Great TV Shows!

So with suddenly days of no pressure on me I'm discovering this, er, (Welsh?) TV show. I suppose it helps to be a reader, but I just gotta get me a copy of that book. A TV show about books. What else was I born to produce?

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I don't really watch divorce court, but dang, wasn't that around when I was a kid? I don't know if it's fiction or real, what little I've see it seems beyond believing. I found this and, OMG!

Judge Judy I suppose I could actually sit and watch, but it becomes painful because I can those people are real.

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Tis' the season to ..... binge watch great TV of course! Its the end of the year, and 2016 turned out to be the best year ever for great TV shows. When I watch a show, I rate it and add it to my http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031955356/ list, ranking the various shows. Advantage viewers looking for just the right show to binge on next to all the sweets, gifts, lights and other seasonal stuff. Top shows this year:
  • Game of Thrones,
  • Marco Polo
  • The Get Down
  • Black Mirror
  • The Young Pope
  • Preacher
  • The 100
  • StartUp
  • Earth's Greatest Spectacles
  • War & Peace
  • Nova
  • Storyville
  • Mozart in the Jungle
  • Roadies
  • Vinyl
  • Vikings
  • Westworld
  • The Expanse
  • Penny Dreadful
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
 
Such an amazing thing that as these shows follow the lead of the original 'The Simpsons' to push the envelope 'The Simpsons' itself has become so insipid and politically correct as to be the worst thing on TV.
 
Perhaps I'm all too fascinated by low budget attempts at something nonHollywood. Or maybe you'll like it. The first video is their shoot back in high school with only 2/3rds complete, but they edited this together. Several years later comes their little webseries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3641773661&feature=iv&src_vid=MPUDWpD_8OU&v=BG7D_j6l9Qs

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So these people fall all over themselves to make these halfbaked 'Star Trek' fanboy shows. Meanwhile, be it college students, effects houses, whomever, they promote themselves with these very stylish shorts that are rather short on story but sure look good. The fanboys need to take some inspiration there. The fanboys are also hoping to use their 'Star Trek' productions as calling cards, though very little offers real bragging rights.

So many of these are made in SoCal, I keep thinking I need to find a way to get involved with the people who do some professional looking effects. 'Star Trek: Horizon' was close to the mark on look. Oh, I already know those types are a closed club. But it's fun to dream.

So here's my new camera. That would turn a few heads in those crowds.

http://www.red.com/products/scarlet-w

But I still have to finish building it out.

http://www.red.com/builder

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Well, tonight is the new 'Star Trek' on CBS. So far, so bad. 10 minutes into the block, nothing interesting has happened. So far we've seen I guess the better looking starship from the leaked info. Though not so well. The really ugly title ship Discovery hasn't shown up I think. But they didn't explain which ship this was.

It ended on the east coast 2 hours before mine began, already I can see the rest of the country hated it. But it starts with a strike for the lawsuit against the Axanar fan film production and another for actually showing a promo at a fan convention that looked bad.

I think they're just forgetting why anyone wants to watch Star Trek. They need to watch certain fan films. Such as the one below.

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Oh, it got worse. Went from boring to the "Heroine" being a psychokiller. Now where did they get the idea of this out of control war mongerer as some sort of sympathetic lead character? All the trashings left that part out.

It's plain they have no idea what makes 'Star Trek' so enduring.

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Sometimes I think Larry David and I have the same spirit animal.

I laughed my ass off watching new season 9 last night. Good for him to keep doing the show- the man is kinda a genius, in his special way.

I wonder what the chances are they'll have season 10 out before summer? I'm at fairly certain he'll bang them out, at least compared to 2 years for the next WestWorld season.
 
So Irwin Allen was a Film/TV producer who was putting out some spectacular work on a budget. Such a tight budget in fact that scenes from 'The Lost World' were used in the TV 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and Captain Crane had to get out of uniform to wear his old outfit from the earlier film.

Pity the ships of 'Lost in Space,' the ever popular Jupiter 2 and the lesser known Gemini 12. Not much resembling one another, they both appeared in the series as the Gemini 12 footage from the pilot was recycled for planet fall/crash sequences, etc. According to this the fullsize sets didn't match either one. I think their mockup for the SciFi airshow looks more like the Gemini 12 for the lack of room for a lower deck. But with the show over, Irwin Allen ordered them butchered for parts for the sets of 'City Beneath the Sea.' In the 1980's the Gemini 12 had a bad restoration and was put up at an auction. One thing Allen lacked a vision for was the memorabilia market, think of what he could have made off the two models if he'd protected them and saved them until the demand was there.

Dang, I wish this place with fullsize mockups really existed, even if they're not real spaceships it would be great for SciFi nuts like me to go inside.

https://www.scifiairshow.com/

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So this 'God Friended Me' came on after '60 Minutes,' I didn't shut t off. Suddenly they're talking about the Golden Ratio, part of their mystery for this weeks' show. They thin there's a clue in a tour, 'Seeing the universe through Fibonacci's eyes.' Dang, I think this is just the alternate reality I was meant to live in.

