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

Jorge, my wife and I also enjoyed Spartacus: Blood and Sand. It didn't try to pretend it was Rome or Deadwood in terms of being highbrow and instead reveled in the violence and sex of the era. That made it refreshing and exciting!

It was really sad about Andy Whitfield. I actually think we might not continue watching beyond Season One since he's not in anything after.

Just watched the first two episodes of Pan Am. Pretty enjoyable, and the production looked amazing. I'm particularly keen on the actress who plays the French stewardess.

Gods of the Arena is actually pretty decent. It's set in the year *before* Blood & Sand, and you get to see some awesome backstory of Oenomaus/Dottori, Crixus, Ashur, etc. and, since it's set before the events of Blood & Sand, some relationships are surprisingly different. We know that Batiatus and Solonius are hated rivals, and that Lucretia and Crixus have 'a thing' in Blood & Sand, but their relationships are 100% different in Gods of the Arena, which is kinda neat.

I'm not sure if the violance and sex is less gratuitious, or if I just was so jaded by the amount in Blood & Sand that I didn't notice it as much in Gods of the Arena...

Episode 3 of Pan Am was somewhat of a disappointment. New York was totally miscast as Berlin. Christina Ricci's performance bordered on the manic, and there was a looooong German folksong involved.

Still lovin' the steel and glass look of the airport sets, though. In fact, if I could get away with it, I'd redo our living room in Mid Century Pan Am Terminal.

Breaking Bad Season Finale was pretty crazy. Looks like a world of possibilities for Season 5 (the last one). Glad they're pulling no punches with Walt's walk to the dark side and that no solution is ever neat and tidy.

FX Canada just launched and they're playing something called "American Horror Stroy" that looks interesting. I PVRed the first two episodes and will check them out later this week.

I checked out the first episode and liked it a real lot. My wife actually thought it was too scary and wasn't in the right mindset to watch it--so that might be a good endorsement of how chilling it is. I plan to eventually watch the entire season.

Can't wait to check out Breaking Bad Season 4, but I'll have to wait until the season is out on DVD.

Also really looking forward to the new western AMC has that will follow Walking Dead. That channel can basically do no wrong these days. (And I'm also glad to see FX staying strong now that Rescue Me is over).

I don't know why it was in my mind recently, but the other day I started thinking about one of my all-time favorite shows, "Twin Peaks". Bored last night, I watched the pilot episode again on Netflix. Man, that show was so good.

Long story short - I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm going to wind up watching the whole series again. Damn you, David Lynch.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY has been EXCELLENT!

Also, I have gotten into ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT on Hulu & Netflix, never watched it. It amuses me!

So Eryk and other Hawaii 5-O fans: is Terry Quinn on full-time? To say I'm a fan is understating it like saying I don't like being stabbed. Maybe it's time I really check this show out?

Lash, you'll enjoy Arrested Development I think. It's not for everyone and it might not be in my top 5 funniest but it had true moments of comedic brilliance throughout.

Also, 'Hell on Wheels' has been freaking fantastic! AMC can do no wrong, honestly. The three best shows on television and this one is looking good too.

He's a recurring character this season. He's a key player in the ongoing storyline this season. I think he's been in about half the episodes so far (I'm about four episodes behind right now, though).

Cobie, yeah your ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT description is pretty spot-on for me... I am liking it well enough as a whole... no characters that I just fall in love with like on my TOP-FAVE shows, but each character is just interesting and amusing ENOUGH that I am into it.

Also, I learned today that in quite an intersting deal, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT is RETURNING with all new shows, as a NETFLIX EXCLUSIVE.

Read about that here:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/18/arrested-development-netflix/

Having a star trek TNg marathon .... I always loved troi but I never realized that she was integral to so many episodes!

It's like the troi show...

Anybody watched Person of Interest?

It actually sounds kind of interesting, plus Michael Emerson is pretty much all kinds of awesome.

Have not seen it yet but my father-in-law (who has good taste in television shows IMO) says its really fantastic. The acting, as expected, is top-notch with the groovy Michael Emerson and the equally awesome Jim Caviezal.

I've been trying to watch farscape, but the main actor is such a ham, and... puppets? Sorry, it just doesn't work for me. Though, they've got some very attractive ladies on it.

<== Aeryn Sun!

Yah know, she has a distinctive face. Not a classically beautiful face, but a distinctive face. But, on her, it absolutely works. Very attractive lady. Didn't she do a guest spot on The Dresden Files?

Not sure. I remember Claudia Black (Aeryn) appeared on Stargate in its last seasons around the same time Ben Browder/Crichton moved over to that series. Never was a Stargate fan, but I watched some episodes because those two were on it.

Claudia also was in the excellent sci-fi movie "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel. She was an unfortunate early casualty in that one.

Classically beautiful or not, I'm a fan of hers!

Oh no, she's beautiful, don't get me wrong. She has a distinctive face, not some blandly pretty face like say... Gwennyth Paltrow. That's why it works, her face is not only beautiful, it has character. Plus, she's got that husky voice. Grrrrooowwwwwwlllll!

I loved FARSCAPE. It did take a half-dozen or so episodes to really 'gel', I think. But if you're turned off by the main guy's hamminess, which I found fun, really, and didn't stop thinking of the puppets as puppets, you might not ever tune in.

Claudia Black ought to turn up in projects much more often. She's a good actress, in addition to her distinctive looks and great voice.

I've been watching ONCE UPON A TIME and GRIMM, both of which I really like. The first is much more ambitious in scope, I think. I was a bit shocked to see Kate Burton kicking butt in GRIMM, though. In a good way.

I also really like, in a guilty pleasure sort of way, REVENGE. It keeps swerving in ways I didn't expect. Hard to see the girl from EVERWOOD as someone as hardcore as her character here, at least at first.

I just watched HOW TO TRAIN A DRAGON- which I missed in theaters (not hard to do- my movie-going's really dropped off in the last couple of years). I thoroughly enjoyed this cartoon. It was sort of fitting to watch it just after Anne McCaffrey died. It reminded me how much I wanted a dragon to ride as a teenager (and still do, to tell the truth).

EDE, Lardy, Cobie... are you still into TERRA NOVA? I've watched the first 2 eps on HULU and am interested enough to continue. I'm mesmerized by the combo of high-tech and dinosaurs!

I haven't been keeping up with it regularly, though I've caught an episode or two since the premiere. It still strikes me as good, though not anything that's a must watch. If it.gets renewed, I'll probably go through and watch the whhole season.

I haven't watched an episode since #2. It was good and if I can watch it I will but it wasn't something I just *had* to watch.

If people were raving about it, I'd definitely check out what I've missed.