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Post by doctorkernow on Jan 14, 2020 23:24:20 GMT
Hello again, I'm Janet, Disco Janet.
Yes it's the end, the end of The Good Place. Just watched episode 49, the first after the mid-season break. This show cheers me up every time I watch it. The regulars are well-characterised and the situation provokes a lot of comedy and interesting discussion. i shall be very interested to see where this programme finishes and see whether the ending works.
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Post by polly on Jan 14, 2020 23:24:39 GMT
CSI: Cyber Season 1 Episode 1 Its okay. Shame that the Franchise ended with Season 2 of this CSI is horrendously bad with computers, so making it the focus of a whole show wasn't a good idea. It is painful how inaccurate its tech is and how they don't understand how the internet actually works. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbo: "Forgotten Lady" - Janet Leigh plays an aging actress who kills her husband when he won't bankroll her bid to regain stardom. Man, this one was really good, and the ending is quite out of the ordinary for a Columbo episode. Leigh gives a great performance of someone who seems like a miserable old diva at first, but by the end you have a ton of sympathy for. Great premiere. Sure doesn't feel like I'm on Season 5, this show is just flying by. Fawlty Towers: "A Touch of Class" - Well something had to replace Flying Circus for us, and when Mr Polly admitted he'd never seen Fawlty that sealed the deal. I love how these are structured so perfectly - a snowball of lies and chaos that builds on itself at a breathless pace until it all comes crashing down... MASH: "Change of Command" - Col. Potter arrives to take over from Frank, who of course throws a temper tantrum. I find it interesting that it took a combined total of 90 minutes to get the camp back to normal(ish) after losing Blake and Trap. I guess I had it in my head that 70s TV might try to gloss over it and get back to status quo ASAP instead of taking time to deal with it, but I really appreciate it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2020 0:42:14 GMT
3%.A Brazillian sci-fi series that takes what could otherwise be a ten a penny YA premise and uses it to explore some really fascinating character studies. No one sent to the Process is exactly who they appear to be, not even those running it. It's almost a hybrid of The Tripods and some of Terry Nation's darker contributions to television. The focus is very much on how far people can be pushed before their own values begin to falter and stumble. I decided to take a chance and watch it through the English dub and, aside from a few moments where the voices don't match the sheer physical energy of the performances, it serves quite well. Definitely one worth investigating if you enjoy dystopian thrillers. CSI: Cyber Season 1 Episode 1 Its okay. Shame that the Franchise ended with Season 2 of this CSI is horrendously bad with computers, so making it the focus of a whole show wasn't a good idea. It is painful how inaccurate its tech is and how they don't understand how the internet actually works. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbo: "Forgotten Lady" - Janet Leigh plays an aging actress who kills her husband when he won't bankroll her bid to regain stardom. Man, this one was really good, and the ending is quite out of the ordinary for a Columbo episode. Leigh gives a great performance of someone who seems like a miserable old diva at first, but by the end you have a ton of sympathy for. Great premiere. Sure doesn't feel like I'm on Season 5, this show is just flying by. [...] Ahh, Janet Leigh... I've never seen her in a role that wasn't emotionally complex on one level or another. Have you seen any of the revived Twilight Zone made in the 1980s? She turns up in a script called "Rendezvous in a Dark Place", where she's playing a widow trying to court Death (played by Stephen McHattie), who spurns her. It's a fascinating story, written by the man who'd go on to create Babylon 5.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 15, 2020 2:41:02 GMT
CSI: Cyber Season 1 Episode 1 Its okay. Shame that the Franchise ended with Season 2 of this CSI is horrendously bad with computers, so making it the focus of a whole show wasn't a good idea. It is painful how inaccurate its tech is and how they don't understand how the internet actually works. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbo: "Forgotten Lady" - Janet Leigh plays an aging actress who kills her husband when he won't bankroll her bid to regain stardom. Man, this one was really good, and the ending is quite out of the ordinary for a Columbo episode. Leigh gives a great performance of someone who seems like a miserable old diva at first, but by the end you have a ton of sympathy for. Great premiere. Sure doesn't feel like I'm on Season 5, this show is just flying by. Fawlty Towers: "A Touch of Class" - Well something had to replace Flying Circus for us, and when Mr Polly admitted he'd never seen Fawlty that sealed the deal. I love how these are structured so perfectly - a snowball of lies and chaos that builds on itself at a breathless pace until it all comes crashing down... MASH: "Change of Command" - Col. Potter arrives to take over from Frank, who of course throws a temper tantrum. I find it interesting that it took a combined total of 90 minutes to get the camp back to normal(ish) after losing Blake and Trap. I guess I had it in my head that 70s TV might try to gloss over it and get back to status quo ASAP instead of taking time to deal with it, but I really appreciate it. I’m the only person in our house who loves Fawlty Towers. Every episode is superb: I love the little moments that make you just weep with laughter. In A Touch Of Class it’s where Basil sees the brick and gives a little shake to make sure that it isn’t fake. The structure is superb: Cleese talks on a commentary about how the planning for each script was done on large sheets of butcher’s paper before they even started with a script.
