Topic: What's your favourite TV program of the moment?

[8ullfrog]

Honestly, even if it's not your genre, it's a neat book series.

If you restrict yourself to the "ryanverse" It's quite a read, the books clock in heavy, 400-500 pages.

I enjoyed the series, and how Ryan ends up president is INSANE.

Also the first crisis he has to deal with is a nationwide pandemic of ebola, caused by terrorists.

One thing I admire about Clancy's writing is the pace never feels slow, things are happening, and they're happening fast.

[6pairsofshoes]

It sounds like good airplane reading.  That's pretty much where I read John Grisham.  Good, entertaining reads and I leave the book on the seat when I deplane for the next passenger.   They've made several good movies out of Grisham's novels.

[goldshirt*9]

I have read JR series books and their good

[dweez]

I used to read a ton of Clancy novels. I really enjoyed them. I've also enjoyed all the movies/shows based off them (please direct all questions/complaints to my post about famously like poo shows). I really wish a good John Clark movie/show could be developed but I was happy to see Ding show up in the new JR season, even if it was a bit of Ding and a bit of Clark squished together.

[8ullfrog]

The Nirvana shirt guy in first season could easily have been Clark, but Amazon was making a shitty movie with Michael B Jordan as Clark, so that wasn't permissible.

Without Remorse was in development limbo for more than 20 years.

[goldshirt*9]

ATM watching Silo

[goldshirt*9]

Finished watching Silo, predictable ending nope.

[smokester]

TNG  is home so we started on Strange New Worlds.

Makes me feel like I'm back in the 70s - only, in colour.

[6pairsofshoes]

Finished watching Silo, predictable ending nope.

Silo sounded promising, so I watched the first 5 min. found it interesting, but then decided it was too much to have more than one series running at once so I figured I'd finish Jack Ryan der Ubermensch first.  I must confess to fast forwarding through the gun fights.  Snore.  It's entertaining but predictable.

[goldshirt*9]

Well Jack and the spy game doesn't really change much

[6pairsofshoes]

I watched the first episode of Silo last night.  Pretty weird.  Raschida Jones is Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter.  I didn't realize that.  She's got a really basic charm.  I was curious enough to watch other episodes.  One wonders how they managed to excavate so much soil to construct such an underground city.  It seems like something that would take a great deal of planning.  Not the kind of thing you do in rapid response to a catastrophic world polluting even like a thermonuclear war.

[goldshirt*9]

didnt know that about Raschida Jones 

[8ullfrog]

In the fallout series, the underground vaults were sold to the public as a way to survive the apocalypse.
In reality they were unethical research labs, with varying degrees of severity. In Fallout 3, you start out as a resident of a vault where the experiment is that the vault is never to be opened.

I'm a little surprised Bethesda didn't sue.

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm on episode 3 of Silo.  Hooray for speeded up playback.

I suspect that the Silo has a poison gas in the "survival suits" they clothe the discontents who "want to go outside" in.  Sheriff takes off helmet, most likely because he felt it was safer to try the exterior air than what's in his suit.  Perhaps the laser eye of the outdoor viewing thingy activated the poison.  at any rate, this is a totalitarian society and it's kind of surprising it could remain intact for more than a century without everybody saying, ok, this is enough, I'm going outside.

amazon prime is producing a series on Fallout after the video game.  It's not out yet but the casting is pretty interesting.

[6pairsofshoes]

The end of season 1 of Silo wasn't as I expected but there's plenty of ambiguity.  Series 2 is in the works.  I just hope they quit with the repetitive droning music in the next series.  OK.  I get it, things are grim.  No need to beat me over the head with a pathetic theme tune that just won't quit.

Speaking of grim, I guess it's time to get back to Mayans MC.  I think I'd only seen 2 seasons before the pandemic threw everything out of whack.