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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: Turbo Ninja on October 05, 2006, 03:06:08 pm
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We're now into the third season of Lost and I'll be dipped if I can remember a discussion thread about it.
So is anyone else watching? Is anyone else addicted? Does anyone else lose sleep on Wednesday nights because you're wondering what little details and clues you missed the first time through?
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I'm downloading the new ep, as I refuse to wait for the UK to get a hold of the shows I watch, and fill them with the worst adverts and even worse, sponsor adverts...
I went off Lost halfway through the last series. Then watched a couple of episode and got seriously into it. I don't know how I'm going to feel about it this year, but with the questionable news of what the numbers mean having come out, I am certainly deeply curious, and will probably get entirely too addicted to it again.
That said, at the moment, I would probably give it up just to ensure we get a decent run of Studio 60... Think I might get round to making a thread about that in fact, on the offchance.
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Oh man I actually forgot that last night was the premier, but thankfully The Internet helped me out on that tip and I was able to download it this morning before heading out.
I thought the third season opener was pretty good. I'm never a big fan of watching people getting tortured, but otherwise it was interesting to see The Others in their semi-suburbia.
I was way more jazzed about the Veronica Mars premier, though, even though I think this season's overall mystery can't hold a candle to the first two.
I'm saving the new South Park for later.
I'm most looking forward to the new season of Battlestar Galactica. It's easily the best show on television.
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At the risk of being shunned, I'm not too keen on Lost. I do admire it in the sense that everyone I know is completely caught up in the story and every week something worthy of hour long discussions comes up, but I watched a few episodes (the first few of the first series) and thought it nothing special. No doubt that if I had continued watching, I'd be lost in Lost like many others.
Oh, out of interest, and while we're on the subject of TV:
1. Is the US version of The Office any good?
2. Is Doctor Who shown much across the pond?
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I watched the first season of Lost (because I was an Alias fan) but couldn't get into it. Mainly because I was tremendously bored by the flashbacks.
The US Office is good. The first ep was basically line-for-line the same as the UK one but after that it started going its own way. Although I don't actually care much for the parts with Steve Carrell's character. They're more painful than funny.
Old Who is shown only on PBS. Around here I think it's on at like midnight Sunday or something. The new ones are on the Sci-Fi channel. I've heard it's good but I was never into Dr. Who so I haven't seen it. I've heard it's taking SG-1's timeslot after the finale.
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The new ones are heavily promoted here on the Sci-Fi channel, which is exactly the right place for the show. I liked the Dr. of last season, and the new guy isn't so great, but it is not something I watched every week. I only caught a few of them and haven't been watching the new season.
The U.S. version of the office is every bit as good as the original. Yes, the Steve Carrell character is annoying much of the time, but the others are great. I'd actually like to see Steve leave the show to do movies and get some fresher blood in there. Sometimes they push the dipshit line a little too far for him. It would be funnier if the character were dialed-down some and less of a buffoon. It would make the show a little edgier and more Office Space-y.
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There are new episodes of Dr Who?
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I have never gotten around to watching Lost but apparently one of the characters looks a lot like me. This bothers me.
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There are new episodes of Dr Who?
Two seasons. I watched some of the first new series, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, but didn't even finish it. I just got a bit bored of it by about halfway through, partly because as always I got disillusioned with the BBC FX department. And while I like David Tenant, I haven't seen any of the new series.
As for the US Office, I keep meaning to get round to watching some of that. I didn't watch the UK version for the longest time, not until getting into Extras and going back and listening to Gervais's old radio show and things, and then watched it, and saw how truly brilliant it was. I'm now quite intrigued by the prospect of the US version.
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The new season of Extras is great so far. Very funny.
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The new season of Extras is great so far. Very funny.
This evening's one was fantastic. I cringed so hard I curled up into a little ball and hit the floor repeatedly. That is a very good thing. I'd say how wonderful the rest was, but no spoilers, eh?
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Jude-- when I saw The Squid and the Whale, I cringed so hard that I slid out of my chair (in the movie theater) and curled into a ball on the floor. Also, covered my eyes.
I was pretty proud of this, and no one understood why. I am glad that you do.
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Doctor who is Frikkin' Awesome! I was born just in time for that show to be cancelled and have pined for it ever since, I worship it's return, second series finale tonight and I'm looking forward to it. Ok ok, so the overall plot of the first series ended up being fairly weak but the eps taken individually are a lot of fun for me.
