TV Thread

[TSD]

we are really getting into this season of the US being human. Makes me want to get the previous seasons. And watch the British version. Can anyone confirm if the story is different in the two versions and only the premise is the same?

Correct. Ive watched every episode of both thus far. Being human US season 1 and UK season 1 are similar but the US version struck out into new territory after like the 6th episode. The narrative (aside from the premise) completely different now. Season 2 US was great and ends on a cliff hanger and last night I watched the season 4 finale of the UK being human. I recommend watching season 1 of the US version first, because particularly with Josh in this season there is alot of stuff that connects to season 1 events. Also some of the "lore" is different in the 2 series.



British:

Vampires dont cast reflections.

werewolf blood is like acid to vampires.

Vampires don't have to drink blood to live.



There seems to be no difference in strength really between your average Vampire and werewolf, and being a werewolf appears to Special person the aging process as well, although they still age. (theres a werewolf in season 3 who looks to be in his mid 40's but was turned in the late 19th century judging by the flashback they show of him being turned, but it doesnt appear to do that for all werewolves) and that particular character was actually physically stronger than Mitchell (the vampire in the trio).



Ghosts seem to be pretty much as "physical" as any other being, but that may merely be due to budget constraints for special effects. i.e. Annie can touch people and vice versa.



US:

Vampires cast reflections and can be recorded on video.

werewolf blood doesnt burn them or anything but if fucks them up temporarily if they try to drink it.

Vampires have to drink blood, Aiden merely tries not to drink live blood, and survives on hospital blood (but falls off the wagon alot).



There is no evidence evidence being a werewolf has any effect on the aging process, and outside of a few days before and after the full moon, vampires are always physically stronger than werewolves (in human form).



Sally had to learn to interact with objects, but as of yet cannot touch people. But unlike the british series, is able to "possess" people.







I am going to post a spoiler now for the UK being human, as I know something they did with the story may turn some people off to wanting to watch it, I dont mind it and think its pretty bold. but:







SPOILER AHEAD:

Spoiler

The finale of season 4 sees the exit of the only original character left on the show. So for the start of season 5, the werewolf, vampire, and ghost are new characters (the werewolf was first introduced in season 3, the vampire and ghost not until season 4). The cool thing at least, is the characters are very different from their original cast counterparts, so its fresh, and it doesnt feel like they tried to replace the characters with carbon copies. They all connect to the story thus far though, so its not like they just randomly start telling a new story that in no way connects to the previous characters/seasons. It was a smart Idea to keep one original character to ease viewers in to the new characters with a familiar face, and the werewolf played a big part in season 3, so hes not completely foreign but the vampire and ghost are brand new in season 4, and the ghost really doesnt come into play until the last few episodes of S4. The only thing I kinda wish they would have done to alter the dynamic a bit is to switch up which character is the female. Since the Vampire and Ghost were brand new for season 4 I wish maybe they altered the dynamic a bit and made the vampire a female and the ghost a male.

 

[supraman]

The only way traditional cable is going to survive, is if they go to an ala-carte format and allow you to order only the channels you want. I seriously would just get the movie channels, history international (I dont even want regular history anymore cuz its just reality show bullshit) and any channel the hawks play on. I have cable right now (but im not paying for it) and I dont even watch it Ive gotten used to not having it, I still just watch netflix and Hulu and stream pirate feeds of anything I dont have access to, and use vudu or amazon to rent new releases. and one of the most annoying things you can do is just get internet from a cable company, they do everything in their power to try and get you to order TV too. I wouldnt be surprised to see cable companies trying to thwart streaming on their internet service, which is then only going to lose them internet customers. I still use comcast for internet because frankly it is superior to any independent providers, but will switch the day they try and **** with shit since they are essentially providing me the means to not have to buy cable tv from them.

Nowadays History International isn't much better. Fucking ancient aliens.



There was proposed legislation a few years back to do just that, let you buy individual channels. Man the money to be saved by not having all the shopping channels....

 

[MassHavoc]

Thanks TSD, I'm not going to read the spoiler as I think we'll go back and start both versions from the begining. We haven't seen last weeks being human yet but man what a great ending to the previous episode and teaser for last weeks. We will probably wait till this weeks records and watch the two together. I'm not sure if last week was the finale or not but I don't believe so. Thanks for clarifying the differences, I was hoping that was the case, it's basically the same show but I can watch them separately without knowing what happened. They actor that plays Josh I have always like as he's been in so much over the years. And for some reason the chick that plays Anne has gotten extremely hot to me, especially the episode where she was in the dream world with the reaper and they had her prancing around in underwear.

