06-25-2025, 11:53 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Binged the first four episodes of new season of The Bear.
Abby Elliot has become a top shelf actor. Nice to see more shows dealing with the love between siblings.
Richie continues to grow, with his ex, and putting on a special display for a table.
Music highlights:
Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
Episode 4 was maybe an unnecessary detour with Sydney working out her dilemma of which restaurant to work with.
Last edited by troutman; 06-26-2025 at 08:42 AM.
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06-26-2025, 06:57 AM
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#5762
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Binged the first four episodes of new season of The Bear.
Abby Elliot has become a top shelf actor. Nice to see more shows dealing with the love between siblings.
Richie continues to grow, with his ex, and putting on a special display for a table.
Music highlights:
Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
Episode 4 was maybe an unnecessary detour with Sydney working out her dilemma of which restaurant to work with.
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I'm gonna try, but frankly the 3rd season lost me. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I thought the 3rd season was poor.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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06-26-2025, 08:38 AM
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#5763
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Ice Chips (season 3) was perhaps the best episode of the series.
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06-26-2025, 09:11 AM
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#5764
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I'm gonna try, but frankly the 3rd season lost me. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I thought the 3rd season was poor.
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I stopped watching too.
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06-26-2025, 10:15 AM
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#5765
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I've said it before & I will say it again, Generation Kill is the best military miniseries ever.
It is the most realistic portrayal of life in a modern military.
It is on point on so many things.
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Nothing will ever top Band of Brothers, but I will give Generation Kill the 1b spot
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06-26-2025, 09:43 PM
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#5766
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Nothing will ever top Band of Brothers, but I will give Generation Kill the 1b spot
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Agree to disagree
I fully encapsulates life in the modern military, especially at that time.
So many scenes I had experienced something similar.
The names for superior ranks, we had Big Daddy Dan The Marlboro Man, as our CSM.
And a complete POS as an RSM.
The other thing to do is watch it be focus on listening to the background dialogue and chatter, so ####ing good
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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06-27-2025, 02:52 AM
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#5767
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I've said it before & I will say it again, Generation Kill is the best military miniseries ever.
It is the most realistic portrayal of life in a modern military.
It is on point on so many things.
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Meant to watch it years ago and somehow forgot, thanks for the reminder!
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06-27-2025, 11:09 AM
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#5768
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto
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Just finished Dept. Q. Really enjoyed it.
Thinking about starting Revival tonight.
Any good?
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06-27-2025, 11:46 AM
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#5769
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Ice Chips (season 3) was perhaps the best episode of the series.
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Hopefully there is some dialogue.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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06-27-2025, 11:50 AM
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#5770
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Dialogue is for extroverts!
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06-27-2025, 02:30 PM
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#5771
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
Just finished Dept. Q. Really enjoyed it.
Thinking about starting Revival tonight.
Any good?
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Is Revival based on the Stephen King book? If so, as much as I enjoy his work, we should maybe slow down on adapting it to the screen.
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06-27-2025, 03:52 PM
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#5772
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scotty2hotty
Just finished Dept. Q. Really enjoyed it.
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I also just finished watching this show. Fantastic police procedural with awesome characters and a great story/mystery. I was also impressed with how they pulled all the threads together in the last two episodes for such a satisfying conclusion.
They clearly set things up for a 2nd season, so here's hoping it gets renewed.
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06-27-2025, 09:11 PM
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#5773
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Is Revival based on the Stephen King book? If so, as much as I enjoy his work, we should maybe slow down on adapting it to the screen.
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I don’t think so. I thought I read it was based on a comic book series.
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06-27-2025, 09:47 PM
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#5774
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Red Deer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Agree to disagree
I fully encapsulates life in the modern military, especially at that time.
So many scenes I had experienced something similar.
The names for superior ranks, we had Big Daddy Dan The Marlboro Man, as our CSM.
And a complete POS as an RSM.
The other thing to do is watch it be focus on listening to the background dialogue and chatter, so ####ing good
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To be fair
the same comment could be expressed from those storming the beaches of France in 1944. The series was brought to life from - mostly - the same people that made Saving Private Ryan...which is universally respected as the film most accurately depicting D-Day in spite of the cinematic flair.
By all expert accounts and analysts, the depicted Brécourt Manor Assault was brilliant.
I loved Band of Brothers, and I think it is the more rewatachable series. But there is something so viscerally realistic about Generation Kill that will never leave me.
I also love the conversation comparing the two. Probably the most win-win debate there is.
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06-28-2025, 11:01 AM
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#5775
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamer
To be fair
the same comment could be expressed from those storming the beaches of France in 1944. The series was brought to life from - mostly - the same people that made Saving Private Ryan...which is universally respected as the film most accurately depicting D-Day in spite of the cinematic flair.
By all expert accounts and analysts, the depicted Brécourt Manor Assault was brilliant.
I loved Band of Brothers, and I think it is the more rewatachable series. But there is something so viscerally realistic about Generation Kill that will never leave me.
I also love the conversation comparing the two. Probably the most win-win debate there is. |
Right the bold part is my point.
Is it the depiction of the day to day bull####.
Chaplin......come the #### on. We had 2 with us and we would be trotted out when ever he came on our location.
Like #### off dude, take you fairy tales elsewhere, I was hoping to sleep after being up for 24 hrs.
Edit, also the simple happiness from Chef Boyardee. I remember one dude in my company for a a case of KD shipped to him and he gave it to the the company cook to make dinner. I was just about to tuck into my KD and we got a Starlight call.
I never got my ####ing KD. A dinner of stale bread and peanut butter.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
Last edited by undercoverbrother; 06-28-2025 at 12:41 PM.
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06-28-2025, 05:08 PM
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#5776
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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I havent finished Generation Kill but it essentially re-affirms everything I believe about why I'd be just a terrible, miserable, awful soldier.
To put it into more conventional terms, I hated working with jackasses in an office environment. I hated having bosses who operated as Dictators and you 'do as you're told no matter what.'
I do not hold to that.
"Go take that hill!!"
"F### you! You want it so bad you go take that goddamned hill. I'm fine right here."
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
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06-29-2025, 10:02 AM
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#5777
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Norm!
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I really like Lego Masters, and I thought some of the builders were really good.
this weekend I stumbled on Australias Lego Masters Grand Masters.
My god the builders and the builds are just on a whole other level. And the challenges are on a whole other level as well.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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06-29-2025, 10:17 AM
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#5778
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I'm gonna try, but frankly the 3rd season lost me. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I thought the 3rd season was poor.
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It's not really that's it's an unpopular opinion. It's that you are wrong.
I could watch a new episode of The Bear every day, in perpetuity.
S4 was great
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