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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: New TV Season
« Reply #120 on: April 29, 2022, 06:01:33 pm »
Sure she is…. 

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/i-can-t-believe-it-nova-scotia-s-mattea-roach-takes-her-18th-jeopardy-win-thursday-night-1.5881165

From NS, resides in Toronto.

I set a trap to laugh at myself.  See - I was wrong and I'm from Toronto get it ?  Ha ha.

Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #121 on: July 04, 2022, 08:53:02 am »
"Raised by Wolves"

Anyone ?  I watched it all but resentfully ... by the end.  The writing was bereft of discipline IMO.

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« Reply #122 on: August 22, 2022, 12:26:07 pm »
Anyone into House of the Dragon?

It's going to need a bit of runway to become the sensation Game of Thrones was. But it's got a good head start.
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« Reply #123 on: August 22, 2022, 12:44:47 pm »
Anyone into House of the Dragon?

It's going to need a bit of runway to become the sensation Game of Thrones was. But it's got a good head start.
One of my co-worker’s said that it was really good.  But I’m also gonna wait a few weeks or so.

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« Reply #124 on: August 22, 2022, 12:48:47 pm »
Anyone into House of the Dragon?

It's going to need a bit of runway to become the sensation Game of Thrones was. But it's got a good head start.

Gonna have to work pretty hard to make up for the disaster GoT ended up being. I don't think there's been a bigger bag fumble in TV history than D&D tanking that show.

Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: New TV Season
« Reply #125 on: September 27, 2022, 10:19:13 am »
lists lists lists - I have seen 77 of these and only missed to of the top ones: Atlanta and The Americans

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Re: New TV Season
« Reply #126 on: January 23, 2023, 08:23:32 am »
Sad sad weekend for Cowboys and Bills fans especially... like my neighbour and me...

The upstart teams of the season (including a superbowl team from last year?) came through.

Next... Daytona 500.   Do I know ANY drivers ???

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« Reply #127 on: January 23, 2023, 09:53:19 am »
I am a Titans fan first (Music City Miracle is where it began) and Bills fan second.  The NFL is over for the year, as far as I'm concerned now.

On a positive note, The Last of Us on HBO/Crave is very good. 
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« Reply #128 on: January 23, 2023, 10:14:51 am »
On a positive note, The Last of Us on HBO/Crave is very good. 

Maybe it was the hype, but I was let down. The first episode in particular felt very network TV if you know what I mean. I really hated the cold open explaining the nature of the fungus and spelling out how it could evolve to people. That said, episode 2 was a big improvement.

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« Reply #129 on: January 23, 2023, 11:04:05 am »
Maybe it was the hype, but I was let down. The first episode in particular felt very network TV if you know what I mean. I really hated the cold open explaining the nature of the fungus and spelling out how it could evolve to people.

I didn't really like the cold open either, but a lot of TV-watchers (or readers for that matter) get annoyed if things aren't explained to them right away and they can't just go with the flow.  I remember how many people complained about the Witcher and how the different timelines were running concurrently.  I thought it was a cool device.  Lots of people were just confused.

Anyways, the first episode of the Last of Us was great other than that, practically following the opening of the game shot-for-shot.  Video game adaptations have always been garbage in the past and this seems like a case where they finally figured it out. 

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« Reply #130 on: January 23, 2023, 11:16:27 am »
I didn't really like the cold open either, but a lot of TV-watchers (or readers for that matter) get annoyed if things aren't explained to them right away and they can't just go with the flow.  I remember how many people complained about the Witcher and how the different timelines were running concurrently.  I thought it was a cool device.  Lots of people were just confused.

Anyways, the first episode of the Last of Us was great other than that, practically following the opening of the game shot-for-shot. Video game adaptations have always been garbage in the past and this seems like a case where they finally figured it out.

I think my one other beef is that it follows the game too closely, and I say that has someone who has played TLOU through at least three times. As you say there's a lot of scenes that are lifted straight from the game which I think is lazy, but I do get why they do it.

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« Reply #131 on: January 23, 2023, 11:27:28 am »
I am a Titans fan first (Music City Miracle is where it began) and Bills fan second.  The NFL is over for the year, as far as I'm concerned now.

On a positive note, The Last of Us on HBO/Crave is very good.

Watched Ep 1.

Didn't like.

I'll refrain from ridiculing it but I really really didn't like it.

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« Reply #132 on: January 23, 2023, 11:34:06 am »
This scene was shot right in front of my old office, so that's kinda cool.


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« Reply #133 on: January 23, 2023, 03:12:41 pm »
This scene was shot right in front of my old office, so that's kinda cool.



Pretty cool effects to change it all up.  NGL I am a fanboy for the source material. 

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« Reply #134 on: January 23, 2023, 03:18:36 pm »
Pretty cool effects to change it all up.  NGL I am a fanboy for the source material.

Me every time I see a location I recognize on this show: