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^Loved that... it was such an unexpected scene!

I can't find a proper clip of the scene I was talking about but this one is stills from the scene with the song from it: (Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time)

Burn, Witch. Burn! scene

That's the name of the episode incidentally, quite self-explanatory though. ;)
 
Yeah mate there is. very thought provoking aint it, creative, Charlie brooker is brilliant
 
SummerSerenade said:
been slowly working through series 1 of Supernatural as well (yeah I know I'm really late to that one :P).
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Not as late as me it seems... I've just started watching series 1! Been meaning to watch it for a while in the hopes it would fill a hole that was left after finishing Angel earlier this year.

Quite enjoying it I must say. :) (Interesting to see Amy Acker & Julie Benz making appearances... )
 
ColtDan said:
Yeah mate there is. very thought provoking aint it, creative, Charlie brooker is brilliant
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Definitely - was going through a rough patch, which probably accounts for it, but 2 episodes in that series really fucked with me - White Bear and Be Right Back. The Entire History of You from the first series was good too.

There was definitely a couple of stinkers across the 2 series, but the good ones made up for it.
 
Yeah I think the Entire History of You was probably a good stride ahead of all the other episodes. Apparently Robert Downey Jr has bought the film rights, with the view to making it a crime caper. With any luck he'll do as good a job as he did with The Singing Detective :\.
 
Recently watched all of Firefly (which I've seen regularly recommended here) and the sequel/prequel fillum too... okay but hardly the Saviour of Sci-Fi it's made out to be by fanfolk. Looked like very generic TV sci-fi with precious little of either involved as per usual to me. Cookie cutter TV fodder. Can see why it was cancelled given the glut of near-identical shows about at the time. Would this one have ended up better than the rest? Maybe but showed no particular signs of it as far as it went.

Other TV series I watched recently was The Pacific (as in the "sequel" to Band of Brothers by the same people). Found it oddly uninteresting. Didn't feel drawn in at any stage and got no real sense of reality from it as such. Yes it was all grimy and dark and shouty and grim and all those other Spielberg/Hanks WWII stuff cliches they're so big on but felt... hollow to me. There are campaigns that lasted months in reality which pass by in minutes with no real sense of truth beyond the fact a main character gets killed now and then. They spent a fortune on this thing but felt like it was churned off a mill with no real care and attention. All that seemed to go on very specific details (of which there are plenty going by all the bonus material bumph - battles correct down to individual bullets and that near enough) but nothing in terms of connecting those details with wider reality. I suspect the main issue was trying to condense 3-4 years of (hi)story, plot, character and action down to ten episodes. Just ended up with no real sense of any of that stuff leaving little beyond grubby blokes shooting at each other in the rain. Disappointing.
 
Did anyone ever get into Utopia on channel 4?

Thought it was quite good, different.

Anyway series 2 starts next monday (16th).
 
^ I never watched it. I thought I'd watch the new season though.

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Can see why it was cancelled given the glut of near-identical shows about at the time. Would this one have ended up better than the rest? Maybe but showed no particular signs of it as far as it went.
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I would tend to disagree... I thought it stood out from the crowd & had great potential.
 
I think it was a fantasy of missed potential greatness made great by being missed potential massively overhyped in the minds of Joss Wheden fanfolk. I'd struggle to tell it apart from at least two or three other near-identical shows of the time. It might have ended up being a bit different and a bit good... but seems a stretch to me to be honest. I <3 trashy sci-fi shit though so would've surely watched it - not saying I wouldn't cos I know I would - but also don't feel I've lost a great deal by that never actually happening.
 
Really ploughing through this Dexter boxset at an alarming rate, i cant get enough of it. Im not noticing it going downhill at all and am on Season 6 now.

spoiler, ive been slow on the uptake

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so when Dexter talks to his dead father and his brother is he 'hearing voices' in his head or actually seeing them? I've never really stopped to think about what these passages mean, other than giving an insight into his thought processes, hes definately not psychotic, not even sure if he's really psycopathic either as the series progresses and he learns to feel and care for other people. Though if he is hearing voices telling him to kill people then he'd be considered borderline to say the least. I think its more of a plot device, rather than suggesting he's psychotic, as these conversations are allways highly rational and intelligent?
 
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Wow Season 6... good going. I've been taking a break, halfway through season 4.

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Yes they are a plot device. They are memories he is interacting with for our benefit... he is remembering what his Dad or brother said. Although of course sometimes it's more what he thinks would be said, following his Dad's rules for example.
 
Watching some older Mock the week episodes.. Frankie boyle was brilliant on that
 
I'm 3 episodes into 24: Live Another Day at the moment.

Got to say it's ticking all the right boxes so far. It still follows the same old 24 formula but it's still sufficiently fresh to kick start it again. I think being set in London helps. (or at least the start... I don't know about later on yet)

I'm doing my best to watch only 1 episode a day... much more enjoyable that way having a bit of anticipation. I might well cave & watch the last 2 episodes together, that's usually what happens when I try to watch a TV series like this.
 
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