TV/Movies Megathread

[The Minsky Moment]

How about we all just be a little less Assburger about it and just enjoy the show, hmmm?  How about that?

QQ and Ideologue should be sentenced to re-educative forced re-runs of the A-Team.
It takes true script writing genius to figure out yet another way for the characters to be surrounded and trapped in a metal shop.

[Ed Anger]

Ide might be salvageable. Squeels? Lost cause.

[frunk]

Shit, I missed it.  Did Barney die?

[spoiler]Barney and Robin get divorced, the Mother dies, and Ted ends up with Robin.[/spoiler]

That's fucking retarded.

It's actually handled pretty well considering they tried to [spoiler]compress fifteen years of post meeting the mother time into 30 minutes.  If they actually gave more series time to the events of the finale it probably wouldn't of been a problem, but that would have been moving outside the central conceit of the show.[/spoiler]

[Razgovory]

Spellus is okay, he's just a bit excitable.  If you forced him to sit through a bunch of A-Team episodes he's probably forget Hannibal and be convinced that Mr. T is the most brilliant character in Western Literature.  Essentially is interests need to be recalibrate every once in a while.

[Ed Anger]

He needs a good slappin'

[Queequeg]

I kind of hate to say it, but Rome feels more and more like a warmup for Game of Thrones. 

[celedhring]

I kind of hate to say it, but Rome feels more and more like a warmup for Game of Thrones.

There's a certain sex&ancient politics commonality to both series, certainly.

[Ideologue]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).  And I don't know why people give James Horner shit.  He's great.

A+

You are no longer sent to a penal battalion.

Wait a second.
Doesn't that mean he hadn't seen it before?  And how much garbage did he watch before?

Of course I've seen it before, along the lines of twenty times.  It's one of the first movies I remember watching.

[Queequeg]

I kind of hate to say it, but Rome feels more and more like a warmup for Game of Thrones.

There's a certain sex&ancient politics commonality to both series, certainly.

Pretty big overlap in terms of cast, too. 

[katmai]

I kind of hate to say it, but Rome feels more and more like a warmup for Game of Thrones.

There's a certain sex&ancient politics commonality to both series, certainly.

Pretty big overlap in terms of cast, too.

[celedhring]

I kind of hate to say it, but Rome feels more and more like a warmup for Game of Thrones.

There's a certain sex&ancient politics commonality to both series, certainly.

Pretty big overlap in terms of cast, too.

Is there? Besides Indira Varma I can't think of any reasonably big player appearing in both series. I'm only up to episode 7 in Rome, though.

Costumed Sex+Cloak and Dagger dramas have been a sort of staple of cable programming for a while, anyway, there was the Tudors and that awful (bar naked Eva Green) King Arthur series too.

[katmai]

There isn't a big overlap. Spellus as usual is hyperbolic in his statements.

[Queequeg]

There isn't a big overlap. Spellus as usual is hyperbolic in his statements.

Indira Varma, Tobias Menzies, Ciaran Hinds?

[Eddie Teach]

It's actually handled pretty well considering they tried to [spoiler]compress fifteen years of post meeting the mother time into 30 minutes.  If they actually gave more series time to the events of the finale it probably wouldn't of been a problem, but that would have been moving outside the central conceit of the show.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The main problem with the ending twist(which they'd been planning since the beginning, as it relies on footage with the kids) is that the show was too successful/ran too long. Too much time spent showing Ted's other relationships, showing Barney and Robin together, and the final season showing how well Ted & Tracy got along together... the audience(well me and the person who wrote an article about it for Time at least) had moved on. So instead of "cheating" to give the audience what it wants, it's cheating for the sake of cheating.[/spoiler]

[frunk]

[spoiler]The main problem with the ending twist(which they'd been planning since the beginning, as it relies on footage with the kids) is that the show was too successful/ran too long. Too much time spent showing Ted's other relationships, showing Barney and Robin together, and the final season showing how well Ted & Tracy got along together... the audience(well me and the person who wrote an article about it for Time at least) had moved on. So instead of "cheating" to give the audience what it wants, it's cheating for the sake of cheating.[/spoiler]

I think that's a pretty weak argument.  [spoiler]Just because there's more detail given the ending is less impactful?  I don't buy it.  It wasn't an issue of moving on, Ted had also moved on, that was the point.  The bizarre presumption is that Ted was right and there was one perfect person out there for him.  He was wrong and at the end he knew it.  He had a great life with Tracy and was hoping to have a great life with Robin.  He wasn't trying to switch from Tracy to Robin, Tracy was dead.  He wanted to integrate the two parts of his life, before Tracy (the HIMYM show) and after Tracy (which we don't really get to see).[/spoiler]