Speaking of "eyepath-unfriendly" here's Kim Dotcom on Hollywood and it's
desire to control the Internet. By all rights we should NEVER watch an
ABC series, a Disney movie or visit Disneyland. They were the
architects of the DMCA which was their purely fascist way of assuring
that they get to keep selling generations cartoons they produced in the
1930s while stifling innovation.
http://rt.com/op-edge/kim-dotcom-keiser-report-531/
Down with the TPP! And BTW you actually don't live in an
eyepath-friendly country last I checked. Be careful. You left the
eyepatch friendly country, Spain.
On 01/13/2014 09:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In [email protected], Bhairitu wrote:
>
> <snippus interruptus>
> "Helix" is a good show BTW so I am looking forward to where they take
> it. I also have read elsewhere that "True Detective" is good but it
> will have to wait.
*/I understand about your issue with HBO, and if I lived in an
eyepatch-unfriendly nation I might share it. But I don't.
I've seen the first three episodes of "Helix," too, and agree that
it's a good show. But IMO it's *only* a good show. The actors are
universally nothing special, and so far there has been little to no
true character development. It's a plot-driven adventure scifi show,
which is a pity when you've got a bunch of potentially interesting
characters all trapped in the Arctic with some of them going wonky
from a virus. That *could* have been more interesting than the show
has been so far. IMO.
"True Detective" has the possibility of being a great show.
I simply cannot wait to peel away more layers of the onion. Not only
the mystery that makes up the plot -- who is the killer performing
ritual murders across Louisiana -- but the much deeper mystery of who
are Marty and Rust?
A lesser series like "Helix" would have thrown in a few lines of
"exposition" or "backstory filler" by now, and told us what the issue
between them was that has left one-time police partners not speaking
to each other. "Helix" did that with the two brothers within 20
minutes. It pandered down to an audience with a low attention span and
no patience.
With "True Detective," we may have to wait for weeks to find this out.
And that suits me just fine. :-)/*
