Breaking Bad; Season 2 8/10.
It was going so well until
It was going so well until
A Plane crash, really? 
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Dexter Season 1- half way through and this show is amazing. Can't believe I missed out on this show so long ago. So far would rate it 10/10, such a crafty show. Something that really went outside the box from the norm. Really good!
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Just saw this doc on Russia's worst prisons. Notice that I say worst, not dangerous like in the US. It's from discovery channel and what I got from it is that there is a very high level of order and discipline. Some murderers can get only up to 20 years and there was barely a conflict between inmates. Actually there were no conflicts at all. See, this is how America's prison system should be. You wanna rehabilitate someone yet you put them next to some crazy fuck who can't control his anger and then the inmate serving the lesser sentence either walks out with scars on his body or doesn't walk out because he gets ganged up on and killed for just doing nothing.
Keep in mind that the first two prisons in the doc were literally filled with murderers. They each killed people and yet they didn't even raise eyebrows at each other. The easier prison which is a camp had two inmates who became best friends in there. Yet you look at the US and you see them killing each other over nothing because they all follow some ridiculous "convict code". Prison should be about serving your time, with nothing in between and that's it.
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Keep in mind that the first two prisons in the doc were literally filled with murderers. They each killed people and yet they didn't even raise eyebrows at each other. The easier prison which is a camp had two inmates who became best friends in there. Yet you look at the US and you see them killing each other over nothing because they all follow some ridiculous "convict code". Prison should be about serving your time, with nothing in between and that's it.
/rant
Falling Skies, pilot - 8/10. Not bad, it definitely has promise. I'll continue watching.
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Just finished watching the unaired pilot for the new Wonder Woman live action show. WB were smart to cancel it. Horrible acting, unfinished special effects (there's even a scene where it's a shot of a highway from a helicopter view and at the bottom of the screen it says "add police cars" lmao, i'm guessing that's supposed to be CGI), extremely horrid sound quality (wtf, my college rental boom mic had better audio quality than this whole pilot), random voice-overs that sound entirely different than the actors pop-up out of the blue in the background as if there's a ghost in the scene with lmao..the only thing that I liked was the sexy actress who was the lead for wonder woman...she could pull it off, if only her acting was a little better, but she definitely looks the part (nice tits, ass and face)...let's hope WB doesn't screw up the live action Batman series..and please please please, do not make it like Smallville..I don't wanna wait till the last episode of the whole series to see Bats in the costume, and CGI at that..please, no more origin series..we know how he became the caped crusader, so please continue it as Batman instead of Bruce Wayne Begins.
Firely pilot..I got Serenity on blu-ray and I kept passing on the show for so many years, but I was curious and now I see why it gained cult status. Superb show. Mal is like a more mature Han Solo. Not saying Han Solo is bad or anything, he's fucking awesome. But I can see the Star Wars in some of the characters. Love the show so far. Summer Glau is another reason I decided to watch it. I have such a crush on her.
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The Witcher
Played the first game a while back and loved it so decided to check it out.
Well made show, the locations effects acting are all really good one bad thing though is the swearing, sometimes it doesn't seem appropriate that there's an F word said in some circumstances, but apart from that it's very good I thought.
Also plenty of tits in it. That reminds me I got an infarction on steam for having rude pictures in my screen shots. Lol they gave it to me for CGI boobs in a video game.
Played the first game a while back and loved it so decided to check it out.
Well made show, the locations effects acting are all really good one bad thing though is the swearing, sometimes it doesn't seem appropriate that there's an F word said in some circumstances, but apart from that it's very good I thought.
Also plenty of tits in it. That reminds me I got an infarction on steam for having rude pictures in my screen shots. Lol they gave it to me for CGI boobs in a video game.
Game of Thrones - Season 1-8.
I recently got the 8th season (on blu-ray) and I have now watched the whole series from the beginning. I had watched seasons 1-7 once before, but I decided that I wanted to watch everything from the beginning. I have not read the books.
