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RuySan wrote:

But this season had such a melancholic vibe that wasn't present before.

Well, I dunno about that.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Our characters mostly got happy endings. Joe took his newfound wisdom and inner peace and escaped the rat race entirely. Donna and Cameron found a way to live with it, to pursue their passions but not be consumed by it. Bos and Dianne made time to "live a little."

It's always been a show about Icaruses -- people destroyed by the passions, but in the end, we see our surviving characters find a way to live fulfilled lives without the destructive monomania that ruled them in earlier years. I count that as a happy ending.

Gordon died! You can't escape the elephant in the room. That scene was probably the saddest thing i've ever see on TV (him looking back at his daughters growing up..... :'(

I'm getting all teary eyed again. And then there's all the heartbreak around Haley.

Joe escaped the rat race but left everyone he loved behind, again. Maybe i was asking a lot for him and Cameron to live happily together forever.

It's not about computers, it's about people. It's more like Mad Men than Mr Robot.

Yeah but it says nonsense shit about IP addresses in text files.

Scorpion is about fun, and the stupidness of what it is they're doing is part of that. It very much pokes fun at itself - they broke into a safe with a hot dog sausage once.

You should watch it, if only because it really annoys Gaywood.

I stopped watching Person of Interest after the first episode because the entire premise was broken and stupid.

the good AI moves itself to avoid the bad AI and ends up running on the power grid. Then, when the bad AI realises this and starts causing power cuts everywhere, the good guys, using some magical new compression algorithm and fancy processors, download a highly compressed version of the AI into a battery-powered briefcase in the hope of restoring/rebuilding the good AI at a later date.

PSA: The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 have started again.

Also, if you like fun and / or annoying Gaywood: Scorpion started its forth season earlier in the week.

Riverdale S2E3: That is not appropriate dress for a family dinner.

Cras wrote:

Yeah but it says nonsense shit about IP addresses in text files.

Right?! Fucking idiots.

Fortunately series 4 of a realistic tech show started the other day.

Gotham is surprisingly good. Why did nobody tell me Gotham was surprisingly good?

I'm glad you quoted that, because I missed it before.

Utter nonsense. Glorious, glorious nonsense.

Miller great as ever*
Amos - really enjoyed him this time around. He was a one-note meat-head in the first series. This time he was the brutal, blunt oracle of truth and wisdom, afflicted with self-doubt.
Alex - increasingly endearing, especially his blossoming relationship with the ship
Naomi - her accent grates, but she's playing an important, unreliable role as the ship's wayward moral compass.
Jim - often too emo for my liking, he needs to wind his neck in.
Indian UN lady (Chrisjen, I had to look it up) - Fucking bad ass.
Fred Johnson - love the way he's never just Fred, he's always Fred Johnson. I like him.

It's a separate continuity. The creators have already said so

Mindhunter on Netflix. If no-one has talked about it yet, watch it, it's amazing.

Ozark?

All the Marvel ones? Including (especially) Legion.

I once again appear to have hit a dearth of programs for my commute that meet the following criteria:

- My wife doesn't want to watch (anything genre or action-leaning tend to be of little interest to her)
- I do want to watch because they're excellent
- They are available to download on Netflix or Amazon

Findus Fop wrote:

Have you watched any of the documentary series/standalones on Netflix? Most of them are really good.

Stuff like Making a Murderer and The Confession Tapes, for example.

Author:	LewieP [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 16:40 ]
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Mr Robot is mostly about people.

Author:	Cras [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:00 ]
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Yeah but it says nonsense shit about IP addresses in text files.

Author:	RuySan [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:05 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: RuySan wrote: But this season had such a melancholic vibe that wasn't present before. Well, I dunno about that. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Our characters mostly got happy endings. Joe took his newfound wisdom and inner peace and escaped the rat race entirely. Donna and Cameron found a way to live with it, to pursue their passions but not be consumed by it. Bos and Dianne made time to "live a little." It's always been a show about Icaruses -- people destroyed by the passions, but in the end, we see our surviving characters find a way to live fulfilled lives without the destructive monomania that ruled them in earlier years. I count that as a happy ending. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Gordon died! You can't escape the elephant in the room. That scene was probably the saddest thing i've ever see on TV (him looking back at his daughters growing up..... I'm getting all teary eyed again. And then there's all the heartbreak around Haley. Joe escaped the rat race but left everyone he loved behind, again. Maybe i was asking a lot for him and Cameron to live happily together forever.

