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Post by katina2nd on Sept 24, 2014 21:56:00 GMT -6
Seems to be a lot of quality shows on at the moment, currently watching "The Honourable Woman" "Hinterland" "Outlander" "The Bridge" "Person of Interest" and a new Aussie drama "The Code" which features Lucy Lawless in quite a significant role.
There's others I think, just can't remember them at the moment.
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Post by stepper on Sept 25, 2014 18:13:19 GMT -6
I got out of the habit when I was studying for the certification and haven't really gotten back into TV mode yet. We have a channel called "ME TV" which shows only old shows - I've been watching the old Perry Mason and Twilight Zone shows there. Um, Castle, Rizzoli & Isles, and there's a series - sort of - about a guy who builds fancy tree houses and I watch that too. Aside from those, I'll channel surf to see if there is something on that catches my interest, especially Animal Planet or Antiques Road Show. In the antiques thing they have professionals go to larger cities and people bring in stuff to have it evaluated. The fun is of course, the surprises. One person purchased an old beat up looking card table at a yard sale for $25. It turned out to be a rare 18th century piece worth between $200,000 and $250,000. That was in the late 90s - it was recently auctioned off for $500,000+. One person had original signed Peanuts strips that Schultz had sent to publishers. They paid $400 for a collection now valued at $450,000. And then there was a set of Chinese teacups made from the horn of a rhinoceros. The teacups were from the 17th or 18th century and valued at between $1 million and $1.5 million. I wonder what my bubble gum wrapper collection is worth?
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 3, 2014 18:50:24 GMT -6
Seen quite a few episodes of Antiques Road Show Step' really interesting show, and as you say, watching the reactions of the people having their stiff evaluated was always great fun.
Watched the first episode of a new ten part series last night called Gracepoint, think I'll be in for the entire ride.
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Post by stepper on Oct 4, 2014 21:07:20 GMT -6
I'll keep an eye out for it - thanks for the heads up.
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~Naj
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Post by ~Naj on Sept 5, 2015 17:24:30 GMT -6
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Post by stepper on Sept 5, 2015 18:56:14 GMT -6
I've watched a couple of those too. Life Below Zero and Mountain Men are both on late over the weekend here so I can see those.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 11, 2015 6:30:01 GMT -6
I've been hooked for a few years now on reality competition shows that revolve around different types of art. Favorites are/were Oxygen's "Street Art Throwdown" and "Best Ink" ("Ink Masters" which I believe is on Spike, pales in comparison - too much drama - but I still watch it). I've been watching the nine seasons (two per year) of Syfy's award-winning "Face-Off" since the special-effects make-up show first aired. www.examiner.com/article/award-winning-face-off-on-syfy-takes-you-into-special-effects-makeupAnd then there is Food Network's "Chopped". I love that show...not to mention its host Ted Allen, on whom I have a nerd crush; he is as hot as some of the food cooked in the Chopped kitchen.
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Post by stepper on Sept 12, 2015 20:09:27 GMT -6
I've watched American Ninja Warrior a few times - that was interesting.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 22, 2015 3:49:40 GMT -6
Watched the pilot of Blindspot last night. Pretty good; I'll probably tune in again next week.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 24, 2016 6:02:17 GMT -6
So what are you watching? Seriously. Something happened to T.V. while I wasn't watching. Everything seems to be a reality show about excess: Superficial people with excess wealth, or people suffering from excess that turn into addictions - addiction to food, alcohol or drugs, material things that they hoard. Blah.
I channel surf a lot. The only night I really watch shows with regularity is Wednesdays. I like Survivor, Criminal Minds, and Face-Off (which comes on at the same time as Criminal Minds, but repeats at 11p). Catfish is usually the filler between Criminal Minds and the repeat showing of Face-Off; Nev and Max are swoonishly adorable.
Because I pay less attention to celebrity news than I do what's on television, I did not see what was coming on Criminal Minds last night until the hints they gave last week. Sigh.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 24, 2016 6:24:34 GMT -6
Oh, and Bob's Burgers! BOLL. One of those prime time cartoons that is not meant for young children due to suggestive humor. Nothing outrageous though, or even raunchy - just lots of sarcastic comedy though, with deadpan delivery. I know it's on T.V. and new episodes are being made, but I don't really know if there's a regular night it airs or even what channel; mostly BP and I watch it on Netflix.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 24, 2016 20:28:11 GMT -6
I watch less TV than I used to, but I still have plenty of shows I watch:
Sunday:
Once Upon A Time The Good Wife (Final Season) Penny Dreadful Masters of Sex The Strain
Monday:
Castle Beauty and the Beast (Doubt I'll watch the final season.)
