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David A

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« Reply #240 on: 03-26-2021 05:29 »

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« Reply #241 on: 03-26-2021 07:23 »

Touché, sir. But as mentioned, our views are about 99.44% in agreement.*

And I would normally post the following in the anime thread, but since I'm already here, typing into this input box...

...last night I finally moved my ass off the dime (or "disme", as they were sometimes referred to when I was a little kid) and went online to look for a collection of Ghost in the Shell, on disc.

And discovered to my annoyance that I appear to be a day late and a disme short...the 7 or 8 disc sets appear to be long out of print, and are priced accordingly. Except for ones with region encoding that prevents me from playing them here.

And it just struck me that instead waiting for a bargain or paying through the nose for a blu-ray set that I could probably order any DVD set and it should be readable by MakeMKV, regardless of which region it's encoded for!


*You remind me that I can't remember the last time I watched the Thriller video. Love him or hate him, that man had music in his blood like few others.

David A

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« Reply #242 on: 03-26-2021 16:50 »

I know how you feel, brother.  Ask me sometime about how I could have picked up all four Baccano! DVD sets for about five bucks each back when they were selling them at Walmart.  (Actually, don't!  I'm still kicking myself.)

As for Michael, regardless of how you feel about him as a person, he still made some amazing music, and "Thriller" is one of the greatest music videos of all time.
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« Reply #243 on: 03-28-2021 23:46 »

Given my recent GITS shock/disappointment I felt it only appropriate to score the following while the iron was still hot the price was still reasonable. In the '80s when I was living in Japan some of our friends in the States would sent over "care packages" with goodies that were difficult to obtain locally, and would often throw in a VHS tape or two with episodes of ST-TNG or Babylon 5 they taped off the air. Somewhere up-thread I mentioned that I'd watched relatively few episodes of the latter and was always spacing out picking up the entire series on disc.

Well, I'm not getting any younger, and who knows how long these shows will continue to be available on physical media, eh? Ergo:





David A

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« Reply #244 on: 03-29-2021 18:02 »

As I've said before, Babylon 5 is a great show if you get the chance to watch the whole series from beginning to end.  I suppose it's one of those shows that's better on DVD, as they say.  I wouldn't know, but when TNT started showing daily reruns, I did pick up on a lot of things that I probably missed the first time around.

Also, I want to say that I really liked Crusade.  It might not have measured up to the original series (How could it?), but it was still a fun show with a great cast.  It's a shame that it was cancelled after only one season.
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« Reply #245 on: 05-30-2021 03:09 »

Hey, look, I can go to boards other than Offtopic Discussion!

Anyway, I don't watch much TV. I have a very long laundry list of Netflix shows to binge, most of which are either Korean dramas, historical in nature, or both.

My mother and I are both huge fans of Korean dramas and we've even attempted to have K-drama Netflix watch parties. I started Chocolate and Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung a few months ago but never got around to finishing them. The thing about subtitled shows is you need to watch them twice because you don't always catch the subtleties in either the dialogue or the action on your first go.

I also have yet to watch the latest installment of Disenchantment. Someday I'll set aside the few hours or so required to get through the whole thing in one or two sittings.
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« Reply #246 on: 05-30-2021 04:45 »

Do they ever say mey-mey time in the dramas?
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« Reply #247 on: 05-30-2021 08:43 »

I've watched a few Korean shows; I'm currently watching Stranger on Netflix.
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« Reply #248 on: 05-30-2021 12:09 »

For a while, I was interleaving episodes of Babylon 5 with The Expanse, and am 2/3 of the way through the latter's season 2. I love the show and was hooked in pretty short order, having read many sci-fi books with the same overall setting, and this is done really well. And it's ratcheting up on top of ratcheting...it's wild.

David A

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« Reply #249 on: 05-31-2021 22:18 »

The thing about subtitled shows is you need to watch them twice because you don't always catch the subtleties in either the dialogue or the action on your first go.

Tell me about it.  Sometimes it takes me an hour to watch a half-hour show.

Also, on more than one occasion, Crunchyroll has tricked me into watching a series twice by dubbing it into English after I've already started watching the subtitled version.
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« Reply #250 on: 06-06-2021 20:00 »

John Mason is James Bond.
UnrealLegend

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« Reply #251 on: 09-26-2021 03:32 »

I've seen a bunch of stuff this year; mostly comedies.

Parks and Recreation, which I believe I mentioned on the previous page. Very good stuff, especially from season 3 onwards.
Brooklyn 99 (Not the final season, I'll have to wait for Netflix to add that). Also great, and Captain Holt is one of the funniest characters in anything ever.
The Office (US) is very charming and entertaining, but good grief Michael Scott is one of the most insufferable characters I have ever seen. Sadly, the quality of the writing took a nosedive shortly after he left.
The Good Place has a fun premise and is short enough that it doesn't overstay its welcome. I always appreciate when a show can end without being cancelled.
Game of Thrones(I know, this looks very out-of-place next to all these light-hearted sitcoms :laff: ) A very, very mixed bag. Obviously, I was aware that people hated the ending, but I was still shocked at just how fucking awful the final season was, even when I had my expectations in check. It's sad, because the first four seasons were some gourmet 10/10 shit.
What We Do in the Shadows I'm six or seven episodes in, and it definitely holds up to the movie so far. It's very silly!
David A

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« Reply #252 on: 09-26-2021 22:04 »

The Office (US) is very charming and entertaining, but good grief Michael Scott is one of the most insufferable characters I have ever seen. Sadly, the quality of the writing took a nosedive shortly after he left.

