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irishbucsfan

awec wrote: »

I found Breaking Bad only ok. I gave up on it halfway through season 3 or 4, can't remember which.

The Wire I gave up on after a few episodes, though apparently it's very slow to start.

Hurk

Brian wrote: »

Isn't it quite macabre? Have heard a lot of good things about it but not sure I would have the stomach.

Ya, it's pretty dark alright. But it's a masterpiece. The acting, the script, the cinematography, the direction, it really is incredible. Cohle's (McConaughey) first soliloquy in it had me hooked and a bit of me thought that maybe it would just be a strong pilot but every episode so far has been better than the last.

Each season is self-contained as a one-off story which is driving fans mental because Matthew McConaughey is ridiculous in it but the next season will have all new actors and a new plot. I actually feel like I can't oversell it, it's that good. Give it a whirl.

.ak

Hurk wrote: »

Ya, it's pretty dark alright. But it's a masterpiece. The acting, the script, the cinematography, the direction, it really is incredible. Cohle's (McConaughey) first soliloquy in it had me hooked and a bit of me thought that maybe it would just be a strong pilot but every episode so far has been better than the last.

Each season is self-contained as a one-off story which is driving fans mental because Matthew McConaughey is ridiculous in it but the next season will have all new actors and a new plot. I actually feel like I can't oversell it, it's that good. Give it a whirl.

That's it. It's only 5 episodes in and unless it takes some mad u-turn and ruins itself it's already my favourite TV series. However, I can see it not appealing to the masses as it runs quite slowly.

The literary references are amazing too,

the whole Carcosa thing with the Yellow King is fascinating.

Matthew McConaughey is unbelievable in it. If you could win an oscar for TV shows, he'd have it in the bag.

He's actually been on a roll the last while; Paper Boy, Killer Joe, Dallas Buyers Club and this. Top notch acting and all quite different roles. The key element in all the casting picks seems to be all his characters are dramatically flawed.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

I'm a BB fan but it really lost the run of itself in the final season. In terms of television though, not much ranks up their with season 3 of BB

My favorite shows would be:

1 Oz
2 West Wing
3 Wire
4 Breaking Bad
5 This is England

True detective may well make the list , what a show

.ak

Regarding other TV series the Wire, GoT and Oz are my favourite. The Wire is something special, but I admit it takes a bit of patience. When you consider how it was made, who was involved, and how close the writer was to the actual police it makes it all the more enthralling, and is only a few names short of a mocumentary in a sense. The language is incredibly raw, not dumbed down for audiences but very real. The series really is completely based around two things; dialogue and politics. The dialogue between the people on the street and the cops is fantastic, and the politics of the street, the cop shops and the actual politicians is so close to the bone that Baltimore did their best not to get the show to air.

If you find it hard to get into I would urge anybody to give it a go, watch it all, and if you need to, rewatch it again. I re-watch the entire series once a year, and you pick up on things you missed out on before.

.ak

I'm just finishing up on Breaking Bad and I have to say I wouldn't have it on my top lists, perhaps it's just me but I think it's massively overhyped, don't get me wrong the acting is fantastic, but the storyline just repeats itself ad nauseam

dregin

If you're into city builders, give Banished a shot: http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/game/

Heard about it a couple of weeks ago and have been playing it in every spare minute I've had since it was released on Tuesday.

One guy developed it over the last few years and it has managed to top Steam's sales charts.

It's simple, but so bloody addictive >_<

Buy it through the site for $20 instead of the €18.99 that Steam are charging and you get a steam key anyway \o/

irishbucsfan

Yeah I've been looking forward to trying Banished. Have a lot of work until Sunday but I'll probably give it a go then, seems challenging.

pickarooney

i forgot to get off the bus I was so engrosses in Southland this morning. came around to an irate bus driver roaring at me to get off.

P_1

So Clermont is hilly as fook...

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Weekend a matter of minutes away

dregin

Thinking of pushing mine forward a bit and just horsing it home right now...

Podge_irl

Just got home. Beers in the fridge. Having some nice French bread with roast beef before my dinner.

