The TV Thread

[Will]

Maybe a TV series version?

I'm forcing myself to go through the entire Farscape series (streaming on Netflix).

When it was first out, my wife and I lost interest about two seasons in. Now I remember why.

This show is _massively_ uneven. Characterization wanders all over the place. But when it's good, it's amazing, you just have to sit through a lot of dren to get to it. (I'm up to season 4)

The thing is, it SCREAMS RPG turned into a series. It's also gloriously pulp. While it's not Sword and Planet, a lot of elements remind me of it (including the classic 'Earthman cast adrift, trying to get home')

[Doom]

Hey, don't knock the Farscape...set design is frickin' awesome, even if costuming is, well, uneven (lawdy, those puppets get out of hand).

But, yeah, those writers clearly have some RPG experience, you can practically see the skill sets of characters of the "party" on the ship.

[Tahmoh]

Same creator is now in charge of Defiance for Syfy so that's probably worth a nosey as well(just the tv show though not the mmo coz its utter crap)....less muppets though since hensen studio's aren't involved.

[Will]

I should give Defiance a try. The show, not the MMO, because yes it totally is.

I saw the first episode and was like 'meh.'

[Tahmoh]

lol yeah the badguys were very ropey cg aliens, thankfully the rest of the show isn't like that so is worth giving a second chance.

[Omega]

As I mentioned over in the movie thread.

Archer: Fugitive from an Empire a failed TV pilot has a very D&D feel to it. Loved the Heart Bow the main character has. Fun movie with some nice effects, especially the mask work on the snakemen. And an actually likable and effective thief for once.

Came out the same year as BX D&D.

[jibbajibba]

Constantine - Nice idea too much exposition. the one thing JC rarely does is exposition but I guess the comics rely heavily on his inner dialogue to explain the plot. Maybe if they had taken that approach. JC in an institution/police station explaing an event in flash back then they could have used the narative voice.

Anyway .... we will stick with it

Also caught up season 1 of Hannibal and now into Season 2. Increadibly well made TV. the acting dialogue effects etc are absolutlely superb. The one issue I have with it is how it makes other shows look by comparison. It does suffer from some believablity issues around the ease of walking into hospitals, secure facilities etc..

[Omega]

Mentioned this in the movie thread, but it fits here better.

Recent "reality" TV show called The Quest.
This one was really interesting as it dropped twelve people into a fantasy world called Everworld. The producers rented castle Burg Kreuzenstein and populated it. The contestants are referred to as Paladins and each given a piece of the Sunspear. Only one will get to assemble the spear and use it to defeat an evil force that is sweeping the realms. Good costume work and theres even some monsters. This was produced by some of the folk that worked on Lord of the Rings.

Each episode the story unfolds and the group has to solve some puzzle. Each puzzle leaves three of them in an elimination event at the end that only one can win. The remaining two face a vote of who stays and who goes. Nicely done too.

The very first event has the group split into teams of three and firing real scorpion ballistia at targets!

Fun series currently up on Hulu still I think.

[jan paparazzi]

Currently I am following Arrow, Supernatural and Sons of Anarchy. I just saw two seasons of House of Cards. That show is recommended. It's in the same league as Breaking Bad or the Wire. My friends watch The Walking Dead, but I don't see what so special about it. I also watch the Archer cartoon. It's very vulgar, so that's why I love it.

Of course I also watch Doctor Who and I am waiting for a new season of Continuum.

[Ladybird]

Really like Agents of SHIELD still (But I'm in the UK, so the rest of the world is ahead of us); they're still in spy-thriller mode, which is great.

Looking forward to the Top Gear christmas special, as well... and it'll actually be on at christmas! So that's something. I saw the Burma special again on the weekend, and while I've seen it before and know how it ends, it's always nervewracking watching Hammond cross the bridge.

[Ronin]

Been watching "The Sandbaggers" on the youtube. Old school gritty spy show. Love it.

[Simlasa]

I've been binging on Justified. It's Elmore Leonard so the characters and dialogue are the main draw.
I'm still enjoying The Walking Dead... though the mid season ended on a note of pure stupid.

[One Horse Town]

Been watching the first 2 series of Arrow. Enjoyed the first season a lot, but the second one is starting to lose me. It's basically becoming a soap opera with added pointy things. Shame.

[Bedrockbrendan]

Hoping to start watching that Marco Polo series on Netflix in the next few days, when I get a big enough block of time to watch the first few episodes.

[Kiero]

I just caught up with the second season of Ray Donovan, which is brilliant source material for a contemporary, non-fantastical game. He's a fixer who works for a Hollywood law firm with a very exclusive clientele. The sort who pay a lot of money to make their problems go away, and stay out of the press (or jail).