What TV shows are people watching?

Chula Vista · 05-23-2016, 09:18 AM

Final scene of the final episode of Man in the High Castle was a total trip. Really looking forward to season two now.

On to The Americans. Watched the pilot and 2nd episodes last night. Another very cool premise. Set in 1982 so the soundtrack is music from that era. So far they are nailing the vibe of the scenes with the perfect songs.

Oh, and Kerri Russell is hotter than hell in the show.

bulbasaur · 05-23-2016, 07:05 PM

anyone catch the preacher premiere?

Overcast · 05-23-2016, 08:58 PM

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anyone catch the preacher premiere?

I did. Comic is so much better, but I expected that. It was alright.

loveshakira · 05-24-2016, 01:29 AM

DC's Legends of Tomorrow, the new X Files, The Strain, Arrow.

bulbasaur · 05-24-2016, 01:46 AM

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I did. Comic is so much better, but I expected that. It was alright.

i enjoyed it. i wouldn't say the comic was much better based off of one episode of the show, but we'll see. i think i'll enjoy this more than other vertigo comics that transitioned to tv like constantine and lucifer, since both were pretty lackluster

djchameleon · 05-26-2016, 09:16 PM

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i enjoyed it. i wouldn't say the comic was much better based off of one episode of the show, but we'll see. i think i'll enjoy this more than other vertigo comics that transitioned to tv like constantine and lucifer, since both were pretty lackluster

Shame on you. I loved both of them. I was really pissed when they cancelled Constantine. Lucifer was a bit slow at times but I'm glad that they saw enough potential in it to give it a second season.

**Yac** · 05-25-2016, 02:57 AM

Very pleasantly surprised by Preacher. Casting seems to be spot on, I especially liked Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy - his performance in Lockout, an otherwise extremely dumb movie, was brilliant and I can't wait to see where he goes with this character.
I just hope AMC won't wuss out and tone the original material down too much - the comic was pretty blasphemous and disgusting at times, but that was apart of the world and it made sense.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

bulbasaur · 05-27-2016, 07:58 PM

i was totally hyped for the constantine tv series, and i enjoyed the first few episodes or so, but after that i wasn't really into it. it's definitely way better than what the 2005 movie was, but it felt restricted. for what the hellblazer comic series offered, i don't think nbc was the right place for a tv series based off its main character.

i thought the lucifer tv series was decent for the most part, but it was like a completely different story than the comics. for a lot of the episodes, i just wasn't involved in them 'til the end, which was usually a cliffhanger for the next episode. i'll probably end up watching the second season, but going into it

Spoiler for s1 finale:

neither are terrible by any means. they're just lackluster to me because i expected more from them considering the source material. with preacher on amc, i don't think it'll be too restricted, and the plot is already straying from the comics, but the first episode was fun

djchameleon · 06-06-2016, 05:09 AM

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i was totally hyped for the constantine tv series, and i enjoyed the first few episodes or so, but after that i wasn't really into it. it's definitely way better than what the 2005 movie was, but it felt restricted. for what the hellblazer comic series offered, i don't think nbc was the right place for a tv series based off its main character.

i thought the lucifer tv series was decent for the most part, but it was like a completely different story than the comics. for a lot of the episodes, i just wasn't involved in them 'til the end, which was usually a cliffhanger for the next episode. i'll probably end up watching the second season, but going into it

Spoiler for s1 finale:

neither are terrible by any means. they're just lackluster to me because i expected more from them considering the source material. with preacher on amc, i don't think it'll be too restricted, and the plot is already straying from the comics, but the first episode was fun

I swore I responded to this post but yeah, Constantine turned into like a Supernatural knock-off but I was still into it because I loved the early seasons of Supernatural.

The Lucifer show was fun until I found out it was going to be a case of the week type of police procedural. You have all those powers and that's what you choose to do with them. Seems pretty lame. I still followed it to the end of the season where it began to pick up.

