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The end of your linked article sets out his GB News show talking about “things you may not be used to heari g”. It does not bode well.

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Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

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Depends on the context.

If it’s factual, compassionate reporting, it’s definitely not what you’d be used to hearing on GB News.

   
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SoCal

Considering how mad John Cleese is at modernity in real life, that. It’s going to be a disaster.

   
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I am not surprised John Cleese wants to make this but I am surprised Rob Reiner does.

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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Considering how mad John Cleese is at modernity in real life, that. It’s going to be a disaster.


Depends how they channel it. And hey, comedy often Speaks Truth To Power. Perhaps in the writing of it, Mr Cleese will gain insight into why the things which irk him are happening, preventing “Old Man Yells At Cloud” outcome.

   
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I suspect the best outcome here is just a vehicle for nepotism.

If he just wants to shout at fake Spaniards again, its going to be a flop.

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The Simpsons

Gone all the way back to the beginning. Man this show used to be so good! But I’ve heard positive things about the latest season.

   
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SoCal

I’ve been hearing positive things about the latest season for a decade. None of those positive things is true. My son has been watching his way through the whole series, and it’s just painful how unfunny and soulless the show is.

   
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Speaking of not as funny as it used to be?

Latest episode of South Park is out, and Tolkein has a Warhammer 40,000 poster in his bedroom!

Always slightly weird as a Sad Old Git to see GW getting ever more mainstream exposure. Good weird though. Not weirdo gatekeepy creepy internet weird.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Speaking of not as funny as it used to be?

Latest episode of South Park is out, and Tolkein has a Warhammer 40,000 poster in his bedroom!

Always slightly weird as a Sad Old Git to see GW getting ever more mainstream exposure. Good weird though. Not weirdo gatekeepy creepy internet weird.


Can't like one of the giddiest moments in my life was Archer when the episode opens with Archer and Lana going to the ISIS armory and Archer says 'they could be building a Gundam with bazooka's for hands!'

I just went 'Is Gundam popular now XD'

   
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Crescent City Fl..

Three-Body ep 25.
Solid. For this show it had a lot of action as the ADC raid the ETO 5 more episodes to go.
They posted all 30 a week ago but the last 9 didn't have English subs. Thankfully they are posting these episodes again but with Eng Subs as advertised.
I hope the Netflix adaptation is as good as this but better still would be an English language dub, fingers crossed. I am enjoying the episode format and pacing, it's a tad slow but it gets where it's going at a good pace. Which for this book is a good way to deal with the material being "hard" science fiction.

Big take away from this Ep, Da Shi is an absolute cowboy and he can prove it.


Sigh, Yet another doomed attempt by man to bridge the gap between the material and spiritual worlds 
   
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I read the first of the 3 body problem books after having had them recommended by a friend and found them to be endless exposition. It may have been poor translation, or else the author felt the need to seem more clever than the reader. I didn’t detect much character development either.

Does it work better as a tv show?

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

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Crescent City Fl..

I listened to them on audio book the first one was done the best so that's my point of reference. I think in 40 min chunks of story it work well. But as you already know it's not action packed at all. I feel like they added a little bit that wasn't already in the story which I see as a little bit of an improvement.

I'm watching it here.
https://www.dramacool.vip/three-body-2023/

I haven't binge watched just one or two a week. You can dip your toes in and see if you like.

Sigh, Yet another doomed attempt by man to bridge the gap between the material and spiritual worlds 
   
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Just finished the first season of Narcos and it was really good.
   
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Midsomer Murders

Still chewing through them.

This episode saw Superman rough up Walder Frey!

   
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London

 greenskin lynn wrote:
started to watch lockwood and co, but people aging out of their powers is a trope i loathe almost as much as surprise amnesia


Aging out though is something that constantly affects us through life, your body changes. Applying that to fictional powers as well as singing with a high voice, playing rugby or trying to beat 22 year olds at Starcraft is fine.
   
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Hyderabad, India

Y'know that Only Murders in the Building show everyone was raving about and saying is so good?

Turns out it's real good.

OK maybe it's just hitting a sweet spot for me of NY life and humor but I just love it.

 
   
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I loved it. Steve Martin is on top form.

   
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Another 40K mention on South Park, specifically Dark Tide.

   
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Hyderabad, India

Only Murders season 2

A bit of a stumble this season, the murder was too convoluted, like the writers were trying too hard to frustrate viewer expectations. It wasn't even 'the butler did it' it was more like 'that dude walking his dog in episode 1 did it'.

Still darn good though, 4/5

 
   
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National Treasure: Edge Of Sanity History

If any movie franchise was begging to be made into a TV show with the main character replaced by a YA Latina lady, National Treasure probably wasn't it.

Wheeling in Harvey Keitel to provide a tenuous connection to the now 20 year old originals, we have experienced a more or less true to life time jump as an audience since the events of the second film, with Keitel, his health failing, concerned for the security of all the secrets he's protecting.

This show is heavily plot driven, as you may expect, so it's probably best to gloss over the details, suffice to say, there's a treasure, a passing of the torch to a character equally as capable of making bizarre leaps of logic as Nic Cage was in the originals and generally everything ricochets about with very little sense to it if you look too closely.

