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The Official TV Thread

Nik the Trik said:
Anyone ever read Cormac McCarthy's The Road? There comes a point where grimness for grimness' sake is exhausting, not entertaining. As much as I like certain elements of the show, I think GoT is flirting with that this season.
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I didn't read the book (and I don't watch/read GOT), but I saw the movie adaptation of The Road and it made me hate cinema for a little while.
 
I think part of the problem is the switch from the book to television creates a need to limit the slow filler components of the book.  The TV show follows te books fairly accurately but the let down deaths come a little slower because of the side stories.  I think that makes things a little more bearable from that sense.

 
L K said:
I think part of the problem is the switch from the book to television creates a need to limit the slow filler components of the book.  The TV show follows te books fairly accurately but the let down deaths come a little slower because of the side stories.  I think that makes things a little more bearable from that sense.
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That may be but to clarify a bit, I'm not just referring to "let down" deaths but the tone of the show as a whole. A lot of what people might see as the season's bright points where things where good characters did bad things to bad people or terrible things happening to terrible people. If the tables had turned last night and the losing character had done the same thing to the winning character it still would have been fairly grim, even if the "good" guy had won.
 
Is it just me or are there correlations between 'Reek' and the Unsullied on Got ( tv )? Also, Sansa seems like she's finally growing up.

Yeah, The Road bummed me out, read it, watched it, I'm not exhausted by the Got tv writers yet, Arya is worth it alone.
 
Nik the Trik said:
L K said:
I think part of the problem is the switch from the book to television creates a need to limit the slow filler components of the book.  The TV show follows te books fairly accurately but the let down deaths come a little slower because of the side stories.  I think that makes things a little more bearable from that sense.
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That may be but to clarify a bit, I'm not just referring to "let down" deaths but the tone of the show as a whole. A lot of what people might see as the season's bright points where things where good characters did bad things to bad people or terrible things happening to terrible people. If the tables had turned last night and the losing character had done the same thing to the winning character it still would have been fairly grim, even if the "good" guy had won.
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I think that GoT's just good TV. It's sexy, fun and engaging. Yeah, there are horrible, gut-wrenching scenes and you feel like you can't really emotionally invest in characters - GRRM, Benioff and Weiss are masters at building characters up only to destroy them - but even that doesn't change that the show is extremely well done in almost every way. 

As a side note, I knew what was going to happen and I still found it to be the most disturbing thing I've ever seen.
 
Really can't believe that Tatiana Maslany got snubbed again. I know she was a massive long shot to win but I really expected a nomination this time around. Oh well.

And like Nik I'm glad that Archer finally got a nomination for outstanding animated program, although it's kinda funny it happened after what I felt was their weakest season.
 
Sons of Anarchy tomorrow night, final season series premiere.  it's on SuperChannel - which I don't get.  Anyone know of a place to watch it live online?
 
So I started watching Blacklist on netflix based on a few recommendations that this is a great show. I'm about 15 episodes into the first season.

Is it just me or is this a ridiculous program? This might be the best produced terrible show I've ever watched. The FBI are a a bunch of bumbling fools, and apparently every super criminal finds there way to wherever this show is based... Washington, Virginia? Whatever.

I guess after having just finished such a well written show like house of cards, this just feels like such a random mess.

Does it get better, is there an actual payoff?
 
I just finished watching the first season of the first Amazon show to go to series, Transparent, and I can't recommend it highly enough. I've got no experience with the central issue but there are a couple of really excellent performances at the center of it by Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light especially. I'd be shocked if it weren't a major player for next year's Emmys.
 
For those of you with young kids, don't forget to watch/record Pixar's "Toy Story that Time Forgot", the half-hour Toy Story special that's being televised on Tuesday Dec. 2 on ABC and CityTV, I believe.
 
Rick said:
Sons of Anarchy tomorrow night, final season series premiere.  it's on SuperChannel - which I don't get.  Anyone know of a place to watch it live online?
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Rick, I know this is late but I believe you can watch it on Series Cravings shortly after it airs?! My co-worker watches it there.

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