Tuesday:
Pretty Little Liars Shadowhunters NCIS iZombie Teen Wolf Shannara Chronicles Switched at Birth From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series Finding Carter
Wednesday:
Criminal Minds Code Black Suits Royal Pains (Final Season -- only 8 eps so I'll probably watch.)
Thursday:
Bones Elementary Reign
Friday:
Sleepy Hollow Grimm Vampire Diaries The Originals The Knick
Saturday:
Outlander (Season 2 airs April 9th)
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Post by Phalon on Mar 25, 2016 6:24:28 GMT -6
"From Dusk 'Til Dawn: The Series"? Is it based on the Quentin Tarantino movie of the same name, starring George Clooney? LMAO. One of my all time favorite Tarantino films to watch with someone who's never seen it before, and who knows nothing about the plot. To see the looks on the faces of the unsuspecting when the movie abruptly switches from a crime-spree drama to an over-the-top vampire flick is priceless! I always stop watching the movie at that moment just to watch them watch. The look is always the same: a "WTF just happened?!!!!" expression of utter disbelief.
I watched "Finding Carter" too; BP would roll their eyes at me, "Nobody's life has that much drama." I agreed that it was overly dramatic, but I got sucked in because the episodes always ended with some kind of cliff-hanger....especially the final episode. Irked that the show was cancelled without some kind of resolve; I hate when they do that.
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Post by stepper on Mar 25, 2016 18:40:09 GMT -6
I watch Castle & NCIS, and I'll probably watch the last of Royal Pains, but nothing else is on the radar.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 26, 2016 2:49:25 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Mar 27, 2016 6:50:53 GMT -6
If season one follows the movie, how could there be a season two? There's no one left to carry on except two characters! If I remember correctly (and I'm not sure that I do, because it's been awhile since I've seen it last), even the bar is gone.
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Post by stepper on Mar 27, 2016 11:02:38 GMT -6
Why would they want to carry on if there's only two of them and 'even the bar is gone'? What's the use if there's no bar? What do you do for fun? "Hey! Let's go look at the spot where the bar used to be! And as a special treat on the way back to the cave, we can stop and look at the rubble that used to be the grocery store. By the way, is it berry season yet? I’m kinda hungry."
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 27, 2016 21:49:58 GMT -6
The bar was a small part of a big organization. Santanico Pandemonium is out to destroy the whole organization. The bar was just the first step in her plot for revenge. More survived the ordeal than was revealed in the movie.
{SPOILER: Click here to show/hide}
Though, not all remained human.
dusktilldawn.wikia.com/wiki/From_Dusk_Till_Dawn:_The_Series
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Post by stepper on Mar 28, 2016 19:44:09 GMT -6
Sometimes I watch the Long Island Medium.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 28, 2016 22:46:04 GMT -6
I watch it if I catch it on and there's nothing else to watch.
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Post by stepper on Mar 29, 2016 18:56:10 GMT -6
The last couple shows were a bit "strange" as far as I'm concerned. She's very well known up there - getting her to locations where where she can do "surprise" readings is getting difficult, so for the last couple shows they disguised her. As a man in one. I guess it's something different for the TV audience, but it doesn't work for me at all.
I say do away with fluff and just let her read people.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 31, 2016 5:54:58 GMT -6
I think I've seen that show maybe once or twice a number of years ago, and more recently a couple of shows with the young guy who does readings for celebrities - Tyler-something, I think is his name. Quite amazing some of the stuff that coincides with the lives of the people they've 'read', but I'm not sure it doesn't involve more power of suggestion than facts that are actually revealed from beyond.
