Television thread

[Merusk]

Ah, glad I didn't post the comment I was going to after seeing it, then.  I'll do it Monday sometime, it was a spectacular episode.

Instead, I'll say "Fuck Fucking gimmicks and bullshit to sell outdated media sources." 

Been bugging me ever since I saw the first ad for it, but "Scratch & Sniff" My Name is Earl?  Fucking WHY?  WHY do producers ever think this kind of gimmicky shit is worthwhile?   It doesn't work when you syndicate the show.  It doesn't work when you rerun it later in the season?  Yet every now and then some dumb fuck thinks, "Oh I KNOW! Let's make a 3-d Episode of 'Moonlighting'!  We'll stick the glasses in the TV guides!"   

Sure, that worked in the 80s when everyone HAD a fucking TV guide.. but wtf, it's 2007.  I think the last TV guide I actually bought was in 1997, right before I got cable that shows me the same goddamn thing using the "Guide" button.  (And in fact, is even better because it changes the fucking channel FOR ME. )

Arg. Some shit is so stupid it makes my head pound.

[schild]

Holy shit.

Shark just raised the bar.

[Nevermore]

Gray's Anatomy took a turn for the shitter today. They decided to try to add in the spinoff shit for Madison's show.

That's just not gonna fly. Introducing 9 characters to try and get people to watch a second TV show and then killing off a recurring character in the main portion of the show with no REAL leadup does not a good season finale make.

You realize that wasn't the season finale, right?

[Xanthippe]

Stopped watching Shark several episodes ago when they became formulaic.  Now I wish I'd caught the last one.

[Trippy]

Stopped watching Shark several episodes ago when they became formulaic.  Now I wish I'd caught the last one.

Yeah the show started off really strong then it muddled around for a while -- the stories with his daughter were especially annoying.

[Tebonas]

I quit Shark with all that daughter shit. Are you telling me I should endure that because it gets better again after that?

[schild]

Well, the show has a couple high points. The daughter shit never got to me because I liked the character of Shark. But the ending is totally kickass.

[Johny Cee]

Hmm.... 

New Rescue Me starts in June.  That's really at the top of my list for good TV right now.  Looking forward to that and new Dr. Who.

Sopranos, Rome, BSG, etc. are good,  but not spectacular,  or have their best years behind them.  Hell, my favorite BSG episode is probably "33" which was the first of the series, right?

[NowhereMan]

Series 3 of Dr. Who has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. First episode is a nice straightforward introduction of the new companion and then off having random adventures. I'd assuming I'm not spoiling too much to say that the Daleks reappear, though how they're handled is interesting. Possibly a very new direction in how they're handled which will be a change from the last two. Still haven't started revealing anything of the metaplot but it looks like Capt. Jack might be making an appearance. Hooray for possibly gay, immortal aliens I guess.

[Ironwood]

The next couple of episodes of Who are going to be fantastic.

But I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

The Metaplot really just got going with 'The Lazarus Experiment' and it's only going to build from there.  You really want to catch the final two-parter.


Oh and I don't even like Freema.  I think she's a pain in the arse.

[Bunk]

Holy shit.

Shark just raised the bar.

Thank you for not spoiling it, watched it last night. I still think the first episode of that particular story arc was the best of the season for Shark, this was quite good. Maybe a little over the top in the payoff, but I admit I didn't see it coming.

[Evil Elvis]

So...

What the fuck just happened on Lost?  And why did Jack say "bring my father down here, and if I'm drunker than he is..."?

[Merusk]

So...

What the fuck just happened on Lost?  And why did Jack say "bring my father down here, and if I'm drunker than he is..."?

Yeah, not a fucking clue.  I was thinking he was in the past until the whole Kate scene, so that line made sense at the time. Now, not a fucking clue.

And Charlie offed it.  Wasn't quite expecting that one.. nor the bulletproof VW bus.   I wonder if next season begins 'x-years later' or something.  That'd be some serious bs.

[Signe]

The Lost writers have invented the swirly plot.  Next year they'll have at least one less viewer.  Me!  I mean not me!  You know what I mean.

[Abagadro]

How could you drop the show after that 2 hours? Fucking great television.

As for the "my father" thing, Jack was both drunk on tripping on Oxy. He is delusional. He knew his father was dead because he forged the Rx he was trying to fill and told the pharmacist that it was a waste of time trying to call him.  The guy he was talking to was the Chief of Surgery, which was the position his dad held if my memory serves. Jack was just fucked up.

[Triforcer]

How could you drop the show after that 2 hours? Fucking great television.

As for the "my father" thing, Jack was both drunk on tripping on Oxy. He is delusional. He knew his father was dead because he forged the Rx he was trying to fill and told the pharmacist that it was a waste of time trying to call him.  The guy he was talking to was the Chief of Surgery, which was the position his dad held if my memory serves. Jack was just fucked up.