Lost I've seen the first two series of and will be waiting a while for the third I'd wager (which is why I'm posting in here now before major spoilers set in, I'll have to be careful of this thread) I'm kind of interested where they are going with it but I think they need to wrap it up within the next series or maybe two to avoid x-files syndrome. I'm still a true believer but I waned a little during last series, not as gripping as the first. The noises I made the first time Locke and Echo were on screen together though, catgirls would need surgery to squee that loud.
Extras I've only seen a couple of episodes of but the ones I saw were hilarious, but it's the kind of cringing humour I can't take a lot of in one go. Loved the patrick stewart ep though, he saw everything.
We had the first series of battlestar galactica here but we seem to be lacking the second and I don't know if it's coming anytime soon which is horribly unfair because I NEEDS it. Tasty hard sci fi fun. Might have to look into importing dvds if they make me wait much longer.
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On Lost: Man the pacing of that show gets to me. We've spent the first hour of 22 this season doing, what I feel is, nothing. So many questions left unanswered from last season, and they appear to have no interest in them at all.
Also: giraffe Bisquit
On Doctor Who: I am so SERIOUSLY, ticked at Billie Piper.
The last episode of last season also had the best sassy Daleks ever. "Your. Mother. Is. So. Fat. WHEN. YOUR. MOTHER. SWEATS. SHE SWEATS. GRAY-VEEEEE!"
Judy: What's the story with Torchwood? Every thing I read says that it should be airing there in October. Like, Now? My special ladyfriend wants more John Barrowman. She's been watching "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" Also, I saw an interview of him on, I guess, the English version of "The View". One of the ladies mentioned his bag pipes. He in return, invited her to play his "bag pipes", and then extended the offer to the other presenters, stating that his hose was long enough for all of them to play. Their response was a resounding: "Hooray!"
Golly!
On Veronica Mars: I watched the season opener last night. It's looking pretty awesome, but the dialog seemed kind of forced. It was over the top bantery, and the characters kind of lost their voice. They all ended up sounding like the same sarcastic person.
What's up with the new theme song? Also: Everyone here in Portland is just as retarded as that character. It's good to be home.
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On Veronica Mars: I watched the season opener last night. It's looking pretty awesome, but the dialog seemed kind of forced. It was over the top bantery, and the characters kind of lost their voice. They all ended up sounding like the same sarcastic person.
It does seem to have dropped off a little, but I'm hoping that's just it being such a change of feel, and reintroducing so much for the, hopefully new viewers. If not, I'll not be as bothered as I thought I might at the end of last season, as there's quite a lot on worth watching at the moment and while I do enjoy Veronica Mars, I am coming to kind of consider it a guilty pleasure more than great TV.
And as far as BSG goes, I really must get round to season two. I held off watching it for so long as I hated the original, but after watching the mini series, and it getting better and better through season one, I too 'loved the toes off it'.
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has anyone seen that stupid show on MTV where they tell your momma jokes? I really hate TV, and don't have cable or anything, but when I get a chance to watch this show I never miss it. The best joke was "hickory dickary dock, your mommas a slut"; no hollywood jerk is going to pump something out of his macbook pro with so much gusto and excitement. Well, at least that is how I feel.
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I, personally, am hooked on "Parental Control." This is where parents hate their child's SO, and so they make them go on this show and date various boys/girls of their (the parent's) choosing.
it is so great. especially because the guys are always assholes who make jokes about fuck*ng these poor parent's daughters. in front of them.
also, they almost always make the wrong choice in the end (when it comes time to select which boy they will now date.)
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Yea, I have seen that once or twice, it is okay, not good enough to care about seeing though. Now your momma....
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Now this Lost show, would it be necessary to watch it from the first episode?
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I watched the first episode and found it not necessary to ever watch again.
~Paul
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I watched the first episode and found it not necessary to ever watch again.
~Paul
ZING!
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I don't watch the show but I see Jorge Garcia and Dominic Monaghan every once in awhile because they stay in Kailua when they are filming.
Jorge Garcia seems like a pretty regular guy. Dominic Monaghan is not very big at all.
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Dominic Monaghan is not very big at all.
Are you calling him a hobbit?
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Well, he was barefoot and his feet weren't hairy - also, he was awful skinny for a hobbit. But I wouldn't really it completely out.
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Well, he was barefoot and his feet weren't hairy - also, he was awful skinny for a hobbit. But I wouldn't really it completely out.
It has to be said, his ears still make me think hobbit.
