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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 5, 2023 9:14:34 GMT -5
I need the internet to understand that when someone on Reservation Dogs says “skoden” (let’s go then), it’s not a Native American thing. It’s an Oklahoma thing. 100%. I’ve said, my friends have said it, I’ve heard strangers say it. It didn’t even register to me something to puzzle out. I don’t think I ever registered it as anything but a mumbly version of “let’s go then”. Riiiiiight? And yet certain sections of the internet are all "what does it even meeeaaan".
I don't know, I guess it's like Americans not understanding a heavy Yorkshire accent.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 5, 2023 9:19:10 GMT -5
I don’t think I ever registered it as anything but a mumbly version of “let’s go then”. Riiiiiight? And yet certain sections of the internet are all "what does it even meeeaaan".
I don't know, I guess it's like Americans not understanding a heavy Yorkshire accent.
Not Yorkshire, but I'll admit it took me a little while watching Derry Girls to understand what "wain" meant. So. Maybe. |
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 5, 2023 9:52:18 GMT -5
So I'm still liking The Wheel of Time in season 2. My main takeaway is the same from season 1 - they should have more episodes. It felt kind of zoomy cutting from one place to another in episode 1. A longer season would have given more runtime to let each setting breathe a bit more. But the characters are established now and so is the setting, so at least we're not constantly getting blindsided by new crap constantly. Also I feel like the writing has improved. I think the show also really upped its game on the production values, especially the costumes. The new actor for Mat feels fine, I completely bought him as the character after a minute or so. I have thought about starting a WOT thread or recap just so I can sort out my own thoughts on the show as a huge fan of the novels. But that sounds like work. I do like this season a bit better so far. I told my wife it is frustrating because I cannot tell where they are going with the plot threads. Are they heading toward major story beats or away from them? At least with GOT I knew we would get things like the Red Wedding and Blackwater. It was clear that they were being faithful enough to the books. Here I have no idea if we will ever get to Dumai's Wells or the Band of the Red Hand. |
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Post by sarapen on Sept 5, 2023 11:25:58 GMT -5
So I'm still liking The Wheel of Time in season 2. My main takeaway is the same from season 1 - they should have more episodes. It felt kind of zoomy cutting from one place to another in episode 1. A longer season would have given more runtime to let each setting breathe a bit more. But the characters are established now and so is the setting, so at least we're not constantly getting blindsided by new crap constantly. Also I feel like the writing has improved. I think the show also really upped its game on the production values, especially the costumes. The new actor for Mat feels fine, I completely bought him as the character after a minute or so. I have thought about starting a WOT thread or recap just so I can sort out my own thoughts on the show as a huge fan of the novels. But that sounds like work. I do like this season a bit better so far. I told my wife it is frustrating because I cannot tell where they are going with the plot threads. Are they heading toward major story beats or away from them? At least with GOT I knew we would get things like the Red Wedding and Blackwater. It was clear that they were being faithful enough to the books. Here I have no idea if we will ever get to Dumai's Wells or the Band of the Red Hand. Yeah, Amazon should really make a longer commitment than just seasonal. The show is obviously compressing a lot because no way there's going to be a season each for 14 books, plus there's a lot of bloat to cut out anyway, but it would be nice to be able to plan out things a bit better in the long term. I actually got conned by the holodeck fake-out because I thought maybe they were going to move forward the thing about non-Aes Sedai channelers. Also my book experience led me to get suckered by the one guy who was graphically killed because I knew he was in the later books. In retrospect he was a minor character and even cutting him out completely wouldn't make a real difference, so it makes sense to kill his ass. Also maybe I'll start the thread later but it'll have to be just people chiming in on each episode because I can't do recaps either. |
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Post by sarapen on Sept 5, 2023 17:40:19 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 5, 2023 21:10:58 GMT -5
I need the internet to understand that when someone on Reservation Dogs says “skoden” (let’s go then), it’s not a Native American thing. It’s an Oklahoma thing. 100%. I’ve said, my friends have said it, I’ve heard strangers say it. It didn’t even register to me something to puzzle out. Counterpoint: The first time I heard skoden was on Letterkenny, spoken exclusively by NDNs in Ontario, and a quick web search yields pages and pages about Native American slang. Maybe it leaked over into regular OK vernacular so long ago that you've always heard it? |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 5, 2023 21:43:14 GMT -5
