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Old 12-17-2011, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by cavtroop View Post
it's things like this which drove me away from TV. I haven't watched a serial TV show in years and years. If the writers don't have any basis in reality, then they should find another show to write for. Not having seen it, it's tough to say, but it seems like they just needed 'a weapon that the enemy doesn't have an answer for'. Wouldn't an armored Humvee with a Mk19 or .50 cal serve the same literary purpose? Maybe the M1 with a single round left, like mentioned above. But shooting a mortar out the tube? Meh. Sure, it might be possible, but it just smacks of silliness.

I have Jericho in my Netflix queue, but I can never bring myself to watch it - it was cancelled early, and I don't want to 'get into it' (if that's possible given the writing in the above episode) just to have it end early. I also have Walking Dead, but I havent heard good things of season 2....

Same here...would you believe I've barely watched any TV serials since what...2000 or so?

Maybe the stock writing and stock characters and rehashed plots, or predictable political correctness, endless "reality tv" garbage, etc. etc. just grates me, I dunno...
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