 02, 2017, 09:36:02 AM
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
Must find. :swoon:
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Like you, I'm watching Breaking Bad. I'm halfway into season 4 now. Not sure why it's so popular among folks in this forum, beyond it being entertaining in general. I appreciate the "ordinary" approach the show takes, right down to the plain-looking actors.
Besides that, I mentioned elsewhere that I watched the entire Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra earlier this summer. Definitely one of the best animated shows ever, and is better than most live-action shows for adults. I recommend it to everybody.
Couldn't find an intro for the original series, but this is the second series' one.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLyJtI-ZeM[/yt]
I've also been watching a series called Copper, which is an unusual hybrid of the police procedural and the period drama. It's set in New York City in the year 1865, so it's basically Gangs of New York: The Series... except from a cop's perspective, of course.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMWhtjgmC3U[/yt]
I have watched all of
Avatar: The Last Airbender and
The Legend of Korra. The first series was pretty well done. The second failed to live up to the first. I mean it was interesting to see the connections to the original series and certain new things revealed, but it lacked character development, some substance to the story, and depth. Plus, at the very end, it seemingly promotes a liberal agenda. The first series had more of a traditional feel to it with a traditionally Asian cultural setting.
Quote from: Bernadette on February 02, 2017, 12:02:45 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on February 02, 2017, 09:36:02 AM
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
Must find. :swoon:
http://putlockers.ch/watch-father-brown-tvshow-online-free-putlocker.html
but use a good adblocker or someting to block pop ups.
Arthur Weasley is Father Brown. ;D
Quote from: martin88nyc on February 02, 2017, 08:10:20 PM
Arthur Weasley is Father Brown. ;D
He's the best part, especially in the later seasons when a lot of the other regulars leave.
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Quote from: Hat And Beard on February 02, 2017, 09:36:02 AM
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
Must find. :swoon:
http://putlockers.ch/watch-father-brown-tvshow-online-free-putlocker.html
but use a good adblocker or someting to block pop ups.
Martin you Rock.
And, Hat&Beard, thank you for the very pithy critique.
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Quote from: Bernadette on February 02, 2017, 12:02:45 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on February 02, 2017, 09:36:02 AM
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
Must find. :swoon:
http://putlockers.ch/watch-father-brown-tvshow-online-free-putlocker.html
but use a good adblocker or someting to block pop ups.
Martin you Rock.
And, Hat&Beard, thank you for the very pithy critique.
:toth: You can watch almost everything on putlocker these days. Who needs netflix. Well the quality of the video is not the best but come on we cannot expect everything fo fweeee.
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Quote from: Bernadette on February 02, 2017, 12:02:45 PM
Quote from: Hat And Beard on February 02, 2017, 09:36:02 AM
The BBC Father Brown. Not as faithful to the Chesterton series as you would like, but still pretty awesome.
Must find. :swoon:
http://putlockers.ch/watch-father-brown-tvshow-online-free-putlocker.html
but use a good adblocker or someting to block pop ups.
I hate using other computers simply because they don't have adblock. ublock origin is great.
The latest from Bill Burr. Not great but it had it's moments.
Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.
Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix. Not great. Not awful. Occasional chuckle. Some profanity but no nudity.
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Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.
Hmm... now I need to find the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood. And then Danny Kaye and the Court Jester. :):):)
The Paradise, historical drama about Britain's first department store. I'm watching it for the costumes. :lol:
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Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.
Hmm... now I need to find the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood. And then Danny Kaye and the Court Jester. :):):)
Here you go :toth:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23xvcx_the-adventures-of-robin-hood-1938_shortfilms (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23xvcx_the-adventures-of-robin-hood-1938_shortfilms)
The Collection on Amazon Prime. A drama about a post-WWII fashion house in Paris. Lots of intrigue about what people did or didn't do to survive during the war. Good acting and writing. Unfortunately one of the main characters is a faggot and you have to endure him kissing other men and some brief frontal nudity. If you can get around that, it's a pretty good watch.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn1y1-nTouM[/yt]
Oh. Whoa. :eek: I'd watch that right now, but I think I need to...prepare myself for it. :eek: In a good way. :)
I'm watching more sports than I ever have in my life, now that I have my dad living with me. I've been watching a lot of basketball lately. I'm like a real fan, with a team that I cheer for and a favourite player and everything.
