What TV Have You Seen?

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by keirarts

BIG O!! Its showtime!

Great series, the creator worked in the states on the animated batman and it shows! You'll enjoy this (I hope) though it has a bit of a WTF ending!

I'm up to episode 4 and I just can't stop watching it! It's genuinly fantastic and a piller of everything that should be great about animation. I just adore the feel of it, it's almost like they took an old 1940's cartoon and touched it up a bit and added some genuinly funny parodies and an awful lot of kick arse-ery.

The homages are also very nicely done, not shoved in your face. Roger Smith is Bruce Wayne, Dorothy is Robin, Rosewater is Lex Luther and Gold Buck is The Riddler. Not sure who Scharzwald is supposed to be though, Scarecrow?

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

I'm up to episode 4 and I just can't stop watching it! It's genuinly fantastic and a piller of everything that should be great about animation. I just adore the feel of it, it's almost like they took an old 1940's cartoon and touched it up a bit and added some genuinly funny parodies and an awful lot of kick arse-ery.

The homages are also very nicely done, not shoved in your face. Roger Smith is Bruce Wayne, Dorothy is Robin, Rosewater is Lex Luther and Gold Buck is The Riddler. Not sure who Scharzwald is supposed to be though, Scarecrow?

It keeps getting better as well. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the ending as well....

[Hawkmonger]

Finished The Big O last night. Sodding well amazing. Not to sound like one of those love struck teenagers whom, after watching the most recent Michael Bay snooze fest profess it to be the best thing ever...but Big O really is that good. Just one of the best TV series (not just anime) I have ever seen, up there. The ending was a mind ****, but unlike EVA who's mind rape was obviously down to the budget being blown to quickly, or Madoka Magica just being very, very disturbing given it's pedigree. Big O felt like it was going somewhere before getting shelved after the (much belated) second season. The destruction of Big Venus seemed to herald something bigger coming, with both Big Duo and Big Fau out of the picture I wondered what the creators had coming next. Maybe the project will be dusted off soon and given a third run, here's hoping anyway, because there's so many essential and tasty questions left hanging. Is Roger an android and Dorothy a human? Is Scharzwald really dead? What is this new class of Big's and what does it mean for the cast? And what do Tomatoes have to do with everything?!

Now this is a call out to all people on here whom I know dislike anime, Pete, Rik et al. Seriously, set aside your disregard and watch this series. It's just to damn perfect.

[Criterion7]

Been watching Hemlock Grove, The Following, Classic Doctor Who.

[Bringer Of Funerals]

When is WALKING DEAD season 3 out to buy?

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Criterion7

Been watching Hemlock Grove, The Following, Classic Doctor Who.

What's Hemlock Grove like?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Wright Way.

Yet another nail in the coffin of British comedy.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Demdike

The Wright Way.

Yet another nail in the coffin of British comedy.

Ha, I saw the advert for that and it looked pretty bloody poor.


edit: didn't realise it was Ben Elton! Blimey

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Ha, I saw the advert for that and it looked pretty bloody poor.

Its written by Ben Elton so i thought i'd give it a go. Very poor indeed. Elton's dialogue which worked so well with writing partner Richard Curtis in Blackadder, just seemed so stale.

If you've seen The Thin Blue Line its like that but much worse.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Ep6/8 of 'Pillars of the Earth' Going straight into 'World Without End'