Topic: Rate the last TV show you've seen

[BlackNMild2k1]

Winter has come!!!

~snip~

GoT was pretty good. I've kinda lost track of what's going on with Bron and his visions of his dad and I assume Jon Snow. Circe is ruthless, but ultimately got the power back that she seeked. and hopefully next season Daenerys lands and the march to take over Westeros(?) can begin. I can only suspect that her march for the throne will be met head-on with the white walker/army of the dead and last one standing (the imp? Baelish? Wildling w/ baby? Vary's? possibly the leader of the Unsullied and the Afro hottie?) takes the thrown.

For the record, I'm not expecting those suggestions to pan out just as much as I expect the Dead King to actually rule from the iron throne with a undead dragon by his side when this is all said and done.

Is anyone here watching Preacher on AMC?

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I can't be the only one here (still) watching it right?

The cast sounds interesting, but the crazy internet hype kinda turned me away from it. I've got other shows on my mind and just don't want to get into it. Let me know if it does get real interesting and I'll give it a shot then.

After watching tonights ep5 , the preview for next episode looks like it's where things begin to pop off. I'll probably finish the season regardless... but a next season viewing is not likely if this doesn't really suck me in the last half of the season, since I hear it's only 10eps long.

[BranDonk Kong]

Game of Thrones are not pretty good, it was amazing. This whole season has been the best season of any show I've ever seen - followed closely by the latter half of The Walking Dead Season 6 (which was tarnished by the cliff hanger episode), which was also incredible.

[BlackNMild2k1]

It needed more time.

What is the Bron storyline? please break it down for me... he's so far and few inbetween, I just don't remember what all the details are with him. what's with the flashback and being able to manipulate them?

What's with Big Boy and his wildling GF and her baby?

I wanted more Aria Stark. To see her put the face back on and then disappear back into the crowd would have been great.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

[BranDonk Kong]

He's becoming the Maester. They're either setting it up for Jon Snow taking the throne, or a massive, depressing finale to the show. Anyway...Bran is the three eyed raven now, he's just seeing the past, not manipulating it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

He's becoming the Maester. They're either setting it up for Jon Snow taking the throne, or a massive, depressing finale to the show. Anyway...Bran is the three eyed raven now, he's just seeing the past, not manipulating it.

but he did something that his father reacted to, not changing the history, but making him stop and look back as if he heard something that wasn't there. I'm also assuming that after Jon Snow teams up with (and eventually marries) the Mother of Dragons, Bran will eventually be controlling a Dragon, and hopefully Kings Landing (& Circe) is the first major casualty of the Dead Army.

[Stogi]

Bran can manipulate the past as he did when he warged into Hodor. He is fucking powerful. Though "the ink is dry" and thus can't change things in the past unless he was actually suppose to. It's confusing but the example is Hodor. And yes, there is a possibility he can warg into dragons.

He saw his father take Jon Snow from his aunt, finally letting us know that Jon Snow is a Targaryen and a Stark. There's a whole theory about why this is important but I'll say nothing of it now.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Ahh, so Jon Snow is the Winter that's coming. of House Stark & House Targaryen. house of Dire Wolves and Dragons. The King of the North.
Half Brother to the Manipulator of Past Events and Whisperer of the Small Minded.
also half brother to the Lady of Many Faces soon to be known as The Needle in the Haystack.
and half brother to Lady Sansa.... bearer of many future Starks under a different last name? (sorry, I got nothing for her)
Soon to meet with his "cousin" Danaery's Stormborn of House Tagareyon, Mother of Dragons, Free'er of Slaves, Kaleesi of the Dothraki, and rightful heir to the Iron Throne. 

Where they will hopefully teamup to bring a force so strong that no Mountain can stand in it's way regardless off how much Green Fire Circe attempts to throw at it.

[BranDonk Kong]

Daenerys is his Jon Snow's aunt.

[Stogi]

Maybe we should spoiler tag this?

[ThePerm]

I imagine that the dragons will be used to mercilessly destroy the undead army

Also, Snow is really a cousin to the Starks. It would have saved Ned a lot of trouble if he had told Catelyn that yeah this is your nephew, I'm just saying he's a bastard so he doesnt get killed

[BranDonk Kong]

She probably knew.

[ThePerm]

Well, she did treat him like ****, but that could have been intentional. All indications seemed she just barely tolerated him.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Oh, so now I understand the relevance of the flashback.

[Stratos]

Ned couldn't tell anyone. He was already giving Jon special treatment by raising him along his real kids. Catelyn's behavior helped seal the deal because no woman would lovingly dote on the reminder that while she was bearing Ned's firstborn son he was off fucking a woman an having a kid with her.


Plus I'm not sure Catelyn would have agreed with it. And keeping it to just him and Howland Reed would protect his family if the secret got out. Plausible deniability on Catelyn's part.


And Peter Baelish has to die. I'm calling it now. He'll get his dream of sitting on the iron throne but be nearly mad in the process of taking it.


Dany will storm in with Drogon along with Jon and Sansa and order him to stand down. Peter will plead with Sansa to join him and she will just nod to Dany and she orders the dragon to burn the iron throne with poor Littlefinger on it, melting the throne to the ground.


