TV/Movies Megathread

[Slargos]

Well. Camelot turned to shit quicker than expected.

agreed... first episode was pretty epic, the second was pretty cool, though arthur's modern day naivitë was annoying. Then with ep3 it just tanked.... it went ethnically diverse, soap operatic and modern morality tale.

It went diversity-arthur already the first episode, but I was willing to ignore that until the third episode turned into your regular old newzie adventure drama AKA Xenthur the Warrior King.

[Norgy]

Expecting Camelot to be anything but shit is optimism beyond the reasonable.

[Slargos]

Expecting Camelot to be anything but shit is optimism beyond the reasonable.

I am an unreasonable optimist. 

[Eddie Teach]

I saw the first two episodes of The Killing. Looks promising.

[Viking]

Expecting Camelot to be anything but shit is optimism beyond the reasonable.

To be honest, with Purefoy, Greene and Feinnes in the cast I'd expect som reasonable sense of avoiding jumping the shark and not letting BBC diversity guidelines kill the show. Purefoy suggested that this was the BBC of Rome rather than the BBC of Robin Hood.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Saw Taken. Enjoyable if silly.

Archer. still kicking ass.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw Taken. Enjoyable if silly.

Archer. still kicking ass.

I felt kind of bad for Liam in that one seen where he's hobbling up the ramp after the young French dude. 

[Liep]

Still, Liam got to kick ass.

[grumbler]

To be honest, with Purefoy, Greene and Feinnes in the cast I'd expect som reasonable sense of avoiding jumping the shark and not letting BBC diversity guidelines kill the show. Purefoy suggested that this was the BBC of Rome rather than the BBC of Robin Hood.

Thanks for the links.  I'd never heard of Rome or Robin Hood.

[Eddie Teach]

City in Italy and an English bandit.

[Siege]

Robin Hood sounds awesome:



"The show departs from more traditional portrayals in several ways:

-Robin Hood wields so called "Saracen" weapons such as a recurve bow and a scimitar. Despite this misnomer, the bow used by Hood in the series bears little resemblance to any Saracen weapon, and is in actual fact a modern reproduction of a Hunnish bow.

-The costumes demonstrate a blend of period and contemporary fashion, often disregarding historical accuracy altogether, with one character wearing cargo pants and wielding Japanese swords.

-Robin receives help from another outlaw, the mask wearing Night Watchman, who is obviously a woman, and is revealed to be Maid Marion.

-The show's version of the Moorish or Saracen member of the Merry Men is a woman; after she leaves and Tuck comes in, Tuck is played by a black actor.

-The series pays little attention to historical accuracy, using as mentioned before a range of anachronistic costumes and weapons, as well as often using modern turns of phrase in the characters' dialogue which would have made little or no sense in the period in which the show is set. In addition, technical errors are often present, such as plastic nocks being used on Robin Hood's arrows."

[Syt]

Watching a documentary about a 700 km cross country foot race from Whitehorse to Dawson City in winter. Those people are crazy.

[Syt]

The only British Robin Hood series I recall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood

[Lettow77]

 Puella Magi Madoka Magica is expected to finish this month. I am excited. Despite other people's concerns for the lack of innovation in anime, really it seems to me 2010-2011 has produced some of the best stuff there's ever been. Everyone's a critic, I guess.

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched the second half of True Lies on A&E.  For my money the sequence on the Florida Key highway stands right up there with the best of them for action/special effects.