Quote from: Jayne on February 28, 2017, 06:55:44 AM
I'm watching more sports than I ever have in my life, now that I have my dad living with me. I've been watching a lot of basketball lately. I'm like a real fan, with a team that I cheer for and a favourite player and everything.
hahaha I've grown to love a lot of sports. It's better (cleaner) than a lot of the junk that's on TV now. I'm excited to be heading into the baseball season.
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Baseball!!!!!
GO BREW CREW!
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Quote from: Jayne on February 28, 2017, 06:55:44 AM
I'm watching more sports than I ever have in my life, now that I have my dad living with me. I've been watching a lot of basketball lately. I'm like a real fan, with a team that I cheer for and a favourite player and everything.
This is so sweet. It reminds me of when I was little, and decided that I loved the Oakland Raiders (
and grape jelly :lol:) best, because my dad did. :)
So that's all you have to do to get Kaese's attention, Lynne? There's a secret that should have been shared ages ago. :lol:
We've been watching 'Desperate Hours'. Tonight, for us, was Nuclear Meltdown and Sea Voyages gone awry. Just what you want to watch before you go to bed. ::)
Quote from: dymphna17 on February 28, 2017, 08:16:58 PM
So that's all you have to do to get Kaese's attention, Lynne? There's a secret that should have been shared ages ago. [emoji38]
We've been watching 'Desperate Hours'. Tonight, for us, was Nuclear Meltdown and Sea Voyages gone awry. Just what you want to watch before you go to bed. ::)
Packers, wisconsin, Milwaukee, Dominicans, beer, brewers...
These are a few of my favorite things...
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^ I only thanked this for the Dominicans and the Sound of Music reference. ;)
Tudor Farm with Ruth Goodman on YouTube, it's a 6 part series. She also did Victorian farm, which is great as well. It is a BBC histodocumentary in real life played out. Pretty neat.
Quote from: Ascetik on March 01, 2017, 10:43:57 AM
Tudor Farm with Ruth Goodman on YouTube, it's a 6 part series. She also did Victorian farm, which is great as well. It is a BBC histodocumentary in real life played out. Pretty neat.
I love that one - is my favorite of all the "farm" series.
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So that's all you have to do to get Kaese's attention, Lynne? There's a secret that should have been shared ages ago. :lol:
:laugh:
Oh and kk... go Yankees!
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So that's all you have to do to get Kaese's attention, Lynne? There's a secret that should have been shared ages ago. [emoji38]
[emoji23]
Oh and kk... go Yankees!
No.
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Quote from: Ascetik on March 01, 2017, 10:43:57 AM
Tudor Farm with Ruth Goodman on YouTube, it's a 6 part series. She also did Victorian farm, which is great as well. It is a BBC histodocumentary in real life played out. Pretty neat.
She also did Tales from the green valley (set in the earliest time period), Edwardian farm, wartime farm, and Victorian pharmacy. Then there are the two "Victorian garden" series (kitchen and ornamental) that have real PEOPLE who actually remember using the techniques and doing the things shown, and a combined "Wartime" series, with the same people. And the two Welsh "coal house" series, where modern people live like colliery workers and their families. Quite a "range" of styles in presenting social history. :)
Just finished season 4 of BBC's Ripper Street. Very good.
Quote from: red solo cup on March 03, 2017, 04:39:01 AM
Just finished season 4 of BBC's Ripper Street. Very good.
Tell me that this is a historical drama about Jack the Ripper. Because that's
really what my mind wants to think that it is. :lol:
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Quote from: red solo cup on March 03, 2017, 04:39:01 AM
Just finished season 4 of BBC's Ripper Street. Very good.
Tell me that this is a historical drama about Jack the Ripper. Because that's really what my mind wants to think that it is. :lol:
It takes place in Whitechapel right after the last ripper murder. The clothes and language are accurate to the period.
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We download Designated Survivor and 24 Legacy. Really enjoying both.
Monk. Some kind of marathon. It's been too long! ;D I wish I could find it online to stream (to tide me over until I can convince myself to buy the DVDs, used).
Manor House
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on March 12, 2017, 01:24:38 PM
Manor House
This is one of my favorite of the "House" series, though all of the British ones have been excellent. American: makes me sort of ashamed to be an American, actually, watching how those people are presented. :-\
Paranoid on Netflix. Very good.
