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Posted: 09:11 - 05 Dec 2017 Post subject: |
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6 3/4 hours in. You know, it's not the fact that much of the cast is Septics, Saffers or Convict Islanders. It's not that Waifly McRada is the least convincing tough chick since Keira Knightley declared with a straight face that she was a Bownty Huntah. It's not even the grating vocabularic anachronisms, or the lazy, contrived plotting that turns every conflict into a Batman-growling face-off that's ever-so-conveniently broken up with the distraction of an external threat.
It's not even this. Not even this.
https://i.imgur.com/YtNDPuw.png
No, it's this line:
"thirty six hours before cast off."
Hours? What about tides? You're a sailor, are you, and not only are you faffing around on shore sticking to some fantasy idealised schedule (or skedule, as almost of the cast insist on Americanising), but you can't even think and talk in terms of tides?
No, that's too far. I cannot suspend my disbelief. It's a cutlass in the gizzard to anyone who cares, with no benefit of plot clarity to anyone who doesn't. That can't be excused by budget, or by screenwriting - it saves a couple of syllables.
Your piratical is bad, and you should feel bad. |
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Pjay wrote: | It gets 8.3 on IMDB, that's proof enough to me that it's a decent show worth watching. |
And Britain's Got X Factor Takeway is top quality programming by that metric.
Pjay wrote: | Borg gets pissed off with tidal timings, being that anal is always going to cause concern in a fictional show based on a fictional book. |
About pirates.
I'm hacked off because it was such an egregious, unnecessary, lazy, contemptuous clanger that shows whomever wrote that script had no interest in the subject matter. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Posted: 15:49 - 05 Dec 2017 Post subject: |
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Yes, but those people are wrong. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Punisher picks up a bit from episode 4 on, I should mention. Not great, but less fast-forwardy. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I’ve just started watching the Western series Godless on Netflix - it’s excellent And I thought Jeff Daniels only played good guys |
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Started watching Daredevil from the start (like a normal person) and I'm actually quite enjoying it I'm starting to lose track of the Netflix/Marvel subscription universe though, does it go:
The Incident (somehow relevant)
- Daredevil**
- Jessica Jones*
- Dare Devil Season 2**
- Luke Cage*
- Iron Fist**
- The Defenders*
- The Punisher*
*seen **partially seen
So Luke Cage's fling was originally Daredevils, and that little Chinese alien lady (from Iron Fist/The Defenders) is in Daredevil but no one knows (yet) she's a magical alien lady? Do Netflix have actors on retainer or something? |
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*smug* ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another. |
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Watched a couple of episodes (in peasant HD). Is it bad I find the bit at the end (about how they filmed it) more interesting? |
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Back to Black Mirror. It's like a concentrated stock cube of glorious flavours: I can only nibble on it in small doses.
It's rare to find something that's so carefully written, cast, acted, shot, scored and paced that it gives emotion time to bubble up from your gut rather than forcing faux superficiality down your throat.
But S3 E1, Nosedive, had me smiling, cringing and then crying getting dust in my eye in a money shot of raw visceral joy. Would ☆☆☆☆☆ again. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
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Yup. Netflix tried to fling me straight onto the next one, but I'd like a little time to savour what they've just served up. I'll need a palate cleanser, something bland with perhaps just a hint of Vin Diesel. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 133 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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