Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[zhijinghaofromchina]

These days I am watching House M.D. and I am totally addictive to it .Hugh Laurie 's  acting styles awed me a lot . According to the audience 's reviews , it is the doctor version of Sherlock Holmes , the doctor finding clues , building logic chains , exploring the flaws of humanity and unmask the lies the patient told .

Though it is a tv show released in 2004, I can't deny that it's far more exciting than the most contemporary Chinese TV shows . Firstly I got to know this Tv show was only because my medical English teacher played one excerpt of it , in which the famale patient was got into an emergency , and the docter perfomed a tracheotomy surgery on her ,which makes it even more realistic and exciting , that attracts me .

[Starver]

I'm wondering whether you're able to watch Blackadder. Just to see another end of Hugh's range. You'd really have to get  hold of the "... Third" or "... Goes Forth" series(es), where his (two) primary character(s are/)is totally unlike House. Maybe won't translate (or he comprehendable) that much, dealing with Regency and WW1-era British(-Trenches) settings, through a 1980s'-era comedy lens, but...  Just a suggestion[1].



Also he's a pretty very good musician (and vocalist), especially towards jazz/blues and piano in general. I've not seen enough House to know if they got that skill into the character's repertoir, too.

You've got me wondering if there's anywhere I could easily get to see House, now, as I don't know what channel(s) it originally showed on, in the UK, but I never did seem to reliably follow it at the time. US show, so probably hundreds of episodes, huge plot arcs and (non-headline-)character development/turnover, and needs tlme to watch from the start again.


[1] I'd recommend Blackadder, in general, to people. Interested to know how they work outside of Britain, in fact... Might be challenging or a workable 'lowest common denominator', if not both.

Spoiler: Viewing 'guide' (click to show/hide)

Maybe (initially?) ignore the first series ("The Blackadder"), as it is a whole set of 'Early Installment Weirdness'. The second ("Blackadder The Second") hit the stride that the rest generally followed.

And no real need to watch any of them in chronological order. Or, within each series/season, except that the last of each set of six (six half-hours... wouldn't be difficult to binge-watch, not much more than a single longish movie!) tends to thoroughly end the setting, so end on that. Especially in "...Goes Forth", if you get that far.

The two main standalone 'episodes' ("... Christmas Carol" and "...Back And Forth") don't really need any particular position, except that it particularly helps to already know the Blackadder character (and others, or their transposed actors) from the second run or later, or it may seem even more random!

[hector13]

Hugh Laurie is also in the final episode of the second series of Blackadder, in which he plays a German particularly skilled in disguises.

[Starver]

Hugh Laurie is also in the final episode of the second series of Blackadder, in which he plays a German particularly skilled in disguises.

Fanon might also wonder whether Prince Ludwig The Indestructible (that character) also was in 'disguise', in-universe, as an drinking chum of 'Bladders' in the prior episode with the Whiteadders/Drinking party plot. Apart from the fact that it would be a bold master of disguise who disguises himself as a slightly more mundane version of himself. Instead of a sheep. 

But both are one-shot characters, unlike his Georges. Perhaps Ludwig is more House-ish, but a different different accent, while the drinker arguably isn't even one of the most outstanding 'drunken drunker', consider it more a rewatch-bonus. Ludwig 'eats the scenery' quite a lot (not quite so much as Lord Flashheart... but that's practically impossible to do!), so yes, B2 is already worth watching (IMO), but the finale is a particular treat for any Laurie-spotters out there.


(For those with access to BBC Sounds, or equivalent, him and Fry (and others) have recently been on Radio 4 Extra, with the old "Saturday Night Fry" series. Might be that only the last two or three are still 'available', if they're on the usual four-week backlist. Anyway, it's him more in his general George (prince or lieutenant) 'default', amidst the typical Fry-And-Laurie intellectual chaos.)


Ok, I'm going to now have to dig out the Blackadder VHSs and rewatch them, so as to make this not as off-topic as I may have sent it.

[hector13]

I had forgotten he was in that episode, mostly because it was entirely stolen h the excellent Miriam Margoyles. Two spikes would be an extravagance.

Blackadder is on a few streaming services, including BritBox, though I’m not sure if that’s available in the UK, though since it’s a streaming service between ITV and the Beeb I would be surprised if it wasn’t.

I did also watch it recently so it’s not that off-topic, along with The Thick of It and I’m working my way through the newer Red Dwarf stuff I didn’t see when I was still back in the UK.

[EuchreJack]

Blackadder: The show in which Rowan Atkinson is actually a decent actor.

Huge Laurie's success is often cited as the primary reason that we'll never get another Blackadder.

