TV Thread

[TSD]

No fucking way am I going to touch Elementary. I already feel like it's going to be weak if they have to use a gimmick like Lucy Lu as Watson. I'll stick to waiting for Sherlock to come back around. I was going to give it a show and put it on my DVR but keep forgetting so now I won't bother.

I was wondering what she was up to post charlies angels.

 

[MassHavoc]

She really is horrible. I honestly don't understand how she keeps getting work.

 

[supraman]

She really is horrible. I honestly don't understand how she keeps getting work.

She was pretty good on Southland

 

[MassHavoc]

Not really, everything seemed forced, and like she was constipated all the time. Luckily that show is so good it is able to gloss over it.

 

[supraman]

Not really, everything seemed forced, and like she was constipated all the time. Luckily that show is so good it is able to gloss over it.

Was that her character or her? Her character was pretty damn stoic most of the time

 

[MassHavoc]

It was her because it's the only charecter she knows how to play.

 

[supraman]

It was her because it's the only charecter she knows how to play.

I dont know I thought she did a decent job playing a character that has a tough outside but deep down actually has some feelings.

 

[MassHavoc]

I'm not saying the character was bad, or that she didn't do as well as she could have with it, I'm just saying she's not good. Pretty one dimensional and that happens to be the dimension. Others could have done it better and worse. I just don't think her job with that character is anything to write home about.

 

[Ymono37]

SOA has only had one episode? Do they delay it any before they put it out there? I don't do hulu plus because to pay for that service and still have them feed you commercials you can't skip is asinine to me. I don't want to get in the argument about it again though.



I tried to watch Go On, only got through about one segment. Nothing wrong with it per se, just not smart enough to really hold my attention. I see a lot of Mr. Sunshine in it and used to watch that show some, but like Mr. Sunshine I think you are right and it will fall victim to the same fate. I only really watch these shows cause of Matthew Perry, but they keep failing because he doesn't have anyone ever equally as good to play off of. I think he'd do much better in more of a buddy show or another ensemble instead of as the leading man. Hell, I'd like to see him as Cousin Larry in a Perfect Strangers remake...

Season 5 just started Tuesday... I know there can be a lag with getting things on On Demand, but they don't even have it as a category under FX and typically they'll post older eps if a new one is coming up. I was just thinking if Hulu Plus had it, it might be worth at least getting the free trial... although I agree - commercials for a VOD service I'm paying for seems silly.

 

[TSD]

I cant help but always notice Lucy Liu's lazyeye. I'm not trying to be an ass, but I can't watch shit with her in it because it's all I notice. It's like when you get a song stuck in your head, with anything I watch with her, her lazy eye is stuck in my head.

 

[The Mule]

People with a lazy eye are cool!



Sincerely The Mule

(and her lazy eye)

 

[supraman]

Lazy mofo

 

[The Mule]

That eye is the LAZIEST!

 

[Ymono37]

For anyone that cares, I finally found SOA Season 5 on PSN of all places... might be why it's not on On Demand, why offer it up for free when people can pay for it, per ep?

 

[MassHavoc]

For anyone that cares, I finally found SOA Season 5 on PSN of all places... might be why it's not on On Demand, why offer it up for free when people can pay for it, per ep?

Exactly... this per episode bullshit is driving me nuts. You end up paying 2-3 per episode which is more than the box set when it comes out and if you think about it that 30-40 bucks could have been used to upgrade your cable for the 3 months of the show. (I know this may not be the case all the time if you don't get cable or the channel the show is on, i'm more talking about stuff on HBO and such)





Anywho, I digress, let's just get straight to the lynching cause I know I will get crucified for this. We finally watched firefly, still waiting to watch Serenity. And I thought it was an excellent show, very funny and definitely a genre breaker and entertianing. If it was still on I would watch it. And here comes the but, I just don't get the extreme fanaticism for it though. The pedestal it was put on does not meet what the show actually is, I was expecting so much more. Especially because so little got revealed. The season itself didn't seem to be anything near as revolutionary as people make it out to be, if they had more time maybe, but I'm just not getting where the folks are coming from saying it could have been the best show ever and all that. I enjoyed it a lot, and it would have probably been one of my favorites. Great charecters, but they did no story arc development. Maybe the movie really ties it all together or I'm missing something, but from what I've heard the movie is not satisfying to the die hards. I'm not saying the show is bad by any means, I just don't think it's as good as people make it out to be. It's like a musician that was awesome but died too early. They magically got better after they died. I would welcome it back any day, I'm just not sure it lived up to the expectations that other put on it for me.

