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Rarity posted:I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who hates Spongebob. That show was goddam awful. I've never seen it.
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Rarity posted:I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who hates Spongebob. That show was goddam awful. Is goddamn awful. I'm pretty sure they still make new episodes.
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May 7, 2014 15:40
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Spongebob was good once. That was ten years ago. Even as a child I recognized how lovely it got.
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May 7, 2014 15:43
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MrAristocrates posted:Adventure Time is good but the fanbase has a tendency to read too much into stuff and act like it's way deeper than it is. Not quite as bad as MLP in that regard, though. Case in point. The loving New Yorker posted:“Adventure Time” is one of the most philosophically risky and, often, emotionally affecting shows on TV. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/04/21/140421crte_television_nussbaum?currentPage=all Maybe I'm a bit cruel just cutting that line, but the whole article made my right eyebrow incrementally rise. Checked out a couple episodes of the show on netflix, which is easy to do since they're 11 minutes each. Nice enough, and I'm sure I would have gone crazy about it when I was 11 or so. I'd be still interested in seeing a bit of the latter seasons sometime just to compare and contrast, if it ever pops up on Netflix.
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May 7, 2014 15:45
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The New Yorker does that all the time. They have a bunch of terrible articles about Homeland. Calling it the anti-24 (when it's just as lovely) and a big defense of the mopey daughter character.
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May 7, 2014 15:47
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Shageletic posted:Case in point. Adventure Time has its moments of that kind of thing (that internet manchildren trip over each other to overanalyze the most, of course), but nothing it does comes anywhere close in terms of philosophical / social commentary to what Jim Henson did with puppets 30+ years ago.
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May 7, 2014 15:49
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http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/nbc-picks-up-comedy-marry-me-to-series/ NBC ordered a drama starring Katherine Heigl who plays a CIA threat analyst for the president played by Alfre Woodard. I give it 6 episodes before cancellation. Also this, which totally isn't a ripoff of The Americans: "Allegiance centers on Alex O’Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, who learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when its revealed that his parents, Mark (Scott Cohen) and Katya (Hope Davis) are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees."
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May 7, 2014 16:11
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Just watched the first episode of the British House of Cards last night and it owns. I'm interested to see how closely the American version stuck to it.
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May 7, 2014 16:14
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Josh Lyman posted:http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/nbc-picks-up-comedy-marry-me-to-series/ It's not often a single persons involvement in a show will completely put me off, but I cannot stand Heigl and I hope they cancel it during the first intermission.
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May 7, 2014 16:51
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EL BROMANCE posted:It's not often a single persons involvement in a show will completely put me off, but I cannot stand Heigl and I hope they cancel it during the first intermission.
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May 7, 2014 17:29
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:E: Is Adventure Time good or is it like MLP? (or both?) Both are good shows in different ways with fanbases that are insane weirdos in different ways. See also: Avatar (but not Korra).
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May 7, 2014 17:31
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Rarity posted:I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who hates Spongebob. That show was goddam awful. My point was not in support of spongebob but to berate all three. Spongebob was flawed from the beginning as it featured a money mongering mogul (Mr. Krabs) who didn't even bother to take advantage of Spongebob's asexuality to produce a second frycook and thus maximize efficiency. Even more infuriating was his choice to not do this after building a second restaurant right next to the old one.
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^^^Look, not that I want to defend Spongbob loving Squarepants, but THAT'S what you're going with? Of all the things you could complain about -- not being funny, tired situational comedy, sending a poor message to children -- you draw the line there?Sober posted:Unless she turned over a new leaf recently, I doubt anyone on the production side of things could even stand Heigl from what little I've read and heard about her. Joe Carnahan (who directed the pilot) has built a strong reputation as a straight shooter, and he seemed to like Heigl just fine. Then again, his exact words were "she's a movie star in a TV role," so draw your own conclusions. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 18:11 on May 7, 2014 |
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DivisionPost posted:Joe Carnahan (who directed the pilot) has built a strong reputation as a straight shooter, and he seemed to like Heigl just fine. Haha there was either a thread here or in Punchsport Pagoda that said "if you ever hear someone written about as a 'straight shooter', that just means they're an rear end in a top hat". Maybe that's why they get on! 
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Josh Lyman posted:http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/nbc-picks-up-comedy-marry-me-to-series/ Natasha? No that won't do, they'll know you're Russian right away. We'll call you Katya.
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Aphrodite posted:Natasha? No that won't do, they'll know you're Russian right away. We'll call you Katya.