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Is anyone a fan of The Wire? I have just seen most of the first season (will see the rest tonight) and I am pretty impressed.
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Dang.. just people burning Lost and talking about unrelated Lost stuff! I just caught up on the 3rd season. They brought back the smokey guardian into the storyline.. though they copped out as far as explaining anything. Just more cameos of it.... I'm amazed that they have it in them to fill in the characters back story so much. I wonder if they have everything already pencilled in a noteback and are just doling out little tid bits each time? I thought we'd already finished with Kate's storyline but no we go back and she's married again. Straight up bizarre. I thought they had already cleared up the timeline up to the point when the characters stepped on the plane.
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Are you calling him a hobbit?
I'm not quite sure if Aloha got it (I know I didn't believe it until I looked it up) but Dominic plays... the other hobbit in Lord of the Rings. Which one, I forget. I totally didn't believe this at all until I checked IMdB (http://www.imdb.com) and saw a picture of him.
And I got hooked on Lost on the first episode (well, first two technically). It has (well, had) just about the best writing for a drama show on TV, and yeah, the fact that nothing happens could hurt a lot of people, but I think the character development is extremely well done. The actual plot advances a bit more in season 2, except more in a way that makes you have more questions and maybe answers one or two. Season 3, however, has been so far hugely disappointing for me. It seems like everything about the show has been done in a way calculated precisely to annoy me. If you watched all of season 1, though, you at least have to watch the first episode of season 2. It's one of my favorite episodes.
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I read somewhere the other day that the Producers of Lost are in the process of deciding an endpoint for the show, probably two more seasons after the current one. I forget where I read this. Anyone else catch this article?
On the one hand, it's nice to have a time frame in mind as you're watching the show. I think knowing how many pages are left in the book so to speak helps to put all the twists and turn into perspective instead of just feeling like the writers are tying your dick to a trailer hitch and driving through the California Baja for 24 straight episodes. But two years is a long ways away, especially considering how disappointing season 3 has been so far.
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I read somewhere the other day that the Producers of Lost are in the process of deciding an endpoint for the show, probably two more seasons after the current one. I forget where I read this. Anyone else catch this article?
On the one hand, it's nice to have a time frame in mind as you're watching the show. I think knowing how many pages are left in the book so to speak helps to put all the twists and turn into perspective instead of just feeling like the writers are tying your dick to a trailer hitch and driving through the California Baja for 24 straight episodes. But two years is a long ways away, especially considering how disappointing season 3 has been so far.
One of the reasons I've gotten down on Battlestar Galactica lately is because I found out how their scripting works. Apparently they just write an episode at a time which totally defeats the "And they have a plan" shown during the opening.
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I read somewhere the other day that the Producers of Lost are in the process of deciding an endpoint for the show, probably two more seasons after the current one. I forget where I read this. Anyone else catch this article?
I caught something claiming they were going for seven seasons overall. Which is a fairly horrifying thought. I'm already far less compelled by it than I was, and the thought of dragging it out through cast changeovers and the like...
That said, I started watching Heroes yesterday, and so far I'm now more interested in that. There are issues with it (including it being in places better comic book than TV), though some of the direction is stunning (the pilot episode's Hiro arc is pure comic book art).
My feelings regarding Lost at the moment are basically that if they had set it up as a two or three season arc and left it at that, it could have worked, but so far they're having to pace it so slow, throwing in heaps of character exposition that isn't getting us anywhere, just to soap opera it up enough to run for however many seasons it will go for.
Things like Carnivale and Deadwood that just show up, wow us and then leave before we're tired of it all are the way to go. Hell, I only keep The West Wing on as one of the best pieces of television ever by denying they made anything after the end of season four.
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Always leave 'em wanting more.
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Shows I never got into because, since I didn't see every single episode, nothing made any sense:
Lost
Heroes
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Rescue Me
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galatica
Stargate SG1
Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel
24
I dunno. I sort of miss the days of shows where you could just enjoy an episode with only the information in the opening credits and/or the TV Guide logline.
It's a courtroom and it's wacky because they work at night and... GO.
Alien crashes into a suburban house and he's all wacky and... GO.
Renaissance man with weird accent, who gets laid like all the time, cannot die unless you chop off his head and... GO.
I miss "and... GO" television.
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TV shows don't have clever theme songs anymore. You used to be able to get completely caught up in the "sit-" of the sitcom during the opening theme. "Oh, they're a podunk family who found oil and are now rich and living in Beverly Hills!"
