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[Renee1]

New season of the Venture Bros. starts tomorrow! I am beside myself. There are no words, no words indeed that can describe my enthusiasm and forward-looking-to-ness.

That's Devon's favourite!

 

[SummerRain]

A new series of Food Unwrapped starts tonight. It's a program about how food is made commercially and answers interesting questions, they go to the factories, farms, etc, to show you how it works.

I think lots of shows like that can be really judgmental, and "oh look how awful and disgusting the food you eat everyday is! go and grow your own!"... it doesn't make for nice viewing, even if you don't eat much processed food. But this show isn't like that at all, it's just interesting. For example, last series they showed how you get all the skin of grapefruit that goes into tinned grapefruit (it's all picked by hand, then they use acid to burn off the bits that remain, and then an alkali to neutralise it) and what the bacteria in pro-biotic is (either fungus or from someones poo... and then they just breed it for years) or what the difference between wild and cultivated mushrooms is (it sounds obvious, but I assumed they grew wild mushrooms in farms, I didn't realise they were literally wild because they don't know how to grow them!).

Anyway I like it.

 

[Alice-Bee]

Ive put that on the record. I think its very interesting...although i suspect most omnis will brush off the ick factor next time they fancy a McDonalds or KFC :/

 

[SummerRain]

I was going to put it on series record but my fiance's already recording two things... we just got a blu ray player that'll record shows, so he's got a bit excited, recording 10x as many things as he'll watch

Most of it isn't really icky anyway, but I'm not very sensitive to that kind of thing, so maybe it is and my stomach of steel just doesn't realise

 

[SummerRain]

Oh by the way, one of the two foods they're doing this week is chicken kiev and you see lots of dead chicken. In case that bothers you Alice-Bee or anybody else

 

[Forster]

Don't know how many of you are Game of Throne fans, but the reactions to last nights episode are pretty intense. Got a kick out of this pie chart.

 

[kibbleforlola]

So, Orphan Black. Who's watching it? Let's talk about it. And also about what an amazing actress Tatiana Maslany is.

 

[Forster]

Not much on regular TV so the Mrs and I decided to start watching Once Upon a Time on Netflix. Cute show.

 

[Spang]

I've never watched Game of Thrones (there may be spoilers):

I did watch the video.

 

[Alice-Bee]

Oh by the way, one of the two foods they're doing this week is chicken kiev and you see lots of dead chicken. In case that bothers you Alice-Bee or anybody else

Its ok I dont mind. Re afirms why Im veg*n.

What was so shocking in GOT? Not that I watch it but my facebook is making me curious. The way people are reacting is like LOST style. They get off the island...OMG!!!

 

[Spang]

What was so shocking in GOT?

I think a whole bunch of people get killed.

 

[Alice-Bee]

Oh so nothing to do with polar bears or a spooky black smoke

 

[Forster]

What was so shocking in GOT? Not that I watch it but my facebook is making me curious. The way people are reacting is like LOST style. They get off the island...OMG!!!

George RR Martin has basically rewritten the formula for "fantasy" type novels. There are no longer really good guys and really bad guys (just lots of shades of grey) though he does lead you down that path. Nor do the good guys always win and no matter how attached you might get to a particular character, they're not "safe". Those of us who read the books first understood this and knew what was going to happen, those that just tuned into the show were a bit shocked.

appropriate gif, lol

 

[Snowcone]

I checked wikipedia to see how far the GoT has gone. I was rather surprised with that turn of events in the book, though I knew some foul play would be involved.

 

[Forster]

So, Orphan Black. Who's watching it? Let's talk about it. And also about what an amazing actress Tatiana Maslany is.

I actually just got into this series, wish I'd heard about it while it was on, but went ahead and bought it through Amazon. Watched the 1st 3 episodes tonight... good stuff and yes Tatiana Maslany is quite the actress. She pulls off making each of her characters as unique individuals quite believably.

 

[Alice-Bee]

George RR Martin has basically rewritten the formula for "fantasy" type novels. There are no longer really good guys and really bad guys (just lots of shades of grey) though he does lead you down that path. Nor do the good guys always win and no matter how attached you might get to a particular character, they're not "safe". Those of us who read the books first understood this and knew what was going to happen, those that just tuned into the show were a bit shocked.

appropriate gif, lol

So theres a alot of people saying 'Theres a book?!?'

Like some people didnt know Harry Potter was a book first.

 

[Forster]

So theres a alot of people saying 'Theres a book?!?'

Like some people didnt know Harry Potter was a book first.

Some no doubt, but most are probably aware there are books, just haven't read them... too many pages, lol.

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Started watching Orphan Black tonight because of you guys. No tv in room at mom's house and nothing new that I knew of. I like it.

 

[kibbleforlola]

I actually just got into this series, wish I'd heard about it while it was on, but went ahead and bought it through Amazon. Watched the 1st 3 episodes tonight... good stuff and yes Tatiana Maslany is quite the actress. She pulls off making each of her characters as unique individuals quite believably.

Sorry, read this on my phone and meant to reply as soon as I got to a keyboard...and promptly forgot.

So how far are you now? I really think it's such a cleverly written show, part sci-fi without being hit-you-over-the-head sciencey (or excessively made up science); part crime drama without being boring and formulaic like most crime dramas.

Spoilered because these are questions I have after watching the season finale, so I might give away a few things.

Spoiler

WHO IS MRS S? And now that I think about it, it is kinda funny that when they went underground, they ended up in a city with at least 2 (3?) other clones, and a neolution owned office building/possible headquarters. That seems like quite the coincidence. I really don't want her to be a bad guy. Where's Kiera? Did Mrs S take her, and why?

Can we trust Delphine? I really want to believe she's on the side of the clones, but really, who knows. I really really hope they don't kill off Cosima, I really like her.

And Alison, holy ****. And Donny really was her watcher the whole time! Is he going to continue to monitor her now that she's signed the contract? I really think that the contract means zilch, and they will have to continue fighting the neolutionists for autonomy. What do we think about them being patented?

 

[FortyTwo]

I'm completely hooked on Supernatural. It's way better written than I thought it would be.