I need the internet to understand that when someone on Reservation Dogs says “skoden” (let’s go then), it’s not a Native American thing. It’s an Oklahoma thing. 100%. I’ve said, my friends have said it, I’ve heard strangers say it. It didn’t even register to me something to puzzle out. Counterpoint: The first time I heard skoden was on Letterkenny, spoken exclusively by NDNs in Ontario, and a quick web search yields pages and pages about Native American slang. Maybe it leaked over into regular OK vernacular so long ago that you've always heard it? Also possible a shorthand phrase like that developed in two places independently. I’ve heard “jeet?” as shorthand for “you eat (yet)?” all over the Midwest. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 6, 2023 3:18:45 GMT -5
It's almost unbelievable how good I, Claudius is. It's straightforwardly one of the best pieces of TV drama ever produced anywhere. Without simply gushing, it's hard to explain just how good it is without simply sitting down and watching the damned thing. It's quite the technical accomplishment, also. One thing I noticed this time is just how long some of the scenes are - loads of dialogue filmed in takes with no cutaways, plus crowds of extras milling about potentially getting in the way of the camera movements. Only one writer for the whole series, too. Oh yeah, absolutely, it's a huge technical accomplishment. And it's made in that old "rep theatre TV" style that simple no longer exists, which makes it come across even more like a stage play (the long scenes definitely give it that feel too). That style of TV can look very dated today but I, Claudius gets away with it because everything is just so compelling. Given those cameras were the size of Daleks (or larger) the "outdoor" scenes are truly remarkable. |
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 7, 2023 15:55:24 GMT -5
I need the internet to understand that when someone on Reservation Dogs says “skoden” (let’s go then), it’s not a Native American thing. It’s an Oklahoma thing. 100%. I’ve said, my friends have said it, I’ve heard strangers say it. It didn’t even register to me something to puzzle out. Counterpoint: The first time I heard skoden was on Letterkenny, spoken exclusively by NDNs in Ontario, and a quick web search yields pages and pages about Native American slang. Maybe it leaked over into regular OK vernacular so long ago that you've always heard it? It's not actually slang, though, it's talking fast and slurring your words altogether. Which sure ok is pedantic as hell,but.
One of the website hits shows other examples like of "Native American Slang" like “Stoodis (let's do this)” and “Kayden (okay then)”. Yeah, that's just verbal shorthand, have heard those also, and your yeehaw accents are real likely to have that crossover because they're often fluid and we don't enunciate very clearly all of the time. Heck some dude in Charleston SC asked me if I was British because I enunciated better than a Southern accent, and I know I don't spit out each word clearly.
I'm not trying to say "IT'S NOT THEIR WORD", I'm just saying words based on accents aren't necessarily connected back to a single demographic - like "innit" is British slang, but also apparently a Native American pronunciation.
But I AM saying that if random, like, Californians were saying "skoden" all the time, it would annoy the fuck of out me like it annoys me when they say "y'all" after years of being dicks about (literal) Okies saying "y'all". It ain't your regionalism, y'all.
Course everyone else did steal "dude". So.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 7, 2023 15:58:19 GMT -5
Riiiiiight? And yet certain sections of the internet are all "what does it even meeeaaan".
I don't know, I guess it's like Americans not understanding a heavy Yorkshire accent.
Not Yorkshire, but I'll admit it took me a little while watching Derry Girls to understand what "wain" meant. So. Maybe. I only knew what "wain" was because I'd seen it written, likely in the book Trainspotting or maybe in one of James Herriott's. But it still takes my brain a minute to translate, because my first context for "wain" is a wagon. Probably Tolkien is to blame for that one. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 7, 2023 23:45:56 GMT -5
I do revisit MXC episodes now and again but while they still make me laugh there’s the odd joke that really hasn’t aged well. I’m also definitely curious about the originalmoverall too. I’ve found the original on Internet Archive (don’t trust my phone to do straight quotes and don’t want to go into desktop mode so I’ll boomer link it archive.org/details/003-1986-05-16) but no clue whether they’re subbed. The Internet Archive stuff is…tricky. Ones labeled subs aren’t necessarily subbed and there are only a handful of full episodes with English subtitles (all taken from the special features of the MXC DVDs, incidentally): 1, 61, 67, 75. 86, and 93 (one of those is the winter special, which provided the source material my favorite MXC episode). They’re out there in the river of questionable media sourcing.