"Ah, he wanted to move to the farm but she does not like it there."
"Ah, they're teenagers in the 1950s."
"Ah, they're traditionalist bigoted Americans."
"Ah, they're poor black folk who now have money and have moved on up into the white world."
"Ah, the guy's bosses didn't like him so they make him watch bad movies in outer space. To keep himself entertained he built a few ***** companions."
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Frankly, I'm glad sitcoms don't have theme songs any more. I'd rather watch good comedy. If the show sucks, I just don't watch it. If I like the show, I'd just forward through the theme anyway.
And that opening to My Name Is Earl was just death on a stick. We know! Your name is Earl! Get to the damn list.
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I don't even need... a literal theme song that spells out the premise, persay.
Cheers, for example. The song just sorta... vaguely lays out the existencial isolation of modern American living and escaping it by getting drunk in a public setting where you are charged a premium for the use of that shared space. Pictures of the main cast. People overpaying for drinks in a public setting throughout history.
The whole deal is laid out in tone if not in specifics. Everything else we need to know is spelled out in the way people talk, Shelly Long believes she's smart, Kirstie Alley believes evil aliens dropped us in a volcano and a-sploded us a million years ago, Norm likes to drink, etc.
Night Court. Funky, slightly wacky but full-on urban horns. It's totally New York City and it's totally night. Steam all coming out of grates and such. Harry is wacky because there's the freezeframe of him pulling a hat out of a rabbit's ass. Dan's in a smoking jacket because he loves random sex. The size of Christine's busoms is left a tantilizing mystery by her puffy shirts. Bull is dumb but loveable because he's big and bald.
Tone if not specifics. We know what we're getting into.
And then Lost starts up... and... the guy looks like Harry Knowles and... maybe they're in a parallel universe? Maybe they're all dead and this is hell? Are they in the Matrix? What about the other people from the other parts of the plane? From the other plane? What's that guy's name? Is it all a dream? Yikes.
It's like they're talking in an entirely different language that uses all the same words as English but no one has taken the time to tell us that. "Oh, so, cat means mustard on Lost Island... I... get it? That's interesting, maybe?"
Funky themesong. Whoa, puppet alien. Normal family. Uh-oh, what if the neighbors catch on?
That's all we need. That's all I'm asking for.
...that and a peek at Markie Post in her prime.
These are the only two things I am asking for.
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I do not understand this nostalgia. I would rather watch The Wire than anything from the past with a catchy theme song. Yeah, I only watch one show on LFM's list because you have to make a full time committment to any of them. But that way you are watching LESS TV, and it's actually good. Seems like a win win situation to me.
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Actually, there is one show that combines all the things that are good here: An interesting continuity, a theme song that (in a way) explains what's going on, really good writing, and (despite the continuity) you don't need to have seen the previous shows to understand what's going on (important things are explained). Also it is really funny. That is Arrested Development. Of course, the show is twice as funny if you've seen every episode, but it engenders pretty much every awesome quality of a TV show comedy and then some. Definitely watch it!
(Also scrubs is good. And it is still on TV)
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you don't need to have seen the previous shows to understand what's going on (important things are explained)
Well, see, like, there's the point.
It HELPS to have seen the other episodes. It ADDS ANOTHER LAYER to have seen the episodes.
But at the end of the day, you could fully enjoy "Arrested Development" on most levels without having seen a frame of it before.
Because... even though it was complicated... all the major points were reset so that things made sense to a new viewer. It never used the Trendiness of Obscurity as a crutch or an excuse. Yeah, you might get running background gags or a second laugh out of a layered joke with encyclopedic knowledge of the show but...
You didn't need a CIA shortwave numbers-station one-time-pad to understand what the hell was going on. "Okay, Yankee means Buffy... Hotel means Spike and... Foxtrot means... Angel? Oh! I get it! They needed to use the Talisman of Somesuch to defeat the Great and Powerful Whatever so that they could all go home, crackwise about popular culture and then have dirty sex! It all makes sense now!"
Even though I only watched it intermittently, I was still able to get one of the biggest laughs I've ever gotten out of a half-hour comedy from... the culmination of the arc where the chick from "Monster" played the world's hottest woman with a mental disability. One-two gut punch of the world's greatest "Being There" reference and then... "it's my illusion!" I fell out of my chair, doubled-over.
Ain't nothing wrong with layered and nuanced. That can be the best television of all.
What's wrong is when... it's all nuance, it's all in-reference, it's all continuity.
