Fortunately most of the programmes have finished now...But there's still the Penny Dreadful/Almost human/NCIS:LA/Hawaii/Castle/TOTP things going on...Which has been a blast to try and fit in, I tell ya... ...

I started watching Veronica Mars this week, and am enjoying it immensely.


What about Magnum PI!

...Probably sunday night now...We've abandoned the silage due to the likely torrential thunderstorms tomorrow...So boss has gone away for a break...As he does...Therefore I'm also busy all weekend until the early evenings...But there's a decent chance of watching Magnum on sunday...Tune in here for the exciting conclusion to this saga... ...

Did I mention we saw the one where Higgins was stuck on an island with three young offenders?...One of which shot the prison probation officer (or whatever he was)...And then Higgins had to rely on his wartime experience etc...

I really enjoyed that one...

Ooooh, I also caught the start of an old NCIS episode that was called...

Wait for it...

"Sub Rosa"... ...

I didn't get chance to see what it was all about - apart from it being an investigation on a submarine, hence the title methinks - but I thought the title made it a...Proper Awesome™ episode... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Jun 6 2014, 06:18 PM

I loved that Higgns with the three probies episode too. It was like the good old days when Higgy, Corky Bostwick, Binky Farmbush, and Inky Gilbert were taking on Rommel in North Africa!

That is a great name for an episode! There was a supplement for an RPG named Sub Rosa too (forget the game), and there is even a computer game called it too! They must be Proper Awesome all!

We liked Veronica Mars quite a bit. Enough so that we got the "10 Years After" movie from Amazon Instant...

The cast was good at being complex and real and humorous... the interactions between Kristen Bell and Enrico Colantoni were always excellent.

I watched the first 3 episodes of Firefly!

Awesome show!

One of the greatest shows ever made.

I watched Blood Diamond yesterday. Good movie, really highlighting the 'Resource Curse' of Africa.


The clever banter between characters hearkens me back to Buffy. I wish I had even half of Veronica's brass! Especially when she comes home from a date to find Daddy waiting in the living room. I also like the deeper mystery of who really killed her best friend, and why, that I can see will take an entire season to unfold, if not longer. Which is fine by me, it gives us an intriguing mega-mystery to hang the rest of the one-episode mysteries between.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 8 2014, 02:46 AM

This is the film where I started seeing Leo DiCaprio as more than just "a pretty face." I really liked him in this movie. I also loved Djimon Hounsou in this - he played his role with such strength and quiet emotional power that I was just blown away.

TBH, I don't think DiCapricorn has qualified as a pretty face for a while now...

I have been a fan of Djimon Hounsou for a long time. I really liked him in Push, and he's been good in a lot of other films too, like Gladiator and Constantine.

And oh look, we finally got some female superheros in a Marvel film...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 8 2014, 03:35 PM

I love that show. Enjoy!

Not much to add. I'm just sad that Firefly was cancelled. I wish I'd been a millionaire and known about the show's financial issues. I'd have dropped a couple million on them as an investment, the show wasn't allowed to achieve the popularity it could have IMO.

Been watching lots of Dino documentaries lately. Dinosaur Revolution was ok, but got a bit silly in parts.

Prehistoric was interesting. They took one city in North America, and went back to different points in time to show what the landscape was like, and what dinos were living there. But with six episodes, the fauna got pretty repetitive. A mammoth in New York is not really much different from one in Denver after all. Really the most interesting thing was seeing just how dramatically the geology of the continent changed over the millions of years, with places going from extremes of oceans, to forests, to covered in glaciers.

Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets of the Gobi Desert was rather dull. The most interesting thing were the two paleontologist partners, who I had the distinct impression were 'partners' in another sense as well. Seriously, my gaydar pinging was the most interesting part of that one.

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia, has stunning vistas of modern day Patagonia. It is an IMAX movie, so eye-popping visuals are to be expected. Not a whole lot of dinosaurs, but a lot about paleontology. The best parts are Patagonia (which is just plain gorgeous), and Donald Sutherland's narration. Worth it just for those two things. The rest is just bonus win.

I saw the first episode of Dinosaurs Unearthed. It is an interesting look at the discovery of a hadrosaur mummy. Not a just a skeleton, but a fossil with the skin, flesh, muscle and so on. Sadly, they were not able to recover any viable proteins from the fossil. Otherwise in another decade we might have had cloned duck-bill dinosaurs roaming the great plains of North America. Move over hamburger, I want some hadroburgers!

I also made a diversion with Did God Create The Universe? A very well done docu by Stephen Hawking, narrated by Benedict Cumberbun, about the Big Bang and creation of the universe.

Now since I have been doing so much dinoing, I think Jurassic Park is up next.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 13 2014, 01:58 AM

Documentry about atheism by Stephen Hawking and Benedict Cummberbatch?

R.I.P tumblr, cause of death explosion of edginess

Nothing that dramatic. It just explains how the big bang happened, and how none of it required an invisible person in the sky orchestrating affairs.

I just saw Days of Future Past. Lots of fun. Perhaps the best part is that it fixes the mess made by X-Men 3. Oh, and I am now also officially in love with Bingbing Fan. Though she still has to compete with Ellen Page and Jennifer Lawrence.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 14 2014, 07:22 PM

I had to google Bingbing Fan. She's a cutie! She looks very much like one of your TES or FO characters.

I just watched Now You See Me.

Easily one of the best films I've ever seen.

It's a masterpiece.

@SubRosa: Does it fix the mess they made with X-Men First Class?

Or is that expecting too much

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jun 14 2014, 09:43 PM

careful now ( also Deists exist, I was one)

Just got around to watching Return of the Jedi.

Now I just have to remember when I watch it in future to stop after Luke lights Anakin's pyre.

That way I don't have to watch the galaxy celebrating crap, and that git from the prequels crashing the Jedi spirit scene