[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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MacFarlane can be a really funny writer. He has written really funny stuff, and even Ted was really good. Family Guy doesn't require a lot of effort to make a ton of money, so it doesn't get a lot of effort.
True, but I wish he still put effort into it like he did a few years ago or at LEAST hire someone who would.
Watching TUFF Puppy and...I don't hate it. In-fact I kinda like it, pretty good slap-stick.
I decided to check out the He-Man reboot they did for Cartoon Network a few years back. It's actually quite enjoyable. The character re-designs minimally changed the originals so every single character is recognizable to their original design. I also like that they give an origin for why Skeletor has the skull head.
I kinda like how they start the intro with the original speech from Adam and as soon as he gets to "fabulous powers", they go, "screw that shit... 'SPLOSIONS!!!!!"
I've only watched the intro storyline, but I'm liking it so far. I'll probably keep watching it.
I kinda like how they start the intro with the original speech from Adam and as soon as he gets to "fabulous powers", they go, "screw that shit... 'SPLOSIONS!!!!!"
I've only watched the intro storyline, but I'm liking it so far. I'll probably keep watching it.
As far as food shows, I love Bizarre Foods and No Reservations. I missed out on the final season of NR, though. Bourdain's just fun to watch; a laid-back dude who meets up with friends to try local food and liquor as he explores all these countries. Bizarre Foods is cool too, though the new America version isn't as interesting to me as the previous worldwide stuff (anything set in east Asia is a great episode).
Just finished season one of the Wire.
Took me a while to get into it. But the last 5 or 6 episodes got me hooked for sure. When shit hits the fan in this show, it does it in slow motion so you're not hit with one "Holy crap!" moment, but half a season of "oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap" moments. Intense, and I'm sure, from what everyone says, it only gets better.
Took me a while to get into it. But the last 5 or 6 episodes got me hooked for sure. When shit hits the fan in this show, it does it in slow motion so you're not hit with one "Holy crap!" moment, but half a season of "oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap" moments. Intense, and I'm sure, from what everyone says, it only gets better.
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I just saw some of the new Thundercats. I'm actually quite impressed. The characters have multiple dimensions, people don't always get along, and the endings aren't always neat and pretty, and the bad guys sometimes win. Those points alone make the show superior to quite a bit of high budget live action TV out there right now. Definitely watchable.
Yep. Only we may not be getting a second season because the toys sold like shit. If we get one, it's going to be on Toonami and it's going to be MUCH shorter than Season 1 was.
I've seen every episode of a lot of the Nick @ Nite shows more than once
My opinions about the latest Ninja Turtles episode can be said in the all-mighty words of Robot Chicken M. Night Shamylon- "WHAT A TWEEST!" Seriously, did not see that coming.
Watched the series premiere of Vikings. It looks like it'll be a good show, first ep was a bit slow but still pretty interesting.
The sunboard and sunstone technologies demonstration was pretty cool.
Just started The Walking Dead a couple days ago with Nate. Woooooo!!
Just saw the Community stop-motion Christmas special...this show is hated by NBC and the ratings HOW?!
I'm going to guess this is the 3D animated one, and not the 2D one?
I tried to watch the 3D one and kind of lost interest after the first handful of episodes. I've heard it's a fantastic series but I dunno when it picks up.
I didn't like the first season, but last season and this season have been pretty good.
I call it schizophrenic because it has more mature aspects to it (lots and lots of death, some unusually coarse language for a cartoon) but then has garbage like entire episodes devoted to the entirely for small children Jar Jar Binks accidently making stuff go boom and some writing so poor, I wouldn't have expected it in even 80's cartoons.
Yes it is all over the place. There are some real gems in there. Most of the good shows does not deal with the padawan star of the show.
Actually, the 4 part season finale for this year dealt entirely with her and was pretty great, if predictable. The show really finds it's grove starting with Season 3, though some of the Season 2 stuff is important to the overall arch of the show.
Unfortunately, Disney has just announced that the show will be ending with Season 6 and that it's no longer going to be airing on Cartoon Network. We all knew this was coming, as CN is the primary competitor for Disney XD and they did a similar move with their Marvel properties after that buy out. It'll probably be airing it's final season on Disney XD.
They are also pushing back the release of the Star Wars: Detours series till sometime after episode 7 is released because they feel it's "questionable to release a comedy series about pre-episode 7 material at this time".
Yeah, it's now slated for "unspecified consoles" and pushed to late 2014, so who knows what's going on there. I think Detours is pretty much shelved too, though that looked kind of stupid so no big loss there.
Detours was the cast and creators of Robot Chicken doing their Star Wars stuff, but officially for Lucas Film and using CG instead of action figures. So no... from what I've seen it was actually pretty good. I don't understand who thought it was a good idea to make than an entire SERIES instead of just a yearly thing but it had all the same talents behind the ones we've seen.
Oh lord I hate Ahsoka. R2D2's nick-name is Artoo, NOT Artooie. That's just lame.
I know who was behind it, and I haven't found Robot Chicken funny in a long time. I don't think Detours looked any good at all, personally, as it was just rehashing the Robot Chicken Star Wars schtick.
Back on track. Watched the first episode of Bob's Burgers on Netflix today. Man, I think I've been missing out, it was hilarious.
Its the only show I watch on Fox Sundays now.