I just watched the subbed first episode of Takeshi’s Castle and it’s weird in comparison to what the show would become because it’s so normal in its execution. Aspects of the future show are there (and a game where they have to fall into strange openings in the ground to get an underground passage to the castle is kind of interesting in concept, but not really to view—luckily by then there were only four or so left), with the opening wall climb, the Dragon Pond/Sinkers and Floaters game pretty much as it would be (though easier) and the maze, though its cells are rectangular. It’s really more an obstacle course than a series of flamboyant challenges, though—minimum decoration, little in terms of what we might call lore, more subdued commentary (with no “Kenny Blankenship”), barely anything from the identically-uniformed participants (all men), and obstacles that are actually one after another. They really are obstacles on a course than games in and of themselves. We actually follow individual contestants through until their elimination, which is actually pretty boring. After getting about 40% through I skipped to the final challenges. It’s not even interesting as the germ of what the show would become. |
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 16, 2023 12:42:57 GMT -5
David Jenkins has been posting Our Flag Means Death promo stuff all over his Instagram, which is weird af, considering, you know, the WGA strike. He’s definitely a writer. I did find a post saying the rule is “you can talk about the project if you yourself decide you want to, BUT not if the studio TELLS you to”, which is just…such a weird distinction to me. I mean there’s literally no way to, like, PROVE you’re doing it just because you want to, and i haven’t seen any other writers doing it. But idk maybe I just don’t follow a lot of writers? |
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Post by Hippo on Sept 16, 2023 16:29:25 GMT -5
David Jenkins has been posting Our Flag Means Death promo stuff all over his Instagram, which is weird af, considering, you know, the WGA strike. He’s definitely a writer. I did find a post saying the rule is “you can talk about the project if you yourself decide you want to, BUT not if the studio TELLS you to”, which is just…such a weird distinction to me. I mean there’s literally no way to, like, PROVE you’re doing it just because you want to, and i haven’t seen any other writers doing it. But idk maybe I just don’t follow a lot of writers? Yeah, he definitely shouldn’t be doing any form of promo work regardless of who wants it just because it doesn’t look great but the WGA does indeed allow self-promotional stuff which is something SAG-AFTRA doesn’t allow. Don’t like it much but within union rules so it’s correct on paper though less so from the perspective of anyone looking in. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 16, 2023 19:41:52 GMT -5
The Frasier revival looks dire, even literally in terms of looking like it stepped stright out of 2005.
Frederick becoming a fireman is a really lazy attempt to reproduce the Frasier-Martin relationship but, oh ho ho guys, now “Martin’s” the young one! Gold!
There are different ways of doing the father-son dynamic, though. Why not put Frasier in Martin’s place, the more less wealthy and more grounded one. Frederick’s a successful banker or consultant, has impeccable credentials, but that’s all they are to him—credentials. He seems to have the best taste in everything, but it’s only because he was told or read it was the best. Frasier’s at first glad to live in a place as materially nice as Frederick’s (Frasier has to move in because he’s deep in debt, answering the question of how he could “afford” everything in the first place) but he soon realizes there’s no learning behind Frederick’s education and no taste behind his preferences.
For all his foibles Frasier’s life was full of real ups, downs, and risks as opposed to Frederick’s straight line to success. Frasier’s education’s a credential, of course, but he didn’t always use it as such—he used his erudition to make sense of his life and his taste to help anchor him. Frasier becomes the heart of the show the way Martin was, someone whose had his knocks but found his way to find meaning in it, showing the virtues of self-cultivation in the same way Martin showed the virtue of common sense.
