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The only real episodic content I watch now are YouTubers playing various video games.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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I just finished The Sopranos last night. What an incredible piece of television. One of the best shows ever for sure.

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I finally finished watch Batman: The Animated Series as well as Superman: The Animated Series.

While B:TAS is certainly the better of the two, S:TAS is certainly not without its charms. The third and final season was rather lame, though -- it felt to me that Supes became a supporting character in his own show, with too many episodes focused on other superheroes. Of course, the episodes which featured Supergirl and Darkseid helped to make up for the rest of the season (partially, anyway).

I'm currently working my way through X-Men: The Animated Series and I've begun to watch Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

I'm currently into the third season of XM:TAS, and despite it being very "'90s X-Men" I'm certainly loving it. Lois and Clark, on the other hand ... well, let's just say when it comes to Dean Cain's performance as Clark/Superman, I feel the polar opposite I feel about Chris Reeve's performance. Whereas I feel Reeve played a great Superman but an awful Clark, I feel Cain played a great Clark but an awful Superman; when I look at him in the Superman costume, I just see Dean Cain wearing a Superman costume; he doesn't change his voice or body language between the two roles, and frankly it destroys my ability to suspend disbelief when the other characters fail to recognize that he is both Supes and Clark.

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I watched Under the Dome when it first came out but I trailed off when I realised it had almost nothing to do with the book - outside the basic premise and some character names.

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.

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Johnny Ringo said:

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.

 Funny, that's been my experience with THE STRAIN so far. Also based on a book.

Edit: Just saw this week's episode. While the idiotic tendencies of characters was toned down it was still there somewhat.

On the plus side, the pacing seemed improved and it looks like things are about to get a whole lot more interesting.

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Johnny Ringo said:


I watched Under the Dome when it first came out but I trailed off when I realised it had almost nothing to do with the book - outside the basic premise and some character names.

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.
So, exactly like the book then.

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doubleofive said:

Johnny Ringo said:


I watched Under the Dome when it first came out but I trailed off when I realised it had almost nothing to do with the book - outside the basic premise and some character names.

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.

So, exactly like the book then.

 oh no you didn't!

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I have been working my way through Maverick as a tribute to the late great James Garner and I had forgotten what a good show it was.  Even the episodes he is not in are pretty good and i have run into some pretty amazing guest stars from a time before they were house hold names including Roger freaking Moore!  Talk about good times.

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I watched the first episode of a series I didn't even know was coming on,it came on right after Agents of Shield and normally I wouldn't give it a second look but it stared Ioan Gruffudd(And no don't ask me how you pronounce that name,it's Welsh so I have no idea)an actor I have been a big fan of since he did the series Hornblower.  He is very good so I will give anything he is in a shot.

The series was called Forever and I had not heard anything about it.  Any way it seems like a pretty good show with an interesting set up and some good actors led by a favorite of mine. It's about corner who can't die,every time he does he wake up in the Hudson river and he has no idea why. So in addition to the murder mystery you have flashbacks of his past life,and his dealings with a mystery figure who is stalking him and a son who look older then he is.  He uses what he has learned in 250 years of life to make very Sherlock Holmes like deductions. I would say over all i enjoyed it.

Still there is one little problem...

It feels like ABC executives are messing with this show behind the scenes and trying to force it to be more like Castle.  Let me explain why I think that. First of all the bits that feel like Castle feel like they are forced into the show and are given very little screen time and that don't feel like they are the ideas of the writers of the rest of the show so I am pretty sure they are force in by executives. networks love to do that to new shows,try to force them to be like other hit shows.

As to what felt like Castle(A series I gave up on a while ago due to it no longer being fun to watch and turning into a soap opera)well the title card is almost an exact rip off.  The shooting style and music are almost exactly the same(Except for one scene that I swear stole it's music from Sherlock for some reason)Then there is a female detective he works with who has the same body type,hair style,and dresses like Beckett on Castle. She even has a dead loved one who's ring she wears on a chain around her neck. Talk about a beat for beat rip off.

