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TV, or not TV, that is the question

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I read some review by someone that said this is an adaptation of the second book? And that the first was very boring?
 
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There are 3 books (in the original "trilogy") although they are separate quests/wars/adventures and are separated by decades. They are connected though as John Rhyse (sp?) Davies character is a young elf king in the first book.

The first book is a sausage party, which is why MTV thought the second book would be more appealing as there are in fact 3 teen/young adult characters and there is a triangle of sorts.


I don't find the first book boring although it is very much a retelling of the Lord of the Rings in many parts.
 
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Allright, I don't want to become Scooby on a comic book adaptation rant, so I'll try to leave this alone now. :D

Suffice to say that they are aiming for the Divergent audience and might just have hit the mark.

I am clearly not the Divergent audience.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
I am clearly not the Divergent audience.
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This is how I feel about Terry Brooks. A friend's GF was reading one of his books (at a hockey game in fact) and I asked her about it and she gave it to me to try.

It was unreadable -- a sort of ironic bodice-ripper with wizards, or what you'd get if a precocious high school girl tried to imitate Terry Pratchett.
 
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Good news.

Numerous outlets—including The Intercept, Politico, and The New York Times—are reporting that Al Jazeera executives have decided to shutter its U.S. cable news operation, Al Jazeera America, on April 30.
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This is good news because AJA was dumbed-down garbage, and it hopefully means my carrier will now go back to AJ, which is fantastic. Their coverage of the Arab Spring in Cairo was the first example of actual news reporting available to an American television audience in 30 years.
 
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As bad as SyFY original movies?
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On par.

And I don't watch those either.


I was flipping last night and came upon this week's ep and it was even worse on the bad dialog, bad acting and laughable cgi.

Watched 15 minutes or so and that was enough.
 
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On par.

And I don't watch those either.
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Neither do I, but I was channel surfing some years ago, and came across one about a Sabretooth or something, and the cgi sabretooth was simply hilarious, like a cartoon painted onto a film frame.
 
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Neither do I, but I was channel surfing some years ago, and came across one about a Sabretooth or something, and the cgi sabretooth was simply hilarious, like a cartoon painted onto a film frame.
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I'm pretty sure that's intentional. SyFy movies are pretty obviously made for stoned high school kids. It's the Troma business model.
 
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Watching Childhood's End, which SyFy aired a couple weeks ago. Haven't read the book since way back in grade school, so no idea how faithful it is to the source material. But so far, it's just a plodding, tedious mess.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. SyFy movies are pretty obviously made for stoned high school kids. It's the Troma business model.
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It is. SyFy is riding the B-Movie Satire/Parody/whatever wave. They TRY to make it just bad enough to be really good. I love it.
 
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Colony pilot was a steaming pile. Just the usual paint by-numbers family soap opera, stuck into what would be an interesting premise if you didn't have to slog through 55 dull cliche minutes to get a combined 5 minutes of that premise. It didn't help that the acting was spectacularly awful except for the guy who played the plastic surgeon adulterer on House.
 
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I tried watching this. It didn't help that I missed the opening. I was thinking of giving it another whirl but I have too much TV on my schedule as it is.

I did want to try and catch "Billions." It premiered on Showtime last night, did anyone watch it? It looks intriguing.
 
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Scarlet said:
I tried watching this. It didn't help that I missed the opening. I was thinking of giving it another whirl but I have too much TV on my schedule as it is.

I did want to try and catch "Billions." It premiered on Showtime last night, did anyone watch it? It looks intriguing.
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What? USA and Syfy were playing the pilot over and over all day on Saturday. At first, when I saw it in the guide, I thought they were running all the episodes to date, and I remembered hearing about it, so I had it on in the background while I was on the computer. And so the next episode starts, until they come again to where she's trying to buy insulin, and I'm like , "Whaaaaa, I've already seen this". So I check the guide again, and there it is, "Pilot" over and over and over again.

And yes, it was a steaming pile. For those who missed Childhood's End, this is what that felt like, Tremendously dull and tedious and pretentious. Like you say, except for the last, not even five minutes, the last minute, when finally, the actually interesting part of the show is revealed.
 
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On another note, who's looking forward to Vinyl, on HBO? I don't care if it sucks, it's rock and roll in NYC in the late 70's, I'm watching.
 
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