[QuickTidal]

MERLIN Series 4 episodes 2 AND 3 made both Mrs. QT and myself misty eyed.

Seriously this show is firing on all pistons.

[Abyss]

AIR JAWS APOCALYPSE - fuck me like a south African baby seal but i do so love Shark Week on Discovery.

[QuickTidal]

Rumors from Neil Cross himself about a spin-off of LUTHER concentrating on Alice.....which would be...silence of the lambs-ish I'm sure...though I'm not sure how a show without the amazing Idris Elba would do...

[Sir Thursday]

I've recently been watching a shortlived TV series from 2008 called The Middleman. It's hilarious in a comic-book-based, reference-filled, smart-talking kind of way. Highly recommended. Only 12 episodes, but many good ones in there.

ST

[worry]

Yah I've been meaning to finally watch that. The lady from it has been showing up on a few things lately (most notably Parks & Rec, and The Newsroom), and she's quite fetching in an Amanda Peet meets Rosario Dawson kind of way.

[Abyss]

GRIMM is back and it's awesome. Just watched the S2 premiere.

[QuickTidal]

I've still got to watch Season 1 of it...but I am excited to do so.

[amphibian]

Abyss, on 20 August 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

GRIMM is back and it's awesome. Just watched the S2 premiere.

They really did do a great job with the opener - every plot thread was at least briefly dealt with and a few more possible avenues for the characters opened up. Most of the actors seem much more comfortable in their roles too and were delivering the story well.

Also, the GRIMM make-up artists and set design people are really pushing the agenda with the gore and dead bodies. It might be not be super-realistic, but it is very visual and striking. This is not a lighthearted show.

[Sir Thursday]

worrywort, on 19 August 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:

Yah I've been meaning to finally watch that. The lady from it has been showing up on a few things lately (most notably Parks & Rec, and The Newsroom), and she's quite fetching in an Amanda Peet meets Rosario Dawson kind of way.

Mmm. It also stars Brit Morgan...much to like .

If I had to attempt a description, I'd call it a cross between Men in Black (basic plot), Pushing Daisies (dialogue) and Chuck (influences/references). It's such a shame it was left to languish on the ABC Family channel - seems like the sort of thing that could have grown quite a following if they'd put it on primetime. There was a fair amount of (hilarious and intentionally censored) swearing in it, so it didn't really seem like a show for kids.

ST

[Slow Ben]

Just got he ole lady's parents HBO GO password. Started season two of GoT earlier, now starting season 2 of East Bound and Down while he better halfs Skypeing. Up next, The Wire!
Score!!!

[McLovin]

With trepidation, have started Season 1 of GoT.

Four eps in. It's good, and Mrs McLovin appears to enjoy it, but I find myself almost continuously biting my tongue at the discrepancies between the book and the show. Also jarring to hear how different the pronunciation of certain things are from the way I believed. Since GRRM himself is one of the showrunners, I guess I have to defer to the show. Though I would swear "maester" being pronounced my-ster conflicts with an interview I read many years ago, where IIRC GRRM specifically said it was pronounced may-ster. Maybe he changed his mind.

[QuickTidal]

McLovin, on 27 August 2012 - 01:25 PM, said:

With trepidation, have started Season 1 of GoT.

Four eps in. It's good, and Mrs McLovin appears to enjoy it, but I find myself almost continuously biting my tongue at the discrepancies between the book and the show. Also jarring to hear how different the pronunciation of certain things are from the way I believed. Since GRRM himself is one of the showrunners, I guess I have to defer to the show. Though I would swear "maester" being pronounced my-ster conflicts with an interview I read many years ago, where IIRC GRRM specifically said it was pronounced may-ster. Maybe he changed his mind.

This is actually a character facet as opposed to improper pronunciation...you will find that certain people on the show call them Mayster's and others call them Mysters...it seems to be a dialect thing, which I like....it's just like we do in life....potatoe potahto...

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Watching Collection Intervention on Syfy. Seeing people with thousands of toys/collectibles that they are too OCD to get rid of without help...well, it makes me feel somewhat better about my rather large book collection. God bless hoarders for being slightly more obsessive than I am.

[McLovin]

QuickTidal, on 27 August 2012 - 03:25 PM, said:

This is actually a character facet as opposed to improper pronunciation...you will find that certain people on the show call them Mayster's and others call them Mysters...it seems to be a dialect thing, which I like....it's just like we do in life....potatoe potahto...

Let's call the whole thing off.

[Slow Ben]

The ole lady talked me into start watching True Blood.

Only a couple episodes in so far, but i'm diggin it.

[Abyss]

Just finished Breaking Bad S3.
Holy Methfuck, yo.

[Morgoth]

So, is Breaking Bad something I can watch with Sarah you think?

[amphibian]

Morgoth, on 12 September 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

So, is Breaking Bad something I can watch with Sarah you think?

