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PostPosted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:12 
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Trooper wrote:
Sons of anarchy finale was ok. Most stuff was tied up well enough and it was a fitting end, but there were no surprises. Everything happened pretty much as you would expect.

I'm getting towards the end of series 1 of The 100, and it's not bad. It's a bit more visceral and surprising than you'd expect by the initial chintzy american-ness and beautiful people.


I thought there was some odd almost supernatural bits at the end, was an OK ending. Thing it had the least killings for the entire season in this episode as well!

Sure they could keep it running as well if they wanted to.


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Sons of anarchy finale was ok. Most stuff was tied up well enough and it was a fitting end, but there were no surprises. Everything happened pretty much as you would expect.

I'm getting towards the end of series 1 of The 100, and it's not bad. It's a bit more visceral and surprising than you'd expect by the initial chintzy american-ness and beautiful people.


I thought there was some odd almost supernatural bits at the end, was an OK ending.


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Yeah, but it is based on hamlet, so there has always been a bit of a ghost theme throughout. It's been subtle, but they ramped it up a little for the last episode. The homeless woman is basically the ghost from hamlet, and appears to both gemma and jax when momentous things are happening, or choices need to be made. Only they can see her, I think.


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Annoyed no UK TV channel picked up the last season ,will have to wait on Netflix to show the last season.


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I watched the first episode of The Returned the other day; it was fucking awesome and assuming the rest of the series keeps up that quality it comes very highly recommended.


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TV Show started based on The Librarians films

Not surprisingly its called The Librarians :DD

3 episodes out so far, not watched it yet but the films were ok if not a bit low budget. A TV show should be ok though


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We'd not see any of the TV Movies but downloaded the first couple of episodes of huge series and thought it was ok. Light Sunday afternoon family entertainment, but that has it's place.


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Looks to be a release of The Wire on the NG in 720p with most episodes around 1.5GB

Best I could ever find was SD at around 800MB

First 2 seasons out over the last few days, so hopefully a season a day will be released.

Was aware there are plans for a Blu Ray release of this show in 2015 so not sure if this is an early leak or if its been around for a while and I missed it.

Good quality and they display at 16:9 without having to stretch on my XBMC


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It's a remaster (as The Wire was never filmed in HD), but apparently it looks "okay".

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It looks pretty good compared with the SD stuff.

So started watching it, wow! What a great show 3 episodes back to back, which is a lot of us these days


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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.


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One of the Amazon Prime pilots due for launch later in the month is an ACW drama ('Point of Honour'). A large number of re-enactors I know in the US were extras in it*, so might look into giving Prime a trial if it works on the Roku. Other than that, I know little about it.

*Thankfully, I'm not aware of that ('estranged friend' - Ed.) being involved so if I do watch it I won't feel as awkward as I did watching another major streaming-only show last year


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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.

I gave up about half-way through the second season.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:00 
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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.

I gave up about half-way through the second season.


I loved it :(


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It's a remaster (as The Wire was never filmed in HD), but apparently it looks "okay".

More importantly than that, the aspect ratio has changed -- from 4:3 to 16:9. David Simon was involved, though, and says that some shots look better and some look worse, as you'd expect. But overall he wasn't unhappy.

This is better than the hack job that is SyFy's broadcasts of Buffy in widescreen. They literally just took the 16x9 production footage and broadcast it. There are crew members visible in the screen edges in some shots. Joss Whedon was hella-angry on Twitter.


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More importantly than that, the aspect ratio has changed -- from 4:3 to 16:9. David Simon was involved, though, and says that some shots look better and some look worse, as you'd expect. But overall he wasn't unhappy.


In the early years of widescreen tellies I used to get really annoyed by people just watching everying in fattyvision rather than switching to 4:3. Still irks me today but most sets switch automatically. Clip shows are now the worst offender but some are getting better.


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Loving watching the Wire, looks as good as any other 720p stuff

Found there are a few of these episodes missing on the NG is S4 and S5, but don't have to worry about that for a while!


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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.

I gave up about half-way through the second season.


What are you commute watching at the moment? I need something else now :D
I tried Boardwalk Empire, but it's just a bit too nudity based to watch on a busy train, really.


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Where are the mortals of this group, and by that I don't mean the script kiddies who know how to set up sickbeard, getting your dubiously acquired TV stuff from nowadays?

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Where are the mortals of this group, and by that I don't mean the script kiddies who know how to set up sickbeard, getting your dubiously acquired TV stuff from nowadays?


I'm just using proxies for the various big torrent sites as always.