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Post by stepper on Mar 31, 2016 19:50:07 GMT -6
It makes you wonder sometimes. Last weekend she and her husband walked into an ice cream place, and right away she starts talking to a person in the store - tells her she spoke at a funeral recently. The girl starts crying - her mother died a few days earlier and she spoke at her mom's funeral just that morning. Earlier in the same show she's doing a group reading and with one lady she asks 'What's the number nine mean to you?' and the lady says "I miscarried in September." Then she asks "What's the name Michelle mean to you?" The lady is completely surprised. She miscarried a girl; she and her husband named the girl Michelle, but they kept it a secret between themselves. They hadn't even told their parents that they had named her.
Maybe it's good editing, but if so, sometimes it's very good editing.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 2, 2016 6:43:59 GMT -6
I was kind of curious, so I did a bit of drilling. Yes, the shows are "craftily edited". Skeptics call them "grief vampires" and say for every "guess" they get right, there are multiple things they get wrong that obviously never make it past the editing room door. There are claims of fraud for both the Long Island Medium, and the Hollywood Medium, more so for the Long Island woman, I'm betting because she's been around a lot longer. Apparently those who get tickets in the sections near the stage during her live performances are required to give basic information such as name, address, e-mail, phone, and she has a team who Googles information before the performance. A similar claim is made by skeptics doubting the Hollywood Medium; it's pretty obvious that if someone is doing readings for celebrities, there's plenty of information floating around out on the Internet about that celebrity for the medium to pull from.
Real clairvoyance, the ability, whether intentional or not, to be very empathetic and read a person's emotions extremely well, and a team of good editors - it's probably a combination of things, I'd imagine.
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Post by stepper on Apr 2, 2016 21:59:25 GMT -6
I saw a commercial once or twice where that's exactly what happened. I think it was a commercial. Anyway - the 'psychic' set up a tent in a city square and they just invited anyone in. The TV guy outside asked them only a few questions for the audience, like what's your name. What the psychic person told them was freaky! Truly amazing personal stuff, and for at least one person it included banking, school loan, and financial information. Then they pulled back the curtain inside the tent and revealed a whole team of people looking at Facebook, Twitter, Google, and several other sources. So much for psychic. The point was, people put way too much personal information out there.
Ever notice how they all talk about the past? The closest they get to the future is "put your grief behind you" and life will get much better.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 2, 2016 22:12:17 GMT -6
Check this out:
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
This is the one time I feel like the kid at the back of the class who finally has an answer, who raises her hand with an “oh oh oh PICK ME PICK ME, I KNOW!” squeal.
... ... ... ... ...
So, where did that idea come from? Two odd-but-true events that took place probably fifty years apart. The first happened to my dad. The second, to me.
Read on: www.writerspace.com/where-do-you-get-your-ideas/
whooshorg.proboards.com/post/140255/thread
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Post by stepper on Apr 2, 2016 22:16:31 GMT -6
Tried the writespace link but got a web error message
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 2, 2016 22:20:48 GMT -6
That's weird. It's working for me.
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Post by stepper on Apr 2, 2016 22:45:08 GMT -6
I got it to work. My system kept asking if I wanted to see the things the site had that were not coming from an https source and I said no. Changed the answer to see everything even if not delivered securely and the site loaded okay.
I had a psychic incident or two - I was planning on saying something about it in response to Phalon's post. It's not on the scale of the TV shows though. Mine were always smaller, more personal. When we were in Turkey our dog Blue Eyes developed lumps. They had a vet for the working dogs and they allowed military personnel to bring in personal pets when they weren't taking care of the dogs. BE had cancerous tumors and the vet said they had to come out - the rate of growth meant she'd not survive until we returned stateside. We dropped her off with the vet who was going to operate on her sometime that day. I was more than a little concerned and kept watching the clock. They were supposed to call when they were done and by 1400 I was really feeling the tension. Then, precisely at 1506 (I know - because of the strong physical reaction that hit me I looked at the clock) the tension just left. I knew with absolute certainty BE was okay. A few minutes later the assistant called and said everything went really well and we'd be able to pick her up that night. When I mentioned 1400 to 1506 the assistant asked "How did you know?" ‘No what?’ “That was the time of the operation – I recorded in her med record right before I called you.”
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 2, 2016 22:55:48 GMT -6
I've had psychic incidents myself. I can't do it on my terms, they just happen when they happen. So, I do believe some psychics are the real deal, you just have to be wary enough to weed out the fakes.
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