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47" Samsung LCD for the living room, 37" Samsung LCD for the bedroom. Great sets and never had an issue since their purchase in January of 2010.
Sorry you've had trouble with your Samsung sets. I'll be looking to upgrade to better sets soon as mine approach 10 years old. Samsung will get a good look, but they are more expensive than others, so I'll have to check for OLED bargains.
It remains funny and interesting throughout its run, but the characters start to get a bit old. I watched all three seasons, but I'm not sure I'll follow it to Netflix.
No disrespect, but I don't see any trolling in this thread.
I'm totally with you. This show is a character study and has little adventure to each season's story arc. That's not a problem for people who want to watch a character study. For those looking for more excitement, well, maybe this isn't for them.
Personally, I love the show. I think it helps that I haven't seen any of "Breaking Bad" and came in fresh. I'm on board purely because this show hooked me and for no other reason. So, while I'm not comparing the show to another beloved icon, others clearly are. They will understandably see it differently.
I find it easy to like both, for while they share some common elements, the nature of the stories are very different. Also, the budgets and the scope of what's going on is vastly different. Humans works small and Westworld big. I like both for what they are.
As a man, I tend to find Mia most sympathetic just because she's very pretty. But you have the logical answer. Max is always trying his best against the worst of both humans and synths.
Karen getting beaten to death was very painful to watch.
Originally, we had Leo (a hybrid), Nia, Max, Karen, Fred, Niska. Now Fred and Karen are gone, and I've felt it each time one of the original synths to whom we were introduced is killed. That being said, the writers have the guts to part with favorite characters, and I have to applaud that.
I remember that Karen was modeled on Leo Elster's mother, but I don't remember why she was not in contact with the rest of the original six. The others all seemed to be working together, but Karen was apart from them trying to find her own way. Sad to see her go.
The old man lucked out for sure. Until she left him with a baby. That had to hurt.
They're both supposed to be committed to stopping the virus first. I think that's why the two characters put the romance to the back at times. The idea is that either might have to give their lives at any moment, and they couldn't do that if their first commitment was to each other.
IMHO it got better (s2) worse (s3) then better (S4). I'm still stymied by the ending.
Yes, Stubbs very much appeared to know. I don't think that makes him a host, though.
[quote]What, you mean you're not going to watch?[/quote]
I really do think they should've wrapped it up with this year's ending or a slightly modified version. For my money, they don't have to detail what will happen with the escaped host (Dolores 1) the remade hosts (Dolores 2 and Bernard) and the virtual world where many of the other hosts went.
Three stories were told:
1. That Ford saw how his guests interacted with the hosts and thought men horribly corrupt.
2. That escaping into a virtual reality is actually escaping if you can make it or remake your life as in the "real" world.
3. That our smart creations may be smart enough to go forward without us guiding them or controlling them.
Of these only the first may be truly false. In essence, Ford was watching people live out their fantasies, and no one should be judged by those. Even the Man in Black was different in reality. He told his wife how hard he tried to do the right thing even though he felt a great darkness. In a way that's many of us - fighting to be civilized even as the animals we are try to take hold.
That being said, I'll probably end up watching next season, as it's my nature to finish things. This is high end stuff with very good actors lush sets and nuanced writing.
Yes, it was Sizemore's writing and Sizemore's speech and he took those words to his grave while sparing Hector. It was a surprise, and although it seemed out of character, I was able to believe it enough. It was as if Sizemore had seen the apocalypse coming and finally wanted to go out on his own terms.
It was very good and one of the few that answered more questions than it raised. I swear, as much as I like this show, I have trouble keeping all the plots and subplots straight.
I'm glad to see it again, too. Just watched the first episode. Dark.
The description is of the characters' orgin story from Marvel Comics published in the 1980's. The two characters were created in 1982 by Bill Mantlo. So I guess, "they" is Bill Mantlo, and the "agenda" is the ideas he had.
Pretty much the below does match with what I remember. Whether the show or later comic book versions held to this I wouldn't know.
[quote]Tyrone "Ty" Johnson (Cloak) and Tandy Bowen (Dagger) met in New York City as runaways. Tyrone was a 17-year-old boy from Boston, Massachusetts with a debilitating stutter and ran away to New York City when his speech impediment prevented him from stopping his friend from being shot by the police, who mistakenly believed he had just robbed a store.
Tandy was a 16-year-old girl from a privileged upbringing (born in Shaker Heights, Ohio) who ran away because her multi-millionaire supermodel mother was too busy with her career and social life to spend time with her daughter.
When they met, Tyrone considered stealing Tandy's purse, but before he could, a thief stole the purse and Tyrone retrieved it for her. Afterwards, they had dinner and became fast friends. When naïve Tandy accepted an offer of shelter from some strange men, wary Tyrone went along to protect her. The two teens were soon forcibly delivered to criminal chemist Simon Marshall developing a new synthetic heroin for Silvermane and the Maggia, testing it on runaway teens with fatal results. Johnson and Bowen somehow survived injections of the drug, and they fled. During their escape, the drug turned them into superpowered beings.
Tyrone found himself engulfed in darkness and seized by a strange hunger that eased in the presence of Tandy glowing with a brilliant light. Trying to hide his newly shadowy appearance in a makeshift cloak, Tyrone began absorbing Marshall's thugs into his darkness while Tandy struck them down with daggers of light. The two teens dubbed themselves "Cloak & Dagger" and declared war on drug crime in combating drug-dealers and helping runaway children.[/quote]
Thanks to Wikipedia for the text.
I think so, in the sense of rebelling against a rigidly controlling society. The most obvious difference is that F-451 is about society controlling thought by limiting published ideas, where in TXH1138 things are way more oppressive.
"Starring Pauly Shore?" is that above or below "Directed by Ed Wood or Al Adamson?"
That's not a hard job. He should've had time to be useless in this film, too!