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Title: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Apr 30, 2010, 02:41:43 PM
I watch alot of unconventional TV. Let's see what we watch.

I just watched the first two episodes of Gravity on STARS. It's a series about suicide, and I liked it. The characters are interesting, and every episode seems to be revealing what they did/felt to kill themselves and how they're reacting to life after fucking suicide up.


[Edited for thread retitle.  Carry on, gents.]
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 30, 2010, 03:14:57 PM
Shows I currently watch regularly:

Fringe
Lost
Heroes (sometimes with heavy regret)
South Park (I constantly forget that this is two words instead of a compound)
V (it is getting better
Community
Parks and Recreation
The Office
30 Rock
Caprica
Family Guy
The Cleveland Show
American Dad (I really only like the fish and the alien, why do I still watch this?)

I just got finished watching through Farscape for the first time (still need the second half of The Peacekeeper Wars). I watched Twin Peaks earlier this year, and I also have X-Files on the backburner (never watched it while it was on).

I can think of few shows that I can watch over and over, but the one at the top of my list is Arrested Development. I really can think of nothing else I would love to watch every year.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 30, 2010, 03:15:02 PM
TMI?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 30, 2010, 10:41:55 PM
Medium (it's been a bit disappointing lately though)
Househunters International and other various HGTV things
Project Runway (when I can get the damn episodes to load)
Masterpiece Theater (depending on what it is. not lately tho)
Biggest Loser
This Old House (but it's been pissing me off because I always miss the last episode)
Rick Steves' Europe
Gen's Guiltness Gourmet
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 30, 2010, 11:41:41 PM
@beck: When you say you miss the last episode, do you mean the one from the week before?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 01, 2010, 01:57:22 AM
The only show I go out of my way to catch is Big Bang Theory, and it's new episodes have been spotty at best lately. So I only watch when I get an update on Facebook telling me the episode will be new. Other then that I just surf a lot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 01, 2010, 08:36:26 AM


I can think of few shows that I can watch over and over, but the one at the top of my list is Arrested Development. I really can think of nothing else I would love to watch every year.
FUCK YEAH ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!
The only shows I watch almost everyday are: Maury and Jerry Springer. Thats all the TV i watch. Oh and sometimes Two and a Half Men at night.
Then on Hulu I watch Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and Ghost Hunters. :3
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 01, 2010, 11:49:56 AM
The only show I go out of my way to catch is Big Bang Theory, and it's new episodes have been spotty at best lately. So I only watch when I get an update on Facebook telling me the episode will be new. Other then that I just surf a lot.

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/04/of_course_big_bang_theory_paro.php
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 01, 2010, 07:01:33 PM
PBS:
Ming Tsai (love his restaurant)
America's Test Kitchen
Rick Steves anything

HBO:
Treme
True Blood
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Hung (The Riches was better, though)

Showtime:
US of Tara
Nurse Jackie
The Tudors

Stars:
Gravity
Party Down

Bravo:
Top Chef (Both series)
Flipping Out

USA:
Burn Notice

NBC:
Community

ABC:
Lost

FX:
Justified
Sons of Anarchy
It's Always Sunny

Comedy Central:
South Park

AMC:
Breaking Bad
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 01, 2010, 10:06:36 PM
@beck: When you say you miss the last episode, do you mean the one from the week before?

No, I mean the ones where they show off the finished house.


The only show I go out of my way to catch is Big Bang Theory, and it's new episodes have been spotty at best lately.

I tried sitting through that but no dice.  It reminds me of every other pretentious white-bread geek culture web comic out there.  But yeah, at least it's not another fat man with an inexplicably hot wife.


I'll also catch Ming Tsai's show at times.  He's awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 02, 2010, 06:23:10 AM

Top Chef (Both series)

I used to love Top Chef. Watched till the Marcel season. I saw a commercial the other day. That woman that is a judge, white woman with long hair, has gained weight. Like a LOT. She really does seems to take her job as a judge serious huh
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 02, 2010, 04:06:05 PM
:lmao:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 02, 2010, 04:42:22 PM

Top Chef (Both series)

I used to love Top Chef. Watched till the Marcel season. I saw a commercial the other day. That woman that is a judge, white woman with long hair, has gained weight. Like a LOT. She really does seems to take her job as a judge serious huh

I think she's pregnant, she just got married (last season had them cooking for her wedding) so now I think she's knocked up. Either that, or her husband is pissed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 03, 2010, 01:19:09 AM
The only show I go out of my way to catch is Big Bang Theory, and it's new episodes have been spotty at best lately.

I tried sitting through that but no dice.  It reminds me of every other pretentious white-bread geek culture web comic out there.  But yeah, at least it's not another fat man with an inexplicably hot wife.

Takes all kinds I guess. I have yet to be able to sit through Lost, or through Hedwig and the Angry Itch, but I know you love them. Course I'd stop watching if Sheldon wasn't on there.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 03, 2010, 02:15:27 AM
Sheldon definitely makes that show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 03, 2010, 10:04:37 AM


I think she's pregnant, she just got married (last season had them cooking for her wedding) so now I think she's knocked up. Either that, or her husband is pissed.
Well then girlfriend has been pregnant for the last year and a half.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 03, 2010, 10:30:56 AM
It's hard to lose those post-baby pounds.

Last night's gunfight on Breaking Bad was epic. Great effects and real tension.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 03, 2010, 08:51:07 PM
Takes all kinds I guess. I have yet to be able to sit through Lost, or through Hedwig and the Angry Itch, but I know you love them. Course I'd stop watching if Sheldon wasn't on there.

Touché on Hedwig but I don't love Lost.  I'm so angry at it for wasting my fucking time that I don't watch it anymore.  In fact, I dare say ABC on the whole just pisses me off.  I can't think of any other locally shown station that comes off as such a fucking uppity thumb-in-your-face know-it-all.  I see the round ABC logo and I want to punch a puppy.  Again, I will applaud Big Bang for daring to be a geek comedy considering the other overused formulas it could've been but I can't really sit down and watch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 03, 2010, 09:00:27 PM
It's hard to lose those post-baby pounds.

No it aint. I lost 25 pounds the first 2 weeks post partum and I only had 5 more pounds to go. This was like a month ago, I probably shred those 5 left already. She has no excuse for her fatness
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 03, 2010, 10:25:30 PM
I can think of nothing on ABC that I actually watch beyond Lost. Wait. Is V on ABC? Fuck. I watch that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 04, 2010, 12:35:58 AM
Touché on Hedwig but I don't love Lost. 

Well I hope you at least liked Lost at some point. You kept watching it. Why watch a show you hate?

But I really think that Hedwig is to you like Rocky Horror is to me. It's that movie that when you tell people you like it they give you funny looks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 04, 2010, 06:03:27 AM
I can think of nothing on ABC that I actually watch beyond Lost. Wait. Is V on ABC? Fuck. I watch that.
V

Remember that?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 04, 2010, 12:28:25 PM
Touché on Hedwig but I don't love Lost. 

Well I hope you at least liked Lost at some point. You kept watching it. Why watch a show you hate?

But I really think that Hedwig is to you like Rocky Horror is to me. It's that movie that when you tell people you like it they give you funny looks.

I did at one point but as the story "progressed", it became more and more apparent that big chunks of it were completely useless, time-eating Cell Games-esque filler that I could've gone without seeing and still have been able to keep up with the story. 

The show started out with a premise of a select group people on a mysterious island, strongly implying that there was some kooky scientific answer and that everyone had special connections to each other, with a few even getting strange benefits from the island.  Then it goes into spiritual mode with god-like characters and wonky time travel/alternate streams and throwing in character after character (and I'm not talking about incidental characters, I mean ones they actually gave some sort of story to) while tossing others into the background and/or bumping them off with no real meaning or impact.  Then you can actually tell someone in production was all "Oh shit, maybe we shouldn't have killed that one off!  I know we'll make them illusions/someone see ghosts/someone crazy/throw them all in flashbacks/alternate times."  (Or in the case of Michael, "let's just bring him back and kill him off!")  We would sometimes see dead people before and now it's become expected.  What am I watching, fucking Ghost Whisperer?

I also think LOST followed this trend I feel has shown up where shows and movies obsessively concentrate on characters' pasts.  Combined with its propensity for character over-saturation, this was almost torturous.  Like if old school G.I.Joe did a hour-long episode on the past of every freaking Joe.  NOT EVERYONE HAS AN INTERESTING PAST.  SOME THINGS CAN BE TOLD AND NOT SHOWN.  IF IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO THE STORY, I DO NOT NEED TO SEE IT.  I DO NOT GIVE SHIT.  Too many times we were shown pasts to characters we never had to see or ones we did need to know but for unwarranted lengths of time.

Granted, I'll end up watching the last season anyway because I need to know how they're ending this shit, but I'm likely to do so with DVDs I can skip the hell out of.



And I have never seen Rocky Horror.  Been meaning to, but when I would turn it on I would just tune out.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 04, 2010, 12:40:34 PM
Rocky Horror is one of those movies you either love, hate, or just don't understand what the big deal about it is. Never met anyone that came away from it going "I liked it, but it was just OK."
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 04, 2010, 05:15:49 PM
Well I hope you at least liked Lost at some point. You kept watching it. Why watch a show you hate?

This morning my room mate was saying that the episode where they revealed what the smoke monster is was the first episode in five years that did not leave him angry at the show. I agreed, and then said, "Why the fuck are we still watching this?"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 04, 2010, 05:54:01 PM
That had the opposite effect on me.  I thought the smoke monster was cool when I thought it was some sort of trickery.  Like they had the island rigged and the smoke hid what it really was.  But no.  It's an actual...  Smoke.  Monster.  Boo hiss.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 05, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
I forgot that now I like House. That guy is such a mean bitch, I love it
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 05, 2010, 03:45:27 PM
House is awesome. I need to start watching the old seasons.

I am watching through Weeds now.

My other room mate wants me to watch the Clone Wars. I do not think I want to. I have not made up my mind.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 05, 2010, 04:18:32 PM
Clone Wars isn't that bad. Better then the movies.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 05, 2010, 07:43:04 PM
A rotten PB&J sandwich is better than the movies.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 06, 2010, 09:29:27 AM
Clone Wars isn't that bad. Better then the movies.

I do love the Clone Wars, but I usually watch it onDemand.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 06, 2010, 03:00:33 PM
House is awesome. I need to start watching the old seasons.

I am watching through Weeds now.

My other room mate wants me to watch the Clone Wars. I do not think I want to. I have not made up my mind.
shit I used to watch Weeds! thats an awesome show. Do you know of any webpage where I can watch this at?

I just started watching House as of 2 months ago so I dont know much of the back story besides whats on Wikipedia
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 06, 2010, 06:06:02 PM
surfthechannel.com
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 07, 2010, 04:22:14 PM
House is awesome. I need to start watching the old seasons.

I am watching through Weeds now.

My other room mate wants me to watch the Clone Wars. I do not think I want to. I have not made up my mind.
shit I used to watch Weeds! thats an awesome show. Do you know of any webpage where I can watch this at?

I just started watching House as of 2 months ago so I don't know much of the back story besides whats on Wikipedia

I am watching it on Netflix.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 07, 2010, 08:39:38 PM
i dont have netflix. why would i, can find everything online
surfthechannel.com
thanks
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 07, 2010, 10:06:37 PM
i dont have netflix. why would i, can find everything online
I would get it for the HD content and stability, but I want to see what FiOS offers.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 08, 2010, 06:45:39 AM
Yep. HD is fucking awesome. Streaming online is horrible quality if not an official site.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 08, 2010, 07:50:52 AM
I dont really care for the HD, what do you want to see, the actors' pores?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 08, 2010, 12:51:43 PM
I dont really care for the HD, what do you want to see, the actors' pores?

You obviously don't have an HD. Movies, sports, television shows just look better on a 50-inch plasma 1080i Samsung.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 08, 2010, 03:10:44 PM
SO MUCH
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 08, 2010, 03:10:54 PM
But I only have a 24 inch. Still HD.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 09, 2010, 01:08:37 AM
52 inches bitches!












but it's rear projection. :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 09, 2010, 01:38:16 AM
We couldn't go bigger than 50 inch for the location we wanted the screen. The TV we have is nestled between two doorways and behind it is a closet. The closet is where all the wires/players/boxes are so the TV itself just hovers over the wall. Non-HD shows just look awful on it if we don't set it to non-HD.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 09, 2010, 07:22:29 AM
I dont really care for the HD, what do you want to see, the actors' pores?

You obviously don't have an HD. Movies, sports, television shows just look better on a 50-inch plasma 1080i Samsung.
I do have an HD, I think its forty something inches. People look like robots in it
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 09, 2010, 02:34:02 PM
Oooooook.

Tonight's Breaking Bad should be amazing. Every episode this season has been better than the last. The shootout last week was just pure awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on May 12, 2010, 12:28:47 PM
I only watch Stargate SG1 in syndication. And Family Guy.

Rocky Horror is one of those movies you either love, hate, or just don't understand what the big deal about it is. Never met anyone that came away from it going "I liked it, but it was just OK."

I liked it, but it was just ok.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 12, 2010, 05:50:55 PM
Who watched Lost last night?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 12, 2010, 06:47:58 PM
It was eh. I hope the final two are better written and don't sound like fan fic.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 12, 2010, 07:26:41 PM
I want to know if smokey is truly the man in black, or merely was imitating the man in black. Maybe he transcended?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 12, 2010, 10:05:55 PM
He's the same as Locke. The original died but retains the personality of his host. Kind of like the Aliens from Aliens. When they eat Predators, they look lik Predators but they still have acid blood.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 12, 2010, 10:16:35 PM
Fucking a.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Sam on May 13, 2010, 03:00:26 PM
I'm rewatching Arrested Development.  The show never stops being amazing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 13, 2010, 03:10:06 PM
IT NEVER STOPS BEING EVERYTHING
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 14, 2010, 05:48:57 AM
I just got Netflix for Wii. Kary and I were watching Newsradio last night on it. I miss that show. It tanked when Harman died, but before that it was gold.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 14, 2010, 08:44:33 AM
I'm rewatching Arrested Development.  The show never stops being amazing.
I was going to watch that right now in Hulu
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on May 14, 2010, 11:01:28 AM
If Nuri doesn't know, supposedly they're airing the final episode of Lost next week.

I might even watch it, even though I've never watched the entire series.

I'm expecting some kind of "Surprise!" ending, like "Surprise, it was all a dream in Locke's head while he slept on the airplane, it never crashed!" kind of ending.

I'll also be leading a party to go down to Hollywood and beat and torture the creators of this show after the final...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 14, 2010, 01:13:52 PM
I just got Netflix for Wii. Kary and I were watching Newsradio last night on it. I miss that show. It tanked when Harman died, but before that it was gold.

I know, let's replace him with, hmm, yeah .. Jon Lovitz ... yeah, yeah that's it! That's the ticket!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 14, 2010, 08:13:00 PM
If Nuri doesn't know, supposedly they're airing the final episode of Lost next week.

I might even watch it, even though I've never watched the entire series.

I'm expecting some kind of "Surprise!" ending, like "Surprise, it was all a dream in Locke's head while he slept on the airplane, it never crashed!" kind of ending.

I'll also be leading a party to go down to Hollywood and beat and torture the creators of this show after the final...

Finale is on the 23rd. I am going to a local theatre with some friends to watch it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 15, 2010, 04:42:28 AM
That's awesome that they're showing it in a theater.  Didn't hear about anything like that here.  And yeah, I was kinda wondering when the finale was.  Might tune in despite not watching it these past few weeks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on May 27, 2010, 08:51:02 PM
Burn Notice is coming back next week!

I love netflix. I'm going to marathon Arrested Development now that the pilot isn't 'DVD only'. They did the South Park Episode 'Super Best Friends' the same way, too. Assholes.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 28, 2010, 08:33:53 AM
what do you mean by pilot isnt dvd only? I dont get it

my asshole friend made me get obsessed with the real housewives of new york, now im going to hulu everyday to wait for them to upload the next episode. it sucks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 28, 2010, 04:21:31 PM
On Netflix, sometimes they put stuff up on the streaming option, but an episdoe or two will only be available if you get the DVD mailed to you.

Other times, like this one anime, they say it is streaming, and in fact the entire series is DVD only.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 03, 2010, 02:34:18 PM
Who checked out Louie? Great comedian and a great comedy.

True Blood is also amazing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 03, 2010, 04:13:49 PM
???
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 03, 2010, 04:47:43 PM
Not the gay one, the Mexican redhead one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 04, 2010, 12:05:09 AM
Did he stick a small cup in the center of his forehead or is he just failing to be Indian?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 04, 2010, 12:47:42 AM
He'd just call you a cunt for that remark.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 04, 2010, 05:33:59 PM
But I was one before that remark.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 04, 2010, 09:47:06 PM
Oh, then I don't know. He is a red-headed nothing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 05, 2010, 05:38:12 AM
He looks like he's growing a xenomorph forehead.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 05, 2010, 11:39:50 PM
*Raises hand*

What's a xenomorph?

And for the record I'm Hudson, he's Hicks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2010, 12:27:45 AM
...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 06, 2010, 02:02:19 AM
One more question...How do I get out of this Chicken Shit outfit?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 06, 2010, 09:33:03 PM
New Episode of Louie tonight! :D  11pm EST
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2010, 09:48:34 PM
I still don't know what that is.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 06, 2010, 10:44:28 PM
If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Ricky Gervais was awesome in it, tonight.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2010, 10:59:45 PM
Well y don't u tell meeeee?  y?

Quote
Ricky Gervais was awesome in it, tonight.

Am I really the only person in the world who doesn't give a rat's ass about this guy?  Why is he famous here again?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 06, 2010, 11:22:34 PM
He's funny as balls in a lil pile of mashed potatoes.

If you like Nick DiPaulo, he was also funny.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 07, 2010, 01:51:24 AM
....
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 13, 2010, 10:34:04 PM
Another new Episode of Louie, and Pamela Adlon was awesome. The discussion between her and Louis was priceless.

"Sometimes I want to hit my kid, I don't hit him in reality but I just fantasize it."
"Well that's not bad."
"No, it's when he's not doing anything annoying. Sometimes he's asleep and I fantasize about beating him up."
"Oh. Well I think about how when my youngest daughter turns 18, I will no longer be a Dad. I will only be a man. No Daddy or any other obligations, just some red-headed guy. On that day, I think I'll kill myself."
"Wow, you're fucked up!"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 14, 2010, 10:58:54 PM
I'm watching various eps of Superman: TAS.  Never really saw much of this series when it was coming out because Superman wasn't really my thing back then.  Was a bit more of a Batman fangirl.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 15, 2010, 12:09:30 AM
AOTS, but not really paying attention. Not that you really have too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 16, 2010, 05:12:52 PM
HELL KITCHEN FTW.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jul 18, 2010, 08:35:29 AM
Rewatching Veronica Mars on the Netflix.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 18, 2010, 10:54:15 AM
Awaiting a new True Blood and Hung tonight.

I wish they continued the Riches.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 18, 2010, 01:17:38 PM
I watched AVP Requiem and it has Sam Merlot from True Blood. I thought it was funny when he died a little.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 18, 2010, 02:58:48 PM
Sam was also a serial drunk driver in Dexter. We all know his fate.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 18, 2010, 06:01:17 PM
I still have not really watched that show. All my friends love it but I never got into it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 19, 2010, 12:07:36 AM
You're missing out, save last season. Some of the writing was rather weak and shoehorned.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 19, 2010, 02:17:59 AM
Have you read the books?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 19, 2010, 06:15:49 AM
Nope. I read what they're about (like True Blood) and I feel the TV shows are indeed better (like True Blood).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 19, 2010, 09:20:34 AM
I have occassionally been a part of the 'books are better' argument. The main problem I have with books is that it seems like there are less writers who know how to visualize a scene. In regards to visuals, I think a quality produced show is always going to win out.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 19, 2010, 12:20:03 PM
Well the TV show Dexter remained focused on his own serial killer life and police work, while the books have millions of serial killers and include occult gods from Ancient Summeria.

The TV show True Blood seems to be opening up to a global political conspiracy involving mythological creatures merging to take over Earth, while the books are something like Twilight.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 19, 2010, 02:00:32 PM
Also excelled points.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jul 19, 2010, 03:23:39 PM
ADVENTURE TIME!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 19, 2010, 04:33:09 PM
We're on an adventure
Your not on an adventure
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 19, 2010, 09:03:19 PM
I hate that show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 19, 2010, 09:09:59 PM
But they ate God. How can you not like that?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Max Con on Jul 20, 2010, 05:08:54 AM
Chowder, Flapjack, and Adventure Time are the only 3 good things CN proper has spit out in years.


At any rate, I have way too much shit to watch.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 20, 2010, 09:31:08 AM
Avatar?  AVATAR? :nurinono:
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Post by: blanktoe on Jul 20, 2010, 12:03:11 PM
what, you don't like cartoons about asian people with blue eyes? RACIST!!
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 20, 2010, 01:00:18 PM
Oh. I was talking about something else.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Max Con on Jul 20, 2010, 01:11:51 PM
Avatar?  AVATAR? :nurinono:

That's actually the space smurf version. I don't know why it's in there.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 20, 2010, 01:30:03 PM
Space smurf version?  Bwah?   :joe:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Jul 21, 2010, 07:41:57 PM
I'm watching pr0n. Mostly of hot asians with shaved crotches (not the hairy shit that comes out of japan where it's all censored) getting nailed or with giant dildos.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Jul 21, 2010, 11:01:14 PM
Last Night's Louie was perhaps the funniest thing I've seen on Television this year. It's the airplane episode.

"Sorry sir, your flight's been cancelled."
"Why, weather? Mechanical delay?"
"Well, it seems it crashed right after take off."
"...were there any survivors?"
"No, would you like to rebook for the later flight?"
"Um, sure."
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 22, 2010, 05:27:44 AM
Dude, in that World's Finest crossover with Superman and Batman in Spanish and they call Bruce Wayne "Bruno Diaz".  Apparently, he's called that in Spanish shit.  That's weird.  I wonder why they decided to do that instead of just calling him Bruce Wayne.  Clark Kent's the same though Lois goes halfsies and becomes Luísa Lane.  The Joker is El Guasón and Harley's stuck calling him "Señor G."  And even though she's not in it, I was browsing Spanish Wikipedia and it has Wonder Woman as "Mujer Maravilla".  Doesn't have the same ring, methinks.  What worse, she's stuck standing upside-down to Spanish people so her outfit makes sense.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 22, 2010, 02:54:49 PM
Not as bad as what the Chinese did to Batman:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 22, 2010, 05:05:39 PM
When I got the line after the one ending in "PERSON:" I had a bunch of weird looks from my co workers as I laughed quite loud.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 22, 2010, 05:17:01 PM
Dude, in that World's Finest crossover with Superman and Batman in Spanish and they call Bruce Wayne "Bruno Diaz".
LOL i forgot about this! they always change names like that. They call Chichi (from DB) "Milk", god knows why. those crazy mexicans.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 22, 2010, 05:45:41 PM
When I got the line after the one ending in "PERSON:" I had a bunch of weird looks from my co workers as I laughed quite loud.


It's even better if you pause there while reading it out loud.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 22, 2010, 09:03:58 PM
Rama, you get ten dozen internets for posting that.  I'm so used to bad English from Asia that I didn't think it was so bad... until I read the Spider-Man part.  And then I laughed so much I cried.  That equipment really did turn him into another person.

Quote
They call Chichi (from DB) "Milk", god knows why. those crazy mexicans.

Isn't it like Mex slang for titty or something?  Kinda reminds of Disney changing the title for Miyazaki's Laputa.  I was all scratching my head for several minutes before I realized why it was offensive.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 23, 2010, 12:35:58 AM
That is the part where you go from "Ok this is bad, but not any worse then what I've seen before." to "What the fuck?"
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2010, 06:31:08 PM

Isn't it like Mex slang for titty or something?  Kinda reminds of Disney changing the title for Miyazaki's Laputa.  I was all scratching my head for several minutes before I realized why it was offensive.
LOL i always giggle everytime I hear Laputa. Dem crazy japs.  Chichi yeah I guess it can be slang for boobs. But my cousin's nickname (from when she was a baby) is Chichi and her name is Fiorella. I don't know how the nickname derived from the name
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 25, 2010, 01:28:43 AM
Maybe she was always thirsty?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 26, 2010, 07:49:02 PM
Might as well call her Teta
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 10, 2010, 10:02:32 AM
True Blood has gotten really fucking good, I have a man-crush on him. The asskicking he delivered with his Werewolf soldiers felt insanely epic. I can't wait for the 'final battle' between him and the heroes. I kinda want evil to win. :D
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 10, 2010, 11:24:58 AM
True Blood has gotten really fucking good

That's the last thing I wanted to hear. I just cancelled HBO too.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 10, 2010, 12:03:27 PM
The Internets will save you toe.

And it has gotten really fucking good.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 10, 2010, 12:35:08 PM
I'll take your word for it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 10, 2010, 01:20:38 PM
They are going for a global conspiracy angle with alot more violence. How can that be bad?!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 10, 2010, 03:11:16 PM
I meant more that I have no interest in seeing it and wouldn't know either way.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 10, 2010, 03:39:20 PM
Bill training Jessica, and then them eating the werewolves should be the first episode you see. Though, the gorefest two weeks ago with the vivisection and skull getting smooshed was definitely fun.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Bernie AKA on Aug 11, 2010, 04:31:27 AM
Going through Doctor Who withdrawal, especially with two women to drool over this time. I find River Song beyond hot for some reason - not the actress playing her, the character.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 11, 2010, 04:57:48 AM
I starting to like the new Doctor. He still has a little Tennant in him so that helps. I really hate Amy Pond though. I loves me some red heads but the ones in the Who Universe annoy the living shit out of me. I'm looking at you Catherine Tate.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 11, 2010, 04:58:33 AM
Ima 'bout to watch some IT CRowd season 4 BITCHZ!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 11, 2010, 12:11:54 PM
I watched those already, toe. Every episode was good, but the last was a little weak.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 12, 2010, 12:14:03 AM
I'm watching Season 4 of Batman the Animated Series.
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Post by: Derrick on Aug 12, 2010, 05:15:45 AM
Top Chef Season... 7? So glad Kenny got sent home. He was awful. He never cooked anything that looked appetizing and yet would proclaim himself the alpha male. Apparently his fans all called racism since he's a darkie and you can't eliminate them without it being based upon racism.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 12, 2010, 05:56:14 AM
I'm watching Hamlet starring Captain Picard and the 10th Doctor.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 12, 2010, 12:27:22 PM
If they ever make a Weird Al bio pic, they should really hire Tennant for the job.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 12, 2010, 03:26:45 PM
Uncanny.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Bernie AKA on Aug 12, 2010, 07:45:59 PM
I'm a smartass redhead - don't know why I never find a police box in my yard.  :mad:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Merla on Aug 12, 2010, 09:35:26 PM
I'm watching Season 4 of Batman the Animated Series.

Ditto!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 13, 2010, 01:21:00 AM
It's like you live in the same house! Weird.


The Three Stooges.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 13, 2010, 12:20:37 PM
Simply Ming but I'm kinda not paying attention.  First he was making fish and then he was watching some duder make chocolates.  It's the Vanilla/Curry Powder ep.
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Post by: Derrick on Aug 13, 2010, 01:22:58 PM
I love Ming Tsai.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 15, 2010, 02:32:28 AM
X-Men

the old toon from the 90s.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 15, 2010, 03:27:37 PM
Burn Notice season 1.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 15, 2010, 10:07:59 PM
Naruto Shippu-something
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 15, 2010, 11:14:31 PM
Glastonbury 2008: Hour 3.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 15, 2010, 11:23:23 PM
where'd you find that?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 16, 2010, 01:09:37 AM
We got a channel called Palladia and it was on there. I also watched "Across the Sea: Weezer live in Japan" and now MTV World Stage: Green Day is on.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 16, 2010, 05:20:14 AM
We got a channel called Palladia and it was on there. I also watched "Across the Sea: Weezer live in Japan" and now MTV World Stage: Green Day is on.
Love the concerts on Palladia.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 16, 2010, 04:42:06 PM
I hate both you. stupid HD channels.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 16, 2010, 09:39:25 PM
I'll hate with you even though I don't care all that much.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 17, 2010, 12:45:22 AM
I was actually a little shocked when I stumbled on the channel, as we didn't use to have it. And it's a Music Channel that actually plays *gasp* music.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 17, 2010, 12:48:53 AM
WHAT!?
NO!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 17, 2010, 01:33:17 AM
 :o
























Meh, it'll be gone in three years tops.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 17, 2010, 02:09:13 AM
No, it will not be gone, but it will be just like all the others and maybe have a "2" version of itself.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 17, 2010, 05:20:15 AM
I hate both you. stupid HD channels.
It's even better on ma 50-inch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 17, 2010, 04:11:30 PM
No, it will not be gone, but it will be just like all the others and maybe have a "2" version of itself.

IMF was my baby and it disappeared.  It can happen.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 17, 2010, 05:38:12 PM
Still.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 22, 2010, 01:34:37 PM
Watching American Chopper,Archer and Futurama on the Netflix. Good shit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 23, 2010, 12:36:48 AM
I tried watching The Emperor's New Groove and couldn't make myself finish it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 23, 2010, 05:52:53 AM
I tried to watch True Blood last night, but then my brother called because he needed a lift home from work.

-.-
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 23, 2010, 01:47:23 PM
Ah man....

You better watch that shit. They answered some questions for real, yo.
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Post by: Derrick on Aug 23, 2010, 03:21:35 PM
Saw it this morning. Now I have Hung to watch when I get home and Weeds tonight.

The Big C looks terrible.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 23, 2010, 04:10:05 PM
A MALLET. I love Weeds.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 23, 2010, 05:00:20 PM
Finally caught up on most of the episodes of True Blood I missed. I still havent seen episodes 4 and 5.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 23, 2010, 05:31:54 PM
Well hurry the damn hell up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 24, 2010, 12:02:21 AM
Highlander
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Aug 24, 2010, 12:35:49 PM
A MALLET. I love Weeds.
When you turn 21, you can use any fucking sports item you want!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 24, 2010, 03:40:38 PM
ARGH! I need to watch yesterday's episode today. YARG
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 25, 2010, 09:17:21 PM
I just watched the finale of Hell's Kitchen and my only comment is "Of course".
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 25, 2010, 10:53:05 PM
Justice League Season 1.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2010, 07:56:35 PM
I swear, that orange ghost is Rama and the rest of them are, like, Tom or something.
feature=channel
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Sep 27, 2010, 01:50:08 PM
Sons of Anarchy seasons 1 and 2.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 27, 2010, 02:45:22 PM
Mystery Science Theater 3000-Episode 306: Time of Apes
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Post by: Fiero on Sep 27, 2010, 05:09:16 PM
Eureka, need to catch up. Middle of season 2 right now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Sep 28, 2010, 04:59:31 AM
Just saw the Dexter of this season. I hope they go somewhere with this season. They've been on some bullshit for the last 2 years.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 28, 2010, 07:53:29 AM
I'm fucking obsessed with House and I wont deny it. When I say House I mean the series, not the guy. Although the guy is hot too and I love how hes such an asshole and he doesn't care.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 29, 2010, 07:12:35 AM
I was watching He-Man and She-ra.  It was awesome.  Qubo and Ion became that much less pathetic last night.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 29, 2010, 08:20:41 AM
Hah He-man and his christopher columbus haircut. sexay
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 29, 2010, 02:04:47 PM
Wait...it was on ION? I have Ion and it was no where to be found when I went looking for it. Any idea if they are doing that every night now?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 30, 2010, 03:40:35 AM
You might've already read this on Facebook but here in SA there's three Ions: Ion HD and its two subchannels Qubo and Ion Life.  Qubo does 24 hr children's programming and He-Man, She-Ra, Bravestarr, and Ghostbusters are four hours of their Night Owl block every night.

Also, the CW and MY Network swapped stations so I can watch CW again.  COOL TV is coming soon here.  Apparently, it's some kind of music-oriented station.  If they play anything international or from the 80's, I will love them.  If it's an excuse for 24-hr-a-day Bieber Fever, I will burn them to the ground.

Apparently SA also has This TV but it's part of MY Network, both of which are running on a weak-suck signal.  It's supposed to get boosted sometime in the future but I don't know when.  This TV is airing Heathcliff and Inspector Gadget though so I hope we end up with them, too.

I wonder if, with the appearance of sub-channels, a shit-load of old cartoons will get aired as inexpensive programming is farmed from libraries of pre-existing material.
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 30, 2010, 04:29:54 AM
bout to start a Breaking Bad marathon seasons 1-3.
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Post by: Derrick on Sep 30, 2010, 05:23:53 AM
Just saw the Dexter of this season. I hope they go somewhere with this season. They've been on some bullshit for the last 2 years.
I was ambivilent toward it, Kary was upset that Rita didn't know.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 06, 2010, 04:58:54 AM
After Ordinary Family is cancelled I think they are gonna find away to bring Rita back.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 06, 2010, 09:54:22 AM
Quote
COOL TV is coming soon here.  Apparently, it's some kind of music-oriented station.  If they play anything international or from the 80's, I will love them.  If it's an excuse for 24-hr-a-day Bieber Fever, I will burn them to the ground.

It's live now and they DO play old videos as well as more recent ones.  Success!

Semi-related, Drake is fucking hack.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 06, 2010, 10:38:23 AM
you fucking best!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 06, 2010, 12:51:03 PM
3rd Rock From the Sun.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 07, 2010, 12:35:45 PM
you fucking best!

Bwah?

Also, dude from Coldplay runs like a 10-year-old girl with special needs.  Learnin' a lot from TheCoolTV.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 07, 2010, 06:45:42 PM
3rd Rock From the Sun.
zomg I loved that showwww
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 07, 2010, 08:45:50 PM
Why did you stop loving it?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 09, 2010, 07:19:11 AM
I stopped watching it when I moved to the US and the werent broadcasting it anymore. I used to watch it in Lima through Sony.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 09, 2010, 02:00:45 PM
Ever heard of DVDs? Megavideo? Websites like this one: http://tv.blinkx.com/show/3rd-rock-from-the-sun/u9M5TuB3N2dZa_TI ?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 10, 2010, 08:57:29 AM
Ehm yes but I'm using the megavideo to watch House. Can't just go and exchange programs. I'm not that kinda girl
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 10, 2010, 10:12:25 AM
She can't cheat on House, bro!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 10, 2010, 01:43:52 PM
But that is dumb.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 11, 2010, 06:05:47 AM
Obviously you haven't watched House. it's ok, you are forgiven.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 13, 2010, 05:10:21 AM
fuck House

I'm dropping out of Sons of Anarchy and Dexter till the end of the season. I'll wath em all when their over. Watching Parks and Rec. season 2 and Louie.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 13, 2010, 04:43:51 PM
No, I am saying it is dumb to think of it as cheating, not saying it is dumb for you to make that choice.

fuck House

I'm dropping out of Sons of Anarchy and Dexter till the end of the season. I'll wath em all when their over. Watching Parks and Rec. season 2 and Louie.

P&R IS AWESOME
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 14, 2010, 12:36:55 AM
Yeah, I think I'm gonna get into SoA when it's over so I can blow through the entire thing at once.  If I'm not that invested, I'll just forget what the hell happens anyway.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 14, 2010, 09:24:42 PM
The Stars whoop the Red Wings in the Stars home opener and home coming for Mike Modano wearing a red jersey. I am enjoying the heck out of this.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 15, 2010, 01:30:54 PM
I finally saw Superman: Doomsday.  Not bad.  But those damn lines on Superman's face.  EWWWWWWWWWWW!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 15, 2010, 09:48:47 PM
Watching the vid for "Hang With Me" by Robyn!  TheCoolTV is indeed cool.

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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 15, 2010, 11:34:44 PM
I finally saw Superman: Doomsday.  Not bad.  But those damn lines on Superman's face.  EWWWWWWWWWWW!

That one was the weakest of the lot.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 16, 2010, 01:19:39 AM
It was pretty good for being weak though.  Although I liked the look and the action sequences in the other releases better, I've actually been watching Superman: Doomsday more than I ever saw Wonder Woman or even Green Lantern, New Frontier, or Gothan Knight.  Having a commentary track and that informative Superman featurette probably helps, too.  On my list, I would actually have to put New Frontier lower just on account of the fact that it bored me.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe I'll have to revisit it later and give it another shot.  Actually, I'd probably give Superman the same 3 ½ I gave to WW and GK because the entire thing flowed really well.  It didn't seem too long or too short.  My main gripes were with some of the visuals and some of the voices.  Maybe seeing Superman: Doomsday out of order and having only casual familiarity with the source material helped.  And I haven't checked on all of them, but it looks like you're pretty much boned on getting a commentary unless you buy Blu-Ray these days.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 17, 2010, 09:01:03 PM
I usually enjoy Undercover Boss but this CEO for Frontier Airlines was a moron.  And I'm not saying that because he was uber-religious and had, like, ten million kids.  This was bad PR for Frontier imo.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 17, 2010, 09:28:06 PM
This what I'm gonna be watching Young Justice-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsnuMjbaqbM&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 17, 2010, 10:06:11 PM
Ooh, thanks for posting that.

Also, here's a short interview:

And this:

http://poptimal.com/2010/10/ny-comic-con-2010-young-justice-preview/
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 18, 2010, 12:07:57 AM


And this:

http://poptimal.com/2010/10/ny-comic-con-2010-young-justice-preview/

Damnit, wish I could here what they are saying about the Green Lantern show in the background.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2010, 02:46:57 PM
Here's a YJ /NYCC related article.  Just gonna dump the link here.  http://www.titanstower.com/monitor/?p=2315
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 18, 2010, 03:31:54 PM
Finally got to season four of Eureka and I AM PISSED THE FUCK OFF

TIME TRAVEL DOES NOT FUCKING WORK AND IF IT DOES IT SURE AS FUCK DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 19, 2010, 04:18:44 AM
Haaa I got to season 4 of House.

Btw I had a dream yesterday with Sylvester Stallone. I went to ask him for his autograph and he was maaad flirty with me. Then I left and he started following me and shit. It was kind of hot. Then I realized that if I was single and saw him I'd probably hook up with him. At least we all know he has a big weewee.
God no wonder why everybody makes slut jokes about me. But I said IF i was single.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 19, 2010, 04:02:57 PM
You are just protecting yourself, you totally hooked up with him in your dream.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 19, 2010, 06:39:59 PM
LOL no I didn't! he creeped me out when he was trying too hard to find me! It has happened in real life before. Guys look psycho when they do that and it scares me away.

I dreamed Morimoto wanted to hook up with me once too, I think I talked about it here.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 19, 2010, 10:45:27 PM
Just got done with Dragon Ball S5P1 DVD and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood P2D2 and am about to start on the next series of FMA:B subbed on Hulu.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 20, 2010, 07:55:29 AM
wtf is dragon ball s?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2010, 04:08:55 PM
Dragon Ball S5P1 = Dragon Ball: Season Five, Part One?

Who's Morimoto?

Finally got to season four of Eureka and I AM PISSED THE FUCK OFF

TIME TRAVEL DOES NOT FUCKING WORK AND IF IT DOES IT SURE AS FUCK DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT

Do tell.  Do tell!  What happened?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 20, 2010, 05:41:23 PM
The Color of Magic.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2010, 06:10:48 PM
Black!  It's black, right?  Do I win a prize?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 20, 2010, 06:26:47 PM
Let me preface this by saying I except time travel in the Terminator series simply because robots are fucking awesome and it was part of my childhood from before I understood shit to some palpable level.

What happened?

They time traveled to the 1940s, and then a doctor from the 40s came forward with them and they ended up in an alternate time line where some stuff was different.

The problem? They are still the people they were before the shit hit the fan. This is a problem. Why? Because in the timeline they went to, there was nothing that caused them to go the past, therefore they did not, therefore the doctor never came with them to the future, therefore none of this fucking shit should have happened.

The reason this is truly infuriating is that in a previous season they explained exactly why this shit can not fucking happen, and they did so logically and I was happy (and then my room mate who I am watching through the series with tells me I will be pissed off later).

For the most part I am excepting it as a plot device to move the show along, but GOD DAMN FUCKING SHIT I HATE THIS BULLSHIT TIME TRAVEL CAN NOT FUCKING WORK THAT WAY YOU STUPID FUCKS WITH YOUR FUCKING FUCK SHIT WRITING!

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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 20, 2010, 08:52:55 PM
Dragon Ball S5P1 = Dragon Ball: Season Five, Part One?

Who's Morimoto?

HOLYFUCKNURIHOWCANYOUNOTKNOWWHOMORIMOTOIS?
hes the best japanese chef in the western world. He's also an Iron Chef, in both the japanese version and the american one. He's IT.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2010, 10:08:11 PM
I barely watched that thing.  Chairman Kaga is like the only one I know.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 21, 2010, 04:50:55 AM
Go do your homework. You tube it.

Also, he has a restaurant in NY and Philly. Ive been to the one in Philly and its fucking delicious. He used to work at Nobu too
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 21, 2010, 01:03:14 PM
Dragon Ball S5P1 = Dragon Ball: Season Five, Part One?

Got it in one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 21, 2010, 01:47:03 PM
Go do your homework. You tube it.

Boo, homework.  I'd rather just have you tell me instead.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 21, 2010, 02:30:36 PM
The Hogfather and The Color of Magic.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Oct 25, 2010, 05:17:31 AM
KENNY MOTHERFUCKING POWERS IS GOING BACK THE THE STATES! Prepare your hearts, women.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 25, 2010, 10:58:37 AM
I saw this piece of shit French movie called "8 Women".
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 25, 2010, 12:54:39 PM
Lord of the Rings: The Animated Film.

This thing had no end. It just covers The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers. It ends with the battle of Helm's Deep. Apparently there was suppose to be another film, but United Artist wouldn't shell out the money for it despite this one making it's money back ten fold.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2010, 03:58:26 PM
I love that animated film. It was pretty fucking awesome even with the lack of ending.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2010, 06:25:04 PM
The Hogfather and The Color of Magic.

Both of those are excruciating to sit through.

Hogfather at least has some value as a completely fucked up Christmas special, but it's still way too long and boring.

You used to like cool shit, toe. What happened to you?
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2010, 07:11:17 PM
Said watched, not liked.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 25, 2010, 09:13:15 PM
Lord of the Rings: The Animated Film.

This thing had no end. It just covers The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers. It ends with the battle of Helm's Deep. Apparently there was suppose to be another film, but United Artist wouldn't shell out the money for it despite this one making it's money back ten fold.

You mean you hadn't seen this already somehow?

Said watched, not liked.

But he was talking to toe.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
Yeah, I know.

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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2010, 09:33:21 PM
He mentioned the Color of Magic twice, so I felt like he was trying to promote it.

I actually read the Color of Magic to get a taste for Terry Pratchett's Discworld stuff, and I did not like it. Given, it was the first one, and I'm sure he's improved over the years, but it totally soured me on the idea of reading anything else by him, and there's plenty of other stuff I'd rather be reading anyway.

Anyway, as little as I liked the book, I loathed the made-for-television thingy, which combines the first two books. I'll never understand why Samwise Gamgee would slum it in such an obvious pile of dung.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2010, 10:19:37 PM
What else is he going to do now that the LotR trilogy is over?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 25, 2010, 10:48:42 PM
Sell newspaper subscriptions door-to-door.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2010, 11:00:15 PM
Retire on his LotR money.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 26, 2010, 12:21:10 AM
May be he really believed in the project.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 26, 2010, 12:50:34 AM
Lord of the Rings: The Animated Film.

This thing had no end. It just covers The Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers. It ends with the battle of Helm's Deep. Apparently there was suppose to be another film, but United Artist wouldn't shell out the money for it despite this one making it's money back ten fold.

You mean you hadn't seen this already somehow?

No. Somehow this thing had never found it's way to my TV in all my years. Which I do admit is surprising. I did however, on one snow day from school in the 80's see the animated version of The Hobbit.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 26, 2010, 01:42:54 AM
I've never seen it, either. Then again, I never got into LOTR until the first DVD came out right before Two Towers. And the fact that TT had no real ending forced me to speed-read the books.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 26, 2010, 06:53:37 AM
He mentioned the Color of Magic twice, so I felt like he was trying to promote it.

I actually read the Color of Magic to get a taste for Terry Pratchett's Discworld stuff, and I did not like it. Given, it was the first one, and I'm sure he's improved over the years, but it totally soured me on the idea of reading anything else by him, and there's plenty of other stuff I'd rather be reading anyway.

Anyway, as little as I liked the book, I loathed the made-for-television thingy, which combines the first two books. I'll never understand why Samwise Gamgee would slum it in such an obvious pile of dung.
The Hogfather and The Color of Magic.


You used to like cool shit, toe. What happened to you?

Nigga I'm still the coolest muthafucka you know! Don't even muthfuckin trip. Hey real talk my nigga next time you got some bullshit to say about my tv watching habbits step to me like a man and not some little troll ass bitch nigga!
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 26, 2010, 09:55:06 AM
^ WIN
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Post by: Rama on Oct 26, 2010, 03:57:41 PM
Ohhhhhh it's on now.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 26, 2010, 05:04:33 PM
*snapsnapsnap*
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Post by: Rama on Oct 26, 2010, 05:47:20 PM
Top Gear
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 27, 2010, 04:06:29 PM
Gonna watch Girl Who Played With Fire tonight.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 27, 2010, 06:02:44 PM
Rangers stomp the Giants .. hopefully (I am totally bandwagoning right now).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 27, 2010, 07:44:53 PM
5th season of House, woohooo
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 27, 2010, 09:29:24 PM
I'm watching Smallville. Right now! I took a break to tell youse guys about it.

Carry on.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 27, 2010, 09:58:56 PM
You aren't going to like it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 27, 2010, 10:00:42 PM
Rangers stomp the Giants .. hopefully (I am totally bandwagoning right now).

Don't.... know what that is.  Football?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 27, 2010, 10:21:38 PM
Sure, why not?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 28, 2010, 01:21:32 AM
Weren't you the one that said you lost all respect for me because I liked Baseball, and look at you now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 28, 2010, 01:32:26 AM
Sure, why not?

No "why" or "why not", I just wasn't sure what it was.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 28, 2010, 01:51:39 AM
Like I said, bandwagoning. I really do not care for baseball, but I do like it when local teams do stuff like that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 28, 2010, 08:18:25 AM
The Avengers Earths Miightiest something whatever it's good. ya'll should be watching it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 28, 2010, 02:24:59 PM
I'm watching it. And it is awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 28, 2010, 03:27:14 PM
Really? The animation does not appeal to me. I will give it a try, I guess.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 28, 2010, 05:37:53 PM
For some reason, I'm just not interested in the Avengers toon.

I finally saw the first ep of Sherlock Holmes on PBS.  It's fuckin' spectacular.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 28, 2010, 08:07:17 PM
Sherlock is fucking awesome. I didn't really like the second episode but the third is really good.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 28, 2010, 11:40:26 PM
For some reason, I'm just not interested in the Avengers toon.

It's got to be better then Wolverine and the X-Men and you watched that.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 29, 2010, 06:02:12 AM
So far it is but it's written by the same people and guy who created Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! is on character design.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 29, 2010, 04:02:35 PM
It's got to be better then Wolverine and the X-Men and you watched that.

Yeah, well, maybe that's why there's a bad taste in my mouth for Marvel Animation.  Some of the Spider-Man stuff as well.  Ech.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 31, 2010, 10:09:08 PM
I watched the second Sherlock Holmes.  All that China stuff was too weird.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 01, 2010, 12:24:42 AM
was watching Ghost Hunters Live. Still boring, Grant is still hot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Nov 01, 2010, 06:11:22 AM
Dexter is getting good again and Boardwalk Empire continues to be strong. BUT! Terriers is my new favorite show on TV.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 02, 2010, 03:44:34 PM
Joseph Fritzl enjoys Two and a Half Men. (http://www.newser.com/story/104364/josef-fritzl-i-love-my-daughter.html)
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 02, 2010, 03:50:56 PM
64% find that scary.  3% find it hilarious, which leaves me to conclude they read that Two and a Half Men part and rofled.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 02, 2010, 05:00:30 PM
That is also what I assumed before clicking Hilarious.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 02, 2010, 06:33:43 PM
That's a funny show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 02, 2010, 06:40:43 PM
And the little boy reminds Joseph Fritzl of his son.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 03, 2010, 01:41:26 AM
He ain't little no more. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 03, 2010, 01:49:29 AM
He's big, in both circumference and age
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 03, 2010, 02:05:54 AM
.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 07, 2010, 10:46:15 PM
Dexter is getting good again

Amen, brother. Dexter's family situation was a fucking drag.

How many people do you think were actually upset about last season's finale? I sure as hell wasn't.
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Post by: Derrick on Nov 08, 2010, 05:16:01 AM
I was upset about how poorly it was written.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 08, 2010, 08:16:52 PM
Now that Sherlock's over, I sad.  I've been watching Secrets of the Dead.  That appears to have started back up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 09, 2010, 01:17:32 AM
I saw the Superman/Shazam short.  It looks nice but damn...

1. James Garner was miscasted and really phoned this shit in.
2. The kid was good except for like one part where he wasn't convincing me of shit.
3. Trippy black-tiger-guy was trippy.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 09, 2010, 03:14:43 AM
Did you ever see the Spectre one? That's the only one I haven't watched.

Er... and the Shazam one. But I will remedy that momentarily.

Wait, I just found the Spectre as I was typing this. Nevermind.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 09, 2010, 10:38:54 PM
The Spectre short was enjoyable if you don't ask too many questions.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 09, 2010, 10:43:03 PM
Yeah, I saw that one not too long ago.  The post is in the Owlery under Supes/Bats: Apoc.  I still don't know how much the previously released shorts were actually extended or what episodes come on the Supes/Shazam DVD as a bonus.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 10, 2010, 12:59:51 AM
Okay, the Spectre was great. Loved the film grain and the music. I decided to give Green Arrow another shot, and it was actually pretty good. I must have been miserable the first time I watched it.

Shazam was solid, but did the fights strike you as uber-DBZ-ish? I swear some of that shit was ripped directly, frame for frame. And you're right about Garner, he sounded like a fucking cowboy, which I assume is just his natural speaking voice.

Jonah Hex is still my favorite.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 10, 2010, 01:04:59 AM
My major prob with Garner is that Shazam looked hella fuckin' old and Garner actually sounded too young. Heh, bet he doesn't get that too often.  I kinda expected someone more Dumbledore/Gandalf-ish to be voicing Shazam.  The fights did seem a bit DBZ.  Guess we'll have to wait and see if someone actually remembers those frames cause I ain't checkin'.

Ditto on Jonah Hex.  That one was definetely the best.

I wish they had actually done more of these.  Four just isn't enough to be releasing a DVD.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 12, 2010, 11:29:36 PM
Especially when you consider we're only getting twenty-odd minutes of new material.

To my knowledge, the existing shorts are unchanged from the original releases.

I do like how they've been churning out three features a year, with three more planned for 2012. Hopefully they'll keep up with the shorts as well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 13, 2010, 12:16:47 AM
Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black.

I love Lewis Black...he's all pissed off, just like me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 13, 2010, 12:30:02 AM
Shazam is a odd case, though. He's supposed to be ancient but not wasted away, so having him sound like a grizzled Maverick isn't really that weird to me.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 13, 2010, 12:36:40 AM
I like to think of him as a grizzled Rockford.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2010, 01:33:37 AM
Especially when you consider we're only getting twenty-odd minutes of new material.

To my knowledge, the existing shorts are unchanged from the original releases.

I do like how they've been churning out three features a year, with three more planned for 2012. Hopefully they'll keep up with the shorts as well.

As do I.  I just think they should've saved Shazam and attached it to the next movie.  Then, after doing three or four more shorts, THEN release the whole collection.  And give us a commentary!  They always stingy off the good crap for Puke-Ray.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 13, 2010, 10:18:01 PM
Back From Hell: A Tribute to Sam Kinison.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2010, 10:43:05 PM
I watched some Conan but when I try to view the full episodes, it buffers all slow and shit.  The clips work fine but meh.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 15, 2010, 02:03:34 AM
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2010, 03:00:41 AM
I'm watching The World's Finest for the tenth million time.  My favorite Superman/Batman team-up ever.

Earlier, I saw an ep of the Amazing Race that really wasn't quite so amazing.  Then I watched Tina Fey get her Mark Twain Award majigger on PBS.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 15, 2010, 07:20:28 PM
damnit

close to getting a tv now...still trying to decide if 3d or normal. japanese tv is fucking nuts
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2010, 08:12:48 PM
3D television?  Sounds nauseating.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 15, 2010, 08:49:17 PM
Yeah, I can't fathom wearing those goofy-ass glasses every time I sit down to watch something.

And it's still gonna be a long, long time before it's widely supported.

It might never even really catch on, who knows.

It seems so fucking stupid that 3D was supposed to be this big initiative to get people back into theatre seats, and already, "Hey, now in the comfort of your own home!"

The hell, man.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 15, 2010, 11:34:25 PM
It's a fad...five years from now it'll be keeping HD-DVD warm in a landfill someplace.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 16, 2010, 09:50:07 PM
hater gonna hate.

Toshiba is coming out with a 3d tv that doesnt need glasses. unfortunately those tvs are only 20 inches so we wont get it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 16, 2010, 10:30:37 PM
Using the same tech as the 3DS, right?

I'd like to upgrade my almost 20 year-old 32" RCA console TV. But it still looks good and works, so I can't really justify it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 16, 2010, 10:43:00 PM
It is using similar tech to the 3DS, and it is going to cost so fucking much that no one is likely to buy it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 18, 2010, 12:35:17 AM
Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 20, 2010, 10:54:00 PM
^great fucking show.

Bout to watch Megamind and Misfits season 2. If you guys should chell out Misfits too. It's about these kids who get super powers while doing community service and the wackyness the ensues.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 21, 2010, 04:26:04 AM
So we finally got a tv (sony) . No 3d unfortunately, we'll just wait for the one without glasses (and bigger than 20 inches). On to downloading the new extension pack for RDR!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 21, 2010, 01:45:46 PM
^great fucking show.

Bout to watch Megamind and Misfits season 2. If you guys should chell out Misfits too. It's about these kids who get super powers while doing community service and the wackyness the ensues.

I was watching this with a girl I've been hanging out with. Only two episodes in, and it seems pretty cool.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 21, 2010, 01:47:03 PM
Faye plays games?

(http://i56.tinypic.com/v7wf0h.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 21, 2010, 02:39:00 PM
^great fucking show.

Yeah I'm loving this show. The best Marvel show I've seen in a long time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 21, 2010, 06:42:45 PM
Faye plays games?

(http://i56.tinypic.com/v7wf0h.jpg)
Yes and no. Yes I play games but I like the ones like Harvest Moon, Mario 64 etc. No because I don't play games like RDR, Splinter Cell etc BUT I love watching my husband play them. I do play them a liiiittle though but I rather watch him do it, I'm more entertained that way
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 23, 2010, 01:28:46 AM
The Dukes of Hazzard. The show not the movie. I loved this show as a kid.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 23, 2010, 09:28:07 PM
*plays "Dixie Horn" ringtone on phone*
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 23, 2010, 11:14:23 PM
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 04, 2010, 05:14:37 AM
finished watching all of the TF Prime miniseries. It wasn't that bad. I'd say it was better than both of the live action movies. However, I do hope the Japanese girl dies a short painful death and Petter Cullen learns how to emote.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 08, 2010, 06:44:54 AM
Been watching Reaper on the Hulu. I think the show might have been better if Sock was main character.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 09, 2010, 12:02:28 AM
I started watching Firefly.  Only got through two eps so far.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 09, 2010, 12:48:24 AM
I liked it. And there's a movie to see at the end that Firefly nerds insisted was standalone for people who never watched the series, but it wasn't.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 09, 2010, 12:52:33 AM
He's right. It wasn't. I saw maybe two episodes of Firefly...if that, and then I saw that movie. I had no fucking clue what was going on.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 09, 2010, 10:28:05 AM
I kinda assumed you all had seen Firefly.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 09, 2010, 01:42:19 PM
Me too, I thought that was a requirement for being a person.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 09, 2010, 10:17:26 PM
Nope, it wasn't.  Nothing is these days.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 10, 2010, 12:19:32 AM
I watched it after hearing all the hype for Serenity. Then I watched Serenity and realized pretty quick that had I not just finished the series that I would have been totally lost.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 10, 2010, 07:42:39 AM
Starting the 8th season of Hell's kitchen. FUCK . YES.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 03:28:54 PM
Nope, it wasn't.  Nothing is these days.

What, like morals?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 10, 2010, 03:55:47 PM
Who needs them. They just get in the way of what I want.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 04:02:49 PM
I thought money was the problem.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 11, 2010, 01:13:09 AM
Yeah, but without morals I could just whore myself out and get money.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 12, 2010, 04:42:45 AM
You still can.

I stalled on Firefly.  It didn't really grab me but I'll probably stream the rest of it from Netflix some time undetermined.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 12, 2010, 09:55:01 AM
You still can.

I stalled on Firefly.  It didn't really grab me but I'll probably stream the rest of it from Netflix some time undetermined.
 
sorry to hear that. what episode did you stop at?
meanwhile, i'm loving the fuck out of Avengers: EMH. Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel DUDE!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 12, 2010, 02:37:47 PM
I on the other hand and am glad to hear. Now I know I'm not alone in thinking that it might NOT be the best thing since sliced bread.


And I'm still pissed at Disney for moving Avengers till Sunday Morning. I always sleep in on Sunday morning. Always! I didn't get to see Masters of Evil till last night, cause ahhh noooooo they can't rerun it on Wed even though they didn't take Avengers out of that time slot. Bastards.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 12, 2010, 11:47:38 PM
I on the other hand and am glad to hear. Now I know I'm not alone in thinking that it might NOT be the best thing since sliced bread.

It's isn't but it fun to watch.
And I'm still pissed at Disney for moving Avengers till Sunday Morning. I always sleep in on Sunday morning. Always! I didn't get to see Masters of Evil till last night, cause ahhh noooooo they can't rerun it on Wed even though they didn't take Avengers out of that time slot. Bastards.

I think they havent figured out a good time to air the new episodes yet. They need to start up a block like CN does and just put all of the new shows on one night.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 12, 2010, 11:50:07 PM
Well they re-showed the new episode at 9:30pm tonight, so I'm less steamed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Max Con on Dec 13, 2010, 03:34:57 AM
Just finished the Dexter finale. Michael C. Hall is awesome, Julia Stiles has never been and never will be any good at anything other than being ugly.

(http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/9095/vlcsnap2010121302h33m49.png)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Dec 13, 2010, 06:32:33 AM
I was watching Indy and the Crystal skull and COMPLETELY forgot it was on last night. Thank Jesus for ondemand.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 13, 2010, 07:06:25 AM
Just finished the Dexter finale. Michael C. Hall is awesome, Julia Stiles has never been and never will be any good at anything other than being ugly.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks shes ugly as all fuck
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 13, 2010, 11:13:02 AM
She's not the best, but I wouldn't kick her out of bed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 13, 2010, 11:29:51 AM
She's hotter than the chick who plays Dexter's sister though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Max Con on Dec 13, 2010, 03:09:24 PM
Rita may not have been everybody's cup of tea, but she was by far and large the best looking woman on the show. Save maybe the ill-fated "pardon my tits" Lyra.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Dec 13, 2010, 06:26:16 PM
I want to put a thumb in Miguel Prado's bitch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 14, 2010, 02:29:06 AM
You still can.

I stalled on Firefly.  It didn't really grab me but I'll probably stream the rest of it from Netflix some time undetermined.
 
sorry to hear that. what episode did you stop at?

After the second one.  I meant to see one a day but never got around to doing it.  From what I saw, I certainly didn't think it was awful.  It didn't grab me though like other shows I've followed through with.  There is nothing that draws me about the main guy.  He's pretty cookie cutter so far aside from mild moodiness.  "I'VE BEEN IN STOOPID WAR ME SO MAD NAO."  The perky girl is cute and interesting.  I <3 Gina Torres in just about anything, but the dude she's supposed to be married to is BORING.  I think the hired muscle would be cooler if he had some stronger personalities to work against.  The girl in the suitcase is pretty dull and weird-looking but I likes her brother.  Black priest and token whore are BLAH.  The most interesting thing about the whore is the clothes she wears... or doesn't wear.  Whatever.  Do we ever get to see a reaver?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 14, 2010, 06:28:36 AM
They address all of those ?problems? in the show. It takes a few episodes for them to get there. I would tell you to keep watching but if you  really aren't into it don't waste your time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 15, 2010, 09:17:35 AM
I'd say go ahead and tell me how because sometimes spoilers will pique my interest.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 15, 2010, 06:27:33 PM
Don't remember who watches Dexter but just fyi hes divorcing from his wife in real life cause he supposedly cheated on her with nasty white-trashy Julia Stiles.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 15, 2010, 10:29:23 PM
Firefly was one of those shows I needed to see a few episodes of before I get the feel for it. It rewards dogged determination.

I really, really have to get past the fourth episode of Human Target. I loved it when I DVRed it, and I bought the DVD set on the strength of the four shows I watched. But I can't get around to finishing it, because I want to watch it all at once. I just don't have the time to marathon it nor the discipline to piecemeal it.

I know that makes no sense, but that's the case with me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Derrick on Dec 16, 2010, 06:12:54 AM
Don't remember who watches Dexter but just fyi hes divorcing from his wife in real life cause he supposedly cheated on her with nasty white-trashy Julia Stiles.
I nnever found her much attractive, but then I never found Debra hot either.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 25, 2010, 01:43:36 AM
Anyone watching G.I.Joe: Renegades? Once you get past the ugly character designs the show isn't all that bad.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 25, 2010, 01:52:38 AM
I have wanted to give that and Transformers Prime a chance ... eventually I will actually try to.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 25, 2010, 02:11:04 AM
I haven't been watching much of anything lately besides the latest Panty and Stocking.  And now it's over.  :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 25, 2010, 08:52:22 AM
Anyone watching G.I.Joe: Renegades? Once you get past the ugly character designs the show isn't all that bad.

We just recently got the Hub (Although it could be some kind of Holiday Free Preview) and I saw a couple episodes yesterday, and yeah it was pretty good. Funny that the kids show takes the franchise more seriously then the big budget movie did.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 27, 2010, 12:13:35 AM
I saw Turtles Forever again today on teevee.  Yeah, it really didn't improve on a second viewing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 27, 2010, 12:25:53 AM
I saw True Grit over the weekend. I liked it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 06, 2011, 01:34:19 AM
Mah baybeh loves this video/song
feature=related and me too so I've been watching this shit all the time lol
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 06, 2011, 06:11:02 PM
So ... uh .... what the fuck was that?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 06, 2011, 07:54:03 PM
algorithm march! for what i found out its very popular , even in the western world. Found a couple of weaboo videos that made me rage so much
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 06, 2011, 09:25:35 PM
So ... uh .... what the fuck was that?

Some dance from a kid's show apparently.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_March
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 06, 2011, 10:01:13 PM
It does not look much like an algorithm.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 07, 2011, 06:53:57 AM
It has actually two different dances. That one and this one :   
feature=related   which of course, I love too
(go directly to 1:25 to skip the balls thing, although its fun to watch too)
Ah the japanese.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 18, 2011, 12:31:04 AM
I finally watched The Sound of Music, and that Liesel chick is infinitely bangable. Bangible? She's boneriffic, anyway.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 18, 2011, 04:02:23 AM
Dont remind me that someone (a bitch, I'm sure) stole my special edition Sound of Music dvd. I suspect my ex roommate. You can't trust chinese doctors
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 18, 2011, 10:54:05 PM
I finally watched the first ep of Young Justice. Me likey, even if it was a good bit corny.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 21, 2011, 12:35:16 AM
Like a Black Friday bowel movement.

I like how they made Superboy an impatient dick. Nothing would have been worse than if they had just made him Superman Jr.

Also, I'm assuming since they're getting some archer chick, that Speedy will come back as Arsenal, possibly as a rival?

I've never cared for the Arsenal character, but I suppose it's better than a Green Arrow palette-swap.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 21, 2011, 02:55:38 AM
Green Arrow always sucked until Denny O'Neil gave him a personality in the seventies. Then he shot miraculously non-lethal and now socially-conscious arrows at crooks instead of simply skewering them. So imagine how wonderful his sidekicks would be: Roy (Speedy/Arsenal) wasn't interesting until he got on smack, and Mia Speedy caught teh AIDS as a slutty teen.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 21, 2011, 03:50:04 PM
Damn, things just are never going well for Ollie, are they?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 21, 2011, 11:51:32 PM
Speedy is going to come back and be Red Arrow or some shit.  That's official, and there's a pic of upgraded Speedster on YouTube somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Feb 28, 2011, 07:10:17 PM
Going back to the convo a few pages back, I haven't gotten into Firefly yet either. I've seen a few episodes and while it's different and quirky and somewhat interesting, I wouldn't say it's the best thing ever. I own the movie though, and think that's great.


Last night there was some crap on named after some guy named Oscar. I didn't bother watching it though because syndicated SG1 was on.

Last week ended with the episode where Anubis attacks earth and it was mostly predictable, save for the moment where the old Jaffa guy (what's his name again?) got stabbed. I never thought such an awesome old warrior like him would die. But then O'neill had some sort of healing touch that kinda ruined the drama.
And then the Promethus ran out of ammo (seriously?!!) and Hammond was all casually like "Ram Anubis' ship". And the way he said it was so chalant and non-serious that he could have been talking about taking out the trash. "Oh, where are you going" "just to take out the trash and kill myself by ramming my ship into Anubis' ship..." So probably the most non-exciting season ender I've seen.

But then this week I missed the episode that explained how Jack got out of his Ancient freeze chamber and only saw the next one, where Thor picks up the team to help with the Replicators and some curly-haired emo-boy Replicator dude that looks like the lead singer of Green Day gets this freakish obsessive crush on Sam.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 02, 2011, 01:04:10 AM
I'm watching season 6 of Futurama on Netflix.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 02, 2011, 09:33:11 AM
Just stay away from episode 13, the holiday special.  That shit's AWFUL.  ::)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 02, 2011, 10:59:04 AM
Now she's gonna watch just because you said that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 02, 2011, 11:27:33 AM
Hahaha her loss. 

Then she'll hate everyone for being conflicted.

And I'll be all like "SERVED."
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 02, 2011, 03:14:11 PM
I've almost watched every episode of Scrubs. Just got the rest of the last season. It's bearable since I am studying while watching it. Not sure what I can replace it with to study after I'm done with it. I haven't watched the first 6 seasons in awhile, though ...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 02, 2011, 11:25:16 PM
Hahaha her loss. 

Then she'll hate everyone for being conflicted.

And I'll be all like "SERVED."

Or maybe I'll take your advice and not watch it?  ;D
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 02, 2011, 11:40:00 PM
(http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/billo.jpg)

DON'T DO IT.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 03, 2011, 12:49:51 PM
Don't take your advice or don't watch it?  What was wrong with it anyway?  Just not that funny like some of the movies?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 01:24:21 PM
Don't watch it.  It seriously just not funny and all of the songs feel really "forced".  I mean, subject yourself to it if you must, but I turned it off after 10 mins. 


It's Waynehead bad. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 03, 2011, 03:30:28 PM
I saw it...it was kinda meh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 04:10:52 PM
KINDA?  ONLY KINDA!?

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 03, 2011, 05:41:16 PM
Yeah...it was kinda, kinda.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 06:01:52 PM
(http://www.pencilero.com/omake/Bison_Barf.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 03, 2011, 06:07:00 PM
Don't watch it.  It seriously just not funny and all of the songs feel really "forced".  I mean, subject yourself to it if you must, but I turned it off after 10 mins.  


It's Waynehead bad.  

You're being too kind.  That episode is beyond garbage. I'm talking Spider-man Turn Off The Dark bad.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 06:14:11 PM
Thank you sir/Agreed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 04, 2011, 01:16:07 AM
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark was kinda meh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 04, 2011, 07:27:29 AM
super villain fashion show...spider goddess singing about buying shoes...ted turner as the green goblin...bono...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 05, 2011, 12:27:02 AM
As it is, I couldn't finish that cat episode.  Shit seriously wasn't funny.  Futurama since the movies has been very hit or miss.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 06, 2011, 10:44:20 PM
I thought the movies were pretty poor compared to the original run.

Cancellation was the correct choice. They should have said their goodbyes and moved on.

Surely such creative people have a few new ideas every now and then, yes?

Comedy Central shouldn't have been allowed to call it Futurama. It should be More Futurama. You know, because it's really just a bunch of regurgitated material.

Actually, there were a few new ones that were on par with the old ones, but it generally doesn't work out that way.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 09, 2011, 12:53:39 PM
I thought the movies were pretty poor compared to the original run.

I couldn't even finish one of the movies and didn't even bother with the last one.  For every laugh I just sat there for 5 minutes and wondered why I was wasting my life.

A couple of the new ones got genuine laughs from me.  I liked the Eye Phone episode and the one where they kept going forward in time.  I do, however, think it's time for this to end and for the ppl working on it to start on something new.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 09, 2011, 06:45:52 PM
anybody watching good cartoons like Regular Show or MAD?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 09, 2011, 11:35:42 PM
No, I'm watching bland stuff like Young Justice.  This latest episode was still meh.  Aqualad is boring.  Aqua-everything is kinda boring.  Let's just make a deal to stay out of the sea.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 10, 2011, 12:10:02 AM
I keep hoping they'll run afoul of Spongebob. At least it'd be worth a laugh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 10, 2011, 05:36:51 AM
No, I'm watching bland stuff like Young Justice.  This latest episode was still meh.  Aqualad is boring.  Aqua-everything is kinda boring.  Let's just make a deal to stay out of the sea.

It's still early in series but yeah it pretty fucking boring.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 10, 2011, 10:54:26 AM
I actually rather enjoyed that episode, and I rather like Aqualad.

I was a little disappointed that we didn't have a Starro showdown, but maybe that will happen later. Did Starro show up at during JLU?

