Favorite Film and TV Characters

[Kath]

Don't forget Wild Kingdom from the good folks at Mutual of Omaha.

Ah, yes - also, Jacques Cousteau.

[C-Mag]

I watched all of these on your list. The fun part about Archie Bunker is my dad thought that's who Caroll O'Conner was. O'Conner was the original SJW and poked fun at racists and homophobic types through Archie. My dad related to Archie, bigly.

Yeah, that was O'Connors inside joke and he kept up the charade pretty well. A lot of old timers felt like Archie spoke for them. Tim Allen is doing the same type of character on Last Man Standing. It's still good, but some cast changes since it moved to FOX has impacted the energy and humor of the show.

[StCapps]

Archie Bunker dindu nuffin.

[Fife]

Um... In Search Of fans in the house?

[Kath]

Um... In Search Of fans in the house?

My dad was a huge Trek Nerd, so he watched it. I did sometimes. Memory foggy.

[Kath]

Archie Bunker dindu nuffin.

I think fictional Archie Bunker did more for race relations in this country than most actual people in our history did.

[C-Mag]

Archie Bunker dindu nuffin.

I think fictional Archie Bunker did more for race relations in this country than most actual people in our history did.

There's competition for that title

[StCapps]

Archie Bunker dindu nuffin.

I think fictional Archie Bunker did more for race relations in this country than most actual people in our history did.

I think you're right. Archie Bunker is clearly one of all-time great tv characters, anyone who says otherwise is trolling.

[Speaker to Animals]

Alita

[brewster]

Hey Brits, how was the Sharpe series with Sean Bean and is it available on Netflix or similar platforms ?

It's pretty awesome, Bean's best work IMO, and the supporting actors are very good too. The guy that plays Hagman the poacher, John Tams, is actually an English folk singer of note, and sings the show's theme song Over the Hills & Far Away. It's main flaw, again IMO, is being pre-CGI they didn't have the budget to create the battle scenes as massively as they needed to be, or even convincingly show more than a company on the march. Therefore the less grand plots were more convincing. I haven't seen the India based ones made later, I don't know how they handled that, clearly they couldn't be prequels due to the aging stars.

As for getting them, try bittorrent.

A similar production, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was damn good too for a series of TV movies. Drifted too far from the books for my taste trying to maintain character continuity that wasn't originally there.