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[McBadgere]

In amongst everything else at the mo, I'm also watching this sitcom called Vicious...Starring Ian McKellern and Derek Jacobi...

It really is the funniest thing I've seen in ages... ...

I love it!... ...

[Colonel Mustard]

Saw Lawless the other night, and it was pretty good. Shia LeBeouf managed to actually do a pretty good job of acting in the main lead, and while it was kind of formulaic as your standard prohibition-era gangster film, it was good fun. Serious props to Guy Pearce in that, as well; he made for an awesome villain in that.

[Kiln]

I watched the entire season of "Game of Thrones" in one sitting. At first I though this show looked ridiculous but after the first episode I was hooked. After the first episode I was impressed, after the second I was hooked.

I went out and grabbed the second season right afterwards!

Seriously, this show is a very adult but incredibly gripping series where the creators are not afraid to mix it up and keep you guessing. The world is also surprisingly fresh and fun, there's also a good bit of humor thrown in there.

Once again though, not for kids. Not even a little. It reminded me of the Witcher series in this regard.

[Darkness Eternal]

I watched the entire season of "Game of Thrones" in one sitting. At first I though this show looked ridiculous but after the first episode I was hooked. After the first episode I was impressed, after the second I was hooked.

I went out and grabbed the second season right afterwards!

Seriously, this show is a very adult but incredibly gripping series where the creators are not afraid to mix it up and keep you guessing. The world is also surprisingly fresh and fun, there's also a good bit of humor thrown in there.

Once again though, not for kids. Not even a little. It reminded me of the Witcher series in this regard.

Yes. I thought it would be a boring show like the cancelled Camelot, but after I watched the first episode and saw how good the actors and the story was, I couldn't stop watching them. The show is amazing and it has gritty realism mixed with fantasy. For those who never read the books(I haven't), I was shocked at the death of some characters and the twists and turns the series presents throughout the episodes. Not to mention the dialogue is superb, the fight scenes are great! Even some scenes add suspence like the Wall Climb with Jon and Ygritte.

Season 1 is good, season 2 is great. Season 3 is just absolutely fantastic! Characters such as Jaime Lannister is one of those complex characters.

Fans reaction to Jamie season 1- Arrogant, incestuous prick who pushed a boy out of the window for catching him having sex with his own sister.

Fans Reaction to Jamie season 2- Traitor, kingslayer, pompous villain. Why don't you die already!?

Fans reaction to Jamie season 3- Jamie is the man! I feel your pain! I hope everythings works well for him! He's a hero!

Now, the best scene in season 1 is this one. Left me shocked. Bitter. And of course, angry. Spoilers!!!

This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: May 10 2013, 12:44 PM

[Kiln]

I watched the entire season of "Game of Thrones" in one sitting. At first I though this show looked ridiculous but after the first episode I was hooked. After the first episode I was impressed, after the second I was hooked.

I went out and grabbed the second season right afterwards!

Seriously, this show is a very adult but incredibly gripping series where the creators are not afraid to mix it up and keep you guessing. The world is also surprisingly fresh and fun, there's also a good bit of humor thrown in there.

Once again though, not for kids. Not even a little. It reminded me of the Witcher series in this regard.

Yes. I thought it would be a boring show like the cancelled Camelot, but after I watched the first episode and saw how good the actors and the story was, I couldn't stop watching them. The show is amazing and it has gritty realism mixed with fantasy. For those who never read the books(I haven't), I was shocked at the death of some characters and the twists and turns the series presents throughout the episodes. Not to mention the dialogue is superb, the fight scenes are great! Even some scenes add suspence like the Wall Climb with Jon and Ygritte.

Season 1 is good, season 2 is great. Season 3 is just absolutely fantastic! Characters such as Jaime Lannister is one of those complex characters.

Fans reaction to Jamie season 1- Arrogant, incestuous prick who pushed a boy out of the window for catching him having sex with his own sister.

Fans Reaction to Jamie season 2- Traitor, kingslayer, pompous villain. Why don't you die already!?

Fans reaction to Jamie season 3- Jamie is the man! I feel your pain! I hope everythings works well for him! He's a hero!

Now, the best scene in season 1 is this one. Left me shocked. Bitter. And of course, angry. Spoilers!!!

I agree with your post 100% but haven't watched all of season 2 yet or even started the 3rd season!

