The Television Thread

[ArrozConLeche]

Oh yeah, they're fucking dirt.

One thing I really like about the series, though, small as it is, is that many of the Spanish speaking actors speak with credible Colombian accents.

One thing that I could never get past in Scarface and Carlito's Way, great as they are, is the cuban and puerto rican accents by Pacino. In Scarface, it makes the movie veer into campiness for me.

[Spike]

Back in the 80's, when roughly half of all mindless action films involved Russians I couldn't watch a damn thing without my pop dropping in and commenting on the terrible misuse of the Russian language.

Though he oddly never commented on any of the other languages he spoke just as well...  No no... I think he may have commented on German once.  

But Russian? Every. Damn. Time.


Mind you: We were not Russian... or if we were he owed me a big fat explanation for why I wasn't doing cool spy shit every day.

[Voros]

Oh yeah, they're fucking dirt.

One thing I really like about the series, though, small as it is, is that many of the Spanish speaking actors speak with credible Colombian accents.

One thing that I could never get past in Scarface and Carlito's Way, great as they are, is the cuban and puerto rican accents by Pacino. In Scarface, it makes the movie veer into campiness for me.

Scarface is camp unleashed.

[Dumarest]

The Orville has gotten better. It's essentially become Star Trek: The New Generation minus canon baggage plus some juvenile humor and less taking itself seriously. And I still think the first officer  is hot.

[Ratman_tf]

The Orville has gotten better. It's essentially become Star Trek: The New Generation minus canon baggage plus some juvenile humor and less taking itself seriously. And I still think the first officer  is hot.

I caught an episode over Thanksgiving dinner, and then watched the pilot when I got home.

...it's weird. I can't get over Seth McFarlane and the potty humor. It's not that I dislike potty humor, but it sticks out. Then again, I think the big draw of the show is that the crew are not shiny, polished people. They've got their quirks and issues and that makes them very human (even the non-humans) and relatable. We like them. So while I dislike potty humor in a TNG clone, I see the need for it... like I said, it's weird.

But it beats the fuck out of nuTrek. I don't even have any enthusiasm to try watching STD.

PS comparing the Orville beauty shots in the pilot to the shots of the Enterprise in Beyond, it's like night and day.

[Ratman_tf]

I'm about 6 episodes into The Orville. (We just watched the time traveler episode)

1. I agree with some of the interviews that McFarlane has done on the show. There's a sense of fun and optimism that sci-fi in general has missed, and The Orville is a breath of fresh air, ironically since it's returning to the TNG tropes to do it. I think it's a better take on where Trek could have gone instead of the current drama, angst, action stuff that bores me.
2. I am really starting to hate the ex-wife character. Not for anything she's done, but that it's the huge majority of the character. She's the ex-wife, we get it. Every goddamn episode. She seems to not have anything going for her except being his ex-wife. Give her something else to do once in a while, or get her off the show for fucks sake.
3. Building tension, pacing, all these things are handled really well in the show, compared to the nuTrek movies, which have awful pacing, and only rudamentary attempts to build tension. This is one of the big reasons why I've tuned out of Star Trek.

Good show. I have my complaints, but for a first season, and a huge risk, it seems to be paying off.

[Ratman_tf]

Just watched Majority Rule. I can see why the critics hate the show.

[Voros]

Watched the first few episodes of The Shannara Chronicles and I'm enjoying the teenage soap opera meets pacy science fantasy of it all. Also some good ringer character actors filling out the cast.

[Dumarest]

I am really starting to hate the ex-wife character. Not for anything she's done, but that it's the huge majority of the character. She's the ex-wife, we get it. Every goddamn episode. She seems to not have anything going for her except being his ex-wife. Give her something else to do once in a while, or get her off the show for fucks sake.

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How dare you, sir.

[Ratman_tf]

How dare you, sir.

Hey, I'm saying they should give the character more dimension.
Since then, there were two episodes, that didn't beat on the ex-wife angle, Majority Rule and Into the Fold. If they hadn't had those two episodes before Cupid's Dagger, I probably would have punched the TV.