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IRQ posted:Ah, the universal (pun not intended) symbol for "thar be reruns on tv this week for no good reason." The funniest thing about the London Olympics was that if you only watched NBC coverage you'd think women's beach volleyball was the biggest sport in the world. I swear they got more coverage than anything else combined.
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smg77 posted:The funniest thing about the London Olympics was that if you only watched NBC coverage you'd think women's beach volleyball was the biggest sport in the world. I swear they got more coverage than anything else combined. Agreed. Those ladies had way too much coverage 
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Jan 31, 2014 02:18
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FadingChord posted:Leonard Nimoy should narrate everything. I fooled you, I fooled you. I've got pig iron, I've got pig iron. I've got all pig iron.
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Jan 31, 2014 02:20
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I don't mind the Olympics existing but dear bleeding Jesus who actually watches that poo poo? Curling is actually pretty chill to get baked and watch, admittedly.
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I do. It's a nice break from regular TV for a couple weeks every two years.
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Josh Lyman posted:I was at a house party on Tuesday when the snowpocalypse hit Atlanta, and during local news coverage, someone asked what the thing was below the NBC logo. The Olympic rings. The Olympics were in Atlanta.
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Jan 31, 2014 03:32
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In '96.
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Jan 31, 2014 03:37
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Back when it was Christian terrorists bombing the Olympics
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I heard this season of American Horror Story sputtered to an unsatisfying end. I watched the first few episodes of the season, then lost the rest when my DVR died. Is it worth trying to see the season finale or should I just skip this season?
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VorpalBunny posted:I heard this season of American Horror Story sputtered to an unsatisfying end. I watched the first few episodes of the season, then lost the rest when my DVR died. Is it worth trying to see the season finale or should I just skip this season? There were a few memorable aspects to season, notably Kathy Bates and, uh... well there was Kathy Bates. Definitely not a stellar season. It felt like they just threw a bunch of halfway thought out stories together and tried to form something coherent, but couldn't make it work. I didn't hate it, and if you really like the cast I would say it is certainly worth sitting through, but I won't be recommending it to my friends who are otherwise uninterested.
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Okay, I thought the second episode of Rake was better than the first, and it's obvious that any edges it might have had were sanded off, so I'm gonna need to know where I can watch the original series. Get me some perspective.
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Manos del Sino posted:There were a few memorable aspects to season, notably Kathy Bates and, uh... well there was Kathy Bates. Francis Conroy was awesome as well.  (Also, Angela Bassett was wonderful in her first few episodes.)
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DivisionPost posted:Okay, I thought the second episode of Rake was better than the first, and it's obvious that any edges it might have had were sanded off, so I'm gonna need to know where I can watch the original series. Get me some perspective. Get an Australian itunes account? I haven't seen the US version yet but the original gets pretty dark at times. Actually it's usually pretty dark but with some moments and episodes which are hilarious. It mostly leans more towards the drama side than comedy though. It's probably a fair bit 'edgier' just because there's more you can get away with on an Australian public broadcaster than you can on an American commercial network.
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zoux posted:I'm sure that, for that reason, some people will say, "why remake it then" but with Cosmos it makes more sense to update it (and periodically into the future as well) than other remakes. We've come so far in terms of our understanding of the universe since the original Cosmos and what they were trying to do with SFX in the original show can be accomplished so much better today, that I think it's appropriate to do so. I agree. Just take planets. When the original series was done we could only speculate that there might be some other solar systems with planets, maybe a very rare phenomenon. Now we know they are actually the majority of solar systems (extrapolated from the couple of hundreds we found right around us) and that there are really many very odd and spectacularly eccentric planets and solar systems. And that there are many planets that at least have the positional possibility to carry life. Or the form of the Milky Way - recently it was discovered that the spiral form isn't really what it looks like. And so on.
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precision posted:I don't mind the Olympics existing but dear bleeding Jesus who actually watches that poo poo? Lots of people watch and enjoy the olympics including me, for most of the events its the only time you really get a chance or bother to watch it on TV. It's a fun event.