And that armored suit for Black Manta is bad ass. I was hoping they'd say whether or not he is his dad in this version (as he is in the comics).

I also liked that they threw Garth in there as going straight to being Tempest.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 10, 2011, 01:39:22 PM
I haven't been watching Young Justice. I've been collecting them if I ever do decide to chell them out, but they're far from a priority.

MAD, like most sketch comedy, is completely hit and miss. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Adventure Time and Regular Show are currently the greatest animated thingamabobs in existence. And the spellchecker miraculously approves of thingamabobs.

I've been watching Limmy's Show, but now I'm just about caught up, which makes me sad. Scottish sketch comedy which is most definitely more hit than miss.






Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 10, 2011, 02:25:22 PM
I've started to watch Party Down, on Netflix.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 10, 2011, 04:06:23 PM
awesome show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 10, 2011, 04:16:42 PM
I've never heard of any of the things mentioned in the last several posts except Adventure Time which was cooler when nobody knew about it /crappy hipster
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 11, 2011, 01:43:26 AM
I've seen previews for Adventure Time and Regular Show, but neither really did it for me, so I never watched them. I've seen MAD and less then impressed by it. I'd much rather have MADtv back. Bobby Lee needs to eat you know.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 11, 2011, 02:01:05 PM
As do Will Sasso and Aries Spears who were my two of my favorite MadTV players.  Phil LaMarr seems to be doing just fine as he's in everything.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 11, 2011, 04:04:05 PM
Will Sasso is on "$%^ My Dad Says" while it's possible that could be canceled, he at least has a steady paycheck at the moment. Nicole Sullivan is also on that show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 29, 2011, 12:30:47 AM
Finished Downton Abbey.  I hates that Mary.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 29, 2011, 04:02:03 PM
Is Downton Abbey a britcom? Never heard of it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 29, 2011, 05:27:33 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey

Period drama.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Mar 30, 2011, 10:58:50 PM
This monitor as I type, duh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 30, 2011, 11:49:15 PM
What a coincidence, I'm watching you watching your monitor!  Well, this is embarrassing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 05, 2011, 01:52:47 AM
Oh yeah, I watched the first season of a show called Lost Girl. I'm pretty sure it's produced in Canada, but despite that it doesn't look too cheap. I mean, yeah, some of the effects are kind of meh, but overall I was impressed.

Anyway, it mostly tries to cash in on the whole vampires and werewolves brouhaha we've been seeing these last few years, but it goes even further and draws from all kinds of fairytale/mythological sources. The lead character is a succubus who typically has to dispatch a monster of the week with an overarching story about her trying to find out about her true identity.

And she has a werewolf cop boyfriend who she screws in order to recharge her batteries whenever she's had her ass kicked.

You know, that kind of show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 05, 2011, 12:31:08 PM
I saw the Roast of Pam Anderson.  Yeah, that's old, but I only got to see part of it when it first came out.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 05, 2011, 01:19:07 PM
I saw the William Shatner roast. Best part was watching George Takei laugh at all the gay jokes. It was mostly meh, though. Seeing this, you would not have at all been surprised at Farah Fawcett passing a few years later.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 05, 2011, 11:28:00 PM
Yeah, I saw that one a couple of weeks or so ago.  It was really hit-and-miss.  Not hit-or-miss, it actually had really got parts and stuff that wasn't even funny.  I've seen four of the roasts and here's my rank from worst to best.

Flavor Flav - mostly boring except for Lisa Lampinelli
Will Shatner
Pam Anderson
Bob Saget - "He calls them Michelle."
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 06, 2011, 12:57:56 AM
Camelot on Starz. Not that great so far, but I got to see Eva Green's boobies...so that's something.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 06, 2011, 03:09:14 AM
Nice. A GIS indicates she has shown them before. Quite nice, too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2011, 03:22:23 AM
Wow. Yeah. They belong in my mouthaaaaaaaaawww just kidding.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 06, 2011, 03:08:08 PM
Did anyone see Dumps's roast?  Is ther a reason the idiot from the Jersey Shore even deserves to be alive? 

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2011, 03:41:54 PM
Wrestlemania 27. There were some cool moments, but I was quickly reminded of why I gave up on wrestling in the first place.

Also, The Rock is officially wrestling again. Guess his movie prospects have dried up a little lately?

And look at this picture. Doesn't he just look weird somehow?

(http://i53.tinypic.com/9posyh.jpg)

It's like... his face was a blank, but then someone dragged and dropped his features onto it, but they didn't bother making sure everything was on straight.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 06, 2011, 07:20:52 PM
He just challenged John Cena to a match for next year's Wrestlemania. This year's Wrestlemania was balls. The 'anonymous GM' shit is awful and just really needs to stop. Snooki actually had some athleticism. Koslov should have been in the tag team match, that injury angle was stupid and off camera. They cut the Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan for a friggin championship and made it non-televised, just so some guy named Dwayne Johnson could talk for half an hour. Also, I never liked wrestling.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 06, 2011, 08:15:06 PM
Did anyone see Dumps's roast?  Is ther a reason the idiot from the Jersey Shore even deserves to be alive?

Yeah, that situation guy. A twenty-something dotard. While I realize that's an oxymoron, it's funny if you rhyme it with "retard". That was actually so painful as to force my fast-forwarding of it.

The David Hasselhoff roast was absolutely golden, though. But they also had so much to work with on that one. It was worth it if for no other reason than William Daniels' surprise "appearance".
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 06, 2011, 08:48:55 PM
Did anyone see Dumps's roast?  Is ther a reason the idiot from the Jersey Shore even deserves to be alive?

Yeah, that situation guy. A twenty-something dotard. While I realize that's an oxymoron, it's funny if you rhyme it with "retard". That was actually so painful as to force my fast-forwarding of it.

The David Hasselhoff roast was absolutely golden, though. But they also had so much to work with on that one. It was worth it if for no other reason than William Daniels' surprise "appearance".

The Hoff's has been my favorite so far. Although, at Shatner's, Betty White mentioning how it reminder her of the original roasts and that Uhura wouldn't have been let in was pretty funny.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 06, 2011, 10:26:10 PM
Also, The Rock is officially wrestling again. Guess his movie prospects have dried up a little lately?

Signing a four picture deal with Disney was a dumb idea.  Totally wasn't his audience.  He should have just stuck with action, since his only competition would have been Stallone and Statham.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 06, 2011, 10:33:19 PM
...and whatever was left of Vin Diesel's career.

Did anyone see Dumps's roast?  Is ther a reason the idiot from the Jersey Shore even deserves to be alive? 

Is there a reason anyone from that show deserves to be alive?

I haven't seen the Donald's or Hoff's yet.  I wish Netflix had those up for streaming.

And OMG the Rock's face is freaking me the eff out.  Joe's right, it looks like a bad shoop.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 07, 2011, 01:47:18 AM
Robocop
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 07, 2011, 02:56:41 AM
The situation roasted himself.  He should never have agreed to do that thing. I'm glad he did though.

Ahh robocop...that and total recall are 2 movies I love showing to my early 20 something chicks.  They love them.  I'll throw one or the other on and then pound them afterwords...good times.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 07, 2011, 03:25:52 AM
THIS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvN9YwiveXc&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvN9YwiveXc&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 07, 2011, 04:52:53 AM
That pussy be yankin indeed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 07, 2011, 03:50:41 PM
She says she can fuck better when she's drinking ... but I doubt it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 08, 2011, 01:49:14 AM
The Civil War on PBS.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 08, 2011, 09:26:41 PM
Stars vs Avs. Fuck.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 09, 2011, 11:48:27 PM
Being Human-british and then Fantasy Factory.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 10, 2011, 10:53:17 AM
Watching a lot of hockey later today. Fuck fuck fuck.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 10, 2011, 02:49:30 PM
I'm gonna go watch bitches in bikinis!  It's POOOOOOOOOOOOL PAAAAAAAAAARTTYYY DAYY!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 10, 2011, 03:54:08 PM
no pics it didnt happen.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 11, 2011, 09:42:32 PM
Robocop

Robocop's on Netflix streaming for those that got it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 11, 2011, 10:51:27 PM
Oh, and I watched Kathleen Madigan: Gone Madigan and Lisa Lampinelli's Tough Love.  Both awesome, funny, funny ladies.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 11, 2011, 11:15:03 PM
I love Kathleen Madigan. Gotta support a fellow Missourian.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 12, 2011, 05:13:48 AM
I can't stand Lisa Lampinelli.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 13, 2011, 12:16:24 AM
At least she's funny sometimes unlike most other female comics.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 13, 2011, 11:16:18 AM
I can't stand Lisa Lampinelli.

I bet she'd love you...all night long. Yeah!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 13, 2011, 05:05:56 PM
I heard she liked black dudes but I think she ended up marrying a white dude.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 13, 2011, 07:44:59 PM
THIS GUY: http://www.cannos.com/news.htm
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 13, 2011, 11:02:17 PM
Jimmy Bigballs!  She talked about him in "Tough Love".  He even appears after the credits.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 14, 2011, 10:11:26 AM
With a name like Big Balls, how can you go wrong?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 15, 2011, 10:53:11 AM
It's not his real name.  :p
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 15, 2011, 11:32:27 AM
I kinda figured.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 17, 2011, 09:07:33 AM
I just finished watching the first season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and I loved it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 17, 2011, 11:23:59 PM
Just watched the first episode of Game of Thrones. So far so good!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 17, 2011, 11:42:40 PM
 Naked white women, incest and midgets, I've been waiting for this show my whole life!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 18, 2011, 03:33:17 PM
I watched the first ep of Sons of Anarchy.  It was okay.

I watched the first ep of Dana Delaney's show.  I forget the title but it was kinda shitty so it doesn't really matter.
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Post by: The D on Apr 21, 2011, 08:59:13 PM
Just watched the first episode of Game of Thrones. So far so good!
THIS IS THE REASON I WISH I HAD HB-FUCKING-O!!!

Ahem.

I'm surprised no one here is ranting and raving about the new My Little Pony series, unless I completely missed it. Seems half the people I know act like this show is the best thing since crack and sex. Maybe even better than crack and sex.

And I don't get it. Why the fuck a bunch of grown adults would be addicted to a kid's show with fucking rainbow ponies.

I'd start a new thread to rant about it, but I believe my thread creating abilities are stunted.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 21, 2011, 09:09:39 PM
Game of Thrones was indeed quite god.

I guess I'll have to catch out My Little Pony now. Maybe they're smoking weed.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 21, 2011, 10:25:39 PM

I'm surprised no one here is ranting and raving about the new My Little Pony series, unless I completely missed it. Seems half the people I know act like this show is the best thing since crack and sex. Maybe even better than crack and sex.
"Half the people I know" = /b/
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 21, 2011, 11:39:26 PM
:lol: Yeah. 

I saw one ep of MLP.  The African voodoo pony was a zebra with a funny accent.  That kinda didn't seem... uh, right.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 22, 2011, 09:55:35 AM
I used to have ALL the ponies, ALL the barns, EVERYTHING from my little pony. EVERY-SINGLE-THING. I dont know where all of that shit is anymore though :( . I had a good childhood.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 22, 2011, 07:43:46 PM
Best Christmas ever was when I got the stable.  Didn't have a whole lotta ponies but the ones I had got a good home that year.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 22, 2011, 09:34:42 PM
I forgot we were talking about MLP so I was confused about you getting a stable.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 22, 2011, 09:45:07 PM
You got it eventually and that's all that matters.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 24, 2011, 08:17:45 AM
Best Christmas ever was when I got the stable.  Didn't have a whole lotta ponies but the ones I had got a good home that year.
damn yes the stable was the shiznit. I used it with my barbies too, it was huge. Did you have their bath? that was pimp, bubbles and all
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Post by: Rama on Apr 25, 2011, 12:46:31 AM
So it was like the Castle Grayskull of MLP?
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 25, 2011, 12:57:32 AM

Yep.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 25, 2011, 09:40:22 AM
OMG YESSS! I had the parlor too! shiiiiiiiiit good memories oh god.
My brother had everything from gi joe, thundercats and he-man. It was always a fight between our toys (i had, besides the little pony, she-ra, jem and barbie)
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 25, 2011, 03:09:52 PM
She-Ra be fucking some shit up. MOTU Classics has a new version of She-Ra now as well.

Speaking of GI Joe, there is no playset that matched the awesomeosity of the USS Flagg. Even my personal favorite Fortress Maximus doesn't quite reach its level of incredibly bad-ass-ness.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 25, 2011, 11:04:28 PM
Yeah and if you childhood bed room was a converted garage you could actually fit it in there.



















Damn I wanted a Flagg. Still do.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 25, 2011, 11:25:40 PM
Oh and Mallrats. And I don't care what you say BECK this movie is still awesome.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 26, 2011, 03:43:22 PM
Mallrats is great. If Nuri doesn't like that she can do something relating to something else.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 27, 2011, 10:38:23 PM
Stinkpalm Fiero?  Sorry, dudes, that movie did not age well.

Also, I've been continuing w/ Sons of Anarchy.  I can safely say I'm hooked now.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 27, 2011, 11:49:39 PM
Finished the second season of Eastbound and Down. Don't know that I cared much for it. In the first season, the guy was just an ignorant mess. In the second he's practically a cartoon character constantly swept up in wacky, implausible adventures. I can understand why they've decided to end it with the third. Hopefully they'll rein in the crazy.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 28, 2011, 12:43:26 AM
Attack of the Show, but I'm not really watching it. It is just kinda running in the back ground.
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Post by: blanktoe on Apr 29, 2011, 05:56:29 AM
fucking Dumps! now because he wants to be a racist asshole I refuse to watch The Apprentice. And fucking MSNBC can eat a dick!
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 29, 2011, 03:10:35 PM
Yes the My Little Pony show is amazing.  I am totally hooked on this show and have tons of toy ponies now...
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 29, 2011, 03:41:30 PM
Yes the My Little Pony show is amazing.  I am totally hooked on this show and have tons of toy ponies now...

Don't kid. You've had them since you were a wee one.
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Post by: The D on Apr 30, 2011, 04:18:52 PM
Been watching SG1 in syndication. Earlier this week watched the episode where Daniel gets trapped in Tom's Diner in purgatory. Yea, I'm sure that when I die, I'll spend my eternity in a classic style diner myself.

The episode annoyed me for one very big reason: All the action, everything important that was going on, was announced afterwards, rather than actually shown on screen. Epic battles, a fight for the galaxy, and NONE of it actually was shown on screen. It was like "Hay guys guess what's going on somewhere else!" It was as if the studio ran out of money completely and decided to film this episode with nothing exciting happening on screen to save money. Completely and utterly anti-climatic.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 02, 2011, 08:53:00 PM
Game of Thrones, three episodes in and I'm loving it. Wish I could say the same for Camelot.
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Post by: Fiero on May 02, 2011, 09:49:42 PM
I'm watching ep 3 tonight. Can't wait.
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Post by: B E C K on May 03, 2011, 10:28:09 PM
Finished up seasons 1 & 2 Sons of Anarchy so now I'm :(, waiting for S3.  Also watched one ep of S2 of The Tudors.  Now I remember why I dumped that show.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 04, 2011, 01:29:38 AM
I'm watching ep 3 tonight. Can't wait.

thoughts?
Finished up seasons 1 & 2 Sons of Anarchy so now I'm :(, waiting for S3.

i can't wait for season3. You know after Jacks reads that letter all hell is gonna break loose!

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Post by: Fiero on May 04, 2011, 02:09:40 PM
I'm watching ep 3 tonight. Can't wait.
thoughts?

I still like it. I can't put my mind on exactly what I didn't like about episode 3, bu there was something that seemed strange there. Looking forward to next weeks. Also, fuck cliffhangers, but I like them, too.

EDIT: I wonder if that's what it was. The ending. The first two episodes had something that seemed very important to the plot happen in the last seconds, the third one did not.
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Post by: B E C K on May 04, 2011, 11:43:31 PM
i can't wait for season3. You know after Jacks reads that letter all hell is gonna break loose!

Do you mean S4?  I've read spoilers, so I think I know what you're talking about.  I don't have FX and I don't feel like watching episodes on my comp, so I have to wait for DVDs or Netflix streaming to see S3.  Netflix only has the first two seasons.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 05, 2011, 12:16:48 AM
i can't wait for season3. You know after Jacks reads that letter all hell is gonna break loose!

Do you mean S4?  I've read spoilers, so I think I know what you're talking about.  I don't have FX and I don't feel like watching episodes on my comp, so I have to wait for DVDs or Netflix streaming to see S3.  Netflix only has the first two seasons.
My bad didnt mean to spoil you.

I'm watching ep 3 tonight. Can't wait.
thoughts?

I still like it. I can't put my mind on exactly what I didn't like about episode 3, bu there was something that seemed strange there. Looking forward to next weeks. Also, fuck cliffhangers, but I like them, too.

EDIT: I wonder if that's what it was. The ending. The first two episodes had something that seemed very important to the plot happen in the last seconds, the third one did not.

I thought episode 3 was the best one yet. So many cool character moments. Tyrion and the little girl ( I forget her name) are becoming my favorite characters.
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Post by: B E C K on May 05, 2011, 01:07:30 AM
Nah, you didn't spoil anything.  I'm curious about Game of Thrones through.  Too bad Netflix will never stream it.
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Post by: Fiero on May 05, 2011, 11:39:18 AM
HBO has a streaming site ... but you have to have a cable sub with HBO to get it. /fail
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Post by: B E C K on May 06, 2011, 01:12:11 AM
HBO is a funny man.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 06, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
Nah, you didn't spoil anything.  I'm curious about Game of Thrones through.  Too bad Netflix will never stream it.

Cool,so,they go to Ireland to get Jacks' son back. Jacks almost sleeps with his half sister. They find the Jacks son. They kill a shit ton of folks. They almost go to jail a few times. The lady cop bitch gets killed. Jacks lady find out she's pregnant and she finds a letter Jacks father saying his best friend and his wife are gonna kill him. I left out a few things but that shit aint important...the end.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 06, 2011, 12:50:57 PM
Spider-Woman: Agent of Sword and Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
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Post by: Rama on May 07, 2011, 12:57:22 AM
The Whitest Kids U'Know.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 08, 2011, 04:01:26 AM
Iron Man Extermis and the Astonishing X-men motion comics on the netflix streaming.
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Post by: B E C K on May 08, 2011, 11:22:07 PM
I tried and really wasn't interested after the first episode.  Of X-Men, I mean.  I still want to try the others.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 09, 2011, 01:22:12 PM
Astonishing X-men was good but Iron Man Extremis was really fucking awesome. You can't go wrong with Warren Ellis and Adi Granov.

I'm watching ep 3 tonight. Can't wait.
thoughts?

I still like it. I can't put my mind on exactly what I didn't like about episode 3, bu there was something that seemed strange there. Looking forward to next weeks. Also, fuck cliffhangers, but I like them, too.

EDIT: I wonder if that's what it was. The ending. The first two episodes had something that seemed very important to the plot happen in the last seconds, the third one did not.

You should like episode four then. It ended with a great cliffhanger.
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Post by: Fiero on May 10, 2011, 01:41:22 PM
It did indeed. I like her more and more, and oddly enough also the little person as well. I like both, but would only want to be my lord or lady.
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Post by: IDE on May 15, 2011, 01:22:57 AM
The pr0n version of the flintstones
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Post by: Rama on May 15, 2011, 10:37:08 PM
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Man Disney XD went and butchered the intro and the awesome theme song so they could tell kids what they already know. That this show has Iron Man, Thor and Captain America in it. I hope they restore the original theme when they put this on DVD.
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Post by: Fiero on May 16, 2011, 04:40:01 PM
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Man Disney XD went and butchered the intro and the awesome theme song so they could tell kids what they already know. That this show has Iron Man, Thor and Captain America in it. I hope they restore the original theme when they put this on DVD.

WHAT?

The German version of that episode that everyone watched from the Internet still had the original theme.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2011, 08:35:32 PM
I've been downloading them, and every one of them has the theme.
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Post by: B E C K on May 16, 2011, 11:38:56 PM
The first episode of Hotaru no Hikari.
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Post by: Rama on May 16, 2011, 11:51:03 PM
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Man Disney XD went and butchered the intro and the awesome theme song so they could tell kids what they already know. That this show has Iron Man, Thor and Captain America in it. I hope they restore the original theme when they put this on DVD.

WHAT?

The German version of that episode that everyone watched from the Internet still had the original theme.

Well this was the one on Disney XD. They chopped it up and explained who Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man are with a voice over. I remember they did something similar when they re-aired the old Dungeon and Dragons Cartoon.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 17, 2011, 01:07:48 PM
Game of Thrones episode 5 AWWW SHIT Ned is gonna get KILLED!
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Post by: Rama on May 17, 2011, 04:08:20 PM
Bravestar.
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Post by: blanktoe on May 17, 2011, 07:24:45 PM
Bravestar.

thoughts?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 17, 2011, 08:47:40 PM
It's only nearly thirty years old.
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Post by: Fiero on May 18, 2011, 01:33:43 AM
On a whim I bought the first season of M*A*S*H over the weekend.

I had quite a surprise: the option to play the episodes without a laugh track. Considering that laugh tracks are the worst thing to ever happen to television, I jumped right in as soon as I saw that option. So far, I'm loving it. It's like watching a whole new show.
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Post by: Rama on May 18, 2011, 01:49:14 AM
Bravestar.

thoughts?

I'd seen it before. But they had like 10 episode for 3 bucks at Wal-Mart, so I thought what the hell. I remember the theme song being better then it is. It is really just like He-Man only with an old west theme. Would have been cool to see a cross over, but I think they have stopped making He-Man before this show came out. Still would have been nice to just link the shows in some way.

On the whole though the shows holds up pretty well, maybe even a little better then He-Man. I was using this to see if it would be worth picking up the whole series, and I think I will. I enjoyed it. Kinda wish I hadn't paid so much to get all the He-Man toons a few years back. Could get the whole series for what I paid for Season 2 part 2.
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Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2011, 12:18:11 AM
Bravestarr has two r's.  Just sayin.  :)  And yeah, it's held up pretty well.
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Post by: Rama on May 19, 2011, 01:29:02 AM
I'll be damned you're right. Had to go get the box to chell and sure enough two Rs. Not that I doubted you...ok, yeah I did.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 19, 2011, 09:15:53 PM
I haven't watched Bravestarr since The Day, but...old-school He-Man is very popular with my 7 year-old niece. She's seen every episode twice, the movie several times, and has received MOTUC figures for Christmas.
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Post by: Fiero on May 19, 2011, 09:37:04 PM
I haven't watched Bravestarr since The Day, but...old-school He-Man is very popular with my 7 year-old niece. She's seen every episode twice, the movie several times, and has received MOTUC figures for Christmas.

That's awesome. Why can't all kids be that cool?
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Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2011, 10:47:01 PM
I'll be damned you're right. Had to go get the box to chell and sure enough two Rs. Not that I doubted you...ok, yeah I did.

Well!  I never! 
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 20, 2011, 09:05:18 PM
That's awesome. Why can't all kids be that cool?

I nearly died when I dropped by one day and she had MOTUC He-Man in the doll house, lying in the bed under the covers...with Barbie. This precious, innocent child had absolutely no idea of the gratuitously inappropriate yet utterly hilarious thoughts instantly pelting my imagination at the mere sight of this scene. Good thing, too...she simply didn't understand why I had doubled-over from laughter and was unable to speak for several minutes. I think I scared her at first.

But, just as funny as that was the fact that Ken was lying face-down on the floor next to the bed. I asked why this was, and she told me quite matter-of-factly that He-Man had walked in, knocked him out, and went straight to bed.

You can't make this sort of thing up.
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Post by: Fiero on May 20, 2011, 09:43:53 PM
That's awesome. Why can't all kids be that cool?

I nearly died when I dropped by one day and she had MOTUC He-Man in the doll house, lying in the bed under the covers...with Barbie. This precious, innocent child had absolutely no idea of the gratuitously inappropriate yet utterly hilarious thoughts instantly pelting my imagination at the mere sight of this scene. Good thing, too...she simply didn't understand why I had doubled-over from laughter and was unable to speak for several minutes. I think I scared her at first.

But, just as funny as that was the fact that Ken was lying face-down on the floor next to the bed. I asked why this was, and she told me quite matter-of-factly that He-Man had walked in, knocked him out, and went straight to bed.

You can't make this sort of thing up.

Whatever her parents are doing, they need to write it down so other parents can have an awesome kid, too.
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Post by: B E C K on May 20, 2011, 10:47:42 PM
I, too, must applaud her awesomeness.  Even children know that Ken doesn't belong in Barbie's bed.
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Post by: Fiero on May 20, 2011, 11:07:21 PM
I, too, must applaud her awesomeness.  Even children know that Ken doesn't belong in Barbie's bed.

Honestly, it seems more likely that him and Prince Adam would share one.
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Post by: Rama on May 21, 2011, 01:22:17 AM
Yeah, but we are talking about He-Man, not Prince Adam. I don't even know why you brought him into this.
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Post by: B E C K on May 22, 2011, 02:24:38 AM
I know, right!?  They're two different people.  That sentence makes no sense at all!
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Post by: Rama on May 22, 2011, 02:30:23 AM
Exactly! While I'm sure Prince Adam wouldn't mind taking it in the pooper from Ken, He-Man is all about the pussy!
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Post by: B E C K on May 22, 2011, 02:32:20 AM
How else do you explain Battle Cat?
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Post by: Rama on May 22, 2011, 02:34:45 AM
Ohhhh...I see what you did there.
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Post by: B E C K on May 22, 2011, 02:48:46 AM
Did what who where?
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Post by: Rama on May 22, 2011, 02:54:57 AM
With the cat and the pussy and the Battle is the....yeah.
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Post by: Fiero on May 22, 2011, 07:15:24 PM
Well, Prince Adam has that Krinker or Klink or whatever his name is.
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Post by: B E C K on May 23, 2011, 12:12:43 AM
Cringer.

I noticed that three eps of Secrets of the Dead is on Netflix streaming and one ep was one I hadn't seen before.  I admit, I got a little more excited for that than I probably should've.   :D
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Post by: B E C K on May 23, 2011, 12:15:17 AM
 :joe:
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Post by: Fiero on May 23, 2011, 04:04:38 PM
What is Secrets of the Dead?
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Post by: blanktoe on May 23, 2011, 06:59:52 PM
Shin Chan, Babylon 5 and more Game Of Thrones.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 23, 2011, 07:57:33 PM
:joe:

Unlike Sheen, Adam could have tiger's blood running across his vein.
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Post by: Rama on May 24, 2011, 12:53:58 AM
What is Secrets of the Dead?

It's PBS investigation type show. I've watched it from time to time, but don't watch PBS nearly as much as I use too.
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Post by: B E C K on May 24, 2011, 11:42:17 PM
^ Yes, it's that, usually researching some sort of historical figure or event.  I really liked The Silver Pharaoh and the Slave Ship Mutiny and both of those are streamable.  Also, the one on Herculaneam was pretty good.  (Pompeii died slowly but these people were immediately fried to death by Vesuvius.)  That one's on the PBS website though.
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Post by: Rama on May 25, 2011, 01:21:39 AM
I actually watched some of it tonight. The guide said it was going to be about searching for The Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard ship (No doubt to tie in with Pirates 4), but instead it was about when the Brits sank French warships to keep them from falling into the hands of the Nazis.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 30, 2011, 02:30:17 AM
I saw U2 at the Stadium tonight, does that fit in this thread?

Cool show, dudes. Those old fuckers can still rock.
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Post by: IDE on May 30, 2011, 03:27:52 AM
jersey shore bro
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 30, 2011, 09:03:22 AM
New season of the real housewives of nj, hollaa!
so trashy. so so trashy.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 31, 2011, 12:26:21 AM
Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet.
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Post by: Fiero on May 31, 2011, 11:12:08 AM
Watched ep 7 of Game of Thrones. Also watching M.A.S.H., I found season 1 pretty cheap used.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 01, 2011, 01:28:58 AM
I'm watching some Spike shows that appeared on Netflix.  1000 Ways to Die and Deadliest Warrior.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 01, 2011, 01:30:21 AM
MST3K: Racket Girls.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 02, 2011, 02:01:34 AM
I think I'll start watching game of thrones tonight.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 02, 2011, 11:59:19 AM
Looney Tunes
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 02, 2011, 05:17:15 PM
I thought you said Tiny Toons. and I was going to say Tiny Tunes just makes me think of Animaniacs.
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Post by: blanktoe on Jun 02, 2011, 08:19:36 PM
I think I'll start watching game of thrones tonight.
What took you so long?
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 02, 2011, 09:11:13 PM
Looney Tunes

Old or new?
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Post by: Rama on Jun 02, 2011, 11:35:58 PM
Old. 
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 03, 2011, 12:00:37 PM
Have you watched the new one?
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Post by: Rama on Jun 03, 2011, 01:17:55 PM
Yeah, and it's not really Looney Tunes. It's like a sitcom for 12 year olds that just happens to have Bugs Bunny and Daffey Duck in it. I mean the last episode, the whole thing was about Bugs starting to date Lola. Who in this one is a crazy clingy girlfriend. There is even a b-story about Daffey sneaking into a country club using another members number. It's the kinda plot you'd see on "How I Met Your Mother." There is none of the stuff that makes Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes in the first place.
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Post by: blanktoe on Jun 03, 2011, 01:34:32 PM
New Looney Tunes can be funny at times you just need to give it a chance. Anyway fuck that. JEM IS ON THE HUB NOW!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSS!
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Post by: Rama on Jun 03, 2011, 01:54:37 PM
I've seen three episodes so far, and it has failed to impress each time.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 03, 2011, 10:14:46 PM
I thought some of the clips I saw of new Looney Tunes were funny but it seemed unable to let the joke go quickly enough at times.

I've been watching The Voice.  I really like it.  I hope they don't try to move it to an earlier time slot because it comes out at 9PM over here and that works for me.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2011, 01:07:51 AM
There's a new Jem?! What?!
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Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2011, 01:27:37 AM
Probably just the old show. Although I don't have the HUB, so who knows. Well Toe does...
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2011, 01:30:44 AM
So the Looney Tunes thing is ass? I noticed it the other day and immediately downloaded all the episodes but haven't watched any.

Like a sitcom, you say?

Hmm.

Remember Tazmania?

Down in Tazmania! Down in Tazmania!
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Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2011, 01:43:26 AM
I'm just saying that it's not really like Looney Tunes. It's trying to be something it's not. But you should just watch it and make up your own mind. You might like it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2011, 01:50:29 AM
Hey, fuck you, man. I know a shot when I hear one. Read one. Whatever, you're an asshole!

Seriously though, classic Looney Tunes are eternal. Go back and watch them, they're still fantastic, even by today's standards. Especially by today's standards!

People used to care about quality. Now? Psssh. There is no such thing.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2011, 02:00:09 AM
Oh yeah. I got some of them on DVD around here, and they hold up real well.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2011, 02:04:35 AM
MST3K #902: Phantom Planet 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 04, 2011, 11:13:52 AM
Yo, Rama, heard any of the Riff Tracks stuff yet?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: spooie on Jun 04, 2011, 11:17:47 AM
Re-watching "For a Few Dollars More" with commentary.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 04, 2011, 05:10:31 PM
So the Looney Tunes thing is ass? I noticed it the other day and immediately downloaded all the episodes but haven't watched any.

Like a sitcom, you say?

Hmm.

Remember Tazmania?

Down in Tazmania! Down in Tazmania!

We mean YOU!

Yo, Rama, heard any of the Riff Tracks stuff yet?

He probably has but wouldn't he need a strong connection to dl them?  I've listened to a handful of them, X-Men, Predator, and Lord of the Rings.  It was more miss than hit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 04, 2011, 09:57:53 PM
I've only watched the new Looney Tunes show during my lunch break, so I've never seen a whole show. It's entertaining, but if you're expecting the old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies stuff, you're just expecting too much. We'll never see the likes of that again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 05, 2011, 01:40:30 AM
He probably has but wouldn't he need a strong connection to dl them?  I've listened to a handful of them, X-Men, Predator, and Lord of the Rings.  It was more miss than hit.

Bingo.

I can't really download them very well with dial up. They do have some DVDs  for sale of public domain movies they've done and I've thought about getting those, but have yet to bite. Don't know why cause I'm caught up on my MST3K releases until MST3K vs. Gammera comes out in Aug, so I should. Plus they come out with new stuff more then Cinematic Titanic does.

On a semi related note I almost got to see Cinematic Titanic live last year, but couldn't find anyone to who wanted to go with me and I didn't want to go alone...so I didn't go. Wish I had though cause they seem to be cutting back on the touring a little and who knows if they'll ever come close enough for me to go again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2011, 12:34:30 AM
I'm watching that show "Take Home Chef" where Curtis Stone ambushes fuckers in the supermarket.  First of all, what effin' store keeps tampons and pads in the same aisle as the frozen food.  NO.  :nurinono:  Second, he sure uses a shit-ton of butter.  Private cooking lessons with Paula Deen?  Someone Rule 34 that shit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 06, 2011, 12:50:08 AM
Tosh.O
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 06, 2011, 12:50:54 AM
And Alien 3. I keep going back and forth.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 07, 2011, 11:13:10 PM
Tosh.O

Ha ha, I got weird looks one time because I said I didn't think that guy was funny.  He strikes me as a douche bag.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 08, 2011, 12:10:52 AM
I like Web Soup better. Same basic show, but with a much funnier guy. Thing is Tosh gets replayed WAY more and thus is easier to catch. He is kinda "heh" funny, but since I can't watch them on Youtube, this is the only way I can see some of these videos.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 08, 2011, 02:41:30 AM
That host could be anyone. Who's to say he even writes any of those jokes? And it's the videos that are funny in the first place. A joke doesn't make an unfunny video funny, nor does it make a funny video funnier. The video has to stand on its own.

Tosh can eat a dick.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 08, 2011, 12:07:44 PM
I'd say Tosh writes at least some of them cause the jokes are pretty similar to a stand up special I saw with him awhile back. What I don't get is why we need a joke on top of a funny video to begin with. We need a host to tell what is coming and then set up the video and that's it. Kinda like those cop car chase gone wrong shows.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 08, 2011, 01:43:40 PM
Exactly. Tosh is basically Bob Saget, and everyone hated Bob Saget on AFHV. Why is Tosh treated differently?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 08, 2011, 08:12:34 PM
Exactly. Tosh is basically Bob Saget, and everyone hated Bob Saget on AFHV. Why is Tosh treated differently?

I loved Saget on AFHV, because it was so obvious that he hated himself every minute of it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 09, 2011, 12:14:48 AM
What Fifi says is true.  :nuriyes:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 09, 2011, 01:27:50 AM
Just came back from Supertramp. Not a bad show, but I'd be lying if I said I recognized half the songs. Early hits only, thanks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 20, 2011, 03:06:38 PM
MST3K 603: The Dead Talk Back
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 21, 2011, 09:09:46 AM
I saw the first minute of Macross F: The False Songstress last night while attempting to adapt it for PS3 playback (which was a bitch). Hopefully I can watch it tonight.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 22, 2011, 02:00:20 AM
History Detectives
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 22, 2011, 10:32:49 PM
I was watching this "I Survived..." show on Bio.  Anyone ever see this shit?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 24, 2011, 01:39:29 PM
DeLoran

It is a documentary on how John Deloran made the DMC-12. Didn't cover how it all came crashing down. I swear if Back to the Future had come out in 1981 instead of 1985 it could have saved this car.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 24, 2011, 01:46:41 PM
Now I'm watching Rome: Engineering an Empire
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 25, 2011, 05:45:22 PM
Rewatching the Game of Thrones. The best show you fuckers aren't watching.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 25, 2011, 10:45:37 PM
Meh, I'll wait until all or most of it is out on dvd and then marathon it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 26, 2011, 03:40:44 PM
Rewatching the Game of Thrones. The best show you fuckers aren't watching.

My apartment mate is getting the HD rips, but it's going to take a awhile. Hoping to show it all to the girlfriend, she watched the first and was interested.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 26, 2011, 06:22:13 PM
I'll torrent or stream it. 

Or should I read the books first?


I need something to read now that I'm out of redwall books :/
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 26, 2011, 08:11:46 PM
Read them. I've heard they are very good. I intend to read them when I finish the Pern series.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2011, 10:39:37 PM
Read them. I've heard they are very good. I intend to read them when I finish the Pern series.

I read your post "the P0rn series".
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 28, 2011, 10:41:48 PM
Conan...and Leslie Bibb (the guest) is pretty dumb.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2011, 10:45:12 PM
I was watching "The Voice" earlier.  I really loved it when it began nine or so weeks ago but it's gotten crappier and crappier.  This show premiered at 9 and lasted until 10.  Then when they did live shows like five weeks later, it moved to 8 to 10.  Then last week, they added a result show at 7.  So now I'm gonna miss the finale because it's too damn earlier.  Bastards.  Probably for the best since they're cramming it full of celebrity guests and filler.  The live shows have been progressively over-produced and full of product placement.  BLEH.  No, thanks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 05, 2011, 12:55:30 AM
The Twilight Zone. The original show from the 60's
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 05, 2011, 09:28:31 PM
Rupaul's Drag Race.  :D
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 05, 2011, 10:23:17 PM
I've been watching HBO's Rome. Pretty fucking good, finished season 1 and started the first of season 2. I like it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2011, 12:28:46 AM
Merla's been watching a shitload of Star Trek (mainly TNG) so I've been roped into seeing a few of 'em.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 06, 2011, 01:17:38 AM
History Detectives
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Jul 06, 2011, 06:47:37 PM
Everyone around me is turning into a Brony.

BUT I AM RESISTING. YOU CAN NEVER CONVERT ME TO THE DARK (DORK?) SIDE!!!!

I will never succumb to the evil that is MLP.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2011, 08:07:34 PM
I watched the first episode. It was generally entertaining.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2011, 09:34:44 PM
MLP?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jul 06, 2011, 09:35:57 PM
It's fucking my little pony...I guess I'll watch one ep just to see what it's all ab....ZOMG FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2011, 09:39:23 PM
I saw one and I wasn't roped in.  You should be safe.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jul 06, 2011, 11:54:56 PM
Don't listen to her! Get away while you ca  PINKYPIE 4EVER!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 15, 2011, 10:48:40 PM
I've been watching Parking Wars.  Being in Philly, it always reminds me of Faye.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 15, 2011, 11:39:01 PM
Falling Skies is amazing!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 16, 2011, 12:58:30 AM
Ugh. I'm so fucking gun shy about starting new sci-fi series.

"Oops, sorry. It wasn't popular enough, so... CANCELED. Oh, you liked it? Ah well."

And yes, I realize I may be contributing to that outcome by not watching, but whatever.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 16, 2011, 02:27:52 AM
Lewis Black: Red, White, and Screwed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Jul 16, 2011, 04:02:06 PM
Ugh. I'm so fucking gun shy about starting new sci-fi series.

"Oops, sorry. It wasn't popular enough, so... CANCELED. Oh, you liked it? Ah well."

And yes, I realize I may be contributing to that outcome by not watching, but whatever.
Unless you had a nelson's box on your tv or there was some way they could measure whether you were watching or not, then no.

Don't listen to her! Get away while you ca  PINKYPIE 4EVER!
FUCK PINKYPIE THAT ADHD SPEED-ADDICTED WHORE! FLUTTERSHY AND TWILIGHT FOREVER BITCHES! *beats self to death with sledgehammer*


Because I have heard the excuse of "Well, how can you judge something if you've never seen it?", I have started watching My Little Pony: Friendship is magic.

It certainly is better than the shit they put out in the 80s. And it is a good children's program, and if I had kids I'd encourage them to watch it.  But that's the thing. It's written for CHILDREN. So while the characters are complex sterotypical and somewhat entertaining the whole thing feels dumbed down. In the week I've taken on the dare to watch as much MLP as I can handle before shooting myself, I have only watched 3.5 episodes.

These reviews will have spoilers, if you care.

The First two episodes:
We get introduced to the main character Twilight, a smart introverted bookworm, and about the only sane character on the show, as she's constantly like "What the fuck is wrong with all of you?" which would be my reaction if I landed in Ponyville. And she's trying to warn everyone that the end is nigh, and the evil pony shall come from the moon and rule the world. Of course no one listens, and because of her gloom&doom prophecy she gets shipped to the podunk town of Ponyville.

There she makes friends: Applejack, a sterotypical southern redneck type that farms; Rainbow Dash, a selfish tomboyish lesbo; Pinkie pie, the ADHD hyperactive crazy bitch on speed; Rarity, a stuck-up so-cal bimbo who only cares about fashion and looks (a pony Faye); and Fluttershy, a shy timid and quiet girl who loves animals. Most of these characters are sterotypical, annoying, and not the kind of people I'd hang with.

And of course the prediction comes true, the evil pony escapes from the moon, and the new friends must save the day. And this is where the show beats you over the head with that mushy shit. They save the day USING FRIENDSHIP!!! Generosity, kindness, love, loyality, friendship, all are used to twart evil. Then they use the rainbow of love to defeat evil. Yay, or something.

And then the villian says sorry and is forgiven. I mean, really? Can I not have a TV program where they use the powet of friendship and love to defeat evil?


I was told that this theme does not continue with the series, so I watched more.
Episode 2 review, abridged:
Our main character gets two tickets to some gala of sorts. Every one of her friends wants to go, so they try to bribe her, be nice to her, and do anything to coerce her to give up her tickets. So good so far?

So why was the ending so fucking predictable? I knew what was going to happen before the episode was 5 minutes in!!!

Twilight decides to send the tickets back, saying that if her friends can't go, she won't go either. How sweet (BARF!). Predictably, she gets a message back with tickets for ALL of her friends. Wow, that was like the most uncliche ending EVER!!!!!111one

If the series is only going to be lovey dovey and predictable happy endings where friendship conquers all, I am seriously disappoint.

TL;DR: Good children's program. Dumbed down. Predicably happy endings where love and frienship triumphs over evil, nothing bad ever happens permanatly.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jul 16, 2011, 07:15:11 PM
The show needs a jacked up pony modeled after me that wears alpina shield sunglasses (in white just like the late machoman)

His name would be Thundercock.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 16, 2011, 11:33:28 PM
Ugh. I'm so fucking gun shy about starting new sci-fi series.

"Oops, sorry. It wasn't popular enough, so... CANCELED. Oh, you liked it? Ah well."

And yes, I realize I may be contributing to that outcome by not watching, but whatever.

Yeah, it really makes me not want to watch anything unless it has an actor I like or a concept I'm super-curious about.  And not just sci-fi.  Anything really.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 17, 2011, 12:50:27 AM
Yup... yup. Best bet is to wait for something that's equally loved by critics and the masses, with a confirmed second season.

I didn't start watching Lost until the second season.

I've never actually seen the first.

Pretty weird, huh?

Honestly, I don't even like watching shows on a weekly basis. I'd rather wait for the season to end and then burn through it whenever the mood takes me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 17, 2011, 01:41:33 AM
Watch a 10-episode season w/ 1-hr eps.  Waste 10 hours + time waiting for the show to start and having a 1-hour show take up a specific block of your day.

vs.

Watch a 10-episode season at around 45 min a piece since there's no commericals.  Now it's about 7.5 hours.  Squeeze it in whenever the hell you want so you don't have to set aside a particular time of day.  Fast-forward if that shit gets boring.  Jump ahead and see if it gets better or is even worth your time.


I remember the first season of Lost being, like, the best one.  Probably because I thought my questions would actually get answered.  Derp.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 18, 2011, 12:38:42 PM
Ugh. I'm so fucking gun shy about starting new sci-fi series.

"Oops, sorry. It wasn't popular enough, so... CANCELED. Oh, you liked it? Ah well."

And yes, I realize I may be contributing to that outcome by not watching, but whatever.
Moon Bloodgood's in it.  This puppy's as good as canceled.

D: Some later episodes are really funny.  I really loved the first 2 parter personally.  If you couldn't get into it, I'm not sure you would though.

Quote
His name would be Thundercock.
What's his cutie mark?  A dick with a lightning bolt behind it?

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 18, 2011, 12:47:38 PM
How about a lightning bolt with balls? Or a cock ejaculating a lightning bolt?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 22, 2011, 12:57:12 AM
I've been watching Wisecrack on Netflix streaming.  Just a bunch of LGBT comics.  Most of them were funny, too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jul 26, 2011, 02:15:20 AM
I'm watching GAME OF MOTHAFUCKIN THRONES!

Stop what you're doing and watch it...now!

You were all right.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 26, 2011, 01:47:32 PM
I've been rewatching Clone High lately. Man that show makes me laugh so hard I hurt.  So brilliant.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 02, 2011, 03:51:23 AM
I'm watching GAME OF MOTHAFUCKIN THRONES!

Stop what you're doing and watch it...now!

You were all right.

Boom BITCH! I told you. Best shit on tv SON!

 err..anyway

I would like to say I've been watching All That, Kenan and Kel, Clarissa Explains It All and Doug on Teen Nick but I work at night and my DVD recorder doesn't like me anymore.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 02, 2011, 02:26:50 PM
Yeah I noticed Teen Nick playing all those old 90's show...which is better then more That 70's Show. I'm still waiting for Ren and Stimpy and Pete and Pete to show up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 02, 2011, 11:38:39 PM
I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender.  And Merla's been looping me into the occassional Star Trek:TNG.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Aug 03, 2011, 03:00:54 AM
I'm thinking of rewatching GOT but I should just read the book at this point.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Aug 06, 2011, 04:14:28 PM
I need to watch Avatar as I've actually never seen it.

I've watched up to 8 MLP episodes. They get better, but only so much. Some episodes are boring, some are somewhat entertaining, but none of them are mindblowing.

I'd say the hype is overblown. And I can't see why everyone is a fan of Rainbow Dash. She's selfish and annoying.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 06, 2011, 05:09:51 PM
Because she's the dykey one and internet fantard bronies love thems teh gay?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Aug 06, 2011, 08:22:03 PM
You're still watching that shit?

I'm still having a hard time believing the whole brony thing isn't a troll movement.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 07, 2011, 01:51:44 AM
MST3K 308: Gamera vs. Gyaos
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 07, 2011, 03:03:29 AM
Star Trek:TNG

Netflix demands I watch the whole series till my eyes bleed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 08, 2011, 02:34:45 PM
Rainbow Dash is awesome!  What's not to like?  She's a bit of jerk but she's nice when the cards are down.  Who cares about the boy scout character?  You need characters with some edge!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 08, 2011, 06:30:00 PM
Rainbow Dash? really?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 08, 2011, 11:07:00 PM
Star Trek:TNG

Netflix demands I watch the whole series till my eyes bleed.

You AND Merla apparently. :lol:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 08, 2011, 11:12:04 PM
I watched a couple of docs:

Affluenza, about the American obsession with material possessions.

Gender Rebel, about three genderqueer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer) women although I guess that should be two genderqueer people and a transman.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 09, 2011, 07:36:47 PM
Star Trek:TNG

Netflix demands I watch the whole series till my eyes bleed.

You AND Merla apparently. :lol:

That's interesting...or I should say, fascinating. Because I've been watching TOS the same way lately.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 22, 2011, 03:44:30 AM
fucking 9TH SEASON OF HELL'S KITCHEN UP IN THIS MF
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 03, 2011, 10:12:38 PM
I've been watching a lot of stand-up.  Steve Byrne, Craig Ferguson, and George Carlin.  Tried watching some with Aisha Tyler and Monique or whatever he name is and them bitches ain't funny.  A lot of screaming.  Just screaming. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Sep 04, 2011, 12:21:50 AM
I've been watching a lot of stand-up.  Steve Byrne, Craig Ferguson, and George Carlin.  Tried watching some with Aisha Tyler and Monique or whatever he name is and them bitches ain't funny.  A lot of screaming.  Just screaming. 

You ever out witcho man and YADDADUYYAYAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYUMMM THAT BITCH!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Sep 06, 2011, 04:52:04 PM
They're still syndicating SG1 locally, now they're on Season 10. I haven't been watching it for a while as I'm not always home at the time it plays (I might as well just rent the entire series on Netflix or something).

This last weekend they played that crappy season 10 episode where they end up in a museum on another planet where they're mistaken for religious terrorists and have to play the part while they figure out how to get back home.

After that, for some reason, they played the Arc of Truth.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Sep 09, 2011, 04:51:02 AM
I haven't been watching shit.

Thinking about starting true blood,


Thoughts?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 09, 2011, 12:23:24 PM
A friend tried to get me into True Blood, and I thought it was a whole lot of meh. To me it just another in a line of trendy shows like Lost, 24, and Heroes that people just watch cause everyone else is. I mean you might like it, but I bet about half the audience is tuning in not cause they like the show but just so they aren't left out at the water cooler the next day.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Sep 09, 2011, 02:26:04 PM
Not really.  It's an HBO show, the examples you gave are all network shows.  Very different audience.

I gave up on True Blood this year.  Tired of the show sucking and dreading having to watch another episode.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Sep 09, 2011, 02:47:23 PM
I like True Blood.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 09, 2011, 03:33:16 PM
Not really.  It's an HBO show, the examples you gave are all network shows.  Very different audience.

I don't know. I'm sure some people watched shows like Sex in the City, Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead for the same reason and all of those are cable shows as well. I wouldn't discount the need to belong.

I'm not saying these shows aren't good...it takes all kinds, and all kinds like different things. I'm sure some of the audience of the New BSG where like that as well, were as I actually liked the show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Sep 09, 2011, 04:16:36 PM
Not really.  It's an HBO show, the examples you gave are all network shows.  Very different audience.

I don't know. I'm sure some people watched shows like Sex in the City, Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead for the same reason and all of those are cable shows as well. I wouldn't discount the need to belong.

I'm not saying these shows aren't good...it takes all kinds, and all kinds like different things. I'm sure some of the audience of the New BSG where like that as well, were as I actually liked the show.

I like everything in that list except the first one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 11, 2011, 12:01:20 AM
I tried watching Mad Men and couldn't get into it.  Blech.  At least I got to try it for free.  But all I could think of was that these were salacious, well-suited and pseudo-prim, lily white, middle-class people living in the dull-ass 60's working big, bad, vewy, vewy hard motherfuckin' AD jobs in offices behind fuckin' desks and I couldn't give one fuck for it.  And Pan Am, Playboy Club, and all of that other shit that also thinks it's in the fuckin' 60's can suck my girl-cock as well.


Started up Sons of Anarchy season 3 since I has no FX and it's finally out on DVD.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 11, 2011, 01:55:31 AM
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Sep 13, 2011, 09:12:57 AM
Sons of Anarchy season 3 has it's ups and downs but the downs dont come till the near the end of the season then it picks up again. Season 4 is great so far too.

I gave up on True Blood this year.  Tired of the show sucking and dreading having to watch another episode.

After Game of Thrones rocked my world I swore I would never watch True Blood again. I knew True Blood could never top anything that happened in GoT but I ended up getting sucked in anyway. I'm a little bit of a sucker for soap operas.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 14, 2011, 02:20:10 AM
Strange Days...again. The more I watch this movie the more I feel it is an amazing movie that just flew under radar and in long run will get more respect then it does now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Sep 14, 2011, 02:54:32 PM
Has anyone watched The Last Booth on the Left. Was Italics the right thing to use? I'm feverish and shitting spaghetti smelling poos and I didn't feel like making it right.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 14, 2011, 03:57:45 PM
Okay, it's time to stop talking about True Blood with words like suck, sucked, sucking, and sucker.

All puns are awful, always. There are no exceptions.

Ever.

I now swear to never watch True Blood because of the crimes against nature you punsters have committed this day.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Sep 14, 2011, 04:35:22 PM
I walked into my sister's living room (yes I too have a family, no I did not spring forth full grown from my father's skull) and saw this really hack acting on tv and I sat and watched it for a minute and then she walked in and I was like "wtf dis?" and she said "trublud lol" and I haven't been able to bring myself to start the series because the acting was so cheese ball.  Someone later told me that it's supposed to be campy?  I don't know, I'm still on the fence about it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 15, 2011, 12:51:06 AM
Okay, it's time to stop talking about True Blood with words like suck, sucked, sucking, and sucker.

All puns are awful, always. There are no exceptions.

Ever.

B-but Trueblood puns give me something to sink my teeth into.  They're bloody fang-tastic.
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Post by: Fiero on Sep 15, 2011, 03:12:57 PM
Nuri's jokes just gave me a clot.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 15, 2011, 05:11:58 PM
Here I thought it'd get your red juices flowing but they were a tourniquet to humor.  Instead of laughing, all I got was coffin.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 15, 2011, 08:49:52 PM
You belong in a coffin, you varlet of verbiage.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 16, 2011, 12:50:20 AM
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var·letNoun/ˈvärlət/
1. A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant.

:joe: ?
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Post by: Rama on Sep 16, 2011, 01:03:55 AM
Nova
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 17, 2011, 12:10:45 AM
What? I thought it was another word for rascal.

There must be multiple meanings.
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Post by: Rama on Sep 17, 2011, 01:29:08 AM
Varmint maybe...no, that's a small pest like animals.
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 25, 2011, 10:54:30 PM
Breaking FUCKING Bad, holy fucking god, you'll should be watching this fucking show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2011, 12:04:46 AM
Varmint maybe...no, that's a small pest like animals.

If you do a Google image search on "varmint" you get shitloads of hunters, guns, and dead-things.  They has no love.


I finished up Sons of Anarchy.  What's Breaking Bad about?  Don't shuttle me over to Wikipedia either.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 26, 2011, 12:50:20 AM
It's about a loser public school chem teacher who gets lung cancer and decides to start cooking meth with one of his former students so that he can make enough money to leave his family financially secure when he inevitably buys the farm.

And the main character is the dad from Malcolm in the Middle.

I've only watched the first season, but it was pretty damn good.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2011, 12:55:46 AM
*Google*  FIVE seasons long?  That doesn't sound like a five-season plot to me.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 26, 2011, 01:10:12 AM
My description is basically the setup of the first episode. Stuff develops from there.

It would be like if you were asking what Lost was about, and I said a bunch of people crash land on a tropical island, and you were like, "What? Boo!"

But I understand where you're coming from. It's unreasonable to expect everyone to be able to watch everything that could be considered remotely "good". It's far easier to just dismiss the shows you hear about from other people and stick with the ones you come across yourself.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2011, 01:15:49 AM
I would probably amend that last statement as to dismiss shows that don't have a hook for you, but not to just stick to ones you come across yourself.  I watched Sons of Anarchy because that outlaw biker shit interests me.  A dying school teacher family man making quick bank from drugs has less of that immediate draw.  For ME anyway.

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It would be like if you were asking what Lost was about, and I said a bunch of people crash land on a mysterious tropical island where almost none of your questions were answered, and you were like, "What? Boo!"

A slight edit and this is actually scarily accurate.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 26, 2011, 01:24:31 AM
Haha. Bad example.

I'm obviously doing an awful job selling you on Breaking Bad, because I don't want to give it all away, but the protagonist runs up against all kinds of horrible shit and it turns him into a complete badass.

And I think that's what people like most about the show.

Then again, as I said before, I've only seen the first season, but I imagine it continues down that path for the duration.
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Post by: Rama on Sep 26, 2011, 01:41:57 AM
Cinematic Titanic Episode 6: Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2011, 02:07:18 AM
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I'm obviously doing an awful job selling you on Breaking Bad, because I don't want to give it all away, but the protagonist runs up against all kinds of horrible shit and it turns him into a complete badass.

And I think that's what people like most about the show.

Okay, that's actually a much better sell.  :jack:
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 26, 2011, 04:36:54 AM
I like to tell people it's a Lex Luthor-ish super villain origin story. The main character's name is Walter White but when he "breaks bad" he calls himself Heisenberg. He wears a variation of the same outfit in every episode, a green shirt and kaki pants. He's also a mad scientist like Lex Luthor. Through out the show he uses his knowledge of chemistry to kill a people and dispose of their bodies. Only thing he's missing is his own personal Superman but it looks like his super cop bother-in-law might take that role.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2011, 11:57:06 AM
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looks like his super cop bother-in-law might take that role.

If he does, he'd indeed be a bother.  :)  Do you watch this on TV or on the internet?  Or DVD?
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 26, 2011, 12:11:23 PM
I torrented the first 3 seasons last year and now I'm watching season 4 on tv.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 07, 2011, 01:56:47 AM
I'm watching Lavell Crawford's stand up special "Can a Brother." and this guy is really funny. Never seen any of his stand up before, but I'm enjoying what I'm seeing.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 07, 2011, 09:21:17 AM
So I started rewatching all of Star Trek the Next Generation only to learn a friend of mine just started doing the exact same thing.  Great show, but a little rough around the edges.  It's kind of funny to me that when it was on some people liked it more than the original series because it was newer, the effects were better and stuff.  But now 1987 is further away than 1966 was from 1987, so The Next Generation is more data today than the original series was when it started playing, so it doesn't have that edge anymore.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 07, 2011, 09:28:47 AM
I always liked Deep Space Nine more than TNG but it's hard to ignore that DS9 turned out to be a Babylon 5 with better actors and a bigger effects budget.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 07, 2011, 09:34:08 AM
I prefer original series and TNG to later series because of what they were, though I can appreciate that different people like the different shows for their own reasons.

To me Star Trek was always the crew being presented witha unique sci fi situation every week, and a story showing the interesting implicatins of dealing it.  Anything from a planet where women were alphas, cowboy planet, drunk virus, people becoming insubstantial, evil mirror world, whatever.  In later series, starting with DS9, they went away from this formula, concentrating more of an overreaching arc that dealt with more issues like space diplomacy and interactions of various cultures with each other.  It's interesting, it's just ... not classic Trek to me.  Some of the most popular TNG episodes do this, like almost all the Borg stuff for example, so obviously it was a good formula.  Simlarly the movies ar emore like this, since you can't really have a movie that's just about some sci fi thing and they just deal with it.  It's a format that works better for TV.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 07, 2011, 10:00:30 AM
The problem of the week formula is cool sometimes but when the viewer solves the problem before the characters it gets to be really annoying and that's what turns me off about TNG.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 07, 2011, 07:39:42 PM
Merla's been watching a lot of Voyager.  She says it has a lot of downer episodes.  She's also begun DS9 since it's on Netflix now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 07, 2011, 08:23:30 PM
Hate Voyager I do. Tried to re watch Enterprise I did. Even worse than I remember it was.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 07, 2011, 08:31:05 PM
Wait, are you talking like Yoda?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 07, 2011, 11:29:59 PM
DS9 was quality. Anything after that? Rubbish.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 08, 2011, 01:15:16 AM
DS9 is my favorite of the next gen Star Trek Series, but OT will always be my favorite.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 08, 2011, 03:36:03 AM
I finally finished watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold tonight. What an awesome, bizarre way to end the series.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 11, 2011, 05:24:20 AM
Wait, are you talking like Yoda?

I was yes.
DS9 is my favorite of the next gen Star Trek Series, but OT will always be my favorite.
FUCK YOU RAMA!... sorry I hadn't said it in a while.

I finally finished watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold tonight. What an awesome, bizarre way to end the series.

Indeed, Now I just hope some one at Warners has the wisdom to release the complete series on Bluray.

And, yes, my fellow Breaking Badders, the season 4 finale was fucking awesome! Shame on you if you missed it!
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 12, 2011, 12:46:38 AM
I went ahead and saw some more of Wolverine and the X-Men on Netflix streaming since it's available there now.  WOW.  Just really, really awful.  Bleh.  And Steven Blum has an awesome voice.  He should've been nothing less than a sexy Wolverine.  But someone apparently told him to play Wolverine like he's constantly gargling with Scope.  What the fuck happened?  I have the feeling this show should've been good somehow and someone really fucked it up.  The designs really don't help.  In the episode I saw, Scarlet Witch's waist is like 2".  Jean with that hairstyle doesn't work.  Also, I'm sick of Goth Rogue.  That was edgy in X-Men Evolution, which was supposed to be new take on this shit so it was interesting back then.  And it worked for the movie, too.  Okay, Anna Paquin is gothy Rogue.  Fine.  But it's old now.  Can we drop Goth Rogue?  I miss that happy chick in the yellow and green tights?  Remember her?
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 12, 2011, 12:50:47 AM
Oh, also caught some of the new Sons of Anarchy eps.  I hope Juice doesn't die.  :(
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Post by: Rama on Oct 12, 2011, 01:22:51 AM
Can we drop Goth Rogue?  I miss that happy chick in the yellow and green tights?  Remember her?

I always liked her Black and Green Outfit from her Uncanny X-Men days better.
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Post by: Max Con on Oct 12, 2011, 06:00:14 AM
The Avengers trailer, over and over.

Oh, also caught some of the new Sons of Anarchy eps.  I hope Juice doesn't die.  :(


I have a dark, sinking feeling this is Clay's last season.


I didn't care about watching the show until I saw not only was Ron Perlman in it, but he's the BAWSS.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 12, 2011, 11:45:43 PM
I don't see them killing Clay this soon.  This show needs him, Gemma, and Jax.  Everyone else is far more expendable.  I could see him dying at the end of the series though.  And Tig consoles the lonely widow.  Unless she has a heartattack after Clay dies.  It could happen.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 13, 2011, 08:15:52 PM
I think Ima's gonna die when whoever tries to kill Tara.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 14, 2011, 05:19:38 AM
The only thing I know that's gonna happen for sure is Danny Trejo is gonna get killed.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 14, 2011, 06:46:09 PM
But he'll probably kill someone else first? He is Danny Trejo after all. I'm pretty sure it's in his contract for every show or movie to kill someone before his appearances stop.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 14, 2011, 07:03:41 PM
If he does kill anybody it'll probably be Juice.

After watching tonights Young Justice I think it's time to call this show a dud. I mean how do you ruin the Joker?
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 14, 2011, 07:23:39 PM
I don't watch the show.

I was just saying.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 14, 2011, 09:46:13 PM
Well Trejo is a MexiCAN...not a MexiCAN'T.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 14, 2011, 11:51:57 PM
If he does kill anybody it'll probably be Juice.

After watching tonights Young Justice I think it's time to call this show a dud. I mean how do you ruin the Joker?

Not Juice!  :nurinono:  Take Piney instead.  He's old and needs something to do.  Or those prospects.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

I already quit YJ but do tell.  I want to know how they ruined him.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 15, 2011, 02:19:34 AM
This joker isn't jokery enough.  The voice isn't right.  Mark Hamil forever.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 15, 2011, 02:43:27 AM
Never mind I hadn't finished the ep. 

They really just can't write the joker.  It was like fanfic joker dialogue.

You do finally see who the big bads are though in this ep.



Best part of the ep was when Dr. Fate said "FATE HAS INTERVENED!" and then there is this shot of everyone looking up at him silently and I really wished they had made one of the characters shake their head as if to say "Did he just say that?"
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 15, 2011, 10:14:13 PM
Ha!  That would've been awesome.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 15, 2011, 10:56:31 PM
I was curious about the YJ Joker so I watched a bit.  Design-wise he doesn't really seem Jokerish, he comes off as unemployed Yuppie with nothing better to do so he dyed his suit, put on his Halloween makeup, and turned to crime.  I liked the knives tho.  And Brent Spiner didn't go all in on this performance, unlike Mark Hamill, John DiMaggio, and even Kevin Michael Richardson.  I mean, I hated KMR's Joker, but he was clearly having fun with it.  YJ Joker does get a point for making me chuckle once.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 15, 2011, 11:50:07 PM
Spiner must have been sick that day. He's usually good at playing assholes.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 16, 2011, 08:51:36 PM
Made you chuckle you say? When pray tell did that happen? The only clever line was when he mocked Dr Fate.  That is who he mocked right?  I've forgotten already.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 16, 2011, 08:54:44 PM
I am watching Old on Young pr0n.  That's where a really old man with saggy balls and white or no hair pounds out an 18-20something yr old.  I don't know why I like this except that I like that idea that she's doing it for money.  Which is weird because I would never pay for sex and the idea of that turns me off but the concept of a girl being paid to slam out these geezers is interesting for some reason.

Perhaps I'm just looking ahead to career opportunities in my twilight years...
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 16, 2011, 09:55:00 PM
Made you chuckle you say? When pray tell did that happen? The only clever line was when he mocked Dr Fate.  That is who he mocked right?  I've forgotten already.

No, he mocked Wotan or something.  I don't remember and I don't feel like looking for the part.  Besides, it wasn't that anyway although I did find it amusing.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 16, 2011, 11:25:57 PM
The Walking Dead premiere was boring and I don't think it's going to get better but I'll keep watching it.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 17, 2011, 03:12:55 AM
Damn that YJ Joker was a serious piece of shit. I hope Joker is never on there again until they have a new VA.

EDIT: Or until they have a writer that knows how to write for the character.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 17, 2011, 11:09:36 PM
I don't think a new VA would be able to save this and I don't see them getting a new writer.  But since this show's mission is to cram in as many characters as possible and barely give them anything to do, he probably won't appear again except for a couple of cameos.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 17, 2011, 11:36:15 PM
The Justice League just seems like it would be a nightmare to write for.  Nothing seems realistic when you have an army of superheros.  I mean it kind of went down the way I thought it would "Oh cops are here! Game Over!" why didn't they just do that from the beginning? Because then we'd have no episode. 

There is only so much super crime being done and it isn't organized the way that the league is organized.  Hmmm...in some small respect YJ does make sense because a group of supervillains working from the shadows is really the only way to oppose an army of heroes. 

Have any of you read the comics?  Did they really have the ability to just teleport heroes to wherever?  It seems like you can go in and overkill any sort of crime (super or otherwise) that's happening in the scenario.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 18, 2011, 12:15:52 AM
The Justice League just seems like it would be a nightmare to write for.  Nothing seems realistic when you have an army of superheros.  I mean it kind of went down the way I thought it would "Oh cops are here! Game Over!" why didn't they just do that from the beginning? Because then we'd have no episode. 

There is only so much super crime being done and it isn't organized the way that the league is organized.  Hmmm...in some small respect YJ does make sense because a group of supervillains working from the shadows is really the only way to oppose an army of heroes. 

Have any of you read the comics?  Did they really have the ability to just teleport heroes to wherever?  It seems like you can go in and overkill any sort of crime (super or otherwise) that's happening in the scenario.

They can't teleport just anywhere. The YJ crew is normally in the bioship to get where they are going. Arrowette and Robin had to teleport through a specific phone booth in Gotham. If they did a teleport where someone just teleported without a destination pad then I don't remember it and hopefully it won't happen again.

I was watching some X-Files today. Still haven't watched them all. I started season 5.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:07:14 AM
I forgot to post that I watched some of Spartacus.  Or, as I now call it, P0rn-acus.  Ha ha, Xena has peps.
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Post by: IDE on Oct 18, 2011, 02:52:13 AM
I don't mean the YJ team I mean the real justice league.  Can they port anywhere they want from their starbase?


I loved spartacus I don't know if I can handle watching it without Andy though.

For shits and giggles if you look up a movie called sinbad and the minotaur or some shit you will see Crixus doing some really shitty acting.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:56:54 AM
I didn't like Andy.  I kept wanting him to unsquint his face.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Oct 18, 2011, 02:58:25 AM
Well you won't have to worry about seeing his face anymore :(
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 18, 2011, 04:10:54 AM
Anyone watch Talking Dead? If AMC is so worried about saving a dime why waste it on that shit? And when did Chris Hardwick become the go to guy to host all things nerdy? I know he host The Nerdist but  jesus fuck! Enough of this guy already!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 07:37:36 AM
For shits and giggles if you look up a movie called sinbad and the minotaur or some shit you will see Crixus doing some really shitty acting.

Or you could just continue watching him on Spartacus.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 18, 2011, 07:55:59 AM
Anyone watch Talking Dead? If AMC is so worried about saving a dime why waste it on that shit? And when did Chris Hardwick become the go to guy to host all things nerdy? I know he host The Nerdist but  jesus fuck! Enough of this guy already!
The talking didn't bug me.  It's the stopping to take a moment to cry that did.  I only watched one episode.  Holy fuck get some canned goods and bunker up your fucking house.  No one survived an apocalypse standing still in a park crying at a fucking gimp zombie, you stupid bitch.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 18, 2011, 11:28:37 AM
They can't get almost killed every week if they sit in the house all day silly.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 18, 2011, 12:02:38 PM
After the zombie appocalypse I will be upset at any survivor who didn't actively think of their preparedness plan before the outbreak.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 18, 2011, 02:15:02 PM
What exactly are they gonna do with Spartacus now that Spartacus is well...dead?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:23:10 PM
Well you won't have to worry about seeing his face anymore :(

You know, I'm happier about that than I should be.  Not that I wanted him to die because that shit's extreme but I admit a tiny part of me thought "good thing he's dead so we can get a different Spartacus".  Then I felt a small bit of shame.  Then I ate some lunch.

What exactly are they gonna do with Spartacus now that Spartacus is well...dead?

He's already been recasted.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:25:36 PM
Anyone watch Talking Dead? If AMC is so worried about saving a dime why waste it on that shit? And when did Chris Hardwick become the go to guy to host all things nerdy? I know he host The Nerdist but  jesus fuck! Enough of this guy already!

I never tried the show but I remember reading the bullshit about how AMC apparently squeezes a dime so hard now it shoots into space... with its butt cheeks.  Once I got wind it would be set indoors with more talking or whatever, I decided to not even try it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:27:07 PM
Also, I've been watching a lot of Clean House.  Netflix finally added more seasons.  I like seeing people's shit let go without all of the dramarama and grossness of Hoarders.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 18, 2011, 02:30:51 PM
Ah...I haven't been keeping up. I've only seen this show a hand full of times.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 02:40:13 PM
I'll assume you meant Spartacus.  And I haven't been keeping up either, I just read news and shit at work so I had read that he had died and was already recasted.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 18, 2011, 05:36:11 PM
Dude I didn't know Clean House was on Netflix. I could watch and stalk Trish all day.

Spartacus is good but I wouldn't call it must see tv. You aren't missing much.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 18, 2011, 05:42:14 PM
I'll assume you meant Spartacus.  And I haven't been keeping up either, I just read news and shit at work so I had read that he had died and was already recasted.

Yeah there was suppose to be a quote in there. I never really wanted to watch the show, but then Starz had a marathon on shortly after that guy died and kinda got into it. Then of course I stopped watching again. I really need to watch everything at once cause I don't have the attention span to come back week after week. Course the fact that you get to see boobs at least once an episode didn't hurt the shows chances of me watching it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 06:11:22 PM
Is that what kept you watching Camelot?

Did you watch all of Camelot?

I watched the first episode and I was like, "Man, Eva Green: Yup. Everything else: Nope."

They did a Spartacus marathon after Andy Whitfield died? That seems really fucking tasteless.

On the one hand, they could say it's a tribute. On the other hand, it's probably a little more like, "Hey, Andy's death is all over the news! This is a great opportunity to pull in more viewers!"

Gross.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 18, 2011, 07:18:01 PM
Camelot was boring.

Eva Green has great tits.

Xena's tits are great too.

Game of Thrones has more great tits per episode.

Game of Thrones wins.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 11:01:00 PM
Dude I didn't know Clean House was on Netflix. I could watch and stalk Trish all day.


Oh, word!  Shit yeah!  She's so cute and I love that scratchy little voice of her's, too.  A few I came across don't have her tho'.  Those are always disappoint.

They did a Spartacus marathon after Andy Whitfield died? That seems really fucking tasteless.

On the one hand, they could say it's a tribute. On the other hand, it's probably a little more like, "Hey, Andy's death is all over the news! This is a great opportunity to pull in more viewers!"

Gross.

Ha ha, exploitation of the dead.  Andy's up there in heaven, squinting down at all of us like a dead Popeye.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 18, 2011, 11:04:50 PM
What the eff? :laugh:

Did he squint?

Huh. Google confirms it.

Maybe he was trying to squeeze the cancer out through his tear ducts.



Ugh.

I'm so sorry.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2011, 11:10:28 PM
Hang your head in shame while I high-five you.  :mad:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 19, 2011, 12:32:14 AM
Is that what kept you watching Camelot?

Did you watch all of Camelot?

I watched the first episode and I was like, "Man, Eva Green: Yup. Everything else: Nope."

They did a Spartacus marathon after Andy Whitfield died? That seems really fucking tasteless.

On the one hand, they could say it's a tribute. On the other hand, it's probably a little more like, "Hey, Andy's death is all over the news! This is a great opportunity to pull in more viewers!"

Gross.

Nah...I didn't keep watching Camelot. Thing couldn't hold my attention at all.

And yeah...and in between episodes they'd run what looked like left over CQ pictures of the guy with quotes like "You will be missed" and shit. The worse thing though was that they'd show an episode and then skip ahead like 2-3 episodes. I guess it was suppose to be a best-of kinda thing, but it just pissed me off cause I missed a bunch of story.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 19, 2011, 01:44:58 AM
B-but it's a 13 episode season.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 19, 2011, 01:48:46 AM
Yeah and they'd show like episode 2...then 5....then 7......then 9. The recaps helped me catch up what I missed, but I'd never seen the show before the marathon. Actually if I'd do a little leg work I could find out what episodes I saw...but meh...me lazy.

Ok I lied...I'm not that lazy. I looked it up. I saw episodes 5,7,10, and 13.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 19, 2011, 01:53:54 AM
Unless you meant Camelot...and then...I was just tired of it by episode 3. Never knew how many they did.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2011, 12:36:19 AM
No, I meant Pornacus.  I've never seen Camelot.  If they really wanted to do a tribute, they should've just ran the whole damn series in a real marathon.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 20, 2011, 01:32:56 AM
Should have...but I guess they didn't want to miss the chance of playing Austin Powers in Goldmember for the 700th time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 20, 2011, 11:39:46 AM
Juice likes to play hangman...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2011, 02:30:04 PM
Branch snapped.  <a href="
>And ppl insist Juice's in next week promos[/url].  I hope they ("they" meaning the show) find a way to save him.  I get he's a rat and iced a club member but dudes have done worse shit and not had it bite them in the ass for years on end.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 20, 2011, 03:12:55 PM
He's in there. You can see him when they are getting shot at in the club house @ 0:05. I like SoA but the characters can be really dumb. All Juice had to do was tell them what the LT was trying to do to him and I'm sure at this point they would careless about his dad. Tara is a moron too. How hard is it show Jacks those letters? Everyone knows she has them and Jacks is going to be pissed in the season finale when he finds out she kept them from him.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2011, 08:42:11 PM
I agree with you on Tara and the letters but Juice has a trickier situation, since apparently having a black dad would probably be grounds for an expulsion from SAMCRO and the club--and I'm making an assumption here but I'm going to bank on it being true--is his life.  (Kurt Sutter did a blog about it, don't recall the link, and ppl are pretty much in agreement that they should have pre-established racial lines among the MCs before this issue came up instead of leaving us confused about a club that seemingly welcomed member diversity.)  But I'd like Juice's story to get a quiet resolution with him being the wiser from it.  Don't think that'll happen but it'd be nice if it did.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 25, 2011, 12:15:24 AM
I saw the Roast of Charlie Sheen.  Mike Tyson had no subtitles so I just fast-forwarded through that shit.  And Steve-O is just retarded so I also skipped that fucker.  I don't know if he was born that way or made but I don't think it matters.  Who the fuck were some of those other people anyway?  And what was Kate Walsh DOING THERE?  WHY.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 25, 2011, 09:14:18 AM
I'll tell you what I'm not watching, and that's anything on fox in the past 2 weeks.  Also I'm not watching the fucking World Series.  Baseball is SO FUCKING BORING!!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2011, 09:50:07 PM
I saw the Roast of Charlie Sheen.  Mike Tyson had no subtitles so I just fast-forwarded through that shit.

This is a very valid point.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2011, 09:50:32 PM
I'll tell you what I'm not watching, and that's anything on fox in the past 2 weeks.  Also I'm not watching the fucking World Series.  Baseball is SO FUCKING BORING!!!

I only care because it's a local team and most of the games aren't played when the Stars are playing, otherwise I'd be watching the Stars anyway.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 25, 2011, 11:08:58 PM
I saw the Roast of Hasselhoff.  Less amusing than Charlie's but I was actually able to sit through the whole thing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 26, 2011, 01:44:48 AM
Re: SOA.  See ya, Piney.  Why did him and Tara shit around with those letters?  The first thing they should've done was shown them to Jax and the rest of the club.  Why sit on this crap, especially if you believe Clay killed JT?  (Because that means he'll kill just about anybody!)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Oct 26, 2011, 04:09:44 AM
FUCK!

I was really looking forward to watching walking dead but then I read this:

http://screenrant.com/walking-dead-frank-darabont-amc-aco-127783/


and now I just don't know if I should start watching it when they seem determined to turn it into a steaming pile of shit.


Fuck it I'm watching pirated episodes that don't support those fuckwads in anyway so I guess I'll take a look.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Oct 26, 2011, 04:11:10 AM
Oh wait never mind you guys were already talking about this.  I'm so 4 minutes ago.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 26, 2011, 04:36:20 AM
 
Re: SOA.  See ya, Piney.  Why did him and Tara shit around with those letters?  The first thing they should've done was shown them to Jax and the rest of the club.  Why sit on this crap, especially if you believe Clay killed JT?  (Because that means he'll kill just about anybody!)

Why would Tara leave town on her own like that? Hell, Clay is probably going to try to kill her before she leaves.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 27, 2011, 12:39:21 AM
He probably would even though the smart thing to do would be to place the hit once she's out of town.  Assuming Tara and Jax tell Clay and Gemma where she's going to.

So... are we due for another death before the end of the season?  If we are, my guess is Unser.

Also, I was reading a review for this past episode and laughed when the reviewer said something like "Armando?  Who's Armando?"  I just assumed he was from the Tucson chapter but I didn't remember the guy either.  And we saw the rest of the body, it was the damn prez.  Sheeet.  Had we just met him this season or was it earlier?  They were all "*gasp* it's Armando  :o" and I was all "*gasp* It's... Armando? (http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/emoticons/R-T/shrug2.gif)"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 27, 2011, 05:50:56 AM
You should chell out SOA's imdb page. Ron Perlman is only in 47 episodes while Jax, Tara, Gemma, Tig and Chibs are in 50 episodes hmm...Speaking of Clay, didn't Piney say he had a contingency plan in place if Clay killed him?

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 28, 2011, 12:17:44 AM
Quoted from Sons of Anarchy's Ron Perlman: I'm Not Sure Clay Had Any Choice (http://www.tvguide.com/News/Sons-of-Anarchy-Ron-Perlman-1039026.aspx):

Quote
So much so that series creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter says the Season 4 finale may feel like a series-ender. (Fear not: FX renewed the show for a fifth season last week.) Perlman agrees with Sutter's assessment.

"I'm actually blown away by the fact that we are in Season 4 and we're doing s--- that I only imagined would be dealt with when we were winding everything up," Perlman says. "I can't believe that [Sutter] has the chutzpah to deal with this now and feels that's there plenty of room to top this. He's reshuffling the deck and changing the dynamic of everything. We have the best of all possible worlds here: We have something incredibly climatic, and then we have room for the reinvention of the saga."

I wonder if Clay will actually die or if he goes away for another reason.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 02, 2011, 12:13:02 AM
Review I read for this week's sounds like it was filler.  Next week's looks like Can't Miss TV though. 

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Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 02, 2011, 05:46:28 PM
Are you serious? Gurrrrl they go in hard on this week's episode. You NEED to watch it!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 02, 2011, 09:26:08 PM
The title of this thread should be changed to "Beck and Toe lurvs dem some dat Sons of Anarchy, beee-itch!"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 02, 2011, 10:32:09 PM
Yeah it should.

I should start watching this show apparently.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 02, 2011, 10:48:07 PM
Are you serious? Gurrrrl they go in hard on this week's episode. You NEED to watch it!

Well... if you say so I suppose I must.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 03, 2011, 01:02:14 PM
Are you serious? Gurrrrl they go in hard on this week's episode. You NEED to watch it!

Well... if you say so I suppose I must.

It's been hours and I see no change.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 03, 2011, 03:03:34 PM
What change are you supposed to see?  And I just finished watching it now.  That was a much better episode than it was given credit for.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 03, 2011, 05:03:28 PM
He wants you to change the title of the thread.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 03, 2011, 09:16:49 PM
He wants you to change the title of the thread.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 03, 2011, 09:59:48 PM
Try waving something shiny in front of her next time you say it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 03, 2011, 11:29:13 PM
...like your wienis!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 04, 2011, 12:12:52 AM
Feiro's wienis is shiny? Did you have an unfortunate smelting accident?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 04, 2011, 12:25:01 AM
Teeheehee! He who smelt it, dealt it.

Also, he polishes it all the time.

...with Armor All.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 04, 2011, 12:29:01 AM
At least now it won't crack.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 08, 2011, 02:49:14 AM
Just watched the end of BTBaB.  They brought in ambush bug and batmite to break the 4th wall.  It was kinda funny, even Ted McGinley showed up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 08, 2011, 06:09:28 PM
Just watched the end of BTBaB. 

What's this again?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 08, 2011, 09:21:25 PM
Batman: The Brave and Bold
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 08, 2011, 09:21:38 PM
Series Finale
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 09, 2011, 12:07:54 AM
Egad, this week's Sons of Anarchy!  I can't wait to see how the season ends.  I wonder what's going to go down in the special 90 min ep next week.  Also, another episode added to season.  Kurt Sutter sd the next season's gonna be like a reboot, so... yeah, definetely looking like Clay's gonna die and we'll have a new Prez.  Still won't be surprised to see Unser chell out.  Re: Gemma's order to Unser that it's gotta be a Son that kills Clay, I can't help but think that Sutter's gonna surprise us and neither Jax (or Opie for that matter since he seems to be a popular guess) is going to be the one to do in Clay.  Wouldn't be shocked if it were Tig, Bobby, or even Otto (if Clay ends up back in the klink).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 09, 2011, 01:23:14 AM
Watching a movie called "I Eat Your Skin.", but there is no skin eating at all. In fact there is hardly anything going on other then a bunch of lushes running from Zombies. And not the "uhhhhhhhhhhhh Brains!" kind, but the Voodoo kind.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 09, 2011, 06:02:51 PM
Egad, this week's Sons of Anarchy!  I can't wait to see how the season ends.  I wonder what's going to go down in the special 90 min ep next week.  Also, another episode added to season.  Kurt Sutter sd the next season's gonna be like a reboot, so... yeah, definetely looking like Clay's gonna die and we'll have a new Prez.  Still won't be surprised to see Unser chell out.  Re: Gemma's order to Unser that it's gotta be a Son that kills Clay, I can't help but think that Sutter's gonna surprise us and neither Jax (or Opie for that matter since he seems to be a popular guess) is going to be the one to do in Clay.  Wouldn't be shocked if it were Tig, Bobby, or even Otto (if Clay ends up back in the klink).

My guess is it's gonna be Tig who kills Clay but it'll probably be Jax. I'm hoping Juice and the Lt. are gonna be the ones who get the Sons out of this shit with the Mexicans and may be kill the FBI guy too.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 09, 2011, 08:25:38 PM
Yeah I hope so, too.  I want Juice and Roosevelt to "redeem their honor", so to speak.  I really want it to be Tig that kills Clay but, yeah, Jax is still the most likely candidate.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 09, 2011, 09:15:02 PM
Watching a movie called "I Eat Your Skin.", but there is no skin eating at all. In fact there is hardly anything going on other then a bunch of lushes running from Zombies. And not the "uhhhhhhhhhhhh Brains!" kind, but the Voodoo kind.

There is another thread for movies, dontcha know.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 09, 2011, 09:28:08 PM
Rama's posts cannot be contained within your quaint filing systems.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 10, 2011, 12:02:18 AM
Plus that is for the "The last movie I saw" which is past tense. This thread is "What are you watching?" which is present tense. Since I was watching it in the present and it hadn't become the past yet then THIS is was the correct thread.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 10, 2011, 12:45:14 AM
A cup of hot chocolate.

I'm watching myself drink it.

Bam!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 10, 2011, 01:03:26 AM
Nova -The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 10, 2011, 01:16:50 PM
Phat Ass White Mommas 22
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 10, 2011, 10:21:48 PM
Re: Sons of Anarchy, this interview (http://www.tvline.com/2011/11/sons-anarchy-kurt-sutter-season-4-episode-10-hands/) was an interesting read:

Quote from: Kurt Sutter, creator of SOA
It was an intense episode, and obviously the manifestations of that will play out. It’s why I think Episode 11 [airing next Tuesday] ended up being 90 minutes. I organically had to have people respond and react. You’ll see the ramifications that it has on Jax, as he sees Gemma, and on the rest of the club. Things will continue to spiral downward, in terms of the relationships within the club. We’ve released some of the tension in terms of going after Tara — she is being guarded by the Prospects, so at least that threat is somewhat diminished — but the emotional impact continues. I don’t think there’ll be a lot of laughter in the next three or four episodes, but perhaps people will breathe a little bit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 11, 2011, 10:59:08 AM
Mein Land (http://vimeo.com/31836365)

NSFW!!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 12, 2011, 04:22:22 AM
Is it cool if I post some NSFW stuff on here?

Cause I'm watching: Chubby pale chick goes hardcore

on spankwire.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 12, 2011, 06:23:19 AM
YJ is getting better.  Just like all shows iron out the rough spots usually while the nuris call them crap before they hit their stride.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 12, 2011, 10:52:37 AM
YJ gets major points for the Forever People guest spot but I'm still not liking it.

Is it cool if I post some NSFW stuff on here?

Cause I'm watching: Chubby pale chick goes hardcore

on spankwire.

yes and more yes.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 12, 2011, 11:02:37 AM
Re: Sons of Anarchy, this interview (http://www.tvline.com/2011/11/sons-anarchy-kurt-sutter-season-4-episode-10-hands/) was an interesting read:

Quote from: Kurt Sutter, creator of SOA
It was an intense episode, and obviously the manifestations of that will play out. It’s why I think Episode 11 [airing next Tuesday] ended up being 90 minutes. I organically had to have people respond and react. You’ll see the ramifications that it has on Jax, as he sees Gemma, and on the rest of the club. Things will continue to spiral downward, in terms of the relationships within the club. We’ve released some of the tension in terms of going after Tara — she is being guarded by the Prospects, so at least that threat is somewhat diminished — but the emotional impact continues. I don’t think there’ll be a lot of laughter in the next three or four episodes, but perhaps people will breathe a little bit.



I have to say this season is way better than last season. So much has happened this season and we still have four episodes to go. Speaking of good seasons, Dexter is really good this season too. Sucks that it might be the last one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 12, 2011, 05:08:18 PM
Watching Florida State beat up on Miami in anticipation of Alabama buttraping my alma mater.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2011, 01:08:51 AM
YJ is getting better.  Just like all shows iron out the rough spots usually while the nuris call them crap before they hit their stride.

That just bothers you so much.  :lol:  Come on, just how bloody long am I supposed to give it?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 13, 2011, 01:43:15 AM
I give a show the better part of a season to get good, sometimes a whole season. The best work isn't going to be in the fledgling eps.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2011, 11:04:01 PM
Don't really agree with you since for almost every series I've ever liked, I prefer the first "unpolished" episodes to the later shit where most series begin to either get complacent or desperate.  Wasting my time waiting for something crappy to maybe get good is a joke.  I'd rather see if something I already think is good gets even better.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2011, 11:09:30 PM
And in the case of YJ and Thundercats, each was something I thought was good getting crappy.  Because I saw 7 and 6 episodes of those respectively and I don't give something I don't like off the bat 7 minutes let alone 7 episodes.  I still like the first eps of each and would rewatch those in a second but as a series, neither was going anywhere I cared for.  Have fun watching Lion-O save the sea monkey circus troupe next week or whatever.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 14, 2011, 01:48:24 AM
Gargoyles got way better when Oberon and company were introduced IMO (my opinion is based off me being 12 at the time but since I was the target demo it actually holds more weight).

Reboot was way better when they time skipped forward as well.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 14, 2011, 07:46:13 AM
Reboot was way better when they time skipped forward as well.
Ugh.  I hated season 3 of Reboot.  "Matrix" all hardcore and shit.  I fucking hated him every second he was on screen.  And they "Hey I was a little girl now I'm a big sexy pr0n star" thing was retarded.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 14, 2011, 02:46:16 PM
Gargoyles had strong episodes in the beginning that drew you into the story.  That five-parter holds up even today and those are my favorite eps, not the Oberon ones.  The Oberon shit was good and all, but the series still had a solid beginning.  And they didn't do the whole "Goliath goes here and saves these people thing" (what Thundercats is kinda doing now) until after the initial Avalon eps which were in the second season when we actually cared by then who Goliath was and why he was doing what he was doing.

As for Reboot, I didn't care for season 3 either.  I don't remember the first eps but, to be fair, I wasn't the biggest fan of that show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 14, 2011, 11:17:35 PM
12 yr old me thought the show was bland until the oberon eps.  I never owned a single gargoyles toy and I didn't know anyone who had any either.

Young me also found reboot to be very low stakes until the time skip.  That's when shit got real son.

If I was to go back and rewatch these now I might agree with you, but whoever was at the helm then knew what they were doing to appeal to the kids.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 14, 2011, 11:22:22 PM
I mean I can sort of see what you're saying I do vaguely remember there being lots of character development but for some reason as a kid I couldn't really give a shit about that.  Which I think supports my argument that these shows are meant for kids and kids like things that don't necessarily translate as better to our adult sensibilities.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2011, 12:32:51 AM
Bitch, being a Fire Dragon puts you at '76-'77 which makes you around seventeen or eighteen for the first episodes of Gargoyles.  Nevermind the Oberon ones which aired a year later.  And that's assuming you watched the show when it first came out and not the syndicated reruns.   Oh, and guess what also premiered a month earlier that same year?  Reboot.  Pfft, twelve.  Nice try there, prune juice.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 15, 2011, 02:03:20 AM
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

*Rocks back and forth*

you're28you're28you're28you're28you're28...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 15, 2011, 02:16:49 AM
*deep breath*

I'm 28...


anyways I don't remember when those came out but I thought I was younger when they did apparently.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 15, 2011, 02:17:39 AM
and if we factor in my maturity level then I was for all intents and purposes 12 years old.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 15, 2011, 02:36:55 AM
28...that's odd cause I was born in 80, but yet I'm 31. I mean I guess you could be lying about your age, but that doesn't make any sense because you're not a woman.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 15, 2011, 04:44:26 AM
No lies.

Tesseract.

Read A wrinkle in time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 15, 2011, 05:47:53 AM
Prune Juice! :laugh:

That shit is official.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 15, 2011, 09:05:28 AM
Hahaha.  I was wrapping up high school when I was watching Gargoyles.  That shit was great.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 15, 2011, 09:49:05 PM
I'm only as old as the last ass I've bitten.

Which would make me 27.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2011, 11:02:56 PM
KOZIK!!!!!!!!!!W`erp3fm;lgm;..  :nurinono:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 16, 2011, 07:04:40 AM
Cut him some slack, milady.

Dude is pushing 40.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 16, 2011, 02:29:23 PM
Hey, guys! I found a super-cute pic of that time IDE met Mark Hamill.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/345y4h2.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 16, 2011, 04:41:47 PM
When 900 years old you reach...look as good you will not!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 16, 2011, 11:42:12 PM
KOZIK!!!!!!!!!!W`erp3fm;lgm;..  :nurinono:

Cut him some slack, milady.

Dude is pushing 40.

I wasn't picking on him, I was shouting "Kozik" since they blew him up on Sons of Anarchy.  Because this thread is really about Sons of Anarchy.   :keelover:

Hey, guys! I found a super-cute pic of that time IDE met Mark Hamill.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/345y4h2.jpg)

By the look on his face, it's too late to prepare for anything.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 16, 2011, 11:49:57 PM
I'm Numenorean.  We age slower than you mud people.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 18, 2011, 09:17:50 PM

That video and Futurama.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 20, 2011, 12:13:34 AM
Ok why did SOA need to extra long this week? it's was 60 mins of set up for the next episode.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 20, 2011, 12:35:45 AM
Hey, the more the better.  :)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 20, 2011, 02:09:39 AM
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Nov 20, 2011, 10:21:25 PM
Man that was a great show.

The juggernaut episode probably still stands up I bet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 21, 2011, 01:04:34 AM
I was watching Season 1 of the Biggest Loser and I can't tell if they just whined more back then or it's an equal amount of whining to the later seasons and I'm just tired of it.  I couldn't sit through it though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Sam on Nov 21, 2011, 04:03:21 PM
I'm watching seasons 1 and 2 of Community again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 22, 2011, 03:30:37 PM
I tried Breaking Bad and Burn Notice and was turned off by the first few minutes.  Breaking Bad just has a dull beginning and I may give that another chance down the line but Burn Notice was goddamn irritaing.  That guy was like the spy version of Flynn Rider.  I couldn't stomach it past ten minutes.  Am I supposed to want to punch Jeffrey Donovan repeatedly in the face?  I also tried an episode of White Collar and found that to be very good.  I'll stick with this one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 22, 2011, 10:18:23 PM
Watched SNL with Jason Segal. It was alright, I guess. Hulu didn't seem to have whatever the digital short was this weekend for whatever stupid reason.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 23, 2011, 07:21:54 AM
RE: Sons of Anarchy- Well damn...didn't see that coming.

Watched SNL with Jason Segal. It was alright, I guess. Hulu didn't seem to have whatever the digital short was this weekend for whatever stupid reason.
Hulu seems to cut the show for time for some stupid reason.

I tried Breaking Bad and Burn Notice and was turned off by the first few minutes.  Breaking Bad just has a dull beginning and I may give that another chance down the line but Burn Notice was goddamn irritaing.  That guy was like the spy version of Flynn Rider.  I couldn't stomach it past ten minutes.  Am I supposed to want to punch Jeffrey Donovan repeatedly in the face?  I also tried an episode of White Collar and found that to be very good.  I'll stick with this one.

You've got till June to catch up on your Breaking Bad missy! Hop to it! Speaking of Netflix, Seems like they add something new to streaming everyday. I don't know lit the fire underneath their asses but I hope they keep it burning.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 23, 2011, 12:28:06 PM
Brr! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Nov 23, 2011, 04:14:56 PM
Brr! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017)

That was pretty awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Nov 23, 2011, 06:26:31 PM
Yesterday at a Thanksgiving party with friends we watched a few things. Including what is apparently a new Loony Toons series on CN. Which sucks unbelievable ass. the owner of the house liked it enough to tivo it. But it just didn't have the appeal of the original series.

My biggest beef was when Bugs Bunny got angry and actually PUNCHED Yosemite Sam. That basically put the nail in the coffin. Bugs bunny hitting first. The original Bugs NEVER resorted to physical violence, rather preferring to outsmart his adversary through wits and intellect. Making Bugs actually get into a violent fist fight with someone... but you know, guns and cigars and acme anvils aren't allowed. Fuck it.
Fuck whoever made this shit.

And I'm watching My Little Pony. It's not a bad series. I'm not as obsessed as other people though.

I watched the beginning of the second season which had one of the best villains I have ever seen in a cartoon. It was this god of chaos, voiced by John De Lancie, who was the cartoon version of Q. He loved to play tricks and riddles on the main characters and mess with their heads. It's a bloody damn shame he got defeated in the second episode because he was the best character on the show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 24, 2011, 12:09:46 AM
RE: Sons of Anarchy- Well damn...didn't see that coming.

Apparently Perlman signed on for Season 5.  So he maybe goes into a coma or has to rehabilitate.  Meanwhile, <a href="
>poor Laroy gets the blame and the club goes after him or something?[/url]
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 29, 2011, 10:41:24 PM
MST3K: Operation Double 007.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 29, 2011, 11:02:46 PM
Tell me you love me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 30, 2011, 02:00:14 AM
Tell me you love me.

Dude, that was creepy as hell.  I almost expected Chucky (the doll, not the SOA character) to pop out behind her with a knife.  I don't want Clay to die.  I hope we're able to keep these guys next season somehow.  What's the deal with Romeo?  Also, why didn't Tig just pick off Laroy with a gun?  Still, I did like the ensuing bike scene afterwards.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Nov 30, 2011, 02:30:21 PM
I'm thinking Tera might try to kill herself or something. What did Romeo do? I'm surprised he's still alive.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 30, 2011, 03:36:36 PM
"Beck and Toe love Sons of Anarchy" is filmed before a live studio audience.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 30, 2011, 04:25:52 PM
I heard they're having a Sons-themed wedding and none of us are invited. :nono:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Nov 30, 2011, 11:28:52 PM
Anyone who attends in biker leather is invited.


Re: Romeo, he's just been acting odd.  That "hit" on Tara was shit.  Why not just shoot her and be done with it?  Then he contradicts the intel from Lenny the Pimp.  We already know that Lenny's telling the truth so what's up with that?  I read some speculation on another board that he's in bed with the Feds or something so they can get closer to the Irish Kings.  Makes sense in a way.  I hope it's true otherwise Romeo's just an incompetent weirdo.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 01, 2011, 12:15:36 AM
Doesn't make sense that he's working with the feds. They have Juice. Unless Juice is apart of the back plan or a separate operation. And where's this "another board" you speak of?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 01, 2011, 04:11:33 PM
I'm thinking Tera might try to kill herself or something. What did Romeo do? I'm surprised he's still alive.

I read this out of context and was thinking someone was re-watching Teen titans.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 01, 2011, 09:29:22 PM
Doesn't make sense that he's working with the feds. They have Juice. Unless Juice is apart of the back plan or a separate operation. And where's this "another board" you speak of?

TWOP has Sons of Anarchy discussion that I like to read while, um, I wait for the show each Tuesday: http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showforum=1184

Don't recall what thread but I've seen the idea floated by more than one person.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 01, 2011, 10:08:34 PM
Quote
sutterink
413 "TO BE" act 1, we dig into the past. 414 "TO BE" act 2, we lay track to the future. the prince, the queens, the kings.

The Prince= Abel?
Th Queens= Tara and Gem or Wendy?
The Kings= Jax and ?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 01, 2011, 10:39:54 PM
I thought The Prince was always Jax.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 02, 2011, 12:42:54 AM
The Prince= Jax
The Kings= John and Clay
The Queens= Gemma and who?

Been watching New Girl on Hulu. It isn't bad but it isn't good. If Zooey Deschanel and the actress who plays her friend weren't fun to look at I would have stop watching after the first episode. So, yeah, watch Happy Endings on ABC. It's funny and Elisha Cuthbert is in it!

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 02, 2011, 01:38:30 AM
There's something about that Zooey girl and her sister that I just don't like.  They're beautiful women but Zooey had weird cartoon eyes that freak me out and Emily's square-jaw and pronounced cheekbones combined with her tight-lips smiles make her look too smug.  Also, I think I see Emily as being her Bones character, who I also don't like.  Beautiful women though.  And Zooey needs to cut back on the singing.  I die everytime I hear her cotton commercial.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 02, 2011, 02:37:07 AM
I really think Zooey is cute. The other one...not so much. Although I've never even seen this show despite my thoughts about her cuteness. I have, however, watched 2 Broke Girls just for Kat Dennings.


But you're right about the singing. Can't really see her getting a record contract if she wasn't Zooey Deschanel. It is really, really hard on the ears.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Dec 02, 2011, 08:27:24 AM
Zoey Deschannel is hot!  The other chick doesn't do it for me though.  Maybe it's because she plays a robot on Boneser.  Speaking of which, TV's Ben Savage was the killer of the week on this week's Boneser, starring David Boneheranus.

Oh, and Tera's not dead yet?  Seriously, that bitch has to go.  I stopped watching True Blood this year and one of the main reasons I couldn't stand it anymore was an entire season of "Eeeeeeeeggs.  Oh Eeeeeeeeeggs" QQ "Waaaaaaah, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeggs."

Bitch Sookie's grandma died and she sucked it up and popped her tits out, now get some super powers or die already.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 04, 2011, 08:20:49 PM
Neverland

Usually these SyFy originals are shit, but this one is pretty good so far. Course it still has time to go to shit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 04, 2011, 10:23:58 PM
Oh, and Tera's not dead yet?  Seriously, that bitch has to go.  I stopped watching True Blood this year and one of the main reasons I couldn't stand it anymore was an entire season of "Eeeeeeeeggs.  Oh Eeeeeeeeeggs" QQ "Waaaaaaah, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeggs."

Bitch Sookie's grandma died and she sucked it up and popped her tits out, now get some super powers or die already.

We were talking about Tara on Sons of Anarchy, but I do agree with you. They really need to put Tara on True Blood out of our misery.

Neverland

Usually these SyFy originals are shit, but this one is pretty good so far. Course it still has time to go to shit.

I'm liking it so far too but Anna Friel should never do a british accent ever again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 05, 2011, 01:45:37 AM
What is that, a Peter Pan thing?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 05, 2011, 02:05:50 AM
Yeah. It is suppose to be a prequel to Peter Pan that tells how Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys ended up in Neverland. Turns out they hit a glass ball really hard and that's how.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 05, 2011, 03:39:43 AM
You don't sound convinced. Are you saying that's not how it happened? Because I'm pretty sure most historians are in favor of that theory.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 07, 2011, 12:40:39 AM
Sons of Anarchy finale was tonite.  Kinda wish they didn't try to tie things so neatly.  Like Charming Heights and Tara's decision to stay in Charming.  Or finding out the girl Tig killed was a big shot gangsta's daughter.  These could've been in the first and second episodes of the next season.  I mean, we already know the Sons are on LeRoy's shit list so there was already going to be hell to pay next season w/o the added "that girl was important, derp!"  I would have liked to see Juice reunite with the club and Jax tell the guys about Bobby and Otto.  More Opie.  More Tig!  Come on, this is about the bikers.  I wanted to see more of THEM.  I like Roosevelt and even Potter but them and others were getting way too much damn screen time.  Also, the show should've killed off Unser this season somehow.  It seemed like things were moving in that direction and then Unser sank into the background along with Gemma.  His character's coming full circle.  With Clay no longer in direct powet, that Unser/Gemma/Clay dynamic isn't gonna play off as good as it did in the past imo.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 07, 2011, 06:00:58 PM
You're right everything about that finale seemed too easy. I wish they'd left us with one last HOLY SHIT moment to last us till next season. Do like how Tara replaced Gemma as the queen bee. I don't think Gemma is going take retirement well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 07, 2011, 11:02:32 PM
The "holy shit" moment was supposed to be the final scene that mirrors the photo of Gemma and John but I just found it contrived. It didn't do what it was supposed to do.  Someone at TWOP brought up a good point: old ladies can't interrupt church!  No biker club would stand for it.  It would've made more sense if Tara and Jax had that moment at a time when the club wasn't conducting a meeting.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Dec 08, 2011, 11:02:41 AM
Just finished all of Walking Dead.


I like it. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 13, 2011, 12:51:14 AM
MST3K: Future War
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 13, 2011, 09:50:01 PM
This:

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Dec 13, 2011, 09:50:55 PM
Watching Grimm.  I don't really like the main character that much but his "werewolf" sidekick is fun to watch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 13, 2011, 10:21:00 PM
Watching Grimm.  I don't really like the main character that much but his "werewolf" sidekick is fun to watch.

I agree with this.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Dec 14, 2011, 02:54:53 AM
To be fair though I don't think it's completely the actor's fault.  He really is just sort of Johnny Everyman thrown into this crazy fairy tale world.  They should've done something to make him more unique with the writing or else gotten someone with Robert Downey Jr. style acting powet.


Anyone watch that Once upon a time show?  How can there be two shows about fairy tales come to life on at the same time.  Movie studios always pull shit like that, now television is doing it too, or maybe it's always been happening but it took shows about fairy tales to make it obvious to me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Dec 14, 2011, 10:53:23 AM
How can there be two shows about fairy tales come to life on at the same time. 
There are like 100 law enforcement procedurals.  50 sitcoms about a fat man and his attractive wife.  Two of something is nothing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 14, 2011, 07:08:33 PM
Yes, TV has done it since forever ago.

Sometimes there's two shows about virtually the same thing on the same channel.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 14, 2011, 08:58:14 PM
That happens with movies too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 14, 2011, 09:09:59 PM
I've been watching New Girl...

It's not that funny ... but somehow I've watched every episode.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Dec 16, 2011, 05:07:07 AM
I've been watching New Girl...

It's not that funny ... but somehow I've watched every episode.

 I co-sign this message.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 16, 2011, 04:42:38 PM
I finished Red Dwarf. It got better and then it got worse and then it finished being pretty okay and at least entertaining.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 16, 2011, 10:22:34 PM
When Rimmer left it wasn't nearly as funny. The back and forth between him and Lister was pretty much the heart of that series and when he left it was lacking. Course they brought him back, but it would never be the same as it was.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 22, 2011, 09:15:55 PM
When Rimmer left it wasn't nearly as funny. The back and forth between him and Lister was pretty much the heart of that series and when he left it was lacking. Course they brought him back, but it would never be the same as it was.

Too true. But it did get better again when he came back.

Back to Earth was funnier than I thought it would be. It started reaaally slow.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 22, 2011, 10:26:33 PM
I've never seen that, but I really need too.

I'm watching Conan.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 24, 2011, 04:38:17 PM
It's on Netflix.

Oh, right. Shiternet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Dec 26, 2011, 06:43:51 PM
I'm watching the old 1940s live action jungle book, which I didn't know existed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 27, 2011, 02:20:21 AM
I'm watching the old 1940s live action jungle book, which I didn't know existed.

It's pretty awesome, actually.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 27, 2011, 12:00:34 PM
I watched one of George Carlin's stand-up thingies but I don't remember the name.  And I finished Whitney Cummings' Money Shot special.  I've also seen almost all of Hunter Hunted on Netflix--about wild animal attacks--but am disappoint that the komodo dragon and the polar bear eps are missing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Dec 27, 2011, 12:33:00 PM
I'm watching the old 1940s live action jungle book, which I didn't know existed.

It's pretty awesome, actually.

Indeed it is.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 03, 2012, 12:38:47 AM
I saw some of Bunraku on Netflix streaming.  Man, what a steaming pile.  Interesting premise but the main guys were boring and the fights were sloppy.  And Ron Perlman's supposed to be the No. 1 fighter and he gets taken out in such a shit-way.  Bah.  Too bad.  It could've been so much better.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 03, 2012, 11:25:19 AM
Has anyone watched Desert Punk? I watched the first five minutes and then stopped, but then I thought, maybe it doesn't suck. Anyone know?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 03, 2012, 12:30:41 PM
So... Miyazaki did this show "Future Boy Conan" back when I was being born which looks pretty good.  They release some Blu-Rays in Japan and this subbing group is doing them in HD so I'm going to give that one a shot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 03, 2012, 09:31:44 PM
Oh, cool!  I saw maybe one or two episodes of that on this community channel thing back in the 90's or so where this local comic book store bought time to show some misc anime.  I really wanted to see more of it but they would only air the same few when they showed it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 03, 2012, 10:48:06 PM
Sounds cool.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jan 04, 2012, 05:45:31 AM
Has anyone watched Desert Punk? I watched the first five minutes and then stopped, but then I thought, maybe it doesn't suck. Anyone know?

I watched ep one of the dub.

Which I think sucks balls.  It's one of those dubs where they didn't take it seriously and they're saying all this dumb shit that you know isn't a proper translation.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 04, 2012, 11:13:22 AM
First episode of Future Boy Conan was great.

I got the episode here:
http://www.live-evil.org/

Though I'm having trouble with some of the torrents because there aren't many feeds...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 12, 2012, 11:42:46 PM
I watched some of Bleak House based on the Dickens book and it is indeed bleak.  I dunno if this falls on the story or on the ppl who made the adaptation.  I enjoyed Little Dorrit but this one was dull and the lead chick was fugly indeed.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jan 15, 2012, 09:00:20 AM
Have you seen Downton Abby yet?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 15, 2012, 11:04:43 PM
The first season.  The one on Netflix.  I'm hoping the second season and the special make it to streaming because with my schedule and the fact that Masterpiece comes out and reruns at times when I'm at work or asleep, I won't get to see the new stuff.  Although it kinda sucks because I've already forgotten a great deal of what already happened.  I hope they give us a good recap.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 15, 2012, 11:58:14 PM
I just...

I don't understand.

Isn't it about a bunch of frumpy Brits? What is the appeal?

And toe likes it?

What is going on?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jan 16, 2012, 04:56:51 PM
I've started watching Supernatural. 

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 18, 2012, 12:57:52 AM
What is there NOT to like about frumpy Brits!?

Anyone seen Being Human?  The commericals for the American version doesn't really appeal to me but just wanted to know if anyone had seen either version because I'm thinking of trying to Brit version.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 18, 2012, 01:52:07 AM
Ugh. Isn't that just another me-too show attempting to ride the wave of vampire/werewolf popularity? Fug dat shizz!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 18, 2012, 03:01:24 AM
I've seen both. Both are pretty meh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jan 18, 2012, 07:13:56 AM
speaking of the brits, the new Sherlock movies are pretty damn good. Well, the first and the third episodes/movies are fucking awesome. The second one is just ok.

And speaking of just ok, watched Alcatraz. It has potential but I really don't want to get sucked back in. And would it have killed them to write some new music instead using left over tracks from LOST.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jan 19, 2012, 03:14:49 PM
Rewatching Mighty Boosh with 20 yr old.

If you've never seen it you're a fool.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 19, 2012, 05:00:58 PM
I've seen both. Both are pretty meh.

Cool, so I can pretty much skip 'em then.

speaking of the brits, the new Sherlock movies are pretty damn good. Well, the first and the third episodes/movies are fucking awesome. The second one is just ok.

Aw, you're making me want to go find 'em now.  I told myself I'd wait for Netflix streaming.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jan 19, 2012, 05:51:20 PM
Isn't there a sherlock tv show from the brits?

Are the movies with that same guy?

Everyone seems to be sucking his and Dr. Who's dick.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 19, 2012, 06:14:11 PM
The Sherlock show = the movies Toe's talking about.  Because they're like little movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series)

The third series won't be coming until 2013 at the earliest apparently.  I guess after I see the new Sherlock, I'll have to settle for the Hobbit starring Watson featuring Holmes somewhere for a bit of Sherlock fix.  Even though I was watching the Hobbit anyway.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 19, 2012, 11:11:13 PM
Rewatching Mighty Boosh with 20 yr old.

If you've never seen it you're a fool.

You gotta watch out, man. Sooner or later you're gonna end up nailing one of your daughters.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jan 20, 2012, 03:00:47 AM
Did Zeus bang any of his daughters?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 20, 2012, 01:00:11 PM
Maybe...I know he banged his sister.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 23, 2012, 01:30:12 AM
Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery.


Actually tried to watch this earlier, but I had to reorganize my books and that took my attention and it ended up just being background noise. Just waited till it came around again so I could watch it without distraction.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Sam on Jan 23, 2012, 09:01:04 AM
I can tell you what I'm *not* watching.  Community.

Damn you, NBC.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 23, 2012, 04:18:21 PM
I can tell you what I'm *not* watching.  Community.

Damn you, NBC.

AFAIK It's not cancelled, just on temporary hiatus to let the returning 30 Rock and whatever that new show is called have some space.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 23, 2012, 11:23:31 PM
I read that when it comes back, it might be on a different night, which can sometimes signal the beginning of the end.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 24, 2012, 07:24:24 AM
Horrible ratings is also a good indicator of the end...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 24, 2012, 01:48:19 PM
And Adam liking a show is a pretty consistent harbinger.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 24, 2012, 04:29:09 PM
I read that when it comes back, it might be on a different night, which can sometimes signal the beginning of the end.

Fuck, that will not make me happy. That's how shows die. If they put it on Friday then I know it truly is over.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 25, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
And Adam liking a show is a pretty consistent harbinger.
I actually don't watch Community, which is probably why it's still on.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jan 25, 2012, 10:28:07 AM
I'm watching the UK Shameless series.
I watched the US one which I quite liked so I downloaded the entire UK series, currently on season 2.

It's great, but that Manchester dialect they're all speaking is rubbing off on me, which nearly got me in trouble when I was on the phone with an English client the other day
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2012, 06:24:05 PM
I think the US one's on Netflix Streaming here.  Haven't tried it though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jan 26, 2012, 07:00:02 PM
You should give it a try.
No idea if it's your cup of tea or not, but it's a well thought out and entertaining show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2012, 10:28:14 PM
I watched this thing called "How The Earth Was Made" about Krakatoa and they actually made the subject kinda boring.  Shame, I wanted to watch a good Krakatoa special.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 03, 2012, 09:38:08 PM
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 03, 2012, 10:40:03 PM
That one's been making the rounds. Quality.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 04, 2012, 09:56:15 AM
Coming soon to Adult Swim or soon to be cancelled by FOX.

Been watching Alcatraz, boring but goddamn it I must watch.

Been watching Person of Interest, good but the procedural nature of the show is getting old.

Been watching the new season of Justified, so far so good. I'd like to know why whenever they introduce a new villain the scene involves the character killing or torturing one of their subordinates?

Been watching The Colony season 2 on Netflix, watching people try to survive in the post apocalypse is always fun.

Been rewatching The Mighty Boosh, not as fun or funny as I remember.

Been watching American Horror Story, I've only seen the first episode and I'm already creeped the fuck out. I don't think I'm gonna make through the rest of the season.

Been watch a bunch of other shit but I'm tired of typing now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 04, 2012, 11:32:45 AM
I had been collecting Alcatraz to watch at a later date, but then I happened to catch an episode the other day, and I don't think I'll be bothering with it now. Not that there's really a choice, it's going to be shitcanned.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 05, 2012, 01:03:59 AM

That one's been making the rounds. Quality.

Make sure you "like" on Facebook.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 05, 2012, 11:26:25 AM
:razz:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Feb 06, 2012, 09:33:13 AM
Alcatraz is all right but I just don't like procedurals.  The girl is hot and Hurley is cool.  I'll watch it until it gets canceled...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 06, 2012, 02:39:45 PM
I saw a trailer for Alcatraz on youtube and decided I'm never gonna watch that show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Feb 06, 2012, 09:26:37 PM
Top Gear.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 07, 2012, 02:59:53 AM
I did like it on facebook.  Back when it had only 600+ likes.  Now it's like over 1600 and I've put on horn rimmed glasses and forgotten all about it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 07, 2012, 11:27:52 AM
The Death and Return of Superman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 07, 2012, 12:33:45 PM
The Death and Return of Superman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM)

like. Hope that kid makes more superhero flicks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 07, 2012, 11:19:37 PM
I saw a trailer for Alcatraz on youtube and decided I'm never gonna watch that show

I saw a few minutes of it on the work tv and never have the need to see it again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 13, 2012, 03:20:01 PM
Just watched the new walking dead episode
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 13, 2012, 03:28:11 PM
I watched 30 min or so of the new ep didnt see any new zombies because amc cut their budget and then went over to my friends hose and she made nabe which was totally more interesting.  Ill catch the whole ep online later.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 15, 2012, 11:35:16 AM
nabe?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 15, 2012, 01:30:26 PM
Trust me, you might think that you care, but you really don't.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 16, 2012, 03:16:19 AM
As the current most educated member of this board you will be interested or feign interest in everything I post.

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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 16, 2012, 11:02:41 AM
That guy is fucking awesome! I'ma subscribe to that shit.

Bee-tee-dubs, your sentence structure would imply that I am the most educated, and I'm pretty sure that distinction belongs either to Rumble or Squirrel.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 16, 2012, 03:01:29 PM
Wrong on all counts!
unless one of them has higher than a masters degree
squirrel might
(this is proper sentemce structure for typing with one finger while taking a shit)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 16, 2012, 03:48:33 PM
A master's degree in what exactly?

Being obnoxious? Buh-zing!

Don't answer that, it was rhetorical.

I tell ya, this guy, if he isn't fucking, he's shitting.

King of Kings.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 16, 2012, 04:04:44 PM
A master's degree in what exactly?

Being obnoxious? Buh-zing!

Don't answer that, it was rhetorical.

I tell ya, this guy, if he isn't fucking, he's shitting.

King of Kings.

So he eats his mates?

Otherwise he'd not have a reason to dispose waste.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 17, 2012, 03:51:31 AM
I poop twice a day on average.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Feb 17, 2012, 03:22:52 PM
I poop twice a day on average.

Damn, that's a lot of dead sluts you ate.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 18, 2012, 01:15:13 AM
That wouldn't happen...because he might run the chance of a finger in the ass. Even if it is on it's way out, instead of in.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 21, 2012, 10:24:40 AM
Cannibals don't chew their food?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 21, 2012, 11:53:14 AM
Don't go ruining my joke with your damned logic. Bah!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 21, 2012, 12:59:13 PM
Logic FTW :raiseroof: :poo:  :raiseroof:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 21, 2012, 07:01:35 PM
That wouldn't happen...because he might run the chance of a finger in the ass. Even if it is on it's way out, instead of in.

:lmao:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Feb 22, 2012, 07:48:19 PM
A plot twist of death note proportion.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 03, 2012, 03:26:14 PM
Just finished Archer season 2. I'm constantly amazed at how gloriously filthy this show actually is, but it is hilarious. There's typically at least one point per episode that makes me laugh out loud and a lot of chuckles spread around. WHAH WHAH
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 04, 2012, 01:13:02 PM
Alcatraz is all right but I just don't like procedurals.  The girl is hot and Hurley is cool.  I'll watch it until it gets canceled...

Looks like it'll be dead soon. The finale is in April and the ratings get worse every week.
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Post by: Fiero on Mar 08, 2012, 02:36:14 PM
Still Top Gearing it when I'm not playing ME3.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 08, 2012, 03:33:24 PM
"Some say he once punched a horse to the ground....all we know is he is called The Stig."


I love me some Top Gear.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 08, 2012, 06:04:47 PM
"Some say he once punched a horse to the ground....all we know is he is called The Stig."


I love me some Top Gear.

I don't think I've watched that one or I wasn't paying attention. I do have a tendency to do other stuff while watching.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 08, 2012, 08:29:50 PM
Well there are like a lot of episodes...I don't even remember what episode that is from. It just stuck with me. That and "Some say he knows two facts about ducks and both are wrong."
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 09, 2012, 03:44:18 PM
I only see Top Gear when I came across it by accident while channel hopping aimlessly. Usually keep watching tho.
Good show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 11, 2012, 01:10:54 PM
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Post by: Rama on Mar 15, 2012, 12:56:44 AM
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Sam on Mar 16, 2012, 01:54:44 PM
Because sometimes the Universe gets it right, I am watching Community again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 16, 2012, 09:01:18 PM
I'm watching hockey.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Mar 18, 2012, 07:44:48 AM
Watched half an ep of the new spartacus season...didn't like it.

I wonder if they changed writers.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 18, 2012, 09:40:23 PM
Why didn't you like it?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 18, 2012, 10:39:24 PM
Well, he wasn't in it, for one thing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Mar 19, 2012, 07:34:22 AM
Watched half an ep of the new spartacus season...didn't like it.

I wonder if they changed writers.
Unless a show has like 6 episodes, it will almost certainly change writers.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 19, 2012, 12:21:41 PM
Typically a show has like a main writer dude or couple of dudes who keep the continuity or whatever and each episode is written by various people, right?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 19, 2012, 01:13:31 PM
There is usually a head writer, who kinda makes sure everything is moving in one direction and he/she sometimes even writes the episodes that are important to the overall story themselves. Then they have other writers that come in and work on throw away episodes, or one shots...but sometimes work in stuff to the larger arc. Then you can also have like one writer's name on the episode, but behind the scenes another writer has punched it up some but didn't do enough to get a co-credit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 20, 2012, 01:00:28 AM
MST3K 906 The  Space Children
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 20, 2012, 03:57:05 AM
Watched half an ep of the new spartacus season...didn't like it.

I wonder if they changed writers.

I still like Spartacus, but that's mainly because any series taking place in ancient Rome has immediate approval from me.
I really miss John Hannah this season though, the Batiatus character really made the show for me. i don't give a crap about Sparty and his slave rebellion.

Now I'm just waiting for Caesar and Crassus to enter the story
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 20, 2012, 12:55:59 PM
I really miss John Hannah this season though, the Batiatus character really made the show for me. i don't give a crap about Sparty and his slave rebellion.

I haven't seen any of the more recent episodes but I have to say that Hannah did bring a lot of the tension into the show with the mere presence of his character.  The rebellion never interested me that much either.  Not past the episode where they killed Hannah's character anyway.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Mar 20, 2012, 04:44:54 PM
Why didn't you like it?

Something seemed off.  The dialogue maybe?  I'm not sure, also that roman brunette sister is over doing it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Mar 20, 2012, 04:45:33 PM
I'm gonna watch it again though.

But yeah, this rebellion phase isn't that interesting to me either, I like the arena.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Mar 27, 2012, 08:35:24 PM
Wow. they have full episodes of MST3k on youtube? Have any suggestions?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2012, 01:26:14 AM
Prince of Space is a good one. The Fugitive Alien movies...Space Mutiny, Manos, Pod People, Cave Dwellers, The Day the Earth Froze, Teen-Age Strangler, Outlaw, Laserblast...

I could really go on like that all day.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2012, 01:31:12 AM
Oh Angel's Revenge...that's a good one too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2012, 01:36:06 AM
Here I'll just direct you here:

http://forrestcrow.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mstchat&action=display&thread=20122

Best to worst according to fans of the show. Don't know about Riding with Death as I've never seen it, but Space Mutiny really is good enough to be at the top of that list.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Mar 30, 2012, 11:12:37 PM
The Maxx.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 31, 2012, 10:18:40 AM
Just watched the season finale of Spartacus.
Overall I thought it was the weakest season so far and they're definitely starting to take some major liberties with historical fact. But damn, that final episode was one of the best hours of tv ever
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 01, 2012, 07:41:54 AM
Toonami is that you?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 01, 2012, 08:01:09 AM
Just watched the season finale of Spartacus.
Overall I thought it was the weakest season so far and they're definitely starting to take some major liberties with historical fact. But damn, that final episode was one of the best hours of tv ever

 I still don't like NEW Spartacus. His speeches are worse than Optimus Prime's. Asher shouldn't have lost to Naevia. I figured Lucretia was going to steal the baby but goddamn! This season wasn't as good as the first two but it's hard top that high at the end of season one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 01, 2012, 12:25:19 PM
Toonami is that you?

I was excited about that when I saw it till I remembered what today is. Didn't stop me from watching Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo and Outlaw Star....don't really miss Tenchi Muyo, but the other two I wish would come back.
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Post by: Sam on Apr 02, 2012, 12:45:12 PM
Prince of Space is a good one. The Fugitive Alien movies...Space Mutiny, Manos, Pod People, Cave Dwellers, The Day the Earth Froze, Teen-Age Strangler, Outlaw, Laserblast...

I could really go on like that all day.

Which one had the gang of teenagers who ended up in a shoot-out at the school?  That one's good.  I'm also a fan of the giant spider invasion one.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 02, 2012, 01:20:08 PM
Was it a gang of teenage girls? Cause that sounds like The Violent Years. If it wasn't then I don't know. Could be Teenage Crimewave, as it is one of a handful of MST3K's I've never seen. I also think that Teenage Strangler's climax takes place in a school, but I don't remember if there was a shoot out.

And I love The Giant Spider Invasion too. "Wooo PACKERS!!!"

Also if anyone cares, and I know none of you do, you can buy MST3K Vol. 23 at your local Wal-Marts right now. It is in the TV section. Other then the movie, I think this is first time Wal-Mart has carried the show in their actual stores and it is a trend I'd like to see continue since I have to either order online or plan a trip out of town to get them usually.
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Post by: Rumble on Apr 03, 2012, 12:59:32 PM
Saw some eps of Transformers Prime.
Quite liked it
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 04, 2012, 02:19:19 PM
Agreed.  I'm about 2/3 through the first season and I think it's great.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 04, 2012, 03:05:05 PM
I guess I'll give it a try ... the first bits of animation I saw just made me want to puke.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 04, 2012, 04:51:28 PM
Prime is ok. Didn't like it as much as Animated, but now we don't have the HUB anymore so I don't get to watch it anyway.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 04, 2012, 10:10:21 PM
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 05, 2012, 10:59:54 PM
Someone at work said spartacus gets better so I'm muscling through the first couple eps (which he said weren't good).

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 05, 2012, 11:33:51 PM
I'm currently listening to the sound of myself getting headshotted repeatedly in Halo: Reach.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 07, 2012, 07:56:34 PM
Catching up on the Thundercats eps just so I know what everyone here is talking about.
Can't say I'm a big fan, but it's still miles better than the 20 mins toy ads I watched as a kid
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 08, 2012, 10:59:31 PM
I rewatching my Avatar: TLA to "prep" for Korra.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 08, 2012, 11:14:39 PM
(http://i39.tinypic.com/15rbgu8.jpg)

:happy:
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 09, 2012, 11:42:18 PM
 :nono:
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 10, 2012, 01:46:33 AM
(http://i43.tinypic.com/28a2r77.jpg)

:razz:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 10, 2012, 02:55:00 AM
I wish I didn't know what any of this means.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 10, 2012, 05:06:40 AM
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2mono.jpg)

:P
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 12, 2012, 01:54:51 AM
http://i43.tinypic.com/28a2r77.jpg

:razz:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kjdaOz0m1roxrb0o2_500.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2012, 05:02:55 AM
(http://i40.tinypic.com/sqh9w2.jpg)
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 12, 2012, 02:31:13 PM
(http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/b/b9/Dax_reaction_to_temporal_investigations_people.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 12, 2012, 03:33:29 PM
I remember that episode. That was when Worf whipped it out for her.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2012, 05:03:30 PM
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2uyrwnc.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 12, 2012, 06:00:07 PM
Been watching some eps of Justified season 2 that's airing on a local network.
Not the most exciting series I've ever seen, but it's great to see Walton Goggins in something again (LOVED the Shield).
Probably gonna download the first season this weekend
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 12, 2012, 09:13:50 PM
I remember that episode. That was when Worf whipped it out for her.

(http://subspacecomms.com/sites/default/files/1211-general/worf.jpg)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2012, 10:15:28 PM
(http://i41.tinypic.com/10pvwow.jpg)
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Post by: blanktoe on Apr 14, 2012, 05:33:46 AM
joe wins.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 14, 2012, 06:05:39 PM
Why's Riker not into it?  What happened in this episode?  I mean, normally I would tilt my screen and ask Merla but she's not around yet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 14, 2012, 07:08:57 PM
I'm sure it was one of those not giving Q the satisfaction kinda things.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Apr 14, 2012, 08:12:34 PM
Everyone is watching game of thrones right?

Except adam probably hates it which just proves how awesome it is...

or even adam likes it which just proves how awesome it is.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 14, 2012, 11:30:11 PM
(http://i41.tinypic.com/1192kps.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 15, 2012, 04:49:41 PM
oh oh can you make a gif of Theon Greyjoy feeling up his sister?!!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 15, 2012, 10:27:06 PM
(http://i40.tinypic.com/viats.jpg)
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Post by: blanktoe on Apr 15, 2012, 11:02:06 PM
close enough.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 16, 2012, 12:58:47 AM
Silverhawks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 16, 2012, 01:09:46 AM
Now make a gif of Steelwill feeling up his sister.





















...And her feeling him feeling what she's feeling as he's feeling her.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 16, 2012, 01:46:25 AM
Those boobs are partly metal...partly real.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 16, 2012, 01:49:48 AM
You know I always thought that Silverhawks got green lit because Thundercats did so well, but according to the doc. on the disk, Silverhawks had a go ahead before the first episode of Thundercats even aired. Oh and I forgot all about Steelwill's stupid football space helmet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 16, 2012, 08:18:25 AM
Game of Thrones..... It's bullshit that I should download an American tv show just to see Carice van Houten naked
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 16, 2012, 12:27:30 PM
Everyone is watching game of thrones right?

Except adam probably hates it which just proves how awesome it is...

or even adam likes it which just proves how awesome it is.
I just haven't gotten around to watching it.  My wife is retarded for it though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 19, 2012, 12:09:24 PM
I really liked the first season when I watched it, then I read all the books and bought the first season on blu ray and couldn't watch it again. For some reason it just couldn't hold my attention the second time around.
Been watching some of the 2nd season eps, and it's still a bit 'meh' to me.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 20, 2012, 04:48:45 PM
Now make a gif of Steelwill feeling up his sister.





















...And her feeling him feeling what she's feeling as he's feeling her.

I know that feel.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 24, 2012, 10:55:36 PM
Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes.


This has to be my favorite toon on right now. Sadly there is a rumor going around that they are gonna cancel it. Not cause it has bad rating, because it doesn't, and not cause people hate it, because they love it, but because they want a show more in line with the new Ultimate Spider-Man show. Which they already got rid of Spectacular Spider-Man, which was really good too, to make room for it. I hope that just stays a rumor and we get a season 3.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 25, 2012, 03:55:32 AM
I watched the first episode of AkibaRanger (http://youtu.be/kBqzu9t0awU) the other night, and I really liked it. It seems like the series isn't going to take itself seriously at all, which is great because Ranger shows are always at their worst when they get all melodramatic and shit. Maybe that will change at some point, but right now I'm digging it.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 27, 2012, 07:23:05 PM
oops posted in the wrong thread. joe my post on the thundercats thread plzzz
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 27, 2012, 11:40:51 PM
I was wondering about that... :laugh:
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Post by: Rama on May 04, 2012, 01:45:32 PM
Spectacular Spider-Man.

After talking about it, I decided to dig it out.
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Post by: Rama on May 11, 2012, 03:19:07 AM
Whitest Kids U'Know
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 20, 2012, 07:34:43 PM
I HOPE FOX BLOWS AND THE FINAL EPISODE OF HOUSE DISAPPEARS FOREVER, LIKE IT NEVER EXISTED
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Post by: B E C K on May 20, 2012, 10:53:31 PM
House ended?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 20, 2012, 11:31:09 PM
today (Monday night) will be its last episode :(
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Post by: Rama on May 21, 2012, 12:41:36 AM
G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 21, 2012, 11:15:30 PM
^ It's on Netflix streaming along with Jem!  Thank God.  The cleansing has officially begun.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 22, 2012, 06:27:07 AM
Omg my comment about Fox blowing up was KIND OF on target. THe ending was AMAZING though and yes, I cried like a bitch.

TV is over for me.

edit: actually i just remembered the Real housewives of NY starts next month, fuck yeah!
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 22, 2012, 08:06:33 AM
I hope House got fired and went to jail like he deserves.

Just finished catching up on Transformers Prime and Thundercats.  Now I've started rewatching Beast Wars.  I'm only 2 episodes in.  A bit dated but I think it holds up.
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Post by: B E C K on May 22, 2012, 10:23:20 AM
Dated because of the animation or other reasons?
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Post by: Rumble on May 22, 2012, 12:53:21 PM
I could never watch House, whenever I saw the guy I flashbacked to the 'a bit of Fry and Laurie' show or 'Blackadder'.
I can't take that guy seriously on an American drama
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 23, 2012, 08:39:36 AM
Dated because of the animation or other reasons?
I was mostly speaking to the animation.  There's no question the CG is not what we have today, but for it's time I'm pretty impressed.  I can't play a 3D rendered video game from the day, but the show is still watchable so there's that.

Other aspects are a bit dated.  For example in the opening 2 parter they seem to transform 2 to 3 times per episode.  Seems like a ploy to sell toys.  They may still do that in shows, but it's not as overt.

Didn't see the House finale but I heard what happened.  I'm pleased.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 23, 2012, 11:51:46 AM
I remember when Prime first started and people were complaining that it didn't look as good as Beast Wars.

:nono:
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Post by: Rama on May 23, 2012, 12:05:20 PM
Rose colored glasses. Two for a dollar.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 23, 2012, 01:51:38 PM
Ha.  I had issues with the animation until I realised I just had a really crappy quality download.  Having watching the first season Blu-Rays I'd say the animation is quite spectacular.
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Post by: Rumble on Jun 04, 2012, 02:23:55 PM
Yeah, I watched the first season on downloaded eps first but I have the blu rays now.
The blu ray quality is amazing
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2012, 02:21:31 PM
Other aspects are a bit dated.  For example in the opening 2 parter they seem to transform 2 to 3 times per episode.  Seems like a ploy to sell toys.  They may still do that in shows, but it's not as overt.

I watched Beast Wars since Netflix has it on stream now and I like how the CG doesn't feel dated to me at all.  It feels like it was a conscious artistic choice to make it look that way and not that the technology at the time was limited.  And, kinda related to the 'ploy to sell toys' comment, it did that thing I hate where the characters are all "call me cheetor" "call me rattrap" and I'm all "why not just use whatever your name was before?"  And I lol'ed because I completely erased the existence of Terrorsaur.  COMPLETELY.  I was all "who the fuck's that red bird thing" and realized he was nuked from my brain's archives.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 06, 2012, 04:01:24 PM
Other aspects are a bit dated.  For example in the opening 2 parter they seem to transform 2 to 3 times per episode.  Seems like a ploy to sell toys.  They may still do that in shows, but it's not as overt.

I watched Beast Wars since Netflix has it on stream now and I like how the CG doesn't feel dated to me at all.  It feels like it was a conscious artistic choice to make it look that way and not that the technology at the time was limited.  And, kinda related to the 'ploy to sell toys' comment, it did that thing I hate where the characters are all "call me cheetor" "call me rattrap" and I'm all "why not just use whatever your name was before?"  And I lol'ed because I completely erased the existence of Terrorsaur.  COMPLETELY.  I was all "who the fuck's that red bird thing" and realized he was nuked from my brain's archives.


Terrosaur was Beast War's version of Starscream ... at least until Starscream was there temporarily.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2012, 04:41:55 PM
Yeah, I know that now.  But I had totally blocked him out.  My brain was all "Terrorsaur? lol fak him" and *BAMF* went the memory like a teleporting Nightcrawler.  And I think I have a Kelly Bundy brain that forgets an old fact when a new one is absorbed so I don't know what I've forgotten in exchange for getting Terrorsaur back.  I think I'd be okay with him leaving again and getting that space back.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 07, 2012, 03:39:24 PM
Does that mean we can go "Wooooooooooooooooooooo" every time you come into a room?
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 07, 2012, 07:29:56 PM
NO.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 07, 2012, 08:37:30 PM
Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes.

This has to be my favorite toon on right now. Sadly there is a rumor going around that they are gonna cancel it. Not cause it has bad rating, because it doesn't, and not cause people hate it, because they love it, but because they want a show more in line with the new Ultimate Spider-Man show. Which they already got rid of Spectacular Spider-Man, which was really good too, to make room for it. I hope that just stays a rumor and we get a season 3.

Sadly, the rumors are true: there will be no season 3. The rating are just too low (though I'm convinced part of that is scheduling and it airing on a less than universal network). That on top of them delaying the US airing of new episodes until the 24th fill me with irrational fury. I love this show, and I generally don't care for Marvel stuff. Time to go download all those wonderful Australian episodes.....

I'm loving Young Justice, though somewhat less now than during the first season. It's pretty scattered right now, with all the different characters being introduced and reintroduced. I anticipate it coming together nicely.

I picked up Game of Thrones on bluray a few weeks ago. The first episode didn't grab me, but I'll pick it up again soon. Looks like it's a pretty "full" show, if you catch the meaning...lots to chew on.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 08, 2012, 12:45:26 AM
NO.

I'm gonna do it anyway.

Sadly, the rumors are true: there will be no season 3. The rating are just too low (though I'm convinced part of that is scheduling and it airing on a less than universal network). That on top of them delaying the US airing of new episodes until the 24th fill me with irrational fury. I love this show, and I generally don't care for Marvel stuff. Time to go download all those wonderful Australian episodes.....

I heard it has more to Jeff Loeb not liking the show wasn't made in house and wanting to bring it under the Marvel Animation banner. Basicly the same reason they scrapped Spectacular Spider-Man is the same reason this is getting the ax. I actually heard the ratings were pretty good, but they wanted something more like Ultimate Spider-Man...which isn't a good thing. It'd be like canceling Batman: TAS to have something more line line with Batman's cameo in "The New Scooby Doo Movies."
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 08, 2012, 08:53:35 AM
I can't believe Terrorsaur and Skorpinoc never came back as Transmetals.  They were glowing when they sank into the lava damnit!
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 08, 2012, 10:04:39 AM
Ha ha, DENIED.
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Post by: blanktoe on Jun 08, 2012, 12:29:26 PM
Why would the Predacons live above a lava pit knowing if they fell in they would die?
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 08, 2012, 11:45:09 PM
Because they obviously have chips for brains.  Ba dum tsssh!
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Post by: Rama on Jun 09, 2012, 01:21:05 AM
Fuck Megatron and all the Decepticons fell into Lava at the end of G1 season 1 and they all showed up in Season 2. Lava doesn't seem to kill Transformers.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 10, 2012, 02:09:19 AM
That was 80's lava.  Get with the times.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 10, 2012, 02:55:18 AM
80's lava is so much better then the lava we have today.
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Post by: Rumble on Jun 10, 2012, 04:03:25 AM
I watched my country lose the first game in the European Championship :(

If we can't even beat Denmark then Germany and Portugal are gonna destroy us
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 10, 2012, 07:44:52 AM
80's lava is so much better then the lava we have today.
Yes but Beast Wars had prehistoric lava.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 10, 2012, 11:48:31 PM
Hd Concerts Live: Smashing Pumpkins

This is a concert recorded in 07 by the band. So far I haven't heard any songs I know. Course the last album I've owned was "Adore" so this must be newer stuff. Course I never owned "Gish" either, but I've heard it before. Just hope I get to hear songs like Disarm, Today, Zero, and The End is the Beginning is the End. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 11, 2012, 12:26:41 AM
Well Smashing Pumpkins was a bust. I didn't know any of those songs. Oh well.


Now I'm watching Bush: Live from Roseland.

This one is better so far. Band takes the stage and goes directly into "Little Things" which I know very well. I just hope they play Greedy Fly.


Edit: and third song in the set was Greedy Fly.
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Post by: Rumble on Jun 11, 2012, 03:07:37 PM
Watched some of the game between France and England. B-o-r-i-n-g.
EC 2012 better start getting good soon
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 12, 2012, 02:54:01 AM
If it makes you feel better Peru has been getting gang-banged by every south american country in football. We're last in the list, why do they even bother.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 12, 2012, 09:34:07 AM
Because Peru is the little engine that couldn't.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 12, 2012, 05:34:22 PM
I thought that was Canada
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 12, 2012, 07:58:08 PM
Canada's the freight train that couldn't.
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Post by: Rumble on Jun 17, 2012, 03:37:54 PM
I just watched the Dutch team lose their third game in a row, which means EC 2012 is over for us :(
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 20, 2012, 02:54:19 PM
Hulk Vs. is on streaming but I only saw the Wolverine portion because I don't give a rat's ass about Thor.  Maybe if I find the Thor movie watchable (because that's there now as well) I'll go back to it.  The Wolverine portion was still kinda dull though.  It didn't get interesting until Deadpool showed up.  Question about the Hulk: which is more acceptably canon - a wimpy scaredy-cat Banner or a mild-mannered but serious-business Banner?  Not that I see a lot of stuff with the Hulk in it but this Hulk Vs. thing had the former and I was just wondering because I'm certain I've also seen something a while back with the latter.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 20, 2012, 03:40:59 PM
Question about the Hulk: which is more acceptably canon - a wimpy scaredy-cat Banner or a mild-mannered but serious-business Banner?

I'd say the second.
I've always seen Banner as a bit of an emotionally-suppressed creep. I mean the guy used to build nuclear bombs for a living. He's the kind of guy that if he worked in the same office as yours you'd worry he'd show up one day with a gun and start shooting the place up
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 20, 2012, 08:35:12 PM
Bruce Banner will always be Bill Bixby to me.

Even if he called himself David Banner instead.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 21, 2012, 01:34:36 AM
Hulk Vs. is on streaming but I only saw the Wolverine portion because I don't give a rat's ass about Thor.  Maybe if I find the Thor movie watchable (because that's there now as well) I'll go back to it.  The Wolverine portion was still kinda dull though.  It didn't get interesting until Deadpool showed up.  Question about the Hulk: which is more acceptably canon - a wimpy scaredy-cat Banner or a mild-mannered but serious-business Banner?  Not that I see a lot of stuff with the Hulk in it but this Hulk Vs. thing had the former and I was just wondering because I'm certain I've also seen something a while back with the latter.

