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calandryll posted:After watching it originally when everything came out. I watched it through again a few weeks ago. I will have to say that the last season was actually a lot better than I remember it being. Everything really did fit in with what was put in the previous seasons. It must have been the hiatus that through it off with the original viewing. Oh I didn't mean it like "the rest of the show sucked." I actually liked season 4 a lot. But goddamn ep 3x04 was loving amazing on so many levels
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Johnny B. Goode posted:Oh I didn't mean it like "the rest of the show sucked." I actually liked season 4 a lot. Hell yes, best part was when Galactica jumped into the loving atmosphere!
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Porkchop Express posted:I have been watching a lot of Doctor Who lately. I have seen all of the new stuff, and some of the old stuff over the years, but now I am watching all of the classic stuff. Hell yeah this. I've recently started a Sunday-night get-together with some friends where we watch one story a week - Edge of Destruction is this weekend, Marco Polo next week. Are you watching the reconstructions/listening to the audios?
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I'm about half way through season 2 of Big Love. I didn't think I'd like this show as much as I am. The main characters are all really likable. Even Nikki. She's a bitch, but I just feel so bad for her. Poor girl is really messed up in the head. She's definitely got some anger issues.
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I watched the whole season 1 of Damages in like 3 or 4 days, holy poo poo, it's better than 'the wire'.
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Mister Fister posted:I watched the whole season 1 of Damages in like 3 or 4 days, holy poo poo, it's better than 'the wire'. To each his own, just asking.
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Just got done with Generation Kill, very entertaining but disappointingly short. Could easily watch another seven episodes. I might netflix the first season of The Shield, that was one of my favorite shows and I'm really missing it.
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Dark Weasel posted:Despite how much fun you're probably having now, don't be surprised if you all of a sudden feel the urge to stop watching the show in a few episodes. It starts getting horrible extremely quickly after a... certain point. Would that point be the reveal around Episode 12? It's an...interesting change of direction. How does Fire Walk With Me measure up to the series?
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Now about halfway through season 2 of Life. All I gotta say is that Charlie Crews is a great character and I'm already sad that this show was canceled.
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ufarn posted:Does The Wire rate very lowly with you, or are you seriously hyped about Damages? No, the wire is one of my favorite shows, but i was totally blown away by Damages (season 1 at least). I'm about to start season 2, but i heard it's not as good, so we'll see.
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Continuing with West Wing season six. The White House stuff has blown its load (and some of the writing is painful to the point where I've skipped whole episodes), but I must say the election campaign stuff is thrilling, even in the nitty gritty on the road stuff. Particularly the casting of Jimmy Smits. So much so that I'm thinking of watching LA Law and or NYPD Blue, both of which I have barely seen. Any pointers in those directions? Also finished Enterprise season three. Wasn't sure at the beginning what they were doing, but it turned into something really great and memorable, although the hook into season four was a bit 
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Harmonica posted:Continuing with West Wing season six. The White House stuff has blown its load (and some of the writing is painful to the point where I've skipped whole episodes), but I must say the election campaign stuff is thrilling, even in the nitty gritty on the road stuff. Particularly the casting of Jimmy Smits. There's some hidden decent stuff in the season 6 White House episodes. 365 Days is really, really good. The Wake-Up Call is filler but it has  Annabeth singing and any time a show has Kristin Chenoweth singing it's worth watching. And the episodes that are at the intersection of the White House and the election tend to be awesome, like Faith Based Initiative or Drought Conditions (except one little thing) or the last three episodes which is among the better arcs the show has done.Ninety Miles Away, however, is probably the worst non-standalone episode (read: Allison Janney Emmy episodes) in the entire show's run.
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Ratatozsk posted:Would that point be the reveal around Episode 12? It's an...interesting change of direction. How does Fire Walk With Me measure up to the series? Yeah, it's at the reveal. The immediate aftermath is awesome, but after that there's just... nothing left. Nothing is compelling after that at all. And some of it is just aggressively stupid- at one point a character (vague non-spoiler) gets obsessed with reenacting the Civil War in his office and it's like a three-episode arc. I haven't seen Fire Walk With Me. I will eventually, just because it's a Lynch film and I like Lynch films, but it's way low on my to-do list just based on how loving boring Twin Peaks is without the Laura Palmer story.
