Mason Verger makes Hannibal Lecter look like Ghandi.

AAAAUGH I CAN'T WATCH IT UNTIL NEXT WEEK

My mother called a few days ago going OMG GIOVANNA I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WHAT A KILLER FINALE!!

'Mom, there's still an episode to go.'
'holy shit'

This show.

Thorn of Death is just one of our many default titles.  Work hard and you will be promoted to Pained Growlithe!

Yasha wrote:

Man. I don't usually go in for nostalgia, but there's one show I loved and never got to see all of back when it was airing. Probably most of you have never heard of it-- It's called Cybersix and I think it only ever aired in Canada. You want a summary? Well...

It's about a genetically engineered crossdresser who teaches Literature in high school by day and fights the creations of a Nazi mad scientist by night.

Have I convinced you to check it out yet? Either way, take a look at the opening. It's pretty stylish.




Oh, and if the premise sounded a little like Dark Angel, well, the creators thought so too and tried to sue Cameron and Fox for stealing their shit, but they couldn't afford to keep it going so he "won". Sucks.

On the other hand, it's getting a dvd release. Finally! Hopefully it makes some cash for the creators.

Wow. the opening it's cool and it's so "japanese anime", and for me this is a HUGE positive point. I'll have a look, sometimes, there's a subbed version? I can watch it without, just that it's a little difficult for me to follow speaking english, but I can understand most of it.

Also, did anyone mentioned Orphan Black?
I'm watching the first season, and I think it's cool.

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MissMocha wrote:

SeizonSenryaku wrote:

Yasha wrote:

Man. I don't usually go in for nostalgia, but there's one show I loved and never got to see all of back when it was airing. Probably most of you have never heard of it-- It's called Cybersix and I think it only ever aired in Canada. You want a summary? Well...

It's about a genetically engineered crossdresser who teaches Literature in high school by day and fights the creations of a Nazi mad scientist by night.

Have I convinced you to check it out yet? Either way, take a look at the opening. It's pretty stylish.




Oh, and if the premise sounded a little like Dark Angel, well, the creators thought so too and tried to sue Cameron and Fox for stealing their shit, but they couldn't afford to keep it going so he "won". Sucks.

On the other hand, it's getting a dvd release. Finally! Hopefully it makes some cash for the creators.

Wow. the opening it's cool ad it's do "japanese anime", and for me this is a HUGE positive point. I'll have a look, sometimes, there's a subbed version? I can watch it without, just that it's a little difficult for me to follow speaking english, but I can understand most of it.

The original comic was Italian, so you should be able to find some copies, although I doubt it's still in print. Didn't know they'd made a kid's show out of it; considering that the comic has pedophilia and nazis I'm a little surprised. Note though, I know nothing about it, except in context of an article discussing Skydoll where it was mentioned.

Wow, really??
I guess I should reaserch more of our comics. Thank you! You made me al little proud

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I don't watch a great deal of television as I have limited cable and am too lazy to scour websites for shows, but I'll list some of the things I watch.

I'm somewhat of a nerd as the show I watch almost religiously is Jeopardy! I like to participate in answering the questions as best I can along with my stepfather who watches the show with me. Even if I can't answer some of the questions, I enjoy learning new things. Hehe.. I bet Miki would enjoy watching a general knowledge quiz show such as this. (Hmm... SKU Character Television Tastes would make an amusing thread topic.)

Sometimes I watch American Ninja Warrior, a sports entertainment competition spin-off of the Japanese television series Sasuke. Most recently I enjoyed the episodes in which Kacy Catanzaro was kicking ass and taking names, culminating in the episode in which she became the first woman ever to complete a city finals course in this show.



Also...Netflix shows count, yes? I watched Netflix-exclusive Orange is the New Black.

^ Four words: cunnilingus in a castle.

Does anyone have links to good analyses of Twin Peaks? Just the TV series, please; I've not yet seen Fire Walk With Me.

...damnnnn. This thread is still going eight years after I started it. That's dedication.

Also, Utena fans should get onboard Twin Peaks. It's does the metaphysical thing pretty well.

I'm working through my trashy junkfood shows, so Nip Tuck is at the top of my list. It's terrible and I love it.

Giovanna wrote:

Um, so am I the only one watching Outlander?

Because uh, it's a really fun show with a fantastic depiction of a nurse that...travels through time...okay shut up but it's really good!

How naughty is it? The novels were fairly racy.
And like....the badguy who has the hots for Jamie, do they play that up for all it's worth? I love me some badguy ravishing.

I'd be very surprised if they back out of the bad guy thing. They haven't skimped on content so far, which is fantastic.

I have season 3 of House of Cards but I'm afraid to watch it because then I'll do nothing else for like days.

