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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 22:43 
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I really like Young Sheldon. Hnnngh. I want to hate it but it’s so damn good.

Thankfully The Big Bang Theory continues it’s plunge into shitness. Whew.


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Mr Robot is fucking brilliant! Episode 7 had me on the edge of my seat. Faultless.


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Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.

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Lonewolves wrote:
Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.


As?

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Cras wrote:
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Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.


As?

Criminal wrestlers

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Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
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Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.


As?

Criminal wrestlers

People who wrestle criminals, or criminals who wrestle on the side, or wrestlers who do criming as a side hustle?


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
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Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.


As?

Criminal wrestlers

People who wrestle criminals, or criminals who wrestle on the side, or wrestlers who do criming as a side hustle?

The last of those three.

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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
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Grim… and Craster have shown up in S3 of Gotham.


As?

Criminal wrestlers

People who wrestle criminals, or criminals who wrestle on the side, or wrestlers who do criming as a side hustle?


Or just really, really bad wrestlers

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Grim… isn't in that pic but he's in the show.

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No, he's James's dad in End of the F***ing World.

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 Post subject: Re: General Purpose US TV thread
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The Punisher is really good innit.

Your man Shane holds the screen splendidly (he was arguably one of the strongest characters in TWD), and the rest of the cast are fine too.

The violence is satisfyingly crunchy and squishy, and the action sequences are exciting, although I've noticed a few continuity errors here and there.

It's still a bit 'filler-esque' sometimes (nothing as bad as Luke Cage though, at least not yet), but overall a very good watch.


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Shane is also good in Snitch, which is an okay film if you can get over the fact that The Rock is playing an ordinary dude. He acts it perfectly well, but he's the size of a fucking train.

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The Punisher is really good innit.

Your man Shane holds the screen splendidly (he was arguably one of the strongest characters in TWD), and the rest of the cast are fine too.

The violence is satisfyingly crunchy and squishy, and the action sequences are exciting, although I've noticed a few continuity errors here and there.

It's still a bit 'filler-esque' sometimes (nothing as bad as Luke Cage though, at least not yet), but overall a very good watch.

Yeah it suffers from the same issue of spending too much time with underdeveloped side characters and plots that all the other Marvel/Netflix stuff has, but it's less of a problem than it is here than in the other shows.


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He acts it perfectly well, but he's the size of a fucking train.

"A family-sized car rolled in ham."

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ppxx ... ooking-101


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I love that article almost as much as I love The Rock.

"[The Rock is] like someone looked at a tank and decided it didn't look aggressive enough so bolted two arms on the side of it."

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Hang about, Shane is the Punisher? I might give it a look just cause.


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He acts it perfectly well, but he's the size of a fucking train.

"A family-sized car rolled in ham."

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ppxx ... ooking-101


I love that article.

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nobody really knew they wanted three more Fast & Furious sequels until there was a trailer where The Rock breaks a plaster cast off his arm while saying "Daddy's gotta go to work", and then everyone was like "oh HELL YES! GIVE ME ONE HUNDRED MORE OF THOSE FILMS!";


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I still can't believe you'd never heard "It Doesn't Matter".

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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
He acts it perfectly well, but he's the size of a fucking train.

"A family-sized car rolled in ham."

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ppxx ... ooking-101


That was posted on here a while ago - I love that article.

Not as much as I love the Rock mind.

I was trying to explain my love of the Rock to an American colleague and he really just didn't get it.

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I've posted it at least twice, probably more. It's amazing.


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I still can't believe you'd never heard "It Doesn't Matter".


Wait... what?


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I've posted it at least twice, probably more. It's amazing.

That's good, because if you ain't sharing, people ain't caring.

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I still can't believe you'd never heard "It Doesn't Matter".


Wait... what?

It Doesn't Matter came on in my car on the way to Cottage this year and Craster had never heard it before.

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I've posted it at least twice, probably more. It's amazing.

That's good, because if you ain't sharing, people ain't caring.

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Mr Robot is brill plus the end song (in the latest episode) was from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure so there’s no reason not to watch.


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Two Heads Are Better Than One? Break Away? The Boys and the Girls? In Time? Dangerous? Father Time?

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In time. Worked really well in the context of the scene, too.


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Just watched the most recent episode of The Orville and the character level work continues to impress me in spite of the relatively thin plots. For some reason during this episode it struck me precisely how utterly fucking shameless it's ripping-off of Star Trek TNG is. It's not just a couple of little things, it's almost every single detail: the intro, the theme tune, the uniforms, the food dispenser things, even the noise of the doors. Unless there's some shared ownership of the IP--which doesn't seem likely as one is Fox and the other CBS--then I'm stunned they're getting away with it. I mean the things I mention aren't exactly the same of course but they're so blatantly hewing as close as possible that taken as a whole it's impossible to deny.


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They don't have any rights to the ip, but they have producers, writers and vfx staff and maybe others that have worked on Star Trek.

Also Sherry Palmer.


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Just watched the most recent episode of The Orville and the character level work continues to impress me in spite of the relatively thin plots. For some reason during this episode it struck me precisely how utterly fucking shameless it's ripping-off of Star Trek TNG is. It's not just a couple of little things, it's almost every single detail: the intro, the theme tune, the uniforms, the food dispenser things, even the noise of the doors. Unless there's some shared ownership of the IP--which doesn't seem likely as one is Fox and the other CBS--then I'm stunned they're getting away with it. I mean the things I mention aren't exactly the same of course but they're so blatantly hewing as close as possible that taken as a whole it's impossible to deny.


I could be very wrong, but I think pastiche/parody is given generous leeway.

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Also isn't the original out of copyright, or is that not how it works?

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or is that not how it works?

Very much not how it works, thanks to Mickey Mouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright ... ension_Act


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Yeah I think they'd have to go down the parody/spoof angle if they were planning to mount a legal defence. Doubt it would come to that here though, but maybe.


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The Punisher as a character is very difficult to make sympathetic and i just don't think think they managed it which made all the agonising nonsense.


Do they really try that hard? The Punisher isn't really meant to be sympathetic, to my mind it's designed to be an abject lesson in what happens when you go down the 'wrong' route of seeking justice, and the Netflix version does that pretty well. Trying to build the pathos of redemption into it would undercut the whole premise of the character.

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I'd more just say that they do a pretty good job of convincing you of his motivation, even if you can't really fully condone his actions. Ultimately he pretty much just has war inside him.


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The Expanse has grown up to be one of my favourite current shows. S1 was fine, but the second one is firing on all cylinders. If any of you has any interest in good science fiction, stop what you're doing and watch it.


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The Expanse has grown up to be one of my favourite current shows. S1 was fine, but the second one is firing on all cylinders. If any of you has any interest in good science fiction, stop what you're doing and watch it.

Oh good. I did enjoy S1, but not enough to have watched S2 yet.

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Punisher finished. That was really fucking good. My favourite Netflix Marvel, I think.

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Cras wrote:
Punisher finished. That was really fucking good. My favourite Netflix Marvel, I think.

Last episode still to watch but agree. I prefer a hero powered by fury rather than emo.


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Punisher finished. That was really fucking good. My favourite Netflix Marvel, I think.

Last episode still to watch but agree. I prefer a hero powered by fury rather than emo.


Watched it, enjoyed the ending in spite of copious Weller.


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