I actually thought the Thor one was better. But then I like Thor a lot. But the Wolverine one was kinda...meh.

And I always saw Banner as both actually. Mild-mannered but serious-business Banner, pre-hulk, but after the accident he is the more the wimpy scaredy-cat Banner for the simple reason that being anything but will let the Hulk out. I have a lot theories about Hulk and some other Marvel heroes, but spouting those theories will make me look like a super nerd even on this board.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 23, 2012, 04:23:13 AM
Shin-chan makes me happy. Him and his ass dance
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 28, 2012, 11:49:46 AM
I'm rewatching The Shield on dvd

I miss that show
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Post by: The D on Jul 05, 2012, 07:11:24 PM
I've started watching How I Met Your Mother, because it comes on after Family Guy, and I'm starting to like it. It's not a bad show and it can be funny.

However, the general premise sucks. The show's supposed to be about a guy in 2030 telling his two teenage kids about how he met their mother back in the present. The problem is he's been doing this for 6-7 seasons already and has yet to explain how exactly he met her mother. And I can't imagine two teens actually sitting around and not moving for the hundreds of hours it would take to tell 7 seasons worth of story. They'd be on their future social networks in a second and ignoring him.

He needs to just get around to explaining how he met their mother and devote the rest of the show to their dating, trials, tribulations, marriage, and eventual pregnancy, but the dick producers won't stop milking the fucking premise.

Despite that rant I do like the show.


Also, the local network is finally showing the new Futurama stuff, so now me-without-cable can watch them.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2012, 12:22:32 AM
However, the general premise sucks. The show's supposed to be about a guy in 2030 telling his two teenage kids about how he met their mother back in the present.  The problem is he's been doing this for 6-7 seasons already and has yet to explain how exactly he met her mother.

I started watching in the first season and dropped it for pretty much that reason.  I liked the whole set-up but once I figured they were just gonna jerk us around for several years, I tuned out.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2012, 10:39:02 AM
They have different clothes on every time. Basically he's been telling them this story for some time now, in snippets. I think he might be a troll-dad. He is Bob Saget after all.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2012, 11:22:06 PM
Kill the troll!
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Post by: Rama on Jul 07, 2012, 12:42:33 AM
I don't get why he is telling him about all of Barney's B-stories though. Not only is that not something I'd want to tell my kids...they don't have anything to do with the overall story. This guys sucks at telling a story.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 07, 2012, 02:01:55 AM
Or maybe.... Barney's their mother.   :-[









 :)








 :-\









 :raiseeyebrow:
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 07, 2012, 08:26:15 PM
Have any of you guys watched the new Charlie Sheen series? I heard it had good reviews. I want to watch it, 2 and a half men was fucking hilarious
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Post by: Rama on Jul 07, 2012, 10:54:22 PM
MST3K: Hobgoblins. My all time fav. episode.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 09, 2012, 12:41:41 AM
Have any of you guys watched the new Charlie Sheen series? I heard it had good reviews. I want to watch it, 2 and a half men was fucking hilarious

I don't get that channel and don't care enough to find a place online to watch it.  Although I haven't heard anything bad about it.  Other than it stars Charlie Sheen of course.
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Post by: Rumble on Jul 11, 2012, 11:03:09 AM
My gf has started to watch True Blood and is forcing me to watch it with her.
This show has to be the gayest thing I've ever seen. I can honestly say I'd rather watch hardcore gay pr0n than this show
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 11, 2012, 07:38:42 PM
Haa I knewww i would be able to use this pic sometime
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 11, 2012, 08:46:11 PM
An instance of the "fortunately I always keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion" trope...well played.
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Post by: Bitey the Snail on Jul 12, 2012, 10:26:24 AM
What trope is that?  Nekkid Foghorn Leghorn?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 12, 2012, 11:48:39 PM
"I say...I say boy. You better spit on that first."
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 13, 2012, 02:10:33 AM
50 shades of Rama
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Post by: Rumble on Jul 14, 2012, 06:30:52 AM
Haa I knewww i would be able to use this pic sometime

Still less gay than True Blood
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 17, 2012, 07:04:34 PM
What trope is that?  Nekkid Foghorn Leghorn?
Daffy Duck, too.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 18, 2012, 11:16:30 PM
Been watching the Sherlock BBC program(me?) lately. Pretty good.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 18, 2012, 11:54:23 PM
I've been waiting for Season 2 to stream on Netflix.  Waiting and hoping.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 19, 2012, 12:34:52 AM
I've only seen part of one of those (which one i don't remember) and I saw all of Hound of the Baskervilles. Other then that I missed most of this which is a sad sad thing.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 19, 2012, 08:09:26 AM
I've been waiting for Season 2 to stream on Netflix.  Waiting and hoping.
I picked up every episode on Demonoid, but I've only watched the first two. I'll finish the third one tomorrow night. Good stuff.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 31, 2012, 08:41:04 PM
Hell's Kitchen season 10 FTW
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 22, 2012, 04:15:31 PM
I watched a show called Jane by Design and some stand up with Bill Burr on Netflix streaming.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 26, 2012, 12:30:10 AM
The B-52's: With the Wild Crowd.
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Post by: blanktoe on Aug 27, 2012, 08:04:28 PM
I finally watched Alphas season one. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 27, 2012, 11:33:27 PM
I put it in my queue but haven't gotten around to watching it yet.  I just watched some G.I. Joe Renegades.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 28, 2012, 07:29:40 AM
Breaking Bad on Sunday nights. Sucks that it goes on year-long hiatus next week.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 28, 2012, 07:42:26 AM
I couldn't stand Alphas.  Decent concept but it was just a procedural with guys with shitty super powers and a magical retard, the worst kind of character.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 28, 2012, 10:37:53 AM
I ain't watched shit!
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Post by: Rumble on Aug 29, 2012, 12:07:19 PM
Breaking Bad on Sunday nights. Sucks that it goes on year-long hiatus next week.

Really, a year?
F-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-c-k
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 29, 2012, 06:34:23 PM
Well, more like ten months, I suppose.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 29, 2012, 11:44:03 PM
I couldn't stand Alphas.  Decent concept but it was just a procedural with guys with shitty super powers and a magical retard, the worst kind of character.

I saw the first episode and while it was tolerable I don't know if I could sit through the rest.  The episode played like a short movie that pretty much wrapped shit up so I don't know what I'm tuning in for really.  Also, I feel like I've already seen some of these characters before.  The new edition to their team reminds me of a watered-down, humorless, less book-smart John Crichton.  They should've either canned him first ep or had him joining the team be a recurring side plot that's resolved at the end of the season.


I also saw an episode of In Plain Sight about some tough-chick U.S. Marshall who bordered on annoying.  Was curious where the series was going but when I tried to watch the second ep, I got bored fast.  And apparently the creator bailed or something early on...  Never a good sign.


Also watched a couple eps of Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.
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Post by: Rumble on Aug 30, 2012, 10:57:09 AM
Well, more like ten months, I suppose.

That's still a very long time to wait to see how it all ends for Walter
I thought they'd be back with the second half of the season in January or something
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 22, 2012, 11:09:10 PM
The second series of Sherlock on Netflix. I love love love A Scandal in Belgravia. The other two not so much but they're still really good.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 25, 2012, 09:06:53 AM
I'm going through those as well.  Still haven't seen the last ep though.  I found Irene Adler in this adaptation kinda annoying.  Would've liked it better if she had just outwitted Holmes and left it at that as opposed to him defeating her and then having to save her.  Boo.

Now that Sherlock series 2 made the stream, time to wait for series 2 of Downton Abbey.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 25, 2012, 03:14:06 PM
The last episode of Sherlock was aggravatingly good. But how do they follow it up? Iguess they can follow the example of the originals, but still.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 25, 2012, 07:07:03 PM
the RhONJ just finished, what am i going to do with my lifeeeee
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 26, 2012, 04:36:54 PM
OMG, this latest season Sons of Anarchy.  I actually feel bad for a character I didn't even like.  Also Ashley Tisdale x Ron Perlman: there's something I never thought would happen.  Ew.
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Post by: blanktoe on Sep 27, 2012, 07:18:25 AM
I can't believe they fucking killed him. Jax has to go war with Pope now. This season is going to be great!

In weird SoA related news, The actor who played Half Sack was found dead and he also may have murdered an elderly woman.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sons-anarchy-actor-johnny-lewis-found-dead/story?id=17336120#.UGRF_I5B__c (http://abcnews.go.com/US/sons-anarchy-actor-johnny-lewis-found-dead/story?id=17336120#.UGRF_I5B__c)
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Post by: Rama on Sep 27, 2012, 12:23:57 PM
I've been watching American Horror Story...but since I didn't get in from the start I'm a little confused, but the episodes I've seen have hooked me a bit enough to try to start searching it out.
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Post by: Rumble on Sep 27, 2012, 01:51:04 PM
I just watched the first episode of Vegas


Vic Mackey as an Italian mob boss.... it's a lot to ask of my suspension of disbelief
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 28, 2012, 12:02:04 AM
I can't believe they fucking killed him. Jax has to go war with Pope now. This season is going to be great!

In weird SoA related news, The actor who played Half Sack was found dead and he also may have murdered an elderly woman.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sons-anarchy-actor-johnny-lewis-found-dead/story?id=17336120#.UGRF_I5B__c (http://abcnews.go.com/US/sons-anarchy-actor-johnny-lewis-found-dead/story?id=17336120#.UGRF_I5B__c)

Oh, yeah, I saw that.  Freakish.  But, yeah, I was watchin' this last ep and I completely didn't keep up with the rumor mill.  I didn't know someone was gonna die from their crew.  I thought he was gonna get saved somehow and I was like ACK.  Jeez.  Those poor kids of his.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 28, 2012, 12:28:21 AM
Oh, and I saw Elementary.  Of course, I won't bore you with how it's inferior to Sherlock.  We all know this.  As much as people bitched about Joan Watson, female Asian Watson is actually the best thing about the show.  Poor Lucy Liu would totally shine with a better script but they give her a lot of hackneyed lines and a dull backstory.  Just keep her as a surgeon who went to war and came back wounded and shit.  What's with this "dead patient, sued for malpractice, visiting grave, boo hoo" crap?  Nobody wants to see that Gray's Anatomy bullshit.

Sherlock does not seem in character.  He comes off as bratty, misogynistic, tempermental, mean-spirited, and even slutty.  Instead of making keen observations of people based on their words, demeanor, dress, and mannerisms, he reads fuckin' labels off of bottles and boxes, Googles shit, and looks at people's cell phones.  His observations were obvious, any actual uses of logic and deduction were very little.  In fact, Watson's keen eye solves the case.  WATSON.  The case featured in this episode was boring anyway.  Even the scenary and staging were dull to look at.  Unlike the gorgeous apartment featured in Sherlock (oops, comparision) with all of its interesting textures and nuances, this Sherlock lives in a fucking shack that's nearly empty inside and leaks fuckin' honey.  He's in serious need of a Mrs. Hudson to spruce shit up.


tl;dr - The show isn't bad but it isn't that good either.  I wish they had just given Lucy Liu her own show as Joan Watson.
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Post by: Rama on Sep 30, 2012, 12:23:00 AM
I saw the new Turtles show.


Not as terrible as I was expecting.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 01, 2012, 11:08:25 AM
I saw the new Turtles show.


Not as terrible as I was expecting.

I watched part of a little training session video and it made me want to jump off the edge of the world and see the turtles all the way down.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 01, 2012, 11:30:32 AM
I remember the original Turtles show was pretty awful too. The only enjoyment I ever got from the franchise was the first NES game
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 01, 2012, 12:02:51 PM
I remember the original Turtles show was pretty awful too. The only enjoyment I ever got from the franchise was the first NES game

I loved the toys. That NES game was good but frustrating. I think the later game was superior, honestly, even if it was an overdone format even then. But something about that first one just felt so good.

And the arcade games were amazing.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 01, 2012, 11:10:55 PM
the nintendo game was awesome
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 02, 2012, 01:40:06 AM
I saw the new Turtles show.


Not as terrible as I was expecting.

I watched part of a little training session video and it made me want to jump off the edge of the world and see the turtles all the way down.

I saw the new Turtles yesterday.  All four turtles themselves are decent.  I can live with the designs and the spring-chicken youngness about them as--even though they are 15--they come across more as tween turtles than teen turtles.  This is okay.  The Utrom calling each other Krang an' shit gets a pass.  The look of the show and the animation is interesting.... BUT...

- Splinter is all tall (he's kinda scary-looking!) and they're reverting to the Hamato Yoshi backstory but then went fucked with it some more?  NO.  Please do not let his daughter end up being Karai.  Bleh.

- April being made into a little girl, a love interest, given a typical oh-no-my-scientist-daddy-eez-in-danger plotline?  Didn't care for it.  Why the hell couldn't April have been the scientist they wanted to kidnap?  Why would she have to be a little girl?  I don't care if Donny has a crush or whatever.  And I don't hate Mae Whitman or anything, but I think they should've casted someone else.

- The Shredder.  Meh, haven't seen enough of him but he looked all scarred and gross.  And even though he's voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, he sounded like Clancy Brown to me.  Ew.

- "Booyakasha"?  Why would they do even this?

That's it.  B-  Will likely watch again.  Not sure if I'd stick with it or not yet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 02, 2012, 08:20:31 AM
I thought Turtles was pretty good.  I don't get Nick but I watched it on their web site.  I don't know that I'll bother watching it though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 03, 2012, 12:43:27 PM

- April being made into a little girl, a love interest, given a typical oh-no-my-scientist-daddy-eez-in-danger plotline?  Didn't care for it.  Why the hell couldn't April have been the scientist they wanted to kidnap?  Why would she have to be a little girl?  I don't care if Donny has a crush or whatever.  And I don't hate Mae Whitman or anything, but I think they should've casted someone else.




I think they did that just so she would be the same age as Donnie, because having a mutated turtle wanting to bone a human woman is ok...but a huge age difference would have been gross.

I would have much rather April been a person more importance. Either the news reporter that helps the turtles while trying to cover up that they exist, or in some other role.

I'll watch again too, but my track record with Sat. morning cartoons on Nick hasn't been great. See Legend of Korra for an example.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 03, 2012, 12:48:18 PM

- April being made into a little girl, a love interest, given a typical oh-no-my-scientist-daddy-eez-in-danger plotline?  Didn't care for it.  Why the hell couldn't April have been the scientist they wanted to kidnap?  Why would she have to be a little girl?  I don't care if Donny has a crush or whatever.  And I don't hate Mae Whitman or anything, but I think they should've casted someone else.




I think they did that just so she would be the same age as Donnie, because having a mutated turtle wanting to bone a human woman is ok...but a huge age difference would have been gross.

I would have much rather April been a person more importance. Either the news reporter that helps the turtles while trying to cover up that they exist, or in some other role.

I'll watch again too, but my track record with Sat. morning cartoons on Nick hasn't been great. See Legend of Korra for an example.

But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 03, 2012, 05:24:33 PM
I saw the Turtles show. It has that same annoying thing that most 3D animated cartoons have...the face close-ups that drives me up the wall.

Here's what I'm talking about: how they have a head-shot going on with the character going on about something for something like twenty seconds, and all the animation seen during that time is the head moving with waaay overdone facial expressions running the gamut. Okay, we get it, you think you can convey emotion now with CGI. Now knock it off. It's just a cartoon. Bugs the hell out of me.

Otherwise, it wasn't bad, but I won't be DVRing it and therefore won't be seeing much of it again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 03, 2012, 11:28:25 PM
I'll watch again too, but my track record with Sat. morning cartoons on Nick hasn't been great. See Legend of Korra for an example.

But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.

Have you seen Avatar: The Last Airbender?  Because if you haven't I'd rather you'd watch that one.  I like Korra but TLA is the superior of the two.  And the entire thing's on DVD and Netflix streaming.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 04, 2012, 12:03:27 AM

But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.

What I saw of it was Ok...not bad, but not amazing either. I've seen better shows. I wouldn't, however, turn down the chance to see the whole thing.  But I stopped watching mainly because I couldn't catch the show on Sat. morning and they didn't do repeats except on Sun morning at the same time. So I just fell out of watching the series.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 04, 2012, 09:51:53 PM
So I'm on season 5 of TNG.

God damn it, I really wish they had been able to keep Ensign Ro for DS9.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 05, 2012, 11:49:12 PM
Yeah, that would've been cool.  They should've thrown another sack of money at her.



But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.

What I saw of it was Ok...not bad, but not amazing either. I've seen better shows. I wouldn't, however, turn down the chance to see the whole thing.  But I stopped watching mainly because I couldn't catch the show on Sat. morning and they didn't do repeats except on Sun morning at the same time. So I just fell out of watching the series.

I think you might've been disappointed if you had seen the whole thing.  I'm gonna say so because I don't think you care that much about a little spoilage but...




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...the entire Amon thing was a cheat.  They cram his back story into the second to the last episode.  They never tell you how he does what he does or even why other than his daddy was a colossal dick.  The equalist movement is never given legitimate treatment.  In a move that produced massive head-desk, Amon did end up taking Korra's bending but she cried at the end of the series and Aang gave it back.  She doesn't even defeat him.  She blows him out the window with some air and he gets away from ALL of the good guys.  Then he, like, sheds a tear and dies.  I think there might've been a few things you would've enjoyed about it on the whole, but I have a feeling the entire Amon thing would've bothered you considering the potential he had.




As for what I was watching, I just saw the suckiest episode of Poirot ever.  Basically, there's a jewelry thief countess.  Because she gives Poirot a woody, he lets her get away with the crime by convincing her to give him the necklace she stole and leave the country.  The End.  And even though there's attempt to mislead the viewer it's painfully obvious what's going to happen.  MEH.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 06, 2012, 12:21:00 AM
I think you might've been disappointed if you had seen the whole thing.  I'm gonna say so because I don't think you care that much about a little spoilage but...




S
P
A
C
E





...the entire Amon thing was a cheat.  They cram his back story into the second to the last episode.  They never tell you how he does what he does or even why other than his daddy was a colossal dick.  The equalist movement is never given legitimate treatment.  In a move that produced massive head-desk, Amon did end up taking Korra's bending but she cried at the end of the series and Aang gave it back.  She doesn't even defeat him.  She blows him out the window with some air and he gets away from ALL of the good guys.  Then he, like, sheds a tear and dies.  I think there might've been a few things you would've enjoyed about it on the whole, but I have a feeling the entire Amon thing would've bothered you considering the potential he had.


Well I think you got me pegged because that doesn't sound awesome at all. The whole point of putting a character in a mask to take that mask off and reveal who he really is, and for that to have some effect on the characters of the story. Amon was my favorite character from what I saw, and you really wanted to see that big fight at the end with Korra and then to deprived of that sounds like a let down.

I'd still probably watch it, but it would have to be with someone else if they offered to watch it or something. Not likely I'd search it out on my own and wouldn't stick with it if there wasn't someone else there to keep watching it that I could talk to them about after the episode was over.


Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2012, 01:53:27 PM
I've just about decided that the Enterprise is basically a giant taxi cab, except this taxi also has people that live inside it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2012, 02:51:18 PM
I've just about decided that the Enterprise is basically a giant taxi cab, except this taxi also has people that live inside it.

And I just saw the one with Fammke Jannsen.

I'd let the flames of hell scorch me for a chance at that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 06, 2012, 08:23:46 PM
Well I think you got me pegged because that doesn't sound awesome at all. The whole point of putting a character in a mask to take that mask off and reveal who he really is, and for that to have some effect on the characters of the story. Amon was my favorite character from what I saw, and you really wanted to see that big fight at the end with Korra and then to deprived of that sounds like a let down.

I'd still probably watch it, but it would have to be with someone else if they offered to watch it or something. Not likely I'd search it out on my own and wouldn't stick with it if there wasn't someone else there to keep watching it that I could talk to them about after the episode was over.


Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.

Well they do reveal who he is and it is actually played as a surprise but it still felt like a giant let-down.  For example: Amon's backstory was a lie to gain sympathy and support, just like you thought it was.  Now you would think a mastermind like Amon would've actually burned his face to gain credibility.  That's the move of an intelligent, committed villain intent on making people believe and follow him.  Instead, Amon used makeup to fake a firebending scar that washed right off with water.  Just a bunch of shit like that that felt really lazy and took away from the character and the story as a result.

Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.

I've been watching that on Netflix and never realized how little Snake Eyes actually comes out.  I remember him being a more prominent character but he really wasn't.  And Lifeline actually comes a out a lot.  Ew.  :lol:


I've just about decided that the Enterprise is basically a giant taxi cab, except this taxi also has people that live inside it.

Ew, not touching that show.  So while we're on that subject, what do you think about Captain Worf?  I'm... conflicted.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 06, 2012, 09:49:17 PM
I'm not. I think it's a half-baked last-gasp effort by Michael Dorn to keep from being just another perennial sci-fi convention guest. I can't really blame him for that, but given what the last couple Trek shows have been like, they need to sit on it for a while and let the movies do the talking.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 06, 2012, 09:54:05 PM
But it sounds like it should be cool.  It should be.  But it probably won't.  If they were ballsy enough to do it Sherlock-style with very few eps, a solid story, and a decent budget, it could be something worth watching.  I think the concept would be too thin for a full season order though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2012, 10:06:03 PM
I'll watch again too, but my track record with Sat. morning cartoons on Nick hasn't been great. See Legend of Korra for an example.

But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.

Have you seen Avatar: The Last Airbender?  Because if you haven't I'd rather you'd watch that one.  I like Korra but TLA is the superior of the two.  And the entire thing's on DVD and Netflix streaming.

I started it but got sort of bored after the first ep.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 06, 2012, 10:44:30 PM
Captain Worf is actually happening? Is it going to some indie project or an official thing?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2012, 11:38:08 PM
http://screenrant.com/star-trek-captain-worf-tv-show-michael-dorn/

Looks like he wants it to be a real TV series.

There's also this, completely unrelated:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/145553614/star-trek-renegades?ref=home_popular
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 08, 2012, 12:10:44 AM
I'll watch again too, but my track record with Sat. morning cartoons on Nick hasn't been great. See Legend of Korra for an example.

But everyone seems to love Legend of Korra? I haven't seen it.

Have you seen Avatar: The Last Airbender?  Because if you haven't I'd rather you'd watch that one.  I like Korra but TLA is the superior of the two.  And the entire thing's on DVD and Netflix streaming.

I started it but got sort of bored after the first ep.

Awww.  Well, I kinda see where you're coming from though.  It starts out kinda slow and the series on the whole has a leisurely pace.  If you ever feel like giving it a second chance, you could try a more engaging episode like "Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)".  Combined with the opening narration in the beginning and the "previously on Avatar" clip, you're given all the background you need in about a minute.  That episode itself actually sets up the endgame of the entire series.  It was one of the first ones I saw if not THE first one I saw, as I discovered the series completely by the accident so I didn't start from the first few episodes myself.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 08, 2012, 01:10:07 AM
Well I think you got me pegged because that doesn't sound awesome at all. The whole point of putting a character in a mask to take that mask off and reveal who he really is, and for that to have some effect on the characters of the story. Amon was my favorite character from what I saw, and you really wanted to see that big fight at the end with Korra and then to deprived of that sounds like a let down.

I'd still probably watch it, but it would have to be with someone else if they offered to watch it or something. Not likely I'd search it out on my own and wouldn't stick with it if there wasn't someone else there to keep watching it that I could talk to them about after the episode was over.


Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.

Well they do reveal who he is and it is actually played as a surprise but it still felt like a giant let-down.  For example: Amon's backstory was a lie to gain sympathy and support, just like you thought it was.  Now you would think a mastermind like Amon would've actually burned his face to gain credibility.  That's the move of an intelligent, committed villain intent on making people believe and follow him.  Instead, Amon used makeup to fake a firebending scar that washed right off with water.  Just a bunch of shit like that that felt really lazy and took away from the character and the story as a result.

Yeah but taking off the mask to reveal he is someone we don't know isn't much of a reveal. I guess that's what I mean. I mean if Darth Vader said "Luke....I am some guy Obi-Wan use to know." it really wouldn't have made much impact. When Amon took off that mask it needed to be someone we already knew. Either from TLA (which would be lost one me, but not you.) or someone we knew from the series as whole. To know this guy had been doing this the whole time and then question of why could be asked and then answered. Eh....

Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.

I've been watching that on Netflix and never realized how little Snake Eyes actually comes out.  I remember him being a more prominent character but he really wasn't.  And Lifeline actually comes a out a lot.  Ew.  :lol:

Yeah they really played up the Spirit vs. Storm Shadow thing. And they took Scarlett away from him and let Duke mack on her instead. He really got the short end of the stick on this one, but he got his payback. You can't swing a stick without hitting Snake Eyes in Joe these days.

And I don't have any Lifeline episodes, but now I'm curious to see them.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 09, 2012, 12:05:13 AM
It's Season 2 because he comes in with Sgt. Slaughter, Beach Head, Dial-Tone, Leatherneck and a bunch of other new Joes when Cobra creates that bunghole Serpentor.  Because, you know, who needs more Spirit, Snake Eyes, and Shipwreck when we can have episodes starring such memorable Joes as Wet Suit, Sci-Fi and Low Light?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 09, 2012, 12:17:04 AM
Well I think you got me pegged because that doesn't sound awesome at all. The whole point of putting a character in a mask to take that mask off and reveal who he really is, and for that to have some effect on the characters of the story. Amon was my favorite character from what I saw, and you really wanted to see that big fight at the end with Korra and then to deprived of that sounds like a let down.

I'd still probably watch it, but it would have to be with someone else if they offered to watch it or something. Not likely I'd search it out on my own and wouldn't stick with it if there wasn't someone else there to keep watching it that I could talk to them about after the episode was over.


Anyway, I've been rewatching some G.I.Joe A Real American Hero, but now I'm coming to the end and realize I need to pick up those last two box sets.

Well they do reveal who he is and it is actually played as a surprise but it still felt like a giant let-down.  For example: Amon's backstory was a lie to gain sympathy and support, just like you thought it was.  Now you would think a mastermind like Amon would've actually burned his face to gain credibility.  That's the move of an intelligent, committed villain intent on making people believe and follow him.  Instead, Amon used makeup to fake a firebending scar that washed right off with water.  Just a bunch of shit like that that felt really lazy and took away from the character and the story as a result.

Yeah but taking off the mask to reveal he is someone we don't know isn't much of a reveal. I guess that's what I mean. I mean if Darth Vader said "Luke....I am some guy Obi-Wan use to know." it really wouldn't have made much impact. When Amon took off that mask it needed to be someone we already knew. Either from TLA (which would be lost one me, but not you.) or someone we knew from the series as whole. To know this guy had been doing this the whole time and then question of why could be asked and then answered. Eh....

Yeah, okay.  I see where you're going with this.  I actually didn't mind that he would be someone new.  But yeah, that might've had more punch if he had been somebody we met before.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 09, 2012, 01:22:40 AM
It's Season 2 because he comes in with Sgt. Slaughter, Beach Head, Dial-Tone, Leatherneck and a bunch of other new Joes when Cobra creates that bunghole Serpentor.  Because, you know, who needs more Spirit, Snake Eyes, and Shipwreck when we can have episodes starring such memorable Joes as Wet Suit, Sci-Fi and Low Light?

Yeah I know...I just don't own Season 2. And I liked Low Light and Wet Suit. But Serpentor can crawl in a hole and fucking die for all I care. THIS I COMMAND!


Still better then the DIC stuff. "Got to get tough...YO JOE!"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 09, 2012, 04:43:20 PM
Just watched the latest ep of Transformers Prime. I think it's easily one of the best incarnations of the franchise.

One of the little things I love is that they seem to have a 'Soundwave can't lose' rule. He's rarely used and doesn't have a voice of his own, but whenever he is in the field you know the cons are gonna score a win.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 09, 2012, 08:44:09 PM
I watched the first five episodes of that show, but it didn't grab me. I may yet pick up the first season and try to blaze through.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 10, 2012, 12:00:55 AM
I watched the entire first season of Prime, (borrowed it) and it's ok. There isn't really thing wrong with it, I mean other then R2-D2 mother fucking movie Bumble Bee, but other then that, it just can't hold my attention.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 10, 2012, 02:31:41 AM
I quite enjoyed the first season.
The second season is a lot better tho. And it has a few pretty awesome character models like the insecticons and Shockwave
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 10, 2012, 12:27:56 PM
I don't know, I tend to say each new incarnation of animated series was better than the last.

May be it's just because it's new and not terrible?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 12, 2012, 12:46:57 AM
I've actually been watching G.I. Joe Renegades since it's on Netflix and that shit's grown on me.  It still has its issues though, aside from the obvious one of everybody being Korean somehow.  Storm Shadow looking like he's wearing a towel on his face is just wrong.  I hate that design.  I don't know what the fuck's up with that.  And this Lady Jaye.  Ew.  I'm not completely against changing a race or gender on a character so much as I used to be, but this one doesn't fly.  They just made her browner and slapped on a Rosie Perez accent and think that makes her a Latina.  Ha ha.  NO. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 13, 2012, 03:27:17 PM
I'd intended to watch Young Justice this morning, but, surprise! it wasn't on. So I watched last week's Avengers EMH, and then it was Ole Miss and Auburn, and now Alabama and Missouri.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 14, 2012, 01:24:53 PM
I started on Dexter because of this girl I'm talking to.

Why haven't I watched this yet? I'm on season 2 and I rather like it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 14, 2012, 11:43:32 PM
I always think of my old supe back the law office-thingy I used to temp at when I see some mention about Dexter.  *pinches nose to talk like Lisa* "OMG I LOVVVVVE DEXTER."  Then go marry him and then let him fuckin' kill you.  Hyuck.  *snort*
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 15, 2012, 11:10:07 AM
I always think of my old supe back the law office-thingy I used to temp at when I see some mention about Dexter.  *pinches nose to talk like Lisa* "OMG I LOVVVVVE DEXTER."  Then go marry him and then let him fuckin' kill you.  Hyuck.  *snort*

This amuses me.

I still like the show, though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 15, 2012, 11:38:21 AM
The first 4 seasons of Dexter are pretty good, after that it starts to drag.
I really hope the current season is the last one
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 15, 2012, 03:56:46 PM
I'd never seen Dexter before but I caught like 10 minutes of it the other day.  They had this one cop on that looked like a cartoon character.  I mean that literally.  He looked like Bullock or the cop from Bonkers.  People take this show seriously?  It's a little more Parks and Rec than I expected, and I mean that to say it is detached from reality.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 15, 2012, 06:08:14 PM
I'd never seen Dexter before but I caught like 10 minutes of it the other day.  They had this one cop on that looked like a cartoon character.  I mean that literally.  He looked like Bullock or the cop from Bonkers.  People take this show seriously?  It's a little more Parks and Rec than I expected, and I mean that to say it is detached from reality.

It's narrated from the mind of a serial killer who is killing other killers. Would you expect it to be grounded in logic?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 16, 2012, 04:00:01 AM
I've been watching (here and there) episodes of season 7 of the X Files (Stopped watching after season 6). Brings me back feels
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 16, 2012, 08:00:45 AM
I'd never seen Dexter before but I caught like 10 minutes of it the other day.  They had this one cop on that looked like a cartoon character.  I mean that literally.  He looked like Bullock or the cop from Bonkers.  People take this show seriously?  It's a little more Parks and Rec than I expected, and I mean that to say it is detached from reality.

It's narrated from the mind of a serial killer who is killing other killers. Would you expect it to be grounded in logic?
I didn't expect anything really, but I expect the show to take place in reality.  The naration is irrelevant.  I don't believe the visuals of the show are meant to be recreated based on the perception and reinterpretation of this mad man.  I can perfectly accept a weird narration juxtaposed to real events.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 16, 2012, 05:37:50 PM
I'd never seen Dexter before but I caught like 10 minutes of it the other day.  They had this one cop on that looked like a cartoon character.  I mean that literally.  He looked like Bullock or the cop from Bonkers.

:laugh:

I never felt compelled to even try Dexter.  Maybe if it were on streaming I'd try an ep or something but there's nothing about it that makes me want to go out of my way to see it.

I did try Walking Dead.  Decent show and I see why people like it.  I'm personally not a zombie-person so I'm not sure I'll continue to tune in.  We'll see, I guess.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 16, 2012, 07:19:41 PM
Has anyone here read the books? There are some pretty major differences compared to the show, and the third book diverges completely. I haven't watched the last season, or any of this season, and the fourth book sucked hard, so I think I'm done with Dexter.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 17, 2012, 03:09:46 PM
Never read the books but if you watched season 4 of Dexter you watched far enough. Nothing interesting happens after that
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 17, 2012, 03:44:04 PM
I did try Walking Dead.  Decent show and I see why people like it.  I'm personally not a zombie-person so I'm not sure I'll continue to tune in.  We'll see, I guess.


I LOVE The Walking Dead. The show had its slow moments (and I HATE Lori), but just like in the comics it seems that things will start to get really intense now that they've reached the prison.
Don't really see Walking Dead as a zombie story either, more as a (post-)apocalyptic tragedy. Like Rick says in the comics, it's not the zombies who are the walking dead.

The show has its faults but it's still a pretty good adaptation of one of the few comics I like. I'd be happy if when the 100 Bullets tv adaptation ever sees the light of day it'd be only half as good as the WD.
After The Boardwalk Empire it's my favorite current show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 17, 2012, 11:14:05 PM
My show for the moment is Sons of Anarchy.  This season is chugging away and I certainly hope we keep going at the current pace and continue to shake things up.  There's some characters here that have really worn out their welcome.  I liked the Jimmy Smits character when I thought he had a long con going on.  But it seems he's just a gullible idiot after all.  So I hope he dies by the end of the season.  Apparently, Dave Navarro's gonna have a guest stint.  I'm already disappointed we didn't get to see Ashley Tisdale die so they better make up for it.  At least by offing Joel McHale.

My next show's gonna start up next week: RuPaul's Drag Race Allstars.  So that'll be fun to watch that on Tues and then watch that evening's ep of Sons later on.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 18, 2012, 12:40:11 AM
Sons of Anarchy is a pretty good show too.
I like how the writer seems to try to have everyone from the Shield guest star at least once. Last week's guest bit by Walton Goggins was hilarious.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 18, 2012, 01:43:21 AM
So no Real Housewives of NY or NJ anymore. Now I have to wait for BH to start
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2012, 10:08:14 PM
Sons of Anarchy is a pretty good show too.
I like how the writer seems to try to have everyone from the Shield guest star at least once. Last week's guest bit by Walton Goggins was hilarious.

I saw some people really flabbergasted by his fake boobs when the boobies were probably the easiest part of the whole illusion.  What I don't get is how the hell that one duder was actually able to bite through jeans and tear into Tig's ass.  Yowch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 21, 2012, 07:56:49 PM
Ok, how did they do the fake boobs? I've seen boobs on RuPaul's Drag Race that don't look that real.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 21, 2012, 10:18:18 PM
It's a breast form aka a boob plate.  They sell different ones of varying qualities of course.  You can get ones that secure around the neck with velcro (but you need a necklace for those to hide the seam) or you can get ones that stick to your chest (which is likely the one Walt Goggins had on).  And then you use make-up to blend it to your skin tone and hide the seam.  Here's an example: http://www.thebreastformstore.com/breast-forms-real-breasts-pro.aspx  For over a cool grand, I don't imagine a lot of drag queens would be inclined to have several sets unless they were bringing in really good dough.  (Because they also need that money for make-up, clothes, shoes, etc.)  A lot of the RuPaul queens use the necklace ones (big boobs and a necklace on? yup), use tape and make-up to create the illusion of breasts, stuff their bras, some combo of the last two, or just go flat (like Raja).

Here's an example of the one you secure around your neck, pricey but cheaper than the other one I linked above and look more like the boobs you'd see a lot on Drag Race: http://www.dragqueenboobs.com/how-to-order.html
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 21, 2012, 10:27:00 PM
And while I'm on the subject...


*&(&*$%^()(__@#$@%$#^!!! Goddammit!  RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars put up a preview of the first episode and they did a real shitty thing: they forced all the queens to pair up with the losing pair both going home although only one lip syncs for their team.  So the ending wasn't revealed in the preview, but one cool queen got paired up with a really inferior one who shouldn't even be on the show and now they both go home.  (It's as good as true since the opposing team is seen in another outfit and thus survive the round.)  Boo.  At least there's Rujubee.

(http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2012/10/rpdr-allstars-raven-personality-cut.gif)

But what kind of All Stars show forces people to compete in pairs?  BLECH.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 29, 2012, 02:21:57 AM
It's a breast form aka a boob plate.  They sell different ones of varying qualities of course.  You can get ones that secure around the neck with velcro (but you need a necklace for those to hide the seam) or you can get ones that stick to your chest (which is likely the one Walt Goggins had on).  And then you use make-up to blend it to your skin tone and hide the seam.  Here's an example: http://www.thebreastformstore.com/breast-forms-real-breasts-pro.aspx  For over a cool grand, I don't imagine a lot of drag queens would be inclined to have several sets unless they were bringing in really good dough.  (Because they also need that money for make-up, clothes, shoes, etc.)  A lot of the RuPaul queens use the necklace ones (big boobs and a necklace on? yup), use tape and make-up to create the illusion of breasts, stuff their bras, some combo of the last two, or just go flat (like Raja).

Here's an example of the one you secure around your neck, pricey but cheaper than the other one I linked above and look more like the boobs you'd see a lot on Drag Race: http://www.dragqueenboobs.com/how-to-order.html

love how you're an expert on tranny fixin' lol
also, blanktoe seems pretty interested in knowing how to get dem fake tittays

edit: there's no fucking way those boobs in "B" cup are b cup. I'm a B cup  and I'm definitely bigger
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 29, 2012, 08:39:17 AM
Maybe you're wearing the wrong size bra.  A lot of women are.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 29, 2012, 11:54:00 AM
there's no fucking way those boobs in "B" cup are b cup. I'm a B cup  and I'm definitely bigger

I'll need to see some photographic evidence of that
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 29, 2012, 08:22:16 PM
sure, go to my fb :-p
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 30, 2012, 12:52:00 PM
You know I don't have fb :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 30, 2012, 05:43:56 PM
Faye's beautiful breasts are not on Facebook, she is a dirty liar.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 30, 2012, 07:02:46 PM
have you seen my old profile pics? so slutty.

wait, you don't even have my fb
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 30, 2012, 09:26:24 PM
I haves a confessions to makes.

I don'ts haves Facesbooks. :-\
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 31, 2012, 12:48:16 AM
I thought you did but were all "lol no i only friend real ppl!!!121r"
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 31, 2012, 09:38:08 AM
Oh. Em. Gee. Becky-cakes! I would never do that to you guys!

Real talk. I do not have, nor have I ever had, a Facebook account.

But I'm glad you've all been enjoying Faye's foine tih-tehs in my absence.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 31, 2012, 03:24:04 PM
Faye is right, those old profile pictures were quite slutty. I was pleased. :D
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 01, 2012, 03:09:10 AM
OMG NOT THAT ONE you commented on! i look soooooo fat i can't believe i thought I looked good :'( maybe then i thought i looked good since it was just months after giving birth but not anymore

brb throwing all my carbs in the trash
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 01, 2012, 11:53:37 AM
OMG NOT THAT ONE you commented on! i look soooooo fat i can't believe i thought I looked good :'( maybe then i thought i looked good since it was just months after giving birth but not anymore

brb throwing all my carbs in the trash

I don't remember.

But you have lots of pictures that totally work for me.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 05, 2012, 01:08:07 AM
Super Robot Red Baron.


You guys all love anime, but I can only mildly get behind that. But I love me some Tokusatsu. I only wish I knew where to get a sub version of Super Robot Mach Baron, this show's sequel.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 05, 2012, 07:49:08 AM
I don't love anime anymore.

I watched all of Kamen Rider Hibiki, and it was awesome. I thought it would be a new hobby, but none of the Kamen Riders after Hibiki appealed to me at all. I don't know if that's because Hibiki is just better, or if it's because all Kamen Riders are essentially the same and when you've seen one, you've seen them all.

I want to say it's because Hibiki struck a perfect balance between taking itself seriously and making a complete mockery of its characters and the genre.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 05, 2012, 10:46:18 AM
Now I want to say I don't hate anime. I do like it. It is just that it is really hit or miss and most of it is miss these days. Even ones I really like like Fullmetal, or Cowboy BeBop still don't hold me over long periods of time. Anime just isn't something I go looking for new ones to try. If someone says "Oh this is pretty good. You might like it." I might give it a try if I can find easy. It just not something I go out of my way to find anymore.


I've only seen a little of Kamen Rider stuff and it was way back in the 90s, so I don't know much about that series. Didn't much care for what I saw though.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 05, 2012, 07:03:33 PM
I try to keep tabs on new anime, if it's visually striking, or the premise sounds somehow unique or interesting, I'll give it a shot. More often than not I won't go beyond the first episode.

None of it clicks with me anymore, and I'm fine with that.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 06, 2012, 05:50:15 PM
Only "new one" (is CB considered new?) I like is Evangelion and FML I'm leaving Great Nihon just a couple of days before the goddamn premiere of You can (not) redo.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 06, 2012, 11:07:02 PM
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First episode of Kyouryuu Sentai ZyuRanger. Was curious because I knew this was the show that was adapted in Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.
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Post by: Rumble on Nov 07, 2012, 02:06:02 AM
Still watching the Walking Dead.
The last ep was dark as fuck
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Post by: Rama on Nov 07, 2012, 02:45:23 PM
I finished the first three episodes of ZyuRanger and I LOVE this show. It is soooooo much better then MMPR. Sadly this person on Youtube only has the first 5 of 50 episodes...so I'm already trying to find someplace I get the others, because I already want more of this.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 07, 2012, 03:51:47 PM
I never found more than a few fansubs of it.  If you find more let me know.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 07, 2012, 04:15:56 PM
Ugh...don't tell me that. I am really hooked on this show now. I don't think I've had this much fun watching something in a long time.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 07, 2012, 04:24:10 PM
TV-Nihon is subbing it, but their release schedule is pretty sporadic.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 07, 2012, 05:21:30 PM
"One day, her son Kai was inadvertently killed by a Tyrannosaurus."

This alone makes me want to watch the Sentai series instead of MMPR.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 07, 2012, 07:20:46 PM
TV-Nihon is subbing it, but their release schedule is pretty sporadic.

Yeah I saw that at the start of the video once I actually started looking. Man, they have to finish this...and quick. It's soooo awesome.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 08, 2012, 12:21:09 AM
Now I want to say I don't hate anime. I do like it. It is just that it is really hit or miss and most of it is miss these days. Even ones I really like like Fullmetal, or Cowboy BeBop still don't hold me over long periods of time. Anime just isn't something I go looking for new ones to try. If someone says "Oh this is pretty good. You might like it." I might give it a try if I can find easy. It just not something I go out of my way to find anymore.


I've only seen a little of Kamen Rider stuff and it was way back in the 90s, so I don't know much about that series. Didn't much care for what I saw though.

I try to keep tabs on new anime, if it's visually striking, or the premise sounds somehow unique or interesting, I'll give it a shot. More often than not I won't go beyond the first episode.

None of it clicks with me anymore, and I'm fine with that.

Ha, ha, I totally agree with you guys.  Are we just old?  Or has it been mostly shit the entire time?  I look at so much anime--not watch, just look, like, at the packaging or a few scenes or screen grabs--and I can smell turds through my screen.  Just seeing a picture of some saucer-eyed bimbette with impossible-colored hair posing in a fuku makes me want to punch a baby in the face.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 08, 2012, 01:35:55 AM
It must be old age because I ate this stuff up when I was like a teenager and in my early 20s, but man...I just can't get into it anymore.

Anyway I was able to find up to Episode 18 of ZyuRanger...but I've only seen up to 6 so far. I like that they explain things here that MMPR never did. Like why the mecha are Dinos. Where the rangers got their weapons, and why they shove crystals into their mecha to form the big robot. All of this is explained in ZuyRanger...and it just sorta is in MMPR.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 08, 2012, 07:43:30 AM
I just downloaded the second season of Chappelle show :3
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 09, 2012, 01:30:34 PM
A in has always had tons of shit. We just didn't know it because we only got the best stuff sent over here. That's why the DVD market up and died. They can blame piracy for this, but the preponderance of crap and otaku-centric materialkilled any mass-market appeal it could have ever had.
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Post by: Rumble on Nov 09, 2012, 05:53:48 PM
I just saw the last ep of Red Dwarf series X
I really hope they do another series. The whole season was pretty good, but this last ep was just brilliant.
A little worried that this ep was called the Beginning, considering the very first ep of season 1 was called the End. And Rimmers last line before the credits was the same as Listers in the very first ep.

Still the cast obviously enjoys what they're doing and I've heard they done quite well in the ratings, so I'm hoping for a few seasons more
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Post by: Rama on Nov 10, 2012, 09:48:26 PM
Well I finished up to episode 20 of ZyuRanger. Just have to wait for more to come out. By far my favorite episode so far is 17, where the Green Ranger first shows up. It has an attempted forklift kill. (Much like in Fugitive Alien) Two old guys on a motorcycle with machine guns shooting at a kid, and best of all the Green Ranger. Whose first words to the other ZyuRangers were to "Go to hell" and he then proceeded to beat the shit out of them. It was awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Nov 11, 2012, 12:09:17 AM
Gosei Sentai Dairanger episode 1.


I already know I'm not gonna like this as much as ZyuRanger, but damn is this theme song catchy.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 11, 2012, 09:52:40 PM
You should check out MagiRanger. It aired during the height of Pottermania.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 11, 2012, 10:54:47 PM
Oh that was the one that became Mystic Force here wasn't it?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 12, 2012, 06:17:44 AM
Probably. I just remember in the Japanese version the team members were all brothers and sisters, and when they were at home they would wear Hogwarts-esque robes.

It was fucking ridiculous.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 12, 2012, 12:40:25 PM
Yep it was.

Mahou Sentai Magiranger= Power Rangers Mystic Force.


Didn't really ever catch that one so no idea what that was like. I really wanna see TimeRanger because that was the one that became Power Ranger Time Force, and I liked that one a lot. I heard that they stuck to the Sentai pretty close on that one.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2012, 01:06:58 AM
Are you actually watching this stuff on dial-up or what?
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Post by: Rama on Nov 13, 2012, 01:54:15 AM
No...what I am doing is stealing...ehhhhh borrowing a friend's high speed about once a week (normally a Tuesday because there is podcast I also listen to comes out that day) and then I download a bunch of episodes viva torrent and then come home and watch them.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 13, 2012, 06:48:13 AM
¡Viva la Revolución!
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Post by: Rama on Nov 13, 2012, 11:54:48 AM
Uh...I meant Via..."via torrent", not "viva". I was working on a comic last night while posting here that had a reference to the song "Viva Las Vegas" in it (don't ask) and that was fresh on my mind.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 14, 2012, 08:09:16 AM
Oh shit!  I didn't realize TV-Nihon finally got to more episodes.  I'll have to chell these out.  Hopefully I don't need to use fucking IRC to get them.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 14, 2012, 10:07:34 PM
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger episode 1 and 2.

Don't know how I feel about this one. Sometimes I think it is great, sometimes no. In the end it doesn't matter since I've only been able to find 1 and 2 subbed so far.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2012, 12:22:46 AM
I watched some Extreme Couponing thing from TLC that's on Netflix's service.  A lot of their savings relies on double and triple couponing.  We don't have that shit here.  Not anymore.  San Antonio would be extreme couponer hell.  Ho ho.  Also, they buy some rancid shit.  Closets and shelves full of chips and soda.  Ew.  This one lady got a shitload of diapers for free.  All she needs is a baby to use them on.  lol.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 17, 2012, 01:11:53 AM
Gosei Sentai Dairanger episode 2


Took me awhile to get back to this one since the sub I wanted was in an 18 episode block and that took awhile to download when you only get like 1-2 hours of high speed access a week. I'm out of town this weekend and the hotel had high speed so I was able to finish it off and am watching it now.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 20, 2012, 02:01:21 AM
Ok I finished up to episode 18 of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, and I'm downloading the next batch. This show was starting to grow on me till they made a 10 year old kid the the White Ranger. Do what? And he like becomes adult when he changes (called Aura Change in this show). I remember back in the day when they did this is Power Rangers Turbo and thought it was dumb then, but then to find out that the Japanese did it with this show FIRST...Groan.

Anyway, while I'm waiting for more DaiRanger to download I've also started up on Denji Sentai MegaRanger. This one is fun...but eh....really the only one of these that has got close to the fun of ZyuRanger is KakuRanger, which I can still only find two episodes of.

Anyway this Super Sentai stuff has become a new crack for me. Sad what being a little curious can do to you.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 20, 2012, 09:24:00 AM
If you remember the old MMPR show whenever Tommy transformed into the White Ranger he acted really weird.  That's because that footage was from that show and he was a kid who was excited to be an adult.  There are weird things like him jumping around and flipping the Tigerzord that only make sense in retrospect when you know this.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 20, 2012, 12:13:24 PM
Yeah, I can see that now. Always wondered why he totally sapazed out and only in the zord footage no less.  Although I do think Tommy should have constantly been grabbing Kimberly's boob. That would have been entertaining.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Nov 20, 2012, 12:26:16 PM
Hell's yeah!  <3 Kimberly.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 25, 2012, 01:49:09 AM
Well I'm about up to episode 27 of DiaRanger. It's into that boring filler stage where we got our 6th Ranger and are now just killing time till the final fight.


But in the meantime...I thought that there couldn't be any other show I liked as much as ZyuRanger, but that was before I saw Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. This show is AWESOME. I had heard about it some, but people said the words "Pirate Themed" and I was a whole lot of meh. I didn't like the Pirate fad even when it was hot, let alone now on it's downturn. Then I started hearing stuff about these Rangers being able to turn into Rangers from all 34 previous teams by using special keys...now that sounded much cooler. So I gave it a try.

Glad I did too this show is great! The Pirate thing really doesn't come into play all that much actually. I mean they have pirate themed costumes and mechs, but it is really all about using past teams powers. And they do cool things like they'll all change into a past team...or they'll all change into one color rangers from the past. It is really a lot of fun. Plus all the characters a pretty likeable...well except Joe is who is plain as hell. Eh..I'm only up to episode 7, he might get better. Captain Marvelous on the other hand is the shit! By far my favorite Ranger ever...be it in Sentai or Power Ranger...BEST. EVER. PERIOD.

Although I have to say that my glowing review is from someone that has watched Super Sentai and Power Rangers. So if you've never seen any of that stuff you might not find it as great as I do.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 25, 2012, 01:51:30 AM
Oh and Luka is hot as hell too...that doesn't hurt.

And I also have to a find a way to work "Lets make this showy." into everyday conversations.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 25, 2012, 09:06:27 AM
The Pirate thing really doesn't come into play all that much actually. I mean they have pirate themed costumes and mechs, but it is really all about using past teams powers.

Dude. They're pirating the abilities of previous Rangers!
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Post by: Rama on Nov 26, 2012, 01:09:12 AM
Eh...I mean maybe you can say that, but they were GIVEN those powers by the spirit of the Red Ranger. So I don't really see that as pirating as much. Well at least Marvelous was given those powers...I don't know how the others came to part of his crew yet. Not that far into the series. I see more the pirate thing as they are only earth doing what they are doing to get this Ultimate Treasure...so they are just in it for the money. In order to do that they have to unlock all 34 of the Ranger team Grand Powers...and in order to do that they have to somehow find what it was to be that Ranger team. So they end up doing good....but not for the right reason. Course I'm sure that the Ultimate Treasure will end being Teamwork and using that to defend mankind or some other bullshit like that.
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Post by: Rama on Dec 04, 2012, 01:24:49 PM
Ok...so I finished DiaRanger. Kinda depressing at the end and a lot of unanswered questions and a real surreal finish. But it is the first Sentai I've ever watch from start to finish.

I'm also up to 19 on GoKiager, as well as the movie Super Sentai 199 Heroes.  So far this Sentai has been the best of what I've seen. I have enjoyed ever single episode, and that is not usually the case. By this point there is usually at least one stinker, but not this series.

Other Sentai I've watched are 1-6 of Denji Sentai MegaRanger (adapted in Power Rangers in Space),  1-3 of Mirai Sentai TimeRanger (PR: Time Force), and 1-3 of GouGou Sentai Boukenger(PR Operation Overdrive).

MegaRanger is alright, TimeRanger so far hasn't been as good as Time Force, and Boukenger is pretty suck. Of Course, it could get better...maybe...hopefully.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 06, 2012, 01:46:50 AM
I've been watching various Doctor Who episodes on streaming.  Or Sons of Anarchy seasons 1-4 when I don't feel like paying attention.  I was watching season 5 of that as it came out along with Rupaul's All Stars Drag Race.  I began each one all pumped up but dumped them both in the end due to horrid series structure for the latter and lackluster progress for the former.

Re: Sons - Rant Incoming...

I know various people (meaning the other people who watch the show, not the characters) want Clay and Tig to die for the shit they've done and caused but Ron Perlman and Kim Coates are actually the best parts of the show right now.  Everyone is being super idiotic and/or just plain unlikeable.  They hyped up this Damon Pope asshat just to get rid of him so easily.  Juice has been a crybaby for two seasons now.  Nero has completely fucked up his life due to Gemma's magic pussy.  Gemma nearly kills her grandkids when she spent the last four seasons ready to throw herselves on swords over them.  Tara has become snottier and stupider with each passing season.  Yeah, Tara, let's give the guy on deathrow a cross he can easily use as a weapon.  That shit made sense.  Opie died for what reason again?  Jax used to do bad things to accomplish something good.  In the past seasons, he saved his girlfriend, his son, his mother, his best friend... he didn't accomplish shit this season other than get them out of the cartel mess which doesn't come out as anything good because the cartel never felt like the threat or game changer it should've been.  Yeah, he saved Tig but like Tig said, Pope could've offed him right away and then what?  Jax didn't care if Tig died or not.  It was about Pope before it was ever about Tig.

/End rant.

tl;dr  With its 5th season, Sons of Anarchy's shelf-life is showing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 06, 2012, 11:26:59 AM
Don't tell me you're going to become a Whovian.
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Post by: Rumble on Dec 06, 2012, 12:17:29 PM
I don't particularly want Clay or Tig to die.
The way Jax is going I have a feeling we're heading for a The Shield-esque finale tho.

And with that I mean that as a viewer you've been rooting the whole time for a main character who's basically an extremely violent criminal but you're forgiving because he seems to act out of honorable motives.
I got a feeling that illusion will be yanked away at the end
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 06, 2012, 01:33:14 PM
Don't tell me you're going to become a Whovian.

From Whoville?
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 07, 2012, 12:52:47 AM
And with that I mean that as a viewer you've been rooting the whole time for a main character who's basically an extremely violent criminal but you're forgiving because he seems to act out of honorable motives.
I got a feeling that illusion will be yanked away at the end

That illusion shouldn't be messed with though because the whole "seems to act out of honorable motives" is an important part of his character.  In a show about a bunch of villains, he's supposed to be the less "villainy" one.  It's what drives multiple conflicts in the story.  All messing with that dynamic did was make me not care as much about the main character anymore because it makes him the same as everyone else in the club so you can root for any of them now because it doesn't make a difference.  And since it doesn't make a difference, that means I have no reason to care or watch anymore because everyone's on equal footing.  Care care care difference same because.  This all made much more sense in my head.


Don't tell me you're going to become a Whovian.

Well, I like it.  I don't know if I'm really a Whovian from Whoville or whatever.
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Post by: Rumble on Dec 07, 2012, 01:13:18 AM
That illusion shouldn't be messed with though because the whole "seems to act out of honorable motives" is an important part of his character.  In a show about a bunch of villains, he's supposed to be the less "villainy" one.  It's what drives multiple conflicts in the story.  All messing with that dynamic did was make me not care as much about the main character anymore because it makes him the same as everyone else in the club so you can root for any of them now because it doesn't make a difference.  And since it doesn't make a difference, that means I have no reason to care or watch anymore because everyone's on equal footing.  Care care care difference same because.  This all made much more sense in my head.


I dunno, I mean The Shield was based on much the same premises but that was pretty effectively turned on its head by the end. When the final season started I wanted Shane to die and Mackey to get away with all the shit he had pulled. When the show ended I got exactly that, but the way it happened I wished it happened the other way around.
I see something similar coming up for SoA
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 07, 2012, 03:57:31 PM
I meant to mention, going back to Doctor Who, it took me a few episodes before I could unsee the 10th Doctor as Barty Crouch Jr.  I didn't even recognize him at first, I just thought he looked creepy for some reason.  And Merla was all "Barty Crouch Jr.!  Ew!"  So yeah.  Also, I really liked Destro What's-his-name as the 9th Doctor.  But he is the first doctor I've seen.  Right now, I've been skipping between him and the 10th Doctor.  And I have yet to see the other Doctor Who material available on streaming of which there is lots and lots.  Also, I was reading the Russell Davies offered the role of the 9th Doctor to Hugh Grant.  Meh.  I'm just picturing that guy holding a sonic screwdriver and stuttering away.
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Post by: Rama on Dec 08, 2012, 12:51:22 AM
That's kinda funny because I was talking to a friend about Tennant and what else other then Doctor Who he has done. I and was like "He was Barty Crouch Jr. That was a pretty big movie there." and of course he had never seen any of the Harry Potter movies, or at least hasn't seen any he'll admit to.

But the 10th is my fav so far, but the 11th is pretty awesome too. And then there is Amy Pond...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Amy Pond...who is much better looking then Rose. I, however, did not care much for the 9th Doctor, but I did like him as Destro. Rest of Rise of Cobra was shit though.
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Post by: Rama on Dec 10, 2012, 01:22:36 AM
More GoKaiger...up to episode 30 now. Still awesome. Although there is too much filler in this thing. They have to get 34 Sentai Grand Powers. There are 50 episodes in a season. That's enough for each grand powet to get it's own episode and have some left over..instead we get a lot of filler and then they get a bunch of powers at once without much work to get them. Like they got a bunch from the 199 movie from old sentais nodding at them? And then when Gokai Silver joined he already had three. Small compliant, but still...

Watched some of Bioman too...it is...well it was made in 1980 and it shows. Thing seems like it is edited by someone with ADD too.

Oh and this is for aDam. Grown ups in Spandex has subbed the entire run of ZyuRanger.

http://www.grownupsinspandex.com/forums/1992-zyuranger-%5Bcompleted%5D-35/kyouryuu-sentai-zyuranger-%5Bdownload-page%5D-47/

So I'm also watching that from where TV-Ninhon left off at 20.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2012, 03:42:10 PM
I'm watching Deep Space Nine. It's better than I remember at its worst and worse than I remember at its best.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 12, 2012, 03:01:14 AM
I really liked DS9. In fact I'd go so far to say that Sisko is my fav. Captain. That was a good show once it got it's legs under it.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 13, 2012, 12:35:52 AM
Watched some Matt Smith Dr. Who.  I thought I might not like him but he's a good chap.  Kinda weird though.  Like even weirder than 10th who was definetely weirder than 9th, so there's this progression of weirdyness.

I recall liking DS9 but I never kept up with it after the first few seasons.  I remember being surprised when I tuned in one time and saw Michael Dorn was part of the cast.  I girl-crushed on Jadzia Dax, so annoyed when she "died".  Did like Sisko though even though I couldn't consider him my favorite captain since I didn't even realize he got promoted until a long time later.  So I saw later eps but... yeah.
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Post by: Rama on Dec 13, 2012, 04:03:31 AM
He wears a bow tie...bow ties are cool.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 14, 2012, 11:14:55 AM
I girl-crushed on Jadzia Dax, so annoyed when she "died".

Fuck, I forgot all about that silliness.

I also am rather fond of Dax.

I FUCKING HATE KIRA
Seriously, it's not as bad as my hate for Troi, but holy fuck Kira annoys the shit out of me. I HAVE TO HATE CARDASSIANS BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH I WAS PART OF THE BLAH BLAH RESISTANCE BLAH BLAH. All she does is make the Cardassians that show up in the series more interesting. I really fucking wish this had been Ro Laren instead.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 14, 2012, 11:01:45 PM
I don't hate her at all but also wished it had been Ro.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 16, 2012, 11:17:31 PM
Seriously, when she was a sort-of-prisoner of the Bajoran rebels, I hoped she would die.

EDIT: I also wished this during the episode before it, when she rescued POWs from Cardassia 4.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 16, 2012, 11:45:18 PM
The following is based on my viewing of all of TNG and the first two seasons of DS9, which was no longer shown in my area at that point (http://www.shwiggie.com/boards/emoticons/atch.gif)

Both the Bajoran mains bugged me...Kira and Ro were douchebags. If they were representative of their people, the Federation should have let Cardassia keep the friggin' planet. Conversely, the Cardassians were lots of fun.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 17, 2012, 10:43:45 PM
The following is based on my viewing of all of TNG and the first two seasons of DS9, which was no longer shown in my area at that point (http://www.shwiggie.com/boards/emoticons/atch.gif)

Both the Bajoran mains bugged me...Kira and Ro were douchebags. If they were representative of their people, the Federation should have let Cardassia keep the friggin' planet. Conversely, the Cardassians were lots of fun.


Did I mention her how I felt the only good thing about Kira is how much more interesting the Cardassians seem compared to her?

I mostly liked Ro, until the end, at least.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Dec 20, 2012, 03:40:31 PM
I recently found out they're doing a third season of An Idiot Abroad so I've been watching that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 21, 2012, 11:54:52 PM
I rate the revival Doctor Who (9th to 11th doctors) primary companions as follows.

1. Donna Noble - She was a funny, awesome ginger who added the best real-world perspective to shit.  I miss her.  And how she was written out of the series.  Argh.  As they say on tumblr: my FEEEEELSS.
2. Rose Tyler - Not so much for her character as much as the chemistry she had with 9 and 10.  I think she meshed better with her Doctors than Martha and Amy.
3. Martha Jones - I like her on her own better than I like Rose but I think the character suffered having to crush on the Doctor after Rose.  And this whole "Imma doctor so blah blah" haughty attitude she'd sometimes have reminded me of everything I don't like about real non-Doctor Who doctors.
4. Amy Pond - She's a cute girl but that accent kills me in a bad way sometimes.  However, what really gets me is how Mary Sue she comes off to me.  When she appears, suddenly everything revolves around her: the girl who waited with the crack on her wall and who gives birth to Melody Pond who blah blah blah.  She almost takes over the narrative from the Doctor at times and I'm all "nooo, I watch for the Doctor".  Also, she's paired up with pathetic Rory, who I just want to smack in the face with a cinderblock.  Just that look on his face makes me want to smack him.  He doesn't even have to say anything.

The End.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Dec 22, 2012, 04:54:44 PM
For a local anime club's last meeting of the year they showed the last two episodes of Korra. And having never seen the series before I had no idea what was going on but caught on with most of it. And I agree with the conversation 4 pages back... the ending felt rushed and cheap. And having Korra lose her bending might have made for interesting story had they continued with a second season (and maybe even had Amon pop up, alive again, for revenge), but then Aang's all like "Jesus lol" and gives her powers back.

Also, one character, I think the firebender general Iroh, had the most annoying voice actor ever. His voice sounded way too young for his character. Ugh!
And lightning = firebending?????
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 22, 2012, 09:13:10 PM
Local anime club's last meeting of the year, and they don't show anime. Huh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 22, 2012, 11:46:04 PM
lol, maybe they should just call themselves an animation club and officially expand their horizons.  Funny tho', Merla and I were just talking about how jarring younger Iroh's voice was.  I mean, the guy's in his thirties and all so he's old enough to play him but he just sounds too young.  And the previous series already made a lot of people associate that actor's voice with a 16-year-old boy.  Don't just pop the same voice on a grown-ass man.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 23, 2012, 02:45:25 AM
I rate the revival Doctor Who (9th to 11th doctors) primary companions as follows.

1. Donna Noble - She was a funny, awesome ginger who added the best real-world perspective to shit.  I miss her.  And how she was written out of the series.  Argh.  As they say on tumblr: my FEEEEELSS.
2. Rose Tyler - Not so much for her character as much as the chemistry she had with 9 and 10.  I think she meshed better with her Doctors than Martha and Amy.
3. Martha Jones - I like her on her own better than I like Rose but I think the character suffered having to crush on the Doctor after Rose.  And this whole "Imma doctor so blah blah" haughty attitude she'd sometimes have reminded me of everything I don't like about real non-Doctor Who doctors.
4. Amy Pond - She's a cute girl but that accent kills me in a bad way sometimes.  However, what really gets me is how Mary Sue she comes off to me.  When she appears, suddenly everything revolves around her: the girl who waited with the crack on her wall and who gives birth to Melody Pond who blah blah blah.  She almost takes over the narrative from the Doctor at times and I'm all "nooo, I watch for the Doctor".  Also, she's paired up with pathetic Rory, who I just want to smack in the face with a cinderblock.  Just that look on his face makes me want to smack him.  He doesn't even have to say anything.

The End.

Take that list and flip it upside down and you pretty much got my list. Although I'd switch Donna and Rose. I hated Rose...Donna was alright. Although I'd put River Song as my favorite, but she was never really a companion, but man she was all kinds of awesome.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 25, 2012, 12:26:09 AM
As I do every Christmas: MST3K: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and MST3K: Santa Claus.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 25, 2012, 12:33:30 AM
River Song started out as so awesome and just lost points everytime I saw her.  Not in a big way but they were just progressively chipped at with every subsequent appearance.  I guess if I stuck her on there, I'd put her just behind Donna.  Rose the character actually goes below Martha but as a companion I think she went along better with the doctor.


And Torchwood... I don't know if I can sit and watch it.  I don't like anyone but Jack.  I was excited to see Indira Varma and then she goes and dies.  The Japanese chick and White Guy #3 (I don't remember his name, the one that's not Jack or Ianto) are decent enough but nothing about them really makes me care.  Gwen is kinda irritating.  I'm confused as to why she was invited into Torchwood in the first place.  Her boyfriend/husband and Ianto aren't exactly favorites of mine either.  I do know spoilers, so I don't know if I really want to make an investment as far as watching future episodes.  It feels like a show that's trying to be more grown up and serious than Doctor Who but is going about it in a juvenile way.  I haven't jumped ship yet but it could be another Firefly where I stop giving fucks and just never pick it up again.  The Doctor Who tie in helps though.  I'll probably continue with it anyway.

Speaking of Firefly, I did try watching Serenity.  I just can't get into this universe.  I swear, there was this one scene where Mal (I think that's his name) was talking to various members of the crew one at a time and ever other sentence someone said (no matter who it was) had to be some speedily said quip.  I can't stand when shows do that shit.  Gina Torres is awesome, I really wanted to like it but meh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 25, 2012, 02:07:12 PM
I never really got into Torchwood or Firefly either, for a lot of the same reason. Except I'm not even that fond of Jack, even if he is lost likeable one on that show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 25, 2012, 04:11:56 PM
I don't buy into the browncoats (Firefly fans) thing of saying that Serenity was no problem for non-Firefly viewers to get into. You had to give a crap about the people first before it really meant anything. It was by no means stand-alone. The pilot of Firefly is the real measure of whether you'll like it or not. It was a two-parter that introduced everyone and their relationships and set the tone. If you're not on-board with that, then there's no point in the rest.

But that goes for most everything else, too.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 26, 2012, 12:23:31 AM
I don't buy into the browncoats (Firefly fans) thing of saying that Serenity was no problem for non-Firefly viewers to get into.  You had to give a crap about the people first before it really meant anything. It was by no means stand-alone.

Exactly.  Stuff was happening to them and I didn't give a crap.  It was more like one giant episode for the fans.  It kinda reminded me of the Farscape Peacekeeper Wars thing that wrapped up that entire series.  There's no reason for a non-fan to watch it.

Quote
The pilot of Firefly is the real measure of whether you'll like it or not. It was a two-parter that introduced everyone and their relationships and set the tone. If you're not on-board with that, then there's no point in the rest.

Yeah, I was actually kinda okay with the Firefly pilot.  It just didn't give me enough of a reason to stick around afterwards.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Dec 27, 2012, 09:24:59 AM
Hotness scale:

Amy
Martha
Rose
Donna

The new chick's hot.

Torchwood's good.  Don't watch Miracle Day though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Dec 27, 2012, 07:43:08 PM
I saw Serenity once and I've never seen Firefly.
Don't ask me what the movie was about, but I do remember it was an enjoyable scifi movie
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 28, 2012, 08:40:57 AM

Don't ask me what the movie was about, but I do remember it was an enjoyable scifi movie
>I do remember it was an enjoyable scifi movie
He remembers the beewbs
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 30, 2012, 12:06:25 AM
Hotness scale:

Amy
Martha
Rose
Donna

The new chick's hot.

I can agree with this post.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Dec 30, 2012, 09:04:13 AM
I'm rewatching S1 of Justified on blu ray
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 30, 2012, 09:08:35 PM
That reminds me, I still need to watch Justified Season 3. Season 4 can't be that far off at this point.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 30, 2012, 11:48:43 PM
Hotness scale:

Amy
Martha
Rose
Donna

The new chick's hot.

I can agree with this post.

I can as well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 01, 2013, 08:15:37 AM
Rewatching one of the most important american classics: Flavor of Love
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 03, 2013, 02:50:49 AM
Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo V


I've also finished ZyuRanger and GoKaiger now. Was sad to see GoKaiger go as that whole series was really fun and I have not heard good things about Go-Busters which follows it. =\
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jan 24, 2013, 01:03:05 AM
I downloaded season 2 of american horror story which we're watching at the rate of about one ep a day.

