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colleen the fabulous fabulaphile wrote: "Now just gotta see who Wednesday's gonna be?!?!.."For some reason, I picture (view spoiler)
Hmm. I dunno. Jer's first thought was Brendan Gleeson, but I picture Wednesday more wiry. Then we were thinking John Hurt. James Cromwell popped into my head.
It'll probably be someone not too famous, I think.
And I was thinking Lance Reddick for Anansi, though I'm not sure he's old enough. But he's wonderful.
Nicki wrote: "I'd love to see Mads Mikkelsen as Wednesday."Ooh. That would be an interestingly sinister choice.
The Galavant finale was super fun. I hope it gets a third season, but i appreciate they wrapped it up well enough if they don't continue.
Nicki wrote: "Lance Reddick would be perfect for Anansi.I'd love to see Mads Mikkelsen as Wednesday."
I would say Sean Connery for Wednesday, but he's retired.
How about Malcolm McDowell or Donald Sutherland, (view spoiler) And they're both the age I pictured, though I personally envisioned him as big and rangy. Liam Neeson's build, like.
It is ok to post shows that originally aired on TV here, isn't it?
I'm watching The Cosby Show right now, starting with the first season.
I'm watching The Cosby Show right now, starting with the first season.
I expected such comments :-).
I've been hooked on Grey's Anatomy lately, I started watching for the first time a few weeks ago. So much drama. So many significant looks. It's the perfect lay on the couch and be lazy while eating chocolate show.
I used to really enjoy Grey's Anatomy, but got behind and fell off awhile back.
Chris wrote: "I used to really enjoy Grey's Anatomy, but got behind and fell off awhile back."Same here. I stopped watching though once the relationships started getting way too messy. I hate when shows resort to everyone sleeping with each other. Plus, Meredith got way too emo for me.
Meredith was already too emo/annoying for me in Season 1 :-P
Watched the first 9 seasons, I think, of GA, then ran out of steam after all of changes. For those of you new to the series pleas don't read the spoilers...I was going to watch season 10 but the news of yet another change (view spoiler) made me change my mind. Then I learned that there was an even more significant change (view spoiler) and I was glad I stopped when I did.
Dawn wrote: "Meredith was already too emo/annoying for me in Season 1 :-P"Yeah, brace yourself. It gets worse. LOL
I agree with you about Hawkgirl... and her teeth. I didn't like her when she was introduced in Flash, and having her be a main isn't great.I'm also disappointed in Rip, because he played Rory in Doctor Who and I loved Rory and I know he can be better, but he seems so cheesy in Legends.
I love Snart (sp?), though.
Watching Grey's Anatomy has got me thinking I probably need to go to the hospital soonish. Odds are, I have a tumor somewhere and if they don't rush me into emergency brain surgery, I'll only have minutes left to live.
I'd come visit you in the hospital, but I'm afraid I'd bump into people having sex in the elevator.
*done*
At least no one I'm related to works at the hospital... That would significantly increase my risk of something ridiculous being wrong, while also significantly decreasing my chances of survival.
Nicki wrote: "On the bright side, the more convoluted the tumour, the more likely you are to survive it. If the treatment has never been done before, and your surgeon angsts in the scrub room, it's practically a..."O_O
bwahahahaha
Nicki wrote: "On the bright side, the more convoluted the tumour, the more likely you are to survive it. If the treatment has never been done before, and your surgeon angsts in the scrub room, it's practically a..."In the cases of convoluted tumors, your changes of survival are actually equal to the inverse tangent of the number of significant looks passed between your surgeon and someone in the gallery divided by the square root of pi multiplied by the sum from {i = 0} to {1 = a} (where a is equal to the number of couples who have slept together in the room) of [a * (a+1)] / 2 minus the number of times (factorial) the surgery has been performed before.
Pretty simple.
Somebody's math/science is showing.
Nicki wrote: "And Dawn wins the thread!"I knew that minor in math would pay off someday!
DC Legends of Tomorrow. So far not crazy about it. But, it's the only thing that's on at the moment.
I just watched the German free tv premiere of the fifth season of Game of Thrones. And yes, I already know which characters are going to die this times. I never had a problem with spoilers, they don't spoil the experience for me.
By the way: I started watching at a random point and the first thing I saw was someone getting his head chopped off. That's sooooo typical for GoT :-).
