Oh, the one where they're stuck on the ship and they think the shape-shifting alien is murdering everyone. Yeah, that was a little dark, but it did come out of bumbling.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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I'm probably alone in this, but a couple of the last few Unbreakable Kimmy episodes made me a bit uncomfortable. I'm not sure what to pinpoint, or if it was a combination of playing the kidnapper for laughs, or the incompetence of the prosecution. These wouldn't be so bad if Kimmy and the others didn't display real traumatic consequences of what happened, and it starts to cross the line from dark humor into disgusting.
Louise is the best Belcher.
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The Belcher family represent five of the seven deadly sins.
Bob: Sloth
Linda: Envy
Tina: Lust
Gene: Gluttony
Louise: Avarice
You could even make an argument that Gayle, Linda's sister, is Pride.
Wasn't there an extremely toxic grandmother in one episode? Wrath?
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Eh, she was more unpleasant than wrathful, but the argument can be made I suppose. I guess that means if we include Linda's side of the family, we've got the whole set.
So, I only now heard about the Ash vs Evil Dead show. FUCK YES!!!![DOUBLEPOST=1429914294,1429914154][/DOUBLEPOST]
I really enjoyed the series. It was beyond stupid, but in a way that made me laugh up till the end.
I don't know if you're alone in that, but I didn't get that at all. The whole lawyer thing was just a big old critique of the OJ legal team. Their trauma was always played for laughs.
I really enjoyed the series. It was beyond stupid, but in a way that made me laugh up till the end.
I guess another thing is that, from some of the stuff talked about in the Politics subforum, the whole awful human being getting this shithole of a small town to rally around him felt a little too comparable to real-life events. Every one of those stories gets under my skin and I guess I couldn't separate enough from that to find it funny.
Vivian saved the day for me. Most of what she says is nonsense, but she's so no-nonsense about her nonsense, if that makes any sense. Definitely my favorite character on the show.
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I've only seen the first couple episodes of Last Man on Earth, but Kristen Schaal's character drives me up the fucking wall.
When they had the argument about where Phil parked (in a handicapped spot), I felt like he dropped the ball SO bad. "Would you burn down a church?" "No." "Why not?" "Because while it is proven that there are no longer any handicapped people, it is yet to be proven to me that there is no longer a God, presuming one exists in the first place. Furthermore, there is DEFINITELY no longer a Fire Department, and fire tends to spread quickly out here in Arizona, it being so dry. So, I wouldn't burn down a church. But I might park on its lawn, if I had a need to go inside one." And on and on and on.
I'm not sure I want to continue watching if the writing is going to be so bad and the characters so unlikable.
Furthermore, Kristen Schaal strikes me as Gilbert Gottfried with a vagina - career based on being a funny looking little wierdo with an incredibly annoying voice.
When they had the argument about where Phil parked (in a handicapped spot), I felt like he dropped the ball SO bad. "Would you burn down a church?" "No." "Why not?" "Because while it is proven that there are no longer any handicapped people, it is yet to be proven to me that there is no longer a God, presuming one exists in the first place. Furthermore, there is DEFINITELY no longer a Fire Department, and fire tends to spread quickly out here in Arizona, it being so dry. So, I wouldn't burn down a church. But I might park on its lawn, if I had a need to go inside one." And on and on and on.
I'm not sure I want to continue watching if the writing is going to be so bad and the characters so unlikable.
Furthermore, Kristen Schaal strikes me as Gilbert Gottfried with a vagina - career based on being a funny looking little wierdo with an incredibly annoying voice.
Twin Peaks is more amazing than I had anticipated. Knowing it's what spawned Deadly Premonition had kinda hyped it up for me, but the reality of it is even better. This is the first TV drama/cop show I've enjoyed in so long.
Wish I had gotten around to watching it earlier, but SO doesn't enjoy "oldies" so I have a separate watching list for alone time.
Wish I had gotten around to watching it earlier, but SO doesn't enjoy "oldies" so I have a separate watching list for alone time.
It's inspired a lot of things, including Max Payne.
Also, fix your damn sig, it's nothing but a broken imageshack link.
Yeah I just finished the first season, and every scene or two I'm making connections to more recent pieces of media.
Seriously though, very enjoyable.
Hmm yeah, I have to dig around and find the image that used to be there.
Steven Universe hiatus. 
We had something like 20+ weeks of new episodes, with 5 of them in one week. Better, we know that we have a TON of new episodes coming. I'm fine with getting a hiatus on those terms.Steven Universe hiatus.
That's pretty much how I explained it to my wife, but I still like getting the new episodes. We pretty much just caught up with the show two episodes before this.
I kind of wish Cartoon Network would broadcast it in a more sensible season setting, but asking them to make sense would be ridiculous.
You want a fucked up schedule? Look at Gravity Falls on Disney. We get maybe 15 episodes a season, so we tend get them in 4 week chunks with little promotion... but the show is consistently so fucking good and beloved, Disney is kind of afraid to get rid of it despite it not really fitting the networks well. Worse, we tend to get huge fucking cliff hangers between hiatus.