Still as I said Ioan Gruffudd is really good in the series and the rest of it was very well written and had a fun energy to it. Normally the ripp off elements would keep me from tuning in next week but as I said they were given very little screen time and one of my all time favorite shows(Fringe)stared out as a bad ripp off of The X Files but by the end of it's first season the net work executives at fox backed off and the writers were allowed to do their own thing and it became it's own program so hopefully the same will prove true here. So I am going to give this show till the end of the season I think to come out of Castle's shadow and become it's own show because as I said I thought the stuff in it that was good was very good.

I say it's worth sticking with if you can put up with the way network executives seem to tamper with new shows.

I give it 6.5/10.  I would rate it higher if it just didn't have those pesky ripp off elements to it. I really hope ABC lets the producers and writers drop those and they become a thing of the past because if they do and it doesn't go down the same path Castle did and become a soap opera then I think they will have a very good show on their hand.  The key will be to keep the focus on the Gruffudd character and his life and not spend too much time with the Beckett ripp off and to find their own style for shooting the show. If they can do that I will be giving this show an 8 or a 9. 

As it stands it has promise that is being crush by the executives at ABC. if you can put up with that then I say give it a shot.

I don't normally add a post script to reviews I write but in this case I feel I should. This week Forever turned a major corner and I think it is well on it's way to being the series I hoped it would become.

It seems my hunch that the female detective being a clone of Beckett from Castle because ABC executives insisted on it has been proven true,I guess they got out of the way because this week she had her own personality,back story,and felt like her own character. She and Henry have developed their own working relationship and the series went along at brisk fun pace. A perfect balance was found between the present day case,the flashbacks,and the character interactions.

This show is taking off and I hope it continues down this path. In light of this I must change my review score. My one major complaint has been addressed and so I am giving this show an 8.5/10 and recommending it to anyone who enjoys mystery shows that feature a character with a twist. if that sounds like your cup of tea,please enjoy.

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I re-watched the first season of Smallville over the last week, and here are my thoughts on it:

It didn't suck.

Sure, there are plenty of aspects about the show I don't like: the obvious pandering towards the teen audience, the overuse of kryptonite/meteor freaks, and the Token Black Guy posing as Pete Ross. Those aside, though, there's still a fair bit I like about the show that helps compensate for the pitfalls -- namely Jonathan and Martha Kent, Lex and Lionel Luthor, and Chloe Sullivan.

Overall, I think the first season of Smallville holds up far better than most of the other shows I used to love as a kid but now think are near-complete crap (Mutant X and Andromeda, to name a specific few).

Of course, I doubt my optimistic appraisal will hold up once I get closer to the fourth and fifth seasons. I wasn't comfortable with how the show started playing too fast and loose with the Superman mythos by then, and my stance has probably only solidified since then.  

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I just watched the series final of Fringe for the third time in my life and once again I teared up like a baby.  This and Sleeping in the Light are the two series finals that make me try every time I see them.  Everything just comes together so well and it makes me sad not only that the story is coming to an end but that there are so many things being resolved between characters.  it is so expertly done I mean some of the lines that make me tear up are things like "Peter,what did I tell you? Cool!" and "Astrid is a lovely name" you know you are watching a good show that you love with good actors when lines like that can make you tear up.  I just love everything about this episode and by this point I loved just about everything about Fringe so to me this is an example of a perfect episode and a perfect series final. 

You know it's funny but the other series final that makes me cry every time is Babylon 5's and the more I think about the more the two shows have in common. Both shows didn't think they were going to get a true final,both lacked support from their networks,both got a fifth season out of the blue,both had rough first seasons and the first time I saw them I hated them both thinking they were knock offs of other shows I love,and in both cases I came to love the shows and their characters. I admired where the writers took the characters,and how both shows brought big interesting ideas into my living room week after week and some how did it on a Tv budget.  I think Fringe and babylon 5 have the two casts of characters of any US made Sci-fi show that I love the most and watching this final just reminded me how much I loved this show.  Others may pick holes in it's plot,see it as an X Files rip off,or even hate it outright,but it will always hold a special place in the heart of this sci-fi fan.

I may have some problems with JJ Abrams' films but I will always admire him for putting together this show and finding the right writers,production team,and cast to bring it to life. 