I'm definitely a fan of this series. I actually think it's one of the best series ever made. I really like the story, the characters, the setting and the high production quality overall. I also like that they don't shy away from showing the gritty "reality" of this world.
One thing I'm wondering about is why so many people really didn't like season 8? Personally I had no problem at all with the last season.
I recently got the 8th season (on blu-ray) and I have now watched the whole series from the beginning. I had watched seasons 1-7 once before, but I decided that I wanted to watch everything from the beginning. I have not read the books.
I'm definitely a fan of this series. I actually think it's one of the best series ever made. I really like the story, the characters, the setting and the high production quality overall. I also like that they don't shy away from showing the gritty "reality" of this world.
One thing I'm wondering about is why so many people really didn't like season 8? Personally I had no problem at all with the last season.
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Because they pooped on Dany's entire personality, character, values, determination, and literally everything she fought for for the entire show for nearly a decade of watching her and just made her into this blithering moron at the end of the show because they didn't know what else to do.
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Shazam! 6/10
I image it's a pretty decent kids show. Pretty long for me to sit through tho at 2 whole hours!
Pretty much all the complexity of the first seasons went out the window.
It made less and less sense as the seasons went on (major plot points were dropped for example - The thing with danny's dragons being stolen is actually a thing in the books, but it gets dropped pretty quickly) when there was no source material to work from. All the poor story crafting came to a point in season 8, the season should have been given the tag line "deus ex machina".
For example:
- Danny was bossing the world with two dragons... then one magically gets shot out of the sky with pin point precision (which is in itself laughable because from the sky danny would have seen the ships before they even left port).
- Then at the end, Danny literally destroys the whole city, and a cities worth of these pin point precision ballista cant hit shit. Hey plot armour!
- Aria died like 10 times or something? But didn't really (more plot armour)
- The dothraki... whooo boi! I honestly don't know what the story guys were smokin', but it must have been some goood shit! Like, forget time and space good, coz i have no idea how they conceived their ill fate in any other state of mind (maybe that's why they blacked it out at the time? hope we wouldn't see their stupidity).
- Oh, and on this part of the story, you can literally see the physical manifestation of plot armour in the assault on Winterfell.
- Bron... mother fukin Bron! What did this little paraplegic shit do to the story? Whenever stuff happened, and he'd just go off into the clouds or something... maybe a metaphor for the writers state of mind? Then at the end he's crowned king? Little useless shit, at least dude could have magic'd some thunderclouds, or coerced some donkeys into defending winterfell...
I image it's a pretty decent kids show. Pretty long for me to sit through tho at 2 whole hours!
Pretty much all the complexity of the first seasons went out the window.
It made less and less sense as the seasons went on (major plot points were dropped for example - The thing with danny's dragons being stolen is actually a thing in the books, but it gets dropped pretty quickly) when there was no source material to work from. All the poor story crafting came to a point in season 8, the season should have been given the tag line "deus ex machina".
For example:
- Danny was bossing the world with two dragons... then one magically gets shot out of the sky with pin point precision (which is in itself laughable because from the sky danny would have seen the ships before they even left port).
- Then at the end, Danny literally destroys the whole city, and a cities worth of these pin point precision ballista cant hit shit. Hey plot armour!
- Aria died like 10 times or something? But didn't really (more plot armour)
- The dothraki... whooo boi! I honestly don't know what the story guys were smokin', but it must have been some goood shit! Like, forget time and space good, coz i have no idea how they conceived their ill fate in any other state of mind (maybe that's why they blacked it out at the time? hope we wouldn't see their stupidity).
- Oh, and on this part of the story, you can literally see the physical manifestation of plot armour in the assault on Winterfell.
- Bron... mother fukin Bron! What did this little paraplegic shit do to the story? Whenever stuff happened, and he'd just go off into the clouds or something... maybe a metaphor for the writers state of mind? Then at the end he's crowned king? Little useless shit, at least dude could have magic'd some thunderclouds, or coerced some donkeys into defending winterfell...
