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Seraphim
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posted April 09, 2013 10:13 PM
Edited by Seraphim at 22:16, 09 Apr 2013.

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Seriously, a bunch of zombies is a problem?
Get a tank division and grind them...


Remember Fred's link on abortion thread...


I am sorry, even if 1 billion people were infected, zombies are dumb. Chemical weapons could terminate all living things in an urban area very easily.

Sure i am nitpicking here and there must be a certain suspension of belief when watching movies but zombie movies and games are just too unrealistic.

They try to be realistic without explaing where all the military stuff went. It would have made sense if such an apocalypse took place in medieval times. But with all the tech that is available, just no.
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artu
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posted April 09, 2013 10:18 PM

Well, since this is the TV series thread I am thinking of The Walking Dead and people turn even if they are not infected once they die.

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JollyJoker
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posted April 09, 2013 10:26 PM

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Well, then I might give it a go IF they wrapped the story up before canceling the show. I hate it when they just cut it off without a wrap up (like in Deadwood for instance). It's a very disrespectful way to treat the audience.  So, did they?
The show was cancelled due to not enough viewers after the 1st season, so how can they have wrapped up the story?
I mean, the last 5 minutes of the last show gives a preview of how the show was planned to go on, and that DOES wrap some things up, because you see how things develop to end at where BSG starts - which is exactly why it's such a pity the show didn't continue.

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artu
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posted April 09, 2013 10:32 PM
Edited by artu at 22:33, 09 Apr 2013.

Not a huge fan of BSG, we talked about it before. Still, I'd go for Caprica, if there was a wrap up. And yes, some do wrap it up even if it gets cancelled at season one. Life on Mars (nice save), Mob Doctor (not so nice save)...

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posted April 10, 2013 08:35 AM

In this case I don't think there can be a wrap-up, because it's a prequel: the events are already known, just not the hows and whys and details. So basically the whole series is a wrap-up, and one that is stopped short after one season.

Jericho is a show that came with a wrap-up as well - terrible. They had made 2 last episodes, one that would be sent in case the show got cancelled, one that would be sent in case there would be another season. I saw both versions, and the wrap-up episode is probably the worst last episode of a show ever.

For Life on Mars, since there is a British original series with 16 episodes that wraps things up very neatly, you would just have to watch the original, so that doesn't count, since a storyline already exists.

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artu
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posted April 10, 2013 09:09 AM

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Things could be rushed in a prequel too and your objection to LOM is not valid because the British and the US versions have different endings. British version it's some purgatory, US version it's software error of virtual reality.  

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JollyJoker
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posted April 10, 2013 09:51 AM

No, that's the ending of Ashes to Ashes, which is something of a sequel.

The original Brit Life on Mars show is extremely straightforward and has one of the best endings of all TV shows ever, because there is absolutely no need to explain anything, since all is rather self-explanatory.
There is also no need to come up with a Philip K. Dick SF twist (like in Maze of Death, Eye in the Sky, UBIK or some other books by him). Things like that are dangerous, because essentially it's the "it was all a dream which explains and takes care of all logical failures" ending, and if you DO use this kind of ending, you cannot just stop with "solving" it, there must also be a "purpose", that is, some meaningful struggle behind the curtains, a solution for a problem within the just revealed reality and so on.

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artu
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posted April 10, 2013 10:02 AM

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There is also no need to come up with a Philip K. Dick SF twist (like in Maze of Death, Eye in the Sky, UBIK or some other books by him). Things like that are dangerous, because essentially it's the "it was all a dream which explains and takes care of all logical failures" ending, and if you DO use this kind of ending, you cannot just stop with "solving" it, there must also be a "purpose", that is, some meaningful struggle behind the curtains, a solution for a problem within the just revealed reality and so on.


Dude, I didn't say it was a perfect ending, I said it was a nice save. I prefer it to having the show cut off mindlessly. At least they had the decency to give the viewers something when the producers turned off the faucet. And there must be like a hundred shows out there that got canceled on their first season and a fair amount of them has wrap up episodes. So it's legit to ask if Caprica had one, which started this conversation in the first place.  

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JollyJoker
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posted April 10, 2013 10:25 AM

And I already told you that the whole show is a wrap-up, because everyone knows the score - what IS there to wrap up then? I mean, if they make a prequel show for "Cinderella", that deals with Cindy's original family (wife/mother eventually dying), and the family of his future wife and Cindy's stepmother (and how they came to become so wicked), if they cancel the show after season 1, ending it with stepmother planning to murder her husband - what do need the wrap-up for.

