Couple TV shows some may enjoy

I did enjoy Gaddafi's honor guard.

 

I finally finished watching 11.22.63.
It was pretty good.
Like @strummerfan had said the concept wasn't new, but it was done pretty well.
I enjoyed it. Also I'm a fan of James Franco.

 

I thought it was fleshed out far better than most attempts that try to explain the butterfly effect

 

Anyone watching The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin - Season 1

Currently streaming on the Daily Wire+. something I have never even heard of before. Is this a Religious Network?


Made it through the first 2 episodes and these people from Atlantis give Bull Fighting a whole new meaning. After 2 episodes, no Merlin just the story of his parents meeting. Funny the Christian side of the story will be an interesting storyline to watch. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 0 rating from critics and 86% from the audience.


I know nothing about the 7 Book series this is based on. Book 7 (2025) coming 25 years after Book 6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pendragon_Cycle

FYI- This is why I didn't see Merlin in the first 2 episodes. Episode 3-7 is where Merlin enters the story and hopefully the time jumps slow down.
The first two episodes were an adaptation of the novel “Talesin.” The next five are an adaptation of the second novel, “Merlin.”.

This is right up my alley as I am still making my way through The Last Kingdom books. (The Saxson Stories) Just started Book 10 of 13.


WOW: Episode 3 was a complete game changer. Like a completely new restart. Merlin is an adult ready to help England become a new united Country.

 

I started to finally watch IT Welcome to Derry when I got home this morning, I watched 2 of them.
I'm so confused at what the show is.
I'm trying as a reader of the the book to try , and separate the show, but it's hard. Is this a alternate reality??? It's hard because some of the stuff is actually straight out of the book while some of the characters have the same names they aren't, or couldn't be the same people. For example the Sheriff Bowers , the Bowers in the book were farmers Butch Bowers, and his crazy son Henry Bowers, but they had no cop relations. The black Kid (Mike Hanlon) in IT that grew up to be the Librarian , his Dad was in the Service with Dick Halloran (the same exact character from the Shining, the cook), and yet in here a different Hanlon is in the service with Dick Halloran at a whole different date, and time. It's like an alternate universe IT.

 

I got a cheap subscription to BritBox for a month and have really liked “Line Of Duty”

It’s about the police corruption unit in London

 

Thats the problem with watching shows/movies based on books you’ve read. A person has to be able to ignore the source material. Otherwise they spend time worrying about how things arent the same

 

I just realized it was filmed here. That scene where harbour falls to the ground and Bateman goes to talk to tiger tiger is filmed in the park across the street. That dock where tiger tiger calls it off is a two minute walk from my front door

 

Detective Hole
VERY ENJOYABLE CRIME THRILLER

 

I agree
always remember no matter what
It's an adaptation

 

Well said

 

Part of the problem with movies is time

I read the book The Martian while sitting at the beach

A nice easy read so when the movie came out I went to see it

I kept thinking get skipped this that and the other thing

Then I realized if they didn’t the movie would be 14 hours long

The movie Hunt for Red October ends about 2/3 of the way through the book

 

I had no idea The Martians was based on a book. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I never read THFRO, but did read patriot games and clear and present danger. The film based on the book patriot games cracked me up a bit. A fair amount was filmed in my home town. So there were a bunch of things that just didnt work. Driving down some road, cut, annd they’ve magically anrrived at a destination. Wait you cant get there on that road. It doesnt go annywhere near there. An old house had a brief cameo.

 

You forgot the best part, it's Harry Hole, but pronounced different than it looks.

 

Hello
SPOILER ALERT !!!!!

 

the dubbing I had is something like
Ari Ole'
Airy Hola
R E Oohla

 

A bunch of movies are filmed in Pittsburgh like Striking Distance and the same thing

You can’t get there from there

One scene went right past my house and then was miles away in the next scene

 

That's the thing, it's not , it basically based on apparently a different time line, or something.

 

Striking Distance was a good Brue Willis film. Yeah I believe most that have ever been to Pittsburgh could tell it was filmed there, or at least parts were filmed there.

 

Buts actually not. It actually an adaptation of a adaptation in another time.

 

Yeah like I said

 

Right. It’s prequel. Where there isn’t actually any true source material. So you are finding issues with the series based on your reading of what happened in a book

 

I keep saying this, but what I'm talking about isn't an adaptation of the book, it's actually an adaptation of an adaptation in a different time line.
It would be like if I adapted let's say Frankenstein, but not the book, but I adapted the movie from the book, and then I changed the time of my adaptation, and I used the same character names, but changed who, and what they are like instead of Victor Frankenstein being the guy who created the Monster, now he's the constable of the town, and so forth.

 

In some cases it's an

 

It's not even a prequel. Because the books take place from the 50s - the 80s. This takes place in the 60s. Here's what's confusing is like Dick Halloran would at this time be working as a old man cook at the Overlook in the Shining already. Not be a 20 year old guy working as a psychic for the military.