bad_hair_day wrote:

Bob wrote:

Shit. Lottie Lion's business idea is shit and she's deffo not going to win. Still she can work on her business plan on my sofa anytime.

She looks like a shaved rat, sprayed with inch thick foundation.

She reminds me of the lead henchwoman in a mid-90s straight to DVD action movie where in her last scene she thinks she has the plucky female sidekick beaten, only for them to pull a switcheroo on her at the last moment and then something explodes, killing her.

poprock wrote:

This week’s Watchmen was brilliant. Even the episode title was great.

Spoiler:

A God Walks into a Bar, changing when Doc Manhattan walks through it to read A God Walks into Abar. Smoooth.

Did you catch the lengthy post-credits scene?

Is there a post-credits scene every episode? It's the first time I've watched through the credits.

Empire mag just gave it TV Show of the Year.

@Daddy: No, episode eight had the first post-credits scene. You’ve not missed others.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I read mixed things on Watchmen here, at least early on.  It's fair to say it gets better then?  I had it on a list of things to watch 'at some point' (i.e after I've finally finished Wentworth and City on a Hill), but a mate - who is prone to hyperbole tbh - reckons it's the best thing he's seen on TV for years if not ever.

Kow still doesn’t seem impressed, but for me it’s gone from something I liked to something I love.

My hbo sub ran out after episode 6 so I probably won't see the rest till next year. I could torrent it but frankly I couldn't be bothered. I've found it to be mostly dull and pointless with fairly uninteresting characters. Its connection to the original is tenuous and the whole arc (so far) with Ozymandias is garbage.

Watching Mindhunter, about 4 or 5 episodes in. Am enjoying it at lot, does it stay good? I remember people talking about it here (that's probably why it was on my list).

Second series is also great.

poprock wrote:

Watchmen is odd. I thought the early episodes were bad but intriguing. And as it progressed, each episode reveals more about what you saw earlier. It’s like a puzzle whose pieces slowly lock into place. By the time you reach the halfway point it starts to feel like a good show, then carries on to become a great one. And those later episodes wouldn’t have worked if you hadn’t had the early ones, exactly as they were. It’s unique.

Just like the comic then.

Good to know Mindhunter stays good. I'm usually OK with at least finishing one season if things start to look bad, but B always stops watching the minute he thinks it's not good anymore and I hate that.

Someone more in the know than me on these things would be able to confirm or correct me here but I thought one of the main creators of Watchmen has completely washed his hands of it all as he was somehow duped or tricked with the rights side of things?  Basically, he won’t now take a penny from it due to how horrible it all got for him and he thinks you - yes, you - should be protesting alongside him.  A real fan would know not to support this corporate white washing or something, maybe, perhaps, something a bit like that.

Kow wrote:

Well that's Alan Moore, but who cares what thinks anyway.? He was never tricked anyway, he just had the same contract as any other comic writer back in the day.

He's a self-loathing sort who if he's right hasn't done anything meaningful whatsoever in his career. His failure to break out of an infantile medium marks him as an utter schmuck. Scorsese I respect as he is one of the best film makers in the medium's history and I will always listen to him on a subject, but Alan Moore is just a joke of a person.

His work is great, but as far as his opinions on what should be done/is being done/the worth of comics, he's at best a colossal hypocrite.

I'm fully supporting him by not paying anything to watch it. Solidarity brother!

The new Twin Peaks VR thing looks like it could be some fun. 

Going to have to get a VR set first of course... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHRXHvPRrJY