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manxman

01-14-2010, 11:03 AM

List your favorites, past and present, cause if it's great, we can buy the DVD box set. Also, feel free to recommend new shows that will appear in the future (once they debut and you like the series, let us know about it).

Premium Channel Limited Series:

Deadwood for Old West fans- buy the set (3 seasons- fantastic series)
Rome two seasons- buy the set
Carnivale- The best "weird fiction good vs. evil" ever on TV. Two seasons- BUY THE SET if this is your interest. My favorite premium channel series of all time!
The Tudors- new season coming soon.
True Blood- new season coming soon
Dexter- new season coming soon
Big Love- new season coming in a few weeks

OK, some of my favorite weekly shows-

Battlestar Galactica This great series had a five year run- one of the best ever. When the price comes down a bit, I will buy the DVD Blu Ray boxed set. As previously mentioned, "Caprica" is the new series coming in a few weeks on the Sci-Fi Channel, and is a prequel.

Top Gear
Sons of Anarchy
Lost
24
Heroes
Supernatural
Burn Notice
Damages
Leverage
Survivor
Breaking Bad
Flash Forward
Primeval
Sanctuary
Saving Grace
The Closer
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Fringe
The Closer
V (if this one ever comes back on TV after the first 2-3 weeks run from last year)
Numbers
Eastwick
CSI & CSI Miami
Dark Blue
United States of Tara

Canceled series that I will greatly miss:

Torchwood
Life
Journeyman
Battlestar Galactica

claymore

01-14-2010, 10:58 PM

I really get a kick out of Americas Favorite Home videos. It comes on here late about 1 am and my wife has asked me a couple of times what the heck were you laughing about last night while I was sleeping. Ends the day on a happy note.

Deadwood was great but it ended here awhile back do they have new episodes?

Entourage is pretty good Kevin Dillon makes the show with his dumbness.

claymore

01-27-2010, 07:39 AM

claymore

01-27-2010, 07:40 AM

Also enjoy MMA shows. We get UFC about a year behind or so we are getting ufc 103 now. We also get extreme cagefighting, and one more I forget the name of.

manxman

01-27-2010, 12:32 PM

You guys still get "Dead like me"? We had it for awhile and even a movie version then it went away but it's baaaccckkk. Show cracks me up. It's more about the characters than what is going on in the show.
My wife and I never missed an episode of that one! Unfortunately, it was canceled at the end of the second season. Several of the cast members have shown up in movies or visitors to other series, but I have not seen the young blonde main character actress (named Ellen Muth). They did make a follow-up movie about six months ago "Still Dead", in which the blonde girl was able to interact with, and be seen by, her sister.

The motherly older actress who played the manager of the temp. agency was next a cast member in a series called "Reaper" that lasted two seasons. In this, the older actress played a demon, working for the Devil, as a Department of Motor Vehicles (CA) employee.

claymore

01-27-2010, 11:47 PM

The devil working at DMV just might be true:rolleyes:

manxman

02-19-2010, 09:39 PM

For claymore, and anyone else interested in some real events of WWII battle, this series is the experiences of three real U.S. Marines who fought in most of the major battles on the Japanese-held Pacific islands of Guadalcanal, rain forests of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

As with the spectacular Airborne Infantry mini series of about 8 years ago, Band of Brothers, this new series is also produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Speieberg, and the three real Marines who are played by actors give interviews during the series. One of the characters in the stories is Robert Leckie, and when he returned from the war, he wrote the book that was used to develop the miniseries (Helmet for My Pillow).

If you are interested in the real heroes who helped to win the war, you will be interested in this. But be warned, the war in the Pacific was a horrible experience for every person who was there. This series will be very realistic.

claymore

02-20-2010, 12:25 AM

claymore

02-21-2010, 12:24 AM

Just watched a 2 1/2 men the episode where Alan gets zapped by a defensive woman's hand held zapper and the kid gets drunk for the first time. Was sitting on the couch with tears rolling down my face it was so funny.

manxman

02-21-2010, 10:07 AM

Yep been waiting for this to start. My father was there for some of the 5th Marines battles. He said being thirsty was worse than getting shot at. The real Marines that were there were really really pissed off at the Navy for running away with the supplies for the Marines. It gets glossed over in movies and history but the Real Marines there were so mad they would have shot the squids involved if they had the chance.:mad:
My dad was Army Air Corps, and the Marines starving and out of ammo because the Navy was too scared to bring in supplies was one of his stories that he heard in a German POW camp. He told me about it to illustrate how screwed up war is- not the adventures that you see in the movies.

claymore

02-22-2010, 10:13 PM

Just saw the episode on "My name is Earl" where Randy had a girlfriend way back when he was a kid and naturally Earl scared her off. Randy has been dreaming of her for his whole life and it turns out to be Joy. Crazy stuff

claymore

05-08-2010, 08:22 AM

Not sure which place to put this one as it's a TV show and a movie.

"The Pacific" I'm conflicted by this one. If I hadn't read Tom Hanks skanky comments that "we are all racists and were just killing japs because they were different than us" it would sit better as this was my fathers experience he lived this shit.

But watching it now it becomes very obvious Hanks and Spielbergs intention to make Marines out as racist indiscriminate killers. Their focus on the actions of the weirdo less desirable depictions of Marines is despicable.

The production makes use of all the latest technology but they make it very plain to see many many purposeful mistakes in military conduct and equipment to fulfill their left wing agenda.

There has been an explosion on military forum boards tasking them to task for this travesty. I happened to have met Dale Dye the military adviser for this production several times back at the beginning of my "contractor" days as we ran in the same circles so I sent him an email and he responded.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-1/1135975/dale.JPG

On the boards he tried to say that he did the best he could with what he had but had to fight with hanks and spielberg to get it as close to the truth as possible but they fought him and of course they won.

If you are interested in military history look up some military boards and there is a section on The Pacific on most of them and NONE are in favor of this series.

manxman

05-08-2010, 10:15 AM

Well, I didn't expect "the plain truth" from Hollywood. In this miniseries, they succeeded in making the war in the Pacific the meat grinder that it was. Peleilu did appear to be hell on earth. But for story telling of real events, Hanks and Speilberg's previous miniseries about the European Theater, "Band of Brothers" was much, much better.

I believe the comment "we were all racists" to be true. To be capable of killing other human beings day after day, year after year, and still consider yourself to be human, most of the warriors on all sides had to consider the enemy to be sub-human monsters. The propaganda machines of all governments in the war were used to that effect. Look at any of the war posters that were displayed everywhere in the U.S. and see how Japanese and Germans were depicted. Then look at similar posters that were used in those countries depicting Americans and British forces. Same exact distortions.

My dad didn't have to see his own work up close. As the pilot of a B-17, he dropped death and destruction on total strangers every day. The propaganda used on bomber and fighter pilots was a lot trickier. They were shown photos and films of the atrocity victims of the ground fighting. They still had to consider their targets to be monsters in order to complete their missions. If they had a successful bombing run and didn't get shot down, they killed thousands of people and destroyed entire cities in five minutes of work.

Trying to turn true, documented WWII events into entertainment without distortion is an impossibility. There is nothing entertaining about wholesale murder on a world wide scale. The liberal politics of the producers of "The Pacific" come through loud and clear in this series, but they succeeded in showing some of the horror of war, and some of the true heroism of the participants.

Speilberg and Hanks couldn't put any more truth into this series and still have any sponsors, or TV viewers, to pay the bills and generate profit. This was not advertised as a documentary.

P.s.

The sheer hell that all of the Marines fighting in the Pacific theater had to endure, for year after year as depicted in this miniseries, gives you a pretty good idea of what causes PTSD, and gave returning war Vets nightmares for decades afterward. My dad was a German POW for the last six months of the war. Many of his fellow prisoners had been there for YEARS. When they were liberated by the Russians, the U.S. Gov't. offered no psychological treatment for PTSD. What they did was to force all liberated pilots to tour Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka, and other concentration camps to see the piles of human bones, gas chambers, ovens, etc.

The unspoken warning was: "Don't even think of complaining about how bad your conditions were. Just look at what these poor bastards had to live with!".

claymore

05-21-2010, 12:33 AM

I started watching "The Colony' thinking it was going to be another funky "lost" show but it turns out to be a pretty interesting situation. I enjoy them coming up with all improvised stuff to make life easier. I think I would be the cranky old mechanic type guy that is always fixing stuff or making stuff out of old parts in this kind of situation.

manxman

05-21-2010, 01:39 PM

I have not heard about that show. Is this brand new or old, and produced in the U.S. or foreign (like BBC) ??

claymore

05-22-2010, 01:23 AM

It's here on discovery channel and made in the USA for sure. They are trapped in a giant warehouse loaded with "Stuff" and it's like after a nuke blast or something. They go out once in awhile to get water from a local river. They get hassled by some bikers and food stolen etc and they have to cope.

Limited gasoline and they hook up a cars generator to charge batteries to an old lawnmower type engine and since they don't have enough fuel they do like the people in WWII did and converted the engine to run on fumes from burning wood. they make a radio to broadcast and a receiver to see if anybody is out there.

To purify water they make an ozone generator which is pretty neat.