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Harmonica posted:Also finished Enterprise season three. Wasn't sure at the beginning what they were doing, but it turned into something really great and memorable, although the hook into season four was a bit It was more  but fortunately the new showrunner for season 4 was able to use that to eliminate the time war by the end of the second episode, and make most of the rest of the season a much more believable prequel to TOS.Edit: I guess I should spoiler tag that.
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Dark Weasel posted:Yeah, it's at the reveal. The immediate aftermath is awesome, but after that there's just... nothing left. Nothing is compelling after that at all. And some of it is just aggressively stupid- at one point a character (vague non-spoiler) gets obsessed with reenacting the Civil War in his office and it's like a three-episode arc. Well David Lynch was gone after the Laura Palmer story so he has nothing to do with the second part of season 2 exept for the finale. The movie is also all about Laura Palmer's life up to her death and a insane David Bowie cameo.
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bobkatt013 posted:Well David Lynch was gone after the Laura Palmer story so he has nothing to do with the second part of season 2 exept for the finale. The movie is also all about Laura Palmer's life up to her death and a insane David Bowie cameo. Exactly. The movie still intrigues me, but man the show goes straight to hell.
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I seem to binge The Sopranos in two-season bursts. Got through seasons 1+2 sometime in late 2008, then did 3+4, but haven't touched 5 since I finished it a couple of weeks back. I'll probably go for it in a few months. I've also been binging the US version of The Office - up to season 4 right now, and it's really good. Angela is the best character.
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Babylon 5. There's a lot of terrible dialogue in season 1, the cgi doesn't hold up, and I cant loving stand Jeffrey Sinclair. Hopefully seasons 2-4 will be a great as I remember them.
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I'm halfway through season 4 of Oz, and I think I'm gonna bail. I thought the first two seasons were really good, and even some parts of season 3 were cool, but it's just gotten ridiculous now. The never-loving-ending series of bullshit happenings between Beecher, Keller and Shillinger are just tiresome now. And the aging drugs....I just don't know how much I care about seeing the remaining two and a half seasons.
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Jan 24, 2010 04:00
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I watched all NCIS episodes over the span of about 3 weeks. And i've watched all the episodes of Modern Family in the past week. Next up is probably Big Love, I had started watching it when it came out and liked it, I just haven't been following it since.
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Cromulent posted:I'm halfway through season 4 of Oz, and I think I'm gonna bail. I thought the first two seasons were really good, and even some parts of season 3 were cool, but it's just gotten ridiculous now. The never-loving-ending series of bullshit happenings between Beecher, Keller and Shillinger are just tiresome now. And the aging drugs....I just don't know how much I care about seeing the remaining two and a half seasons. If you made it this far, I'd say it's worth sticking out to the end. The series finale is good and there are some decent episodes along the way.
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I'm about to finish Deadwood and its really a bummer, because i know that it finishes abruptly.  i love it so much, its become on of my favourite shows. Al Swearengan is such a lovable rear end in a top hat, and is acted incredibly well. I have no idea what to watch next though. Possibly Carnivale? I have the chinese fake dvds somewhere around here i think.
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Just caught up with all the UK Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares!
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I've had a long standing hatred for the show, but I am literally out of things to watch, so I'm now into Entourage I just thought the first three seasons were cheesy when I first watched them while airing. These douches who just talk about themselves; it was just so self absorbed. But after learning to love Nip/Tuck, hopefully I can apply the same likeability to this group of guys.
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I just finished Farscape and loved the hell out of it. I just started on Babylon 5 season 1 and I'm having a really hard time looking past the hideous mid 90's computer game CG, please tell me it's worth pushing through.
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:I just finished Farscape and loved the hell out of it. I just started on Babylon 5 season 1 and I'm having a really hard time looking past the hideous mid 90's computer game CG, please tell me it's worth pushing through. From what I've read season 1 sucks compared to the rest.
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Yeah. The CG does improve a bit after that point too. The crappy sets and shaky acting (outside of about 3 characters) never do though.
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Mu Zeta posted:From what I've read season 1 sucks compared to the rest. Yeah, supposedly Babylon 5 is one of the greatest things of all time or whatever but everyone says you really have to trudge your way through the first season because it's so mediocre compared to the greatness of the rest of the seasons. I personally haven't managed to get more than four episodes into the first season before turning it off again. I might make it through one of these days.
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I couldn't get past the pilot, it's that bad and cheesy. I'll try to trudge through it again someday.
