TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Seedy, you dad might like the Luther Brit cop show. If he can tolerate Limey accents.

[Eddie Teach]

Saved by the Bell.

Which one, smart ass? The original, or the College Years?

The original original had Haylie Mills teaching and didn't have Slater, Kelly and Jessie. 


Luther's a good show but it's over pretty quick.

[Admiral Yi]

Which one, smart ass? The original, or the College Years?

  Which do you think?

[derspiess]

So she's missed the obvious answer that you are just a weirdo.

You'd think that would be her first guess after all these years.

[derspiess]

Which one, smart ass? The original, or the College Years?

  Which do you think?

I was pissed when they canceled College Years. 

[Eddie Teach]

I do get some enjoyment out of the show.  My wife desperately tried to get me to watch it during the first season or two and then gave up.  So to tease her a bit I'd read up on episode synopses and would start conversations about what happened in recent episodes.  That has convinced her that either everyone I work with is talking about the show (they're not) or I've been watching it behind her back, which in her mind would almost be like cheating on her

You should just repeat some of the comments CDM makes about the show, verbatim preferably.

[derspiess]

You should just repeat some of the comments CDM makes about the show, verbatim preferably.

Actually I forgot to mention I'm going to use some of the reactions posted here

[Sophie Scholl]

Seedy, you dad might like the Luther Brit cop show. If he can tolerate Limey accents.

Good call.  Some quality programming there.

[C.C.R.]

[spoiler]Agree, the older kid could have made a play for his gun. Letting him get too close was a definite no-no. Hard to tell if that was his intention or not.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I didn't like the look on his face, either.  You could see his wheels were turning.  I'd have have him point blank, too.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]My wife & I caught that look, too -- that kid was *DEFINITELY* licking his lips thinking "LOL, an old one-legged man & a little kid, I've got this." His look didn't change until he saw the look in Carl's eyes.  We spent the entire episode of The Talking Dead screaming at the dumbasses for not picking up on that... [/spoiler]

[Eddie Teach]

House of Cards. Fascinating.

[Liep]

Silver Lining Playbook. Those guys can act. And was that Chris Tucker of Rush Hour fame not being annoying? Yes, yes it was. Great film.

[Viking]

[spoiler]Agree, the older kid could have made a play for his gun. Letting him get too close was a definite no-no. Hard to tell if that was his intention or not.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I didn't like the look on his face, either.  You could see his wheels were turning.  I'd have have him point blank, too.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]My wife & I caught that look, too -- that kid was *DEFINITELY* licking his lips thinking "LOL, an old one-legged man & a little kid, I've got this." His look didn't change until he saw the look in Carl's eyes.  We spent the entire episode of The Talking Dead screaming at the dumbasses for not picking up on that... [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Carl didn't say give me the gun, he said put the gun down, the guy who got shot held out the gun and waited for carl to reach for it. Carl shot him when he didn't put the gun down. Carl's BS about reaching for a gun was beside the point, he should have just said what actually happened; viz that the kid refused to put the gun down.[/spoiler]

[crazy canuck]

Meh, the scene was ambiguous enough to make Carl not seem like a cold blooded killer but hint that he is turning into one.

[Josephus]

WALKING DEAD, MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS: That scene, to me, highlighted the whole point of this series: the general decline of "normal" morals and values. Carl is an excellent character to illustrate this because he is not old enough to have experienced too much pre-apocalypse life and thus be tainted by it. Carl sees no right and wrong. Only live or die. Remember the governor at one time in the episode says exactly that: "it's either kill or be killed." I don't think Carl is becoming a psycopath. He is becoming a survivor. You don't survive in this world through an old fashioned moral code. The law of the jungle now only applies. Carl has seen first hand how people whom they've trusted turned against them. IF a person is able to prove their trustworthines, like Michonne, he is more than happy to vouch for them, as we saw a few episodes ago. In Carl's mind, this person, just didn't respond quick enough. There was no time to think. He was protecting not just himself but two weaker people with him. The guy didn't put the gun down when Carl told him to. Carl had no choice but to shoot him.
Spoilers be damned, it's been a few days already.

[CountDeMoney]

because he is not old enough to have experienced too much pre-apocalypse life and thus be tainted by it.

"Tainted"?