[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread

Cajungal

Cajungal

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I'm enjoying The Flash, but I'm annoyed that they had to have a storyline about Barry pining after his childhood friend. Also, in this most recent episode...

not that this makes or breaks the either show for me, but why does Felicity always have to dress like she's going to a cocktail party? I feel like they're trying to do away with the frumpy nerdette stereotype by going wayyyyy in the other direction. I don't really care what she wears in the show, but sometimes it seems really strange and out of place. Maybe I dress too casual and just don't know what people normally wear...
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Cajungal said:
I'm enjoying The Flash, but I'm annoyed that they had to have a storyline about Barry pining after his childhood friend. Also, in this most recent episode...

not that this makes or breaks the either show for me, but why does Felicity always have to dress like she's going to a cocktail party? I feel like they're trying to do away with the frumpy nerdette stereotype by going wayyyyy in the other direction. I don't really care what she wears in the show, but sometimes it seems really strange and out of place. Maybe I dress too casual and just don't know what people normally wear...
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Sounds like a CW show.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Yeah, I'm working my way through Arrow right now, and it's not bad so far but I just finished the Huntress episodes. The relationship between Ollie and Helena is so fucking CW it bleeds melodrama and stupid.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Frank said:
Huntress episodes are the worst ones of the series. The actress is SO terrible.
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That too, yeah. She's awful. The other little stupid thing that bugs the shit out of me is every time Ollie is standing still, he's basically posing like he's really tense. I don't know how to describe it properly, he just always has his arms and legs set in the same place every time he stops moving. It's weird.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

CynicismKills said:
That too, yeah. She's awful. The other little stupid thing that bugs the shit out of me is every time Ollie is standing still, he's basically posing like he's really tense. I don't know how to describe it properly, he just always has his arms and legs set in the same place every time he stops moving. It's weird.
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Oliver Queen. Always on the verge of pooping.
 
Frank

Frank

Sons of Anarchy has never been a "good" show. Always a guilty pleasure.

This last season is Dexter bad, right down to the TERRRRRRRIBLE child actor. Kurt Sutter is a nepotistic hack. I hated when people shit on Skyler White's character in Breaking Bad, the shrieking shrew wife crap, etc, so, you kind of know that I don't like that kind of thing. Gemma is a legitimately awful character who serves no purpose than to make Sutter's wife happier I think. Not to say the other characters are good. Aside from Unser, the entire cast is fucking awful. At least Tig and Happy are funny.

Each episode is like 20000 minutes long too and the fucking awful Katie Segal covers during the montages are well into the self-parody territory.

End of the newest episode, Jax literally pulls the Luigi Mario Kart drive-by staredown and it comes off as the least intimidating thing of all time.

 
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Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Steven Universe: Oh why didn't they show Alexandrite's weapon, THEY HAVE DOOMED THE INTERNET TO SPECULATION FAN-ART!

It was neat seeing Pearl being outright DISGUSTED by the process of eating, really helps her whole other-worldly nature.

Also, Over the Garden Wall anyone? Good blend of silly and creepy, part of me is sad that its only a mini-series but I've heard the finale is a whopper so I'll deal.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Frank said:
I hated when people shit on Skyler White's character in Breaking Bad, the shrieking shrew wife crap, etc, so, you kind of know that I don't like that kind of thing.
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I realise this is just an aside to your main point, but I legitimately never understood this behaviour among people. Her husband is a lying, narcissistic drug-dealing jackass, but she's the bad one. It was nigh intolerable to talk to people about the show at times, because everyone wanted to ramble on over the "despise Skylar" line.
 
Frank

Frank

Chad Sexington said:
I realise this is just an aside to your main point, but I legitimately never understood this behaviour among people. Her husband is a lying, narcissistic drug-dealing jackass, but she's the bad one. It was nigh intolerable to talk to people about the show at times, because everyone wanted to ramble on over the "despise Skylar" line.
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BUT SHE WAS RUINING WALT'S FUN!
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Chad Sexington said:
I realise this is just an aside to your main point, but I legitimately never understood this behaviour among people. Her husband is a lying, narcissistic drug-dealing jackass, but she's the bad one. It was nigh intolerable to talk to people about the show at times, because everyone wanted to ramble on over the "despise Skylar" line.
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It's usually the same people that view Walt as the hero of the story. Which leads me to believe they're either a little skeevy, or just dumb and not really paying attention.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

To me it's one of the reasons the show is so good. Walter is painted in a very sympathetic light at first. He's this meek, small science nerd teaching a class nobody cares about, has a crippled son, an overbearing set of in-laws, and a wife that just won't go back to work to help him pay the bills because she's totally going to finish that novel. On top of that is everything else in his life that's just hard to deal with, and then he gets smacked in the face with cancer.

At first, you can see the desperation, and sort of the reason he does what he does. The thing is, though, as he descends further down the rabbit hole, the sympathy starts to shift. You feel less sorry for him, and more for everyone else in his life. Hell, by the later parts of the show you could even sympathize
with Jesse, and he starts out as such an empty-headed tweeker that you'd never expect to side with him.
 
Covar

Covar

I watched South Park this week for the first time in a while. It's South Park. It was about Fremium games. Perfectly amusing.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Covar said:
I watched South Park this week for the first time in a while. It's South Park. It was about Fremium games. Perfectly amusing.
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I was so busy working on HFA I forgot to torrent it until this morning. But I've got it now.. and it's waiting for me when I get home. Between that, and Grimm, it should be a good night.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

To put it in a perspective, my daughter really liked Karen Gillian, she changed the channel 10 minutes into the pilot episode. Did not like it at all.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Selfie was funny :(

Also, it got 5-7 episodes, Do No Harm got dropped after one episode. It's really early, but not like, historic early.


also re: Breaking Bad. The answer is the patriarchy :)

actually the entire show can be read as about how toxic and evil masculinity is
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

I realize most people are going to be like HUR DUR CHARLIE'S TROLLIN, but honestly you're not completely wrong. The major tipping point for every event that takes Walt down a darker and darker path is always his refusal to dismiss his pride as a man and breadwinner for his household. Hell, the show would have been a lot shorter if
he just took his friend's money for the treatments.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

I turned off Selfie after the first 5 minutes because it was so bad, but a couple people lobbied me to give it another chance. It gets better from the pilot and upgrades from annoying to cute fast. I also like Karen Gillan and John Cho a lot, and that went a long way...
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Charlie Don't Surf said:
I turned off Selfie after the first 5 minutes because it was so bad, but a couple people lobbied me to give it another chance. It gets better from the pilot and upgrades from annoying to cute fast. I also like Karen Gillan and John Cho a lot, and that went a long way...
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Honestly, I'm the one trolling, because I haven't even seen it.
 
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