What Is Your Favorite TV Show?

[Miss B]

I never got the BBC version of House of Cards...felt it would be too repetitive, since I'm so into the Kevin Spacey one... would be interested in your opinion on the comparison when you get to watch them.... DVD players (Blue Ray comes with these days) are pretty cheap. I get mine on line at Best Buy (being carful to buy the BEST BUY STORE version, not an outside site... they almost tricked me one time, listing items in off site stores!

I happen to have a Best Buy a short bus ride from here, so I'd prefer to go check them out before getting another one.

As far as repetition, yes I thought of that, but I happen to like Ian Richardson, and thought it would be interesting to see what the differences are between a British production and an American "knock off" as it were, even if the storylines are the same.

 

[Lyne]

Thanks, interesting responses... (hands HURT can't type more now)

 

[Miss B]

Well rest those hands woman!!

 

[Pendraia]

Rest your hands Lyne...I hope your hands improve quickly!

 

[Szark]

I am not much of a TV watcher, probably around 6 hours a week but recently my wife got Game of Throne on DVD for her birthday, all 5 seasons and I must say it is the best TV series of all time for me. Fast paced, cleaver and well acted. I cannot find fault and I have tried.

 

[Miss B]

Well, if you liked the series that much Szark, I suspect you'd love the books even more. I only watched the first season's DVDs, and I wasn't as impressed as I should've been. The acting is very good, but where books give you a lot of descriptive prose to really set the scene, watching a movie, or TV series, often loses that goodness.

That said, the books are huuuuuuuuuge. Shortest one, Book 1, was over 800 pages, and a couple of them are well over 1,000 pages, but I can't wait to read Book 6.

 

[Szark]

unfortunately I cannot read that well, well enough to enjoy reading put it that way.

 

[Miss B]

Oh, that's a shame. Sorry to hear that.

 

[Lyne]

Right now I'm really watching Brisco County Junior it's a wonderful delirious… Trying again hilarious TV show

 

[Szark]

Oh, that's a shame. Sorry to hear that.

Thanks but I think after 50 odd years I have gotten used to the fact I am dyslexic. Don't get me wrong I can read a book but it does take a long time and my retention is poor, really poor. But watching something even once will stick like mud.

 

[Lorraine]

My son is dyslexic though he can now read very well. What started him off on the road to loving books were the print handicapped audio books I got him all through his childhood and teens. He first HEARD LoTRs, 39 hours of tapes. His spelling is still 'creative' but you can always read it cos he spells anything he doesn't know phonetically.

We're not actually sure what flipped the switch for him though I think it might have been desperation. We had just moved onto the boat, with no tv or video or at that time a tape player, and I accidently fried his laptop starting the boat engine while he had it plugged into the 12v socket. So it was either read or die of boredom.

 

[Szark]

Yes with hard work and determination you can work through it. Over 20 years ago, before I met Christine, I sat down with a dictionary and did crossword puzzles. I never gave up in completing them and boy looking through a dictionary to find one word with no idea how it started was a real mission. But I persevered so much that Christine was asking for my help with crosswords. Then came reading well before 2007 I had read two books and both of those was when I did a short stint at her majesty's hotel back in NZ. Long story behind that too. LOL After 2007 when I found Myst Online I found out about the related Books which I have read 4 times so far. But it is still hard work.

 

[Lorraine]

I think my son is an anomaly and your experience is more the norm. He loves dictionaries now and owns more of them than I do...and I own four!

 

[RAMWolff]

Any show without commercials so I watch nothing but Netflix and Amazon Prime. Love Daredevil, TransParent and a few others but the year long wait after I binge watch them for a week is beyond cruel! lol

 

[Miss B]

You sound like me Richard, though for me it's waiting for the next book in a series, and the author only publishes once a year in January. :headdesk:

Anyway, Szark, I worked with a gal many years ago whose husband was dyslexic, and she had to read signs for him, or they'd miss whatever exit they needed.

 

[Lorraine]

I just bought the book in a series I've been waiting for for 18 months just in time for the tablet cable to break. ~sob sob~

 

[Szark]

I still like Babylon 5 for it's story, well seasons 1 -4 and the TV movies. Season 5 was bad due to TNT messing then about. Season 1-4 storyline should have been 1-5.

 

[Szark]

I do envy people that can read a book in a few days to a week. But I look at it in a positive way of we are all different and have different strengths.

 

[Lorraine]

Absolutely, Szark. I'm great with words but put a sum in from of me and I go all "but it's maths!!!!". Can't even cope with suduko. And so much of what people talk about on this website goes sailing over my head, the nuts and bolts of the software makes my ears bleed.

 

[Szark]

I am not to bad at basic math. I have been known to tally up a grocery bill, keeping a running total in my head as I shop. I do a lot of math in my head still. As for software I can pick up the UI quite quickly...it is as you say "the nuts and bolts" that take a little longer to understand. It also helps being obsessive.