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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 2, 2019 22:56:58 GMT
The X-Files, season 1. Episodes 1 & 2. Random thoughts....did I mention they both look like babies? So much about the beginning I had forgotten. CSM right there with episode one. I had forgotten Jerry Hardin was there at the start as Mulder's Deep Throat informer. Seth Green in episode two. Vancouver! Oh Canada. Veteran character actor Charles Cioffi as their first FBI overseer. The tone is kind of wonky in those first couple of episodes but one can very much see the seeds being planted. Ah, Fox Friday nights in 1993 when Bruce Campbell in The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. was supposed to be the big hit and this weird little show about aliens & the FBI was very much the "B" feature. Funny how things work. You can see the Kolchak: The Night Stalker influence all over the place but I also think X-Files may have been the first series to really start processing what Twin Peaks had done for, and to, TV just a few years earlier.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 2, 2019 23:01:54 GMT
Night Gallery: Season 3, Episodes 14-15 - Series finale! What a weird bunch of stories. Firstly some lady leaves her fiance at the altar to go live on a boat with some Spanish dude. Cue voodoo revenge. Poorly written and bizarre. Then! Then. The first story in the final episode is about a pair of conservationists on safari who find a gorilla some tribesmen have trapped in a pit. The husband decides, based on nothing, that the gorilla hates him. So he frakking takes the gorilla back to America and stores him in the Natural History Museum's basement for some reason. And the guy gets suspicious his wife is taking the gorilla's side in all this. "That miserable gorilla is breaking up our marriage!" Actual dialogue. And then he gets into a fight to the death with the gorilla. This summary doesn't do it justice. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Then the series wraps up with a one-minute comedy Dracula vignette that isn't funny. Die as you lived, Night Gallery. Overall, yeah. The show mustered up some pretty good/memorable stories over the course of its run, but like a solid 2/3 of it is mediocre to strangely bad. I wouldn't recommend it. Stick to the '59 Twilight Zone for your Rod Serling fix. Night Gallery: "Die Now, Pay Later" - Yeah, I'm not actually done, there's a small handful of stories that only aired in syndication and not on original broadcast. So here I am still watching the damn show after the series finale. Anyway, a small-town sheriff gets suspicious when the local mortality rate spikes after the undertaker announces an end of year sale. I liked it because the cop is played by Slim Pickens and that's worth a few points alone. I did a recent go round on The Night Gallery cherry-picking episodes. Probably my first time looking at this stuff as an adult. The ratio of hits to misses can often be pretty steep but on those occasions where the show works, it works pretty nicely. I know Serling wasn't very fond of the show.
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Post by polly on Nov 3, 2019 18:46:32 GMT
I did a recent go round on The Night Gallery cherry-picking episodes. Probably my first time looking at this stuff as an adult. The ratio of hits to misses can often be pretty steep but on those occasions where the show works, it works pretty nicely. I know Serling wasn't very fond of the show. Yeah, from what I remember Serling didn't have anywhere near the clout on Night Gallery as he did on Twilight Zone. And he was very self-critical to being with, so I can only imagine he didn't have very nice things to say.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 3, 2019 19:15:18 GMT
I did a recent go round on The Night Gallery cherry-picking episodes. Probably my first time looking at this stuff as an adult. The ratio of hits to misses can often be pretty steep but on those occasions where the show works, it works pretty nicely. I know Serling wasn't very fond of the show. Yeah, from what I remember Serling didn't have anywhere near the clout on Night Gallery as he did on Twilight Zone. And he was very self-critical to being with, so I can only imagine he didn't have very nice things to say. I remember a quote that was basically all ABC wanted was a weekly trip through a graveyard.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 8:38:58 GMT
His Dark Materials. Never read the books but this was great.
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Post by muckypup on Nov 4, 2019 9:41:22 GMT
See
Great first episode, but 2nd n 3rd poorly plotted and a bit dull
Not terrible and worth watching but feel a bit of a missed opportunity.
Perhaps will get back on track.......
But I so don’t like weekly releases now........
On the up side dark materials delivered, even nod to the later books with the flood opening........ These books are so good they need a definitive screen adaption.....fingers crossed we might just get it with this.........
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 13:32:51 GMT
See Great first episode, but 2nd n 3rd poorly plotted and a bit dull Not terrible and worth watching but feel a bit of a missed opportunity. I gave up about halfway through the first episode, I just found the basic premise so preposterous I couldn't buy into it.
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Post by polly on Nov 4, 2019 18:48:30 GMT
The X-Files, season 1. Episodes 1 & 2. Random thoughts....did I mention they both look like babies? So much about the beginning I had forgotten. CSM right there with episode one. I had forgotten Jerry Hardin was there at the start as Mulder's Deep Throat informer. Seth Green in episode two. Vancouver! Oh Canada. Veteran character actor Charles Cioffi as their first FBI overseer. The tone is kind of wonky in those first couple of episodes but one can very much see the seeds being planted. Ah, Fox Friday nights in 1993 when Bruce Campbell in The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr. was supposed to be the big hit and this weird little show about aliens & the FBI was very much the "B" feature. Funny how things work. You can see the Kolchak: The Night Stalker influence all over the place but I also think X-Files may have been the first series to really start processing what Twin Peaks had done for, and to, TV just a few years earlier.