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Post by polly on Jan 15, 2020 21:20:27 GMT
Ahh, Janet Leigh... I've never seen her in a role that wasn't emotionally complex on one level or another. Have you seen any of the revived Twilight Zone made in the 1980s? She turns up in a script called "Rendezvous in a Dark Place", where she's playing a widow trying to court Death (played by Stephen McHattie), who spurns her. It's a fascinating story, written by the man who'd go on to create Babylon 5. I haven't seen anything of the 80s Twilight Zone, but I do own the box set, so I'll keep an eye out for that one whenever we get round to it. I’m the only person in our house who loves Fawlty Towers. Every episode is superb: I love the little moments that make you just weep with laughter. In A Touch Of Class it’s where Basil sees the brick and gives a little shake to make sure that it isn’t fake. The structure is superb: Cleese talks on a commentary about how the planning for each script was done on large sheets of butcher’s paper before they even started with a script. Yes, I love that bit with the brick! Then in "The Builders" when Basil's leaving the hotel already wearing a hat, you can see him grab another off the hatstand and put it on top of the first on his way out! Sounds like I should give the commentaries a go! ------------------------------ Fawlty Towers: Series 1, Episodes 2-3 - Mr Polly has become quite taken with Manuel and the Major. I knew I married a man of taste! MASH: Season 4, Episodes 3-4 - Hawkeye, BJ, and Houlihan work a miserably cold night shift; Hawkeye is accidentally declared dead due to a clerical error. Two "winter" episodes in a row! I'd like to see someone try and hash out a realistic timeline for this show. It's an exercise in futility, but that never stopped fandom before.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 16, 2020 9:26:04 GMT
MASH: Season 4, Episodes 3-4 - Hawkeye, BJ, and Houlihan work a miserably cold night shift; Hawkeye is accidentally declared dead due to a clerical error. Two "winter" episodes in a row! I'd like to see someone try and hash out a realistic timeline for this show. It's an exercise in futility, but that never stopped fandom before. It always bugged me that, while the Korean War went for three years, MASH turned it all the way up to eleven. No matter how I tried I couldn’t get the timeline to fit. Then, when I was watching a repeat of the episode “A War For All Seasons” (which covers the camp from one New Year’s Eve to the next) I wondered where the events of those stories fit in to the other episodes... and it hit me: they were running while those other stories were going on, which meant that all the other episodes had to have overlapping storyline but had been edited together so that we only saw the parts that were pertinent to the story being told. So, in any given week, you might have our heroes dealing with issues from any number of episodes but we were seeing the sequence of events in a way that made sense for a half-hour comedy. F’rinstance, Hawkeye might have two patients across two episodes but he was dealing with them separately on the one shift and the clips had been cut in such a way that the two separate stories of those soldiers didn’t cut into each other. It was the only way that I could see the 256 episodes fitting into the three-and-a-bit years of the war realistically or in a way that didn’t stretch credibility.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 16, 2020 9:28:16 GMT
I’m the only person in our house who loves Fawlty Towers. Every episode is superb: I love the little moments that make you just weep with laughter. In A Touch Of Class it’s where Basil sees the brick and gives a little shake to make sure that it isn’t fake. The structure is superb: Cleese talks on a commentary about how the planning for each script was done on large sheets of butcher’s paper before they even started with a script. Yes, I love that bit with the brick! Then in "The Builders" when Basil's leaving the hotel already wearing a hat, you can see him grab another off the hatstand and put it on top of the first on his way out! Sounds like I should give the commentaries a go! ------------------------------ Fawlty Towers: Series 1, Episodes 2-3 - Mr Polly has become quite taken with Manuel and the Major. I knew I married a man of taste! MASH: Season 4, Episodes 3-4 - Hawkeye, BJ, and Houlihan work a miserably cold night shift; Hawkeye is accidentally declared dead due to a clerical error. Two "winter" episodes in a row! I'd like to see someone try and hash out a realistic timeline for this show. It's an exercise in futility, but that never stopped fandom before. There’s a fair amount of wandering through memory lane in them but he does talk a lot about the production of the episodes and there’s some amazing (in a good and bad way!) stories about things that went on behind the scenes. The Major and Manuel are brilliant characters that really are far more than the single note a lesser show would play them as. Oh god, I love The Builders: “My wife will be home in four hours and she can kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 10:07:18 GMT
