Calling something pretentious is pretentious. But yeah Tarantino is pretentious, I've always disliked him.

Recent stuff I've watched - Continuum I really enjoyed, a scifi thriller. Rachel Nicols might be the hottest tv female lead ever! Been watching 12 Monkeys and only 2 eps in but have enjoyed it so far.

I've been watching a lot of the comic stuff - Agents of Shield, Gotham, Arrow, The Flash, and finding them a bit of a slog. Arrow has some adult script writing so is the best of the bunch, but damn Gotham is hard work getting through. A 70's gangster/crime drama with not a single likeable character?! How'd they screw up the Batman universe this much? 

Oh here's one to cause a stir, I love my scifi and everyone wanks on about Battlestar Galactica so I started watching that. Probably almost 1 season in (the captain just woke up), but I don't get all the fuss. It's boring, so far a bunch of political shit, and all the characters are really irritating. I just want to punch Starbuck in the face, so I don't have to put up with her overly cocky expressions any more.

The only bit of interest is the interaction between the doctor and blonde cylon is quite good. But I don't think they intended for the main cylon character to be the one you rooted for.

It's certainly no Stargate/StarTrek/Firefly. 

 

BSG has many faults, but come on, worse than Firefly? Whoa. 

you guys are trolling. 

Very good so far. Shaping up to be far more than just a Breaking Bad spinoff. 

Yeah, it's been great so far. 

I am a dribbling idiot over Starbuck, I love her demented expressions. The rest of it....was there a rest of it?? It was quite okay but dragged on and I never finished it. 

if you dont like BSG you really only like silly sci fi. 

easily on of the best tv characters. 

BSG has some pretty laggy bits. S2 has a lot of garbage episodes that don't relate to the running plots in any way because the network pressured them to make the show easier for people who'd not started watching with S1 to get into it. evidently the network thought creating characters and relationships and immediately throwing them away was somehow less confusing than a 45 second "previously:" montage. 

especially in s3 and s4 but its still excellent. 

They're up to season 4? Gulp. I'll keep watching though, at least it's sci-fi and good sci-fi is hard to find. Usually it takes a season to get into it. I just hope it gets away from internal politics and relationships and more to either exploration ala Voyager or focus on taking the fight to the Cylons.

Bal; yeah I'm not huge Firefly fan either actually, but it did have some likeable characters. Buffy is Whedon's best work, imo, due to the characters. 

they're up to 5! 

4 was split into two mini seasons.

Kona, apart from maybe the early episodes of s3, you might be disappointed if that's what you are after. 

oh dear. just checked, i'm up to s2e5. 

Yeah the main problem was it was a bit silly. Especially with that doctor? dude. Annoyed the tits off me. It's still okay though. 

A thoroughly miserable experience, but that's just me not really having the stomach for serious "horrors of actual wars that actually happened" type-stuff any more.

I thought the last act was utterly ludicrous though - the Germans must have had like a billion opportunities to shoot Brad Pitt whilst he was gunning totally exposed for about 10 hours straight. Pffffttt. 

you mean to tell me WWII wasn't won entirely by americans on their feet with thompsons? 

No, it was won in the factories of Detroit. 

No, it was won in the factories of Detroit. 

Really seems to divide people.

I am on the side of : It's the best damn sci-fi show ever created :P

I can't even be objective about it. That show had a direct line to every pleasure center in my brain and knew exactly when to pull the strings. I agree that S4 got a little wavey but the first three seasons are absolutely frakking fantastic tv.

Special mention for their depiction of space combat. Huge bulks of slow metal firing missiles, flak and bullets at each other while fighters duke it out in the middle. It felt like a submarine fight in space. Newtonian physics as well. And while some of the CG haven't aged as well as you might hope, it's still an absolutely beauty to watch in motion. I love what they did with the camera shots in space.

Ok I started gushing. Time to go! 

 

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oFBydWOO7E&list=FLKzfWxIitHmZX2nqKm_5lxA&index=19 

Ruined an otherwise great film.