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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='
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<p>5 episode drama from the BBC</p>
<p>Gillian Anderson plays inspector tracking down a serial killer.</p>
<p>Set in Belfast.</p>
<p>Cold, unsettling, layered, brutal at times, but compelling viewing.</p>
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<p>Makes you feel a bit dirty after watching it.</p>
<p>Could be handy to have an episode or two of Community on hand to lighten things afterwards.<br>
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<p>Episode 1 of Season 3 of "Homeland" lat night. Decent start. One thing though, after all this time, i still couldn't give a fuck about the Brody family (once the wife got her tits out in the first minute of the show, her role was done) and the show would have been improved if they had been at the CIA when it blew the fuck up. </p>
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<p>I also watched some shit called "The Black List" (or, as channel 7 called it "James Spader's The Black List") it's utter, utter rubbish, avoid. The suspensions of belief required just to allow the show to function are baffling (apparently the FBI are fucking retards, and the smartest, most capable person in the room is the girl on her first day). </p> -
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<p>Episode 1 of Season 3 of "Homeland" lat night. Decent start. One thing though, after all this time, i still couldn't give a fuck about the Brody family (once the wife got her tits out in the first minute of the show, her role was done) and the show would have been improved if they had been at the CIA when it blew the fuck up. </p>
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<p>Her role since that opening has solely been to keep your eyes on her scenes just in case she gets nekkid again. It was a rather magificent introduction.</p> -
<p>Vince Gilligan (breaking bad creator) spilled the beans on his insider podcast. Some pretty messed up shit was in his plans, the evil bastard! luckily the other writers reined him in! I wrote down some of them.</p>
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<p>[spoiler] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">Vince Gilligan on the final episode of the Breaking Bad Insider podcast, let rip with his ideas and thoughts that he and his writers had mulled over during the whole series.</span></p>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">Evil: Jesse was supposed to die at the end of S1. killed by a un-eventuated evil player in the drug world, worse than all the others put together, worse than Gus. Walt captures this guy for revenge, imprisons him in a booby trap, where if he moves he'll get shot, and each day Walt tortures and cuts body parts of this guy, cauterizing the wounds with blow torch, Walt wants him to kill himself by moving and setting off the booby trap, Walt Jr was to find the scene, and try and help the guy who'd realize who Walt Jr was and then set of the booby trap off killing them both.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">Pure evil: The Aryan in the massage chair was going to be sitting a regular chair and we would have seen the first bullet in slow mo blowing through his forehead and then all the subsequent bullets would have slowly half decapitated him and he would have been sitting there with the top half of his head missing while the Walt, Jesse, Todd and Jack scene unfolded. They had special effects make a model up, but it was- just too gruesome.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">Vince's original vision was the M60 powered by a windshield wiper motor, but the tech guys set him straight.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">One scenario was Skyler was to have gone on the run with Walt and then committed suicide in hotel room.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">There ideas were Walt would disappear with new wife and new job teaching Chemistry at a learing annex. And cooks up Peanut Brittle as a hobby with his special process as he misses cooking meth</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">There was one scene thrown about where Walt was going to being walking across the desert pulling a bloody suitcase with a certain dead baby inside. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">The Grey matter angle at the end was inspired by a hard core fan who met Vince and said he was curious to learn more about the Schwartz.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">The M60 in the trunk at the start of season 5 - they had no idea what they were going to do with it, they had to come up with something as the season progressed. Ideas were Walt would break Jesse out of Prison with the gun, or lay waste to prison bus.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">The scene where Walt breaks into the car, it was plastic snow and on a hot day, Walt had dry ice in his mouth to create the mist on his breath.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">The pillar in Skylar kitchen , that was actually there in the room, they just figured it would work well in the scene.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">The watch at the payphone? no meaning, just had to ditch it for continuity - in the Birthday diner scene which was shot much earlier, he didn't have it on.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">They joked that Jesse was going to end up in New Zealand!</div>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;">In the end. I think they got it to pan out pretty well considering.</span> [/spoiler]</p> -
