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Pariah Nexus Episode 2 done and watched.

This is a good quality product, brevity of the episodes aside.



Really looking forward to more.

Sorry to be abrupt…

*boots the record played*

Frasier is getting a revival!

I bloody love Frasier. And so I am cautiously hype for this.


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Generation v

Boys spin-off set in a Vought university. Apparently it’s an adaptation of “We Gotta Go Now”.

Teenage super powered idiots. This could be fun.

Generation V is rather good! Not much to see if you don’t dig The Boys, but if you do? Plenty to enjoy here.

SO... I grew up with Doctor Who, mostly Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker's run, saw a little of Davison, and then drifted away from TV for a while and completely missed Doctor's 6 and 7.

Got my hands on Season 24 (7th Doctor) while fleshing out my bluray collection and... Now I understand why so many people think Doctor Who is a kid's show.

McCoy seems great, from the little I've seen so far... but the rest of this mess... Oh my.


On a positive note, I will add my voice to the chorus uplifting One Piece. I'm a selective anime fan, have had nothing to do with the Manga, so went into this one knowing nothing about it other than that people seemed to like it... and loved every minute of it.

Ahhh, on McCoy’s run? It finds its feet properly in seasons 25 and 26.

His early stories tend to be quite poor, sadly. But his good ones? Best. Doctor. Ever.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
His early stories tend to be quite poor, sadly. But his good ones? Best. Doctor. Ever.

Agreed. Capaldi comes in a close second, but he's definitely taking his cues from the Seventh Doctor.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
His early stories tend to be quite poor, sadly. But his good ones? Best. Doctor. Ever.

Agreed. Capaldi comes in a close second, but he's definitely taking his cues from the Seventh Doctor.

Woo. Capaldi Who is actually why I stopped. Late Smith wore me down, but the Capaldi era broke me completely.
Its more the writers than the actor, but I can give all that a miss without a second thought.

Just finished Farscape Peacekeeper wars.

Several very cool lines from solid characters that really developed over 4 seasons.
I think about what I don't like in current year, shows and movies and my big gripe is language. As in modern expressions aligned with how we behave and speak now where it clearly does not fit. Farscape is, almost, a master class of setting appropriate speech.
There are rules and nothing is explain directly but implied enough that the viewer easily picks up on the meanings. I love this about the show. While John is full of pop culture references he brought with him it all comes together nicely. Yelling in Klingon or TV references no one around him understands is loads of fun.

The last several episodes in season 4 are so much fun and over the top. The cliffhanger ending was so maddening when it happened I for one was so happy that we got the peacekeeper wars to finish the series off.

I'll watch it all again in a few years.

Binged the two series of Lupin on Friday night. Absolutely excellent French show based on the books by Maurice Leblanc. Lovely cinematography and a nice mixture of serious overtones and good comedy.

Highlander: the series.
Season one episode two.

Richie is asking direction from a nerd coming out of a Game Works shop store.
The pilot episode was a little rough but episode two seems more smooth.

@Bobtheinquisitor: Farscape is a show I have a great fondness for without having watched many episodes at all. Some day I will though. It's got it all though: puppets, and interesting takes on sci-fi.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Sorry to be abrupt…

*boots the record played*

Frasier is getting a revival!

I bloody love Frasier. And so I am cautiously hype for this.
...

I love Frasier. To me it's one of the big three 90s sitcoms (and thus peak sitcoms): Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld. These three I can watch endlessly on repeat.

However, I don't believe that re-dos 20 years later are required or can work. But that's just me.



I'm watching the live action one piece show, because a friend said everybody has to watch it. I never watched One Piece (except for the odd episode), I never developed any fondness for it. I watch this thing now and after an initial feeling of "why am I watching these people play dress-up in front of ugly greenscreens in an all too clear digital look?" I eventually got beat into submission after a few hours and am somewhat willing to go along. I'm intrigued by some of the designs of things and vaguely remember having seen them in pictures. Now I'm on episode #8 and I guess I have to take a break before doing the last episode.

I know that these are a part of the show, but I hate flashbacks to things which happened in somebody's childhood and this is why they behave like they do. It's such basic, annoying storytelling, and despite all the "show, don't tell", these feel like they needlessly stretch things out. It very much is a tv show way of telling things rather than a film way of conveying information. I don't know, it's not for me. I feel that there is as much of a point to these live action adaptations as to Disney doing all their films with 'live action' CGI things now instead of cartoon things.

