[Aptorian]

Not sure what Discovery channel is like in the US but in Denmark it's pretty much nothing but Reality shows about people fishing, hunting, logging and what ever else. I imagine Shark Week is just a week of idiots in a reality show trying to find a megalodon or catch a Great White with a boat and equipment they made themselves out of sea trash.

Seeing what Discovery channel has become saddens me. Watching Discovery channel in the 90s is what inspired my love of history, sci-fi, science, etc. Arthur C Clarks show was amazing.

[Malankazooie]

Seduce Goose, on 23 July 2017 - 03:42 AM, said:

Not sure what Discovery channel is like in the US but in Denmark it's pretty much nothing but Reality shows about people fishing, hunting, logging and what ever else. I imagine Shark Week is just a week of idiots in a reality show trying to find a megalodon or catch a Great White with a boat and equipment they made themselves out of sea trash.

Seeing what Discovery channel has become saddens me. Watching Discovery channel in the 90s is what inspired my love of history, sci-fi, science, etc. Arthur C Clarks show was amazing.

Yep, nailed it. That's pretty much it.

[Malankazooie]

Another SDCC trailer, this time for Star Trek: Discovery. This is going to be on CBS All Access? What is that?

[Aptorian]

I started watching True Blood. This show is fun.

I see what people were talking about in regards to the sex stuff. This show is a hairs breadth away from being a show on Playboy Channel. But it's very well written and well acted, as one expects from an HBO show. The characters are entertaining and the dialogue is fun.

I wonder where this show is going. I actually have no idea what the series is supposed to be about. Vampires and Psychics? Is it just the every day life of people in a supernatural world or are they going to introduce some kind of drama later on?

I suspect this vampire guy, Bill, is going to be bringing some kind of Vampire drama to the town.

[worry]

I dunno about that show. It looks like Entourage but with football.

The Insecure S2 premiere was tonight too though. Pretty hilarious, especially once a certain minor character joins the party.

[Aptorian]

Finished Season 1 of True Blood. This is a strange show. I feel like it's a clusterfuck of pretty different ideas. It's a horror story about a serial killer murdering women who fucked vampires, it's a love story, that wants to both be romantic but also explicitly pornographic. It's a story about drug abuse. There's some pretty funny race and class discussion going on, etc. It's all combined pretty well but it feels like a mess.

I sort of got the vibe from the show that it was modelled after Urban Fantasy books of the time. Vampire romance, werewolf people, low key magic, etc.

Looks like there will be some kind of Witchcraft focus in the second season.

[Abyss]

Seduce Goose, on 24 July 2017 - 05:52 PM, said:

Finished Season 1 of True Blood. This is a strange show. I feel like it's a clusterfuck of pretty different ideas. It's a horror story about a serial killer murdering women who fucked vampires, it's a love story, that wants to both be romantic but also explicitly pornographic. It's a story about drug abuse. There's some pretty funny race and class discussion going on, etc. It's all combined pretty well but it feels like a mess.

I sort of got the vibe from the show that it was modelled after Urban Fantasy books of the time. Vampire romance, werewolf people, low key magic, etc.

Looks like there will be some kind of Witchcraft focus in the second season.

FTFY.


The first few seasons are actually pretty good. It's everything you think, and some of it is handled better and some worse.

It falls apart in the last two seasons, but is worth getting there.

[acesn8s]

Seduce Goose, on 24 July 2017 - 05:52 PM, said:

Finished Season 1 of True Blood. This is a strange show. I feel like it's a clusterfuck of pretty different ideas. It's a horror story about a serial killer murdering women who fucked vampires, it's a love story, that wants to both be romantic but also explicitly pornographic. It's a story about drug abuse. There's some pretty funny race and class discussion going on, etc. It's all combined pretty well but it feels like a mess.

I sort of got the vibe from the show that it was modelled after Urban Fantasy books of the time. Vampire romance, werewolf people, low key magic, etc.

Looks like there will be some kind of Witchcraft focus in the second season.

Couldn't tell if you were serious or not, but here's link to the series of books the show was based off of.

https://en.wikipedia...mpire_Mysteries

[Malankazooie]

NBC begins airing a show tonight called Midnight, Texas which is based on the same author's books: http://urbanfantasy....t,_Texas_series.

I'm not going to watch it, but what what I've seen from previews it is a lot like True Blood, i.e. sexy vampires and werewolves and other monster types hooking up and hiding there secrets and stuff. Since it's on NBC, it will be tamed way down from something you would find on HBO.

[Aptorian]

acesn8s, on 24 July 2017 - 08:08 PM, said:

Seduce Goose, on 24 July 2017 - 05:52 PM, said:

Finished Season 1 of True Blood. This is a strange show. I feel like it's a clusterfuck of pretty different ideas. It's a horror story about a serial killer murdering women who fucked vampires, it's a love story, that wants to both be romantic but also explicitly pornographic. It's a story about drug abuse. There's some pretty funny race and class discussion going on, etc. It's all combined pretty well but it feels like a mess.

I sort of got the vibe from the show that it was modelled after Urban Fantasy books of the time. Vampire romance, werewolf people, low key magic, etc.

Looks like there will be some kind of Witchcraft focus in the second season.

Couldn't tell if you were serious or not, but here's link to the series of books the show was based off of.

https://en.wikipedia...mpire_Mysteries

Well, there you go. I thought it shined through in the way the season has an over arching plot and elements that might be construed as chapter openings and chapter endings.

