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The Walking Dead season premiere. Annoyed with the episode. We felt it was too graphic and drawn out for the sake of shock value.
Scott M. Gimple. He was the ruination of the series. The more control and influence he gained, the worse it became.The Walking Dead season premiere. Annoyed with the episode. We felt it was too graphic and drawn out for the sake of shock value.
One of my very favorite Britcoms. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" It's such a brilliant show. Wish they'd made more episodes.
We have been finding it more and more difficult to watch, yet we still do because we want to know. The steps the characters took last season, to be in their current predicament, seemed to be contrary to who they were/are. I understand that they want to keep the audience off balance and guessing, but at least let it make sense.Scott M. Gimple. He was the ruination of the series. The more control and influence he gained, the worse it became.
SPOILER: I suspect...and this is only MY suspicion at this point...Yeun wanted off the show.
Watched the fourth episode of Timeless. WWII Germany this time, involving rockets, Von Braun and even Ian Fleming. The one sour note was Fleming saying that Von Braun's rockets rained down on England during the Blitz (1940-41) when in fact the first V1 rockets (actually a pulsejet) did not arrive on target until 1944, one week after D-Day. The V-2 (a true rocket) not until September of that year. Otherwise a fun episode. This is not heavy drama and certainly not rigorous history. Another clever diversion from real history when they return to the present.
I tried to watch the third episode, only made it to the first commercial! Shame, it had a lot of promise. They should have hired the writers from Quantum Leap.Found Timeless to be a bit of a mess. Only the fourth ep? LOL! Was surprised by the harshness toward Von Braun, & of his characters portrayal, thanks for clearing that up.
Speaking of which, earlier today I watched Guns Don't Argue (1957) on TCM. This was a theatrical release, but it's comprised of three segments from the television series Gang Busters (1952) so I think it qualifies for this thread. Both feature poorly acted dramatizations about "true crime" stories, and the movie focuses on some of the more notorious criminals from American history like John Dillinger, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and so on. Early in the movie they tell an abbreviated version of the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow...sort of. I stopped watching it after this segment because it was clear the people who produced this movie were laboring in the shadow of the old quote, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend," and apparently got their "facts" from the sensationalized newspaper articles of the era in which Bonnie and Clyde operated. Also, Parker and Barrow were ambushed and killed by law enforcement on May 23, 1934, yet the clothing the actors wore and the car they drove were from the 1950s when this production was filmed....This is not heavy drama and certainly not rigorous history...
Watched the fourth episode of Timeless. WWII Germany this time, involving rockets, Von Braun and even Ian Fleming. The one sour note was Fleming saying that Von Braun's rockets rained down on England during the Blitz (1940-41) when in fact the first V1 rockets (actually a pulsejet) did not arrive on target until 1944, one week after D-Day. The V-2 (a true rocket) not until September of that year. Otherwise a fun episode. This is not heavy drama and certainly not rigorous history. Another clever diversion from real history when they return to the present.
Found Timeless to be a bit of a mess. Only the fourth ep? LOL! Was surprised by the harshness toward Von Braun, & of his characters portrayal, thanks for clearing that up.
Scott M. Gimple. He was the ruination of the series. The more control and influence he gained, the worse it became.
SPOILER: I suspect...and this is only MY suspicion at this point...Yeun wanted off the show.
Also, the general immaturity of the story telling is embarrassing - American and British spies are not going to be conversing in hushed English voices in the middle of a Nazi party and the security detail for the most secret of Nazi weapons - rockets - is not going to be two easily-fooled guards languidly standing at the entrance. I could go on, but you almost have to see these stories as kitsch to accept them.
Gotham. Like Paul McCartney once said, it's getting better all the time...
The IT Crowd. What a laugh that show is!