Then, you're not making a television show, you're just handing out cheap fan-service handjobs to your core audience and... pissing everyone else off. Tell a story, man, not a jigsaw puzzle. Or, if you're gonna tell a jigsaw puzzle, give us one of those ones from when we were kids when... like... it was a bunch of little puzzles that you can later fit together if you like by removing the borders and putting them all together and make a big puzzle but... you can still appreciate each single picture on its own.
I had, like, sixteen different GI Joe puzzles that all fit together like that as a kid.
It was awesome.
TV, I order you to be more like that.
(note: the two Wilco references above were not planned out ahead of time, they just happened.)
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Best shows on TV = Earl and The Office.
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Best shows on TV = Earl and The Office.
On network TV? Fer sure.
They're the only primetime shows I go out of my way to catch.
Though... I'd say my favourite shows on TV are certain parts of the Sunday Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network. Probably because I am a total nerd. The Venture Brothers, Tom Goes to the Mayor and Metalapocalypse are pretty much as awesome as it gets and... often Aqua Teen Hunger Force is right up there. Futurama and Home Movies reruns also punish.
Everything Seth MacFarlane touches turns to crap but, during that time, I just listen to Art Bell on the radio.
(In "Earl", the Bargain Bag store is actually the Big Lots kitty-corner from my apartment. Los Angeles is weird.)
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oh, Arrested Development is my obsession. so much.
good lort.
also: it never occurred to me that it was a Being There reference.
a-so: I enjoyed when Henry Winkler literally jumped over a shark, immediately after making a comment about going to Burger King (apparently Burger King was one of their sponsors.)
the best were the episodes near the end, where they kept making jokes about trying to appeal to people, some more Meta than others.
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I can't stand Tom GTtM. I only watched the first Metalocalypse and I guess I just don't get it. It mainly bugged me that the one character is clearly Jack Black but doesn't sound like him at all.
The Venture Bros turned really awesome after a sub-par pilot.
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Venture Brothers has become the epitome of reference-laden television. AND it's a cartoon! Man I love that show so hard. Plus, to keep it at least somewhat on topic, Venture Bros. is only the second show to make a reference to Lost.
Also, I love home movies and wish Metalocalypse was as good as HM. It has some great moments, but never as much as, for instance the Marbles episode of HM.
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HM is lovely. But also, Venture Brothers is awesome. Sadly I have missed much of the series-- my cable box thing stopped recording it after the first season, and I didn't really think about it until later.
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damn, lfm, are you trying for record can count or something? it's gonna be tough. jough was handing out like thousands at a time a while back.
My favorite thing about Arrested Development was that the "Previously" and "Next time..." bits were never actually previously nor next time. That and "loose seal."
Totally agreed on Seth McFarlane. And Earl + Office. Cort, I completely get why you don't like Tom GttM. That said, it's one of my favorite cartoons ever, in spite of the fact that Bob Oedenkirk hasn't done anything worthwhile since Mr. Show.
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The key to "Tom Goes To The Mayor" is its... true and utter contempt for Middle American Stars and Crosses and Smile-Faces mediocre bullcrap. There is no pussyfooting, there are no mitigating factors, no excuses made or offered.
They really really hate everything about mainstream Wal-Mart low-brow settle-ism. No lessons learned, no hugging, no silver linings, nothing. Complete condescending rage toward the whole stinking mess.
The... purity of vision there, just taking that idea and going with it as far as it will possibly go...
I really really love that. And... it allows me to forgive all of the show's glaring inconsistencies.
It's the "Jesus knocking over the money changers" of late-night absurdist cartoons and...
It's just so right. It's like the only show Bill Hicks would be watching if said dude was still amoungst us.
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The cheese fries, man. The cheese fries.
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oh man, Jesus knocking over the tables of the money-changers. My friend told me she thought that scene in Jesus Christ, Superstar was really Anti-Semitic. I tried to explain that that scene is actually in the bible, but she didn't see how that changed anything. It ended up being pretty awkward.
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Rats off to ya, LFM.
I've got a pretty large love for Venture Bros. There was some weird synchronicity this last season. About the same time Achewood referenced Klaus Nomi, VB turned around and put Klaus into the show. That was pretty awesome. There has to be two distinct subsets of people, aside from completionist David Bowie fans, that would get a Klaus Nomi reference. I'm thinking it's pretty much Achewood fans, and New York Art Freaks from the Late 70s.
I may be wrong. Only one of those two groups is likely to be a VB fan.
