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| Topic Started: Feb 14 2012, 12:12 AM (13,648 Views) | |
| Snowman | Sep 24 2013, 12:07 AM Post #316 |
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Hulu says "We are able to post the last five episodes to air on TV. The episodes posted may vary based on ABC’s on-air schedule." You have no more excuses (yay). I don't know how much of a delay there will be between when it airs and when it gets on Hulu, though. I don't use Hulu much anymore, but in the past, it's been as soon as the next day, and as late as a week and a day. |
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| DarkFlashlight | Sep 24 2013, 03:08 AM Post #317 |
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it will take a toll
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I'll catch it on Netflix. There won't be any devastating deaths until the season finale anyway. |
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| cscrocker | Sep 25 2013, 06:58 AM Post #318 |
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Ang tanging Pilipino sa forum na ito
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Anyone who watches/has watched Firefly, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and House, I might need your opinions on these shows because these are some of my picks for shows to watch after Breaking Bad. So, convince me. |
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| Granskjegg | Sep 25 2013, 10:33 AM Post #319 |
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Eg e husfar.
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I've only seen Game of Thrones out of those shows. Game of Thrones is a really good drama show with a healthy dose of medieval combat and more fantastical things like dragons and stuff. It's not as magical like Lord of the Rings, it's much more down to earth than that. One of the actors said it was like LotR meets the Sopranos (I've never watched Sopranos, but I guess he's right). The characters are very interesting, and some you really REALLY hate (like worse than Skyler) and some you just absolutely love. It'll make you laugh and it will make you sad. Overall it's a really great show. You'll likely be pretty confused when you first start watching because there are a lot of characters, but after the first three episodes you should have a pretty good understanding of who is who and what is going on. Every episode is a bit over 50 minutes and every season has 10 episodes, so if you binge watch you'll go through the three seasons pretty quickly. |
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| BigMac | Sep 25 2013, 02:47 PM Post #320 |
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Firefly is super cool. If you didn't know, it's written by Joss Whedon, which assures witty dialogue and the destruction and satire of tropes. Essentially it's what you get when you combine Clint Eastwood with Star Wars: it's a space western. Really cool sets and costumes and stuff, and the plots are always interesting. The characters are all just fantastic in their own way. There's one season, which means you should finish it quick, and then the movie Serenity, which is a nice little send off to the fans. Speaking of fans, there are a lot. Like, most everyone on the internet has watched this show. You will probably understand a lot of jokes after watching this show. Do it. Watch the show. |
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| Romanticide | Sep 25 2013, 03:21 PM Post #321 |
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Firefly/Serenity is where I'd start with this list, if only because it's the shortest. Being such a character-driven show, if you love the characters, you'll love the show. The reverse also applies. But yeah, Mac already said it well enough, no need to rehash that. Game of Thrones is a great adaptation of the books. I'm normally all bout dat "the book is better" life, but this adaptation is one of the few on the same level as its source material. I'd probably recommend the show first because the sheer number of characters introduced in even book one is overwhelming and having a face to put to the name when you read the series is very helpful. I think where George R.R. Martin succeeded with this series was making all of these royals seem like actual *people*. Sure, they're all removed from the lives of their subjects by virtue of their positions, but they act and speak like real people and they still have very typical problems outside of the "I want to rule Westeros" problem. Mad Men is easily the slowest show on this list. I don't think that's going to be a problem for you, but it bears mentioning. It doesn't have an overarching plot, as such. There are no villains to defeat, no MacGuffins to find, no objective to fulfill, that sort of thing. You're simply following the lives of the employees of an advertising firm through the 60s. It's not as boring as it sounds, but it's a show you'll either love or hate, and it'll likely take a few episodes to hook you. But I think once you're hooked, you're hooked. If you make it to "The Wheel" (season 1 finale), which has THE best scene in the series, you'll probably be hooked. I suppose the tl;dr is once again "if you love the characters, you'll love the show". If you don't like House's character, you're not going to like House. As you might surmise, it's pretty much all about him all the time. Sure, there are other characters and they aren't *bad* characters, but I always felt they're there mostly for House to abuse/hit on/whatever else. On another show they'd have gotten more development. On House? No, that detracts from House doing House things. That said, House is probably one of the best characters network television had to offer. I feel like this show might have gone on a bit longer than it should have, but I'll have to sit down and watch it in order to see, which I intend to do one of these days. This is easily the worst show you mentioned (you did mention three amazing shows though) and the longest, so I'd save it for last. |