It's kind of like survivor but nobody gets voted out.

jd636

07-01-2010, 01:03 PM

Past

24 - watched every episode from the pilot to the finale

Current

Criminal minds
Warehouse 13
Eureka
Sanctuary
NCIS
NCIS Los Angeles
Ghost Whisperer
Top Gear

manxman

07-01-2010, 01:51 PM

Past

24 - whached every episode from the pilot to the finale

Current

Criminal minds
Warehouse 13
Eureka
Sanctuary
NCIS
NCIS Los Angeles
Ghost Whisperer
Top Gear
One day, I will post a LOOOONNNGGG list of my favorite shows. I have two satellite DVRs and never miss anything out of 50 shows or more, though sometimes it takes months to catch up on some things. I hate it that "24" is gone (wait for the movie that is in production!). It's GREAT that Eureka and Warehouse 13 are coming back to SciFi. BTW, for fans of ShowTime's Dexter series, Micheal C. Hall (Dexter), and Jennifer Carpenter (Debra, Dexter's sister in the show) are actually married in real life.

sooznd

07-01-2010, 02:28 PM

Some Favorites-

Six Feet Under (this is my favorite of all TV series)
Dexter
Fringe--several excellent episodes
V (1980's mini-series) --just bough these on amazon a couple months ago--love it!
the new V series - Anna is great---so reptilean
The 4400 (I hate that this ended w/o resolution)
Jericho
Medium--great acting
Rescue Me
Damages
X Files
Star Trek the Next Generation (imo- the best of all the Star Trek series)

Comedy

The Office (always funny!)
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond
New Adventures of Old Christine

I don't get any premium channels--so get to see the HBO or Showtime series via Netflix (often years later...ha!)

I enjoy Sci Fi & thriller shows--never got into Lost or Heroes, though.

claymore

07-15-2010, 09:49 AM

Started watching a new one here called "Justified" on AXN. Great show about a Deputy US Marshall that shoots everybody part serious part comedic but great fun.

manxman

07-15-2010, 10:11 AM

Yep! This is one of my new favorites- great cast. Timothy Oliphant plays the Marshall, and he became famous in his first major role as the Sheriff in the HBO series "Deadwood" about 5 years ago. Oliphant was also in the cast of "Damages". The actor who plays the Marshall's father is also very good- best "sleazeball" con-man character I have seen in years. Here in the U.S. this is on the FX (Div. of Fox) channel.

claymore

07-15-2010, 11:22 AM

Yep he is great the part fits him real good both guys. We have been getting ads for the "new season" saying he's going to loose his hat and clean up his act that would be a shame.

Forgot about deadwood that's where he is familiar from. Deadwood was a great show in my opinion.

manxman

07-15-2010, 05:19 PM

I have not visited a video store to rent a tape or DVD since I canceled my cable TV service and got Satellite TV about 12 years ago. So, I don't know whether or not you can rent DVD copies of various seasons of HBO or Showtime series.

If you can rent season by season DVD copies of premium channel series, I recommend that anyone who has not seen them try to rent the following historical fact/fiction epics. If you cannot rent them, and have to buy them instead, you won't regret the purchase and will enjoy enlightening your friends for years to come:

Dexter- a psychotic serial killer hunts the criminals while working for the Miami P.D. as the "blood spatter" specialist forensic investigator. Stars Micheal C. Hall from Six Feet Under. Four seasons in the can so far, and I can't wait for more. Exceptional TV in every regard.

Deadwood- (HBO) 3 seasons about the real North Dakota town made infamous in the late 1800's, where Wild Bill Hickock was killed. An absolutely killer cast. After about 8 years since this series ended, I sill miss the characters. Living here would be hell on earth

Rome- (HBO) a great story about the times of Julius Ceasar- very bloody, sexy and exciting with exceptionally great writing and acting, with a lot of historical accuracy.

Spartacus, Blood and Sand- similar description as the above, about the Roman slave trade and the Gladiators. There may not be a second season, because the actor who plays Spartacus has a very deadly form of cancer and may not survive to make a second season.

Carnivale (HBO) (made about 8-10 years ago) a haunted side show that travels the mid-West dust bowl area during the 1930's. Good vs. evil with Clancy Brown as a possessed tent revival preacher. A very atmospheric and spooky story with exceptional writing, acting, and cinematography. One of the best casts in TV history. The actor who plays the dwarf who runs the side show is riveting, and I haven't seen him in anything since this series ended (too early- it needed a final season to clarify everything else).

The Tudors- (HBO)- the reign of King Henry VIII. Absolutely riveting over five seasons. Writing, acting cast, directing, all perfect.

New series of note:

Memphis Beat- stars Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl) as an Elvis impersonator-Memphis cop. Good.

The Bridge- a really good, realistic, cop show. Stars the guy who played "the Chief" in Battlestar Galactica. So much detail in each episode, you really have to pay attention. One of the most exciting new shows of the summer season.

Rizzoli and Isles- Angie Harmon as a detective, and Sasha Alexander (Kate on the first season of NCIS) as a Medical Examiner in the Boston P.D. The first episode was absolutely fantastic. Pretty gritty stuff for a female buddy-cop show.

claymore

07-15-2010, 10:19 PM

We just started getting Spratacus Blood & sand. I was surfing and saw the name and thought what the heck is this another remake of the original or what. Tuned in and watched one episode so far.

manxman

07-15-2010, 10:47 PM

Keep watching- it gets better with each episode. Politics, skullduggery, and slaves fighting for their freedom. Lots of naked ladies, and everybody gets what he/she deserves in the end. The series may/may not come back, depending on the star's health. Lots of slow motion flying blood and flying heads in the arena.

The producers are making a "prequel" for next season with the same supporting cast. Very well done in the style of "The 300" movie.

manxman

07-17-2010, 01:26 PM

For "True Blood" fans, in case you didn't know, the actor who plays Sookie's brother, "Jason Stackhouse", is actually either British or Australian, with a Brit accent you can't cut with a knife. The deep South shit-kicker accent comes from a good accent coach. You would be amazed how many American character roles are being played by actors who are British or Aussie. Apparently, "Brit-speak" is easy to adapt to deep South shit-kicker mush-mouth. No insult intended- these actors are good, and I like all deep South accents (and can even understand most of them).

claymore

07-19-2010, 09:21 AM

Watching a series called "America The story of the USA". It's a series that is covering what happened in the states from inception. Pretty good spread of stories of important stuff like the war with indians, gold rush, and inventions like the light bulb, electricy to homes, telephones etc. It's pretty interesting but one warning..... the guy doing the voice over HAS A BRITISH ACCENT ain't that a bitch a story about America narrated by a BRIT.

But if you can ignore him it's pretty good. On the history channel.

manxman

07-23-2010, 10:25 PM

Hey claymore,

I am seeing advertisements now on Dish Network satellite TV for the show that you mentioned a while ago- "The Colony". This is supposed to start next week on the Discovery Channel. Do you still think that it is good enough for me/us to catch the first episode?

claymore

07-23-2010, 11:27 PM

Yea it's fairly engrossing. It takes a few episodes to know the people and get hooked. It's kind of like survivor without anybody getting voted out. If you like science and making good things out of whatever is on hand the science is pretty good too they make some pretty good inventions out of spare junk lying around.

manxman

07-24-2010, 02:59 PM

Thanks- I've got it set to record. Sounds like my kind of show. There is a new series about to come up on the AMC Channel here in the States called "The Rubicon". It is a highly detailed, action-packed Gov't. conspiracy story that ties the events of 9/11 to current terrorist plots being uncovered by security analysts. It starts next week.

claymore

07-24-2010, 10:58 PM

Just watched "The Big Bang" great show about nerds living next to a hottie girl. Really like the nerds arguing over some obscure physics point.

claymore

07-25-2010, 10:37 AM

manxman

07-25-2010, 10:57 AM

Hey manxman while on another site found this about the new second season of "the Colony" starting on the 27 this Wednesday. I will be watching it. Look toward the bottom of this and you can see a few clips from the 1st season.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/
Thanks- this seems weird. I watch the Discovery Channel a lot, have for years, and I never saw any mention of this series until your post about it. Now I see the ads on TV for this series to start this coming week. It seems that we are getting a "new" series that is actually last year's first season being presented as our first season, while in other parts of the world, the second season is beginning. ?????

claymore

07-26-2010, 12:24 AM

That is strange usually we get programs that have been on in the states first then they come here sometimes years later.

manxman

07-27-2010, 09:56 AM

That is strange usually we get programs that have been on in the states first then they come here sometimes years later.
It is strange. Another ad on the Discovery Channel last night said that this "new series" PREMIERS tonight at 10:00 PM (Eastern time zone), so I have it set to record on my DVR at 7:00 PST. The clips that are shown in the ads duplicate your description, and I'm looking forward to the first episode. Very add that our premier is a year behind yours, with you seeing the beginning of the second season now.

claymore

07-29-2010, 10:17 AM

Well the jerks finally did it Justified is on and the Marshall ISN'T WEARING HIS COWBOY HAT ANYMORE.. BOOOOOOOOOOO

EXWRX

07-29-2010, 10:44 AM

I have seen a bit of the Big Bang Theory and laughed my butt off.

claymore

07-29-2010, 11:12 AM

Saw on some site that big Bang will be back this new season with new episodes. The best one is when they are all in the desert watching stars or something and they find some old hippie women and the hippie ladies give them some brownies and they all end up stoned laughing over nothing and of course they missed whatever they were in the desert to watch.

claymore

07-31-2010, 03:10 AM

Wow great show on discovery turbo called "Hard Shine" about building real Hot Rods at a custom car shop. Sorry no fits involved

manxman

07-31-2010, 05:44 PM

Thanks- this seems weird. I watch the Discovery Channel a lot, have for years, and I never saw any mention of this series until your post about it. Now I see the ads on TV for this series to start this coming week. It seems that we are getting a "new" series that is actually last year's first season being presented as our first season, while in other parts of the world, the second season is beginning. ?????

