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nelsonmuntz said:
I can not remember the last time I was as angry at the way a show ended as I am about Winning Time.
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I read that they basically ended the series with them losing to the Celtics. How can you improve on that? I'm sure Zaslav being a BU grad had nothing to do with it.
 
Columbo
S5E1 "Forgotten Lady" staring Janet Leigh. I can't get enough of the old LA mansions and stars. So Ms Leigh was born in 1927 and died in 2004 at the age of 77. She starred in Columbo in 1975, only 48 years old. Yet she looks much older in the show. I assumed she was probably 60 in the show and thinking yeah, she still had it. 48. It just doesn't add up. Maybe everyone smoked like fiends and it really aged them.

Janet.jpg
 
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M.S.G. said:
Episode 6 of Ahsoka was one of the best Star Wars hours I've potentially ever seen.
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It was good my only complaint is
Sabine finally finds Ezra and instead of telling him that they are at risk of Thrawn coming back to the main SW galaxy she's all like "I don't want to talk about it right now let's pack up your turtle groupies and waste time while the fate of the galaxy lies in the balance"
. I do like this show though. I actually went back to rebels and watched a couple of the dark lightsaber episodes in to remind me about what was going on there.
 
Turtle groupies :cool:

I did think that was very Star Wars to be like, go and try to save your friend, but you'll both be trapped here for eternity!!!!!!!!! (JK I know you'll make it back and then probably sneak on my ship!)
 
Billions (Paramount/Showtime) is nowhere near its peak, but is still a solidly entertaining hour. I like the new characters, like the old characters. I am not crazy about the way Corey Stull plays Mike Prince, but I can live with it.
 
Anyone watching Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building? It kind of snuck up on me. I don't think it's the "It" series anymore like Season 1 was. I tried 2 episodes. Not sure if I'm going to finish the season. Just not really caring about the characters or what's happening at this point. And it seems like at least half the cast is badly overacting. That's pretty much Martin Short's thing, but not everybody else has to do it, do they?
 
Jay-Bone said:
How else would one know whales can swim really, really fast through space? Whales are so sci-fi hot right now.
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Well that I knew from Rebels, but yeah. I was thinking the bit with Anakin was pretty important
 
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Jay-Bone said:
How else would one know whales can swim really, really fast through space? Whales are so sci-fi hot right now.
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I heard they used to eat space krill but now need to be Force fed.
 
My wife watched THE WATCHER. I watched a little with her but found it unwatchable. Slow. Tedious. Slow.
 
Palatine said:
My wife watched THE WATCHER. I watched a little with her but found it unwatchable. Slow. Tedious. Slow.
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All true, I powered my way through it though and the ending made it not worth the trouble
 
nwhoopfan said:
Anyone watching Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building? It kind of snuck up on me. I don't think it's the "It" series anymore like Season 1 was. I tried 2 episodes. Not sure if I'm going to finish the season. Just not really caring about the characters or what's happening at this point. And it seems like at least half the cast is badly overacting. That's pretty much Martin Short's thing, but not everybody else has to do it, do they?
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It gets better.
 
Jay-Bone said:
How else would one know whales can swim really, really fast through space? Whales are so sci-fi hot right now.
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Well, since there's no area have to figure that they would have to swim very fast before their breath right out.
 
Lucifer - The premise is simple, the devil is tired of being in hell and comes to Los Angeles for some R & R. He owns a bar, enjoys numerous human vices and has a supernatural magnetism. He meets an attractive detective and gets obsessed with crime solving (people who need to be punished). Tom Ellis is pretty charming as Lucifer Morningstar. One nice thing, the first episode will tell you if you like the series which gets more and more out there is the subsequent seasons (there are six). I especially liked the early shows.
 
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Palatine said:
Lucifer - The premise is simple, the devil is tired of being in hell and comes to Los Angeles for some R & R. He owns a bar, enjoys numerous human vices and has a supernatural magnetism. He meets an attractive detective and gets obsessed with crime solving (people who need to be punished). Tom Ellis is pretty charming as Lucifer Morningstar. One nice thing, the first episode will tell you if you like the series which gets more and more out there is the subsequent seasons (there are six). I especially liked the early shows.
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It was fun, but it started repeating itself too often. I saw it all the way through, sometimes regrettably, but overall I'd say is was more plus than minus.
 
storrsroars said:
It was fun, but it started repeating itself too often. I saw it all the way through, sometimes regrettably, but overall I'd say is was more plus than minus.
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Fair enough. But I thought Tom Ellis was a perfect piece of casting even when he was insufferable.
 
