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Hey, hey! Everyone calm down. Drunk History is back, y'all!
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muscles like this? posted:The bizarre thing about this move is that they're adapting the fantasy part of the series instead of the probably easier move, which would have been the prequel stuff set in the modern world. Just the first one, if I remember correctly. Which Terry Brooks even admits, since he said he had never really written before, so he borrowed heavily to use as a framework. Which, you know, is cheating, but whatever. Elfstones of Shannara, the second book, is a pretty big departure from that. Well, moderately big. You still have Elves and a big battle. But I agree, the later books with the fantasy characters discovering a centuries old A.I. with lasers that attacks them and crazy poo poo like that would be more fun. Or the Running With the Demon books, which were decent but way easier to film/sell.
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Jul 11, 2014 19:45
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Decius posted:Tim Curry does mostly voice acting nowadays to answer the question from the last page. Oh drat, is that why he took over on The Clone Wars? I was wondering why they'd do that, when the voice of Palpatine before that was rock solid, and then suddenly he just...sounded like Tim Curry. But that makes sense, I didn't know the original voice actor had died.
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Jul 14, 2014 14:29
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DivisionPost posted:Crossposting from the I am unreasonably excited about this.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:58
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Irish Joe posted:That, and Cumberbatch is a lithe, non-threatening male for young women to get hot over. Also, it's a good show. Just because tumblr likes a thing doesn't necessarily make that thing bad.
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Aug 1, 2014 01:07
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Regy Rusty posted:I watch it. I watched the first 3 seasons of it. Then I realized that at the end of each season, I couldn't remember a single thing that had happened. So I stopped. It's okay. But very forgettable.
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Aug 20, 2014 15:32
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Irish Joe posted:she pulled a Anita Sarkeesian and is pretending like she's the victim I don't know anything about this new situation you're talking about, but this part here...man, you are just the worst.
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Aug 26, 2014 18:30
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Fateo McMurray posted:Only 1/2 wrong. Firefly River was annoying. River Song was awesome. Agreed. I love River Song, in fact I'd say she's the closest we've come to a female Doctor. She's also my wife's favorite character of the reboot.
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Aug 27, 2014 15:03
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Ursus Veritas posted:...Criminal Minds..."Normal"... This was passed over by most other posters, but this. Normal is the best episode Criminal Minds ever had. It's very stand alone, and amazing. I don't watch it anymore, but I can't really say the show it bad because there was a time when it produced an episode like that. If you only watch one episode, make it this one. And then realize it'll never be that good again. (The Reaper plot was pretty good, too, but multi-episode and definitely not standalone.)
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Sep 5, 2014 15:03
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Dead Snoopy posted:
Fine, fine. I'll watch your show.
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Sep 19, 2014 20:43
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Sam Elliott on Justified!
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:This series of Doctor Who is very very bad. There's a really weird dissonance between the old school stern tone of how the Doctor is being played and Moffat taking the programme towards the children's TV/soap opera ends of the spectrum. I haven't yet watched this latest episode, but I'm really enjoying this season. These are the first episodes I've ever watched as they air, and, for some reason, when I marathon to catch up to a show, I tend to not like the new episodes as the air. Probably because the pace changes for obvious reasons. But these have really got me on board. I like the new sort of crazy, grumpy Uncle thing they've got going for the Doctor. And Clara is interesting for the first time in her entire run. The only script I was wild about was the first 30 or so minutes of the season premiere. But it settled into something pretty great after that. And Capaldi seems to still be honing in on exactly who is Doctor is, but the result is I like him more each episode. Anyway, Doctor Who is probably the most subjective TV show I've ever watched, because it's so out there and so inconsistent, so no opinion is really wrong. I've hated pretty large stretches of it. But I'm on board for this season so far.
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Sep 29, 2014 22:21
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zoux posted:What's the deal with Gilmore Girls is it funny or what? Yes. When it was on, I felt like it and The West Wing were two of the better written shows of it's time. Looking bad that was a bit hyperbolic, but I still think it's a very good show. And apparently getting added to Netflix, like, tomorrow, so that's cool. And convenient, since I just finished another rewatch of The West Wing.
