Who's getting Burn Notice next Tuesday?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, June 28, 2008 15:46
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Where does Burn Notice place in that bunch, BrowncoatSandinista?
Curiousisall
I don't really put them in order. It's more like the energy shell theory of the atom. There's Firefly at the center, the nucleus if you will, with a cloud of other shows close to it, i.e. Torchwood, Burn Notice, Doctor Who, Eureka, Summer Glau Chronicles, and then another cloud further beyond that, i.e. Mythbusters, Anything on Cosmology that the Science Channel Does, etc.
Does that make any sense at all?
"I'm not going to say Serenity is the greatest SciFi movie ever; oh wait yes I am." - Orson Scott Card
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Quote:Totally. Serenity/FF is my nucleus also, with Star Trek TOS, Buffy, Heroes, Rescue Me, Dark Angel (and hopefully Burn Notice & Glau Chronicles) in close, and other stuff like Stargate Atlantis & Brisco County, Jr. slightly farther out.
Originally posted by BrowncoatSandinista:
Does that make any sense at all?
Atomic Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Both shows I liked.
Originally posted by singate:
I'd say it's more like a cross between Spenser for Hire and MacGyver.
See this is what I mean about similar tastes. I liked MacGyver enough to watch most of it (but not all) and I loved Spenser For Hire. It was one of those shows back then that people I knew never watched until I suggested it and then they were hooked. And of course it features Avery Brooks who later went on to command a certain deep space station. Good stuff indeed.
I saw the pilot to Alias and the second episode and decided that it was an inferior rip on Dark Angel. Bits I've seen of it since then have done nothing to convince me otherwise.
12 to 13 episode seasons are good (early Dead Zone, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Buffy season 1, to name a few) and over here in Blighty we get a lot of 6 to 8 episode seasons (Life On Mars being a major one). I wish more shows would be shorter, and then they'd stick more to the central plot of the season, without running off on tangents. But then we'd miss some of the funnier, one-off episodes I guess. With half the episodes would Joss have had time to do Once More With Feeling?
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Quote:I may just have to buy this....
Originally posted by lwaves:
I loved Spenser For Hire.
http://www.amazon.com/Spenser-Hire-Collection-Robert-Urich/dp/B0009NSD
W0
I really should have owned it already.
Hawkisall
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Originally posted by patsrule:
I liked Burn Notice. Watched every episode. It certainly has an element of "cheesyness", but it is a fun show. Definitely good for a summer series. But in the last year, there have been so many good new shows (Chuck, Reaper, Damages, Journeyman, Breaking Bad, New Amsterdam, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Life, Dirty Sexy Money) that I liked in the last year.
Dude... It's like you're IN my DVR... :)
Those are all shows that I watched and liked over the past year, some more than others. I won't really miss Journeyman or New Amsterdam, but they were okay.
Burn Notice might not be the best thing on TV, but it's certainly worth a watch. I watched all of S1 when it was new, and I'm eagerly awaiting S2.
I also eagerly await the next season of The Shield. And I really, REALLY want to see The Wire, starting from the beginning. Sadly, it's just out of my price range right now. Same with the fantastic BBC series MI-5, which is kind of similar to "24", except that it's actually good. :)
Get Burn Notice, Chris. Bruce Campbell is good. Jeffrey Donovan is better. What I like best about it is the snarkiness - it doesn't take itself too seriously.
EC
"I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat-" - King Crimson, Indiscipline
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I LOVE the snariness of Burn Notice too. And the voice overs of spy craft are good too. Of course they leave out one or two crucial details of how to use a cell phone to detonate a bomb or make a bomb out of things readily available in the home, don't want the teenagers to actually succeed in doing it, but other things like how to shake a tail ring true.
Another good series currently on BBC America is Robin Hood, but it's not your father's Robin Hood. Think of Robin with the crew of Serenity. And a kick ass Maid Marion, who's not quite head over heels over Robin, at least not yet.
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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Same with the fantastic BBC series MI-5, which is kind of similar to "24", except that it's actually good. :)
Okay you confused me there for a sec. I thought MI-5 ?? Never heard of it, until I looked it up and realised you meant 'Spooks'. Yes that is a good show that is consistently on top form.
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Originally posted by NCBrowncoat
Another good series currently on BBC America is Robin Hood, but it's not your father's Robin Hood. Think of Robin with the crew of Serenity. And a kick ass Maid Marion, who's not quite head over heels over Robin, at least not yet.
You jest, do you not.
Robin Hood for the hoodie generation. The merry men never kill anyone for a start. Aimed squarely at the teen market, so that age group may like it.
I think you are greatly insulting the BDH's by making that comparision to our crew.
My ancestors feature several Sheriff's of Nottingham (I kid ye not, it is a genuine position) and they would have caught this stubbled whippersnapper in an instant.
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Originally posted by Chrisisall
I may just have to buy this....
http://www.amazon.com/Spenser-Hire-Collection-Robert-Urich/dp/B0009NSD
W0
I really should have owned it already.
Me too. Think I'll order this next time I go through Amazon. Although the movies were never as good as the series. Hopefully this will lead to the series being released.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Quote:Now that you mention it, the movies were filmed in Canada, not Boston, and Spencer drove a Ford Probe, not the Mustang....
Originally posted by lwaves:
Although the movies were never as good as the series. Hopefully this will lead to the series being released.
Still, worth it for fans.
Robert B. Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Now that you mention it, the movies were filmed in Canada, not Boston, and Spencer drove a Ford Probe, not the Mustang....
Originally posted by lwaves:
Although the movies were never as good as the series. Hopefully this will lead to the series being released.
Still, worth it for fans.
Robert B. Chrisisall
Yes they were, probably Toronto as that seems to double for a lot of US cities, nice city but not Boston. Also the main female (can't remember her name) changed as well.
Ahhh....the Mustang. That brings back memories.
And he lived in a fire station which always seemed cool.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Same with the fantastic BBC series MI-5, which is kind of similar to "24", except that it's actually good. :)
Okay you confused me there for a sec. I thought MI-5 ?? Never heard of it, until I looked it up and realised you meant 'Spooks'. Yes that is a good show that is consistently on top form.
Sorry, I used the "Americanized" name for the show. I catch it whenever I can, but the DVD sets are tres expensive. :(
EC
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