What are you watching these days?
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I've been watching "Camelot." The show itself isn't that great. The characterization of Merlin is awesome though. Showing him as a tortured man who has no qualms but also reluctant to use all his abilities is brilliant.
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Okay, for some reason, in GoT Payne looks like he is trying not to burst out laughing.
It kind of ruins the mood.
EDIT: Okay, these guys need WoW-style floating names or something. Apparently even professional reviewers can't keep them straight.
It kind of ruins the mood.
EDIT: Okay, these guys need WoW-style floating names or something. Apparently even professional reviewers can't keep them straight.
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DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
I tried to watch the first episode and made it about 15 minutes in before I turned it off. It was not my thing. The scenes were gratuitously bloody, there was nothing about the plot that particularly interested me, and the world didn't set itself apart enough for me to notice.echoVanguard wrote:The show.Kaelik wrote:The show or the books?echoVanguard wrote:I'd be interested in hearing what some of the TGD female posters thought of Game of Thrones.
echo
PS: Why women specifically?
I saw an interesting article on io9 claiming that "HBO's Game of Thrones is a show for girls" based on the argument that it was all about interpersonal relationships and steamy unmentionables. Since a large percentage of tabletop gamers are GRRM readers in my experience, I was curious if any members of TGD's "girl squadron" had an opinion which I could compare with that of the article.
echo
If the show was made for women, it was made for women who would already be watching it.
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Trying and failing to watch some of my childhood favourites . . space 2063 for example, or Space Precinct . . can't believe i loved bravestar and saber rider as a child ._.
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So, apparently Ghost is not mute in the show. It's a shame, because being completely and utterly silent seriously upped his credentials as Jon's ominous enforcer, even if his only vocalizations to date are direwolf for "Nice throat you have there, shame if something happened to it."
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
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Yeah, I can remember precise dialogue for scenes in the book and I still can barely keep them straight in the show.Swordslinger wrote:Yeah, that's my main issue with GoT, I really don't know what all the characters names are.name_here wrote: EDIT: Okay, these guys need WoW-style floating names or something. Apparently even professional reviewers can't keep them straight.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
So, latest episode of A Game Of Thrones is called A Golden Crown. Readers of the books know what that means.
Also: That was painful-looking.
Oh, and Grey Wind missed his first major awesome moment, I am disappointed greatly.
Also: That was painful-looking.
Oh, and Grey Wind missed his first major awesome moment, I am disappointed greatly.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
Darn, reading that makes me dangerously close to getting HBO.
That said, things to be moving along fast, just how many episodes have there been already, 12, tops? Seems like that's not enough to get to that state in the book.
That said, things to be moving along fast, just how many episodes have there been already, 12, tops? Seems like that's not enough to get to that state in the book.
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I'm pretty sure A Golden Crown is episode 6. And things have been moving along fairly quickly, but coverage has still been pretty thorough. I'm pretty sure the season will only have like 10-12 episodes overall.
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Do note that each episode is 55 minutes and has no commerical breaks, so it's moving faster than you might expect. Also, they've trimmed down the dialogue and sliced out minor characters/given lines to different characters.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
Okay, Grey Wind makes up for his earlier missed scene in a scene where the Greatjon decides to chew out Robb a second time, and Grey Wind makes a disappointed sound when the Greatjon backs off before losing more fingers to direwolf. Ghost, unfortunately, blows his "Spot the zombie!" check and gets literally shut out of the climax at the wall. Also, everyone gets on their "Oh Shit" faces when Sam points out the corpses are undecayed. It's nice to know that at least one plot thread contains no idiots. Oh, and some dude talks smack about Dany in front of Khal Drogo with predictable results.
Also, Syrio Foyel does not run in this episode.
Also, Syrio Foyel does not run in this episode.
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DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
So I just finished watching the first season of "Sherlock."
Steve Moffat's is one of the best writers/showrunners ever.
From his very early career to now, he's put out outstanding stuff.
Coupling, 2002+ Dr. Who, Jekyll, Sherlock, and apparently he's gonna be penning the Tintin trillogy films.
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Sherlock Holmes is like the quintessential bunny-ears lawyer in the new series. A mix of Alan Shore and Gregory House. THe show is set in modern-day London rather than Doyle's original setting.
John Watson is an Afghanistan vet and he keeps a blog.
Overall, the show is awesome. Also for people who've read Doyle's Holmes, there are a whole lot of subtle references.
Also Martin Cumberbatch (Sherlock) is a pretty awesome actor.
Also, it seems as though only the English could have a name that salacious and not have anyone joke about it.
Steve Moffat's is one of the best writers/showrunners ever.
From his very early career to now, he's put out outstanding stuff.
Coupling, 2002+ Dr. Who, Jekyll, Sherlock, and apparently he's gonna be penning the Tintin trillogy films.
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Sherlock Holmes is like the quintessential bunny-ears lawyer in the new series. A mix of Alan Shore and Gregory House. THe show is set in modern-day London rather than Doyle's original setting.