Or it could merely be the future...OF AN ALTERNATE PAST.  My prediction is the series starts back in the civilized world, and Jack does a Desmond-style "life-rewind" where he doesn't use the phone. 

[MrHat]

I thought the finale was superfuckingawesome.

Although, future-Kate looks a bit airbrushed.

[Signe]

The last episode was okay but I didn't understand it!  The ending didn't make a bit of sense to me.  I have no idea what the heck is going on.  At all.  In any of it's 47 sub plots.

[Evil Elvis]

Jack being fucked up when he mentioned his father is the simplest answer, I just wasn't sure.  The perscription could simply have been that his father wouldn't give him painkillers and he would be ashamed to ask.  It just seemed odd that after at least a few years, he would think his dad was alive.  But he did say, "call my dad down here" and it's unlikely that his dad still works there after Jack had him fired... so he probably was just tripping.

I don't think it's a possible future though.  If that was the case, I don't think they would have made such a big deal about not telling us who died, or why noone went to his funeral.  Since it was in a poor black neighborhood, I'm guesssing it was Michael. 

I liked the show, except for the fact that they didn't answer a single fucking question and managed to raise a bunch more.  I was hoping for just a little resolution to some questions.  I also don't get why the island wanted indian-chick dead, since it healed her.

[Signe]

Maybe he dad comes back.  They seem to do that there sometimes.

[Merusk]

I keep questioning the island on the heal thing as well.  Mr. Badass Russian has been dead 4 times now, and he keeps getting up within hours, if not minutes.  If he had a higher body count, we could file him along with Freddy, Jason and Mike.   Meanwhile Locke and Ben heal at accelerated, but not normal rate, and I suspect if either one died they'd be gone for good.

It just seems sloppy at some point.

I'm guessing it was Walt in the coffin, actually.  It was a fairly small coffin, so I'm going with a kid. Meaning it's Walt or Aaron.

What really sucks is, like BSG that's it for 2007. No new episodes until Feburary '08.  WTF is up with TV shows suddenly deciding to pull this kind of crap.  At this rate, I expect we'll see Heroes stopping until 2010 after the next season.

[AcidCat]

Damn that Lost finale was the best two hours of network TV I've ever seen. Heaping bowls of awesome that I will still be digesting days from now.

[Abagadro]

There are all sort of hi-res, enhanced stills of the paper Jack is reading going around the net right now and all that is shows is Jo_____ (or Je_____)  ___atham of New York as the person who died and that they hanged themselves. So know one seems to have a clue.

[MrHat]

Some site I read today mentioned that Michael's full name was something like Jonathan Michael somethingorother.

Edit: It was Digg: " by nicc 1 hour ago 
[comment buried, show commenthide comment] + 2 diggs   the prevailing theory is that the casket is for Michael whose full name is Jonathan Michael Chantham and he is from NYC. the obit states that the man is from New York, his first name starts with a "J" and the last name ends in a "...tham"

[Signe]

What happened to the big scary black cloud that was chasing everyone around?  Where did it go?  I keep thinking I must have missed some episodes but I don't think I did.  I even recorded it when we went away.

[MrHat]

You missed the epidsode where Jack manages to capture the cloud in a Ball jar and then he takes to to New Jersey.

He releases it there and hence the black cloud.

[schild]

I'd believe it. That show couldn't find itself for even a moment. Talk about writing at the last minute.

[Nevermore]

Charlie wins the "Most Pointless Death Ever' award.  Because he couldn't just, you know, stand on the other side of the hatch and close it.

[MrHat]

But if he doesn't die, the prophecy doesn't come true.

[squirrel]

Charlie wins the "Most Pointless Death Ever' award.  Because he couldn't just, you know, stand on the other side of the hatch and close it.

Yeah - wow was I irritated with that scene, for a tonne of reasons. It really brought down what I considered otherwise a solid entertaining episode.

[Abagadro]

He did it on purpose.  He considered it his destiny and a requirement for the rescue of Claire based upon Desmond's vision.

[Signe]

He did it on purpose.  He considered it his destiny and a requirement for the rescue of Claire based upon Desmond's vision.

You should write the show.  At least you explain stuff.

[Nevermore]

He did it on purpose.  He considered it his destiny and a requirement for the rescue of Claire based upon Desmond's vision.

So in other words, Desmond killed him.  If he had just kept his mouth shut Charlie wouldn't have entered himself into the Darwin Awards.

[Abagadro]

Eh. It's one of those chicken and egg things. Desmond had saved him 4 times previously from being killed.

[Evil Elvis]

I think it was mostly to keep Desmond out of the room to see Penelope.  Desmond had him all prepared to die, so he didn't do what any normal person would have done: save themself first.