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Old 09-22-2017, 04:17 AM   #5651 (permalink)
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Regarding Dragon Ball Super, I think Whis is the most fabulously camp character I've seen since James on Pokemon. And I actually enjoy how completely silly the whole show is.
Vegeta is a ball of zany fun this time around, which was refreshing from four seasons of him just being kind of a two-dimensional dick.
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Old 09-22-2017, 12:53 PM   #5652 (permalink)
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"Salvation"..I really liked this show. About a MIT grad student and a tech genius (essentially a homage to Elon Musk) trying to create something to push a world-ending meteor of its course. It really is a good show and now that I have seen the final episode, I read that it probably will not get a second season...oh come on! Don't leave us hanging! I HATE when you get into a show and it ends on a cliffhanger (such as both V shows, "Forever")....really ticks me off.
I hate that too, but you do surprise me. The original V didn't end on anything like a cliffhanger (the revamp did, how annoying) and Forever, fantastic show that it was, wrapped things up fairly well I thought.
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Old 09-22-2017, 01:41 PM   #5653 (permalink)
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I hate that too, but you do surprise me. The original V didn't end on anything like a cliffhanger (the revamp did, how annoying) and Forever, fantastic show that it was, wrapped things up fairly well I thought.
Yes it did. ..did Diana blow up the shuttle or did the peace talks happen? No idea.. they cancelled it. Why did the guy live forever? They started talking about his origin story..then the show was cancelled. Remember that Steven Spielberg dino show a few years ago? They sent a friggin t rex into the future. What happaned next? Never finished
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Yes it did. ..did Diana blow up the shuttle or did the peace talks happen? No idea.. they cancelled it. Why did the guy live forever? They started talking about his origin story..then the show was cancelled. Remember that Steven Spielberg dino show a few years ago? They sent a friggin t rex into the future. What happaned next? Never finished
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There are, sadly, a lot of shows that get cancelled without fulfilling their story arc. It's been decades since I saw the original V, but I thought the kid saved them, the "star child"? Anyway, I didn't consider it a cliffhanger and given the ratings the show got - especially among those not into sci-fi - I would have been surprised had it been cancelled. Surely you saw V - The Final Battle? As for Terra Nova, that could **** right off: I didn't empathise with any of the characters and I stopped watching after a few episodes. As for Forever, sure they didn't finish it, but given how similar show New Amsterdam ended, I think they did a decent job of wrapping it up as best they could. Reminds me in a way of the end of Ripper Street, which kind of has no real ending, as such, but still ends the only way it could reasonably be expected to.
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There are, sadly, a lot of shows that get cancelled without fulfilling their story arc. It's been decades since I saw the original V, but I thought the kid saved them, the "star child"? Anyway, I didn't consider it a cliffhanger and given the ratings the show got - especially among those not into sci-fi - I would have been surprised had it been cancelled. Surely you saw V - The Final Battle? As for Terra Nova, that could **** right off: I didn't empathise with any of the characters and I stopped watching after a few episodes. As for Forever, sure they didn't finish it, but given how similar show New Amsterdam ended, I think they did a decent job of wrapping it up as best they could. Reminds me in a way of the end of Ripper Street, which kind of has no real ending, as such, but still ends the only way it could reasonably be expected to.
Lol I just watched Terra Nova cause I didn't have the internet or Cable, so it was kind one of my only options for sci fi. But yeah it was never particularly good.
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Lol I just watched Terra Nova cause I didn't have the internet or Cable, so it was kind one of my only options for sci fi. But yeah it was never particularly good.
I watched it cos it was Spielberg, and, I thought, a chance to kind of get a "Jurassic Park series", but it failed wildly and I lost interest really quickly. Just shows that having a mega name attached to your show doesn't guarantee you immunity from the network axe! One of the few times they actually got it right.
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Well there's your problem. You watch Spielberg if nothing else is on, you don't just up and make time for him like that.
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I only kept watching Terra Nova because I started it and just wanted to see where they would go. I realize it wasn't that great. I have all of Salvation on my dvr. I haven't watched it yet.

Midnight, Texas ended so well. I hope it gets a second season but I wouldn't be disappointed if it didnt.
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I liked Terra Nova. It took a while to get into but really started rolling after a few episodes. It wasn't life changing or anything but after work, I really don't care much for the intellectual route when it comes to it.

Did Midnight, Texas get any better? Only got through one episode.

And I think Forever could have ended better. Like explaining why he lived forever for one thing. I wish writers of cancelled shows would just publish online how the show would have ended if they had got the money to finish it proper.


And there was a bomb on the Star Child's ship c/o Diana . But the show ended so who knows
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Well there's your problem. You watch Spielberg if nothing else is on, you don't just up and make time for him like that.
Yes, I learned my lesson there for sure. Sometimes it does work though. FFC was behind First Wave, and that was amazing AND finished its full run of three seasons, with a satisfying ending.
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I liked Terra Nova. It took a while to get into but really started rolling after a few episodes. It wasn't life changing or anything but after work, I really don't care much for the intellectual route when it comes to it.

Did Midnight, Texas get any better? Only got through one episode.

And I think Forever could have ended better. Like explaining why he lived forever for one thing. I wish writers of cancelled shows would just publish online how the show would have ended if they had got the money to finish it proper.


And there was a bomb on the Star Child's ship c/o Diana . But the show ended so who knows
Are you ret ... did you not watch the ending?

Diana activates the doomsday device aboard the Los Angeles ship before shooting John, who did not want any part of it. Mike, Julie, Elias, and Lorraine get pinned down by Visitor troops in a ventilation tunnel. The Red Dust begins to circulate, killing more soldiers. Martin joins up with them as they face Diana on the bridge, where Lorraine and Mike attempt to disarm the auto-destruct sequence. The other rebels and Visitors evacuate the ship while Martin attempts to move the ship up and out of the atmosphere beyond Earth orbit. Diana uses her conversion of Julie to distract her long enough to escape. Using deus ex machina, Elizabeth steps up and stops the countdown with her latent superhuman powers. Martin then brings the mother-ship back to Earth.

As for Forever, they explained (inasmuch as they were going to) what happened to Henry that he lived forever. I really don't think, even had the show got ten seasons, they would ever have looked too deeply into the cause, as that was the mystery behind the show. I repeat that I think they ended it as best they could. It's not always necessary to tie everything up in a pretty bow. Look at the ending of the revamp of V: now there was a ****ing cliffhanger, and an annoying one too.
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