It's good.

P.Walnuts

No love for the Soprano's in people top tv?

Part of the holy trinity along with BB and The Wire, but True Detective could relegate BB I think, quality on every level.

Conversely i'm still watching Walking Dead, for some unknown reason. I think I actually hate it, but feel compelled to see what happens. It has so many flaws, they are not even worth mentioning!

CatFromHue

The first season of The X Files is my favourite season/series/tv show.

I though The Walking Dead would be pretty good before I saw it but I wasn't too impressed with it and never really watched much of it in the end.

awec

I'm on the last episode of season 3 of Walking Dead.

It's good, but it has so many annoying characters.

pickarooney

Finished Southland - idiots didn't renew it or tell them it was cancelled in time to get closure...
Onto Deadwood now which is, of course, the same deal.

Grimebox

pickarooney wrote: »

Finished Southland - idiots didn't renew it or tell them it was cancelled in time to get closure...
Onto Deadwood now which is, of course, the same deal.

I literally just finsihed Deadwood. I'm mad for my TV shows these days

Molester Stallone

Wayne Rooney has today signed a 4 year extension at a reported £300,000 a week.
It's not so long ago (1994) when Chris Sutton caused consternation by becoming the first 10,000 a week footballer.
So his 5 year Blackburn career would be approx 8 weeks wages to Rooney........if only I hadn't been born with 2 left feet!

irishbucsfan

Molester Stallone wrote: »

Wayne Rooney has today signed a 4 year extension at a reported £300,000 a week.
It's not so long ago (1994) when Chris Sutton caused consternation by becoming the first 10,000 a week footballer.
So his 5 year Blackburn career would be approx 8 weeks wages to Rooney........if only I hadn't been born with 2 left feet!

Just to put that in perspective, adjusted for inflation Sutton's contract would be something like 16k per week.

Molester Stallone

I'm slightly bored tonight but is Jonah Lomu the only kiwi who has played more times, and scored more points for his country than he did in his entire Super rugby career?

.ak

awec wrote: »

I'm on the last episode of season 3 of Walking Dead.

It's good, but it has so many annoying characters.

It's the only tv series where I would be genuinely happy if they all died.

P.Walnuts

.ak wrote: »

It's the only tv series where I would be genuinely happy if they all died.

And then they could reanimate and be killed for a second time

chupacabra

He might be a slightly controversial poster. But I have to say Mahatma Geansai has one of the best usernames anywhere on the internet. Never fails to make me smile.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

chupacabra wrote: »

He might be a slightly controversial poster. But I have to say Mahatma Geansai has one of the best usernames anywhere on the internet. Never fails to make me smile.

...........................:mad:

Molester Stallone

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

...........................:mad:

That's how women look when they see my new name!

awec

Molester Stallone wrote: »

Wayne Rooney has today signed a 4 year extension at a reported £300,000 a week.
It's not so long ago (1994) when Chris Sutton caused consternation by becoming the first 10,000 a week footballer.
So his 5 year Blackburn career would be approx 8 weeks wages to Rooney........if only I hadn't been born with 2 left feet!

not a bad wage if you can get it!

Brian

On the subject of online TV watching, here's an interesting article suggesting that it's more enjoyable to watch the "good" shows well spaced out. http://www.tested.com/art/460180-argument-against-binge-watching-tv/

Hagz

Just finished watching the first episode of True Detective.

Please please please tell me it picks up in intensity and gets more entertaining. If you guys hadn't spoke so highly of it I wouldn't have carried on watching. Bored stiff.

Grimebox

Hagz wrote: »

Just finished watching the first episode of True Detective.

Please please please tell me it picks up in intensity and gets more entertaining. If you guys hadn't spoke so highly of it I wouldn't have carried on watching. Bored stiff.

duckysauce

Hagz wrote: »

Just finished watching the first episode of True Detective.

Please please please tell me it picks up in intensity and gets more entertaining. If you guys hadn't spoke so highly of it I wouldn't have carried on watching. Bored stiff.