I remember kinda spacing out a lot of times during the first season, but so far this season is really good
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 24, 2013, 03:13:44 AM
Chojin Sentai Jetman

It's pretty good...I was able to download the whole series on this one, so I don't have to keep going back and downloading more and can watch it straight through.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 24, 2013, 02:46:10 PM
lol, New Girl. I just watched Olivia Munn fondling Katy Perry, who was holding a gun.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 25, 2013, 07:46:32 AM
lol, New Girl. I just watched Olivia Munn fondling Katy Perry, who was holding a gun.
Was this a scene in new girl?  I like about 4 things in that sentence...
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 25, 2013, 11:39:36 AM
lol, New Girl. I just watched Olivia Munn fondling Katy Perry, who was holding a gun.
Was this a scene in new girl?  I like about 4 things in that sentence...

Yes, well, sort of. They were shooting guns out at a cabin. Olivia Wilde was all over Zoey Deschanel, who I just realized I called Katy Perry up there and that's pretty funny because it was actually not intentional. She was grabbing on to her waist and arms and stuff. And then they drank absinthe and partner-swapped.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 25, 2013, 01:34:52 PM
So is it Olivia Wilde or Olivia Munn, cause I'd fuck either.  I'm also all over Zoey Deschanel so it's okay if you fucked both of those names up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 27, 2013, 11:42:39 PM
I've been watching whatever Justice League episodes I can find on Youtube.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 28, 2013, 11:18:56 PM
I'm sort of pissy about Young Justice right now. When are they ever going to actually *do* anything with this show?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 29, 2013, 10:22:43 AM
I'm sort of pissy about Young Justice right now. When are they ever going to actually *do* anything with this show?

My room mate was saying they had Static, Despero, The Atom, and Deathstroke on an episode. That's a lot of interesting but not a lot of happening from what I understand.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 29, 2013, 12:32:58 PM
I'm sort of pissy about Young Justice right now. When are they ever going to actually *do* anything with this show?
You mean like... cancel it?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 29, 2013, 12:51:00 PM
Might as well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 29, 2013, 01:16:15 PM
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43423
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jan 29, 2013, 08:09:05 PM
A crime it lasted longer then Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jan 30, 2013, 08:06:33 AM
That show deserved to be canceled because of it's theme song alone.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 30, 2013, 10:14:59 AM
Shut your mouth. That was a great show. Young Justice was by the end of the first season, but the second season has been a disappointing waste.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 30, 2013, 11:22:36 AM
Yeah, but the theme song was really fucking awful.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 31, 2013, 12:44:30 AM
At least we have Beware the Batman to look forward to.  :happy:














:poo:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 31, 2013, 07:24:57 AM
It's got to be a step up from The Batman, doesn't it?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 31, 2013, 10:37:19 PM
Like a toddler's step-up to the toilet.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 02, 2013, 11:02:56 PM
Like a toddler's step-up to the toilet.

:lmao:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Feb 11, 2013, 05:40:51 PM
Local anime club's last meeting of the year, and they don't show anime. Huh.
They showed more than just Korra. They also showed some anime. And Live Action Sailor Moon. Okay, so that last one doesn't help my argument.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Feb 15, 2013, 02:56:01 PM
<3 Live action Sailor Moon!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 16, 2013, 12:42:04 AM
I have yet to watch that, but I've seen the downloads at the places I frequent these days and was always a little curious.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 16, 2013, 01:30:30 AM
Live action movies from anime should not exist
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Feb 18, 2013, 08:35:52 AM
As a Sailor Moon anime and manga fan I loved the live action series, though not all fans feel the same.  Not sure how a Sentai fan would feel about it, though the audience seems to be a mix of anime and Sentai fans.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 18, 2013, 01:29:22 PM
TMNT (the new one)...You know this show is pretty damn good.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 20, 2013, 05:02:47 PM
Have you seen all the eps so far?  I saw two and didn't think it was awful, but couldn't bring myself to stick with it.

Anyway, I bit the silver bullet (heh) and saw the Teen Wolf series.  Season 1 is good and mostly solid up until the finale where it feels like things were hastily put together and didn't hold up too great.  What I've seen out of Season 2 doesn't leave me impressed and what I've heard of Season 3 doesn't compel me to stick with this any further.  Firstly, I wish the Teen Wolf guy would turn into an actual full-blown werewolf which he doesn't.  He gets teeth, claws, extra hair, and glowly eyes.  MEH.  Second, I wish they stuck more with werewolf lore.  That feels under-utilized.  Third, some of these people die and then they're back: which irritates me.  It's like there aren't any real stakes if people can die and come back willy-nilly.  I know a lot of shows do this but I wish this one didn't do this.  Anyway, I recommend the first season to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.  And then stop and imagine how the second season went because it'll most likely still be better than what we got.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 20, 2013, 05:12:01 PM
Oh yeah, and Teen Wolf Tyler Posey is obviously the poor-man's Taylor Lautner although Posey has less of a caveman face.   :P
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 21, 2013, 06:12:33 AM
Michael Landon was the only true teen wolf.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 22, 2013, 01:15:21 AM
Live action movies from anime should not exist
Goddamnit I just found on youtube the Versailles no Bara live action movie and it SUCKS of course.
The whole idea is preposterous like I said before
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 22, 2013, 02:44:07 PM
Have you seen all the eps so far?  I saw two and didn't think it was awful, but couldn't bring myself to stick with it.

I've seen most of them. I don't know if I've seen them all as I don't go out of my way to catch it when it is new, but NICK plays it so much that I can catch it from time to time.

I really like it. I was iffy on it at first. Didn't hate it, but wasn't insanely impressed. That started to change though as I watched more and more. The show really grows on you. The only strange thing is how many human girls get a hard on for giant turtles. First there was the Donny/April thing and now Leo is flirting it up with Shredder's daughter. Very strange. One thing if I'd have loved to have got Rocksteady and BeBop in the show and instead we get guys called Dogpound and Fishface. They fill the same roll as the above, they just aren't them. Other guys that have shown up include Metalhead, Leatherface, and Baxter Stockman and his Mousers.  I think it is only a matter of time before Stockman gets turned into a fly. It's kinda the thing with Shredder henchman that serve as human's for awhile before getting mutated.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 23, 2013, 10:36:21 AM
Leatherface is a Turtles villain now?! That's so awesome! Who's next? Freddy Krueger? Jason Voorhees? Pinhead?

This show sounds amazing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 24, 2013, 08:33:31 PM
Sorry Leatherhead.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 25, 2013, 06:14:06 AM
Whaaaaaat.

That's not nearly as interesting.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 26, 2013, 10:34:36 AM
I wanted to see the new Karai so I went to go see a Turtles ep and I'm kinda mixed on her.  Not completely terrible by any means but it certainly is a different take at least visually speaking.  Can't voice my disappointment enough on the Shredder though.  I loved the Shredder in the 80's and 03 shows and I just want this guy to go away. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 26, 2013, 04:27:14 PM
Someone sent me this earlier which totally made my day
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGXF8_OvCc
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 27, 2013, 02:05:33 AM
Shredder really is the weakest part of the new show. I mean I don't hate him, but he is kinda generic bad guyish.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 27, 2013, 11:23:09 PM
I've been rewatching Jackie Chan Adventures, seeing how it's on both Crackle and Netflix and doesn't require a whole lot of attention.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 04, 2013, 03:54:59 AM
One more thing about the new TMNT...kick ass theme song. In time when no one seems to do that anymore, it is nice to have.


Anyway, I knew I'd get here with all my Super Sentai watching, but I was fighting it. In the end I knew I'd lose though. I'm watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I was fearful of this because I had caught some Power Ranger Samurai and Power Rangers Megaforce and both made my head hurt, but MMPR actually holds up a lot better. I don't know if they thought kids were smarter then, or they just gave more of a fuck, (Probably both actually.) but it isn't that bad really. Of Course I know it does in fact get worse, the better again, then worse, and so on and so forth.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Mar 04, 2013, 04:54:49 PM
Almost finished with DS9. Took in some Arrested Development and Fawlty Towers recently as well (exposing someone to both of the shows).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 05, 2013, 02:27:36 AM
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger

First time I've got in on a Sentai as it aired in Japan. Pretty good first two episodes. Better then what little I saw of Gobusters. And the sub I saw had Zyuden translated as "Voltsaur" and I guess that is kinda right. It looks more like "Electric Beast" to me, but whatever.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 09, 2013, 10:29:33 AM
You guys should watch Summer Heights High, its fucking hilarious
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 11, 2013, 04:51:24 PM
You guys should watch Summer Heights High, its fucking hilarious

Looked up an episode on youtube. It had a few funny moments, but not really my thing.
This is what I find hilarious:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9-tkRAtRw
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2013, 05:49:56 PM
I've been watching stuff with communists in it.  Heeeey, that might explain something.  It'll come to me in a minute.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 15, 2013, 03:23:36 AM
You guys should watch Summer Heights High, its fucking hilarious

Looked up an episode on youtube. It had a few funny moments, but not really my thing.
This is what I find hilarious:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9-tkRAtRw

dat trumpet
cant understand half of what they are saying :( they speak too fast dang it. which reminds me, im going to london next month for almost the whole month so i better practice

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 18, 2013, 12:30:56 PM
London's great, try to avoid the subways tho.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 18, 2013, 01:41:10 PM
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

I think I've now learned more words in Japanese from watching this stuff, then I did in Spanish from High School. Although that isn't saying much as I failed that class.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 18, 2013, 10:16:49 PM
London's great, try to avoid the subways tho.

Why?  Cause of rape?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 19, 2013, 03:12:50 AM
chavs

London's great, try to avoid the subways tho.
im more excited about shopping in a couple of stores they have there than the actual city itself lol
I want to go to Ireland :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 19, 2013, 01:22:03 PM
im more excited about shopping in a couple of stores they have there than the actual city itself lol

*shakes head and mutters 'women'*
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 20, 2013, 05:02:11 AM
im more excited about shopping in a couple of stores they have there than the actual city itself lol

*shakes head and mutters 'women'*
(http://i.imgur.com/hHd0V0v.jpg)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Mar 20, 2013, 02:05:04 PM
Is it sad that the thing that keeps drawing my eyes are the strange "tattoos" he did to his nipples?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 20, 2013, 08:41:52 PM
I'm not exactly sure what point you're trying to make Faye dear, but that's one of the sickest things I've ever seen
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 21, 2013, 02:21:19 AM
lol it was a "mfw" (my face when)
didnt have a good gif
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Mar 21, 2013, 09:52:07 PM
I assumed your face was supposed to be the snake-critter but the other guy's expression is kinda more appropriate.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 23, 2013, 08:27:40 PM
Been watching Spartacus.
What's really bothering me about this last season (well aside from having to watch Julius Caesar get assraped) is how the Romans aren't fighting as Romans. All this charging forward like mad men and overdrawn one-on-one battles were all fine and good when the rebels were basically just fighting city guards, but at this point in the story they're up against veteran legions. Those guys would never break rank so easily, they'd just stick inside the shieldwall and slowly walz over their enemies.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 03, 2013, 01:23:55 PM
I just watched the season finale of Justified. Brilliant episode.

A friend of mine turned me on this show a few years back, and I've been hooked since. I love how everyone is so polite and calm (at least on the outside) all the time, even tho there's some pretty hardcore shit happening.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 03, 2013, 01:37:52 PM
A shitload of Cartoon Network stuff made it on to Netflix Streaming so I'm picking through it.  And I thought "Oh, look, Samurai Jack.  I didn't really care for this show when it was coming out, maybe when I see it now I'll like it because that shit sometimes happens--oh no, wait, nope, still don't care for it."
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 03, 2013, 04:32:26 PM
Never even heard of Samurai Jack, but I miss Dexter's Lab
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 03, 2013, 11:15:16 PM
That's another one I never really cared for, but I never actually sat down and watched an episode.  The voices and character designs just annoyed me.  :lol:  Might try that one too though since the first season or whatever's on here.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 04, 2013, 10:04:01 AM
I absolutely hated that crap in the day. Now that I'm older and more cantankerous than ever before, I don't expect that my opinion has changed to any degree.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 04, 2013, 02:00:04 PM
Yeah, I tried watching Dexter's Lab and couldn't get through a minute.  That pig-lady's voice kills me sometimes and that sister of his... argh.  I also tried another Samurai Jack as I remembered liking an episode or two of that but even watching one I liked, I was left with this whole "and what was the point?"  I mean, the payoff of the episode I saw was the twist at the end (even though it's obvious to everyone over the age of eight) but the Netflix description includes the twist in it, lol.  It's like "here's some cliches and stereotypes and some other stuff, Jack wants to go home, these sounds effects suck, look Jack got screwed again, ♫ Samurai Jack ♫"  I also watched some Johnny Bravo.  I was never really a fan but JB for the most part is all right although some of the jokes and things are kinda aged... like his crush on Farrah Fawcett, heh.  Oh, and yesterday I saw some Adventure Time and Regular Show and those are okay.  I don't know if I'll stick with them, but they're not a bad way to kill time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 05, 2013, 03:28:27 AM
fuck all those shows, SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST FTW
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 05, 2013, 07:30:32 AM
I loved all of those Cartoon Network shows. Back when the old analog satellite receiver was still functional, I would just leave Cartoon Network on 24/7. It didn't matter what I was doing, CN was playing in the background at all times. Those were the good old days.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 05, 2013, 04:40:41 PM
I loved all of those Cartoon Network shows. Back when the old analog satellite receiver was still functional, I would just leave Cartoon Network on 24/7. It didn't matter what I was doing, CN was playing in the background at all times. Those were the good old days.
You were watching CN when you were little while I was watching bitches gettin slashed in Saint Seiya and tittays in Cobra
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2013, 10:02:18 AM
When I was little? :laugh:

Lady, how old do you think I am?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 07, 2013, 12:18:20 AM
Wait...you weren't a minor back in the day? Wow. Now those memories are less special now that I know we were not corrupting a youth.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 07, 2013, 06:21:34 AM
When I was little? :laugh:

Lady, how old do you think I am?
Definitely not in your twenties... early thirties?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 07, 2013, 07:30:16 PM
Wait...you weren't a minor back in the day? Wow. Now those memories are less special now that I know we were not corrupting a youth.

Oh, well, there's always Bitch, E, and Maxcon.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 08, 2013, 01:46:55 AM
Yeah, but I didn't take any of them to a bath house.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 08, 2013, 06:19:45 AM
In Germany there are mixed bath houses. Meaning naked women AND men in the same place. nasty shit
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 08, 2013, 07:22:51 AM
Those are brothels
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 09, 2013, 02:29:17 AM
Those are brothels
nein nein. actual Saunas. Once a week they have a ladies night but the rest are mixed
At least the ones in Japan have the women and men separated
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 09, 2013, 05:34:27 PM
I've been watching the first few eps of the new Transformers Prime season.
It's really, really good. Man, I wish cartoons were half this good when I was a kid.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 10, 2013, 08:46:27 AM
Yeah I'm really digging TF Prime.  Best show since Beast Wars!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 11, 2013, 04:31:11 AM
House.
The english love House. I love House
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 11, 2013, 11:45:27 AM
House.
The english love House. I love House

Meh, I'd much rather see Hugh Laurie go back to doing comedy with Stephen Fry
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 11, 2013, 11:05:41 PM
The Addams Family (TV Series)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 12, 2013, 04:47:07 AM
House.
The english love House. I love House

Meh, I'd much rather see Hugh Laurie go back to doing comedy with Stephen Fry

Son, I am disappoint.

I thought of anyone here youd like House too :'(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2013, 07:02:47 AM
Hugh Laurie does ads for man makeup.

What is wrong with the world?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 12, 2013, 03:50:16 PM
Hugh Laurie does ads for man makeup.

What is wrong with the world?
wtf????? LINK
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 13, 2013, 10:54:02 PM
http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/835445/say-what-hugh-laurie-is-the-new-face-of-loreal-paris-mens-cosmetics
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 15, 2013, 04:34:10 PM
http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/835445/say-what-hugh-laurie-is-the-new-face-of-loreal-paris-mens-cosmetics
cant watch now but ill save it for later. thanks!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 16, 2013, 07:49:37 AM
Most assuredly NSFW!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 16, 2013, 04:29:28 PM
Son, I am disappoint.

I thought of anyone here youd like House too :'(

Sorry to dissapoint babe, but not being a woman I automatically don't give a crap about any drama series that takes place in a hospital
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 16, 2013, 06:44:47 PM
While I, despite being a woman, dislike hospitals severely enough that I as well do not provide excrements about any drama series that takes place in a hospital.  :)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 17, 2013, 03:43:21 AM
Son, I am disappoint.

I thought of anyone here youd like House too :'(

Sorry to dissapoint babe, but not being a woman I automatically don't give a crap about any drama series that takes place in a hospital

My mind has just been blown. I never considered House as drama, more as a comedy. But shit I do think it is supposed to be drama
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 17, 2013, 05:50:49 AM
Go watch Blackadder or A Bit of Fry and Laurie if you want to see comedy with Hugh Laurie
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 17, 2013, 08:15:39 AM
Ive seen pics of him with a white wig and looking like a tard. No thanks, Gregory House FTW

http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/835445/say-what-hugh-laurie-is-the-new-face-of-loreal-paris-mens-cosmetics
omg what a sexy accent, what a sexy man! im sure he can get aaaanny poontang he would want

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 17, 2013, 09:51:45 AM
Certainly.  That's why he had a part in the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility married to that fox Imelda Staunton a.k.a. the woman who played Umbridge from Harry Potter.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 17, 2013, 03:09:31 PM
Certainly.  That's why he had a part in the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility married to that fox Imelda Staunton a.k.a. the woman who played Umbridge from Harry Potter.
Did they get it on? I need to know this
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 17, 2013, 11:03:22 PM
Well, in the movie they play Mr. and Mrs. Palmer and had just had a baby, but they're only side characters in the whole thing.  Anyway, he's my favorite Mr. Palmer.  I hate the other guy in the 2008 Sense & Sensibility miniseries.  What an oaf.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 18, 2013, 08:38:39 AM
House is a very standard procedural only with doctors instead of cops/lawyers.  It comes along with the same tropes of your standard procedural.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 18, 2013, 03:33:25 PM
House is a very standard procedural only with doctors instead of cops/lawyers.  It comes along with the same tropes of your standard procedural.
whats procedural precious?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Apr 18, 2013, 03:40:01 PM
House is a very standard procedural only with doctors instead of cops/lawyers.  It comes along with the same tropes of your standard procedural.
whats procedural precious?

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_(genre)
In television, "procedural" specifically refers to a genre of programs in which a problem is introduced, investigated and solved all within the same episode. These shows tend to be hour-long dramas, and are often (though not always) police or crime related.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 19, 2013, 12:19:03 AM
House is a very standard procedural only with doctors instead of cops/lawyers.  It comes along with the same tropes of your standard procedural.
whats procedural precious?

precious

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6w55nLojF1rupmkgo1_500.gif)








Oh, sorry, you weren't even talking to me.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 19, 2013, 09:26:15 AM
House is a very standard procedural only with doctors instead of cops/lawyers.  It comes along with the same tropes of your standard procedural.
whats procedural precious?
Cop or law shows there basically just show you the process of this profession.  Law and Order, the Mentalist, CSI and all those types of shows.  They end up doing the same thing a lot of the time if you watch a lot of them, which I don't even do.  Whatever solution to the case they have 45 minutes in is wrong.  The killer/culprit is usually an unimportant character revealed around the 15 minute point, often someone outside of their pay grade.  "Oh look, Rider Strong has a single line in this show.  He's coming back.  He's the  killer."

In House they have diseases rather than suspects, but the rest is the same.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 19, 2013, 03:14:46 PM
But thats good then. At least you dont have to wait till next week to see the continuation (except in some cases in which the episode was a two-parter, like some season finals)
X-files was like that too :3
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 19, 2013, 03:28:03 PM
But why bother watching the next week if it's basically gonna be the same as the episode you just watched?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 19, 2013, 11:05:52 PM
Because her chick-dick needs House?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 20, 2013, 02:56:51 AM
Yeah...she's having a clit fit for House.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 20, 2013, 07:19:25 AM
She's praying to God for Hugh Laurie's rod?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 20, 2013, 06:50:16 PM
Yeah...she's having a clit fit for House.

Sounds like that might've been a plot for an episode somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Apr 21, 2013, 01:05:20 AM
Now that's episode I would have watched. I could just see pulling that up on the guide.

House. TV-13 (Hugh Laurie):

Dr. House must cure a woman who has suddenly sprung out in random clit fits, while being one cranky S.O.B.



Oh shit...I'm watching that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 22, 2013, 06:31:27 AM
Haters gonna hate
House himself is badass. I wish I could treat people like that and get away with it. Its also super funny
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 23, 2013, 09:56:47 PM
If House were real the man would be dead by now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Apr 30, 2013, 06:57:17 AM
Been watching some of the crowning ceremonies today.
God, I hate the monarchy.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 02, 2013, 01:09:27 PM
Game of Thrones was good last two weeks.

LOL, wrong thread. Fuck it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 02, 2013, 04:23:41 PM
I can't get into Game of Thrones anymore. Having read the books totally ruined the show for me.
I really want to still like the show, but now there's always this voice in the back of my head saying that  the whole story will just peter out in an ever further diverging mess of dangling plotlines that will probably never get resolved in any meaningful way.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 03, 2013, 11:52:40 AM
Been watching some of the crowning ceremonies today.
God, I hate the monarchy.
me too. i hate it even more after being in London. I just cant understand how a "first world country" (I know the term doesnt exist but you know what i mean) will still have monarchs, people that have all this powet just cause their moms sucked the right dick/ inbred the right dick
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 03, 2013, 04:35:27 PM
Been watching some of the crowning ceremonies today.
God, I hate the monarchy.
me too. i hate it even more after being in London. I just cant understand how a "first world country" (I know the term doesnt exist but you know what i mean) will still have monarchs, people that have all this powet just cause their moms sucked the right dick/ inbred the right dick

Who got crowned?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 03, 2013, 09:45:40 PM
Didn't you read her post?  It was obviously some dick.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 03, 2013, 11:17:55 PM
Monarchs are basically rich people with questionable head-wear who are prone to being deferred to. There's no powet there beyond the symbolic.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 04, 2013, 04:36:40 AM
Yes there is some kind of powet, not 100% though. And they get to keep their rich lifestyle due to the taxes everybody pays
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 05, 2013, 09:11:00 AM
It's hardly any at all. http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2002/may/16/qanda.jubilee
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 06, 2013, 05:24:47 AM
Who got crowned?

The Dutch king, but I liked Nuri's description better
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 06, 2013, 05:26:14 AM
Oops wrong thread, stupid phone
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 07, 2013, 03:16:33 AM
It's hardly any at all. http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2002/may/16/qanda.jubilee
nigga you best be joking. 35m pounds in 2001? pocket change, just some biscuits and chips

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 07, 2013, 11:51:55 AM
I watched Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 11, 2013, 04:03:45 PM
Been watching House of Cards with Kevin Spacey.
Pretty fucking good show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 12, 2013, 12:24:18 AM
The A-Team


TV series, not the film.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 12, 2013, 01:32:59 PM

goddamnit for some reason I cant stop watching these videos
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 13, 2013, 10:29:14 AM

goddamnit for some reason I cant stop watching these videos

(http://i.imgur.com/lCCzRkB.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 13, 2013, 12:17:08 PM
Beans and wieners.

God damn it, wrong thread!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 13, 2013, 02:04:07 PM
Beans and wieners.

God damn it, wrong thread!

No it's not. You've totally just been watching a pot of this shit boil like there's nothing weird about that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 14, 2013, 12:37:23 AM
Ditch the weiners.  You don't need those nitrates polluting that sweet maple-blood of yours.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 14, 2013, 07:45:48 AM
I eat beans and wieners... far more often than I should.

Am I going to die? :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 14, 2013, 09:11:41 AM
We all die joe.  We don't all truly live.  To eat beans and wieners is to taste life.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 14, 2013, 02:35:15 PM
I eat beans and wieners... far more often than I should.

Am I going to die? :(

You're dying now.  (http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/emoticons/R-T/skull2.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 14, 2013, 11:46:43 PM
This will surely compel Fiero to read my book.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 15, 2013, 08:08:45 AM
I eat beans and wieners... far more often than I should.

Am I going to die? :(

Am I the only one that read this in the xxx way?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 15, 2013, 09:30:39 AM
Oh, you silly goose! joerammstein doesn't swing that way, darling. :-*
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 15, 2013, 01:03:28 PM
Don't knock till you try it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on May 15, 2013, 04:02:35 PM

goddamnit for some reason I cant stop watching these videos

poor monkey..I should not have watched that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 15, 2013, 04:34:30 PM
It's a general rule to not watch things Faye posts.  The vids Rumble posts have been gold though.  Look for more of that.

This will surely compel Fiero to read my book.

The vampire one?  Written by Anne Rice?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 16, 2013, 10:03:57 AM
The vids Rumble posts have been gold though.  Look for more of that.

What vid was that?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 17, 2013, 09:33:39 AM
It's a general rule to not watch things Faye posts. 
that was..... COLD AS ICE
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 17, 2013, 10:57:01 AM
She is willing to sacrifice your love.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 17, 2013, 09:35:19 PM
The vids Rumble posts have been gold though.  Look for more of that.

What vid was that?

The CC cover you posted.  And then posted this one thing with these two dudes that was funny.  I don't remember what it was now.  Some show or something.  But it was funny.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 18, 2013, 06:14:23 PM
Oh that'd be Bottom, one of my favorite shows ever. Here's some more :)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EkIHiPHbXlo
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SvJyRAzdeM4
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhQOzBRupaE
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3l8DloYpdY
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1tCESJHZ0M
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KS5eI9e911I

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on May 22, 2013, 06:48:09 PM
Steven Universe pilot=awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2nLV_w16PVs#!

The Dog-Nut will change the world!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 22, 2013, 08:14:16 PM
Holy shit. That really was awesome. Good job, Rama.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 30, 2013, 08:35:38 AM
The vid's no longer available :(
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 30, 2013, 07:20:01 PM
Rough stuff, dude. It was truly excellent.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2013, 04:15:49 PM
JyuDen Sentai GekiRanger
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 05, 2013, 03:00:34 PM
Have any of you guys watched the Amy Baking Co. episode of Kitchen Nightmares? its fucking nuts yo
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 07, 2013, 07:17:51 PM
Is that a cooking show?
Those should be banned. Along with home makeover programs.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 10, 2013, 02:58:25 AM
About to watch Game of Thrones.  None of you fools aren't watching it at this point right?  I mean are you retarded or something?  It's game of thrones bitch.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 11, 2013, 09:19:19 PM
The only way I could care about Game of Thrones less is if it had a crossover with Mad Men.  :poo:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 12, 2013, 03:14:23 PM
I don't watch Mad Men but I don't see how anyone could not like Game of Thrones if they like Fantasy.  Unless it was just to be all "I don't like it cause everyone else likes it", I could see that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 12, 2013, 03:53:30 PM
Reading the books has completely killed my interest in Game of Thrones, the last two books were horrible.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 12, 2013, 09:46:56 PM
Unless it was just to be all "I don't like it cause everyone else likes it", I could see that.

No, the latter usually comes in later like it did with Downton Abbey after I had already seen one season.  (It didn't help that my two favorite characters ended up being killed off on that show either.  So I'm done with Downton Abbey.)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 17, 2013, 03:42:46 PM
I watched the first season of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey recently. Great show, but something about it kept nagging me at the back of my mind.
Thanks to google, I found out there used to be a British version of that show ages ago and then I remembered I've watched at least some episodes of that show back then.

So long story short, I ordered the remastered Blu-Ray of the original British HoC trilogy and I've been watching that. Fucking brilliant show. I'll take this over a thousand Game of Thrones.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 18, 2013, 07:08:59 AM
Fuck, guess I need to watch the british version.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 18, 2013, 02:04:07 PM
Yeah, if you've seen and liked the US show you should definitely look up the British version as well
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 20, 2013, 11:04:20 PM
I got Daria on DVD recently and I've been watching that.  Although I realize it's been severely neutered soundwise, I don't recall whatever music used to play when anyway.  Man, I hate Tom.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 21, 2013, 08:36:39 PM
Tom must have been one bland fucker. I watched that show a lot and I don't remember him...and even after I looked up the IMDB I still didn't know him...then I looked up a picture and I still don't remember him. Must not have made much of an impression on me.

I've been trying to finish the 60's Addams family. I bought the DVDs awhile back, but I got burned out on them half way through vol. 2, but I've started watching them again.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 21, 2013, 10:10:06 PM
I need to finish panty and stocking
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 21, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
Nah, wait for season 2.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 22, 2013, 12:18:40 AM
Tom must have been one bland fucker. I watched that show a lot and I don't remember him...and even after I looked up the IMDB I still didn't know him...then I looked up a picture and I still don't remember him. Must not have made much of an impression on me.

He was introduced in the last ep of the 3rd season and becomes Jane's, then Daria's, boyfriend.  Yech.  The episode quality began to decline with his subsequent appearances, so any minute I kept expecting the Fonz to try and jump over him.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jun 23, 2013, 02:35:14 AM
I'm watching Toonami, and pr0n...mainly pr0n.  I think there's something weird in this pre work out drink.  I can't keep my hands off myself.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 23, 2013, 11:16:28 PM
Maybe you slipped yourself a roofie.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 02, 2013, 11:14:36 AM
Cousin is staying with me a bit. She got me to try Breaking Bad and Wilfred. Both good.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jul 02, 2013, 05:44:05 PM
Breaking Bad is amazing.
I watch Wilfred too, but I still don't quite know what to make of it
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jul 07, 2013, 08:10:56 AM
Also, I have UV codes for digital copies of season 5 of Breaking Bad and House of Cards (US) season 1. If anyone wants 'em pm me.
I can't redeem them myself cause I live on the wrong continent apparently
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Jul 09, 2013, 03:41:30 AM
Watches all of Bobs Burgers, it's ok and oddly comforting after a break up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 10, 2013, 10:36:06 PM
I've been watching some DS9 with Merla.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 14, 2013, 02:06:46 AM
Season 11 of Hell's Kitchen.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 17, 2013, 01:55:03 PM
ALMOST done with Voyager. Then I get to watch Enterprise... yay?

Also started watching Star Trek TOS with this girl I've been seeing. She liked it. I actually dozed a little during the pilot movie thing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 17, 2013, 05:47:54 PM
Saw the Buffy the Vampire Slayer ep where Quark gets eaten by the mayor.  Forgot how mind-numbingly stupid that death was.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 18, 2013, 10:01:06 AM
Saw the Buffy the Vampire Slayer ep where Quark gets eaten by the mayor.  Forgot how mind-numbingly stupid that death was.
Joss Whedon is so great at building up but almost always falls flat with the big ending.  That was the worst case of it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 18, 2013, 12:20:43 PM
Was this Quark form DS9, or was their a character named Quark on Buffy?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 18, 2013, 12:25:24 PM
Quark from DS9 played the principal who was eaten by the Mayor snake monster.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 19, 2013, 11:43:10 PM
Yeah, and it was uber lame.  It was way cooler warped in my memory.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 21, 2013, 01:23:15 AM
Semi-related because, well, it should be obvious why, but our tv died today.  It was probably at least 10 yrs old.  Temporary solution?  Grab the tv from my room I wasn't using anyway that's only 15" but, hey, at least it's a fuckin' tv until we get a new one.  And then watch some Adventure Time on Netflix.  And not think about how we're gonna get the old tv outta our house since it's an old one so it's huge with, like, a fat xenomorph head or something.  And to think I was going to donate my tv to the disabled vets but just forgot about it.  :happy:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 23, 2013, 05:08:39 PM
I think some people here will be excited about this:

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=182&itemid=20798
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 23, 2013, 05:28:30 PM
$119.00 each? That's outrageous....truly truly truly outrageous.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 23, 2013, 11:22:27 PM
Wow, those look rad.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jul 31, 2013, 01:50:02 PM
I think some people here will be excited about this:

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=182&itemid=20798

Man did I hate that show as a kid, and it was always on in-between two cartoons I did want to see Saturday morning
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 31, 2013, 04:05:59 PM
Which two were those?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jul 31, 2013, 05:04:27 PM
I forgot what the first cartoon was called, it was some kind of sf show where they fought these car/plant/machines. No idea anymore what the plot was about, but those things looked cool.

The second was Inspector Gadget  :)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 31, 2013, 10:36:13 PM
I forgot what the first cartoon was called, it was some kind of sf show where they fought these car/plant/machines. No idea anymore what the plot was about, but those things looked cool.
Sounds like 80's Beast Machines :D
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 31, 2013, 11:57:24 PM
Probably Jaycee and the Wheeled Warriors.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 01, 2013, 03:24:33 AM
Probably Jaycee and the Wheeled Warriors.

Yup, that's the one
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Aug 01, 2013, 05:55:17 AM
I miss my Jayce toys.  I think I only had 1 or 2 good guys. The bad guys were the best, I had several of them.  One of them came with a big chrome buzzsaw, and they all had little squishy green plastic brains that piloted them.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Aug 01, 2013, 05:58:12 AM
Didn't Jem always show along side The Inhumanoids and that other show...these things were like zoids or some shit there were good ones and bad ones.  Like people's intellects had been transferred into them or something like that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 01, 2013, 12:01:22 PM
Probably Jaycee and the Wheeled Warriors.

Never saw that, but I had the truck with the gold claw on it. Lost most of the parts, though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 03, 2013, 09:46:14 PM
Merla really liked Jayce and Wheeled Warriors.  She was so pissed Jayce never found his dad, which was for the best since they planned to kill off his dad in the aborted movie anyway.  Other than the song, the show was kinda a yawner for me though.  But I was totally into Inspector Gadget.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 04, 2013, 07:37:21 AM
I learned all my English from watching those cartoons every Saturday morning on Sky Channel
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 04, 2013, 05:24:12 PM
My gf bought me a dvd of the Dangerous Brothers, which is basically a couple of sketches of Richie and Eddie doing their usual act. I had never seen these before, so I had fun watching them.

Just for Faye, here's the sketch with Hugh Laurie in it:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-Wzvh2B-w
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 06, 2013, 10:22:59 PM
Farscape

I haven't seen this show in a long time, but we got a new channel called Pivot...it mostly sucks, but they do show Farscape. I remember loving this show. It was one of the few can't miss shows that I use to watch. It holds up really well too. They are playing it every weeknight, so I'll be watching that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 07, 2013, 06:34:58 AM
My gf bought me a dvd of the Dangerous Brothers, which is basically a couple of sketches of Richie and Eddie doing their usual act. I had never seen these before, so I had fun watching them.

Just for Faye, here's the sketch with Hugh Laurie in it:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-Wzvh2B-w
Young Hugh Laurie is such a boner killer :/
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 07, 2013, 10:06:49 AM
My gf bought me a dvd of the Dangerous Brothers, which is basically a couple of sketches of Richie and Eddie doing their usual act. I had never seen these before, so I had fun watching them.

Just for Faye, here's the sketch with Hugh Laurie in it:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-Wzvh2B-w
Young Hugh Laurie is such a boner killer :/

He looks so awkward.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 08, 2013, 06:26:48 AM
The thing I noticed is that Fry and Laurie must be 10 feet tall, because Rik and Ade look like midgets next to them and they aren't exactly short guys themselves.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 08, 2013, 09:58:10 AM
Fry is 6'5"
Laurie is 6'2"
Mayall is 6'0"
Edmonson is 5'10"
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 08, 2013, 02:54:54 PM
Fry is 6'5"
Laurie is 6'2"
Mayall is 6'0"
Edmonson is 5'10"


Only 6'2? he looked super tall in House. Maybe the other guys were manlets
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 08, 2013, 03:34:22 PM
manlets

(http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mitt-romney-laugh-animated-gif.gif)
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 09, 2013, 12:52:23 PM
Someone compared me to Hugh Laurie once.  Well it was Stuart Little Hugh Laurie.  I'm also 6'2".
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 09, 2013, 10:50:25 PM
Well it was Stuart Little Hugh Laurie.

I just pictured House... as a mouse.  A reeeeal bitchy one.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 10, 2013, 05:03:44 AM
Fry is 6'5"
Laurie is 6'2"
Mayall is 6'0"
Edmonson is 5'10"

Pfft, you can ruin anything with facts
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 12, 2013, 10:42:17 AM
Well it was Stuart Little Hugh Laurie.

I just pictured House... as a mouse.  A reeeeal bitchy one.
I'd watch that movie and I never watched the original Stuart Little.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 14, 2013, 12:07:40 AM
I've seen Stuart Little and don't remember a damn thing about it.  Was the mouse their son?  I think.  I'm mining my memory here.  Geena Davis?  Meh, I don't know.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 14, 2013, 06:48:27 PM
Yeah...they like adopted a mouse and yeah Geena Davis was in it. I'll do you one better. Not only have I seen Stuart Little...I've seen the sequel as well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 15, 2013, 09:20:49 AM
I vaguely recall seeing Stuart Little on a plane once, but I can't remember anything about it either
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 15, 2013, 03:31:47 PM
I've been watching some episodes of The White Queen, about the wars of the Roses in medieval England.

It's a decent show though none too earth-shattering, and I'm not a fan of the witchcraft element. Still, I'll probably download and see the rest as I'm a sucker for historical dramas. And I have to get my fix from somewhere now that they cancelled the Borgias before getting to the good stuff.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 16, 2013, 10:48:06 PM
Yeah...they like adopted a mouse and yeah Geena Davis was in it. I'll do you one better. Not only have I seen Stuart Little...I've seen the sequel as well.

I think Merla made me sit through the sequel.  I don't quite remember.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 17, 2013, 01:39:30 AM
Yeah...I think Stuart Little fucks a girl bird in it....or something like that that. That might just be the way I remember it though.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 18, 2013, 11:37:14 PM
 :joe:
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 19, 2013, 12:05:03 AM
Rise of Cobra...man this thing is still a shit burger of a movie. Although I do like ex-Doctor Who as Destro. I'm actually at the Accerlator suit sequence and ugh....
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 20, 2013, 11:32:51 PM
Drunk History
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Aug 22, 2013, 11:06:12 AM
I was just watching this show called Board with Life on YouTube. Sabbat is in this episode.

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Aug 26, 2013, 08:34:21 PM
Heroes of Cosplay.

I'm a casual cosplayer and even among people I know that are "professional", IE they spend a whole lot more time to make their costumes perfect, and we all agree, this show kinda sucks.

Here's the biggest beefs with it:

1) It feels like any other reality show. Especially those bits where they go from footage of what's going on to a personal interview of one of the cast members, sitting in front of a generic curtain, explaining how he felt at that moment or rationalizing his douchebag behavior. I do realize that it wouldn't BE a reality show without those clips, and that's pretty much the backbone of reality crap tv, but I'd love to see a reality show done without them, just to see if it can be done (probably not). In any case they piss me off for some reason, because they do it in this show as well.

2) It feels like one giant competition, like it's the Bachelor or something. At times it almost seems like the different cosplayers are all but at each other's throats, or trying to backstab each other. "That stupid bitch shouldn't win the contest because she didn't make her costume, her boyfriend did. I should win the contest because I worked the hardest! Fuck everyone else."
When can reality tv NOT be a competition on who can be the biggest prick?

3) The cosplayers seem to be more along the lines of Hollywood costume designers. They all take their craft way too seriously. They put an excessive amount of detail into their suits, and get way offended if they don't win a contest. They act like cosplaying is either A) a competition where winning is the only reason to do it, and/or B) they want to cosplay as a LIVING, not just for fun. So they just take that shit way too seriously.
I'm sure there are cosplayers out there that do take cosplay as serious as these people do, where it's about winning and bragging rights, but most cosplayers are in it because it's fun, and are not competitive about it. In fact, most cosplayers will compliment other costumes and even help people with their cosplays as well.

4) There's like 6 female cosplayers and one male cosplayer in this show. While there is more female cosplayers in the world than men, it's only a slightly higher majority of women vs men. Come on, let's get some more males in this show, dammit. But, oh wait, hollywood audiences don't want to see cocks, they want to see BOOBS. I'm sorry, continue your sexual exploitation of the female cosplayers on this show.

5) On the one episode I watched, they were at a comic con, and they were all trying to win the cosplay contest. Which had 1 award and three places. Um, I don't know about that con, but most cons I go to have multiple cosplay awards, not just one. Way to play up the drama and misrepresent the facts, SciFi.


And I think that's about it. It is somewhat entertaining to watch, just to see the awesome costumes they think up, and how they construct them. However, it's still way too Reality Show-ish, so realize that the producers are creating tension where there usually is none, and this is not even remotely a fully accurate representation of Cosplay. Most of us do it for fun and why not, not because some producer is paying us to be on TV and act stupid.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Aug 27, 2013, 05:21:55 AM
I should be on that show.  In my axe cop cosplay, fucking shitting all over their /cgl/ bullshit.  It would be amazing.  I need to find out where they're filming and be there and just spooge all over their shoot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 27, 2013, 01:10:54 PM
But, oh wait, hollywood audiences don't want to see cocks, they want to see BOOBS.
I count myself among this group.

But I hear what you're saying. Cosplay is more about attitude anyway. Nice effort in costuming is cool, and I'm all for watching hot chicks play dress-up, but it's about the portrayal, not a big budget or big hooters.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Sep 06, 2013, 03:15:31 AM
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151816719092603
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 06, 2013, 11:30:01 PM
Less than two weeks.  I thought it would've been much longer.  themoreyouknowstar.gif
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 09, 2013, 02:10:34 AM
inb4 boner Robin
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: IDE on Sep 19, 2013, 06:47:25 PM
I hope they don't euthanize them anymore!  I'd rather kill an arab with my bare hands than have another swimmer pup put down.

Actually I'd kill an arab with my bare hands for fun, so that's not really a solid statement.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 09, 2013, 02:03:04 AM
Farscape
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 12, 2013, 09:14:51 AM
Farscape

Fuck yeah!
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 13, 2013, 12:17:51 AM
Sons of Anarchy every week.  Oh, and some eps of My Cat From Hell that made it to Netflix.  I started watching What Not To Wear but then realized the eps on Netflix are older and thus more desperate and inferior.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 14, 2013, 12:38:38 AM
Farscape

Fuck yeah!

The show holds up, but man with them showing it Mon-Fri instead of weekly this thing is moving at a break neck pace. Zhan has already left and Ugh...Jool has shown up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Oct 18, 2013, 09:31:46 AM
Farscape

Fuck yeah!

The show holds up, but man with them showing it Mon-Fri instead of weekly this thing is moving at a break neck pace. Zhan has already left and Ugh...Jool has shown up.

This is why I no longer bind myself to the schedules of broadcast or cable television.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 18, 2013, 11:59:05 AM
And I forgot about the whole Clone John storyline where they split up the crew..half on Talon and half on Moya. I never liked this back in the day, and I still don't. Now however I see why they did it...crew was too big and so they split them up so they do more focused episodes. Course they needed the main guy John on both ships, thus the cloning. Still think it would have been easier to just cut back the cast. Let Crais and Talon go off for awhile. Get rid of Jool and let Stark take Zahn's spot and then just keep going like it was.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jan 29, 2014, 11:35:13 PM
Wow, I don't even remember that shit.  Does anybody here watch shit on tv TV now anymore?  Like turn on the tv and watch something coming out live.  I know I don't.  The closest is when Sons of Anarchy is on but I don't have FX so I have to find a real-time stream and watch on my computer so I don't know if that counts.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 30, 2014, 10:46:32 PM
I'm starting to watch SHIELD again...mainly because I found a torrent source for it. That, and I'm waiting for Arrow to finish downloading.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 18, 2014, 08:56:01 AM
I'm watching Season 2 of Wakfu.  Because Season 1 got the pull from YouTube.  Due to the Kickstarter, I guess.  I already watched most of Dofus.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 19, 2014, 09:45:04 AM
Started to watch season 2 of the US version of House of Cards.
Really good from what I've watched so far
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 23, 2014, 09:33:22 PM
Heard True Detective is amazing.
I cant stand Woody Harrelson tho
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Mar 09, 2014, 04:31:49 AM
I watched the first two episodes of Black Sails.
I really want to like this series (because pirates are up there with robots and ninjas on the cool list) and they've obviously thrown some money at it, but I just can't get into it.
First off everyone looks way to polished and pretty to be pirates, which may be to compensate for the total lack of character depth. I find myself not caring at all what happens to any of these characters.

I got a few more downloaded eps on my drive, so I may give it another shot.
Then again, maybe not
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 28, 2014, 11:23:24 PM
Green Lantern the Animated Series is available on Netflix and it has hooked me.  So sad there isn't more of this.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 29, 2014, 05:22:21 PM
I started watching Arrow again. I kind of got tired of the hackneyed & hokey dramatic bits a while back, but with Slade coming back into the picture it seems things are amping up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 01, 2014, 07:39:09 AM
Been watching some eps of the From Dusk till Dawn series.
Pretty good so far
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on May 14, 2014, 05:15:42 AM
Saw all of True Detective this weekend.
Pretty awesome stuff.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jun 14, 2014, 06:30:50 AM
I watched Holland mercilessly slaughter Spain in the World Cup yesterday.
Good times, good times
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 15, 2014, 12:18:37 PM
The spanish faces, full of pain, sadness and disappointment. It was beautiful. Thank you and your people
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 16, 2014, 09:16:43 AM
Watched first season of Arrow. It's not horrible. I like that Lawton and Slade and Huntress are in it, but that feels cheap. I connect too many of these characters to Batman, so in a way this just feels like cheap Batman who's willing to kill people. I'm torn on whether I really like this show or not.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 16, 2014, 12:51:10 PM
Ra's al-Ghul figures into season two. They introduce his daughter (not Talia), Black Canary, Flash and Suicide Squad.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 16, 2014, 01:00:58 PM
Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Just finished Prince of Space and am watching Fugitive Alien at the moment.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 16, 2014, 08:44:37 PM
They've been showing Independence Day on cable every couple of days and I ain't complaining, that movie is awesome.

Have to confess  Jeff Goldblum is in my "I would bang and then deny it" list.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 17, 2014, 03:56:21 PM
Ra's al-Ghul figures into season two. They introduce his daughter (not Talia), Black Canary, Flash and Suicide Squad.

I knew about Flash and I'm not surprised by Suicide Squad. The Suicide Squad as a whole was never just a Batman opponent, so I'm cool with that. Flash is cool, too, but GL is supposed to be GA's best bro. Come on!

But Ra's and Nyssa? Seriously?

I actually kind of thought the white haired chick in the first season might be attached to the League of Assassins somehow. Also possibly the dad and daughter pair from the flashbacks.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jun 17, 2014, 04:32:01 PM
They've been showing Independence Day on cable every couple of days and I ain't complaining, that movie is awesome.

Have to confess  Jeff Goldblum is in my "I would bang and then deny it" list.

Honestly, I probably would bang him as well.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 21, 2014, 08:35:11 AM


Honestly, I probably would bang him as well.
He is so weird, but in a good way. Did you read his AMA on reddit? You could practically hear his "uhmm dmmm" while he typed
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 24, 2014, 07:45:52 PM
^ lol.  I think many a man and lady were hot for Jurassic Park/ID4 era Goldblum.  Now they just get hot for Grandpa Jeff. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2604878/Jeff-Goldblum-61-holds-hands-31-year-old-girlfriend-Emilie-Livingston-lunch-date.html)  But then again, it's a 30 year age difference so she probably just sticks to calling him Daddy.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 25, 2014, 09:22:20 PM
Daaamn he looks jewish as hell now that he's older. His nose has gotten huge too. He looks good for his age tho

No way that bitch is one year older than me, she looks like at least in her 40s
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 25, 2014, 09:55:54 PM
LOL yeah, I was like 'Damn, girl, you and your tree trunk neck look hella old.'
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 03, 2014, 04:41:08 PM
I was actually imagining Goldblum in The Life Aquatic when I stated that. Or, I am now. Either way.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 03, 2014, 04:41:45 PM
Daaamn he looks jewish as hell now that he's older. His nose has gotten huge too. He looks good for his age tho

No way that bitch is one year older than me, she looks like at least in her 40s


I know women in their twenties who look like that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 04, 2014, 12:37:27 AM
Do they have a meth addiction?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 10, 2014, 10:38:30 AM
:lmao:  Damn, gurl.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 11, 2014, 11:16:18 AM
Well, how else would he know them?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jul 21, 2014, 10:46:47 AM
Watched first episode of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and a few episodes of Sidonia (really wasn't paying attention to this one, though).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 21, 2014, 11:18:45 PM
I was curious about Sidonia but the review I read presented it as a big fat pass.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 10, 2014, 11:37:13 PM
Sons of Anarchy season 7 premiere was extreme disappoint.  So much fuckin' exposition.  People aren't tuning into a show about one percenters just to have the characters literally sit on their asses and shoot the breeze for several minutes at a time.  Show don't tell, fucker.  And there was some real shitty cg here which wasn't even needed.  The episode was bloated as shit at nearly two hours long although content-wise it had the content of a regular 60 min episode.  Three pieces of action all ran short and amounted to nothing.  Oh, and this ep guest-starred Marilyn Manson who was looking as bloated as fuck.  The entire ep was put together like they ran outta money.  This better be a fluke.

Also, been watching a bunch of Forensic Files.  Even though they're freaking old and I probably saw most of them years ago but apparently don't recall them at all.  Most if not all are on YouTube for free and shit: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFtpZ659RpvGZvj342APoCEKmXNe24YEt  During my marathoning, I came across the YouTube channel for TruTV.  Disgusting.  Utter dreck.  And the channel used to be so perf as CourtTV.  Sad sad.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Sep 15, 2014, 05:39:10 PM
I didn't think the first ep of SoA was that bad, and the Bohemian Rapsody cover at the end was fucking sweet
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 17, 2014, 05:00:47 PM
I didn't care for the BR cover.  And I usually like the songs.  I dug the Yelawolf song at the end of the past episode though.  But again, the 2nd episode is almost entirely exposition.  Like Kurt Sutter feels he needs to set up everything through dialogue.  Too much tell, not enough show.  I would venture to say half of the scenes were unneeded in the course of the story.  Like the convo between Wendy and Nero.  The viewer already knows the crap about Nero's son.  I'm with this show til the end either way, but I'm crossing my fingers that the ending to the 2nd ep means things will start picking up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 20, 2014, 09:52:16 PM
rewatching SaTC im in season 2. So many feels.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Sep 26, 2014, 10:35:55 AM
Saw the first ep of Gotham, which I thought was pretty well done.
I do wonder how long this series will go on tho since we obviously won't be seeing most of the characters as their more famous alter-ego's
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 26, 2014, 08:08:14 PM
They really squeezed a lot of stuff in there, which took away from it a bit.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 01, 2014, 08:14:57 AM
They did cram in a lot in the pilot, but after having seen the second ep I think I could definitely get into this series. Penguin is creepy as hell.

The series however does make me worry a bit that I don't know Batman well enough to pick up on all the easter eggs
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 04, 2014, 07:36:47 PM
Cheat.  I'm sure some Batphile's posted them somewhere.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 14, 2014, 11:34:50 PM
I was watching Sons of Anarchy on a live stream and the FX service died at the juicy parts.  That was fun.

I also saw 2 Secrets of the Dead on the pbs website.  Apparently, they have most if not all of them there.  Neat.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 15, 2014, 07:34:40 AM
Saw the end of Gotham, most of the Flash, and Shield last night. I realized just how much I hate network television. Gotham was interrupted by all the storms that came through Monday night, so I had to download it to finish it. Then I was watching Flash after pausing the TV to eat supper, and while I was watching the delay the satellite switched it over to Shield because I programmed it to DVR that show, so I missed the last fifteen minutes of it. Had to download that one, too, and I finished it around midnight.

If I'm going to have to download all this shit,I might add well wait until later in the week to watch this crap. I've got Arrow and Constantine left to watch this week.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Oct 15, 2014, 08:18:34 AM
I'm liking Gotham. DC does do one thing right and that is TV.


I've also been working my way through Babylon 5...haven't seen this show since the mid 90s and boy the SFX do not hold up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Oct 28, 2014, 07:43:40 AM
I like Gotham a lot too, it's got a good atmosphere and I'm really digging Penguin
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 28, 2014, 04:46:18 PM
Missed Gotham completely, but downloaded it. Gonna miss Flash and Shield tonight, too, so g2g is gonna get another workout in the wee hours. Of course, I can never watch Arrow when it airs, so add another to the list.

Saw the first episode of Constantine (NBC Friday). It was pretty interesting. Not usually my cup of tea, but still. I'm not very familiar at all with the source material, and I avoided the film adaptation with Keanu, but the show wasn't bad at all. The next few eps will tell the tale.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Nov 30, 2014, 06:55:12 PM
Got Netflix recently because I wanted to see season 3 of Lilyhammer.(Awesome,awesome, awesome, but that's my opinion and none of you will share it).

After that I got started on Arrested Development. i've always been aware of this show but never actually seen it. So far (just started season 2) it's pretty decent.

Also in this thread, I'm still loving Gotham.
But I've only seen very mean-spirited negative reviews about this show on the net so I'm probably wrong about this show as well
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Dec 04, 2014, 05:57:15 AM
Caught up with the latest ep of Sons of Anarchy.
-spoilers below-




On the plus side, I really liked that Sutter gave in and gave Chiklis a guest role as the only major Shield star that hasn't been on the show yet.
Also I got a Buffy boner from seeing Charisma Carpenter. She still looks hot.

But the main drama this entire season has been working towards, the final confrontation between Jax and Gemma was competely ruined for me by the death of Wayne.
I mean c'mon, Jax shoots the only decent human being they know and neither of them even reacts to it? They just sit quietly 2 feet away from the fucking body?
After that I just wasn't emotionally invested at all in these characters anymore. I get that the final moment was supposed to tug at the heartstrings, but I was just 'die bitch' and 'boo-fucking-hoo psycho'.
I hope Jax meets a horrible end in the finale
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 04, 2014, 06:14:08 PM
Too bad Constantine's future is in doubt. It's one of my favorites of the DC TV shows.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Dec 11, 2014, 11:57:11 AM
Haha, so in the end Vic kills Jax.
Man I love Sutter, can't wait for his next show
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Dec 22, 2014, 10:20:43 AM
I love Sutter, too, and I'm totally down for any of his future work.  That said, the end of Sons was SHIT.  Sutter needed to be contained.  The episodes were too long and the plot too convoluted.  I watched streams with a chat box filled with other Sons fans and half the time none of us knew what the fuck was going on.  We should've been all but done with August.  Same for the Chinese.  And fuckin' Manson and the Aryans never should've been around.  Speaking of Manson, there were too many random guest stars.  The torture pr0n with Bobby and the repeated raping of Juice was just ugh.  Wayne was killed and NOBODY cared.  That was so fucking sad.  The Shakespeare quote was laughable.  As far as I'm concerned, the Season 6 finale was the true ending of the show.  Jax crying over his dead wife.  Gemma getting away with it again.  Juice always on the run.  But the S7 finale got record ratings for FX.  So I imagine this will be the trend.

I'm not touching Gotham or Constantine.  Although my interest in general is low, I've been burned too many times trying to get into a show just to have it axed.  I'm not getting into anything that doesn't have at least one full season under its belt.  Networks need to treat their properties better.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 05, 2015, 09:54:32 PM
Keanu is masterrace Constantine, I don't care what y'all say.


Cant stop watching Ghost/Bro Adventures. It is so good and hilarious at the same time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 07, 2015, 11:23:36 AM
One full season may be all Constantine gets, unfortunately.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Feb 02, 2015, 06:06:27 PM
Still watching Gotham, extremely happy that Justified is back for a new season (even if it's the last one) and watching the new season of the US version of Shameless (although I still like British Frank better)

Looking forward to the next season of House of Cards and Better Call Saul which should both should come out on Netflix this month
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 02, 2015, 08:01:06 PM
Gotham should be interesting tonight, since they may have written out Fish's character. I figure she'll come back and whack Penguin's mom...I mean, somebody has to. Geez. And Morena Baccarin as Leslie Thompkins? Did NOT see that coming, but that's great. Hopefully they'll rewrite things a bit and have Barbara get run over by a Mack truck before the end of the season. Her uselessness is on par with masculine porcine mammary glands...as is Batchild, Dr. Whofred, Catgirl and Typhoid Ivy.

But I'm not watching it...I was busy this weekend and missed out on Constantine.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Feb 03, 2015, 09:14:27 AM
I just finished Book 2 of The Last Airbender.

And Toph is pretty much my favorite character now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 03, 2015, 12:17:22 PM
I was watching this History thing about Mankind or something.  I can't be bothered to look it up.  It was on Netflix.  Merla was the one who was actually watching it, but I caught a few eps with her.  She felt the show sort of sanitized some things and I agree.  Yeah, it didn't have a whole lot of time given what it was trying to do, so maybe it should've narrowed down its scope a bit.  And anytime people from the New World came into contact with people from the Old World, we'd shout "No!  Kill them!" at the tv.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 08, 2015, 07:41:22 PM
Have any of you watched "Halt and Catch fire"? Im thinking about watching it because my new bae, Lee Pace, is the main guy and he has been compared (in character) to Patrick Bateman and I like dat
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jul 09, 2015, 11:49:43 AM
Haven't watched much proper tv lately, but I've been watching a ton of youtube.
Most recent addiction has been the React channel, I especially like the videos of elders reacting to stuff from today and the ones with kids reacting to stuff from the 80s and 90s.

Here's some gold with old people playing GTA V
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoOrFdgYR8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnEbmdj9h4

Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 09, 2015, 12:21:31 PM
I'm staying with my dad right now and we can't stream anything here because of le bandwidth cap, but he has Dish or Direct or whatever so I've been gulping down copious amounts of various shows.  A lot of them being things I've already seen like Buffy and Daria reruns.  I love the shows about tiny houses like Tiny House Nation and Tiny House Hunters.  The latter of which has a funny title because it makes it sound like the house hunters themselves are tiny.  Right now I'm watching Teh Feud.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 20, 2015, 01:05:20 PM
*Points* One of us...One of us...


Actually still better then me...just because I'm too cheap to pay for DISH and it's insanely low data caps.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 20, 2015, 01:07:49 PM
Oh and I still go out of my way to watch Impractical Jokers ever Thurs on TRU tv, but other then that I haven't gone out of my way to watch TV now that Flash is off for the season.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 20, 2015, 10:25:14 PM
I rewatched the first episode of Human Target. Again. That was a great show. Maybe I should get around to finding the second season, even though I heard it was crap.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 21, 2015, 11:07:14 PM
Nicktoons is showing the 2003 Ninja Turtles series.  I have all of these episodes on DVDs at home but I'm watching anyway because I don't like anything else listed in the guide.  So funny that I'm watching a lot of things I could just watch at home even though there's hundreds of channels available.  And I really want to like Star vs. the Forces of Evil but it just feels like its trying too hard.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 22, 2015, 04:53:18 PM
Yeah. I've only watched one episode of Star, but it really let the air out of my balloon. Leading up to the series debut, they had shown off the intro and outro, and it seemed like it would be really amazing and unique.

Then I watched it and it's just a sitcom where "things can get a bit waaaaaacky!"

Blegh.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 22, 2015, 11:48:05 PM
It's exactly that.  I've sat through three full eps already.  I really want to like it.  The animation and color palette are delightful and the initial concept has so much potential so its a damn shame that the stories are flat and the characters are shallow.  The humor is just non-existent.  Star's and Marco's voices are obnoxious.  Especially Star's.  The writers or whoever clearly don't understand what a straight man is.  Marco's the obvious straight man but he fluctuates between being serious, frustrated and/or confused by Star to being just as goofy as she is.  All within the same episode.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 23, 2015, 12:33:15 AM
Did you ever watch Wander over Yonder? I couldn't get into that one either, and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero seems to be aimed squarely at the pre-teen set.

But Gravity Falls? God damn do I love me some Gravity Falls.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 23, 2015, 10:33:59 AM
Wander over Yonder grows on you. It's a real WTF at first, but I like it.


But Gravity Falls is the bomb. It felt like a funny animated X-Files.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 23, 2015, 06:03:08 PM
I'm not a fan of Gravity Falls, however, that's due to it not being a show for me and not on any perceived failings on part of the show.  If its coming out, I can certainly sit and watch it without any need to bitch about it.  If I've seen Wander Over Yonder, then I didn't realize what I was watching because I have no recollection of what that is.  Penn Zero was blah but if I had kids, there's worse things I could be stuck watching with them.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 23, 2015, 06:11:59 PM
Omg, I'm watching the Amy Schumer 12 Angry Men parody.  I can picture people watching this being so fucking confused and changing the channel but I'm dying.  This is brilliant.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 23, 2015, 06:22:08 PM

:laugh:

Does her show often have that many cameos, or was this a special occasion?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2015, 02:13:13 AM
Wander over Yonder grows on you. It's a real WTF at first, but I like it.


But Gravity Falls is the bomb. It felt like a funny animated X-Files.

Nah nah screw all of em shows. Adventure Time FTW
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 24, 2015, 08:54:38 AM
ugh....I hate Adventure Time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 24, 2015, 01:05:52 PM
I haven't watched any of the current season, but the previous one was pretty good. Adventure Time has always had its detractors, but it's been around long enough now that there are even lapsed fans who claim the show has lost its way.

I feel like this probably happens to just about every series that enjoys massive popularity.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2015, 07:32:58 PM
I'm not really a "fan fan" but I watch it when its on...although they repeat the same darn episodes over and over... I definitely prefer it over the other ones mentioned here (Gravity Falls, WoY, can't forget steven universe). Actually I rather not watch any of these but unfortunately my kids like them :-/
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 25, 2015, 10:12:49 AM
Just watched a tribute to George Coe, the voice actor for Woodhouse in Archer who died this week. Wonder if that means that Woodhouse will be dead in the show, or if they'll concoct some reason for a vocal change.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 25, 2015, 03:47:44 PM

:laugh:

Does her show often have that many cameos, or was this a special occasion?

I don't know.  I haven't seen enough eps.  Another episode had Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the same skit together.  And Amber Rose appeared in a different skit.  So maybe so.


ugh....I hate Adventure Time.

Why do you hate it?  It looks cute but it just never compelled me to really bother with it.  When Regular Show appeared on Netflix, I binged on every episode they had.  With Adventure Time, I've only seen half of what Netflix has and I wasn't paying attention most of the time.  Speaking of Regular Show, it needs to stop this relationship crap with Mordecai.  It's just an unfunny mess at this point.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 01, 2015, 07:59:32 AM
There is a point where the asinine nature of a show goes beyond the limits of funny to "This shit is stupid." and Adventure Time passed that almost instantly. They got a new show coming up called Pig, Goat, Cricket and goat....or some bullshit like that that has also already reached that with me as well just from the previews
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 17, 2015, 07:03:22 PM
Are you talking about Pig Goat Banana Cricket? Because that show looks amazing. Like, Spider-Man amazing.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 18, 2015, 07:45:47 AM
I thank you not to compare those two if you please.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 18, 2015, 02:31:40 PM
I tried to marathon We Bare Bears and collected about six eps but in the end I just couldn't.  After two and a half episodes--most of it fast forwarded--I deleted it all in disgust.  It just feels pointless and I'm confused about why that bothers me.  Also, why do the bears travel in a stack?  Is that shit ever explained?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 18, 2015, 08:17:37 PM
I've actually liked what I have seen of that so far. With, of course, Ice Bear being my favorite.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 18, 2015, 08:53:47 PM
I thank you not to compare those two if you please.

Come on, bro. PGBC is your new personal favorite just waiting to happen. Open your mind and let the creamy goodness flow through you.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 23, 2015, 09:06:02 AM
There is a time and place for that and it is called college.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 23, 2015, 01:04:32 PM
Speak for yourself. I can do without creamy anything flowing through me....
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 08, 2015, 12:16:12 PM
Even delicious white gravy?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 14, 2015, 07:53:05 AM
So hot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 16, 2015, 03:39:27 AM
Rama, got another one for you, called Pickle and Peanut. Looks like someone at Disney watched all of Cartoon Network's most popular shows and said, "Hey, we can do that!"

Only no, no they cannot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Sep 16, 2015, 08:28:07 AM
Oh I've seen the previews for that. I'm starting think that they are putting Draino in the milk at school for some of these shows to be this popular.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 16, 2015, 02:04:42 PM
Disney honestly has a history of these cynical "me-too" programs. Does anyone remember The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show? Came out during the popularity of Ren & Stimpy. So blatant. Even as a young person I remember being incredulous.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 23, 2015, 07:31:06 AM
Anyone else excited about Nickelodeons new 90s channel?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 24, 2015, 10:08:41 PM
Is it an actual channel or just a block?  Because the announcement I read seemed very unclear.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 28, 2015, 04:11:37 AM
Seems like it will be a channel
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 28, 2015, 04:00:35 PM
That's neat.  Well, not for me since I'm a cord-cutter anyway, but kids should get to see the old shows.  I wonder how many of them are still watchable today.  I recall trying to watch an ep of Rocko some time ago and I couldn't sit through it.  I have a feeling they may not have aged as well as I initially assumed.  But it's still dumb for any network--Nick, CN, Disney--to have huge libraries of cartoons and not do anything with them.  So I'm glad for this at least for that reason.

I've been watching The Looney Tunes Show and my final verdict--over a year after it was cancelled, no less--is that it was very hit or miss.  When it missed, it was a very dull thing to sit through but when it hit it could be really funny.  It was cool that there was actually continuity, too.  Lola and Daffy actually make a decent comedy duo.  Scampish Bugs is best Bugs and I think the show was a little too fond of Straight Man Bugs.  While I'm a bit bummed it was canceled for Wabbit, I don't think The Looney Tunes Show was ever going to reach its full potential anyway.  I hope Tina Russo doesn't completely disappear after this but I won't be surprised if she does.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 28, 2015, 08:19:36 PM
If you're wondering about whether a cartoon has aged well and you find it hasn't, it may be because you've aged, period. I mean, it's hard for me to sit through an episode of Masters of the Universe, but my niece loved it when I showed it to her four years ago. But she'd probably have a hard time watching it now, too.

My problem with the newer Looney Tunes stuff (seriously, I liked Merrie Melodies shorts better on the whole), not just the Show but everything in the past twenty or thirty years, is that they really don't know what to do with the characters. They're always archetypes: Bugs is the snarky lead; Daffy is the foil/fool. Porky is the second fiddle relief. In the old shows, they were really whatever the hell they needed to be. In a lot of cases, you could plug most any character in that script, which has its own pitfalls but you also don't pigeonhole your cast to a type. And there was a sophistication that only the better modern cartoons have (which is due to the largely adult audience they played to, but still).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 29, 2015, 03:35:07 PM
There's something pure about the old cartoons. They're all just as good today as they were back then. They will always be good.

Every revival they've ever attempted becomes dated almost immediately. It might have been okay when it first came on, but you can never go back to it.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 29, 2015, 03:36:06 PM
I get that being older will alter my perception of a show or movie.  At the same time, there are lots of older shows and movies that still retain entertainment value.  I consider that to be aging well.  Not a cartoon, but the Muppet Movie has aged pretty damn well.  It's no less a product of its era but I can sit and watch it with the same level of enjoyment I did as a child.  Jem aged nicely as well.  That actually surprised me, but it has.  Daria, too.  The first three seasons or so still amuse me and the Daria/Tom eps still infuriate me like they did 15/16 whatever years ago.

Re: Looney Tunes, they actually did make an attempt the flesh out the characters more but Daffy and Porky were probably the ones who came out the better for it.  Porky even went through a growth arc where he's in a steady job, loses his job, struggles to keep his house, and loses his house over the course of several episodes.  Bugs didn't seem to go through much of anything.  He was just there, with whatever problem that plagued him being solved within the same episode it came up in.  Lola, they tried to make funny by making her stupid and crazy but I only found her funny when they played her on Daffy or Porky.  Or anyone but Bugs really.  Also, Petunia should've been added to the show much sooner.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 29, 2015, 04:27:44 PM
Speaking of Muppets, did anyone attempt to watch the new show last week?

It can't be killed soon enough.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 29, 2015, 04:29:26 PM
Also, He-Man was mentioned. Watching He-Man now is hilarious to me. Still entertaining, but for different reasons.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 30, 2015, 03:39:58 AM
I can just watch Hey Arnold all day long
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 30, 2015, 12:31:52 PM
Speaking of Muppets, did anyone attempt to watch the new show last week?

It can't be killed soon enough.

I don't watch regular TV anymore so I didn't.  If it had been good, I'd probably wait for it on Netflix or something.  But then I encountered opinions echoing this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11883190/The-Muppets-ABC-review.html  Can't say I'm interested in watching ever now.


Oh, and I watched Hand of God on Amazon.  What a mess.  I love Ron Perlman and Dana Delany.  How do you mess up that killer combination?  Amazon found a way.  It was a snorefest.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 30, 2015, 12:37:04 PM
Also, He-Man was mentioned. Watching He-Man now is hilarious to me. Still entertaining, but for different reasons.

Ha ha.  Same here.  My thing was always She-Ra anyway.  I liked She-Ra better than He-Man.  Bravestarr, too.  They still have entertainment value imo.  Sure, I'm not gonna sit and watch with the same attention I did as a kid but they're nice to play in the background while I'm surfing or doing chores.  Thundercats though.. yeesh.  No.

I can just watch Hey Arnold all day long

I haven't seen an ep of Hey Arnold in years.  I wonder how that one's held up.  I never liked Doug though.  Arnold was cool but Doug needed a couple of tight slaps.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 30, 2015, 02:07:23 PM
Batman animated series will stand forever as a timeless piece of television programming. There aren't that many regular TV shows that are better than this.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 30, 2015, 05:19:25 PM
It's been a while, but I have nothing but fond memories of B:TAS. I can't speak for the show in its entirety, but those early episodes were certainly very mature in their presentation, especially for the time.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 30, 2015, 08:46:57 PM
Oh, crap, I forgot SHIELD started yesterday. I'll have to run it down. I dropped Gotham, much to my brother's dismay...he doesn't have anyone to speak geek to anymore since his boys started college. I quit around episode 18 last year and haven't regretted it. Looking forward to Flash and Arrow next week.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 01, 2015, 11:19:38 PM
Batman animated series will stand forever as a timeless piece of television programming. There aren't that many regular TV shows that are better than this.

