English TV series discussion
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Aces170 said:
it wasn't the best premiere, that's for sure. the whole stereotype mmo nerd solving an ancient equation and getting beamed out of his house onto a ship was insanely stupid. there were plot holes as well, no doubt.
but the criticism i'm reading about the show is pretty crazy as well. for example, someone points out that the daedalus class ship should have easily taken out the ha'tak class destroyer in the attack on the stargate base. someone else pointed out that it's not believable for a ship to be travelling faster than light without hyperspace. what kind of nitpicking is this? is any of the stargate cosmology real that you can raise objections like this? you will believe that stargates exist which can teleport you to any part of the universe but you insist on hyperspace (another purely made up idea) for ftl travel?
personally, i thought the general idea was pretty good. being stranded on an ancient, unmanned ship with an unknown destination is interesting. if the characters don't get along in the beginning, i guess that's a more realistic depiction of how human nature would be in a situation like this. robert carlyle is a pretty good actor so hopefully he can become a strong character as time goes along. the drama could have been toned down for sure... the senator sacrificing himself, the token eye candy daughter and her scene with the mother... too much like a soap.
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SharekhaN said:
i've recommended better options to you... you just choose to ignore them
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i found it pretty boring. yea yea, the lesbian kiss was supposed to be a big deal but man, they have a weak story this season. the carnival story is the only one that seems to have any sort of promise to it.
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The latest episode of TBBT was quite good.
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viralbug said:This might just make me start watching Heroes again.
seriously, it was just a ratings stunt. the show has become somewhat retarded now. in the last episode, you had about 10 minutes devoted to a deaf woman who can 'see' sound. as in, whenever there is a sound around her, she sees colours looking like the aurora borealis. that's it. no reason, no purpose. she just sees colours. then you had hiro who went back in time 47 times to stop some person from photocopying his butt so that said person would not jump off a roof and commit suicide. no, i am not making that up. then nathan petrelli was shot and killed and buried, but of course, since this is heroes, no one ever really dies, so he climbs out of the grave, except this time, he has sylar's body. and he has amnesia. drama!. and finally you have claire who has joined college and is trying to be lead a normal life, but she goes ahead and tells her first friend about her powers. that friend then develops a crush on her, which leads to the much talked about the kiss which was a pure ratings stunt all the way. and guess what, it didn't help the ratings at all.
heroes has fallen so far from grace it's not even funny anymore.
manu1991 said:
yea, it was overdone definitely. but the episode was still good... it's actually one of the only comedies on air that i actually find funny (on network channels).