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One TV show I used to watch a lot was The Mentalist but lately it's become a bit of a carricature of itself. The main villain that the show started off with Red John has become a villian of almost cartoon villain nature. He's always 4 steps ahead of everyone, has millions of minions even in places like the FBI, and has a bodyguard and limo driver.... Come on.... 5 seasons of this.... Bruno Heller one of the writers of the show said that basically they are making it up as they go along with Red John. This is truly disappointing considering when the show started he said they had a plan...

Do all show writers get like this when they've been at a show too long?
 
One TV show I used to watch a lot was The Mentalist but lately it's become a bit of a carricature of itself. The main villain that the show started off with Red John has become a villian of almost cartoon villain nature. He's always 4 steps ahead of everyone, has millions of minions even in places like the FBI, and has a bodyguard and limo driver.... Come on.... 5 seasons of this.... Bruno Heller one of the writers of the show said that basically they are making it up as they go along with Red John. This is truly disappointing considering when the show started he said they had a plan...

Do all show writers get like this when they've been at a show too long?

Yeah toward the end of the season before last I kind of got over the mentalist. It was fine but eh, better things I want to watch.


One I really do like in that sort of network procedural show is Castle. It has been a show that was entertaining to begin with, which is hard not to be with Malcolm Reynolds aka Captain Hammer aka Nathan Fillion as the lead. However the show has just improved as it's gone on. It has some really great writing and characters. I always enjoy it.



It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back for people who download! Yay!

A new show I am enjoying which hasn't started here yet is "Last Resort." The basic premise is a nuclear missile carrying submarine gets a suspicious order to nuke Pakistan. They question the order and then the US navy fires upon them and another sub nukes pakistan.
So with the US navy after them and them doubting the orders they take over some strange tropical island and basically go. Leave us be, we've got nukes! So it's got the conflict between the crew about the situation. It's got the conflict between different groups of people who live on this island. It's got the conflict with the world, the US millitary ect. Which has another layer of a whole big military government conspiracy angle going at it.

I really hope the show lasts. It's cool because it actually feels like a sci-fi show while not being one. Trapped in a foreign land, the submarine is like their starship, enemies everywhere.

I am also enjoying new Season of Dexter which is being fast tracked by foxtel.
 
Yeah toward the end of the season before last I kind of got over the mentalist. It was fine but eh, better things I want to watch.


One I really do like in that sort of network procedural show is Castle. It has been a show that was entertaining to begin with, which is hard not to be with Malcolm Reynolds aka Captain Hammer aka Nathan Fillion as the lead. However the show has just improved as it's gone on. It has some really great writing and characters. I always enjoy it.


Yeah same here I like Castle. Much prefer that to The Mentalist. Still the big mystery over who killed Beckett's mother and why......That has been handled well in this show.

Have you seen the web based series Inspector Spacetime? It's a lighthearted spoof of Dr Who
 
Game of Thrones! I so want dragons; and who would have thought that The Imp would be such a sex symbol? Such a great series.

I bought the first season of Game of Thrones, waiting a bit to watch that until next series price somes down. I love True Blood, up to series 3 with that.
So many boxed TV series now are awesome, but they start out very pricey.
And I love having comedy on hand, Parks/Community and Curb Your Entusiasm are my faves
 
Game of Thrones is fantastic :) I love it, I've just started watching series 2. I think casting the dwarf (midget, small person - what is the politically correct name?) was a stroke of genius. He's quite masculine, good strong nice looking man. With a big dick apparently - lol :)

I also really love Breaking Bad - I found it a bit ... iffy to get into but once I did I loved it. All the characters in it seem so real - as in ordinary, but different - like most of us are. The humour is so so black :)

kxk, why don't you rent the series? The only one I ever bought was The Wire - oh, wait... I did buy a series or two of The Hills (oh my god, I'm so embarrassed!) when they weren't available at the video shop. lol - don't understand why I was so addicted to that show. Such crap :) :)
 
Top 5 on tv
1. Walking Dead
2. Mad Men
3. Parks and Recreation
4. The Office
5. Walking Dead again, it's that good
 
I watched it a few years back. I didn't get what was so shocking and controversial about it. It was quite tame.
 
