What was the last TV show you watched?

[Stormy]

Right now I'm watching "Cold Case" re-runs. I particularly like all the episodes with settings in the 1940s-1960s.

 

[Fading Fast]

Right now I'm watching "Cold Case" re-runs. I particularly like all the episodes with settings in the 1940s-1960s.

Haven't seen the show in years, but agree, they did their "period" episodes well.

 

[Worf]

The Westworld season finale. Like the rest of the season, it found it overlong and redundant, punctuated with occasional interesting moments and fine performances. I came away not very enthused about where it looks like the second season will be going.

SPOILER ALERT!

And come on, was there any way that the Dr. Ford who Dolores shot was NOT a host acting as a Life Model Decoy?!?

I feel the exact opposite. Enjoyed it thoroughly and can't wait to see next season.

Worf

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Westworld. I'm with Doctor Strange on this one. While I do like the idea of the potential coming chaos, I was drained by its usual verbosity and now the host or real trickery. That's just too easy of a plot device. If your goal is for the audience to trust nothing, you win. To me, that's not storytelling, nor worth my time. There's no integrity in that. Fooled ya! Fooled ya! Fooled ya! Yep, you fooled me. In a situation where I purposely, and wantingly, suspend belief, that's no feat.

 

[DesertDan]

Penny Dreadful - I got through the first season but I don't know if I will continue. There is much to like and the acting is very good but the pacing is sooooo slooowwww that it steals the suspense/terror of the situation and getting though each episode is a real grind.

 

[Touchofevil]

Monday Night Football

 

[Stearmen]

I wish I'd taken note of what it was called, but a few weeks ago I saw a new documentary that revealed someone had uncovered a letter from F.D.R. that outlined eight military maneuvers that were designed purely to provoke Japan into attacking a U.S. military base; the target would presumably be Pearl Harbor. Winston Churchill had been all but begging Roosevelt to aid Britain in their efforts against Germany. But Roosevelt had no justification for doing so unless/until the U.S. was attacked in some way, so he and his advisors created this plan so the U.S. could use the attack as an excuse to enter the war in Europe.

The problem with that is, the Navy, and especially the Battleships were FDRs baby, he purposely followed in his famous Uncles TR footsteps by being the Secretary Of The Navy! There is no way he would have sacrificed the fleet just to get into the war. People don't realize how close the Japanese got to putting us out of the war. We all know they missed the carriers, but they also missed the oil storage, submarines and dry docks. Without oil, there would have been no fleet to go out, and the submarines were the only offensive weapon in those early days, they also accounted for the majority of the ships sunk during the war! Plus, we would have lost Midway without the dry docks! The USS Yorktown, which was damaged during the Coral Sea would have had to go all the way back to Puget Sound, Washington to be repaired,which is what the Japanese based there plan on. FDR had other ways of getting into the war. He was provoking Hitler to attack our ships escorting British merchant ships. Just a month before Pearl Harbor, on Halloween eve the USS Reuben James was sunk by U-522. If you look at poling, the public was moving more and more to support war with Germany. No one, and I mean no one wanted a two front war!

 

[Stearmen]

The Lost Tapes: Pearl Harbor. The title is a little misleading, these are not secret tapes hidden away, they are simply recording by the different news agencies of the time. They deal with a few days before the attack to a couple of days after. The first report of an attack was the sinking of the Army chartered SS Cynthia Olson a 1,000 miles Northwest of diamond Head, all 33 aboard perished. It was later determined that I-26 sank her. There was one live broad cast, but it only lasted about two minutes, when the operator cut in on the phone relay, saying, "this line is needed for emergency messages, thus pulling the plug on one of the most important radio broadcast of all times.

 

[Worf]

Monday Night Football

What football? Oh you mean the Colts vs. St. Mary's School for the Blind? The Christians put up a better fight against the Lions back in Rome! Whatta deebackel!

Worf

 

[Zombie_61]

Penny Dreadful - I got through the first season but I don't know if I will continue. There is much to like and the acting is very good but the pacing is sooooo slooowwww that it steals the suspense/terror of the situation and getting though each episode is a real grind.

If you weren't crazy about the first season you may as well quit while you're ahead, because seasons two and three are more of the same. I stuck it out hoping it would get better, and there were a few good episodes, but I found it mostly tedious and not particularly interesting.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

If you weren't crazy about the first season you may as well quit while you're ahead, because seasons two and three are more of the same. I stuck it out hoping it would get better, and there were a few good episodes, but I found it mostly tedious and not particularly interesting.

Yeah, same for me. One can only take so much of Eva Green's wide eyed worried stare into the middle distance. As the bard put it; " Much ado about nothing." .......I must admit though I did quite like Reeve Carney's portrayal of Dorian Gray.

 

[Fading Fast]

What football? Oh you mean the Colts vs. St. Mary's School for the Blind? The Christians put up a better fight against the Lions back in Rome! Whatta deebackel!

Worf

Hard to put one's finger on why, but the Jets broke over the off season. Even with pretty much the same players that came a game shy of the playoffs last year, this year, they are the Jets of always.

 

[MisterCairo]

I finally got around to seeing last week's Gotham. I think it's the, what is it called now, the "mid-season finale". If so, a great way to break before resuming!

 

[Touchofevil]

What football? Oh you mean the Colts vs. St. Mary's School for the Blind? The Christians put up a better fight against the Lions back in Rome! Whatta deebackel!

Worf

The Jets officially broke last night and I am okay with that.

 

[Touchofevil]

Seinfeld

 

[Stearmen]

People Of Earth. Very dry humor, though I really like that there is no laugh track! I hope the show catches on.

 

[Edward]

I finally got around to seeing last week's Gotham. I think it's the, what is it called now, the "mid-season finale". If so, a great way to break before resuming!

Season3? I'm hoping to see that on Netflix soon. I liked Season 1 well enough, but 2 really took the whole thing to a new level.

 

[Ernest P Shackleton]

Why the walking dead stinks

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...g-dead-but-he-still-needs-to-go/#3039927537b2

 

[Fading Fast]

The Lost Tapes: Pearl Harbor. The title is a little misleading, these are not secret tapes hidden away, they are simply recording by the different news agencies of the time. They deal with a few days before the attack to a couple of days after. The first report of an attack was the sinking of the Army chartered SS Cynthia Olson a 1,000 miles Northwest of diamond Head, all 33 aboard perished. It was later determined that I-26 sank her. There was one live broad cast, but it only lasted about two minutes, when the operator cut in on the phone relay, saying, "this line is needed for emergency messages, thus pulling the plug on one of the most important radio broadcast of all times.

Just saw it yesterday. As someone who has watched many (many, many) Pearl Harbor / WWII documentaries, it was refreshing to see film clips and hear tapes that weren't the more common ones.

It made the documentary seem fresh. As you pointed out, the clips and recordings weren't "lost," but they definitely are not the ones that have been most commonly seen.

While the show overall is well done, for those familiar with the event, there isn't that much new information wise, but seeing and hearing these not-common clips and recordings makes the show well worth watching.

 

[Worf]

Why the walking dead stinks

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...g-dead-but-he-still-needs-to-go/#3039927537b2

Thanks so very much for this. Don't waste a bullet on Negan... hit Gimple instead. Problem solved. I'm proud to be part of THAT ratings drop.

Worf