 

[supraman]

Exactly... this per episode bullshit is driving me nuts. You end up paying 2-3 per episode which is more than the box set when it comes out and if you think about it that 30-40 bucks could have been used to upgrade your cable for the 3 months of the show. (I know this may not be the case all the time if you don't get cable or the channel the show is on, i'm more talking about stuff on HBO and such)





Anywho, I digress, let's just get straight to the lynching cause I know I will get crucified for this. We finally watched firefly, still waiting to watch Serenity. And I thought it was an excellent show, very funny and definitely a genre breaker and entertianing. If it was still on I would watch it. And here comes the but, I just don't get the extreme fanaticism for it though. The pedestal it was put on does not meet what the show actually is, I was expecting so much more. Especially because so little got revealed. The season itself didn't seem to be anything near as revolutionary as people make it out to be, if they had more time maybe, but I'm just not getting where the folks are coming from saying it could have been the best show ever and all that. I enjoyed it a lot, and it would have probably been one of my favorites. Great charecters, but they did no story arc development. Maybe the movie really ties it all together or I'm missing something, but from what I've heard the movie is not satisfying to the die hards. I'm not saying the show is bad by any means, I just don't think it's as good as people make it out to be. It's like a musician that was awesome but died too early. They magically got better after they died. I would welcome it back any day, I'm just not sure it lived up to the expectations that other put on it for me.

Nice knowing you Mass. Hopefully your skull cap will make a lovely ashtray.

 

[Ymono37]

Exactly... this per episode bullshit is driving me nuts. You end up paying 2-3 per episode which is more than the box set when it comes out and if you think about it that 30-40 bucks could have been used to upgrade your cable for the 3 months of the show. (I know this may not be the case all the time if you don't get cable or the channel the show is on, i'm more talking about stuff on HBO and such)





Anywho, I digress, let's just get straight to the lynching cause I know I will get crucified for this. We finally watched firefly, still waiting to watch Serenity. And I thought it was an excellent show, very funny and definitely a genre breaker and entertianing. If it was still on I would watch it. And here comes the but, I just don't get the extreme fanaticism for it though. The pedestal it was put on does not meet what the show actually is, I was expecting so much more. Especially because so little got revealed. The season itself didn't seem to be anything near as revolutionary as people make it out to be, if they had more time maybe, but I'm just not getting where the folks are coming from saying it could have been the best show ever and all that. I enjoyed it a lot, and it would have probably been one of my favorites. Great charecters, but they did no story arc development. Maybe the movie really ties it all together or I'm missing something, but from what I've heard the movie is not satisfying to the die hards. I'm not saying the show is bad by any means, I just don't think it's as good as people make it out to be. It's like a musician that was awesome but died too early. They magically got better after they died. I would welcome it back any day, I'm just not sure it lived up to the expectations that other put on it for me.

Like anything that gets over-hyped this was always a possibility.



I would serious reserve judgement until you see the movie and even read the graphic novels (which are supposed to be canonical).

 

[MassHavoc]

I though it was a book or comic series but I couldn't remember, I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere.



So the movie does tie it all in? I thought I read that it answers a bunch of the immediate questions but still leaves it unfinished?

 

[Ymono37]

I though it was a book or comic series but I couldn't remember, I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere.



So the movie does tie it all in? I thought I read that it answers a bunch of the immediate questions but still leaves it unfinished?

Some of it is unfinished, but it definitively closes a few things.



There's a mini-series (that I can't remember the name of) that follows what happens between the show and the movie and more importantly, the stand-alone "The Shepherd's Tale" answers even more questions (definitely save that one for LAST).

 

[MassHavoc]

Some of it is unfinished, but it definitively closes a few things.



There's a mini-series (that I can't remember the name of) that follows what happens between the show and the movie and more importantly, the stand-alone "The Shepherd's Tale" answers even more questions (definitely save that one for LAST).

By mini series do you mean graphic novel? or like web series or television mini-series? It's good enough that I would seek these things out to watch definitely but I'm just not sure how much money or time I would spend to do it. That's why I hesitate to put it up there on the cult pedestal it seems to be on.