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Heroes in Cork *spoiler if not seen yet*

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    #32
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,967 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Of course, bad enough as the Ireland scenes are, nothing can compare to this:

    http://www.tv.com/lois-and-clark-the-new-adventures-of-superman/when-irish-eyes-are-killing/episode/29118/summary.html


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    #33
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    I remember seeing that and bursting a gut laughing at how bad it was. It featured these jewels called "The Eyes Of Ireland" that glowed green when the villain put them into his eyes, IIRC.

    But the worst Oirishness in tv history is this episode of the 80s Twilight Zone: The Little People of Killany Woods.

    It featured a bunch of drunken Oirishmen in a pub lamenting the fact that they had no jobs. One of them started paying with pieces of gold he got from the "little people", who turned out to be miniature aliens who took off with him in a flying saucer at the end.

    Here's the closing narration: "In the days to come, when human beings navigate the great depths of space, they'll eventually come to a small planet in a distant galaxy. It's a pleasant place, but quite unlike the Earth. There's one unusual similarity, however. Shamrocks grow there in great profusion, brought, they say, by one Liam O'Shaughnessey, lately of Earth and now residing in one of the greener corners of the Twilight Zone."

    Classic. Must track it down.


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    #34
    peepingtom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭peepingtom


    had to laugh reading this ... saw the first few episodes of season 2 last night and was seriously cringing ... why the hell didnt they at least say it was based in Belfast ..... at least the accent would have been almost there :)

    failing that .... finding a few real irish actors couldnt have been that hard ... surely

    pure lazy like


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    #35
    MayMay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭MayMay


    Any link? Have heard so much about this but haven't seen it!


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    #36
    peepingtom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭peepingtom


    not sure if we can talk about ... <snip>


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    #37
    MayMay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭MayMay


    Thanks Tom...not on You Tube or anything though no?


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    #38
    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    peeping tom banned for two weeks.

    You may not talk about how or where to get full length episodes illegally. You should well know this by now, it's in the charter (of pretty much every television series forum on this site) and is in no way a new rule.

    If you want clips from the series, try YouTube or Google.


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    #39
    John_C
    Registered Users Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭John_C


    And what were they doing importing ipods into Cork? Is Apple Computers not already in Cork?


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    #40
    im...LOST
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    Do they actually make them in Cork?

    Apple is much more than just iPod's you know?


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    #41
    L31mr0d
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    jeez... i'm actually ok with the stereotypes... nobody seems to mind that they portray Mexico as a bunch of run down shanty towns filled with lazy people lying around doing nothing all day. This is an american programme after all so it has to pander to how americans see the world which is an exaggerated view of the cultures of those countries. I'm just happy they are featuring Ireland at all, albeit, ireland in the 1950's with iPods and probably a load of Nissans.

    I actually like that they are continuing the Irish plotline and am interested to see where they take it from here, I have a horrible feeling though that they will introduce a character with red hair who has the power of luck, and peter will have to steal his charms from him :rolleyes:


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    #42
    5starpool
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    L31mr0d wrote: »
    I have a horrible feeling though that they will introduce a character with red hair who has the power of luck, and peter will have to steal his charms from him :rolleyes:

    Surely a contradiction? Lucky person with red hair?

    I jest, I jest


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    #43
    Stark
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    L31mr0d wrote:
    I'm just happy they are featuring Ireland at all, albeit, ireland in the 1950's with iPods and probably a load of Nissans.

    I can't wait for them to show a Nissan Micra with ribbon magnets stuck to it.


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    #44
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    I'm just happy they are featuring Ireland at all, albeit, ireland in the 1950's with iPods and probably a load of Nissans.

    Plus everyone has at least one gun. Maybe the writers heard of the IRA and assumed they're an Irish branch of the NRA.


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    #45
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Bargh descibes my views of their views on us.

    Anyone notice how all the cars we've seen are ****ty and are yellow redges.Oh and the secuirty guards,wtf? what happen to the heavily armoured van with the riot helmet.

    The bad thing is we cant fight back as all our sterotypes of them are real j/k:D


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    #46
    daveirl
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    #47
    Gauge
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    Apparently we're not the only misrepresented place... I've been on a couple of other boards and the people from New Orleans aren't too impressed either!


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    #48
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    at the risk of being banned, can you not watch entire episodes LEGALLY on the nbc website?


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    #49
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams just needed to call Captain Planet! GO PLANET!!
    Guage wrote:
    Apparently we're not the only misrepresented place... I've been on a couple of other boards and the people from New Orleans aren't too impressed either!
    And the Canadians. Apparently the town they've mentioned is 100 miles from where it's said to be in the show. It seems though the Canadians are happy just to be mentioned and would even put their ten minutes of fame on the local news...
    120_Minutes wrote: »
    at the risk of being banned, can you not watch entire episodes LEGALLY on the nbc website?
    It blocks non-US IP addresses - that's why you can't. And your question is non-bannable as it's asking about a legal resource.


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    #50
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    ah, i'm on holidays over here which is why its works for me.


