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@kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
@nta said in TV Serieseseses:
@voodoo the fucking tugging of braids and references to "wool-headed men" & general reiterated bullshit that added nothing was an issue for me in books 8-11.
And look, it's a fucking epic so as it expands it requires more setup to help it unfold.
Once you get through those books, it's clean air with Sanderson.
Yeah - all this times heaps.
It was fucking hilarious everytime N-something... Nynaeve? Pulled her braids, and complained about wool-headed men. Or when the ladies would get upset and storm off, and the silly old men-folk would look at each other and ask "what did we do wrong?".
Well - I say hilarious. I mean... slightly condescending. The first time. The subsequent thousand or so times...And yeah - the later the books got... the more "let's set the scene, in case you didn't read the previous 6 fucking books... or because it's been a couple of years..." become more and more tiresome.
But I seem to recall enjoying them otherwise... particularly the first 5 books or so. After that - there's SO many goddamn threads... you can kinda see why Grrrrrrr Martin split a couple of his later books into "look - here's half the characters doing their thing for a book, and here's another book with the other half doing their thing".
The characters also suffer from 'we have an issue/have seen something/got a problem' and don't discuss it' to enable plot tension. Yes people aren't a 100 open and communicative, but every single character is a twat!
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@nta said in TV Serieseseses:
@voodoo the fucking tugging of braids and references to "wool-headed men" & general reiterated bullshit that added nothing was an issue for me in books 8-11.
And look, it's a fucking epic so as it expands it requires more setup to help it unfold.
Once you get through those books, it's clean air with Sanderson.
Could I skip them and pick it up again at 12?
Nah there is some key plot and scene setting.
My advice: don't binge it all at once. I re-read it after the last book was released and binged. Parts of it hurt.
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@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Cowboy Bebop - if it continues on like the opening ep it is great. Love the mixture of genres, the 'Mod Squad' style titles, the sets, the spacecraft are awesome.
Will definitely give it a watch.Just realised that some of this was filmed in NZ. Shootout scene in a “spaceport “ is at Ardmore as Harvard 78 and the NZ Beaver are parked up in the background.
thanks for that, was on the list so looking forward to it now
@NTA I had this issue with the last book i read...was not enjoying it, had decided not to read the next couple....until the last couple of chapters when the author sprung some surprises....so i wanted to know what happened but just couldn't bring myself to read them....so i just looked up the wiki page, found out what happened....think we could do that for the middle books?
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@kiwiwomble I say do it, then see if everything falls into place
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@bones watched 3 eps so far, def continuing.
Really like Jay.
Only thing, Alvey as the father of Jay & Nate, looks like 10 years difference in age at most!
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@bones watched 3 eps so far, def continuing.
Really like Jay.
Only thing, Alvey as the father of Jay & Nate, looks like 10 years difference in age at most!
In real life he's 19 years older than the Jay actor and nearly 30 years older than the Nate actor.
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@nepia ok, I'll let it slide then (just checked and Grillo is older than I thought he was)
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@kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
Cowboy Bebop - if it continues on like the opening ep it is great. Love the mixture of genres, the 'Mod Squad' style titles, the sets, the spacecraft are awesome.
Will definitely give it a watch.Just realised that some of this was filmed in NZ. Shootout scene in a “spaceport “ is at Ardmore as Harvard 78 and the NZ Beaver are parked up in the background.
thanks for that, was on the list so looking forward to it now
Shortish eps as well so I ripped through a few last night and the standard remains high. The first ep understandably uses more than it's share of budget in the sfx but it doesn't drop to nothing after that.
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@taniwharugby said in TV Serieseseses:
@nepia ok, I'll let it slide then (just checked and Grillo is older than I thought he was)
Haha we're getting old bro! They also have a mother you know...
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British MiniSeries. In a prison. With Sean Bean.
3 Episodes.
I'm 2/3 way through...
So far - pretty much an advert for "don't crime. Or let your son crime."
I'm not expecting any happy endings (saccharine conclusions I mean, not prison-hand-shandies).
Tit-watch: zero. In fact - zero eye-candy... it's set in one of Her Majesty's Men's Prisons.... this is most definitely not "Women in CellBlock 9" -
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@voodoo said in TV Serieseseses:
@bones said in TV Serieseseses:
I think season 1 is only about 10 episodes, but so far I'm up to about ep15 in S2, so pretty happy. Jay is still there...
"I'm going to be at the gym early tomorrow. Ish. Probably around noon"
My man!
I think you still have Keith and Mac to come - they're top quality.
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@kruse All of that. I can't remember when I gave up but it well before Sanderson got involved. When he picked it up I knew I would have to re-read the Jordan twaddle and couldn't face it.
Add to the factors you mentioned the fact that what were evil menacing monsters in the first couple of books were minor irritants once the kids came into their powers. Was much better when they were fighting for their lives and things actually happened
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@kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Time
British MiniSeries. In a prison. With Sean Bean.
3 Episodes.
I'm 2/3 way through...
So far - pretty much an advert for "don't crime. Or let your son crime."
I'm not expecting any happy endings (saccharine conclusions I mean, not prison-hand-shandies).
Tit-watch: zero. In fact - zero eye-candy... it's set in one of Her Majesty's Men's Prisons.... this is most definitely not "Women in CellBlock 9"So no Orange is the new black girl on girl action then ? More Deliverance style sex scenes ?
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