I don't mind tv shows straying from their source material. They are operating in two different mediums so they need room to stretch and express themselves. I was never the type of fan to hate a movie because it wasn't like the book or they left things out that were in the book. OF COURSE they left things out that were in the book. They would end up with a five hour movie if that was the case.

bulbasaur · 06-07-2016, 03:50 PM

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I swore I responded to this post but yeah, Constantine turned into like a Supernatural knock-off but I was still into it because I loved the early seasons of Supernatural.

The Lucifer show was fun until I found out it was going to be a case of the week type of police procedural. You have all those powers and that's what you choose to do with them. Seems pretty lame. I still followed it to the end of the season where it began to pick up.

I don't mind tv shows straying from their source material. They are operating in two different mediums so they need room to stretch and express themselves. I was never the type of fan to hate a movie because it wasn't like the book or they left things out that were in the book. OF COURSE they left things out that were in the book. They would end up with a five hour movie if that was the case.

yeah, i don't mind tv shows/movies not portraying the source material panel-for-panel (or page-for-page, whatever), especially if they end up being better than the groundwork used. it's nice to be surprised with original content, and sometimes plots from the source need touch ups (for whatever reason), but nods to the source or actual use of the source are nice, too.

i didn't mean to come across as some source material elitist with lucifier. it was decent (or good) for what it was. it didn't pander to fans of the comic series because it wasn't obligated to, just like no tv show or movie based on a (comic) book is ever obligated to. i wasn't into the direction the tv series took compared to the comic, though, so i probably won't check in for the second season.

i've definitely enjoyed shows and movies that didn't stick to the source material or stuff i never read the source of at all, but if an adaptation turns out to be bad, there's usually wonder how much better it could have been if it stuck more closely to what it was based on (assuming the viewer's familiar with it).

like with the constantine movie from 2005, one of the biggest complaints from hellblazer fans was that it was just an overall bad adaptation. not that it was a good movie either way, but it would have probably faired better being promoted as an independent story than being prefaced with the hype that it was based on the comic series. i'd guess the hellblazer fans would be more okay with that movie existing and being so different from the comics if it had turned out better.

the preacher tv series, so far, is a nice mix of original content and fan service for the comic readers.

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Finally decided to watch the Sopranos. Midway through season one and really digging it.

recently started this, too, after having it on a to-watch list for years. probably annoyed the person who hassled me to watch by sending them snaps of tony with the flower crown filter for about two episodes straight

05-23-2016, 09:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Final scene of the final episode of Man in the High Castle was a total trip. Really looking forward to season two now. On to The Americans. Watched the pilot and 2nd episodes last night. Another very cool premise. Set in 1982 so the soundtrack is music from that era. So far they are nailing the vibe of the scenes with the perfect songs. Oh, and Kerri Russell is hotter than hell in the show. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	Very pleasantly surprised by Preacher. Casting seems to be spot on, I especially liked Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy - his performance in Lockout, an otherwise extremely dumb movie, was brilliant and I can't wait to see where he goes with this character. I just hope AMC won't wuss out and tone the original material down too much - the comic was pretty blasphemous and disgusting at times, but that was apart of the world and it made sense. Spoiler for Spoiler: But by god, I sure hope they skip the redneck *****ng a fish scene, I still can't forget it no matter how hard I try and no, if you haven't read it but you clicked the spoiler, it's not only about scenes like this

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bulbasaur ʕº̫͡ºʔ ʕº̫͡ºʔ ʕº̫͡ºʔ Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 790	i was totally hyped for the constantine tv series, and i enjoyed the first few episodes or so, but after that i wasn't really into it. it's definitely way better than what the 2005 movie was, but it felt restricted. for what the hellblazer comic series offered, i don't think nbc was the right place for a tv series based off its main character. i thought the lucifer tv series was decent for the most part, but it was like a completely different story than the comics. for a lot of the episodes, i just wasn't involved in them 'til the end, which was usually a cliffhanger for the next episode. i'll probably end up watching the second season, but going into it Spoiler for s1 finale: i don't care much about the idea of lucifer's mother neither are terrible by any means. they're just lackluster to me because i expected more from them considering the source material. with preacher on amc, i don't think it'll be too restricted, and the plot is already straying from the comics, but the first episode was fun __________________ last.fm

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