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Pinwiz11 posted:Is there enough interest for a Sound of Music thread this far into the show? It's so bad it's terrible. Holy poo poo.
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Carrie Underwood is okay when she sings, but once she has to act... 
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Dec 6, 2013 02:21
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ElectricSheep posted:It's so bad it's terrible. Holy poo poo. I tuned in out of curiosity and it's worse than I'd even imagined.
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Dec 6, 2013 02:21
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Pinwiz11 posted:Carrie Underwood is okay when she sings.... No. She keeps dropping her g's and it's She's a great pop singer, but this is so far out of her realm. edit: she's so out of breath...
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Dec 6, 2013 02:35
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What's the point of it being live? It just appears to be restricting the camera angles and lighting they can use and has produced a constant quiet buzz in the audio.
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Dec 6, 2013 02:36
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Sir Kodiak posted:What's the point of it being live? It just appears to be restricting the camera angles and lighting they can use and has produced a constant quiet buzz in the audio. Novelty. I hope we get Dan Patrick and Tony Dungy at Intermission to give us the inside scoop on the blocking...
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Dec 6, 2013 02:38
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Christian Borle and Laura Benanti can't show up soon enough...
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Dec 6, 2013 02:40
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regulargonzalez posted:Can anyone recommend a show similar to Chuck (or the first 3 seasons of Chuck, I should say). Bonus if it's on Netflix. Looking mostly for that style of comedy with some eye candy and a rather light tone, the action is fine but not necessary but I'm looking for comedy + (other genre), not just a straight sitcom. And ideally hour long episodes, so while otherwise Parks and Rec would kinda fit, it's not quite right. Did no one tell you to watch Party Down yet? Shame on you thread!
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Dec 6, 2013 02:54
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Is there a reason Walmart keeps putting a bunch of quiverfuls on my television except for the obvious?
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Dec 6, 2013 02:59
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The Sound of Music thing is like...a 30 Rock plotline or something, except it would be Jenna instead of Carrie Underwood. Or it would be Carrie Underwood, but Jenna would undermine it because she'd be mad she wasn't offered it first. 30 Rock had NBC's absurd desperation dead to rights. 
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Dec 6, 2013 03:18
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Spatula City posted:The Sound of Music thing is like...a 30 Rock plotline or something, except it would be Jenna instead of Carrie Underwood. Or it would be Carrie Underwood, but Jenna would undermine it because she'd be mad she wasn't offered it first. 30 Rock had NBC's absurd desperation dead to rights. It does have that Rockefeller Center Salute to Fireworks vibe.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:34
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Aside from Underwood, this is surprisingly unoffensive... I'm actually enjoying it... But good god is Underwood bad...  It's like The Sound of Music Live is Jurassic Park... NBC is John Hammond. Ian Malcolm is all like "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should..."
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Dec 6, 2013 03:39
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I want it to be successful so NBC does it again with better leads. I will give them credit for Maria leaving for the Abbey. That was well done.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:41
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Pinwiz11 posted:I want it to be successful so NBC does it again with better leads. At a $9 million tag, this thing is going to make them a fortune in DVD sales. If last place NBC decided to do a Rodgers and Hammerstein live stage show every 4 months, but without the stunt-casting, I'd be down.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:44
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Did the Mother Superior just cop a feel of Carrie Underwood?
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Dec 6, 2013 03:48
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Thank you, Audra McDonald.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:48
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Yeah you know, most of the rest of the songs have actually been pretty decent. Even the kids, which was a bit surprising. "Climb Every Mountain" just now was pretty great.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:50
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It's just Underwood. She doesn't have the chops for this kind of singing, and she's just reciting lines rather than acting... If they'd only cast Idina or Amy Adams...
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Dec 6, 2013 03:52
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Man, you can rescue "16 going on 17" by staging it flirty as hell, but the reprise is really beyond repair.
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Dec 6, 2013 04:33
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Why didn't they just take the cast of Smash and let them do this?
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Dec 6, 2013 04:36
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Tuxedo Jack posted:At a $9 million tag, this thing is going to make them a fortune in DVD sales. Actually, between the L&O main cast and the wide variety of guest stars, they've got at least one built in stuntcast just waiting to happen ("You've seen them do New York... now watch Van Buren and Green do Chicago!") And like the rest of their favorite projects, it reminds viewers of how the network was once successful!