[acesn8s]

Seduce Goose, on 25 July 2017 - 04:31 AM, said:

acesn8s, on 24 July 2017 - 08:08 PM, said:

Seduce Goose, on 24 July 2017 - 05:52 PM, said:

Finished Season 1 of True Blood. This is a strange show. I feel like it's a clusterfuck of pretty different ideas. It's a horror story about a serial killer murdering women who fucked vampires, it's a love story, that wants to both be romantic but also explicitly pornographic. It's a story about drug abuse. There's some pretty funny race and class discussion going on, etc. It's all combined pretty well but it feels like a mess.

I sort of got the vibe from the show that it was modelled after Urban Fantasy books of the time. Vampire romance, werewolf people, low key magic, etc.

Looks like there will be some kind of Witchcraft focus in the second season.

Couldn't tell if you were serious or not, but here's link to the series of books the show was based off of.

https://en.wikipedia...mpire_Mysteries

Well, there you go. I thought it shined through in the way the season has an over arching plot and elements that might be construed as chapter openings and chapter endings.

I read the books, they are ok. Sookie isn't as Mary Sue as Anita Blake and her web of admirers isn't as complex either.

[Aptorian]

I think Sookie is an amazing protagonist, mainly because of how pure she is. There doesn't seem to be a bad bone in her. In another story that might be tedious or even nauseating but the way it's played off the shitty people surrounding her, makes it interesting.

I especially enjoyed this aspect of her in the first few episodes, where she would get visibly upset when somebody was being lewd. It was fun hearing her tell a vampire something to the effect of "I'm not that kind of girl and you will not speak to me in such a way". Very southern, very proper. It's fun.

She also seems to be almost fearless. Several times in the show she faces off against the vampires and she always stays her ground. She speaks her mind, demands respect and sort of acts the way you would in front of an aggressive dog. She's not the sharpest character but she has heart.

This post has been edited by Seduce Goose: 25 July 2017 - 12:49 PM

[Abyss]

Seduce Goose, on 25 July 2017 - 12:47 PM, said:

I think Sookie is an amazing protagonist, mainly because of how pure she is. There doesn't seem to be a bad bone in her. In another story that might be tedious or even nauseating but the way it's played off the shitty people surrounding her, makes it interesting.

I especially enjoyed this aspect of her in the first few episodes, where she would get visibly upset when somebody was being lewd. It was fun hearing her tell a vampire something to the effect of "I'm not that kind of girl and you will not speak to me in such a way". Very southern, very proper. It's fun.

She also seems to be almost fearless. Several times in the show she faces off against the vampires and she always stays her ground. She speaks her mind, demands respect and sort of acts the way you would in front of an aggressive dog. She's not the sharpest character but she has heart.

Yeah, when Paquin as Sookie was awesome, she was really really awesome.


It just seemed as tho as the show wound down they kind of lost the ability to write her as anything other than indecisive or depressed.

The show also suffered from a wholly silly need to give supporting characters their own storylines which usually had nothing at all to do with the 'main' Sookie storylines and frequently were just awful.I know in tvland this is simply a function of needing to fill X episodes with Y minutes and spend Z dollars on fx, salaries, sets, etc and frequently the writer or writers' room are scrambling, its just that it shows. Badly.

[QuickTidal]

Oh gods, I don't know if I could ever do it. I really didn't like TP back when it came out, and I'm not fond of David Lynch in general...

[Abyss]

You're obviously not taking enough of the correct drugs.

[Itwæs Nom]

I've just finished 2nd season of Twin Peaks, gonna watch Fire Walk With Me tonight

I love it

[Silencer]

I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1. Loved that show as a kid, though far too often it was on a bit late for 7/8 year old me to catch. Having an absolute blast seeing it all again, and in order and to completion this time too. The show has something that just makes it stand up to the test of time, and I am a bit depressed that there haven't been nearly as many solid sci-fi shows that deliver like Stargate did. Part of it is the cast, they have great chemistry, and part of it is the fact that they're very genre savvy and self-aware, part of it is the fact that half the time the antagonist of an episode is a virus, disease, computer failure, whatever, instead of an actual physical threat. I'm especially fond of the fact that 90% of the time, if there is something "wrong" with one of the cast (sick, cloned, turned into a host, trapped in a simulation, whatever) they notice usually really quickly. They might not figure it out completely, but they almost always start thinking something is "off" in a timely manner.
I'd also forgotten how (comparatively) well the show handles social issues - aside from the obvious lampshade hangings on things like the Prime Directive, they regularly point out the Unfortunate Implications of, say, the higher ups wanting to sneak back onto a planet and continue mining operations against the will of the resident "descendants" of Native Americans there, alongside reoccurring themes of slavery and false gods, etc. It ain't perfect, to be sure, but it has its moments and does a lot more than many other shows in that area. And I'm still back in season 1/2/3 territory, so this was 1997-2000.

And no, I didn't know it was the 20th anniversary before I started watching, but I guess that's a nice coincidence. XD

[QuickTidal]

Silencer, on 27 July 2017 - 03:46 PM, said:

I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1. Loved that show as a kid'

Loved that show as a kid

Loved that show as a kid

Loved that show as a kid

Loved that show as a kid

Loved that show as a kid

I am old.

[Silencer]

I was wondering how long it would take to get that reaction.

If it makes you feel any better, QT, I'm moderately concerned that I am getting close to 30.



(Muahahahahahhahah)

[QuickTidal]

Silencer, on 27 July 2017 - 04:02 PM, said:

I was wondering how long it would take to get that reaction.

If it makes you feel any better, QT, I'm moderately concerned that I am getting close to 30.



(Muahahahahahhahah)

It doesn't, but I appreciate the effort. LOL