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I'm really enjoying it as well. I have not gotten to last sundays ep yet, but hopefully I will on thursday. As far as mysticism I really hope they keep it pretty limited... I don't want to see wizards casting ice bolts and whatnot. If not much more fantastical happens than the White Walkers and the alluding to there having once been dragons, I will be plenty happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I need to check this series out. Maybe I'll download them on my iphone for my long flight on Friday
Hey, stop trip-name-dropping.
Apparently, it's based on a novel series that was only pseudo-fantasy. I'm guessing the fantasy is mainly for milieu purposes, which is a good thing. I really hope they don't make the same mistake with things like the White Walkers that Firefly did with Reavers, i.e. kill that element and mystery of the storyQuote:
Originally Posted by boost
When I say "mysticism", I mean HBO mysticism. They won't do stupid shit like obtuse magic, they make subtle and unique fantasy elements to drive or influence a highly creative story/world. You gotta watch Carnivale. Mysticism at its finest, and I consider it the greatest story for a reason. It would be greatest show ever, but it wasn't fully finished, and I have several different shows tied for the top spot anyways
Sounds like I need to check out Carnivale then...ON MY TRIP AMIRITE BENNY?
Keep in mind that Carnivale takes quite a while to kick off. It's like a thousand page novel where each season is subsequent 200 pages. You don't even know what the story really is about until deep into the first season. It was scheduled for five seasons, but cancelled before the third, because all things great are cancelled. The ending they did was still very good though
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Community.
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You really should be watching it. The last episode was hilarious in ways hilarious doesn't usually happen.
I like community a lot. Donald Glover is awesome.
I too enjoy this show. I wanna bang Annie.
Finished ep two of Game of Thrones. 100% guarantee this is going to be my favorite show. Shit is fucking awesome. Much better than expected. But that's HBO, they always surpass previous bests
I love the dwarf. Guy is an excellent actor. Check out the movie Station Agent. It doesn't sound like much, but it's great and you'll like Peter Dinklage after it. My hearing impairment has me miss so many bits of dialogue, but curiously I don't miss anything he says. Perhaps because he's a dwarf he had to learn how to correctly project his voice and enunciate his words in order to be noticed or something. Next time you watch it, listen to him speak. He's much, much better at it than every other actor in the show. I guess that's something I particularly appreciate given my trouble catching words
Also, I loathe nearly every sex scene in cinema. Being the world's premiere film critic (ldo), I can't help but acknowledge the uselessness, banality, and insult to my senses of sex scenes. They never have purpose, they're just there to make people think about naked bodies and that the characters are spiffy cool.
That said, the sex scene in ep two of GoT was excellent. Because it wasn't a sex scene, it was a character scene that used sex as a tool to tell a greater, deeper story
Only other sex scene I ever recall liking was in Enemy at the Gates because it was raw, blemished, as real as it gets, and soberingly not hot. I'm guessing the sex (rape) scene in Irreversible is also excellent, but I won't watch that
Did she have big titties though?Quote:
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i literalold
i dont even remember a sex scene in enemy at the gates....that was the sniper movie right?...i liked it, it was a pretty badass movie
They were all dirty, sleeping in a basement with a bunch of ppl including kids.Quote:
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IRL, that would have been one stinky clam.
That's why there was no foreplay, duh!Quote:
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I've been watching that poker series "Tilt". Not bad so far.
just watched first 2 eps of game of thrones.....+1!!!! show is legit
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was kinda disappointed with ep4 of GoT.. I mean the ending was pretty awesome, but overall the episode felt jumbled and the dialog was really meh.
*****possible Game of Thrones spoiler alert (dont really think they are spoilers but some might get butthurt)****
yea ending was obv awesome, ep was meh....fat guy was pretty lame addition to the show. Anything the midget and the king say is always going to be gold, and i agree outside of them the ep was somewhat lacking....although the jousting scene was cool.
i was more disappointed with ep 3, and the appearance of Carcetti from The Wire rofl, i fucking hated that guy on the wire, and now hearing him trying to pull off some corny accent while grinning the whole time drives me beserk rofl...
yes i indeed rofled at carcetti and boromir from LOTR
**GOT SPOILERS LDO**
Who is boromir? I kinda like carcetti in the wire.. not my fav character ldo, but he was good for the roll. In GoT I can understand the hate, and I do think they could have cast the roll better, but I'm fine with it. I'm a bit confused what he meant to accomplish by telling her that story... but it was a cool scene for sure.
