Netflix Streaming Recommendations/TV Talk

BSG .............

 

Liked it a lot. Not loved but a strong like.

 

Key word is "known"

 

Yep, don't always know what you don't know

 

Netflix
Killer Women with Piers Morgan (only 2 episodes, but each good and worth a watch)

Nazi Megastructures (the defensive fortifications in Italy is the one I watched and was excellent)

Locked Up (the whole series, and it’s variants)

Amazon Prime
Nazi Concentration Camp - actual unedited footage of several liberated camps, as shot by US Army, and presented just as it was released to the public. I only got through about the first 15 minutes or so, but did see where Generals Ike, Bradley and Patton toured one recently liberated camp, and forced Nazi leaders from the nearby town to do the same - including one physician, still in his Nazi uniform - was excellent. In his wisdom, and to his immense credit, Ike knew that the pure scale and depth of the savagery involved Holocaust would be too difficult for most to believe, and that others may use this as a means to deny its occurrence (which they did, and still do), and so the introduction of the film details the extraordinary steps he took to ensure for the authenticity of that footage - even going so far as to show / read aloud signed affidavits of those who shot and later examined the film.

 

Same, I really hate Dr Smith so Parker Posey does her job.

 

Love me some Nazi Megastructures. I just wish there was an episode exclusively dedicated to the H Class Super Battleships.

 

Oops, Megaweapons

 

Wonder how they are going to get the robot back.

 

The Expanse has been cancelled by SyFy. Let's hope it gets picked up somewhere else.

 

Will..........Robinson

 

I've been watching this show Trust about the Getty family in the 70's. Pretty wild stuff.

 

Wha???

 

Just read Lost in Space picked up for a second season. Good.

 

Very disappointing. First season was really good and I planned on getting back to it eventually. Hopefully somebody else picks it up.

 

Only on episode 4 of LIS.

Anticipating next Altered Carbon season. Google's Ray Kurzweil would have you believe, cyborgs, AI and transhumanism are all hunky dory good stuff on the road to the Singularity. He has Googles money to play god with.

I think Altered Carbon nails Kurzweils future.

 

I don't get how you're so ultra conservative preaching about the moral decay of society, yet have no issue allocating your time consuming such worldly and carnal shows.

 

I have seen one episode of Game of Thrones. I could not get into it because of the violence and incest. The beheading of the old guy for "cowardice", almost killing the kid and the brother sister thing just wasn't my cup of tea. A constantly naked Emilia Clark and the story wasn't compelling enough to overcome these things. Its no LOTR.

Now Altered Carbon is exactly the kind of world we will end up with because of the decay of society. It is intriguing because it explores many of the ideas of futurist like Kurzweil but is more realistic in its outlook of what unfettered immortal humanity would look like.

After 500 years the guy is bored with normal sex and kills prostitutes. But hey they can come back in new bodies because of the brain chips. No harm no foul. Except even that loses its appeal and he has to destroy their brain chips in order to cause them to die forever. He lives his own snuff films.

I am no prude, yes some of the women in AC are hot and most shootem up violence doesn't bother me. I find the story compelling. I assure you I am not going to let my kids watch the show LOL. I have watched it with my first, one and only wife, of nearly 24 years. I flirt with women all the time even with my wife around and am often sexually aroused by pretty women. Shocker , I am human and the plumbing works. I however have never ever even come close to cheating on my wife. So I think I can survive the sex and nudity of AC.

Now I dont do so well with beheadings and even the scene in Star Wars episode 4 where Obi Wan cuts off the thugs arm disturbed me. I wasnt a big fan of the Anakin vs Obi Wan lava fight either. Dismemberment and/or death by it on screen disturbs me for some reason more than the simple shooting in a gun fight. So GOT got off on the wrong foot fast.

Now to my "preaching." What many fail to understand is my distinction between private and public acts and their roles in society. I am not for banning porn at the gas station but for hiding it behind the counter or behind cardboard covers. Consensual sex in ones home even between people of the same sex, the unmarried, etc. is not something I care about. I dont care about gambling. I could care less if people toke it up at home. I kinda like that 4th amendment thingy.

The problem arises when society/the law no longer feels such things must or should be hidden. Another problem is that modern libertarianism cant distinguish between liberty and licentiousness as the founders/framers did. At that moment the behavior becomes normalized and accepted as being ok.

Thats not the message I feel is proper for my kids or others to receive from society.

 

You get hard around other women?

 

Erections are the devil.