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Post by Gilberto on May 20, 2012 11:13:39 GMT -5
Sean and Lynn look at what's currently going on in movies and TV. They discuss new shows like Kiefer Sutherland's "Touch", pop music, The Avengers, Stephen King, Sherlock Holmes, and for no reason at all, their pets. Episode 153 |
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Post by lynn on May 20, 2012 18:42:36 GMT -5
People want to know what's happening with our pets. The internet is about cats Sean, the sooner you realise this the more popular your show will be.
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Post by lynn on May 21, 2012 5:07:41 GMT -5
I like the bit where I'm all "the repetitive nature of pop music activates the pleasure centres of your brain" and Sean replies "do do do, do do do do do."
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Post by Glip on May 25, 2012 5:09:49 GMT -5
I'd love to join in sometime and discuss The Dark Tower Saun! I'm on my second read. Also, since I read Kings books mostly in both english and dutch I think I can add some insight on the multilingual thing you were touching on. Also, on the subject of pets....say hello to our newest family member Gaia. She's gonna get huge.  |
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Post by drivebyluna on May 25, 2012 11:42:27 GMT -5
She's so cute!
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Post by Gilberto on May 25, 2012 16:51:22 GMT -5
I'd be interested in how the vernacular of those books translates. The Midworld dialect is full of such cool Western slang.
I'm still going through book 5, but when I'm done with all of them I would like to do a retrospective.
Could be topical. If rumor is true, Dark Tower might be in development as an HBO series. A much better idea than making them into movies.
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Post by lynn on May 25, 2012 18:58:23 GMT -5
I haven't read them, Stephen King tends to annoy me, but if you guys are going to do a thing on them I'll have to give them a go. Do they spend copious amounts of time of the backstory of every minor character?
That looks like a good apocalypse puppy right there, you teach her to bark at zombies but not to bite them because you never know.
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Post by Gilberto on May 26, 2012 1:22:44 GMT -5
They suffer from the disadvantages we discussed in the ep, but I think they're his best work. It's a cool Western scifi fantasy epic.
The first book is awesome (written much earlier than the others and before he developed some of his bad habits), the second was a sort of awkward followup that's hard to get through but necessary to set up the rest of the story. The third gets better and the fourth and fifth ones are a lot of fun, more like classic Western stories. The fifth book is basically the Magnificent Seven with robots.
I haven't gotten to the sixth and seventh ones yet, and apparently there's a new one out even though the series was pretty much over.
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