MASH: Season 4, Episodes 3-4 - Hawkeye, BJ, and Houlihan work a miserably cold night shift; Hawkeye is accidentally declared dead due to a clerical error. Two "winter" episodes in a row! I'd like to see someone try and hash out a realistic timeline for this show. It's an exercise in futility, but that never stopped fandom before. It always bugged me that, while the Korean War went for three years, MASH turned it all the way up to eleven. No matter how I tried I couldn’t get the timeline to fit. Then, when I was watching a repeat of the episode “A War For All Seasons” (which covers the camp from one New Year’s Eve to the next) I wondered where the events of those stories fit in to the other episodes... and it hit me: they were running while those other stories were going on, which meant that all the other episodes had to have overlapping storyline but had been edited together so that we only saw the parts that were pertinent to the story being told. So, in any given week, you might have our heroes dealing with issues from any number of episodes but we were seeing the sequence of events in a way that made sense for a half-hour comedy. F’rinstance, Hawkeye might have two patients across two episodes but he was dealing with them separately on the one shift and the clips had been cut in such a way that the two separate stories of those soldiers didn’t cut into each other. It was the only way that I could see the 256 episodes fitting into the three-and-a-bit years of the war realistically or in a way that didn’t stretch credibility. That episode, A War For All Seasons, is one of my all time favourites. I love that they do the same scene with the same dialogue for each New Year and yet it's got a completely different message and tone. Harry Morgan kills it at the end. I always took it that we're not seeing a year of MASH equaling a year of the war but rather the few hundred episodes spread over the course of the thousand and some days of the real war. There are many, many contradictions to this - the length of time Trapper has been away combined with the length of time BJ says he has been, ditto Blake and Potter. I guess by the time the credibility was stretched the show was so beloved it didn't really matter a jot. The alternative would be ending it early or....doing some kind of "After-M*A*S*H" show where we follow some of the cast back home, who for some reason still work together every day, or try a Radar spin-off where he's a cop...but those would just be silly! Though maybe a Trapper spin-off, set decades after Korea could have worked worked and run for 7 seasons or so..who knows?
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 16, 2020 12:22:08 GMT
Good Omens Episode 1 Loved it. While not completely capturing Pratchett's spirit, its a great start
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Post by polly on Jan 16, 2020 21:01:12 GMT
It always bugged me that, while the Korean War went for three years, MASH turned it all the way up to eleven. No matter how I tried I couldn’t get the timeline to fit. Then, when I was watching a repeat of the episode “A War For All Seasons” (which covers the camp from one New Year’s Eve to the next) I wondered where the events of those stories fit in to the other episodes... and it hit me: they were running while those other stories were going on, which meant that all the other episodes had to have overlapping storyline but had been edited together so that we only saw the parts that were pertinent to the story being told. So, in any given week, you might have our heroes dealing with issues from any number of episodes but we were seeing the sequence of events in a way that made sense for a half-hour comedy. F’rinstance, Hawkeye might have two patients across two episodes but he was dealing with them separately on the one shift and the clips had been cut in such a way that the two separate stories of those soldiers didn’t cut into each other. It was the only way that I could see the 256 episodes fitting into the three-and-a-bit years of the war realistically or in a way that didn’t stretch credibility. That episode, A War For All Seasons, is one of my all time favourites. I love that they do the same scene with the same dialogue for each New Year and yet it's got a completely different message and tone. Harry Morgan kills it at the end. I always took it that we're not seeing a year of MASH equaling a year of the war but rather the few hundred episodes spread over the course of the thousand and some days of the real war. There are many, many contradictions to this - the length of time Trapper has been away combined with the length of time BJ says he has been, ditto Blake and Potter. I guess by the time the credibility was stretched the show was so beloved it didn't really matter a jot. The alternative would be ending it early or....doing some kind of "After-M*A*S*H" show where we follow some of the cast back home, who for some reason still work together every day, or try a Radar spin-off where he's a cop...but those would just be silly! Though maybe a Trapper spin-off, set decades after Korea could have worked worked and run for 7 seasons or so..who knows? Yeah, I figured you could in theory set 256 episodes within the timespan of the war