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 17, 2023 5:42:30 GMT -5
The Frasier revival looks dire, even literally in terms of looking like it stepped stright out of 2005. Frederick becoming a fireman is a really lazy attempt to reproduce the Frasier-Martin relationship but, oh ho ho guys, now “Martin’s” the young one! Gold! There are different ways of doing the father-son dynamic, though. Why not put Frasier in Martin’s place, the more less wealthy and more grounded one. Frederick’s a successful banker or consultant, has impeccable credentials, but that’s all they are to him—credentials. He seems to have the best taste in everything, but it’s only because he was told or read it was the best. Frasier’s at first glad to live in a place as materially nice as Frederick’s (Frasier has to move in because he’s deep in debt, answering the question of how he could “afford” everything in the first place) but he soon realizes there’s no learning behind Frederick’s education and no taste behind his preferences. For all his foibles Frasier’s life was full of real ups, downs, and risks as opposed to Frederick’s straight line to success. Frasier’s education’s a credential, of course, but he didn’t always use it as such—he used his erudition to make sense of his life and his taste to help anchor him. Frasier becomes the heart of the show the way Martin was, someone whose had his knocks but found his way to find meaning in it, showing the virtues of self-cultivation in the same way Martin showed the virtue of common sense. This sounds so, so much better than anything I've yet seen associated with the series. I'll give it a go but that first trailer is dire. Now, I know that trailers don't always show off the best in a show but still - it makes it look crap, both in terms of the writing and the physical sets. I am not optimistic at this point. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 19, 2023 10:01:47 GMT -5
Finished S4 of Angel last night, so one more to go. It ended better than it started, but poor Cordy, and poor Charisma Carpenter - both deserved so much better. Jasmine is a great and semi-pathetic villain. I know what's coming for Fred, and man ... Joss Whedon really hated women eh?
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Post by LazBro on Sept 21, 2023 9:18:37 GMT -5
Good Omens (S2)
Neil and Terry are Neil and Terry, and I'm just some fat internet schlub who drinks beer all day, but I have to believe there was a better way to structure this story so it felt like more than just the final episode actually mattered. Not that I disliked the show at any point - okay I thought E5 was poorly paced and, to be honest, written - but it's kind of astonishing how dog-paddle-y a series with only six episodes could feel. This butter was spread over waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy too much bread. If the goal was to transition the story into a proper sequel of a 3rd season, then this could have and should have been a movie. A two-hour Good Omens special event.
Loved the lead performances of course, and all of the "flashbacks" were great. Another more interesting option for this series would have been to ditch the modern day story line entirely and just give us more Forrest Gump-esque "Crowley and Aziraphale were there" antics. Those were the highlight of the series by far.
It was a hell of a sixth episode. I can't say it didn't stick the landing. But gosh what an aimless road to get there.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 22, 2023 3:37:13 GMT -5
I just watched Episodes 6-8 of Only Murders in the Building Season 3.
The plotting this season seems like it is ripping off some centuries-old Italian opera. However, this does feel in keeping with the wonderfully silly show that Oliver is attempting to stage. I find myself more interested in whether this show will ever have a real Opening Night than whether they catch the real killer.
Didn't like Episode 6 very much. It all felt very cliche.
That said, I was happy to see Theo re-appear in Episode 7. And wow, kudos to costuming and makeup on this show for making this actor really look like he could be Nathan Lane's son. I think I literally said "Wow" when he appeared on screen. Theo's a really interesting character and I wish he were in the show more, especially since Nathan Lane couldn't be in this season.
Anyway, episode 8 was all kinds of goofy fun. Bless Steve Martin for that zany performance of the ridiculous patter song. My god, he really went 100% on that. I kinda loved hearing these people perform the numbers from this goofy show.
Meryl Streep continues to be excellent. It really is crazy that she signed on to do this major of a role on a tv series. On a Hulu series. She is amazing, though, not that this is surprising.
Martin Short has been CRUSHING it these past few episodes. The writers this season are just throwing *everything* at him, and he is doing it all. Just great, great performances from him.
As I said, I really don't care about the mystery this season at all. But I do wonder if they are ever going to investigate Tobert as a suspect? I don't really want another romantic interest to be the killer, but it is weird that he is so present and they never consider him a suspect. It's also weird that he's basically playing the same role as Tina Fey's character, trying to get Mabel to solo record the podcast, and even coming up with the same podcast name as Fey's character did. Are we supposed to think that they're working together to get Mabel to do this? It is all weird. And he'd said he doesn't really listen to Mabel's podcast, but then he went all fanboy on seeing Theo and that was really weird. I just find him weird and off putting. And I'd rather hang with Theo, even knowing what we know about him.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2023 5:45:44 GMT -5
I just watched Episodes 6-8 of Only Murders in the Building Season 3.
