TV stuff

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So, what's been on telly lately?

Well, not Lucifer, sadly. I'm still missing it, and still over a month to go before it comes back.

Slight spoilers behind cut for The Last Kingdom and SS-GB.



In the meantime, I'm continuing to work my way through Humans season 1. Not sure why it's taking me so long to finish this. I like the series fine. I just don't seem to get around to watching it.

Then there's SS-GB, which I did end up watching, but which I'm fairly unimpressed with - not least because at some point, the main character seems to have swallowed a hedgehog. I can't otherwise account for his scratchy, growly voice. It's really irritating! I don't like much else about it either. In fact, I think I'm only watching it at all because S wants to. Oh well.

On the other hand, the new series of The Last Kingdom started the other night. I enjoyed it a lot - for all the reasons I enjoyed season 1, the main one being that David Dawson as King Alfred is just so damn good. I especially enjoyed the almost-sex scene in episode 1 between Alfred and his queen, in which it was obvious that what turned them both on most was talking about politics. I watched the first episode with dwyld who, unlike me, has read the books the TV show is based on (by the same author as the the Sharpe novels). We both agreed that we hoped the show would not do what the books do and have Uhtred move on to a new female love interest every season (or almost every week, which is something he did in season 1). Of course, this is something Bernard Cornwell does in his books. Presumably, he thinks most of his readers are men (they probably are) and that they'll get bored if the hero shags the same woman all the time. So, if a new SFC is introduced (because Cornwell's female characters are mostly SFCs, not helpless damsels who always need rescuing) it's pretty much a given they won't last more than one or two books at the most.

This also happened in the Sharpe TV series. I rather hope it won't in The Last Kingdom (though it's already happened once in season 1). We'll see.

Anyway, I like it and will probably keep watching even if the female characters continue to die like flies. ;)

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Help, what's SS-GB?

Also, I don't know if you are a Grace and Frankie fan (if not, you must check it out!), but S3 starts next week.

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SS-GB is a BBC adaptation of a Len Deighton novel, set in 1941 London, if Britain had surrendered to the Nazis. Lots of smoking and striding around in long leather coats.

The only bleach-blonde is a woman, though. ;)

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

Haven't tried Lucifer but really enjoy Bates Motel, especially this season!

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I haven't watched that, but then I've never seen Psycho either. I don't know if that matters?

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Lucifer and was quite sad it seemed to end quite abruptly. Or at least that's how is seemed to me because I got confused and thought there was one more after the end of the second series and I was really disappointed that there wasn't another one....

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The second series isn't over yet. It's just on hiatus and there are nine more episodes. It returns on May 1st, .

So only a month to go. :)

Ha-alellujah!

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

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:)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Meet a Canadian guy who loved Lucifier and knew the Neil Gaiman comics. We discussed it briefly. He was also a big GoT fan. The guy does statistical analysis for hospitals in Ottawa, Canada. And is married to a women he met in China. Interesting guy. I know very few people off-line that watch Lucifier, so that was a moment.

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Sounds like an interesting person to talk to. I don't know anyone offline who has read the comics and watches the show and likes both, and only one person online who does.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

He'd read most of Neil Gaiman's works, and knew the differences between the two worlds. I was impressed.
Quite interesting. And the only one I've met who had. Was somewhat astonished by it.

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Had he read Mike Carey's series too?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I don't think he mentioned it. It was a quick conversation, held on a bus ride between seats and around over conversations while bumping along a rocky mountain road in Costa Rica.

I usually don't talk comics with offline folks for too long...other folks look at me oddly. (Sighs)

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Same here. It's not what people expect of 'women of a certain age.'

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Or any age, although more accepting now of the younger women than they used to be. Times have changed a bit. Used to be that it was "weird" for a woman of any age to enter a comic book store or read a comic. Now, not quite as a big a deal.

But if you are over the age of 30...they do look at you oddly. I don't know why it's more acceptable to read Jodi Piccault, JD Robb, Stephanie Meyer, or Nora Roberts than say the X-men. There really is no difference between them.

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

Have you started watching the new season of The Americans yet? I've got a couple episodes on my DVR. Not sure if I will watch them tonight or wait to build it up a little more.

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Yes, I have. I forgot all about The Americans when I made this post - which is a crime really, as it's far and away the best show I'm watching at the moment (as usual). Mind you, it is so good it deserves a post just for itself, so I'll probably make one after I've watched episode 3 (hopefully tomorrow).

[ex_peasant441]

I've started rereading the Last Kingdom books and rewatching S1 from the beginning, since conversation with you made me realise just how much I have forgotten. No real answers to most of them yet, but it has made me reconfirm my impression that Uhtred is Cornwall's most rounded and interesting character by miles. Oh and I worked out why Ragnor chucked him in the stream after telling him he was a Dane now (doesn't happen in the book btw) it was the director being all artistic and giving Uhtred another symbolic re-baptism.

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Oh and I worked out why Ragnor chucked him in the stream after telling him he was a Dane now (doesn't happen in the book btw) it was the director being all artistic and giving Uhtred another symbolic re-baptism.

Yes, that seems very likely. I must re-watch season 1 myself. Not only have I not watched large chunks of episode 1 I've forgotten quite a lot of what comes later.

Still regretting Leofric. If I was showrunner I would definitely have kept that character, even if that's not what happens in the books. This new bloke Uhtred's travelling with is no replacement.

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Sad to say nothing is really grabbing my attention right now TV wise. But then I'm finding to heard to concentrate on anything full stop. *g*

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Oh well. :(