TV Series

Following quickly on the heels of Sean Bean's Sharpe ending its scheduled run on ITV4 HD. Today (Sunday May 18th) the same channel is starting the full series of Hornblower (1998-2003) on a weekly basis @ 11:30 am.

A televised series (8 films) based on a fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower as he rises through the ranks. Like Sharpe, it is set during the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Starring Ioan Gruffud in the lead role with Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann & Phillip Glenister.

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Its like watching the film Master & Commander (2003) all over again. Hornblower is a damn good seafaring adventure of sea dogs and politics within the ranks, perfect for a Sunday morning TV viewing.

Edit: Bernard Cornwell, the author of Sharpe & The Last Kingdom novels was inspired to write the adventures of Major Richard Sharpe based on the original Hornblower books saying he wanted to write an British Army version of Horatio Hornblower.
 
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chris63 said:
Just watched the latest episode of The Last of Us.

What a bore fest.
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Yep, just watched, you’re right! What absolutely annoys me is when it goes back over old ground! Sorry, not interested. I want this fucking show to go forward with a better script to the potential end point of the show! Don't drag it out for season after season; have fill-in shows that are irrelevant to me about the show! It must have great ratings, making big money, so let's drag it, squeeze it as much as possible!
 
The Lockerbie disaster series on bbc is worth a watch.

I was working a shift at an RAF base in Scotland, where we had search and rescue helicopters when it happened, and I knew the helicopters had been scrambled, but not why. My shift finished before anything broke, and I drove home, only later that evening did I find out what was going on.

It was also my last shift before heading back to the Manchester area for christmas at my parents on the 22nd, our route home took us directly past Lockerbie, and I can still remember the smell of jet fuel as we passed on the partly closed road.

I still feel a connection to it, even though I had no real involvement in any of it, but watching the series brings it all back, especially that 11 people on the ground were basically incinerated without ever knowing.
 
waspish said:
Yep, just watched, you’re right! What absolutely annoys me is when it goes back over old ground! Sorry, not interested. I want this fucking show to go forward with a better script to the potential end point of the show! Don't drag it out for season after season; have fill-in shows that are irrelevant to me about the show! It must have great ratings, making big money, so let's drag it, squeeze it as much as possible!
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I have to disagree with this.

They weren’t going back over old ground. They were filling in some huge gaps in the storyline that they’d left unanswered between the end of the first and the start of the second series.

I thought it was a really good episode. Probably the best of the series so far. Answered a lot of questions that I’d assumed were just going to be left unresolved.
 
Stephen230 said:
I have to disagree with this.

They weren’t going back over old ground. They were filling in some huge gaps in the storyline that they’d left unanswered between the end of the first and the start of the second series.

I thought it was a really good episode. Probably the best of the series so far. Answered a lot of questions that I’d assumed were just going to be left unresolved.
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It was brilliantly made. Yeah I can see people being put off by the pacing but the acting and filmmaking was elite.
 
Anyone watching The Last of us? Season 1 was amazing and new, different. The gay love story in the zombie apocalypse wastelands was brilliant and sad. Joel and Ellis relationship was a good plot line.

2nd series seems to have gone all a bit Hollywood, teen girl beats everyone up, teen lesbian sex etc, bit silly if I'm honest. Episode 2 was epic though, edge of seat stuff.

Anyone watching it ?
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Anyone watching The Last of us? Season 1 was amazing and new, different. The gay love story in the zombie apocalypse wastelands was brilliant and sad. Joel and Ellis relationship was a good plot line.

2nd series seems to have gone all a bit Hollywood, teen girl beats everyone up, teen lesbian sex etc, bit silly if I'm honest. Episode 2 was epic though, edge of seat stuff.

Anyone watching it ?
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Ye not impressed with second season but then I didn’t play part 2 so nothing to judge it on.
 
cleavers said:
The Lockerbie disaster series on bbc is worth a watch.

I was working a shift at an RAF base in Scotland, where we had search and rescue helicopters when it happened, and I knew the helicopters had been scrambled, but not why. My shift finished before anything broke, and I drove home, only later that evening did I find out what was going on.

It was also my last shift before heading back to the Manchester area for christmas at my parents on the 22nd, our route home took us directly past Lockerbie, and I can still remember the smell of jet fuel as we passed on the partly closed road.

I still feel a connection to it, even though I had no real involvement in any of it, but watching the series brings it all back, especially that 11 people on the ground were basically incinerated without ever knowing.
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I knew one of the police officers first on scene at the crash sight. He said what they saw and found would stay with him until he left the Earth, and hated talking about it.
 
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