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2012/10/04 13:51:26
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Terrifying Treeman
The Fallen Realm of Umbar
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 Ahtman wrote:I will second the earlier Archer mentions, but also throw in that, while only 5 episodes, Danger 5 is worth a watch. Oh, and Life, starring the guy from Band of Brothers and Homeland that I can't think of the name of.
Damian Lewis, I cannot recommend Life enough, even if it was cancelled after two seasons (Grrrr....) Babylon 5, if no-one has mentioned it, i'll also add to the Farscape recommendations. I hear Blake's 7 is good but I haven't watched it personally myself, Stargate SG-1 is fantastic. Moving on from science ficiton, Supernatural as has already been said and that's all I have, wow, I just realised how many non sci-fi shows I haven't watched, I hope its just because I can't remember them atm  EDIT: Another one just came to me, Lie to Me
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Horst wrote:This is how trolling happens. A few cheeky posts are made. Then they get more insulting. Eventually, we revert to our primal animal state, hurling feces at each other while shreeking with glee.
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2012/10/04 14:10:36
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Loyal Necron Lychguard
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American Horror Story - The first season was absolutely brilliant, I hope the second season does just as well.
Homeland - I didn't watch this last year when it aired as it seemed like a 24 ripoff to some degree, but I got bored and recently watched it through On Demand, and thought it was great. Damien Lewis is every bit as good in it as he was in Band of Brothers.
Both should have Season 1 DVDs out. Second season of Homeland started this week and looks pretty good so far. American Horror Story season two should be starting shortly.
Sons of Anarchy - I've watched and greatly enjoyed all of the seasons thus far, but I'm having trouble at this point accepting some of the character's sheer stupidity in some of their decision making.
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++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
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2012/10/04 18:25:34
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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 mattyrm wrote:Hoofing - class, mint, splendid, gucci, waz, proper good. By the way.... 
I've got gak loads to watch now mind, I haven't heard of half of these suggestions. Trailer park boys?!
I've added Generation Kill, Breaking Bad, Southland to the eventually watch list though.
I've seen clips of Archer and it doesn't look very funny, I'm hard to please with comedy.
Although, I hated The universally acclaimed "The Office", but I still enjoy "Everybody loves Raymond" strangely... go figure that one out.
Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy about Trailer Trash, of the one episode I've seen I have enjoyed it.
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2012/10/04 18:28:43
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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mattyrm wrote:
I've seen clips of Archer and it doesn't look very funny, I'm hard to please with comedy.
Although, I hated The universally acclaimed "The Office", but I still enjoy "Everybody loves Raymond" strangely... go figure that one out.
Try watching "Psych" by USA Network.
To quote "You named your fake psychic detective agency...'Psych'? As in 'Gotcha!'?. Really, Shawn?"
There's also ABC's "Castle", but if you didn't enjoy "Firefly" and Captain Mal(Nathan Fillion) you might not enjoy those two.
They're a bit of a tongue in cheek take on procedural cop dramas.
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2012/10/04 18:45:57
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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Or, If you are secure in your masculinty, Watch Drop Dead Diva. Its about a Sexy model who dies, and returns into the body of in over weight lawyer.
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2012/10/04 19:06:08
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Fixture of Dakka
Manchester UK
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Along those same lines, Nip/Tuck and The Tudors are both rather good. Saying that, I also enjoy Desperate Housewives, so you can pretty much disregard everything I say.
Also, can't believe no-one's mentioned Six Feet Under!
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 Cheesecat wrote:
I almost always agree with Albatross, I can't see why anyone wouldn't.
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2012/10/04 19:53:10
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Nip Tuck....... I saw that show when they did the "Carver" season. And was floored at how awesome it was. So the wife and I bought all the seasons that had, thinking they were all going to be badass........we were let down big time. That show is OK, but if I wanted to watch porn, Id watch porn, not the gak on TV
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2012/10/04 19:53:45
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Dakka Veteran
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I forgot to mention Buffy. You gotta see Buffy!
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2012/10/04 20:02:34
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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 Krellnus wrote: Ahtman wrote:I will second the earlier Archer mentions, but also throw in that, while only 5 episodes, Danger 5 is worth a watch. Oh, and Life, starring the guy from Band of Brothers and Homeland that I can't think of the name of.
Damian Lewis, I cannot recommend Life enough, even if it was cancelled after two seasons (Grrrr....)
Luckily they seemed to know it was coming and wrapped it up before the axe came down, so at least there is no cliffhanger ending.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2012/10/04 20:23:39
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Fixture of Dakka
Manchester UK
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 KingCracker wrote:Nip Tuck....... I saw that show when they did the "Carver" season. And was floored at how awesome it was. So the wife and I bought all the seasons that had, thinking they were all going to be badass........we were let down big time. That show is OK, but if I wanted to watch porn, Id watch porn, not the gak on TV
Meh, I like it. You are 100% spot-on about the Carver storyline though. It the highlight of the whole show.
