Renton

Keith didn't watch the game. Again What a tosser. Anyway, you'll need a log in to read the insanity already because the admin are embarrassed again. Every time on there their match threads get more unhinged.

Hmm, something like: Southampton were shit. We were boring and parked the bus. Joelinton's goal rightfully chalked off. Pope should have been sent off. Joelinton's goal was jammy. Armstongs goal should have stood. We're a lucky shithouse team. Eddie Howe has a face you wouldn't get tired of punching. Hope Guimares does his cruciate. Sunderland would have beaten Southampton by at least 3. Our songs are shit and we don't sing anyway. What else? Oh yeah, we kill children.

GOALINTON!!!!!! At last.

I almost never get angry about refereeing but this is an absolute shit show.

Oh ffs, ridiculous by VAR. Fucking sick of it.

That's coming next week imo, what with the nil-nil specialist and caps shift phobic tbd starting the thread.

Well I had to look that up. He looks a bit like you tbh. In response to Alex, (btw ther is potential spoilers here just in case anybody hasn't watched BB), I don't think Walt's transformation is at all unbelievable as it's so perfectly paced and I can see his rationale at every point. He's been dealt a shit sandwich in life and then gets a diagnosis of terminal cancer. With literally nothing to lose he transforms himself under the bogus inner claim he's doing it for his family, and attempts to justify his transformation at each step on the way. First manufacturing meth, well why not? If he doesn't others will and anyway the pharma companies are no better extorting their patients with new chemotherapy drugs. Then he kills Krazy 8 in cold blood. Well it was him or them. Then he lets Jane die, and at this point he is just beyond redemption, but he still keeps trying to justify himself. He's a good man, it's just the circumstances he is in. It's all for his family. Which he finally admits is bullshit only in the last episode. He did it for himself, nobody else. And the same story is told but with a different ending for Jimmy McGill, but you can throw in that BCS is actually a beautiful love story as well. So for me it is one hell of a morality tale which begs so many philosophical questions about who we all really are. Was Walt inherently evil all the time or did his circumstances actually change him to the monster he became? It's the ordinariness of Walt's baseline state that fascinates me. Whereas in the Soprano's, episode 1, Tony is an established fucking cunt. I'm guessing he's not going to get any better, maybe he will get worse. I've a lot to go through before I find out, and obviously can't make a comparison between the two if I don't. If I ever get a terminal diagnosis btw, the World had better look out @Gemmill.

It seems to be forgotten that about a year before the Ukraine-Russia war, the fat arseclart declared that armoured vehicles were redundant in the theatre of war in Europe, and tried to get the MOD to stop funding tank divisions. He's a know nothing dickhead, why would anyone listen to him about anything? https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2022/02/watch-boris-johnson-claimed-the-days-of-big-tank-battles-in-europe-were-over

Well firstly, no, you have to take it literally, because of the Jessie sequel if nothing else. I don't see any issue at all with the poisoning of Lldia. He's showed himself to be adept at poisoning plenty of times before. Iirc he was incognito and both him and Lydia were both always very secretive anyway, neither wanting to be identified. The DIY machine gun was a bit far fetched. Not so much that he constructed it, after all he was a genius and would have been planning something like this for months with nothing else to do whilst shacked up in a hut in New Hampshire. But the plan was pretty unlikely to succeed because of all the things that could have gone wrong. My take is that in this Universe, one of infinite parallel Universes, it did. It wasn't so implausible as to counteract all the good aspects of the ending for me anyway. I liked the ending but there were some epiusodes in that final series - Ozymandias stands out - which for me were the high water mark so far of drama on TV.

The most scarey night of my life was spent in a hovel of a hotel in Baltimore as it happens. Was travelling around the NE states just booking hotels when I got to each city, which back then (way before the internet as well) was incredibly cheap. Unfortuately all the normal hotels in Baltimore were full because of some big baseball game, so I ended up in this place with the most scary characters I've ever seen, openly shooting up in the corridors etc. Locked myself in the room with people banging on the door all night until sunlight and got the fuck out of dodge. What a shit hole that city was outside the harbour.

