What Are You Watching?

[Philotomy Jurament]

6) Is it just me, or is the Green Arrow just a massive dick?

Not just you.

[francisca]

10) Despite all of these problems, the show is growing on me. I have no idea why.

Starved for better alternatives?

I just don't watch stuff I don't like. I gave Flash 3 episodes, and checked out.

[Kellri]

i tend to watch one thing until the end. I'm thinking about checking out The Last Ship next - I hope to god it isn't some jarhead thing like NCIS - I really hate that. I guess the reason I've stuck with The Flash is because, despite the issues, it is pretty true to the superhero genre. Unlike the Green Arrow, the main characters are pretty likable - even Dr. Harrison Wells is likable. The show isn't intentionally gritty like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. so it's more Superman than Batman in that respect.

I'm really waiting for the return of The 100, Dark Matter, Killjoys and especially The Expanse.

[artikid]

On Netflix I've recently finished Daredevil (liked it quite a lot, Season 1 is best) and going through Rebellion (on 1916 Easter rising, it's leaving me a bit cold, also it seems it's not very historically accurate which is a bummer)

[TRP]

I'm thinking about checking out The Last Ship next - I hope to god it isn't some jarhead thing like NCIS - I really hate that.
I'm really waiting for the return of The 100, Dark Matter, Killjoys and especially The Expanse.

I enjoy The Last Ship for the suspense and action, but it is all spit and polish. So, it may not agree with you. I'm sure for anyone that's actually been in the Navy, it's a real eye-roller of a show. Same for me when I watch movies and shows with hackers and computer nerds. This 3rd season, they're tooling around SE Asia, and so far it focuses on just how much the Chinese and Vietnamese would love to mess up each other's shit in the post apocalypse. You might get some yucks out of that.

I'm looking forward to the next season of The Expanse too.

[Welleran]

Title?

Looks like it's Malpertuis

I wondered, thanks Trent! Apparently Malpertuis is written by Jean Ray, as well.

Sorry...was not monitoring the thread closely!

Yes, the movie is Malpertuis. I ran across mention of it researching Jean Ray after reading his excellent short story collection recently. The movie is weird, but I really liked it -- basically an artsy-type French film with a strong supernatural core to the plot. Probably the most noteworthy thing to my mind was that Susan Hampshire (an English actress I was not familiar with) played the three main female parts, and a few of the minor ones, and did so spectacularly well. I was most impressed. I got the disk from Netflix so I'm unaware of how easy/hard/expensive it is to find otherwise.

I picked up the book Malpertuis from Amazon last week and finished almost half of it last night. The basic story seems to be the same, but the framing is quite different. I'll follow up on the book in the appropriate thread later this week.

[Welleran]

I'm thinking about checking out The Last Ship next - I hope to god it isn't some jarhead thing like NCIS - I really hate that.
I'm really waiting for the return of The 100, Dark Matter, Killjoys and especially The Expanse.

I enjoy The Last Ship for the suspense and action, but it is all spit and polish. So, it may not agree with you. I'm sure for anyone that's actually been in the Navy, it's a real eye-roller of a show. Same for me when I watch movies and shows with hackers and computer nerds. This 3rd season, they're tooling around SE Asia, and so far it focuses on just how much the Chinese and Vietnamese would love to mess up each other's shit in the post apocalypse. You might get some yucks out of that.

I'm looking forward to the next season of The Expanse too.

Much to my surprise, I actually really, really like The Last Ship. The storyline and the characters more than make-up for some of the Ra-ra, Go Navy aspects of it, and it's not so out to lunch the retired officer in me wants to hurl (I stopped watching NCIS and refused to watch the various spinoffs for that reason). I'd recommend it, though I have not watched any of this season as yet.

[Kellri]

This 3rd season, they're tooling around SE Asia, and so far it focuses on just how much the Chinese and Vietnamese would love to mess up each other's shit in the post apocalypse. You might get some yucks out of that.

As I discovered a couple years back to my horror, they would really like to do that right now. Still, my money is always going to be on the Vietnamese. For a thousand years the Chinese have been trying and trying and they keep missing the mark. As a matter of fact, in any kind of Chinese war, my gambling money is on the other side. The only time the Chinese are really successful in war is when they're fighting themselves.