I was also amazed to see them kill off some of their best characters so early on, which is rare. The only other series that surprised me so much with random deaths of characters was The Walking Dead .

I have to admit though that all of the actors in Game of Thrones are very good, even some of the ones I initially disliked.

My wife and I are completely addicted to this show.

[ImperialSnob]

Anyone know when The Walking Dead is coming back?

In Europe anyways.

Also

[Darkness Eternal]

I agree with your post 100% but haven't watched all of season 2 yet or even started the 3rd season!

I was also amazed to see them kill off some of their best characters so early on, which is rare. The only other series that surprised me so much with random deaths of characters was The Walking Dead .

I have to admit though that all of the actors in Game of Thrones are very good, even some of the ones I initially disliked.

My wife and I are completely addicted to this show.

Trust me, your opinions of the characters will change. So far my favorite characters are Khal Drogo, Daenerys Targaryan and of course, Sandor Clegane(aka The Hound).

Yeah, the writer is notorious for killing off noble characters. Which is the entire point of the Game of Thrones. The noble, honorable characters end up dying because it takes deception and backstabbing to play the game. And the characters who are sadistic and destructive also bite the dust because they don't have a balanced mind. For example:

They are indeed good actors. Some I recognized from Lord Of the Rings, 300 and Dark Knight Rises.

[McBadgere]

Anyone know when The Walking Dead is coming back?

In Europe anyways.

Well, as all the series' so far have started in the October, likely it'll be a Friday in the month, very soon after the US has seen it...

We started watching Game Of Thrones...I think we lasted all of three episodes before the wife decided that she'd had enough...

Not the sex or anything...



I wasn't arsed enough to argue...

[SubRosa]

Anyone know when The Walking Dead is coming back?

In Europe anyways.

Well, as all the series' so far have started in the October, likely it'll be a Friday in the month, very soon after the US has seen it...

We started watching Game Of Thrones...I think we lasted all of three episodes before the wife decided that she'd had enough...

Not the sex or anything...



I wasn't arsed enough to argue...

I watched some of Game of Thrones and gave up as well, though not for the same reasons the wife. There were a lot of reasons actually. For one the overabundance of characters made the story feel fragmented to me. That is good for a story that is focused on portraying grand, sweeping events, because it allows you to show show all of those events through those scattered viewpoints. Obviously that is what they are going for here. But I prefer character-driven stories, and for those to work well you need a tight focus on one or a few characters so that you can really get to know them, and see how they grow and evolve through the story. When a character only gets five minutes of screentime, you cannot get much of that. It is not so much a slam on the making of the story, but rather that it is just not what I prefer myself.

The other is that there are three distinct stories going on at once. Again, it is just a personal preference, but give me one story at a time please. Give me the civil war from start to finish, or give me the magical wildlings of the north menacing the world from start to end, etc... Just like with too many characters, there are too many plots for me. I would have preferred three completely different series shown years apart, rather than mashing them all together in a big stew. To me it feels like the equivalent of trying to tell the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit all in one series of movies, rather than two completely separate ones.

The stories themselves are what disappointed me the most though. They are just too derivative. The civil war one especially. It feels like a blatant copy of the War of the Roses, right down to having a House Lancaster (oh wait, that was Lannister, my bad... ) In the end I realized that I could skip the series, and just read a book about the RL WOTR instead, and get the same thing.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 11 2013, 12:36 AM

[ImperialSnob]

I don't watch GoT and I haven't read the books but I once saw someone refuse to read the books because of the names of people.

Yeah.

[SubRosa]

I don't watch GoT and I haven't read the books but I once saw someone refuse to read the books because of the names of people.

Yeah.

Actually the names of many of them are a turn off for me too. Ned? Rob? Jamie? They sound like people living down the hall from me, not characters in a fantastical world. The irony is that I hate overly grandiose names that many writers like to give characters in stories set in the modern world, like Eric Drayven from The Crow, or Alexander Corvinus from Underworld. In modern stories, I prefer people with real-sounding names. Give me one Harry Callahan over any ten Krystle Carringtons.

