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Finally finished watching Spartacus: Blood, Sand, Gods, Vengeance, War, Wine, and Boobs after having stalled out on season 4. Three plays of the board game made me sentimental. Actually, the fourth season turned out to be pretty good. I'd gotten kind of board with it when the army was in the city, but watching all ten episodes in a compressed time frame helped gain some momentum.
Looking forward to the last season of Strike Back, which is less-poetic garbage than Spartacus but still enjoyable if viewed with a self-protective ironic distance.
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I don't always agree with him but I like Andy Greenwald's writing. This definitely leaves me interested in season 2, though I will admit I liked the mystical stuff in season 1. But I could live with a straight noir season 2.
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jpat wrote: Looking forward to the last season of Strike Back, which is less-poetic garbage than Spartacus but still enjoyable if viewed with a self-protective ironic distance.
Agreed. A guilty pleasure that is fun to watch.
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The other issue is that they never came up with an alternative story generating arc. Star Trek has always been a split between stories generated from established world issues (politics, Q, war, etc) and "WE JUST RAN INTO A NEBULA!" stories. Voyager's "WE JUST RAN INTO A NEBULA!" stuff are way over the top in terms of balance---you can even see them trying to build up compelling story generating world stuff (Khazon, Hirogen, Borg, etc) but it just does not consistently work. It leads to episode after episode of monotonous running into threat accidentally storylines. Star Trek has always had a ton of that, but Voyager just goes way beyond other series.
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jpat wrote: Tuvok is actually the rare non-Spock Vulcan who actually seems like a Vulcan to me.
I have no idea which season, but there was one exceptional Voyager episode featuring Tuvok. The point of the episode was to emphasize that Vulcans are actually very emotional beings who need to keep tight control over their emotions.
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charlest wrote: Anybody watching Wayward Pines. It's a new show on Fox with Matt Dillon as the Protagonist. I don't find him very likeable as an actor but I dig the Lost meets Twin Peaks vibe. The mythology is interesting more so than the characters. Three episodes in and I wish his wife and son would die though.
Agreed on all counts, and I'm impressed by the big reveal in the most recent episode. Pretty interesting, and worthy of Shyamalan's better work. Some things are still annoying in a convoluted kind of way (especially, why didn't they just tell him what was going on to begin with??), and as you say the characters aren't as good as what's going on, but I'm finding it worthwhile.
Imagine there never was a first season of True Detective and the premiere would be pretty mind-blowing in terms of quality television. I'm already engrossed with the new characters (Vince Vaughan in particular is interesting as a mob guy who genuinely seems thoughtful and even kind, though you know there's gotta be violence underneath), and there are some great lines and an intriguing premise about corruption among a small city's business ventures. It may not be as unique a story as season one, and there isn't a real standout character yet like Rust Cohle, but damn, it's still really solid and I think Vaughan and Colin Ferrill will hold their own.
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charlest wrote: Anybody watching Wayward Pines.
Imagine there never was a first season of True Detective and the premiere would be pretty mind-blowing in terms of quality television. I'm already engrossed with the new characters (Vince Vaughan in particular is interesting as a mob guy who genuinely seems thoughtful and even kind, though you know there's gotta be violence underneath), and there are some great lines and an intriguing premise about corruption among a small city's business ventures. It may not be as unique a story as season one, and there isn't a real standout character yet like Rust Cohle, but damn, it's still really solid and I think Vaughan and Colin Ferrill will hold their own.
I'm tempted to cut HBO and cable after watching episode 1 season 2 of True Detectives. It was decent, I'm sure the season will be good and I'd like to see the full season one day but it didn't totally hook me after one episode.
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