The Colony

I finally got around to watching episode 1 of this series, recorded Tuesday night, on Friday. I LIKE it, and so does my wife. It reminds me a little of some nameless car forums. Two forum members, if they were in the cast, wouldn't last 5 minutes without being murdered by disgusted fellow colonists.

"Yeah! We're gonna live on the second floor of the abandoned apartment building, like it's a castle, so we can shoot down on our enemies!". Enemies show up, steal all of their stuff, and they couldn't even lock the door to keep 'em out. Primary concerns- food, water, shelter, fire, AND SECURITY!!!!!!!!!!!

They need fresh food, they kill a BIG snake, and no one even thinks about cooking the snake for dinner over their fire. Snake meat is GOOD saute'ed with garlic. Especially Mojave Green rattlesnakes.

Aside from the whining dimwitted forum members, I mean colonists, the situation of the series is great (actually set in a neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana).

We are looking forward to future episodes- thanks claymore!

claymore

08-01-2010, 12:35 AM

manxman

08-01-2010, 10:35 AM

Strange I didn't get to see the first episode been watching for it but either missed it or it didn't start here yet:( Checked my cable TV guide and it doesn't have a listing for it.

The science is pretty good looks like the advisers they have know what they are doing.

The only thing that is a little off for me is the makeup of the team. In a real world catastrophe I would think you would find and hang out with people that are like you not a diverse bunch that is at odds with each other all the time.
Keep in mind that what I saw was the first episode of the first season, and you said that the second season had begun, or was about to, where you are. Realistically, in a post-disaster survival situation, on the first day that a group of strangers first meet, it would take a few days for the polarization of personalities, work ethics, and ability or lack of it to contribute to become clear. What do you do with the people who don't fit? I don't think that the producers wanted a "team".

They wanted total diversity, just like you would have if you woke up tomorrow and 90% of the world's population had died from a virus to which you were immune.

Anyway, it's off to a good start.

claymore

08-01-2010, 11:46 AM

I will be keeping an eye out for the commercials to see when it is starting around here.

manxman

08-01-2010, 12:30 PM

It looks as if you started watching the show after a few of the first episodes had already played. To illustrate your mention of the science that is explained in the episodes, in #1, after everybody meets, exchanges names and bios, and they pick the second story of the wrecked apartment building as their residence, some of them decide to explore the area to see what they can find to scavenge for their tools and supplies.

About four people wander around until they find an abandoned 40 ft. big rig trailer with the logo of a hog farm. They conveniently find some scrap metal to use to break the lock on the trailer door. What's inside? Three hogs that died weeks ago and stayed sealed up in the big box. They are grotesquely dead, but alive again with millions of maggots. Real stuff.

So one of the less bright guys jumps right up and climbs in to "look around". He doesn't get three feet into the container before doubling over gagging and couphing and almost passes out before he can jump out of the trailer. On the ground he keeps whooping and making weird disgusting noises for five minutes. I was superimposing my least favorite forum members in this character. Any normally intelligent person would take one look at multiple, weeks-old porcine corpses and have absolutely ZERO interest in going into that trailer.

So here comes the text explanation of the "science fact": decomposing flesh produces two gaseous chemicals that can be fatal if you breathe enough of them. I can't remember the names, but one began with the letters "putri---" from the root word "putrid". Fortunately for us, we all have an automatic gag reflex that is guaranteed to prevent us from standing around gawking at rotting bodies until we breathe enough poison to die. Except for the people who have lost their sense of smell through brain injury. I guess that they just fall over and eventually add more poison gas to the mix.

For people who think that this outrageous stuff is the norm, not true. They are trying to show a realistic depiction of the difficulties in surviving in a totally destroyed area, and it really is entertaining. Especially the less-than-intelligent folks.

claymore

08-02-2010, 11:41 AM

No the one I watched from beginning to end has a different location in an old warehouse in California and it was not about chemical disasters in Louisiana like this second version.

manxman

08-02-2010, 01:04 PM

It looks like they used non-U.S. TV markets as a test run for a pilot series that was shot with a different location set. Apparently it came up a winner, and this new series is now premiering in the largest TV premium channel market- the U.S. & Canada. I'm betting that you will see the episodes that I am describing in your next season.

The use of a real wrecked town certainly seems to be more realistic of a setting than a warehouse.

I have been a fan of Survivor because most of the things the cast has to do to survive, I believe that I can do (as long as I had access to insulin). A lot of the stuff in that series I would not WANT to do, but probably could. During my six year vacation between marriages, I did a LOT of survival-type camping with minimal supplies in the SoCal mountains, the Mojave Desert, and Colorado Rockies and lived for days on what I could catch, shoot, or pick off the plants.

Based on your brief description of your Colony series, I have an even better appreciation of the realism of the wrecked town set, and the irritatingly diverse people in the cast. Now you have something to look forward to.

claymore

08-03-2010, 12:07 AM

Don't know where it was but it was close to the LA runoff canals that you see in TV movies. The warehouse was surrounded by like a whole abandoned town full of houses that they go out on raids to find stuff they can use and run into other packs of survivors.

claymore

08-05-2010, 09:51 AM

Used to really like the show House but the one today was really STRANGE. I think it is the season finally and had house going in and out of reality while taking to his shrink. WEIRD stuff.

Update just saw ad for finally it's not until next week

manxman

08-05-2010, 12:31 PM

I liked "House" for the first, and part of the second seasons, and I really like the skill of the actor Hugh Laurie. It's fun to watch him do interviews in his native English accent. But the story lines eventually got on my nerves and I quit watching it. Any medical related show needs to be really good and really accurate and realistic. Otherwise I get to listen to endless complaints from my wife with a 40 year hospital R.N. career. She hated the House character, but I liked the nut case.

claymore

08-14-2010, 09:07 AM

After manxman's recommendation I started watching "Spartacus Blood And Sand" .... and now I'm hooked. Don't really like the computer manufactured scenes but the story line is good.

manxman

08-14-2010, 06:31 PM

Once again, claymore, thanks for the recommendation for The Colony. I just watched the second episode of the N/A first season (your next year's second season), and I am HOOKED. This series is GREAT!! I have not seen anything that I could not, or would not do in similar circumstances. The guy from the first episode that I had thought was worthless, just made a forge and bellows. then found a steel U-channel extrusion laying around, and hardened and flattened it into a fantastic machete. Then found some steel re-bar, and hardened it to make a spear to kill wild boar that the colony members have seen in the local bayou. Another guy made a smokehouse to cure any meat that they catch, and another guy made a shower (most colony members are complaining about how badly they all smell). A couple of traders came chugging up the creek in a boat, and traded with the colonists, and left them with a generator and welder, along with a huge amount of fresh fish and fresh fruit. Two new members wandered into camp, and they are now up to nine members.

I won't keep posting about this series- if this "isn't your thing", you won't care, and if it is, you are already watching. Jump in any time- you will enjoy what you see without having seen previous episodes. On the Discovery Channel- look it up on your cable or satellite service.

claymore

08-14-2010, 10:32 PM

Dave feel free to post away looks like the ads here were just a tease or something as it has not shown up here yet. You will really like the one that wasn't shown there when it finally turns up as there are several vehicles made and used for parts to make other stuff.

claymore

10-01-2010, 10:31 AM

Watching the first spartacus blood and sand episode. Now I remember why It didn't look too interesting to me to begin with. WAY overboard with the computer special effects. the later episodes are much better. And what the heck all of them running around in little or no clothes during SNOW STORMS.

manxman

10-01-2010, 12:32 PM

Well, we just watched the finale of our "Colony" series. I don't have the impression that there will be another season. The destroyed Louisiana town was a great setting, and as a demonstration of a "social experiment", this was really good. As long as you could forget that the producers put the stuff all over the place that the people could adapt to their needs, this was basically a realistic demonstration of survival tactics.

I was kind of sad to see this end. Just at the point where they repaired a boat and paddled up the canal to discover an abandoned fishing lodge with a five bedroom house on stilts, full of fish, crab, crawfish and turtles in the bayou around the fishing camp, they finished making an air boat. They used a speedboat with a hole in the hull that they repaired, found a crashed Cesna and salvaged the engine, made a wooden propeller, used wing panels to make dual rudders, and attached the engine to the back of the repaired speed boat.