CL82 said:
It was good my only complaint is
Sabine finally finds Ezra and instead of telling him that they are at risk of Thrawn coming back to the main SW galaxy she's all like "I don't want to talk about it right now let's pack up your turtle groupies and waste time while the fate of the galaxy lies in the balance"
. I do like this show though. I actually went back to rebels and watched a couple of the dark lightsaber episodes in to remind me about what was going on there.
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And in the finale, going after Thrawn, they move at turtle speed. Literally! LOLZ Where are the really, really fast whales when you need them?
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Well that I knew from Rebels, but yeah. I was thinking the bit with Anakin was pretty important
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I would've preferred to find out why Thrawn is blue. We already know Anakin became Darth Vader. But I see you're good suffering teacher vs bad suffering teacher unfolding.
 
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I am deep down a YT rabbit hole. I was looking at some vids on Uruguay and Argentina for a future trip to perhaps research whether it's where we want to settle down for our golden years. And then I found Tommy Sabbatical. And once you find Tommy Sabbatical, you're hooked. Dude has been everywhere, speaks multiple languages, and pretty much manages to navigate a crap ton of sketchy situations.

In this one, he visits "the other side of the tracks" in Rosario, Argentina, where he befriends a "backpacker" who acts as his guide through the most dangerous parts of town. Which includes Sabbatical visiting the dude's "house", an abandoned building where he and his wife mix up and smoke some paco, a local drug.



I loved Bourdain and in his time I thought he was a bit nuts on risk-taking. But Sabbatical is on a whole other level.
 
Jay-Bone said:
I would've preferred to find out why Thrawn is blue. We already know Anakin became Darth Vader. But I see you're good suffering teacher vs bad suffering teacher unfolding.
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Well his species is blue.

The single most striking thing about Rebels is Anakin. You see what you never saw in the prequels, that this is a truly gifted, brilliant Jedi. He's a natural leader, and if you remember from Star Wars (IV) Obi-Wan calls him a cunning warrior. The Clone Wars shows that and the movies skipped over it in favor of 2 hours when he's a teen with a crush on Padmi. Dave Filoni told the story properly and is trying to do so again. I think he'll get another chance in a live action Clone Wars. It's the best, most interesting story in the whole Star Wars universe and Lucas skipped it for more Jar Jar Binks.

Thrawn hasn't met Ahsoka, but his character is all about understanding his enemies in great detail and anticipating their moves, like a chess master. Anakin was brilliant, but unpredictable. So Thrawn sees a great threat to his plans in Ahsoka. Already, the Purgil (Whales) were not something he expected her to use.
 
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The core issue with the prequels was that Lucas saw Natalie Portman in The Professional and decided he had to find a role for her (she was awesome in that movie by the way) and a couple years later saw Lloyd in something (I hope it wasn't Jingle all the way) and then decided he'd be the perfect child Anakin. He then tried to craft a storyline where a nine year old boy and a sixteen year old girl end up being soulmates.

Among the worst parts about the prequel trilogy was how limited a role Portman had (especially in the last two), considering her acting abilities. Competing with this was the storyline being little more than fill-ins around action scenes. Very little of Anakin's backstory, especially his turning to the dark side was fully developed. There were merely mentions here and there about how his separation from his mother, and later his fear of losing Padme allowed him to be seduced by Palpatine. The prequels were a missed opportunity.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
The core issue with the prequels was that Lucas saw Natalie Portman in The Professional and decided he had to find a role for her (she was awesome in that movie by the way) and a couple years later saw Lloyd in something (I hope it wasn't Jingle all the way) and then decided he'd be the perfect child Anakin. He then tried to craft a storyline where a nine year old boy and a sixteen year old girl end up being soulmates.

Among the worst parts about the prequel trilogy was how limited a role Portman had (especially in the last two), considering her acting abilities. Competing with this was the storyline being little more than fill-ins around action scenes. Very little of Anakin's backstory, especially his turning to the dark side was fully developed. There were merely mentions here and there about how his separation from his mother, and later his fear of losing Padme allowed him to be seduced by Palpatine. The prequels were a missed opportunity.
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Exactly a missed opportunity. Could have been some of the greatest movies ever. The story was there and they didn't tell it. But Fioni gets it. Filoni told that story properly in Rebels.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
The core issue with the prequels was that Lucas saw Natalie Portman in The Professional and decided he had to find a role for her (she was awesome in that movie by the way)
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Of course she was awesome in Leon: The Professional. That entire movie was exponentially more awesome than anything with "Star Wars" attached to it.
 
Finished up The Great. It was a fun show, hope this is the end of it. Just wouldn't be the same without Hoult.
 
Watched The Andy Warhol Diaries this week on Netflix.

Six episodes and about an hour apiece. Overall, an excellent visual documentary of Warhol's life through the narration of Warhol's diaries. It was weird that his voice was AI (isn't this is a violation of consent?) but aside from that, I found it very informative and interesting.
 
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