Really like Justified. Have purposely avoided this season to watch it in one go later on.
otfgoon wrote: 'She needs a job so watched two seasons of a tv series in 1 week' No wonder this generation is full of unemployed bums 😉
'She needs a job so watched two seasons of a tv series in 1 week'
No wonder this generation is full of unemployed bums 😉
Gen Y represent mother fucker. 😃
Rex wrote: Really like Justified. Have purposely avoided this season to watch it in one go later on.
I love Raylan.
Me too.
Don't tell Jo though.
I think Winona is hot.
Rex wrote: I think Winona is hot.
she got her gear off a few times in californication. yeah, she fine.
Does anyone remember Northern Exposure? I started watching it a few months ago and it really is something else. Brilliant environments, poignant writing, characters who are part Wes Anderson, part David Lynch... I remember that a season or two aired on some obscure cable channel when I was little. I caught a few episodes out of context but I never got a chance to sit down and watch it from beginning to end until now.
I remember I watched it during its original run but apart from the moose at the start and John Corbet being in it I remember little else.
I watched a few episodes of its original run as well, but it wasn't really my sort of thing back then. Definitely robbed from Twin Peaks a bit.
I've seen the same thing written elsewhere but I don't think it did. There are definitely similarities but the first season was written before or around the same time as Twin Peaks. It had the rural pacific northwest setting (well, it's supposed to be Alaska but it was shot in Seattle) and quirky townspeople in common but the scope of the show is very different. I think it might have suffered from being compared to Twin Peaks though. People expected surrealism and weirdness which TP ripoffs like Wild Palms were better at delivering.
Vikings is a really good show, by the way. Has anyone seen it? Looks like HBO are on to something here. I just finished the second episode. It ends with the sacking of the Lindisfarne monastery which symbolised the beginning of the Viking age. The timeframe has been compromised to make Ragnar Lodbrok the main character but it's not that big a deal. It's not like those old Viking tales are particularly reliable from a historical account anyway.
I have a suspicion that season two will be about the Siege of Paris if they ever get that far.
Hmm. My dad would like that. He always bangs on about how Irish monks reeducated Europe.
Burnsy: There's a famous Swedish book called The Long Ships. It consists of two volumes but I think it's being published as a two-in-one nowadays. It's mainly about a couple of Viking raids but it also depicts how the old Norse paganism is starting to cave in during the Christianisation of Scandinavia. Lot of entertaining stuff in there about the politics in Europe at the time too, and the monks who brought change to the northern and central parts of the continent. Would make a good birthday present if he hasn't already read it.
If it's in Swedish, I'm afraid the old codger only reads Old Norse (he's a medievalist).
I'll take a look Klaus, thanks for the tip 🙂
Edit: hmm, taking a look, I might read that myself.
🙂 The Long Ships is the English version of the book. And yes, you should definitely read it. It's pretty brilliant.
I've always been fascinated by Old Norse. It's difficult to understand today but you can tell that certain words and structures have a lot in common with the Nordic languages. Icelandic is supposed to be as close to it as any modern language gets.
Looking into that book, I'm fairly sure the old man has read some of its sources (like the "Heimskringla") in the original. He's basically devoted his life to the study of that sort of thing anyway, although he works mainly on Old and Middle English sources.
Sounds like an awesome obsession to have! I'm just a novice on the subject unfortunately. I read the first part of the Heimskringla and the prose Edda six or seven years ago but I never got further than that. The Icelandic accounts are supposedly where most of the historical stuff from the Viking age originates from.
Yeah, I've read a couple of translations of Beowulf and various retellings of the prose Edda, that's about it. Good stuff though.
So...as soon as The Walking Dead give a decent amount of screen time to one its most interesting characters they kill him off.
Episodes is great. Only just got into it having had it on my hard drive for over a year. Really enjoying it so far.