In the last episode, the enemy camp of 50 people attacked the Colonist's compound and blew up their house, as all of them piled onto the airboat and whizzed away on the canal. Just as the people arrived at the fishing camp with the big safe house, the series ended. What a let-down- I wanted to see the reaction of the colonists who had not been with the two who had discovered the new camp as they got used to safety, comfort, and plenty of food to be easily caught right off the deck of the house.

claymore

10-01-2010, 10:27 PM

That is close to the end of the one that was here. They got a bunch of vehicles running and escaped a mob by the skin of their teeth. Maybe now that this one has finished there it will come here.

claymore

10-05-2010, 08:18 AM

manxman

10-05-2010, 07:23 PM

It's official. A casting call has gone out to replace hunky Andy Whitfield as the title character of Starz's "Spartacus: Blood and Sand." The actor bowed out in mid-September after his cancer returned. Production on season two was originally postponed in the spring when he was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The casting notice said the show is looking for someone in his 30s with an authentic British accent.:(

http://theclicker.todayshow.com/_news/2010/10/04/5229244-starz-to-recast-for-spartacus
Thanks for the news- that's disappointing. I thought that Whitfield did a good job with his role in the series. Now that all of the scumbag Patricians got killed off in the slave revolt, the producers will have a lot of work to find another hero and a bunch more good looking villains.

It took me a while to get used to the slow motion flying blood, arms, heads, etc. in the stadium fight scenes (as in the movie "The 300"), but after a while it seemed more natural that seeing the TV cops getting shot in the shoulder and then continuing to punch out the bad guys with the same arm that had a bullet go through it a few minutes ago.

Non-Hodgkins lymphoma kills most people who suffer from it. I hope that Whitfield recovers, and it will be hard to accept anyone else as "Spartacus".

claymore

10-06-2010, 01:29 AM

Yep the computer blood and guts turned me off earlier but the most recent episodes seem to have cut down on some of that and it's much more enjoyable now. Probably trying to entice the video game crowd with that style as is looks like the stuff in video games

manxman

10-19-2010, 06:29 PM

Hey claymore,

The first season (the warehouse) of "The Colony" is now showing on Dish Network on "The Green Channel". Unfortunately for us, this is obviously a re-run of a previous season, and the idiots who run that badly-named channel are running the episodes at random, not in order. The out-of-order nature makes this hard to watch with any interest, because it is a continuing story. So, my negative reaction is due to the shuffle play of a linear story.

When (if) our first season- the one set in the ruined neighborhood in New Orleans, shows up on your TV schedule, you will enjoy that one much more. There is more realism because of the setting, and people with fabrication and survival skills (like you, me, and many others) can imagine ourselves working in this kind of setting.

Diff. subject- you must know who (Retired) Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey is- actor & comedian- TV show "Mail Call", etc.

He's in a new commercial here for I can't remember what, playing a Psychiatrist with a whining patient. The patient whines about why the color yellow makes him "sad", and the psychiatrist says: "Y'know what makes ME sad??? YOU DO, ya dumb jackwagon! Why don't we just chug on down to Mamby-pamby-land and find you some self confidence?? Here's some tissues (and throws the box at the guy crying on the couch). Ya dumb crybaby"!!!!!!!!

Everyone should live next door to R. Lee Ermey. There would be less dimwits on car forums.

Edit:

I just saw the commercial again. Geico. "Can Geico really save you money on your car insurance?? Can a retired Drill Sergeant make a terrible Therapist???????".

The world is a better place because of Clint Eastwood, R. Lee Ermey, Dale Dye, and a few other talented tough guys. If not for who they really ARE, at least for their image in the media. Die, whiners!

Sad day- "Mr. C" (Tom Bosley") just died at 83 (lung cancer).

claymore

10-19-2010, 11:26 PM

We are still getting re-runs of the warehouse one here no sign of the new orleans one.

Here we also get another "Gunny" show called "lock and load" with Lee Ermey where he shoots all kinds of weapons from way back to swords up to modern stuff it's pretty good also.

I used to be a big fan but recently he joined the ever growing group of ACTORS that think their fans want to know their political opinions WHICH I DON'T so I have been boycotting the gunny.

I watched that commercial on youtube and it's pretty funny. His best work was in "Full metal jacket" if you like him go to youtube and there are several clips from the movie and other roles he has played that have classic "Gunny" lines.

manxman

10-20-2010, 12:22 PM

I liked "Lock 'n Load" a lot- it was fun to see that crusty old guy giggling like a five-year-old as he drove around in tanks firing the cannon, and using dozens of weapons to blow up everything he could see.

But your objection is the reason why I made the distinction between "who they really ARE and their media image". It wouldn't be fun to be Ermey's target, either with guns or in a political discussion.

claymore

10-26-2010, 12:42 AM

Well some good news for me I hope. Getting ads fro the second "The colony" here. This is the one you guys got about them in the chemical environment. supposed to start on the USMC birthday Nov. 10th. Looking forward to it.

manxman

10-29-2010, 12:47 PM

For those who like the horror genre, there is a new 6-part series on the AMC channel that will start on Halloween night-- "The Walking Dead". This is being made by a major Hollywood producer and director, and I am looking forward to it.

claymore

10-29-2010, 11:27 PM

"Night of the living dead" is still the best zombie movie ever.

manxman

10-30-2010, 05:19 PM

That low budget B&W oldie sure started a never-ending franchise. My favorite was a zombie movie spoof made in the early '90s, titled "Return of the Living Dead" starring Clu Gulager (became famous in the old "The Virginian" TV Western series). He played the night watchman at a Government chemical storage warehouse. A 55-gallon drum falls off a rack and pops open. Inside is a human torso with nothing below the waist, covered by a preservative fluid. After a few minutes of exposure to the air, it comes alive and starts to thrash around. So they cram it into an incinerator and burn it up. Smoke goes up into the clouds, and it starts to rain. A few hours later, the living dead start digging themselves out of the graveyard.

A big gang of zombies attacks the chemical warehouse, but these can talk and they can run, and they are all chanting "We want braaaiiinnnssss!". One of the dumb teenagers tries to run to his car and gets killed, and his girlfriend calls 911. In comes an ambulance, and the zombies kill and eat the Paramedics, then a zombie turns on the ambulance radio and says "Send more Paramedics!" This spoof opened the door to many sequels of special effects bloodbaths made with humor and exaggerated violence. The last one that I can remember was "Zombieland" with Woody Harrelson, and there was a pretty good English zombie movie starring Simon Pegg a few years ago.

I don't know this for sure, but the clips being shown of the new TV series "The Walking Dead" seem to show that this one is meant to be more serious and "scary".

Another spoof that most adults may never have seen was an hour long episode of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series from about 10 years ago. This episode, titled "Homecoming", was about dead Military men coming back to life, and demanding their voting rights to end the Bush administration (aired early in the last Iraq war). The zombies in this show only attacked the people who were trying to prevent them from voting. It was a very well-done but weird anti-war/horror/spoof.

manxman

11-01-2010, 08:44 AM

The first 90-minute episode of "The Walking Dead" was excellent- the best-made horror series that I have seen made for TV. Writing, acting, make-up were all very good, no CGI stuff that I could see. This is a serious effort to scare, and it involves a nationwide infection/virus that kills quickly, and then the victims come back, hungry. And these zombies can run.

claymore

11-01-2010, 09:34 AM

Yep I dislike movies that use CGI for some reason.

manxman

11-02-2010, 08:19 PM

Wow! Sad! The tour of the closed Lotus factory. Very sad that there is nothing great in the auto manufacturing industry coming from England today.:(

claymore

11-02-2010, 11:02 PM

I miss "Top gear" we used to get it with our upgraded channel package but then the jerks pulled all the good shows into separate packages so now if you want the good shows you have to pay ++ so now I just watch the older episodes that come out on Videos. That's what happens when the local cable/satellite TV is a monopoly. :(

manxman

11-02-2010, 11:23 PM

Yep- we have TV monopolies here too. We lost several great TV shows when the Fox FX channel increased their fees. My Dish Network said "Screw you guys" and those great shows went to DirecTV. According to Dish Network, the cost of those shows more than doubled. But, the loss of those shows is not worth changing my access to the other satellite network. Even with little problems like this, it still beats the hell out of having to rely on cable monopolies for TV access. Getting away from cable, in my area, was the best move I ever made. Satellite TV rules!!!!! Yay hundreds of channels! Yay multiple DVR's!

manxman

11-06-2010, 06:11 PM

Yay! There IS justice for consumers. Fox TV renegotiated their rates with Dish Network, and we are getting back the shows that we lost.

manxman

11-06-2010, 06:22 PM

Hey claymore-

With your new season (our old season from the U.S.) of "The Colony", you're going to laugh at some of the "set ups" put in by the producers. The government agency that oversees all of the "colonies" that survived the plague is every bit as inept and late to the party as FEMA was with Katrina in the Gulf Coast.

After weeks of starvation, the colonists hear the whoppa-whoppa-whoppa of a cargo helicopter, and watch a big one make a half dozen circles at about 1500 feet above their little neighborhood (and advertising something good coming to all of the enemy camps around). And then---------- they kick a great big wooden crate out the door and just let it fall--------BLAM! on the ground. All of the water and survival supplies inside are smashed and useless.

