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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2018 10:05:37 GMT -5
From what friends have told me and my wife, it's very good at tugging on those emotional heartstrings, drawing you into the "lives" of the characters deeply. My daughters watch it. I think it appeals to the Hallmark Channel crowd only without the happy endings Hallmark is known for. My wife and I stayed away from it, even though a lot of people recommended it. I watch TV and movies as an escape, not to watch the normal "real" lives of fictional characters. I want Captain America and T'Challa and Tyrion Lannister and Sam and Dean Winchester and Captain Mal Reynolds, not the woman down the street dealing with a cancer diagnosis or the sudden and unexpected death of a spouse; there's too much of that already in the real world and I'm not entertained by seeing it play out on the screen. We have, however, gotten sucked into Turn, albeit after the series ended, based on friends' recommendations. Just finished watching Season 1 on Saturday night, but had to skip starting Season 2 last night so we could watch Friday's new Agents of SHIELD episode. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 10:21:51 GMT -5
My daughters watch it. I think it appeals to the Hallmark Channel crowd only without the happy endings Hallmark is known for. My wife and I stayed away from it, even though a lot of people recommended it. I watch TV and movies as an escape, not to watch the normal "real" lives of fictional characters. I want Captain America and T'Challa and Tyrion Lannister and Sam and Dean Winchester and Captain Mal Reynolds, not the woman down the street dealing with a cancer diagnosis or the sudden and unexpected death of a spouse; there's too much of that already in the real world and I'm not entertained by seeing it play out on the screen. We have, however, gotten sucked into Turn, albeit after the series ended, based on friends' recommendations. Just finished watching Season 1 on Saturday night, but had to skip starting Season 2 last night so we could watch Friday's new Agents of SHIELD episode. Same here. I only watch a handful of new shows. Most of my TV viewing is MeTV. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 12:40:41 GMT -5
My wife and I stayed away from it, even though a lot of people recommended it. I watch TV and movies as an escape, not to watch the normal "real" lives of fictional characters. I want Captain America and T'Challa and Tyrion Lannister and Sam and Dean Winchester and Captain Mal Reynolds, not the woman down the street dealing with a cancer diagnosis or the sudden and unexpected death of a spouse; there's too much of that already in the real world and I'm not entertained by seeing it play out on the screen. We have, however, gotten sucked into Turn, albeit after the series ended, based on friends' recommendations. Just finished watching Season 1 on Saturday night, but had to skip starting Season 2 last night so we could watch Friday's new Agents of SHIELD episode. Same here. I only watch a handful of new shows. Most of my TV viewing is MeTV. MeTV is my favorite station ... and they just added closed captioning ... I watched Wild, Wild, West and Hawaii Five-O religiously along with Hogan's Heroes at nightime! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 8, 2018 14:59:55 GMT -5
Same here. I only watch a handful of new shows. Most of my TV viewing is MeTV. MeTV is my favorite station ... and they just added closed captioning ... I watched Wild, Wild, West and Hawaii Five-O religiously along with Hogan's Heroes at nightime! <iframe width="21.220000000000027" height="5.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 21.22px; height: 5.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 0px; top: 0px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_34739893" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="21.220000000000027" height="5.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 21.22px; height: 5.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 999px; top: -252px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_10029307" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="21.220000000000027" height="5.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 21.22px; height: 5.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 10px; top: -16px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_20443328" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="21.220000000000027" height="5.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 21.22px; height: 5.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 999px; top: -16px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_57694583" scrolling="no"></iframe> Great shows! We don't get cable or satellite, so no METV for me, unfortunately, but Wild, Wild, West in particular is something I've been wanting to watch. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 15:35:31 GMT -5
dbutler69 ... Wild, Wild, West is one of my top 20 Television Shows of all time and I was happy to be able to watch it on a daily basis.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 21, 2018 7:52:08 GMT -5
Looking for some help here. Does anyone have any tips on how to keep birds from building nests under my deck (it's a second-story deck, so it has 10+ feet of clearance under it)?
Every spring a pair of robins build a nest there, then spend the next couple of months guarding it by running into my sliding glass door at what they believe is a rival but is really just them (birds, with the obvious exceptions of certain species, seem to be profoundly stupid creatures). They mess up the glass, the railings on my deck, and the patio below.