The plotting this season seems like it is ripping off some centuries-old Italian opera. However, this does feel in keeping with the wonderfully silly show that Oliver is attempting to stage. I find myself more interested in whether this show will ever have a real Opening Night than whether they catch the real killer.
Didn't like Episode 6 very much. It all felt very cliche.
That said, I was happy to see Theo re-appear in Episode 7. And wow, kudos to costuming and makeup on this show for making this actor really look like he could be Nathan Lane's son. I think I literally said "Wow" when he appeared on screen. Theo's a really interesting character and I wish he were in the show more, especially since Nathan Lane couldn't be in this season.
Anyway, episode 8 was all kinds of goofy fun. Bless Steve Martin for that zany performance of the ridiculous patter song. My god, he really went 100% on that. I kinda loved hearing these people perform the numbers from this goofy show.
Meryl Streep continues to be excellent. It really is crazy that she signed on to do this major of a role on a tv series. On a Hulu series. She is amazing, though, not that this is surprising.
Martin Short has been CRUSHING it these past few episodes. The writers this season are just throwing *everything* at him, and he is doing it all. Just great, great performances from him.
As I said, I really don't care about the mystery this season at all. But I do wonder if they are ever going to investigate Tobert as a suspect? I don't really want another romantic interest to be the killer, but it is weird that he is so present and they never consider him a suspect. It's also weird that he's basically playing the same role as Tina Fey's character, trying to get Mabel to solo record the podcast, and even coming up with the same podcast name as Fey's character did. Are we supposed to think that they're working together to get Mabel to do this? It is all weird. And he'd said he doesn't really listen to Mabel's podcast, but then he went all fanboy on seeing Theo and that was really weird. I just find him weird and off putting. And I'd rather hang with Theo, even knowing what we know about him.
Tobert seems like the most likely suspect at this point, to me, at least by mystery show rules - he's a high-profile guest star and they haven't pulled the trigger on him at all. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 22, 2023 7:46:12 GMT -5
Currently have Leverage as my "leave on in the background while I pretend to work" TV show and I'm kinda sad that the once-ubiquitous "slightly dopey mid-budget basic cable light drama" appears to have gone extinct. lends further evidence to my belief that the basic cable light drama met an untimely death, streaming-era TV is a mistake, and all subsequent development deals should involve a 7 season/120 episode commitment, with a 20-episode bonus if Mark Feuerstein, Dule Hill, and/or Angie Harmon are already attached. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 22, 2023 8:26:27 GMT -5
Just a note that #bloodymabel was a carryover from last season when Mabel has literal blood on her hands
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 22, 2023 9:55:36 GMT -5
Currently have Leverage as my "leave on in the background while I pretend to work" TV show and I'm kinda sad that the once-ubiquitous "slightly dopey mid-budget basic cable light drama" appears to have gone extinct. lends further evidence to my belief that the basic cable light drama met an untimely death, streaming-era TV is a mistake, and all subsequent development deals should involve a 7 season/120 episode commitment, with a 20-episode bonus if Mark Feuerstein, Dule Hill, and/or Angie Harmon are already attached. Why haven't more shows followed Suits' surefire formula for success of "have your female lead marry into the British monarchy," I ask you? |
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 22, 2023 18:37:06 GMT -5
Rez Dogs s03e9: I cried and cried. What lovely acting by our two leads. Really beautiful.
Turns out bittersweet, with emphasis on the sweet, is my favorite kind of thing.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2023 19:29:12 GMT -5
We've been watching old MST3K episodes as our sort of evening half-watch thing for a while now, and finished with the ones available on the Gizmoplex. Most of the rest are on youtube, and there's some variation in how finished the cut is. Right now, we're watching The Amazing Colossal Man, and this one is the full broadcast, complete with vintage summer 1992 ads. It's been a weird little time capsule. I wouldn't want to watch them all like this, but it's fun as an occasional thing.