Author:	RuySan [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:07 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: It's not about computers, it's about people. It's more like Mad Men than Mr Robot. The first season was the one with more tech dialogue, and was centered mostly on Joe. My wife loved it since the beginning even though she didn't get orgasms everytime anyone mentioned the Amiga on the show, unlike me.

Author:	Grim... [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:42 ]
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Cras wrote: Yeah but it says nonsense shit about IP addresses in text files. Right?! Fucking idiots. Fortunately series 4 of a realistic tech show started the other day.

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Author:	Grim... [ Tue Oct 24, 2017 17:43 ]
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Yes, you're right, that was fucking awesome.

Author:	devilman [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:07 ]
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Some of the tech stuff in Person of Interest bugs me, as basically anything seems to be possible if you've got a laptop handy. I don't think I'd last long watching that Scorpion if that clip is anything to go by

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:09 ]
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Scorpion is about fun, and the stupidness of what it is they're doing is part of that. It very much pokes fun at itself - they broke into a safe with a hot dog sausage once. You should watch it, if only because it really annoys Gaywood.

Author:	devilman [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:11 ]
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Oh, I see it's on Netflix. Added to my list.. let's see how long it lasts on there.

Author:	Zardoz [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:13 ]
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Author:	Cras [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:59 ]
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Grim... wrote: Scorpion is about fun, and the stupidness of what it is they're doing is part of that. It very much pokes fun at itself - they broke into a safe with a hot dog sausage once. You should watch it, if only because it really annoys Gaywood. And that's what really annoyed me about Mr Robot - they went out of their way to establish that they were going for realism in portrayal of tech and hacking, then came out with unnecessary bullshit nonsense right from the start.

Author:	LewieP [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:15 ]
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I stopped watching Person of Interest after the first episode because the entire premise was broken and stupid.

Author:	MaliA [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:21 ]
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LewieP wrote: I stopped watching Person of Interest after the first episode because the entire premise was broken and stupid. Was it myp?

Author:	devilman [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:24 ]
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LewieP wrote: I stopped watching Person of Interest after the first episode because the entire premise was broken and stupid. After a while, that initial premise of a powerful supercomputer AI predicting terrorist incidents and planned murders etc. becomes the most plausible part of the programme. I think peak silliness was when - ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! the good AI moves itself to avoid the bad AI and ends up running on the power grid. Then, when the bad AI realises this and starts causing power cuts everywhere, the good guys, using some magical new compression algorithm and fancy processors, download a highly compressed version of the AI into a battery-powered briefcase in the hope of restoring/rebuilding the good AI at a later date.

Author:	LewieP [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:40 ]
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Gotham is pretty batshit crazy, and they just kind of throw anything at the wall to see what sticks. There's some extremely jarring and misguided tonal shifts, loads of threads that are obviously just abandoned part way through because they had no idea what to do with them, and it has a really bad habit of most of the time when someone is killed, it just means that they'll be back with super powers or something in a few episodes time. But I do really like it, it's got some incredible performances. Their take on Heart of Ice is great, the episode about the Red Hood is a nice little standalone story, and the kid they got playing a Young Joker is a lot of fun. On the whole I would say the production design is a league or two about other similar shows. It's inconsistent as hell, but definitely worth watching for the highs. To some extent it got over it's identity crisis by the end of the second season, but not entirely. It plays pretty fast and loose with continuity, where a bunch of the characters/events pulled from the Batman canon get reinvented. Sometimes to great success, but other times it's just a bit of a mess. Main weakness imo is the dude playing Jim Gordon has a pretty limited acting range, and he's the least enjoyable guy from the main cast. A lot of the young Bruce Wayne stuff is weak, too.

Author:	Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:57 ]
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I like Jim Gordon, but young Bruce is indeed terrible. Though Sean Penn is an amazing Alfred.

Author:	Mimi [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 17:30 ]
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Grim... wrote: PSA: The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 have started again. Also, if you like fun and / or annoying Gaywood: Scorpion started its forth season earlier in the week. Brooklyn 99 ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! awwww

Author:	Satsuma [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 17:48 ]
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Where’s Gina?

Author:	Cras [ Wed Oct 25, 2017 17:50 ]
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Just had a baby. So on maternity both in real life and on the show.

Author:	MaliA [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 20:27 ]
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Riverdale S2E3: That is not appropriate dress for a family dinner.

Author:	MaliA [ Thu Oct 26, 2017 20:32 ]
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MaliA wrote: Riverdale S2E3: That is not appropriate dress for a family dinner. The last bit is acebest.

Author:	RuySan [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:45 ]
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Anyone watching "The Deuce"? It's HBO quality through and through from the writers of The Wire and produced and acted by James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhall. It has much violence against women though. So much that now i have to see it on my own because my wife couldn't stomach it.