Oh, yeah, small wrinkle to the problem. The solution has to be non-lethal, because my wife would get really upset if I did something like get a BB gun and plug one or two of the little suckers.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 21, 2018 9:07:23 GMT -5
Looking for some help here. Does anyone have any tips on how to keep birds from building nests under my deck (it's a second-story deck, so it has 10+ feet of clearance under it)? Every spring a pair of robins build a nest there, then spend the next couple of months guarding it by running into my sliding glass door at what they believe is a rival but is really just them (birds, with the obvious exceptions of certain species, seem to be profoundly stupid creatures). They mess up the glass, the railings on my deck, and the patio below. Oh, yeah, small wrinkle to the problem. The solution has to be non-lethal, because my wife would get really upset if I did something like get a BB gun and plug one or two of the little suckers. So you might try hanging one or two of those motion-activated spiders they sell around Halloween, or something similar that springs to life and makes noise. That should eventually discourage the robins. Maybe.  Good luck. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 22, 2018 19:29:57 GMT -5
To anyone reading modern comics :
A few years ago there was a Shang Chi miniseries in which Leiko Wu got herself WiRred (women in refrigerator-ized). I read on the web that she had been brought back from the dead since then.
My question is... did she come back with both her hands, since she jad lost one of them in the 1980s?
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 22, 2018 21:46:59 GMT -5
To anyone reading modern comics : A few years ago there was a Shang Chi miniseries in which Leiko Wu got herself WiRred (women in refrigerator-ized). I read on Wikipedia that she had been brought back from the dead since then. My question is... did she come back with both her hands, since she jad lost one of them in the 1980s? Ugh, this is why we can't have nice things! If your name isn't Moench, don't touch Shang Chi! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 23, 2018 4:54:54 GMT -5
I have the 5 issue mini series that Gulacy drew and I don't remember it at all. It's possible I never read it all but I think I would have remembered them killing off Wu.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2018 5:29:25 GMT -5
To anyone reading modern comics : A few years ago there was a Shang Chi miniseries in which Leiko Wu got herself WiRred (women in refrigerator-ized). I read on Wikipedia that she had been brought back from the dead since then. My question is... did she come back with both her hands, since she jad lost one of them in the 1980s? Ugh, this is why we can't have nice things! If your name isn't Moench, don't touch Shang Chi! Agreed! (I’m willing to make an exception for Englehart, but that’s it!) |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2018 5:43:27 GMT -5
I have the 5 issue mini series that Gulacy drew and I don't remember it at all. It's possible I never read it all but I think I would have remembered them killing off Wu. I only have the first issue of that one, but since it was a MAX title and ignored all that had happened since the death of Fu Manchu, I assumed it was out of continuity. Leiko was killed far more recently than that. Let me look it up... (sound of Google search going on, as I don’t have the issue...) Deadly hands of Kung Fu #1, from 2014. As for her resurrection, I’ve no idea... It’s something I saw mentionned online, and the GCD is silent about it. *edit* found it! She apparently comes back in issue #4 of that series. (Boy! It sure didn’t take long!) |
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 25, 2018 12:28:24 GMT -5
Looking for some help here. Does anyone have any tips on how to keep birds from building nests under my deck (it's a second-story deck, so it has 10+ feet of clearance under it)? Every spring a pair of robins build a nest there, then spend the next couple of months guarding it by running into my sliding glass door at what they believe is a rival but is really just them (birds, with the obvious exceptions of certain species, seem to be profoundly stupid creatures). They mess up the glass, the railings on my deck, and the patio below. Oh, yeah, small wrinkle to the problem. The solution has to be non-lethal, because my wife would get really upset if I did something like get a BB gun and plug one or two of the little suckers. Well, you could enclose the space below the deck with latticework to keep them out. Or you can scribble on the glass door with washable markers so it isn't such a good mirror. Come to think of it, you could do both. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 9, 2018 8:00:45 GMT -5
What came first Howard the Duck or Disco Duck ?
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Post by brutalis on Oct 9, 2018 8:12:58 GMT -5
What came first Howard the Duck or Disco Duck ? Believe Howard came 1st predating the Disco craze. Early 1973 Howard versus Disco Duck late 1977 if memory isn't off too much? |
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Good luck.