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Dec 6, 2013 04:50
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Tuxedo Jack posted:If they'd only cast Idina or Amy Adams... Let's just be glad they didn't dig up Kristin Chenoweth for the part.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:06
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zoux posted:Whoa check out this huge holiday release for Netflix:
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Dec 6, 2013 05:15
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regulargonzalez posted:I've been recommended Buffy in the past but after watching the first two or three episodes it really didn't do it for me. I can give it another try if someone recommends it very strongly. I'm surprised nobody responded to this, but Buffy is really not going to do it for anyone after 3 episodes. It doesn't get good until maybe a short ways into season 2. Season 1 is almost entirely camp. It's very much like Chuck in that the main attraction is the (for the most part) likable characters and their sometimes-funny sometimes-dramatic interactions with each other, rather than the case of the week. I will say that the heavy dose of pop culture references makes a lot of the dialogue seem terribly dated, but I introduced my friend to it just two years ago and he liked the show fine.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:21
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Is there a thread for Alpha House? Because I am loving that poo poo.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:30
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thexerox123 posted:Have you seen The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Mist? The obvious solution is to get Stephen King to write a TV show and have Darabont direct it  Tuxedo Jack posted:At a $9 million tag, this thing is going to make them a fortune in DVD sales. The thing is, there are a good number of film actors who take time off to do theater work. It would probably be piss-easy to negotiate a live stage show with someone like Hugh Jackman in it, especially if you frame it as promoting the arts and getting kids into drama.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:38
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I expect that the ratings will be good, so they can use that to help draw better leads next time.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:41
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Maxwell Lord posted:It does have that Rockefeller Center Salute to Fireworks vibe. OK, I have to ask. Does anybody actually enjoy the Sound of Music? Or is it just a kind of a nostalgia enjoyment, or ironic enjoyment? Personally, The Sound of Music was just the wholesome crap I had to watch while hanging out at the kiddy table. Once I was old enough to explain why I hate The Sound of Music, I was old enough to sit at the adult table. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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thrakkorzog posted:OK, I have to ask. Does anybody actually enjoy the Sound of Music? Or is it just a kind of a nostalgia enjoyment, or ironic enjoyment? The original is fantastic. Beautifully shot, well directed, and Julie Andrews is basically perfect. I appreciate it the older I get. I realized I wasn't interested in it when I was younger because my older brother wouldn't think it was cool, and the main character was a girl so it couldn't be for me. I think enjoyment of it largely depends on when it was introduced to you. Edit: Basically, yes it's wholesome; but I don't think crap is any way to describe it. Sudden Loud Noise fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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Trast posted:Even as a kid I enjoyed Sisko thinking the rest of the crew was nuts for wanting him to play along with a 50's stereotype because there was no way in hell he'd have been allowed in that casino unless it was to mop floors. Hah, you've reminded me that while I was criticising DS9's writing I forgot what is probably their biggest hubristic gently caress you. In an act of sabotage verging on the offensive they created Section 31. Ostensibly so that Bashir and O'Brian would have a reason to go around being Bro-Team (because no one had the backbone to just make them gay) the writers decided to explicitly undermine the central tenets of a universe that they didn't create. Every high-minded ideal of the characters and the show itself goes out of the window because Moore et-al wanted to do a (remarkably poor quality) X-files rip off, in space. "Prime Directive? Nah gently caress those aliens. Exploration and science? No way, that's for homos. Let's get some mysterious Men in Black, it'll be so cool." And there are people who profess to love the ideals of the franchise who unquestioningly eat it up because, presumably, they've been too busy watching Star Trek to be exposed to any scifi that's actual scifi and not a fantasy show about men in pyjamas (and occasionally skirts). Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:(because no one had the backbone to just make them gay) They literally have a moment where Bashir says he loves Miles more than the woman he's sleeping with and pretty much gets Miles to admit he loves him more than his wife. Did you want to see full penetration or something? quote:Every high-minded ideal of the characters and the show itself goes out of the window because Moore et-al wanted to do a (remarkably poor quality) X-files rip off, in space. Yes, but most of their high minded ideals are stupid and nonsensical. They deserved to have the piss taken out of them. "We've evolved beyond money, you subhuman 21st century filth!" *goes on like 8 trillion trade missions over the series, because evidently the barter system is a totally different thing* "We pursue higher ideals and enlightened reason." *double hammer punches like loving 50 people to death, has sex with everything it'll fit in* The problem is they state utopia but have to entertain us savages, so they show them as basically regular people, which sends kind of a mixed message and makes the Federation look schizophrenic at best. DS9 sums this up with "It's easy to be a Saint in paradise". I'm sure when you can easily teleport around a planet at whim, when all material needs are met through functional magic, when absolutely nobody has the balls to start a conflict with you, it is easy to talk about being above it all. When any of those dynamics change for a second, Starfleet acts like assholes [Which they've been doing since the original series]. quote:"Prime Directive? Nah gently caress those aliens. Exploration and science? No way, that's for homos. Let's get some mysterious Men in Black, it'll be so cool." People were saying "gently caress the Prime Directive" since the idea was first put forth. It's the entire reason it exists. Kirk was arming natives in a Cold War send up against the Klingons from day one. It's all nailing the green alien chick and chopping someone in the back. Don't pretend it wasn't. If anything it's TNG that tried to step away to more actual idealism, and it failed miserably at that, so DS9 took a bit of the piss out of it. And lets not even get into Voyager. The idea of "Star Trek" you are championing exists more in speech than in practice, and even in speech is ignored in the vast majority of Star Trek media. You are basically saying "I like about 1/5th of TNG". Ok. Fair enough. That's not Star Trek though. That's just a part of it.
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Squidster posted:Is there a thread for Alpha House? Because I am loving that poo poo. It's great isn't it, someone in the GOP rebuilding thread got me onto it, and it's basically that thread in TV format. I tried to watch Veep ages ago but gave up after an episode because I didn't laugh once. Maybe I should re-visit that now.
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Dec 6, 2013 09:48
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thrakkorzog posted:OK, I have to ask. Does anybody actually enjoy the Sound of Music? Or is it just a kind of a nostalgia enjoyment, or ironic enjoyment? The Sound of Music is one of the best movies ever made so I guess I'd say I enjoy it? Except the wedding scene which is boring and long but that's a great time to hit the bathroom right in the middle of the movie so I even like that part.
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Dec 6, 2013 13:48
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They should make a Game of Thrones-themed version of The Sound of Music (featuring songs such as "How do you solve a problem like Arya?") and then when Sophia goes to pee during the wedding scene everybody gets massacred.
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Dec 6, 2013 14:26
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Joramun posted:They should make a Game of Thrones-themed version of The Sound of Music (featuring songs such as "How do you solve a problem like Arya?") and then when Sophia goes to pee during the wedding scene everybody gets massacred. Gurm as Hitler.
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Dec 6, 2013 15:25
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It looks like that gamble might have paid off franklinavenue: Fast nationals for NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE: 18.5 million total viewers; 4.6 rating/13 share adults 18-49. Isn't that 4 times the demo number NBC usually gets on Thursdays?
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Dec 6, 2013 17:10
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Vertical Lime posted:It looks like that gamble might have paid off Sounds like we're gonna get a whole lot of musicals live on NBC Thursdays!
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Hah, you've reminded me that while I was criticising DS9's writing I forgot what is probably their biggest hubristic gently caress you. In an act of sabotage verging on the offensive they created Section 31. Ostensibly so that Bashir and O'Brian would have a reason to go around being Bro-Team (because no one had the backbone to just make them gay) the writers decided to explicitly undermine the central tenets of a universe that they didn't create. Every high-minded ideal of the characters and the show itself goes out of the window because Moore et-al wanted to do a (remarkably poor quality) X-files rip off, in space. I don't mind the idea of Section 31 by itself. The whole idea of everyone being sunshine and prime directive in the entire human race was pretty laughable.
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xeria posted:Sounds like we're gonna get a whole lot of musicals live on NBC Thursdays! All starring American Idol winners. Prepare yourself for Taylor Hicks as Jean Valjean and Ruben Studdard as Elphaba.
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Vertical Lime posted:It looks like that gamble might have paid off A 4.6 is near 5x the demo NBC gets on Thursdays(Usually, they get 1s and .9s. Guess Must-See Thursdays are going to become Musical Thursdays 
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