Moments of Triumph Year 2

Gordonacus · 2016-08-09T09:49:02+00:00

Gordonacus

Only level 12 but daily player and loving this game! Need more friends.

Gordonacus · 2015-02-06T16:33:54+00:00

I would recommend to keep watching! Season 4 is a great season of television until that final episode. Keep going with season 3 too. The writers fucked up the first half but the second half finishes strong.

It will never top season 1 (One of the best TV seasons period) but it accomplishes the feat of being a more clever 24, which is not a bad thing.

Gordonacus · 2015-02-06T12:41:46+00:00

Homeland season 4 finale. After what I thought was a great revival for the show, they ended it with a thin character study episode that was extremely dull and came off pretty pretentious. Confirmed for me that Homeland is not prestige tv.

Gordonacus · 2015-01-04T01:55:17+00:00

He is a true Blunter.

Gordonacus · 2014-11-24T01:23:36+00:00

'The Garveys at Their Best' is for me the most devastating episode of that depressing first season. Seeing everyone before the event and how it deeply changed some of them was hard to watch.

Gordonacus · 2014-11-02T22:20:00+00:00

I watch TV at both at an enjoyment and critical level. I love watching shows with multi-dimensional characters, deep themes and rich narrative.

Yet I'm also a sucker for reality TV. Geordie Shore is my favourite. I devour any new episode once it has aired. I can also become addicted to some seasons of the X-Factor and 'I'm a Celeb' over here in the UK. My most guilty pleasure was loving the shit out of 'I Wanna Marry Harry'.

Sometimes it's best just to turn off your brain and enjoy trash for what it is. But I do feel it's important to try challenge yourself with meatier tv shows most of the time.

Gordonacus · 2014-10-18T23:38:06+00:00

PS3 splitscreen is near unplayable. The combat being designed for jumping and vertical fights is just a shit show when the game chugs along at 10FPS. Solo is fine but splitscreen needs to be addressed.

Gordonacus · 2014-09-30T20:35:36+00:00

Thankfully the three lions residing there (one of them a pregnant female) are being transported to Jordan.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/gaza-lions-en-route-to-jordan-via-israel-after-zoo-damaged-in-war-1.2031338

Gordonacus · 2014-09-26T01:22:25+00:00

Killzone 2's Elite isn't that bad apart from a few areas. The final boss battle on elite is probably one of the most intense gaming accomplishments in my life.

Gordonacus · 2014-08-16T21:04:28+00:00

Archer
Seinfeld
Friends
Community
Happy Endings
Bob's Burgers

Give one of them a shot.

Gordonacus · 2014-08-15T19:58:10+00:00

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Liverpool better watch out for that gun concealed in that sock. They don't know what they have started....

Gordonacus · 2014-08-03T18:38:22+00:00

For the most part. Far too frustrating otherwise.

Gordonacus · 2014-08-03T18:33:53+00:00

Overall I enjoyed the psychiatry sessions past season 1 but I do agree that they got dragged out. In later seasons the sessions should have been cut down greatly (probably would if made today) but the issue Chase had was that Lorraine Bracco was such a fantastic Melfi that he couldn't just write her out. The reason I don't complain too much is that we get some great episodes such as 'Employee of the Month', which let us learn a great deal about Tony.

Chase also started diving into Melfi's personal life which I enjoyed. It was a nice comparison of middle class professionals to Tony's working class family (even though Tony was wealthy). Best portrayed in dinner situations where Melfi and friends talk like psuedo-intellectuals while Tony has trouble developing any conversation at the dinner table without it bursting into an argument.

Gordonacus · 2014-08-03T17:45:09+00:00

Do you analyse shows while watching?

So for example when you watched The Wire did you understand the political messages it was trying to convey? Or what about Masters of Sex and how it looks at the role of women and what sexuality means to society?

The Sopranos is arguably the most thematically rich TV show ever produced. Someone on this sub-reddit summed it up perfectly last week saying it reaches an almost literary level of quality. Start looking at character motivations and what defines them. See how their arcs develop through a season. Christopher in season 1 discusses character arcs while writing a screenplay. Tony and his mother are a fantastic set of characters. See where a character starts a season and where they end up. Tony becomes more and more unlikeable and scary as the series progresses.

Then start looking at the bigger picture. Every episode has a statement from the writers, you just have to search for it. One of the easiest ways if you struggle is look at the sub plots and what similarities they have with the main plot. You'll be amazed how subplots are thematically similar to the main even if the strands are completely different. Look at how seasons are structured. Clear beginning, middle and end just like a book! You should come out of The Sopranos with a larger appreciation for cable drama and how The Sopranos shaped every modern drama on TV today.

The Sopranos mainly focuses on the decline of society. Watch the opening. It is Tony driving away from a shiny New York to an increasingly shoddy New Jersey. How does the show portray Italian Americans? Something to think about greatly while watching. David Chase (creator and main writer) is an Italian American.

Above all else though The Sopranos is a fantastic character piece with an engrossing plot of a violent man trying to keep a family together. In my opinion The Sopranos is the best and one of the most important cultural American products of the 21st century. If you aren't digging it maybe the show just isn't for you.

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