Author Topic: TV Shows (Read 62561 times)

superaielman · « **Reply #275 on:** July 16, 2010, 05:21:14 PM »

Burn notice season 4: Jesse sucks. He's not only boring and fails to shake up the dynamic of the show at all, he eats up a ton of camera time as well. Maddie and Nate have barely been seen this season and management's been pushed to a minor role while he gets a ton of camera time. He really needs to be written off at the end of the season.

Kendra's been okay, at least.

BaconForTheSoul · « **Reply #276 on:** July 16, 2010, 06:06:03 PM »

Ahh Burn Notice. Season 1 owned, season 2 was still good, and season 3 I quit watching halfway through...

As for me

Psych: Still the only show I actually watch on TV

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #277 on:** July 16, 2010, 07:55:28 PM »

Quote from: superaielman on July 16, 2010, 05:21:14 PM

Burn notice season 4: Jesse sucks. He's not only boring and fails to shake up the dynamic of the show at all, he eats up a ton of camera time as well. Maddie and Nate have barely been seen this season and management's been pushed to a minor role while he gets a ton of camera time. He really needs to be written off at the end of the season.

Kendra's been okay, at least.

People care about Nate?

Yeah, big fan of Kendra, but his Mom has gotten pretty ample screentime. Her interaction with Jesse is good times at least.

I'm pretty sure the whole season is leading up to a whole "No, Management. YOU are the demons" ending anyway.

Scar · « **Reply #278 on:** July 18, 2010, 06:46:07 PM »

The only show I watch on TV, besides anything on ESPn is Entourage.

Into season 7 and it is still kicking ass.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #279 on:** August 10, 2010, 10:40:19 AM »

Top Shot- Been watching/catching up on this for the past week or so. Entertaining. Premise is they take a bunch of firearms specialists (Marine snipers, professional rifle and pistol shooters, archery experts, show shooters, etc) and test them with ALL things that shoot things that kill you. Been pretty entertaining. They've done bows, throwing knives, slingshots, four kinds of pistols, two kinds of shotguns and five kinds of rifles in a ton of different scenarios. It's amusing though, as you can really tell peoples' strengths and weaknesses, and just goes to show you how hard using weapons on that level is and how specialized the skillset for each weapon/situation is.

Kinda sad though, the guy who pretty much eliminated almost everyone from the competition got knocked out cause he had to go first/be the guinea pig in the latest challenge.

Rob, you watching this?

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #280 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:22:18 PM »

I have never heard of it. TV goes completely off my radar till September usually.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #281 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:23:33 PM »

It's on the History Channel. Past eps are up on Hulu

Captain K. · « **Reply #282 on:** August 10, 2010, 05:27:13 PM »

In a similar vein, check out Deadliest Warrior on Spike (think I've plugged it before, don't remember). Highly entertaining show where stuff gets blown up and sliced bloodily. Highlight of this past season was Vlad the Impaler's sword, which makes a katana look like a dull butterknife.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #283 on:** August 10, 2010, 07:11:06 PM »

Thats not really a similar vein...

Captain K. · « **Reply #284 on:** August 10, 2010, 07:37:12 PM »

It is, since if the weapons are evenly matched it comes down to how well their experts can shoot. As was the case when they did Navy Seals vs Israeli special forces.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #285 on:** August 12, 2010, 08:34:07 PM »

Quote from: Captain K. on August 10, 2010, 05:27:13 PM

In a similar vein, check out Deadliest Warrior on Spike (think I've plugged it before, don't remember). Highly entertaining show where stuff gets blown up and sliced bloodily. Highlight of this past season was Vlad the Impaler's sword, which makes a katana look like a dull butterknife.

I preferred Human Weapon. Two guys travel all over the world to train with masters of pretty much every fighting style.

Apparently when Navy SEALs undergo CQC training, they're doing it under the assumption they're having to engage in CQC because chemical weapons have been deployed and they can't see. So they take everyone out to a field, hose the whole thing down with pepper spray, and make people fight on it.

Captain K. · « **Reply #286 on:** August 12, 2010, 11:20:01 PM »

I've seen that show before, and it is pretty good also.

Scar · « **Reply #287 on:** August 28, 2010, 04:15:50 PM »

Anyone seen a show called, "The League"? It's a show on FX that follows It's always Sunny Thursday nights.

The show is about a group of friends who are in a Fantasy Football league together.

It's Hella funny, and I'd recommend it to anyone with a heart beat!

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #288 on:** October 08, 2010, 10:05:11 AM »

Finally got around to watching Firerfly thanks to the all mighty power of Netflix instant viewing.

Short Version: Fully lived up to the hype surrounding it.

Longer Version: Man, this getting canceled really was a travesty. The setting, although a bit jarring at times, was fun. The characters were fantastic. The individual episode plots were solid all around. The only thing lacking was a strong metaplot, and we were just getting into that. It was just a very strongly written and realized character drama that tugged a couple strings in my heart as someone who approaches fiction in a similar manner. It really is a terrible drag that the show ended right where it did. You could finally see a lot of threads start to tie together, character relationships beginning to blossom and more metaplot emerging.

