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Pierson posted:Is Alpha House good? I may need to watch. I know it has John Goodman but I've been burned too many times before on Washington-politics-TV shows. It is good.
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Pierson posted:Is Alpha House good? I may need to watch. I know it has John Goodman but I've been burned too many times before on Washington-politics-TV shows. It is live action Doonesbury.
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Mu Zeta posted:The work Tommy Salami did on Sports Night is incredible. I had no idea that was one huge set and that they filmed in front of a studio audience. Wait, this isn't true, is it? There's no way there was a studio audience in most of those shots, there's no room/rooms clearly have 4 walls. And the laugh track in the first season was, I thought, added in post (possibly by showing the footage to an audience and recording the laughter). Plus it's gone by the second season. There's no way it was filmed in front of a studio audience. Unless that's the joke, in which case I'll shut up.
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thrawn527 posted:Wait, this isn't true, is it? There's no way there was a studio audience in most of those shots, there's no room/rooms clearly have 4 walls. And the laugh track in the first season was, I thought, added in post (possibly by showing the footage to an audience and recording the laughter). Plus it's gone by the second season. Entertainment Weekly posted:When the cast started filming in the summer of 1998, ABC insisted on a live audience and a laugh track. Sorkin and Schlamme disagreed but couldn’t overrule the network. Sports Night - An Oral History
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Nov 18, 2014 18:28
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thrawn527 posted:What the hell? So they read the script out loud for the audience, recorded the laugh track, then added it to the episode? That's the dumbest TV...thing I think I've ever heard. You'd think that, but there's a series called Selfie airing on ABC.
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thrawn527 posted:What the hell? So they read the script out loud for the audience, recorded the laugh track, then added it to the episode? That's the dumbest TV...thing I think I've ever heard. Eh, there's live performances like that of material all over. It's not that strange.
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FISHMANPET posted:No, Selfie has been cancelled.
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Josh Lyman posted:Also Selfie started to get decent. There are no roles for Asians... wait that's Whedon not Sorkin. nvm
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"It's someone called bob for you?"  Goddamn if I don't really like the campaign episodes.
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TheBigBad posted:There are no roles for Asians... wait that's Whedon not Sorkin. nvm "We don't hate Asians. John Cho is more valuable to us where he is." Later, we hate Asians.
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Watching S3E22 "Posse Comitatus" and I have to keep reminding myself that setting a scene to (optionally a cover of) Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" wasn't yet cliche. The War of the Roses piece playing over the assassination is better, though. Bring on "20 Hours in America"!
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I'm watching west wing for the first time, and I can see why this series is so well regarded. One thing that sticks out for me is the number of times that people's vacations/nights/weekends are taken over by work. I wonder how realistic that is. Up to S02E19 - Bad Moon Rising
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westyx posted:I'm watching west wing for the first time, and I can see why this series is so well regarded. You're in for a treat in the next couple episodes. Actually right on through the first couple of season 3 is just fantastic. In other news, holy poo poo this is (I hope) some terrible editing (because otherwise it's even worse writing). S4E03 "College Kids", the President's getting briefed about a letter from the pipe bombers. In the middle of the briefing, the President delivers this insightful non sequitur: "The internet has been a phenomenal tool for hate groups." 
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withak posted:It is good. Thanks for the recommendation, been laughing my rear end off all night.
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pokeyman posted:You're in for a treat in the next couple episodes. Actually right on through the first couple of season 3 is just fantastic. I'm up to S03E04 and I don't know what it is, but the last couple of episodes have been really interesting - the staff make mistakes, jed gets a temper etc.
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Josh Lyman posted:I kinda want to do a West Wing rewatch podcast called The Lemon Lyman Logs. I would happily wear a muumu and chain-smoke Parliaments to help make this happen.
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westyx posted:One thing that sticks out for me is the number of times that people's vacations/nights/weekends are taken over by work. I wonder how realistic that is. From my very brief time working in political campaigns, it is completely accurate.
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HorseHeadBed posted:I would happily wear a muumu and chain-smoke Parliaments to help make this happen. drat you westyx, I need you to forget the last couple weeks of your life. 
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Well I can watch season 5 fresh as I'm 90% sure I've only seen one or two episodes.  edit: Yes I know it doesn't count because I've watched the other seasons so much. 
