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AtramentousFlux said:
For this evening:

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Episode 1.
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I enjoyed the first episode and thought the lead actor plays the part well.
 
Westy said:
I enjoyed the first episode and thought the lead actor plays the part well.
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Maybe I was spoiled by GOT (minus last season of course) -also watched the first season of the Dragon series and had lots of wtf moments too though never got to the second - the thing is that I watch very little TV/movies outside sports (go Broncos!) and occasionally news and SNL type stuff so that may also be a factor that I felt the epsiode ok but not great, but definitely plan to watch next ones as the characters look cool
 
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I’ve finally finished watching Stranger Things Season 5 on Netflix, which is the final season of this show. What a long strange trip it’s been! This series began nearly TEN years ago when Season 1 premiered in July 2016. The kids from Hawkins have grown up, and the time for thier final confrontation with Vecna has come, following this there is an extended victory lap. I felt this helps give us closure on the long-running series, and allows us to know what becomes of our favorite characters. Definitely a noteworthy ending for the show.
 
Whilst I still have access to Disney+ I have started watching The Walking Dead. I've never seen any of it before. It's pretty good. (Fun fact: when I was in a bike shop a few years ago the technician working on my bike told me I looked like Andrew Lincoln. At the time I didn't know who he was. Eh, there's a definite similarity!)
 
AtramentousFlux said:
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Earth 2 (1994) . Episode 1. Had seen the odd episode out of sequence back in the day.

It's very 1994, and set in an alternate timeline where flat screen LCD monitors were never invented :rolleyes:

I'll probably do one episode a week. It's OK.
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I remember that! No mobile phones either?

Here I have been watching The Day of the Jackal TV series. (I love the original 1970s movie, the Bruce Willis remake less so.) The rest of the family said that it was good, but I put it off as the actor Eddie Redmayne is a bit hit and miss for me. But so far, 5 episodes in, it's rather good. Even with Eddie, who looks far too young to be an experienced assassin...

And also up to Episode 5 of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which I've really enjoyed. Has been a bit of a reset for me, that one.
 
Hobbit said:
I remember that! No mobile phones either?

Here I have been watching The Day of the Jackal TV series. (I love the original 1970s movie, the Bruce Willis remake less so.) The rest of the family said that it was good, but I put it off as the actor Eddie Redmayne is a bit hit and miss for me. But so far, 5 episodes in, it's rather good. Even with Eddie, who looks far too young to be an experienced assassin...

And also up to Episode 5 of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which I've really enjoyed. Has been a bit of a reset for me, that one.
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Both great (and agree on original Day of the Jackal - Edward Fox was good!)
 
I'm about halfway through season 2 and am absolutely loving Walking Dead. It's pretty raw script-wise, and the disregard the survivors have for zombie bodily fluids is bordering on reckless, but it's a great cast, a great story, and the cinematography and special effects are incredible.

edit: this program is fast and loose when it comes to dispatching its main characters :,(
 
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I'm continuing with Walking Dead and just got to the end of Season 3, loved it.

Man, the dispatching of main characters is hard to take sometimes - Merle (who I was really hoping might turn out to be a classic redemptive character) and, especially, Andrea gone in one episode :(

It's still early days but I can see WD even supplanting Lost as my all time favourite series. The characters are not quite up there with the likes of Hurly, John Locke, Ben, Kate and Sawyer, but there's still time, and the WD setting and story for me is probably more interesting. Has anyone else seen it? I know I'm always at least 15 years behind when it comes to tv shows..
 
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For a change of pace I tried an episode of Alien Earth which I found lurking in the back catalogue in Disney+. My goodness - watching the credits roll (because the music was quite good) I couldn't believe the number of people and big names required to make something so utterly banal. The CGI were impressive and the design is nice and Alien-esque but everything's turned up to 100, except the lighting which they kept on 3 most of the way through, and when the script is this shoddy it's just basically unwatchable.
 
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Ropie said:
For a change of pace I tried an episode of Alien Earth which I found lurking in the back catalogue in Disney+. My goodness - watching the credits roll (because the music was quite good) I couldn't believe the number of people and big names required to make something so utterly banal. The CGI were impressive and the design is nice and Alien-esque but everything's turned up to 100, except the lighting which they kept on 3 most of the way through, and when the script is this shoddy it's just basically unwatchable.
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It started really well and I had high hopes, but it fizzled out for me by the end and was a bit of a slog in the middle.
 
Westy said:
Also now watching THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA which is surpisingly good so far.
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I grew up reading the Archie Comics and the Melissa Joan Hart show. I think the Chilling Adventures is an affront to the source material. Why does everyone have to revamp everything into darkness and the satanic? Because they knew they couldn't make a seperate show about witches because people would immediately be put off, so they use nostalgia to soften the blow. It's a twisted game.
 
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It started really well and I had high hopes, but it fizzled out for me by the end and was a bit of a slog in the middle.
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Yeah Alien Earth was disappointing. I wish they would have used more variety. I don't understand why they took that direction.
 
Hobbit said:
It started really well and I had high hopes, but it fizzled out for me by the end and was a bit of a slog in the middle.
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Yes, it was quite impressive for the first half but I felt the body swapping was just going to be an excuse for some superhero antics. And then they assembled their crack team of super kids :/ I did try to watch episode 2 but I lost interest fast.
 
Done with season 4 of The Walking Dead.

Some great episodes notwithstanding, I didn't enjoy season 4 as much as season 3. I just loved the focus of the prison setting in season 3 and the comings and goings, and the dangers from outside, the Governor and his twisted but somehow credible goals for Woodbury. His return at the beginning of season 4 was a bit far fetched for me, and although the mid season finale when he attacked the prison was amazing, it ended a fantastic run of character and setting for me when everyone had to flee the prison for good. I didn't really like the extended fragmentation of the group. OK, it may be satisfying when everyone is finally reunited (don't think that's really a spoiler) but sitting through some of those individual 'character study' type of episodes wasn't a lot of fun, not even episode 14, The Grove - supposedly the best episode of The Walking Dead overall (not for me). The desolate setting just doesn't suit character studies IMO, not in the way the same format worked so beautifully in the flashbacks of Lost.

Good news, though, season 5 is off to a fine start!
 
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