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Keep meaning to get Banshee off my brother.<br />
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Also started Elementary (American Sherlock) and the Sherlock character is as amusing and infuriating as the recent BBC series and the Movies.<br />
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Still watching and enjoying Person of Interest and Arrow as well, also have the new JUstified to watch, and counting down GOT! -
Now Banshee has finished (and set up really well for Series 2). I have a gap in my viewing schedule. I hear 'Hunted' (also from Cinemax) is worth watching. Anyone else seen it?<br />
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Having a read around it looks like Banshee really started to connect in the second half of the season and with Cinemax's quite open policy to making episodes available freely, plus all of the ancillary stuff they have on their website, it looks like they have finally got a the show they were after. Ant Starr is going to come out of this really well I reckon. -
4 eps into Banshee, and am quite enjoying it, bit of a guilty pleasure, like most series you could pick holes if you chose to, but sometimes it is nice to just sit back and enjoy the ride.<br />
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Also enjoying The Following, although just how far reaching the 'following' is, is a little unbelievalble and pissed me off, particularly a week or 2 back, otherwise series is good with great acting.<br />
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"top of the lake" directed by Jane Campion is coming to our screens (UKTV) this week, has anyone seen it and is it worth watching?<br />
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I watched it last night.<br />
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Was good but my concern is how they will manage to cram all the happenings in book 3 into 10 episodes and doing it justice. <br />
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[quote name='Crucial' timestamp='1364937468' post='356559']<br />
No one on here yet salivating about GoT3?<br />
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Thought tht was what my post directly above yours was all about.....<br />
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Thought tht was what my post directly above yours was all about.....<br />
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Was a good episode. Sure keeps ya wanting more.[/quote]<br />
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1364937693' post='356560']<br />
I watched it last night.<br />
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Was good but my concern is how they will manage to cram all the happenings in book 3 into 10 episodes and doing it justice.<br />
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If they can pull this off Mr Martin best pull finger for book 6!<br />
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I thought I had read somewhere that the 2 books that comprise book 3 will be done over 2 seasons.<br />
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Yeah that 6th book is overdue already and I think there is talk of a 7th but at this rate the tv show will easily catch up. -
[quote name='mooshld' timestamp='1364974849' post='356628']<br />
[b]I thought I had read somewhere that the 2 books that comprise book 3 will be done over 2 seasons.[/b]<br />
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Yeah that 6th book is overdue already and I think there is talk of a 7th but at this rate the tv show will easily catch up.<br />
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I hope so, given how much is in book 3...<br />
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I do wonder if they will follow books 4 & 5 though, or if they run the 2 books together over 2 series, would make for better viewing IMO. -
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Not much of a reader myself [/quote]<br />
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Westlake education wasn't it? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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They are many layered but that's what makes them so riviting. Plus Martin's world isn't that far removed from our own - makes it all much more credible than eg Middle earth -
What's good about it is the quality of the writing and the calibre of the actors delivering it. It's just nice to have a scene that takes its time to develop dialogue without needing to rush off to the next character as soon as possible. Tyrion's confrontation with his father being a case in point.<br />
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But yes, if you think of how many characters are being introduced into the storyline you have to wonder how they are going to communicate it all.<br />
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[quote name='mooshld' timestamp='1365002494' post='356664']<br />
They are quite gripping to read, but I agree at one stage I think around book 4 or 5 they introduce a boat load of new characters. It proved to be testing and required a few flip backs to see who was who again!<br />
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Watched the finale of Walking Dead last night, and having really enjoyed this series, was a wee bit disappointed with the ending TBH.<br />
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As to GOT - I think they need to follow through with all the new characters, as they are part of the overall story, will be interesting to see how they do it, especially with books 4 & 5 running concurrently, which is where IMO it would be best if they merged the 2 books into 2 series rather than following Book 4 = S4, otherwise there will be alot of confusion for people to follow S4.<br />
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[spoiler]There was even a FB post that Peter Dinklage (aka Tyrian) would not be in S4, which is true, as he isnt in book 4, but they then played it as an April 1st joke.<br />
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