But when I am in a fantasy world, I prefer my characters to have a fantasy sound to them. Imagine if LOTR had characters with names like Joe the Grey Wizard, Gladys the Queen of the Elves, Al the Ranger, Lenny the Wood Elf prince, Gerry the Dwarf, Sal the White Wizard, etc...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 10 2013, 11:21 PM

[mirocu]

I so agree with Sub on the names there

[Darkness Eternal]

We started watching Game Of Thrones...I think we lasted all of three episodes before the wife decided that she'd had enough...

Not the sex or anything...



I wasn't arsed enough to argue...

Heh. Good thing you did. Plenty of the little children gets killed off. A new episode a week ago had two children stabbed by a bunch of vengeful old men.

Just be glad that

[McBadgere]

Actually the names of many of them are a turn off for me too. Ned? Rob? Jamie? They sound like people living down the hall from me, not characters in a fantastical world.

What?...Rob not a fantasy name then?...*Raises eyebrow*...The wife would disagree!... ...

Oh wait... ...

Balls... ...



Still going through It Ain't Half Hot Mum...

This is 70s British comedy at it's finest...P.C. it ain't...This is why I shan't be linking any Youtube clips from it...No matter how many times I've wound up crying with laughter watching it... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 11 2013, 10:24 AM

[Arcry]

So I just finished watch the movie horror Mama.


And that is just the first scene. I really enjoyed this movie, It has been some time since I've a been so angry and, at the same time, sad after the final scene of a flick.

[Colonel Mustard]

So I just finished watch the movie horror Mama.


And that is just the first scene. I really enjoyed this movie, It has been some time since I've a been so angry and, at the same time, sad after the final scene of a flick.

Oh, I saw that in the cinema. It was pretty good, though if you ask me the ghost was kind of goofy looking at points. I did like how the film subverted the typical horror movie trope of the Damsel in Distress, and instead had the main female lead be the one who drove a lot of the movie; made it different and interesting, certainly.

[ImperialSnob]

I don't watch GoT and I haven't read the books but I once saw someone refuse to read the books because of the names of people.

Yeah.

Actually the names of many of them are a turn off for me too. Ned? Rob? Jamie? They sound like people living down the hall from me, not characters in a fantastical world. The irony is that I hate overly grandiose names that many writers like to give characters in stories set in the modern world, like Eric Drayven from The Crow, or Alexander Corvinus from Underworld. In modern stories, I prefer people with real-sounding names. Give me one Harry Callahan over any ten Krystle Carringtons.

But when I am in a fantasy world, I prefer my characters to have a fantasy sound to them. Imagine if LOTR had characters with names like Joe the Grey Wizard, Gladys the Queen of the Elves, Al the Ranger, Lenny the Wood Elf prince, Gerry the Dwarf, Sal the White Wizard, etc...

Well this person said the oppisote the names where to confusing some of them anyway,I don't know any of the names.

[SubRosa]

I don't watch GoT and I haven't read the books but I once saw someone refuse to read the books because of the names of people.

Yeah.

Actually the names of many of them are a turn off for me too. Ned? Rob? Jamie? They sound like people living down the hall from me, not characters in a fantastical world. The irony is that I hate overly grandiose names that many writers like to give characters in stories set in the modern world, like Eric Drayven from The Crow, or Alexander Corvinus from Underworld. In modern stories, I prefer people with real-sounding names. Give me one Harry Callahan over any ten Krystle Carringtons.

But when I am in a fantasy world, I prefer my characters to have a fantasy sound to them. Imagine if LOTR had characters with names like Joe the Grey Wizard, Gladys the Queen of the Elves, Al the Ranger, Lenny the Wood Elf prince, Gerry the Dwarf, Sal the White Wizard, etc...

Well this person said the oppisote the names where to confusing some of them anyway,I don't know any of the names.

Oh, they probably meant names like Daenerys Targaryen or Kraznys mo Naklaz. George R. R. Martin was weird with his names. They are either ordinary 20th century ones, or tongue-twisters that defy pronunciation. Instead of a happy medium between the two, like Tolkien did with Aragorn, Gandalf, Bilbo, etc... Exotic names, but easy to pronounce and remember.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: May 11 2013, 05:20 PM

[Darkness Eternal]

Smokin' Aces!

[ImperialSnob]

F.A. Cup final.

Wigan 1 Man City 0

ok for Americans this is like if The Kansas Cheifs beat the Ravens in the Superbowl.

By very little and only getting a touch down with less than 2 minutes left.