i am finally watching Fireflythx netflix :)
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
I really, really was let down by Firefly. Like, nerds, really?
― IEEE (Leee), Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really get whedon, like i guess he's supposed to be good with dialogue and characterization but the patter is so forgettable and bland and the characters are 'logable' in the most transparent ways possible
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
haha um 'lovable'
not so good w/ the dialogue, much better w/ the characterization. also at one point in time, good at creating characters (partic in Buffy) unlike any other character on tv. i think firefly was more exciting bc of the genre exercise (western + scifi) than bc of the characters. tho some of the characters (reynolds, zoe, jayne) were versions of western tropes + so were interesting along that line. i thought dollhouse was a total waste of time.
― Mordy, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't actually watched much Buffy, episodes here and there, which i liked, and no other whedon series reallyi like Firefly though because of the cowboy western stuff + space! mostly and because there are a lot of non-lame women characters. it's no Farscape, however.
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 31 December 2011 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really get whedon
me either
― polyphonic, Saturday, 31 December 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
firefly and dollhouse are awesome, dr horrible is near perfect, buffy makes no sense to me and is kinda crap imo.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah dollhouse started not so great but warmed up p nicely
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
lol dollhouse is awesome and buffy is crap
i genuinely cannot understand how someone would think like this
its like saying illmatic is rub but nastradamus now that is the best hiphop record ever made
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
watched 10 episodes of homeland yesterday, showtime finally made a good tv show, im sure thats been covered, did not read thread
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
ill check back in when im done guys!
Whedon does quiet inspirational humanism really well, esp. in Firefly.
― milo z, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
buffy rules. i've never finished another whedon series except dr. horrible.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
there's a whedon-written episode of roseanne that i love to death
― horseshoe, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I think Buffy is academically good but I have almost no emotional attachment to the series aside from a couple of key series moments (Buffy's mom, Dark Willow). I have always enjoyed watching the show but never enough to make a point of trying to see it.
Firefly OTOH was just awesome, esp. once I saw it in the correct order.
Whedon is pretty great at picking actors but overall I like the Firefly cast more than the Buffy cast.
I never got past the opening of Dollhouse; great premise tho.
Dr Horrible pwns, obv
― OH NOES, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Since the sandbox doesn't have a P&R thread, this goes in here:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx241ppdm61qm1br0o1_500.jpg
― God is great. God is good. And people are crazy. Amen. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol and I just now watched the Twilight Zone where Anne Blyth plays a movie star that never ages and is probably Cleopatra.
― gukbe, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
I'm iffy about Dr. Horrible, the ending wasn't very funny.
― IEEE (Leee), Sunday, 1 January 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
aw now i wish i hadn't finished watching firefly earlier today bc it would be the perfect thing to watch before going to bed tonightthe final ep is v good imo
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 1 January 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
Blimey, Sherlock was a bit good.
― aldo, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Or, as you you could say, Not Shit Sherlock.
did the new one air already??
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Aye, 2010 tonight. Loosely based on A Scandal In Bohemia.
― aldo, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
this is the 4th ep right?
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Next Sunday has the one based on Hound of the Baskervilles.
― aldo, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
looks like - max, i think? - was right:
Deadwood had sympathetic characters who threw the word "nigger" around, on the theory that we'd understand that people in that time and place might have done it without intending an insult. Everyone who uses that word on Hell On Wheels does intend an insult, which is fine, except that the show goes out of its way to lump Bohannon in with the insulted. It insists on the superior dignity of those on the bottom of society, then works extra hard to shoehorn its quick-drawing hero in there, on the theory that there's nobody more long-suffering and sinned against than a good-looking white Southern man who can kick the ass of anybody who looks at him cross-eyed. It's not bad enough that American politics have been rendered infantile and idiotic by the trend among the privileged and well-off to feel unaccountably sorry for themselves; now even our Westerns can't keep their hands off the crying towels. This goddamn show should be called H-E-Double-Hockey Sticks On Wheels.
― Mordy, Monday, 2 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
i was just thinking about that old ilx how i met your mother thread and how i may have said some mean things about it and now it's probably my favorite show on tv.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
also tv related, i really hate how this season they have turned walking dead on amc into lost...missing characters appearing in visions, people not divulging key plot points to each other, sweeping camera pans w meaningful musical score that take up 4 minutes of what should be tense zombie apocalypse, really obvious "twists" that take way too long in the revealing, etc
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
oops!
i feel bad for nathan fillion, i just love him but it seems outside of joss whedon ventures he can't catch a break.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
i am not much of a TV guy, but SEVERANCE is honestly pretty grebt imo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 April 2022 05:50 (two years ago) link
it’s so good. I think about it at least once a week even though it’s been over for a few weeks.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Sunday, 1 May 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link