That will be interesting but yeah I'd give it half season at most. Fans will be spitting chips if it's any longer and showrunners do actually care what the fans think and cater to them. Daryl and Glenn are the most obvious examples of fans winning.

I'd like to think that's the case with Negan but I think it'll be two seasons at most, also there'll be quite a number of episodes without him/most likely flash back or focusing on boring side characters, because it's three films a year; Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Solid and promising premiere for Penny Dreadful, can't wait to see where this goes.

Wow, new season already? I feel like I just watched the last season. Guess I was pretty late on that. It's a fairly solid show, though there are a few story arcs in it I don't really care about as much, but it's basically like nothing else on TV so that's a pretty big pull.

Coming close to finishing up Star Trek: TNG. I'll probably take a break to watch through some other stuff before jumping into another long Trek series, but I've really, really enjoyed this one.

They really need to make GOT have a two hour season premiere. Wouldve been more effective, imo.

After seeing the second GoT episode...

I felt that

Still, a promising start! I am now rooting for Vanessa's happiness and I look forward to her "therapy" sessions. Man, I never thought I'd say this but therapy sessions sure can make for exciting TV. That doctor was badass.

It's a callback to what he did to Robb, almost the exact same scenario.

Good news about Penny Dreadful. Apart from the Frankenstein/Clare arc, I really like that show.

Daredevil, however, is going terribly. I'm only a couple episodes in, and I'm not sure I'm gonna make it. After watching this and Arrow, a phrase I'm officially sick of hearing is "this city."

What did I say about my fears of an emotive Frank Castle? Very no.

I loved Daredevil season one and two, so glad they went with the direction they are going in. It's too bad you didn't enjoy it as much as mostly everyone else who watched it. I am so glad Frank Castle is emotive and not some stone-faced robot.

I thought Daredevil season 1 was fucking awesome. Season 2 had some problems, mostly just how much plot they tried to cram in - I think they could've used more episodes actually. But it was worthwhile to watch and I appreciated the ultraviolent action and the ambitious scope - even if they didn't quite pull it off, it was admirable. Looking forward to season 3.

I'm excited to see what this Punisher series is going to be like. What was on that CD at the end of Daredevil S2? Can't wait to find out!

I haven't laughed this hard after watching the latest 'Silicon Valley' episode.

That last scene killed me.

Penny Dreadful....

Holy shit, I didn't notice who that is until you mentioned it. Yeah, it's a bit disappointing in a way, he seemed like he would've been a cool character on his own too.

^That's a nice spoiler there, congrats asshat.


By the way I personally already knew but that was directed for and by the people who didn't.

Jeez, thanks Az.

Now that I'm finished all of TNG (which was amazing, btw) I've been working my way through all of the Mitchell and Webb sketch show stuff. It's mostly pretty good, though sometimes they choose recurring sketches that I just don't think really deserved to come back more than once. The Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is mostly not that funny, same with Numberwang. Well I mean, they were funny once, but I dunno how I feel about them recurring as often as they do.

After that I'll watch the TNG cast Trek movies before catching up on Better Call Saul and Vikings before jumping into DS9.

You're right that Mitchell and Webb aren't always great, but when they're great, they're FUCKING GREAT, BY VECTRON'S KINDLY CLAW!

Sort of a "greatest hits" type sketch comedy show. A lot of them are. As great as they were, Kids in the Hall had some recurring sketches too that I just couldn't stand, like the chicken lady. Ugh, so awful, and she came back like 50 times.

I think the Snooker sketches were the only recurring ones I didn't like pretty much across the board.

Haha yeah, that Hit and Miss sketch was great stuff. I kind of like the snooker ones. They're not belly-laughs or anything but just kind of endearing I guess.

I binge-watched season 1 of The Girlfriend Experience. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3846642/ not what I expected at all, but really good. Riley Keough is an unbelievable actress. the last episode is the weirdest thing I've seen in a long, long time...

Hmm, dunno if I should post this here or the movie thread, but I'll post it here.

Since finishing all of the magnificent Star Trek: TNG, I also watched the four TNG-cast movies. Honestly I was kind of disappointed with how undisappointing they were. The first was alright, kind of felt like a long episode of the show, and really highlighted to me how much better Picard is than Kirk as a standalone character. Kirk's just not really that interesting without acting as the force of moderation between Bones and Spock, and his womanizing and swashbuckling are less compelling when he's old as shit. First Contact I thought was actually pretty damn good, easily the best of these and probably in my top 3 or 4 Trek films. The third one was pretty forgettable but not bad overall, basically like another long episode of the show. I was hoping for an absolute shitshow for Nemesis but I didn't really get it. While the plot itself was stupid as fuck* I couldn't help but like some of the acting performances enough to get some enjoyment out of it. Ron Perlman was underutilized but Tom Hardy was pretty solid I thought. I was also hoping the effects would feel more Sci-Fi Original Movie than they did so it was merely bad and not "hahahaha Battlefield Earth!" bad.