The downside is that, having now watched the TV series, my opinion of Serenity has dropped. It sits in a really weird spot. As an individual work, I found it quite solid. As a "capstone" to Firefly though, it falls short. I'm still not quite sure what the intention was, but it feels like a really weird continuity reboot + pick-up from the end of the series. Which just doesn't really work for me. It criminally underuses some characters (I'm mainly look at you, Shepard) and feels like it resets the majority of character relationships. Also, the nature of a well written character drama made the Joss Whedon death thing all the more irritating in retrospect.

I really sort of wish he'd tried to do something like a couple episode, direct to DVD miniseries follow-up instead of a feature length movie. But alas, some things are not meant to be.

Captain K. · « **Reply #289 on:** October 08, 2010, 02:07:53 PM »

Just curious, does Netflix have all the episodes? Cause there were like 3 episodes on the DVD collection that didn't actually air on TV.

Shale · « **Reply #290 on:** October 08, 2010, 02:19:07 PM »

It does.

Captain K. · « **Reply #291 on:** October 08, 2010, 11:22:43 PM »

This season of WCG Ultimate Gamer just ended. Reality show where people play different video games for $100,000. I started watching it because Justin Wong was on, but it turned out to be pretty entertaining. A lot of the typical reality show DRAMA, but some pretty cool stuff too. Maybe I should try to get on next season as Ugly Old Man wildcard contender.

http://www.hulu.com/wcg-ultimate-gamer

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #292 on:** October 13, 2010, 08:48:58 AM »

Does anyone still watch Chuck? I kind of randomly dropped it and I want to know if it's worth it to actually stay with it? I kind of thought they had played out what they could really do with it.

Fringe, which I picked up on the other hand, is great fun. Solid job of mixing enough stand alone episodes to survive on Fox with a great overall mythos arc.

Shale · « **Reply #293 on:** October 13, 2010, 12:53:59 PM »

Chuck hasn't gotten back to the level of sheer awesomeness it had in the latter half of the second season, but it remains very solid.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #294 on:** October 25, 2010, 06:12:27 AM »

Saw an advance screening of The Walking Dead. All of you who are cool should be recording the premier on Halloween. Those of you who aren't will be home alone and watching it.

superaielman · « **Reply #295 on:** November 14, 2010, 04:22:29 PM »

Burn notice: It's baaaaack! Good, solid return episode and I like the way it deals with the fallout from last season. Michael doesn't just magically heal up and return to full strength, he has to fight his way through the injuries and problems from the last few episodes of the previous half season.

Captain K. · « **Reply #296 on:** February 11, 2011, 05:21:24 AM »

In case you missed Community, catch it on Hulu. The episode is called "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons", which should tell you all you need to know about it.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #297 on:** February 11, 2011, 05:47:02 AM »

I could listen to Chevy Chase say "Faaaaaaaaaaat..." all day.

superaielman · « **Reply #298 on:** March 21, 2011, 02:42:45 AM »

Archer- Bought the first season today and watched it. Absolutely hilarious takeoff of spy shows. If you dug arrested development's humor, give this a try. First season is 25 bucks on bestbuy's site, and was worth every penny.

metroid composite · « **Reply #299 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:37:41 PM »

GameFAQs managed to convince me to watch a TV show (something I haven't done in years):

My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic
It's...pretty good. First couple episodes were bad and obviously a pilot. Next few episodes I was thinking "this is pretty good, but I'm still feeling a bit old to be watching this". Then the show really takes off. It's made by the creator of the Powerpuff Girls, except with more characterization and less punching; and the characterization is really quite good (like, there's two different tomboy characters with very distinct personalities). And for all that it's a kids show, it doesn't really treat the characters like kids; they have adult responsibilities, adult problems, no obvious parental figures, etc. Hmm...let's talk about the characters.

Twilight Sparkle: The highly competent main character. Twilight is basically a scientist type who doesn't know how to socialize. Like...they're about to have a slumber party, and her reaction is "oh, hold on, I read a book on this once. *runs to get book* it has a checklist and everything!"
Pinkie Pie: Literally Pinkie from Pinkie and the Brain. Like...this video is so accurate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpdDS3L2xs (accurate for Pinkie anyway. Only somewhat accurate for the Twilight being the Brain--in that Twilight usually isn't the one with an insane scheme--there are other characters for that).
Fluttershy: Extremely timid, underconfident biologist who obsesses over flora and fauna. Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls is a somewhat reasonable analogy.
Rainbow Dash: Loves flying, brags constantly about her skill, complains when people slow her down, obsesses over being cool, and has a bit of a selfish streak.
Rarity: Vain fashion designer, obsesses over small details. Strangely in the running for best character in the show just because of how well she's executed.
Applejack: A bit of a redneck--happy to help someone out, but has a strong independent streak when it comes to accepting help herself. Happy to get dirty doing physical labour on the farm, but can't stand the thought of getting dressed up in lace.
Spike: Token male, which gives him a lot of good one-liners. Also token dragon.

It's hard to think of a major character I dislike. Unless I can count the Cutie Mark Crusaders, in which case yes: they are awful.

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Author Topic: TV Shows (Read 62561 times)