David Kelly

A mate sent me that. I thought the whole Turk thing was a set up until I just went on the Chronicle site

Owns Jaffa Cakes and Penguins so makes sense he'd want a club too.

Hopefully that's an upcoming episode.

I enjoyed Sundays Electric Dreams. Covered themes that have already been looked at in big screen adaptations of PKD's work. I'm going to start The Deuce and Mindhunters this week I think.

After years of Ashley trying (and succeeding in many cases) to make us believe we can never compete with the top whatever it is these days, I'm going to try and take this as positive news and hope we will in fact be rid of him by Christmas. And by next season we'll still have Rafa managing some quality players and no Sports Direct free adverts cheapening the stadium.

The fact that they're putting it out there and putting a time frame on it suggests it's something more concrete than the usual rumours. Whether or not his price still puts people off remains to be seen.

Want rid by Christmas. Ties in with some of the reports coming out of the middle east the other week.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11084133/newcastle-owner-mike-ashley-officially-puts-the-club-up-for-sale

Aye, I wonder what the reasoning is behind that. Can't think Ashley is doing something just so that it might benefit the club.

Merson unsurprisingly has us to lose too. 2-2 I fancy.

There goes January's budget.

I finished Better Call Saul last night. I thought Jimmy's story got a little bit less interesting post the Bar review and pre the final scene. But Mike, Nacho & Gus kept it going. I started watching the latest Electric dreams but ended up falling asleep. It seemed pretty mental though.

If Chris Pratt was dicking about with anything in the Star Trek universe I'd wonder where the rest of Guardians had got to well before considering the technology. Tbh I thought it was a bit daft in the Chris Pine Star Trek films where they tried to back to the technology of the original Shatner tech that as I say was based on the available tech of the time it was made. It makes no sense to me that you'd go back to stuff that is out of date in the present day. Clearly we're not going to agree on this so I'll just sit back and bask in the glory of knowing my Star Lords from my Kirks.

I think absolute fucking arse hole would have been more appropriate for him.

Aye but back in the days of Kirk, these things may have been thought of, but they certainly weren't widely known about. And the TV production companies of the day had no way of bringing them to life on screen anyway. 3D Printers for example are well known things now and they could be easily considered to be a precursor to replicators. So once they've been used in that universe on TNG it makes no sense to go back to what the known technology of the 60's could bring to the screen. Yes they could make them slightly less advanced than other incarnations set further in the future, but you can't make a show that has future where we can travel the universe and fuck green bints but most of the other technology is behind what we have now.

I'd watched the first couple of episodes of season 3 when they were first shown but then got distracted with Twin Peaks, Game Of Thrones and re watching The Sopranos. So I've just watched the last couple of Fargo's and so last night when I got in after five a side I thought I stick episode 3 on. I ended sitting up until 1 watching it and then watched episode 7 this morning. The lead up to and fall out from Jimmy's Bar Association hearing was excellent.

Aye I've restarted Better Call Saul the last couple of days so I've not watched it yet. But I'll probably finish that tonight and watch Electric Dreams too. Aye, Jodie Foster is directing the first one of the new season apparently.

I found Skull Island to be a totally joyous experience, perhaps even more than TFA and RO, both of which also fell into the joyous category for me. Yes they might not be original and might have more holes than a swiss cheese but they're still Star Wars. Personally I'd be over the moon if there was a new one every year for the rest of my days.

I've watched the first three episodes and while I was a bit disappointed with the first couple (because of my expectations rather than them being poor) I've still enjoyed them. The third episode with Timothy Spall is the best and most Black Mirror ish of the three. New season of Black Mirror is due in December I believe.

Surely it would jar more to have a series made in 2017 and set in the future with technology inferior to what we currently have? Those things you mention are virtually with us now.

TGTBATU is probably the best film ever made too. To have watched just one Marvel film before it, is quite frankly ridiculous. I'm quite enjoying the new Star Trek. I like the change in format to an ongoing story and I like the fact that it's took me to the forth episode to realise the head engineer bloke is the nerdy kid of Dazed And Confused. The fact that the technology available to the studio is way in advance of the what was available to even TNG makes it feel like the technology they have on this ship is greater but I don't think they've been out of sync with anything yet. The Klingons don't all have cloaking technology. I think that's been the big thing so far to show that this point in time is less advanced.

I can see why you would want to go on there and take the piss, lots of us glance over there and have a giggle when there's nothing going on here. But I don't get why you'd want to try and have a sensible conversation, like I assume you were with the footballers you remember but other don't thread. Or were you just trying to set them up there too? Honestly I've not manged to distinguish any of their posters from another because they all basically post exactly the same shit and in the same style.

I can understand you wanting to get a bit of a conversation going elsewhere Fish, a lot of the time there is precious little on here, but I can't understand why anyone intelligent would want to post on there. The moment they work out someone is a Newcastle supporter (or they think they are) they just go straight on the attack. But even without that, there's no real discussions on there. I know you sometimes get a bit of a ribbing on here for long winded posts, but on there most of them struggle to construct one sentence. Most of the posts on there seem to average about five words. I've said it before but it's a really poor forum for real discussions. It can be quite a giggle to see the thick cunts arguing amongst themselves and generally sounding like they're typing from a shared computer at a special school. But I'd be fucked if I could be arsed join in with them.

The Theroux doc wasn't as good as his alcoholic's one (or the Vegas, South Africa or white supremacist classics) but it was still good. I watched an episode of an Anthony Bourdain series a few weeks ago about some little town near Boston that has the same problem with lots of people addicted to heroin on the back of oxicontin perscriptions for injuries. It was suggesting that it's now a bigger problem in America than inner city drug addicts. I watched the first episode of Snowfall too that was on after Theroux. Looks quite promising.

I thought Blade Runner was really good. The visuals were superb and that lass off War Dogs was worth the price of admission on her own. I would say at this stage I prefer the original (for Rutger Hauer alone) but then again I didn't like it at all first time I saw it so on repeated viewings this has a real chance of surpassing it. Wind River. Jeremy Renner as a tracker who finds a dead native American girl raped and dead in the snow, and then helps the FBI track down her killer. It's written and directed by the guy who wrote Sicario and Hell Or High Water and tbh I think I enjoyed it more than both of those.