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Post by Bogatan on Jul 24, 2011 14:31:26 GMT
Its just turned into standard US TV with the occasional breast. I can see why it wasn't renewed. For a second there along with Game of Thrones I thought we would have 2 great telefantasies in one year.
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Post by blueshift on Jul 24, 2011 14:35:21 GMT
I am sure I should not have been laughing as much as I did during that episode.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 24, 2011 14:55:39 GMT
Hm, agreed re: last night's episode. ( Morgan wasn't in it.  ) Still, only two left to go (a two-parter), so might as well stick with it to the end I think. Martin |
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Post by legios on Jul 24, 2011 19:43:04 GMT
Courtesy of my rental service I have just spent the last few weeks mainlining the last few seasons of The Shield (and when I say mainlining, I was up till midnight on Saturday because I was so gripped that I wanted to keep going with the last season). Fantastic stuff, which just goes with the momentum and inevitability of a freight train.
I am rather impressed with the line they managed to walk with their characters - having main protagonists who are by any reasonable definition evil, making them the centre of the show and yet having the show resoundingly condemn their (im)moral choices. That is a hard line to walk but most of the time they pull it off very well indeed. The characterisation is brilliantly drawn as well - everyone has shades, aspects and duality to them and it is perhaps those contradictions which really drive so much of the show. There are so many times that events surprised me, but felt inevitable in retrospect, a tribute to the strength of the writing.
A fantastic cast, a great looking show (I think I am going to borrow Clark Johnson's "embedded camera" description for that "the audience is a part of the scene" style of shooting). One the one hand I am sad to have reached the end of it, on the other I am delighted that it has such a proper and fitting end. Not enough shows want or are afforded the chance to end at the right moment and in the right way.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2011 21:09:56 GMT
I watched the film 'Shutter Island' in which a cop goes to an eeeeeeeevil insane asylum on an island to investigate a patient's disappearance. I can see what it was going for and it's very watchable (Ben Kingsley in particular) but doesn't quite work. Passed a couple of hours ok though.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 31, 2011 22:32:15 GMT
Just caught up on episode 7 of Camelot. Morgan really needs to grow an moustache that she can twirl whenever she's being evil. She spends the episode being randomly evil. Episodes 6 & 7 were utterly dull and I really have no desire to watch the remaining 3 episodes. I may just abandon it and start watching Game of Thrones.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2011 20:29:44 GMT
So I watched 'The Wrestler'. Godarned that movie is depressing. Well acted and all, but 'darn' as the kids say.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 2, 2011 12:01:59 GMT
I enjoyed the Wrestler, but yeah it's a bit bleak and the saddest thing is, it's not far removed from the fate of many a pro-wrestler.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2011 19:28:08 GMT
Oh, indeed, and everything that happens is relevant to the story and all but darn what a downer.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2011 0:42:18 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 0:44:13 GMT
Saturn 3!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2011 0:47:51 GMT
and............
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 0:48:56 GMT
Battle Beyond the Stars.
Wooo
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2011 0:50:21 GMT
I hope you're not being rude about one of the greatest films ever made!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 0:51:02 GMT
I love it! And rue the fact I cannot purchase it on DVD!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 0:54:59 GMT
I hope you're not being rude about one of the greatest films ever made! Who? Me? Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2011 0:56:14 GMT
Robert Vaughan!
George Peppard!!
How can you go wrong?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 0:58:16 GMT
Burns needs Turnbull to record both of these mighty cinematic treats.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 1:00:27 GMT
It's not a bad film as such but I don't hold it in any great esteem.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 1:01:38 GMT
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
YOU HAVE BROKEN THE GESTALT!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 1:03:26 GMT
I think your conduct at the Oxfam events did that!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 1:04:34 GMT
I will end you!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 1:07:55 GMT
Hollow threats.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 9:19:08 GMT
When I make you read the most dreadful Marvel comic of all (Illuminator) you will scream for mercy!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 15:06:01 GMT
I've read Dark Minds before.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 19:24:06 GMT
This is worse.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2011 21:07:21 GMT
That I doubt.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 21:10:36 GMT
THREAD DRIFT ALERT!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2011 21:52:19 GMT
Horizon is back on Monday
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2011 22:04:06 GMT
Oh good. I do enjoy that, especially when that cheery Japanese chap is talking about space things.
-Ralph
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