[Welleran]

The only time the Chinese are really successful in war is when they're fighting themselves.

Awesome quote! I just spent three hours talking to my class about Chinese aggression in the South and East China Seas, among other places. I would've thrown that quote in for good measure if I'd read it earlier!

[rogatny]

Been watching The Flash.

1) I think the lead actor was also a minor gay character on Glee. Thank God he hasn't stopped running to break out an acapella version of 'Don't Stop Believing'.
2) Barry has grown up in perhaps the whitest black family in America. The blackest thing in that whole house is a poster of Cab Calloway.
3) Who puts a particle accelerator right in the middle of a large city? Must have been those sweet, sweet tax breaks. Now the place is a giant, broken albatross sitting on prime coastal property, and employing only a handful of people (and those ridiculous prison cells in the basement). Logically their biggest problem should be keeping the municipal taxmen from foreclosing.
4) The prison. Those cells are featureless 10x10 cubes without windows, a bed, or toilet facilities. Do they even feed those people? Scratch that - in one episode an inmate is seen sipping on a fast food cola. Which raises the question - are they going out to pick up fast food for the inmates 3 times a day?
5) Time travel. You can't mention Einstein to explain your plot device and then seconds later turn around and say 'The Flash will have to travel at least Mach 3 to break the time barrier.'
6) Is it just me, or is the Green Arrow just a massive dick? I don't like anything about that guy - not the way he looks, not his attitude, and not those clowns who work with him. Not to mention just how ridiculous it is to fight crime with a bow.
7) I like the mostly episodic nature of the show - taking down the supervillain of the week is pretty cool. Really liked King Shark. There's something about a giant shark in pants that I like.
8 ) Does this show take place in the same fictional DC universe as Batman? Is there some licensing issue that prevents them from mentioning the caped crusader?
9) Zoom. Boy is that name really dumb. I don't care if there's some pathetic backstory about it - it's still stupid. Doubly so when it's the name of the main villain.
10) Despite all of these problems, the show is growing on me. I have no idea why.

1. He was. They have one show where he and Caitlin go sing karaoke.
2. Well, those characters are white in the comics. So...
3. Who builds a particle accelerator in the middle of town? The super villain, of course! Duh!
4. Don't think too much about it.
5. No really. Don't think too much about it.
6. The character started out (in his show) as a PTSD-suffering psychopath. From a psychoanalytical standpoint, just being a dick is an improvement.
7. That's the spirit!
8. DC keeps its movie properties and its tv properties in separate universes. So, there's a Flash in the DC movies, but it's not this Flash. Assuming Gotham is happening in the same universe as Flash, Batman isn't Batman yet. Just a really freaking intense little boy.
9. You come up with another onomatopoeia signifying speed. Not too many of them are there? Better name than "Reverse Flash" at least.
10. By all rights it just should not work. But it does. And I can't even put my finger on it.

[Kellri]

The only time the Chinese are really successful in war is when they're fighting themselves.

Awesome quote! I just spent three hours talking to my class about Chinese aggression in the South and East China Seas, among other places. I would've thrown that quote in for good measure if I'd read it earlier!

Sometime I'll have to tell you about the horror show I got into when we had anti-Chinese riots here. That was the first and hopefully last time I'll ever have to drive through the suburbs avoiding lunatics and smacking said lunatics in the face with a pipe or house my kids' classmates in my own home until the insanity blows over. I was alternately really angry at the Viets for lashing out at everyone who happened to speak Chinese and really angry at the Chinese for being such pushy assholes. If it happens again, I'm leaving.

[Wheggi]

Just saw The Shallows, a movie about a surfer trapped on a rock, hunted by a great white as the tide comes in. I liked it quite a lot.

- Wheggi

[rredmond]

"We're gonna need a bigger rock!"

It looks interesting. Nice to hear that it was good.

[Kellri]

Just saw The Shallows, a movie about a surfer trapped on a rock, hunted by a great white as the tide comes in. I liked it quite a lot. - Wheggi

I'll check it out. I had a buddy who was in the same situation here in Vietnam (sans great white shark). Even so, he was messed up both physically and psychologically by the experience and IIRC, never tried surfing again on lonely stretches of rocky beach in Nam.

[grodog]

We're up to season 3 of Agents of Shield, which hit Netflix recently. We're enjoying it!