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Yeah First Contact is good. For a "movie that's basically a long episode" I think Insurrection is pretty good.

I'm in season 2 of DS9, been skipping the Ferengi and some other lame episodes, pretty good when I'm only watching the quality episodes!

Finally finished Season 5 of Louie. What a great show. I hope he makes more - I had forgotten exactly how funny, creative and original this whole series was.

Oh, speaking of Trek, the first teaser for the new series is out which APPARENTLY also reveals when the series will be set:



And yeah, First Contact was by far the best of the TNG movies, even if about 90% of the dialog is cringe-inducing, "THE REPORTS OF MY ASSIMILATION HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED."

Those Ferengi episodes are indeed crap, mostly. DS9 is very hit or miss, but the high points are fantastic.

I'm also gonna skip the fuck out of those cringe-y Kira/Odo romance episodes. Emo Odo is ugh.

Fuck you guys, Quark is the best! I bet you guys don't even know all the Rules of Acquisition. SHAME!

@Game of Thrones, s06e05

I like Quark but the Grand Nagus and Rom and Nog and pretty much all other Ferengi can stick the Rules of Acquisition up their lil rodent asses.

There's what, like two of those in the whole 7 seasons?

Also, the Ferengi rule, I laugh my ass off every time, and annoy the fuck out of my girlfriend with my Grand Nagus impersonation. Sure they're silly but there's what, one or two per 26-episode season? Y'all are like princesses and peas with that shit. Every "romance" episode and every "Ferengi" episode combined is maybe, MAYBE 20 episodes total, out of nearly 200. Compare that to season 1 and 2 of TNG, which are about 75% crap, and it's not even close. Or how about the 50% of TOS episodes that are shit? And let's not even compare it to Voyager.

Moogi is the best female characters of the entire series!

I don't remember how many there are and I don't think it's that big a deal cuz I'll be skippin em

Is it really just called "Star Trek"? I hate modern film/tv show titles, I really do.

After much deliberation I hear the Blade Runner sequel is called Blade Runner.

Yeah, but you also thought Rygel XVI's helium excretions were funny. Although The Magnificent Ferengi was probably the best comedy episode in all of Star Trek, for whatever that's worth.

Voyager's first season was actually pretty decent though, probably the best first season of a Trek show besides Enterprise. Season 2 and 3 were rough, but Bryan Fuller and Michael Taylor joined at the start of Season 4 and it was pretty smooth sailing from that point on.

As bad as some Voyager episodes were, at least there wasn't an entire 46-minute episode near the apex of a devastating interstellar war where the main cast go to the holodeck to play fucking baseball against some vulcans.

Or sing Kum Ba Yah with a Sinatra impersonator on every other episode including the series finale.

Or introduce an entirely new character and desperately try to make you care about her by giving her a bunch of lame "drama" episodes during what's supposed to be the climax of a massive war.


When DS9 was good it was great (section 31? inner-workings of the dominion/cardassian alliance? anything Kira?) but there was just too much bad to make it worth going through again for me, and not nearly enough nostalgia. Same goes for Babylon 5.

I'm cross-checking these guides to figure out which episodes to watch:

http://www.puffin.net/projects/geek/ds9.htm

http://www.geek.com/news/star-trek-deep ... k-1613741/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstit ... nguide_ds9

as well as imdb scores of episodes occasionally. It's been working pretty well so far. I remember good/bad eps too sometimes, that helps.

New Game of Thrones was great. First time though that I REALLY felt that we've now gone past the books. I had already made my mind of continuing with the show and not wait for Martin (and I am glad I did) but yesterday it hit home that the (future) books are effectively ruined.

Also, I think I just saw the best episode of Penny Dreadful so far. Always liked the show but yesterday's was like on a whole other level. The minimal nature of it helped a lot too.

Oh, Trek question: is there any reason to alternate seasons/episodes of DS9 and Voyager, or can I safely just watch all of DS9 first then switch over?

Definitely the latter, Voyager takes place in an entirely different quadrant.

Alright, cool. I did that hopping back and forth when I watched Buffy and Angel and while the interplay between the two series was interesting, it was also kind of tedious to play episodes in order.