 

[LordKOTL]

The only way traditional cable is going to survive, is if they go to an ala-carte format and allow you to order only the channels you want. I seriously would just get the movie channels, history international (I dont even want regular history anymore cuz its just reality show bullshit) and any channel the hawks play on. I have cable right now (but im not paying for it) and I dont even watch it Ive gotten used to not having it, I still just watch netflix and Hulu and stream pirate feeds of anything I dont have access to, and use vudu or amazon to rent new releases. and one of the most annoying things you can do is just get internet from a cable company, they do everything in their power to try and get you to order TV too. I wouldnt be surprised to see cable companies trying to thwart streaming on their internet service, which is then only going to lose them internet customers. I still use comcast for internet because frankly it is superior to any independent providers, but will switch the day they try and **** with shit since they are essentially providing me the means to not have to buy cable tv from them.

Nowadays History International isn't much better. Fucking ancient aliens.



There was proposed legislation a few years back to do just that, let you buy individual channels. Man the money to be saved by not having all the shopping channels....

The main argument against cable a la carte is that it will force the smaller stations out of business because no one will order them. That of course is complete BS. I think a lot of money will be fed away from the larger stations because most of America is sick of watching their crap.

 

[supraman]

The main argument against cable a la carte is that it will force the smaller stations out of business because no one will order them. That of course is complete BS. I think a lot of money will be fed away from the larger stations because most of America is sick of watching their crap.

I'd have maybe 20-30 channels and that's including locals and move channels. PLus CI

 

[MassHavoc]

The main argument against cable a la carte is that it will force the smaller stations out of business because no one will order them. That of course is complete BS. I think a lot of money will be fed away from the larger stations because most of America is sick of watching their crap.

I don't care if it's bullshit or not, I'm completely happy with less stations, they all play the same shit anyway and all they have is fucking reality shows that mimic reality shows on other stations. Most of them are worthless get rid of them. The only reason they exist is becuase they are owned by a parent company that found out that since you can't ala carte the channels, if they just create a new one, but a show people like on it and then force it onto a cable tier, they get paid much more money than they would if they put that hit show on one of their existing networks. If you look at the primetime lineups for most of these stations throughout the year, you will see very little new programing, it's all syndication or reruns of their popular show. I hate to say it cause I love a lot of the programs but kill it back to one history channel. One NatGeo channel. Put all the good programming on one station ditch all the worthless reality shows (will never happen because they are too cheap to produce) and boost the quality of one station instead of watering down 3. They all think that they are ESPN where they can make more stations and support them, only ESPN has enough new and original programming to keep it going. Even now though you see them syndicating radio shows onto TV, playing shows like around the horn and PTI on ESPN then right after on ESPN two... ect... You could probably dump one of the ESPN stations and kill a lot of the redundant programming then run overflow stations when necessary. But they won't because they'd be cutting at least $1 per subscriber.

 

[supraman]

It would be nice because then cable channel companies would learn who is watching what and if they want viewers they will have to come up with quality programming.

 

[MassHavoc]

I'll take the ala carte one step further because if they ever did that I'm sure they would get contract heavy. I would want any system to give the consumer full control over starting and stopping of programming. I'm not talking daily, but I want to be able to turn a station on and off only during the period of time which the show I want to see runs. I can see if they somehow ever go ala carte, that they lock you into purchasing individual channels for 1 year terms or 2 years for cheaper ect... Right now we can turn the premium pay channels on and off when we want, why not regular channels.

 

[Ymono37]

Thanks TSD, I'm not going to read the spoiler as I think we'll go back and start both versions from the begining. We haven't seen last weeks being human yet but man what a great ending to the previous episode and teaser for last weeks. We will probably wait till this weeks records and watch the two together. I'm not sure if last week was the finale or not but I don't believe so. Thanks for clarifying the differences, I was hoping that was the case, it's basically the same show but I can watch them separately without knowing what happened. They actor that plays Josh I have always like as he's been in so much over the years. And for some reason the chick that plays Anne has gotten extremely hot to me, especially the episode where she was in the dream world with the reaper and they had her prancing around in underwear.