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Josh Lyman posted:I really like how podcasts like A Cast of Kings do it, where you have (at least) one person who is new to the material and (at least) one who is intimately familiar with it. The trouble with something like the X-Files Files is that all the hosts have fully formed opinions of the show, so there's no give and take. Welp, guess I just disqualified myself... But yeah, new perspective really helps provoke discussion, otherwise it's just giggling about in-jokes. Hadn't been able to put my finger on why TXFF didn't work for me, but I think you're right. There's a guy called MrAristocrates doing a masochistic Newsroom watchthrough in this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3669533. He's been pretty insightful about what does and doesn't work in that show. It may well have put him off Aaron Sorkin for life, however... e: I'd still like to do it, though. HorseHeadBed fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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westyx posted:I'm watching west wing for the first time, and I can see why this series is so well regarded. For anyone working in the political or policy part of government as opposed to bureaucracy, or for an organization that deals with those people (lobbying groups, think thanks, whatever) it's entirely realistic. When poo poo goes down you respond now, or some other person gets the opportunity to further their agenda. You do not like that person.
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Josh Lyman posted:I really like how podcasts like A Cast of Kings do it, where you have (at least) one person who is new to the material and (at least) one who is intimately familiar with it. The trouble with something like the X-Files Files is that all the hosts have fully formed opinions of the show, so there's no give and take.  I've been kinda spoiled on the major stuff due to it's age, and started watching 3 minute clips on youtube. At this point I know that some things happen, and it's trying to work out when they actually will. Thankfully, I have a horrible memory, so most of the events happen on screen and then I go "huh, oh, yeah, i remember that now". FrozenVent posted:For anyone working in the political or policy part of government as opposed to bureaucracy, or for an organization that deals with those people (lobbying groups, think thanks, whatever) it's entirely realistic. When poo poo goes down you respond now, or some other person gets the opportunity to further their agenda. You do not like that person. I watched about 10 minutes of S03E23 (clips of the west wing interspersed with interviews of real life west wing inhabitants) and there was a bit on that - you just went at everything for 4 or 8 years, and if you hadn't burnt out before then you looked back hating the hours etc, but still having the yearning to do it again.
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pokeyman posted:Watching S3E22 "Posse Comitatus" and I have to keep reminding myself that setting a scene to (optionally a cover of) Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" wasn't yet cliche. You got it the wrong way round; John Cale (the version in the episode) covered it first, which inspired Jeff Buckley's version.
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I've just watched S04E23 - the episode in which bartlett resigns and the speaker (goodman) becomes president. If you knew it was him you could tell, but otherwise they obscured his face and figure up until the end. Powerful tv even knowing it was coming.
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pokeyman posted:Now abandon all hope for thirty episodes. The resolution of the Zoey plot, Separation of Powers + Shutdown, and The Supremes, are pretty great. The rest meh.
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Pierson posted:At least Giant Politician John Goodman lives again in Alpha House. I can not thank this thread enough for putting me onto that show. He is awesome in it too.
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willie_dee posted:What, i'm loving it.... I have loved everything Sorkin has done though, including Studio 60 and Sports Night. Hey I liked Studio 60 too (Never saw Sports Night)... I do think the plotline about terrorism and whatnot at the end was a little out of place though. OTOH D.L. Hughley and Matthew Perry can basically sell me on anything.
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Just finishing up my ... third(?) see-through ... and Annabeth and Leo ARE supposed to either be having a relationship or about to start one, right? Also, is it just me or did Bartlet's MS just disappear entirely aside from his cane in the last two seasons?
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Raxivace posted:Hey I liked Studio 60 too (Never saw Sports Night)... I do think the plotline about terrorism and whatnot at the end was a little out of place though. OTOH D.L. Hughley and Matthew Perry can basically sell me on anything. Studio 60 started crawling up its own rear end toward the end of its mercifully brief run, but for a few episodes at the beginning it really was something else.
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brylcreem posted:Also, is it just me or did Bartlet's MS just disappear entirely aside from his cane in the last two seasons? Not really, the storyline of his China trip was in season 6 if I remember correctly, and the MS played a HUGE part there.
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