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 23, 2023 8:23:14 GMT -5
Maybe I am just a sucker for world-building mythology and easter eggs, but these new episodes of Fionna and Cake (the Adventure Time spin-off) are killing it. On one hand it is your standard multiverse romp with different versions of your favorite characters, but it is using that to explore the fundamental relationships that occur again and again.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 23, 2023 11:14:39 GMT -5
The Frasier revival looks dire, even literally in terms of looking like it stepped stright out of 2005. Frederick becoming a fireman is a really lazy attempt to reproduce the Frasier-Martin relationship but, oh ho ho guys, now “Martin’s” the young one! Gold! There are different ways of doing the father-son dynamic, though. Why not put Frasier in Martin’s place, the more less wealthy and more grounded one. Frederick’s a successful banker or consultant, has impeccable credentials, but that’s all they are to him—credentials. He seems to have the best taste in everything, but it’s only because he was told or read it was the best. Frasier’s at first glad to live in a place as materially nice as Frederick’s (Frasier has to move in because he’s deep in debt, answering the question of how he could “afford” everything in the first place) but he soon realizes there’s no learning behind Frederick’s education and no taste behind his preferences. For all his foibles Frasier’s life was full of real ups, downs, and risks as opposed to Frederick’s straight line to success. Frasier’s education’s a credential, of course, but he didn’t always use it as such—he used his erudition to make sense of his life and his taste to help anchor him. Frasier becomes the heart of the show the way Martin was, someone whose had his knocks but found his way to find meaning in it, showing the virtues of self-cultivation in the same way Martin showed the virtue of common sense. Something very weird about the Frasier revival - why isn't it set in Seattle? Yes, yes, I know, Frederick lives in Boston in the original series, but he was also a teenager, so who cares? You could totally have done the dynamic Lemur lays out here if Freddy lived in Seattle and was a tech millionaire.
But I guess the actually reason they couldn't do a plot like you're laying out here is that, basically: do any TV writers in 2023 know the difference between mock erudition and the real thing? And even if they did, would they really be writing a show where the "really" erudite guy was even remotely sympathetic, or anything other than an out-of-touch elitist? Unlikely!
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 23, 2023 12:10:34 GMT -5
The Frasier revival looks dire, even literally in terms of looking like it stepped stright out of 2005. Frederick becoming a fireman is a really lazy attempt to reproduce the Frasier-Martin relationship but, oh ho ho guys, now “Martin’s” the young one! Gold! Something very weird about the Frasier revival - why isn't it set in Seattle? Yes, yes, I know, Frederick lives in Boston in the original series, but he was also a teenager, so who cares? You could totally have done the dynamic Lemur lays out here if Freddy lived in Seattle and was a tech millionaire.
But I guess the actually reason they couldn't do a plot like you're laying out here is that, basically: do any TV writers in 2023 know the difference between mock erudition and the real thing? And even if they did, would they really be writing a show where the "really" erudite guy was even remotely sympathetic, or anything other than an out-of-touch elitist? Unlikely!
No! No, tv writers do not know the difference and would not be able to portray the real guy as sympathetic.
Technically, Frasier moved away from Seattle in the "Frasier" series finale. But it seems weird to me that he'd go back to Boston. And I love Lemur's idea and you are right that this could have easily been done if the show had remained set in Seattle. Of course, then they'd have to awkwardly explain why Niles isn't there, but who cares.
I'm getting less and less interested in this show. It is feeding my belief that all these reboots are a mistake.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 24, 2023 16:32:12 GMT -5
We've been watching old MST3K episodes as our sort of evening half-watch thing for a while now, and finished with the ones available on the Gizmoplex. Most of the rest are on youtube, and there's some variation in how finished the cut is. Right now, we're watching The Amazing Colossal Man, and this one is the full broadcast, complete with vintage summer 1992 ads. It's been a weird little time capsule. I wouldn't want to watch them all like this, but it's fun as an occasional thing. I’ve watched a couple of those full broadcast editions, and think they’re neat. It illogically feels different from just streaming the episode or watching a regular YouTube video in the same way that listening to an actual FM radio broadcast feels different from letting Spotify do its thing on shuffle does. Even though in this case, that feeling derives entirely from the novelty of seeing really old ads, which is very dumb. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 24, 2023 18:10:43 GMT -5
With a few exceptions I can barely watch classic-era MST3K anymore because more and more I’m finding Kevin Murphy’s Servo unpleasantly smug. Season 1 once they’ve gotten into their groove and the revival series for me
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 25, 2023 7:06:45 GMT -5
The new season of Futurama has been... eh. It's alright, nice to see the characters again, not especially amazing and not especially terrible. Until Episode 9, which is one of the worst piece of complete drivel I've ever seen in my life and I couldn't even finish it. Just. Awful.
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