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Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:42 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
every couple years the list changes but best two all time wow, thats a hard one.

maybe by decades.

70's Mash and Carol Burnett

80's Hill street blues, New Generation

90's Babylon 5, SG1

00's Boston Legal, SG Atlantis

River

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:37 pm
by bobover3 (imported)
Mac, I PMd you about Doctor Who and Torchwood. You can get them on iTunes for $1.99 or, if you use any of the BitTorrent clients such as Vuze, you can get them free.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:11 am
by hazbalz (imported)
All in the Family & Lost.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:57 am
by Dave (imported)
I said this to some friends the other day and they kinda threw rotten fruit and vegtables at me, but THE GOOD WIFE (with Julianna Margulis) and MEN OF A CERTAN AGE (about over-the-hill guys facing their age) are both very good.

The Good Wife portrays a less glamorous life with consequences.

Men of a Certain Age is about why guys cheat and remain little boys all their lives.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:11 pm
by Rusty Dai (imported)
When I can remember to watch TV, it is the new Star Gate Universe & Deparate Housewives.

And occasionally, Top Gear, Doctor Who and if available, Torchwood. I'm sure Captain Jack is gay.

And, the best show ever: Farscape.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:17 pm
by Dave (imported)
Rusty Dai (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:11 pm When I can remember to watch TV, it is the new Star Gate Universe & Deparate Housewives.

And occasionally, Top Gear, Doctor Who and if available, Torchwood. I'm sure Captain Jack is gay.

And, the best show ever: Farscape.

I'm absolutely certain Captain Jack Harkness is bisexual just like Dr Who is bisexual (or perhaps we should say Dr Who has sex with aliens so gayness is not really gayness but multi-species sex).

John Barrowman is out and openly gay. There was a story recently that the Dr Who Producers wanted him to show his bare butt on one of the Who episodes but the BBC nixed it. There is a nude scene in Torchwood's CHILDREN OF EARTH but it's not a romantic scene. Nothing about Children of Earth is romantic. It's one of best horror stories ever put to screen.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:49 pm
by Buzz1221 (imported)
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Rusty Dai (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:11 pm , Torchwood. I'm sure Captain Jack is gay....

Well there's no ambiguity about it in the series and it's been made perfectly clear that he is having a sexual relationship with Ianto. There's that scene where they kiss (twice) and the scene where Gwen walks-in on Jack & Ianto while they are engaged in unambiguous foreplay, so I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind that Jack and Ianto are 'doing it.'

I rather think the Cap'n Jack is not really gay, but rather pan-sexual. He'll do it with anyone or any thing (including aliens) which strikes his fancy.

What a healthy attitude! ;)

Oh yeah -- and the actor who plays Jack (John Barrowman) is openly gay. He married his lover a few years back in a public ceremony. I'm sure that adds a dimension to the perceived gayness of the character -- or at least Barrowman allows it to show-through.

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:58 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
I know I posted before but if your including British sitcoms,

Are you being served is a gem, you can still see it on PBS and to think most of that cast is no longer with us as it was done in the 70's.

This proves a point, good comedy is good always, funny every time for the ages.

River

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:49 pm
by curious_guy (imported)
moi621 (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:33 pm V, a pleasent surprise for a remake.

Lost, of course.

:)

I really like Lost but some of the episodes bothered me. When Charlie was killed, it looked as if it would have been easier for him to leave the room and shut the door behind him than to shut himself in. Also the water would not have risen above the level of the top of the window. He could have floated and breathed the air in the top of the room for some time.

In the last episode of the fourth season, the bad guy has a small transmitter on his arm with no visible external antenna that somehow manages to send a signal from a steel walled room that is very deep underground to a receiver in a compartment in a steel ship that is at least three miles away. I think that if his transmitter had been the size of a large backpack with a one meter long antenna, it would have had a negligible chance of getting a signal to the receiver on the ship.

Michael was able to delay the explosion of the bomb by freezing the battery with liquid nitrogen. If freezing the battery could delay the explosion, then disconnecting the battery could prevent it permanently.

All the blocks of C4 and the detonators were exposed. Michael could have pulled all the detonators out of the C4.

The bomb looked as if it was too big for one man to assemble. Could the commander have gotten his men to build a bomb that would kill them or leave them stranded on the island?

Re: Best TV Series -- pick a pair

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:43 pm
by Rusty Dai (imported)
I'm sorry they killed off Ianto.