Re: The TV Series Thread - Part 4

by RealGunner Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:51 pm

Is that slade wilson in that preview lol

by Freeza Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:52 pm

Valk needs a bigger sig imo.

by Glory Wed Dec 23, 2015 5:55 pm

McLewis wrote:Having read every single book from the main series and it's spinoffs (totals like 20 or so), I'm honestly very excited to see this become a live action series.

I'm just unsure about MTV doing a fantasy series. It's reputation for bro and ho shows is pretty clear. Not sure they'll be able to attract fantasy fans the way Syfy could.

hmm
Initially People will sit up and notice cause the CG is top notch but to prolong the interest they will have to work hard. If the acting is shite (which i am having a feeling would be the case) i think the show will sink. Being on MTV alone, it would be hard for them to pull people into it. Its a great story isnt it?! So hope the actors back it up. and hope the dialogues and other things aren't crap teenage stuff.

by Adit Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:54 pm

Are there any goat shows Im not aware of?

By goat shows I meant shows like BB,Got, The wire etc. After finishing the wire i was looking for a new show to fall into.Some body here suggested me Homeland and I liked it for first two season then it went downhill. They should not have killed that soldier.

Then I fell in the The walking dead hype around here and thanks to that i no longer fears Zombies. Then saw Supernatural hitting 9th season and 55th thread here so went for it, watched all 9 season. I used to fear ghosts alot but now I sleep peacefully, ghosts are like comedy characters to me thanks to Supernatural. I also suspect they were writing scripts on the site and many episodes probably had no script at all.

Mcagger was wanking to Person of Interest so gave it a try. Guess what, shit indeed. Hero with James Bond imitation and no expression in the entire series ...Computer gives a person's id and he is either going to get killed or he is the killer. Each episode each scenario. After a while gets really boring with the repetition.

Then as a saving grace Mr. Robot came, it is a solid show but never a goat.. After completing it my quest for goat show restarted. Found The sopranos :bow:

Nothing to add more, a classic and a must watch. Is there any goat shows going right now? Any shows from the past?

by halamadrid2 Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:43 pm

Homeland drops off in the third season but gets better in the last 2 seasons. Especially this past season was epic.

Criminal minds is a good serie. Hawaii 5-0 is pretty good too but like poi it gets repetitive later on. I also liked the bridge which was quite interesting and unique

by McLewis Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:06 pm

Glory wrote:
McLewis wrote:Having read every single book from the main series and it's spinoffs (totals like 20 or so), I'm honestly very excited to see this become a live action series.

I'm just unsure about MTV doing a fantasy series. It's reputation for bro and ho shows is pretty clear. Not sure they'll be able to attract fantasy fans the way Syfy could.

hmm
Initially People will sit up and notice cause the CG is top notch but to prolong the interest they will have to work hard. If the acting is shite (which i am having a feeling would be the case) i think the show will sink. Being on MTV alone, it would be hard for them to pull people into it. Its a great story isnt it?! So hope the actors back it up. and hope the dialogues and other things aren't crap teenage stuff.

Amazing story. Some of the best high fantasy I've ever read. Unique in that Terry Goodkind was able to keep it going spanning generations of both his characters and his readers.

Along those same lines, I had high hopes for The Legend of the Seeker (TV show based on the Sword of Truth series, also among my favorites.), but I think it was before its time (came out just before GOT) so the CW, well known for having the same demographic as MTV, cancelled it due to low ratings, despite it having a pretty dedicated fan base. I fear the same for this show on a network like MTV. Things are different this time around with Fantasy being in vogue, but I just don't see this having the staying power on MTV that something like Teen Wolf currently has.

I sure as hell hope I'm wrong.

by M99 Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:27 pm

Adit wrote:Are there any goat shows Im not aware of?

By goat shows I meant shows like BB,Got, The wire etc. After finishing the wire i was looking for a new show to fall into.Some body here suggested me Homeland and I liked it for first two season then it went downhill. They should not have killed that soldier.

Then I fell in the The walking dead hype around here and thanks to that i no longer fears Zombies. Then saw Supernatural hitting 9th season and 55th thread here so went for it, watched all 9 season. I used to fear ghosts alot but now I sleep peacefully, ghosts are like comedy characters to me thanks to Supernatural. I also suspect they were writing scripts on the site and many episodes probably had no script at all.

Mcagger was wanking to Person of Interest so gave it a try. Guess what, shit indeed. Hero with James Bond imitation and no expression in the entire series ...Computer gives a person's id and he is either going to get killed or he is the killer. Each episode each scenario. After a while gets really boring with the repetition.

Then as a saving grace Mr. Robot came, it is a solid show but never a goat.. After completing it my quest for goat show restarted. Found The sopranos Nothing to add more, a classic and a must watch. Is there any goat shows going right now? Any shows from the past?

Fargo
True Detective season 1
Band Of Brothers

by Kaladin Sat Dec 26, 2015 11:14 pm

Glory wrote:Anyone else looking forward to this.
Looks raw fun.

That looks quite good tbh, though i've heard a lot of major criticisms regarding Goodkind's use of plot elements. One of the main reasons that drove me away from reading The Sword of Truth series.

If that series ends up like GoT, then i hope we see more High Fantasy series being adapted as TV shows. I only want to see Malazan with an infinite budget, but that series is nigh impossible to adapt sadly Sad

Still, hope to see any of Sanderson's works adapted to TV (he even openly stated that he's open to anime on reddit Laughing

) Mistborn, Stormlight, anything.

by El Gunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:49 am

@Adit you seen Dexter?

by McAgger Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:45 am

Adit wrote:Are there any goat shows Im not aware of?

