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23 hours ago, DoctorK said:
Well, Kitchen Nightmares is back with the same old script.
I agree, the US version of this show seems to run the same script every show. They redecorate the restaurant, Gordon makes a new streamlined menu, the kitchen gets in trouble, then in the last five minutes they miraculously recover with no real explanation.
Maybe what pushed Bobby over the edge was being on the 30 day probation, he probably didn't want to deal with that.
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5 hours ago, gutbuster said:
I was ready to be pissed when Laurent parted that sea of walkers like Moses, but seeing that it was a dream wasn't much better.
I don't know, if they would have said that Laurent had zombie blood, therefore the zombies wouldn't attack him, I would have been okay with it.
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I mean really, the shorter menu is one of the most basic and common sense concepts. Just keeping all that stuff in stock seems like it would put most restaurants out of business. If they can't get that right and stick with it, what hope is there?
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11 hours ago, MagnusHex said:
1x24Marla McGivers: Space Seed
The episode has other problems, of course, mainly in the treatment of Marla McGivers becoming one of those dated Gone with the Wind "I like it when men ravish me" cliches.
Okay, you're right, that's what's going on. But you could pretend that since it was her mission to study him, she was play acting a bit to stay in his good graces.
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On 9/24/2023 at 3:16 PM, kevvoi said:
Poor Isabelle, she gets to Paris only to find plot anvils in the form of the undead neighbor girl and her very much living ex. And of course the ex cheated with her sister and is the "most special" boy's father. I am surprised that they didn't throw in a little more drama with her stash of drugs - a little "will she or won't she" return to her addict behavior. I really enjoy her character though - she has been a welcome addition to the ever-expanding character list for this franchise.
Now that you mention it, Isabelle is one of the more likeable new characters I can remember in recent years. Laurent's okay too.
8 hours ago, tennisgurl said:I don't know what Daryl was talking about when he said that going to the orchestra was a bad stop, I'm obsessed with this crazy old professor and his zombie band, I was to know everything about them and buy season tickets.
I couldn't figure out how the zombie knew how to hit his cymbal on time. Maybe they still have some sense of rhythm alive in there somewhere. I agree seeing Jim Morrison's grave was a nice addition. So we know that from a pop culture standpoint, Daryl is familiar with Mork and Mindy and The Doors.
8 hours ago, tennisgurl said:My only real beef with the show right now are the bad guys, who are pretty generic besides their zombie experiments, which are at least pretty interesting.
I was just thinking it's too bad they didn't surprise us and kill off tattoo face in this episode, and we wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. I guess the lady running the shipping company is the real big bad though.
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4 hours ago, Laura Holt said:
the "Punch thy Neighbour' episode - boy if I'd been Rob I would have wanted to deck Jerry!!
Jerry acted like a jackass in that episode. Just watching the show made me want to punch him.
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Another good episode. And was fairly light on villains, which I appreciate. Helps that Daryl is so likable, must be the rough exterior with the heart of gold.
On 9/17/2023 at 11:56 AM, cdnalor said:Of course the zombaby turns out to be Laurent who's, let me guess, special blood just might hold the secret of a cure. Hmmm, seems familiar..
That's possible, although I don't know why that would work, or why they think that might be. I guess it could have something to do with natural immunity. But if he represents a potential cure, that doesn't bode well for his survival. They're not going to risk their zombie universe.
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26 minutes ago, iMonrey said:
I'd prefer a villain that's more shades of gray, like maybe Maribelle.
I'll give them half credit for the guy being motivated by Daryl killing his brother. But he killed the old French man before that, just out of cruelty. And how do these guys automatically know when someone is lying to them? Lazy and annoying.
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I also enjoyed it, although how much better could this have been with Carol in it? Oh well, it wasn't to be. I'm at the point though, where I'm practically rolling my eyes whenever the villains show up on these shows, they're so boring and interchangeable and unnecessarily evil. I suppose you have to have them, but I'm just over it.
That aside, the only other thing that bugged me is the way the nuns called the kid the "new messiah". I know they've formed a religion melded out of a bunch of different ones, but I find it very difficult to believe that any devout people formed out of Christianity or Catholicism would ever label someone a messiah. Jesus Christ was/is the messiah for those groups, and to say otherwise would be blasphemy of the highest order.
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2 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:
did you know there are lyrics to the theme song?
Morey Amsterdam wrote them, after the fact. I used to go around singing them frequently just to learn them. I always thought the lyrics were kind of lame though.
2 hours ago, Laura Holt said:Aside from Dick Van Dyke and Larry Matthews (Richie) are any other of the regular cast still living?
I thought I had one with Peter Oliphant (Freddie Helper), but he just passed away this past May 😞
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Just saw "Never Bathe on Saturday" last night, where Laura gets her toe stuck in the bathtub spout. I kept thinking the bellboy looked familiar, but couldn't place him. At the end, it said he was played by Bill Idelson, again a familiar name, but a search on the TV didn't turn up anything. But a Google search revealed that he was the same actor who played Herman Glimscher. I had never noticed that before! Just goes to show that you can watch these shows dozens of times and still find something new.
Great memorable line: "I was playing with a drip". She delivers it perfectly.
By the way, I had this strange thought: Laura Petrie with her toe stuck in a bathtub (robed, of course) would make a great plastic model kit. Or even a premade model. It would look great in the display cabinet.