I thought the fat guy was fine. I think it is a great vehicle for expressing how dilapidated the Night's Watch is. That being said, that micro story arc was almost directly lifted from Full Metal Jacket. Just it had way less depth since Jon Snow remains an altruistic good guy, while Private Joker gives in to the group and swings his soap bar filled sock.
What I did really dislike was the dialog. It was so inconsistent. Arya's scene with her dad was just so meh. "That's not me" is such a contemporary phrase imo, and made what could have been a fine scene, a complete dud.
spoilers
Not really noticing the problems you guys are. Every episode has been wonderful
The addition of Sam (fat guy) is probably actually very good. He probably plays an important role that focuses more on human condition sort of stuff, which is actually pretty common in novels. Expect him to do things like struggle with his fears, yet overcome then when it's most needed of him. That would be the standard way to write him, which is excellent, but if R.R. Martin is a true expert, he would be capable of deviating from standard, but I'm getting the impression that he didn't write the novels with a mind to non-standard storylines and characters. Most great writers/directors/artists are not capable of that. For examples, directors like Spielberg and Cameron are amazing, yet they're not capable of deviating too far from normal storytelling the way that guys like David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Kar Wai Wong are
Not the biggest fan of casting Carcetti unless he can capture the weaselliness of himself. But it is what it is. I love the Boromir casting. That guy's always cool
I'm pretty much in love with Daenerys now. She is such a great character. A kind-hearted, innocent girl who gets raped by her husband, but learns to love him, and learns what it means to be queen. There is sooooo much they can do with her, far beyond what you get with most characters. Not to mention that every man's dream is to fuck her till she loves him obv
Ya, I mean, I pretty much agree with what you've said.. but come on, the dialog has been pretty choppy at times. It feels like they take the effort to use antiquated sentence structures here and there... but completely ignore this trend they have set for entire scenes.
happy endings on ABC is pretty funny. They even had Jack's daughter from 24 make fun of the plot where she got chased by a mountain lion
That is true. It has definitely got a breed of choppiness to it. Thing is, I'm not sure how much of a problem that is. It is possible to pull off a sort of mincing of prose styles. They're not doing it perfectly, but also not horribly.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
I'm an insane dialogue hawk, but there's only so much I can say about this show's dialogue because the torrents I'm getting dont have CC so I'm missing about 1/3rd of the words. One thing I do know for sure is that the dialogue is 100x better than Battlestar Galactica. It's also better than the original Star Wars which didn't kill that trilogy
Like I said, dialogue is one of the things I pay the most attention to due to being born with a hearing impairment and how that disability has actually enhanced my minds focus on audio things because I have to pay more attention to it in order to get by, but I can't say too much about GoT dialogue due to no CC. So you may be absolutely right. The second episode smoothed out a lot of the dialogue that was disjointed in the first ep, and I haven't found reason to complain since. But I'll give it a strong look over in the next ep
I'm repeating myself (as usual), but your analysis is right, and I noticed it myself, but I'm not sure how much of a problem it really is. It is possible to mix and match antiquated and conventional dialogue. But it has to be done right, which I'm not sure if they're doing
Yes, boromir (sean bean) is obv good as a medieval dude.
Maybe it's because we know him as Carcetti and we think he doesn't fit this role. IDK though just something is werid. Carcetti in GoT reminds me of Ellen Page in Incpetion - you guys couldn't find anyone else?
Carcetti typecast will be tough for him to throw off, but it's doable. It's primarily an audience bias problem, but not exclusively, and great acting/writing/directing can overcome it. I think it's best to wait and see. I think it's something HBO knows how to defeat, and I expect the character to mold into non-Carcettiness just fine. It'll just take time. For example, I felt the scene where he told the story about The Hound was his first bit of non-Carcettiness
Another thing about typecast: they're typecast until they're not. It's one of those things where you just gotta give it time and you'll start seeing a different character than the typecast. Overall, policy used by networks like HBO where they reuse a lot of actors is good stuff because it helps eliminate typecast
I love the Wire and had to google Carcetti to remind myself who you were talking about.
Guy is not typecast for me.
And Ellen Paige was good in Inception. Who else do you imagine in that role?
