Strike (TV series) Puns

Can anyone tell me the name of the counter strike series that was created wayyyy back? It was like short episodes, had a character called "Chet" and was done with all CS characters and the main map was cs_militia.

Someone please shed some light!

He was tired of being pushed around

English isn't my native language (not even my second language).But I do love to watch british series in english and if available with subtitles(not often the case somehow). Imagine my confusion when a unrelated looking 30 year old calls the older women character Mom. Because it didn't happen to often on my viewings (maybe Ma'am isn't that common) I was confused but I put it always aside as me being not attentive enough. Only with the magic of subtitles was I able to understand how much of an moron I was.

Do you guys know where I can dl the tv series? Thanks

Ok, so I think the scene with the machin shin (black wind in the ways) has pretty much crystalised some of the main reasons in my head as to why I don’t like the TV series. There's a lot of telling instead of showing, and focus on the (objectively) wrong things so there's no sense of real danger or tension.

I’m going to present two scenarios. The first is my recollection from the TV episode (approximately as I’ll admit I was kind of distracted through most of it so forgive any mistakes. I’m also going to leave out the mess with Matt because I don’t know what they plan to do with that exactly). The second is how I (albeit not a TV exec, producer or even a professional writer) would have set the scene up. I’ll leave it to you guys to tell me if you think I’ve got it wrong.

TV:

The whole crew front up to a waygate. Loial is along only as a guide. Moiraine needs to open the gate with the source, (so it's kind of unknown how the Ogiers were using these gates that were created for them but anyway.)

All of them enter. Moiraine tells them she can’t use the power in the ways as it’s dangerous (after just opening it with the power.) Lan and Loial tell the two rivers folk that the ways are really dangerous and probably don’t have a bottom and were made by men with the power.

The walk for a minute and then get jumped by a trolloc. Trolloc gets dealt with quickly but someone channels in the process. The Machin shin comes flying in because they noticed saidar being used and they run as Loial is told to take the exit to the city near the blight.

The wind catches up to them and Moiraine (full Aes Sedai) is incapacitated somehow. The wind is a single voice that calmly tells them what their deepest fear is about themselves.

Nynaeve (totally untrained, only discovered she could channel a few days ago) does what no one has probably ever managed and holds off the Machin Shin from the entire party with a huge blast of power which allows Moiraine to open the gate.

They run out, the gate disappears. Moiraine tells them not to listen to what the wind says (even though it sounds like it would have been good of her to ask them what it said as it may have revealed some important stuff and prevented more stuffing around but anyway.)

My Version:

They arrive at the way gate. While Loial is working out how to open it. Egwene catches a flicker of concern breaking through Moiraine’s usually unreadable face.

“Have you been in the ways before?” she asks.

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Implied here is … no episodic series (eg Law And Order)

We enjoy Drama Crime, Nordic Noir, etc.

No SciFi or Fantasy Dramas

Subtitles are perfectly fine

Thanks

And holy shit are things different. Spoilers for Foundation (the book) follow.

• In the books, the first Seldon crisis is resolved as follows: the four kingdoms are way more militarily powerful that the Foundation. There's no getting around that. So the Foundation is forced to put up with a Anacreon military base. But the way Salvor Hardin wins is by going to the other three kingdoms and using diplomacy to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Hardin points out that if any one kingdom dominates the Foundation, then the other three are fucked. So there is a careful equilibrium, which guarantees the Foundation's freedom.
• Meanwhile, in the TV show: Hardin runs around Terminus with a big gun, shouting at people, shooting at things, getting her family killed, getting half of Terminus destroyed.
• Book Hardin: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". TV Hardin: "Lemme blow shit up. But also fail at everything"
• One of the striking things was how Hardin points out that the Encyclopedists are suffering from the same rot and decay that the empire is -- they're cataloging things instead of discovering new science! And the Foundation learns from this and thrives. In the TV show, oh no, we're going to take fucking sundials and water clocks seriously. WTF
• Another nice thing I see is that the protagonists are kinda anti heros in the books. Hober Mallow isn't a good person, and is mostly motivated by selfish self-interest. His actions cause the Foundation to win in its showdown with Korell, but that's the way history works! History progresses on the basis of the actions of lots of (maybe selfish) actors, and there is no one Neo-like figure who can see the future, who is completely selfless, and has magical super powers.