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    #51
    The_Hustler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭The_Hustler


    Well the veoh player isn't illegal, and that has an NBC channel in it now which shows heroes straight from the nbc website. I presume this is legal (seeing as they delete copyrighted material if uploaded-eventually). It shows an ad before it and everything(unlike uploaded content), so I think the only difference is that it doesn't block non-us users.


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    #52
    corblimey
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    Anyone catch the reg of the car Kristen Bell was sitting in near the end? Looks to me like 97 RE 1789. At least it looks like a proper Irish plate even with the Euro symbol, but "RE"? In Heroes-verse, is Roscommon so large it needs to be divided into East and West?


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    #53
    Faith
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    Maybe they were going by the new Ireland Monopoly board, where Roscommon is the most expensive one*, so they figured it was the biggest...

    *How did that happen?


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    #54
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Faith wrote: »
    Maybe they were going by the new Ireland Monopoly board, where Roscommon is the most expensive one*, so they figured it was the biggest...

    *How did that happen?
    There was an online poll to vote for which county would be the most expensive and Roscommon topped it. Cork came second. Here are the results: http://www.monopoly.ie/HoldingPage/index2.aspx


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    #55
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    agamemnon wrote: »
    There was an online poll to vote for which county would be the most expensive and Roscommon topped it. Cork came second. Here are the results: http://www.monopoly.ie/HoldingPage/index2.aspx
    See when Dubs see Roscommon coming first, they roll their eyes and think of how a bunch of boggers went mad waving their county flags and thought they'd stick it to the boys in the big shmoke and go mad voting online. And if we're thinking that, then how the hell really were the Yanks going to get Cork right...


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    #56
    theram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭theram


    agamemnon wrote: »
    There was an online poll to vote for which county would be the most expensive and Roscommon topped it. Cork came second. Here are the results: http://www.monopoly.ie/HoldingPage/index2.aspx


    Shur what with there being no leckie up in Rossie country them boys just spend every night playing Monopoly, its like Texas Hold Em to those fellas! :D


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    #57
    Sysiphus
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    It tooks two and a half pages to mention Rent'o'cops with guns and no pick up on it!!

    Our own fair boys in blue have to fill in a gazzillion forms if the ERU even PULL their gun let alone fire it, yet the retired / ex-unemployed 60 plus would-be McDonalds worker - aka - Give me a Cap security Guard is firing more shots than the average male at a Bukake party!

    If you want bad Oirish who's on for Tom Paris Holo-Village in voyager? Not since Darby O'Gill has there been such a travesty!

    But back to the original post - Blue Screen - ??????? Was it FAS night? Did they decide that an ANCO trainee might get a nice bit o'xperiance??

    I must say that although I watch it (and ill probably continue to), Andromeda is starting to look more and more like quality drama! So many wasted threads, so many wasted characters.

    Imagine if in lost they spent the whole 10 or so episodes building up to who Henry really was - reveled it, then killed him by accidental food poisioning!

    Linderman, DL, the buildup to the EXPLOSION, all wasted. whole series linderman...... Linderman.....(deep voice) Lindermaaaaan..... (deeper) LINDERMAN.

    Ok writers where do we go with the supervillan? Hmm he stubs his toe and dies of the infection, nah, I know let him make a BIG speach then just have his brain pulled out!

    I don't know, the show is eating itself. I'm just waiting to see what power Angela Petrelli has? Suction cup vage? Ultra Bitch eye rays? Maybe she can kill Souffle with a single glace??

    Sorry just ranting at this stage, so disapointed at this stage, but I sould have known from scene one episode one when Surech in his lecture dragged out the only 10% crap!! That should have been the give away!


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    #58
    Stark
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    Sysiphus wrote: »
    It tooks two and a half pages to mention Rent'o'cops with guns and no pick up on it!!

    Was mentioned on the episode thread.


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    #59
    galactus
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    standbyme wrote: »
    Can any actor take off an Irish accent from TV to Movies, too many to mention as theyre just too plain shameful.

    As its probably been mentioned, can they not have got an irish actor(s) bloody hell, it makes a mockery of it, or maybe some americans are dumb as maybe some one told them to put a 'cork' in it & took it literally :D;)

    We'll never know :p

    No offence to anyone in Cork.

    Well, the guys in that Alexander movie had great Irish accents.

    PS No offence taken, I have the great pleasure of living in Cork biy!


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    #60
    coxy14
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    corblimey wrote: »
    Anyone catch the reg of the car Kristen Bell was sitting in near the end? Looks to me like 97 RE 1789. At least it looks like a proper Irish plate even with the Euro symbol, but "RE"? In Heroes-verse, is Roscommon so large it needs to be divided into East and West?

    You'd think Kristen Bell might have made some comment about the stript, after all she is half Irish, half polish. By the by, if people knew that's what the future of this country might look like, I think everyone would be embracing immigration!!


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    #61
    monosharp
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    Well heres a good one for you. I'm in Asia at the moment and this happened to me a few nights ago.

    note, Y = Aussie friend here.

    After having a long conversation with the guy.

    American: So your Y's friend ?
    Me: Yep, live in the same building.
    American: There must be a lot of Australians here.
    Me: ..... huh
    American: Your Australian aren't you. You and Y both have accents.
    Me: ROFL


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