By goat shows I meant shows like BB,Got, The wire etc. After finishing the wire i was looking for a new show to fall into.Some body here suggested me Homeland and I liked it for first two season then it went downhill. They should not have killed that soldier.

Then I fell in the The walking dead hype around here and thanks to that i no longer fears Zombies. Then saw Supernatural hitting 9th season and 55th thread here so went for it, watched all 9 season. I used to fear ghosts alot but now I sleep peacefully, ghosts are like comedy characters to me thanks to Supernatural. I also suspect they were writing scripts on the site and many episodes probably had no script at all.

Mcagger was wanking to Person of Interest so gave it a try. Guess what, shit indeed. Hero with James Bond imitation and no expression in the entire series ...Computer gives a person's id and he is either going to get killed or he is the killer. Each episode each scenario. After a while gets really boring with the repetition.

Then as a saving grace Mr. Robot came, it is a solid show but never a goat.. After completing it my quest for goat show restarted. Found The sopranos Nothing to add more, a classic and a must watch. Is there any goat shows going right now? Any shows from the past?

Woah mate, Person of Interest is a hand-me-down show for me. I would never classified as anything close to a great show. It would barely scratch the surface of a good show, if that. It's a meh show I watched for 2 seasons and dropped for the reasons you specified. There were some decent episodes but too *bleep* repetitive.

As far as goat shows, I don't know what you haven't watched yet, but you can't go wrong with anything from this list.

GoT
Breaking Bad
House of Cards
Justified
True Detective
Fargo
Spartacus
Black Mirror
Rome
Deadwood
The Newsroom
Sherlock
The Americans

PS. Supernatural did the same thing for me with ghosts

I watched American Horror Story and the main horror plot was about a ghost haunting a house and I *bleep* died laughing at the stupidity of it.

by Adit Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:38 pm

@Halatletico

Might give Homeland a kick start although not a fan of restarting once went bad show.

Criminal minds is over 11 seasons holy shet... If my experience is anything to go by then a show with too much seasons basically sucks script wise. I'm a huge admirer of shows with good script and 11 seasons is a big risk imo... What if the show went downhill after say 8 seasons!!

@M69

Already saw TD1 &2... First was pretty goat imo.. Second was forgettable. A let down.

Looked up Band of Brother and looks like a must watch.. Tops on my priority list.

@El Connor

Dexter yeah.. Tried 1st season but not impressed.

@Dont call me hamaz

Its my fault. I didn't bother asking any one opinion about poi ,I just went by the reaction in the thread.

Thanks for the v big list.. Although I think Spartacus absolutely sucks, watched it first couple of seasons.

by El Gunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:31 pm

El Connor

Uhm, well season 1 is one of its best seasons so if you didn't like it then maybe Dexter is just not your thing.

by RED Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:57 pm

adit check out Narcos. Loving that show atm.

Netflix are killing it with these exclusive shows.

by El Gunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:22 pm

Yeah I can vouch for Narcos

by M99 Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:51 pm

RED wrote:adit check out Narcos. Loving that show atm.

Netflix are killing it with these exclusive shows.

Watch Jessica Jones and Daredevil if you did not. Both are quite great.

@Adit check out Fargo. Both seasons are GOAT.

by RealGunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:39 pm

You weren't impressed with Dexter...?

by Adit Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:11 pm

Just not my show I suppose. I know a few dexter die hard fans but even they said after a number of season (4th?) something happened and show went downhill.

by Adit Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:24 pm

Tempted to watch Narcos.Unfortunately we don't have Netflix in our country :facepalm:

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, torrent it is then.

by RealGunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:28 pm

@Mclewis

'And Then There Were None'

Let us not pretend you won't watch that. Pls respond

by RED Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:03 pm

M99 wrote:
RED wrote:adit check out Narcos. Loving that show atm.

Netflix are killing it with these exclusive shows.

Watch Jessica Jones and Daredevil if you did not. Both are quite great.

@Adit check out Fargo. Both seasons are GOAT.

Will check em out. cheers for the recommendations

by El Gunner Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:09 pm

Anyone aware of or seen a miniseries starring Oscar Isaac called Show Me a Hero. Ostensibly, it is very good.

by halamadrid2 Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:15 am

RealGunner wrote:@Mclewis

'And Then There Were None'

Let us not pretend you won't watch that. Pls respond

I just seen the second episode of that so decieed to watch it from the beginning. I just hope not all of them die. Who do you think is the killer? Something tells me its the recruiter

Good show but its a british show so it will probably only have 3 or 4 episode before they are done for the season/serie

by RealGunner Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:39 pm

Not seen it myself. Was waiting for someone to give a go ahead

Its a mini-series so 5 eps at best

by halamadrid2 Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:28 pm

Well it is definitely worth a watch. The guy from Poldark is there and it is basically similar to Agatha Christie's so if you liked that show you will like this one too

by RealGunner Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:29 pm

You watched christmas eastenders?

by El Gunner Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:12 pm

So these are my rankings for 2015 in TV:

Top Shows
1. Mr. Robot
2. Fargo
3. Daredevil

Top Performances
Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman aka Slippin' Jimmy (Better Call Saul)
Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin (Daredevil)
Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar (Narcos)
Kit Harington as Jon Snow (GoT) had to Proud

Top Episodes
S05E08 - Hardhome (GoT)
S01E06 - eps1.5_brave-traveler.asf (Mr. Robot)
S01E01 - AKA Ladies Night (Jessica Jones)

Line of the year
“Ay, don't be shhooshing at me, are you crazy?!” - Daryl Crowe Jr. (Michael Rapaport in Justified)

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