God I hate this show so much.

So my brother tonight is sitting down to watch Star Wars IV with his son for the first time and we were talking about shows that we wish we could see again for the first time.

So I ask you, what is the one TV series you wish you could rewatch but with fresh eyes for the first time?

Something similar to Peaky Blinders, Hannibal or Breaking Bad would be ideal.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. After much careful consideration I have decided to go with The Wire

I don't know if this question has been asked before but I will ask it anyway. What movie do you think would have been better suited as a TV Series?

Some films try to cram wayyyyy too much into too little and feel overstuffed as a result, personally, I think the recent Matt Damon film Stillwater would have been better as a crime miniseries since there was just too much put into the film it felt overstuffed and questions were left unanswered

What films would you say?

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So, I can remember watching old Transformers episodes with my brother when I was about 4-8. We would rent the episodes of the Unicron Trilogy series of shows (Armada, Energon, and Cybertron). Some of the DvDs also came with a few episodes of a NERF CGI series - it was about these space marine like figures using NERF N-Strike guns to fight against these robots in a space station. I distinctly remember them wearing the shield patches. The leader sorta resembled General Grievous in appearance but with red lines (think of that one Ace Attorney guy with the mask), and the last episode I can remember watching was of him being uploaded into the ship and winning, ending the series (as far as I can tell) on a cliffhanger. He was spider-like with red and white and silver colors and sorta sounded like Ultron crossed with Megatron in terms of a voice. It was quite dark for a kid's show with the robots having green blood (or maybe aliens? I can't remember exactly) and it just having a serious tone altogether...I know that some of the DVDs also had episodes of GI Joe Sigma Six as well.

It was also available on the MonkeyBarTv website along with many of the full series of Hasbro shows like Transformers, but it's since gone defunct. Google searches for a NERF CGI show bring up nothing, and I can't find anything like it on YouTube or anywhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if it it's lost media...

I enjoy many aspects of the TV series, Prodigal Son. But one thing that irritates me is the therapy part. The therapist strikes me as not specialized in trauma therapy and inadequate to handle the protagonist's PTSD. What she is talking about sounds shallow to me. She never goes in-depth into his trauma using EMDR, hypnotherapy, IFS and all. Also, it isn't realistic that the protagonist isn't familiar with these techniques, given his education level. The protagonist does Yoga, meditation, affirmation cards and pills, all of which are good, but he needs more than them.

I'd enjoy fiction that can present more professional therapy about trauma.

I need a new tv as my current one doesn’t have 4K. Should I look at getting a tv with the 2.1 hdmi? Or with 120hz? I don’t know too much about TVs. Will a 4K 60fps tv do?

So, for those of you who don`t know there is a trope created by TV Tropes called Complete Monster (also known as Pure Evil). They are regarded as the very worst of the worst characters from a certain franchise. There are a lot of requirements for these trope but the main ones are the following:

1. The character has ABSOLUTELY NO REDEEMING QUALITIES. Even if a character has some redeeming qualities at the start of the story he/she could still become a Complete Monster if he/she loses them. Even one single redeeming quality is enough to disqualify a character from this trope.
2. The character in question commits horrible, atrocious crimes that are presented seriously within the story and their actions are worse than the actions of most other villains in the story. We also take into account their resources and their ability to cause harm to other people. This means that if a character has more resources (if for example he/she is a ruler that commands thousands of people), then he/she needs to comit bigger atrocities in order to stand out. If a character has less resources to harm people (for example, if he/she is a lone serial killer), then he/she qualifies if their crimes are heinous enough considering their resources. If a character`s actions are not heinous enough by the standards of the story then he/she can`t be a Complete Monster. The character`s crimes must pass several different heinous standards in order for the character to count as a Complete Monster:

- The baseline standard - This is a common standard that all villains need to pass, no matter the work they come from. This means that the villain needs to commit crimes that are worse than animal cruelty, theft, abuse (unless the abuse is REALLY extreme but that rarely happens) and trying to kill the main characters (because this is something most villains try to do).