Where's "Brownie, yur doin' a GREAT job!" when you need him?

claymore

11-12-2010, 09:37 PM

Well "The Colony" about the disease disaster just started here. Not bad about the same as the other one but this one jumped right into having "Outsiders" try and push them around.

claymore

11-13-2010, 02:05 AM

The disease "the colony" has much more involvement with other people from "The outside" than the warehouse one. And they are much more violent. In the warehouse one they keep telling you that the outsiders can't hurt the "good guys" and there was some pushing and shoving but nobody was thrown around to the ground like this one. And no pepper spray was used.

There are only two or three of the colony people that would really make it in this situation in "real life".

manxman

11-13-2010, 09:46 AM

Actually, some of the "loser" colony members will surprise you in future episodes. The blonde guy- "artist/inventor" starts out as a real PITA, but becomes very valuable.

claymore

11-24-2010, 02:39 AM

manxman

11-24-2010, 11:34 AM

finally got to watch the second episode of "The colony" where they rendered down the pig fat man that had to be the worst job ever. If you have ever come into contact to "Dead stuff" you will never ever forget that smell. And it hangs around for a long time in clothes hair etc. I think the model was right in trying to wash the smell out but she should have used river water.
My wife and I tried to watch the warehouse version when it came on Dish Network a little while ago, but the plague/town version spoiled us. We only saw a couple of warehouse people with enough sense to make it through the difficulties, but most of the plague people come through OK, several with extremely good talents that benefit everybody. But like real life, there are a couple of nut jobs that let the pressures drive them right off the tracks. The tall, skinny bearded guy who keeps crying about missing his kids just gets more crazy with each episode.

It is the artificial nature of the show that keeps colonists and attacking neighbor groups from actually killing each other, even though it takes the colonists an amazingly long time to realize that security is just as important as food and shelter.

The blonde artist/inventor guy who jumped into the trailer with the dead pig "maggot buffet", then puked for the next half hour, eventually builds a forge and turns scrap metal into serviceable machetes and other tools, designs the propeller for the windmill on the roof that runs the generator scavenged by the female mechanic, that powers all of the power tools given to the colonists by the series producers. "Real" survivors would have to find their own damned power tools, and would use the forged machetes, to remove the heads of the invading gangs. And kill more with the lances and spears from the forge. Wait 'till you meet the Marine sniper. That was a GREAT episode, and the dummies never forgot security again.

claymore

11-26-2010, 12:55 AM

manxman

11-26-2010, 10:25 AM

The plague guys will turn a crashed plane into an air boat.

manxman

11-26-2010, 05:37 PM

Yea it's amazing how they all find power tools and batteries and then magically rig up alternators to run them. The ones in the warehouse also come up with an unusual source of fuel to run their alternator and all but one makes it out. One disappears during a building search and never turns up guess he wanted out for some real reason so they made him disappear. The warehouse ones also make a couple of vehicles out of scraps.
They didn't "find" the power tools. The narrator explained in the first episode that they were given the tools and some basic food and medical supplies when they were released from the quarantine tents. But with all of the sawing and drilling that they do through the series, they must also have received an inexhaustible supply of drill bits and saw blades, as well as welding rods for the welder that they did "find".

claymore

11-26-2010, 11:36 PM

OK missed that disclaimer on the warehouse one they found them while looking around the warehouse.

claymore

11-30-2010, 11:37 PM

Watched the one last night when the two new people show up. Don't like the new people way too aggressive I would have set them down the road. Artist is making himself valuable to the bunch making tools nice forge he built. Surprised nobody thought of drying the fish you see fish drying all over here and then they last a good long time before spoiling.

Preview of a big fire next time.

claymore

12-04-2010, 01:57 AM

Ha they are finally down to eating lizards on the colony. People here eat them all the time as normal food.

Preview of the "model" getting scooped up by bad guys.............. man even a three year could have seen that coming. They are just mincing around with no thought to security or fire safety. The building next door gets burned down and they still don't have anybody taking turns in shifts so at least one person is awake at all times even through the night. Everyone should be armed all the time or have a weapon at hand when they are working and never go around alone.

manxman

12-04-2010, 11:06 AM

They will continue to ignore basic security measures and get smacked in the face in almost every episode. Until the Marine sniper shows up, and becomes "daddy" to the group. But that happens about 3/4 into the series, so the supposedly smart survivors keep making the same mistakes over and over. That's where the series differs from real life. If one of the group had died in the invaders' attacks, the lesson wouldn't be so easy to forget. And real, deadly weapons would have come into play within the first few days.

Another odd thing is, they cobble together really nicely made, complex machines, make several kinds of fuel from stuff that they find, yet keep whining about the rain falling on their heads through the holes in the roof. Nobody thinks to cover the damned holes.

claymore

12-08-2010, 08:56 AM

Not one wolf in the pack. What a bunch of sheep on the colony. Just watched the episode where the girl gets kidnapped and they give up everything to get her back.

Unless she is a real good actress (doubtful) she has been really traumatized by this for making a TV show and that sucks.

And they still have no nighttime security.... if this was real they would have been rolled up and stuffed in the trash long ago. And they hold back their one madman because he overreacts yo duds how about turning him loose on the bad guys for a change.

Good job on the windmill BUT it showed 12.1 volts and a 12 volt battery has to be fed over 13.2 volts before it will accept a charge.

manxman

12-08-2010, 11:15 AM

As part of the artificial series set-up, you have to accept that no one is going to be killed in the episodes. I don't think that the lady mechanic or the guy who built the forge and made the machetes would actually just stand around and get beat up in real life.

Also, I don't think that they were trying to charge the tool batteries directly from the windmill generator. They scavenged 12 volt batteries from a lot of vehicles, including the big rig with the dead pigs (wooh! check the alliteration! I'm so cool).

With the generator running all the time charging the big batteries, they could get the extra voltage they needed for charging the tool batteries from the bank of fully charged big ones wired in series.

claymore

12-16-2010, 10:30 PM

Just finished watching the last episode of a show called "Top shot". I don't know if is available in the States but if you are interested in shooting sports it is pretty good. Hosted by the guy Cody from survivor awhile back it has 13 guys and one woman that compete against each other to determine who is the top shot with a variety of weapons. It's like other shows because one loser gets voted into a shootout with another person who gets the most votes and they shootout to see who goes home.

manxman

12-17-2010, 03:37 PM

claymore

12-21-2010, 10:19 PM

Watched another episode of The Colony last night and it wasn't too bad. Catching the gator was good stuff by those guys but everybody leaving the house was nuts. And speaking of nuts the jerk that was on security GOING TO BED while on duty was so stupid and if you fall asleep on post in the military the penalty could be to be shot by firing squad.

The bike/trailer is pretty cool and there are a lot of them in use here by the trashpickers that go around collecting junk to be recycled.

Voting was OK but two picks per person was a little strange.

Did I happen to catch a glimpse of "The sniper" in one short view there looked to be someone in the bushes watching them.

claymore

12-22-2010, 09:09 AM

Got another episode of "The colony" today and they are loosing it. Poor little blondie repairs the boat and has some fun putting a name on it and they all jump in her shit after SHE was the only one fixing it. I mean come on dudes it's just some tape on the side of the boat that is now fixed by her.

They are still not having any security at night and don't seem to care.

In real life if the sniper was watching them I think he would steal what he wanted from them then stay miles away.

manxman

12-26-2010, 10:07 PM

If you are a fantasy/action/magic fan, watch for the premiere of

A Game Of Thrones

The great author George R. R. Martin wrote a series of four books, among dozens of others, and the above title for the TV series is the title of the first of the four books in the series. The setting is an alternate universe where people live in a feudal system of kingdoms. Half of the world is frozen and the other half is sunny and tropical. The story lines are very complex, with honorable noblemen and their families defending their realms against their traitorous neighbors who try to murder them to steal wives, property and lands.

The northern hemisphere has human population ending at a giant wall of ice that is constantly guarded and repaired by noblemen called "Rangers" who daily bring hundreds of buckets of snow to spread on the top of the wall that is in a slow state of melting. The wall is hundreds of feet tall. The wall keeps the monsters and magical beings on the other side from invading the settlements of the humans.

The constant wars are fought with arrows, swords, axes and clubs, and the heroes are very very good guys, while the villains are scum. Kind of like "Robin Hood" with real monsters and some very strange climates and geology mixed in. Lots of betrayals and throats being cut by best friends, and dozens of generations of your forefathers lying in tombs underneath your own castle.

There is plenty of story material in the first book to make several months of weekly TV stories. If they do it justice, this series will run for years like "The Tudors" did for five seasons. But if they try to condense all four of the books into one TV season, they will ruin it. I hope that they do this one right.

claymore

12-26-2010, 11:46 PM

I will have to keep and eye out for it.

manxman

12-27-2010, 06:39 PM

You will probably like the books. I would post this in "The Book Thread", but that one seems to be dead. What does that say about car forums?

Warning- this (these) books will suck you right in, and eat up your days. This guy is a great writer. The 4-book series is titled "A Song of Ice and Fire". As previously posted, the first one is "A Game Of Thrones". The lead character has a castle in the frozen northern hemisphere, and has four children- a daughter and three sons. On a hunting trip, one of the sons mistakenly shoots a female wolf, and they find her den with four cubs. As a lesson, the nobleman makes all of the children responsible for raising one cub each.

