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The Bastard Executioner - Kurt Sutter takes on Medieval Times - S1 - Tuesdays on FX
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RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight:
Harry Stewart
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Haha, one day later and still no reactions.
Not surprising. It's not even bad in an enjoyable way anymore. The Sagal Slavic witch scenes are embarrassing. I feel like I'm watching one of Sutter and his wife's evenings where they get fucked up and role play. Fake accents and all. Here they're just allowed to do it with nifty make up effects and CGI on FX's dime. The ratings can't be good so FX executives are probably counting the days until their blood debt to Sutter for Sons is paid off.
Not surprising. It's not even bad in an enjoyable way anymore. The Sagal Slavic witch scenes are embarrassing. I feel like I'm watching one of Sutter and his wife's evenings where they get fucked up and role play. Fake accents and all. Here they're just allowed to do it with nifty make up effects and CGI on FX's dime. The ratings can't be good so FX executives are probably counting the days until their blood debt to Sutter for Sons is paid off.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I thought the episode was decent but there wasn't really anything to react to.
metsallica
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I'm three episodes back, should I just cut bait? I haven't had a ton of time to clear off the DVR lately but when I do I'm certainly not gravitating towards this show.
Vigilant Walrus
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Same. I think I might watch the Last Kingdom(the saxon vs viking thing) since that just started.
I actually really enjoyed what I saw of Last Kingdom so far. Even after the first episode, I'm really itching to know what happens next. On the other hand, if FX were to announce that they were cancelling TBE and weren't going to air the remaining episodes, I don't think I'd be all that bothered.
Vigilant Walrus
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I'm missing the last season of Game of Thrones and Walking Dead because I heard they were trash. Friend told me to go for Narcos instead since I loved the Wire/Breaking Bad.
Why did they ruin Game of Thrones? Did they just completely go off-script because they couldn't keep up with the story?
Liquidsnake
Banned
It was very apparent that they really didn't know what to do when the show caught up to the books. In 10 episodes, nothing happens that could not have been done in 3. It was a lot of characters wasting time for far too long. Take Jaime in Dorn for instance god what a waste of what 4-5 episodes? It was just a lot of stalling. And the ideas they did come up with were so poorly executed. The whole season looked cheap, like filming was chaotic and filmed in pieces, and then poorly edited together.
There are 2 good episodes the entire season IMHO.
I can't wait for the next season though.
Ah, so the season was regarded as terrible by non-readers? I didn't keep up with the general reactions, I just know I was increasingly annoyed with how many unnecessary changes they kept making from the books.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Let's try to stay on topic, please!
dead souls
Member
I didn't even watch last week's until Monday when I was killing time before Gotham, which is an unheard of lag in my television addict life.
I have no idea when I'll get around to watching last night's episode.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
New episode tonight:
metsallica
Member
I deleted the three unwatched episodes that were sitting on my DVR last night and canceled my series recording. It didn't feel good, per se (like it did when I did the same for all of the unwatched episodes of Rosewood, Grandfathered, and The Player after barely being able to get through 5 minutes of each pilot) but there was some sort of catharsis there. Good luck, TBEGaf, and godspeed.
I still don't know about this show. I don't think it's bad, but it's just so unremarkable and I couldn't tell you what happened in the last episode. Some dudes did some nefarious plotting and swung a few swords, I guess?
SoA may not have ended up great, but there was a clear picture of what it was about at least. Crime drama focusing on bikers with a bit of Hamlet and so forth. Easy enough. I really have no idea what TBE is actually about, where it's going, which plotline is the primary one and so on. Maybe it's me not paying attention, but I see that not even other folks who are watching it are bothering to comment much in this thread so maybe not.
SoA may not have ended up great, but there was a clear picture of what it was about at least. Crime drama focusing on bikers with a bit of Hamlet and so forth. Easy enough. I really have no idea what TBE is actually about, where it's going, which plotline is the primary one and so on. Maybe it's me not paying attention, but I see that not even other folks who are watching it are bothering to comment much in this thread so maybe not.
Ugh! My least favorite trope in all of storytelling may just be characters that serve no other purpose than to stir up shit and cause problems. I hate that plotline even more now. I'm not one for spousal abuse, but hey, it's the middle ages, he's an executioner and she's abusing the poor boy. Kill her and stuff her in the pig sty already.
RedRooster
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Yup, I'm in the exact same boat. Just pulled the trigger. Such high hopes too, it sounded pretty good on paper, but even with the really decent fight scenes the plot was just too boring for me. Hopefully it gets better for those still watching, I'd love to have to binge in two years to get caught up on a now awesome show.
Dominican Power
Member
I'll give it a one season. Sutter already has a ton fuckery ensuing.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I honestly can't believe that 7 episodes have already passed. It feels like barely anything has happened yet.
