Be Excellent To Each Other

Westworld? Tattyworld.

There are almost too many tatties.It's sort of like how gynecologists must feel about vaginas.

This Is Us continues to be excellent.

I think the nudity of the hosts is really well used. It's completely dehumanising, which is the point, of course.

Exactly, yes. You pretty much don't notice that they're naked (or if you do it's not remotely "wooo, boobs!") and the staff clearly don't either. It's very well used.

Not in my house. Every 2 minutes is "Woo boobs!"

(On a serious note, I bloody loved episode 1. It could easily have been a one-off and it'd still have been immensely satisfying.)

(Because of the tatties)

This week's B99 is the Halloween special and it's glorious. There's so much superb Holt.

What's the deal with weapons in West World? Are they real or not?

I don't think so no. Even if only the guests had real weapons they'd just end up shooting each other.

In the film they were real but couldn't be fired at people. Bullets fired by the robots also seem to hit things other than people. Some sort of smart ammo maybe.

They're real, but only work on the hosts. They physically damage the hosts, so must be real, physical bullets. I assume it's some sort of nanotech or something in the bullets that makes them harmless against the visitors.

They're not entirely harmless they just can't kill. That visitor (the bloke from Lost, is it?) gets shot in the shoulder and spun around after that bounty escapes and takes the working-girl hostage. He examines his shoulder and there was a noticeable bruise.

Well remembered, yes! So ner ner ner Craster.

Proposal: Westworld thread split. I reckon the show deserves its own thread.

Every show deserves its own thread, so that when people binge watch earlier episodes when they come to it later they can find the posts about that show instead of the huge general mess thread.

Also a valid opinion in my opinion. I dislike mega threads.

Yes.

Just watch one Westworld... It is great... can we have a seperate thread?

Less asking, more doing.

Title

As if.

Just discovered Star Wars Lego Freemakers and Droid Tales - both gloriously funny and great fun. A lot of fun poked at the prequels too.

"Unexploded Politician: New Episode Weekly!
Ep6 available 10th November"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Yeah, they really need to sort their shit out

I've lost interest in it. After an intriguing start it's now just "meh". Maggie Q's story line in particular is teethachingly irritating. As is she.

I might watch How I Met Your Mother from the beginning again. And Friends.

You should watch Blue Mountain State.

Oh, good. Because after two episodes I already had that vibe from it, so now I know not to bother carrying on.

Huh. I like it a lot.

It's basically 24 but with an alternate universe Jack Bauer and no set timings. I've not seen the latest episode yet, but it ticks all of the same formulaic boxes.

I find Sutherland entertaining, so will likely stick with it, despite knowing that the real bad guys are still probably half a series away from even appearing.

Caught up with Unexploded Politician now, due to them not understanding the concept of weekly. Still ridiculous, but fun. It's also really well shot; lots of really stylised framing and cinematography.

Also fun to put the titular character in moral dilemmas inspired by the recent US election, sacrificing some of his moral belief for the greater good and all that.

I'd much rather it not be, like, 24 episodes long though.

Just watched the first episode of the expanse, very good so far. Mrs W says it's got better acting, more drama and more betterer everything than bloody independence day 2: the independencening. She correct.

I've seen a few more of them and they're all pretty good so far! Not too SciFi - just a sci fi setting for a good detective / politics story.

The Expanse is very good. It's also a show that has the confidence to not give you all the pieces up front, which I liked a lot.

The expanse was ace. Took the right amount from the books and went its own way. Thomas Jane was ace. Can't wait for next series.

Westworld is fricking awesome, maeve in particular.

This is a very good TV show that deserves your time: The Good Place
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt4955642/

Agreed.

So, up to Series 7 of Alway Sunny.

Chardee MacDennis was brilliant.

Also, Narcos is superb, so watch that, too.

Narcos was great. Loved Pablo's collection of shit jumpers.

They were great, weren't they? I am very much hoping that the ending meant they're setting up

I think that is definitely the case.

I think the whole history of the cartels in south America, and the US involvement, is something that is a very rich seam to mine. Pablo was very "you couldn't make this shit up".

Thanks to a kindly member here at BEEX a 2TB drive arrived at our house last week, loaded with EVERY SIMPSONS EPISODE EVER. (Well up to a point, of course, as they're still making them.)

In terms of shitness, the generally accepted wisdom with Simpsons is:

Season 1 - Not amazing, but has its moments. Finding its feet. Good stuff in here.
Seasons 2 to 8/9/10 (opinion varies) - The real golden years, all the best episodes are in here.
Season 11 onwards - Generally shit, a shadow of its former self, often to the point of being unwatchable.

Obviously I haven't watched them all yet, and I will stop at the point it turns to shit (I remember me and Mrs Hearthly gave up with it on Sky, back in the day, with the episode where they all went to Brazil), but in the meantime it's been fantastic to revisit the classic Simpsons, I haven't watched them for years and years and years. (I'm moving through in chronological order, but have also dipped into specific favourite episodes across many seasons.)

It all holds up really well, some absolutely classic comedy in there.

I think I own the Simpsons box sets right up to season 8.... Obviously, there's no point buying them after that.

The one with the Angel skeleton. A sad day in my heart when I realised that The Simpsons could be utter shit.

Looking through the list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T ... E2%80%9320)

I can see several episodes in seasons 9 and 10 that were great (The Cartridge Family is in there, for example), but at the same time you can definitely see the slide in 10, and thinking back to when we were watching them as new episodes on Sky, Seasons 11 and 12 were where it really went downhill.

I'm surprised we made it as far as Season 13 (which is when the Brazil episode is), as it had properly turned to crap by then. I very clearly recall however, that we turned that Brazil episode off before it finished, and literally just stopped watching it from that moment onwards, I haven't seen an episode of The Simpsons beyond S13E15.

Blimey. As long ago as 1997

Great book about the 'Zombie Simpsons' here. Available online for free or for a modest cost on Kindle and other ebook sorts of things which I don't know anything about because they are modern.

Ideal for 'designated break periods'.

https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/ <<< Intro

https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/zs1/ <<< First chapter of the book

Designated Survivor is really shallow, but quite entertaining. We're four episodes in.

Hooten and the Lady has continued to delight me, against expectations.

I started watching Luke Cage on Netflix last night, only done the first episode so far but really liked it. He was one of the stronger characters in Jessica Jones (I think I preferred him to Jessica, come to think about it) and I have no doubt he'll be able to carry a series with him as the focus.

Your man himself Mike Colter is superb, very strong screen presence and tremendously charismatic. I can understand why Jessica Jones totally fancied the pants off him.

I'll go into normal 'series mode', which generally means 1 or 2 episodes per night until I'm done.