Yep it's a slow burner , picks up each esp . Part 4 is nuts :cool:. If you don't like it by Esp 3 it's not for you . I am loving it best **** on the box

Hagz

Does it eventually stop

switching from the past to the scenes where they're in the interview rooms?

duckysauce

Hagz wrote: »

Does it eventually stop

switching from the past to the scenes where they're in the interview rooms?

you will have to wait and see

RuggieBear

Hagz wrote: »

Just finished watching the first episode of True Detective.

Please please please tell me it picks up in intensity and gets more entertaining. If you guys hadn't spoke so highly of it I wouldn't have carried on watching. Bored stiff.

That's pretty low mister. if i had a rubber hose...

.ak

Hagz wrote: »

Just finished watching the first episode of True Detective.

Please please please tell me it picks up in intensity and gets more entertaining. If you guys hadn't spoke so highly of it I wouldn't have carried on watching. Bored stiff.

Tbh it's a very, very dark, slow moving series. It's not your usual laugh a minute tv series. It's strengths lie in its incredible story line, grittiness, realism, superb acting and unbelievable cinematography.

To nick a rugby term used often: It's one for the purists.

Molester Stallone

Euro qualifiers we get Germany, Poland, Scotland Georgia & my fave Gibraltar.

pickarooney

Molester Stallone wrote: »

Euro qualifiers we get Germany, Poland, Scotland Georgia & my fave Gibraltar.

Where would we rate in that company?

Molester Stallone

pickarooney wrote: »

Where would we rate in that company?

We were second seeds for the draw. We are well behind Germany & on par with Poland.
Great to see Gibraltar get into the tourney though.

pickarooney

Do they have a big, no-nonsense centre half who's known as the Rock of Gibraltar?

Swiwi.

Shameless plug for NZ here lads. Start saving for the Lions Tour 2017! I'd forgotten how damn amazing NZ is in summer, sitting outside today with a cloudless sky, 25 degree sun, overlooking Lake Taupo. Then we're off to hawkes bay with wine, fresh fruit and more sunshine.

Lions with Schmidt in charge, a rugby knowledgeable (albeit completely biased) NZ public and a smashing country to visit between games, what's not to like?!

CatFromHue

The Lions tour is in Winter though :pac:

Grimebox

Hagz wrote: »

Does it eventually stop

switching from the past to the scenes where they're in the interview rooms?

I think in the newest episode it will reach the present day. I like the back and forth personally. It is a great way to put a believable narrator in place

Swiwi.

CatFromHue wrote: »

The Lions tour is in Winter though :pac:

Winter in NZ is like summer in Ireland...

.ak

Anyone here cycle heads? Anyone have experience with either Giant or Cube?

awec

.ak wrote: »

Anyone here cycle heads? Anyone have experience with either Giant or Cube?

I cycle.

Both are good as far as I know. Go to a bike shop (an actual bike shop - not Halfords) and ask someone in there. Get measured!

Assume this is road cycling?

I have a BH:

.ak

awec wrote: »

I cycle.

Both are good as far as I know. Go to a bike shop (an actual bike shop - not Halfords) and ask someone in there. Get measured!

Assume this is road cycling?

MTB hardtail actually, but will be using it for commuting too.

Funnily enough a lot of my friends swear by Giant, and over on the cycle forum people say giant are a good brand, but both bike shops I've been to have said to stay away from Giant, so that's why I was asking.

Gonna try and get into the store and try out both bikes, only thing is the Giant I'm looking for is special order so I'm taking a bit of a risk by going with that one... I'm leaning towards the giant though, online reviews are good.

awec

Mountain biking? Pfft.

Sure you don't even get an excuse to wear lycra doing that.

.ak

awec wrote: »

Mountain biking? Pfft.

Sure you don't even get an excuse to wear lycra doing that.

Can you even find lycra that's small enough to be tight on you? :pac:

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Week two of GVT starting tonight. Worst DOM's of my life from last week. It really is tough

.ak

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

Week two of GVT starting tonight. Worst DOM's of my life from last week. It really is tough

Ha, you sure they're DOMs and you just haven't pulled everything?