On telly this week

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

MAD MAX 2 Tonight at 10:35 PM on ITV1.

[The Legendary Shark]

The Driller Killer, which I'm ashamed to say I've never seen, is on The Horror Channel (Sky 319) tonight at 22:55.

[Professor Bear]

I have given up on UK tv entirely and taken our aerial down, so now get all my watching done via torrents, box sets, and the occasional download from Itunes/PSN, so I was surprised to see on the gym telly last night that the UK is seeing episodes of CSI made within the last decade.  I don't really follow online discussion of that show, so when Ted Danson showed up last year as Larry Fishburne's replacement I laughed for at least a full minute, but he is actually okay in it and plays not as hatefully sanctimonious a character as one might expect from a CSI show.  I can't recall if it airs on Fiver or Five USA, but it might be worth checking out for the novelty value.

A lot of Aussie telly seems to be showing up on "the other channel" of late, so some on the board might want to check out Outland, a sitcom about gay sci-fi fans, or Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, a light hearted series of period whodunnits set in 1920s Melbourne.

[Emperor]

Firek Avatar is on Channel 4 on Sunday @ 17:50.

I have given up on UK tv entirely and taken our aerial down, so now get all my watching done via torrents, box sets, and the occasional download from Itunes/PSN, so I was surprised to see on the gym telly last night that the UK is seeing episodes of CSI made within the last decade.  I don't really follow online discussion of that show, so when Ted Danson showed up last year as Larry Fishburne's replacement I laughed for at least a full minute, but he is actually okay in it and plays not as hatefully sanctimonious a character as one might expect from a CSI show.  I can't recall if it airs on Fiver or Five USA, but it might be worth checking out for the novelty value.

We are 2 episodes in with Danson and I am surprised I'm not hating it, then again he did a decent job on Becker (and in Cheers), so I shouldn't be too surprised.

My main problem is a broader one - the cases are getting insanely convoluted. This weeks had [spoiler]3 or 4 people owning up to the murders[/spoiler] and the first one of the new series had [spoiler]a complicated series of bizarre events happening, including one of the bullets making a run for it in an octopus a woman had been carrying in her bag[/spoiler]. Back in the day you could tell they were plucking ideas out of forensics journals and headlines (or in Jerry Stahl's episodes unusual human behaviour), but now they seem to want to set up incredibly complicated scenarios for the cast to figure out but the audience can hardly play along [spoiler](I'm more familiar with tentacle porn than the average CSI viewer but not even I saw that angle coming, no pun intended)[/spoiler].

[Hoagy]

He was okay in Damages too.

[Hoagy]

Addendum.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/893513-richard-bacon-to-explore-online-trolling-in-the-anti-social-network

An Apology.

I just watched this, because, I wasn't quite sure where the line was drawn on trolling. To be sure, on posting under the mistaken influence that I was being coquettish, a bit of a lovable rogue, or just finding it funny when I'm drunk, I truly apologise and will work on becoming a better boarder here.And that applies on being wary in the future of anything I respond to, everywhere else on the net.

As someone who didn't start out very net savvie I have to excuse myself a bit for falling into some mental traps on here and elsewhere, although I can say I'm evolving and am seeing the warning signs ahead of time thanks with each scrape I have.

[Professor Bear]

It's an interesting subject and one ripe for examination, but Bacon was the wrong man for the job, making it too much about himself.  For some reason he also kept calling it "trulling" even when surrounded by dozens of people calling it "trolling" - too much toot has damaged the dude's brain, I fear.

[Hoagy]

Ahm. Possibly the wrong man but I liked how I could be indifferent to him if i needed to be. And therefore a good typical example of someone representative of a victim of trolling.

[TordelBack]

Krombasher/George, you've never been a troll on here, you're a gem of a poster.  Never less than amusing, thought-provoking and arcanely eloquent, for grud's sake don't go changing your style!

[Hoagy]

 It's just for the record, no less meant by it being for the record, it had to be done. I've got a cold at the moment so I have brain fluid leaking everywhere. Thankyou for your comment Tordle. You're chivalrous even when you're quite miffed.

The program opened up some issues that we all must have come cropper to at some point at posting on the web. Always one for not being sucked in by the mob, no matter how uneconomically viable that made me, one has to not go to the other end of the spectrum of the bitter outsider, also portrayed in the program. Remember those games that use that balance spectrometer to pick a lock/ walk your avatar over a tightrope/ things like that? That's the official balance this boarder tries to strike in any social gathering or community. Sometimes though your resolve can weaken and it happens, that comment goes live. On your own sites you can delete them. On these boards you really have to think before you post.



Harumph anyway, anybody catch that Budget/10 o'clock Live last night? What about them taxes eh?

[Emperor]

For those planning on catching it on iPlayer  - "Reverse Missionaries" isn't about the mythical, todger-bending combination of the reverse cowgirl and the missionary position. Not yet anyway.

[Link Prime]

Walking dead season 2 finale; T-Minus 20 minutes!

[Roger Godpleton]

Mad Men is BACK, bitches.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Has anyone ever seen that Discovery show, Fight Quest? It's basically a bunch of Americans travelling around South-East Asia, getting various shades of shit knocked out of them. It's a bit like that Last Man Standing show that was on the BBC a wee while back. Great entertainment

[judgefloyd]

the very last episode of 'The Straits' featuring Brian Cox as a crime family patriarch in Far North Queensland is on this thursday.  It's good stuff - a bit King Learish (he's going to retire, tells his sons they have to prove themselves, it doesn't go well) - I'm in suspense about who'll take over.  Those of you who like naked ladies would appreciate the evil evangelical Christian bogchick who gets her clothes off fairly often (and evilly)