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The final episode of Hell on Wheels. Somewhat lackluster, as I expected, but they brought a couple of things full circle and I thought the overall tone was a fitting way to end the show.
After the season finale of Game of Thrones, Hubby and I started watching the entire show again from season 1, episode 1. I didn't watch all of it with him when he watched it the first time around, so watching it now is filling in a bunch of information for me that was missing before. We are on season2, episode 10 now. Thank goodness for OnDemand!!
Dagnabit! You succubussed me into doin' the same thing!!!! Watched all of Season One yesterday! I was a total schlub and lay on the couch the whole day! You're so right... I've picked up clues and hints of many things to come that we're embedded right from the start....
Worf
The original Star Trek 2nd pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before": Shatner's first outing as Kirk. It's one of his very best, with suspense, creepiness, good dialogue ("In a month, [Mitchell] will have as much in common with us as we'd have with a shipful of white mice"), and a real life-or-death decision for Kirk to make.
Right behind it H & I ran the second ep of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a sloppy retake on the Original Series episode "The Naked Time." The 1966 one (which will be on tonight, Wednesday) had real suspense and steadily built one problem on top of another to a "Wow!" climax. The 1987 sequel/remake at least refers to the earlier story, as it was part of Federation history. But the newer story ends up being unconvincing, and I'm still not sure if they intended some scenes to be funny or not. I imagine Gene Roddenberry telling the crew, "We'd better improve on stuff like this or we won't last 13 weeks!"
Fortunately, they did improve -- and tremendously.
Barney Miller
It's been a long time. I really liked
The show when I was a kid.
The seventies sure were ugly.
And then the infection continued on in to the eighties. The world has never recovered from the something which happened in the sixties. The seventies as a child was much nicer/kinder/better than it is today. That said, Barney Miller was fun to watch once again.Even though not my personal taste, the early hippies / flower child / counter culture '60s style - clothes, hair, jewelry - had a fresh spirit to it, a rawness to it, a honest breaking-of-windows feels to it powered by joy, youth, energy, rebellion. It might not be your taste, but you could feel that something was, to steal a line, happening here. By the seventies, that was all gone and we were left with polyester, wide lapels, bad hair, crazy colors and no cohesion - it was all over the map and the entire map was ugly.
Are you sure you're not talking about the 80s?bad hair, crazy colors and no cohesion - it was all over the map and the entire map was ugly.