They really should have just ended the show when he left instead of trying to continue it past that season.
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« Reply #253 on: 02-11-2022 18:27 »

I've been watching Breaking Bad for the past few weeks. I'm currently in the fourth season. It's good, but I'm not enthralled with it. Maybe the finale is what really kicked ass. I'm not there yet. I watched "Fly", and I know it's the most hated episode of the series, but I didn't think it was that bad. I can see why it is the weakest episode, and Walt was out-of-character with his disdain for the fly, but it did give a little bit of a breather and had some character observations. I think it was a bottle episode too, and I do like every series having one of those (I don't know how well Futurama would do with a bottle episode, but it can't be as bad as Family Guy's). The concept is something worth exploring once.
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« Reply #254 on: 01-10-2023 19:47 »

Breaking bad is an odd duck for me. It's bleak and full of unlikable people, but it's still undeniably interesting.

For me, a lot of the interest in it was the practical/technical question of how he gets out of whatever scrape he's put himself in.

There's also interest - and frustration - in the moral debate around his actions. Almost without exception, you can make the argument that he was forced by circumstance into his crimes; if he didn't do some foul deed, then something just as bad would happen to him or people close to him. Does that mean he had to do the foul deed? The circumstances that forced him arose because of the decisions he made earlier. Do the circumstances around his actions mitigate any of his guilt? Do the circumstances around the actions of any criminal mitigate their guilt? Ultimately, I think the answer is a weasely 'a bit'.

Overall I wouldn't call it an enjoyable show, since it's really so bleak, but it leaves you with more to think about than most shows.
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« Reply #255 on: 01-16-2023 11:57 »

I dunno, it's clear just a few episodes in that Walter values his pride more than anything, and "for the family" is a lie he tells himself to justify his awful actions. There's so many outstanding moments in that show, and it's still easily my favourite drama. I just wish I could get into Better Call Saul.

In other news, the first episode of The Last of Us adaptation is out and it's really fucking good. Highly recommend it; especially to people who never played the game.
David A

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« Reply #256 on: 01-18-2023 05:22 »

I watched the first two episodes of the new Night Court.  Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory's Bernadette) plays Harry Stone's daughter Abby who, having followed in her father's footsteps, is now a judge presiding over the same night court over which he presided thirty years ago.  John Larroquette reprises his role as Dan Fielding, although this time around he's working as a public defender rather than a prosecutor.  (That last part is a bit of a spoiler for the first episode, but we still don't have working spoiler tags.)

The sets look just like the ones from the original show.  Clearly someone working on this show is a fan of the original, because they actually put some effort into recreating the visuals.

I can't imagine this show lasting nine seasons like the original did, in fact I'll be surprised if it gets more than one, but it was interesting to watch.  It was kind of like running into an old friend that you haven't seen in years, or visiting a place you used to frequent that you haven't been to for a long time.
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« Reply #257 on: 01-19-2023 04:07 »

I dunno, it's clear just a few episodes in that Walter values his pride more than anything, and "for the family" is a lie he tells himself to justify his awful actions.

I don't disagree, especially for the initial choices he makes.
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« Reply #258 on: 01-31-2023 12:31 »

I've been watching Breaking Bad for the past few weeks. I'm currently in the fourth season. It's good, but I'm not enthralled with it. Maybe the finale is what really kicked ass. I'm not there yet. I watched "Fly", and I know it's the most hated episode of the series, but I didn't think it was that bad. I can see why it is the weakest episode, and Walt was out-of-character with his disdain for the fly, but it did give a little bit of a breather and had some character observations. I think it was a bottle episode too, and I do like every series having one of those (I don't know how well Futurama would do with a bottle episode, but it can't be as bad as Family Guy's). The concept is something worth exploring once.

The 4th season is peak Breaking Bad. In fact had it finished at the end of season 4 I think that would have been an even better ending. Season 5 is still decent though.
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« Reply #259 on: 08-15-2023 12:53 »

I dunno, it's clear just a few episodes in that Walter values his pride more than anything, and "for the family" is a lie he tells himself to justify his awful actions. There's so many outstanding moments in that show, and it's still easily my favourite drama. I just wish I could get into Better Call Saul.

In other news, the first episode of The Last of Us adaptation is out and it's really fucking good. Highly recommend it; especially to people who never played the game.

Better Call Saul is very good but it doesn't have the same hook as Breaking Bad. Feels a lot slower and the stakes a lot lower and the fact that you already know the fates of certain characters since its a prequel doesn't help. Still a very well written show although I was a bit disappointed with the ending.
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« Reply #260 on: 09-16-2023 04:05 »

No idea if anybody here on PEEL is watching it, but the season 5 finale of What We Do in the Shadows was very disappointing.


Thankfully, the show is still incredibly hilarious. It's better than the movie.
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« Reply #261 on: 10-23-2023 17:46 »
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Sometimes I wonder if  a lot of these TV revivals and new seasons of shows I used to like such as Futurama, Rick and Morty, South Park and Arrested Development are actually things I would have enjoyed if I were younger, but I just don't enjoy them now because I am at a different point in my life and I have changed. Then revivals like the Clone High and Beavis and Butthead get made and I think those are very good, so maybe it the new material from the latter old favourites is not quite as good as the old stuff.

Anyway, there is no active Clone High thread, and the point of this post was to say I think the new season of Clone High was pretty good. Starts a little slow, but they knocked the last few episodes out of the park.
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