Caught the last two episodes of Dexter last night.

God that show has gone down hill recently.

It did however plant the image of David Zayas (and none of you tell me he isn't Puerto Rican) all tied up into my sordid brain.

It reminded me of poor Mike Yates.

Oh Dexter has been horrible since season 5. The writing is so bad, there are so many ignored details in the plotting, and it's just plain boring to watch Dexter "escape" from getting caught over and over and over.

Such a shame. I'll still watch it to the end but the brilliance of seasons 1, 2, and 4 is long one.

Also, I honestly saw "the twist" about a certain character coming from the season 6 premiere. They dragged that out forever as if it wasn't painfully obvious. The main villain was laughably bad, too. Just horrible.

On another note, does anybody watch Shameless? I'm interested but weary of all the hour long shows I already watch.

Caught up too with the final Black Mirror story.

God that was a brutal episode but so plausible.

I hope more stories get made as the three in the first run were really powerful and uncomfortable viewing but intelligently written which is a real break from the norm on British television at the moment.

Still enjoying Breaking Bad into the third series at moment.

Watched the latest two episodes of Sherlock.

Great fun and beautifully shot.

The dynamic between Holmes and Watson is great, as always.

Preferred the latest episode 'The Hounds of Baskerville', though that's probably because the book it's based on is my favourite Holmes Novel.

The one thing I didn't love about it was there was no way the audience could work out the specifics.

I deduced the basic gist of what was going on in about six minutes but the specifics were in universe and therefore beyond anyone but the author's reach.

With the original story it was possible (but unlikely because of the red herrings) to figure out every element of the conclusion of the story which is much more rewarding.

You get that "oh of course" feeling.

I spent the last quarter of the story trying to work out the acronym when I couldn't have possibly have worked it out.

Anthea Crispy's worst stories have the same cheat to them.

Russell Tovey should also be discouraged from making that horrible squealing noise.

It was kind of fun for two or three episodes of Being Human but now I just want to punch him so hard his ancestors will die.

Bingowings said:

The one thing I didn't love about it was there was no way the audience could work out the specifics.

That's kind of a given with Holmes stories though, isn't it?

 

I deduced the basic gist of what was going on in about six minutes but the specifics were in universe and therefore beyond anyone but the author's reach.

With the original story it was possible (but unlikely because of the red herrings) to figure out every element of the conclusion of the story which is much more rewarding.

You get that "oh of course" feeling.

I spent the last quarter of the story trying to work out the acronym when I couldn't have possibly have worked it out.

Fair Enough.

Anthea Crispy's worst stories have the same cheat to them.

True. True

Russell Tovey should also be discouraged from making that horrible squealing noise.

It was kind of fun for two or three episodes of Being Human but now I just want to punch him so hard his ancestors will die.

Oh Gosh, tell me about it! He is unbelievably annoying. I was really hoping his character would die during one scene.

georgec said:

On another note, does anybody watch Shameless? I'm interested but weary of all the hour long shows I already watch.

Emmy Rossum goes topless a lot.  So have tissues handy.

So Doug Jones has expressed interest in playing Slender Man in season 3 of Marble Hornets.


what on earth is my life becoming

Are you guys going to say yes, or are you going to turn him down? Does he know that his face isn't going to be seen?

One doesn't play the slender one.

The slender one wears his mortal clothes on the inside as we wear our dead clothes on the outside.

I tried wearing the bodies of others for a while.

Felt squishy, fingernails fell off.

It was our idea, I started a big Twitter campaign for all the MH fans to send him tweets to get his attention, and he PM'd me with his email address saying he'd be interested. So I sent him a nice long email and now I'm just waiting for his response.

Watched the first episode of "Sherlock". Fantastic, but I think the wife was bored.

We also watched the pilot for "seaQuest DSV". Did you know it was directed by Kershner?

doubleofive said:

Watched the first episode of "Sherlock". Fantastic, but I think the wife was bored.

We also watched the pilot for "seaQuest DSV". Did you know it was directed by Kershner?

I loved that show when I was a kid.

asterisk8 said:

Started Downton Abbey tonight. I'm two episodes in and HOOKED.

I hear great things and want to get into this.

Right now my backlog includes Homeland, Shameless, Boss, Hell on Wheels, Enlightened, and Downton Abbey.

georgec said:

doubleofive said:
Watched the first episode of "Sherlock". Fantastic, but I think the wife was bored.

We also watched the pilot for "seaQuest DSV". Did you know it was directed by Kershner?

I loved that show when I was a kid.

LOST: The Complete First Season - 10/10

Apollo 18.

2 balls.

A 'found footage' style presentation. I dig the style but the storyline just drags and doesn't really build tension like it's meant to. And they showed too much of the [redacted] to make it scary.

Johnny Ringo said:

Apollo 18.

2 balls.

Doesn't this belong in the movie thread? I wanted to see that when it came out but it slipped past me. Still have yet to but I imagine the original is still better.

Amazing, a whole satellite populated by amorphous antagonistic tetrahedral pyramids. I don't suppose you have it's binary coordinates from Galactic Zero Center?