I think Frasier could work in the modern day, as we’ve an awful lot more for him to struggle with socially.

Apparently, Frasier’s son is also in it, and it’s set in Boston on a University Campus.

If I’m perfectly honest? I do kind of expect it to suck. Because I’ll be craving Frasier as it was, not Frasier as it could be. But. I am absolutely open to it being glorious once again.

It could work if they stick with the original ethos which was never to be afraid of being too obscure or niche with the humour, part of the success was the mix of high brow and low brow jokes, the latter serving to highlight the pomposity of the characters. But even the simple jokes worked because of the characterisations. What was one silly one - the Cranes in Maine have got your living brain.

 warhead01 wrote:
Highlander: the series.
Season one episode two.

Richie is asking direction from a nerd coming out of a Game Works shop store.
The pilot episode was a little rough but episode two seems more smooth.

Does not hit its stride until Season 2, and then the last Season barely even has the Highlander in it!

 Easy E wrote:

 warhead01 wrote:
Highlander: the series.
Season one episode two.

Richie is asking direction from a nerd coming out of a Game Works shop store.
The pilot episode was a little rough but episode two seems more smooth.

Does not hit its stride until Season 2, and then the last Season barely even has the Highlander in it!

I do remember the first season being very rough compared to the rest. I haven't watched this show in a few years now, it was on youtube for a while.
Over all I remember it being fairly good with a few very funny stories here and there.
I think I do remember him taking a back seat every few episodes near the end.

The Terror (2018)

Something I watch every year or so. I’ve probably posted about it in this thread previously.

Jared Harris, Cieran Hinds, Tobias Menzies (the latter two Julius Caesar and Brutus from HBO’s Rome, where I became fans of both) lead this period piece survival horror mini-series. Its a slow burn, but still feels dense and never feels ponderous. Fantastic music, costumes and set design. Well acted start to finish from the beginning’s determination and optimism to the conclusions madness and desperation.

I don’t feel like they do TV like this very often. Shame that the 2nd season didn’t slap as hard as this one.

Sharpe

What a peculiar show. Essentially a bunch of TV movies, covering the events of the source novels.

The acting is typically well above par, but the battle scenes are rarely more than a skirmish due to budgetary constraints.

But by gum the show just works. With Richard Sharpe being raised up in the ranks having saved Wellington’s life, there’s a peculiarly British enjoyment of a “mere pleb” outshining, outperforming and outsmarting his self-appointed betters, the Commissioned Officers.

They do work best viewed in order however, as it’s a rolling timeline. But if you can find a DVD Boxed set, this is well worth your time.

Oops. Wrong thread.

Uh...yeah... Sharpe ...

Bloody hell Harper!

The Continental

Three part mini-series, a prequel of sorts set in the John Wick world.

I for one loved it. Kind of a crime drama, kind of a shooter, kind of a heist, kind of a siege.

Coming in around 5 hours long, all in, it’s not wasting time or stretching it’s premise.

I’m hopeful for a follow series.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Sharpe

What a peculiar show. Essentially a bunch of TV movies, covering the events of the source novels.

The acting is typically well above par, but the battle scenes are rarely more than a skirmish due to budgetary constraints.

But by gum the show just works. With Richard Sharpe being raised up in the ranks having saved Wellington’s life, there’s a peculiarly British enjoyment of a “mere pleb” outshining, outperforming and outsmarting his self-appointed betters, the Commissioned Officers.

They do work best viewed in order however, as it’s a rolling timeline. But if you can find a DVD Boxed set, this is well worth your time.

Oh yes, I very much agree with the "by gum the show just works" sentiment. I got them all on DVD (except for the very last one), but I got Sharpe's Challenge as a separate DVD, and that has some of the funniest, most wholesome DVD commentary (by Daragh O'Malley and Sean Bean) I'd ever come across.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Sharpe

What a peculiar show. Essentially a bunch of TV movies, covering the events of the source novels.

The acting is typically well above par, but the battle scenes are rarely more than a skirmish due to budgetary constraints.

But by gum the show just works. With Richard Sharpe being raised up in the ranks having saved Wellington’s life, there’s a peculiarly British enjoyment of a “mere pleb” outshining, outperforming and outsmarting his self-appointed betters, the Commissioned Officers.

They do work best viewed in order however, as it’s a rolling timeline. But if you can find a DVD Boxed set, this is well worth your time.