Ohisama "The Sun". Long, detailed "daily serial" (literally asadorama: "morning drama") type drama, about life in small-town Japan during the War. Young woman marries the son of a soba-shop owner, and lives with his family as a model daughter-in-law while he's off fighting. Really impresses upon the viewer how the whole country was caught up in the war. :'( Interesting perspective. I wish there was a similar drama set in a larger city, so I could get a better idea of what my grandma's life was like at the time. Also very helpful for me personally, because it focuses on duty, virtue, and optimism. :thumbsup: Maximilian, this one's definitely recommended!
Edit: Plus...I just want all of Yoko's clothes. :lol: Monpei, kimono, Western-style 40s clothes...all of 'em. :P
Quote from: Bernadette on March 16, 2017, 11:49:02 PM
Ohisama "The Sun". Long, detailed "daily serial" (literally asadorama: "morning drama") type drama, about life in small-town Japan during the War. Young woman marries the son of a soba-shop owner, and lives with his family as a model daughter-in-law while he's off fighting. Really impresses upon the viewer how the whole country was caught up in the war. :'( Interesting perspective. I wish there was a similar drama set in a larger city, so I could get a better idea of what my grandma's life was like at the time. Also very helpful for me personally, because it focuses on duty, virtue, and optimism. :thumbsup: Maximilian, this one's definitely recommended!
Thanks. Found it here:
http://www.gooddrama.to/japanese-drama/ohisama
Bookmarked it for later.
Trapped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NpcxhECnM
Note from Kaese (imagine green text, on mobile) theres a pretty unnecessary sex scene (and dude's bare butt) in two different scenes in this trailer. The sex is like 2:30 into the trailer. Typical for "the media."
Watching Series 2 of Fargo on Netflix. Very good. Some of the best TV I have seen in years.
Season 1 Hand of God. Meh.
Oops, thought this was the Youtube thread. :/
Great British Baking Show
Dateline had a special on the Laci Peterson case. Lots of details I'd forgotten or never knew.
Rewatching portions of the Brideshead Revisited mini-series. Still great after all these years.
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Today, the kids and I laughed watching the loudhouse cartoon :-)
watchedstranger things with my wife but she got scared so we hasto stopwayching
Just finished House of Cards Season 5. Reasonably entertaining but marred by the gratuitous sex scenes.
Seasons 1 and 2 of The Detectorists. A BBC series about two members of a metal detecting club whose dream is to find a Sutton Hoo-type treasure. Typical English comedy. Low key, wry, self-deprecating. Rather enjoyable.
New York 1900 (In Color)
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4_BkHi-vi4[/yt]
Why I dislike people who use the F word. It's not what you think.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFFBBFqe-E[/yt]
Just got on the "This is Us" bandwagon.
I count Netflix as TV, and I just binged through Stranger Things.
What a show.
Recently finished the John Adams mini series and The People Vs OJ Simpson ... both fantastic!
I loved the John Adams series.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on July 25, 2017, 03:39:40 AM
I count Netflix as TV, and I just binged through Stranger Things.
What a show.
Amen. Good old fashioned scary.
Season 2 clip
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2RGaDBfwI[/yt]
Seasons 1-3 of The Churchmen on Netflix. This was a French production with English subtitles. It follows 5 seminarians studying in Paris. They committed pretty much every sin there is. One slept with his dead brothers wife. Two were active homosexuals. One slept with a lesbian and payed guitar in a band that sang extremely vulgar lyrics. They all felt vaguely guilty but not once did the show come out and say what the Church's stance was or why what they were doing was wrong. The pope was portrayed as ignorant and corrupt as was most of the hierarchy. It was mostly infuriating but had a soap opera quality that made one want to see what would happen next.
Last Chance U
Investigation Discovery channel's A Crime to Remember shows some pretty interesting (yet tragic) historical murders that have happened within the past hundred years. They showed the one about the 1966 UT Austin tower shooting. There was another about a guy in the 1950s who placed a bomb in his overbearing mother's luggage to kill her, but it also ended up killing other passengers onboard. No laws were made concerning such a case before.
