What Am I Watching Right now?

Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Rami Malik (Mr Robot) both won their best lead Emmys last night.  Well deserved in both cases.  Loved it when Malik came up to the mike and said "Please tell me you are seeing this too" (that's the last line from the pilot episode).

What's up with Louie Anderson?  He's always been on the heavy side but he's not well.  Needed help to get up the stairs to the stage.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepted her award with a great speech then let out the news that her father passed away Friday.  Wow.  Gut-punch there.

Anybody watch the Westworld pilot episode on HBO Sunday? I expected it to start slowly and it didn't disappoint. Ed Harris in essentially the Yul Brynner role, except that in his case he is not a robot ... or is he? They did not come right out and say so but this appears to be tied to the original movie, as they mentioned something that happened 30 years ago, and a bunch of older androids have been retired to some underground level which, according to some, looked a lot like the reception area from the original movie. This was pretty much why I haven't canceled HBO yet (probably should've canceled it after GoT ended and saved myself 4 months (or is it 5?).

wprager wrote:Anybody watch the Westworld pilot episode on HBO Sunday?  I expected it to start slowly and it didn't disappoint.  Ed Harris in essentially the Yul Brynner role, except that in his case he is not a robot ... or is he?  They did not come right out and say so but this appears to be tied to the original movie, as they mentioned something that happened 30 years ago, and a bunch of older androids have been retired to some underground level which, according to some, looked a lot like the reception area from the original movie.  This was pretty much why I haven't canceled HBO yet (probably should've canceled it after GoT ended and saved  myself 4 months (or is it 5?).  

Yeah, I watched it. It was great. I had never heard of the original movie so didn't have any real expectations about what I was getting myself into. The sky's the limit for this show...great case and seemingly great writing so far. Tons of room for the story to grow. I really, really thought it was awesome.

So, do you think Ed Harris is human as we've been led to believe or do you buy the theory that he is a rogue android? The gun didn't work against him but my theory on that is there are no bullets in the guns. On the surface it looks like the gun is engineered not to fire on a human, but humans can easily get hit with stray bullets and ricochets, so that's not enough. What if the gun simply goes "bang" and then the androids have built-in "squibs". So if an android figured out how to disable his squibs he'd be immune to gunfire.

Or whatever makes androids and humans different w.r.t. the guns not firing on humans, he could have altered his appearance to match.

Anyhow, in the original movie the big-bad was Yul Brynner, playing a cowboy dressed all in black, so Ed Harris is definitely playing that character. So Ed Harris being an android could be a little too obvious.

What about Anthony Hopkins being an android?

I'm watching steins gate. I doubt many here watch anime, but you never know. I just started getting into it - well, a couple of weeks ago.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1910272/

I have a friend at work who watches so much anime (with his sons as well) that they can now watch without subtitles. That's a lot of anime. But in Japan anime is like soap-operas, they run 5 times a week, 52 weeks a year. So that's a lot of anime.

wprager wrote:I have a friend at work who watches so much anime (with his sons as well) that they can now watch without subtitles.  That's a lot of anime.  But in Japan anime is like soap-operas, they run 5 times a week, 52 weeks a year.  So that's a lot of anime.

I plan to be way more selective. Only high rated ones.

You'll never learn Japanese that way

Wow, up to episode 5 of Attack on Titan. Amazing.

PTFlea wrote:Wow, up to episode 5 of Attack on Titan.  Amazing.

All my kids are in love with that show. They can't wait for the next season -- apparently coming out soon.

I was making a joke in my reply to @NHL_Boss about Gillian Anderson being involved with a "shady grey guy" and not a half hour later I see The Fall S03E01 being re-played on Bravo. I don't know how I missed it, but I missed it. It was on last week and they re-played it on Saturday. By the time I noticed it was already 20 minutes in. Nothing doing on-demand. Had to use "magic". Haven't watched it yet, still trying to figure out how to get it from my phone to my chromecast (before I was using plex on the desktop but for some reason it's telling me that plex server -- and all the trans-coding it does -- cannot run on my phone; it probably has more CPU power than my desktop but whatever).

Is there a free app that will transcode and stream content to the ChromeCast? With subtitles from a .srt file. Or maybe the ChromeCast has had its day and I should be looking for something newer?

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Wow, up to episode 5 of Attack on Titan.  Amazing.

All my kids are in love with that show.  They can't wait for the next season -- apparently coming out soon.

It's pretty spectacular - and violent.

PTFlea wrote:

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Wow, up to episode 5 of Attack on Titan.  Amazing.

All my kids are in love with that show.  They can't wait for the next season -- apparently coming out soon.

It's pretty spectacular - and violent.

I was a little concerned when the boys got the girls to start watching. This was last year, they were 12 going on 13. Now the girls have convinced my wife to watch one episode. I know my wife. I don't think this will end as well as the girls hope. She did not like Animatrix. She was not a fan of Kill Bill. I'm surprised she likes GoT, to be honest, but I won't complain.

wprager wrote:So, do you think Ed Harris is human as we've been led to believe or do you buy the theory that he is a rogue android?  The gun didn't work against him but my theory on that is there are no bullets in the guns.  On the surface it looks like the gun is engineered not to fire on a human, but humans can easily get hit with stray bullets and ricochets, so that's not enough.  What if the gun simply goes "bang" and then the androids have built-in "squibs".  So if an android figured out how to disable his squibs he'd be immune to gunfire.

Or whatever makes androids and humans different w.r.t. the guns not firing on humans, he could have altered his appearance to match.

Anyhow, in the original movie the big-bad was Yul Brynner, playing a cowboy dressed all in black, so Ed Harris is definitely playing that character.  So Ed Harris being an android could be a little too obvious.

What about Anthony Hopkins being an android?

Yeah, both guys could in theory be androids. There will no doubt be some "surprise" like that revealed by the end of this season. Also, the executive chick that Bernard is boning could be an android too.

I am really enjoying the show. Seeing different ways that glitches can occur is pretty funny...in the most recent episode, a group of cowboys get stuck in a "loop" waiting for the wood chopper to put firewood in the fire to cook their dinner. The wood chopper android apparently glitched out and took off.

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

wprager wrote:

PTFlea wrote:Wow, up to episode 5 of Attack on Titan.  Amazing.

All my kids are in love with that show.  They can't wait for the next season -- apparently coming out soon.

It's pretty spectacular - and violent.

I was a little concerned when the boys got the girls to start watching.  This was last year, they were 12 going on 13.  Now the girls have convinced my wife to watch one episode.  I know my wife.  I don't think this will end as well as the girls hope.  She did not like Animatrix.  She was not a fan of Kill Bill.  I'm surprised she likes GoT, to be honest, but I won't complain.

100% not gonna end well at all.

Can't get into Attack of the Titan. Not interested in the characters. I miss Naruto.

LeCaptain wrote:Can't get into Attack of the Titan. Not interested in the characters. I miss Naruto.

Really? ?  How many episodes have you watched?  I'm very surprised to hear that.  The girl is awesome, mikado, spectacular stuff.

Everyone stop what you're doing and go watch Letterkenny. It's too funny.