I've seen a few eps of each and even though I can be quite the anglophile, I actually prefer the US version. Although I've really only watched about 6 eps.

 

[MassHavoc]

I've seen a few eps of each and even though I can be quite the anglophile, I actually prefer the US version. Although I've really only watched about 6 eps.

I don't know if it's the culture thing or whatever, but in my experience it takes slightly longer for me to really get into some British stuff. Maybe it's just a period of adjustment, or the fact that they write shows a different way. The entire tv culture over there isn't really build the same as they don't normally have shows that last in the same form for years and years. I'll have to give it a show and will let you know.

 

[TSD]

Thanks TSD, I'm not going to read the spoiler as I think we'll go back and start both versions from the begining. We haven't seen last weeks being human yet but man what a great ending to the previous episode and teaser for last weeks. We will probably wait till this weeks records and watch the two together. I'm not sure if last week was the finale or not but I don't believe so. Thanks for clarifying the differences, I was hoping that was the case, it's basically the same show but I can watch them separately without knowing what happened. They actor that plays Josh I have always like as he's been in so much over the years. And for some reason the chick that plays Anne has gotten extremely hot to me, especially the episode where she was in the dream world with the reaper and they had her prancing around in underwear.

Apparently from what I read Before the first season of the US version was aired the Writers of the US version Watched the 1st season of the british one, and the Actors watched the first episode, but the Actors Didnt watch the rest (until after they filmed their second US season) because they didnt want to subconsciously mimic their british counterparts characters. and the Writers after viewing the 1st season of the british series, have not watched any more of it. But yeah basically nothing thats happening on the US version now happened in the UK version.

 

[MassHavoc]

That's excellent, the way it should be.

 

[The Mule]

I have not watch this week's episode of Game of Thrones yet, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers, but I did see this awesome sketch on SNL about the nudity on the show. It's funny.​

http://www.buzzfeed.com/keenan/snl-explains-the-nudity-in-game-of-thrones​

 

[supraman]

Anyone watch The Borgias on showtime?

 

[TSD]

Spartacus is the same way. There is alot of gratuitous nudity and sex, like every episode. I don't mind, But it gets taxing when im watching a show for the drama and violence and I have to pause it and get up and go rub one out because theres just an overload of T n' A flying at me non stop. yes its sad, im 30 but still have the sex drive of a 16 year old where I cant even watch nudity on a TV show without that just grinding the wheels to a halt on any other thought process.

 

[Ymono37]

Spartacus is the same way. There is alot of gratuitous nudity and sex, like every episode. I don't mind, But it gets taxing when im watching a show for the drama and violence and I have to pause it and get up and go rub one out because theres just an overload of T n' A flying at me non stop. yes its sad, im 30 but still have the sex drive of a 16 year old where I cant even watch nudity on a TV show without that just grinding the wheels to a halt on any other thought process.

I think this is why I won't be watching "The Client List"

 

[chasman]

Anyone watch The Borgias on showtime?

Yes but I have them dvr'd , have not watch them yet this season

 

[chasman]

I have not watch this week's episode of Game of Thrones yet, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers, but I did see this awesome sketch on SNL about the nudity on the show. It's funny.​

http://www.buzzfeed.com/keenan/snl-explains-the-nudity-in-game-of-thrones​

You should read the books first, you will get more out of the tv series

 

[supraman]

Spartacus is the same way. There is alot of gratuitous nudity and sex, like every episode. I don't mind, But it gets taxing when im watching a show for the drama and violence and I have to pause it and get up and go rub one out because theres just an overload of T n' A flying at me non stop. yes its sad, im 30 but still have the sex drive of a 16 year old where I cant even watch nudity on a TV show without that just grinding the wheels to a halt on any other thought process.

You're just Special person and drunk

I think this is why I won't be watching "The Client List"

A shame that wasn't on HBO. JLH boobage is EPIC

Yes but I have them dvr'd , have not watch them yet this season

so far very meh. 2nd episode the end was good but it is moving at a snails pace

You should read the books first, you will get more out of the tv series

See I think you should do it the other way around, watch the series and then read the books. My reasoning is the book is always better from my experience. So this way the book as an expansion to the show. So certain things that you didn't catch or understand are expanded on. Like in Season 1 the guy that grabbed Aria during Ned's execution. I had no idea who he was from the show but the books cleared it up for me.

 

[Ymono37]

A shame that wasn't on HBO. JLH boobage is EPIC

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