Jena Malone
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And ya, I think he will fill in the role just fine. For like the first half of s01 of Treme I kept being weirded out by Bunk being a busto semi-deadbeat musician father... but now all I see is Antoine Baptiste.
wow, what a sick episode... has me frothing at the mouth for more.. That was definitely one of the better hours of TV I've seen.
def really sick episode, time for its own thread IMO, who wants to do the honors?
hmm, I was pondering this myself.. I generally just go to OOTV to discuss/read indepth stuff about shows. Not sure if we'll have enough contributors to warrant a standalone GoT thread. But if enough people would be interested, I'd be down to discuss it here, theres a lot of retardation that comes with the higher traffic on 2p2.Quote:
Originally Posted by philly and the phanatics
Well, if you don't want to go to the extreme step of opening up a new thread, you could bump and re-purpose an old thread. It's not as if thread titles are a very good measure of what the thread's about around here.
Rilla, are you watching?
Yeah, show has been beyond excellent. I dunno what we'd discuss about it though, but I simply assume that's because I just haven't noticed anything. Even the things that are probably weaknesses in it like possible typecasting or the girl's break from using period language just pass right by me.
I've noticed that the personal grooming is not as per the period.
Last Chance To See
Stephen Fry follows the tracks of Douglas Adams from the book by the same name.
Here's some parrot porn to get you started: YouTube - ‪Shagged by a rare parrot - Last Chance To See - BBC Two‬‏
ya, I think if GoT fans just use spoiler tags each week in this thread it will be fine. There are less than 10 posts per week about the show, and I don't think we have many (any) hardcore TV nits that watch each episode 5 times while taking notes. While these people are pretty lame, they are kinda essential to a show thread imo. And its kinda why show threads on higher traffic forums that get plenty of these nits are good, and at the same time so bad...
boots, show me a forum that does what you say about GoT. I don't think I've ever read a show thread
I don't even know what GoT stands for. Is that bad?
yea because the answer is in this thread like 100 times you n00b
OOTV (OOT subforum ldo) has two high traffic GoT threads. One for people who have read the book and one for people who have not. There are several people who nit pick everything, and while it can be annoying, its also nice because I rarely ever rewatch and episode, so I tend to miss things here and there.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
well i think we should have GoT thread just because then people coming in here to hear about new shows dont have to scroll through pages ruining the shows that were just recommended.
That being said, has anybody watched "the killing" or w/e on AMC....i might watch the first ep, going to go on a limb and assume the least likely person after the first episode is the actual killer ldo
the Killing is slow in the traditional AMC style (although not as slow as rubicon!) but I like it a lot.
sorry if repeat, but just finished spartacus season 1, and it pretty awesome
Do not watch Camelot (new show on Starz). It is a notch above Xena: Warrior Princess, and that's being generous...
Modern Family was surprisingly good! who knew
Season 2 of Ugly Americans starts Friday!
anyone watching it the past 2 years?Quote:
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Me. Show's genius. Sheer genius.Quote:
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hey spendaQuote:
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Gloria is my dream wife, Manny my dream kid, and Cam my dream gay friend
STEVE HOLT
ha ha. There was a AD marathon on UHD a few weeks ago on a sunday and i had it on the TV all day long. Such an amazing show, and every time i watch it i'm sad that it ended after only 3 seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
Rule of thumb: the better a show is, the more likely it gets cancelled
Network TV doesn't exist because they are good at show production, they're actually very awful at it. They exist because they're so deeply entrenched. Innumerable extremely talented artists and shows get destroyed due to network policy and leaders being lawyers and accountants who don't know the first thing about art and entertainment
I torrented both of the season 2 episodes of Louie. I really wish I would catch this on TV to boost the ratings. It really needs to continue being a show.
i dont think you could change the ratings unless you had one of those special cable boxes where they monitors what you watch. wiki nielson ratings or w/e....
as for louie, he is one of my favorite stand up comedians, that said i found the first season (while hilarious) to be almost too dry at times lol. But yea i havent checked out the new couple of eps yet...did you watch wilfred or w/e? my friend says its good but im skeptical of checking it out
wilfred so far is pretty good, it's very odd
I'm currently marathoning the first season of Louie... this is prob a contender for funniest sitcom ever. It's like a combination of Seinfeld and Curb, but a lot darker, and none of the "everything is interconnected" theme that is so prevalent in the Larry David shows.