It's kind of like The Wire, but with a much smaller and mostly white set of characters. Very intensely focused on Walter White who is a somewhat unsympathetic anti-hero.

Pivoting to a different topic - I am now fully caught up on Futurama and True Blood.

Futurama is starting to slide a little into Bender being the main character in Season 7A, but the jokes are still strong and quite often, the story is touching AND funny. My favorite episode is easily Fun On A Bun, which is the Oktoberfest one, with Bots And The Bees and Farewell To Arms coming in second and third. Naturama was gloriously nutty and brought home how well the writers can do gross/funny/touching in the Futurama-specific way.

The fifth season of True Blood was phenomenally fresh and to me, corrected the errors of the last season, while pushing the story far forwards into the eventual end-game. All of the main characters performed well and the episodic plotting worked here - even with Edginton and Salome being largely unphysical bad guys. Andy and Jason remain the heart and soul of Bon Temps and seeing them get real plotlines with real complexity while staying funny was awesome. Seeing Terry's Iraq experience come back to haunt him and Arlene was great. I'm glad Alcide isn't part of the Sookie love merry-go-round anymore, as Sookie getting all that action was really making her story drag down into "I don't caaaaaare" territory.

[Morgoth]

My main problem with True Blood was how genuinely unsympathetic Sookie is. Sarah likes to rant about how American television seems only capable of presenting strong female characters as incredibly bitchy, and Sookie is a prime example.

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 12 September 2012 - 02:01 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 12 September 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

So, is Breaking Bad something I can watch with Sarah you think?

It's kind of like The Wire, but with a much smaller and mostly white set of characters. Very intensely focused on Walter White who is a somewhat unsympathetic anti-hero.

I think it's brilliant tv and the situations and characters are such that i think any reasonably intelligent viewer is likely to be intrigued. I can't speak to enjoyment because that's personal taste but if - Morgoth - you're asking in the sense of 'is this couple viewing?' then all i can say is i've been watching it w the Ladybyss and she's as addicted as me, pun intended.

amphibian, on 12 September 2012 - 02:01 PM, said:

Pivoting to a different topic - I am now fully caught up on ...True Blood.
...
The fifth season of True Blood was phenomenally fresh and to me, corrected the errors of the last season, while pushing the story far forwards into the eventual end-game. All of the main characters performed well and the episodic plotting worked here - even with Edginton and Salome being largely unphysical bad guys. Andy and Jason remain the heart and soul of Bon Temps and seeing them get real plotlines with real complexity while staying funny was awesome. Seeing Terry's Iraq experience come back to haunt him and Arlene was great. I'm glad Alcide isn't part of the Sookie love merry-go-round anymore, as Sookie getting all that action was really making her story drag down into "I don't caaaaaare" territory.

I agree with you in some respects. The main vamp plotline was good fun, interesting and well executed and while Bill's character shift was a bit random, it did make sense in the end. Edginton chewed scenery every chance he got and it was joyous to behold.

Where i take issue is with most of the other plotlines. I liked Tara's and Pam's. I was ok w Hoyt even if it was too drawn out. Sam had some good developments and finally started to see the potential in what he can do and stop being a perpetual victim. Alcide's was ok, tho after the first bit he veered away from everyone else to the story's detriment.

But Andy's plotlines were irritating. So was Terry's. Lafayette's started interesting and went nowhere. Jason wandered around undergoing
randon character shifts.

And then there's Sookie....

Morgoth, on 12 September 2012 - 02:56 PM, said:

My main problem with True Blood was how genuinely unsympathetic Sookie is. Sarah likes to rant about how American television seems only capable of presenting strong female characters as incredibly bitchy, and Sookie is a prime example.

...and we'll add incessantly whiny.

Sook's plotlines went nowhere good. It felt like one big setup for next season with little actually happening. I get why she distanced herself from Bill and Eric but in the process they expected her to carry her own chunk of the show and she failed. the most interesting things hapening in Sookie's plotlines happened to other people (Tara, Edginton, the Elder).

I'm still on board for S6 becaue there was more good than bad, but there was a fair chunk of bad this season.



New Fall season is rolling out... as far as new shows go THE LAST RESORT intrigues me enough to give it a look altho i suspect the concept can't carry it for the season.

ARROW.. well... if it's like SMALLVILE i'm out. If its an arrogant millionaire shooting people with arrows than i'm in.

REFOLUTION.. i'll try but frankly i really think it's this season's TERRA NOVA.


On the returning front while GRIMM is already rolling and nicely so...

Am hideously psyched for FRINGE.

Also DEXTER.

Less so but still in for PERSON OF INTEREST.

Am in for WALKING DEAD but honestly last season really dissappointed me and it will have to do better to hold my interest.


Am not bothering with OUAT. I get why people like it but no. Just no.