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The Winter Olympics is all about hockey and curling. I couldn't give less of a poo poo about any other sports in Sochi.
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Skeleton is the only Winter Olympic sport worth watching.
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Decius posted:I agree. Just take planets. When the original series was done we could only speculate that there might be some other solar systems with planets, maybe a very rare phenomenon. Now we know they are actually the majority of solar systems (extrapolated from the couple of hundreds we found right around us) and that there are really many very odd and spectacularly eccentric planets and solar systems. I don't know much about this but it sounds awesome, are there any good recents books on this that you recommend?
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IRQ posted:Ah, the universal (pun not intended) symbol for "thar be reruns on tv this week for no good reason." 2012 was the best Olympics you shut your whore mouth  
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Jan 31, 2014 12:39
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America had more gold and overall medals than anyone, so yes. It was a good Olympics.
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Congrats you're the fastest at skating around this ice rink
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Boogaleeboo posted:America had more gold and overall medals than anyone, so yes. It was a good Olympics. Think you need to go for the table relative to population and sports funding there mate
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Rarity posted:2012 was the best Olympics you shut your whore mouth 2012 did give us Queen Elizabeth II and James Bond jumping out of an airplane, so there is that.
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Rarity posted:2012 was the best Olympics you shut your whore mouth Being the best Olympics is like winning the Special Olympics.
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2012 also gave us the TV show that wasn't at all a rip off of the Aussie show (albeit by people who've made this type of TV before) but still really good - 'Twenty Twelve'. Worth a watch if you like mockumentary TV comedies. The games themselves were awesome too, and we did a surprisingly good job and everyone here actually seemed happy for a few weeks for a change. Don't care as much about Winter Olympics but I'll probably watch ridiculous amounts of it anyway, especially if the online delivery is as good as 2012 was.
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We won medals in equestrian, taekwondo and the men's gymnastics. Take that, world 
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It's a shame there's a comma in that sentence because equestrian taekwondo is something I would actually watch.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Skeleton is the only Winter Olympic sport worth watching. What Olympics are you watching? 
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I just know there's a luge relay for the first time ever and I am so curious as to how that works. Do they have to pass a baton? 
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IRQ posted:Ah, the universal (pun not intended) symbol for "thar be reruns on tv this week for no good reason." They only lost money like once (I think in 2010). They unexpectedly made money and got great ratings in 2012 in spite of internet backlash. I remember in 1998 the second CBS' coverage of their final Winter Olympics ended NBC put their Olympic rings on everything (including on their station here in New York). Those games bombed big time in the ratings. Didn't help that they were in Sydney and started in the middle of September. Plus they showed absolutely nothing live except for the basketball gold medal game. At least now they stream everything online live, plus I heard they're gonna show all the figure skating on cable live. Can't wait for the backlash when they interrupt the closing ceremonies for something else again. This time it's Growing Up Fisher
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I'm excited to have all of my tape delayed events interrupted for 10 minutes of Mary Carrillo telling us poo poo we already know about Russia followed by an overproduced human interest piece about the American athlete's trumped up sob story.
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Will the Beeb have something as awesome as what they had for the London Olympics? Their system was pretty drat snazzy.
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I asked on another forum, and it sounds like it should be a similar setup.
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Joramun posted:Being the best Olympics is like winning the Special Olympics. Watch them run, watch them fall. Watch them try to catch a ball, Olympics..... Special Olympics. Watch them laugh, watch them drool, watch them fall.. into the pool.. that's diving.. At the Special Olympics.
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Dantes posted:Olympics are nice, winter Olympics are great: curling !!! Ski Jump is cool because there's an element of danger and a high skill threshold not present in the other events.
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Irish Joe posted:Ski Jump is cool because there's an element of danger and a high skill threshold not present in the other events. Figure skaters are literally dancing on knives.
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What's odd is this year I'm seeing a lot of not-nbc networks preempt their programming and I really don't recall that happening in the past. I didn't think, in general, that the Olympics were a large enough ratings draw that the other prime time networks would be worried about viewership for their shows.
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