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Post by iancapetown on Jan 6, 2017 11:57:19 GMT
Ooooh, looks good.
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Post by Hofmeister on Jan 6, 2017 12:25:09 GMT
Indeed it does. Three parter, ep one is on Iplayer now. |
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 6, 2017 12:32:44 GMT
Indeed it does. Three parter, ep one is on Iplayer now. I'm doing some quality Long John Silver at present! "barmaid, more beer!" |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 11:53:36 GMT
Just finished two series of The Man in the High Castle and also Bosch (both on Amazon Prime). Excellent and strongly recommended. Having read the novels by Michael Connolly about Bosch (an LA detective), the programme is very well done and really gets the feel of the books.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 12, 2017 12:05:15 GMT
I'm halfway through TMITHC Season 2, I'll have a look for Bosch for afterwards. Thanks.
I have a massive, massive question about TMITHC, which seems like an enormous plot hole to me, but perhaps it will be answered and resolved in the final episodes. I'll wait and see, if not I'll put it up on here and see if anyone can enlighten me.
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Post by iancapetown on Jan 12, 2017 14:28:51 GMT
The Shooter.
Based on Stephen Hunter's excellent Bob Lee Swagger books, starting with 'Point of Impact'
Avoid like the plague.
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Post by Hofmeister on Jan 12, 2017 15:42:15 GMT
I'm halfway through TMITHC Season 2, I'll have a look for Bosch for afterwards. Thanks. I have a massive, massive question about TMITHC, which seems like an enormous plot hole to me, but perhaps it will be answered and resolved in the final episodes. I'll wait and see, if not I'll put it up on here and see if anyone can enlighten me. Well as Season 1 ended with "ah it was just a dream" I suspect the ending of season 2 will tell you nothing. And yes, Bosch is excellent, very gritty and dark. |
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Post by Alanović on Jan 12, 2017 15:51:31 GMT
If it is all 'just a dream', that would answer my question, but it would be the lamest cop-out of all time (since Bobby Ewing anyway) and I'd be quite cross and might write a strongly worded to letter to, er, somebody.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 18:48:08 GMT
I think that the 'its just a dream' idea is not quite as simple as that. The original book was written by Philip K Dick who is known for sci-fi fantasy (Blade Runner - made out of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?).
The TMITHC book (as far as I understand) offers a number of alternative presents/futures and the programme builds on that, but it take a long time to be realised - too long in my opinion. It should have been made clearer earlier but there is one interesting twist at the very end. It left me feeling a little unsettled - which is probably the idea.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 13, 2017 10:01:08 GMT
The book doesn't offer alternate presents/futures, other than being an alternate history novel in which the Germans/Japanese won the war. I read the book last summer before I knew of the TV series. The TV series is merely based on some elements of the book and its characters, but the TV series is a wild extrapolation and development of the basic idea. In the original book, there are no 'films', merely one book, a work of fiction describing an alternate universe in which the Allies win WWII, written by the eponymous Man in the High Castle, which is considered subversive and dangerous by the Nazi/Japanese Empire authorities.
It's the Tagomi/Crane dynamic which is vexing me at the moment in the TV show - I'm up to episode 7 and will probably finish the series this weekend (tonight with a bottle of red and a kebab probably).
On the sci-fi side of it, I have enjoyed the visualisations of the German rocket planes in the tv series and the Berlin airport and cityscapes, although I would have liked more of the planes, and more detail about them in the tv show. The original book describes them and their capabilities better and the tv show producers could have made more of them I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 13:24:06 GMT
On Channel4 OD - just discovered a bit of a niche programme - Beauty and the Baker. An Israeli production (subtitled for you lot - and me), about a local pita bread maker and his family who ends up with a Bar Rafaeli type supermodel/actress link as a girlfriend. Even if it were not for the cultural interest for me, it seems to work. Part of the Walter Presents series on Channel 4 on-demand. |
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