What have you been watching? - 2/25/2014

[Sunstroke]

So much for my favorite character.  RIP, ya scurvy walrus...

Pretty incredible episode yesterday...should be interesting to see how Flint gets out of this one.

[EKnight]

Wife bought me the first three seasons of Walking Dead for Christmas. Watched them over the winter break from classes once the baby got out of the NICU and have caught up on season 4. Really great show. If anyone has read the Gunslinger series by Stephen King, the character parallels are uncanny- almost purposeful. I know Frank Darabont is a huge King fan and has directed several screen adaptations of his novels, so maybe it is purposeful.

Other than that, the usual- Big Bang; The Mentalist; Person of Interest; sucker for Ghost Adventures; Last Man Standing; and The Crazy Ones, mostly because I'm a Robin Williams fan. -EK

[mecadonzilla]

I've really been enjoying the new Cosmos series.  The only show I watch each week with greater anticipation is The Walking Dead.

Neal deGrasse Tyson is friggin' awesome.  The original series blew my little mind in elementary school in the early 80s.  I'm hoping this new installment is doing the same for folks all over the country.  Soooooo many folks need to understand the vital role science plays in our very existence.

[Phishfan]

I turnd the first episode off halfway through. I hope it got better than that.

[Fau Teixeira]

Cosmos is excellent . .it deserves a thread all of its own !

[Dave Gray]

^ Agreed.  I really like it.

[Buddhagirl]

I LOVE Cosmos and discuss it with Fau often.

[Sunstroke]

If anyone has read the Gunslinger series by Stephen King, the character parallels are uncanny- almost purposeful. I know Frank Darabont is a huge King fan and has directed several screen adaptations of his novels, so maybe it is purposeful.

I've read the Dark Tower series a half dozen times through; it is one of my favorite pieces of fiction ever written. That said, I just don't see a lot of parallels between that storyline and The Walking Dead, unless you count a very broad interpretation of the world having "moved on."

[EKnight]

I've read the Dark Tower series a half dozen times through; it is one of my favorite pieces of fiction ever written. That said, I just don't see a lot of parallels between that storyline and The Walking Dead, unless you count a very broad interpretation of the world having "moved on."

Daryl and Merl = Eddie and Henry
Michonne = Susannah (both use bladed weapons as their primary defense)

And if you don't see Rick and Carl as Roland and Jake, I don't know what to tell you. Pretty obvious, IMO. If you look for the parallels, they're all there. -EK

[Sunstroke]

Michonne = Susannah (both use bladed weapons as their primary defense)

Susannah was a schizophrenic in a wheelchair...not seeing her and Michonne even occupying the same neighborhood.

And if you don't see Rick and Carl as Roland and Jake, I don't know what to tell you. Pretty obvious, IMO. If you look for the parallels, they're all there. -EK

I don't see them the same way at all, so the "obviousness" may be a locally isolated phenomenon.

On a comparatively obvious front, I see Rick from Walking Dead paralleling Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption. Both have a pair of perfectly symmetrical nostrils.

[EKnight]

Good lord. If all you see Susannah as is a schizophrenic in a wheelchair, I think you've missed the point of her character. She's a gunslinger, every bit as much as Roland, Jake, and Eddie. And Michonne would step into that ka-tet effortlessly. -EK

[Sunstroke]

See, this is why I started this thread, to get the inside cheese on some good shows that I've been missing...

Based on several recommendations at the start of this thread, I started watching The Following this past week and am now totally addicted. Talk about your epic intensity levels...I expect someone to get stabbed in pretty much every scene at this point.  I caught up on the first two seasons in 8 days, which is Supernatural-esque on the TV addiction chart.

[Tenshot13]

See, this is why I started this thread, to get the inside cheese on some good shows that I've been missing...

Based on several recommendations at the start of this thread, I started watching The Following this past week and am now totally addicted. Talk about your epic intensity levels...I expect someone to get stabbed in pretty much every scene at this point.  I caught up on the first two seasons in 8 days, which is Supernatural-esque on the TV addiction chart.

The wife and I did the same thing when we first started watching it. It's almost like there's a psychopathic murderer telling me, "just one more episode."

[Tenshot13]

How I Met your mother finale was great. Sad to see one of my favorite shows gone

[Fau Teixeira]

it was good .. mrs. fau cried a few times