Bruvva wrote:Yudster wrote:I got the box set for the first 2 series of Sherlock because I missed most of season 2. I had forgotten how awesome it is. On a separate though related note, I am still really enjoying Elementary - but I do think you have to come to it with no expectation that it is in any way related to anything Conan Doyle wrote.
Yes, Elementary is surprisingly good. I didn't have high hopes when I first heard about it as it reeked of an American network cashing in on the success of Sherlock over here but thankfully, I was wrong and I'm really enjoying it so far. Shame we have to wait until late 2013 for the new Sherlock series.
I'm also enjoying Arrow, despite it being a bit, well, rubbish really. I think my enjoyment is down to me being a comic geek and playing "spot the DC character" - I giggled when Huntress appeared and it looks like they're introducing the Oracle (despite the character NOT being Barbara Gordon). Also John Barrowman is always amusing.
The Walking Dead has just hit the mid-season break in season three and it's back on form after a fairly dull season two. David Morissey as the Governor is just pure evil.
Oh and finally, only three months until season 3 of Game of Thrones, after which I'll be able to talk to people about a certain event that happens in the books without massively spoiling things for them.
Although I've only seen a couple of episodes of Elementary, I heard a recent discussion that it's not so much a version of SH as a reboot of Monk. I don't think that's too far off the mark.
Not watching Arrow, although I've heard many good things about it - I was never much of a DC fan which could explain my lack of interest in it. More of a Marvel fan.
Love The Walking Dead. Yes, S3 is better than S2, but S2 was hampered by a severely limited budget. The network that puts out TWD devoted huge parts of it's budget last year to Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Everybody else had to fight over the scraps of money that remained. This was partly why the original show runner, Frank Darabont, left the show. There's a couple of spin off novels by the guy who created the original graphic novels that give a ton of backstory to The Governor. For fans of the show, they're definitely worth checking out - although they're very grim reading and tough to get through just because of all the carnage.
Did you know that book 3 of GOT (Storm of Swords) is going to be split into 2 seasons on HBO? The book's so big that they couldn't fit it all into one season. So the big spoiler you're referring to (I'm pretty sure I know which one you're talking about) may not show up until the following season.
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