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Cheesecat wrote:
I almost always agree with Albatross, I can't see why anyone wouldn't.
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2012/10/06 20:31:42
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Repentia Mistress
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+1 for pokemon. Proper rowing TV.
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2012/10/06 20:37:43
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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Kung Fu. The choreography is pretty awful compared to today, but the show isn't actually about the fighting anyway.
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2012/10/06 20:40:52
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Hallowed Canoness
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Gotta jump in on a +1 for Dead Like Me, delicious black humor.
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
SoB, IG, SM, SW, Nec, Cus, Tau, FoW Germans, Team Yankee Marines, Battletech Clan Wolf, Mercs
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2012/10/06 21:19:52
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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That show was awesome when I was 5 now anything pokemon related just annoys the feth out of me
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2012/10/06 22:49:51
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Perturbed Blood Angel Tactical Marine
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Red Dwarf X is out this month. And from the one episode I've seen it's actually rather funny.
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2012/10/07 00:05:03
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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 Albatross wrote: KingCracker wrote:Nip Tuck....... I saw that show when they did the "Carver" season. And was floored at how awesome it was. So the wife and I bought all the seasons that had, thinking they were all going to be badass........we were let down big time. That show is OK, but if I wanted to watch porn, Id watch porn, not the gak on TV
Meh, I like it. You are 100% spot-on about the Carver storyline though. It the highlight of the whole show.
feth yea it was, so much so, I think Im going to watch that season over again
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2012/10/07 01:35:12
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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Marty, you Archer?! I, uh, wha....can't help you. Show is amazing. Also, I can't believe I forgot to mention walking dead when I first replied. Show is fantastic. It's one of the top shows on cable right now in America-one of my friends was telling me it was actually #1, but I never checked to see if that was actually true. Watch it. That's an order, soldier!!
I think I'd make a good military commander, with that Internet voice of command.
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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2012/10/07 04:31:54
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Krazed Killa Kan
Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos
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 timetowaste85 wrote:Marty, you Archer?! I, uh, wha....can't help you. Show is amazing. Also, I can't believe I forgot to mention walking dead when I first replied. Show is fantastic. It's one of the top shows on cable right now in America-one of my friends was telling me it was actually #1, but I never checked to see if that was actually true. Watch it. That's an order, soldier!!
I think I'd make a good military commander, with that Internet voice of command.
"Watch this video, soldier!"
"Uh, sir, shouldn't we go and fight the enem-"
"I SAID WATCH IT!"
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2012/10/07 05:45:49
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Dead like me is a pretty good one, Only about 30 episodes or so, but hour long episodes. Dark comedy about a girl who dies and becomes a Grim Reaper.
Star Trek: TNG is a good way to kill about a month.
Edit: Damn. only now do I read the whole thread and see everyone has beaten me to Dead Like Me. 
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2012/10/07 09:33:45
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader
Behind you
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Star trek TOS remastered.
Seriously though, with the amount of interesting plots, stupid redshirt deaths and silly FX, you have to enjoy it.
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2012/10/07 12:01:16
Subject: Re:With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Preacher of the Emperor
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Futurama?
Although I do second Pokemon.
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Veteran Sergeant wrote:If 40K has Future Rifles, and Future Tanks, and Future Artillery, and Future Airplanes and Future Grenades and Future Bombs, then contextually Future Swords seem somewhat questionable to use, since it means crossing Future Open Space to get Future Shot At.
Polonius wrote:I categorically reject any statement that there is such a thing as too much boob.
Coolyo294 wrote:Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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2012/10/08 17:59:28
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Repentia Mistress
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oh I forgot Megas XLR. so good!
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2012/10/08 18:23:27
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Excited Doom Diver
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Boardwalk Empire isn't as good as The Wire and you have to give it a couple of episodes but it grows on you, I found. We're watching it for the second time around (have series one and two) and it's probably even better on a second viewing
The first two seasons of Deadwood are class. the third is pretty bad by comparison, I'd stop at the end ofseason two if I were you.
Generation Kill is short but good.
Beyond HBO, you might try Dollhouse. Two series and complete. It's clever and has many of the same ideas as Firefly (some of the same characters insecondary roles too). Again, I found I had to stick with it for 2-3 episodes to really get into it but it's worth it.
And you can't really go wrong with either Prime Suspect (5 short seasons) or Behind the Lines (3 seasons) if you didn't catch them on tv in the 90s. They've both worn very well, I think.
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Follow these two simple rules to ensure a happy Dakka experience:
Rule 1 - to be a proper 40K player you must cry whenever a new edition of the game is released, and always call opposing armies broken when you don't win.
Rule 2 - Games Workshop are always wrong and have been heading for bankrupcy within 5 years since the early 90s. |
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2012/10/08 18:26:28
Subject: With so many out of the way... name another DVD series that is worth watching.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross.
Learn how to paint landscapes.
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Kal'reia Sept Tau - Farsight Sympathizers 
Da Great Looted Waaagh! 
The Court of the Wolf Lords 