12 episode "mini" series.

If it's only 12 hours, he won't make it through the entire day. OH NOES!

I hope they fulfil one of my dreams in this series. Show Jack Bauer taking a dump during one of the multi-shot countdown scenes.

:laughing: I didn't mean to sound so nasty; I just don't understand why they all think he's so beautiful.

Oh my goodness! Kindred spirits! I thought I was the only female who does not find Benedict Cumberbatch unattractive.

Having said that though, I do enjoy him as an actor.

Haha I'm sorry but I've heard this before and it always makes me laugh. It isn't a zombie apocalypse show, it's a show set during a zombie apocalypse. There is a difference. Maybe that's difficult to understand and/or seems kinda ludicrous if you don't watch it or haven't followed it but the main themes of the show have been adapting, interacting with people, survival and morality and how the apocalypse affects and changes all of those things. How and why the rules change in such a setting. Therefore relationships and major life events are key to the plot of the show, and so I find the soap opera comparison way off the mark.

George Romero is the man who famously called it a soap opera, and he hasn't made anything zombie related worthy of any credit for a long, long time. I'll listen to anything he has to say when he directs another zombie film that isn't terrible.

I like 24. I can't help it. It's exciting and it's addictive. But I'd agree that the first two or three seasons were the best. The first one was the best by far and then it has been all downhill from there for the most part. It isn't particularly artistically brilliant or anything, but it's a fun action fix if I decide to overlook any holes in it.

This isn't unpopular

I have given the show a few chances yet it never seems like it's going anywhere. And you gotta admit the show looks like it's going to be all about Zombies, especially the way it's advertised. I get that it's supposed to be all about the survival stuff but that doesn't make it any less boring to me. I've seen upto midway season 3 and i just gave up. It feels like the show is always building up yet nothing really ever happens.

I usually like dialogue and character driven shows but TWD is just very meh to me. It also helps if the characters are interesting and like able, which I don't really get with the show.

Well than this I am glad for, considering the amount of Cumberbatch love I'm exposed to daily on Tumblr.

Well yes, most people would watch it for the first time thinking 'ZOMBIES!'. Of course. And not everyone's gonna like it. If you dont like it then fair enough.

My point was that it isn't a soap opera. That's all.

Besides, it reintroduced the world to Kiefer Sutherland, without which we would never have had this...

Yeah I gotcha I associate soap operas as being boring but I really don't know much about else them tbh haha so I understand your point mang

So yeah well just agree to disagree :thumb:

Having just read my post back now I think it unintentionally came off a little dickish anyway, so yeah we'll have to agree to disagree :bringit:

Soap operas are awesome. I got hooked on General Hospital when I was channel surfing and saw some woman telling her long lost son she wished she'd aborted him. Over the next year I saw a serial killer semi-cured by brain surgery, a woman get cryogenically frozen by a madman, and an international terrorist use a mask to impersonate a person thought dead for almost two decades with no one suspecting a thing.

Your move Mad Men.

Haha it's all good mang

And Barlord I gotta admit that does sound pretty awesome

Yesterday i saw 2 eps of Glee and i tell you, a little of glee goes a long way.

That show is too damn girly, it's like an emotional porn musical.
They break into a song over anything, it gets pretty annoying.

So long as I get to stare at Lea Michele they can sing whatever ****ty Top 40 song they want to.


http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/1033801/...ea-michele.jpg

Oh plz she was the worst!!

look at that trainwreck of a nose, look at it!!

Plus on the eps i watched she cheated on her BF, Skank much?

Hung was a fun show to watch


saw two episodes of game of thrones. boring. zzzzz

I got a thing for Semitic noses. Jewesses and Arab girls all get me going with that snozz. And if you're watching the earlier seasons she wasn't as good. When she got out of high school she dropped the nerdy getup, glammed up a lot, and now looks amazing. Definitely on my "Top 5 Celebrities I'd **** Even If I Was Married" list.

Edit: Wait, I think she might be Italian actually. Still, same kind of nose.

I have been catching up on Glee since I have been behind all this season just ploweing through episodes.

Rachel and her personality doesn't get better in later episodes even when she hits NY. She still has that diva tude.