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Josh Lyman posted:http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/nbc-picks-up-comedy-marry-me-to-series/ quote:Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the president (Alfre Woodard) because she once was engaged to her son before a terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and now is determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. 
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May 7, 2014 19:45
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I don't think the CIA would let an agent date the president's son.
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It sounds like someone watched the Americans and then suffered a severe head injury. It explains everything. Including Heigl.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:It sounds like someone watched the Americans and then suffered a severe head injury. It explains everything. Including Heigl. My Mother the Tsar and Katherine Heigl: CIA Agent are 2 different shows actually. So 2 people watched the Americans and suffered head injuries.
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Game: take that byline (for reference:quote:Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the president (Alfre Woodard) because she once was engaged to her son before a terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and now is determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. ), then attempt to give it the name of a Katherine Heigl romcom she'd star in in 2008 All the President's Woman
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May 7, 2014 20:16
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Also that Katherine Heigl thing is very clearly supposed to be a Homeland knockoff, that Allegiance thing is The Americans copy Although I don't get why they're ripping off a mediocrely-rated FX show that has almost zero culture penetration. Ripping off Homeland makes sense, this time last year (when NBC would've started the preliminary exploration into making this show) Homeland was THE show of the season, and I think even now Homeland is Showtime's ratings leader. Ripping off The Americans in contrast is just nonsensical, almost nobody is aware of it
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Occupation posted:Game: take that byline (for reference: 27 Amendments
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Aphrodite posted:I don't think the CIA would let an agent date the president's son. But still.
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MrAristocrates posted:Spongebob was good once. That was ten years ago. Even as a child I recognized how lovely it got. 
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Rarity posted:27 Amendments CommandHer in Briefs
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Occupation posted:Also that Katherine Heigl thing is very clearly supposed to be a Homeland knockoff, that Allegiance thing is The Americans copy Hahaha gently caress off Occ.
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achillesforever6 posted:Yeah I think the cutoff point was the movie where the episodes after it were goddamn terrible. God that was like 10 years ago too wasn't it As much as I poo poo on cartoon watchers in this forum*, I will admit that the first three seasons of Spongebob are actually very good. The whole show has this beautiful watercolor aesthetic, the music and the jokes have an old timey Merry Melodies-esque bent, and all the characters are well-defined without being simplistic. Most of the series is available on Amazon Prime and I'd definitely recommend anyone who appreciates classic cartoons to check it out. *deservedly. You shouldn't be watching cartoons like Ninja Turtles, MLP and Gravity Falls in your 20s & 30s. Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 21:03 on May 7, 2014 |
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IRQ posted:Hahaha gently caress off Occ. Dude The Americans is my favorite FX show and favorite show currently airing It's a super not popular show though, like...at all
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Josh Lyman posted:Maybe they decided that Cuse's name could draw in Lost fans since Pacific Rim didn't do well domestically? Or maybe because Bates Motel has been a success?
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Occupation posted:It's a super not popular show though, like...at all Which is a shame, because the wig game on The Americans is strong as hell. People love silly wigs and spycraft.
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Today in bad messaging
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Occupation posted:Today in bad messaging We can only hope it's as bad as last year.
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Irish Joe posted:*deservedly. You shouldn't be watching cartoons like Ninja Turtles, MLP and Gravity Falls in your 20s & 30s. Hey man, when I visited my brother over Christmas break his kids were constantly watching the new Ninja Turtles series. That show is seriously funny and I could totally see myself watching it, kids around or not. MLP, yeah, gently caress that poo poo, and I have no idea what Gravity Falls even is, but don't hate on the Turtles.
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We now have to suffer through another two decades of NBC crapping all over the Olympics. Or slapping their crap all over it. Or just not letting me stream it live from my preferred device without a cable subscription. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/sports/olympics/nbc-extends-olympic-tv-deal-through-2032.html
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raditts posted:I had no idea that Millionaire was still on, let alone that Cedric the loving Entertainer was hosting it. I guess Disney made him an offer he liked. But I wouldn't think this would be a step down for him, just a gig closer to home.
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Also game show hosting is the easiest gig in the loving world, you spend like four to six hours once a week for like half the year at most
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Thwomp posted:We now have to suffer through another two decades of NBC crapping all over the Olympics. Or slapping their crap all over it. Or just not letting me stream it live from my preferred device without a cable subscription. That's too bad. During the London games I used a proxy to watch Canadian streams and was amazed at how much better their coverage was. During the recent winter games I tried to watch some of the events using NBCs iOS app and could never get it working even though I'm a comcast subscriber.
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