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Well, for me it felt like a quite natural and possible outcome. Her team always had to hold her back from being too cruel almost from the begining. Insanity was common in their family, and she kind of flipped more and more towards the later part of the series. Maybe that's not how the books are, but it didn't feel out of place in the series, imo.
Well, it is supposed to revolve around the end fight, so it didn't bother me much. It felt natural that there was more action and fewer deep "story" moments.
I really don't think the series has to be a carbon copy of the books. It would make no sense to make the series at all if was.
Well, it's a fantasy series, it doesn't really have to be realistic and make sense all the time, imo.
I guess it's harder to accept the "creative freedom" they took in the series if you have read the books. Sinse I haven't, it didn't bother me much. It's not the best season, but I definitely wouldn't call it complete trash, like alot of people do.
Well, it is supposed to revolve around the end fight, so it didn't bother me much. It felt natural that there was more action and fewer deep "story" moments.
I really don't think the series has to be a carbon copy of the books. It would make no sense to make the series at all if was.
Well, it's a fantasy series, it doesn't really have to be realistic and make sense all the time, imo.
I guess it's harder to accept the "creative freedom" they took in the series if you have read the books. Sinse I haven't, it didn't bother me much. It's not the best season, but I definitely wouldn't call it complete trash, like alot of people do.
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I never read the books either (couldn't even if i wanted tho, coz the books arent finished). But there was a time in the earlier season when the iron throne was this enigmatic 'thing' that everyone wanted to own, and you had no idea who would actually end up sitting on it. People would lie, cheat, steal, claw etc to get it. As the audience, it was kinda wild, where was all the chivalry and honour in this world?
To that end, you had at play various machinations among the various characters that made them feel part of the world. Not just the big players at that either, the small guys also felt like, if the stars aligned, they would be in with a shot as well. For example: That chick in the first episode that flashes the stark siblings, she had a role (tho minor) in how events unfolded in kings landing. The faceless man starts out as a prisoner on his way to death, yet has an arc that introduces another completely wild side to westeros.
Varys, for example. In the first couple of seasons he was feared. If you held a secret, you did so at great peril. Because he was likely to find out, and your secret would become leverage. In the last two seasons, he just became a plot device for the main characters to openly talk to... all that intrigue got wasted.
I remember seeing this image and thinking it represented the story progression really well:
The first seasons where they had source material to adapt felt like a big juicy stake. The latter half where they didn't felt like the veggies
To that end, you had at play various machinations among the various characters that made them feel part of the world. Not just the big players at that either, the small guys also felt like, if the stars aligned, they would be in with a shot as well. For example: That chick in the first episode that flashes the stark siblings, she had a role (tho minor) in how events unfolded in kings landing. The faceless man starts out as a prisoner on his way to death, yet has an arc that introduces another completely wild side to westeros.
Varys, for example. In the first couple of seasons he was feared. If you held a secret, you did so at great peril. Because he was likely to find out, and your secret would become leverage. In the last two seasons, he just became a plot device for the main characters to openly talk to... all that intrigue got wasted.
I remember seeing this image and thinking it represented the story progression really well:
The first seasons where they had source material to adapt felt like a big juicy stake. The latter half where they didn't felt like the veggies
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The books are disgusting and read like hardcore pornography at times and all the female characters in the show that are women are actually children in the book. It's honestly disturbing and I'm not sure how anyone can be into the books.
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Line of duty more like line of doody
The latest series (6) Started out great with twists and turns and such but the final episode was an utter slap in the face as if the writers gave up and did eeny meany miney mo on the current cast to select who "H" is. Leave it wide open for another series because its obvious there are other corrupt cops out there that will take over.
The latest series (6) Started out great with twists and turns and such but the final episode was an utter slap in the face as if the writers gave up and did eeny meany miney mo on the current cast to select who "H" is. Leave it wide open for another series because its obvious there are other corrupt cops out there that will take over.
