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The original The Office is brilliant.
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DrCrowTStarwars said:
Well here is the thing when that brand of humor works in other thing the person being rude is the butt of the jokes and the joke is that the person thinks so highly of himself when really he is just a jerk and everyone knows it.
You just described David Brent. The difference in Gervais' spin on it, is that Brent as a character is such a believable slice of human life (the world is full of people just like him, I know many of them) and once you get to know the character he becomes pathetic and almost sympathetic.
Look at shows like Fawlty Towers or Blackadder for how I like seeing this sort of thing done, he seems to just insult people and the joke doesn't go any farther then that and je seems to really think that highly of himself in real life.
I can only speak for Blackadder, I haven't watched Fawlty Towers yet. Edmund Blackadder is a bad guy, but we're supposed to root for him because he's intelligent and witty. He's kind of a more sophisticated version of Dick Dastardly. When you watched Wacky Racers you never cared for the other cars to win, you wanted to see Dick win, but all of his plans backfired on him and that's what made him sympathetic.
David Brent, IMHO, is another kind of character. While Blackadder and Dastardly are fiction characters written primarily to be anti-heroes, Brent is an everyman, and again, I could go down the street and find you another David Brent, while there's no way you could find a Blackadder anywhere out there.
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Well then I guess i will give this series a shot if I can find a copy, it sounds like something I would enjoy.
I always thought we were supposed to enjoy seeing Blackadder's plans fall apart and the only reason we cared about him at all was that the deck is so stacked against him in most episodes that we can root for him to overcome it while not liking him as a person.
I don't know what is wrong with me since I grew up on British Sitcoms but for some reason the UK version of The Office puts me to sleep and in general I just can't stand RG, sorry.
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TV's Frink said:
The original The Office is brilliant.
Brilliant as in "smart" or brilliant as in "aglow with intense luminescence"?
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Yes.
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No.
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Yes.
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Both depending on the universes in question?
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I don't believe in your multi-universe nonsense.
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That's not what you said in another universe.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
TV's Frink said:
The original The Office is brilliant.
Brilliant as in "smart" or brilliant as in "aglow with intense luminescence"?
Smart as in "intelligent" or smart as in "a stinging sensation"?
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Leonardo said: I haven't watch Fawlty Towers.
Fix this immediately! And I'm not talking about the typo.
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I fixed the typo, thank you. I don't know how that got past me.
I will watch Fawlty Towers as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, to get back on topic, I have been watching Taxi. I'm up to episode 15. It's astonishingly good.
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doubleKO said:
Leonardo said: I haven't watch Fawlty Towers.
Fix this immediately! And I'm not talking about the typo.
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*sigh*
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YOU SIGH!
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I'm watching Twin Peaks again, and God, do I love this show too much. Were I a better artist than I am, I'd paint a whole series of surrealist paintings in tribute to it.
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I have been watching 3Rd Rock from the Sun, I forgot how much I loved this show. The season two final is amazing.
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I've been watching The Aquabats! Super Show! on Netflix with my two girls. It's super!
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^Too many! Sentence fragments!
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^^Fixed.
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I finished rewatching Twin Peaks. My opinion of the show hasn't changed all that much since the first time I watched it; I still love the majority of the series.
Needless to say, though, next time I watch Twin Peaks, I'm going to skip episodes 2.11-2.17; I don't think I could stand to watch all that pointless, stupid filler a third time around.
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Finally got around to watching Fargo.
Holy crap. I didn't think a TV-show remake of the movie would be worth watching at all, but it got so much positive buzz (and, you know, Emmys and such) that I had to give it a shot.
To my pleasant surprise, not only was it not a remake of the movie - it's actually (sort of) a sequel to it! (In that it takes place in the same fictional universe, but almost two decades later.)
Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton both delivered incredible performances, and the story had just the right mix of offbeat/quirky and darkness that made the movie so much fun to watch.
I wasn't sold on Key and Peele when they first showed up, but by the third or fourth time the show went back to them I found myself enjoying their scenes more than I expected.
Wasn't too keen on how Lester's brother was just sort of forgotten about in the last few episodes, and the fish thing was a little weird, but other than that, it was quite excellent. Looking forward to the second season!
9/10 bloody hammers
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I am working my way through Alias.
I never got the chance to sit down and watch every episode in a row before and boy this is a really good show and it has decent fight scenes. One thing that always bugs me about female leads in action shows is when they win a fight too easily because the producers or the director doesn't want to show her getting her so they seem to win just because they are the hero. This bugs me when it happens to male leads too, but is seems to be something that happens more to female leads. Well this show doesn't have that problem. Sidney is tough and she will win in the end by fighting smarter but they are not afraid of showing her bleeding or having to run to fight another day if the person she is up against is too big or well trained for her to take at the moment, yet they don't end up making her look weak either. Like James Bond or Indiana Jones when she gets herself into a mess she gets herself out of it.
I also love the way they show her trying to balance being a spy and having a real life. I kind of wish Spiderman would became a TV series instead of a film series after watching this, because this type of problem just seems to work better when played out over a number of episodes instead of in a couple of films.
Oh and Victor Garber is one of the coolest characters ever.
I am up to episode eight and overall I am enjoying it and I am shocked to find that the writers of the last two Star Trek movies may be the best writers on this show. How did that happen???!