I'm about two thirds of the way through the first season of Helix. And I have to say that everyone in this series is too dumb to live. I don't mean the standard, "FFS stupid blonde bimbo teenager, don't walk into the creepy dark forest in the middle of the night when there's a murderer about!" horror trope either. The main characters in the series, and most of the secondary characters, are all of them supposed to be brilliant, top of their fields, full blown geniuses. Every episode at least one of them will rattle off the alphabet soup after their name to explain that why yes, they have a triple PhD and five masters in chemistry, biology, medicine, bio mechanics... and then they'll do something like handle specimens with no gloves and face masks, fuck all containment protocols to hell, not perform basic checks, not share their results, hide their experiments, not check in with each other even though they each of them is working alone and isolated, walk down vacant and isolated corridors alone when there's fucking zombies loose and hunting, being genuinely surprised when they get attacked, and then resuming their walk as if they'd never had their close encounter of the necrotic kind. Rinse and repeat.

[Okay, so the plot goes that in a secret base in the Artic that's doing all kinds of viral and bacteriological research. So far so good. Then it turns out that one of their exquisitely engineered microbeasties has escaped- oh noes!- and is killing people in strange and interesting ways. Thus, a crack team from the Centre for Disease Control is scrambled. This group of brilliant scientists, the top of their field, magnificently professional... and the first thing that the audience was supposed to focus in on was the complicated and highly intertwined love lives of theirs.

One of the characters goes out of their way to explain all of this, and adds that they are far too professional to let their personal lives affect their work. Like fuck! They moon over each other, they confess their feelings, they vow loyalty, every fucking conversation is centred around their (justified) sense of inadequacy and how much reassurance they need to find the strength and courage to do the basics of their basic fucking job! One is attacked by a zombie and infected and refuses to tell her team mates about it and wanders about blithely, spreading contagion, angsting about her feelings of violation by the whole experience, questioning her own judgement, shooting agonised looks here and there... about three episodes after the attack she finally books herself into the containment ward without much as a basic, "Bye!" to one of her colleagues.

The top scientist spends most of his time mooning over his critically ill brother, playing Rambo outside in the snow when there are fucking guards about whose job it is to do this shit obsessing some more over his brother, utterly refusing to keep in contact or exchange basic but vital information with his colleagues, obsesses over his brother a little more, takes time out of his busy schedule to fuck one of his team, moons over his brother, while every fucking conversation he has with anyone else is centred around him beating his chest and howling that he's the leader, everyone should respect and submit to him, he's butch as fuck and is going to fix everything... but first he's going out for a walk in the snow again and roll around in it with one of the bad guys some more, and then he'll take a little time off to sit with his brother and hold his hand. Then he'll actually do some fucking research and talk to his team, and make some basic decisions. But only after he gives another of his inspirational speeches, and moons over his brother for a little while longer. Then he'll do something rational! Honest!

Then there's Exhibit C: the delicately beautiful, hopelessly naive genius who's desperately in love with the (alleged) leader, who has a double PhD at age 26, has seen it all... guess what make her story so tragic? Oh, she's dying of an inoperable tumour! It affects her speech, her co-ordination, her mental processing abilities... but nevertheless she walks blithely into this hideously dangerous and desperately precarious situation knowing that all of this will drastically affect her ability to function at the very least, and could (and does!) get someone else killed at the worst! She hides an infected patient inside her room even as this patient becomes steadily more irrational and dangerous as the illness progresses, and she knows for a fact that her weakened immune system has fuck all hope against the virus if (when!) this patient turns violent just like all of the other infected did. Also, she's highly dependent on a particular drug to maintain her most basic of functions. And she doesn't think to pack an extra supply of this drug, oh noes! It'd be a shame if, for example, if her single vial of this essential drug were to get tripped over in the bathroom and the entire contents of the vial fell down the sink! We the audience are supposed to feel such tender and melting sympathy for this delicate and fragile creature in her desperate situation; I can't speak for anyone else, but when the stupid bitch started jacking herself up with morphine, I was praying she'd overdose herself and get the whole bullshit charade over with. But, no. She survives another day, and goes on to fuck her boss. Which we're supposed to view as a positive and life affirming choice. Or something. I don't know.

The one interesting character of this crack team gets murdered, after sequencing the killer virus' genome; what was she doing sequencing this genome? Fucked if I know, she's supposed to be a fucking vet! And the hundred or so scientists in the base, who work with the worst pathogens in the world, need to have basic contamination protocols and processes explained to them every half hour, none of them wear basic safety gear, they refuse to be quarantined, the ones not in quarantine refuse to work with the CDC... then the satellite dish gets blown up, and there goes their only link to the outside world! Oh noes! Then it turns out that the entire base's telephone system goes through the satellite, so when the satellite blows they can't even call another floor if they need to! Intercom? Radio? Pfft! Who needs those? It's not like anything could possibly go wrong with that kind of set up!]

I'm about two thirds of the way through and I'm committed. I'm going to finish this fucker even if my slowly melting brain starts trickling out of my ear. But seriously, I want my $20 back. Helix isn't so bad it's good; it's so bad it's downright dire. People talk about the Idiot Ball trope and how every character in every show gets handed one at some point. But Helix's heroes? They don't get just handed the Idiot Ball. They wear the Idiot Ball costumes, swim in the Idiot Ball ball pit, eat fried Idiot Ball for breakfast, lunch and tea, dry themselves off with an Idiot Ball towel after they've had a shower composed of pureed Idiot Ball...

... basically, what I'm trying to say is that every single fucking character in this show is a fucking moron, and I'm confused as hell as to how any of them are still alive.

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