Later in the story, the youngest son falls from a second or third storey castle window to the stone pavement below and becomes paralyzed. His wolf refuses to leave his side. Eventually, one of the traitorous neighbors sends an assassin to kill the disabled son, and his wolf companion tears out the throat of the assassin. The eldest son becomes a Ranger, and his wolf goes with him to the ice wall and saves him from some of the monsters. The daughter is kidnapped by one of the scumbag jealous Dukes, and her wolf saves her life from the bad guys.

The first main character's best friend is the King who lives in the sunny, tropical hemisphere. The main good guy leaves his castle in the ice to go to help his friend, and the friend is eventually killed. Then the entire social structure goes into upheaval, with alliances of good Dukedoms going to war against alliances of the villains, with everybody trying to take over the kingdom.

This is not a book that you can only read for a few minutes. It will steal your days. Book one is 830 pages long in paperback. I have not bought or read the other three, but will buy them tomorrow on-line. I forgot how much I liked this book, and I'm looking forward to acquiring the rest of them. All because of a damned TV series.

Mr. Martin is at least as good (I believe better), in his own, unique genre, as Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

Warning to all- if you are not a dedicated reader, disregard all of the above.

For those who are still interested,

Book 1- A Game of Thrones
Book 2- A Clash of Kings
Bopk 3- A Storm of Swords
Book 4- A Feast For Crows

claymore

12-30-2010, 09:50 AM

Well got the episode of "The colony" where the helo was coming in to take them away NOT and ended up flying around attracting a bunch of other people then dropped and smashed the goodies they dropped. Sorry bunch of people here they work on the small boat and get it ready then leave it UNSECURED all night. The bad guys could have and should have just walked up and floated it away while they were ALL sleeping. I'm surprised that the sniper hasn't torn off a strip for the lack of nighttime security. Nice job by the little blonde making the propeller possible with her laminating skills and good on the fat slob for making homemade white lighting to power the big boat if they ever get it done.

manxman

12-30-2010, 12:52 PM

Well, just like they never run out of welding rods, or sharp drill bits or saw blades, I believe that they are following a script or at least a broad outline for the episodes. Most of these people are too intelligent to keep making the same mistakes day after day and getting their butts kicked because of those mistakes. I think that the show producers tell them what to do in each episode. There must be a hell of a lot of material that is edited out so that new viewers who come into the series late don't realize how many times the cast has screwed up the same way in earlier episodes.

claymore

12-30-2010, 11:22 PM

Yea the other one in the warehouse was much more believable.

claymore

01-06-2011, 12:17 AM

Watched another episode where the two newer people ended up getting exposed to the virus and are gone. Seemed a little contrived and not much better than the big "Attack" by the outsiders. There is no way 4 people could hold off a mob of 20+ people in real life no matter how good their deployment was unless they had a minigun or two.

manxman

01-06-2011, 07:56 PM

OK SciFi fans, Caprica on SyFy Channel has been canceled due to low ratings. Too bad- I liked it even though it didn't come close to its predecessor
Battlestar Gallactica .

But there is hope for good Sci Fi on TV- "Falling Skies" will be a shoot-em-up war between modern humans and invading space aliens. They are only showing very short clips to advertise the new show, and I believe that I saw claymore's buddy, former Marine, media military advisor and actor Dale Dye in the promo clips. This looks like it might be be better than "War of the Worlds", and I don't have to put up with Tom Cruise. Yay! Coming in June- I hope that you all get TNT on your cable or Satellite TV.:eek::D

claymore

01-06-2011, 10:25 PM

Haven't seen any promos here yet. :(

manxman

01-07-2011, 05:02 PM

Well, that's whatcha get for being on the wrong side of the world:D. You got "The Colony" a year before we did.

manxman

01-07-2011, 05:15 PM

Starts here (on Dish Network) on 1/21 Friday, 10:00 PM EST. This time, Crixxus is not the "meanest MF in the valley", he is a beginner and has to learn the hard way (same actor as the original, but with long hair). It looks like the blood, dismemberment, betrayals, politics and sex will be even more graphic that the original series. And there will only be six episodes!. The actor who played, and plays here, the lutus owner, Battiatus, is at political war with his father who runs another lutus. (Back then, professions passed from father to son when the father died- guess what the scumbag son does?). No, he doesn't wait for his father to die.

The new actor who plays the lead character became famous for playing a psychotic mob hit man in an Austalian crime movie. Can't remember his name because I have never seen him before.

Warning to forum members- those who have a distaste for realistic depictions of historical events such as extreme violence (combat to the death for entertainment of idiotic, bloodthirsty crowds, sex, greed, politics), should not pay any attention to this thread. If you were not a fan of "Sons of Anarchy", you should stay very far from this TV series. This is only for "blood 'n guts" action fans.

claymore

01-08-2011, 12:09 AM

I like the series about those times but really hate all the computer generated scenes that are the fad of the moment. It looks like a cartoon sometimes.

Getting promos for a show on discovery about finding gladiators bodies bones really and they scientifically look at them and build life stories from the results. Sounds pretty interesting.

update: just saw another promo and the new show is called "Gladiators Back From the Dead"

manxman

01-08-2011, 10:30 PM

That sounds good- I'll look for it here. And I just saw a two second promo for "Top Shot"- I think it was on the History Channel, to start in February.

Also on the History Channel, I just saw my first episode of a series that has been running for some time that was very interesting. I think it was titled "Brad Melzer's (something like that) Decoded".

The one that I watched was a recent day investigation into the death of Merriwether Lewis (Lewis & Clark Expedition). History books have said that he committed suicide by, get this, shooting himself TWICE, once in the chest, and once in THE BACK OF THE HEAD, with a flintlock .69 caliber horse pistol. Yes indeedy, he fired a one ounce lead ball through his rib cage, and then reloaded the pistol and shot himself in the BACK of his head.

Lewis was on his way by horse to report to Pres. Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson was notified of his death by a letter from another government agent who was an "eyewitness" to the suicide. But the modern investigators found another document that was part of a lawsuit against the agent, that proves that he was in a courthouse defending himself in the suit 60 miles away (2 days away by horseback) on the very same day he claimed to watch the suicide.

Before Lewis was buried, a coroner's inquest stated that the death was at the hands of others, but the books still call it a suicide. The only proof still necessary to disprove suicide is to dig up the body to confirm the back-of-the head wound. They are fighting in court to get permission from the state where the grave is to do the exhumation, and the investigators have the support of about 200 relatives of Lewis who have always believed that the suicide claim was a load of crap.

claymore

01-09-2011, 12:22 AM

That sounds interesting and I enjoy investigative shows and add in it's history too and that makes a good concept.

claymore

01-09-2011, 08:41 AM

Just started watching "Boardwalk Empire" a new series on HBO and it's very good. Like an early "Sopranos" back when prohibition just started. It's about new jersey again and the corrupt politicians running the illegal booze. The head bad guy is the crazy guy in Con air that was talking to the little girl and was in the Bruce Wills movie where they blow up the asteroid Steve Buscemi and he's doing a great job in this part.

manxman

01-09-2011, 10:33 AM

manxman

01-09-2011, 07:26 PM

P.s.

This series is REALLY addictive, right? It gets more and more intense as the series plays on. All of the actors, and all of the writing are first rate. It really makes you glad to have been born too late to be affected by all of this garbage.

Unfortunately, we have our own garbage to live through. The kids on the forums don't know all of the crap that went on for the Viet Nam era members. There is no end to the lengths that people in power will go to to maintain their power, no matter whether it is Federal, State, or local government.

This series focuses on a magnificently corrupt city, state, and Federal government in 1920. The same thing goes on today. It just takes a little more skill to keep up the smokescreen in the era of CNN and cell phones.

claymore

01-09-2011, 09:33 PM

Yep forgot about that but that is one of the advantages of old age......... the brain dumps it's cache of worthless facts much more often than the youngsters so it works more efficiently :p

He is one of the better actors presently working and I am looking forward to watching this series.

When I was a kid I read every book I could get my hands on about "gangsters" and bootleggers during prohibition. With this series starting when the "big names" in crime back then were first starting their careers in crime it will be interesting to see how well the series matches the real stories.

Growing up in our time has sure been "Interesting" but with my own experiences with crime and "gangs" of criminals now the modern ones are much more vicious then they were back then.

The jamaican, russian, and south american drug gangs of today are totally worthless users of air and are vicious with no respect for life at all. The "old time" gangsters mostly killed and did bad stuff limited to other gangsters but the new ones have no limits what so ever with the resultant bad effect on normal citizens is beyond the pale.

