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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4365 on: December 08, 2019, 07:36:36 PM »
BBC serial of "His Dark Materials"; well done, and pretty faithful to the books. though i still have reservations about Pullman's origiinal weird and over-ambitious mixture of religous cynicism and children's fantasy.  Pulverising one mythology whilst creating another just doesn't really  work, iMO, and the whole epic thereby loses credibility   :( which is a shame, because it really does embody some cracking good ideas,

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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4366 on: December 08, 2019, 07:46:04 PM »
Also BBC's War Of the Worlds just ended. This was a big disappointment. it embroiderered  the original story far too much in it's attempt to pander to sophisticated modern tastes. Was that really necessary?  Also,  was it really necessary to totally invent a super-strong female protagonist , FFS?  In the future, this is gonna be regarded  as the most obviously dated adaptation ever, never mind the Victorian costumes.   Totally in thrall to early 21st century tastes and storytelling conventions.  H. G. Wells  meets the Aliens franchise and gets pulverised .  Pffft. 
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4367 on: December 10, 2019, 05:50:28 PM »
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4368 on: December 11, 2019, 10:30:47 AM »
Watched Taxi Driver for the umpteenth time yesterday.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4369 on: December 11, 2019, 06:51:07 PM »
A special about Mister Rogers
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4370 on: December 12, 2019, 11:04:37 AM »
Friends. I needed some cheering up.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4371 on: December 12, 2019, 01:12:28 PM »
Friends. I needed some cheering up.
I watched an old episode of Friends yesterday. It was when they all first met and Monica was overweight and slept with Chandler and Rachel was married and desperate to sleep with Joey. Still funny.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4372 on: December 12, 2019, 04:18:00 PM »
A big yellow full moon rising from the horizon.   8)
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4373 on: December 12, 2019, 05:29:04 PM »
not so much watching, but glumly attempting to ignore the Election results rolling in on TV.

It looks very,  very much like were in for  yet another four years of Tory rule, FFS.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4374 on: December 13, 2019, 05:19:37 AM »
The Expanse is on.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4375 on: December 13, 2019, 08:42:35 AM »
The Expanse is on.

Season 4?! Now?!?!?!
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4376 on: December 13, 2019, 08:43:59 AM »
Friends. I needed some cheering up.
I watched an old episode of Friends yesterday. It was when they all first met and Monica was overweight and slept with Chandler and Rachel was married and desperate to sleep with Joey. Still funny.

I've had extra trouble sleeping this week so I've watched about a season's worth of it. It's still great.It still makes me happy.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4377 on: December 14, 2019, 03:57:50 AM »
The Expanse is on.

Season 4?! Now?!?!?!
Yep. Though I don't know what format Kayleigh's watching it on. She's binge-watching it.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4378 on: December 14, 2019, 08:43:32 AM »
Long Lost Family. I can only watch it with the SO isn't around. He's adopted and I know he has zero interest in finding his birth family.
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Re: What are You watching?
« Reply #4379 on: December 14, 2019, 02:20:51 PM »
Long Lost Family. I can only watch it with the SO isn't around. He's adopted and I know he has zero interest in finding his birth family.
This stuck a chord with me, cos my Dad was the same. Couldn't blame him.  He had scars all over his body when he came to Nan, as a toddler,  on account of physical abuse (by stepmother, as it transpired) , He knew he's had an older brother and older sister, but felt bitter towards them because they hadn't bothered to trace him, as he supposed.

His siblings actually had tried and tried, but it wasn't so easy back in those days, especially not in the event that his new parents had changed his forename as well as his surname.  My sister took it on herself to track them  down, just a few years before Dad died. And he died a happier and much less bitter man after hearing his older sister's story (the brother was dead by then, sadly)

You just never know.