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Mu Zeta posted:I couldn't get past the pilot, it's that bad and cheesy. I'll try to trudge through it again someday. The pilot is absolutely terrible so just skip it, anything important in it is reiterated in the series anyway.
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guys, i like mad men now. scratch that, i love mad men now. halfway through season 2 now! like everyone said, the character development is what grabs you. (i want to be don draper).
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Working my way thru The Shield right now, just finished season 2 and am loving every minute of it!
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-Blackadder- posted:Yeah, supposedly Babylon 5 is one of the greatest things of all time or whatever but everyone says you really have to trudge your way through the first season because it's so mediocre compared to the greatness of the rest of the seasons. It's an incredible show, but season 1 is mediocre at best and painfully tedious at worst. I know it's asking a lot to slog through 22 episodes, but it really is worth it. While the effects are terribly dated and the dialogue does get over the top at times, it's well worth putting up with the awful first season for the payoff later on. The graphics do get better, but they're still nothing to write home about. Star Trek: DS9 had a budget of approximately 2 million dollars per episode, Babylon 5 had a budget of around 200K. They did the best with what they had.
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Backstage Larry posted:Working my way thru The Shield right now, just finished season 2 and am loving every minute of it! It only gets better. If you haven't been spoiled already though, stay the gently caress out of any Shield thread you may see.
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Ratatozsk posted:It only gets better. If you haven't been spoiled already though, stay the gently caress out of any Shield thread you may see.
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jeffersonlives posted:There's some hidden decent stuff in the season 6 White House episodes. Hah - I actually found 365 Days to be unwatchably awful! For me, everything was wrong about that episode. Too glib and schmaltzy. I ended up skipping through it just seeing the plotpoints, and quickly watching the next election episode to clear my head of it. Just finished the season, campaign stuff was really great and made it worth watching. I understand why they had to do White House stuff, but for me the whole switch in focus meant it lost a lot of impact. The intercutting worked well towards the end and they really should have done a lot more of that - rather than the 'two WH episodes followed by a campaign episode'. EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:It was more Meh, I read that spoiler anyway. I don't take Enterprise that seriously that I avoid spoilers  After Enterprise, my plan is to go boldly with TNG, DS9 and then Voyager (the only other series I've seen most of) in that order. Is that a decent binge plan? Is it worth watching TOS for any storyline chronology, or can I skip it having watched many odd episodes on different occasions? (it's fun and cool but it didn't strike me as having much in the way of drama) Fonzarelli posted:I'm about to finish Deadwood and its really a bummer, because i know that it finishes abruptly. The finale of Deadwood is one of the most crushing anti-finales to any TV show. Be prepared for it. You just have to suck it up and imagine what could have happened if it had gone on for a few more seasons. Harmonica fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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I know I'm a little behind, but I just finished Season 2 of Lost and while I'm glad they answered quite a few questions, I can't imagine where they'll take the series. From what I can tell without reading spoilers, the next 2 seasons drag out a bit. Please tell me I'm wrong and that it's worth catching the next seasons.
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Just finished Avatar: The Last Airbender last night and it was an awesome show the entire way through. There were maybe one or two episodes that were slow/boring out of the entire three seasons. Also, the episode immediately preceding the 4-part series finale was absolutely hilarious. There is no way that the fights in the live-action movie can possibly be as good as they are in the show. Un-l337-Pork fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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chrix posted:I know I'm a little behind, but I just finished Season 2 of Lost and while I'm glad they answered quite a few questions, I can't imagine where they'll take the series. From what I can tell without reading spoilers, the next 2 seasons drag out a bit. Please tell me I'm wrong and that it's worth catching the next seasons. The first 6 or 7 episodes of season three are pretty stretched out but once it gets past the season's halfway point it rally starts picking up steam. Season 4 and 5 are both crazy fast in comparison to the ones before them.
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Harmonica posted:Is it worth watching TOS for any storyline chronology, or can I skip it having watched many odd episodes on different occasions? (it's fun and cool but it didn't strike me as having much in the way of drama) There isn't much in TOS that passes for storyline chronology. The series can barely keep continuity with itself, let alone with the other series. However, you should watch TOS for the storytelling and character interactions. A bunch of the episodes beat you over the head with their message (I'm looking at you, "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield"), but overall it's decent Trek.
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