|
I can take or leave the Daily Show these days but Trevor Noah is really cool and everyone should read his memoir of growing up in South Africa directly before, during and after Apartheid as a mixed race child (or better yet, listen to the audiobook which is really loving good and sees Noah speaking around 8 different languages).
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 05:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 17:49 |
|
|
Trevor Noah's standup act is really good but I don't think he's a very good host for something like the Daily Show. He kinda Craig Kilborns it.
|
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 06:03
|
|
|
DC Murderverse posted:I can take or leave the Daily Show these days but Trevor Noah is really cool and everyone should read his memoir of growing up in South Africa directly before, during and after Apartheid as a mixed race child (or better yet, listen to the audiobook which is really loving good and sees Noah speaking around 8 different languages).
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 06:22
|
|
|
DC Murderverse posted:I can take or leave the Daily Show these days but Trevor Noah is really cool and everyone should read his memoir of growing up in South Africa directly before, during and after Apartheid as a mixed race child (or better yet, listen to the audiobook which is really loving good and sees Noah speaking around 8 different languages). KEEN! He's a top guy.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 08:05
|
|
|
Yeah that book is great, can highly recommend.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 08:09
|
|
|
DC Murderverse posted:I can take or leave the Daily Show these days but Trevor Noah is really cool and everyone should read his memoir of growing up in South Africa directly before, during and after Apartheid as a mixed race child (or better yet, listen to the audiobook which is really loving good and sees Noah speaking around 8 different languages). Yeah I listened to it earlier this year and it was really really good. His mom is on one of his standup specials after that thing that happens that I won't spoil. You can really see where he got it.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 13:35
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:Trevor Noah's standup act is really good but I don't think he's a very good host for something like the Daily Show. He kinda Craig Kilborns it. drat, dude. You don't have to like him and that's fine, but comparing someone to Kilborn is going a bit far.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 15:28
|
|
|
I think Game of Thrones is starting to lose me. I liked the show a lot when they were adapting the books but now that the writers are striking out on their own the characterizations and plotting has suffered immensely. After last night's episode I think I'm actively rooting for the Walkers to storm in, kill everyone, and take back Westeros.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 15:43
|
|
|
lelandjs posted:I think Game of Thrones is starting to lose me. I liked the show a lot when they were adapting the books but now that the writers are striking out on their own the characterizations and plotting has suffered immensely. After last night's episode I think I'm actively rooting for the Walkers to storm in, kill everyone, and take back Westeros. They can do whatever as long as plot-boat sails on.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 15:44
|
|
|
Yeah all the characters are teleporting dumbasses now. But hey, there's only 7 episodes left in the entire show now, may as well stick it out.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 15:44
|
|
|
ABC is doing a live action Jetsons because everyone is creatively bankrupt. https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/08/21/live-action-reboot-the-jetsons-abc/
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 16:53
|
|
|
bull3964 posted:ABC is doing a live action Jetsons because everyone is creatively bankrupt. I want to get off Peak TV's wide ride
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 17:01
|
|
|
lelandjs posted:I want to get off Peak TV's wide ride Maybe Jane will stop this crazy thing.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 17:13
|
|
|
bull3964 posted:ABC is doing a live action Jetsons because everyone is creatively bankrupt. Looking forward to the inevitable Variety article Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing! - Inside ABC's $100 million Jetsons debacle and how a single put pilot order almost ruined the Big Three circa March 2020. Honestly, the most baffling thing about this entire situation is that they want to do it as a multicam.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 17:40
|
|
|
bull3964 posted:ABC is doing a live action Jetsons because everyone is creatively bankrupt. I'm more surprised by the fact that The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! is apparently a thing that exists.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 17:59
|
|
|
Don't be, there's a bunch of those things these days.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:22
|
|
|
Reminder that there's an eclipse going on right now. Check it out but be safe.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:23
|
|
|
Snak posted:Reminder that there's an eclipse going on right now. Check it out but be safe. I'll DVR it, please nobody post spoilers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:25
|
|
|
Eh it's overcast here.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:25
|
|
|
IRQ posted:I'll DVR it, please nobody post spoilers. The eclipse was in purgatory all along
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:27
|
|
|
Snak posted:Reminder that there's an eclipse going on right now. Check it out but be safe. The Claw Vipers are at it again. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:28
|
|
|
You have to Save the Cheerleader before the eclipse happens.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:29
|
|
|
Wheat Loaf posted:You have to Save the Cheerleader before the eclipse happens. Remember how the eclipse that gave everyone their powers turned out to not have done that? It's just that all of a sudden a group of unrelated people realized they had powers at the same time? Except then there was ANOTHER eclipse later on and for some reason everyone lost their powers while it was going?
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:33
|
|
|
What I'm saying is that Heroes sucked.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:33
|
|
|
Snak posted:Reminder that there's an eclipse going on right now. Check it out but be safe. Night of the Comet 2: Day of the Eclipse
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:37
|
|
|
IRQ posted:I'll DVR it, please nobody post spoilers. I was really into it at first, but it peaked half way through and never recovered.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:43
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:What I'm saying is that Heroes sucked. "We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate. But have we truly any choice in when we rise or when we fall? Or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction? Is it evolution that takes us by the hand? Does science point our way? Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe?" frrrrrrrrrrt never got into it and I'm thrilled in retrospect
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 18:48
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:What I'm saying is that Heroes sucked. Just like the Nissan Versa.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 19:01
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:Remember how the eclipse that gave everyone their powers turned out to not have done that? It's just that all of a sudden a group of unrelated people realized they had powers at the same time? Except then there was ANOTHER eclipse later on and for some reason everyone lost their powers while it was going? Don't remember the eclipse giving them their powers. I remember the one where there's an eclipse which removes everyone's powers and it led to one bit that frustrated me a lot (more so than everything else on the show at that point), where Claire has lost her healing powers and gets shot, then when she's in the hospital her immune system stops working and she gets every possible disease at once, which naturally makes the doctors suspicious so they call the police. Episode ends with these policemen showing up and saying they have a few questions for her mother. Next episode starts with her powers coming back, her getting better and her mother checking her out and taking her back home. I honestly can't think of another modern drama show that just flat-out ignored a cliffhanger without even trying to half-rear end a clunky resolution.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 19:18
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:What I'm saying is that Heroes sucked. I'm kinda glad that Heroes has gone mostly forgotten as far as the whole mid-2000s post-Lost serialized TV zeitgeist went.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 19:27
|
|
|
It's also Hayden Panettiere's birthday today. Heroes will never be this relevant again.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 19:37
|
|
|
IRQ posted:Just like the Nissan Versa. YOu mean Rogue?
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 19:39
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:Remember how the eclipse that gave everyone their powers turned out to not have done that? It's just that all of a sudden a group of unrelated people realized they had powers at the same time? Except then there was ANOTHER eclipse later on and for some reason everyone lost their powers while it was going? I just now in 2017 while watching the NASA stream, realized how incredibly silly and impossible an eclipse that went around the entire world would be. I never actually thought about that before.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 20:02
|
|
|
Wheat Loaf posted:Don't remember the eclipse giving them their powers. I remember the one where there's an eclipse which removes everyone's powers and it led to one bit that frustrated me a lot (more so than everything else on the show at that point), where Claire has lost her healing powers and gets shot, then when she's in the hospital her immune system stops working and she gets every possible disease at once, which naturally makes the doctors suspicious so they call the police. I'm glad I quit Heroes half way through so every once and awhile I can hear something like this and just laugh at how stupid it got. I'd like to believe people just make up stuff about Heroes and I'm happy to believe it.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 20:16
|
|
|
e: lol wrong thread
Shageletic fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Aug 21, 2017 |
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:13
|
|
|
Uh, okay?
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:15
|
|
|
Uh GoT is getting dumb.....
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:18
|
|
|
raditts posted:I'm kinda glad that Heroes has gone mostly forgotten as far as the whole mid-2000s post-Lost serialized TV zeitgeist went. Sure, when Heroes debuted, Lost was going through its disappointing early season three stretch and people were speculating that Heroes was "the new Lost". Heroes was nominated for the best drama series Emmy. It's competition was season six of Sopranos (which won) and the third seasons of House, Boston Legal and Grey's Anatomy.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:18
|
|
|
Wheat Loaf posted:Sure, when Heroes debuted, Lost was going through its disappointing early season three stretch and people were speculating that Heroes was "the new Lost". Oh man first season Heroes was so special to me because, for the first time in my life, I had unlimited access to both television and the internet. I went crazy watching the show and discussing it online. I didn't even mind the finale at the time. Then over the summer break I settled down a bit and went back to fill in gaps of my TV knowledge and started to realize that maybe Heroes wasn't so special after all. Then season two happened and I gave up halfway through. I still love season one, though, and really believe that it deserves better than to be lumped into the same category as the other Lostalikes. It's probably the third best Bryan Fuller show. Side note: I also watched Drive when it premiered and thought it was gonna be huge, only to have my hopes crushed not even a week later.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 17:49 |
|
|
Man, Drive. That's a random "I might grow to love this show" nugget from the vault. I was really into Traveler for a minute.
|
|
#
?
Aug 21, 2017 21:55
|
|