Santana and Britney are my faves.

It is a musical type of show of course they break into songs to further the plot. If you don't like musicals why bother torturing yourself watching it?

Why Britney? She's borderline retarded. Not much interesting about someone with nothing interesting to say.

She is comic relief and the best dancer they have ever had. I love Britney mostly for her dancing but her one liners are great!

Also spolier but she is actually super smart and gets invited to join Mensa

That was so lame. "Hey, you know that girl who we've been making fun of for years to the point of dehumanizing her? Well we're gonna retcon her whole character for no apparent reason so that she's not a glorified potato!"

I like musicals but in small portions..
too much of it drives me insane especially when they drag on a song i don't like too long.

And honestly i was watching it cause my friend was here and she loves that show.

Why are YOU guys watching it? you and Batlord seem to know the show well.

I am watching it because I actually like it AND musicals.

Also I feel that I have invested so much time in the show since I watched it from the first season that I might as well finish it out. It is ending next season.

Yeah I don't mind Britney turning out to be a genius. I always felt like them making fun of her being dumb was an act and just playing into the whole stupid blonde cheerleader trope.

Oh god I can't believe I didn't mention Diana Argon. She trumps the other two I mentioned. I have followed her career to other movies even the crappy ones.

Don't know. It's not the best show ever by any stretch of the imagination, but it's fairly decent teen melodrama, and I'm a whore for that kind of thing. And most of the music is actually not half bad. Whenever they try to do a show tunes version of an actual heavy rock song it's pretty painful though.

My major gripe with the show is when they go to Regionals or Nationals and the runner up team does a way better job than them but they still win to move the plot along.

Also they always get to perform like three full songs while others just get a mash up of two.

It always just bugged me how they sensationalized the whole bullying thing. I don't think I ever saw "jocks" ever bother the Glee club, or any other nerd club, at my school. They were pretty much just ignored. Any antagonism was generally at the individual level and not particularly dramatically compelling. Using cliched tropes about jock vs nerd wars is just kind of lame.

Your experience with bullies aren't the same experience that other kids have with bullies nowadays. It isn't the same. It is on a whole other lever.

You're older than me so your experiences are probably even less relevant than my own. Just because you've seen a few things on the news doesn't mean you actually understand anything about modern bullying.

And it's not online bullying that those kids are subjected to. The whole slushy thing? Goofy.

dj i think you watch the news too much man

I agree with Batlord on the bullying cliché, it's so fricking over used..


if you are gonna pick a bully does he always have to be the captain of the football team? it's like the popular kids always have to be jerks, that's not always the case in real schools.

i prefer when they make a bully character that they make him an outcast.
A real f*cked up kid who has a valid reason to be a bully, the kind of kid who carves his name on his forearm with a knife cause his mother drinks too much and his father beats him.

I don't have to experience it first hand to know that it is different. I don't get why you thing your experience is similar to what actually goes on today.

They did have a catfish storyline but online bullying didn't really come up. Is the slushy bullying you are talking about? I thought you were referring to the gay football player that was going after the out kid Kirk.

Aside from Facebook bullying, what exactly goes on that's different from my day? And I haven't really seen anything to suggest that bullying has gotten more prevalent with the advent of social media, just that it's now documented. It's like anti-vaccine people who point out the rise in the diagnosis in autism as proof that vaccines are harmful. Maybe it's not that it's on the rise, maybe it's just that we have more documentation on it

No, I meant the general, day-to-day, cliched bullying.

With it being more documented you also get to see all the deaths that occur related to bullying. Also it has created this whole zero tolerance environment where even defending yourself against a bully gets you in trouble and doesn't change much. It doesn't change much because social media becomes a big part of it.

I watched the Breakfast Club too man, sweet.

You know what my father gave me for christmas? a pack of cigarettes
"Smoke up son, Merry christmas" he said.

when i wrote my post i wasn't even thinking of that movie, but you're right that movie does fit my description.

Breakfast Club kicks ass. The Matrix, not so much. Seriously, they all suck.

Nah The first Matrix was Gold. I'd even venture to say better then Breakfast Club but not as good as Sixteen candles.