Fair dues... ...

Agreed on the "infinite technology and unlimited people to work the Case of Who Stole Timmy's Bicycle" criticism. It also drives prosecutors and police nuts, as many jurors now expect that kind of definitive detail at trial.

As to the subject of the thread- we just began working through "A Touch of Frost." There is something deeply satisfying about the better UK police shows... they move more slowly, there is often more ambiguity, character rarely takes second place to "action."

"Justified" has been... less impressive this season. Don't want to get too "inside baseball" here, but the decision to rather separate the protagonist and antagonist has not worked well. A lot of the sheer joy of the program was the interactions between Raylan and Boyd.

On one hand I can see how it would be annoying to police agencies that don't manage to get sufficient evidence for a conviction but on the other hand at least the instances of innocent people being locked up for decades will become less common.

I've seen many times in the news where someone was locked away for half of their life only to be released later after DNA or other physical evidence proved that they were innocent.

Colosseum-A Gladiator's story.

Documantary-styled movie video based on the real life story of Verus, a slave gladiator in the Roman days. Very interesting video. I was always fascinated by the gladiatorial sport.

We're about to pop in "Your Highness."

Good cheering-up movie, lol

Hehe, Your Higness with James Franco and hottie Natalie Portman? That movie is magic . . .mothersucker!

Game of Thrones-Season 3.

I am so excited. Got hooked when I saw the first episode and watched the entire two seasons in two weeks. Armies, dragons, invasions, intrigue, oh my! Top 5 shows on my list. The best, actually.

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I saw that one a year ago. It was excellent. So much better than the ridiculous tripe that Hollywood loves to put out about gladiators. It was so nice to see reality for a change. Like the fact that slaves wanted to become gladiators, and actually competed with one another for the chance. Because the alternative was usually so much worse. Or that gladiators cost money, and when one died in a fight, their owner had to be reimbursed by the sponsor of the games. So that meant the real arena was not a massive bloodfest, but rather only one match in 4 or 5 ended with a death instead.

Oh yes. I am a BIG fan of Natalie Portman and James Franco. One day I will write something with humor similar to that XD

I watched Van Helsing! That movie really renewed my love for Werewolves and Vampires!

Of course! Hollywood sensationalized gladiators to make it seem that many people died in the arena. It's true to a certain point, though. Criminals, prisoners, christians and renegade slaves who were condemned were thrown into the arena to be executed and fed to the lions. Now, official career-type gladiators were not often killed. They died, yes, eventually but not everytime they fought. They had good food, a great income, the best medics of that time period. They had the best training. The women loved them. They were the rockstars of that age.

You're right about the owner being reimbursed. Training gladiators in a ludus cost some good money, and of course, imagine having one of your best warriors suddenly killed? All the time it took to train, feed and cloth him would have to be paid back in full.


Heh, can't believe you just watched it. It came out in 2004. I liked it, though. Best werewolves in movie. Period.

I fell asleep during ParaNorman last night.

I'm watching The Guild. I have never connected with characters so much XD

I love that show. It is only getting better with time too.

This show is SO funny. Holy crap.

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Kelly's Heroes - one of my all time favorites.

When I first started watching that show, I was a little creeped out by the characters. But then I realized that they are all stereotypes taken beyond the extremes on purpose, and it just became utterly hilarious.





I loved that one too. The whole idea of pulling a bank robbery in the middle of a war was just brilliant. I especially loved what happens when they tell the Germans defending the bank what's inside! And Donald Sutherland was just brilliant as Oddball.

That was my reaction too XD

Agreed, Sutherland was a natural for that part, in fact he more or less makes any role he takes on.

Carroll O'Connor "Get the hell out of here, can't you see I've got the game on!" and "They've even got the gravediggers with them! Now that's the kind of dedication I'm talking about!" Lol.

The characters are intentionally varied and stereotypical so that we can laugh at them. Felicia Day created the show in part to highlight that anyone can suffer from video game addiction.

She's a self proclaimed gaming addict so she gets us and that is why I think so many nerds find the show appealing.

Murder In Paradise starring one half of Armstrong and Miller.
Proper good stuff.