with some overlaps and a breakneck pace but every time an actual date is given it's complete nonsense and if you went by that, you'd have Potter episodes before Blake episodes and so forth. Not to mention all the other inconsistencies you brought up. It's quite a tangled ball of yarn to try and unravel. And I don't know, that cop Radar idea has potential, surely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fawlty Towers: "The Hotel Inspectors" - Any episode that just ends with Basil screaming in horror is a good un. Also boasts Bernard Cribbins as one of the most annoying guests ever to grace this televisual feast. MASH: "Hey, Doc" - What begins with Hawkeye and BJ trying to help their supply sergeant smuggle things home ends up with Frank rampaging through the camp in a tank.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 21:12:37 GMT
That episode, A War For All Seasons, is one of my all time favourites. I love that they do the same scene with the same dialogue for each New Year and yet it's got a completely different message and tone. Harry Morgan kills it at the end. I always took it that we're not seeing a year of MASH equaling a year of the war but rather the few hundred episodes spread over the course of the thousand and some days of the real war. There are many, many contradictions to this - the length of time Trapper has been away combined with the length of time BJ says he has been, ditto Blake and Potter. I guess by the time the credibility was stretched the show was so beloved it didn't really matter a jot. The alternative would be ending it early or....doing some kind of "After-M*A*S*H" show where we follow some of the cast back home, who for some reason still work together every day, or try a Radar spin-off where he's a cop...but those would just be silly! Though maybe a Trapper spin-off, set decades after Korea could have worked worked and run for 7 seasons or so..who knows? Yeah, I figured you could in theory set 256 episodes within the timespan of the war with some overlaps and a breakneck pace but every time an actual date is given it's complete nonsense and if you went by that, you'd have Potter episodes before Blake episodes and so forth. Not to mention all the other inconsistencies you brought up. It's quite a tangled ball of yarn to try and unravel. And I don't know, that cop Radar idea has potential, surely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fawlty Towers: "The Hotel Inspectors" - Any episode that just ends with Basil screaming in horror is a good un. Also boasts Bernard Cribbins as one of the most annoying guests ever to grace this televisual feast. MASH: "Hey, Doc" - What begins with Hawkeye and BJ trying to help their supply sergeant smuggle things home ends up with Frank rampaging through the camp in a tank. I really hated what they did to Frank in that era, he was just....a Looney Tunes character at times. I do love early Frank but for me Charles is the best antagonist and they never made him as silly as Frank ends up. Charles might be my favourite character in all of MASH.
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Post by doctorkernow on Jan 16, 2020 21:40:17 GMT
Hello again. CBBC have again come up with a really enjoyable series. The Demon Headmaster, that memorable creation of Gillian Cross is back. This new iteration is partly based on Gillian Cross's 'Total Control'. Emma Reeves, who helped create Eve, has done a great job. The Headmaster's ordered school is realised well by the young actors and today's technology is just another weapon in his arsenal. I particularly enjoyed episode 10, there is a great speech that could well have said by a certain Doctor, and is so apposite for these times.
Indeed the actor tasked with bringing to live the new Headmaster,Nicholas Gleaves, said the character is "...like the opposite of Doctor Who – Doctor Who is a force for good and community and freeing the individual and going around the galaxies fighting evil, and the Demon Headmaster is the polar opposite of that." The best thing about this series is that like Sarah Jane, Wolfblood and Eve it doesn't talk down unlike a lot of children's television. It deals with control,grief and emotion, authority and technology in a challenging and interesting way.
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Post by polly on Jan 17, 2020 2:24:07 GMT
I really hated what they did to Frank in that era, he was just....a Looney Tunes character at times. I do love early Frank but for me Charles is the best antagonist and they never made him as silly as Frank ends up. Charles might be my favourite character in all of MASH. I'm not quite at a point of exasperation with Maj. Burns just yet, but I have certainly noticed how he's gradually become more childlike and pathetic over time.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 17, 2020 14:51:18 GMT
Outlander,, Series 1, episode 1
It is not often that my wife and I both have the same reaction to a show. How very handy that our main character is a nurse with an interest in herbal cures, whose uncle was an archaeologist and who has time-travelled back to an era that her husband happens to be an expert in and gave her a lot of incidental lectures in.
