Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So what are you WATCHING?

I'm still watching it as well, and it still has my interest. I think it has thus far avoided the well-travelled roads I feared it would venture down and improved on some of its faults along the way. It definitely has potential.

As to your question, that thought has occurred to me. However, would that explain the 1% DNA difference?

chuck on nbc

The Walking Dead is honestly the only show I am watching at this point. 5 more weeks, then nothing on the horizon.

^Same. Other than sports (NY Rangers and Football), I just can't find anything to keep my interest other than the random History Channel special.

I need to catch up on Fringe.

Though they're taking this week off, I'm still watching The Event and No Ordinary Family pretty avidly. Otherwise, it's TWD, Survivor and the odd episodes of Criminal Minds, House and the second hour of Biggest Loser.

Just saw the film, "Nowhere Boy," about John Lennon's younger days prior to the formation of The Beatles.

Apart from a few minor eyerollers (the complete lack of a Liverpudlian accent in any of the characters, and a couple of sly winking moments - ex: John walking past the Strawberry Field gardens; playing around with his food and putting chips in his mouth to resemble a walrus), I have to say it was a fine little film.

Most of the dramas I've seen about the Beatles err either in attempting to recast events through a lens of modern sensibility, or in trying to pack too much history into too small a running time. "Nowhere Boy" made neither mistake. It's a nice tight story, focusing on John's conflicted feelings about his estranged mother, and how that conflict fueled a lot of his passion toward his music.

Bonus points to Kristin Scott Thomas who turns in a wonderfully sympathetic performance as John's aunt Mimi.

I'm still watching both of these as well, but I can't say I'm all that invested in either them. One moment The Event is looking pretty solid, then the next moment there's something incredibly cheesy that kind of takes me out of it.

TWD and H5-0 remain the top new shows of the season.

After what I thought was a weak start, Fringe has gotten pretty solid. They were kind of taking a chance with the "alternating Earths" format, but I think it's started to work.

$#&T My Dad says, Mike & Molly, and East bound & Down (even though it's season ended a few weeks ago) Boardwalk Empire, and the Walking Dead are the shows that i've made sure not to miss this season.

Don't laugh, but I'm watching makeup tips on how to achieve the Megan Fox look.

How To Get The Megan Fox Look

(I'll be needing some volunteers later. Rocky?)

OK - I just watched what could potentially be my most favourite thing I've seen in all of 2010. And it was a TV movie.

BBC's Sherlock (episode 1 - 'A Study in Pink').

Has anyone else here seen it? Gosh, I was blown away by it. The writing, the acting, the filmmaking, the misdirection, the humour, the mystery, the callbacks to classic Sherlock Holmes elements, the beginning, the middle, the end... I loved it all.

What a winner of a series. For those who don't know, it's a modern re-imagining of the Sherlock/Watson tales. I'm not familiar enough with Conan-Doyle's tales to know if this episode, or any of the later ones, are direct adaptations of any of his stories but it was a fantastic adaptation if so, and an awesomely written mystery in it's own right if not.

Martin Freeman of The Office and Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the soon to be Hobbit plays Dr Watson. He's pretty good in the role. I'm kinda sick of him so I wasn't over the moon about him being in it but I really have no complaints about his performance. The real star though of course is the guy who plays Sherlock. Absolutely amazing. Perfect blend of arrogant anti-socialness and endearing likeability. And a real gusto of a performance. The constant energy he exudes and the pace at which he delivers his very smart and clever lines means you are forced to pay attention to him and keep up.

The mystery was great too. Very exciting and intriguing. My only issue with the conclusion was that I kept thinking to myself -


<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Hasn't Sherlock seen The Princess Bride? They're both poisoned! Though we never found out if my theory was right or not which was a bit annoying.</span></span>


What can I say? I really, really liked this. Hope the later episodes are as good. Did anyone else at Legion World see this?

All three episodes are really, really good (especially the third). Can't wait for the next series to start.

^ Good to know Dave! I'm already looking forward to it too. 3 episodes in this season just isn't enough!

My wife and I have started back up on watching House seasons (we're on season 3). What a damn good show this is. I personally think it works better to watch a bunch at a clip but of all the shows I watch, this is the easiest to catch an ep here or there.

