I'm liking the Selena character a lot. Not for her dialogue, but for the way she moves through her scenes. Nice cat like tics.

Yeah, I like Selena too, but I think the kids are just good as far as kid actors go (which is an achievement in and of itself). I actually quite like Bruce, as I see him as the weird obsessive that I imagine a ten-year-old Bruce Wayne would be. But they're still not as awesome as Penguin.

I also love that scene at the very beginning of the series where he's screaming over the bodies of his parents. I've got a special place in my heart for the death of Batman's parents that legitimately makes me cry.

This scene from the Flashpoint animated movie, when Bruce Wayne receives a letter from his father from another dimension where Bruce died and his dad became Batman, just kills me. Got tears in my eyes just watching it again.





Can't leave without posting this from Batman: The Animated Series. Till 1:21 is the most emotional scene in animation. God that series was brilliant. I highly, highly, highly recommend watching it. **** kids' shows, that's just one of the best TV shows of all time. I need to get back to doing that Batman: The Animated Series journal with Trollheart.

Started watching One-Punch Man.
Never really got into anime despite numerous attempts, but this seems to be a keeper. Great humour, fun stories and characters and some very good-looking animation.

Had a lot of fun with One Punch Man and decided to look into other anime series.
Its high ratings led me to Death Note and so far I absolutely love it. Some damn good writing there.

Gotham
I'm a little less than halfway through the first season and really enjoying it. A lot of the performances are terrific and the writing is surprisingly good.

The Flash
I'm a little more than halfway through the first season on this one. It's definitely not as good as Gotham—way too much of that trademark CW squeaky-clean teen soap opera vibe—but still I've been enjoying it enough to keep watching. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something I find appealing about it.

Because superheroes are awesome?

If I were taking about someone's looks it would be the actress who plays Iris.

That wasn't enough to keep me interested in Arrow or Smallville.

You'd rather watch The Flash over Arrow? The **** is wrong with you?

I like shows that are better than less good shows I guess.

TMI, bro.

Uhm....

Vote Goat. :bonkhead:

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****ing brilliant and very much its own flavour. I've heard lots of great things about this show but never got around to watching it, but now I'm sold.

Any of you British folk seen Friday Night Dinner? Mark Heap is awesome!

After the TV broadcast scene, I was hooked with no chance of escape. I still haven't watched any other anime, though a guy at work has been trying to get me to watch Code Geass.

Kinda tempted to revisit it now :thumb:

Started re-watching S1 of Daredevil. First episode is kicking major ass. Again.

Now Im watching the first season of Deadwood, Scream Queens (got 3 episodes left on both) and rewatching Friends when i get some extra-time.

Thinking of starting Jessica Jones when i finish any of them.

Walking The Himalayas

Walking the Himalayas - All 4

Great 4 part documentary about a guy walking the length of the Himalayas, starting from Afghanistan, through Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Nepal and finally the beautiful Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. Quite a journey full of adventure and stunning scenery.

Stargazing Live

Brian Cox and Dara O Briain return for another celebration of space and astronomy. This series they talk to British astronaut Tim Peake as he orbits 250 miles above the Earth. Tim reveals how he is settling into life on the International Space Station just one month after his launch into space. Brian and Dara also attempt to make a garden shed fly, as they explore what keeps the ISS in space.

Roving reporter Liz Bonnin reports live from the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, where she finds out whether comedian John Bishop has the 'right stuff'. A lifelong astronomy fan, John will be following astronaut Tim Peake's training programme over three nights, starting with a live, simulated space-walk - underwater.

Brian and Dara are joined in the studio by NASA scientist Carly Howett to enjoy some spectacular new views from the surface of Pluto, as well as exploring some of the biggest planets and stars in the universe. They will also be asking for your help to find new pulsars - spinning stars that are heavier than the Sun, yet smaller than Manchester. Meanwhile, Professor Lucie Green will be on hand to guide you around the night sky and to show you how to photograph the International Space Station.

BBC iPlayer - Stargazing Live - Series 6: Episode 1

Seems this has become an annual thing. A fantastic show if you like astronomy. On for the next 4 nights.

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2015: How To Survive In Space

From the historic Royal Institution, space doctor Kevin Fong takes us on a ride from launch to orbit and the cosmos beyond for the annual Christmas Lectures. And there's help direct from outer space as Britain's first astronaut on the International Space Station, Tim Peake, dials in.

In the first lecture, Kevin explores and probes second by second what it takes to 'lift off' into space. With Tim only days into his six-month mission, he helps Kevin answer what keeps astronauts safe and on track as they are propelled into orbit. How do you control the energy of 300 tonnes of liquid fuel? What happens to your body if you don't wear a spacesuit? And how do you catch up with a space station travelling at 17,500 mph to finally get inside? With explosive live experiments, guest astronauts in the lecture theatre, and planetary scientist Monica Grady direct from the launch pad in Kazakhstan, we learn all this and more as those thrilling minutes of lift off are recreated.

BBC iPlayer - Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - 2015: How to Survive in Space: 2. Life in Orbit

These lectures are a pretty good watch if you're into space.

Brooke Shields and Heather Graham both beautifully drunk and on WWHL.

I'd 69 either of them until they drooled on my crotch.

Moving on...