As we say here in Oz, “Yeah, nah.”
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Post by constonks on Jan 18, 2020 6:05:44 GMT
I'm currently watching through ST: Next Generation for the first time and just reached Yesterday's Enterprise. Very easily my favourite episode so far - one I couldn't sit back and watch. Instead, I was on the edge of the couch, leaning towards the TV, loving every second.
I know I'm thirty years late on this but wow!
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 18, 2020 8:47:07 GMT
Titans Series 2, IMO not as good as series one, dude who plays Deathstroke bit naff & feel Robin been completely overshadowed by new characters.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 9:16:27 GMT
I'm currently watching through ST: Next Generation for the first time and just reached Yesterday's Enterprise. Very easily my favourite episode so far - one I couldn't sit back and watch. Instead, I was on the edge of the couch, leaning towards the TV, loving every second. I know I'm thirty years late on this but wow! You wait till you reach 'The Best of Both Worlds part 1'...edge of the seat stuff and a cliffhanger ending that was never surpassed by the show. *which reminds me - watched this for the first on BBC2 waaay back in the nineties (early 92 or 93 I think). The episode airs, the cliffhanger plays out and the end titles roll...and then the announcer announces it was the last one! Whaaaaaatttt?? The Beeb had stuffed up and only bought in the first three seasons of what turned out at the time to be one of their most popular shows on BBC2 and then lost the whole thing to Sky. It wasn't until the autumn that I watched part 2 on VHS..*
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Post by frisby78 on Jan 18, 2020 9:35:02 GMT
I'm currently watching through ST: Next Generation for the first time and just reached Yesterday's Enterprise. Very easily my favourite episode so far - one I couldn't sit back and watch. Instead, I was on the edge of the couch, leaning towards the TV, loving every second. I know I'm thirty years late on this but wow! You wait till you reach 'The Best of Both Worlds part 1'...edge of the seat stuff and a cliffhanger ending that was never surpassed by the show. *which reminds me - watched this for the first on BBC2 waaay back in the nineties (early 92 or 93 I think). The episode airs, the cliffhanger plays out and the end titles roll...and then the announcer announces it was the last one! Whaaaaaatttt?? The Beeb had stuffed up and only bought in the first three seasons of what turned out at the time to be one of their most popular shows on BBC2 and then lost the whole thing to Sky. It wasn't until the autumn that I watched part 2 on VHS..* I too felt your pain at the time. Thank god for VHS!!
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Post by constonks on Jan 18, 2020 15:46:10 GMT
I'm currently watching through ST: Next Generation for the first time and just reached Yesterday's Enterprise. Very easily my favourite episode so far - one I couldn't sit back and watch. Instead, I was on the edge of the couch, leaning towards the TV, loving every second. I know I'm thirty years late on this but wow! You wait till you reach 'The Best of Both Worlds part 1'...edge of the seat stuff and a cliffhanger ending that was never surpassed by the show. *which reminds me - watched this for the first on BBC2 waaay back in the nineties (early 92 or 93 I think). The episode airs, the cliffhanger plays out and the end titles roll...and then the announcer announces it was the last one! Whaaaaaatttt?? The Beeb had stuffed up and only bought in the first three seasons of what turned out at the time to be one of their most popular shows on BBC2 and then lost the whole thing to Sky. It wasn't until the autumn that I watched part 2 on VHS..* That makes me so grateful for Netflix, with which I'm sure I'll watch Part 1 and 2 in one sitting! And yeah, the promise of Best of Both Worlds is part of why I've been going through Season 3 so quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 12:16:54 GMT
The Mandalorian.
It's amazing the things that stick with you. I can remember first encountering the Mandalorians during Knights of the Old Republic. Following a long war with the Jedi that led to the rise of the Sith in their ranks. The fact that they were defeated didn't speak to the weakness of their culture, but to the strength of the Revanchists. Even skulking about in the jungles of Dxun, working second-hand equipment on a third-rate moon, they made a strong impression and there are more than a few echoes of that here. Beaten down into hiding not by the Jedi and Malachor V, but by the Empire. History book on the shelf is always repeating itself.
Four episodes in and it's a damn good show. A solitary hero is tricky to pull off -- particularly one hidden perpetually behind a mask -- but they're managing it with aplomb. You don't even need to close an eye and tilt your head to see the little nods and winks to Legends continuity (with mention of Imperial warlords, bureaucratic rumblings in the Core and the uneasy transition the Galaxy's making after Endor). Looking forward to more.
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