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Post by someonerandom on Mar 29, 2020 22:48:45 GMT -5
I recommend watching “Turn” on Netflix (originally an AMC show). It’s about a continental spy ring during the American Revolutionary War. I really enjoyed the character development, acting, costume design, and writing. It’s all based on real people, and I had a good time reading about the history after it was all over.
This show had me straight up “shipping” people, and it took a character who I hated with the fury of a thousand exploding suns during season 1, and by season 4 I was totally in love with them and cried about their story.
Really good show I never heard people talk much about.
ETA: for a show there about a bunch of white guys starting a country, there are some really well developed female and POC characters. I find this important in a show, and maybe you do too.
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Post by ContingentlyComposite on Mar 29, 2020 23:13:10 GMT -5
I've been watching Star Trek: Next Generation on Netflix for the last couple days. Dead to me, and Grace and Frankie are quite funny if you're looking for laughs.
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Post by Braced4Impact on Mar 30, 2020 13:58:48 GMT -5
I've been watching Star Trek: Next Generation on Netflix for the last couple days. Dead to me, and Grace and Frankie are quite funny if you're looking for laughs. I've only got about 12 more episodes of Deep Space 9 before I wrap up the series. Sci-fi at its best.
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Post by myrrh on Mar 30, 2020 14:39:31 GMT -5
Preach, Braced4Impact. I got right up to the last half of the final season, and then stopped watching because I didn't want it to end. That was years ago. I just restarted, and am halfway through the first season. So far so good, but I'm getting antsy for Garak to become a major character. I'm in love with him and his facial expressions, in fact he was very nearly my PD avatar. Everything is better with Garak.
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Post by Braced4Impact on Mar 30, 2020 15:10:15 GMT -5
Preach, Braced4Impact . I got right up to the last half of the final season, and then stopped watching because I didn't want it to end. That was years ago. I just restarted, and am halfway through the first season. So far so good, but I'm getting antsy for Garak to become a major character. I'm in love with him and his facial expressions, in fact he was very nearly my PD avatar. Everything is better with Garak. Ever heard of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?" Garak is all of those
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Post by myrrh on Mar 30, 2020 17:20:37 GMT -5
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Post by zacc on Mar 30, 2020 18:33:32 GMT -5
One show suggestion that just popped into my head is “The IT Crowd.” Even though it has a laugh track It's so goddamn funny, if you like British humor that is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 19:05:40 GMT -5
Omg @baresqueezelover83 Waterworld! That one got a bad rap, but I love it! Enemy Mine, Alien Nation, Stargate?? I love your list. My favorite fun scifi is The Fifth Element. You could put that movie on mute, and I could fill in every word. It's bad. And then of course, my darling Farscape. You guys are probably tired of me talking about one... I've recently embarked upon Star Trek: DS9, which I've never watched all the way through. Sisko is such a good captain, and I'm sort of in love with Garak. Recently I got a hankering to revisit the Battlestar Galactica remake, but I'm almost afraid to. Does it hold up?
Glad you like my list so much.
I always loved Waterworld as well! I even watched it at the cinema.
I know the other movies mainly due my mother and my uncle. They are also big science-fiction freaks.
Must have inherited some taste from them. I can watch those movies over and over again. Now that you mention it, The 5th Element is of course a damn cool movie too! As many times as I've seen it, it would have fit on my list. That reminds me, do you know Heavy Metal, the cartoon from 1981? That's some weird stuff too. It's quite possible that Luc Besson got the idea with the flying vehicles from it.
But that doesn't change the fact that The 5th Element is one of the best movies with Bruce Willis!
Demolition Man was also a candidate that came to my mind later. But I think the list would be endless.
I'd actually have to watch Farescape again, it's been too long-ago. I haven't watched Star Trek DS9 for ages either. It was shown back when I was was lying in the hospital. I was about 13 then.
My mother and I watched almost nothing else. I only watched a few episodes of the Battlestar Galactica remake. I don't know why... I wait for the specials of the original series....Unfortunately you don't see those anymore.... At least not in Germany.
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Post by devogirl on Mar 30, 2020 21:22:04 GMT -5
If you loved the movie The Fifth Element, you should read the comic called The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky with art by Moebius. It was first published in 1981 in French, and it is amazing. The Fifth Element basically ripped off so much of the plot and imagery that Jodorowsky sued them. But we can still enjoy both the comic and the movie. The whole series has been translated into English and probably German and other languages too. This article has a summary of the story and lots of pages of that amazing art: boingboing.net/2012/02/13/the-incal-classic-w.html
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Post by Braced4Impact on Mar 30, 2020 21:45:22 GMT -5
Quite honestly, this would probably be much better than the Gary Oldman flick.
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Post by paperbackruiter on Apr 2, 2020 12:52:15 GMT -5
I'm also moving through Star Trek: TNG, but am undecided as to where to go from there: continue on to Deep Space Nine, or take a left turn and rewatch Battlestar Galactica (the reboot, one of the few that actually surpasses the original IMO).
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