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The TV Thread (GoT spoilers)

Qwiss

Klaus wrote:
Klaus wrote:
I know this was a longshot, but I was hoping that Gotham would be more like Garfield Minus Garfield. So disappointed now.

I can't believe no one found this funny. I'm wasted here.

You wanted it to be just Jon and Odie hanging out with their lasagne unscathed?

banduan

Don't really watch Homeland. Is this article OTT or mostly accurate?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/homeland-is-the-most-bigoted-show-on-television/

Burnwinter

I've never watched it but I've seen a few people complaining about that Claire Danes promo poster. It certainly isn't too hard to pin an imperialist / Orientalist tag on.

goon

It is pretty accurate. Homeland in general was decent for about a season before it degraded into mostly garbage. It's a poor quality show in general. It's much like 24.

Qwiss

I think you can level those charges at Homeland to an extent but that article is either deliberately distorting whats happening in some of the scenes its describing or the writer is just thick. Considering they write for the Washington Post I'm siding towards deliberate.

arsedocmd

getting tired and bored of self righteous female leads in tv shows. Claire danes not helping.Hope the show has enough to compensate. Started very predicatbly though, everyone feeling bad about civilian collateral damage , next some huge conspiracy being averted due to this blind bombing will be discovered and followed by more justification--how things are fucked up in those regions will be thrown in.

Meatwad

Homeland "had a spark when you started but now you're just garbage." - Jay-Z

QuincyAbeyie

Watched the second episode of Gotham. I want to like the show, but I don't think it will become good. Because all the bad guys eventually will become Batman's enemies, it feels like there's so much the show can't do. Therefore I wish they would focus a little less on those characters.

invisibleman18

Almost finished House of Cards season 2. Watched episode 11 last night, without spoiling anything I did not see That scene at the end coming.

Burnwinter

New Twin Peaks in 2016!

https://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-return-showtime-series-mark-frost-interview-846363/

Klaus

If the UN were to announce tomorrow that we have eliminated famine it would only rank as the second best news of 2014.

Qwiss

Wilshere wrote:
Watched the second episode of Gotham. I want to like the show, but I don't think it will become good. Because all the bad guys eventually will become Batman's enemies, it feels like there's so much the show can't do. Therefore I wish they would focus a little less on those characters.

What do you want instead, new non canon characters?

I quite like the focus on the bad guys. Not as interested in little Bruce Wayne.

QuincyAbeyie

qs! wrote:
Wilshere wrote:
Watched the second episode of Gotham. I want to like the show, but I don't think it will become good. Because all the bad guys eventually will become Batman's enemies, it feels like there's so much the show can't do. Therefore I wish they would focus a little less on those characters.

What do you want instead, new non canon characters?

I quite like the focus on the bad guys. Not as interested in little Bruce Wayne.

Penguin, Falcone and Fish are characters that Gotham can use in a good way. Catwoman, Bruce Wayne and fucking 5 year old Poison Ivy (I really hope she was an easter egg and not a recurring character) are not. Of course, this is just my opinion. I'm not too sure about Riddler either, but he may surprise me.

Burnwinter

Only me and Klaus give a shit about new Twin Peaks? Shame on you all.

QuincyAbeyie

Tbf it stopped airing before I was born. I know Kyle MacLachlan though, he's in one of the most critically loathed shows around!

Burnwinter

😆 Fair play kiddo.

Shady

Burnwinter™ wrote:
Only me and Klaus give a shit about new Twin Peaks? Shame on you all.

Nope, I am indescribably exited for it. Glad it's only nine eps long, I expect it to have a very tight focus compared to the second season.

Qwiss

Burnwinter™ wrote:
Only me and Klaus give a shit about new Twin Peaks? Shame on you all.

I was a big fan but its been nearly 25 years. Are you really expecting it not to be a massive disappointment?

Klaus

I don't see how it could possibly be disappointing as long as Lynch is at the helm and Kyle MacLachlan keeps wearing a suit in every scene.

Oh, and then there's this:

Best foreshadowing in the history of television right there.

Burnwinter

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/thoughts-announced-return-twin-peaks

Bit of a cautious, negative writeup in the New Yorker.

I think there are plenty of reasons for optimism—Lynch and Frost are both back, it's only nine episodes, it sounds like McLachlan will be back, the story actually has plenty of unfinished business making a continuation logical. Also despite the passing years Lynch still hasn't sold out and his films have, if anything, gotten weirder.

So although reboots suck this could be the exception that proves the rule.

I'm a fan of Fire Walk With Me but the compressed running time of a feature meant it couldn't interleave the supernatural elements with the soap elements that balanced out the TV series. There will probably be more of a mix in a continued TV series, but also you'd expect the type of high tension story beats we get in modern day cable dramas, which might change the feel a fair bit. You would have to think McLachlan will be back as a villain of sorts.

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