07-06-2011, 10:41 PM
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Norm!
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Friday Night Lights
Here's a salute to the end of a really under rated exceptionally well written T.V. series that didn't drag itself on past its expiry date.
With one of the best ways to end a series that I've seen in a long time its aa show that I'm going to personally miss.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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07-06-2011, 10:52 PM
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#2
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Franchise Player
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Read the book (by H.G. Bissinger) and then watched the movie, but never really watched the TV show. Book is a good read -- would definitely recommend.
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07-06-2011, 11:06 PM
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First Line Centre
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Looks like it was...lights out! Hah..heh...hmm...
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07-06-2011, 11:09 PM
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Franchise Player
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Kyle Chandler may be type cast. But damn does he play it well.
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07-06-2011, 11:10 PM
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I watched about half the first season of this and got distracted. I wonder if I can pick up the DVD's some place cheap and watch it all at once.
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07-06-2011, 11:14 PM
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Riggins was a beast! Love that show. Definitely sad it ended, but it held up it's extremely high quality from start to finish - something shows rarely pull off.
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07-06-2011, 11:29 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Great show, great cast. Sad to see it end.
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07-06-2011, 11:30 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tvp2003
Read the book (by H.G. Bissinger) and then watched the movie, but never really watched the TV show. Book is a good read -- would definitely recommend.
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The book is outstanding and closer to the movie.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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07-06-2011, 11:31 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
Kyle Chandler may be type cast. But damn does he play it well.
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He's been in two of my favorite T.V. series
Friday Night Lights
Tour of Duty
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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07-07-2011, 08:56 AM
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Franchise Player
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I'd forgotten he was in Tour of Duty. Awesome!
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07-07-2011, 09:13 AM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Here's a salute to the end of a really under rated exceptionally well written T.V. series that didn't drag itself on past its expiry date.
With one of the best ways to end a series that I've seen in a long time its aa show that I'm going to personally miss.
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Absolutely agree!!!
This show never got the credit it deserved, the ratings were never great. Yet there are so many steaming piles of crap shows out there that do so much better, it's sad.
Last edited by bigtmac19; 07-07-2011 at 09:18 AM.
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07-07-2011, 12:58 PM
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i watched the show sporadically.
i do have one question - does anyone know why the name of the school in the TV show is not Permian like in the book/movie?
i was lukewarm on the book - i did not enjoy it as much as i thought.
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07-07-2011, 01:15 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtmac19
Absolutely agree!!!
This show never got the credit it deserved, the ratings were never great. Yet there are so many steaming piles of crap shows out there that do so much better, it's sad.
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The fact NBC had this show running on Friday night when it first started was a complete joke. It killed them before they even had a chance to get off the ground.
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07-07-2011, 01:17 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2008
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This show was -amazing-. Watched from start to finish. I saw the finale a few months back after the Directv airings so I didn't realize it just wrapped up on NBC, but I am definitely happy with it.
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07-07-2011, 03:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
He's been in two of my favorite T.V. series
Friday Night Lights
Tour of Duty
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He also had a short stint on Grey's Anatomy (I think he was on 3, 4 episodes) as the bomb squad guy who died.
I loved FNL, especially Tim Riggins.. I am sad to see it end as well.
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07-07-2011, 03:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trojan97
The fact NBC had this show running on Friday night when it first started was a complete joke. It killed them before they even had a chance to get off the ground.
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Ironically, I had to miss it because I was at real high school football games on Friday nights, but I caught up on Netflix and was really glad for Direct TV's save.
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07-07-2011, 05:24 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Trojan97
The fact NBC had this show running on Friday night when it first started was a complete joke. It killed them before they even had a chance to get off the ground.
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It actually started out at Tuesdays and Wednesday in it's first season. Say what you want, but it managed to get 5 season which is an amazing feat given FNL's modest ratings.
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07-07-2011, 09:06 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I maintain the episode where Matt buries his dad as one of the most powerful things I've seen on TV.
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07-07-2011, 10:05 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northendzone
i watched the show sporadically.
i do have one question - does anyone know why the name of the school in the TV show is not Permian like in the book/movie?
i was lukewarm on the book - i did not enjoy it as much as i thought.
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I think I read something on wikipedia that said by changing the name to a fictional town school, it basically gave them creative freedom to do whatever they wanted. Don't quote me on that though.
EDIT: Okay, I checked and that's not exactly what it says, so who knows...
P.S. Did you read the book before the movie/tv show? Just curious 
Last edited by tvp2003; 07-07-2011 at 10:11 PM.
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07-08-2011, 12:02 AM
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Read book,w saw movie, watched tv show.
As I recall some of the folks of Permian were not happy with the book
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