So much Longmire
Seasons 1 and 2 of Shetland on Netflix. Not bad. The islands are beautiful though the lack of trees is disturbing. I don't know if their portrayal of the weather is accurate but I've yet to see a sunny day. The show is very low key. So low that by the second hour I tend to fall asleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzeo0gxLVA
The Killing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSCH9y2NcU
It's amazing how Seattle looks exactly like Vancouver.
Ken Burns' The Civil War.
Just finished re-watching Jericho.
Anne With an E. The screenwriters certainly took plenty of liberties with the plot. ::)
True Detective
Great show
Every series about Colombian drug-lords on Netflix.
El Chapo, Narcos, etc.
The actor who played Escobar in Narcos is Brazilian, and therefore is a native Portuguese speaker. He had to learn Spanish for the role. Let that sink in as you watch it.
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Love a good period drama. :)
Quote from: Bernadette on September 14, 2017, 06:16:58 PM
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Love a good period drama. :)
Ive seen this.
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Quote from: Bernadette on September 14, 2017, 06:16:58 PM
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Love a good period drama. :)
Ive seen this.
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Dude... that and the Princess Bride?
Cranford (via Amazon).
Quote from: Bernadette on September 17, 2017, 07:17:34 PM
Cranford (via Amazon).
Have you seen Lark Rise to Candleford? Similar to Cranford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbbl0
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on September 18, 2017, 07:03:11 AM
Quote from: Bernadette on September 17, 2017, 07:17:34 PM
Cranford (via Amazon).
Have you seen Lark Rise to Candleford? Similar to Cranford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbbl0
No, I haven't seen that. Looks good. :)
Quote from: Bernadette on September 18, 2017, 09:47:27 AM
Quote from: maryslittlegarden on September 18, 2017, 07:03:11 AM
Have you seen Lark Rise to Candleford? Similar to Cranford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbbl0
No, I haven't seen that. Looks good. :)
My mom watched that show and I caught a few episodes. It was nice. :)
My brother and I have a running joke about that show where we have created a made-up pastoral town named Larkford. My brother came up with its full name--Larkford, in the Land of Plenty on the Edge of Forever, a Small Town with a Dark Secret--and we use it to dream up weird Gothic scenarios for what the townfolk would have to keep secret.
Nvm.
The final season of Downton Abbey. Like all the others very good.
The Crown. Absolutely amazing
Quote from: Bernadette on September 17, 2017, 07:17:34 PM
Cranford (via Amazon).
Season 1 of 6 - so far, do you find it historically accurate, AF?
Season 5 of Ripper Street. I guess this is the final season as they tidied up all the loose ends. And did a pretty poor job of it, imo.
The Crown on Netflix. Very good.
Quote from: red solo cup on October 08, 2017, 06:45:03 PM
The Crown on Netflix. Very good.
Claire Foy deserves every award she's gotten or will get for her Elizabeth.
Season 1 of Mindhunter. Not bad. The guy who played Ed Kemper really nailed it. Check out this side by side comparison of the actor and the real thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYBmNYc8IA
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
My parents have my TV.
Nowadays, though, the only thing I really watch on TV is football on Sundays, if that.
Life's a bit too busy for it, and I can fritter my time away in other ways... :lol:
(Oh, and the Netflix got cancelled, RIP).
Manhunt on Netflix.
The Code on Netflix. Lucy Lawless is aging well.
Elementary.
Tin Star with Tim Roth. Not bad. The Canadian Rockies are spectacular.
I watched the first couple episodes of "The Good Doctor". It was enjoyable.
Just finished watching "War & Peace" miniseries. Wonderful. Really enjoyed it. Beautiful production. BBC is much better than any other American counterpart. They really make solid TV dramas.
John Adams on Prime. Ok I guess but Laura Linney's watery-eyed simpering in every episode began to grate.
LeCarre's The Night Manager on Prime. Very good.
Season 2 of The Crown on Netflix. Not as good as Season 1 but still a good watch.
Indian Detective on Netflix. Meh.
Godless on Netflix starring Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey). Some brief nudity but still very good.
Decided to ditch Netflix for good. For a while it seemed like they had no overarching agenda to push homosexual subplots and so I could watch a show without needing to worry about skipping over main characters sodomizing each other, but after some online research today it very much appears Netflix are following the BBC in their determination to push and normalise turd burglars at every opportunity.
Not prepared to pay them to be propagandized. Not that I am paying, (our nanny is).
Might have to start watching Russian movies with subtitles.