You know the story.

Same thing is true with Life on Mars. There is an original story. Period. If you want a wrap-up - watch the original show.

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artu
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posted April 10, 2013 10:52 AM
Edited by artu at 11:00, 10 Apr 2013.

Watching the original show is definitely not the same thing. That's like cutting a movie in half and excusing yourself by saying "read the book."

What is there to wrap up, probably they haven't been able to reach the part where the cyclones contacted the math genius guy, that was for upcoming seasons. If they were given a fair headstart before the canceling of the show, they could have put that in faster and we could have had the story of nuking of Caprica, would be a good wrap up. With flashforwards and so on, that can be dealt with in 2-3 episodes. And the content is not the main point, there would be a closing episode.

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posted April 10, 2013 11:23 AM

Dude, we HAVE the story, it's just not shown, but we know it. If they make a show of a book, and they cancel it half through the story - READ THE BOOK. Where's the problem? All the more so, if it's a show that copies a show.

Compare that with, say, Terra Nova. Or Fast Forward. They STARTED a story - but it just fizzles out, cut through in the middle, like a road that ends and with no map to at least look how it develops. That's something far more of a waste.

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artu
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posted April 10, 2013 11:32 AM

Meh, doesn't feel the same to me. I want the show to have its own conclusive ending. I want to see it exist not just know the storyline. In any biopic or biography we know how it ends, we wanna see how that movie or that book has its conclusion. Guess we'll agree to disagree on this one.

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natalka
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posted April 10, 2013 11:57 AM

My favourites are breaking bad , fringe, prison break , weeds, two and half men.

Breaking bad is so brutal and intense from episode 1. Fringe picks up slowly and is not very interesting in season 1 only. Then it is just woww!!

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posted April 22, 2013 12:55 PM
Edited by Lexxan at 12:56, 22 Apr 2013.

The latest episode of Game of Thrones was fantastic (SPOILERS BELOW OFC)

- The entire episode was VARYS-centric, who got three separate scenes dedicated to him, one of them with the Queen of Thorns <3 That scene of him breaking open the Sorcerer's crate gave me chills.

- Talisa not appearing <3 Jon being MIA <3 Bran and Catelyn only having one short scene <3

- Tywin/cersei scene <3 Tywin telling Cersei she's not smart enough to inherit his fortune <3

- Brienne being Jaime's mentor after loathing his guts for all previous episodes what an angel <3

- Commander Mormont's death and the sacking of Craster's keep: EPIC scene. I LOATHE Rast though, he needs death by Other asap like Chett in the books.

- Margaery makes Joffrey and Sansa tolerable characters <3 She's much better here than in the books. Heavens bless Natalie Dormer.

- More character development for The Hound, FINALLY. <3

- I really want to say that Daenerys is the MOST overrated ever but then she gets a fantastic scene like the sacking of Astapor and i'm putting her in my top5 GoT characters again.
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blizzardboy
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posted April 22, 2013 07:27 PM

I love Tywin. He just walks around bashing everybody.
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 22, 2013 07:42 PM
Edited by Tsar-Ivor at 19:45, 22 Apr 2013.

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Commander Mormont's death and the sacking of Craster's keep: EPIC scene. I LOATHE Rast though, he needs death by Other asap like Chett in the books.



Oh god I absolutely loved this scene, that fat son of a hoe had it coming. I think that essentially means the end of the knight's watch, most of them prolly ran off with Craster's daughters/wives.

Also Brianne is borderline sexy after last and yesterday's episode, mostly for the attempted rape but also because she's actually shown signs of feelings and not being encased in steel allowed her """feminine""" form to be noticed.
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Drakon-Deus
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posted April 22, 2013 08:23 PM

I love Margaery and Theon much more in the series.

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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 22, 2013 08:53 PM

Theon? The highlight of his character thus far has been almost getting raped.
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Salamandre
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posted April 22, 2013 08:58 PM

No one watched Spartacus? Was only 1 season long (actually third one) but pretty intense, great war scenes and a few hot nudes as well.
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
posted April 22, 2013 09:16 PM
Edited by artu at 21:18, 22 Apr 2013.

I watched it, it was shallow but entertaining. There is an extra prequel season too, if you haven't watched it: Gods of The Arena. Not too many episodes, will download in a night.

And about the war scenes, I think blood was overused, not that it sickens me or anything, just that it made the scenes too cartoon like, but maybe that was intended.

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