[worry]

[Tsundoku]

Yet another Voltron reboot? And yet again it's the shitty Lion version. Blerg.

WTF are you doing, Netflix?

http://www.news.com....9962f9d550ef34e

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 28 March 2016 - 11:41 AM

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Oponn Relationship, on 25 March 2016 - 03:10 AM, said:

I love backdoor pilots. I watched one from Webster a few weeks back for a show that was gonna quintuple down on the orphans, called Almost Home, and it was pretty sweet.



The best thing about them is that they so often come when a show is already out of ideas, so this bizarre high concept offshoot gets rammed in. I much prefer it to shoehorning in a pregnancy/baby/Cousin Oliver.

I suppose this works out better w/ cheesy sitcoms than it does hour-long murder shows though.

The correct analogy is The Great Gazoo.

I would have also accepted Poochie.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Tsundoku, on 28 March 2016 - 11:37 AM, said:

Yet another Voltron reboot? And yet again it's the shitty Lion version. Blerg.

WTF are you doing, Netflix?

http://www.news.com....9962f9d550ef34e

Helmed by writers/producers from AtLA and tLoK and animated by Studio Mir. That gives me a bit of hope that it will be good, though I never liked Transformers at any time in my life.

[acesn8s]

Wait,they rebooted Voltron before?

[worry]

Hey I like the Great Gazoo. I'm not saying he makes any sense whatsoever, but he's a funny guy.

[Primateus]

Okay, so I saw the Supergirl/Flash crossover...It wasn't very good. And really, it's mostly because of Supergirl. It might have been better had it been with Supergirl coming to Central City, but I can understand that that wouldn't make any sense, storywise. How would she have gotten there?

Too bad, it could have been really excellent and, it just...wasn't!

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Primateus, on 29 March 2016 - 10:30 AM, said:

Okay, so I saw the Supergirl/Flash crossover...It wasn't very good. And really, it's mostly because of Supergirl. It might have been better had it been with Supergirl coming to Central City, but I can understand that that wouldn't make any sense, storywise. How would she have gotten there?

Too bad, it could have been really excellent and, it just...wasn't!

I PVRed it, haven't watched yet.

Though SG was not among the spat of renewals CBS just announced. Not sure if that means its cancelled...but perhaps?

[Slow Ben]

Rewatching Parks and Rec.

Show might even be better the 2nd time around.

[QuickTidal]

Watched the Supergirl Flash crossover. Good gods what a shitshow. Th Supergirl portions of the show were stupid, the makeover bit was a key reason that show is on the cancellation bubble, and by the midway point we started fast forwarding to Barry's Flash scenes which were the only good thing about the ep. In fact all it made Mrs. QT and I want to do was watch an actual episode of THE FLASH...which we did, and it cleansed the palate with Good tv.

Supergirl is garbage.

[QuickTidal]

The wife and I had a combined moment of meh last night and we decided to drop BLINDSPOT off our PVR. It's a DECENT show, but it's not remotely good enough to be watching from week to week. We found ourselves struggling to find the desire. So we dumped it. Is anyone else still watching it?

[amphibian]

Magicians Episode 11: Pretty good exploration of Alice's background and the Neitherlands. Loved the time spent on Q's relationship and how he and Alice work together. Didn't like how Free Trader Beowulf got dropped into our laps a priori. Seems too rushed for something very important in the books. Having Kady back is great tho. Decent C plot in Eliot and Margo getting their friendship back online after Margo went away for multiple episodes.

Margolem is perhaps the best line reading of the show so far. Eliot/Appleman is killing it.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Just an FYI — new season of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix.

[QuickTidal]

FX marathoned the entirety (except the finale I think?) of THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON yesterday and so I PVRed it and watched the first two eps.

I'm fascinated by it mostly because I watched this unfold on TV when it happened and seeing the other side of it all I can't help but be interested.

The only thing that bugs me this far is the two or three times they PURPOSELY throw the Kardashian sisters into it just because they are famous now. Like at Nicole Brown's funeral their mother shouts at them "Kim, Khloe, Kourtney! Stop running." and I just roll my eyes knowing why they put that in there.

Other things that stick out is some miscasting. Cube Gooding is neither tall or looming enough to pull of OJ, and Bruce Greenwood as the chief DA feels way too on the nose. But Schwimmer as Kardashian Sr. works, as does (surprisingly) Travolta as Shapiro and Malcom Jamal Warner as Al Cowlings. The standouts for acting though are certainly the two actors who are playing Chris Darden and Marcia Clarke. Both do a stellar job.

I feel a bit dirty watching it though. Feels like a guilty pleasure more than anything. But I like it.

[Abyss]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 01 April 2016 - 07:20 PM, said:

Just an FYI — new season of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix.

Just in time since apparently the actor who plays Bubbles is in a spot of trouble w the law.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 30 March 2016 - 11:48 PM, said:

Watched the Supergirl Flash crossover. Good gods what a shitshow. Th Supergirl portions of the show were stupid, the makeover bit was a key reason that show is on the cancellation bubble, and by the midway point we started fast forwarding to Barry's Flash scenes which were the only good thing about the ep. In fact all it made Mrs. QT and I want to do was watch an actual episode of THE FLASH...which we did, and it cleansed the palate with Good tv.