^^ absolutely!
New season should be coming up shortly
I think it's started.. but don't quote me on that.
first 2 eps already out
Seemed like the proper thing to do.Quote:
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workaholics
WOOT you're right!
I always check here btw: Louie (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
crappy looking site, but it's always reliable.
trip workaholics has been a pleasant surprise for sure...although i hate anders or w/e he sucks ass...but yea def good show that will be back for at least another season imo
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same sex marriage is legal and True Blood is back on air. Pace yourselves gay guys!
I am only slightly ashamed to have enjoyed the first episode of season 4.
Chuck Klosterman on Breaking Bad - Grantland
Chuck Klosterman article about the best TV shows.
ya but they need the "overachieving" guy in slacker comedy to make it work :)
*** Sopranos Spoilers ***
Watching this shits again, and I can't believe what those motherfuckers did to Furio. Writers bitched up the coolest character in the whole show then canned him. WTF is this noise
new show Rake on DirectTV/Audience network is really cool.
also like awkward on MTV
wilfred is confirmed hilarious. last ep wilfred servived the mom from malcom in the middle and had really nasty sex with a stuff girafe. how do you beat that?
finally gave up on true blood this year after ep 3, what a disaster. It is hard to imagine they could have made worse plot choices throwing darts at a board.
louie has been disappointing the last few episodes and i really liked the 1st season. +1 wilfred
yeah I like Louie and even some of the serious eps (the one with the asshole kid in the donut store sticks out) are cool, but it's kinda hard because I'm not sure what mood I should be in when I turn it on. Also I thought the one with him back in catholic school was just a fail on all levels, 0 laughs and a concept that's been done to death.
Just watched Season 1 of Community. Not sure why I wasn't watching this before. Is goot. Is a funny.
ya, this is pretty much how I feel. I was really confused when I got hit with the first serious episode, esp since I marathoned saeson 1 + the first few eps of season 2. Like you said the donut shop ep was fucking awesome, but it felt like SUCH a downer being in the same bin as so much hilarity.Quote:
Originally Posted by drmcboy
for some reason i stopped watching louie after like ep 4. i know i said it was so good, but for a comedy, it felt like it got super srsbsn, and im just not feeling that
community is ez top ten comedy, possible top five
breaking bad is pretty meh this season imo
wtfQuote:
Originally Posted by bikes
yes very slow start, kinda disappointing so farQuote:
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wtf part deux
you don't think so?
Gotta say I haven't watched the last episode yet.
a lot has happened in just a few episodes, and they're developing a story very well. i think audiences usually want swift conclusions to storylines, and that's where a lot of slowness comes from. they brought in at least like four new storyline thingies this season, and they have to be allowed their course. but still it hasn't been slow. besides, if it were to be any faster paced like lost, it would have the same problem of lost in that the writers/producers dont give a fuck about the art and story but only that audiences are cattle
Love this show.Quote:
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Also started watching Mad Men recently and liking that a lot too.
Still loving breaking bad although I want them to get wherever we're going with the brother in law really soon.
I think the ads for community really made it look awful, it is not a good 5 second bite show imo. Have only seen season 1 but it is going on the tivo for sure. pumped for season two, netflix has the discs 9/6.
are you guys joking, in the last season of BB there was like a 4 ep stretch of jack shit happening, highlighted by the episode where he spent a fucking hour chasing a fly....give it time, shit will pop off.
and SPOILERS in white**************
when gus slit that dudes throat it was fucking badass as shit....im def calling that jesse won't die, which will probably mean he will have to kill mike.
Yeah, with Community, you need to understand the characters or the clips wouldn't be nearly as interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by drmcboy
Community - Gangster Senor Chang - YouTube
Just youtubing through Community clips is good for so many lols.
Suits.
Last episode of Breaking Bad made me jizz in my pants.
it is that good
I'm happy with it... but after catching random eps of GoT and Boardwalk Empire, I think I'm just way more into those shows. That's not to take away from the awesomeness that is BB-- I guess I'm just a sucker for period pieces (we can call GoT a period piece right?)
BB doesn't have the pizzazz of a period piece/fantasy, but it's easily one of the best there is.
BE season 2 better have more of the one faced guy. And hopefully Scorsese learned how to not put a film on TV by now. We need more character and story developments and fewer high-production cinematographical scenes