Oh, but I guess I should be careful to not give you the idea it's any good. The worst part is the typically forced interracial relationship, as usual they cast two actors who don't belong together and are barely aware of each other in the scenes where they're supposed to be hanging by a thread. I think the most appropriate moment came when when the guest who'd seen some 3 minutes of them in a scene suddenly bursts forth with "Can I ask why (You're not together)?" and the woman responds "Isn't it obvious?" Yes, it is obvious there's no chemistry, no chance, only pain and suffering in the audience could result from ramming this down our throats, but of course this is what Hollywood wants. So if you watch the show, you endure the miscast pairing playing the tantalizingly close game that works with the right cast on, say, 'Friends' but will fail with the wrong casting on 'God Friended Me.'

If you know 'Firefly,' you know the botched interracial marriage that played a role in killing the show. When they tried to reboot a few years later the mismatched couple was no longer married. The matchup in 'God Friended Me' is almost as inappropriate as the one in 'Firefly.'
 
Doing a search, up pops a company called prime Leader and their 'Caged' dress. Brings back memories of an old rerun of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show,' Mary is trying on the wannabee designer's dress. The whole bit is around how awful the dress is supposed to be. But not so awful there isn't someone ready to copy it.

 
That's one big country 'Game of Thrones' is set in. Look how far apart the locations are.

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I am looking for some advice. Me and my wife watched over 100 titles in last 10 years. Now we started to watch some shows with our 9 year old daughter. We already seen Once Upon a Time (and Wonderland spin-off too), it was nice. Rumple and Regina always kept show on level :) Now we watch Doctor Who (from 9th Doctor and beyond). That show leave even more impact on our kid, she realy liked it, so do we. But everything comes to an end, that raised a question - what's next?

Show i'm look for must be appropriate for kids (by common sense, not by some official ratings) and must have some sci-fi or fantasy elements. No direct sexual stuff allowed - kid going through that phase when even innocent kiss provoces a "Gross!!!" reaction :) Doctor Who is balanced enough in that regard, IMO.

Here my suggestions:
Babylon 5 (we watched it, awesome show)
Eureka/Warehouse 13 (AFAIR decent, by not sure about salty jokes and innuendos)
Malcolm in the Middle (didn't watched yet, but it's no sci-fi, obviosly)
Grimm (didn't watched yet)
X-Files (a little early for 9 y.o. IMO)
Stranger Things (some inappropriate stuff, i heard, could be wrong though)

What do you can suggest?
 
Darn, I could tell that last poster 'The Mandalorian.'

Meanwhile. . .

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/entertainment/baby-yoda-not-a-baby-yoda-jon-favreau-trnd/index.html

. . .Mistake he has made.

Yoda is not identified as coming from ANYWHERE. So the kid is NOT a "Baby (Insert world here.)

The Mandalorian is NOT from Mandalore nor were his ancestors, yet he is a Mandalorian.

Anakin Skywalker had no father, if you believe his mother. Just sort of caused by the force.

Seems "The Creator" needs to learn his 'Star Wars' canon.

CNN runs promos saying "This is an apple. . . ," Warning you to not let anyone tell you otherwise. Like they need to warn us not to take CNN too seriously, but we know that already.

So, Jon, we know a baby Yoda when we see one/see him Yodalift a slime buffalo or whatever you call that thing, etc. There is one identifier in existence for "Infant of Yoda's species. . . "

He's a BABY YODA! Or more aptly, Baby Yoda he is.


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Would you watch a TV show about the person in that old photograph? Would you watch it if it turned out that was the mistress of Allan Pinkerton in disguise?

There was a recent, short lived series depicting her and her boyfriend/boss solving crimes. Never saw the show, but there's supposed to be rumblings of giving her character her own show.

If there was to be a show, it would be fiction. Not because she didn't live an exciting life, but because not much is known for sure about her, beyond that she was the first known female detective when she went to work for the legend in the making Pinkerton Detective agency. She was known for her undercover work, getting a number of wives of the suspects to confide in her about where the money was hidden, where the suspect was hidden. So maybe it's no surprise that there's no known picture of her. The one below is believed to be her, but nobody knows that for a fact. The war pic could be as much as 7 years after the other. Artwork of the time representing her didn't look like those photographs, but there's nothing usual about such artwork being wrong. She is also believed to have been traveling separately from Pinkerton on the train as he escorted president elect Abraham Lincoln through soon to be Confederate territory during the turbulent secession convention period.

But did she travel with her boyfriend to military units in the field while he was doing military intelligence work during the Civil War? Is that her, disguised as a man, with him also in the picture? I just think the true stories, if we really knew them, were probably far more interesting than anything Hollywood might cook up.

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