And for sure the involvement of "politicians" of all stripes in corruption is continuing into this modern age.

manxman

01-10-2011, 01:39 PM

Alzheimer's patients everywhere will be happy to hear about their advantage! If they can find their way home----

claymore

01-12-2011, 08:01 AM

WHOOAAA boy isn't that a kick in the Butt. The colonists "Escape" the baddies and off to their "paradise island" only to find it full of more baddies. Well that truly bites but it's the result of their being stupid AGAIN. I mean last episode they lost two members on that same island but they just forgot about that and planned for there anyway without a thought for where and why they disappeared.

manxman

01-16-2011, 09:55 PM

claymore

01-18-2011, 07:06 AM

Found a great new show in the history channel called "Sniper". It's got stories about actual US military snipers interspersed with segments on how they do it. Has sniper stories from all the modern wars from WWII onward.

EXWRX

01-19-2011, 03:03 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5p18wIQEI
Game of Thrones teaser

manxman

01-19-2011, 07:12 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5p18wIQEI
Game of Thrones teaser
Thanks Jeff, I wasn't aware that this existed. For anyone who hasn't read the book of the same title, don't be discouraged by this confusing clip. There are so many characters, and such a complex, epic story, there is no way that any teaser clip could even slightly touch on what the story is about.

Hey Jeff, I can hardly wait to find out which dwarf actor will play the dwarf Prince, Tyrion. I really hope that they do justice to the quality of the book, and I am sure that as with most movies and series, I will be disappointed. Books always paint a better picture in reader's minds than movies or TV can.

claymore

01-20-2011, 12:09 AM

Looks pretty cool I would watch it if we ever get it here.

claymore

01-20-2011, 06:10 AM

manxman

01-20-2011, 09:23 AM

Been enjoying "Boardwalk Empire" and can't understand some of the reviews it's been getting saying Steve Buscemi is all wrong for the part of the head bad guy. I think he was made for this part and is very believable.
I completely agree about Buscemi- and so did the voters in the Golden Globes awards show. Buscemi got Best Actor, and the show got Best Drama Series.

claymore

01-20-2011, 10:14 AM

manxman

01-20-2011, 01:42 PM

Well that's good news just goes to show that those stupid reviewers have no clue what they are taking about......as usual. That's how I decide to go see a movie or not if the reviewers say it's bad I go see it if they say it's good I avoid it.
The other good news is, if your TV service brought you "Boardwalk Empire", then you will probably also get "Game of Thrones" too, about 2 months after we do.

BTW, the STARZ "Spartacus" prequel series starts here tomorrow on Dish Network.

manxman

01-20-2011, 06:15 PM

This series will begin a new run on BBC starting this coming week. I watched every episode over five years, and loved every minute. Great writing, actors, acting, production values, and it all shows you that the reign of King Henry VIII was a truly GREAT time NOT to be alive in England, unless you happened to be King Henry. Everybody else got screwed:eek:.

Or beheaded.

claymore

01-20-2011, 10:46 PM

claymore

01-20-2011, 10:47 PM

Man nothing here yet on the new season of Spartacus.

manxman

01-21-2011, 11:48 AM

Jeeze just when it was going great on Boardwalk Empire some jerk decided that they need to make the Revenuer good guy turn out to be some sexual freak that has to hurt himself to "Get off".

Disappointing at best it is a totally unnecessary plot twist that does nothing but add titillation for no reason other than disparaging law enforcement as is the normal hollywood liberal wont.
Ooh, then you'd better stop watching right now. What the writers do with the weird Revenue Agent's character in the future is going to break your little heart. Some of the bad guys in this story are totally bad, but NONE of the characters are totally good. Not even sweet little Margaret. Kinda like real life.

claymore

01-26-2011, 07:02 AM

Looks like Spartacus is back with a vengeance .....................

Any concerns Starz may have had about continuing with the Spartacus franchise are surely going to be erased by this news: Prequel series Gods of the Arena premiered Friday night and delivered 1.1 million viewers for its first airing at 10 p.m. then another 753,000 viewers for its encore at 11 p.m.

That 1.9 million tally is higher than the combined Friday night airings for any episode of Spartacus season one, and is up about 70% from the premiere of Blood and Sand. Given the way the first season’s ratings built over time, there’s a chance these numbers could similarly climb in the coming weeks as more fans realize the show is back.

from http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/24/gods-of-the-arena-rating/?hpt=Sbin

Too bad for me it hasn't started here yet :(

manxman

02-05-2011, 07:08 PM

If you have experience with or interest in weapons.

First, to back up claymore's mention of Top Shots (History Channel), I just watched two episodes, and this is the best weapons show that I have EVER seen. If it comes on in your area at an inconvenient time, and you don't have a DVR to record it for later viewing, DON'T WATCH A SINGLE EPISODE, because you will become instantly addicted, and then lose sleep to watch every episode. The new season starts Tues., 2/8. Stars Colby Donaldson from the "Survivor" TV show. He is the perfect host for this show.

Second best show-- Sons of Guns on Discovery Channel. An ex-Marine Gunnery Sgt. and his 20's daughter run a custom gun shop in Baton Rouge, LA. They sell and build custom guns of all kinds, and restore antique arms of all kinds. Then go out to the swamps to test them out. Do you want a full-auto replica AK-47 or Chinese SKS?, no problem. Want a sound-suppressed 12 ga. shotgun, like Javier Bardem used in "No Country for Old Men" ? No problem. If you can afford it, they will build it. In the First episode, they meet a Marine WWII Medal of Honor winner, who used a flame-thrower to take out 7 pill boxes on Iwo Jima. He brings them a "de-militarized" museum flame thrower. (De-militarized means that someone punched holes in the fuel and propellant tanks- but everything else works).

The shop welds up the holes and pressure tests the tanks, then lets the WWII hero burn the hell out of the countryside while his face cracks from an ear-to ear grin.

Next, they win a Browning .50 ca. WWII vintage machine gun kit (called a MA Deuce) at auction that costs them $6,000. They pay an expert that they fly in from across the country to machine the receiver properly, spend days riveting the frame together, then take it out to the swamp to blow things up, and cause a fire with tracer ammo. and have to call in the fire department to put out the fire.

I have been a gun freak, have worked as a gunsmith as an assembler at the "Automag" factory in So. Pasadena, CA in 1973, have won shooting contests since the '60s, and these are the two best weapons shows that I have ever seen.

If you don't like guns, OK, no reflection on your character. If you do, watch these shows.

claymore

02-06-2011, 12:10 AM

Sons of guns is supposed to start here soon been seeing the promos saying it's coming.

claymore

02-08-2011, 08:09 AM

And from fox news "top shot" is coming back for you guys with it's second season. This time we have two women on the teams.

Haven't see any promos here yet.

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/08/exclusive-first-two-women-on-top-shot-say-pressure-competing-with-14-guys-was-intense/?test=faces

EDIT: more info on one of the ladies

http://soldiersystems.net/2011/02/07/team-surefires-maggie-reese-chosen-for-top-shot/

claymore

03-10-2011, 06:48 AM

One of my favorite authors Brad Meltzer has a new TV show that just started here called "Brad Meltzer's Decoded". good show where they look into "mysteries" using new technology. Really good the first one is about Merryweather Lewis of Lewis & Clark fame and how he died was it murder or suicide.

manxman

03-10-2011, 02:03 PM

It's in the second season over here. The park where Lewis is buried won't let investigators exhume the bones to look for a .69 caliber hole in the back of the skull that would prove murder.

The historical records sound like absolute b.s. Supposedly, he shot himself in the chest with a .69 caliber horse pistol, then reloaded it and shot himself again in the back of the head. Yeah. I bleeve that.

claymore

03-18-2011, 12:21 AM

Very disappointed in the Brad Meltzer program. The second episode is following "the crowd" of sheeple and having a segment about the conspiracy wackos and taking on the "Illuminati" the supposed "top secret" group of mostly rich guys "Running the world".

If they are so super secret why are they always mentioned on these wacko conspiracy websites and TV programs not doing a great job of staying secret are they.

And using "The Statue of Liberty" as part of a conspiracy because a bunch of secret number 7 appears every where means the "Free masons" are running everything. BAH :mad:

claymore

04-18-2011, 08:10 AM

Yay just saw a promo and we are getting the second episode of "Top shot" :p

The bad news I have been following the results on some blogs so I already know what is going on. :(

More good news is we are getting another shooting show it's not the same one Manxman talked about but one about individuals showing off their talents one specialty at a time.

claymore

04-20-2011, 02:04 AM

Found a new show today that is pretty good. Called "Deadliest Warrior" it's about comparing weapons and tactics from the old days vs new techniques and weapons. Not too bad it's a little over the top like most shows now with special effects and loud fast talking announcers but worth a look for the weapons.

claymore

04-27-2011, 10:44 AM

"Top Shot" 4 now casting.

THE HISTORY CHANNEL is seeking SKILLED MARKSMEN for SEASON 4 of its hit competition show.

You’ve seen some of America’s best shooters take on the Top Shot challenge, and now it’s time for YOU to join their ranks.

With production on season 3 gearing up, The History Channel is NOW CASTING SEASON 4 of its electrifying marksmanship competition show. Producers are looking for anyone with unrivaled shooting skills and a big personality to take on exciting physical challenges with multiple guns and mystery projectile weapons. If you are skilled with a pistol, rifle or any other firearm, you could win $100,000 on TOP SHOT 4.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a professionally trained shooter or a self-taught average Joe or Jane. As long as you’re in good physical shape, have mastered a firearm and can adapt to new weapons and demanding physical situations, you could be America’s next Top Shot.

