Good TV
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Chances are that the cloaca isn't so much yours as the other end of the worm. You're just a meat shield.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@Misadventure said:
Chances are that the cloaca isn't so much yours as the other end of the worm. You're just a meat
shieldsheath. haAHAHAHAH GROSS
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did I say Archer is awesome?
Because Archer IS AWESOME.
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It's not that I don't find the idea horrifying in theory.
It's that the show presents it in such ridiculous trappings that it's really hard to take it seriously enough for it to squick me. It came close a few episodes ago due to [redacted], but... not enough.
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"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Unrelated, but apparently the cancelled Constantine show, the same version of Constantine will be guesting on Arrow at some point in the new season.
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watches CHiPs on MeTV
Man, I watched the shit outta that show back in the day, but I still can't find the ep where i remember Ponch told a perp "Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars"...
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True story when I was a kid on my trike I would pretend to be Ponch as I rode around my street.
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I just finished Season 1 of The Strain. I think that @coin may be correct that it is just a downhill journey. I got to the point where I literally fastforwarded large parts of episodes. I even skipped the sex scene. Don't know how long it was or if it was titillating or not. "Oh, they're about to have sex? Lame. skip."
"Oh, it's another scene about how senile Maria's mother is? skip."
"Oh, another flashback? skip."
"Oh, another moment of Goodweather being all anguished and conflicted. skip."
"Oh, they're talking about Dutch [redacted]ing? skip".
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@Cobaltasaurus
Yeah, lingering on people's personal drama is totes lame. I hear Sense8 would have been way better if they'd skipped all of that too.
Unrelated:
I'm exactly two minutes and forty seconds into the Lucifer pilot, and I can already tell I'll love this show to a truly unhealthy degree.
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@HelloRaptor Don't be an idiot, Raptor. The two shows are vastly different. Aaaand if you recall I did complain about some of the personal drama-- there were times they cut away from Nomi to focus on Lito being a moron, and I didn't care for it.
Less personal drama, more vampire fites.
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I've been watching Grimm recently, it's fairly entertaining. Not like great quality or amazing stuff, but so far I feel invested and suitably entertained by it.
I can reccomend Person of Interest, I marathoned that some months back. Is very action oriented, follows a spy that is given a number for an I.D of a person who is somehow going to be involved in a murder, not knowing if it is a victim or a perp and then having to find out the situation.
Eventually grows into much more.
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@Cobaltasaurus
Yep. It just ... it's boring. That's really what it is. It's just boring.
Person of Interest is insanely good. Like, I think it's probably the best thing on television lately.
Grimm is okay. It gets better the further along you go and the more you notice the writers have realized what sort of show they wanted to write, but it still has very wild ups and downs in quality, especially of plot.
The Lucifer pilot was pretty good, but I wish they wouldn't hammer the "every woman [except for her] is compelled to want to fuck him" so much. We get it, yikes.
I finally pinpointed what bugs me about Teen Wolf, which is a really good show, but something was really bugging me. It's that it feels, if using a MU comparison, like the things we see on-screen are just the "PRP logs", while all the other tons of roleplay going on isn't there. You see bits and pieces, but only because maybe a normal log turned into a "surprise! prp!" log in the middle. It's all-action, all-the-time, and while that should usually work, on a show with teens that has a lot of parallels to what it is to grow up, to take responsibility, i.e. coming of age, etc., it feels like it's missing something. There's no downtime.
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Yep. It just ... it's boring. That's really what it is. It's just boring.
This doesn't even make sense to me. I could understand a few other complaints, my wife likes to hammer on how much she hates the costuming for the Master, but to say it's boring is like... I don't know, it'd be like you telling me you had someone suddenly put a gun in your face and immediately got an erection. I can only assume the fault is in how your head is wired rather than what you're looking at.
The Lucifer pilot was pretty good, but I wish they wouldn't hammer the "every woman [except for her] is compelled to want to fuck him" so much. We get it, yikes.
It sounds more like your gripe is with the characteristic itself than with it being hammered on, if only because... how would that even work? I guess they could just have long stretches where he doesn't interact with women other than her, or at least isn't shown to on screen, but that doesn't seem too likely either. If you can accept that it's a trait of his that people who are sexually attracted to him have difficulty not expressing it (I'm guessing it's 'anyone attracted to men' not 'all women', but we'll see.), how exactly would you suggest they handle it so as not to be rubbing it in your face? I'm not really sure how one could be established as true without resulting in the other.