Supergirl is garbage.

This confirms everything I expect from this crossover when I eventually catch up to it.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 29 March 2016 - 10:35 AM, said:

Primateus, on 29 March 2016 - 10:30 AM, said:

Okay, so I saw the Supergirl/Flash crossover...It wasn't very good. And really, it's mostly because of Supergirl. It might have been better had it been with Supergirl coming to Central City, but I can understand that that wouldn't make any sense, storywise. How would she have gotten there?

Too bad, it could have been really excellent and, it just...wasn't!

I PVRed it, haven't watched yet.

Though SG was not among the spat of renewals CBS just announced. Not sure if that means its cancelled...but perhaps?

It is strange to me that three of the renewals I am most happy about, Arrow, Flash and Legends, are all CW shows.

[Abyss]

Tsundoku, on 28 March 2016 - 11:37 AM, said:

Yet another Voltron reboot? And yet again it's the shitty Lion version. Blerg.

WTF are you doing, Netflix?

http://www.news.com....9962f9d550ef34e

You shut up about the Lion version, Lion Voltron is awesome as far as my childhood is concerned.

Take your weird little fifty-five micro-vehicles Voltron and go back to Russia.

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 04 April 2016 - 04:11 PM, said:

FX marathoned the entirety (except the finale I think?) of THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON yesterday and so I PVRed it and watched the first two eps.

I'm fascinated by it mostly because I watched this unfold on TV when it happened and seeing the other side of it all I can't help but be interested.

The only thing that bugs me this far is the two or three times they PURPOSELY throw the Kardashian sisters into it just because they are famous now. Like at Nicole Brown's funeral their mother shouts at them "Kim, Khloe, Kourtney! Stop running." and I just roll my eyes knowing why they put that in there.

Other things that stick out is some miscasting. Cube Gooding is neither tall or looming enough to pull of OJ, and Bruce Greenwood as the chief DA feels way too on the nose. But Schwimmer as Kardashian Sr. works, as does (surprisingly) Travolta as Shapiro and Malcom Jamal Warner as Al Cowlings. The standouts for acting though are certainly the two actors who are playing Chris Darden and Marcia Clarke. Both do a stellar job.

I feel a bit dirty watching it though. Feels like a guilty pleasure more than anything. But I like it.

I think I'm about 5 eps into this. Really the stars of this are (of course) Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, who are both just so good. But Sterling Brown (Darden), who I wasn't familiar with before this, is also fantastic. So I'm pretty much with you (Vance wasn't major at the point you posted). Everyone else hovers slightly above or below par. I'm kinda shocked Rob Morrow is in this at all, for instance, given how little Scheck has done on screen. He coulda been played by anyone just outta drama school.

I'm not annoyed by the Kardashian kids for the same reason you are though...I just think the show is unnecessarily cruel to them. They are universally used as punching bag caricatures, and it's comically mean to pre-adolescent kids.

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Oponn Relationship, on 06 April 2016 - 08:56 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 April 2016 - 04:11 PM, said:

FX marathoned the entirety (except the finale I think?) of THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON yesterday and so I PVRed it and watched the first two eps.

I'm fascinated by it mostly because I watched this unfold on TV when it happened and seeing the other side of it all I can't help but be interested.

The only thing that bugs me this far is the two or three times they PURPOSELY throw the Kardashian sisters into it just because they are famous now. Like at Nicole Brown's funeral their mother shouts at them "Kim, Khloe, Kourtney! Stop running." and I just roll my eyes knowing why they put that in there.

Other things that stick out is some miscasting. Cube Gooding is neither tall or looming enough to pull of OJ, and Bruce Greenwood as the chief DA feels way too on the nose. But Schwimmer as Kardashian Sr. works, as does (surprisingly) Travolta as Shapiro and Malcom Jamal Warner as Al Cowlings. The standouts for acting though are certainly the two actors who are playing Chris Darden and Marcia Clarke. Both do a stellar job.

I feel a bit dirty watching it though. Feels like a guilty pleasure more than anything. But I like it.

I think I'm about 5 eps into this. Really the stars of this are (of course) Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, who are both just so good. But Sterling Brown (Darden), who I wasn't familiar with before this, is also fantastic. So I'm pretty much with you (Vance wasn't major at the point you posted). Everyone else hovers slightly above or below par. I'm kinda shocked Rob Morrow is in this at all, for instance, given how little Scheck has done on screen. He coulda been played by anyone just outta drama school.

I'm not annoyed by the Kardashian kids for the same reason you are though...I just think the show is unnecessarily cruel to them. They are universally used as punching bag caricatures, and it's comically mean to pre-adolescent kids.

As a 17year old when this went down, I remember being very swayed by Cochrane's smooth words and the circus that did everything but refute the clear evidence. And now I look at it and think...how the hell did he get off while staring down that much evidence pointing straight at him. It's scary in hindsight to think I fell for Cochrane's shtick.