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TV 10: Blacklisted Sons: The Musical

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Kepler said:
The problem with those "band of ostensible geniuses" shows is the geniuses are always idiots. TV Production Land thinks anybody who understands the Central Limit Theorem and has an affect disorder is a genius.
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The equivalent of this on cop shows is the "Computer Lady" who can pound the keyboard for a few seconds and immediately have a trace on the perp.
 
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Kepler said:
The problem with those "band of ostensible geniuses" shows is the geniuses are always idiots. TV Production Land thinks anybody who understands the Central Limit Theorem and has an affect disorder is a genius. Then again, they're producing for a mass audience and, in the immortal words of Paul Krugman, "Newt Gingrich is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person sounds like."
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I think it's less about writing to the abilities of their audience as it is the writers are trying to create characters so unlike themselves that they just can't make them realistic.

With that said, I did see Scorpion last night. While I'm not raving over it, I did enjoy the hour and thought that the writers did a better job with the four geniuses than I expected, especially the Asian girl and Eddie Kaye Thomas's pyschologist. The Jonah Hill look-alike is perhaps the worst written of the bunch, but the actor did a passable job with it.
 
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I've enjoyed Manhattan tremendously when it comes to the history (although I've no idea how much of it has been manufactured) but I won't watch a second season. This is the type of story arc that needed one season (even if only a dozen episodes or so) to complete. Cripes the Good Wife is less insipid on that front.
 
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Kepler said:
The one thing Constantine has going for it is the dude they cast looks exactly like Constantine. Other than that, there is no way they can do an honorable TV treatment of the original character -- he's way too dark and morally ambiguous for network TV.
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This isn't a TV series based on the movie with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, is it?

That was a great movie for its genre. I cannot imagine a television series based on it, though. Satan's son can only try to escape from hell once, no?




The description on IMDB makes it sound like it is......

So each episode of the TV show is part of the beginning or middle of the movie and you'd never get to the end?
 
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FreshFish said:
This isn't a TV series based on the movie with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, is it?

That was a great movie for its genre. I cannot imagine a television series based on it, though. Satan's son can only try to escape from hell once, no?




The description on IMDB makes it sound like it is......

So each episode of the TV show is part of the beginning or middle of the movie and you'd never get to the end?
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The movie was based upon a comic book of the same name. I figured the TV show was also based upon the comic book and not the adapted movie.
 
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St. Clown said:
The movie was based upon a comic book of the same name. I figured the TV show was also based upon the comic book and not the adapted movie.
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ah, thanks.

I really liked the movie, the subtle humor was really funny. The whole "holy water in the fire sprinklers" scene was priceless!
 
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St. Clown said:
The movie was based upon a comic book of the same name. I figured the TV show was also based upon the comic book and not the adapted movie.
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It is based on the comic. The movie was "Constantine in Name Only".

I liked the pilot a lot.
 
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St. Clown said:
I think it's less about writing to the abilities of their audience as it is the writers are trying to create characters so unlike themselves that they just can't make them realistic.
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There's something to that.

One of the big problems with TV is the writers are almost all so young. Put a dozen witty, clever, type A 20-somethings in a room and they'll produce dialog that makes every character sound like... a witty, clever, type A 20-something. There's nothing wrong with that when you're writing Buffy -- it's a children's show written by, for, and about children. But when you have characters with any sort of life experience, it makes them seem both emotionally stunted and pathetically yearning for the repetition of their sophomore dorm BS sessions. It's how you get grown women having conversations so puerile that if repeated by any actual woman over 25 not living in LA she would be closely monitored for brain damage.

This is especially awful for the comic book movies, where "gravitas" equates to the gravelly-neo-fascist "this far and no farther" schtick of Nolan's childworld, where "adult" themes are recast to resonate with adolescent hormones and drives to earn daddy's respect. It made Dark Knight nearly unwatchable except as a sort of time capsule like 50s horror movies for how teen boys saw themselves in 2008.

Anyway, it makes watching 40s and 50s movies that much better. The average movie goer today probably couldn't follow a Howard Hawks script.
 
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Person of Interest started out great. Going to be an awesome season for that show the way they've set it up.
 
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Watched the premier of Forever. Can already tell you right now that the strange phone caller is the female cop's (supposedly) dead husband.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Pretty sure I can do one Dirty Randy and Rafi episode every season.
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I love Rafi...in small doses. They way overdid him at first...then found the right mix, and then last season (IIRC) he had the whole ep with Randy? Terrible. I've only seen the first ep of this season, I can wait. Dirty Randy is pretty worthless, though.
 
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I am almost done with Season 5 of The League...and it is horrible. Most of the episodes are unfunny, the jokes are recycled and way too much of Taco and Rafi. 1-4 I love, 5 is just not doing it for me.
 
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I watched the premier of "blackish" last night with some trepidation given how it was advertised. it was much better than I expected. intelligent humor based on how people respond to frustrating contradictions in life. so far, it's worth watching (based on the first episode).
 
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FreshFish said:
I watched the premier of "blackish" last night with some trepidation given how it was advertised. it was much better than I expected. intelligent humor based on how people respond to frustrating contradictions in life. so far, it's worth watching (based on the first episode).
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i thought it did all right, but not by any means great. It feels like a modernized Cosby Show, only instead of being subdued in showing a strong black family in America today, they're shouting it from the rooftops.
 
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