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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #45 on: November 06, 2010, 09:40:09 pm »
MST3K: Catalina Caper.
It was a hilarious episode!
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #46 on: November 07, 2010, 01:24:52 am »
Saw the first season of Six Feet Under. Pretty depressing. Though I don't think my depression has to do with the show.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #47 on: November 07, 2010, 09:54:34 am »
I just watched the first episode of Mad Men. Not really sure what I thought of it.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #48 on: November 07, 2010, 12:43:33 pm »
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MST3K: Catalina Caper.
It was a hilarious episode!

I watched the MST3K episode "The Beast of Yucca Flats". Highly recommended.

The narrators lines are hilarious. You get these bleak desert scenes and random murders, followed by the narrator saying nonsense like:

"Flag on the moon. How did it get there?"

"Boys from the city. Not yet caught by the whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs."

"Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast."
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #49 on: November 08, 2010, 04:22:26 am »
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I just watched the first episode of Mad Men. Not really sure what I thought of it.

Mad Men isn't a show that really ropes you in instantly like The Sopranos or something might do. I suggest sticking with it, as it really draws you in heavily over time. It's very good, but takes a bit of patience to get into.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #50 on: November 08, 2010, 09:35:18 am »
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Mad Men isn't a show that really ropes you in instantly like The Sopranos or something might do. I suggest sticking with it, as it really draws you in heavily over time. It's very good, but takes a bit of patience to get into.

Fair enough.
I just didn't find the "I can't believe they just said/did that, because it's the 60's" humor all that funny. When it's just the odd joke, like the pregnant women smoking in a bar in Hairspray, it's cool, but if it's the show's big gimmick, I think it might start to get a bit old for me.  Less funny, more like the old relative that makes everyone uncomfortable with their very non-politically correct verbiage.
I also didn't really didn't find any of the characters all that likable.  I get that people making bad calls [spoiler:63wi3zfu]Draper with his life away from his family, or the new secretary sleeping with the asshole[/spoiler:63wi3zfu] makes for good drama, but if I don't like any of them more, I don't really care if bad things happen to them.
It's like when I read Macbeth in high school. I didn't feel like it was a tragedy at all.  When he [spoiler:63wi3zfu]dies[/spoiler:63wi3zfu] at the end of the play, I was thinking to myself, "Good. The guy was a total d-bag, and got what was coming to him".  I just don't have sympathy for people who know better.
I'll give it another go though.

Side-note: I did enjoy Akira Kurosawa's take on Macbeth in Throne of Blood.  That guy makes good movies.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #51 on: November 08, 2010, 01:08:19 pm »
^I never really thought that Mad Men was pushing the 'humour' too far with regards to the 60's thing. There are a lot of 'wow, they could do that back then?' moments (Like a doctor smoking while examining a patient), but I never really felt they were trying too hard.

At first a lot of the characters aren't really sympathetic (Peggy was though, I thought), but as it goes on and you learn more about them you really start to see another side, and they are all much deeper than they first appear. I actually found the show really depressing during the later parts of season 2 and 3 because I did feel for the characters (Although at the time I was watching it I was pretty down about stuff in my own life as well, so maybe it was just a potent combination.).

Eithey way, how many episodes in are you? Have you gotten to the parts about Don's childhood and war experiences? That might pick things up a bit for you.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #52 on: November 08, 2010, 01:29:48 pm »
The Hobo Code was a great episode of Mad Men.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #53 on: November 08, 2010, 10:36:49 pm »
Maybe there was just an abundance of it in the first episode. Like the question of, "are there any jews in the office", countered with, "not on my watch".
I've only watched the pilot so far, so they haven't really gone into the character's pasts that much. They just showed Don's war medal, and that was about it.  I'll still give it a shot though.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #54 on: November 09, 2010, 07:39:49 pm »
Conan's first episode was kind of weak compared to some of his past work, but I still had a great time with it. Going to record it every night for sure!
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #55 on: November 09, 2010, 08:04:16 pm »
Couldn't sleep last night, basically watched all 2nd season of Six Feet Under. LYING CHEATING WHORES OF WOMEN!
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #56 on: November 09, 2010, 09:55:18 pm »
I watched the 2nd episode of Mad Men and enjoyed it a lot more than the first one. There was a lot less of the "look what they got away with in the 60's" stuff I complained about the first episode over-using.
Draper's wife also seems like a pretty sympathetic character, and Peggy seemed a lot better without Angel's son around.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #57 on: November 10, 2010, 08:10:30 am »
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Conan's first episode was kind of weak compared to some of his past work, but I still had a great time with it. Going to record it every night for sure!

Agreed, though I was very happy to see him back in Late Night mode rather than grandiose Tonight Show mode. They already said more naughty words then they ever could say on NBC (titties), so I'm happy. Also, Masturbating Bear mixing up the lotto balls, with a cheeky little slap, was hilarious.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #58 on: November 10, 2010, 04:36:54 pm »
Watched the new episode for The Walking Dead.
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Re: Last TV show you watched
« Reply #59 on: November 10, 2010, 04:49:13 pm »
Watched the latest eps of Weeds. Err.. should be a good Season Finale. Though I can predict what will happen ;3
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