Damn you already watching the episode and posting a big heap of text on it. You live in Australia, right? I can only assume because of the platypus thing. So you must have pretty good internet. Damn you again.

Yeah I just checked your profile. Silly me. Not my fault I have to do it illegally…... So whats with the platypus thing then? Oops you already said that…

I can’t even find a torrent of it for you. It’s definitely not out anywhere yet.

Well at least that means I’m not missing anything while fighting off this Trojan.

The US seemingly tends to be kind of obsessed with Australian animals. They’re always on about kangaroos and koala “bears”.

Huh, we do do that, don’t we? And I find koala bears to be adorable, so I suppose I’m guilty as well.

Too easy.

Heh.

Dexter:

I am back and I tried a few streaming site links but they didnt seem to work so now I dont trust any of them.

And I put “bears” in quotation marks because I’m pretty sure they’re not bears and it’s a completely American thing to call them bears when Australians never did and have to point out that they’re not bears.

nvm I think I found one that works. I am probably speaking too soon. Now to wait for it to load a decent amount…

And I put “bears” in quotation marks because I’m pretty sure they’re not bears

Yeah, I knew why you did that. I think there are other animals that are called things that they aren’t, but I can’t think of them right now.

What Wikipedia says about Koalas being called “bears”:

Although the koala is not a bear, English-speaking settlers from the late 18th century first called it koala bear due to its similarity in appearance to bears. Although taxonomically incorrect, the name koala bear is still in use today outside Australia⁵ — its use is discouraged because of the inaccuracy in the name.[6][7][8][9][10] Other descriptive English names based on “bear” have included monkey bear, native bear, and tree-bear.[3]

I’ve never had a problem with Wisevid… Might be because I’m on Linux and I have adblock and the such installed.

I’m getting hooked to That 70’s Show. So addicting, but I need to watch less TV. Buffy is soaking up enough of my time already. Sad, considering that there’s still at least 3 shows that I want to watch as well.

^^Isn’t Winter Break coming soon? Just binge during then so you won’t have to watch that much during school days.

This. Also, reminders to watch The Wire, etc.

Also gotta remind myself to go through all of Farscape during the break (and maybe Six Feet Under if I’m lucky).

You’ll be happy to know I convinved someone on another site to try it out.

I know, but I’m contractually obligated to mention it by name at every opportunity.

You should get a commission for all your hard work, sansa.

At least it got 5 whole seasons.

Eh I still think Dexter and its writers are pretty genius. As some guy on ign says, even at its lowest point Dexter is better than most shows, but without even watching it yet The Wire is probably better (or at least smarter) than it and so is Breaking Bad. It should still always make the top 5 drama TV series list. My best to worst seasons of Dexter list probably goes 4, 2, 1, 5, 3. 5’s biggest problem for me was the bullshit Lugeurta and Angel stuff at the start but they seemed to wisen up and keep it very minimal or non-existant for the rest of the season.

Snow White Queen, That ’70s Show is pretty awesome. Well what with me not having a soul so I dont laugh at much so I dont find it THAT funny, I still really like the stories and characters and setting and themes and stuff. It’s one of the few things I actually bought on DVD, but I am missing season 8 because I think it was really stupid of the show to continue when Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher left.

I’m just annoyed at how inept the police are. Their brains only seem to work when the plot requires.

Specifically:

You could say that I’m reading too much into it, but a lot of the payoff in this show has come from Dexter outsmarting people, and when the people he ‘outsmarts’ are just incompetent chuckleheads, it really doesn’t feel very meaningful. All this is a product of lazy, sloppy writing.

Dexter:

Dexter (EDITED):

I should really stop over-thinking this. I’m just making myself dislike this season more and more.

Re: The platypus thing.
It’s the males that have poison in their heel spurs, IIRC. Strong enough to kill a similar-sized animal or incapacitate a stupid enough human for a couple hours. Also, they’re not the only egg-laying mammals. Google “echidna” or “spiny anteater”, or “spiny echidna” for that matter.
:-D

Hahahaha…. sorry happycrab.
Hey, they’re still cool – they eat like twice their bodyweight every day, just for lulz.

So I’m not sure if The Wire is going to interest me much no matter how smartly written it is. But I’m really judging it on almost nothing.

It’s not a show that tries to draw you in. Seriously, the primary showrunner’s motto was “Fuck the average viewer.” Nobody I know that has watched it has ever gotten hooked after the first episode. It’s not because the first episode isn’t good or interesting, because it is. We’re just used to TV shows going way out of their way to get our attention with the first episode, and The Wire doesn’t even make an attempt at it, so the natural reaction is to assume that it must’ve tried and failed. I wasn’t really sure I liked it until about 4 or 5 episodes in.

That said, the first episode is a pretty good sample platter for what’s to come: Stringer and Avon outsmarting the police, McNulty stirring shit up, McNulty’s superiors getting pissed off, D’Angelo dealing with his demotion, Bubbles and Johnny Weeks running scams to get dope, Bodie beating the shit out of people, Bunk and McNulty getting really wasted.

Oh, man, I remember Angel Beats! For some inexplicable reason, it was rivals with Heroman on /a/ when both were airing, and threads about one or the other would occasionally combust into flame wars between fans of the two shows. Of course, me loving the shit out of Heroman means I hate Angel Beats!, so I feel bad for you, bro.

None of the characters have any personality, with either a weird quirk or an implausibly tragic backstory replacing any sort of depth.

This describes an embarrassing amount of anime these days.

Fairy nuff sansafro maybe one day I will try The Wire again but I have a serious problem when it comes to starting and sticking with series these days. Even if I really liked them I randomly stop. But this mostly applies to anime/manga. I basically want to watch/read every universally considered good anime/manga ever in existance and I am nowhere near doing that. I have the time and the access, but I just can’t do it. I need help.

