I KNOW A GRAPEFRUIT WHEN I SEE ONE

Nanner Split said:

Your old pal Nanner and his pals made a new comedy short:

Joseph Touches a Grapefruit

He's creepy mask guy:

Lost

Finally finished this show recently. I'm confused by how confused others found the ending. It made perfect sense to me and was a fitting end to the series however much I might disagree with it theologically. =P

Life on Mars

An odd show I randomly decided to start watching after I finished Lost. I was surprised and amused to find it starred the dad from Terra Nova.

Doesn't that mean you are watching the somewhat dodgy US version of Life On Mars instead of the really good UK version (starring the John Simm as maSTerly Sam Tyler)? 

Bingowings said:

Doesn't that mean you are watching the somewhat dodgy US version of Life On Mars instead of the really good UK version (starring the John Simm as maSTerly Sam Tyler)? 

So, I don't want to speak too soon, because this isn't a definite thing by any means, but I'm currently working out a deal to get "Joseph Touches a Grapefruit" and "Joseph Plays a Trumpet" aired on Adult Swim. The marketing department is going to be screening them within the next week or two, so we'll see what happens. :D

Once in a while something comes along which sounds like an outlandish piece of comedy on paper but in the viewing is actually provocative and deeply chilling.

Black Mirror : The National Anthem is not as much of a cultural event as the fictional situation it depicts but it's certainly provoked lively debate here in the Chateau.

THE Royal Princess (different name but we know who she's meant to be) is kidnapped and forced to read a detailed demand on film, posted on Youtube which must be carried out to the letter later that day if she is to be released alive.

The demand being that the prime minister does something on every channel of live television that as I say, on paper sounds like the stuff of hilarious (if tasteless) comedy.

Only it's played pretty much straight.

There are a few hiccups in the production (certain details would clearly be investigated before what comes to pass does) but it is a really nasty piece of commentary and a potent satire on just about everything that's wrong with British society and politics at the moment.

I can't wait for the next story in this three part series by Charlie (Dead Set) Brooker.

Not easy viewing even if it is as tastefully done as it could be under the circumstances.

webisode 3 of Danger 5. 

Love it. 

CP3S: How sudden was the announcement of the shows cancellation? Do you think it might have been a case of them trying to tie everything up as quickly as they could before the end?

As for Life on Mars yeah I'm watching the short lived American version but that's only because that's all that's available on Netflix. =P

Mrs. O'Five decided we should give Glee another chance. We watched two more episodes before giving it up for good. This time it wasn't just the bad writing, unlikable characters, and generally poor song choices recently. It was the fact that the episode "First Time" was telling teens that now is the time to live, sex makes you a man, and you can't understand theatrical characters who've had sex until you have. No matter your views on morality, I hope we can all agree that telling high schoolers that now is the best time to do things because you'll be too old after high school is a terrible idea and can force them to make mistakes they otherwise wouldn't make.

Besides, its way to unrealistic now: a high school glee club with no virgins? ;-)

The reason I wanted to stop before this was made even more clear in these two episodes. I really started noticing that not only were the characters reset back to default every season (see: Heroes), but decisions made in one episode were undone the next, to be redone again. In the first episode this season, Santana, a cheerleader whose coach hates the glee club, is told by her coach that she needs to sabotage the glee club (again). She tries, but is told by the glee teacher that she needs to stop being a spy and should leave, so she does. It's a big deal, the crux of the season opener. Two episodes later she's practicing with the group, with one line explaining that she'd changed her mind. Then in the NEXT EPISODE she quits to join a competing glee club at the school. We're talking half of the first 4 episodes of the 3rd season end with Santana quitting the glee club. It's just tiring.

Like Heroes, I stop caring about a show when it stops caring about me, or thinks I don't remember old episodes.

CP3S said:

I'm not sure how abrupt the announcement of its cancellation was, but I don't think it ever did well enough that anyone should have expected a second season.

I was actually referring to LOST in that first part addressed to you. =P

Tobar said:

CP3S said:
I'm not sure how abrupt the announcement of its cancellation was, but I don't think it ever did well enough that anyone should have expected a second season.

I was actually referring to LOST in that first part addressed to you. =P

CP3S said:

This all came about after the show began to tank hard during season three (the story went almost nowhere in that season, and we were given some very mundane episodes, like the stupid one about Jack's tattoos).

Librace Original Soundtrack?

FremenDar said:

The Walking Dead.

Same here. Just watched season 2 mid-season finale.   Awesome ending.

Took it's time getting there though didn't it?

People complained about the lack of likable characters in Caprica but I never got bored witless by them and they were much less annoying than that incredible bunch.

Yoda Is Your Father said:

FremenDar said:

The Walking Dead.

Same here. Just watched season 2 mid-season finale.   Awesome ending.