Simply email TopShotCasting@gmail.com with your name, city/state, phone number, a recent photo of yourself and a brief explanation of why you are America’s next “Top Shot.” If producers want to follow up, they will contact you for more information. If you have questions, please call our casting hotline: 818-478-4570.

Deadline to apply is MAY 20, 2011.

http://www.gunpundit.com/5514.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gunpundit+%28GunPundit%29

claymore

05-07-2011, 12:21 AM

Justified is BACK. Great show has been renewed......................

There's good news for fans of FX's "Justified," the acclaimed series about Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Elmore Leonard, whose character and short story inspired the show, has finished a new book called "Raylan."

The novel covers three connected stories in about 300 pages. Leonard was inspired to write more about the no-nonsense lawman after visiting the "Justified" set.

He's a big fan and an executive producer of the show, which has strived mightily to stay in line with the style and sensibility of Leonard's famous crime fiction work. "I love it," he says. "I think it's great."

Later this month, Leonard will travel to New York City for the Peabody Awards ceremony, where "Justified" will be honored with one of the most prestigious prizes in electronic media.
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"Raylan" is expected to hit shelves early next year. Elements of the book have popped up in a few episodes of the second season of "Justified."

The FX series was renewed last month for a third season. Cross-promotion is expected between the show and the book.

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/sns-mct-success-of-fxs-justified-inspires-elmore-leonards-new-raylan-novel-20110506,0,5773172.story

claymore

05-19-2011, 07:55 AM

Just watched the first episode of "Extreme Marksman" and was disappointed. It was a "just ok better than nothing" type presentation of shots others have already performed on other shows including mythbusters and the first season of "top shot".

Speaking of which our second season of "top shot" starts in 5 minutes lets see how it turns out this time.

Well top shot was on and it's not bad if you liked the first one and like shooting sports. This time a little more physical action like running.

claymore

06-09-2011, 09:09 AM

"House" used to a great show but this years season #7 is turning out to be one of the weirdest shows ever really off the wall stuff.

claymore

06-13-2011, 12:52 AM

When I first saw NCIS I didn't like it because I had worked quite a lot with the real NCIS and the show has no basis in reality. BUT recently nothing was on one night and I watched it just for something to listen to while I was on the computer. And now I'm hooked something about the characters gets one hooked to watching the show even knowing it's mostly BS. And we are lucky enough it's on here like three times a day and it's showing episodes from the beginning up to the latest we get season 8

claymore

06-22-2011, 09:52 AM

Just watched the final episode of House for this season and it had to be the worse most $%^!@*ed up tv show in a long time. The whole show this season has gone totally off the wall and not worth watching any more. The whole group of doctors on his team are all felons many times over and he's a stone junkie who should have amputated his leg and gotten it over with a long time ago.

claymore

07-08-2011, 10:43 AM

NCIS is over the top. We are getting old episodes and up to season 3 and now they are moving into TV Bullcrap. First and foremost no foreign national would ever become a NCIS agent. Classified material above a certain level is marked noforn which means no foreign national would ever be allowed access to it therefore they would not be allowed on most cases. And especially an agent from a foreign intelligence agency would NEVER get the needed security classification.

And the whole we need her for international terrorist cases is complete and utter BS as investigating foreign terrorists is NOT in the NCIS remit they investigate crimes involving Naval and USMC personnel only.

manxman

07-10-2011, 07:09 PM

Wow!!!

HBO is now showing "teaser scenes" of the next season of "Boardwalk Empire". It's gonna be GREAT!

claymore

07-12-2011, 07:49 AM

WHAT A JOKE "Sons of Guns" really is. Everything he made on the first episode has BEEN DONE way back into the early 80's nothing new to see here. And his measuring sound pressures is NOT INDUSTRY STANDARDS.

Note he measured right next to the barrel of his "Suppressed" shotgun WRONG..... to meet industry standards you must measure 10 feet from the end of the muzzle at a 90 degree angle and if he was a PROFESSIONAL he should know his trade well enough to know that.

This first episode proves to me that this guy and his shop is a joke

claymore

07-18-2011, 01:08 AM

I know it's a bit "Hokey" but I enjoy watching the kid show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" I run about 60% knowing the answer but man those 5 grade questions are hard. And why are we still teaching greek mythology in our schools???

claymore

07-25-2011, 11:41 PM

YAY the new, for us, season 2 of "Justifed" started today great show.

claymore

07-26-2011, 07:55 AM

"Sons of guns" has to be showing THE most amateurish NFA firearms dealer ever to mess up a TV screen. I mean this company knows nothing professional about building and or testing firearms this episode the "head builder" "forgot" to install an important part on a build of 5 rifles and they actually show his mess up. And PAINTING firearms ha strictly amateur hour what a laugh this show is.

claymore

08-17-2011, 08:53 AM

After a few weeks of marathon of getting to watch NCIS looks like I'm finally caught up and now the ones they show daily here are now repeats for me :o

claymore

08-17-2011, 08:57 AM

After watching three or four series of two episodes "Sons of guns" it's my opinion the whole crew is a bunch of morons that are giving professional NFA dealers and manufacturers a bad name. These jerks are TERRIBLE and know nothing about building NFA firearms. Looks like the network is trying it's best to cast all NFA dealers in the shadow of these morons giving all of them a bad name.

claymore

09-05-2011, 09:53 AM

It's now a couple of episodes in on "justified" second season and boy they have messed it up bad. It used to be one of my favorites and now they have "the straight shooting cop" committing major FELONIES to help out his ex-wife who stole some money BAD REAL BAD. And they have the major crazy terrorist that likes to kill people and blow things up working COURT SECURITY yea right.

It's a real shame when they mess with a great show for no reason and turn it into a parity of itself. :mad:

Fit2bMe

09-08-2011, 12:29 AM

Don't be surprised. I just started watching Game of Thrones. They started showing it last week. Haha.

claymore

09-08-2011, 07:45 AM

How is that any good? It started here awhile back but other good stuff has been on at the same time.

claymore

09-10-2011, 07:40 AM

Anybody watching the Rugby World cup games over there? Wasn't much interested when I was living in the states but got stuck at an Australian's house here and he explained the rather strange rules now I'm hooked.

Lots of full time action very "fast played" game and quite interesting once you understand the rules.

claymore

09-12-2011, 12:49 AM

Spartacus has died. The actor from the first season has died of cancer.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.

Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, manager Sam Maydew told the Associated Press.

"On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer," Whitfield's wife Vashti said in a statement. "He passed peacefully surrounded by love. Thank you to all his fans whose love and support have help carry him to this point. He will be remembered as the inspiring, courageous and gentle man, father and husband he was."

Andy Whitfield - who was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1999 - was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the legendary Thracian slave in "Spartacus," a role made famous by Kirk Douglas in the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film.

The series proved a breakout hit for the Starz network and made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality.

Whitfield appeared in all 13 episodes of the first season that aired in 2010, and was preparing to shoot the second when he was diagnosed with cancer.

for the whole article http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_ANDY_WHITFIELD?SITE=CTNHR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

claymore

09-14-2011, 10:24 AM

Are there NO honest, ethical, law abiding heroes left on American TV or what. Just was terribly disappointed watching season 6 of NCIS and Gibbs, a federal law enforcement officer, HELPS his ex-mother-in-law GET AWAY WITH MURDER WTF. :mad:

No wonder we have mobs of rioters running wild in the streets nobody left to teach then right from wrong.

claymore

10-12-2011, 10:10 AM

Anybody watch the beginning of the new show Terra Nova? Apparently you guys in the states got it already. We are being bombarded with like 30 commercials a day announcing it will be here on the 29th of OCT. Looks pretty interesting.

Fit2bMe

10-20-2011, 01:25 AM

I have been watching The Tudors in DVD. Bring on the Game of Thrones Season 2!

claymore

10-28-2011, 11:21 AM

We just started getting a new version of the series Ben Hur and it's pretty good if you like sparta type series.

claymore

12-23-2011, 08:33 AM

The star of the Discovery reality show "Sons of Guns" has been forced to surrender his Federal Firearm License after government officials discovered a bunch of his weapons had mysteriously gone missing ... TMZ has learned.

The man caught in the crosshairs is a famous gunsmith named William Hayden -- who founded Red Jacket Firearms in Baton Rouge Louisiana ... and hired his daughter Stephanie to help run the business.

Things went swimmingly until 2009 ... when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms conducted a routine inspection of RJF and discovered 10 guns registered to the company could not be accounted for ... a big, BIG problem.

We're told the feds pinned the blame on William and Stephanie -- and were looking to take serious action that could have resulted in the end of RJF.

But law enforcement sources tell us ... the Hayden's struck a deal with feds in 2010, in which the two agreed to surrender their gun-making licenses ... and in exchange, they could appoint a LICENSED person to take over the company.

It didn't take long for William and Stephanie to pick their successor ... they went with Vincent Buckles -- another gunsmith often featured on the reality show.

William and Stephanie went back to work for the company -- but since they are no longer allowed to own the gun business, they are working as employees.

Reps for the Haydens, RJF and Discovery all had no comment.

How's that Dave?