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Waiting for the final season of Game of Thrones and of Vikings. Currently, I am watching old western shows: Have Gun Will Travel and The High Chaparral.
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I've watched Altered Carbon, which led to me reading the book, which led to reading the other two books.
The TV series is very interesting, but some of the more jarring aspects of it come from the fact that they did not meld their ideas drawn out of the hat very well with the majority of what they took directly from the book. "You know what? This needs some more angst. How's about, instead of the evil villain being someone he's loathed for ages, she'll be his baby sister whose perfidy he was blind to until he's hit in the face with it? How's about, instead of Quellcrist Falconer being someone before his time, she was his lover! (Looks like she's coming up in book 3, so I don't know what they've taken.) What would be a really cool is having a small society of people who are carriers of such deadly diseases, they can't touch another human without killing them very quickly!"
I like some of their choices for Lizzie, whose purpose in the book was only to motivate her mother. Her father had very little presence in the book. The story with her getting kicked by Miriam Bancroft until her baby died was lifted from another character's backstory, which explains why it was so clumsy. For one thing, Laurens had a thing for women with a superficial resemblance to his wife. TV-show-Lizzie was well out of that range. Carnage was book-accurate, so was Ortega (except for "You know what? We need more angst. Let's have her family slaughtered by the baddie!").
I'm almost sure Quellcrist is not secretly also the inventor of the stacks, but part of that storyline was quite aggravating. "I want to limit everyone to 100 years!" That is not what should be done. Then again, it's understandable, what with the current politics of U.S. that making resleeving people to appropriate new bodies is not the primary goal. Children who've been killed should be resleeved in young bodies, not worn out older people. Not no one, or limited, but available to everyone, for as long as they wish.
In the books, the poorer people can be resleeved after having gotten very, very old, but most people don't tolerate suffering through growing old and dying more than twice, because they remember the experience.
I'm really enjoying the books, after all. Now, the show ends with Kovacs on a mission to find the lost, hidden stack of Quellcrist Falconer. The writers are also likely to bring his sister back at their whim, probably an earlier, saved version of her. I suppose it's not horrible, but will they be able to weave that in less clumsily if they also stick with the story of Broken Angels?
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I won a SG1 season DVD set at a Fan Odyssey Con when Michael Shanks pulled out my raffle ticket.
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Just started watching 9-1-1 and am only on the 3rd episode but am already hooked.
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Watching the original Land of the Lost on Youtube. Sure the production is crap by modern standards but many story elements were ahead of their time
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Decided to take a break from Doctor Who to catch up on other shows, and wound up watching The Musketeers. Great show for fans of Dumas' characters, even if it fails to follow any of his stories.
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Just made it to season 2 of Lethal Weapon and it's really good. Re-watching Orphan Black with the oldest daughter
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Just watched most of Glitched over the weekend. It's a Netflix original set in Australia. Very interesting but very slow to get started
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Originally posted by Takk View PostSurprisingly, I quite disliked the Fourth Doctor era. So many people love Tom Baker, but he's probably my least favorite of the whole bunch.
"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" is one of my favorite specials.
We did get teased about Clara a few times, but some of that was just annoying, such as "The Snowmen" reintroducing the GI, who is wiped out in "The Name of the Doctor" but ooh, I still want the story wherein the Doctor tells River Song his real name!! We don't have to hear it, I just want the story!
"The Day of the Doctor" is also one of my favorite episodes. I'm kind of iffy on "The Time of the Doctor".
I kind of liked "Deep Breath", except for the obligatory "I'm not flirting with you!" from the Doctor.
I liked "Listen". Found "Time Heist" useless. Liked "Mummy on the Orient Express" though I feel it was a useless episode. "In the Forest of the Night" is on my list of ecological episodes. Was very annoyed by the ending of Danny Pink, largely because it left me with confusion about Listen. I'll continue another time. Hah.
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Originally posted by dubiousbystander View Post
Oh yes, I know about the missing episodes. I first encountered Doctor Who on PBS in the 80s, so I really started with Tom Baker. Then I caught what of Peter's aired, and I suffered through some of Colin's. I keep thinking some episodes never got here. I loved Sylvester's, yet when I saw a list of episodes, I found there were some I just don't remember.
Even when the new show started, and my oldest brother started raving about it, I didn't care, because I just liked the Eighth Doctor, but he eventually broke me down and got me to watch Blink followed by the Master three parter from series three, and it got me hooked. So eventually I just decided to go back and watch everything I could, and like I said, I'm glad I did it, but I'll likely never do it again.
Surprisingly, I quite disliked the Fourth Doctor era. So many people love Tom Baker, but he's probably my least favorite of the whole bunch.
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Originally posted by Takk View Post
Well, there's a huge chunk of stuff missing from the first and second Doctors, so it's impossible to see it all. Still, that's a long push. I did it a few years back, watching everything that didn't require a reconstruction of any kind (save for the First Doctor's final story, as I couldn't justify skipping that even as a recon), and it gets really rough in a few spots. I'm glad I did it, but I've since been left with little desire to see most anything prior to The Movie ever again.
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Originally posted by dubiousbystander View PostTakk, I'm going to attempt a run through the classic Doctor Who. I've seen many, but probably missed a huge chunk!
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Takk, I'm going to attempt a run through the classic Doctor Who. I've seen many, but probably missed a huge chunk!
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Given the end of an era this past Christmas, I've taken to rewatching the Doctor Who revival. It's been years since I've seen many of these episodes, so some of them actually feel kinda new again. I'm about half way through season one with the Ninth Doctor, at the moment. Eccleston is great in the role, shame we only got 13 episodes with him.
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Watched all of Lucifer over the last month and really like it. Started watching The Orville and Magicians
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Originally posted by Perfect Warrior View PostWhy are people raving about the season premiere of Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? I'm all feh, feh, meh. Time travel, dystopian future, outer space? I've seldom seen time travel done well.
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In an effort to avoid spoilers, lets just say that everyone in the episode acted counter to established and behaved so stupidly as to cause the situation rather than resolve it - that and a new character, a square peg, is being jammed into quite a round hole and its jarring and annoying
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I started rewatching The West Wing this month. I don't know why, as I've got so much stuff I haven't seen to watch. Probably has something to do with Aaron Sorkin's amazing writing, so if that's the case, maybe I'll be able to pull myself away from it after season four. Still a great show, though.
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