One of the things I liked was the general chaos on the battlefield - with people just falling down almost randomly. Which was pretty realistic - you had noise, smoke, poor situational awareness and people just dropping at different times as they caught bullets, fainted, tripped over, etc. Hence the efforts to train people to stick together so when you got to where you were going you had enough people to shoot enough inaccurate fire at the hopefully in that location enemy and charge.

Though Sharpes speed loading technique was pants and unnecessary...

I think the overall quality is why we’re able to see the battle scenes as more this




When thanks to a tiny budget (spent well on uniforms and props) it was really closer to




In terms of scale on screen.

And now for something completely different...

Song of the Bandits (Korean: 도적: 칼의 소리) on Netflix (Literal translation – Thief: Sound of the Sword).

Korean drama set in the Japanese occupation of Korea and war with China. Surprisingly engaging as a story, with great music and interesting characters in what would make a great RPG setting (think oriental wild west).

Gen V (Amazon Prime)

Offshoot of The Boyz.

Just as bloody, vulgar and graphic as its parent show, but a bit more cringe dialogue. And a main character with a weird superpower, dead set on becoming the first black woman to join The Seven. First episode had a bit of a horror movie vibe, as its made clear that not everything is as it seems. One episode in, and there may be something interesting here, but not sure if I have it in me. I'm so checked out on superheroes that I might only watch it for the shock value that it aims for.

Ghosts

One of the best things to grace the small screen is back for its 5th and sadly final, barring a forthcoming Christmas Special, series.

Written and brought to screen by the Horrible Histories crew, this is a wonderful house-share type sitcom.

Seems it released on 6 October, and is available in its entirety on iPlayer.

If you’ve not watched the series before, I highly recommend it.


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The Reckoning

This….is a difficult programme to watch, because it’s a semi-dramatised biopic of Jimmy Savile.

Because Dakka is family friendly, I won’t go into too much detail.

Suffice to say for all my childhood and *quick mental calculation* most of my adult life, Jimmy Savile absolutely was a National Treasure. A man who did magnificent things for charity, hosted many popular programmes.

Then, not long after he passed away and a lot of pomp and circumstance involved in his funeral?

His true nature was revealed. The sort of nature where even one such as I with all the parental instinct of a rock, makes me want to get the chainsaws out, only the blades on the chain have somehow been replaced with hammers, and still works.

British Dakkanauts can’t help but know. Everyone else can do a quick Google at their own, genuine, peril.

Steve Coogan portrays Savile. And what could’ve been tawdry is definitely played as sinister, but subtlety so. It doesn’t glamourise his life. It doesn’t seek to defend or downplay his many, many crimes.

If anything, this is kind of a “warts and all” confessional by the BBC, who at the time absolutely could’ve done more to put a stop to his crimes. It not only shows Savile as a manipulator, but The Powers That Be being all too ready to turn a blind eye.

This is not east watching. At all. It’s creepy. It’s sinister. But as someone who grew up during Savile’s arguable heyday (yes, even I sent a letter in to Jim’ll Fix It) I’d argue it’s compulsory viewing, despite the underlying horror.

American Horror Story - S11

Oh joy! Oh rapture! It returns to my screen once more!

What’s this? Starring Kim Kardashian and Carole Delewhatsit.

Oh….oh dear. Well, I’ll give it a spin, like. But why those two?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ghosts

One of the best things to grace the small screen is back for its 5th and sadly final, barring a forthcoming Christmas Special, series.

Written and brought to screen by the Horrible Histories crew, this is a wonderful house-share type sitcom.

Seems it released on 6 October, and is available in its entirety on iPlayer.

If you’ve not watched the series before, I highly recommend it.

The US version is great as well.

I need to give that one a fair crack of the whip. Maybe next month.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ghosts

One of the best things to grace the small screen is back for its 5th and sadly final, barring a forthcoming Christmas Special, series.

Written and brought to screen by the Horrible Histories crew, this is a wonderful house-share type sitcom.

Seems it released on 6 October, and is available in its entirety on iPlayer.

If you’ve not watched the series before, I highly recommend it.

The US version is great as well.

Where is the US version shown?

The_Real_Chris wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ghosts

One of the best things to grace the small screen is back for its 5th and sadly final, barring a forthcoming Christmas Special, series.

Written and brought to screen by the Horrible Histories crew, this is a wonderful house-share type sitcom.

Seems it released on 6 October, and is available in its entirety on iPlayer.

If you’ve not watched the series before, I highly recommend it.

The US version is great as well.

Where is the US version shown?

CBS, so it's probably on Paramount+.