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Every time I watch Grimm, I always think that this is a show I'd really, really like if the main character was hit by a truck and any other actor on the show was made the lead.
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@Coin said:
I finally pinpointed what bugs me about Teen Wolf, which is a really good show, but something was really bugging me. It's that it feels, if using a MU comparison, like the things we see on-screen are just the "PRP logs", while all the other tons of roleplay going on isn't there. You see bits and pieces, but only because maybe a normal log turned into a "surprise! prp!" log in the middle. It's all-action, all-the-time, and while that should usually work, on a show with teens that has a lot of parallels to what it is to grow up, to take responsibility, i.e. coming of age, etc., it feels like it's missing something. There's no downtime.
Man, Teen Wolf is making me a little wistful this season. I didn't even love Derek, but I'm kind of sad he's not around, especially because we now have several new pretty white boys who kind of just look the same. (I guess only two. But still.) I definitely miss Peter, because Peter's fucking great and I wish he was around being sarcastic 24:7. I get that they probably want to just move on from certain characters, and how many seasons can they have Peter trying to take over and kill everyone, but, like I said -- wistful about moving on from a number of the original cast.
Re: Lucifer, you can't even make me watch that because that comic series is amazing and that show is 100% unrelated to the series. I wish they'd just not even pretended to have optioned the material.
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@HelloRaptor said:
Yep. It just ... it's boring. That's really what it is. It's just boring.
This doesn't even make sense to me. I could understand a few other complaints, my wife likes to hammer on how much she hates the costuming for the Master, but to say it's boring is like... I don't know, it'd be like you telling me you had someone suddenly put a gun in your face and immediately got an erection. I can only assume the fault is in how your head is wired rather than what you're looking at.
No, not really. I just don't find the show very entertaining; it boggles my mind how they have managed to make the vampire apocalypse boring. It has some good moments, but those good moments become good if only because of the sheer ridiculousness of them. Just because you don't find it boring doesn't mean I can't.
The Lucifer pilot was pretty good, but I wish they wouldn't hammer the "every woman [except for her] is compelled to want to fuck him" so much. We get it, yikes.
It sounds more like your gripe is with the characteristic itself than with it being hammered on, if only because... how would that even work? I guess they could just have long stretches where he doesn't interact with women other than her, or at least isn't shown to on screen, but that doesn't seem too likely either. If you can accept that it's a trait of his that people who are sexually attracted to him have difficulty not expressing it (I'm guessing it's 'anyone attracted to men' not 'all women', but we'll see.), how exactly would you suggest they handle it so as not to be rubbing it in your face? I'm not really sure how one could be established as true without resulting in the other.
I guess? It's a trait that can lead to no-no-bad-town really easily and quickly if the writers don't handle it well. And I mean, I get that he's the Devil, but you can't spend five minutes of exposition showing how the Devil is really a nice guy who doesn't take people's souls and actually asks for favors like "get your shit together" (lolz) and then provide him with powers that bypass consent in people and have him use them. It's a dissonance in my head.
And I don't think it's just "people who are attracted to him". He specifically mentions Chloe as being weird because she's not attracted to him, which implies that it's a supernatural effect: women just want to do him, that is how it is.
It's not a make it or break it thing for me, and I can understand why the pilot of all things focused on it; but it 1) has unfortunately implications which yes, I get he's the Devil, but you're still writing him from a sympathetic point of view, and 2) it's going to get old fucking fast.
It's also pretty cheap inasmuch as "representations of the Devil's power to corrupt or incite vice in people". Horns did the whole "spontaneous confession and subsequent perversion" thing better, IMO, and focusing on "everyone wants to bang him" instead of "people simply act more sinfully thanks to his passive influence, which sometimes translates into people who are attracted to men wanting to fuck him" is kind of meh.
But, all in all, I liked it. I just have a gripe, is all. We'll see how it pans out.
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I wish they'd just not even pretended to have optioned the material.
I've got a pretty high tolerance for things like this, usually, probably because I watch a lot of anime that do shit like deliberately using the same characters, names, faces, etc but swap around dispositions, relationships, situations, etc to tell largely different stories.
I've got the whole run of Lucifer in trade paperback sitting on my shelves, and I loved it to bits, but I'm 100% okay with a completely twisted up telling of the tale in a similar framework but with shit changed up. Honestly, Lucifer as a direct translation to screen (or even just the parts that really defined the character as he appeared in the comics) would probably make for shit television.
I said the above but my initial response was to pretend you were talking about the Battlestar reboot, because fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that show.