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Decided to ditch Netflix for good. For a while it seemed like they had no overarching agenda to push homosexual subplots and so I could watch a show without needing to worry about skipping over main characters sodomizing each other, but after some online research today it very much appears Netflix are following the BBC in their determination to push and normalise turd burglars at every opportunity.
Not prepared to pay them to be propagandized. Not that I am paying, (our nanny is).
Might have to start watching Russian movies with subtitles.
I agree. :eek:
I gave up on Western entertainment and switched to South Korean TV with subtitles. And I started to learn Korean.
BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Quote from: Bernadette on January 03, 2018, 06:50:28 PM
BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Father Brown is Father Dowling in Britain, minus Sister Steve, but plus a village full of quirky English. I watched two episodes and then said no more.
Tonight I watched The X-Files. This season actually promises to go somewhere. :D
La Mante on Netflix. Not bad. Lots of French angst.
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BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Father Brown is Father Dowling in Britain, minus Sister Steve, but plus a village full of quirky English. I watched two episodes and then said no more.
Tonight I watched The X-Files. This season actually promises to go somewhere. :D
No they actually made new series and they are quite enjoyable. I love the actor who plays Fr. Brown. And yes they have changed the stories a lot but at least you don't get bored.
The Frozen Dead on Netflix. Not bad.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell on Netflix. Vey good. Much better than the book.
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BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Father Brown is Father Dowling in Britain, minus Sister Steve, but plus a village full of quirky English. I watched two episodes and then said no more.
Tonight I watched The X-Files. This season actually promises to go somewhere. :D
No they actually made new series and they are quite enjoyable. I love the actor who plays Fr. Brown. And yes they have changed the stories a lot but at least you don't get bored.
The stories are always salacious and Father Brown seems rather ecumenical... :(
Been on a West Wing kick for awhile.
Tried to watch Altered Carbon on Netflix. Looked promising but got dumber and dumber as it went along.
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Quote from: Bernadette on January 03, 2018, 06:50:28 PM
BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Father Brown is Father Dowling in Britain, minus Sister Steve, but plus a village full of quirky English. I watched two episodes and then said no more.
Tonight I watched The X-Files. This season actually promises to go somewhere. :D
No they actually made new series and they are quite enjoyable. I love the actor who plays Fr. Brown. And yes they have changed the stories a lot but at least you don't get bored.
The stories are always salacious and Father Brown seems rather ecumenical... :(
Yes I have noticed that by now, especially his toleration of "voodoo"
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Quote from: martin88nyc on January 09, 2018, 03:45:47 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 03, 2018, 09:56:59 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on January 03, 2018, 06:50:28 PM
BBC's Father Brown series. They've changed the stories quite a bit. :-\
Father Brown is Father Dowling in Britain, minus Sister Steve, but plus a village full of quirky English. I watched two episodes and then said no more.
Tonight I watched The X-Files. This season actually promises to go somewhere. :D
No they actually made new series and they are quite enjoyable. I love the actor who plays Fr. Brown. And yes they have changed the stories a lot but at least you don't get bored.
The stories are always salacious and Father Brown seems rather ecumenical... :(
Yes I have noticed that by now, especially his toleration of "voodoo"
Oh brother! I was disappointed because I liked all the characters but the storylines are bad...
Babylon Berlin. Not bad. Good for practicing your German. Watching Stalinists killing Trotskyites is always enjoyable.
I was watching some Olympics here and there, but I'm not as invested to go out of my way to watch it.
I do love watching curling, though.
Quote from: Kaesekopf on February 27, 2018, 10:47:40 AM
I was watching some Olympics here and there, but I'm not as invested to go out of my way to watch it.
I do love watching curling, though.
really? I never liked it but they sound funny when they sweep the ice. ;)
I love hockey, biathlon, speed skating, figure skating and ski jumping.
Also half pipe snowboarding is pretty "cool"
Just finished The Frankenstein Chronicles, seasons 1 and 2 on Netflix. Melodramatic and dumb. Nice to see Boromir though.
Wolf Hall from Masterpiece Theatre on Prime. Excellent.
To find decent movies one must do a certain amount of winnowing. This weeks chaff from Netflix.
Suburra: Blood on Rome. The very first scene was an orgy. That took care of that. Plus it was dumb.
