Sometimes we look at our own lives through the prism of pop-culture, and that’s the overriding theme of today’s show. Why Dawn and Patrick persist in trying to educate each other on their favorite bands even though they KNOW it’s a lost cause, why sometimes rooting for the good guys is the worst thing that can happen in a TV show, How both Dawn and Bobby tend to ride to the rescue of shows they have no ownership over, Why Friday Night Lights works in much the same ways the best Science Fiction works, and how the cliche about critics and frustrated artists is mostly dead-on.
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Sherlock *is* full of fan service as I’ve bitched about on the Cort and Fatboy comments thread (I think)…But I have a feeling you disagree with that sentiment.
Also, if season 2 episode 1 comes up… I’ve come to the conclusion that Moffat just wanted to add to his spank bank. He probably made sure to be on set when they were filming Irene’s battle dress scene. Gag.
In conclusion, Moffat can eat a bag of dicks.
The place I haev always had problems with BSG and why I have gotten stuck at the middle of season 4: The insane religious metapors.
The Jesus, Prophet and Messiah messages just got really ham handed and heavy handed.
That being said I will still finish it at some point because it is a good show.
When I hit college and had high speed internet for the first time, I would use Yahoo Voice with my friends and I was so embarrassed by how they all instantly knew where I was from. I even had one guy say that he just assumed anyone from the south was stupid because if they were smart they would learn how to not talk like that. And I tried to change my inflection and pronunciation of some things! (“aw” in place of “o” and the flat I’s in words like knife) and… I failed. And then I realized that I’m not going into any kind of job that requires public talking and my grammar is just fine, so screw it, it shouldn’t matter what kind of accent I have.
The ownership thing… I get that. That’s how I feel about Farscape. And why I will NEVER TIRE of trying to encourage people to watch it. NEVER. Unless I find something I like more. But PROBABLY NEVER. People are just too ADD with tv now… Farscape takes an entire season to build to what the show is actually about. Which is about breaking apart this normal guy from the inside out and driving him crazy. The entire first season is “Hey, look how normal this guy is. Look how happy he is. He’s happy and normal right?” and it’s fun cheesy scifi and then suddenly explodes into this deconstruction of his mental state after being tortured, mind-raped, and LITERALLY raped. It’s a show about a man slowly losing his mind and it happens to be set in space; what Dawn was talking about preferring, character driven. I get my white hat on when people watch 4 episodes of Farscape and then dismiss it for being stupid. No; it’s telling a STORY, you don’t hit the climax of a book in chapter three – you’re still in the introduction.
I think I had a point before I just started talking about Farscape again.
I’m so sick of Moffat. And I’m already overdosed on Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s a great actor but I don’t need him in every single thing I like.
Friday Night Lights is perfection; anyone that refuses to watch that because it’s about football is an idiot. It’s also one of the best outcomes of immersion watching to me… for a month of my life I lived with them, watching multiple episodes daily, and the emotional impact was among the strongest of any show I’ve ever watched. I think it struggled ratings wise because it lost some of that emotional impact from episode to episode if you had to watch it weekly.