[Starver]

(There is a specific 'Trek thread, I'm sure, but it looks like it's long enough back in the board timeline as to be a significant Necro, so gave up looking for it... Not that I'm currently able to watch any of these new-fangled spinoffs, either.)

Scottish Scotty's not a scot-ish Scot, eh?

[Funk]

Fallout.
Its much better then halo at takeing its world and useing it, sets are great and there a real feel that it is set in a fallout wasteland.

[Eschar]

Watched first 2 Fallout episodes, agreed with Funk.

[Folly]

I feel like Fallout works better as a TV show than it did as video games. The worldbuilding and storytelling was always the strong point of the games, with actual gameplay being clunky and often tedious.

I enjoyed the show, though some of the game elements didn't translate very well. In a world where stimpaks are a magical cure-all that is commonly available, it doesn't really make sense that so many people are bleeding out from stabs and gunshot wounds.

The stuff in Vault 4 left me very confused at first; I had to read a summary of the episode before some parts clicked. It didn't help that they were simultaneously exploring the Cult of Shady Sands and the Mutants, when the two were actually unrelated. But mostly the exposition describing the Mutant's past just wasn't handled in a way that was clear to me.

I do feel like the big reveal of the origin of the Vaults came a bit too soon. They could easily have pushed that back to Season 2, giving us something to look forward to. Now I have a hard time imagining how they'll keep things interesting moving forward, but hopefully they'll figure something out.

[Jopax]

Spoiler:  some Fallout spoilers I guess (click to show/hide)

My main problem with the show is how it never feels like a real world in terms of locations or a sense of place. It never feels like the characters are moving from one place to another, it always feels like actors walking from one random setpiece to another. Doesn't help that they're all seemingly a random jumble of desert wasteland, city wasteland and suddenly heavily forested wasteland.

Other than that, cast was damn good, story was mostly fine, I do agree that they kinda blew their load a bit soon when it comes to the big mystery, especially coming at it from three sides, like they didn't trust the audience to figure it out if it wasn't super obvious and spelled out. Just having one or maybe two of the characters get the reveal with a third left for season two would've been enough I think.

Also agreed on the Vault 4 bit, the cult never amounted to anything and felt pretty superfluous to what I'd consider the point of the episode (all vaults are different and fucked up in their own unique ways). It happens and is never explained, or explored further. Ditto for the Moldaver lady, she's talked up but never really does anything of note? Her connection to the cult, or the origin of the name is just never mentioned, and since she apparently gets offed in the last episode it doesn't really matter anymore I guess? Also is she a ghoul or something? I guess she could've been cryoed, but that's kinda hard to think since she was so opposed to Vault-Tec. But the only logical explanation is that she's a ghoul like Cooper, except she looks nothing like them.

[StrawBarrel]

Wild Ireland: Kingdom of Stone | Full Episode | NATURE | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GxuHYMMLQ

It was nice to learn about how the Burren was created by prehistoric Irish people cutting down the trees.
The Burren seems to be home to many rare creatures such as the pine marten.
The spider attacking the bee was a rather violent scene.
Overall this was a fine Nature episode.

edit june 20 Thursday
Modern Marvels: How Corn Fuels America (S13, E39) | Full Episode | History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2KD08JSSQ
This was a fine look into the different aspects of US corn in the year 2007.

[McTraveller]

I'm finally watching Picard.  Only 5 episodes in.

Interesting take on the Trek universe.  So far more compelling than many of the other modern installments.  It's a little too "edgy" though - it has lost that sense of post-scarcity bravado and optimism that permeated the OG and TNG.

I think it's suffering from reflecting how society is at the moment too much - like "we had this great thing, then lost it" which the earlier series didn't have - they were more like "we can keep this great thing as long as we're diligent" and it was more inspiring.

While an interesting show so far, it doesn't feel like it's inspiring.

Spoiler: edit (click to show/hide)

"They let us go, it's probably a trick."
"Eh, they'll have to catch me first."

Why do modern writers make characters so dumb?

[Folly]

I recently finished watching Dark Matter, an Apple TV show about a man with an idea of how to open doors to alternate realities. This protagonist chooses to shelve his idea, and focus on his family instead. Unfortunately, in another universe he chose to focus on his work, and now this dimension-hopping variant is having regrets about the path not taken...

Much of this show was predictable and unoriginal, but held my interest with exciting action and intriguing exploration. The story did take an interesting twist towards the end however.

Minor plot holes and unresolved threads aside, I found this show reasonably enjoyable. While a second season has not been ruled out, the first season had a tidy resolution and there's really no need to continue.

[ChairmanPoo]

Is it based on a comic? That sounds familiar