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Don't forget Amy and Rory! The last season if Doctor Who was easily my favorite since the series was revived.
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How I Met Your Mother is always cool for a solid watch, even if I don't watch it religiously. Like the Office (but much more so IMO), if I catch it and I've got a few minutes, I'll rawk it out.
Community needs to get into syndication ASAP.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I called in sick for a tummy bug today and watched two movies on DVD this afternoon. I had checked both out from the library some time ago and finally got around to seeing them.
First was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, with Peter Sellers and Angela Lansbury. Sellers plays a concert pianist that two teenage schoolgirls become obsessed with. It's hilariously funny and very poignant in some places. I saw it on the late, late show when I was a teenager and decided to see it again.
Second was 1969's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin play two young people in a weeks-long dance marathon in the 1930s. Gig Young won an Oscar for his role as the emcee. I had never seen it before.
Both great films in their own ways. I never would have put them together, but seeing them together I noticed some casting coincidences. Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) appeared in a supporting role in both movies. Phyllis Thaxter was in Henry Orient and Susannah York was in They Shoot Horses. Of course Thaxter played Martha Kent and York played Lara in Superman: The Movie
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I love the American version of Being Human.
The British version not so much.
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^Me, too, fk! I've extolled its virtues a couple of times in this thread. It really got better and better over the course of its 13 episodes with this week's being the last of the initial run. It was announced last month that there will be a second season. It's got a good mythology to it, an increasingly impressive cast, a nice humorous touch and it tied up a lot of loose ends while leaving room for future stories.
I watched most of the first episode of the British version. Just didn't grab me. I may look at it some more, but I don't see it impressing me like the American adaptation does.
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quote:Originally posted by Exo-Lardy: ^Me, too, fk! I've extolled its virtues a couple of times in this thread. It really got better and better over the course of its 13 episodes with this week's being the last of the initial run. It was announced last month that there will be a second season. It's got a good mythology to it, an increasingly impressive cast, a nice humorous touch and it tied up a lot of loose ends while leaving room for future stories.
I watched most of the first episode of the British version. Just didn't grab me. I may look at it some more, but I don't see it impressing me like the American adaptation does.
See I'm the exact opposite. We love the British version, but the American one really left us cold (full disclosure, we only watched the first few episodes). George and Annie are just so much more likable than their American counterparts. It may just be a matter of which you were exposed to first, but we were really turned off by the new one.
Also, Herrick was much creepier than Bishop, in that he was so disarming in his looks and mannerisms, that it's that much scarier when he goes full on vampy evil.
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One difference that bothered me was that the UK version's ghost was all about making tea and was visible to everyone. Just didn't seem all that tragic and ghostly, I guess.
Though the American version hooked me almost immediately, it still got MUCH better as the season went on. Not sure if anyone with a preference either way would ever warm up to the other version, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Exo-Lardy: One difference that bothered me was that the UK version's ghost was all about making tea and was visible to everyone. Just didn't seem all that tragic and ghostly, I guess.
In Season 1, Annie is still only visible to other Supernatural creatures (Once she begins honing her powers she's able to appear). The Tea thing is kind of a coping mechanism as she tries to sort out what's going on (including her suppressed memory of how she died). It's kind of a running joke when she keeps making tea that she can't drink and the others don't really want. I found the relationship between Annie and George was what one of the things made the show.
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I prefer the British version of Being Human, too. I don't much care for the ghost girl in the American show, but the series, as a whole has been growing on me.
Did anyone watch Off the Map, Wed. on ABC? Interns getting a second chance to do their residencies in a Central American country at a clinic. Wonderful stuff.
Did you know that coconut milk has the same nutrients as blood plasma and was used during WWII by medics if blood wasn't available? It's even sterile in the nut.
There's a new movie coming out called Cowboys and Aliens. Harrison Ford is in it, which can be a plus or minus, but it looks good in the trailer I saw!
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quote:Originally posted by Dave Hackett: In Season 1, Annie is still only visible to other Supernatural creatures (Once she begins honing her powers she's able to appear). The Tea thing is kind of a coping mechanism as she tries to sort out what's going on (including her suppressed memory of how she died). It's kind of a running joke when she keeps making tea that she can't drink and the others don't really want. I found the relationship between Annie and George was what one of the things made the show.
Hm. Well, what I saw was presumably the first episode and it opened with Annie opening the door for a pizza boy and talking to him. Then, the other two made a comment about her keeping out of sight since she's supposed to be dead, and that would complicate things. It's on my free DVR list and is listed as the first episode. It begins with a montage similar to how the American version begins, so I assume that's correct.
In the American version Sally (the ghost's name in this one) begins completely disconnected from anything except other supernatural beings. She can't touch anyone or anything. By the end of the season, she's just being able to hold things in her hands with a great deal of concentration. She's a long way from being able to make tea.
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