I think it would be great to see it burned down and have someone sitting in it as a last stand to the old ways and tyranny.

[Stogi]

Littlefinger would never put himself in that position though. If Jon and Dany are still alive, he can never become King. He knows that. He also knows that he cannot hope to defeat his enemies (and the realms) himself. So like littlefinger has always done, he'll be in the background orchestrating the eventual death of Dany and Jon.

[Plugabugz]

Some reddit theories about the POI finale:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonOfInterest/comments/4ph181/spoilers_a_thought_on_the_final_machine_v/

[oohhboy]

Yeah worked that out pretty much the day after. There are also plenty of small details which sorts a lot of "plotholes" out. I can pretty much explain anything in the finale.

The only thing I actually have issue with is how did Fusco get out of his mess? His ending was almost an intentional joke given how little he had. One Month, "Paper work" and Bear is pretty inexplicable as everybody else was sorted out in the end.

[Plugabugz]

I think that that part had to be cut for time. The rest of the episode was so tightly packed, with not even a single throwaway line, that something had to give to get to that point - It was probably that. If this was a 50 minute episode it would have been better for it.

My guess is Shaw patched him up and he was last seen with her before the final scenes

But ultimately this still stands as one of the best series finales ive ever watched.

[oohhboy]

I wasn't worried about Shaw patching him up, the Fusco was too "Manly" to be taken down by a knife that sized. I was talking more about the aftermath of what happened at the police station. His investigation gets revealed seemingly implicating him to Sammy's murders, he is outed as a dirty cop, The Man in the Suit is exposed as his partner, the Captain is on the floor, police station pulls guns on both of them, dudes that take them away are shot dead nowhere near where they were suppose to be. Has to explain away why/how he got stabbed.

It's almost a joke like how in that episode where Fusco gets to escort the supermodel and it ends with him firing pistols akimbo and the model pawing at him. That was neat for Fusco, but yeah his ending was a bit of a shoulder shrug.

[Plugabugz]

OH! Well all of that is true but falls after the main samaritan plotline had ended too, so i agree with the shrug part. Each of the main characters all had a "post-story" of their own to tackle, Finch & Grace, Reese & Zoe, Fusco and his son, Shaw coming to terms with his Root's death and her personification by the machine.... They had to stop somewhere because **** CBS.

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm fairly sure I've posted about it in this thread before, but my god is The West Wing an amazing show. I've been going through it again on Netflix recently, currently early in season 4. A popular show in here recently has been Person of Interest, which is in most ways a very different kind of show, but one way in which they're similar is that they managed to pull off brilliant, compelling drama within the generally very strict constraints of network TV.

[Adrock]

Season three of Agents of Shield is not very good which is a shame because season two was pretty good. It feels so weirdly disconnected from the films, more so than the Netflix shows because the team goes global and they never to run into any Avengers ever. I'm having trouble getting through the season. I think I have like seven episodes left. Like The Walking Dead, it's like I'm just hate watching it now.

[BlackNMild2k1]

it's totally unconnected from the movies in S3.... but the last few eps are pretty interesting.

Hopefully next season jumps in bed w/ the Netflix shows, or just goes for that series finale season that doesn't trip up the movies plot lines, but instead sets up something bigger later.

... I really wish Marvel Studios would just handle the movie and the TV so that they can honor the "promise" of #itsallconnected

[oohhboy]

They should rename AoS to Agents of Suffering as the show just never really let people catch a break, got to **** every single one of them over some how.

I really don't mind it being disconnected from the movies as it is it's own show and I was absolutely sick of them name dropping those events. Yes I get it, heli-carriers, New York, battle xyz, Mutant Registration Act etc. They can't bring in an Avenger since it is basically a get out of jail free card. They are so powerful/skilled in comparison to the team that they would solve the plot by themselves unless they crippled whomever showed up. It is the same problem PoI had to deal with.

It is very comic book like in how hand wavy everything is. It just doesn't really have details to explain how something happened. It's all very loose. The fake outs are nice.

They must have had a very big bump in budget as the number and scale of the sets and effects work is well above last season. That final explosion was a wet fart though. That said, I keep thinking what PoI could have done with that much money especially when it really needed it during season 4.

I was entertained and it helped I am not that invested in the whole universe looking to devour every little detail. I let AoS be it's own show.

[Plugabugz]

I wish AOS got some more visual style and flair of its own (season 1 and 2 did feel quite bland and neutral deliberately).

But POI does/did have the same "avengers problem" but dealt with it by making the machine a closed system, granting god mode a limited number of times and handing THAT power to Samaritan for them to use at will, while Team Machine cannot and introducing the analog interface way later into the show. AOS (and the rest of the MCU) can't get away with that because how Stark/SHIELD doesnt know about whats going on in New York *at least* makes a large disconnect.

Things kept flowing down from the movies to the shows but not in the other direction. Although i think AOS improved as soon as it stopped trying to fit in with the MCU and do its own stuff (hence some of the alien planets and some fight scenes being well done, more relaxed acting and generally more confident in itself).