Gillian Anderson especially is such a babyface in the pilot. Random X-Files story - I had gone out to Vancouver for an appointment, and then made the six hour bus ride home the same evening. Too wired to sleep when I got home, so I put on a random X-File and sure enough, there were scenes shot at the very bus depot/train station I'd just left. Very surreal when you're that tired.
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Post by Hieronymus on Nov 5, 2019 4:19:08 GMT
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I'm two episodes in and enjoying it immensely.
It's also surprising to see the level of voice talent (Simon Pegg, Mark Hamill, Helena Bonham Carter) who are voicing lead characters, but who were not named in any advertising that I saw.
Hup is already my favorite character.
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Post by polly on Nov 5, 2019 20:14:47 GMT
Columbo: "Candidate for Crime" - The lieutenant goes up against a nefarious would-be senator on the eve of his election. Some flawed logic in this one, but also great performances and a very good gotcha.
MASH: Season 2, Episodes 9-10 - Hawkeye writes home to Dad yet again; the 4077th's usual mayhem is the least of its worries when a Korean sniper starts taking potshots at the camp. Also I bore witness to Radar's bare ass.
Star Trek: The Animated Series: "Mudd's Passion" - Harry Mudd returns peddling a love potion, which, after some shenanigans, ends up contaminating the Enterprise's ventilation system. This is probably not a good episode, but it is (maybe unintentionally) hilarious. There is so much absolutely silly shit I can't help it. Best thing is a tossup between Lt Arex letting out a low whistle after witnessing some bizarre behavior out of Spock, or Kirk not getting beamed up because the two operators are too busy slow-dancing to elevator muzak. TAS is a weird show.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 6, 2019 3:14:58 GMT
Another four hours of the first season of The X-Files. Such the mixing pot of a show trying stuff out to see what worked and so many little moments of the show it would soon become.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 6, 2019 8:07:32 GMT
The Flash S6 Ep3 ZZZZzzzz,soon as Crisis wraps up I'm done with the CW series.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 6, 2019 10:01:53 GMT
Another four hours of the first season of The X-Files. Such the mixing pot of a show trying stuff out to see what worked and so many little moments of the show it would soon become. I recorded every episode for 9 seasons in a row on videotape-pausing commercials.. because.. reasons..
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 6, 2019 10:21:15 GMT
The Trouble With Tribbles. Finished it off by watching Trials And Tribble-ations straight afterwards. A great fun way to spend an evening... by myself, apparently. I love it when a fairly straight show pulls out some comedy stops. Scotty explaining how he got involved in a brawl is one of my favourite Trek scenes of all time.
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Post by number13 on Nov 6, 2019 11:26:20 GMT
The Trouble With Tribbles. Finished it off by watching Trials And Tribble-ations straight afterwards. A great fun way to spend an evening... by myself, apparently. I love it when a fairly straight show pulls out some comedy stops. Scotty explaining how he got involved in a brawl is one of my favourite Trek scenes of all time. You're never alone with a tribble... or ten... or 100...
It's all completely wonderful and Scotty defending the honour of his beloved ship ( not his captain!) is a treat. And the DS9 sequel / parallel ep, brilliant!
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 6, 2019 12:49:16 GMT
The Trouble With Tribbles. Finished it off by watching Trials And Tribble-ations straight afterwards. A great fun way to spend an evening... by myself, apparently. I love it when a fairly straight show pulls out some comedy stops. Scotty explaining how he got involved in a brawl is one of my favourite Trek scenes of all time. "I wanna know who threw the first punch" lol.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 6, 2019 13:16:44 GMT
The Flash S6 Ep3 ZZZZzzzz,soon as Crisis wraps up I'm done with the CW series. Least you are watching Crisis lol
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Post by melkur on Nov 6, 2019 15:28:40 GMT
'As it came out yesterday, this today I've been watching series 4 of 'She-Ra', which I enjoyed. 'Curious as to how they'll wrap it all up though in the fifth (and hopefully not final) series...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2019 15:59:51 GMT
The Flash S6 Ep3 ZZZZzzzz,soon as Crisis wraps up I'm done with the CW series. I've given up on all the CW shows.
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Post by polly on Nov 6, 2019 20:33:10 GMT
Star Trek: The Animated Series: Season 1, Episodes 11-12 - The crew gets shrunk; Kirk and Kor must team up to escape a pocket dimension full of lost vessels.
MASH: Season 2, Episodes 11-13 - Hawkeye n' Hot Lips must work together when they're the last two standing after a flu epidemic; shenanigans ensue when trying to procure an incubator for the camp; the weekly all-night poker game is interrupted by problems for both Radar and Frank.
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