I think I watched some of that but honestly can't remember. Was it from a police pov? If so I'm not interested. Nonody's mentioned Narcos yet either. This was narrated by the cop pov but the real protagonists were the underworld characters. Really enjoyed the Escobar series. Mexico was okay but got a bit smey by that point.

How's it preposterous? I mean the whole thing is far fetched and contived in mechanics (the worst bit in the series being the plane crash probably) but for me it was a highly satisfying Hollywood ending with all the important aspects of the series - character developments, fate of main characters, emotional and redemptive issues etc, finished perfectly in Hollywood style. Although arguably the true end of BB was BCS which was the "real" tragic ending. The Jessie spin off was completely unnecessary mind.

It's Schrodinger's Derby to them. Wasn't a derby at all, oh no. Just a dozen or two threads started after they won about the match and how they are now basically a midtable Premiership side (not kidding). However, the dreaded Dawn Thewlis, aided and abetted by one of their own, Jeff Brown, have suggested it might not have been a penalty, and the mackem fewm is back in full swing. They are fucking livid again. Needless to say, there's nothing wrong with post after post of misogynistic bile, dead classy behaviour that marra.

WE CAN DO THIS!

It was these poncey actors like Emelia Clarke getting ideas above their station because they were famous. Full data on chebbage count here. https://www.yellowfinbi.com/blog/data-visualization-exposes-nudity-in-game-of-thrones

But he SOLD THE GOLD!!!!!!!!!! Or something.

Incredibly the last episode IMDbed at 9.1. The whole thing was wank after series 1 imo though.

The problem with Game of Thrones. Overall IMDb: Last episode IMDb: Fuck me, has any series fell from grace harder than that before?

You see what you made Gloom do Gemmill?

People like different things. I think saying BB was slow is a strange one though because shitloads happed in series 1. As for GoT, don't make me get the Trump gif out. It was on course to being one of the greatest series of all time until they completely fucked up in the last 2 series. But it was complex, which iirc (and I do) is what stumped you.

BB wasn't slow like. In the first episode alone, we get the background to Walt's humdrum life, meet all the major characters, Walt is diagnosed with cancer, he hooks up with Jessie, he buys an RV and cooks meth in it, the pair are hijacked by Emilio and Crazy 8, Walt kills Emilio and crashes the RV. All in less than an hour. In comparison very little happens in The Sopranos episode 1. I mean I know some people who gave up on Game of Thrones, ostensibly because it was fantasy, but really cos it was too difficult for them to follow. And I completely get that the Sopranos is massively highly rated, hence my confusuion so far I'm just finding it flat. I think probably its just the genre, never been a massive Scorsese fan (I mean I like his stuff, but not to the extent his films are lauded. Thought the Irishman was boring as fuck tttt tbs tbs.

For some reason everyone is creaming themselves over the Last of Us, record IMdB etc. First episode so so, it covered about the same time as I got up to on the video game before I gave up on it cos I found it boring. Hopefully the story and characters will develop a bit more now and I can get the Oberon MArtell and Lyanna Mormont type casts out of my head.

Okay, does it take a while to get into the Sopranos? I'm watching it so far thinking its okay but not drawn in immediately like I was BB. I think in the latter case it was because the everyman nature of the charactgers and their evolution just gripped me from the start. But here we have Tony who is already established Mafia. Never been really that bothered about Mafia films etc. Anyway, it's moot as I say cos its going off air, annoyingly.

What's it like? Just working out if I should bother getting Apple TV or not (no, I'm not going down the IPTV route). Finally got round to watching the Sopranos on Now this month, but now theyt're pulling it in 2 weeks time the twats. So far I think its okay but confused by the hype, what's that all about then?