Author:	MaliA [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:54 ]
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The penultimate episode of Bliod Drive was superb. It is way ahead of now.

Author:	Findus Fop [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:12 ]
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Grim... wrote: Cras wrote: Yeah but it says nonsense shit about IP addresses in text files. Right?! Fucking idiots. Fortunately series 4 of a realistic tech show started the other day. I could never watch a program like that, but I'm very glad it exists.

Author:	Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:20 ]
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Gotham is surprisingly good. Why did nobody tell me Gotham was surprisingly good?

Author:	DavPaz [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:21 ]
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I'm glad you quoted that, because I missed it before. Utter nonsense. Glorious, glorious nonsense.

Author:	myp [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:22 ]
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Cras wrote: Gotham is surprisingly good. Why did nobody tell me Gotham was surprisingly good? Pretty sure I've mentioned it before. I'm on S3 now.

Author:	Findus Fop [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:40 ]
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Finished S2 of the Expanse last night. I openly wept in the penultimate episode, which perhaps says more about my current work-annihilated state of mind than it does the show, but I did find the refugee scene terribly affecting. Loved this series though. The crew's slow loosening of their morals and increased lengths they'll go to have been very interesting to watch. Findus' Expanse Scoreless Scorecard: Miller great as ever* Amos - really enjoyed him this time around. He was a one-note meat-head in the first series. This time he was the brutal, blunt oracle of truth and wisdom, afflicted with self-doubt. Alex - increasingly endearing, especially his blossoming relationship with the ship Naomi - her accent grates, but she's playing an important, unreliable role as the ship's wayward moral compass. Jim - often too emo for my liking, he needs to wind his neck in. Indian UN lady (Chrisjen, I had to look it up) - Fucking bad ass. Fred Johnson - love the way he's never just Fred, he's always Fred Johnson. I like him. Looking forward to series 3. *though watching Chris Packham's show about asperger's, made me occasionally think I was looking at a Belter in rural England.

Author:	Bamba [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:42 ]
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Cras wrote: Gotham is surprisingly good. Why did nobody tell me Gotham was surprisingly good? I think I watched about half of the first season before giving up. Some aspects of it were decent but then loads of it was pure soap opera nonsense which ruined it. And Jada Pinkett Smith's horrendous scenery chewing just fucked the tone every time she was on screen.

Author:	Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:46 ]
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DavPaz wrote: I'm glad you quoted that, because I missed it before. Utter nonsense. Glorious, glorious nonsense. That - let me assure you - is one of the more realistic bits. Genius: I need to make an EMP cannon to shoot that satellite! I need about 25 microwave ovens. Army man: You're going to make an EMP out of microwaves?! Genius: [looks legit confused] Well, how do you make your EMP cannons?

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:21 ]
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Findus Fop wrote: Miller great as ever* Amos - really enjoyed him this time around. He was a one-note meat-head in the first series. This time he was the brutal, blunt oracle of truth and wisdom, afflicted with self-doubt. Alex - increasingly endearing, especially his blossoming relationship with the ship Naomi - her accent grates, but she's playing an important, unreliable role as the ship's wayward moral compass. Jim - often too emo for my liking, he needs to wind his neck in. Indian UN lady (Chrisjen, I had to look it up) - Fucking bad ass. Fred Johnson - love the way he's never just Fred, he's always Fred Johnson. I like him. These are some powerful correct opinions.

Author:	Grim... [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:01 ]
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I thought Sean Penn was an odd choice when you told me about it last night. The Sarge, though - hell yes. He should be in everything.

Author:	myp [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:02 ]
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His dad Jon Penn was a great Doctor Why

Author:	Cras [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:03 ]
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He's ex-military in it too, so I like to think it's in the continuity. Somehow. Despite the inherent issues with that.

Author:	myp [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:08 ]
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It's a separate continuity. The creators have already said so

Author:	LewieP [ Fri Oct 27, 2017 13:13 ]
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It took a bit of time for me to warm to Pertwee's Alfred, but I think it's one of the better depictions of the character now. Yeah it is it's own continuity, the timeline doesn't really make much sense otherwise, and it does kind of undermine the idea of the increasingly outlandish villains being a direct response to Batman that is usually a pretty important part of Batman, but I can forgive it because they do some interesting stuff with it. But sometimes they're not very creative with it, and sometimes it doesn't work. The show's version of Azreal is dumb, and there's a few villains who got decent origins replaced with "oh their wife/mother/daughter was killed so they went bad".