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Carrier on PBS - We're not going to need a bigger boat |
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Posts: 10186 (04/10/08 11:17 PM) OSTS Moderator |
PBS promises a reality television look at the U.S.S. Nimitz.
Once again PBS entices us, yet I bet will betray us. 10 eps, spread out April 27 through May 1. Our tax dolllars at work? PBS in its death throes? http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/ 
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Posts: 46 (04/11/08 12:40 AM) |
and me all handicapped because the satellite doesn't give me the pbs.
or the cw. its just wrong... |
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Posts: 5188 (04/11/08 2:05 AM) Registered User |
damn it I saw PBS and reality tv and got excited cause I want another House Series
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Posts: 112 (04/25/08 3:07 PM) |
alan likes it.
http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2008/04/sepinwall_on_tv_carrier_review.html i hope torrents go up quick so i can watch this... |
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Posts: 10270 (04/25/08 5:34 PM) OSTS Moderator |
This really could shape up to be an awesome series.
The problem is watching The War in sequence last Fall damn near killed me, and I'm not so sure I can cope with 2 hours of this for five nights straight. The PBS programmers are seriously touched in the head. Once again notice that they're unleashing one of these events right smack in the middle of sweeps, the bastards. The good news is that it's going to be released on DVD on May frickin' 6th, so I intend to catch as much as I can handle in HD and then wait for the discs. Still, who knows. It might hook us all. |
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Posts: 113 (04/25/08 9:27 PM) |
i'm talking out of my ass here (heh! so what's new?) because i don't get pbs, but they should really hook up with a cable network to rebroadcast
their content. i'm not a dvd guy.
pbs could cut down on pledge drives by selling the rights to show these programs elsewhere. one of the many histories or discoveries or heck even bravo. bravo is becomming a 24/7 project runwayr/top chef only network. i'm sure they would love and pay well for content. i guess i could look into this "netflix." if i put a dvd into my old vcr... will it play? |
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Posts: 10274 (04/26/08 11:11 AM) OSTS Moderator |
You know, you might try calling your satellite provider. I vaguely recall that if you're unable to receive PBS, the satellite people are required to give
it to you for free. It'd be worth a try.
Meanwhile, if anybody's intending to watch this, try catching the History Channel special on Leyte Gulf -- Battle 360 Leyte Gulf is the title -- which aired last night. It's bound to repeat over the weekend. It frames carrier warfare very well. Really cool graphics, too. I was wondering when the cable suits were going to figure out how to do this right.
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Posts: 7316 (04/26/08 2:36 PM) Registered User |
produced by Mel Gibson ... icK
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Posts: 777 (04/28/08 9:53 AM) Registered User |
Battle 360 is excellent! The history of the USS Enterprise from Pearl Harbor to the end of the war:
The Big E earned 20 of a total of 22 battle stars awarded in the Pacific theatre of operations. A red star -
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Posts: 1729 (04/28/08 2:04 PM) Registered user |
I saw this but switched it off thinking it was some tedious military equipment program, but I didn't know it was sort of like a Carrier House of sorts, a
documentary about living on a carrier.
I will give it a chance next week. |
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Posts: 10295 (04/28/08 5:58 PM) OSTS Moderator |
Well it'll be over by then.
I thought it was pretty good. The storylines held my interest, and I was pleasantly surprised at how candid the sailors and marines are allowed to be. I'm looking forward to the rest. But, about midway through the second installment, I found myself getting seriously pissed awf about PBS. They filmed this series to be a 10-part series of one-hour eps. Just why the fuck are they bunching them together as two-parters over five nights? It ruins the effect and asks the viewers effectively to go through an ordeal to watch these as they air, just as how things shook out when PBS aired The War like this. Then it dawned on me. PBS doesn't want us to watch them over the air. As a matter of fact, they're doing everything possible to make sure we won't. The bunching of the eps, the impossible schedule, airing it during the first week of sweeps.... PBS no longer has any interest in being a public broadcast network. All they want to do is sell their damned DVD's. Motherfuckers. I am seriously enraged. Tax dollars at work, folks. And it's too bad: had it aired over ten weeks like it was supposed to, it might've set up a national conversation like what happened when Burns' The Civil War aired. Now? Them DVD's are coming out 5 days after Carrier finishes its broadcast run. |
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Posts: 326 (04/28/08 8:27 PM) Registered user |
I watched it last night. I thought it was pretty good. The food, except for the apples, looked like fast food. The meat was some type of mystery meat: maybe
ham, although it looked more processed than ham. One woman, a pilot, had sleeping quarters right below the airstrip. How can they manage while sleep-deprived?