By the way: I started watching at a random point and the first thing I saw was someone getting his head chopped off. That's sooooo typical for GoT :-).
Slightly late on the update...But about a week or so ago we binged the new X-Files series.
I was a little nervous going in. X-Files was my thing, back in the day. My first official fandom - if fandom is defined as a geeky thing you share with others. I used to go over to a girlfriend's house and a bunch of us would watch it and talk about it afterwards. It was a way better to spend a Friday night than going to some "party" in the woods, no matter what the other kids in high school said. ;)
Anyway -
As we started the first episode I was transported with glee when the opening credits started. I was surprised, yet pleased, that they stuck with the original credits and didn't update them.
The first episode was a bit overly expositiony, but I figured they had a lot to cram into 6 episodes, so I was willing to let it go.
But I was still a bit worried 'cause I heard some negative things about the series - specifically the episode with the "stupid looking plastic green monster" - which was, btw, hands down the funniest, if not the best, episode of the little mini series. I was in stitches.
Luckily I also knew about the non-ending thing, else I would be all "WTF?!" I wasn't aware this had the potential to be an on-going thing originally, but I'm certainly on board for it.
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As a side note, I asked Jer what he thought of it, since I admit to viewing it through Nostalgia Glasses. Jer never really watched it much, originally, so had no such barrier... But he thought the eps were decent, and also loved the were-monster ep the best.
Just started zipping through the 12 Monkeys series so I can be caught up when season 2 starts April 11 (Syfy channel shows and movies are my obsession.)
DJ Zippergirl wrote: "I don't have a TV. @_@"
Hooray!
We disconnected our cable a few years ago. We have a TV for watching kids DVDs and we occassionally watch Netflix now, but I can go weeks without watching anything now.
colleen the fabulous fabulaphile wrote: "Slightly late on the update...But about a week or so ago we binged the new X-Files series.
I was a little nervous going in. X-Files was my thing, back in the day. My first official fandom - if ..."
NO ending? hmmmm
I'm still thinking about watching it. I was a big X-Files person back in the day.
Homeinmyshoes <3 I moved to Florida four years ago, and had to decide, waste money on cable TV and a TV set or just make more time to read my kindle. No competition.
I figure you can get just about anything you want or need thru Netflix, and you know, I canceled it after a month or two and haven't missed it. (And there's always my Amazon Prime.)
Yep. People ask when I have time to read and the answer is always once I removed an hour of TV a day I suddenly had lots of time for reading. Now when the kids go to sleep I cozy up in the chair and read.
I'm watching the first 16 seasons of The Simpsons right now.
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt Terry Pratchett collaboration for TV:http://www.theguardian.com/books/tvan...
Terry Pratchett left a letter posthumously for Neil Gaiman, requesting that the author write an adaptation of their novel Good Omens by himself, with his blessing. Gaiman's reaction? “I think I said, ‘You bastard, yes.'"
Currently marathoning Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix, after having just finished Malcom in the Middle (I watched a few episodes of it back when it first aired but couldn't appreciate it then).
Season 2 was good, but not nearly as good as Season 1. I thought it got a pretty slow start but got funnier near the end of the season.
That could be so very awesome.....please let it be awesome.
Legends of Tomorrow - OMG, stop being so stupid!
That's really awesome..Locke & Key, that is. LoT can go away.
I just read that Galavant is not being renewed. I'm super bummed. Galavant was awesome!:'(
We watched the pilot, too. I liked it, but I'll be looking forward to it developing more.
Yeah, I've never read them either and I was like "WTF" for a lot of the episode. Jer was explaining some stuff to me - but I'm like you shouldn't have to have read the comics for the show to make sense.But since it's just the pilot and they're doing set-up and it really just got going towards the end, I'm willing to give it a few more episodes to get running.
I recorded it, but I've been out of town all week. I'll be back on my tivo after tomorrow sometime.
Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, Gotham, The Expanse, and then some.
I like the CW Flash, I really do, even though it gets rather corny at times...But I wish they would lay off on the CGI heavy bits with the "slow-mo Flash stuff", because the CGI is *so* bad.
I started watching Syfy's 'The Magicians'. Is this super different from the book, or do I just remember it really badly?
If I remember correctly, It starts out pretty close and then drifts away as the season goes on. Plus, it kind of pulls ahead a lot of book 2 into the show as well, so there is that.
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I'm starting to get excited for American Gods. Didn't think it was going to happen at all.