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| Asfan | Sep 30 2013, 02:27 AM Post #322 |
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The Sanest Fisher
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That finale was pretty good, but it could have been better. I'm not sure if they needed another episode or what, but it just didn't feel like it was enough. |
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| BigMac | Sep 30 2013, 02:31 AM Post #323 |
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Spoiler: click to toggle omg i cant believe it ended like this edit: spoiler cause page stretch |
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| DarkFlashlight | Sep 30 2013, 04:26 AM Post #324 |
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it will take a toll
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I haven't seen anything since Rabid Dog, but I have them all DVR'ed at home, and am going home this weekend. Which means that this week will be a gauntlet of avoiding spoilers that I will almost definitely lose. |
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| Romanticide | Sep 30 2013, 05:37 AM Post #325 |
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Since idk if everyone has seen the finale yet... [spoiler=Breaking Bad Finale/general BrBa thoughts]Idk, I feel like the show became more Walt-centric over the past two weeks. I get that it always was about Walt, but Marie, Skyler, Walt Jr./Flynn, and Saul were pretty much shoved out of the show in the last two or so weeks. Marie especially had a storyline that could have been promising if they only had more time. Perhaps I say this because I liked Psycho Marie more than Regular Marie (her exchange with Hank when she first saw Jesse was gold), but whatever. Her psychological state was lost in the maelstrom of these last few episodes, as were plenty of other things. Also, I'd have liked to see what happens after Walt wrecked their lives. What happens to these characters? Do Skyler and Marie get better? Do they move on from their now-dead spouses? Does Marie's kleptomania get better or worse in the wake of Hank's death? What about Walt Jr./Flynn? Does he go on to college like most people would probably assume? Does he get the nine million, and if so, what does he do with it? Mike's actor assumes (on Talking Bad) Jesse would go back to Brock, but I don't think they'd even let him adopt Brock. Whatever, Jesse was always a bit of a renegade anyway. But yeah, does he help Brock? Go to rehab? Disappear? Make amends with his family? Something else? Saul probably disappeared to Omaha or whatever, but I'd want to see if he lives, what he's doing, and hear one final one-liner or something. I don't feel this was "Closure: The Episode". Maybe if we look at it from only Walt's perspective it is, but we still have stories that felt unfinished to me. I feel the show would have benefited from more episodes, if only to close up storylines that were introduced and to show us what happens after these events concluded. Aaron Paul killed his material this season. It was all obviously very bleak material, but he conveyed the despair of Jesse quite well. Of the major characters that survived the show, he's probably my favorite, in large part due to his performance in these last eight episodes. Also, I missed Jane. Loved her character. SURE, it's partially because I'm a shallow human being and think her actress is gorgeous, but she was the first one to stand up to Walt's bullshit (and the first one to inspire Jesse to, as well), which is the quality that got her killed. Outside of that, she got the most development of Jesse's loves on this show, which was sweet. At the end of the day, this is a very good show. It probably won't be one of my GOATs, mostly because I feel there are a good number of events that didn't have much significance in the long run (sup plane crash) and because the whole ending arc really could have used more time. Walt's downfall shouldn't have taken only eight episodes (his reign as kingpin shouldn't have taken all of... I guess eight, if that?), and while I loved To'hajiilee, the events in it could have probably been delegated to other episodes.[/spoiler] |
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| Asfan | Sep 30 2013, 06:00 AM Post #326 |
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I agree with most of that. I liked Jane for the number of episodes she was in. Not sure if I would have wanted her in more. But season 2 as a whole was excellent and I wouldn't change it at all. Marie is probably the biggest thing I was missing. After Walt skipped town, we saw just about none of her. She was in two scenes maybe? There was the shot of her in the car looking miserable and then her talking on the phone to Skyler. She was a very important character and we know by far the least about how she was impacted by everything of Walt's family. I was wondering how Walt was going to make it from New Hampshire to everything getting resolved in 75 minutes (which is actually probably 50-55), and I can see why I was worried now (I especially got concerned when there was 25 minutes left and Walt was just entering the Nazi compound). Thinking about it now, they really could have used another episode. Let the episode end with Walt going in to see the Nazis and start it there for the next episode. That can last half an hour-ish (maybe even a little bit more) and either show us where everyone else goes after that or cut that part of the episode up and show us the other stuff intermittently. This finale wasn't exactly disappointing (even less disappointing than Dexter's, and I had almost no expectations for that finale), but I was expecting more. Maybe something like The Shield. That finale was incredible and I wasn't expecting Breaking Bad to match it, but I was thinking (and perhaps hoping) they would be similar. Which they weren't, really. But oh well. Season 5 was still incredible and one of the best seasons of television I've ever seen. And everyone can now agree that Mad Men is the best show on AMC. |