Jessica Jones is a pretty good show two episodes in. Give me some superhuman that don't take it upon themselves to save everybody and I'm totally down.

You're in for a treat. It gets so much better.

Besides a few hiccups here and there, I think the first season was cool. Can't wait till Walker gets her claws. :laughing:

I am watching now CSI: Miami.
One of the older seasons, but not less interesting!

I love the CSI series.

Key & Peele marathon on Comedy Central.

Dudes kill me. They just re-ran the player introduction sketch for the "Annual East vs West Collegiate Football Game."



Hilarious.

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I was always intrigued by Dexter but it took me forever to get around to it. What can I say? It shows flashes of brilliance, of HBO quality type storywriting, and Dexter is a great character. His frank, deadpan reactions are a riot. But too often the show falls back on those trite plot devices that really kill the immersion and remind me that this is a show that wants to appear edgy, but behind it all is really the desire to make money, and I can't help but ignore that fact. Especially when they keep reminding me of it with their writing.




*Spoilers*






Was anybody actually surprised when Dexter's sister was captured, and he had to come to her rescue? Or when Lila and him hooked up?



The show could have really been challenging/intriguing if they didn't try so hard to make the character of Dexter likable in the eyes of the audience. In doing so, they seem to betray the consistency of the character they've developed. Couple that with the fact that he acts out-of-character at the most opportune/exploitative of times (the falling in love with Lila thing, the saving his sister thing). His soft side always emerges when they know they're gonna get an emotional punch from the viewer, and they play right into that. Another attempt to keep us on Dexter's side. No surprises, no challenging us, no Dexter being coldhearted or sociopathic like we were led to believe he was (unless it's a victim of his who has no redeemable qualities, which I get is his 'code', but it sure as hell is convenient).

It just went on or about 2 more seasons that it should have. Will still be going back to re-watch in somewhere down the road.

Too many great characters and a premise that fictionally held up pretty damn good considering how absurd it really was in the real world.

The basic premise of the show is ridiculous: a serial killer who's a quasi-good person. So of course the writing is going to go for some cheese at times. If you've ever read any of the books, Dexter is much more "in character" for a sociopath, and he's also not very interesting, because sociopaths are not interesting people. They do interesting things, but as people they're kinda dull.

I would've liked something like a Patrick Bateman type. He managed to convey some of the actual emotions that you would expect out of a sociopath (greed, envy, narcissism) without any of the sympathetic/empathetic ones. And his deadpan assessments make for great one liners. Dexter has his moments, hell even when he's being awkward I don't feel like he's betraying his character per se, he just doesn't know how to appropriately respond to social situations so he fumbles his way through them in his attempt to appear normal.

It's the showing empathy and caring about people thing that runs completely counter to his being "empty", as he puts it

The show is 'sociopathy' that is consumable for the masses, the irony being that the masses could never swallow actual sociopathy. Revulsion would be the likely reaction instead

Channel 4, Tuesday 19th January, 11pm.

'The Manchester Pusher': Relatives of canal death victims raise claims of serial killer in TV documentary - Manchester Evening News

Documentary about the alleged serial killer in Greater Manchester on the loose, The Pusher/The Canal Killer/The River Ripper. 85 dead bodies found in canals since 2008.

War and Peace

BBC iPlayer - War and Peace - Episode 1

Had my doubts about this, but the BBC have done a pretty good job adapting the classic Tolstoy novel to film. Well worth a watch.

Are entire scenes done in French?

Afraid not.

I'm re-watching Cowboy Bebop

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This must be a very long winded mini-series, the book is a million pages.

Back to Jessica Jones for a moment since it was brought up at the Critics Choice Awards:

You're watching it, or have watched it, right?

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Six episodes, I think. One hour each.

The Brain With David Eagleman

Series in which Dr David Eagleman takes viewers on an extraordinary journey that explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without direct access to the world, conjures up the rich and beautiful world we all take for granted.

This episode begins with the astonishing fact that this technicolour multi-sensory experience we are having is a convincing illusion conjured up for us by our brains.

In the outside world there is no colour, no sound, no smell. These are all constructions of the brain. Instead, there is electromagnetic radiation, air compression waves and aromatic molecules, all of which are interpreted by the brain as colour, sound and smell.

We meet a man who is blind despite the fact that he has eyes that can see. His story reveals that it's the brain that sees, not the eyes. A woman with schizophrenia, whose psychotic episodes were her reality, emphasises the fact that whatever our brains tell us is out there, we believe it.

Visual illusions are reminders that what's important to the brain is not being faithful to 'reality', but enabling us to perceive just enough so that we can navigate successfully through it. The brain leaves a lot out of its beautiful rendition of the physical world, a fact that Dr Eagleman reveals using experiments and street demonstrations.

Each one of our brains is different, and so is the reality it produces. What is reality? It's whatever your brain tells you it is.

BBC iPlayer - The Brain with David Eagleman - 1. What Is Reality?

A programme examining how the reality we each perceive is different and naught but a mental construct. Maybe those pesky Taoists and Buddhists were onto something all along... ;) Excellent show.





Bryan Pern: 45 Years of Prog and Roll: Episode 1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...roll-episode-1

New series of the mockumentary about the ageing rockstar. Very funny. I bet a lot of musicians are like this. I'm sure the character is based on Peter Gabriel.