John Watson is an Afghanistan vet and he keeps a blog.
Overall, the show is awesome. Also for people who've read Doyle's Holmes, there are a whole lot of subtle references.
Also Martin Cumberbatch (Sherlock) is a pretty awesome actor.
Also, it seems as though only the English could have a name that salacious and not have anyone joke about it.
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Ess dropped that into our Netflix queue a couple of days ago. Your review will speed up my watching of it.
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Steve Moffat is... OK, certainly better than many, if not most TV writers.Cynic wrote:Steve Moffat's is one of the best writers/showrunners ever.
...but
Everything he writes is Press Gang..
His new Sherlock Holmes? About a mildly sociopathic genius who saves the day.
His take on Doctor Who? A mildly sociopathic genius who saves the day.
Press Gang? A mildly sociopathic genius, well, who is the core of the story at least, saves the day when applicable.
It's like everything he writes is just Lynda traveling through time and space being brilliant solving crime and being socially oblivious.
I mean hell go look at http://www.stevenmoffat.net/ that's... an awful lot of Press Gang considering it's vintage...
And in summary. Steven Moffat IS Press Gang.
Edit: He apparently also did the Jeckyl mini series. A story about a sociopathic super man who saved the day.
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So, what's decent at the movies lately?
I've heard people joke Super 8 is just E.T with more lens flare, and a buddy at work said "Yeah, it's E.T. trying to be badass."
Has anyone watched the new Pirates? X-Men? Green Lantern?
I enjoy a good spectacle as much as anyone, but Dad wants to go see something for Father's Day and I'm trying to get some kind of idea of what's good and what's not.
Because I can't snark a movie with Dad as much as I can with, say, my sister.
I've heard people joke Super 8 is just E.T with more lens flare, and a buddy at work said "Yeah, it's E.T. trying to be badass."
Has anyone watched the new Pirates? X-Men? Green Lantern?
I enjoy a good spectacle as much as anyone, but Dad wants to go see something for Father's Day and I'm trying to get some kind of idea of what's good and what's not.
Because I can't snark a movie with Dad as much as I can with, say, my sister.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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Pirates: mostly crap.
X men: Pretty okay, mostly only three actors do a good job, but two of them are Magneto and Xavier, so you are good to go. Plus, I think they do a really good job showing how they got to this point, and they reject both Wolverine Origins, and Last Stand as non canonical. Though that only really matters to nerds.
Green Lantern: Utter Shit, do not see this movie. Ever.
X men: Pretty okay, mostly only three actors do a good job, but two of them are Magneto and Xavier, so you are good to go. Plus, I think they do a really good job showing how they got to this point, and they reject both Wolverine Origins, and Last Stand as non canonical. Though that only really matters to nerds.
Green Lantern: Utter Shit, do not see this movie. Ever.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
I honestly thought Thor was excellent. I wasn't expecting all that much, but I really enjoyed it. The effects were good, and Natalie Portman was attractive. The best parts were probably
1) Kenneth Branagh really imbued the story with a Shakespearean gravitas. Which totally works.
2) For Asgard and the Rainbow Bridge thingy, they used actual pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope and such. It's really, really pretty.
X-men, on the other hand, just seemed to lack something to me and the people with which I saw it. Everything seemed in place to make for an enjoyable summer movie, but I just feel like the film never came together. I kept waiting to care about the characters, or to be excited by the plot, and then the film ended. And Beast looks like total shite. On the other hand, one of my friends is preparing to go see it for a third time. Although she might just be doing it because she finds McAvoy and Fassbender insanely attractive.
1) Kenneth Branagh really imbued the story with a Shakespearean gravitas. Which totally works.
2) For Asgard and the Rainbow Bridge thingy, they used actual pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope and such. It's really, really pretty.
X-men, on the other hand, just seemed to lack something to me and the people with which I saw it. Everything seemed in place to make for an enjoyable summer movie, but I just feel like the film never came together. I kept waiting to care about the characters, or to be excited by the plot, and then the film ended. And Beast looks like total shite. On the other hand, one of my friends is preparing to go see it for a third time. Although she might just be doing it because she finds McAvoy and Fassbender insanely attractive.
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Wow, I actually thought Pirates and Green Lantern were pretty good.
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x-men was pretty good. much lower budget than the previous films but definitely better than wolverine origins and x-3.
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Green Lantern was actually really good.
Why do you say it was bad? It was actually the closest to how I actually remember Green Lantern's origin kinda being.
Sinestro, the Yellow rings, Hal's ring having a famous lineage.
I thought it beat the smack off of Xmen for continuity and holding to the story.
Why do you say it was bad? It was actually the closest to how I actually remember Green Lantern's origin kinda being.
Sinestro, the Yellow rings, Hal's ring having a famous lineage.
I thought it beat the smack off of Xmen for continuity and holding to the story.