While it walks the line neatly between being family friendly but offering enough to keep adults entertained, it never really veers into compelling. I can best illustrate this by explaining that the penultimate episode ended on a quite significant cliffhanger, yet it took me several weeks to get around to the finale. Despite enjoying watching it when I did.

I'll happily watch season 2 if it happens, I won't lament too hard if it doesn't. Perhaps I'm just in the wrong demographic, or perhaps NT:EoH is just too vanilla to really get excited about.

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I only saw the first National Treasure film and remember being very disappointed when the treasure turned out to be...

A bunch of gold and jewels and stuff.

I'd kind of figured it would be a scroll with 'freedom' on it or whatever.

Cause now you've got a movie about a bunch of guys who go looking for treasure and find treasure and get rich.

 
   
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 Azreal13 wrote:
National Treasure: Edge Of Sanity History

If any movie franchise was begging to be made into a TV show with the main character replaced by a YA Latina lady, National Treasure probably wasn't it.

Wheeling in Harvey Keitel to provide a tenuous connection to the now 20 year old originals, we have experienced a more or less true to life time jump as an audience since the events of the second film, with Keitel, his health failing, concerned for the security of all the secrets he's protecting.

This show is heavily plot driven, as you may expect, so it's probably best to gloss over the details, suffice to say, there's a treasure, a passing of the torch to a character equally as capable of making bizarre leaps of logic as Nic Cage was in the originals and generally everything ricochets about with very little sense to it if you look too closely.

While it walks the line neatly between being family friendly but offering enough to keep adults entertained, it never really veers into compelling. I can best illustrate this by explaining that the penultimate episode ended on a quite significant cliffhanger, yet it took me several weeks to get around to the finale. Despite enjoying watching it when I did.

I'll happily watch season 2 if it happens, I won't lament too hard if it doesn't. Perhaps I'm just in the wrong demographic, or perhaps NT:EoH is just too vanilla to really get excited about.


It was a surprising slog. I reckon you could trim it down some to make a more compelling tale. Because it’s far from without merits, twists and turns. And for the most part those range from perfectly serviceable to genuinely good. But there’s so much of what seems like filler.

   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





I stumbled across "For All Mankind" on Apple TV recently. It really is quite good.

The premise is what if the the USSR won the race to the moon- a Soviet cosmonaut is the first man on the moon between the Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 mission, and then the show tells an alternate history from that jumping off point, focused on NASA and the way space exploration develops in response to this.

Season one is the 70s, season two is the 80s and season three is the 90s. I'm part way through season 3.

I highly recommend it, even if it does get a bit melodramatic from time to time.

Apparently season 4 is in production so I expect that will jump another decade and be set in the 00s.

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I never figured National Treasure was good enough as a movie, much less a TV show.

However, I have heard that is has a lot of appeal with a particular segment of the population.

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 Easy E wrote:
I never figured National Treasure was good enough as a movie, much less a TV show.

However, I have heard that is has a lot of appeal with a particular segment of the population.


First they came for the history channel.

Now, they come for TV series adaptations of so-so Nicholas Cage movies no one has talked about in at least five years.

   
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 Easy E wrote:
I never figured National Treasure was good enough as a movie, much less a TV show.

However, I have heard that is has a lot of appeal with a particular segment of the population.

Most of what was wrong the movies fell into two categories:

Nick Cage
and
a really poor grasp of history and of historical records and artifacts. The idea that someone would make important documents into puzzle clues as they wrote them was... baffling.

The show almost has to be an improvement on both fronts, but I'm still afraid to watch it

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Monarchy of TBD

I have watched the first episode of Animal Control- the Joel McHale vehicle. It is shockingly high in potty humor, a shock value I hope was insisted upon by Fox, and will fade after the pilot.
Anytime they have the marginally competent officers being harassed by animals was great. When they let Joel McHale spout his trademark acerbic and witty invective, it is what I was watching for. I hope the balance leans more to that in future episodes, but it is already much better than 'The Great Indoors'.

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Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
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English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.

 
   
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SoCal

Corrections (Seth Meyers)

Seth Meyers’ main show is pretty average La the night comedy, but he really shines in his bits that break away from the formula, like Surprise Inspection, Tiny Secret Whispers, and sometimes Popsicle Schtick. Corrections is his insane masterpiece.

The bit began with him responding to YouTube comments correcting minor mistakes in his jokes. Then responding to corrections of his corrections. Than corrections of his corrections of his corrections. And it spun out of control.

It’s an interactive bit where he antagonizes his “Jackals” and they antagonize back. He started a feud with a knitting society, randomly harasses other former SNLmembers, mostly Andy Sanberg, and now receives creepy fan-art preying on his fear of Mac Tonight and Cue Card Wally gunning for his job. It’s the best thing in late night comedy.

   
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Arcane

Not sure why this got so much hype, it's beautifully animated but otherwise felt very generic.
Wasn't a bad series though, but hopefully a second season would follow different characters (Jinx got very annoying, very quickly).
   
 
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