I also hate anime characters with a really weird quirk. One that comes to mind is recently Mest in Fairy Tail. Even my favorite manga One Piece is guilty of this a bit with this mermaid in the latest chapter doing her incredibly sigh-worthy quirk. But I like to think the series hardly has any of that and when it does its usually better than when others do it.

The backstory thing can also be pretty annoying and with my limited range of series I’ve followed the worst offender I can think of is Naruto. Oh god how I hate Naruto and it’s popularity. Seems to be dying down though.

I started watching Futurama. That show is hilarious!

What the hell took you so long?

Also make sure you watch it from the beginning, in order, so you can get the continuity jokes and callbacks.

I finished Dollhouse. Damn.

Ha. America is screwy like that. In Australia we can say fuck at maybe 9 or 10. The last time I remember hearing a beep on my TV was on Big Brother which thank god ended many years ago. I always dreaded the 3 months of the year devoted to having that show on all the time.

Also this reminds me of the South Park shit count episode, which I recently happened to watch.

I just watched my first episode of Glee. It was funny, just not in the good way. Why this is a show of genuine appeal to so many people escapes me, because all I had were constant WTF moments.

Oh, I’m not watching another episode if I can help it. I have enough good TV to waste my time with, thank you.

Sorry, everyone. If you ever hoped to be the coolest person on the forum, Marquis has beaten you. By miles.

FRELL YEAH.

So, Game of Thrones is dropping in April?

...FUCK YEAR !!

So, Game of Thrones is dropping in April?

YES!

Now to convince my parents to let me watch it…that will be trickier, methinks.

Don’t worry, it seems like a giant book but I remember I got so wrapped up in it that I devoured the entire book in about a weekend. :D

The pilot was lame though.

I thought it was kinda all right.
But let’s not fight each other over that.:)

Spanman, what would you say makes a very good pilot?

I haven’t really thought about it. It totally depends on the genre. In the case of Bones, I’d rather they didn’t just jump right into it. I think I’d want a little background, maybe something about how and why Brennan became an anthropologist. As it was, it took me a really long time to actually care about her as a character.

Other than that, I don’t really have a set of rules for what makes a good pilot. The Lost pilot comes to mind as a really good one, though.

And Alan Tudyk is good, too. Can’t go wrong with him. :D

This Show would be an excellent name.

All pilots, just to throw my two cents into the matter, should be like Battlestar Galactica’s pilot. I started watching that and… about ten minutes in I already knew I was hooked to the show. I’m not actually certain why it drew me in so much. I guess because it carefully and skillfully explained the backstory and introduced the characters quickly, but also made me care about them. And the writing was really good, unlike a lot of pilots which suffer from awkward writing because the writers haven’t hit their stride yet.

This Show would be an excellent name.

Mine is a self-satisfied laugh.

The reason I asked was because I’m wondering whether or not to do my next novel series in an almost “episodic” format, slowly letting the story break into a run while letting the characters grow and develop… and finally letting the main arc take over.

Now I realise that this can be done sh*ttily, if one is not careful.
But do you think it can be done well?

Doesn’t stop me from giggling when they say ‘frack’ though.

That’s why I can’t watch those shows. When someone says “frak” in a completely serious voice, I can’t take them seriously. Plus, the word gets on my nerves.

Can’t say I’ve ever enjoyed gratuitous swearing when it has no place. Contextually, having them swear like sailors would be just as bad.

Get in the zoooone, guys.

Edit:

On a different topic. MERLIN SERIES 3. omgomgomgomgomg.

The final.

SO

finally!

Yes, finally.

Just finished watching the first episode of Young Justice, and I have to say, I really, really enjoyed it! They brought in a lot of stuff from the original series (not the story or even the characters, but definitely influences, like Red Tornado mentoring them and their base being in an old Justice League cave) and what was new was also good. I was very iffy about Miss Martian being added, but M’gann just looks and sounds so adorable (as always) that of course I have to love her. I also like Robin, although I’m going to continue calling him Tim until I get some solid proof he’s actually Dick. He looks vaguely like Dick (I think it’s the mask, it looks Nightwing-ish) and snarks like Dick, but the techie skills and costume were definitely Tim.

Also! Green Arrow is voiced by Alan Tudyk!

Hmm. Guess that settles it, then. He’s clearly influenced by Tim, but I don’t really mind if it’s actually supposed to be Dick Grayson. Both are pretty awesome characters, and the mishmash version looks OK too.

I never actually watched Teen Titans… I couldn’t get past the first episode, even though I heard it got better in the second season. Just seemed overly kiddish, even for, well, a kid’s show.

Teen Titans is one of those shows that I really liked as a kid, but just hasn’t held up when looking at it now. Ron Perlman’s still a great Slade though.

I actually saw a promo for Game of Thrones on HBO! I screamed, literally.

I’ve been watching Blackadder on Netflix. My only complaint is that each series is only six episodes.

re: Teen Titans – I enjoyed the show, and I think I lucked out by being in my mid-teens when the show started, so my tastes haven’t changed as much.

@SWQ

I’ve noticed something about Sean Bean (Ned Stark) – he either plays bad guys, or good guys who end up dead. Wonder why that is…

Whoa, I never noticed that…has there been any movie where he’s actually the hero?

Sansa will be happy about this. We’re discussing Fahrenheit 451 in my English class on dystopian literature, and my teacher brought up the point that Faber mentions how deepness/“texture” can be found in other media than books. My teacher was sort of going on about this, asking whether we thought such “texture” could be found in things like video games, online, and TV… so of course the first thing that popped into my head was The Wire.

...I might have to watch an episode or two now.