Money Heist. Even worse than Suburra if that's possible.
J Edgar. DiCaprio wasn't bad but like the protagonist the movie was a self righteous bore.
Elizabeth I with Helen Mirren. Not bad.
red solo cup, have you seen the documentary series Wild Wild Country on Netflix? I think if you watch the first episode you'll be able to determine whether you want to watch all six. I thought it was fascinating in a "truth is stranger than fiction" way, and binge-watched it over the course of two days. I remember the food poisoning story in the news but none of the rest of it. My favorite interviewee was a guy who looks like he could be David Crosby's runty little brother in overalls, but in the end he comes out as the sole voice of reason. This review (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/wild-wild-country-the-mindboggling-story-of-the-cult-next-door/555791/) got me watching it.
I remember this guy collected Rolls'. Certainly worth a look.
DoNovAn with Tom Conti. Not bad. Lots of plot twists.
The Terror on AMC, based on the Franklin Expedition.
Has anyone watched the BBC War and Peace? I just watched part of the first episode so far, not sure if I'm a fan.
Quote from: kayla_veronica on April 05, 2018, 02:49:07 PM
Has anyone watched the BBC War and Peace? I just watched part of the first episode so far, not sure if I'm a fan.
It feels very British rather than Russian. Not terribly authentic, but still fun to watch, was my conclusion. Good to serve as an introduction to Tolstoy for kids who might find Sergei Bondarchuk's version intimidating.
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Has anyone watched the BBC War and Peace? I just watched part of the first episode so far, not sure if I'm a fan.
It feels very British rather than Russian. Not terribly authentic, but still fun to watch, was my conclusion. Good to serve as an introduction to Tolstoy for kids who might find Sergei Bondarchuk's version intimidating.
We started Sergei's version last night! Love it so far.
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Has anyone watched the BBC War and Peace? I just watched part of the first episode so far, not sure if I'm a fan.
It feels very British rather than Russian. Not terribly authentic, but still fun to watch, was my conclusion. Good to serve as an introduction to Tolstoy for kids who might find Sergei Bondarchuk's version intimidating.
We started Sergei's version last night! Love it so far.
A great classic.
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I was thinking about putting this video clip in another post I am considering making, but I will share it here also. I never liked Citizen Kane except for this one short story. Off the top of my head in my opinion it is the only part of the movie really worth watching, but it is so brilliant I think that these short few seconds make watching the whole movie worthwhile. Perhaps there are other great parts of "The Greatest Movie Ever Made TM" that I don't remember right now but this is what I always remember and love about the movie. And I love Orson Welles, though when I want to get my Orson Welles fix I would rather watch The Third Man and not Citizen Kane.
Oops, I posted this in the wrong thread, this should be in the youtube thread, not the TV one. Sorry, but it is too late to change.
My Mother and other Strangers. Very good but I'm surprised the BBC couldn't come up with a single actor who could do a credible Ulster accent.
Requiem. OK I guess but the ending was really lame. Can't believe I invested 6 hours in it.
Charite. Set in 1888 Berlin. Showed the first steps in finding a cure for diphtheria and tuberculosis. Very good.
I haven't had a TV for ten years. The only time I watch TV is if I'm in hospital, or if I'm in a pub with enough TVs that I can watch hockey or a CFL game without irritating the other patrons.
Rocky Mountain Vet on Nat Geo. Great aerial scenes of Colorado Springs.
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Charite. Set in 1888 Berlin. Showed the first steps in finding a cure for diphtheria and tuberculosis. Very good.
Sanitation and diet. Indigenous peoples never encountered TB until they would switch off whatever native diet they had to food's traded with Europeans. This includes various European groups themselves that were isolated, such as in the Hebrides.
Season 3 of Narcos. Even better than the first two.
The Tunnel Season 1. Very good. Once I realized the French detective was autistic, everything made sense.
The Tunnel Season 2. Very good marred only by the obligatory lesbian scene.
A Very English Scandal with Hugh Grant. Amusing. Thorpe was portrayed as quite a cad.
Season 1 Broadchurch.
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Season 1 Broadchurch.
Isn't that the show with the pretty detective?
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It's the woman from the Evil Vicar video by Mitchel and Webb. Olivia Coleman. There were pretty detectives in Safe and The Tunnel.
Season 2 Broadchurch.