I can finally say that I have seen every episode of Fringe and it was a great ride and this final stands out as one of the all time greats if you ask me.

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I guess you are right on those points but I have to say I still loved every minute of it. 

For all of it's goofyness I have to say I love Fringe and it's complex time line. I have to say I liked the alternate timeline because it gave Nina Sharp more of a direct connection to the characters and events happening onscreen. Before she was just the woman who worked for the guy who did a cameo now and again,she wasn't really directly connected to anything by her own actions,the alternate time line gave her that and I have to say her death was one of the saddest moments in the series for me.

I have to say I think the did a good job of giving the show closer in that the final feels like the natural end to the story and the final shot is the way I wanted it to end but at the same time I can't help thinking about what all the characters are going to be doing the next day.  It's rather like Return of the Jedi or The Return of the King in that respect and that is a good thing.

Did everything make sense?  I guess not.

Did I enjoy pretty much every episode to some degree? Oh yeah.

Did I love the characters? You bet!

So for me that is enough to give lapses in logic a pass.  I know there are other people who don't feel this way and i can't say they are wrong for noticing and being bothered by the plot holes,it's just for me it's the characters and where the story took them that mattered most and that is where Fringe really delivered. That and some really cool sci-fi ideas. I really want one of those Observer Guns that throws people across the room. Oh and those potato guns that fire smoke that takes people's faces. Oh and a type writer that communicates with another universe,I love type writers and that is just too cool.

As i said I know it didn't work for everyone but Fringe worked for me. I enjoyed every episode to some extent now that I finally got to sit down and see them all and I am sure i will enjoy them again some time in the future.

I think Brown Betty may be my favorite episode,that was a real trip.

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My experience with Bad Robot television productions is that they're excellent at creating emotional moments but SUCK at plotting.

They often start off with one direction in mind but by the beginning of the next season they seemingly get bored and start heading somewhere else. Plot holes be damned. Most of their productions feel aimless with no ultimate goal in mind. Just making up whatever they can on the fly to keep the ball rolling as long as possible.

The only one of their shows that I truly enjoyed from start to finish was Almost Human and I feel that's because it sadly only had the one season.

But it too suffered from the lazy writing that is indicative of a Bad Robot production. Which was to introduce a new issue (usually mental/emotional) out of nowhere and then have whatever incident that happens that week help to completely resolve it by the end of the episode.

Ultimately, they're expert emotional manipulators not storytellers.

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DrCrowTStarwars said:

...I wouldn't give it a second look but it stared Ioan Gruffudd(And no don't ask me how you pronounce that name,it's Welsh so I have no idea

 Here you go.

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Bingowings said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

...I wouldn't give it a second look but it stared Ioan Gruffudd(And no don't ask me how you pronounce that name,it's Welsh so I have no idea

 Here you go.

 Thanks a bunch!

As I said I have been a fan of his since the Hornblower days but I had no idea how to pronounce that,so thanks.

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Tobar said:

My experience with Bad Robot television productions is that they're excellent at creating emotional moments but SUCK at plotting.

They often start off with one direction in mind but by the beginning of the next season they seemingly get bored and start heading somewhere else. Plot holes be damned. Most of their productions feel aimless with no ultimate goal in mind. Just making up whatever they can on the fly to keep the ball rolling as long as possible.

Ah, so Bad Robot is responsible for Ghost Whisperer. ;-)

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Mild spoilers ahead:

I'm onto season two of Downton Abbey (no making fun of me for watching it...), and while the show is often enjoyable, it's unfortunate that it's such a soap opera. Why can't at least one relationship be stable? But no, everyone's unfaithful in their marriage, or loves someone besides the person they're supposed to be marrying, or loves someone but not the person they're marrying, etc., etc. No one seems to be happy with their marriage, though the reality is that many, if not most, people are able to have a fairly happy marriage without cheating and ruining it. Maybe it's just because the show deals with the aristocracy and that's the norm, but when, for instance, Edith helps out a farmer, why does she have to end up kissing him and being overly familiar, straining the relationship between the farmer and his wife?