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If you're happy to stream stuff and not bothered about HD, then this place is your best bet.

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Where are the mortals of this group, and by that I don't mean the script kiddies who know how to set up sickbeard, getting your dubiously acquired TV stuff from nowadays?


Still using torrents and using either a proxy for EzTV or another one (that i cant remember right now but can post the link for tonight)

For others like me who are manually grabbing things new Castle last night !

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Where are the mortals of this group, and by that I don't mean the script kiddies who know how to set up sickbeard, getting your dubiously acquired TV stuff from nowadays?

They're here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6429

[edit]Totally misunderstood - sorry :S

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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.

I gave up about half-way through the second season.


What are you commute watching at the moment? I need something else now :D
I tried Boardwalk Empire, but it's just a bit too nudity based to watch on a busy train, really.

Here's the "Grim... (almost entirely) booby-free viewing recommendation" list (which you'll have seen plenty of already):
Buffy
Angel
West Wing
BS:G
Boston Legal
Constantine
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Archer
Scorpion
The Walking Dead
Firefly

Here's the Booby-tastic list:
Californication
Game of Thrones

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Seen a fair number of those, but I have Scorpion on the list. I'm currently working my way through the rest of Arrow.


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Seen a fair number of those, but I have Scorpion on the list.

People will tell you it's stupid. These people HATE FUN.

"ZOMG YOU CAN'T CHASE A JUMBO JET THAT'S FLYING TEN FEET OFF THE GROUND WITH A FERRARI THAT YOU'VE JUST HACKED AND PLUG A NETWORK CABLE INTO IT IN REAL LIFE"

I would call that a problem with real life, myself ;)

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I didn't like Scorpion. It either needed to be stupider and sillier, or significantly smarter. It's the Goldilocks problem.


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Trooper wrote:
Seen a fair number of those, but I have Scorpion on the list.

People will tell you it's stupid. These people HATE FUN.

"ZOMG YOU CAN'T CHASE A JUMBO JET THAT'S FLYING TEN FEET OFF THE GROUND WITH A FERRARI THAT YOU'VE JUST HACKED AND PLUG A NETWORK CABLE INTO IT IN REAL LIFE"

I would call that a problem with real life, myself ;)


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I didn't like Scorpion. It either needed to be stupider and sillier, or significantly smarter. It's the Goldilocks problem.

Isn't that the opposite of the Goldilocks problem? You want it to reach for extremes rather than sitting between certain margins.

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And The Goldilocks Problem makes no sense, her only problem was falling asleep.

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Oh no, I have a surfeit of options that will cater for every possible taste, whatever will I do.

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Trooper wrote:
Seen a fair number of those, but I have Scorpion on the list.

People will tell you it's stupid. These people HATE FUN.

"ZOMG YOU CAN'T CHASE A JUMBO JET THAT'S FLYING TEN FEET OFF THE GROUND WITH A FERRARI THAT YOU'VE JUST HACKED AND PLUG A NETWORK CABLE INTO IT IN REAL LIFE"

You can't.

Singham can.


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Caught up with all of The 100 now, it's getting really rather good, for what it is.

I gave up about half-way through the second season.


What are you commute watching at the moment? I need something else now :D
I tried Boardwalk Empire, but it's just a bit too nudity based to watch on a busy train, really.


I have to recommend "the affair" just this last time. I don't remember it having nudity...


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One of the Amazon Prime pilots due for launch later in the month is an ACW drama ('Point of Honour'). A large number of re-enactors I know in the US were extras in it*, so might look into giving Prime a trial if it works on the Roku. Other than that, I know little about it.


General consensus on some ACW forums I lurk on is that the battle scenes are good, as is the amount of cleavage on show, but the rest is pretty dire. Probably won't bother playing 'spot the extra' then.


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Covert Affairs has been cancelled, not surprised really, we were sort of pushing ourselves to watch the last season as it was a bit crap

New show 12 Monkeys based on the film of the same name, 2 episodes so far.


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That 12 Monkeys remake is dumb as hell. Seriously dumb.


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Might as well watch the first episode to make your own mind up, but I don't think I'll be sticking with it.


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Well, it's a SyFy production, so you're the only one to blame for wasting time watching that.


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The IO9 review of the pilot of Amazon's "Man in the High Castle" (PKD drama set in a 60's USA were the Axis powers won WWII) says it is excellent.

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The IO9 review of the pilot of Amazon's "Man in the High Castle" (PKD drama set in a 60's USA were the Axis powers won WWII) says it is excellent.


Cool. I am reading that at the moment.

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Cool. My wife is reading that at the moment.


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