One man, who's from a middle-class family, said he wanted to go to college, but his parents didn't have enough money for that. He also said that he
didn't join the army because he didn't want to shoot people. One woman said that if she knew they'd be going to war, she would have joined the
Peace Corps instead. One officer said that those who enlist in the Navy are middle class, lower middle class and poor. Many of those who enlisted said that
they had been hanging around the house for about a year after graduating from high school and their parents wanted them to do something.
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Posts: 10298 (04/28/08 8:36 PM) OSTS Moderator |
Well, that's not entirely accurate. The armament specialist said he wasn't the sort to be running around in a field, and the Peace Corps girl said
maybe she'd have joined them -- which would've been impossible, I think, as Peace Corps is for those with advanced degrees. Note that she persisted in
her petty officer plans -- and good for her, she seems perfect for such a role.
I don't think there's anything negative about young people escaping a bad home situation by joining the Navy. That's been going on since the ancient Greeks. Indeed, they recognized the travel aspect, that they'd see the world, and that the Navy gave it to them. The pre-shore leave pep talk I thought was hilarious, btw. I still hate PBS right now, though. |
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Posts: 327 (04/28/08 8:51 PM) Registered user |
I don't think that most of them were escaping bad home situations. I think most of them were just hanging around the house, and their parents wanted them
to move out and get a job.
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Posts: 328 (04/28/08 8:55 PM) Registered user |
Why do you hate PBS?
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Posts: 10300 (04/28/08 9:06 PM) OSTS Moderator |
Well, the newly minted Petty Officer certainly was -- daddy was a pimp, mom was a hooker, her goal at 18 was simply not to get pregnant...
But yeah, the armament guy just seemed to be lost. Then he meets an officer's daughter serving fast food? Something's not totally adding up yet. One of the oddest things was how the chief cook multiple times yelled at the food prep girl that he was trying to turn her into a better "worker," not "sailor." That scene could've been replicated from Judge Reinhold getting fired in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Weird. I really like this Captain. Very astute guy. |
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Posts: 163 (04/28/08 9:12 PM) Registered User |
I like the show so far. But I was forced to miss 10 minutes, and almost the whole second hour Sunday night. The incompetents working at KCET in Los Angeles
started the first hour over again after the first hour had already played. And the first hour show ran again for ten minutes before someone finally woke up,
and they switched over to the 10 minute mark of the second hour. I had my remote control in hand and was one second from turning the TV off, when they finally
cut off the repeat of the first hour. Now I know why PBS is endlessly begging for money...so they can get some technical people that are competent.
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Posts: 10303 (04/28/08 9:57 PM) OSTS Moderator |
Hell, they need programmers who are competent.
Amazing though that a big market affiliate would screw up that badly. Further proof that PBS doesn't want us to watch but instead buy the DVD's? Anyhow, I'm recording tonight's installment. Oops, installments. |
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Posts: 778 (04/28/08 11:14 PM) Registered User |
These were filmed on a different carrier, but you guys might like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEkYqL9n7vo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqaWdkdFb3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMceEx72sE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKI_-OGpuvY
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Posts: 136 (04/28/08 11:20 PM) |
bud, that is not even funny.
and i am surprised you would even post that. |
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Posts: 256 (04/28/08 11:52 PM) |
It was pretty shocking when the 'Sexual Assault Victim Advocate' who was warning the group of guys about not having sex and the implications that can
arise ended up having drunk sex with the officer...
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