Much of what I'm complaining about seems to be shoehorned into the story and out of character for the characters involved. It seems that whoever wrote the episodes felt it necessary to add things like Lord Grantham kissing a maid just for shock value, since it serves little purpose in the story and doesn't jive with his established character. It was foreshadowed a bit, but still managed to feel forced.

Anyway, I realize it's just a show, but I think it would be far stronger and more enjoyable without the above-mentioned aspects of it.

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I'm onto season two of Downton Abbey (no making fun of me for watching it...), and while the show is often enjoyable, it's unfortunate that it's such a soap opera. Why can't at least one relationship be stable? But no, everyone's unfaithful in their marriage, or loves someone besides the person they're supposed to be marrying, or loves someone but not the person they're marrying, etc., etc. No one seems to be happy with their marriage, though the reality is that many, if not most, people are able to have a fairly happy marriage without cheating and ruining it. Maybe it's just because the show deals with the aristocracy and that's the norm, but when, for instance, Edith helps out a farmer, why does she have to end up kissing him and being overly familiar, straining the relationship between the farmer and his wife?

Much of what I'm complaining about seems to be shoehorned into the story and out of character for the characters involved. It seems that whoever wrote the episodes felt it necessary to add things like Lord Grantham kissing a maid just for shock value, since it serves little purpose in the story and doesn't jive with his established character. It was foreshadowed a bit, but still managed to feel forced.

Anyway, I realize it's just a show, but I think it would be far stronger and more enjoyable without the above-mentioned aspects of it.

 Sadly that sort of drama for drama's saje stuff seems to be the norm on Tv shows these days.  I don't watch the show in question but it seems like every show tries to pull this stuff just for cheap soap opera points even if it makes no sense in context of the story or you would think the characters would know better.  Even Doctor who pulls this kind of stuff these days.  I liked Amy up until the first episode of season seven where they started it off with her leaving Rory(The man who waited 2000 years for her)without telling him why and then we find out the reason is she can't have kids. So she left without talking to him about it,trying to get treatment,or remembering that there is such a thing as a adoption.  It was just done as a cheap shock to add a soap opera plot to series seven.

This sort of having people act out of character and sabotage their relationships thing is why I gave up on Castle.  A show that started out as a fun little mystery show with a some good actors but in the past couple of seasons turned into a soap opera with characters who never talk about their problems and act out of character if it leads to cheap drama.

Why do shows have to do this?  Why when they already have stories and settings that lend themselves to drama and fun adventures do they have to add cheap soap opera elements on top of it?

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I've lately gotten the irresistable urge to rewatch The X-Files, and over the past week I voraciously ate through the first season.

Beyond the fact that I really like the first season -- the lack of comedic episodes notwithstanding -- I haven't much more to say. I suppose I'll just end this post with a list of episodes I consider the best and worst of the season.

BEST EPISODES

"Beyond the Sea"

"Pilot"

"Deep Throat"

"Squeeze"

"Tooms"

WORST EPISODES

"Space"

"Gender Bender" (The majority of this episode actually wasn't bad. The ending, however, is incredibly, blatantly, weak.)

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Is anybody else watching Manh(a)ttan? I'm loving it at the moment.

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

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Did I mention I finally finished Arrested Development?

I finished it.  It was fantastic.

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I need to rewatch Season 4 now that I know what the hell happens in it...there's got to be a chronological fan edit of it floating around somewhere, right?

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I finished Breaking Bad a few weeks ago, it's a masterpiece. I feel that they rushed the last season or at least the 2nd half of it, a 6th season was totally doable.

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I've lately gotten the irresistable urge to rewatch The X-Files, and over the past week I voraciously ate through the first season.

Beyond the fact that I really like the first season -- the lack of comedic episodes notwithstanding -- I haven't much more to say. I suppose I'll just end this post with a list of episodes I consider the best and worst of the season.

BEST EPISODES

"Beyond the Sea"

"Pilot"

"Deep Throat"

"Squeeze"

"Tooms"

WORST EPISODES

"Space"

"Gender Bender" (The majority of this episode actually wasn't bad. The ending, however, is incredibly, blatantly, weak.)

 I've seen zero episodes of The X Files and don't know why, now that I come to think about it I've never met someone that mentioned it to me at some point, weird.

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