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Shadow Hunters: You'd find more enjoyment watching paint dry.
It was being watched in the apartment so i gave it some time...
God i want my time back tho. I've never rolled my eyes, or scoffed so much at a show ever. God damn! The show is the most cheesy, camp, overly dramatic, poorly written, lol-fest i've ever seen. I honestly don't know why the person who was watching it, was watching it. They seemed into it however, and i didn't wanna be douche canoe numero uno. So i'll just bitch and moan here lol.
I don't know where you'd even start to piece this thing apart. You can't look at one point and objectively criticize it in relation to the parts that it may do competently. Every part of the show is bad, from plot, to story, to script, to set up. For example: One scene will be some overly dramatic, sad sap bullshit, then you're a hard transition to someone talking straight faced about how the magic hoobaleedoo, convexed the hoopaleedoodah into the jadeified void inter-dimension... like, what the fuck mate.
The character "relationships" which i assume is supposed to be the main draw of the show are dry and have all the chemistry of Neon - which is to say they're bloody inert. Actors just spout their lines and wag their arms about to mime something of an actual human relationship. There's a gay couple in this show and the dialogue is so terribly bad i kinda feel for the actors. It's like melodrama times ten. Dude 1 is all; "lets be close". Then Dude 2 is all; "im not ready". Then Dude 2 goes and cries to buddy boi, then decides he's ready (nice fucking character arc champ!), then all of a sudden, Dude 1 is all; "no, i can't! i dont wanna lose you".... holy shit mate!
The story is bad, the script is 90% jargon, the acting... my acting is so bad i can't even pull of the simplest of lies, yet i'd still do better. It's basically Twilight's retarded cousin.
Oh, but you think i'm being hyperbolic? Enjoy:
What the fuck is up with that two cents worth of CG bullshit snow effect!?
It was being watched in the apartment so i gave it some time...
God i want my time back tho. I've never rolled my eyes, or scoffed so much at a show ever. God damn! The show is the most cheesy, camp, overly dramatic, poorly written, lol-fest i've ever seen. I honestly don't know why the person who was watching it, was watching it. They seemed into it however, and i didn't wanna be douche canoe numero uno. So i'll just bitch and moan here lol.
I don't know where you'd even start to piece this thing apart. You can't look at one point and objectively criticize it in relation to the parts that it may do competently. Every part of the show is bad, from plot, to story, to script, to set up. For example: One scene will be some overly dramatic, sad sap bullshit, then you're a hard transition to someone talking straight faced about how the magic hoobaleedoo, convexed the hoopaleedoodah into the jadeified void inter-dimension... like, what the fuck mate.
The character "relationships" which i assume is supposed to be the main draw of the show are dry and have all the chemistry of Neon - which is to say they're bloody inert. Actors just spout their lines and wag their arms about to mime something of an actual human relationship. There's a gay couple in this show and the dialogue is so terribly bad i kinda feel for the actors. It's like melodrama times ten. Dude 1 is all; "lets be close". Then Dude 2 is all; "im not ready". Then Dude 2 goes and cries to buddy boi, then decides he's ready (nice fucking character arc champ!), then all of a sudden, Dude 1 is all; "no, i can't! i dont wanna lose you".... holy shit mate!
The story is bad, the script is 90% jargon, the acting... my acting is so bad i can't even pull of the simplest of lies, yet i'd still do better. It's basically Twilight's retarded cousin.
Oh, but you think i'm being hyperbolic? Enjoy:
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Started watching the new Loki series on Disney+. It's pretty entertaining thus far. I think I'm hooked. I wish I didn't have to wait a week though for each new episode.
It looks like they're setting up sub-plots for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with the whole sacred timeline thing and the Time Keepers.
Here are some cool side videos worth checking out:
It looks like they're setting up sub-plots for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania with the whole sacred timeline thing and the Time Keepers.
Here are some cool side videos worth checking out: