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The TV Thread (GoT spoilers)

Biggus

Valyria looks nice, wouldn't mind going on a kayaking and hiking holiday around the ruins exploring it.
And you'd only have to worry about stone men not beggars.

Biggus

Stannis, the grammar nazis new hero in the struggle for the iron throne.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/game-of-thrones-season-5-stannis-baratheons-grammar-smackdown-rejoiced-on-twitter-20150512-ggzfdq.html

Rex

There's an apostrophe missing there...

Daz

Rex approves.

banduan

Supergirl announced to tie into Arrow/Flash

Asterix

Actually possession based apostrophes are becoming less rigidly observed, even by grammarians. Pedants might disagree but my Mum teaches functional grammar at uni, so she should know. So Biggus could have put the apostrophe after "nazis" to indicate that the plural form was the hero, not just a singular form, but it doesn't really matter.

Burnwinter

Both work anyway: the singular form in which "the grammar nazi" is an exemplar, and the plural in which "the grammar nazis" designates the cohort of ... nerds like the people posting in this thread.

Qwiss

banduan wrote:
Supergirl announced to tie into Arrow/Flash

You sure I can't find anything online about a tie in?

Biggus

AsterixActually possession based apostrophes are becoming less rigidly observed, even by grammarians. Pedants might disagree but my Mum teaches functional grammar at uni, so she should know. So Biggus could have put the apostrophe after "nazis" to indicate that the plural form was the hero, not just a singular form, but it doesn't really matter.

I just left it out to annoy Rex.

Rex

I just commented because it was a post about grammar. Biggus, based on your posting overall, you should be aware that there are no fines for using commas btw.

invisibleman18

Good season finale for Arrow. Season 2 was always going to be difficult to live up to but was a good end to the season after things got a bit dull midway through when Vinnie Jones was the villain for a few episodes.

QuincyAbeyie

Think it was a disappointing finale fitting to a disappointing season.

invisibleman18

Thought the second half of the season was good, but season 2 was one of the best seasons of anything I've seen so it was always going to be a tough act to follow.

QuincyAbeyie

The Agents of SHIELD finale was really good, though. That show, unlike Arrow, has a clear direction of where it wants to go. So does The Flash, though I haven't seen the latest episodes of it.

Rex

Haven't watched Arrow, but Daredevil is a lot better than both SHIELD and Flash for me. SHIELD is still a good show though.

Burnwinter

Good news: David Lynch is back in the harness for the new Twin Peaks on Showtime 🙂

http://tvline.com/2015/05/15/twin-peaks-david-lynch-showtime-resolved/

QuincyAbeyie

Rex wrote:
Haven't watched Arrow, but Daredevil is a lot better than both SHIELD and Flash for me. SHIELD is still a good show though.

Yeah, Daredevil was really excellent. They're planning on making four more series (Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, none of which I've heard of before) and then make a miniseries where they come together. Sort of doing a mini-Avengers thing for television.

Also CW showed a trailer for a spin-off from Arrow and Flash. I'm generally very sceptical (sceptic?) to shows that require a lot of CGI, as the budgets aren't that high. Looks like this one does.

Jens

For fucks sake, how many of these superhero shows are being made? Every two-bit superhero has his own show it seems.

QuincyAbeyie

9478 fewer than there are police/detective shows or comedies about ordinary families/friends with weird personalities.

Jens

Well I don't care for those shows either, but this new wave of comic book shows seems too much like blatant fan service, Superhero X, who we before only knew as Superhero Y's henchman, now gets his own spin-off where we learn about his parents, Superhero A and B. Fans will lap this stuff up, but it seems a bit watered out for an outsider like me.

Then again I don't watch it so I really shouldn't comment on this stuff. It was just funny to me that you casually mentioned six new shows being made in a couple of sentences. I just wish some of the resources going into this would be spent elsewhere.

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