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Babylon 5, Blake's 7

I've had similar problems with it. Much as I love it B5 just hasn't quite managed to grab me recently.

Maybe I'll take another stab at it...


Also, Sinclair was so much better than Sheridan.

Ba-dum tish!... ...

Russ Abbot would be so proud...



Agreed on the Sinclair thing...It's a shame that Michael O'Hare took as ill as he did...I think the full five-year story with Sinclair would have been quite a thing...

Though Sheridan's arse kicking of Earthforce, along with Boxleitner's general awesomeness (I'd been a fan since Tron and Scarecrow and Mrs King, back in th'eighties) was - from what I remember of it - pretty special...And that whole "Now GET OUT OF OUR GALAXY!!" speech to the Vorlons and Shadows was a pure fist-pump moment... ...

Having said it out loud now, a bit like the Magnum thing, I think it's going to stick this time...Including the films and Crusade, what there was of it...

Or not... ...

We shall see...

Possibly at the transfer point on Io... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Aug 1 2015, 05:14 PM

Once the avalanche has begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote...

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*Applauds*...

"Wait!...Ambassador, what do you want them for?!..."

"...For later..."


Or....



"...You are not yet ready for immortality..."



Ye Gods I've missed Kosh some... ...

Hah, now you've got me getting ready for another run at it McB!

It's been a proper weekend of viewing this last one...

Friday night we saw that Lone Ranger film Johnny Depp in...Fair dues, it really didn't merit the bad reviews it got...It was funny, exciting...Completely absurd, but well written and acted...*Shrug*...I don't get peoples' problem with it...We all loved it...

Saturday's mentionable view was a pair of episodes of The High Chaparral!... ...Just wandering through the Satellite EPG thing found it on at a time where not much was doing, so it was put on and thoroughly enjoyed...I used to watch it when I were a wee laddie and I loved it back then...I always much preferred it to Bonanza even at that age...

Yesterday we went to see Mission Impossible 5...Excellent film!!...Though the product placement was very reminiscent of the Roger Moore Bonds (not that there was anything wrong with either Mi5 or Moore's Bonds, I just mean there was too much obvious "This film sponsored by" going on...Most notably BMW...) I enjoyed this one the most of the series...Very much fun...As preposterous as ever, but very much fun with it...And it doesn't pretend to be anything other than a blast, which is nice...

There was a trailer for Spectre before it, so that's all nice...And the remake of The Man From UNCLE too...Another one I used to watch when I were little, I was unsure of them redoing it...Then I saw the trailer and was convinced instantly...Very much looking forward to that...

Then last night we watched the first two episodes of Netflix's Daredevil...Bloody hell that was good!...I wish I could explain why Agents of SHIELD is such a less-than-it-should-be series when both Daredevil (which benefits hugely from the lack of need for ad breaks and slower/moodier pacing) and Agent Carter (which is just spectacularly good writing and fun as hell) are far better in almost every way possible...

Though the lack of SHIELD's Agents May, Simmonds and Skye is a problem for both series, and I suggest they remedy this by having all three in every single Marvel series...And film...yes...That'll work!... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Aug 3 2015, 06:35 AM

Fair dues, both Agent Carter and Daredevil really are getting better as they go along...Love them both...

Since the middle of last year, I've been slowly going (slowly because there's 20 series and however many specials and stuff and I've only reached halfway through series 5...) through the archaeology behemoth that is Time Team...

Such awesome and brilliant stuff, and I always manage to learn something new and amazing with each episode...

When I said the other day that I was going through Babylon 5, I forgot to mention that I'd only watched the first two at the time...So this morning I saw the one with Londo and the slave girl who was being forced to steal some secrets from him...Though she was clearly reluctant because of luuuurve etc...And the B-Story was Ivanova, the Gold Channel gremlin and it being, in the end, her trying to contact her ailing father in a hospital in "The Russian Consortium"...

Had the classic line, "Ah Vir, my moon-faced assassin of joy!"...

Excellent series...Love it!!...

Londo: "You know Vir, you have what the Earthers call... a negative personality."

Vir: "I do not!"

Londo: "You see, exactly what I mean!"