Mighty Chin
Banned
I've given up on the show. Just can't hold my interest.
Dari Elxix
Banned
Yeah, I'm currently on episode 6 on my DVR and the only episode that I've actually enjoyed all the way through was episode 5. The show's writing is so plodding and it makes it's difficult to decipher what's really going on a lot of the time.
dead souls
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Yep. There's nothing worse than a boring plodding show that just drags on and on. I can handle bad, but the last episode I watched (episode 6) nearly put me into a coma.
It's funny how both that feeling and the feeling that they're rushing certain things are prevalent at the same time. I have no idea what the actual plot is, really, because they're meandering so much, but at the same time, the romance feels massively forced and rushed. I don't give up on shows easily but I don't see myself following season 2 at this rate, if there even is one.
Also, now Scroobius Pip is in it. How many brit musicians is Sutter going to cram in this? At least Pip, so far, acts better than Sheeran.
(Speaking of Pip, who plays "the moor's" superior... What's up with literally everyone, even his friends and Baronness Nice McGoodperson, just calling him "moor" instead of ever referring to him by name? Grow up, Sutter.)
Dominican Power
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Wilken needs to give Lady Love a baby.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
New episode tonight:
dead souls
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New episode? I haven't even watched the last one yet and it's two weeks old.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
There's still time to catch up! You don't want to be left out of the conversation do you?!
dead souls
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Yeah, the chatter around this show is deafening.
But seriously, it's tough to work up the will to watch this when I still have three Da Vinci's Demons episodes to watch. And by the time I finish that Master of None will be here, then Mr. Show, then Jessica Jones, then Transparent.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Man in the High Castle too!
velvet_nitemare
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Then get beheaded in the season finale.
dead souls
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dead souls
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Sorry for the back to back posts, but holy shit The AV Club gave tonight's episode an F.
That almost makes me want to catch up just so I can see how bad it gets.
That almost makes me want to catch up just so I can see how bad it gets.
Cornballer
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I just caught the first bit of that review, and now I'm curious. Though I do feel good about only watching the premiere of TBX at this point.
choodi
Banned
When does the Sutter meltdown begin? It's got to be close...
dead souls
Member
Damn, urge to watch and gawk at its awfulness rising.
You know it's bad when an Ivy post sounds like it could have come from my poison keyboard.
You know it's bad when an Ivy post sounds like it could have come from my poison keyboard.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
That scene with Badass Templar Knight Kurt Sutter was straight out of an anime or something. lol
This episode had Sutter going into overdrive, and I understand the hate... He let his wife speak more lines in that terrible accent in this episode than she has throughout the series combined, he wrote himself as the superhero templar that can utterly destroy a dozen enemy combatants without breaking a sweat (they looked like they had been through an explosion with limbs and shit littering the combat area!) and he went so far with his jesus imagery bullshit that he actually wrote in a mcguffin in the form of an alternate bible literally written by jesus himself. Sutter and his wife are the fated and blessed keepers of this holy relic because of course they are.
Other than that, I have no idea why the frenchman was suddenly a wanted man and did Maddox always have a baby? I felt like I missed a whole season or something.
Other than that, I have no idea why the frenchman was suddenly a wanted man and did Maddox always have a baby? I felt like I missed a whole season or something.
Don't bother, man. It's not a spectacular and amusing kind of bad, it just has no fucking clue what it's about or where it's going. What I wrote above might sound amazingly bad but it just comes off as meh as you're watching (though that whole bit about the super-bible will make you scoff out loud).
lazybones18
Banned
guess I made the wise decision to never watch this show. But I'll shocked if it isn't canned.
ok, not really. It's Sutter on FX after all
metsallica
Member
YO what the heck happened in the most recent episode? Can someone spoil me?
The player is actually enjoyable. I think you are missing out.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I have no idea why the frenchman is wanted by the law, but I believe Maddox's fake wife always had the baby.
Dari Elxix
Banned
I finally gave up on the show, had the past two episodes on my DVR, but just couldn't bare to watch anymore. Show is a boring, muddled mess and there's too many other shows/anime I have to watch to make anymore time for it.
Good luck guys!
Good luck guys!
Yup,I like the Player...might have to look into this also even with the mixed impressions.
Dominican Power
Member
I think the baby was always there. I laughed when that crazy lady called Lady Love a noble whore.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
The penultimate episode airs tonight:
Dominican Power
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I knew Wilken was Anora's and the Templar Knight's son. I bet she was the one that killed his wife too. Ash is a sick fucking bastard. Pretty big reveal. That beheading of Galveston was brutal. Wilken got a glimpse of what his fate is for being with someone above his station.
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