<p>unsure what to make of the BB finale...are my feelings about it mixed purely because it was the finale, given the actual episode ticked alot of boxes.</p>
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<p>[spoiler]Never thought of Lydia as someone Walt wanted to take out of the picture with the Ricin, always thought he was keeping it for himself (although I did think Ricin killed similarly to Cyanide)<br><br>
Thought it was good how most of the characters from throughout had a cameo in the final ep too when they probably didnt need too, but was a nice touch to tie a few things up.<br><br>
Was good that Jessie got to deal to Todd too.<br><br>
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[SPoiler]wtf are they gonna end the show purely by killing everyone, looks entirely possible the way things are going. <br><br>
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<p>Pretty much a perfect ending for BB, tying up loose ends and being consistent for each character. What a show. Fantastic writing, great attention to detail, and very good acting-esp. from Cranston. The arc of so many characters really show the problems caused by too much pride. Here's a gif I saw somewhere:</p>
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<p>check this one out then...possible BB spoilers if you havent seen the last series....</p>
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<p>so Homeland</p>
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<p>[spoiler]WTF? 2 episodes in and it's all whiney family crap? i wish that whiney little bitch with the droopy bottom lip had been a bit more efficient with the razor blades. And the rest of the story is Carey going full nutjob, and fucking banking transactions? And now Saul is a massive fluffybunny. Seriously, get on with the terror shit already, if i want a complex insight into human emotional response and interaction i'll go find it. Homeland is a fucking terrorism show FFS![/spoiler]</p> -
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<p>so Homeland</p>
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<p>...and I assume Mrs Brody hasn't taken the puppies for a walk again either?</p> -
<p>no, she is essentially useless</p>
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<p>the writers of SOA don't like prison guards much do they? and</p>
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<p>[spoiler]come on, how did Jax not see that coming with the request for a specific time, and everyone around the table?[/spoiler]</p> -
<p>SOA</p>
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<p>[spoiler]He did see it coming, just so dumb it wasn't until the last moment. I get the feeling they are trying too hard to rejig a lot of stuff to get it in a position to finish off next season. Sutter must know the ending but seems to be making it up as he goes along with how to get there. That scene with Clay, Jemma and the guards was plain silly unless it had a point that would drive something, like Gemma telling Nero and adding another piece to him wanting out of everything.[/spoiler]</p> -
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<p>check this one out then...possible BB spoilers if you havent seen the last series....</p>
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<div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/9244887/Friday-Funny-Walter-in-the-Middle'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/9244887/Friday-Funny-Walter-in-the-Middle</a></div>
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<p>SOA</p>
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<p>[spoiler]Agree with above, seems they are making things 'fit' now for a specific end.<br><br><br><br>
Am a bit over that whole Marshall business, the dead hooker is lame, sure they have evidence she was in Nero's truck, but surely there is other evidence;<br><br>
DNA from the Marshall, er, in her? He didnt strike me as the, um, protective type...he shot her by accident initially, so the gun is most likely registered to him, or did he dig the bullets out? The blood in his hotel, did it just go away or has the hotel cleaners not found it yet?<br><br>
And that scene with Clay/Gemma, just farked TBH...<br><br>
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<p>so Homeland</p>
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<p>[spoiler]WTF? 2 episodes in and it's all whiney family crap? i wish that whiney little bitch with the droopy bottom lip had been a bit more efficient with the razor blades. And the rest of the story is Carey going full nutjob, and fucking banking transactions? And now Saul is a massive fluffybunny. Seriously, get on with the terror shit already, if i want a complex insight into human emotional response and interaction i'll go find it. Homeland is a fucking terrorism show FFS![/spoiler]</p>
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<p>[spoiler]I've never been bothered by the family stuff ... I actually find the whiney little bitch to be quite an interesting character TBH. But agree with most of the rest of your comments although I've never just considered it a terrorist show - just watch some 24 if that's all you want I guess. Saul has done a character change that makes Jax's seem fully developed over 10 series.[/spoiler]</p>
