Actually he should have mentioned the Usual Suspects which has a team get together after meeting in lineup.
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The first episode has been leaked. It's both hilarious and scary. The dialog is some of the best banter I've seen in years. People should love this. Capaldi owns it from the start.
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There are a lot of articles out there. Some are by afro-centrists which tend to be fanatical nonsense. I've been to museums in Europe that have sarcophagi and mummies,. Many sarcophagi had paintings on them of what the people looked like when they were alive and some were white people, some dark skinned…
The Egyptians were multiracial. At one stage they were conquered by Alexander the Great so the elites were white (including Cleopatra despite some people's claims to the contrary) but at the time of Moses they were probably mostly like modern North Africans, Semetic dark skinned people (Arabs) with black Africans in…
The plot manatees were really wasted last night.
I could tell from the first episode the characters were kind of dull. There is no big personality for other characters to bounce off of like Sawyer on Lost. Most of the characters seem morose and downbeat. They need to develop more emotional engagement because right now, except for people responding badly to the sight…
Alien 3 was not a fair comparison in that Fincher was brought in at the last minute and the script was being written while the movie was being shot so Fincher really didn't have a chance to work his usual magic. Same with Green Hornet which originally had Stephen Chow involved. That one was probably hamstrung by the…
I understand that's what they were doing but in several cases it seemed really fake, like they shoehorned an answer in later but used fake outs before hand to try to divert people's attention. It's not good writing to do that. Tricking people is OK, that's what writer's do before a reveal. But some of them answers…
It's a rip off of the opening of The Good The Bad and the Ugly, the Lee Van Cleef scene
It has a stellar cast and music by the people who wrote the Wizard of Oz tunes. I used to watch it a lot as a kid on TV whenever it came on.
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Reminds me a little of the 1962 movie Gay Pur-ee.
If those were explained on the show they did a poor job. I watched it twice and didn't get most of that. I know the psychic lied to get Claire on the island. The question is, why?
One of the things that bugged me is Jacob was able to create all these technical magic devices like the lighthouse where he could see everything that was happening on the planet, and was able to know everything about people and change their destiny by touching them, but basically didn't have any important info to pass…
Don't get me wrong, I liked Lost. Hates season 6 the first time, but saw it a second time and more or less accepted it (still think it was not that clever for such a clever show). A lot of the Lost mysteries turned out to be BS, like the whispers and the Egyptian statue on an island of white people. But whatever.
I agree on Stoneheart in GOT. I think they saved her because they needed some shocker for season 5 and the books have few of them going forward. It's going to be tough for them to follow up Storm of Swords and keep the show as compelling, though I have faith in them. So Stoneheart is important just to add some…
Yeah, I call it the Six Feet Under Scene, since they popularized it and other shows do it now. I just use Lost as a comparison because I don't see all the plot threads going anywhere important, just like on Lost. :)
Lost had all this mystical stuff that turned out to be convenient diversions from actual plotting. "Look, people come back from the dead to explain shit" And everything unexplained was blamed on "The Island" whereas here it's "The Dome." You're right, the vibe is a lot different. For one thing Lost had more…