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 5 2015, 05:07 PM

I enjoyed Agent Carter too! I am so glad they renewed it for another season.

Daredevil is quite literally the best thing I've seen on TV this year. If you're only a few episodes in then, as the man said, 'you ain't seen nothin' yet.'

Aye, we just had episode 4 of Agent Carter and ep. 3 of Daredevil...Will likely be weekend before we do another DD, (Carter's on the tele so we have to wait, but DD is Netfilx, obvs) but it's fantastic from the off!...Very much so...

Really looking forward to these other Marvel series they're doing too...Definitely...

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I love the whole thing about what they do in changing the characters as the series goes on...Such brilliant writing...*Applauds heartily*...

I loved Agent Carter. Hayley Atwell is fantastic, and I loved seeing James D'Arcy as the original Jarvis. I just wish they could have worked Dominic Cooper into more of it.

Daredevil is good too. So far I have only watched 3 or 4 episodes. I have not really had a lot of gumption to watch more though. I am just tired of movies and shows whose protagonist is a white, male, heterosexual, Christian.

Just changing one of these things would make a show more interesting to me, which is why I liked Agent Carter so much. A Black Panther show would be great, that would change at least one thing, and if they got really daring he could follow one of the traditional African religions, like Yoruba. Maybe he even gets his powers from Shango? Best of all, how about a show about a female Latin lesbian Witch? Zoe Saldana would be perfect.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 6 2015, 04:27 PM

From what I understand Chadwick Bozeman has already been cast as T'Challa. He will make his first screen appearance in Captain America: Civil War next summer, with a Black Panther movie scheduled for release sometime in 2017.

Daredevil was my favorite comic growing up so I have been waiting (rather impatiently) for someone to come along and redeem the character from that godawful movie they made back in 2003. I don't mind the ethnicity and orientation of that particular character because we have such history. That said, I know where you're coming from when you say you're tired of the same old white bread male in everything.

I love the new Zoe Saldana project you just pitched! My only concern is that Hollywood seems to still be in the 'Steppin' Fetchit' stage when it comes to the depiction of homosexuality in film or television. I'm afraid that the character you propose would degenerate into the usual 'I'm a LESBIAN who is trying to be a witch,' as opposed to a character who is a WITCH who happens to be lesbian.

Internet rumors! Marvel will never make a movie without a white male lead character! It's like Buffalo winning a Super Bowl. Never going to happen. They'll probably recast Channing Tatum as the Black Panther. And the so-called Black Widow movie will probably change the character to the Black Widower, played by Sam Worthington, or possibly James Franco.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 6 2015, 06:22 PM

Unfortunately we are already stuck with Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow. Worthington in skin tight black leather with a wig would be an improvement!

Chadwick Boseman Civil War prep

I just hope they don't make him all 'golly gee' Burt Ward like they did to Anthony Mackie in Winter Soldier.

I have never actually seen anything with Chadwick Boseman in it. I had to IMDB him. I usually picture someone like Djimon Hounsou playing T'Challa. But he is a bit too old for the part now.

Anyway, I have always been a big fan of the Black Panther. I hope Andy Serkis will reappear as a villain in the Panther movie. They seemed to be setting that up in Age of Ultron.

Skintight black outfit? James Franco trying on Skinny Jeans

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 6 2015, 06:49 PM

Oooooh!!!...Bake Off's back!!!!... ...Love that programme...*Sigh*...Sue Perkins... ...

Also...Castle is as fun as ever...Love that one too...*Sigh*...Beckett... ...



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Also, further to the above debate...First...If they make that Zoe Saldana thing, sign me up for...Well...Life... ...



This post has been edited by McBadgere: Aug 7 2015, 04:50 AM

Black Panther?


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(and be glad I left the transformation scene from Cat People out, because it was next in line! )

Bobby Seale used to swing by our house for barbecue when we lived in the Bay area, I think. I was an infant at the time so the story is pure hearsay.

Well now, then - did his message permeate between bottle feedings, or was he just enjoying the BBQ'd ribs and corn on the cob?

Just kidding. Somewhere boxed away in all my stuff from my earlier years I have a black fist made of ebony wood that I found in a little pawn shop in NY, lol.