― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
What I meant to start out with was... HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR! WOO HOO! * streamers *
― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I like bad TV, too, but Sports Night is not it.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I would guess that people could defend SN by saying it was "intelligent" etc, so I would think it doesn't fit into the generally-accepted canon of Bad TV. But it defines bad entertainment for me.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
it did a really good job of drawing out complex and indidvidual relationships between each of its characters and everybody else. it drew a social picture really well and remained more or less faithful to it. I admit, though, that I dig super-mannered dialogue and I get why many people don't.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: west wing did that too, at least at first
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost--I haven't seen SN since '01 so my critique (beyond "hated it") will be pretty flimsy, but I suppose I didn't like the way it dealt with relationships because it used really broad strokes and the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own. Yeh, I think that covers it-- Goodbye Girl and SN are like watching a puppet show.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
agree to disagree.
the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own
anyone on a Sorkin show speaks Sorkin, so that's fair. I do think there were character-appropriate variations in Sports Night, but, like I said, I do get why people dislike his stuff. I get it a lot better after latter-day West Wing and fucking Studio 60.
xpost: omg, Jordan, you and I are totally alone on this SN superiority!
I love My Dinner with Andre.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I should watch the WW, this might work better in drama.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/70/240px-Joshua_Malina.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, him. And now that I see that picutre, I'm reeealy not happy.
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
How come actors are always pulling pranks? Makes for good talk-show fodder?
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
xxp i've only seen pics of you, jesse, but you don't look anything like that actor to me. (he was jeremy on SN too)
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost and what jesse said
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
fixed
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
One other guy got one that said "Free Dessert - He's coming out to his parents."
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I guess there were maybe a couple pranks pulled during my theatre days, but I don't really remember much apart from the "I Love Jesus" bandit.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Adorable Francie all curled up and sweet in a little wee basket:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/294810319_9cc4de9d0d.jpg?v=0
Or ding dong Brenda in a dumb wine box:
http://flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/335967759_4636cd9f07.jpg
― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/109792597_39a636e201.jpg
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
XPOST WRONG.
― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: I like Francie because shorthair > longhair
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link