- The standards of the work - This means that the villain should be compared to other villains from the same work (or franchise) to see if his/her actions are bad enough to make him/her stand out. This means that a villain who comes from a lighthearted series like My Little Pony needs to be compared to other villains from My Little Pony and not to villains from grimdark franchises such as Warhammer 40000, A Song of Ice and Fire and Berserk. Similarly, a villain who comes from a work with high heinous standard should  be compared to other villains from the same franchise and not to villains that come from My Little Pony.

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Just wondering what films or TV series some of you would recommend watching? Looking for ones that at least attempt to accurately portray SF Operators. Obviously Hollywood doesn't have the best track record with that, but I'm interested in hearing some opinions. The fan film Spall and Splinter was great and I wouldn't mind more fan film recommendations either. Thank you!

We just finished the second season and I feel like the second season is just as good if not better than the first season. I've read the books up to where they're at in the show. There's a lot of changes, especially in the second season, mainly expanding and adding characters (the broad strokes are still pretty similar), but I think overall they're more positive than negative. What does everyone else think?

I haven't seen anything official confirmed by the BBC (though I may have just completely missed it when it was announced) but I've seen posts on Twitter saying that they're starting filming Series 5 of Strike (i.e. Troubled Blood) this month?

Does anyone know how long it took them from the filming of Series 4 to when it was broadcast on BBC? I fancy re-reading the books before the new series comes out so I just want to time things and pace myself well. Do you think it's likely to be autumn this year or will post-production take longer and is it more likely to be sometime in 2023? I'm guessing the release of Book 6 will probably be around a similar time?

I have a 13 year old Deaf sister. She's been Deaf all her life. We watch a lot of movies together. It's one of the things she can actually enjoy doing with other people. We've seen all the Marvel movies and series and she's watched them too. Anyway. When she saw Hawkeye was hearing impaired she beamed with a smile because she felt he was like her now. I too love how the show handles deaf and hearing impaired characters. It really gives representation to the deaf and hearing impaired people in the super hero world.

Just wanted to share as this was something that just made me smile.

fyi: some spoilers within (tho for a show that is more than a decade old)

if you're a fan of the hbo series, the wire, at first glance you may think it is show that illustrates more neutral to liberal ideas. many ppl will point out the failures of the police or how some working within the drug world are lionized or at least humanized. in season 3 legalization of drugs is explored as a potentially effective but taboo concept, as well as the notion of how money poisons politics. but to think any or all of the above (and any other of the many "liberal" talking points) is what the show is about misses what i believe to be the true central theme of the show:

**big institutions exist primarily to serve themselves and not the ppl they are supposed to.**

this applies to each of the major groups highlighted in the show: the police, drug gangs, economic systems (like unions), government, schools, and the media. time and again, you see how institutional thinking actively works against objectively better outcomes in favor of what the institution deems is permissible. anyone willing to buck up within these systems to either get out or achieve something systemically better will get beat down and punished or eliminated. and while positive change is possible, it's only at the personal and individual level that this kind of change is achieved and not within the institution itself, which goes chugging along as it has before, maybe swapping out a few ppl along the way. if one of the main objectives of the show is to show the complexities, problems, and failures that plague american urban cities (and allegorically, america as well), then it's also saying that those failures come about in large part due to these institutions as well.

this is, imo, a very conservative ideal and the basis for much of classic conservative thought. the show demonstrates we should have disdain and mistrust for institutions (esp government) that, in general, the more liberal-minded would rather put a lot of faith, money, and power in. the show also champions the hyper individualism that is revered in much of the american right (and america in general compared to the world).

for the purposes of this CMV, i am only talking about these particular conservative ideals and bypassing the culture war issues (which i would argue is not actual classical conservatism, but is nevertheless a major part of modern conservatism thought today). i will also admit that many conservatives have no i