TV Serieseseses
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Anyone watch Breaking Bad? In its third series now - absolutely fantastic series.
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I've just finished the 1st 2 series of it, I see there are 3 already available online of S3, agree it is a superb series.<br />
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[quote name='da_grubster']Anyone watch Breaking Bad? In its third series now - absolutely fantastic series.[/QUOTE]<br />
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I see where Bob Odenkirk is now on the show, playing character Saul Goodman.<br />
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Many years earlier he played Larry Sanders kooky agent.<br />
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Odenkirk was one-half of "Mr. Show," the HBO comedy UI mentioned above, but I suspect nobody else here has seen.<br />
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[quote name='canefan'].... and in other news 24 has been cancelled in the US. I wonder if the producers knew this before the end of the current season so they could provide a more satisfying end than usual[/QUOTE]<br />
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never fear, the indestructible Jack Bauer is rumoured to be making a movie.... -
[quote name='taniwharugby']never fear, the indestructible Jack Bauer is rumoured to be making a movie....[/QUOTE]<br />
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Bloody hell, sitting through a movie for 24h, that's mad.<br />
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Unless they make it shorter, in which case they'll have to call it "2.5", "1 and a bit" or something like that. -
[quote name='Parcy Dal Païs']Bloody hell, sitting through a movie for 24h, that's mad.<br />
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Unless they make it shorter, in which case they'll have to call it "2.5", "1 and a bit" or something like that.[/QUOTE]Probably about right if he works for local government. -
maybe it will be 24 minutes?
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[quote name='rustycruiser']Keep watching Lost. We are a few episodes ahead, and answers have started to appear. The next episode to air in NZ (Ab Aeterno) was great![/QUOTE]<br />
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assuming you have the right episode (how Richard/Ricardo got to the Island) I thought it was pretty lame, just gave more questions, even broached the issue of what is going on that has been speculated (ie they are in hell) -
[quote name='taniwharugby']assuming you have the right episode (how Richard/Ricardo got to the Island) I thought it was pretty lame, just gave more questions, even broached the issue of what is going on that has been speculated (ie they are in hell)[/QUOTE]<br />
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I think they are clarifying rather than answering. We know that the island is there to keep the devil/man in black stuck on the island, so that was an important tidbit.<br />
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I agree, but this kind of thing came up after series 2 or so IIRC, and then the story seemed to veer away from that as a possibility, so to return to it, seems like they are making it up as they go along.
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[quote name='taniwharugby']I agree, but this kind of thing came up after series 2 or so IIRC, and then the story seemed to veer away from that as a possibility, so to return to it, seems like they are making it up as they go along.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Every TV show makes it up as they go along, nothing would get made if they had to write all out first.<br />
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I've said before I think they had a three series idea and had to pad the middle out because of the success. Everything they are referring to now was in Season 1 & 2, and I'm pleased the smoke monster is a key element because that was the biggest WTF of the first season. -
yeah was little of the smoke monster thingee in the first couple of seasons (it took the African guy, Eko) along with the Polar Bear, but has certainly been about since it has had Locke's body.<br />
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As for making it up, more they seemed to just meander at one point, with no direction, new characters, new things on the island, at least there is a [B]little[/B] more consistancy now....at least we didnt have to deal with the alternate lives of them -
[quote name='Bones']I'm actually a bit pissed off it this is the 'solution' (it's hell), as there is a whole load of other shit gone by in previous series that doesn't make any sense at all if this is the case.[/QUOTE]<br />
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[quote name='Tim']Episode 3 of The Pacific was shit.[/QUOTE]<br />
Why? The 1st Marine Division spent months in Australia. They couldn't gloss over that portion of the war. While I didn't like the fact that they deviated so much from Leckie's book versus the other three episode (making up the whole Stella character based on the actual Sheila), it was still a pretty good homogenization of events that occurred to Leckie and his friends in the Great Debauche.<br />
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Edit: Just looked it up. The 1st Marine Division left Guadalcanal December 9th 1942, and Operation Cartwheel (Cape Gloucester and invasion of New Britain) commenced on December 23rd 1943. So a year between operations. That is more time than the BoB series, which mostly took place from D-Day (June 6th 44 to VE Day May 8th 45). One episode devoted to that recuperation period in Melbourne is the least they could do. -
The whole "gee I'd kill for a beer, and I am shaken but silent, and man I could fuck anything that moves" thing could've been dealt with in 10mins, along with some more subtle moments in the rest of the series. Then they could've shown more about what was happening in the war. It was just dull, mediocre TV.
