THORNE: a British cop series from sky 1 screened about a year ago. There are two 3-part storylines. I've only seen the 1st episode but it looks promising (startling end... ). I found it on TheBox (good site for UK stuff), it's also on VeeHD (simpler download).
TERRA NOVA sounds interesting, SM, have you seen it yet?
yeah....its pretty good...a bit like "Jurassic Park meets Lost". Pretty good CGI effects, and episode 1 and 2 lay in what appears to be a complex plot....well worth a watch.
On the other hand its fertile ground to go all Star Trek and Babylon 5 pompous up its own bum.....
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
watched the first two via veehd.com and they are excellent - well up to Ken Burns' previous THE CIVIL WAR standards and done much the same - narrative history using archve footage, interviews and quotes.
Fascinating stuff and highly reccomended for history fans
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
sandman67 wrote:re TERRA NOVA
yeah....its pretty good...a bit like "Jurassic Park meets Lost". Pretty good CGI effects, and episode 1 and 2 lay in what appears to be a complex plot....well worth a watch.
I watched only the first 25 minutes. Did they explain why humans were going back 85 million years? Did they go back to the age of the dinosaurs because Spielberg had some dinosaur CGI software that was already paid for? Wouldn't 10,000 years have been enough? I wonder if the series will deal with the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs and all but the smallest mammals 65 million years ago or what happens when the descendants of the humans who went back evolve into other species.
It was totally predictable crap.
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As soon as the third child was discovered, you knew somebody was going to jail, only to break out just in time to join the family going back. When they made the time jump the kid was no where in sight, you just new she was going to be discovered only after being placed in peril. As soon as the military commander came on screen played like some Marine Colonel who chewed barbed wire and pooped nails you knew ... oh, you get the idea.
I cant use torrents, 3BB has throttled them and the max download speed I get with them is about 15Kbps. Stuff from veehd comes down at over 300Kbps. At current rate of downloading the first season of SOA will be complete around Christmas time.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
PROHIBITION - excellent....well up to Ken Burns usual high bar standard and utterly fascinating
BOARDWALK EMPIRE S2.....slow to get rolling but its heating up nicely
WALKING DEAD S2.....excellent and if anything this series has more splattery bits than the last so a download version will be better than the cut version running on Star.
KINGS OF RESTORATION....on History....the bloke who fixes up classic Americana....great watching
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
Entourage on HBO is my top seed of all HBO has done. check Friday Night Lights. not cable but 1 of the best series on non cable. 1 of my all time sitcoms Fraiser. on for 10 years so start from beginning.