Second to Gravity Falls has to be the weird air-date to Ninja Turtles, four episodes- four week hiatus- four episodes-four week hiatus. Why not air half the eps regularly and THEN have a hiatus? Just silly. Also it should air on Saturday, back to back with Power Rangers, but that's just my opinion.
And while the knowledge of an ass-load of Steven Universe holds me over, what I find weird is that is still kinda unnecessary. Its not like they don't have room in the schedule, there's a damned hour of re-runs that they could easily put new episodes in! And really, no-one needs to watch a full hour of Teen Titans Go, no matter how much you want me to think it will NEVER be my new favorite show.
And while the knowledge of an ass-load of Steven Universe holds me over, what I find weird is that is still kinda unnecessary. Its not like they don't have room in the schedule, there's a damned hour of re-runs that they could easily put new episodes in! And really, no-one needs to watch a full hour of Teen Titans Go, no matter how much you want me to think it will NEVER be my new favorite show.
I think it's mostly on hiatus because Adventure Time is back and they want to use this time to build a buffer. Nothing wrong with that really: as long as we're getting new episodes of a big show every week, they are doing their job right.
Allegedly we're also getting a Rinaldo spin-off, Keep Earth Weird.
Fair point- EVEN SO- something new should be in that weird hour long time-slot in my opinion.
....I know that is probably yet another cartoon rumor, but holy shit would I watch that.
I kind of feel like there is no way they could make this work for more than a season without running into the obvious problems of...
- Is there anything actually strange going on? If not, this is basically Scooby-Doo.
- If there is, why don't the Gems know about it?
- If it's actually a threat to the planet (like the Diamond Conspiracy theory) then why haven't they done anything about it?
To put it bluntly... Ronaldo is just too small scale to matter at the scale the show operates on. Ether he has to get powers, know someone with powers who is on the show as a regular, or the show has no weight to it.
Steven did predict Garnet's expanding glove power in "Garnet's Universe", if he swallows a gem and gets a power-up I would not be surprised. OR- he arms himself with a homemade gem destabilizer.
I'm guessing it'll just be Scooby Doo zero weight hijinks. And likely they'd have to move him out of Beach City, since the same rumor text blob said the Crystal Gems wouldn't be on the spin-off.
If anyone deserves a spin-off show though, its the Mighty freaking Mutanimals! Scary Corey Feldman, an obvious Gibson tribute, Bizarro Killer Croc, and a freaky mutant based on the most obscure of obscure Ninja Turtles characters, now that's a freaking show!
I might have to rewatch Red Dwarf this year. http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/red-dwarf-to-return-for-two-new-seasons-in-2016-and-2017
And that was season 1 of "Last Man on Earth"...I want more. I KNOW the characters can be downright despicable, but its a unique type of despicable that oddly makes them lovable! And as weird as it sounds I'ma say it...I think they were all too hard on Phil. "How dare he not keep his sanity after being without human contact for several years! Let's judge him as if he's a sane person who hasn't bathed in Margaritas on a daily basis". Also that cliffhanger there, I am in-treg-wayed and can't wait for season 2.
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Bob's Burgers - I didn't really realize until today how much antipathy I felt for Linda. It became clear when I found myself cheering for every misfortune that befell her on her birthday. In her own way, she's just as thoughtless as Bob, as gluttonous as Gene, and as willful as Louise. Every time she tries to justify something wrong she's done with that nasally "Whaaat? I'm just (making an excuse) here!" I find myself hoping something falls on her that hurts. I mean, yes, Bob can be self absorbed, and the kids are varying degrees of sociopathic, but they're still just kids and their behavior is more the fault of their parents than their own really, and Bob tries to do the right thing more consistently than Linda, though he does give up quickly if his laziness gets the better of him. Linda, however, is much more quick to go the expedient (or self-indulgent) route, despite not being lazy, and when there's still alternatives that aren't amoral yet to be tried.
i think bob's burgers is a funny cartoon
I think she's the first character I've found nearly as repellant as Peggy Hill.
You guys probably didn't like Skyler White either, did you?
Peggy Hill was awesome. Having her character be the unhinged, scheming, unstraight-laced part of the family couple and throwing out the general trope of stuffy wife and obnoxious, keerazy husband that's been a part of nearly every sitcom since the dawn of fucking TV is fantastic.
Peggy Hill was awesome. Having her character be the unhinged, scheming, unstraight-laced part of the family couple and throwing out the general trope of stuffy wife and obnoxious, keerazy husband that's been a part of nearly every sitcom since the dawn of fucking TV is fantastic.
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They were both pretty much inverses of the classic tropes. Hank Hill was as far away from "keerazy" as they come. That stick was shoved so far up his butt that no one would ever find it.
That's what I meant, but wrote poorly.