It's been a while, but I have nothing but fond memories of B:TAS. I can't speak for the show in its entirety, but those early episodes were certainly very mature in their presentation, especially for the time.

Ditto on all of this.  Also, Catwoman was hot before her unfortunate bout of anorexia.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 02, 2015, 01:00:41 PM
Season four had some good stories, but the art just went to pot.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 04, 2015, 09:11:35 PM
A lot of the female characters were already same-facey to begin with but in the new pointy style, it becomes all the more jarring.  The women also got really strangely proportioned with huge heads and those up-sloped, perky chichis I can only imagine Bruce Timm must jerk off to furiously.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 05, 2015, 08:12:18 AM
Is there any other way?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 05, 2015, 07:22:38 PM
Not for Bruce Timm there isn't.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 07, 2015, 03:20:38 AM
Has anyone watched Be Cool Scooby-Doo? It kind of looks like a Seth MacFarlane show, which is probably intentional because they're touting it as a comedy.

It looks like it could be okay, but the art style just seems so wrong.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Oct 07, 2015, 02:01:37 PM
I'm not sold on the designs either but I googled for a clip of this and, gotta say, I kinda chuckled. 
ab_channel=ComicVineVideos
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 07, 2015, 04:17:11 PM
I watched the first episode last night. It's not bad, but if they're really aiming for funny, they need more gags. I thought maybe they would forego some of the series staples to cram more setup/punchline jokes in, but nope, there was the logic-defying musical interlude chase scene right on schedule.

I'll probably stick with it for now.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 08, 2015, 12:27:36 PM
Real glad Flash is back on, even if the season premiere was weak. I'll see Arrow when I get home from work and the range.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 08, 2015, 12:56:34 PM
Where the Deer and the Antelope play?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 09, 2015, 04:38:51 PM
Well, if deer or antelope got in there, they wouldn't be playing very long.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Dec 02, 2015, 10:28:26 AM
If Be Cool, Scooby Do is the one I'm thinking of, all the characters are screwed up in the way they act.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Dec 07, 2015, 08:13:46 AM
Just finished Jessica Jones. It was pretty good. Has pacing problems. Was kinda a rinse and repeater. Kilgrave get captured, Kilgrave escapes, Jessica comes up with new plane to catch him...repeat. And the show was always better when Mike Coulter's Luke Cage was in it. Makes me look forward to his show. Most distracting thing was Krysten Ritter's plastic looking nose in the close up shots.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2016, 11:07:46 PM
I saw two episodes of Longmire.  In the second episode, his female deputy or whatever proceeded to dance on a stripper pole and be a cocktease to get information on a potential suspect.  It really soured me to the point where I'm not sure I'll continue with the series.  It's a silly thing, but I don't care to see shit like that.  Especially it being done by the only female deputy.  It doesn't help that at the end of the same episode, another deputy is porking Longmire's daughter.  It was revealed at the ending like some sort of twist but it came off soapy and I don't want soapy.  It's too bad, because I like Longmire himself.  And the show also has Lou Diamond Phillips, too.  Maybe I'll try another episode sometime, but I just as soon rather look for something else instead.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 18, 2016, 09:33:21 PM
I watched some show called Warrior Women hosted by Lucy Lawless.  I wish DC would just scrap all of their crap and reboot their universe with a WW movie starring Lucy Lawless.  She'd be boss.  She could still pull it off.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 03, 2016, 10:44:31 AM
The girlfriend is slamming through GOT. She's on season 5 after like two weeks. So, not watching much else than that while she's catching up.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 06, 2016, 06:05:08 PM
Lawd is Legends of Tomorrow a shitty show.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 11, 2016, 05:26:21 AM
The girlfriend is slamming through GOT. She's on season 5 after like two weeks. So, not watching much else than that while she's catching up.

Try as I may to get through that, I never could.  I watched a clip here and there but it never hooked me.  (It doesn't help that I'm getting annoyed at having Got shoved into a lot of things.)  I did read on some of the plot points.  I'm not opposed to picking up the books in the future.  Have you read any of the books?

Lawd is Legends of Tomorrow a shitty show.

What makes it shit?  Do you watch Flash and Arrow?  I think I recall you watch Arrow but I'm not sure about Flash.  It ties into those, right?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 12, 2016, 06:57:52 PM
You should be watching The Flash. Which reminds me that I'm in a similar thing with GOT. I don't watch it or Walking Dead and that's what people talk about at work, and I don't really have any desire to watch either.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2016, 01:41:31 AM
Lawd is Legends of Tomorrow a shitty show.

What makes it shit?  Do you watch Flash and Arrow?  I think I recall you watch Arrow but I'm not sure about Flash.  It ties into those, right?

It's connected in that it reuses a hodge-podge of folks who started out in those shows but never became core characters. Now, Flash has its weak points, but the show's still enjoyable and generally pretty good. Arrow has great and terrible moments but finds itself falling into the good to decent area. This one just doesn't have any strong suit.

The main character (Rip Hunter) is an inept douchebag, the villain (Vandal Savage) is a rehashed, defeated villain from a Flash/Arrow crossover (not to mention rewritten from the comics), and the story basically consists of them finding him in different years and fighting him and losing every time, only to find out SPOILER ALERT he's been pre-ordained to win by Rip's Time Master bosses to beat back a Thanagarian invasion. And, now that its been revealed that it'll be a different arrangement of main characters in the next season, so why invest yourself in them? SPOILER ALERTOne of the better characters, Captain Cold, was just killed off for a stupid reason, which makes his re-occurrence as Flash's arch enemy problematic.. Not to mention that Hawkman and Hawkgirl are the most dysfunctional bullshit couples in comics and continue the trend in this show. Ray Palmer/Atom is still a mish-mash of Ted Kord and Tony Stark they couldn't figure out from Arrow. Firestorm is a mouthy black kid (though he's one of the few to actually show growth and be a decent character) and know-it-all elderly white guy (the same annoying old fart he was in Flash) odd couple. White Canary is still the whiny-looking face fucker upper from Arrow. I like Captain Cold and Heatwave (who, despite them screwing with his character in this show, is still entertaining), but I liked them better as Flash villains.

I did enjoy the Jonah Hex episode, however. But then again I like me some Jonah Hex (unless you count that last movie...ugh).
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 17, 2016, 02:39:09 AM
Think it'll become more clusterfucky with Supergirl switching over to the CW?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 17, 2016, 08:12:28 AM
Can't be MORE clusterfucky then it already is. I don't get some things because I don't watch Arrow and you pretty much gotta watch everything.

That being said, Supergirl should have always been on CW.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 17, 2016, 11:39:24 AM
If Flash and Arrow are any indication, while they occasionally reference and appear in each other's shows and have the very occasional crossover, they don't tend to bleed over that much. I liked the Flash appearance on Supergirl, which was the only episode of that I saw. 
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 18, 2016, 10:31:52 AM
So like last nights Flash a bad buy showed up with a sonic scream....now I first thought of Black Canary. But then Canary isn't a bad guy so I figured this is Earth 2 Canary. Which it was. And I knew this not because the show told me, but because I knew about comics.

But they built up this big reveal and not showing her face and all that jazz and then big reveal and I'm like "Ok....who the fuck is this?" It was clearly suppose to be important. The music told me so, but it didn't mean shit to me. It wasn't until the end of the episode that they explain that this is a bad version of the Black Canary from Arrow...which I didn't know because I don't watch Arrow. And while that doesn't happen ever episode, it happens enough to get a little annoying.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 18, 2016, 05:18:03 PM
You should watch Arrow. It's not a bad show. Anyway, Damien Dark (one of the better bad guys they've come up with, mainly due to the guy who plays him) killed Canary a few episodes back, and now Arrow's aiming (snrt) to kill him outright. It has been known the entire season that Dark kills one of the cast, but the big question was who, and it was actually surprising that it was her given the close connection Black Canary has always had with the Green Arrow. I figured it'd be Diggle myself, but they've just wrinkled him by having him outright kill his brother.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 24, 2016, 08:18:07 AM
Diggle....you mean Black Magneto?

And it happened again on Legends of Tomorrow. No idea what is going on because I don't watch Arrow.  But JSA...so there is that.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 29, 2016, 11:12:03 PM
Instead of calling Diggle Sentinel in the field they should teach him to shoot a bow and call him Black Arrow. As it is now he should be Black Bullet or Black Glock both to keep the naming motif as well as follow the old stereotype of black superheros being called Black Whatever. Or just call him token, because this show is decidedly monochromatic otherwise.

Where Legends is concerned...it's the bastard child of the other two shows that relies heavily on their cast-offs. It's goint to have it. At least it had the best season conclusion of the three by a mile.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 01, 2016, 05:23:46 AM
I get a certain pleasure from watching House Hunters episodes where the whiny person--usually the wife--who wants all this shit they can't afford doesn't get what they want.  On ep has this woman freaking over seashell-shaped sinks.  Yeah, the show's all fake so I'm sure they told her to throw a tantrum.  It's so silly.  I also get a certain annoyance when it's clear a bunch of these people have too many possessions.  "But we need a garage for storage."  And you knew he was talking about storing crap.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 01, 2016, 09:50:12 AM
"I don't like the color of this room."


Then paint it asshat.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 01, 2016, 02:35:30 PM
Oh, man, this one woman was bitching about the colors and her husband was rolling his eyes.  The realtor's all "well, maybe we can get a paint allowance."  Although on the flipside, I don't get why you wouldn't paint all the walls white when you put the house on the market.  Then again, most of the houses aren't on the market.  They just show a friend's house so the homeowners can have a House #2 that they need to eliminate later.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 02, 2016, 10:48:01 PM
Yeah, I heard to even get on that show you have to already be under contract on a house.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 03, 2016, 06:58:25 PM
It would be different if it weren't staged. But on television absolutely everything is staged. Watching that kind of show is like watching internet clickbait ads.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 04, 2016, 04:20:39 AM
Yeah, I mainly watch these types of shows now to indulge my voyeurism.  Looking at other people's homes is fun.  It makes me sad to think of the old HGTV though: when Design on a Dime was about stretching $500 to do an entire room.  Now the "dime" is usually around or above $2k.  And that's not even adding the drama that most of these shows indulge in.  Love or List It would be an awesome show if it were half an hour with commercials.  Half of that show is meltdowns and that's just painful to sit through.  One show--I forget the title--was about people flipping properties and they actually showed them getting a massage.  I sat through that shit so I could see the finished property and the reno completely fell through!  They lost the property and nothing got done.  Fffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuu....
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 04, 2016, 12:15:06 PM
Everything is over-dramatized these days. It's like, I wouldn't mind watching a show about random shit they keep in pawn shops. I love pawn shops: they're like flea markets filled with broken dreams. So what we get is a couple fat guys bickering and a dude who calls local "experts" to help him whittle down on somebody who thinks they're sitting on a fortune.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 05, 2016, 02:32:22 AM
Everything is over-dramatized these days.

Exactly.  I like shows that straight up do what they're supposed to be doing, but that's not in vogue anymore.  Everything has to be a production with a villain and the ever-suffering protag(s).  What's the point of something like Storage Wars where they just plant shit inside the storage units?  I want my home shows to be like "This Old House."  No melt downs.  No whining.  They're just fixing an old house and telling you what's going on and what materials they're using and why.  Sometimes they inject a little history or whatever.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 05, 2016, 08:31:41 AM
Holmes on Homes use to be like that....but then it became all about what a scum bag the guy who did the work before was and how many tears can we jerk out by using false sentiment.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 05, 2016, 01:42:14 PM
I find the majority of home design I see on television to be totally unrealistic for normal Americans. You'll be watching something that looks like something someone might actually build and then, bam, here comes the weird stuff. "Oh, here's a room that's nothing but windows." That's really practical. Not. "You need to have a tiki hearth in your living room." What the CHOP?
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2016, 05:01:22 AM
Holmes on Homes use to be like that....but then it became all about what a scum bag the guy who did the work before was and how many tears can we jerk out by using false sentiment.

Now that you say that, you're right.  I don't get to see that show a whole lot, but last few times I saw it, they definitely spent too much time harping on about the previous work.  Still not as bad as some of these other shows though.  The two parter they had once really chafed me because they were rerunning the previous few hours but stopped short of showing the second part.  Like, I'm only in it to see the finished product, dammit.


I find the majority of home design I see on television to be totally unrealistic for normal Americans. You'll be watching something that looks like something someone might actually build and then, bam, here comes the weird stuff. "Oh, here's a room that's nothing but windows." That's really practical. Not. "You need to have a tiki hearth in your living room." What the CHOP?

What gets to me is impeding function.  You can have your tiki torches or whatever but if the "customer"/victim/whoever says they use this room to watch TV in and then the TV is mounted to the wall on the side and the furniture turned to face each other to stimulate conversation, you've failed.  Or "I need a guest room/office."  A reasonable person would assume that means the room should have a bed and desk in it.  "Well, here's a fabulous Murphy bed/pull-out couch.  We put the desk in the closet so now you have an office in a closet that can be tucked away."  No.  Save that shit for teeny-tiny spaces.  Don't give them extra work.  I saw this bedroom makeover and the final product was nice, but I was concerned that three dressers left the room and only one came back.  Where'd their stuff go?  It's not a successful design if it just looks nice and does not function for the person living in the space.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 25, 2016, 02:04:52 PM
Zombie House Flipping has a disappointing lack of zombies.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jun 26, 2016, 11:49:28 PM
I can't stand that woman's voice on that show. it sounds like she hums all her words.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2016, 10:48:39 AM
I don't know why I thought they flipped haunted houses or something. In the ep I saw the guy painted the house the wrong color on purpose and it was so obvious they just wanted to manufacture drama. I was done with the show after they pulled that shit. I also saw some of Texas Flip and Move and of course they got the biggest hicks they could. What a waste of time. For the money they spend they could just build a new house entirely. At least a show like Flip or Flop only pulls you in for thirty minutes. Those other two flip shows run at a hour. Yuck.
Title: Re: What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2016, 11:05:06 AM
I've also been watching The First 48. Tip #2846 on not dying a horrible, violent death: don't associate with horrible, violent people. Don't associate with criminals. So much death because folks can't choose better friends and won't cut off family that needed to be cut off. These girls that have scumbag boyfriends that murder them later. Jesus.

I like to look up the cases online to see what I can find. This one victim had two other shooting deaths in the family in the year or so subsequent to his own death. And one of his relatives was talking about it like God was doing something to this family. Your relatives were innocent victims all three incidents? Really?  ::)
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 27, 2016, 10:20:40 AM
I got into GOT....or rather Game of Thrones. I actually didn't want to watch this show. It was just another in a line of "Everyone is watching it, so what is wrong with you?"type shows. Like True Blood or Walking Dead. I had given both of those shows a chance and didn't like either, so I thought GOT would be no different. A coworker kept telling me it was good while I literally holding Season 1 in my hands. I was hooked by the 2nd episode and have been powering through it ever since. I'm half way through Season 3 right now and I actually have season 4 on the way.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 29, 2016, 08:49:37 AM
Have you read any of the books yet?  I'm still indifferent towards the show.  Don't feel like it's really offering me anything new so I'm not going to bother aside from the clips I've already seen.  But I'm still open to maybe picking up the books someday.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Jul 29, 2016, 09:19:38 AM
No. Not yet. But I learned a long time ago that I should see the movie/show first and then read the book. Because the book is almost always better and will just make me not like the movie/show if I read them first. But the opposite is rarely true.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 29, 2016, 10:30:45 AM
But I would think it would sorta cloud how you read the book.  I think I'd rather enjoy a superior book and then watch the adaptation to pick it apart like a vulture does a dead deer.

I tried watching this Tig Notaro thing on Netflix because she's supposedly funny.  It felt like a documentary instead of a stand-up special, the latter--you know--which is what I assume a stand-up comic would put out.  I hate those.  I hate when I click on a special from a stand-up comedian and they're not on stage within a minute doing their set.  Why the fuck do you think I'm watching you?  You think I care about you that much?  I want jokes, dammit.

Oh, yeah, did anyone see that pic of Superman going around?  The one where he's a werewolf.  Yuck.  :lol:
http://www.themarysue.com/tyler-hoechlin-superman-costume/
At least add some fake muscles to his arms and chest.  He looks weird!  The picture's also not at a good angle.  And lens flare.  Woo.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 29, 2016, 10:36:36 PM
I hate the modern Superman suits. For one it requires red underwear on the outside of the tights to be authentic. For another they all have this weird-ass scale and seams on them to hide the fact that a spandex-clad superhuman doesn't actually look superhuman (or "superyuman" per Stan Lee). But that's a part of the willful suspension of disbelief. Throwing all that shit in there makes it stand out all the more.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 30, 2016, 03:23:25 AM
Wow. That dude looks like an off-brand Bruce Campbell.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 30, 2016, 04:25:09 AM

I don't know what I just watched.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 30, 2016, 03:04:00 PM
Looks like Sinbad was hard up one month. Both for money and, well...he's playing a condom after all.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jul 30, 2016, 03:22:54 PM
Ugh, so I saw a few eps of Mr. Robot. What a fucking mess that is. I planned to marathon it as the first ep showed a lot of promise. Then it just barreled itself downhill. Shit, I don't even know where to start on this. Too much sex (we had to watch this weird bitch get tied up and gagged WHY) and drugs, stupid hallucinogenic bullshit unreliable narrator, too many just plain unlikable fucks.  After it began leading up the creepy rapist again, I just quit. Read spoilers and it continues into a shit show. Anyone a little likable is killed, phased out, or is just not real. Bleh.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2016, 11:52:04 AM
I was wondering if I should get on board with Mr. Robot.  I guess that's a no go.

I finished Preacher the other night. Really wanted to like it. Super impressed with the first couple episodes, but then it began its decline, and really fell off at the end. I think it's because there's zero gravitas, everyone always plays everything off as a joke. Even the big climax should have been horrific, all things considered, but it was just like, "Haha! Oh well, too bad for them!"

It's prompted me to pick up the trades, though.

Also, Stranger Things. Really liked that, but I was bound to because it really tugs at those '80s kid heartstrings. Part of me wishes it had been longer, but the pragmatist in me knows that probably would have just meant needless filler and tangential storylines for side characters. I'm curious if they'll do another series.

Next I'll probably jump into Powers season 2. Hopefully they got a bigger budget this time, because the sets, costumes, and effects in the first season were just depressing.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 04, 2016, 07:24:59 PM
I don't know whether to hope you like it or not since it's been canceled.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2016, 11:57:18 PM
Yeah, I saw that earlier. Honestly, the fact it even got a second chance is surprising. I'll still watch it.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 05, 2016, 02:56:00 AM
I was wondering if I should get on board with Mr. Robot.  I guess that's a no go.

Do you like Dexter?  Do you like Fight Club?  Throw in a bunch of computers and a totally suspicious black hoodie.  You now have Mr. Robot.  Apparently.  I've seen a lot of comparisons to Dexter and Fight Club.  A few people called it the next Breaking Bad.  Maybe my problem is that I care about none of those things.

Also, Stranger Things. Really liked that, but I was bound to because it really tugs at those '80s kid heartstrings. Part of me wishes it had been longer, but the pragmatist in me knows that probably would have just meant needless filler and tangential storylines for side characters. I'm curious if they'll do another series.

I'm not interested in this but Merla seems to enjoy it.  I think she's on her second viewing of it.  Season 2 already confirmed.  Season 2 of Voltron also already confirmed, btw.  Netflix at this point seems pretty cool about going forward with their exclusive material.  The show's gotta be a real sack of tits not to at least get renewed for one more season.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 05, 2016, 03:10:32 AM
I liked Fight Club back when I was the appropriate age to like Fight Club. I liked Dexter back before it deviated horribly from the books. If it's the next Breaking Bad it's sure taking its sweet time building up steam.

I like how you segued from talking about Merla to talking about Voltron. I see what you did there!
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 05, 2016, 02:18:17 PM
You have no idea what I did.  No idea.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 09, 2016, 02:24:46 AM
Olympics.  I wasn't gonna bother but fam is watching so I was like, okay, I'll watch.  Now I'm remembering why I didn't want to bother.  I wish everyone could cover the Olympics.  I'd like the choice of just switching channels and watching nothing but three hours of ping pong.  And I'm sick of the interviews.  I want to see actual events.  I don't care who married, shat out a baby, how they have perfect SAT scores, or whatever the fuck.  I get why people DO care and that's fine.  But I tuned in to see events and it was like a bit of swimming and then three interviews or something.  MEH.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 16, 2016, 02:05:00 AM
The last thing I tried to watch was the Netflix series Strangers Things because a lot of my friends were going crazy about it on Facebook.
But for me it was meh. I might have liked this series in the 90s but I've seen so much better since then.
Gave up on it after the 2nd episode
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 16, 2016, 11:28:31 AM
Been watching Last Chance U. It's a Netflix show filmed at the community college ten miles north of where I live. Apparently it's done well enough to warrant a second season.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 16, 2016, 03:27:31 PM
NBC being dicks as usual is showing a bunch of Olympic-related things and not actual events.  Like, inspiration-pr0n level bullshit.  'My country was terrible.'  'It was always my dream as a child blah blah.'  'Look at us, we're hosting the Olympics and we're so silllllly.'  Anchor-wank has ramped up to 11.  Because the Olympics are "more than sports."  They actually said that.  "More than sports."  No, they're not.  It's nothing but sports.  A shitload of sports.  That's, like, the whole fucking point.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 16, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
The only Olympics I'll ever cop to watching is Laff-A-Lympics.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 17, 2016, 04:54:03 AM
I'm a sucker because I'll come across something like an indoor volleyball match (earlier today) and I'll sit and watch it like "ohhhhh" but then NBC has to shit on the moment by cutting away to an interview or something stupid like that.  Yesterday, there was another volleyball match announced and I was like "no, I'll be suckered into watching this" but it was just male players so I shut the tv off.  :glare:
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Post by: Rumble on Aug 26, 2016, 07:44:54 AM
Been watching Vice Principals.
Not as funny as it could have been, but it has it moments
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 27, 2016, 01:48:47 AM
I've never even heard of that show so I le Googled.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 27, 2016, 06:54:41 AM
Danny McBride is very one note. I feel like the awesomeness of Goggins would be severely tempered by the lameness of McBride, resulting in an overall mediocre TV show.

Although I haven't watched it myself, so I can't pass judgment.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 28, 2016, 02:41:07 AM
McBride's one of those guys whose name I know and I know he's a famous person but, fuck me, I don't know why.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 28, 2016, 09:24:48 AM
Been going through South Park, start to finish. On Season 2 right now.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 28, 2016, 11:38:00 AM
2?  Aren't there, like, twenty or something?  Well.  Good luck with that.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Aug 28, 2016, 11:41:09 AM
I should reconnect with South Park too, completely missed the last 3 or 4 seasons
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 29, 2016, 06:28:53 AM
They lost me at the farting, shitting Wal-mart.  "Lost me" as far as me seeking out the show and watching episodes in full.

Oh look, I founds it!

Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 29, 2016, 04:49:34 PM
I quit watching half-way through the second season. It got old to me.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Aug 31, 2016, 01:55:06 AM
It seems that Wal-mart one was from S8.  WOW.  I wasn't viewing it religiously or anything but I stuck with that a while.  I remember getting into South Park late, but it couldn't have been that late because I bought a bunch of eps on VHS and those apparently were released around 1998.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on Aug 31, 2016, 09:05:43 AM
I was in from the start. I remember watching the first episode on a wed night back in like 97. Was really confused why they'd kill a main character in the first episode '(Kenny) but got the joke when the 2nd episode did the same thing. But around like season 7 I stopped going out of my way to see new episodes, still thanks to reruns I think I've seen almost every episode.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Sep 01, 2016, 12:39:02 AM
I wanted Daria with Trent.  It would've been okay if things hadn't worked out.  It would've been realer in fact and then Daria has to repair her relationship with Jane.  Tom should've been gone after two episodes.  I know that's not what we were talking about, but my brain connected to that thought.  I think because cable/satellite tv has always been viewed as a 'treat' in my mind.  While all the other kids talked about Ren and Stimpy or Liquid Television, I had to rely on it being on at my cousin's house the next time I visited.  I spent one very depressing Christmas with Beavis and Butthead.  Not depressing because of who I spent it with, but they sorta defined the lowness of the moment. /nice blog
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 14, 2016, 11:12:36 PM
I watched Bo Burnham's Make Happy and what.  I think I liked what better than Make Happy.  I also saw two other comedians: Moz Jobrani and Jimmy Carr.  Both were decent but I enjoyed what more.  I only shut Jimmy Carr off early because I was already getting sleepy.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 14, 2016, 11:13:35 PM
^ Maybe that should've gone in that Comedians thread I made.  Meh, fuck it.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 27, 2016, 09:37:11 AM
Netflix added Scream Queens! Emma Roberts is an awesomely huge bitch. Now I want Season 2 to be over so I can binge it too, but it's only been on for a week, damn it.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 28, 2016, 12:12:47 AM
That's how they hook you in.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 30, 2016, 05:33:16 AM
Don't forget, all of Luke Cage is now available to watch on Netflix!

Not sure if I'll watch one per night until I'm done, or just go full zombie mode and try to view as many as possible in a single sitting. :laugh:
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 30, 2016, 10:50:29 AM
I didn't forget it was there but I'm not watching Marvel-anything.  Marvel can bite me.  I never even watched DD or JJ.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 30, 2016, 05:39:37 PM
DAUGHTER I AM DISAPPOINT
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 30, 2016, 09:51:23 PM
MARVEL I AM DISAPPOINT
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 01, 2016, 07:06:41 PM
I really think you'd like it. It's absolutely bursting with blacks. Like, practically everyone is black. There are also a few Hispanic and/or Latino people. I've only noticed a single white so far. He will henceforth be referred to as the token white.

I've only watched two episodes, so this could change.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 04, 2016, 07:04:32 PM
I watched Daredevil, but not Jessica Jones yet...watching Netflix shows is complicated by the fact that I don't have Netflix. BTW, who the hell is Jessica Jones? I'm not familiar enough with the Marvel U to know who's who outside the code names of the big boys and those in the movies. However, I am familiar with Luke Cage for this if no other reason:
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 04, 2016, 07:39:08 PM
Jessica Jones was a character Brian Michael Bendis retconned into the MU back in 2001 in her own book called Alias. She worked as a private investigator, usually taking jobs from more established MU characters, but in a gritty, pulpy, noirish fashion that made all the typical fantastical comic book shit seem a little more grounded. As she was working these jobs in the present, the story would sometimes delve into her tragic past as a failed costumed hero.

Anyway, everybody loved Alias, and when it ended Marvel tried to keep Jessica relevant by shoehorning her into other shit by having her marry Luke Cage and have his kid, etc. A lot of people are now pissed about her recent treatment, as she's mostly used in stories as Luke's nagging wife, as opposed to being the strong protagonist she was originally.

And then they made a show about her!
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 05, 2016, 01:51:09 AM
Ya know, I didn't realize JJ was that recent a character.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 18, 2016, 08:43:45 AM
Like two seasons behind on Family Guy. Watched an episode last night. Think I might have smiled once. But it was just fucked.

Stewie used Brian's DNA to impregnate himself, then gave birth to these horrible man/dog hybrids. A few of them died, and the rest they offloaded to some animal shelter. Awful.

It was gross. I feel gross again just relating the information.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2016, 12:01:40 PM
Yeah, that show got seriously fucked up a long time ago.  It makes me mad that money and resources get wasted to make that tripe instead of something original and fresh.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 04, 2016, 12:50:36 AM
Started watching Gotham on Netflix the other week. It's actually pretty decent. Or maybe I'm just bored.

Also, Westworld, although I'm a week behind. Not sure why, it's just that I started a week late, and I feel weird watching two episodes back to back in order to get caught up.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 05, 2016, 12:37:59 AM
The first half of Gotham season 1 blew. I hacked my brother off  when I quit watching it around episode 14...he doesn't watch the other comic shows and has nobody else to talk about it with. He tells me that it was slow up until about episode 17 and then got pretty good. My thinking is, sorry, but I already wasted around 11 hours watching crappy episodes, so I was more than fair in giving it a chance. Granted the first season of Arrow was ass until around that same time, too.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 05, 2016, 07:21:10 AM
I've been watching a shitload of Mayday or whatever that show's called.  It's got like three or four different titles and is about plane crashes.  Makes me feel super living so close to an airport.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 07, 2016, 09:29:28 AM
Game of  Thrones Season 5.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 07, 2016, 10:07:19 PM
I just finished watching Jessica Jones last week. What a waste of a decent premise. It would have been much better not to mention far more satisfying if it was half as long. I don't think I'm going to bother with any more Marvel shows on Netflix, and Agents of SHIELD is really bugging me this year...it's about time for me to drop it.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 11, 2016, 07:28:36 PM
I just finished watching Jessica Jones last week. What a waste of a decent premise. It would have been much better not to mention far more satisfying if it was half as long.

Was it all stretched out or did something happen at the end where it would've been better cutting it off before that point?  Just curious.

I've been watching a bunch of various true crime shows.  Which I told myself I'd stop doing because they make me paranoid but it's an addiction, I guess.  I've also been bingeing a bunch of Japanology and Japanology Plus on YouTube, which is a show that picks a topic about Japan and showcases it for a half an hour.  So, like, matcha, pickled food, uniforms, breakfast etc.  They had one on weight loss.  And the show was all (paraphrasing here) "the Japanese are obsessed with weight-loss even though they're so smol.  They're not tubbo like 'muricans, who don't take weight loss as seriously as the Japanese."  So... uh, maybe that's why.  Just a guess.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 11, 2016, 10:54:59 PM
No, the ending was fine...probably the best part of the whole show.

But it took three episodes before you even got a look at Kilgrave (David Tennant), and the whole middle part of the story drug interminably with a subplot that went nowhere with the brainwashed cop who tried to kill and then started screwing Jessica's friend/sister. He wound up getting blown up, revitalized by his old unit doctor who works for a shady organization dabbling with human enhancement, going six different kinds of crazy, and then carted off with very little explanation. I'm sure that'll will wind up being the main thrust of season 2 if there is one, since it turns out that Jessica seems to have gotten her powers from the same shady organization.

Then there was a criminal disuse of Luke Cage through most of it, but I think the main reason he was there was for the introduction for his own show, which I haven't yet seen but based on how I felt about this I may not ever even try it out.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 11, 2016, 11:38:13 PM
Luke Cage plays out very similarly as far as pacing goes. There's kind of a tonal shift at the halfway point that I'm still not sure about. Well, I'm fairly certain I didn't care for where the show ended up. Too hokey by far.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 12, 2016, 03:27:54 AM
Sorta sounds like those Marvel Netflix shows are suffering narratively under those standard episode counts.  They should just focus on multiple-episode stories to fill up the running time of the 13 episodes.  Kinda like how Sherlock has three movie-like episodes a season or whatever.  It might be a better format for them to do mini-movies or a mini-series style format.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 12, 2016, 05:05:38 AM
None of the Daredevil episodes ever felt like filler, as I recall. JJ and LC definitely had their fair share, however.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 12, 2016, 09:28:53 AM
None of the Daredevil episodes ever felt like filler, as I recall.

Maybe you were blinded by its faults.

















Tee hee.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 12, 2016, 12:54:56 PM
Daredevil had actual plotting...every episode was satisfying on some level. Granted, the second season was basically bifurcated with Punisher on the front side and Elektra on the back, but it didn't feel like a waste of time watching each installment.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 12, 2016, 02:21:44 PM
Yeah, I think JJ and LC's unevenness is probably mitigated by the watch-when-you-like nature of Netflix. If those shows had aired one-a-week, I feel a lot of the episodes would have been highly criticized for their go-nowhere bullshit.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2016, 12:01:09 PM
Yikes.  Well, here's hoping that they fix that shit for Iron Fist.  You know, for whoever watches that one.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 13, 2016, 09:11:16 PM
I'm watching Dallas beat Pittsburgh. I missed the game while at church and am just now watching it.

Hail State! Dak Attack!
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 14, 2016, 06:34:31 AM
Facebook was trying to get me to watch that game.  "Hey, Beck, Dallas is playing Pittsburgh" or whatever kept popping up in my feed.  Nice to see Dallas beat them.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 14, 2016, 10:43:42 AM
Is that Rugby or Cricket?
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 14, 2016, 04:42:41 PM
It's amefuto as they say in Eyeshield 21.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 14, 2016, 09:35:37 PM
Amefuto sounds like a new category of Japornimation.

I used to like Dallas when I was a kid. The only reason I care about them now is because Dak's an MSU grad and may go down as the greatest Bulldog.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 15, 2016, 04:49:58 AM
The only reason I care about them now is because I live in their state and it's actually been ingrained in my head through decades of extensive Texan brainwashing.  Just like how I'm supposed to feign craps for the SA Sperms even though I care even less about basketball.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 15, 2016, 06:29:15 PM
Ugh, basketball. Good Lord, that crap goes on as long as baseball. Grah.

I say that like it's the sport itself, but I think the ego thing is what kills most sports for me. I think that's why I always liked watching high school basketball way more than college, which in turn I like better than professional sports. 

Though I still hate baseball in all forms.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 16, 2016, 04:14:15 AM
Everything I learned about baseball I learned from Big Wind Up and One Outs.  I suppose if I had a sports channel, I'd let baseball games play in the background.  But of course, sports like to make it as hard as possible to actually watch them.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 16, 2016, 09:21:27 PM
I would watch more sports if I could do it without the proliferation of commentators. All they need is a play-by-play announcer. In my college days I actually preferred to hear the games called on the radio than watch them on TV, but A) I'm not the fanboy I once was, and B) our school's good old announcer died and was replaced by a pathetic hack.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 16, 2016, 09:49:00 PM
Remember when they hired Dennis Miller to commentate Monday Night Football, presumably in order to grow their viewership?

No, it wasn't an episode of the Twilight Zone, it actually happened, I swear.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 17, 2016, 05:39:06 AM
I would watch more sports if I could do it without the proliferation of commentators. All they need is a play-by-play announcer.

Oh God, you're right, they just run their mouths.  I can't take the whole "babbling bullshit just to fill in dead air" thing they do these days.  I'd never survive.

Remember when they hired Dennis Miller to commentate Monday Night Football, presumably in order to grow their viewership?

No.  :)  Was this before or after 9/11?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 17, 2016, 10:22:27 AM
Both, actually! He started in 2000 and lasted 2 seasons. I repeat, they kept him for 2 seasons. However, they did replace him with Madden, so that can be considered a real sea change.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 17, 2016, 06:22:48 PM
It's almost as good as the time they hired Limbaugh to do pregame commentary on ESPN in 2003. They hired him to say edgy, controversial things to get ratings...and then shit blew up over it.

Consequently, I thought Donovan McNabb was overrated when he played at Syracuse--put a good D on him, and he folds like a chair--and that carried into his NFL career. So I guess I was a racist asshole towards McNabb before Limbaugh was.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 23, 2016, 07:54:04 PM
Been watching some reruns of The Chase on Netflix.  I had only gotten to see a few episodes back when I was staying with my dad and watching his satellite tv, so it was nice to see this on Netflix.  Don't know if I could actually beat the Beast or not but I do get a nice portion of questions correct.  Pretty certain I could rake in more in the rapid fire round than some of these contestants.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 30, 2016, 02:01:51 AM
Trying to finish all of Curb your Enthusiasm before the new season comes out. I'm on the last ep of season 5 .
Was watching all of the Xfiles , that took me a long ass time. Idk why people are bitching about the latest season, I really liked it. (also DD is still hot as fuck, 10/10 would jump on dat)
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 30, 2016, 03:47:18 AM
My sis loves Mulder but not DD.  And she'll tell people that.  "I love Fox Mulder but NOT DD.  They're two separate people!  :("
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 30, 2016, 03:56:12 AM
I love them both, I love them all (even his Californication character although Ive only watched one ep and long time ago)
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 01, 2016, 04:41:01 AM
I thought DD was his Californication character.  (http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/emoticons/E-I/flossie.gif)
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 01, 2016, 05:39:02 AM
Maybe? Is/was he addicted to pr0n in the show too?

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Post by: B E C K on Dec 01, 2016, 06:14:26 AM
I never stuck with the show past ep 1 but I just figured DD's a sex addict and his character seemed to be one, too.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 04, 2016, 08:15:47 AM
Supposedly he was not a "sex addict" per se, he was a "pr0n addict". Which means he liked to jerk his meat but not go shagging around. Supposedly.

Supposedly.

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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 05, 2016, 05:50:56 PM
I guess I'm watching Supergirl now. I've seen three eps (the first with Flash, one before the mediocre CW crossover, and the crappy so-called crossover ep), and I'm not really excited. What I get out of it is that the actress playing Supergirl is insanely cute (not necessarily hot, but cute...it's honestly the only reason I'm watching it), SG is predictably not as superpowered on her show as she is against other CW heroes (as seen last week), there's an unspoken romantic heat between her and Black Jimmy Olsen (a clear case of blackwashing! :P), and her adoptive sister's biggest plot contribution is that she's scared people will find out she's hot for chicks.

Unless they do something to make me like something other than looking at Supercutiepie, I'm going to show everyone my show-dropping superpower.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 08, 2016, 03:13:30 AM
I'm still waiting for the superhero TV bubble to burst.

It's gotta happen, right?

Soon.

Please, God.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 08, 2016, 05:11:11 AM
I don't get why Jimmy had to be black.  Wasn't there any other character they could've made black or a pre-existing black character they could've given a bigger role to?  This ain't even Superman and with Jimmy's look... it'd be like making Ron Weasley black.

I'm still waiting for the superhero TV bubble to burst.

It's gotta happen, right?

Soon.

Please, God.

Oh?  You want it to burst?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 08, 2016, 10:00:44 PM
Kind of? It's pretty saturated already. Although I guess without them we'd be left with the eternal cop dramas and doctor dramas.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 09, 2016, 02:45:26 PM
If and when it does, I guess I won't be watching TV anymore. That's about all I watch these days. The only thing else u really watch is the local evening news.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 10, 2016, 02:32:28 PM
Kind of? It's pretty saturated already. Although I guess without them we'd be left with the eternal cop dramas and doctor dramas.

Maybe this is because I'm not a heavy watcher of superhero shows but, from what I've seen, they have the feel of those cop and doctor dramas.  Like, I'm not seeing a huge amount of difference.

Hey, hey, we need a superhero rom-com.  Like, How Superman Met Your Mother or The New (Power)Girl some shit like that.  ABC should've done that shit with that show Selfie instead of wasting John Cho and Karen Gillan like they did.  They could've still played the whole My Fair Lady angle, too.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 02, 2017, 05:48:50 PM
So I'm watching stuff on a friend's tv via YouTube and came across a guy that was kinda interesting.  I tried to memorize his name and the book he wrote... not because I wanna read it but I'd like to see some more vids of him speaking and fielding questions.  So a couple of hours later, I'm all "okay, so who was that guy again" and my fuckin' memory's failing me.  I'm googling all sorts of things: things he said; what I think the title of his book was; what I think his name is; etc.  And nothing's working.  So I start punching in a bunch of ran-dumb things in hopes of getting a good hit because I know I'll recognize the name when I see it.  My last try consists of "bald declutter speaker book workshop."  Because I remember he had a fuckin' shiny cueball.  My god, his name's "Mellen."  How'd the fuck I miss that?  And how can it be missing "bald" but he was my second search result?  :laugh:
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 02, 2017, 05:50:04 PM
This is thing I watched, not that anyone else but me's gonna click on it but so what.

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Post by: B E C K on Jan 13, 2017, 01:09:19 PM
I tried watching Trollhunters on Netflix.  MEH.  Ugly look + beginning in medias res with high stakes battle that I can't give a shit about instead of working to hype just like we spoke about in "Beast and the Boy" + overly explainy dialogue + cardboard characters = YAWN so I shut off the first ep half way through.  Too bad.  It had a hint of something interesting.  When the trolls were fighting in the beginning and needing to avoid the shadows, that was a piece of interesting lore.  I would have liked to see more, but I wasn't going to ride the shit-o-coaster it was tethered to.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 14, 2017, 10:29:46 PM
Tried watching the new Lemony Snicket series on Netflix, agree with this review: Netflix’s take on Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events embraces weirdness and not much else.  The new adaptation is weighed down by its own melodrama. (http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/13/14258650/lemony-snicket-unfortunate-events-netflix-review-harris) 

tl;dr - the show has a unique look to it, kids and Neil Patrick Harris are pretty good, everyone else is a mixed bag, the story and dialogue has some wit but is all bogged down by shit pacing and being too fucking weird to the point of being awkward.  Also, and this isn't in the review, but Patrick Warburton mumbles his lines a fuckin' lot.  Like, dude, why do I need subtitles for your ass if you're speakin' English?  And he's playing a snide narrator character, but he sounds tired and like he's chewing half an oatmeal pie in his mouth.  The show would've benefited by casting someone like Dana Carvey or Norm MacDonald instead.
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Post by: Rumble on Jan 15, 2017, 12:29:48 PM
Only seen the first ep of Series of Unfortunate Events but I quite liked it actually.
Certainly a lot better than Stranger Things, which a lot of my friends were raving about but I couldn't sit through for more than one ep
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 16, 2017, 02:22:22 AM
Ha ha, no disagreement on that part.  I'm not even interested in Stranger Things.  I think Merla watched that like two or three times.  At no point did it threaten to hook me in.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 25, 2017, 03:00:02 AM
I just finished watching Red Dwarf XI. It was actually pretty decent. I feel like I enjoyed it more than the two previous series, which were kind of iffy. XI is a return to form, and I hope XII follows suit.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 26, 2017, 06:19:36 AM
Tried watching the new Lemony Snicket series on Netflix

Did you know the little girl from the Lemony Snicket movie is completely naked (full frontal) in a movie?  I feel its dirty (in a bad way, not in a hot way) when these child stars suddenly go balls out in a movie.
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Post by: Rumble on Jan 26, 2017, 02:03:36 PM
I just finished watching Red Dwarf XI. It was actually pretty decent. I feel like I enjoyed it more than the two previous series, which were kind of iffy. XI is a return to form, and I hope XII follows suit.

I actually enjoyed series X more than XI
But I'm still happy the smegheads are back
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 27, 2017, 05:26:38 AM
I'll be honest, I can't even remember what happened in X, I just recall being pissed off about it for some reason.

Might have just been in a bad mood when I watched it.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 28, 2017, 04:41:09 AM
I wouldn't give you any of Schmoo's chocolate cake.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rumble on Jan 28, 2017, 09:17:27 AM
I'll be honest, I can't even remember what happened in X, I just recall being pissed off about it for some reason.

Might have just been in a bad mood when I watched it.

The moose joke was awesome
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 29, 2017, 04:50:29 AM
Wow, I just read plot synopses for each of the episodes from X, and only two of them seemed even vaguely familiar. Did they meet Jesus Christ in one of them?
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 27, 2017, 08:29:38 PM
Did anyone watch the Oscars?



























Yeah, me neither.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 28, 2017, 06:06:22 PM
I heard it was absolutely blacktastic in response to last year's kerfuffle.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 28, 2017, 07:40:44 PM
Who actually watches that circle jerk?
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 01, 2017, 03:20:48 AM
I heard it was absolutely blacktastic in response to last year's kerfuffle.

Yeah, I think it was obvious pandering and most of the whitey voters wanted La La Land for Best Picture.  I think that whole "flub" was on purpose and their shitty way of rebelling.  (Shitty for the people behind Moonlight anyway.)  Still, it's a circle jerk like Squirrel said so there's no loss by having the awards go to more black people than last year.  Hopefully it'll be more diverse next year.  And if anyone deserves the title Oscar Winner by their name, it's Viola Davis.  Schmoo was all happy for Casey Affleck.  Fuck Casey Affleck.  He was bound to win an Oscar just for having the name Affleck.  All he's had to do as far as his career's concerned was to not fuck up.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 01, 2017, 10:02:25 PM
I have seen precious few of the Oscar nominees over the past 38 years of my existence. So it's largely irrelevant to me. I remember being sad that ET didn't win best picture, so maybe I'm just an embittered little four year-old inside.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 02, 2017, 06:18:23 AM
The Best Animated Picture category needs to be utterly abolished.  It's bullshit.  It might as well be called "What the Academy members took their kids to this year."
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 03, 2017, 03:23:49 AM
Here's the problem with the televised Oscars: the modern internet has rendered it utterly irrelevant. Back in the day, the only time you'd ever see celebrities was when they were performing, or when they were promoting their performances on talk shows. Now with twitter and just social media in general we have constant access to all of their most inane bullshit, and the mystery and glamour of these people has been completely washed away.

Who really gives a fuck about watching them walk single file to their seats so that they can pat each other on the back? It's banal and facile.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 03, 2017, 06:42:39 AM
It'd be nice to see an awards show focused on honoring the people actually involved with the craft.  The people who don't have a hundred million social media likes.  And learning where they came from, what they did to get a film made, how long they worked and what they personally sacrificed.  But that's not as interesting to the masses as Emma Stone's hot ass so whatever.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 05, 2017, 06:09:33 AM
Merla was watching some PBS thingy on Netflix about Ötzi the Iceman, so I sat down and watched a bit.

I also watched Miraculous the weekend before my flu (or whatever it was/is) hit me.  It's a cute little show but I need Ladybug and Cat Noir to find out each other's identities already.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 17, 2017, 09:56:34 AM
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 11 Episode 1.

The show I have to illegally download, despite the fact that I gave the Kickstarter 70 bucks because they put it on Netflix.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 20, 2017, 07:49:41 AM
OHHHH... so that IS the new one?
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Post by: Rama on Apr 21, 2017, 12:07:58 AM
Yes...yes it is. Up to episode 3 and it is the one that feels the most like the old show. Ep2 wasn't great, despite the Pearl/Bobo/Brain Guy cameo.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 21, 2017, 09:22:11 AM
'kay, got something to put on my list for when I have quiet Netflix time to actually hear what's being said.  Along with Into the Badlands, which I've been meaning to start.  Actually watched a bit of that on Easter, too.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 23, 2017, 07:30:08 AM
I've been binge watching Last Week Tonight or at least the segments on YouTube. 
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 24, 2017, 11:56:04 PM
Rewatching House, because House is awesome.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 29, 2017, 04:00:23 PM
Finished Iron Fist. I didn't think it was that bad. Had some slow spots, sure, but it's not like it turned into a total schlockfest in its second half like Luke Cage. But then again I'm one of the white devils, so don't take my word for it.

Started iZombie. Been meaning to watch this forever and I finally managed to get into it. I remember reading the comic, but this seems to be a pretty loose take. Turned it into a procedural drama because of course they did. I don't know. Seems okay so far.

Waiting for Riverdale to complete its first season so I can binge.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 30, 2017, 06:50:31 AM
Finished Iron Fist. I didn't think it was that bad. Had some slow spots, sure, but it's not like it turned into a total schlockfest in its second half like Luke Cage. But then again I'm one of the white devils, so don't take my word for it.

Is the fighting as sloppy as all the clips make it look?  I don't get why they didn't at LEAST get a martial artist for this.  Really, I wished they had casted Lewis Tan or Jon Foo and played the half-white angle.  BUT... at the very least, why not a Matt Mullins type of guy?  There's tons of white dude martial artists.  White guys love martial arts, right?  If you're not gonna invest in giving your lead guy Matrix-style martial arts training before filming, at least hire a real one who's already done the training on his own.

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Started iZombie. Been meaning to watch this forever and I finally managed to get into it. I remember reading the comic, but this seems to be a pretty loose take. Turned it into a procedural drama because of course they did. I don't know. Seems okay so far.

I was thinking about possibly trying this but the word "procedural" just killed any interest I might've have.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 01, 2017, 01:09:29 AM
The fights in Iron Fist are all over the place. Some are pretty good, others are just awful. Also, it's obvious the lead didn't do a lot of the moves, the reason I say this is a ton of action scenes are shot in very low light, or he just happens to be wearing a hoodie, pulled up of course. There are so many moments when you can see it's clearly not him. Like, what? Super lame.

I had to double chell to make sure I actually knew what procedural refers to. Ha! Yeah, at the beginning of every episode someone turns up dead, and by the end they've caught the killer. I mean, there's other shit going on, but the investigation is the meat of the show.
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Post by: B E C K on May 08, 2017, 12:38:15 PM
Marathoned a lot of My Cat From Hell and there was this one episode with a fat 20 lb cat.  That host-dude Jackson was all "oh, hey, he's pretty Catundro.  What does he eat?"  And the family's all "doughnuts, cheeseburgers, etc." and proceed to rattle off all of these horrible human foods.  And Jackson was all "here's a piece of meat, fatty" and the giant cat was all "harumph, whatev."  So they brought the cat a big ol' glazed doughnut and the cat was all "HELLO, FRIEND!" and proceeds to eat it.  Holy cow.  :lol:
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 08, 2017, 09:59:32 PM
I hated that show ever since I watched one where some chick's cat went mental when her boyfriend moved in, and her take on it was, if you can't get along with my cat you're out of here. Insanity. I had to admit that I was kind of with the cat whispering Montgomery Solarsystem: the cat wasn't really the problem there.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 14, 2017, 05:23:33 AM
The big problem with Jackson's show is that they hype up the drama.  A lot of the episodes will have someone saying "It's either the cat or me" or "This might mean a divorce" or other bs the show doesn't really need.  Even when Jackson goes in to ask questions like "Is Bonr the cat behaving?" there'll be dramatic music, a too-long pause, and the camera will jump from the cat owner to Jackson and then back to the cat owner who smirks and goes "yes."  Ugh.  I wish it wouldn't do that shit but this is the current tv climate.  The better cat behavior show is Pam Johnson-Bennett's Psycho Kitty but that one only has a single season of 13 eps, which is a pity.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2017, 05:04:31 PM
I think the season finale Agents of SHIELD will be this week, and Flash's will be next week. Flash has been draggy but picked up of late, so I'm hoping the penultimate season show holds up to snuff. Now, SHIELD has ebbed and flowed this year (this season has actually been better than its ever been, to be honest, as it never set the woods on fire for me), but I quit watching it back in March due to time constraints. After catching up on it over the weekend, it turned out pretty good, so I'm looking forward to the last season ep where I wasn't a week ago.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 16, 2017, 09:58:22 PM
Finally saw Into the Badlands.  Or at least Season One on Netflix.  It's not bad but whoever's writing some of the dialogue is writing it for retards.  Characters say things that aren't necessary to say.  Like Bad Guy grabs his head and hisses, so the viewer knows he's getting these mysterious headaches that are bad news.  No sooner does the viewer digest this when another character comes in "Oh, another headache?  This is bad."  Like no shit it's bad.  Anyone with half a brain already came to that conclusion.  We don't need the second character to come in and state the obvious.  So, just sort of overly hand-holdy stuff when it's not getting corny.  The character of MK, the younger man that's a co-lead character in this show, kinda waffles between seeming like an audience surrogate to feeling like a too-special OC in a weird fanfic.  I guess 4 out of 5.  Still entertained me on a boring Sunday afternoon.  Will watch more.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 22, 2017, 02:30:23 PM
New Twin Peaks stuff. It's much more Lynchian than the original Twin Peaks was, which of course might be a good or a bad thing depending on your POV.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on May 23, 2017, 01:51:13 AM
I watched episodes 1 and 2, didn't realize 3 and 4 were also available. Getting those now.

I really liked what I saw, despite having only a passing familiarity with the original. I grabbed all of that as well to tide me over while I wait for more new stuff.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 25, 2017, 12:32:40 AM
I've never watched anything Twin Peaks.  Is the new stuff on regular TV or something?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 26, 2017, 04:27:21 AM
New Twin Peaks stuff. It's much more Lynchian than the original Twin Peaks was, which of course might be a good or a bad thing depending on your POV.
Shit its out already? I want to watch the original and then the new ones right after!

Just found out Will and Grace is going to start again in fall (new eps)and im so excited.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 27, 2017, 04:45:34 AM
I was wondering why the actors from that show were making a late night appearance together.  That explains it.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on May 30, 2017, 04:55:01 PM
I've never watched anything Twin Peaks.  Is the new stuff on regular TV or something?

Not regular TV. Showtime. The streaming app subscription is more affordable than some of the other cable channel apps. (HBO is like $16, Showtime is like $10).

If you don't want to pay, wait until the season is all posted on the app and then do the free trial and watch it all then and cancel the trial.

You can also get the episodes on some other services, like Amazon VOD.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on May 31, 2017, 06:50:13 AM
Honestly, I forgot Showtime was a thing.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 05, 2017, 07:24:50 AM
I keep trying to watch season 4 of Arrested Development but it sucks so I keep stopping....but now that a new season is coming Ill have to toughen up and finish it. I heard that some producer is planning on cutting the 4 season and "re-pasting" the scenes in a more linear way, like the other seasons. I hope they do that because now its a fuck-fest and I cant even remember which episode I watched last .
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2017, 12:33:42 AM
An official recut or is this just a producer who's also a fan?
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 06, 2017, 07:18:34 AM
Official re-cut. At least they admit they fucked up.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 06, 2017, 07:04:55 PM
I was trying to watch my alma mater play a down-state rival school in a baseball regional last night. Now, I hate baseball, but it's State. Since it was on ESPN3, I couldn't watch it on satellite, and, of course, there's no WatchESPN app for the satellite or TV, so I watched it on my phone over the DSL and mirror it to the TV...which mean the picture was crap because I have crap internet and both download and mirror streams were over the same wireless connection. I finally grew a brain cell and tried downloading the app for PS4, which worked (eventually) but ironically had an even worse picture.

What a bunch of ignorant shit. A thousand apps for the satellite and TV, and none of them include the online-only stream of one of the main reasons to have both. To be honest, I'm happy to hear that ESPN is cratering in subscribers and ad revenue. I hate the one-gargantuan-sports-channel-to-rule-them-all thing.

BTW, since I know what sports fans you guys are, State won both must-win games of the doubleheader against the Mustard Buzzards to advance to the super regional of the college world series.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 07, 2017, 04:32:58 AM
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BTW, since I know what sports fans you guys are, State won both must-win games of the doubleheader against the Mustard Buzzards to advance to the super regional of the college world series.

I'm making a team called "the Mustard Buzzards" much cooler in my head than I'm sure they are in reality.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 07, 2017, 06:36:27 PM
I remember trying to watch the Netflix Arrested Development. What the hell. It looks so brutally cheap and haphazard. That fucking wig they stuck on Portia de Rossi. Jesus Christ.

I'll never go back!
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 07, 2017, 08:05:49 PM
I remember trying to watch the Netflix Arrested Development. What the hell. It looks so brutally cheap and haphazard. That fucking wig they stuck on Portia de Rossi. Jesus Christ.

I'll never go back!
Portia de Rossi looks fucked up but not only from that wig, also from the anorexia and the million plastic surgeries she has had.

Also idk if you noticed but a lot of the scenes with George Michael dont really have him in there (he had to record his scenes somerwhere else so at the end they just stitched him with the other actors).
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 08, 2017, 11:50:05 AM
That doesn't surprise me at all. Something just felt so very off about that new season. Left me cold.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 15, 2017, 05:35:54 AM
SO
Ive been watching Twin Peaks (currently on the first ep of the second season). I have to say I love the music, and all the David Lynch-ey typical stuff. But I have to say the story is a liiiiittle slow and a liiiiittle boring. Does it get better soon? Who was a fan of this show, was it Rama? Cant remember.

Kyle MacLaghan is so hot btw, he looks like Keanu . And him being an FBI agent in this is a plus
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Post by: Rama on Jun 18, 2017, 01:04:34 AM
Not me. I'm not a fan of Lynch on a whole (Don't get me started on that shit pile Wild at Heart) but I did like The Elephant Man and Dune.

I don't think I've ever actually seen Twin Peaks. I'd give it a shot, but I wasn't the fan.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 19, 2017, 05:33:26 AM
Damnnnn then who was it! First I thought Rumble, he said he has never watched it before, then you (same), so who here was a fan? I am 10000% sure it was someone from here so come out and confess!!
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 21, 2017, 01:46:45 AM
It wasn't Bernie?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 21, 2017, 02:45:03 AM
It wasn't Bernie?
Oh maybe thats who it was!

What is she up to these days ? Does anyone knows?
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 21, 2017, 11:40:54 PM
Nope, I haven't heard from her recently.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 30, 2017, 07:58:28 AM
So I finished watching the original seasons of Twin Peaks and Im up to episode 8 of the new season. I actually like this new season more than the first two. I can appreciate a good mind-fuck and ep 8 was the mind fuck of all mindfucks. I also watched the 1992 movie (Fire Walk with Me) which is supposedly a must if you are going to watch the new season, and the movie was ok.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 08, 2017, 06:22:56 PM
About the new Castlevania show on Netflix, it's a nice precursor to something we'll only start to see a year from now.

Seriously, everything that was done could have all been in a single extended episode rather than four. Yes, the world-building is handy, but is it really necessary for what is at its heart a Dracula tale? Other than making the Church the main antagonist rather than, you know, the greatest horror villain of all-time, not a lot was accomplished toward actually telling a story besides getting the gang together...and even then they're still one short.

But it looks good. Really good. I was underwhelmed by some of the celebrity VA performances, primarily Armitage's Trevor Belmont, but four episodes makes it hard to judge on this merit.

Anyway, I'm in for season 2, but I hope they actually do something by then. I just hope I don't forget about it, seeing as it will be next freaking year....
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 09, 2017, 01:19:13 PM
I forgot about this.  Oh, well, I'll get to it when I get to it.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 17, 2017, 09:16:07 AM
I started Castlevania, as well, but it hasn't really impressed me so far.

Also been watching The IT Crowd.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 25, 2017, 11:50:38 PM
I started watching gamers on YouTube.  The dude I'm watching now is playing Oxygen Not Included, which I sorta want to try and I sorta freakin' don't.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 27, 2017, 07:23:22 AM
Californication. I love DD but the whole series seem like a complete circlejerk about how awesome he is, how many chicks he gets etc etc. Its a bit tedious tbh and cant wait to finish it (Im on season 5). Mulder 4ever.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 31, 2017, 04:09:14 AM
I remember seeing the first episode of that show and getting that feeling.  As I don't have teh love for teh Mulder like you and my sis do, I immediately dropped the show after that.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 05, 2017, 08:26:21 PM
I've been watching the new Star Trek show, and frankly I find myself not really caring about it. I'm probably going to give it a couple more episodes do actually do something worthwhile in a worthwhile manner before unceremoniously dropping it.

On the other hand, I hear The Orville is actually pretty good and scratches that Star Trek itch nicely. I may start pulling some of those episodes and giving it a shot, despite my aversion to Seth MacFarlane.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 07, 2017, 07:07:50 AM
Let me know if you like it.  I just really don't care for Seth either but if the stories are any good, I may chell it out just the same.

As for the new Trek, well, I knew they were gonna kill Michelle's character.  I hoped they wouldn't but I knew they would...







[I added in spoiler space here because it just occurred to me that I don't know how far into the series you are.]







....and then she gets eaten by those shitty excuses for Klingons.  And I read these spoilers because I wasn't gonna actually watch the show and get disappointed in real time.  Fuck off, Discovery.  Fuck right off with you.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 08, 2017, 09:10:54 AM
I remember seeing the first episode of that show and getting that feeling.  As I don't have teh love for teh Mulder like you and my sis do, I immediately dropped the show after that.
Good for you. The ending SUCKED, the whole last season sucked ass tbh. Im so glad its over. Im this close from unfollowing DD on IG, thats how mad I am
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 09, 2017, 10:20:09 PM
[I added in spoiler space here because it just occurred to me that I don't know how far into the series you are.]
I read the spoiler after scrolling all the way down and then paging up. Oh, well, I didn't know for sure what they were going to do, but I'm not surprised as the Klingaren'ts hate her about as much as I do. They did their dead-level best to make the character unlikeable, so it figures.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 15, 2017, 12:10:40 PM
They finished off the Klingon threat early enough to set up the 2 month cliffhanger. Mirror Universe, I'll bet. And Burnham isn't Klingon fertilizer. Oh, well.

Also, that guy they pulled it off the Klingon clink? He's the pasty Klingon who followed T'Cuvma and got told he had to give up everything to fight the Federation. I thought that when I saw the Klingon chick was his captor, it's a pretty popular theory on the webs, and the flashback stuff they've been giving us makes me all the more certain.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 24, 2017, 10:35:52 AM
Watching the live action series of Ouran Host Club. Terrible, terrible terrible. If the guy who plays Tamaki and Kyoya werent qts I would have stopped watching after the first 5 minutes. Fortunately its only 11 eps long and im on ep 6.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 25, 2017, 11:08:08 PM
I don't think the live-action counterparts look bad, but why didn't they bite the bullet and make the guys that were blond blond? Even with a shitty wig or something?  It just would have looked better visually.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 27, 2017, 06:51:40 PM
The Crisis on Earth-X starts tonight on the CW DC shows. Supergirl and Arrow are on tonight, with Flash and Legends closing it tomorrow. Starts in 10 minutes.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Nov 30, 2017, 12:41:19 AM
I don't think the live-action counterparts look bad, but why didn't they bite the bullet and make the guys that were blond blond? Even with a shitty wig or something?  It just would have looked better visually.
Well Tamaki was "strawberry blonde" in the live series, so theres that. No blue/purple eyes tho. I think they did it to appeal more to the japanese public. I guess its the same reason Winry has brown hair in the FMA live action movie. (Hawkeye is still blonde tho ).
Series were terrible but the Ouran live action movie was actually fun. They used stuff from the manga that they didnt put in the anime, oh and Tamaki is much blonder in it ;) Also the "tall" girl from AKB48 is in it too.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 05, 2017, 05:29:37 AM
Looked at pics for the movie and, yeah, that looks much, much better.  That shade of pukey, almost orange-brown that gets used a lot in live-action Japanese stuff to be a stand-in for blond or lighter colored hair is just cringey. 
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Fiero on Jan 02, 2018, 08:39:32 PM
I've been watching Call the Midwife with my wife. It's a fucking tear jerker.

Also been enjoying Marvel's Runaways way more than I thought I would. Also binged and caught up on Flash and Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year. I can't bring myself to do the same with Arrow, though. Where the other two don't seem to take themselves too seriously, Arrow just seems to not fit in to me, even if it's sort of the anchor of the universe. I'll probably catch up on Supergirl eventually but I'm not super into it.

Don't remember if I've been here since Twin Peaks season 3. It's flawed but I still enjoyed most of it. I can't disagree with some of the show's most vocal critics, especially around misogyny and the possibility that Lynch actually has no fucking clue where he was going with it. It got somewhere but it sure was bumpy for a bit.

I also like the new Star Trek but it's definitely got something about it that doesn't feel Star Trek while also having things that do.

BoJack fucking Horseman may be my favorite thing I've watched this year. Especially the episode where he's underwater (lol sea horse) and no one speaks audibly and clearly for the entire episode.

Also really liked the Magicians. Looking forward to season 2 this year.

Guilty pleasure of the year was the Shannarah Chronicles. This show is shit but I enjoyed every fucking second. Absolutely shit, though.

Things I still have on my to-do list: Black Mirror, The Orville, Rick and Morty (just to find out if my IQ is high enough), Dark, American Gods and a fuck-load of other stuff I don't feel like thinking about right now.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 03, 2018, 06:19:25 AM
You reminded me that I need to remove Call the Midwife from my Netflix queue. I actually need to remove a lot of stuff out of my queue. But I haven't been in my queue in, like, forever.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 03, 2018, 09:46:06 AM
You reminded me that I need to remove Call the Midwife from my Netflix queue. I actually need to remove a lot of stuff out of my queue. But I haven't been in my queue in, like, forever.

Wait, people still have Netflix queues? Like for physical media to come in the mail? I can't think of a reason why you'd need a queue for digital consumption.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 03, 2018, 07:26:16 PM
No, it's my queue in my profile to stream stuff. But Netflix has fucked with it so many times it's pretty useless. Still, I'd like to pare it down.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 03, 2018, 09:37:21 PM
I wish I could stream video at a better than 240p resolution. Even that's sketchy. If I ever get that 10Mbps-minimum fixed wireless internet I'm probably going to subscribe again.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 16, 2018, 09:28:00 AM
The 11th season of the X files. So far so good. I read that they are doing more "monster of the week" episodes this season so Im looking forward to that.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 21, 2018, 07:05:53 AM
I watched some of the new Queer Eye on Netflix. Basically a brand new series of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Fab Five these guys are not. The only clever thing I saw in the whole episode I watched was a line cribbed from Kyan (one of the original Fave Five). The guy in charge of grooming needs to take care of himself before he gives others tips. They are all also too touchy feely. The original Queer Eye dudes were friendly but respected personal boundaries for the most part. In this new Queer Eye, it's all about making the dude uncomfortable by getting too close to him, grabbing him, touching him, talking about his body. Basically, every one of the five are Carsons when we only needed one Carson. Also, I don't like the cover of the opening song. It's not a horrible show or anything but the OG Queer Eye still best Queer Eye.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 22, 2018, 05:53:20 AM
Oh wow I didnt know they made a new season! And with no Carson??? Forget that! Was Kyan the "intellectual" one, with glasses?
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 22, 2018, 10:16:12 PM
Kyan was the hot grooming/hair guy. I think Ted was the glasses guy and he was the food one, too. Or was he the decor one? Oh, shoot. I'm trying to remember without doing a Google cheat. And it's more like a new show than a new season. There's a completely different set of five and I can't really say I have any favorites among them.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 23, 2018, 07:35:52 AM
That sucks.

Last time I saw Carson he was in an ep of RHONY. He looked exactly the same as he did when the show was on.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 23, 2018, 08:35:33 AM
Yeah. I mean, if I liked these guys, I guess this show wouldn't be so bad. But they feel too much like the YouTube generation of "gimme attention" types and don't have any of the polish, charm, or class that original 5 did.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 26, 2018, 06:57:26 PM
I already posted this in the reboots thread... but... ugh... I'm just so... ugh...

Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Feb 26, 2018, 10:02:28 PM
I liked how you posted this in FUCKING REBOOTS because fuck this reboot but also fuck this Reboot and also fuck this reboot of Reboot. It works on so many different levels.

I guess after new Voltron and now this Netflix, is on a roll. They can make my life complete now with a new Xena Warrior Princess show. Xena will be a hot, air-headed piece of jailbait and it'll take place in a posh highschool. Think Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson meets Saved by the Bell meets Fresh Prince of Bel-Air meets Clueless. Being a teenager isn't easy, yo! Especially when you gots to save the world in time and made it back to class in time for Heronomics 101.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 27, 2018, 08:55:15 AM
I liked how you posted this in FUCKING REBOOTS because fuck this reboot but also fuck this Reboot and also fuck this reboot of Reboot. It works on so many different levels.

I guess after new Voltron and now this Netflix, is on a roll. They can make my life complete now with a new Xena Warrior Princess show. Xena will be a hot, air-headed piece of jailbait and it'll take place in a posh highschool. Think Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson meets Saved by the Bell meets Fresh Prince of Bel-Air meets Clueless. Being a teenager isn't easy, yo! Especially when you gots to save the world in time and made it back to class in time for Heronomics 101.

Netflix would love that high-school-Batman's-rogues idea that was going around a while back.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 10, 2018, 10:55:16 PM
Jessica Jones season 2...and it's pretty shitty, but hey...Girl Power or something.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 12, 2018, 01:49:23 AM
JJ 2 was a little iffy for me in the middle, but overall I'd call it more consistent than the first season. Netflix's Marvel shows typically shit themselves in the second half, but this and Punisher managed to avoid that in my mind.

Did you watch Luke Cage? Awesome premise, and then it just devolves into absolute schlock. Iron Fist was bland from start to finish, and Defenders was an unmitigated disaster. And I know having them all come together as a team was always the plan from the very beginning, but they could have skipped that shit altogether and nothing of value would have been lost.

They've said straight up that there won't be a second Defenders, so at least we're on the same page there.

I wonder if Rosario Dawson will just end up a fixture on a single show, or if she'll chell out after this. She wasn't in this new one. In fact, they don't allude to any of the other shows here, other than Daredevil's buddy showing up for all of five seconds. Wait. Carrie-Anne Moss does mention "Rand" at one point, but it's completely throwaway dialogue.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 12, 2018, 08:10:26 AM
I kinda liked Luke Cage right up to the last like 3-4 episode and it just descended into shit. Iron Fist was all kinds of Meh and Defenders was a real WTF. But Punisher was five kinds of awesome. And Yeah I was expecting Dawson in Punisher and JJ2 as she was the connective tissue of these shows the first go around, but nope. I think maybe she doesn't want to do it anymore or maybe not for the money they want to give her.
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Post by: Fiero on Mar 16, 2018, 10:17:44 AM
Jessica Jones season 2 is definitely not as good as the first season. They had such an incredible villain in the first season that I doubt there's much that they could have used for season 2 that would have reached that bar. I don't know much about Jessica Jones lore but I have to imagine there was something else in there that would have worked better. I haven't quite finished it, the first half was really meh and the second half is at least getting a bit more interesting but it's so far behind the first season.

Seeing the Whizzer and then realizing he was based on an old-school superhero was awesome, though. Him having a pet weasel was a nice touch (I bet they've done that in the comics as well but I still liked it).
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Post by: Rama on Mar 16, 2018, 05:11:06 PM
I think Whizzer is also Speed Demon...or Speed Demon is an evil Whizzer, I'm not 100% sure on that other then Speed Demon ended up being a Spider-Man bad guy.


And they did have a great villain..which is why they shouldn't have...

[Spoiler Space]































.....Killed him off!
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 16, 2018, 10:19:23 PM
The Whizzer? Is his super powet pissing on people?
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 17, 2018, 07:37:19 PM
Yeah, not the best name. Was Peeman already taken or what?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 17, 2018, 10:32:31 PM
His whole thing was that his speed only kicked in when he feared for his life, so while I fully expected a pissed pants joke, they never went for it.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 06, 2018, 07:07:15 AM
Re-watching Jersey Shore cause the new season just begun and Im puuumped . It makes me nostalgic.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 18, 2018, 11:09:15 PM
I watched this thing on Netflix that's a bunch of stand up specials. A bunch were hit and miss but there were a few genuinely funny folks here and there. I also re-watched a bunch of George Carlin's material. I was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of them on Amazon Prime of all places. Also watched Wakfu Season 3 and some British show where homeowners attempt to sell their home but they're given $1000 British dollardoos to try and fix it up so they have the best chance to win over the potential buyer. I was cracking up when this one filthy man used the money to have his place professionally cleaned, was all "this is so nice," and then he decided not to sell his home after all.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 22, 2018, 09:54:24 PM
Penny Dreadful.


