Watched anything good on TV lately?

[Reclaimedwg]

On episode 8 of The Haunting of Hill House.

This is finally picking up!

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

I suspect it's going to end up as lame as every other Star Trek series, but fingers crossed I'm wrong. To date, I think The Orville is better.

I'd say that Star Trek Discovery is a good deal better than the last series and just a touch more grown up. Having said that, I rather hope they don't decide to increase the swearing, torture or alien sex that's been included, as they have now elevating things onto a different level from all previous family friendly TV Treks.

I initially thought that The Orville was a lot better than Star Trek, but would now say that while it has a similar look and theme, it is sufficiently different from the latest Trek series to stand on its own and it is very humerous at times.

More Star Trek is in the pipeline and Discovery has had pretty good ratings with the next season starting in January. Pickard is making some kind of a comeback and Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is returning in an alternative timeline as the leader of a Federation spy or special forces unit. I'm assuming these are different spin-offs? More Orville is also coming along.

Both The Orville and Discovery are top quality sci-fi, the way it should be and I really can't see either falling by the wayside just yet.

[Reclaimedwg]

I've just watched this.



It was funny and some parts of it was just sooo wrong!!



Gonna go see if I can find the other two episodes.

[Greenman]

The Little Drummer Girl BBC1 Sundays (caught up on BBC iPlayer with the episode I missed) and it is very intriguing and quite complicated even after 3 episodes, but it is compelling to watch.

The Great Model Railway Challenge CH5 was very good, with three teams going up against each other to build a layout to a main theme each week and losing one member of the team to a scratch-build challenge using 3 pieces of material(whatever it is) and having to incorporate it into their main layout. I enjoyed the series but the two presenters were basically awful, making pathetic jokes and just being annoying. I think a proper presenter who knew about trains and layouts might have been better. Available on the catch-up service should you wish to check it out.

[Greenman]

They Shall Not Grow Old BBC2(available through BBC iPlayer) was a difficult watch at times. It concerned the thousands of men killed in the First World War with the memories of those that survived played in the background. It started off in black & white with a small square piece of film showing the excitement and furore of signing up and then opened into this amazing colourised version of the War never seen before again punctuated by the men's words. It was poignant, distressing(pictures and footage of dead bodies in both trenches) and god knows how the cameraman kept filming whilst under fire. There were some funny moments like showing how the men all sat on a pole to take a dump-at one point(not shown thankfully) the pole broke and they fell into the cesspit of their own muck! Another was a man looking at the camera but not looking where he was going and he fell into a ditch! On the whole it was the most extraordinary film I've ever seen and brought the lives of these men vividly to the screen. Well worth a watch if you have a relative whose relatives might have fought in the War, but be warned you may find some scenes upsetting.

[Reclaimedwg]

I am not watching Star Trek: Discovery anymore.

I watched it all the way to Episode 8 of 15 and it's getting very repetitive with the Burnham's Vulcan flashback parts and the mirror universe episode that's coming up later (according to IMBD and WIKI) has been done to death in all the other Star Trek series.

There is nothing original about this series. The stories are just bits and pieces lifted from 100s of episodes of other Star Trek series and put together so they can have 15 episodes.

The actress that plays Michael Burnham can't act worth of shit and they only cast her so they can be politically correct: let's get a Black actress for the lead role so we can appease the African Americans and the left.

Her character is very uninteresting: so she is the only human ever to have gone through the Vulcan Academy.

It doesn't bring anything new and exciting to the series and the episodes or to her character.

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

I am not watching Star Trek: Discovery anymore.

I'm not going quite that far because of the final scene in the last episode and they did do a credible take on the Mirror Universe, but other than that, I think you're right. There's little that's new or different.
I'm investing a lot of time in Z Nation. It's great; but I think Warren made a mistake not killing Baby Lucy when she had the chance.

[Reclaimedwg]

Contains SPOILERS on Star Trek Discovery:


I did SKIP FORWARD to the final episode and SKIP FORWARD AGAIN to the last scene and I question if Discovery is 10 years before Star Trek TOS with James T. Kirk and crew, and here you have Pike on the USS Enterprise sending out a distress call in the year 2257,

is this abiding by the original TOS timeline right before Kirk took command of NCC-1701?

[Reclaimedwg]

Finally finish watching the entire The Haunting of Hill House series, all 10 episodes, totaling over 9 1/2 hours.

It took me over 3 weeks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6763664/

My thoughts:

it could had been shorter, a lot shorter!!

The repetition of the same dozens scenes over and over was fastidious: they will show a scene for example a character in the kitchen and then cut away to another scene. Then in another episode they will show another scene which seque into that character in the kitchen and then cut away again. Then in another episode they will show a bit more of just before the part before the character went to the kitchen and then the character in the kitchen.

It was quite annoying that they did that over and over with dozens of set pieces.

If you took all those repetitive scenes over and over each one with just a few more minutes of exposition in front of it and added them all up, you had enough material for at least 3 episodes and they don't really make that much of the difference on the story.

Also episodes 6 and 7 were very annoying to watch - they were just poorly written and they kept dragging on and on like a broken record.

Finally I already said this before and now that I have viewed the entire series, I will say it again:

the story is about a haunted house and I don't mind a bit of character development but there was way too much character development and not enough information on the house: why is it haunted? What's the story of the people who built it and lived there before?

They kind of touched on that information here and there but not in much detail and then ghosts of people past will appear and some of them except for a couple who had a bit more backstory were just there: you don't know who they are, why they are there, who they were when they were alive, what connection they had to the house, etc.

There were also parts that made no sense in term of continuity of the whole story especially in Episode 10.

Honestly if they ended the series at the end of Episode 9, it would also not had made any difference.

This series is based on the 1969 novel of the same name which was also the basis of the 1963 film (the horro classic with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom) and the 1999 film (the stinker with Llam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones, remember it?), both with the title of The Haunting.

I think I still like the 1963 film adaptation better than this over long 9 1/2 hours plus series.

[neo2008]

Bodyguard on Netflix

3 episodes in and this series has me mesmerized with it's action sequences and twists and turns