The movie is all style over substance, and pre-Thacher, pre-punk.
Anthony Burgess (the guy that wrote the novel) was an incredibly prolific writer, and a composer, an a savant - a bigger know-it-all than Clive James and Stephen Fry rolled into one. Clockwork Orange is imaginative and original, but he has done better. He was a huge Beethoven fan- and he has a quirky way of writing around classical music (another of his books, Napoleon Symphony is written in four 'movements' that mimic the structure of a classical symphony. It's an imaginative recreation of Napoleon Buenoparte's life.)
Clockwork Orange is a dystopian futuristic novel, written in 1962, set in the early seventies. Burgess described it as "a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks" and blames Kubrick for its seeming to glorify violence and sex. I don't think Kubrick added anything that wasn' t already outlined - left things out, more like, but maybe Burgess felt a bit foolish at some of the predictions he had made of 'the youth of today', given that by the time Kubrick had made the film, it was clear that he had hardly been prophetic at all - he had sort of predicted the punk movement, but not the music, and the violent, vandalistic kids were not speaking any Russian-based lingo, but forming the one hundred percent English home grown blue collar fascist white supremacist British National Front (he did not learn though, and in the seventies wrote 1985, as a tribute to George Orwell's 1984).
He was a Tory, and a millionaire, anti-union, anti-labour, anti-socialist and his prejudices died hard. I don't recall his writing anything about Britain going to the dogs under Thacher, but that might be because he had moved to the continent for tax purposes (just like the Rolling Stones). He didn't see the Cold War ending in an outbreak of democracy and unbridled capitalism in the former Soviet states, with the free world caught on the hop, pouring money into arms for dictators like Pinochet and Mubarak, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and UNITA forces in Angola.

I think Clockwork Orange is at least partly exploring the idea of free will - what if a child is given complete free will, and can invent his own morality? What if he chooses evil rather than good? In the English version, Alex comes good in the final chapter, grows up respectable. The American publishers left that chapter out. So did Kubrick.

Anyway, Burgess is better at recreating a past than imagining a future (1984 still stacked up as a great and chilling novel in 1984, and now for that matter, but Clockwork Orange was doomed to be dated from the day it reached the shelves, in spite of being quite brilliantly written)

Kubrick is a genius too. Even though the sex is the unmistakeably misogynistic early seventies variety, and nowadays you can see from a mile off that all the male participants would rather be doing each other, the girls are a stylized window-dressing. Kubrick seems to see the tongue in cheek, camp aspects of the situation with a clearer eye than Burgess. He approaches it with an ironic humour and style that Quentin Tarantino apes shamelessly in movies like Kill Bill and Grindhouse. Still, the images (eg. the milk bar, Alex's costume and makeup, the eyeball-opening Ludovico apparatus) are still art - they have not dated, in fact they have become icons.
 
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I keep falling asleep watching that movie.

Continuing working through my new big fat dvd collection, watched -

We Bought a Zoo, sweet family movie, not too sickly, not worth keeping - bought to give sis for xmas
The Duchess - wow, how did I miss this; awesome movie, Kyra Knightly is fab as a tortured woman. A keeper.
 
I bought the first season of Game of Thrones, waiting a bit to watch that until next series price somes down. I love True Blood, up to series 3 with that.
So many boxed TV series now are awesome, but they start out very pricey.
And I love having comedy on hand, Parks/Community and Curb Your Entusiasm are my faves

You wouldn't buy Game of Thrones from iTunes? It's $33.99 HD or $28.99 SD...or I'm sure you could download it from somewhere else?

I love True Blood too just finished Series 5 (it nearly lost me half-way through but it picked up again). Also love The Vampire Diaries...I know, I know...but Damon is so goddamn gorgeous! Series 4 available now woohoo! Also, Legend of the Seeker...shame they cancelled it (it was a bit of fun). I can't get into The Walking Dead...only watched two episodes.

Has anyone got any suggestions for other TV shows along these lines? I never watched Lost but it has been recommended to me by a few people...is it worth downloading?
 
You wouldn't buy Game of Thrones from iTunes? It's $33.99 HD or $28.99 SD...or I'm sure you could download it from somewhere else?

I love True Blood too just finished Series 5 (it nearly lost me half-way through but it picked up again). Also love The Vampire Diaries...I know, I know...but Damon is so goddamn gorgeous! Series 4 available now woohoo! Also, Legend of the Seeker...shame they cancelled it (it was a bit of fun). I can't get into The Walking Dead...only watched two episodes.

Has anyone got any suggestions for other TV shows along these lines? I never watched Lost but it has been recommended to me by a few people...is it worth downloading?

The Borgias looks good, with jeremy irons.
And something available on youtube - Heath Ledger as a teenager in Roar, scifantasy.
 
The Borgias looks good, with jeremy irons.
And something available on youtube - Heath Ledger as a teenager in Roar, scifantasy.

The Borgias is fabulous! I've watched the first two seasons and I'm panting for the third. I do love a Pope who only has three children and one mistress at a time ;-)
 
Thanks kxk and Jam. I'll check out The Borgias.

lol I was taught by a nun called Sr Borgia...oh the memories...
 
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