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Sep 30, 2014 15:32
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:It's mostly a drip drip drip of Just World "only the guilty need a defence" stuff but sometimes they just straight up coerce confessions. Keeping in mind this isn't actually a defense of Castle in that regard, but this is true of all crime procedurals, isn't it? Castle, NCIS, Elementary, Bones, etc. all seem to do this. Sure, they use "evidence and detective work", but most cases just end with a confession, given by someone who doesn't have a lawyer, and very often after the person asking the questions has lied or threatened the suspect somehow. I've never seen Castle as being any worse about this than any other show. The amount of times Gibbs on NCIS has countered, "Do I need a lawyer?" with, "Do you think you need one?" or, "Why, have you done anything wrong?" is rather absurd.
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Sep 30, 2014 20:30
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Oh I agree, it's the same with most US crime shows. The difference, for me, is that I liked Castle initially whereas I don't watch NCIS etc for much the same reasons (also they're mostly trash on a basic level of quality). That makes sense, and it would be nice to have a show act like that here. I guess, having only ever watched American crime shows, that's the only thing I've known. So, while I'm extremely vocal when things like that happen in real life, and tell everyone I know to never talk to the police, when it happens on TV I just kind of accept it as a kind of annoying but inevitable part of the format.
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Sep 30, 2014 21:57
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Sorry for the double post, but:Doctor Butts posted:The Glades kind of one ups this because the detective pretty much ruins all the suspect's lives, if you think about it. Yeah, this happens a lot, too. Very often they'll show a husband, for example, grusome pictures of his now dead wife's dead and mangled body to try and illicit a reaction. And every time I can't help but think, "Jesus Christ, if this guy didn't kill his wife, that is a horrible thing to show him that he'll be bringing up in therapy for years to come." NCIS is also the worst about this. Gibbs did (I stopped watching last season) this probably at least once every other week.
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Sep 30, 2014 22:09
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Selfie may be one of the worst pilots I've ever seen. It got mildly better at the end, so I'm going to hope they just had to show how terrible she was so we can see her grow, and I'll try next week as well. But it's basically starting from a negative 4 stars from me. That scene where the Zoey Deschanel neighbors make her over while singing Lady Gaga to the tune of a ukulele was like nails on a chalkboard to me. Holy poo poo that was bad. If this didn't have Karen Gillan and John Cho, I would have already bailed. I'm just hoping against hope they get better material. Lots of good shows have bad pilots. ...right?
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Oct 2, 2014 14:20
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Aphrodite posted:I meant Sleepy Hollow as the good one and House and HIMYM as the bad ones, I didn't look at his Wikipedia or anything. Yeah, John Cho was only in one episode of HIMYM, where he's seducing Marshall to join his law firm. He was great in it. Kal Penn was Robin's therapist/boyfriend. That was the awful plot. Kitchen Confidential was amazing. I'm sad it only had one season, but the season is absolutely worth watching. Someone here said that it may be for the best it only got one season, because it went through all the hilarious scenarios that working in a kitchen would give you, so it kinds of stands as a great comedy mini-series.
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Oct 2, 2014 15:30
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EL BROMANCE posted:But at the same time you know Bourdain would've been absolutely delighted with that casting (even though at that point I'm guessing nobody knew who Bradley Cooper was yeah?). He had already been on Alias for a couple of years at that point, so I knew who he was.
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Oct 2, 2014 15:58
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EL BROMANCE posted:Ah I only ever watched a few episodes of Alias. It seemed one of those shows where if you missed an episode you wouldn't be sure who was on which side anymore, based on how it started. Seemed fun enough though. This is definitely the case. The first two seasons are still worth a watch, though. Just make up your own ending after that.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:16
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IRQ posted:Wasn't he immortal or some bullshit by the end? Yes. But only for like a minute before he ended up trapped in a cave under some rocks for the rest of time. Alias got pretty lovely after season 2, but drat if those first 2 seasons weren't solid.
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Oct 2, 2014 16:23
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Shageletic posted:EDIT: The ukelele thing was played for laughs. I think they were in the joke there. But Selfie isn't the most deft thing at keeping up with the times. I think that was part of the problem. Sure, they were in on the joke, but the joke still wasn't funny. I could tell it was trying very hard to be clever, but it never pulled it off. Hopefully they figure it out.
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Oct 2, 2014 18:12
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Yoshifan823 posted:I do not care what any of you people think, Modern Family is still one of the most well written shows on TV. Agreed. Back when I didn't watch the show, I would get so mad when they were nominated for so many Emmys. Then I started watching it. Carry on, Emmys. You at least get that part right.