What about Tom and Eric's Awesome Show: Great job! Are you excited for that? The stuff I've seen from it appears really mediocre, which is sad.
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There has to be two distinct subsets of people, aside from completionist David Bowie fans, that would get a Klaus Nomi reference. I'm thinking it's pretty much Achewood fans, and New York Art Freaks from the Late 70s.
What about Tom and Eric's Awesome Show: Great job! Are you excited for that?
As the long-suffering brother of the King of the Bowie Completists, I will get pretty much every Klaus Nomi reference ever.
As for Awesome Show... well...
a.) I find that commericals/short clips tend to not do T&E's work justice, as so much of the best of their stuff is about milking painful silences and running recurrent jokes so far into the ground that they come back out of the Earth in China, somehow funny again.
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b.) Mediocre "those guys" is still funnier than... pretty much everything first-run on American television other than The Venture Brothers or the best episodes of "The Office" so... I'm still pretty psyched.
Of course, I get psyched over weird things. I was completely psyched about seeing a Pink Floyd laser show, I'm completely psyched about the GNR album "Chinese Democracy", I'm completely psyched about seeing a midnight screening of "The Room" possibly the worst indie film ever made, I'm completely psyched about going back into therapy for my anxiety problems.
Again, your mileage may vary.
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I don't think Arrested Development will be as funny in six months as it was six months ago due to the self-referential nature of some of the gags. The bits in the last season about HBO and movie options were hilariously topical when they were first-run episodes, but I had to think for a few minutes to remember the references when I saw the reruns on G4 last week.
Even more significant reference bits like the Saddam spider hole will definitely age with the grace of Zach Morris' cell phone.
Speaking of Zack Morris, I'm thankful for the exposition provided by the Saved By The Bell theme song. Without it I would've been lost.
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Yes, but there were very few topical jokes, and most of them occurred in the third season. While the third season might fade a little, I think the first two have enormous lasting power. I really think that in a few years from now people will look back and say "damn that show was funny"
Furthermore, beyond the obvious jokes, there were tons and tons of subtleties that you don't get in one or two or possibly even three watches. I say, let us re-convene in six months and watch again and discuss.
COURT ADJOURNED!
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As the long-suffering brother of the King of the Bowie Completists, I will get pretty much every Klaus Nomi reference ever.
Oh man, I meant to mention the, and you already know of this but really it's for folks reading along, David Bowie singing "Man Who Sold the World" on SNL with backing Vocals by Klaus 'n' Friend. Klaus 'n' Friend totally had to carry Bowie onto the stage since he was unable to ambulate in the Nomiesque body suit. (I still think that the 'bots (Liebot, et al) are pattered after the Art Deco Nomi bodies)
YouTube is being wacky at the moment, otherwise I would link to the multiple medias of the interconnected networks.
P.S. Dwight's facist speech at the convention last season was the winner of 2006.
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Lost starts up again tomorrow. Just sayin'.
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I'm pretty excited for Lost to be starting back up. I'm not burned-out on the show like so many others since I only recently watched the entire series in the span of 3 weeks thanks to the magic of torrents. Not having to be jerked off week to week tends to make you more wiling to accept the show's twists.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/arts/television/08lost.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin
Looks like they've set an offical endpoint for the series: 2010, meaning three more 16 episode seasons.
I'd have preferred only two more seasons, but it's nice to have a frame of reference for the show. Now it's like reading a book and knowing how many pages are left.
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I think more shows should do that - it might provide structure that otherwise causes meandering and soap opera-ism.
Oh no! Our favourite surgeon might have a brain tumor. (Cue long dramatic pause).
Is E.R. still in production? Someone should have shot that hoss a long time ago.
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Yes, ER is still going. Though they've pretty much turned over the original cast, with the exception of 1 or 2 of the nurses.
I think at some point though, some government board would step in and shut that place down. It's blown up a couple times, been on fire a bunch, had a helecopter cut off a surgeons arm, another helecopter fell off the building and crushed that same surgeon (Clearly it was the same one, once it had the taste of blood, it needed to finish the job), most of the doctors and nurses have been kidnapped, shot, stabbed, multiple hostage situations, rapes, rocks, bad haircuts, pointy sticks...
Clearly they're doing something wrong, and need to have their license pulled.
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[This hospital has been condemned for a rampant uncontrollable infestation of drama and cliffhangers]
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Perhaps it was the first helicopter's mate, and was seeking revenge.