Netflix is a wonderful thing.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 24, 2018, 03:41:06 AM
The new Jersey Shore is freaking AMAZING . Snooki is a huge entitled bitch nowadays so she's definitely losing a lot of fans. Ronnie is the new Situation.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 24, 2018, 07:13:33 AM
I find it too sad that she had fans at all. And that she still has fans to this day.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 24, 2018, 09:27:01 PM
"New" Jersey Show? Why?
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 25, 2018, 12:22:19 AM
Probably ran outta money.
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Post by: Rama on Apr 25, 2018, 07:55:40 AM
For good reason.
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Post by: B E C K on May 04, 2018, 07:58:18 PM
Watched Nice Lady, Michelle Wolf's HBO special. Then saw a John Mulaney special on Netflix. Both were pretty good. Oh, and I also watched the Honeymoon Stand Up Special. A bit less funny than the other two but still solid.
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Post by: Rama on May 10, 2018, 09:56:29 PM
I thought about watching that, but then was like...Naaaaah.
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Post by: B E C K on May 13, 2018, 12:02:36 AM
Which one? Honeymoon Stand Up? Fyi if you decide to watch it, skip part 3. They spend the better part of 3 getting couples to come up on stage to be awkwardly roasted.
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Post by: Rama on May 13, 2018, 05:29:52 PM
Honeymoon Stand Up. 

I was on a kick of watching stand up for a little bit there. Watched Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend and Thank God for Jokes, Jim Jefferies: Bare, Jimmy Carr: Funny Business, Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping, Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight, and then a bunch of others that I watched like 15 mins of and stopped because it wasn't funny. I also avoided any stand ups that used a pot leaf background.....which really limited my choices.
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Post by: B E C K on May 17, 2018, 11:02:34 PM
I saw another John Mulaney thing on Netflix. Two more of them actually. And I also watched Ali Wong's new special. For a moment, I was legit "shit, it's been two years and you haven't had that baby yet?" Hard Knock Wife wasn't as funny as Baby Cobra but still entertaining. And I also watched Hari Kondabolu. He was pretty decent, I thought. None of this stuff was pee-my-pants funny but I could still kick back with my morning coffee and chill with it.
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Post by: Rama on May 19, 2018, 12:09:52 AM
Yeah I watched the first Ali Wong thing and then saw the 2nd one and was like "Does she only get a special when she is knocked up."


I also watched Sarah Silverman Speck of Dust.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 23, 2018, 10:44:02 PM
I binged an Adult Swim series called Ballmastrz.

I sometimes wonder how stuff like this ever gets funded in the first place, but in this case I'm glad it did.
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Post by: Rama on May 24, 2018, 12:57:27 AM
I always wondered who paid for Superjail and if said person was in a Brewster's Millions type situation.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 24, 2018, 11:16:58 AM
Haha! And that show had a decent run, too. I'm curious if Ballmastrz will get more episodes. I'd like to see where the story could go from here.
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Post by: Fiero on May 24, 2018, 04:34:51 PM
Now that I've watched almost every other superhero show that's aired, I'm slogging through Agents of SHIELD. I've been told some of the later seasons are really good but I'm on the 3rd season and it's mostly been meh. There's been some cool stuff and some lovely people to watch but nothing has truly piqued my interest. So why am I still watching it? Something to keep on while I'm folding laundry and washing dishes.
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Post by: Rama on May 24, 2018, 11:26:44 PM
Ugh. I gave up on Agents of Shield a long time ago. When Ghost Rider came in it was pretty cool, but I'd have rather just had a Ghost Rider show.....as long as it wasn't Car Rider.
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Post by: Fiero on May 25, 2018, 12:16:04 PM
Ugh. I gave up on Agents of Shield a long time ago. When Ghost Rider came in it was pretty cool, but I'd have rather just had a Ghost Rider show.....as long as it wasn't Car Rider.

Yeah, I heard that part of the show was really cool so that's part of what's got me continuing.

Also, now that we're pretty sure their next season is their last, there's a tangible end date. That always makes shows more watchable for me, somehow.
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Post by: Fiero on May 25, 2018, 12:16:50 PM
Also, I've been keeping up with the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Gotham, Krypton, Legion, Archer, and Westworld.

Fuck, I watch way more TV than I think do.
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Post by: Rama on May 26, 2018, 04:09:22 AM
 Gotham pissed me off with what they did with Jerome. He is was what I was watching for.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 27, 2018, 10:18:43 AM
The first two seasons of Agents of Shield were utter shit. It picked up afterward but was still marginal. The latter seasons were better, but I've got the last season on DVR and haven't bothered...at this point I may not.

I haven't watched Flash since the midseason break. It drug a lot, and I really didn't want to start on Barry's trial until I knew it wouldn't last forever like the freaking comic did (a freaking year on one storyline...the Antimonitor didn't kill Barry Allen, that trial storyline did). I did finish with Legends which was awesome, and I'm looking forward to next season. I quit Arrow some time back, and I never started Supergirl. Gotham was dropped in the first season. Krypton I said to hell with.

Venture Brothers is supposed to come back this summer. We'll see, but the last couple seasons have been shit. I think they've Archered out and don't have anything left to do.
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Post by: Fiero on May 27, 2018, 10:41:30 AM
Supergirl has continued to be surprisingly acceptable.

Gotham has had some really disappointing storylines. Ras, Jerome, but overall it still feels like an okay show to me.

First few seasons of Agents of Shield have felt like "How do we keep Ward as the bad-guy for ANOTHER season?"
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Post by: B E C K on May 30, 2018, 12:58:47 AM
The other day I was looking for fresh stand-up to watch and everyone I tried was shit. They were so shit I didn't even bother with their names. Except for Bill Burr but that's because I already know who he is. Wasn't he funny before? I saw what appeared to be a recent stand-up (within the last couple of years, it seemed) and he was an incoherent mess. Like he was off the wagon or something. One of the other people I watched was this Indian comic and his whole schtick was all "I'm Indian. I'm big in India but I'm shit in America" and then the fucking set would move from India to America and back and forth. I found it very jarring. Either do your set in India or do it to America. Stick with one fucking thing. It was so obnoxious to be snapped back and forth. Either show me in your element or show me you're a fish out of water. You can't have both, you ass. And, ugh, there was a guy who actually started his Netflix special reading bland jokes in as bland a voice as possible from cards in his hands. I swear I went through, like, five or six people and then just gave up.
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Post by: Rama on May 30, 2018, 09:58:54 PM
I'm kinda having the same problem, but I have been listening to the stand up channel on Pandora. That, however, repeats the same stuff to much.
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Post by: Fiero on May 31, 2018, 07:51:08 PM
I got to the part of Agents of SHIELD with Ghostrider in it. Yeah, this is definitely improved at this point.

Watched the first episode of Aggretsuko. I love red pandas so even if I didn't like it I knew that I would like it a bit. Brought me some nostalgia from the death metal days of yore. I heard there was a hippo in it. My wife loves hippos. Sadly, the hippo is FUCKING ANNOYING.
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Post by: B E C K on May 31, 2018, 08:56:43 PM
Ha ha, that fuckin' hippo. My dad likes hippos, too. Weirdly enough, it's not because they kill so many humans. On the Netflix series, I have to say I liked the metal parts in English. Although if you dig the throatier delivery, the Japanese is better for it.

Here's a trip for you guys: Gudetama. Is it wrong he makes me hungry?



I'm kinda having the same problem, but I have been listening to the stand up channel on Pandora. That, however, repeats the same stuff to much.

My God, is Pandora still that repetitive after all of these years? I stopped listening to them a long time ago for that very reason. Slacker was no better last I used it.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 02, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Yes. Yes they are. Its on like a 6 hour repeat.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 06, 2018, 09:35:35 PM
I watched the first episode subbed then dubbed (wife dislikes watching in Japanese, I prefer it usually). The difference in some of the lines seemed startling to me.



I finally got to the Ghostrider parts of Agents of SHIELD and I agree that was fucking great. Probably the best part of the show so far.

This wannabe Matrix shit that's coming after that part, though, not so fucking great. It has some cool stuff going on it but it feels pretty weak and the characters are fucking idiots talking about how they aren't in the real world around the people in the simulation, as if that won't freak them the fuck out. Come on. I'll be glad to get past this part of the show.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 14, 2018, 11:09:34 AM
However, I am digging the shoved into space part. I can see how it might have turned a lot of viewers off right after a lot of viewers were probably turned off by the quasi-matrix.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 24, 2018, 10:57:19 PM
I just finished the first season of Star Trek discovery and I have no idea why they did what they did to the Klingons. I mean every other race looks the same. The Andorians, The Vulcans, The Andorians, all look the same.....Klingons. WTF? And this is after Enterprise went to such great lengths to explain why Klingons look the way they do in TOS, but different in all the other shows and movies.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 26, 2018, 05:43:08 PM
After the first hiatus I took a final hiatus. I couldn't bring myself to care for this show at all.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 28, 2018, 09:19:34 PM
I just finished the first season of Star Trek discovery and I have no idea why they did what they did to the Klingons. I mean every other race looks the same. The Andorians, The Vulcans, The Andorians, all look the same.....Klingons. WTF? And this is after Enterprise went to such great lengths to explain why Klingons look the way they do in TOS, but different in all the other shows and movies.

Yeah, Klingons have looked so different in so many places. I prefer the Worf response, "They are Klingons and it is a long story. We do not discuss it with outsiders."

Far more annoying than their look is their sound. My wife and I both found all Klingon-language scenes incredibly hard to listen to.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 28, 2018, 09:22:54 PM
I took a break from Agents of SHIELD and am watching Luke Cage season 2 now. It's alright so far, seems like it might be on par with the first season, which was alright.

Although, I'm a little frustrated that the Jamaican accent's affectations are not shown in the subtitles.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2018, 09:40:02 PM
Although, I'm a little frustrated that the Jamaican accent's affectations are not shown in the subtitles.

Ha, ha. I always found that funny myself when shows do that. I guess, it's, like, they don't want to be offensive about it maybe. I could see someone getting butt-mad having their Cajun patois rendered into Wingdings or whatever.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 28, 2018, 09:43:36 PM
Although, I'm a little frustrated that the Jamaican accent's affectations are not shown in the subtitles.

Ha, ha. I always found that funny myself when shows do that. I guess, it's, like, they don't want to be offensive about it maybe. I could see someone getting butt-mad having their Cajun patois rendered into Wingdings or whatever.

I figured it was more to do with the hearing impaired getting lost in unusual sentences that aren't grammatically working. Could be the offense thing, though.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 30, 2018, 07:29:07 PM
Such is the two-edged diversity sword.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 02, 2018, 01:23:45 AM
Watched Luke Cage season 2 as well. I'll say it was a hell of a lot better the JJ season 2 but Iron Fist showing up was the highlight. Made Cage better and iron fist bearable. Really should just jump right to heroes for hire and be done with it.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 04, 2018, 01:50:11 PM
I haven't finished Luke Cage season 2 yet but I'm awfully tired of this homeopathy shit. I get that it's a big part of the cultures in the show but this girl just told this old pastor to take lavender for pain and I can't deal with it.

I know I should just look at it like magic in a fantasy story but it's intersection with this nonsense in reality is bugging me.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 04, 2018, 05:05:00 PM
You are dealing with a show were the bad guy gets superpowers from nightshade. Sooooooo.....
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 15, 2018, 10:54:06 AM
Tomatoes are in the nightshade family. Tell me he got his powers from a tomato.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 15, 2018, 10:36:01 PM
He got his powers from a tomato.


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Post by: B E C K on Jul 18, 2018, 10:30:08 PM
Pfft! LAME.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 20, 2018, 04:10:45 AM
But then they walked that back and made it so that Bushmaster (great pr0n handle) had been the sole survivor of a government experiment on children, and that the nightshade was simply activating the latent powers said experiment had granted him.

Luke Cage 2 was way better than the original. Mostly solid across the board, with much more nuanced villains/motivations.

One thing that still bugs me though is the whole musical guest thing. Like, it's fine when they intercut it with action and/or story progression, but when the show just stops dead so that some dude can play guitar for five minutes straight, that's pushing it.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 07, 2018, 01:33:44 PM
Yeah, the musical bits in some places were kind of weird. Have you watched Twin Peaks S3 / The Return? They pulled that a couple of times and it just made the show even weirder.

And yeah, they did roll back the magic stuff that was bugging me, it worked out fine I suppose. The doctor lady was still presented as a legitimate doctor pushing "natural medicine" or whatever and that still bugs me.

It was definitely better than season 1.

Finished Cloak and Dagger. It was pretty cool for mostly being a drama-thing more than an action-thing. Characters were mostly compelling, felt like they had real flaws (even if those flaws caused them to do things I wanted to complain about).

Also decided to watch some standups on Netflix. Watched Iliza Shlesinger's Elder Millenial. It was okay.

From that I was referred to Hannah Godsby's Nanette. I did not know what I was getting into. This was partly a comedy special and had some very funny bits but it was also her talking about why she's quitting comedy (I believe she has since said she is doing it again). Lots of emotional description of what it's like to be gay in a society (Tasmania) where being gay was very much not allowed (including being illegal for part of her life). It was heart-breaking to listen to and as much as I didn't want to keep watching (because I thought I was only getting a comedy special), I felt like it would have been disrespectful somehow.

John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City was also fine, nothing spectacular but funny enough I guess.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 07, 2018, 10:15:16 PM
I also watched Elder Millennial. I told myself if she said the damn words "party goblin," I was gonna shut it off. Didn't hear them if she said them. Probably 'cause she got married so she broke the goblin's neck.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 08, 2018, 12:55:38 PM
I also watched Elder Millennial. I told myself if she said the damn words "party goblin," I was gonna shut it off. Didn't hear them if she said them. Probably 'cause she got married so she broke the goblin's neck.

I have to admit that I don't know the reference but I can also imagine her uttering them pretty easily. (I've not watched her specials before this one.)
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 08, 2018, 10:00:30 PM
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Post by: Rama on Aug 09, 2018, 06:26:58 PM
I watched that too. I haven't watched her earlier stuff so Party Goblin is lost on me as well.

Although them constantly telling me what I'm suppose to hashtag was pretty annoying.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 04, 2018, 10:08:13 PM
I tried watching The Mayans MC but got bored pretty quickly. I think because of the focus on the cartel. When Sons became more focused on the cartels, it was it's downturn imo. I wish this had started with a smaller story like Sons did: a son missing his dad, scheming mommy and stepdad, and one percenters protectin' their small town life.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 05, 2018, 02:16:23 AM
I watched the final episodes of Adventure Time. I am satisfied with the conclusion.

And the new season of Venture Brothers has been pretty solid so far.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 05, 2018, 05:17:32 PM
The Morpho trilogy was supposed to have been the conclusion to season six, but they couldn't make it happen. So they kicked off this season with it.

I've enjoyed it thus far, but I can't shake loose the facts that A) I haven't watched this show since the previous season ended and need to brush up and B) the show was really becoming uninteresting to me between seasons 3 and 5, and 6 saved it.
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Post by: Fiero on Sep 08, 2018, 11:02:40 PM
Started on Iron Fist season 2. It's okay so far but I'm sure it will find some way to massively disappoint me.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 03, 2019, 01:52:35 PM
I finished IF2 and it wasn't as disappointing as IF1, but don't expect me to actually remember anything that happened.

I got around to Daredevil 3. The one thing that can be taken from these productions is they can make some really enjoyable fight scenes (but only in hallways, if it's not in a hallway, it's meh). The long shot in the prison was great (even if belief needed to be a little extra suspended for some of it).

I'm still looking forward to JJ3 and Punisher 2, even if they will be canceled immediately after being published.

Watched She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and fucking loved it. I want more.

Been watching all the Arrowverse shows (except Arrow which I bailed on in like season 3 or 4). The crossover this year was fairly good, though it felt a bit like a big setup for next year.

I continue to love the fuck out of Legends of Tomorrow.

Also Black Lightning, season 1 was better but season 2 is still pretty good.

And the biggest surprise of the year for me: the new Titans show is actually pretty fucking good. I'm looking forward to Doom Patrol and the eventual follow-up season for Titans. There's also Young Justice coming and I'm sure I'll enjoy that as well.

Agents of SHIELD starts up again today, hopefully it's good again. I want more of Chloe Bennett.
It's Gotham that comes back tonight. I got my wires crossed. I guess I'll have to settle for Ben McKenzie.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 03, 2019, 05:14:32 PM
Flash is uniform, but not uniformly good. It's like I will go long periods between watches, and when I binge it it's always easier to take because it's familiar, but the sameyness has worn off. But until last season, everything really has been cookie cutter. I dropped Arrow a while back because it was mired in its own formula (and got tired of some of the editorial content). I just never got into Supergirl, although I always loved the character (probably due to OG Crisis and Helen Slater) and think the actress playing the role is fantastic. I haven't seen Black Lightning as it wasn't connected to the Arrowverse (at least originally, maybe that's changing with the upcoming crossover?).

However, Legends is unadulterated fun in any capacity.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 03, 2019, 11:08:35 PM
Watched the first three eps of the Marie Kondo series on Netflix. The episodes run too long (by around ten to fifteen minutes) and so far the subjects have not really been likable. (Exception to the overworked mom in the third episode.) And I'd like Kondo to visit people who are actually trying to make a difference in their lives and attempting to adopt her methods. Going into these giant houses in the first two episodes and talking these Smaugs into culling their hoards is not entertaining or inspirational.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 21, 2019, 12:51:13 PM
I haven't seen Black Lightning as it wasn't connected to the Arrowverse (at least originally, maybe that's changing with the upcoming crossover?).

BL still seems to be completely unconnected but is also pretty dang good. There are some things going on in the bigger world that I would expect would be things that would come up on the others but I don't think they have (and the opposite should be true as well). Of course, with Flash, you can always just say he made ANOTHER alternate timeline.

However, I honestly don't think BL will combine to that universe. It feels a bit more serious than the other shows. If anything ever does happen there, it will be in a cross-over of different timelines.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 21, 2019, 01:00:12 PM
Young Justice: Outsiders was pretty decent. At least on par with some of the other parts of that show going backward. I was surprised at how much gore there is in the show. Not like volcanoes of gibs but they show bloody dead people at least once or twice.

Doom Patrol had it's first episode last week and it was really fucking good. My wife (who hates basically all of the DC shows except for Supergirl) actually enjoyed this one. The cast is fantastic and actually has some interesting names in it. It's really fucking good, guys. Hopefully the rest of the season is as good as the pilot.

Supergirl - I'm not sold on Dreamer being interesting. This might just be because I have no connection with the comic character but I haven't loved the Nia Nal character. She's had some good episodes but the main one that was about her and her family, I found that one dull.

Flash - This season has not been their best but I feel like it could end in a fairly interesting way, so I'm not giving up on it just yet.

Black Lightning - Seeing the younger girl work through her powers and deal with tragic loss has made for a pretty good season. There's been some mentions of Markovia and their meta-human projects and that's pretty neat. (Markovia is a main plot point in YJ:O, but in a fairly different way, so it's interesting to contrast).

Gotham - It's the same as it's basically always been, except now they're cut off from the mainland. Somehow this hasn't caused all the cops to be murdered, or Penguin to be murdered, or Jared Valeska to be murdered, which honestly those are the hardest parts to believe for me. It's ridiculous campy fun, even though it takes itself a little too seriously.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: The D on Feb 21, 2019, 08:36:09 PM
I decided to try to marathon Game of Thrones before the last season comes out. I had seen bits and pieces of season 7 but had no idea what the hell was going on.

I'm finishing season 2 now and although I like the series a lot it's different than what I expected. Definitely not Lord of the Rings. LotR had these amazing epic scenes with giant statues and cities and massive land battles and stuff. I'm expecting massive battles in GoT and so far all the battles have happened offscreen. They'll mention some battle between the Starks and Lannisters and you never get to see it, just some field of dead bodies and shit. Besides the occasional violent and bloody moment the series comes off as like a soap opera drama, lots of talking, characters moving around, character and story development. It's good, but certainly not as epic and war full as expected, although that may change in later seasons. It's not like HBO didn't have the budget. Also, a lot of the appeal of the show seems to be the shock-value element to it as well, which does get a bit old after a while.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 22, 2019, 11:41:01 PM
Not that I really cared about watching Young Justice: Outsiders, but I'm getting really frickin' annoyed that in the US we have navigate 50 different streaming services to legally watch something while international territories just get all this stuff on Netflix. I will enjoy it immensely when some of these individual streaming services begin failing and sink. I'd love it if it also happened with Disney's streaming service too but no way will Disney let their streaming fail and too many people like jerkin' off the mouse anyway to not pay for the service.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 23, 2019, 09:49:20 AM
I only use one online media service, and that's BitTorrent. The best uninterrupted stream I can normally get is 240p, and that crap is for the birds. So, if they insist on pushing that route then I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 25, 2019, 02:49:40 PM
I decided to try to marathon Game of Thrones before the last season comes out. I had seen bits and pieces of season 7 but had no idea what the hell was going on.

I'm finishing season 2 now and although I like the series a lot it's different than what I expected. Definitely not Lord of the Rings. LotR had these amazing epic scenes with giant statues and cities and massive land battles and stuff. I'm expecting massive battles in GoT and so far all the battles have happened offscreen. They'll mention some battle between the Starks and Lannisters and you never get to see it, just some field of dead bodies and shit. Besides the occasional violent and bloody moment the series comes off as like a soap opera drama, lots of talking, characters moving around, character and story development. It's good, but certainly not as epic and war full as expected, although that may change in later seasons. It's not like HBO didn't have the budget. Also, a lot of the appeal of the show seems to be the shock-value element to it as well, which does get a bit old after a while.

It's a lot of that but there are some great battles in the series. S2E9 does have one pretty good battle but not at the scale of LOTR battles. S6 and S5 have (IIRC) the most battles. Most of the seasons have some skirmishes here and there and maybe one big story-event-battle episode. There's nothing on the scale of the Battle of Pelenor Fields or the Battle of the Hornburg. More are closer to the defense of Osgiliath, or the skirmish at Amon Hen. There are some larger ones as well but still not really on the scale of LOTR films. There are some solid battles in the series for sure. In the upcoming last season, we might have a particularly large battle as well.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 17, 2019, 04:33:49 AM
Watched all of Love, Death & Robots on Netflix. Pretty solid overall. Some of them were a little hackneyed, but I didn't outright dislike any of them, and a handful were excellent.

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Post by: The D on Mar 19, 2019, 01:23:04 AM
So, finally finished season 3 and moving onto season 4. At this point I wanted to do a season a week which is a bit difficult even with each season being 10 episodes. Doesn't help that it's not streamable on Netflix so I've been borrowing the dvds from my brother and that's a slower way of doing it.

First off, was the third season supposed to be the redemption season? Where people I loathed in season 2 I now feel sorry for? I mean Jaymie, Sandor, and Theon.... especially Theon. I figured after season 2 I'd enjoy Theon getting fucked up but it's painful to watch. And Ramsay is a fucking prick. I think I hate this man more than Joffery. Even Joffery was starting to be redeemed a little.

That's one of the things I heard from one of features where the actors are like "Well, all of the characters are gray... none are truly good or evil. That's the amazing thing about these characters." Yea, sure, okay. It's pretty clear for the most part which characters you root for... Dany, the Stark children, Tyrion, the bastard blacksmith. And which characters you hate... Joffery, Tywin, the Boltons, ect. There are some more gray characters that have redeemed themselves, the ones I mentioned above. But it's obvious who the heroes and villians are.

And then the end of season 3. Fuck. I had heard about this event from the strong reactions from people online when it first aired. But, I thought for sure the event in question was A) a later season, B) happened somewhere else, and C) involved the Lannisters directly. Did not expect what happened to happen, but when the arrows started flying I realized that it was that event. Left me reeling.

Oh, and I kinda knew what was going to happen to Robb in that scene, although like I said, I expected it to happen in a later season. You can thank the GoT wikis for that. I go to the wikis to look up info about characters I don't know about, or locations I'm curious about. And it's very very hard not to get spoiled by the wikis. They're not very good at keeping the spoilers contained to later in the article. Like, split the article into seasons so I know when to stop reading.

Last thought. I love how they change the ending credits music based on what happened when the episode ended. The best ending and biggest surprise was when what happened to Jaymie, and then the ending credits music was this jaunty Irish pub tune. Just... perfect.


It's a lot of that but there are some great battles in the series. S2E9 does have one pretty good battle but not at the scale of LOTR battles. S6 and S5 have (IIRC) the most battles. Most of the seasons have some skirmishes here and there and maybe one big story-event-battle episode. There's nothing on the scale of the Battle of Pelenor Fields or the Battle of the Hornburg. More are closer to the defense of Osgiliath, or the skirmish at Amon Hen. There are some larger ones as well but still not really on the scale of LOTR films. There are some solid battles in the series for sure. In the upcoming last season, we might have a particularly large battle as well.

In one of the bonus features talking about the battle of Kings Landing they said they wanted to do a big battle for season 1, one of the battles between the Northmen and Lannisters, but they had run out of money. Kinda funny to hear HBO say they've run out of money but I guess I can understand considering it was the beginning of the series and it hadn't established itself yet. Still, it's HBO. I heard the Battle of King's landing took up nearly 50% of the budget of the second season which sounds crazy, especially since they used only one prop boat for every ship in Stannis' fleet. And the mud gate wall was just a small set next to a lake. Still was a pretty impressive battle although there were times when the actual number of bodies on camera kinda gave away that there wasn't that many actors fighting in those scenes... the rest of the ships, rowboats, and fighters were CG. Also, Fuck the king!
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Post by: The D on Apr 01, 2019, 01:24:55 AM
So now that I'm well into season 5 now, here's some Game of Thrones Fourth Season thoughts (Spoilers duh):

- I can see why they introduced Ramsay Bolton... they needed someone to replace Joffrey as the most evil human in Westeros.

- In season 3 there was this guy named Daario of the Second Sons who joins Dany, and the guy looks like a real 80s hair metal guitarist. Then season four comes along, and there's this guy with a beard that pops up in a similar role, and I'm thinking "They changed actors, didn't they." Yep. I actually miss the metalhead though, I liked him better.

- I a bonus feature about the battle of Castle Black, they mentioned that on one day of shooting, it started raining, and becausee of... money reasons?... they shot in the rain, and then CGd the rain out of the scene. Seriously, it was cheaper to CG the rain out of the scene than just, wait until the rain stopped fucking pouring? I feel more let down than when they CG shaved Henry Cavill's face.

- Shae has to be the dumbest fucking person in that series. She doesn't understand why Tywin has to marry Sansa like she's never heard of arranged marriages before (though maybe the country she comes from doesn't have arranged marriages). Even though she doesn't see Tywin consummate his marriage she still acts jealous. And then she doesn't understand why he has to send her away, oblivious to how dangerous King's Landing really is. And then the jealous bitch goes and lies in court against Tyrion. Her death was the most satisfying thing ever. Fuck her ass.

- Also, getting shot on the toilet has to be the worst way to die and it couldn't have happened to a more stuck up character.

- One of the things that bothered me about Dany's actions in Meereen. She decides to punish the masters by crucifying some of them. And I thought to myself "But now she's not much better than the original slavers. And what if some of those masters she killed were good to their slaves, or even freed their slaves. And sure enough, in a later episode one of the master's sons comes up and said his dad opposed the bad treatment of slaves.
I appreciate that Martin and the writers are showing Dany's rule of Meereen as not going as smooth as she would like it. People who spent their whole lives having slaves would not want their comfortable way of life upended so quickly without being resentful. And we have example of that in the KKK-like Harpys of season 5. Not to mention slaves being hateful toward their former masters. I am happy to see that the writers are showing that some of Dany's actions have negative consequences and that liberating tyrannical slave governments is easier than actually ruling over them.

- On a last thought, it really annoys me when fantasy writers throw around long spans of time in a novel's past without thinking of how long it would actually be. The first men arrive in Westeros 12000 years ago, fight the Children of the Forest for 2000 years, and during that time the Children create the first White Walkers. But the Walkers only appear 8000 years ago. So what were they doing for 2000-4000 years? Discovering masturbation? Just throw random spans of time around, sounds legit.
And the 12000 years that have passed since Westeros was first colonized. I don't know the technology of those first men (Stone age maybe?) but the Westeros of today is iron age, and between around Roman Empire and Mid Middle Ages in technology. Why aren't they more advanced in 12000 years? At least they should have cannons and/or siege weapons, or at least electricity and spaceships and shit.
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Post by: The D on Apr 10, 2019, 01:06:52 AM
Game of Thrones season 5.

Gotta love this series. In a previous season you love a character (or at least tolerating them) only to find yourself hating them in the next season (like Stannis and the Red Witch for burning a child alive, or that Black Watch kid that has perpetual angry face and gets all stabby stabby at the end). Or hating a character but then feeling sorry for them (like Cersei).

Oh, something that bugged me. Back in season 2 I wondered how Bran got around the Bolton's siege of Winterfell and left without being spotted. Another thing that confused me this season was the aftermath of Hardhome's destruction. So Hardhome is on the coast of the ocean. The survivors board Stannis' fleet. So why... why did they just not use the fleet to get around the wall? Why did they go through the gate instead? The gate is hundreds of miles away from Hardhome.  What the fuck????

And something else I didn't understand. That the youngest of Oberyn's daughters found Bronn hot. We're thinking of the same Bronn, right? (https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/cast-and-crew/bronn) Maybe Bronn is hotter in the books idk.

And is anyone else tired of Baelish's Talk-out-the-side-of-my-fucking-mouth accent already? Anyone?

In ending, I just figured out that Walder Frey is played by HP's Filch, and Osha, Bran's wildling friend, is played by Nymphadora Tonks.

And Tyrion Lannister is played in Season 5 by Old Luke Skywalker:
(https://images.latintimes.com/sites/latintimes.com/files/styles/large_breakpoints_theme_lt_wide_1x/public/2015/06/13/tyrion-lannister.jpeg)
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Post by: The D on Apr 10, 2019, 06:01:49 AM
Oh yea, and one more thing. I remember hearing a whole lot of bitching from feminists about Sansa's rape scene. So much so, that when I actually saw the scene, I wasn't even sure it was the right scene, because it was literally nothing worth crying about. I had to look it up online to make sure that the scene I had seen, which wasn't a big deal, was the same one that feminists had been screaming about.

So yea, feminists whining about nothing, but what's new?
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 10, 2019, 08:39:33 PM
Ha ha, I literally call this show Raep of Thrones.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 10, 2019, 09:30:50 PM
I watched the first episode and realized it wasn't for me.  And now, hearing about the show X seasons later, I realize I was correct.

As usual.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 11, 2019, 01:28:42 PM
Oh, something that bugged me. Back in season 2 I wondered how Bran got around the Bolton's siege of Winterfell and left without being spotted. Another thing that confused me this season was the aftermath of Hardhome's destruction. So Hardhome is on the coast of the ocean. The survivors board Stannis' fleet. So why... why did they just not use the fleet to get around the wall? Why did they go through the gate instead? The gate is hundreds of miles away from Hardhome.  What the fuck????

I can't explain all of this, and I'm not sure anyone can. There's a bunch of fucky hand-waved stuff around vast distances being travelled in relatively little time (in book, not so much). That probably at least partially explains some of that. And I think the catacombs had another exit or something? Been a while since I've read that part. Or they actually left before the siege.

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And is anyone else tired of Baelish's Talk-out-the-side-of-my-fucking-mouth accent already? Anyone?

I think everyone, both in and out of that universe.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: B E C K on Apr 12, 2019, 08:29:56 PM
I watched the first episode and realized it wasn't for me.  And now, hearing about the show X seasons later, I realize I was correct.

As usual.

Similar. I've watched clips of it and read lore because it initially looked interesting to me but I've never seen a full episode or read any of the books. I've never felt compelled to either. I'm not the audience for this.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2019, 10:52:13 PM
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I'm one of these bitter curmudgeons who read and enjoyed the books first, and fully embraced the show initially, only to do a complete 180 on the show once it began to severely deviate from the books.

I'm so done with the show. I don't give a fuck how it ends, because it doesn't fucking matter. It only matters that it is in fact ending, because now there's the possibility the author will finally finish writing the story as he sees it.

Not holding my breath.

Yeah, I'm a real Salty Sam about the whole thing.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 15, 2019, 11:59:50 PM
Can you mention some of the worst offenders? Like deviations from the book that really chafed you?
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 16, 2019, 05:23:13 PM
I can't. There's too much. Basically they reached a point where they caught up with what had been published, and from then on I consider it nothing but pricey fan fiction. Sure, they make the claim that they've worked closely with George to realize his "creative vision", but you know damn well dude's gonna do his own shit, if he ever even bothers I mean.

Just... so many characters and scenes omitted or heavily altered. Theon's family in particular is totally shafted in the show, you'd be forgiven for thinking the Greyjoys are nothing more than an afterthought. And Theon, himself? Jesus Christ. After the torture he endured, no one who previously knew him is supposed to recognize him. The way Martin describes him in the books, he's pretty much Gollum at that point. Like, just completely fucked.

In the show they have to constantly remind you that he has no junk anymore because visibly he looks no worse for wear!

I'm sure someone somewhere has compiled a list of all the differences, they are legion.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 22, 2019, 09:57:00 AM
The way Martin describes him in the books, he's pretty much Gollum at that point. Like, just completely fucked.


Is that surprising coming from someone who obviously got a lot of inspiration from LoTR?
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 23, 2019, 08:16:41 AM
I can't. There's too much. Basically they reached a point where they caught up with what had been published, and from then on I consider it nothing but pricey fan fiction. Sure, they make the claim that they've worked closely with George to realize his "creative vision", but you know damn well dude's gonna do his own shit, if he ever even bothers I mean.

Just... so many characters and scenes omitted or heavily altered. Theon's family in particular is totally shafted in the show, you'd be forgiven for thinking the Greyjoys are nothing more than an afterthought. And Theon, himself? Jesus Christ. After the torture he endured, no one who previously knew him is supposed to recognize him. The way Martin describes him in the books, he's pretty much Gollum at that point. Like, just completely fucked.

In the show they have to constantly remind you that he has no junk anymore because visibly he looks no worse for wear!

I'm sure someone somewhere has compiled a list of all the differences, they are legion.

He is recognized by someone in the books, but only just barely.

Is that surprising coming from someone who obviously got a lot of inspiration from LoTR?

It feels almost meaningless to say a fantasy author was inspired by Tolkien's work. They all were, even if indirectly.

This fan wiki has a list of changes, I'm sure it's not entirely complete as there are of course entire storylines and characters that aren't in the show: https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 24, 2019, 08:46:11 AM
Quote from: joerammstein
And Theon, himself? Jesus Christ. After the torture he endured, no one who previously knew him is supposed to recognize him. The way Martin describes him in the books, he's pretty much Gollum at that point. Like, just completely fucked.

In the show they have to constantly remind you that he has no junk anymore because visibly he looks no worse for wear!

Nah, that's just tv/movie style scarring: where someone can't be too fucked up because then they'd be too ugly for tv. Not for censorship reasons but purely aesthetics. Happens all the time. Like in that flop Mortal Engines. The lead girl's face is supposed to be messed up and they turned her scarring into this faint red line so she was still conventionally pretty.

In Avatar the Last Airbender, I remember being surprised they gave Zuko such an ugly-looking scar. I think they got away with it in a kid's show because he was a villain at first and cartoon villains have more leeway to be ugly. If he were a hero character at the start, I bet Nickelodeon would've made them change something.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 30, 2019, 03:59:13 PM
Reek would definitely not be able to wield a bow or sword or spear, though. I'm pretty sure about that. Not effectively, at any rate.

GOT season 8 feels halfway decent but a bit like fan-fiction. Which it certainly is at this point but still. I love some of the stuff they have done but feel like there's not much suspense for main characters anymore and that they aren't willing to take the risks that Martin was willing to do (like killing the guy that seemed like the main character way back in book / season 1).
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Post by: Rama on May 11, 2019, 12:20:53 AM
Can we talk spoilers for season 8? Because I got someone that made me go "WTF" but it's a spoiler.
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Post by: Rama on May 11, 2019, 12:22:02 AM
And I have all the books so far and am actually waiting for the show to be over to read them. That way the books being better don't ruin the show for me.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 11, 2019, 01:30:30 AM
Are you talking like shit that has yet to air? Because I don't want to know about that. I'm fine talking about what's happened so far.

Which is GARBAGE. Garbage has happened so far.
Title: Re: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?!
Post by: Rama on May 11, 2019, 09:45:02 PM
No stuff that already happened, but maybe not everyone has seen yet. I don't want to know the unaired stuff either.


My thing is that when Jon found out he was fucking his Aunt, his first reaction was "Ned Stark lied to me" and then Dany found out she was fucking her Nephew, her first reaction was "You have a legitimate claim to the throne." Know I don't know if things work different in Westros, but neither of those things would be the first thing that crossed my mind when I found out I had fucked my Aunt unknowingly.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 14, 2019, 07:27:03 PM
I'll be glad when the shit's over. People are all like, "you don't watch it? EVERYBODY watches it!" And my reply is always that everybody was reading fucking Twilight once upon a time, too, and I never touched the shit. I stopped with the first episode (after buying the first season bluray, GOD DAMN IT) and never regretted it.
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Post by: Rama on May 14, 2019, 10:55:13 PM
Well I wasn't nearly as pissed about the last episode as everyone else seems to be...so....


and other then GOT I'm watching the What We Do in the Shadows tv show on FX. It's pretty fucking good.
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Post by: Fiero on May 15, 2019, 12:54:26 PM
I feel like the things that happened in the last episode of GOT were always expected to happen in some sort of way but the journey to get there doesn't feel like it took the right paths, and so the episode felt very dissatisfying.
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Post by: Fiero on May 15, 2019, 12:54:42 PM
Also, Doom Patrol. I'm watching Doom Patrol. It's fucking great.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 15, 2019, 04:42:49 PM
Doom Patrol is fun, but I'm still irked as I try to understand why nobody ages in that show. Well, other than Cliff, which is obvious. Half of them are, like, 80-something years old. Except for Niles, who's well over a hundred, and Cliff who's 98% physically dead and Cyborg who only halfway is.
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Post by: B E C K on May 16, 2019, 11:49:09 PM
Do you fans think they should've just stopped? I'm just thinking if I were a fan of a book series that got turned into a show, I'd want them to stop when they ran out of shit to adapt. Wrap up what you got and hopefully everyone will be available for a mini-series whenever the author finishes it. But oh, well, gotta milk that sweet cash cow, I guess.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 18, 2019, 06:34:33 PM
Nah, stopping was never an option. HBO got the rights and they were going to do whatever they wanted. Hell, they still have all those spin-offs planned, but good luck if they leave everyone with a bad taste in their mouths after this finale.

On a brighter note, I can't stop watching this:

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Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2019, 07:57:10 PM
Hey, it might be fun to see them St*r WarzzZZ themselves: how long does it take to get a guaranteed money-maker and break its fucking kneecaps? I give them two tries at the most.
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Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2019, 08:00:49 PM
Ha, that banana video. You didn't even peel it, bro.

Edit: Holy fuck, I just checked out that channel. Shaggy Ball Z is fucking perfection. Holy shit.  :laugh:
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 20, 2019, 01:17:50 AM
Man, I totally skipped that because I hated when that Shaggy meme was circulating, but this was actually really good.

I will say, I'm satisfied with the way GoT ended. After that second-to-last episode, I fully expected to loathe the conclusion. It was fine, though.

SPOILS AND SPOILS

I'll be an anal retentive nitpicker and ask what the point of the Night's Watch is now that the White Wankers are vanquished and the Wildlings are essentially allies of the North. But maybe that was the point? Like, they misled Grey Worm et al. into believing Jon would be serving a sentence when really he's now free to roam up there.

Also, Bran's offhanded remark about finding Drogon would seem to imply he's able to Warg dragons, which begs the question, why didn't he ever try that before?

Whatever.
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Post by: B E C K on May 20, 2019, 11:23:04 AM
Don't worry. The twelve spin-offs/prequels/sequels will create so many of their own unanswered questions and gaping plotholes that you'll completely forget your prior concerns.
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Post by: Rama on May 23, 2019, 11:57:11 AM
I'm also not pissed at the end of GOT. It was fine.
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Post by: Fiero on May 30, 2019, 11:11:26 AM
Doom Patrol is fun, but I'm still irked as I try to understand why nobody ages in that show. Well, other than Cliff, which is obvious. Half of them are, like, 80-something years old. Except for Niles, who's well over a hundred, and Cliff who's 98% physically dead and Cyborg who only halfway is.

It's actually explained in the last two episodes (mostly, sort of, you do have to do some of the math). I love that the show doesn't explain stuff and that they aren't particularly worried about the weird stuff being a turn-off (like the butts).
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Post by: Fiero on May 30, 2019, 11:12:08 AM
I was fine with how GOT ended for the most part, more annoyed at how the speed at which they got there didn't feel like natural storytelling.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 30, 2019, 06:34:31 PM
It's actually explained in the last two episodes (mostly, sort of, you do have to do some of the math). I love that the show doesn't explain stuff and that they aren't particularly worried about the weird stuff being a turn-off (like the butts).
Yeah, I watched the most recent episode last night, which explained things sufficiently. Looking forward to season 2...there's still a lot of questions to answer.
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Post by: The D on Jun 03, 2019, 10:58:24 PM
Do you fans think they should've just stopped? I'm just thinking if I were a fan of a book series that got turned into a show, I'd want them to stop when they ran out of shit to adapt. Wrap up what you got and hopefully everyone will be available for a mini-series whenever the author finishes it. But oh, well, gotta milk that sweet cash cow, I guess.
I actually would have preferred them to begin the series AFTER GRRM finished the damn books, but since it's looking like he's going to die before he even finishes the next book, it probably wasn't worth waiting.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2019, 04:16:03 PM
Doom Patrol was pretty rad. I think I had dirt in my eyes for a few of those episodes.

The first episode of Swamp Thing seemed promising.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 19, 2019, 02:13:03 PM
It's actually explained in the last two episodes (mostly, sort of, you do have to do some of the math). I love that the show doesn't explain stuff and that they aren't particularly worried about the weird stuff being a turn-off (like the butts).
Yeah, I watched the most recent episode last night, which explained things sufficiently. Looking forward to season 2...there's still a lot of questions to answer.

With how shit is going with this service right now, I'm worried we won't see a second season. Titans looks like it's still moving so that's maybe a good sign. I also love that the actors in Doom Patrol seem to genuinely love the show.

The first episode of Swamp Thing seemed promising.

And it's already cancelled. T_T
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 19, 2019, 06:36:55 PM
With how shit is going with this service right now, I'm worried we won't see a second season. Titans looks like it's still moving so that's maybe a good sign. I also love that the actors in Doom Patrol seem to genuinely love the show.

I'd basically call the show done for now. There's been no signal that they're going to continue it anywhere else, and it may not be easy to pull everyone back together if they let too much water run under the bridge.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 11, 2019, 11:31:02 AM
With how shit is going with this service right now, I'm worried we won't see a second season. Titans looks like it's still moving so that's maybe a good sign. I also love that the actors in Doom Patrol seem to genuinely love the show.

I'd basically call the show done for now. There's been no signal that they're going to continue it anywhere else, and it may not be easy to pull everyone back together if they let too much water run under the bridge.

They are having a panel at SDCC but that could just be to promote the blu-ray release of the season.
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Post by: Fiero on Sep 10, 2019, 08:16:37 AM
Doom Patrol was renewed for a second season and weirdly will be on both HBO Max and DC Universe simultaneously. Not much has been said though it was stated they will have to deal with a "small" issue left over from last season.

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was pretty good. It captures a lot of the spirit of the original film and expands upon it.

Legion season 3 is just as fucky weird as the first two seasons. They seemed to have dropped the pretense of David being a hero and I think it makes the show stronger.

Titans season 2 is not starting out as strong as I'd like. I really liked season 1 but the acting is not at its best in season 2, particularly for Rachel/Raven. Only one episode out so far, so I'll at least try another one, especially since this first episode felt like it was just wrapping up the first season's finale.

Also watched Swamp Thing. Sucks that it fell apart behind the scenes because I actually enjoyed it a good bit.

Archer 1984 ended in a way that makes me think he's finally coming out of a coma, which I can't decide whether that's good or bad.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is cool. The third "season" ended in a fairly crazy way. (I put that in quotes because I'm 90% sure the second and third season were produced at the same time and could have been released at the same time). I saw that Kevin Smith is doing a new He-Man series but his is tied to the old show. I honestly kind of don't care. I want new He-Man in the new She-Ra style.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 30, 2019, 10:31:52 AM
CW DC shows are back on again. Supergirl feels kind of meh so far this season but the new costume (now with pants!) is pretty good. The Flash is decent but I think I might be worn out of this show. Batwoman is starting pretty cheesy but I don't hate it. Black Lightning... I don't know exactly how I feel about it yet. I like that BL and his kids are getting drawn apart from each other, differing goals and priorities and viewpoints and such. Remains to be seen what they really do with that, though. Can't wait for the Crisis. I'm so far out of watching Arrow, I'm certainly not going to start now. Maybe after it finishes completely, I'll bother binging in but probably nah.

Looking forward to His Dark Materials starting next week. Meaning to watch Watchmen as well but haven't. Heard it is starting good, though (except for silly people complaining about politics in a TV show that's serving as a sequel for a comic book that totally didn't have any politics in it /s).

Also, watched the newest season of Call the Midwife with my wife. That show emotionally breaks me over and over again.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 30, 2019, 09:02:12 PM
I'm on for the Crisis, but the only weekly I'm watching is Flash and Legends. Is Legends even on yet, though? I haven't seen it...it's the only one I actually look forward to as Flash has gotten stale. With that show I'm just about where I was when I finally decided Arrow wasn't worth putting up with anymore. I never saw the first two seasons of Supergirl, so I'm not interested in onboarding. Batwoman just doesn't appeal to me...it comes across to me as Lesbian Arrow. I didn't start on Black Lightning since it was disconnected from the others, but now I wish I had...but it's not worth me catching up with it at this point.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 04, 2019, 10:51:25 AM
I'm on for the Crisis, but the only weekly I'm watching is Flash and Legends. Is Legends even on yet, though? I haven't seen it...it's the only one I actually look forward to as Flash has gotten stale. With that show I'm just about where I was when I finally decided Arrow wasn't worth putting up with anymore. I never saw the first two seasons of Supergirl, so I'm not interested in onboarding. Batwoman just doesn't appeal to me...it comes across to me as Lesbian Arrow. I didn't start on Black Lightning since it was disconnected from the others, but now I wish I had...but it's not worth me catching up with it at this point.

Legends starts when Black Lightning drops off, except we're getting an episode with Crisis. I think I might need to watch Arrow this season because I saw a preview that had the Monitor in it and now I'm like shit... am I missing anything? Hopefully not.

Black Lightning still isn't connected, beyond what's going to happen in Crisis. I don't really think they're putting them together. Kind of like how Supergirl is a different world but they sometimes connect, except I expect BL to not be connected outside of this and maybe other big crossover events. It feels like its own thing.

Still not sure if BW is in a different universe than all the others, or if it's connected to Supergirl. I think its not connected, though. Really makes it easier for worldbuilding, I guess, since you could have Gotham or Metropolis in one world without being like, "wait, what's Batwoman doing while they're there?"

And now we're hearing about more Berlanti shows on HBO Max, a Green Lantern show and a show that seems to be peeks at various stories in the DC multiverse. Who knows if those will be loosely connected as well. I'm wondering if some of the crisis stuff we've heard about might be a peek at the latter of those ideas.

Titans on the whole still seems pretty good but boy are they milking the idea that the OG Titans really don't like each other that much as a whole, and nobody wants to let the new Titans do anything. There were a couple of really great episodes this season but I'm worried its going to get worse as we near the end of the season.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 04, 2019, 02:51:20 PM
I've been holding off on Titans S2 until it's all available. That's what I did with S1, and I think it probably mitigated the bad taste that would have otherwise been left by weaker episodes.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 05, 2019, 06:12:29 PM
Word is that the Prime Superman in the Crisis will be Christopher Reeve. So they might as well have played Supermon and brought in Dean Cain, John Newton and Gerard Christopher...gotta catch them all!
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 12, 2019, 04:03:48 PM
Watched first episode His Dark Materials. Was okay.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 12, 2019, 07:58:42 PM
Yeah. I wanted to like it more than I actually liked it.

Now who got that Disney+?!
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 16, 2019, 09:21:45 PM
"Not me," said the bee. Is it in Canada? Is it worldwide? I honestly don't know but also neither do I feel compelled to investigate on my own. Spoonfeed me pls.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 17, 2019, 09:27:36 PM
The Mandalorian is extremely St*r WarzzZZ. I'm enjoying it. Great score as well. It certainly piles on the Western/Samurai inspirations of St*r WarzzZZ.

Disney+ is US only right now, I believe. More countries get it on the 19th and then more in January.

I have the service. I'm mostly using it as a way to watch Straw Wars stuff but there's a decent amount of content at launch.



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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 20, 2019, 02:35:03 AM
I thought Mandalorian was getting to be a bit shit, but the sixth episode was pretty damn good.

Watchmen was glorious. Absolutely bizarre how good it ended up being considering Alan Moore had zero involvement.

Dark Materials is so fucking dull. Holy shit, man. What the actual fuck.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 20, 2019, 09:51:07 AM
I thought about watching Watchmen, particularly after DC finally finished Doomsday Clock, but...eh.
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 10, 2020, 10:22:23 AM
Got around to the Witcher. I think others have said this, but it feels a bit like the eventual evolution of the Raimi fantasy shows from the 90s. It's fun, at times it's really quite good, but the underlying frame of the show is pretty cheesy. Overall, I do like it but I totally get it when others say it was boring. Very surprised at how good they mad Henry Cavill look with grey hair, though he did look uncomfortable in most episodes. Like his gear wasn't fit well and was pinning his arms out.

Watching Picard and enjoying it. Not much to say about it. Like Discovery, its vastly different than the Star Trek shows that came before, so it's hard to compare it to other ST shows. The ongoing story is such a change. I'm not sure I'll enjoy the season as a whole yet but I've had fun with it so far.

Magicians season 5 isn't as good as previous seasons so far, IMHO. I never particularly liked Quentin as a character, but he sort of was glue between the other characters. Some of them working together now makes very little sense, and the only reason it did before was because Quentin was like a bridge between them. I'm curious where they go with it. And curious about this horrifying misogynistic pig-man.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 28, 2020, 02:20:38 PM
Picard overall finished fairly good, with some WTF caveats. Lol we completely dropped watching Magicians, will probably binge the final season at some point in the future. We also have completely forgotten to watch Westworld, but season 2 was mediocre.

I was worried about how well Clone Wars season 7 would be, because the first set of episodes were pretty good but not spectacular, the second set were okay but so focused on one character that it was hard to have anything interesting occur. The final set, The Siege of Mandalore, is really fucking good. It feels cinematic.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 18, 2020, 07:57:46 AM
The ending of the "new" She-ra was stupid. The whole "new story" was stupid and plagued with tumblr-like shit, very much like Steven Universe. Im pissed they shat all over such a classic just so Hollywood can show their pro-lgbt agenda down our throats (btw im not against same sex couples, but im against them taking straight characters and making them lgbt just because. Those fuckers have steven universe for that!)
/rant.
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Post by: B E C K on May 18, 2020, 11:32:57 AM
The ending of the "new" She-ra was stupid. The whole "new story" was stupid and plagued with tumblr-like shit, very much like Steven Universe. Im pissed they shat all over such a classic just so Hollywood can show their pro-lgbt agenda down our throats (btw im not against same sex couples, but im against them taking straight characters and making them lgbt just because. Those fuckers have steven universe for that!)
/rant.


Pretty much why I never bothered with Nu-Ra to begin with.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 18, 2020, 07:01:40 PM
I'm wondering if the Kevin Smith MOTU restart is going to suck or not. When I heard "anime-style" my behind puckered involuntarily for about twenty minutes. Then I saw the vocal team, and it's a bunch of people I had no idea did voiceovers (with a few notable exceptions). And it's Kevin Smith, so it's going to be cracked in some form or fashion.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 26, 2020, 08:40:20 AM

Pretty much why I never bothered with Nu-Ra to begin with.
I didn't really watch it- watch IT, more like my kids watched it and I just glanced at it once in a while mostly to complain about the fuck-ups. One funny thing tho is that there was an episode with Bow's family, and I wasnt really paying attention but they introduced Bow's dad and brother. Well thats what I thought. Just found out some days ago that was his dad and his dad's husband lol. Was this really necessary? nope. Did it fit Netflix's wOkE agenda? yes.

I'm wondering if the Kevin Smith MOTU restart is going to suck or not. When I heard "anime-style" my behind puckered involuntarily for about twenty minutes. Then I saw the vocal team, and it's a bunch of people I had no idea did voiceovers (with a few notable exceptions). And it's Kevin Smith, so it's going to be cracked in some form or fashion.
It depends. Is Kevin Smith still cool-20-years-ago kevin Smith or has he gone batshit crazy, like most "used to be cool" people seemingly have become?
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Post by: B E C K on May 27, 2020, 02:02:22 PM
Kevin Smith just comes off as dated to me.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 29, 2020, 06:04:54 PM
I never "got" Kevin Smith, frankly.
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Post by: B E C K on May 31, 2020, 12:21:48 PM
Kevin Smith to me was that cool, edgy older guy with an odd sense of humor. And then you grow up and meet him again only to realize he never grew up and everything he does is stunted now. And then you realize it was always stunted but you were too immature at the time to see it yourself.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 31, 2020, 07:20:11 PM
His shit stinks, but I love listening to him talk. I never miss an episode of his podcast with Marc Bernardin.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2020, 01:10:39 PM
I loved She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. It took what was ostensibly a TV commercial with stapled on morals and basically no plot from the 80s and gave it some actual life and characters instead of a bunch of carbon copies, characters who have their own real motivations and stay fairly consistent throughout the show. It wasn't perfect, there were some elements that really did get a WTF from me, but I'm happy with it and wish there was more coming. But obviously some of us are going to disagree on that. Also, the voice acting in both the original She-Ra and He-Man was traaaash. https://bogleech.com/toys/scorpia.mp4 Enjoying the originals in 2020 without nostalgia glasses is basically impossible, and the VA is the worst part of it to me.

I'm worried now that the Kevin Smith's He-Man won't go far enough in changing what was also really just a TV commercial with stapled on morals and basically no plot from the 80s into something that's actually good. If he tries to keep it to close to the original, than remaking it is utterly pointless.

Another 80s show that's had a fairly good remake, that I personally liked, was the 2011 Thundercats. If he gets close to that level of quality, then it'll at least be something decent.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2020, 01:15:06 PM
Watching Doom Patrol season 2, I'm still loving the fuck out of this show.

Watching Stargirl on DC Universe. It's been fun enough so far. I think the show might find proper legs before the end of the season but I wouldn't be shocked to see this be a one-season affair.

Watched some old Looney Tunes cartoons and forgot how fun that kind of mostly mindless humor can be sometimes. In particular watched Baseball Bugs and Hair-Raising Hare which were both a great laugh, and some random episodes from that same season which were fun enough but I wouldn't revisit by choice.

Wife and I can't decide when we're going to catch up on Westworld, if at all. Been hearing the most recent season is fairly sub-par.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 06, 2020, 10:53:39 PM
I can't believe I haven't started watching the last season of Legends. Despite my enjoyment of it, it's like all the other CW shows; I like them, but I don't love them anymore. I have tried to get into Stargirl (phrasing), but I just can't bring myself to care enough about it to stay on top of it (again, phrasing).
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 07, 2020, 09:32:56 AM
I can't believe I haven't started watching the last season of Legends. Despite my enjoyment of it, it's like all the other CW shows; I like them, but I don't love them anymore. I have tried to get into Stargirl (phrasing), but I just can't bring myself to care enough about it to stay on top of it (again, phrasing).

To my shock, an hour after I posted that comment, i saw it was announced that Stargirl was picked up for a season 2 and will move to CW.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 07, 2020, 09:58:35 AM
I can't believe I haven't started watching the last season of Legends. Despite my enjoyment of it, it's like all the other CW shows; I like them, but I don't love them anymore. I have tried to get into Stargirl (phrasing), but I just can't bring myself to care enough about it to stay on top of it (again, phrasing).

Forgot about Legends. Last season of Legends was pretty fun and had some good and important character moments. One complaint I have about the last few seasons is that the superpowered side of the show doesn't seem to be doing quite as much stuff as in earlier seasons. In some ways, it's a strength of the show that they don't always rely on the supers to do crazy stuff to fix all their problems, but sometimes you really do want to see it. Not to say it isn't there at all. Constantine in particular probably uses his abilities most commonly, and he's been such a great addition to the show that I never want to see him leave now. I think he's just weird enough that he can't quite carry his own show and just interesting enough that he really improves this one. And I can't deny I like the look of him as well.

That reminds me, if you haven't seen Doom Patrol, it's a similar ensemble of weird characters (all powered, though), including a recurring role for a  Constantine stand-in that's different enough from Constantine to feel a bit unique but also feels like it lampoons the character a bit. Very fun. And Alan Tudyk as villain Mr Nobody is incredible.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 07, 2020, 10:09:22 AM
Oh, I also forgot about the Harley Quinn series, which I've watched as it was airing. Fantastic little comedy show that came as a real surprise to me from DC. Feels almost like a spin-off of Batman TAS but twisted and warped in ways that make for a lot of fun. It takes a lot of risks and brings characters to the forefront that just absolutely make no sense being there. This show makes Kite-Man likeable, and I even felt sympathy for his story.  Fucking KITE-MAN. It also brought back Condiment King from TAS, lots of references to that show as well as to other Batman(+other DC) properties.

One complaint is that Harley's accent is inconsistent, which I can't entirely tell is on purpose (the Jersey dialect did seem to come back more when dealing with her own family, and in some other tense situations for her), or if it was just inconsistent VA work (Kaley Cuoco, who's also an EP through her company, Yes, Norman) or if it was inconsistent directing.

But overall, the show has been a lot of fun. There's been interesting takes on all the characters, mostly villains. But even the hero side is there and parodied  well, particularly Batgirl, Gordon, Alfred, and Bruce/Batman, and even a bit of fun with Damian Wayne as Robin. The show parodies a lot but most of it doesn't feel like it sits outside of how the characters have been portrayed in other media (Commissioner Gordon might be the exception, he's really exaggerated, but it's fun).

I really do think that Harley and Ivy really are best together, without Joker, even if they're just friends or if they're romantic. Seriously, fuck Joker.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 07, 2020, 12:01:20 PM
Constantine...'s been such a great addition to the show that I never want to see him leave now. I think he's just weird enough that he can't quite carry his own show and just interesting enough that he really improves this one. And I can't deny I like the look of him as well.
I really liked the NBC show. I wish they'd carried it over to CW as I think it would have done far better there. I'm glad they're more or less carrying it over through Legends.

That reminds me, if you haven't seen Doom Patrol, it's a similar ensemble of weird characters (all powered, though), including a recurring role for a  Constantine stand-in that's different enough from Constantine to feel a bit unique but also feels like it lampoons the character a bit. Very fun. And Alan Tudyk as villain Mr Nobody is incredible.
I enjoyed the first season. I figured I'd wait until everything's "aired" for season 2 before picking it back up.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 15, 2020, 10:50:30 AM
Also watching Agents of SHIELD again. It's still fine but nothing special. Quake's seeming refusal to use her powers in situation's where there's no one who would really see her and using them wouldn't negatively affect her team and would probably deal with the "bad guys" easily has gotten really annoying over the length of the show. But I still enjoy Coulson.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 24, 2020, 08:43:15 PM
I watched the first season of Dark on Netflix. I had initially turned my nose up at it when the first scene started and everyone was spitting German at each other, but I came back to it on a recommendation.

Pretty good, but the way the last episode ended was kind of hokey/lame.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 02, 2020, 09:40:03 PM
Did we talk about Thundercats Roar here at all? I've watched most of it, and I mostly like it. I'm not precious about original Thundercats, so it's pretty easy for me to enjoy them making fun of the source material. The humor gets a little too arbitrary for me sometimes, but typically it's more hit than miss, I'd say.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 03, 2020, 12:08:42 AM
I don't think we ever talked about it. I'm still salty on the last Thundercats show chucking itself into the trash like it did.  :keelover:
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 03, 2020, 08:12:30 PM
I didn't want to put my eyeballs through watching it.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 23, 2020, 11:33:17 AM
His Dark Materials season 2 is fine so far. I think that's how I feel about the show overall, "it's fine." Good enough that I'll keep watching, and I enjoyed the books.

Mandalorian season 2 is about as good as the first season. Even if it was bad, I'd still watch it because I'm still a sucker for St*r WarzzZZ. This still feels more St*r WarzzZZ to me than some of the other recent stuff in the property, so there's that, I guess. Fuck Gina Carano and fuck Rosario Dawson if she is actually in it, and fuck Disney, but damn it I want to keep watching.

Discovery Season 3 has been good so far. They've created a believable future for the universe that is actually interesting. But I want my space utopia back.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 23, 2020, 11:38:31 AM
Also Schitt's Creek, which is much funnier than I expected. I hope they come back for a movie.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 20, 2021, 11:42:57 AM
I've been watching The Expanse. Sorry for spoilery bits below. Naomi and Holden do not make sense together, glad they're currently apart at the point I'm in the show (mid season 3). Holden gives me wannaba John Snow vibes a lot of the time. I like most of the characters other than Holden. Was kind of sad that Thomas Jane was gone after a bit of the show. I never really noticed him in other stuff before but I think the haircut he had just really worked for me. The way his story (as far as I know) ended on the show was kind of BS, though, I felt. Kind of fulfilling an obsession he had with a woman, sort of? Amos is an intriguing mystery. Alex is good. Naomi is good. But really don't like Holden as a character, though he does work well enough as a plot driver. I do kind of wish the spy guy from season 1 had made it longer in the show. (I would ship Naomi and Camina. I do not ship Naomi and Holden.)

Intermittently have also been rewatching Cowboy Bebop. Damn good show.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 22, 2021, 06:39:36 PM
I binged Mandalorian not long ago. Being not what I'd call a St*r WarzzZZ fan (liked the first three, didn't like the rest, skipped the 9th completely), I was surprised to find myself quite happy with it.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 23, 2021, 07:59:14 AM
Cobra Kai is funny, but very cheesy  (but that's ok because it's cheesy in an 80s kind of way).
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 23, 2021, 09:31:53 AM
Fuck Gina Carano and fuck Rosario Dawson if she is actually in it, and fuck Disney, but damn it I want to keep watching.

I'm all aboard "fuck Disney" but what did Gina Carano and Rosario Dawson do?

Edit: Okay, I googled and can guess on Carano but why Rosario Dawson?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 23, 2021, 08:44:17 PM
Fortunately I no longer give a damn what a celebrity says or does. If I did I'd never watch anything ever again.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 27, 2021, 11:10:38 AM
Fuck Gina Carano and fuck Rosario Dawson if she is actually in it, and fuck Disney, but damn it I want to keep watching.

I'm all aboard "fuck Disney" but what did Gina Carano and Rosario Dawson do?

Edit: Okay, I googled and can guess on Carano but why Rosario Dawson?

She had a transman working for her as a handyman. A case was filed against Dawson and family for alleged incidents involving discrimination, verbal abuse, misgendering and physical assault. Most of the charges were dropped but I believe the assault charges are still against other members of her family but not against Rosario herself. I don't fucking know anymore what's real.

Gina Carano I'm still saying fuck off to, though. Her character and acting aren't that strong on the show anyway, she wouldn't be missed much IMHO.

Got all the way caught up on The Expanse. It's got some weak parts for sure but I'm still enjoying it for the most part. I still hate James Holden, though.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 27, 2021, 03:43:57 PM
OHHHHH, I remember reading about that over a year ago.  I completely forgot about it.

The context that tends to get left off of this story when people tweet it or whatever is that Dawson's family has known this man for decades and her family members are part of the suit.  I don't doubt the man's statement that he experienced aggressions from Dawson's family, mainly her mother. I think the mother probably is a transphobic a-hole and did beat him like he stated.  I also think the man's might've had a level of entitlement as he imagined he would move cross-country and just be taken care of by the Dawson family. Reading between the lines, it appears this agreement is like him being a guest at their home and doing reno projects. (As in, not as an official employee.) Also, with him knowing the family this long, I imagine he was already aware they wouldn't be accepting of him as a man and thought he could force acceptance because of the pre-existing relationship.

I don't think Dawson herself is completely innocent or anything.  I have a feeling Dawson wasn't very accepting or supportive of this man. Interviews are repeating the fact that the majority of the suit got dropped.  But "not having a legal case" doesn't equal "it didn't happen."
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 27, 2021, 09:04:31 PM
I've been wondering about Rosario lately. She was featured on the Mandalorian, and is presumably getting her own St*r WarzzZZ spin-off, which is cool.

But then she's also involved in this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snoop-dogg-rosario-dawson-to-judge-tbs-talent-competition

And I'm like, "Buh?"
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 28, 2021, 11:54:47 PM
But then she's also involved in this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snoop-dogg-rosario-dawson-to-judge-tbs-talent-competition.

lol, I don't know who the rest of the hosts are. No wonder the link name only mentions snoop and dawson.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 29, 2021, 04:03:13 AM
The rest of them, I can see how they would have ended up on this show, Rosario is the only one that puzzles me. Like, she must have better prospects.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 29, 2021, 04:08:42 AM
Oh, I watched Sweet Home on Netflix. I don't know why it was recommended to me, but it looked disturbing so I gave it a shot. It was actually kind of okay, I guess? Loses steam towards the end, but overall not bad.

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Post by: Fiero on Jan 29, 2021, 11:06:52 AM
But then she's also involved in this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/snoop-dogg-rosario-dawson-to-judge-tbs-talent-competition.

lol, I don't know who the rest of the hosts are. No wonder the link name only mentions snoop and dawson.

a comedian, a professional wrestler, and a country singer walk into a TBS competition
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 10, 2021, 10:59:26 PM
re: St*r WarzzZZ, Gina Carano got fired for comparing choosing to be a conservative to existing as a Jew during the Holocaust.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2021, 07:18:32 PM
Peak Godwin's Law.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 14, 2021, 12:41:29 PM
First, she didn't. Second, it's not as if idiots haven't been flippantly throwing that term and various forms of Fascism around like it's going out of style all over the place the last four years.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 14, 2021, 10:09:43 PM
I could see how someone would reach that implication from the post tho'. Especially given her other content. I also think Lucasfilm/Disney might've been laying into her already. If they're to be believed, some industry insider apparently told The Hollywood Reporter that Lucasfilm or whoever was looking for an excuse to get rid of Gina since her November tweets.

So... just write her out of the show and don't ask her to come back maybe? Is that still a thing? It's equally as bad as canning someone for their beliefs alone but at least it's not a whole brouhaha over a hashtag and has some dignity to it.

Not really on that topic but this is why Disney needs to not be afraid of killing off characters. All of these damn brands want to keep waaaay too many characters alive for their IP. But if you give them an arc and kill them off, you would literally almost never run into this problem unless it was a major character. And, in the meantime, these companies want to basically own the actual actors. They're people with their own life experiences and beliefs. Stop locking them into these multiyear contracts when you want to police their lives. Let the court of public opinion do its own thing and keep your nose out of it as a employer.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 15, 2021, 10:33:41 PM
I'm just going to keep withholding money from these people. I don't need Stizzle Wizzles in my life and certainly don't need to pay for it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 26, 2021, 06:56:00 PM
I watched the first episode of Superman and Lois. I actually enjoyed it.

Been watching that Resident Alien show, too. It's so weird to me that it even exists, but it's kinda good.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 26, 2021, 09:03:14 PM
Derek from Teen Wolf is Superman. That's interesting. And Supes and Lois are already a couple. Double interesting. Probably won't watch because Arrowverse and I know nothing about it. But cool none the less.

Did that alien show add the boy that can see the alien? I looked up a synop and it looks like the native woman is the one who sees him. Wikipedia also says she's Mohawk but Mohawk people aren't from the part of the continent this takes place in. I mean, she could've moved, I guess. But past experience tells me the portrayal likely isn't that nuanced.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 26, 2021, 10:20:40 PM
So far only the little boy can see that he's an alien. They've now agreed to a truce, but previously the kid was trying to expose the alien, and the alien was unsuccessfully trying to murder the kid.

I think I read somewhere that the Superman show is trying to be its own thing, so I don't know how much Arrowverse stuff will turn up. I haven't really watched any of that, so if it becomes required viewing at some point I'll be completely lost.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 28, 2021, 06:13:14 PM
The Superman and Lois show is completely in continuity with the Arrowverse. It's a spin-off of Supergirl which is apparently canceled and has a half-season left to run later this year.

That said, I am completely uninterested. Flash has been less interesting every season, and while Legends was consistently entertaining it always takes a lot for me to want to pick it up again after every hiatus. I never got into Supergirl, and I swore off Arrow after I had enough of their political pandering horse shit. So I'm more or less done with Arrowverse at this point.
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Post by: Fiero on Mar 04, 2021, 09:15:30 AM
The Superman and Lois show is completely in continuity with the Arrowverse. It's a spin-off of Supergirl which is apparently canceled and has a half-season left to run later this year.

Superman and Lois meanwhile has been renewed for a second season already. I kind of wonder if they might intentionally be keeping the Arrowverse stuff light on the show to give it more longevity if the other Arrowverse shows disappear. They're not all gone yet, though. And I also wouldn't be surprised to see cameos from Supergirl still, even after the other show is over.