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Oct 2, 2014 20:55
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Josh Lyman posted:In reflecting on the pilot, I said it felt like a 90s movie copy of The West Wing, and episode 2 didn't convince me of anything different. So it felt like The American President?
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Oct 2, 2014 21:21
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Shageletic posted:So you think Modern Family is better than Parks and Rec, Its Always Sunny, Louie, Veep, 30 Rock, or any other good comedy show in the last handful of years? I didn't say it should win, but I think it's among the best in the last handful of years, yes. Parks and Rec and 30 Rock would be my favorite comedies of the last several years. And I certainly laugh harder when watching Modern Family than when watching Louie (which, while good, very often doesn't feel like a comedy). Sunny, you have to admit, is not for everyone. I've not watched Veep. Look, I'm just saying it deserves to be nominated. Unlike Big Bang Theory.
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Oct 2, 2014 21:35
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Irish Joe posted:The first season of Modern Family is really, REALLY good. My favorite episode of the entire show was recent. Just last year, in the hotel with Stephen Merchant. It's still incredibly good.
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Oct 2, 2014 21:38
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I'm watching Arrow, and really enjoying it (it's basically a Batman TV show), but I'm on episode 8 of season 1, and holy poo poo the actress playing Huntress is just the worst actress I've seen in recent memory. Holy poo poo.
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Oct 6, 2014 20:18
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Postal Parcel posted:Selfie and MLS are also dead, in case that wasn't obvious. Good. The second episode was not an improvement. That show is awful.
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Oct 8, 2014 20:33
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zoux posted:MLS? Manhattan Love Story.
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Oct 8, 2014 20:36
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DrBouvenstein posted:There was also some show with Tea Leoni working for a magazine. The Naked Truth.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:40
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Josh Lyman posted:I was never a huge Simpsons fan and haven't watched it in years, but when I was a kid in the late 90s, I came across the audio in this clip and thought it was hilarious. I even had my dad listen to it. Everyone I know is very familiar with this clip. "That's bad" and "That's good" are commonly said in a Homer voice between my friends and I. It's one of my more often quoted bits. Yeah, it's a thing.
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Oct 24, 2014 20:50
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And a lot of fun to watch in Doctor Who. My favorite companion. And she's good in Guardians of the Galaxy (underused, though). To be fair, she is awful in Selfie, it's not just the material. Though the material is also awful.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:20
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zoux posted:It's revenge for all of us being confused by "News at 11" jokes for half our lives. When I was a kid, I was very confused by WGN's "7 o'clock movie" always starting at 8. Then I learned about WGN being based out of Chicago, and time zones. Still always felt weird to me, but I did live the privileged "East Coast Time Zone" life.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:28
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Mo0 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzdRQCnDBlw This is awesome. I, too, lost it at Smarf. edit: I probably should have waited until it was done before I posted. It keeps getting better and better. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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Nov 7, 2014 15:08
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lelandjs posted:Chris Hardwick got his first gig hosting a dating show for MTV in the 90's and it shows. Opposite Jenny McCarthy, if I remember correctly.
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Nov 18, 2014 16:19
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Flashpoint was pretty good.
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Nov 18, 2014 17:57
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Toxxupation posted:Serial comes out on Thursdays Why do you keep bringing up Serial in the TV show thread? We have a subforum for podcasts.
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Nov 21, 2014 18:29
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I went ahead and made a thread for The Librarians, since a few people were talking about it in here. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3686964
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Dec 9, 2014 20:47
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HUMAN FISH posted:Pretty sure the only people who watch Newsroom are people who want to get outraged by it. I've been a big fan of the show for it's entire run. This most recent episode was legit awful. And not just for the rape discussion. I can't believe this is how Sorkin wrote the second to last episode of the show.
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Dec 9, 2014 21:32
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sbaldrick posted:Which episode is that? As I have it watch it. "The U.S. Poet Laureate", season 3, episode 16.
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Dec 10, 2014 01:43
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zoux posted:The only reason to care about awards is that they matter to the public and to executives and if a show is on the bubble awards can save it. Awards can mean more people watching and you want people watching shows you like. I don't think awards are a measure of the quality of a show or the loyalty of a fanbase, but in the business of television, they do matter. Pretty sure they saved Brooklyn 99 last year. I remember hearing how it wasn't a lock for renewal, but after winning best Comedy, Fox basically said, "Well, I mean, sure we're going to renew it now." I may be misremembering that though.
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Dec 11, 2014 21:08
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