For the record, Human Target = all kinds of awesome.

We watch Human Target too. It's nowhere near as awesome as the Milligan Vertigo series, but as an action show with personable characters it's still a fun show.

Aside from HT, we're currently catching up on "Being Human", which had a great first season, though the second has been uneven so far (two episode's left).

We still watch "Chuck", which has been great fun and really over-the-top this year especially with the "Pop culture icon" guest star of the week format.

We don't have TMN so we're behind on Dexter, but may find other ways to see it.

"The Bridge" doesn't look like it's coming back and TWD is done for a while, so I think that's it for us right now.

Tonight, I watched SNL. While the sketches and host were about average, the musical guest was fan-friggin-TASTic! Paul-friggin-McCartney! When I saw he was scheduled, I figured he'd be supporting some new album and might be performing some songs I'd never heard--NOPE! He performed "Jet" and "Band on the Run" from his Wings days, and astonishingly, he performed most of "A Day in the Life" which melted into "Give Peace a Chance"! "Day" is primarily an iconic John Lennon song from their Beatles days (albeit one with a McCartney interlude) and "Peace" is all John post-Beatles. This was such a touching tribute to John on the week of the anniversary of John's murder! Frankly, I teared up. Just beautiful! To top it off, they ended the show with Paul performing "Get Back" as the credits ran! I was in Beatles fan heaven!

Look, the old boy's voice may obviously be on the wane, but he still doesn't phone it in. I'm so glad SNL let him have more than the customary two songs. And again, it was a rare treat to hear Paul singing some of John's parts, a lovely tribute to John and of how much he and John have meant to popular music for four decades!

Thanks, Paul and SNL!

Just watched the awesome mid-season finale of Hawaii 5-0! Seriously, you guys need to be watching this! Some advancement on the longterm subplots, and the return (for the very first time) of

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">WO FAT!!!!</span></span>

A few terse reviews of the movies I've watched over the past week of downtime:

"A Single Man" - beautiful and subtle film about 24 hours in a man's life after his lover is killed in a car crash. Colin Firth astounded me with his performance, leaving me wanting to see more of him, so next up was...

"Dorian Gray" - better than I had hoped (only just) given that it was made just last year. Again, Firth puts in a good performance... no-one else does.

"A Hard Day's Night" - Been on an intense Beatles kick for a couple months now, so I thought I'd loop back around and see their actual films. Surprisingly funny and well directed. I'd expected madcap, and while it was that, it also was a joy to look at (not to mention listen to).

"Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Source" - two film cycle of epic tragedy set in bucolic France. I had seen these a decade back and had nostalgically remembered them as the best foreign film(s) I've ever seen. My opinion has not changed.

"Goya's Ghosts" - how this many talented people (including the director and all the primary actors) could make such a dog of film is beyond me. Avoid at all costs.

I recently went on a Jennifer Elise Cox kick, she's the girl who played Jan Brady in the 90s Brady Bunch movies.

I bought the entire Lifetime comedy series LOVESPRING INTERNATIONAL on iTunes because I remembered she was in it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Then I started with 10 ITEMS OR LESS on Netflix (available for instant viewing). Lo and behold-- she's a regular on it, too! I did not know at the time I decided to try it. Funny stuff!!

Didn't see this post the first time around, even though we facebooked about it when it was happening, Lardy. As you know, I totally enjoyed this as well! I was really shocked and beyond delighted when Paul did his John tribute (so much that I ran to facebook to post about it).

It was a really touching, cool as hell tribute that Paul did and I went to bed really happy that night.

Skits were only okay but that was the best musical performance I've seen in a long time.

PS - I'm still on a huge House kick with my wife and have been steadily watching it for weeks and weeks. We're now up to Season 6.

Quite simply, it's one of the best shows ever with one of the best casts ever. Hugh Laurie deserves all the praise he's gotten and then some.

Got the DVR set for "The Cape" on Sunday... let's see if NBC learned anything from "Heroes"...

Getting ready to watch The Scarlet Pimpernel!

Can't believe I've never seen it! I've read at least part of the book, however!

just started The Adventures of Merlin. episode one.