I've really been enjoying Superman and Lois. It's a nice change of pace compared to many superhero shows. Closest in theme might be Black Lightning (superhero dad with superpowered kids) but there's a lot of other themes there that likely won't be here, and the farm town feel sets it apart from that as well as the fact that Supes deals with global issues, not local issues. I'm annoyed that it's still Luthor (but not "Luthor").

New Flash season started off with seemingly removing the possibility of one of the best major "recurring" characters from coming back. Maybe an important evolution for Barry but sucks a bit for the show. Plus Team Flash is completely different than what it originally was at this point, no Cisco, no Caitlin. It's comic books though, so I could be wrong and the actor is said to still have a return (maybe as the other character they've played).

I haven't been able to work up energy to watch the new season of Black Lightning. Knowing it's over this season hurts my interest, even though I know Arrow and Flash have suffered from being on for so long. Maybe it's a good thing for this and for Supergirl.

Wandavision meanwhile has been quite fun. Little bit of the "mindfuckery" aspect that I often enjoy in shows, little bit of referencing the rest of the MCU, little bit of bringing in stuff from the comics that haven't been used in the movies yet. But it seems that it's mainly a show about trauma and what happens when a superhero can't deal with theirs. Good first start for the MCU TV shows.

Rewatching The Muppet Show. I had forgotten about some of the rougher stuff (even in episodes that don't have the warnings on D+). It's still extremely fun and I'll always love the Muppets.

Also still rewatching Batman TAS and Cowboy Bebop but only like one episode or less a week at most for a bit.

I've also been watching a dumb YouTube show called Um, Actually that's a game show about nerds correcting things and while that concept might sound exhausting I've regularly enjoyed it because I guess I'm a nerd.
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Post by: Fiero on May 07, 2021, 12:39:29 PM
Watched first two eps of Jupiter's Legacy. It's okay? I'm not sure where this one is going yet. Didn't read the comics.

The Muppet Show episode with Victor Borge was one of the best, and was one of the first times I saw a guest on there that I was unfamiliar with and decided to seek out their work outside of the show. Very funny guy.

Flash is making some weird decisions this season. I'm thinking season 8 will be the last. Probably for the best if so.

Invincible was incredible but I couldn't deal with a few scenes (in particular, the "train" scene). Very gory. Fantastic story, really, and the great casting certainly helped. Animation was a bit weird at times but the acting carried the show in a lot of ways.

Finished rewatching Cowboy Bebop. I forgot that I hate how the show ends. Still, such a good show.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had a lot of pro-imperialist propaganda but was still very fun action. The character set up as the villain does not feel like a villain at all, and the psuedo-anti-hero on the side felt like a villain but ends up sort of redeemed at the end. Plus they killed one of the longest running characters in the MCU that wasn't a hero or ally of a hero and that kind of sucks in a weird way. And the true villain of the show was NOT Arnim Zola, which is significantly bullshit.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 08, 2021, 01:49:35 PM
Flash is making some weird decisions this season. I'm thinking season 8 will be the last. Probably for the best if so.

My understanding is the Grant Gustin is getting antsy about leaving, so I think your timeline will pan out.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 23, 2021, 07:02:23 PM
Superman and Lois continues to be great. Legends is still fun. Loki's been alright so far. Bad Batch has been fun but seems to be a vehicle to go "look a this character that was in that other thing as well!"
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 11, 2021, 08:47:06 PM
The thing about the Loki show that I've noticed is that all the entertainment bloggers aren't blowing its horn nearly as loudly as they did for Wanda, or even Falcon.

Is it general fatigue, or is Loki just not what people expected it to be?

Holy shit, did any of you watch that MODOK show? I can't even believe how awful it is. Just absolute garbage.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 12, 2021, 06:43:31 PM
I want to say fatigue. But I'm probably wrong because I thought we reached peak saturation on all this cape shit years ago. Yet here we are.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 23, 2021, 11:38:08 AM
Holy shit, did any of you watch that MODOK show? I can't even believe how awful it is. Just absolute garbage.

I watched the entire season. It's not very noteworthy but I'm still surprised Marvel even allowed it to exist, for multiple reasons. I didn't think "garbage," I just thought "this would have been better as a few robot chicken sketches."

I just cannot get myself to finish CW DC shows but I think that has more to do with depression I'm dealing with than anything. These seasons aren't particularly worse or better than most of the others. Superman and Lois has been genuinely good (probably because HBO apparently produced it) but I just can't get myself to watch the last two episodes. Eventually.

Watched St*r WarzzZZ: The Dad Batch. I couldn't recommend this to anyone who wasn't already a fan of Clone Wars and Rebels but I had a fun time with it.

I liked how Loki ended. I'm surprised I'm not fatigued by this universe yet but I personally am enjoying the TV shows more than I've enjoyed the last few movies. Really looking forward to She-Hulk.

What If's first two episodes were just fine and there's a lot of questions that won't be answered by the format, so just kind of have to accept that and ride it, I guess.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 23, 2021, 04:13:55 PM
Might have been overly harsh about M.O.D.O.K. The the thing is, there were supposed to have been a handful of Marvel shows that came out of that Hulu deal, but M.O.D.O.K. was the only one that survived, so I figured, "Hey, they must have really struck gold here or something!"

And it was a just a whole lot of middle-of-the-road Robot Chicken humor, as you mentioned.

There's something off-putting about What If...? Did any of you ever play any of Telltale's "choose your own adventure"-style games? It looks like those, only more expensive. But not TOO expensive, Disney clearly gave a modest budget to this show.

Anyway, we're only two episodes in, so it definitely has time to improve, but so far it just comes across so... hokey? Like having The Watcher's narration pop in intermittently to summarize things they couldn't just show us due to time constraints is annoying more than anything. And the overabundance of flippant character dialogue is borderline nauseating.

Maybe more than anything I'm ticked off that they're (understandably) trapped within the confines of the MCU, whereas the What If...? comic book encompassed the entirety of Marvel Comics' history, so they were always able to go really batshit with it. We're stuck with crap setups like, "What if Killmonger met Tony Stark herp derp?!"
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 24, 2021, 04:17:57 PM
Might have been overly harsh about M.O.D.O.K. The the thing is, there were supposed to have been a handful of Marvel shows that came out of that Hulu deal, but M.O.D.O.K. was the only one that survived, so I figured, "Hey, they must have really struck gold here or something!"

And it was a just a whole lot of middle-of-the-road Robot Chicken humor, as you mentioned.

There's something off-putting about What If...? Did any of you ever play any of Telltale's "choose your own adventure"-style games? It looks like those, only more expensive. But not TOO expensive, Disney clearly gave a modest budget to this show.

Anyway, we're only two episodes in, so it definitely has time to improve, but so far it just comes across so... hokey? Like having The Watcher's narration pop in intermittently to summarize things they couldn't just show us due to time constraints is annoying more than anything. And the overabundance of flippant character dialogue is borderline nauseating.

Maybe more than anything I'm ticked off that they're (understandably) trapped within the confines of the MCU, whereas the What If...? comic book encompassed the entirety of Marvel Comics' history, so they were always able to go really batshit with it. We're stuck with crap setups like, "What if Killmonger met Tony Stark herp derp?!"

I know from the trailers that we're getting Zombies, that might be the zaniest place they go. It does seem like it's mostly going to be "what if this character was in this other character's situation instead!" Which can be interesting but isn't as fun as it could be.

Hulu also got Helstrom, a property I know nothing about and was cancelled after one season but it did at least get there.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 19, 2021, 09:01:25 AM
Marvel's What If really never got past "this is fine" or "this is fun." Hard to call it good, exactly. I don't even think this is required viewing for MCU fans, maybe a couple of the episodes but meh.

Back in on all the DC shows. Titans has improved over last season, though Scarecrow as the villain feels off. Supergirl is ending but like most of its seasons, I'm not sure how much I actually like it. Stargirl is a surprise for me. The first season was mostly a fun romp and had good action. The second season is much darker. It's been good. Joel McHale does not sell being a superhero at all, though. It does have a version of Jade (OG Green Lantern's kid) and GL stuff was the comics I have the most nostalgia for, so loving that. Batwoman S3 just started, the first episode seems like an improvement at least. Legends also just started again, and I'm going to love it because I always do.

Doom Patrol continues to be my favorite thing. Though I worry a bit that some of the characters are becoming circular in their development. Things they seemingly "fixed" are coming back around. I guess that's how actual people are as well but I want it to work differently for characters in shows, especially ones this strange.

And in reflecting on these, I realize that I think most of the DC shows I enjoy the most work because they focus a lot on emotional trauma. Doom Patrol definitely but also Stargirl and Titans seem to work when they're exploring how fucked some of the stuff they're experiencing really is. Even the Arrrowverse shows do this but they approach it a bit differently, I think, and are always going to be a bit more zany.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 19, 2021, 09:04:23 AM
My wife started watching Poirot with David Suchet, and while I'm not watching every episode intently, it really is a nice show.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 19, 2021, 08:39:40 PM
What If...? is strictly middle-of-the-road. The Dr. Strange one was the standout for me. Hated how they wrapped it all up with a two-part alternate Infinity War that encompassed all the characters and events from the entire season. Like, what the fuck.

I can appreciate your devotion to Greg Berlanti, but I could never take on all of that. Especially not this far in. I'll just stick to Titans and Doom Patrol. Although, Titans is getting really fucking schlocky, holy shit.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2021, 09:31:50 PM
I love Poirot. It really makes murder comfy. For lack of better terminology. But damn, the later eps feel like a slog. I never got to the end nor was I ever motivated to. (I know how it ends but I never felt like watching it.)

If she's so inclined, Mrs. Fiero might also like Marple. It's the inferior between the two but scratches the itch for more Agatha Christie cozyness.

Also in line with the above in terms of feel for me, Sherlock Hound, believe it or not. But the cozyness of that one is probably more due to Miyazaki directing it. No murder that I recall but just good ol' "cartoon character solves mysteries" stuff.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 20, 2021, 11:01:00 PM
I love Poirot. It really makes murder comfy. For lack of better terminology. But damn, the later eps feel like a slog. I never got to the end nor was I ever motivated to. (I know how it ends but I never felt like watching it.)

If she's so inclined, Mrs. Fiero might also like Marple. It's the inferior between the two but scratches the itch for more Agatha Christie cozyness.

Also in line with the above in terms of feel for me, Sherlock Hound, believe it or not. But the cozyness of that one is probably more due to Miyazaki directing it. No murder that I recall but just good ol' "cartoon character solves mysteries" stuff.

Miyazaki directed sherlock dog detective? I'm IN.

I think she's looked at Misses Marple before, not sure if she's tried any of it. It's also Agatha Christie, IIRC, so wouldn't be surprised if she enjoys.

She's also enjoyed Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, also a pretty good show.

Some recent news came out about why Ruby Rose left Batwoman and it's pretty fucking disappointing. I imagine there's been issues on other Berlanti shows as well and it's not like it's uncommon to hear this shit about other TV shows but you never want it to be one you've enjoyed any part of, you know? Not that Batwoman is that great of a show, I have to imagine this has something to do with why. I wanted it to be good, though.

The HBO DC shows really are superior to the Berlanti CW shows, and that honestly includes Stargirl (it started there, though season 2 is air on CW first). Superman and Lois has also been better than the rest of the CW DC shows as well but I believe it has somewhat different funding and production backing.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2021, 08:39:29 PM
I mean, they're all Berlanti, right? Titans and Doom Patrol both have the end credits animated logo where it's the family sitting around the TV and then the dad says something like, "Greg, move your fucking head!"
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2021, 10:15:24 PM
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 24, 2021, 09:21:52 PM

Ha!  Blocked in my country, it says.  Viva Canada.

I love Poirot. It really makes murder comfy. For lack of better terminology. But damn, the later eps feel like a slog. I never got to the end nor was I ever motivated to. (I know how it ends but I never felt like watching it.)

If she's so inclined, Mrs. Fiero might also like Marple. It's the inferior between the two but scratches the itch for more Agatha Christie cozyness.

Also in line with the above in terms of feel for me, Sherlock Hound, believe it or not. But the cozyness of that one is probably more due to Miyazaki directing it. No murder that I recall but just good ol' "cartoon character solves mysteries" stuff.

Miyazaki directed sherlock dog detective? I'm IN.

I think she's looked at Misses Marple before, not sure if she's tried any of it. It's also Agatha Christie, IIRC, so wouldn't be surprised if she enjoys.

She's also enjoyed Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, also a pretty good show.

I tried Miss Fisher and really wanted to like it but... eh... I recall it being a teeny bit racist.  It's been so long that I don't remember what the specific issues were.  Not that we don't see racism in Agatha Christie's work.  But whatever it was, I just stopped watching and left it at that. I also recall trying Rosemary & Thyme. That one wasn't awful or anything but I wasn't inclined to continue after a few episodes. Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War get recommended a lot but I've never tried either one of them.  (Of if I have, I don't recall.)  Maigret is also supposed to be good but got canned after, like, four episodes.

I recommended "Marple" specifically because that's the one I've seen. There's also an older series "Miss Marple" that I recall seeing an episode of but I couldn't get into it. That said, I think "Miss Marple" is supposed to be more faithful version and while "Marple" took some major story liberties. So if your wife has read the stories before, that might be a turn-off to watching the "Marple" series. But "Marple" was made by the same people behind "Poirot" so I like it because of the similar look and feel.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2021, 03:59:35 AM
It's supposed to be Runaway Brain, maybe you've seen it before. There was a really good article about it at Polygon recently:

https://www.polygon.com/features/22738384/runaway-brain-evil-mickey-short-streaming

It seems vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure that I had actually ever watched it back in the day.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 27, 2021, 05:58:45 PM
Yeah, it's all technically Berlanti. But there's definitely a significant difference between the ones originally from HBO and the ones originally from CW. Superman and Lois might fall closer to the first camp but I understand it has better funding.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 03, 2021, 02:03:16 AM
Can I just say about that Superman and Lois show, the early episodes seemed very promising, and then the plot does this hard pivot into Clark's evil Kryptonian half-brother infusing Kryptonian consciousnesses into Smallville's residents, effectively making them Kryptonian... and also evil?

Like, whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Plus the whole Lex Luthor, but no wait actually it's John Henry Irons cosplaying as Master Chief thing. Ugh!

Kinda lost me.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 03, 2021, 10:53:24 AM
You're not wrong that all of that did feel weird. I did think the show was going to be a bit more grounded at the start but it certainly proved me wrong. Should superhero shows really ever be that grounded, though?

Doom Patrol in season 3 has been good. Season 1 is still hard to match but Michelle Gomez has been great. At the very least, it's still about the best level of weird.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 05, 2021, 03:42:00 PM
I had to know how a Scottish woman came to have the surname "Gomez", but apparently her father is of Portuguese descent, so that checks out!
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 06, 2021, 08:34:32 AM
Now for the next mystery: how a Portuguese person got a Spanish surname since Portuguese "Gomez" is actually "Gomes."













Um, ignore that I have a Portuguese term as a Spanish surname myself.














Also ignore that my paternal grandfather was supposedly adopted by family members and used their surname.













Also ignore the geographic locations of Spain and Portugal.













Also, ignore this post.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 06, 2021, 07:55:40 PM
Touché. :laugh:
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 02, 2021, 02:13:08 PM
Legends of Tomorrow had a Christmas special starring the adorable stuffed animal Beebo which once rained terror on the Earth.

Cowboy Bebop is fine, I guess. New Flash season has Despero in it, and I just can't help but love that they chose to bring that weirdo in to the show. Batwoman turned Poison Ivy into some kind of infection? The fuck?

Randomly decided to watch The Owl House and ended up binging it. It's a kids cartoon but it has some charm to it. Some of the monster design is incredibly cool, like a dragon that's made up of a bunch of hands.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 02, 2021, 04:03:12 PM
I saw some of The Owl House a while back and it's decent. However, I found the whole magic school angle to be boring. I guess because ultimately nothing new is being done with it. I don't mind magic schools in stories but a lot of them feel very much like "Harry Potter did it so here's a magic school." And I'm, like, "yeah, HP, did it. Now what are YOU going to do with it?"

I think the show would've been more interesting to just have Eda teach Luz magic and then watch of what the latter makes of her half-assed lessons. And even have the latter befriend the same group of friends and have them cobble together lessons to exciting results.  After the first season, my interest was gone.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 02, 2021, 04:06:03 PM
Owl House is one of those shows where my desire to enjoy it is far greater than my actual ability to do so. Like, it has practically everything going for it, but it just doesn't hit quite right.

I've read that it's canceled, and while that certainly means no Season 3, I wonder if the second half of Season 2 is also off the table now.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 03, 2021, 05:56:55 PM
Almost done watching Arcane and it's pretty good. It could do with 90% less Imagine Dragons and the opening sequence feels lazy and literally makes me cringe (but, hey, it's skippable). And even though it's in service to the overall story, Jayce and his shit feels like it's sucking time out of the more interesting narratives. But overall the show is solid.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 04, 2021, 06:51:55 PM
I've been watching that Wheel of Time thing on Amazon Prime. It's so fucking weird.

How can a show seem both expensive and cheap at the same time? I don't know. But Wheel of Time does.

There was a medium-scale fight scene in a recent episode, and I swear to God it just looked like somebody recorded their LARP group. I suppose technically that's precisely what it is, but I shouldn't be thinking about that as the viewer, right?

Speaking of, there was an actual LARP scene in an episode of Hawkeye, and it was great! That's a great show!
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 06, 2021, 03:37:30 PM
Owl House is one of those shows where my desire to enjoy it is far greater than my actual ability to do so. Like, it has practically everything going for it, but it just doesn't hit quite right.

I've read that it's canceled, and while that certainly means no Season 3, I wonder if the second half of Season 2 is also off the table now.

There is a season 3, which was announced as 3 specials that are coming out next year. That's still happening but that's the end.

Hawkeye is really fun. Good show. The LARP was indeed good fun.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 18, 2021, 12:18:38 AM
Finished up Arcane. I really liked it. That said, I don't think I'll be re-watching it ever again aside from clips here and there. But a solid piece of work. I'll be waiting for more on drop day. Whenever that may be. 2023? I think I'd prefer they plan a season (or multiple seasons) but steadily produce an episode or two and then release those every few months. Like, I'd rather get two episodes in 2023 and four in 2024 than six episodes in 2024. That sort of thing. But who knows? Netflix's interface claims this is the most positively rated show they have so just throw sacks of money on it. I think it'd be kind of nuts to get a show with this type of positive audience reception and only order six more episodes instead of at least twelve to eighteen.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 22, 2021, 10:53:10 PM
I tried Centaurworld... ergh. At least it's something creative and different. Way too wacky for my taste. I couldn't get through the first episode. I skipped to the very last episode instead and nothing of value was lost. The villain was kind of cool. (I saw a YouTube vid about the villain which is the only reason I saw the last ep.) It never makes sense to me when a tertiary character just deals with the bad guy. Also, it's always cheap when a show takes a character and is all "They're dead! EVERYONE GET SAD. :( No, wait. Not dead. :) Ha ha." But, meh, whatever.

Also tried a donghua available on Netflix: Scissor Seven. Also couldn't get past ep one. Again, too fucking wacky. Not Centaurworld wacky but just as off-putting imo. I just don't find this type of humor funny.

Speaking of Wheel of Time, I've been watching stuff about it online. Yeah, it looks cheap as hell. The sets look cheap, the costumes look cheap, and even the lighting is shitty! How do you make Hercules and Xena look high budget? What an ugly-ass show.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 10, 2022, 01:37:29 AM
Watched Toast of London. Been on a Matt Berry kick lately. So fucking weird! Makes me wonder if most British sitcoms are similarly absurdist and surreal these days.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 10, 2022, 09:21:30 AM
Sometimes you guys mention watching stuff and I've never seen it but I've at least heard of it. I can safely say I've never heard of this man or this show before. I attribute this to me seeing "What We Do in the Shadows" (the film) and not liking it enough to even touch the series.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 10, 2022, 01:52:13 PM
It's his voice. It's almost hypnotic. I'm trying to think of where you might have heard him.

Various commercial voiceovers, possibly. He was Prince Merkimer in Disenchantment, not sure if you ever looked at that.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 11, 2022, 11:20:00 AM
Parts of season one, I think. I want to say I've seen clips past that but I don't recall.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 16, 2022, 02:07:04 AM
Peacemaker is so fucking good.


Back when they announced that John Cena's character from the then upcoming new Suicide Squad movie would be getting his own series, I was like, "But fucking why?!"

I now know why.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 23, 2022, 02:30:47 PM
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 24, 2022, 08:07:18 AM
I wish the squatty potty wasn't so ugly. I just use a basket from Target. Turn it upside down and put my feet on top of it.

I also feel uncomfortable that he was feeding those to children. Like some pedo was "safely" living out his scat fetish.  :raiseeyebrow:
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 24, 2022, 02:20:52 PM
Peacemaker is so fucking good.

<Chronoscythe>Indeed.</Chronoscythe>
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 24, 2022, 04:24:57 PM
I wish the squatty potty wasn't so ugly. I just use a basket from Target. Turn it upside down and put my feet on top of it.

I also feel uncomfortable that he was feeding those to children. Like some pedo was "safely" living out his scat fetish.  :raiseeyebrow:

And then he wipes their mouths with TP at the end ahahahaha...

Peacemaker is so fucking good.

<Chronoscythe>Indeed.</Chronoscythe>

Man! I forgot about that guy. You still in touch with any of those people? It's been like 20 years.

Fuck.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 24, 2022, 05:43:43 PM
I recall the username but don't remember anything else.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 25, 2022, 03:24:53 PM
He was an asshole, but he took pride in that.

I don't keep up with many, primarily those who came to BONR. But BONR is more or less dead now, so it's once in a blue moon. I have a few on the old FB list.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 25, 2022, 05:14:54 PM
He was an asshole, but he took pride in that.

But that could be lots of people!  :-[
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 02, 2022, 07:50:31 PM
The Halo TV show is pretty rough two episodes in.

Legends of Tomorrow introduced Donald Faison as Booster Gold. I'm shocked and excited for next season.

I have not finished the season of Batwoman and not sure I will at this point but I probably will eventually. I do want to finish Superman and Lois, still enjoying that.

Picard season 2 feels better than season 1 so far. Halfway through Discovery season 4, watching with the wife and she just wasn't feeling TV in general while it was airing, and then Picard started so we jumped ship to that for now and will pick it up later. Discovery feels better this season but there's still something about it that doesn't fulfill what I want out of it. Maybe Strange New Worlds will do it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 24, 2022, 02:53:30 PM
I've been watching Battle Kitty on Netflix, and I love it.

Help.
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 25, 2022, 09:08:48 PM
Kind of fell off Battle Kitty. I'll probably still finish it, but the shock value of its surreal humor got stale relatively quickly.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 27, 2022, 11:36:10 PM
I've all but stopped watching television at this point. I don't have time. Heck, I barely watch anime anymore. Heck, I barely play video games anymore. What am I doing with my life?! :P

Youtube trash has claimed me.
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Post by: B E C K on May 29, 2022, 02:07:24 PM
I've all but stopped watching television at this point. I don't have time. Heck, I barely watch anime anymore. Heck, I barely play video games anymore. What am I doing with my life?! :P

Youtube trash has claimed me.

Ha, pretty much me.  Although YouTube's pissing me off.  New things are getting "broken" every time they do updates.  Lately, I have to be careful about searching for videos in the mobile app.  I searched a perfectly family-friendly video game and got some unrelated sexual content in my results.  Then, the other night, I searched "Three Hopes," the musou sequel/prequel/midquel of Fire Emblem Three Houses.  I had a bunch of relevant results and then suddenly dead kids.  As in the shooting victims in Uvalde.  Not, like, pictures of them dead or anything but just news video after news video about the shooting and people crying and people ranting about guns.  This stuff is nowhere near my feed but Youtube just threw it into my search.  What the fuck.  If I want that type of news, I'll look for it myself.  I felt kinda violated.  I don't invite that type of news into my personal space.  Like YouTube knew I was searching for the Fire Emblem game.  It stores my data, it knows I look up Fire Emblem content all the time.  And it's like it decided I needed to have "real news" too or whatever.  Really pissed me off tbh.  I think this is a sign I need to pull back on YouTube. 
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 30, 2022, 12:04:18 AM
I had the YouTube sidebar thingy disappear on me for like 24 hours not long ago. Like, where it should have been showing all my subscribed channels and whatnot was just a blank slate. Fucking weird shit.
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Post by: B E C K on May 30, 2022, 09:01:52 AM
When I was casting from my phone the other day but still browsing through YouTube, the current video in the queue would appear in a bar in the middle of my phone screen. As opposed to being a small bar at the bottom. It was weird. And YT got rid of my controls when my phone's locked or I'm in another app. So now I have to go back into the app proper if I need to pause it. If my phone's locked, I have to unlock it in order to access YT to pause a video. It's stupid.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 30, 2022, 09:42:32 AM
Well, Youtube IS owned by Google. Their hallmark is buying perfectly good things, adding features to them despite being feature-complete, screwing them up, and letting them break before eventually removing them and disavowing their existence. I'm amazed they haven't replaced it wholesale with something worse three times already.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 09, 2022, 02:51:52 AM
I watched the first episode of Ms. Marvel on Disney+. I can concede that I'm probably not the target audience for it, but it really didn't do anything for me at all. Everything that happens is so hokey, and the main character's "I'm so extra!" attitude is really grating.

I think I might just be too old and white and male to enjoy it.

No! It's not because I'm a decrepit racist misogynist! I truly believe the first episode is just kind of crap.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 09, 2022, 10:36:59 AM
I knew there was a reason we nicknamed you "Racist Joe." :joe:

Ha ha, I kid.  It's probably terrible.  But I don't get any enjoyment from cape stuff anymore so I'm, like, super-biased.

You reminded me: I was watching a YT vid the other day about why The Lion King (the newish one) is a piece of festering garbage and Schmoo walked in the room.  And the first thing she said after I explained what I was watching, was "Oh?  He's (the youtuber) racist?"  And I was all "How does that make him racist?  Non-white people can be in terrible, shitty productions, too.  It's not a white-exclusive thing.  What does color have to do with being in a bad, absolutely needless, nostalgia-milking movie?"  I like Chiwetel Ejiofor; he's probably the only main actor in that movie where I like him in other material.  But he's so damn stiff and his "Be Prepared" is open-mic poetry night tier.  It's legit gross.  John Oliver and Seth Rogan aren't poc and they're just as awful.  Maybe she forgot there are white people in the movie. (http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/emoticons/R-T/shrug2.gif)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 09, 2022, 01:55:10 PM
Are you talking about YourMovieSucksDotOrg? That dude's been making shit for over a decade, and I only found out about him a couple months ago. He can come across a little unhinged sometimes, but he's also insightful and fucking hilarious.

Did you watch his exhaustive Kimba video? Holy shit. :laugh:

I apologize for gibbering like an idiot if YMS isn't what you were talking about.

As to what you were actually saying, there always seems to be this kneejerk reaction to any criticism that could be labeled as "punching down".

"New Lion King sucks!" = Hate towards blacks.
"Lady Ghostbusters sucks!" = Hate towards women.

Like, a person is perfectly capable of thinking something is shitty without having ulterior motives.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 09, 2022, 11:30:29 PM
I am actually and I did also see the Kimba vid.  I have to admit I did believe The Lion King was a Kimba ripoff so it was nice to be spoonfed so much information.

As to what you were actually saying, there always seems to be this kneejerk reaction to any criticism that could be labeled as "punching down".

"New Lion King sucks!" = Hate towards blacks.
"Lady Ghostbusters sucks!" = Hate towards women.

Like, a person is perfectly capable of thinking something is shitty without having ulterior motives.

The funny thing is those were ruined by white guys.  Just like Star Wars.  Mostly guys, some gals.  The directors, producers, writers, and cinematographers are, like, ALL white dudes except for about three ladies.  But somewhere along the line, this fucky idea pervaded society where if something sucks then it's because the critic saying so is discriminating against whoever is the face of the film.  Which is so gross.  Or, in the case of Kathleen Kennedy, clearly the critics hate women.  No, babe, just you.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 10, 2022, 02:45:04 PM
Speaking of St*r WarzzZZ, I've been watching Kenobi, and uh... I don't know, man. It's kind of all over the place. Like, Ewan McGregor is always great, but even he's having to do some heavy lifting here, and I'm not sure he can carry that weight all by himself.

So, it's six episodes, right? You'd think they'd be covering a lot of ground in a relatively short amount of time. Here's what's happened so far, in the broadest of strokes:

SPOILERS IF YOU GIVE A FUCK!!!









Ep1 - Li'l Leia is kidnapped oh noes!
Ep2 - Obi-Wan rescues Leia hurray!
Ep3 - Li'l Leia is kidnapped again oh noes x2!
Ep4 - Obi-Wan rescues Leia yippee!
Ep5 - ???
Ep6 - !!!

Now, it would be so perfect and hilarious if episodes 5 and 6 followed suit, MY GOD. Who plotted this shit? Fucking Jon Favreau?! (Just kidding he had nothing to do with it this time.)
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 10, 2022, 10:44:14 PM
Leia gets kidnapped again but before he can rescue her, it ends on a cliffhanger.  See you for Season Two!

Now, it would be so perfect and hilarious if episodes 5 and 6 followed suit, MY GOD. Who plotted this shit? Fucking Jon Favreau?! (Just kidding he had nothing to do with it this time.)

Wrong! :lol: The chick directing Obi-Wan also worked on the Mando-show with Jon Favreau. (https://collider.com/obi-wan-kenobi-deborah-chow-interview-mandalorian/)

"I don't think I could have done Kenobi if I hadn't done Mandalorian first. That was for a number of reasons – one, just coming in and really learning Star Wars under people like Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, and getting on a production level to understand how everything works. How do you do a Jawa? How did the creatures operate? That was tremendously helpful. And then the other big piece of it was StageCraft. This technology that obviously we started on The Mandalorian, we also used in Kenobi, so that was something I was incredibly excited to continue with."

"How did the creatures operate?" Do they actually still use creatures? It all looked like bad cg to me.  Well, not Baby Yoda.  That looked like someone playing with a Cabbage Patch kid doll.

I also looked up the writers for the show and two of them are really odd: Hannah Friedman and Jody Harold.  Look them up and be amazed.  They are literally bored rich people with nothing significant on their resumes before working on this show. This article really plays her up in particular. (https://thedirect.com/article/obi-wan-kenobi-finding-nemo-writing-team) Right next to Andrew Stanton and his football field sized resume at Pixar.  The BRAINTRUST AT TEH PIXAR HURRRR.  But what did she write though?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 08, 2022, 03:27:47 AM
So Obi-Wan sucked, shocking the world. I've seen some express the sentiment that it had a shaky start, but really stuck the landing, and I'm like what fucking show did you watch?

Anyway, on a more positive note, I finished watching The Boys S3 and that show continues to be a shining example of how to produce quality television, and just superhero shit in general. Imagine if Disney actually allowed Marvel to be interesting! That's The Boys.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 09, 2022, 07:13:31 PM
Having never finished the first season I found that I have a hard time watching The Boys. The books were intense enough, and the show carries that forward. Plus I couldn't get used to Wee Hughie looking so different.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 09, 2022, 11:57:48 PM
Understandable, though. Simon Pegg was already way, way too old. They did give him a pity role as Hughie's dad.

You know, I had no idea Jack Quaid (Hughie) was a Hollywood nepotism baby! He's legit, though. I'm not implying that he's talentless and undeserving.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 10, 2022, 12:16:31 AM
I ended up on some random subreddit. I forget which one but it had to do with bad character development or something. And there were so many threads on The Boys due to the end of the third season that a mod banned the topic from the subreddit. I haven't seen The Boys or anything but I just thought that was funny.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 10, 2022, 12:42:36 AM
As I understand it, there's a portion of the fanbase that (bewilderingly) believes that the main villain will eventually be vindicated and redeemed. I could see those people being upset over the events of the third season.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 10, 2022, 09:59:50 PM
I'm sorry, but having read the book, that's...

BWAH-HA-HAH, HA!!!

There's only one more twisted motherlover in that story, and I can't say who as I don't know how far along the show is and wouldn't spoil it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 19, 2022, 09:23:46 PM
I happened upon this today, just gonna leave it here...

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Post by: B E C K on Jul 20, 2022, 12:16:59 AM
Endorsed with care by Bryan Singer.  Nah, I'm kidding.  Or am I?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 21, 2022, 05:24:29 PM
I happened upon this today, just gonna leave it here...
Heh...wondered where half the excerpts for this originally came from.
(http://bonr.shwiggie.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1101.0;attach=3129;image)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 21, 2022, 07:13:45 PM
Until today, I didn't believe perfection could be improved upon. :laugh:
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 27, 2022, 12:41:02 AM
There's a "Persuasion" adaptation on Netflix that's, just, ew.  I was going to watch it because Persuasion is my favorite Austen story (okay, it's tied with Pride and Prejudice) but I heard really bad things about it so looked it up to verify.  It's like Netflix wanted another Bridgerton so they cribbed from Bridgerton with casting choices you'd find in that show and a general weird tone full of anachronistic fucking language. To make it more "accessible" to younger audiences.  How dare they.

   ==rant below==

So I admit I already was not onboard with the diverse casting.  But that's a bit unfair of me, I think.  Like, if everything else was good, maybe I wouldn't be bothered by it.

But to change the language to how people talk today; to have Anne talking and smizing to the fucking camera; to have the hair and makeup look modern as shit... I've seen regency Halloween costumes better than this.  I don't watch an Austen adaptation for this bullshit. 

And I thought Keira Knightly's Pride and Prejudice was a pile of dung for having characters stand outside dramatically in the rain (a gentleman's daughter would never); or having a pig walk inside their house (the fuck would a landed gentleman have a dirty pig walking around inside of his home?); or having Lady Catherine--the daughter of an earl and the widow of a knight--go traipsing about in the dark of night like a crazy person.  Another Persuasion adaptation had the main character--Anne Elliot--running through the streets like an errand boy when she's a baronet's daughter.  (Yes, I was triggered. :lol:)  But this shit takes the cake.

If they wanted a modern adaptation, they should've just made one.  They could've made it like a "Bridget Jones' Diary" sorta deal.  (BJD is basically Pride and Prejudice.)  Or they could've placed it within the context of another culture like "Bride and Prejudice."  Reviews for that one were pretty mixed but Merla and I enjoyed it very much.

Bridgerton has a veneer of sleaze on it that doesn't belong in an Austen adaptation.  Austen stories are classics.  They don't need this "hello, fellow zoomers" bullshit.  The character of Anne Elliot in Persuasion is a lonely, unassuming, sensitive person with strong values and common sense who carries herself with a subdued sort of sad dignity.  She's not some snarky wine aunt rolling her eyes, making quips, and fucking smirking.  If that's what they wanted, they should've remade Pride and Prejudice instead of Persuasion.  I still would've bitched about it but at least the lead's personality wouldn't be a complete antithesis of the fucking character.  >:(
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 27, 2022, 01:36:10 AM
Were you exposed to Austen as part of your education, or was her stuff something you came to on your own? Because I'll admit I have zero familiarity with any of her work, and whenever I see them promoting the adaptation du jour it just looks like a stuffy period piece/sleep aid.

Call me a philistine!
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 27, 2022, 05:53:07 PM
I can't quite recall: I know I was exposed to Austen in a literature class I took around 2004 in community college. But I was also flipping through cable channels once around the same time and came across the ending to what was clearly a late 80's/early 90's movie or show.  I knew it was something Austen-related and thought it was Pride and Prejudice.  So I eventually watched P&P, the 90's series one with Colin Firth, and really liked it.  But that wasn't the one from cable I saw.

I later tracked down the show I saw as a mid-nineties adaptation of Persuasion starring Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root and it's among my favorite movies.  It's short and to the point.  The characters act and look like believable characters while still being total caricatures: the vain, snobby rich people; the snobbier rich people; the down-to-earth new money sailors; the woe-is-me emo who's into poetry; the hypochondriac sister; the smarmy cousin that's just after a buck. The costuming and make-up was purposefully subdued so the people look, dare I say, normal.  Even the lighting was purposefully subdued so it doesn't look like your regular, overly-polished Austen adaptation. There's multiple scenes where the characters converse or dance to candlelight.  They go out into the countryside and to the seashore, so it's not as if the entire movie is in some stuffy room.  I watch it when I need a cozy movie that's not a Ghibli movie.

To summarize it: it's about a Christmas cake an "old maid" named Anne Elliot who is the middle of three daughters to a widowed, vain, overly-pompous baronet. She wanted to marry for love but was persuaded not to because her husband-to-be Frederick Wentworth was a poor sailor. She deeply regrets this choice and becomes a wilted flower of a person who has no interest in marrying anyone else or even dancing. Around 8 years pass and Anne's stupid father has spent way too much of their money so they have to rent their family estate out to the rich Admiral Croft. Admiral Croft got rich from the naval prize money and so did his brother-in-law, who happens to be Captain Frederick Wentworth. And it's not so much "oh, now he's rich" but the fact that he's actually back in her life (through their social circle) and all of that regret from her youth is now slapping her in the face. But she knows she broke his heart and has no business saying anything further than a greeting to him. He, meanwhile, is looking for a wife and they end up together again by the end of the movie sailing the high seas in happiness.

But, yeah, I know Austen adaptations can be stuffy. I think the 90's Persuasion is on the lower end of the stuffy meter. It lets you know it's a period piece but doesn't wallow in the fact. I have tried watching other adaptations and I get bored when they're too stuffy. There's an 80's Pride and Prejudice series that's really stuffy but it has my favorite version of Mr. Darcy as played by David Rintoul. The 90's Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth is one I also find on the lower end of the stuffy meter but it's five episodes at around forty minutes a piece so if it's not your thing it will feel like a slog. I like Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson (even though a bunch of character ages are all wrong) but the circumstances of the characters just makes me angry. (The good characters mostly get financially shafted and the bad characters basically get all the money they wanted.)

I don't recall how stuffy the Kiera Knightly Price and Prejudice is because I hate that movie. Everybody and their mother loves it, it's their favorite, and they all go gaga over Matthew McFayden's Mr. Darcy when he literally looks wet and dirty in every other promo pic. (Everything looks wet and dirty in that movie to me.) Colin Firth and David Rintoul's Mr. Darcys look contemplative and reserved. McFayden's Mr. Darcy looks like he has no fucking soul. Thanks, I hate it. :lol:

I actually haven't completely sat through any version of Emma (other than Clueless), Northhanger Abbey, or Mansfield Park nor have I even read those. I found them a bit boring. I've come pretty close to getting through Emma.  I spaced out somewhat so I don't count that as me having watched the whole thing. But the other two outright put me to sleep. Maybe I'll try them again someday.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 27, 2022, 07:50:59 PM
Not to piggyback on my own prior post but as an aside, when the Netflix version of Persuasion was announced, I recall hearing about another studio making their own Persuasion. When the Netflix one was released, I went to go look up the other version and couldn't find anything about it. I thought I misremembered.

Well, I just found a Youtube comment that mentioned something and verified it online: It turns out that other Persuasion was going to made by Fox. When they heard that Netflix was making Persuasion, Fox canceled their own Persuasion. What the fuck, Fox? Fucking studios. I hate when they do this shit. Imagine if Netflix cancelled C R I C K E T   T I T S Pinocchio because Disney was doing their own. No. NO NO NO. Don't do this bullshit where you think only one of something is needed at any one point in time. What utter bullshit. Hell, maybe the other Persuasion would've also been bad. But Netflix set a pretty low bar here.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 27, 2022, 08:21:21 PM
Oh shit, Clueless is just a modernized Austen story? Had no idea. See, I wasn't lying when I said I know fuck all on the subject. And I probably shouldn't have said "stuffy", it's just the kneejerk descriptor I apply to any stories taking place in that setting. A bit of prejudice on my part, if you will.

No!

Seriously, though, what's your take on Dakota Johnson? Is she a legitimate talent, or is she skating by on the nepotism afforded her by Daddy Don? I've really only seen her in Bad Times at the El Royale, and she was good in that.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 28, 2022, 12:41:45 AM
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Seriously, though, what's your take on Dakota Johnson?

Uh, that I'm a fan of her mom?  Ha ha.

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Is she a legitimate talent, or is she skating by on the nepotism afforded her by Daddy Don?

I mean, that's any Hollywood baby. Daddy Don, Mother Melanie, Step-daddy of 19 years was Antonio Banderas, Grandma Tippi Hendren. Her maternal grandfather was an child actor on Broadway and an advertising executive. Dakota's first role was with her half-sister in one of her mom's films playing her mom's daughter. (In a movie directed by Antonio Banderas.) I'm sure the role presented quite a challenge for a new actor.  ::)

Honestly, I don't have a fair read on any talent she may or may not have. She doesn't pick roles in anything I want to watch. She had a scene I saw a clip of from one of the Fifty Shades where she does a sort of homage to a famous scene her mother had in Working Girl. And watching that made my skin itch. I don't like her vibe. I read her as a snob and she comes off that way to me through the screen. Even in the clips I saw of Persuasion, I didn't even see her as Anne Elliot. I just saw Dakota Johnson horsing around being stupid. She joins Lily Collins and Emma Roberts in the "snooty rich kid larping" bucket.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 02, 2022, 02:41:26 AM
What We Do in the Shadows has been fucking WACK this season. I'm not actually going to look into why that may be, because wild speculation is way more fun.

Did they get new writers? Is it the same writers and they've just run out of ideas? Have they been taking too many suggestions from the cast?

Whatever, it's butt. Like, almost a parody of itself. It's become an absolute cartoon.

For me, the comedy always came from the fact that these immortal vampires are leading the most mundane, petty existences. Now they're constantly engaged in the most outrageous shit, and there's not even the pretense that they're trying to keep things low key to avoid unwanted attention.

Then again, maybe the show hasn't changed at all, and I'm just tired of it.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 03, 2022, 10:56:07 PM
I watched the movie some time ago and I guess the comedy or whatever just sailed over my head because I didn't find it remotely entertaining. I know the series is a different animal but the movie put it off of all of it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 04, 2022, 12:22:24 AM
Nah, it's basically the same. First season is a total rehash of all the best moments from the movie, with various additional elements. Characters are different, sure, but they go through all the same motions. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing... well, if you didn't enjoy the movie then I suppose it definitely is.

I feel like every sitcom eventually hits this point, where plots become increasingly outlandish until it's not even about the personalities anymore, it's just whatever wacky hijinks they're being slotted into.

Trying to think of a really good example. Maybe the last few seasons of Malcolm in the Middle? That shit was a funhouse mirror reflection of itself by the end. Reese sealing himself in a crate and shipping himself overseas, shit like that.
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 23, 2022, 10:15:46 PM
I watched the first ep of AMC's Pantheon (because it's free on YouTube) and I don't know what to think of it. It's not the best-looking show, especially when it comes to what's going around around the characters. It did do a good job at the beginning of getting me interested in Maddie and Caspian. There was something interesting in the narrative somewhere.  But by the end, my interest was dead.

I'm not being very fair to the Indian guy and I know everything's connected to the story, but a THIRD pov?  Or, I guess, a fourth since we're being shown characters and a location the first two characters have little/no knowledge on?  Or is that fifth as we needed to see the Mom character not-dump her rebound guy?  Why do shows do this bullshit?  This is LOST all over again with the pseudo intrigue of too many characters and trying to clumsily pile on sixty questions at once. Pick one or two pov and just tell the fucking story already. I'm getting Young Justice vibes all over again where things are supposed to be given significance or importance that's never narratively deserved. Oooooh, your giant server's in the mountains?  WHO THE FUCK CARES?

The story should've let the viewer get to know the Dad a little more. And it should never have Caspian skateboard home ever again. That sequence was horrible and really shows the shortcomings of the animation in full view. If you can't afford a cool skateboarding sequence, don't attempt to put one in. They could've just cut the sequence from where he skates across the crosswalk and then had him appear home.

There's some clips of this show online.  On one hand, why the hell are you trying to sell this show with (albeit fake) domestic violence?


And why did they make a serious sort of scene and then do the freakin' jokey ha-ha tone-killing comments at the end?  "You're my dead husband and I can't be your wife."  "lol, amirite"  "u rite, lol."  What the fuck.


The VR shit looks interesting but why wasn't that cool shit in the first episode.

From what I see online, it seems to be getting positive comments. But it also doesn't appear that enough people are watching it either.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 23, 2022, 11:19:27 PM
Yeah, this is the first I've heard of it. Apparently it's on Prime in Canada, so at least I don't have to jump through any hoops to get to it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 29, 2022, 06:05:47 PM
Andor is bewilderingly good. Like, it's an actual fucking TV show. They finally found someone competent to do a St*r WarzzZZ treatment. Who would have thought that if you take the material seriously, your audience will in turn take your work seriously?!

Really makes me wish we had gotten the original vision for Rogue One before the execs decided to Disney it up.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 29, 2022, 09:42:27 PM
Guess it's about time to cash in my free week of Disney+ on the Roku
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Post by: B E C K on Sep 29, 2022, 09:51:23 PM
Andor is bewilderingly good. Like, it's an actual fucking TV show. They finally found someone competent to do a St*r WarzzZZ treatment. Who would have thought that if you take the material seriously, your audience will in turn take your work seriously?!

Really makes me wish we had gotten the original vision for Rogue One before the execs decided to Disney it up.

I thought that was in reverse: didn't the people making Rogue One expect Disney to "Disney it up" but got away with actually killing the rebels?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 30, 2022, 02:17:18 PM
Guess it's about time to cash in my free week of Disney+ on the Roku

Hold off on that, it's a weekly series of 12 episodes currently on episode 4, so you'll want to wait. Also, still plenty of time to go downhill, but I'm hopeful.

I thought that was in reverse: didn't the people making Rogue One expect Disney to "Disney it up" but got away with actually killing the rebels?

Maybe I'm just misinformed. I seem to remember the director talking it up, saying it would be a "true war film" along the lines of something like Saving Private Ryan, I suppose? But then Disney fucked it all around and added a bunch of MCU-esque "humor" to lighten things up.

And that scene at the end where Vader shows up and mows down everybody, and the way it's framed and the music and everything makes it feel like he's the hero all of sudden? Just tonally fucking bizarre shit that I can't imagine was in the original script.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 01, 2022, 09:42:34 PM
I'm so sick of Darth Vader. I never, ever thought I'd say that in my life but he needs to be sent to the farm to live out the rest of his years. And by "live out the rest of his years," I mean he needs to go get shot to death on the farm. And by "the farm," I mean "a dark alley way where no one can hear his screams." And by "his screams," I mean "his sigh of relief that at least he didn't have to go die at that torture farm."
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 02, 2022, 03:49:56 PM
I watched some of Love, Death & Robots.  I like to watch Poppen Atelier's doll repainting videos on YouTube and she did one of the siren from "Jibaro" so I went and watched that episode and a few more.  I'm not really into the level of gore or sex in some of these.  I do appreciate them on a technical level.

Sonnie's Edge was uncomfortably cringey.  Supposedly, in the story it was based off of, Sonnie drove drunk and fucked herself up.  She was never assaulted.  Which to me makes it a way better story than playing into the "got raeped and I'm tuff nao" icky-ass trope.  I suppose you could come away with the implication that her back story was made up but to have her laugh at Dicko and admit her situation was a moment of shitty judgement on her part would've been the better ending imo than what we got.

For "The Witness," the naked dancing and the guy getting felt up by the latex-chicks bored me. Like the whole story was just the set up for a fetish animation.

"Bad Traveling" was really good.

I don't think I'll watch all of these, but I think I'll chell out a few more that interest me.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 03, 2022, 09:45:26 AM
Well I'm currently all caught up on She-Hulk, House of the Dragon, and Andor. I still need to catch up on Cobra Kai and What we Do in the Shadows. GF wants me to hurry up and watch The Boys Season 3 so we can talk about it, but I barely have time for TV anymore with the two jobs, the show, and the kid living with me now.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 16, 2022, 08:53:23 PM
Anybody here watch Lower Decks? Can't remember if I've asked that before.

I was kind of annoyed by the first season, but I stuck with it, and I kind of like it now.

Just so long as they stay away from the jokes that imply the characters have watched every Star Trek episode and movie. I hate that shit.

"This is worse than that time Worf blah-de-blah-de-blah!" Fuck right off.

Speaking of Trek, that teaser for Picard Season 3 looks fucking sick. Why didn't they just do that shit from the beginning?

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Post by: Rama on Oct 18, 2022, 08:36:52 AM
Yeah I jumped off both Picard and Lower Decks in season one...But an Odyssey Class Enterprise F. Nice. That ship was actually designed by a fan.

But I love Strange New Worlds. That actually kind of feels like a Star Trek show, which most of these other shows they've been making haven't.   
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 18, 2022, 09:45:55 PM
Speaking of Trek, that teaser for Picard Season 3 looks fucking sick. Why didn't they just do that shit from the beginning?

Because it's doing what most shows now do where they need to "tease" the plot before delivering the goods when they actually need to deliver the goods to get people to watch in the first place. Similar to how a lot of superhero movies are origin bullshit instead of the hero in their element being cool shit and having fun.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 19, 2022, 11:17:19 AM
Still Maintain the 1989 Batman did that the best. They gave us the origin, but it is dealt in little bits till we finally get the full origin (that only takes like 5 mins) right before he goes off to face the Joker. Great. Unlike Batman Begins where we get a whole movie about where he trained, how did the get the batsuit, how he got the Batmobile....just ugh. That's why Dark Knight was better. None of that stuff because it was already done. Oh and the Joker.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 27, 2022, 08:26:19 PM
I finally started watching  the boys Season three but I’m only about two episodes into that and I start watching peacemaker which I’m only one episode in two of that. Boys is just the boys more of the same from the first two seasons but peacemaker is actually pretty great
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Post by: Rama on Oct 30, 2022, 10:30:05 AM
Andor still is pretty good....Peacemaker still is great. Haven't got back to Boys yet.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 14, 2023, 01:43:00 AM
Watched the first two episodes of that Velma show. Seems pretty good. Actually made me laugh a few times.

All these people up in arms about the sanctity of Scooby-Doo can fuck right off. Warner's been milking the franchise for the last twenty years with nothing but creatively bankrupt assembly line garbage. This is better than all of that.

Fucking Scooby-Doo versus the WWE and shit. Get fucked. Or that recent series that was a carbon copy of the Family Guy format, right down to the non sequitur flashbacks. YUCK.

But oh noes, Mindy Kaling made characters brown that weren't brown before, the horror!

Anyway, I'll be watching it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 15, 2023, 01:40:03 PM
I don't watch Scooby Doo that didn't come from the time before I was. Not saying the new stuff is good or bad in that, either, but I'm just not interested.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 15, 2023, 03:37:06 PM
To be fair, as badly as Scooby-Doo has been dragged through the mud over the decades, it's probably never been so awful as all the clone shows Hanna-Barbera cranked out in the years following the original...





Just the tip of the iceberg. :joe:
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 16, 2023, 03:11:36 PM
I lived through all that. One more reason to love Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.

Check the 6:32 mark: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/harvey-birdman-attorney-at-law/spf
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 06, 2023, 04:53:21 AM
First couple episodes of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal were pretty solid.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 19, 2023, 02:16:39 PM
But then I watched the third episode and already the animation is starting to look kind of sloppy and rushed? Maybe I'm just too much of a stickler.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 19, 2023, 07:55:46 PM
Watched the first episode of the Arnold documentary. I'll probably watch the second and ditch the third. Based on his behavior patterns in my years of observing him, his handling of his family life, and his comments regarding the deaths of his father and brother, the man fits the definition of narcissist.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 05, 2023, 04:47:05 PM
I started watching a show called PSI Cops! The exclamation mark is in the title. It has the look of a shoddy asset flip you would pay $15 for on Steam, but obviously that's intentional and part of its charm. The humor is completely arbitrary and absurd, and I'm really liking it so far. A little reminiscent of Tigtone, if I had to compare it to anything.

Also, Brian Drummond is in it! You can still totally hear the Vegeta in his delivery.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 23, 2023, 09:38:54 AM
I watched that new Superman cartoon because there's a free episode (or at least part 1 of it) on YouTube. It's not the most offensive thing by a mile. I like Lois and Clark but not much else in it. The weirdest thing about it is that it's airing at midnight on Adult Swim when back in our day it would've been the opening show on the early Saturday evening block. I don't understand this world anymore.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 23, 2023, 01:54:50 PM
They made Lois super cute. I approve.

As for the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim thing, it seems like they've drawn a hard line between the two. CN is for young kids, AS is for everyone else. I was wondering the same thing about Unicorn being on AS, I'm guessing it comes down to depictions of violence, regardless of how tame they are.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 24, 2023, 05:48:16 PM
At least they did it right and let him keep his trunks. I'll have to find this and watch it, as Superman remains my all-time favorite superhero...just call me Bibbo.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 03, 2023, 09:54:36 PM
Strange new worlds is my current favorite thing on tv, I did finish good omens 2 which wasn’t bad but you can tell Pratchett was the idea man.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 23, 2023, 11:37:08 AM
First couple episodes of Ahsoka were actually pretty good. Fingers crossed it doesn't shit the bed somewhere down the line.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 25, 2023, 06:52:30 AM
I actually agree with that. But I’m worried about anyone that comes in and hasn’t seen Rebels. It’s almost required viewing to know what is happening.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 25, 2023, 12:27:51 PM
People had been saying that for a while, so I started watching an episode a day of Rebels back in May. Boy, it was rough starting out, but Seasons 3 and 4 were mostly legit.

It's kind of like how early days ST:TNG is a bunch of crap, but you need that character familiarity for when it finally picks up.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 26, 2023, 11:56:58 AM
Oh yeah, I’m trying to watch through rebels . I started it but I never finished it. So I think I’m missing some stuff here but boy it really is a slog at first.

And the Harley Quinn show has gone from one of my favorite shows to one of my least favorite shows. I don’t know what happened, but holy shit now
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 26, 2023, 02:18:46 PM
I feel like Harley Quinn has always been wildly inconsistent. The highs are high, the lows are LOW, and there's no rhyme or reason as to when the shifts are going to happen. For instance, I thought the setup for this season opened strong, but the last several weeks have been an absolute mess.

Let's be real, it's just bootleg Venture Bros. at this point.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 29, 2023, 08:35:32 PM
I pulled the fourth season of Harley but just didn't bother watching it. It was a chore for me to get through more often than not.
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Post by: Rama on Sep 06, 2023, 08:50:06 AM
One Piece -live action


Went in prepared to hate this but it’s actually a lot of fun and pretty good.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 04, 2023, 03:16:46 AM
Ahsoka kind of shit itself over the course of the season. Culminating in
Spoiler (hover to show)
, arguably one of the stupidest things we've been subjected to in new school St*r WarzzZZ thus far.

Also, a "conclusion" that's nothing but setup for a second season. Man...
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 04, 2023, 03:25:21 AM
I binged the first three episodes of Krapopolis. I think I laughed twice. It's like these animated sitcoms aren't allowed to be funny anymore, or something. Please cancel.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 04, 2023, 03:29:23 AM
Have I watched anything good lately? Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. WONDERFUL.
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Post by: Rama on Oct 16, 2023, 08:17:40 AM
Ahsoka kind of shit itself over the course of the season. Culminating in
Spoiler (hover to show)
, arguably one of the stupidest things we've been subjected to in new school St*r WarzzZZ thus far.

Also, a "conclusion" that's nothing but setup for a second season. Man...

Kinda agree with all of this. It started out ok but….yeah
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 16, 2023, 05:42:24 PM
I thought you would love zombies. Anyway, they've already zombified the franchise. May as well stick actual zombies in it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 17, 2023, 10:04:17 PM
I was gonna watch all those Warsies shows, but after Mando season 2 I made the executive decision to forego the rest. They're doing the same thing with them that they did/are doing with the Marvel shows: create a cheaper but harder to follow continuity requiring watching everything within a certain time frame and in a certain order while keeping track of all that shit that should at its heart be disposable entertainment. At what point did some genius decide that franchise fatigue is best combatted with even more stuff to follow?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 18, 2023, 12:50:15 AM
Andor is the only one worth a fuck. It stands on its own as a professionally-produced television program.

The rest of it is corporate fan fiction.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 10, 2023, 10:13:05 AM
Season (series?) finale of Loki was solid. Wish more of the episodes could have been like that. Had one of the most "epic" moments the MCU has seen in a very long time.

It felt weird watching a Marvel thing again and actually caring about the characters and what was happening to them.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 13, 2023, 06:13:16 PM
I liked it, but I didn't really get the ending....likely because I was watching it at 2 this morning when I should have been (as I was for a few minutes here and there) asleep. I'll rewatch it just to be sure I understand what happened and most importantly why. I'll refrain from spoilers, but they really spun their wheels a bunch in this season.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 13, 2023, 09:04:50 PM
Okay, I've done a little reading up, and now I understand it. Basically, they have concluded the series in a novel manner that also clears up the likelihood of Loki's return to the MCU. But the way that they did it really wasted a lot of time...in the end, though, I suppose all recursive stories ultimately are.
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Post by: Rama on Nov 29, 2023, 07:44:32 PM
Season (series?) finale of Loki was solid. Wish more of the episodes could have been like that. Had one of the most "epic" moments the MCU has seen in a very long time.

It felt weird watching a Marvel thing again and actually caring about the characters and what was happening to them.


Well don’t worry the marvels came out…so you can go back to not giving a shit
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 02, 2023, 12:04:37 PM
Tiny Toons Looniversity came out almost three months ago to such little fanfare that I only found out about it today. And it was even on my radar!

I guess nobody watched it. And I really shouldn't be surprised because the same thing happened with the three seasons of new Animaniacs. Nobody cared.

Is the nostalgia well running dry?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 02, 2023, 06:07:27 PM
I can admit that the first episode wasn't awful. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 19, 2024, 12:20:15 PM
https://youtube.com/shorts/6XEOl0hw0RY?si=T1w5FnHzdaSPaUNo
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 20, 2024, 11:13:49 PM
I can admit that the first episode wasn't awful. I'm cautiously optimistic.

What?  The new Tiny Toons?  I'm heavily biased because the old Tiny Toons was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. I saw a bunch of clips of the reboot/remake/whatever some months back and it's so cheap looking. Even the coloring looks discount, like they couldn't afford the right shades of green and blue for Plucky and Buster. And I think I chuckled, like, twice at all of the clips I saw.  It's not the most offensive thing I've seen by a mile. It's just not that funny.

I'm not sayin' the old show was flawless or a masterpiece or anything. Some of it has not aged well. But I think media for kids isn't allowed to be that type of funny anymore. Like making jokes about butts so big they need two chairs a piece; or kids getting drunk off of one beer; or having a little green duck smashed by the boots of three burly singing men. So instead the characters complaining about everything are the jokes. (I get the irony of me saying that.)


This one clip's joke was how controlling Babs is because she didn't want to live a room full of Sweetie Bird's garbage. And then this same clip turns in to "Ha, ha, Dizzy Devil's a retarded hobosexual" halfway through. Wtf? This isn't funny.  And this was a clip curated by CN and put on their YouTube. You thought this would showcase your show, CN?

Also, most of these VAs literally sound like they're chewing gum. Don't know if it's them, the voice direction, or the equipment they're using but I need to put subtitles on because I don't understand, like, a quarter of the words that come out of their mouths.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 28, 2024, 12:47:36 PM
MOTU: Revolution was unexpectedly awesome. Tighter story, better animation, epic voicing. Watch it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 30, 2024, 08:51:23 PM
I thought the final episode was a really good payoff overall, but man, I found a lot of the dialogue throughout to be fucking awful.

I wouldn't be opposed to them coming back to it at some point down the line, though. Going by the epilogue, they clearly have some ideas.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 31, 2024, 06:11:28 PM
I thought the final episode was a really good payoff overall, but man, I found a lot of the dialogue throughout to be fucking awful.

I wouldn't be opposed to them coming back to it at some point down the line, though. Going by the epilogue, they clearly have some ideas.
I agree about the dialogue, but I wasn't expecting Shakespeare or anything...I was looking for dumb fun and found it in spades. There were several particular groaners in there, but my favorite one was the "I laugh at the superior intellect" line...it was so cliche, but the fact they even dared to throw that in there I found to be pretty ballsy.

I'll be honestly surprised if they do another season given the blowback from the previous series...this was better animated with more celebrity voicing, but that's partially why it was only 5 episodes. I'm hoping word of mouth will attract those who were so butt-hurt over Revelation to watch this.
Spoiler (hover to show)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 31, 2024, 06:33:05 PM
The thing about Shakespeare is funny to me, because I don't know if you follow Kevin Smith at all, (I only watch his Fatman Beyond podcast with Marc Bernardin) but he has mentioned time and again that all his corporate overlords ever asked of him was to treat the source material with respect, like it's Shakespeare, if you will. Literally in those words. And the way he talks about it, he's totally confident that he nailed the assignment.

And you see it most in the monologuing from Skeletor and Hordak, the waxing poetic and the groan-inducing alliteration. I don't know, did these guys do that a lot in the old show? I don't remember. To be clear, I'm not saying it is Shakespeare, just that I think Smith believes that's what he's accomplished here.

I did like how Hordak snorted derisively at Skeletor at one point, that was a nice touch. And I did genuinely laugh at a couple jokes, I just don't recall what they were at the moment. One of them was one from He-Man towards the end of the fifth episode.

You mentioned the Snake Men, and I did like what they did with Teela in regards to that. I don't know if you ever had any of those mini-comics they used to pack in with the figures, but one of the earliest ones had that green-skinned Teela character, and I'm not sure she was even referred to as Teela at that point, to be honest. But then later when she got her own toy, they mostly kept that same design (albeit with the swapped out skin tone) complete with her cobra hood and scepter.

Also, seeing Rio Blast and Snout Spout animated was pretty sick, even if they were purely visual and inconsequential as actual characters.

And from the way Kevin talks about it, it sounds like Revolution is being very well received. He sounds hopeful that they'll get to do more.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 01, 2024, 11:26:36 AM
To be clear, I'm not saying it is Shakespeare, just that I think Smith believes that's what he's accomplished here.
Smith strikes me as one who just loves the smell of his own poop and as such doesn't believe in the courtesy flush.  So I don't doubt he's proud as can be over it, which explains why he was so butthurt about Revelation being shat over.

I did like how Hordak snorted derisively at Skeletor at one point, that was a nice touch.
I think that was a little Easter egg amongst a ton of little Easter eggs. I saw where someone pointed out the front of a Cadillac in the background of this one scene with Gwildor, and it was the one whose front end came with them to Eternia in the movie. But Keith David fucking killed it in this.

You mentioned the Snake Men, and I did like what they did with Teela in regards to that. I don't know if you ever had any of those mini-comics they used to pack in with the figures, but one of the earliest ones had that green-skinned Teela character, and I'm not sure she was even referred to as Teela at that point, to be honest. But then later when she got her own toy, they mostly kept that same design (albeit with the swapped out skin tone) complete with her cobra hood and scepter.
They call the green version of Teela "the Green Goddess" now, which adds to the ongoing Teela/Goddess/Sorceress conundrum. Basically Teela was both a warrior and goddess in her original concept, so it was great how they reconciled all the aspects of her character.

And from the way Kevin talks about it, it sounds like Revolution is being very well received. He sounds hopeful that they'll get to do more.
Yeah, I read that and was relieved.  Apparently the reason they went with 5 episodes was Netflix's algorithm told them it would do better, and it apparently has. Word is (https://foreternia.com/2024/02/masters-of-the-universe-revolution-finishes-its-u-s-top-10-run-with-6-days) that Revolution has already done better than Revelation and was in Netflix's Top 10 for six days straight. I just hope now that strikes and whatnot are over we can get more content quicker, because the wait was pretty long for this in on top of the normal animation delay.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 03, 2024, 02:05:08 PM
I'll have to chell this out then. Let's see if I get filtered on the first episode. Although the prior series or whatever had a decent first episode.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2024, 10:07:44 AM
Sorry, the billo bike story made me laugh. The first episode was probably the weakest. I choose to blame all of the bad dialogue on Smith. Smith was the credited writer for the first and last episode and those are the culprits for the worst of it.

Overall, it was decent. Did it deserve more episodes? I'd say not. Revelations has more episodes and that didn't do shit for it. Revolution told a succinct, tight story and avoids the #1 offense of wasting my time.

+ Snake Teela
+ Evil-lyn
+ Keldor
+ Keith David
+ "What's in the boooox!?

-Andra (still pointless)
-Democracy gud
-Skeletor (didn't feel like a threat)
-Instances of shitty dialogue feeling off for the characters and setting
-Fucking wannabe tags

For fuck's sake, let shit end without teasing the next "thing." Everything's gotta do that shit. The ending would've been a lovely ending at He-Man and Teela's last scene.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 04, 2024, 01:36:10 PM
I was cringing the entire time during that bike eulogy thing, because it's a story that Kevin frequently tells about his own father! Back when he was a kid, all his friends had BMXs and he mentioned to his parents that he wanted one. So he comes home after school one day to find this fugly homemade bicycle that his dad had cobbled together, and he thanked him for it, but he never rode it because he would have been too embarrassed. Then much later after his old man had passed away, he was reminded of that bike and said that if he could go back he would have ridden it all up and down the streets all over town. And he's getting all teary-eyed while he's talking about it and I'll be honest, it was touching.

But then for him to just repurpose that shit for this dumb cartoon he's working on. Jesus Christ.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2024, 10:00:26 PM
I was cringing the entire time during that bike eulogy thing, because it's a story that Kevin frequently tells about his own father! Back when he was a kid, all his friends had BMXs and he mentioned to his parents that he wanted one. So he comes home after school one day to find this fugly homemade bicycle that his dad had cobbled together, and he thanked him for it, but he never rode it because he would have been too embarrassed. Then much later after his old man had passed away, he was reminded of that bike and said that if he could go back he would have ridden it all up and down the streets all over town. And he's getting all teary-eyed while he's talking about it and I'll be honest, it was touching.

But then for him to just repurpose that shit for this dumb cartoon he's working on. Jesus Christ.

I KNEW it! I fucking knew it had to be something like that. That's part of the reason I laughed. I knew it had to be some weird-ass personal story. It was so jarring and out of place. Like, dude, no one wants your bike story in fucking He-Man. How self-absorbed can you get?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 09, 2024, 03:51:16 PM
It was Ok...better then the first one, which I didn't think was that bad, and it was enjoyable. So I guess that's a recommend on it. That bike story did come out of left field.

and I guess we aren't even talking about the live action Avatar?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 09, 2024, 07:44:29 PM
Man, I haven't even watched Netflix's new Avatar thing. To be honest, I was never an Avatar head in the first place. I was always put off by its faux anime trappings. Nothing against it or its fans, though.

And from what I'm hearing, everybody's pretty lukewarm about this new adaptation.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 09, 2024, 11:54:39 PM
Haven't watched it.  I've been feasting on all of the critical reviews instead: The costuming is a mixture of being too clean-looking and too cheap-looking; the characters talk too much but still don't say half as much as they did in the original; the people making this show had no understanding of the key themes of the damn story or any character motivations at all; Sokka and Aang overall seem to have okay to meh reception and Zuko's been better received than them; Jun was very well done; Katara, Suki, and Azula were utterly butchered beyond recognition; Bumi and Gran Gran were utter cringe; Daniel Dae Kim was the best actor in the show but his character also has no business getting so much screentime this early.

I have no idea why anyone would want to subject themselves to this show. At least something like One Piece has the excuse of having ten million billion episodes so the live action would be a shorter adaptation and thus more accessible by nature. Live Action Avatar and Book One are nearly the same length so the viewer spends around the same amount of time with the story for inferior content. But whatever, it's been renewed and it's apparently gotten enough eyeballs for Netflix.

And, no, I have no faith the creator's involvement would've fixed anything. Not after how they handled Korra. Those two guys get all of the credit for the OG show when the old show was lightning in a bottle: other people working with those two creators to make an excellent children's show.


I didn't realize joe had never seen it. Or did you see some of it and just didn't like it? I felt like the faux anime thing was far less egregious with this show. I was initially put off myself when I first saw an episode but the execution and episode structure is very much in line with Western cartoons. The bending is at its peak with the OG show, too. Korra, the movie, the comics, the dumb chibi shorts and any other material based on the franchise can all go into the dumpster though.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 10, 2024, 03:44:11 AM
I just didn't even really give it a chance. I'm sure if I sat down and watched it, I would probably end up liking it.

The original show, I mean. This new thing, not so much.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 10, 2024, 10:10:55 AM
I watched it just to see what the fuss was about. It was just a whole lot of meh
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 17, 2024, 10:14:05 PM
I finally managed to watch Over the Garden Wall. I see all the potential in it but wished it could've been moodier and spookier. Instead, someone would have to quip or some shit. I get it, it's a kid's story and needs to have quips and jokes so kids don't get scared. Oh, and I hated Wirt.  :laugh:
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 18, 2024, 06:35:00 PM
Yeah, I remember that one. I enjoyed it overall, but you're right that it never fully developed/delivered on its premise. Or at least not in the ways I would have liked.

I think I "own" it digitally... somewhere. Or I hope that I still do. I could definitely give it another look come October.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 21, 2024, 06:22:44 PM
Anybody else catch X-Men '97?

I'm still in shock over how competently plotted it is. Like, it's ACTUALLY fucking good.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 22, 2024, 08:54:12 PM
Yeah, I saw it and was shocked that it was actually good.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 29, 2024, 01:53:54 PM
Hey, it is pretty good. I almost wish I was remotely interested in anything else on Disney+. This show's also rekindled my love of Rogue that was stomped on so mercilessly by Anna Paquin and the live action slop. (For the record, I like X1 and X2, but I hated Anna Paquin Rogue. I wanted a warm, feisty Southern belle with Peggy Bundy hair.)

I wasn't completely sold on the Cyclops VA. Ray Chase is super-talented but Cyke just sounds sorta extra douchey. But I like it now. I'm so confused about Forge though. Wasn't he in the old show? I guess he didn't meet Storm in it?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2024, 02:45:04 PM
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 14, 2024, 10:25:06 AM
Oh, thank God he just spat on him. I was expecting worse. :lol: