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#1121 Alexcremers

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:32 PM

It's the poster for season 5 of Mad Men (or at least, the poster for the pilot).


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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:35 PM

Sorry, that's what I meant. I'm still stuck halfway through season 2.

The constant tv promos for the next season are teasing me to hurry up and get a move on.

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:37 PM

Smart kid!


I'm not saying he isn't, but he's too young to get anything out of something like Mad Men.

Sorry, that's what I meant. I'm still stuck halfway through season 2.

The constant tv promos for the next season are teasing me to hurry up and get a move on.


Season 3 is much better than season 2, IMO. (They stopped with the regular flashbacks)
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:42 PM

Oddly for me, I enjoy the flashbacks (I hated them in Lost to the point of stopping watching it).

Unlike the tiresome ones of Lost, Don's flashbacks added real heft and insight into his character, I thought.

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:58 PM

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 11:06 PM

Unlike the tiresome ones of Lost, Don's flashbacks added real heft and insight into his character, I thought.


Depends of the episode.

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:46 AM



With Don Draper, I'm not sure if I want the insights (keeping things mysterious is often more intriguing than exposition) or if I want it through the use of flashbacks. Anyway, they were easily my least favorite aspect of Mad Men. I was glad to see they were no more in season 3. That doesn't mean they stopped using them but you can no longer set your watch to it. Little spoiler: In season 4, there's a nice flashback of Don and Roger meeting each other.


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Posted 28 February 2012 - 04:34 PM

Two Broke Girls,

best line of 2012,

No one does me, better than me.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:52 AM

With Don Draper, I'm not sure if I want the insights (keeping things mysterious is often more intriguing than exposition) or if I want it through the use of flashbacks. Anyway, they were easily my least favorite aspect of Mad Men. I was glad to see they were no more in season 3. That doesn't mean they stopped using them but you can no longer set your watch to it. Little spoiler: In season 4, there's a nice flashback of Don and Roger meeting each other.

I was so confused by that flashback. The show did nothing to signify there was a change in time. Only until the end of that scene did I realize we were in the past. I think that was always the case with flashbacks, but the editing in this particular situation didn't help.

I don't like how Don's past was executed in the show. Not only did it seem impossible, but it felt like a curveball in the pace and tone the show set up in the pilot. It does add layer and depth to his character, but I think the show would be better if it left the double identity thing out, or cleaned it up a bit so it wasn't so ridiculous. Either way, the writers really fucked up in Season 4.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:58 AM

Not sure if I understand what you mean with 'fucked up season 4' but if you mean they shouldn't delve into Don's past too much then I agree.

I didn't experience any problem with jumping back in time without warning (like a blurry transition or something). You could see that it was a flashback by their conversation and also, Don doesn't work as a salesman in a shop.

Spoiler Season 4: Don marrying his free lance secretary without thinking about it is a reaction to the bad things that happened in his love life. It often is meant to get back at the person that went away (ex-wife).
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:30 AM

Season 4 is definitely a bit weaker than the previous three. Not sure why. Maybe the concept is simply wearing out?

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:56 AM

Not sure if I understand what you mean with 'fucked up season 4' but if you mean they shouldn't delve into Don's past too much then I agree.

Spoiler Season 4: Don marrying his free lance secretary without thinking about it is a reaction to the bad things that happened in his love life. It often is meant to get back at the person that went away (ex-wife).

I was referring to the season finale, which you addressed somewhat in your spoiler.
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It makes no sense on the writers' part, which leads me to Karol's post:

Season 4 is definitely a bit weaker than the previous three. Not sure why. Maybe the concept is simply wearing out?

I think the reason why Season 4 ended the way it did was so there could be a whole other season about something. I don't know what Matthew Weiner's game plan is, but at this point it seems like he has no end in sight and wants to keep it going on aimlessly. All he really had to do was give more attention to the side characters.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:59 AM

You might be right.

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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate. - Christopher Nolan

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 01:43 PM

I agree that the side characters were a bit forgotten this time. It was less of an ensemble piece and more like Don Draper's season.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:57 PM

Nip/Tuck Season 4: I think I'm gonna quit with this show now.

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Alex - eagerly awaiting HBO's Big Love Season 3
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:02 PM

Big Love kept going downhill every season. Seasons 4 and 5 were just brutal to try to get through.

Though Season 3 does have one spectacular episode (Come, Ye Saints)
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:08 PM

I thought Season 2 was fantastic, even better than the first one. It's why I ordered Season 3.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:15 PM

You're in for extreme disappointment. The first 2 seasons were the best by a long mile. It all slowly goes downhill as the show gets more and more complicated and there are more and more characters and more and more situations Bill gets himself in the middle of. Bleh.

Too bad, the show had such potential and 2 strong opening seasons...
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:38 PM

After I watched the Earth 2 pilot, I watched the pilot to Sliders, which I had never seen before. I got into that show well into later seasons -- still during the first three since the Professor and Wade were still in it -- but I couldn't tell you if the order made a difference. I think I'm going to watch that one instead of Earth 2.

Strike that. Firefly will come before Sliders.

Personally I don't mind that Netflix is dropping a lot of movies in favor of TV shows. There are a lot of good ones to catch up on.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:42 PM

I wouldn't ever go anywhere near something like Nip Tuck.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 06:43 PM

twas fun in the early years until it took itself seriously.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 07:06 PM

After I watched the Earth 2 pilot, I watched the pilot to Sliders, which I had never seen before. I got into that show well into later seasons -- still during the first three since the Professor and Wade were still in it -- but I couldn't tell you if the order made a difference. I think I'm going to watch that one instead of Earth 2.

Strike that. Firefly will come before Sliders.

Personally I don't mind that Netflix is dropping a lot of movies in favor of TV shows. There are a lot of good ones to catch up on.


I used to watch Sliders as a kid too! It was on every Friday night, double-billed with The X-Files (before X-Files moved to Sundays). Good times.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 08:12 PM

Sliders was watchable purely for that sexy arse chic. She was FILTHY lookin'.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 08:17 PM

You probably mean Kari Wuhrer, who was on for seasons 3-5. The original girl was more girl next door good looking.

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 08:19 PM

She did a lot of soft porn.

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 08:46 PM

Over the past week I watched the entire series of Home Movies. Possibly my favorite comedy series, and by far my favorite animated series. It's unfortunate it got cancelled, but the finale was perfect.

I need to start tuning in to Bob's Burgers. Seems Loren Bouchard broke his curse by lasting more than 4 episodes with this one. The thing with Home Movies though, it has the perfect blend of Bouchard, Small, Katz, and Benjamin to create the ultimate comedy. Everything these guys have done afterwards have paled in comparison.

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 08:49 PM

Over the past week I watched the entire series of Home Movies. Possibly my favorite comedy series, and by far my favorite animated series. It's unfortunate it got cancelled, but the finale was perfect.


I haven't seen that one, but I loved Dr Katz when I was a kid. Have you checked out his next show, Bob's Burgers, yet?
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:16 PM

Yep, I edited my post to add some more stuff. I've only seen the Pilot, but I thought it was funny.

I definitely suggest you get into Home Movies. I like it more than Dr. Katz. Coach McGuirk is one of the greatest TV characters.

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:37 PM

I'll definitely check it out eventually!

Now when are you gonna start watching Fringe? ;)
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:54 PM

I saw an episode recently. The one with the guy from The Dark Knight that could see the future or something. Still not really my thing. I'm more interested in Alcatraz. Do you know anything about Person Of Interest? I recall watching the first few minutes of the Pilot, and the opening was so overlong and was exactly some movie I saw, but I don't remember which.

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Oh yeah, Minority Report.

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 10:29 PM

That wasn't a particularly good episode of Fringe. I really think you'll like the show if you watch all the episodes in order. The second half of season 2 and all of season 3 are especially fantastic (the episode you saw was from Seaosn 4, which is also good. Season 1 was the worst, like with most shows)

I've seen every episode of Alcatraz. It's alright. The scoring is excellent (It's VERY similar to LOST, at least in the action material - doesn't really have as much oportunity for emotional material)

I've never seen Person of Interest, and also have never heard anyone say anything positive about it. >shrug<
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Posted 03 March 2012 - 08:38 PM

Regarding TV, what I tend to do these days is just wait for the show to end and buy the complete series set for cheap. Only reason I got Mad Men was because they were $10 a season on Black Friday two years back.

Other than that, I haven't watched a new series since LOST.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:59 AM

Finally finished Arrested Development after starting it some months back. Really great show, but I don't think it's the funniest ever like Jay. ;)

I think it's odd that, for me, the show's central character is the least funny. Bateman has some funny parts, but all the other actors are just too hilarious in their roles for him to even come close. The celebrity characters are all pretty well done too. I think Andy Richter might be favorite one.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 11:09 AM

Bateman has some funny parts, but all the other actors are just too hilarious in their roles for him to even come close.


Like Seinfeld?

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 12:54 PM

We're about halfway through season 1 of Arrested Development, it's frequently very, very funny. But it ain't no Curb.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:03 PM

like seinfeld the two shows mentioned above are overrated and not nearly as funny as people make them out to be.


Sunday night we watched the shocking Walking Dead episode. What an ending.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:08 PM

That's a heck of a gift you've got their - knowing what is funny and what isn't to people who aren't you. Either that or you're pulling shit out of your arse and passing it of as fact.

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:09 PM

Larry David is a god.


Gay!

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:15 PM

That's a heck of a gift you've got their - knowing what is funny and what isn't to people who aren't you. Either that or you're pulling shit out of your arse and passing it of as fact.

I know what I find funning and sienfeld, larry david and arrested development are not that funny, perhaps you should examine why they make you laugh and find the deficiency within your concepts of humor. The shove them up your arse, its actually ass over here, and then shove a big black butt plug up there until it soaks in. ;)
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 04:29 PM

You definitely wouldn't like Alan Partridge.

But we agree on the buttplug thing. They make a point like no other.



Larry David is a god.


Gay!


It's a man crush, in that the craggy old git would be awesome to be around. According to Ricky Gervais, he is.





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