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| Snowman | Sep 30 2013, 07:53 PM Post #327 |
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[spoiler=A little bit of BrBa stuff]I agree with the stuff you guys said. I would've liked to see more of what happened to Walt's family. I liked seeing Badger and Skinny Pete one last time, but I don't think that was necessary. I guess they were also there to confirm (to Walt) that Jesse was still cooking, but he probably could've just learned that during his conversation with Todd and Lydia. So cutting out all the laser pointer stuff would've allowed for a little more time for Skyler, Marie, and Walt Jr., maybe eating breakfast together or something. I'd also like to know what Jesse ends up doing... Hopefully by now he's decided to stay out of anything related to drugs, but like Ro said, I'm not sure they'd let Jesse near Brock, and Brock was pretty much all Jesse had left.[/spoiler] Also, it's pretty different, but I still think you should all watch Orphan Black. It's not on Netflix streaming at the moment, but the first season is only ten episodes and I thought it was very good. Season 2 starts in April on BBCA. It's about a woman who finds out she's a clone, and that changes her life quite a bit, what with the conspiracies and such, but I don't want to say anything else 'cause spoilers. I've mentioned this before, but Tatiana Maslany, who plays all of the clones, is veeeeery good at playing all of the clones, who are easily distinguished by their different hairstyles. I know ghost said he was looking for a new show in the ToJ so I figured other people might be looking for one too. |
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| Snowman | Oct 8 2013, 08:55 PM Post #328 |
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I finished season 1 of The X-Files. Not planning on including spoilers, but if I do, I'll hide them. SO. I wasn't sure how much I would like it at first. This show is known for its "Monster of the Week" episodes, and I don't really like when there's nothing connecting the episodes together. However, that's been okay in this show for two reasons so far: First, they're usually pretty good. Mulder and Scully are great together and their relationship does change throughout the episodes, and not just the first and last ones, so that's important with them being the only two main characters right now. Second, the show has this "mytharc" thing, so some episodes are "mythology episodes" that contribute to a variety of plots, such as the government conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life, the disappearance of Mulder's sister (supposedly abducted by aliens), and there have been a few shady characters in some episodes that I don't know much about yet. Anyway, the only thing I don't really like is the long seasons (I think they're all at least 20 episodes). But I have that issue with other shows too. Finishing Next: Season 1 of TNG (15 more episodes), Season 5 of Angel (20 more episodes, 528025830 more deaths) Starting Next (after those): The Wire (Season 3) |
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| DarkFlashlight | Oct 8 2013, 10:07 PM Post #329 |
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[spoiler=BrBa Finale Spoilers]WHERE TO START? I guess I can begin by disagreeing with everyone. I noticed that the last couple of episodes lacked important scenes from people who aren't Walter too. But it didn't really bug me (although I do have a complaint coming later). The show, at its heart, has always been about how Walt affects everyone around him. That's where all the supporting characters got their plotlines from for the most part. In the end, Walt is dead and no longer influencing them. It may seem abrupt to not explain what happened to anyone, but you basically know. You've seen everyone's reactions to their situations, and without Walt to catalyze them, that's where they'll stay. The only thing I don't feel like I can accurately predict is Skyler and Marie's relationship. I assume they're okay, since Marie bothered calling to tell Skyler to watch out for Walt, and sounded sincerely worried for her well-being, but there are almost no interaction between them after Marie learns that Hank is dead (and thinks Walt killed him). The exception to everything I just said is Jesse. I wish we had gotten an explanation for Jesse. He got sold so short this part of the season with his story arcs. He was rarely there, and when he was, he was just being abused and silenced. Yeah, that sets up for Walt's good-guy save at the end, but it never made me excited to see the character and what he would do. I think the intent may have been to leave Jesse so open as a, "He has a whole life ahead of him now, he can do so much!" but it came off as rush ambiguity. Off of that though, exactly what should have happened did. The only thing that bugged me about the last episodes is that Marie and Jr. at least (not sure about Skyler) legitimately believe that Walt killed Hank, when that was a rare shining moment of Walt not being the bad guy. There's probably some moral somewhere, but it annoyed me. I know the, "How are they going to do everything they need to with this much time left?" feeling *COUGH*ANGEL*COUGH*, but I actually didn't get it here. Saying this would be the last season ahead of time was a fantastic idea, because it gave me an endgame feeling in my head the whole time. As soon as he moved to New Hampshire, the question, "What's even left for you?" wouldn't stop lingering in my mind. There wasn't much left to his life. All he had to do was go destroy everyone who was profiting from stealing his empire and fade away. And save Jesse along the way, but that wasn't really part of the initial plan.[/spoiler] |
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| BigMac | Oct 9 2013, 02:22 AM Post #330 |
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Well I managed to finish season 8 of Supernatural about one hour after season 9 premiered. Awesome. And I mostly agree with Darkie on Breaking Bad finale. Spoiler: click to toggle
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