Judge Smails, No…but thanks to trade ins and my Birthday, I had enough $$$$ to get my…G.I. Joe fix satisfied. YO JOE!!!
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| Originally Posted by Jake View Post I’m working on BSG at the moment. Meaning I got like five minutes into the first episode and rewatched The Wrestler instead. I suck. |
It’s probably for the best. The first season is akin to having your testicles set upon by an angry man with a claw hammer. The second and third and fourth seasons are marked improvements, but are constantly spoiled by stupid day-glo space battles.
I just checked my figures and when I was watching Goku vs Frieza he spends 6 episodes getting his super saiyan on, so that’s 2 and a bit hours of a man screaming as his hair glows. Ah, my misspent youth.
Burning through a rewatch of Buffy Season 3 at the moment with Season 2 of both Twin Peaks and The Wire on deck.
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| Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post It’s probably for the best. The first season is akin to having your testicles set upon by an angry man with a claw hammer. The second and third and fourth seasons are marked improvements, but are constantly spoiled by stupid day-glo space battles. |
Thank you for posting this. I thought I would be set upon by the CHUDnoscenti for expression my underwhelment with season one. While the first season was entertaining enough, it didn’t strike me as one of the greatest shows of all time. I’ll open up my schedule to season two after the summer.
I’m about to start the Prisoner when it comes in from Netflix today. The last big Marathon I did was the West Wing where I averaged each Season a week for 7 weeks.
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| Originally Posted by Sam Strange View Post I’m thinking about doing Rome. Should I? |
You should. You should like crazy. But this is coming from a Roman Empire fanboy. Sadly the second season is hurt by HBO’s decision to cancel it, but it is definitely one of the best series I’ve watched.
Babylon 5 is great if you go along with the bathshit insanity of it all. Because once it gets going, it just goes fucking nuts and it really is unlike anything else on TV. Spider Demons, Earth Nazis, Ancient Wars, Psychic Wars, the show just keeps on getting nuttier and nuttier.
Also Bruce Boxleitner is somehow the actor who manages to hold it all together. I’ve never been able to understand this.
As a guy who loves television, there are some pretty glaring gaps in my marathon-ing. The biggest would probably be Sopranos (I want to find a slow month at work where I can just sit in front of the tv and watch it right through), then Lost and the Shield. I got to season 2.5 of Battlestar Galactica before my DVDs skipped, but liked enough of what I saw that I might ask for the complete series box set around Christmas.
Right now I’m playing catch up with Burn Notice Season 2, then I might do a recap of Mad Men or FNL for my blog. I definitely want to rewatch Mad Men before the third season starts on August 17th.
I’m also considering getting the first season of Magnum, P.I. or Rockford Files off Netflix to check those out.
Spike, don’t know how far you are in Angel, but the first season is definitely the weakest.
I’d even go so far as to discard the first and last season of Babylon 5. Of course, the first season sets things up and the last one ties up some loose ends, but seasons two, three and four are Babylon 5 firing on all cylinders.
I’ve never seen an episode of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve resisted it for years. When that boxset is released in July that’s about to change.
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| Originally Posted by stelios View Post I’d even go so far as to discard the first and last season of Babylon 5. Of course, the first season sets things up and the last one ties up some loose ends, but seasons two, three and four are Babylon 5 firing at all cylinders. |
I was about to rebuke your decision to ignore Season 5. But aside from a little planetary bombardment you’re right, nothing happens in that series and it completely cheapens one of the best things about Season 4. So yeah, forget Season 5 exists everybody.
I actually think marathoning BSG would leave me really exhausted and drained. It’s such a miserable show, I don’t think I could watch more than an episode at a time
Arrested Development is the perfect series to have a “marathon” viewing - tons of call-back jokes and what not.
I’ve been watching AD with friends, a disc a night, and each series does work as three seperate little movies.
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| Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post I’m also considering getting the first season of Magnum, P.I. or Rockford Files off Netflix to check those out. |
I am a HUGE Magnum fan since it first aired and I have to warn you. The first season is a bit…rough. It really took the show a good 2-3 seasons before it hit is stride. Its still very watchable in Season 1 mind you, but the eps don’t get really good until a few seasons in. Also, I beg of you, don’t judge the show by the acting quality of TC and Rick.
Rockford is pretty good early on. I loved the fact that the “hero” is basically an asshole most of the time.
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| Originally Posted by Sam Strange View Post I’m thinking about doing Rome. Should I? |
Rome is like a very expensive and elaborate psuedo-historical soap opera with violence and naked chicks. Yes, yes you should.
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| Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post I actually think marathoning BSG would leave me really exhausted and drained. It’s such a miserable show, I don’t think I could watch more than an episode at a time |
Marathoning BSG? What a bad idea. It’s up there with taking acid after your dog dies. Days of depression are guaranteed.
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| Originally Posted by stelios View Post Marathoning BSG? What a bad idea. It’s up there with taking acid after your dog dies. Days of depression are guaranteed. |
I also think BSG will make less sense if you watch them all at once. As the show progresses it makes some funky leaps in logic, plot and history. If you watch them all back to back this may piss you off moreso than when we watched it in serial form.
Trying to marathon BSG might be the only way I get into it. A few years ago I got halfway through the first season I was so bored that I vowed never to go back to it. Unfortunately if I want to stop hearing people say, “What? How did you not watch BSG?” I have to actually hunker down and watch it.
You could splice together Blade Runner and Schindler’s List and pretty much replicate the entireity of Season 2 and 3.
I bought the first to seasons of B5 to watch as a marathon.
I Still havent finished the 2nd series, I just couldn’t get back into it.