The Official TV Thread

[Nik]

Just found out that using that clip of Tomorrow Never Knows on last week's Mad Men cost the show 250,000 dollars.

So if you were worried about how Paul McCartney was doing financially, you can relax I guess.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Anybody watch the House Series Finale last night?

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Anybody watch the House Series Finale last night?

Yup, was a bit weak if I'm honest, although the final scenes did work.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Anybody watch the House Series Finale last night?

Yup, was a bit weak if I'm honest, although the final scenes did work.

Agreed. I wonder how much different it would have been if I hadn't watched the sappy episode just before it.  :-\

 

[TheMightyOdin]

After constantly hearing about it I downloaded and watched all of the Game of Thrones episodes over the last two weeks. Excellent show.

The dwarf is my favorite character.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

After constantly hearing about it I downloaded and watched all of the Game of Thrones episodes over the last two weeks. Excellent show.

The dwarf is my favorite character.

I'm in the exact same situation.  Been having to stop watching to get some sleep.

 

[bustaheims]

After constantly hearing about it I downloaded and watched all of the Game of Thrones episodes over the last two weeks. Excellent show.

The dwarf is my favorite character.

He's definitely the most interesting character, as far as I'm concerned. I like the show a lot, though it hasn't grabbed me in the same way other shows have.

 

[Zee]

After constantly hearing about it I downloaded and watched all of the Game of Thrones episodes over the last two weeks. Excellent show.

The dwarf is my favorite character.

After you finish season 2 next week you should grab the first 2 books of the series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings)..sure you'll know what happens, but there's way more detail in the books and it fills in the gaps the series leaves behind.  There's also slight changes especially in season 2 with some character names and outcomes.

 

[Deebo]

Mad Men is still fantastic.

 

[Nik]

Mad Men is still fantastic.

Agreed. This season may be its best yet.

 

[TheMightyOdin]

After constantly hearing about it I downloaded and watched all of the Game of Thrones episodes over the last two weeks. Excellent show.

The dwarf is my favorite character.

After you finish season 2 next week you should grab the first 2 books of the series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings)..sure you'll know what happens, but there's way more detail in the books and it fills in the gaps the series leaves behind.  There's also slight changes especially in season 2 with some character names and outcomes.

That's funny because this is the first thing that I have watched that has enticed me to read the books. Usually I'll read books before movies, but not the other way around.

 

[bustaheims]

Usually I'll read books before movies, but not the other way around.

I've started doing it the other way around, because I want to be able to enjoy the movie and, most of the time, after reading the book, I don't - or, at least, not as much as I would have otherwise.

 

[TheMightyOdin]

Usually I'll read books before movies, but not the other way around.

I've started doing it the other way around, because I want to be able to enjoy the movie and, most of the time, after reading the book, I don't - or, at least, not as much as I would have otherwise.

I like seeing how close my interpretation of a character is to the one in the movie.

 

[Joe S.]

I know I'm way behind on this, but I just finished watching the entire battlestar galactica series on Netflix (the new version) and good god was this show good...

A friend of mine warned me 'it's a great show until the last season then it feels like they ran out of ideas' but that's not how I felt at all. The last season was great, I loved the ending...

It's honestly in my top 5 all time series, Sopranos, The Wire, The Tudors, Battlestar Galactica and the way things are going Game of Thrones is going to round out that top 5...

I guess I'm posting because I have no one to talk to this show about what with it being off the air for almost 4 years now...

 

[Erndog]

I know I'm way behind on this, but I just finished watching the entire battlestar galactica series on Netflix (the new version) and good god was this show good...

A friend of mine warned me 'it's a great show until the last season then it feels like they ran out of ideas' but that's not how I felt at all. The last season was great, I loved the ending...

It's honestly in my top 5 all time series, Sopranos, The Wire, The Tudors, Battlestar Galactica and the way things are going Game of Thrones is going to round out that top 5...

I guess I'm posting because I have no one to talk to this show about what with it being off the air for almost 4 years now...

It's funny.  I have 2 friends that keep hownding me to watch it.  They love(d) it. 

I'm just not totally into the sci-fi stuff so I don't know how I'll take to it.

 

[Joe S.]

It's funny.  I have 2 friends that keep hownding me to watch it.  They love(d) it. 

I'm just not totally into the sci-fi stuff so I don't know how I'll take to it.

I'm not sure how to explain it, although it is 'sci-fi' it certainly doesn't feel like it... put it this way, it's nothing at all like star trek...

One interesting thing I read was that Edward James Olmos had in his contract that there can be no aliens or creatures in the show. Humans and robots only...

In any case, it's more of a study of survival with serious religious underpinnings.

My suggestion is watch the opening mini series - it's 2 hours. If you're not hooked from there then chances are you won't like the show...

 

[Nik]

I'm just not totally into the sci-fi stuff so I don't know how I'll take to it.

That was sort of my reaction. It was highly recommended to me and I gave it a try but after watching around half a dozen episodes I decided it wasn't for me. It seemed to be kind of an awkward shoehorning of the recent advent of high quality TV with a genre that doesn't really lend itself to nuance or subtlety.

Also, I found a lot of the political "allegory" to be sort of ridiculously on the nose.

 

[Tigger]

I absolutely loved the mini series and the first season. It was a good run but I thought it lost a little momentum and I just knew after hearing Ron Moore's gushing over the Soprano's conclusion that the end wouldn't be entirely straightforward. Still, I thought it was a pretty good series overall.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

For fans of The Wire, this was a great read: http://www.maxim.com/tv/maxim-interrogates-the-makers-and-stars-of-the-wire

 

[Bender]

I know I'm way behind on this, but I just finished watching the entire battlestar galactica series on Netflix (the new version) and good god was this show good...

A friend of mine warned me 'it's a great show until the last season then it feels like they ran out of ideas' but that's not how I felt at all. The last season was great, I loved the ending...

It's honestly in my top 5 all time series, Sopranos, The Wire, The Tudors, Battlestar Galactica and the way things are going Game of Thrones is going to round out that top 5...

I guess I'm posting because I have no one to talk to this show about what with it being off the air for almost 4 years now...

This is probably totally blasphemous but I couldn't get into battle star galactica. Although I watched all 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1. Yeah.

I felt battlestar took itself hyper seriously.