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Saw Charlie X the other night on MeTV, this is one of my favorite episodes. It isn't often a protagonist can be so completely terrifying on one level, but then garner as much sympathy when he meets his fate. The poor kid just didn't have the maturity and experiences to deal with his abilities (and hormones). One in a long line of Star Trek's fascination with omnipotent characters.
When I came aboard!
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18 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:
In all the locations for Alone it's proven to be surprisingly (to me) hard to find enough food to survive. Guys have been forced to survive on mice and slugs, if you'll recall the first couple of seasons.
Yeah, but usually by that time the cold winter has set in. It's still fairly early in the Australia version, and there is like nothing.
13 hours ago, Yeah No said:I know this is probably not it, but I just watched a "ribs battle" episode of "Iron Chef" and thought the ribs from some large fish looked just like it.
We have guesses for mammal, fish, and bird already. No way that's a fish, I'm thinking, but she is eating it raw, so maybe she's having sushi.
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On 9/8/2023 at 4:04 PM, humbleopinion said:
Post your guess what animal carcass Gina is ripping the meat from in the opening.
I think it's the infamous missing wolf from the season 2 intro (I think it was season 2). There was footage of a wolf charging the camera, but it never showed up during the season. There was a fair amount of discussion about it.
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8 hours ago, iMonrey said:
Five down, five to go. And after only 9 or 10 days. Four of them in the first three days (although one was pulled for Covid). They sure did a lousy job casting this.
I think it's a combination of bad casting and a really difficult environment. The terrain is novel to look out after seeing all the North American versions of Alone, but they don't seem to be much good for supporting people trying to survive. Like the one guy said an episode or two ago, he hadn't even seen anything alive the whole time he'd been there. And the fishing seems less than ideal.
I'm curious about the lady in the intro who is chewing on the ribcage of... some animal. I wonder what it is, and how she got it. Answers forthcoming, hopefully.
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Duane tapped out in episode five. He says "I just need social interaction. I can't be alone". He did realize that the name of the show is literally "Alone", right?
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On 9/4/2023 at 3:38 PM, Johannah said:
I have to give Adam credit for actually studying the manual
I'd like to know specifically why Adam decided to study the manual, and why the others didn't deem it necessary. Maybe the showed a general instruction to everybody to study the manual, but I don't remember, and I'm certainly not going back to look.
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On 8/12/2023 at 4:11 PM, AnimeMania said:
A new South Park video game is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox X|S and Nintendo Switch in 2024. It appears to be a multiplayer Battle Royale video game.
I loved The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, but I don't have a PS5, I still have the 4. The great thing about those games is they were each kind of like a South Park episode. Not sure I like the Battle Royale concept though.
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For all the bad and mediocre reviews on this film, I quite enjoyed it. Didn't see anything wrong with it at all, really. Could have done a smidge more with Michael Keaton, but all in all great fun, I thought.
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4 hours ago, Lugal said:
Years ago, there was a couple of Star Trek books that went into Khan's origins as well. I keep meaning to track them down, but as I understand it, they tie Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln (Assignment: Earth) into the whole story as well.
I haven't read the Star Trek novels, but curiously they do reference the supervisor program that Gary Seven was involved with in season two of Star Trek: Picard also.
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15 minutes ago, tv-talk said:
Care to fill me in? I dont think I'm going to watch PicardS2 though I loved season3.
SpoilerThey spend a lot of season two in the present day. One of the protagonists is Adam Soong, an ancestor of the other Soongs played by Brett Spiner. He is an acclaimed geneticist. After his schemes fail, he is seen reaching into a drawer and taking out a manila folder labeled "The Kahn Project". So apparently he was behind the genetic experiments that created Kahn. I thought it was a nice touch, and it made sense also.
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Just pointing out here, that if you watched Star Trek: Picard, there's a little easter egg about the origins of Kahn at the end of the second season.
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53 minutes ago, Madding crowd said:
As far as the ending, I assume they gave them the answers in the manual but Adam was the only one who read it so it made sense that he won.
I wonder if someone told them at some point or other, "Study the hab manual, it may come in handy"? Or if they just gave it to them and let them do what they wanted with it. Only Adam made any mention of studying the manual whenever he had the chance. Also, did they each have a copy or was there just one laying around?
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57 minutes ago, tv-talk said:
I'd just like to have seen a darker skinned person play Khan as the character is supposed to be of Sikh lineage.
That would have been good in Into Darkness, but I can't imagine anyone playing a better Kahn than Ricardo Montalban. Maybe there was some Mexican DNA spliced into his genetics.
3 minutes ago, marinw said:As a Canadian and a very secular, agnostic Jew, I agree. Leonard Nimoy was also Jewish, and did bring a bit of his heritage into Spock with the Vulcan Salute. And both Shatner and Nimoy got to cosplay as Nazis!
This is off topic, but did you know all the Nazis in Hogan's Heroes were played by Jewish actors? I thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.
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Alone (AUS) - General Discussion
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I'm not finding this show that interesting either, but I guess I'll throw in a comment. I wonder how it is that Gina is able to catch trout when (virtually) no one else can. Is it skill or did she manage to draw the one decent fishing hole in the bunch? Plus she found out she can eat worms and like them, she has to be the best fed of the bunch so far. I'm surprised the worm feast hasn't been more popular with others, she almost sold me on them. Also interested in seeing what her eventual mystery meat is going to be.
Don't really care about the other two guys, or the girl who tapped out because she missed her family. Good riddance to that nonsense, I say. I am curious to see how Michael's site change is going to work out for him.