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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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They turned True Lies into a tv show? I mean, I guess it could work as generic husband and wife spy team, but without Ahnold or Jamie Lee Curtis, I just don't see it.
 
History of the World Part II is..... decent. It carries on like Part 1 where they jump around from bit to bit so there are stronger and weaker bits, but there has been enough in each one for me to enjoy it overall.

Fred Armisen is Glorp, who in character looks strikingly like Mel Brooks' Yogurt from Spaceballs, but also feels like a call back to Tim Conway's Dorf.

Nick Kroll is... well Nick Kroll, so it leans heavily into using his nasaly, whiney tone to perfectly fit his character. The Princess Druidia of these episodes.

Johnny Knoxville as Rasputin doing Jack*ss type bits is the perfect match-up for the wild mystique that surrounds Rasputin.

The ensemble comedians used throughout the episodes so far don't feel overwhelming and the pacing does feel better than SNL. Maybe only filling a half hour episode helps.

Reviews seem to trend as mid to negative, but overall, to me the Mel Brooks sprit of this is just fine.
 
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Watching Boba Fett finally. This show had moments of being quite good followed by vast oceans of just hideously bad... everything. The writing, directing, the very bizarre choices in characters. Disjointed music.

You can criticize it for being Dances with Sandwolves, but I don't even care if someone recycles a good arc and does it well. Dances with wolves itself is recycled.

but the weird ass kids on vespas are so out of place it's like I'm watching a different cinematic universe. Which is pretty incredibly for a show about an entire a_ss galaxy. And the bizarre choice to make the biker gang look like sons of anarchy extras..? Just bad, terrible writing. You have one of the richest universes to play in and you choose literally a leather vest wearing biker gang? Blech.

Anyways, I actually enjoyed the sand people stories. It was fine.

I would have stopped watching the show forever after they Vespa chase scene. But I do very much want to be up to date before we watch Mando 3. So I guess I get to watch smoother couple episodes.
 
Aside from the one guest being completely in denial about Trump winning the nom again, the last Real Time episode was good Bill Maher for the most part. Including David Byrne.
 
Kepler said:
Ugh. Same mistake with Severance.

Make a fortune and finish with art. Don't make two fortunes and end with crap.
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No.

They are only doing what has already been done in the Video Games. The creators REFUSED already to write things that don't already exist.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
No.

They are only doing what has already been done in the Video Games. The creators REFUSED already to write things that don't already exist.
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I hope.

Going back to the well... hasn't gone well.

I think for me it's more that I don't need any more to the story. It's ideal the way it ends.
 
Slap Shot said:
That's no guarantee for success. The majority of video game adaptations have failed.
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No one is denying that. But, it does mean the story is already done and they're not going to try to pull a Game Of Thrones. I agree with Kepler, they could have just ended it there. But, they didn't. Just like Dune could have ended with the first book. It didn't. The only one that seemed to get better with more and more is Tolkien. Everybody else needed to know when to quit.
 
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The only one that seemed to get better with more and more is Tolkien. Everybody else needed to know when to quit.
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Fellowship is the best book, to me, but all are good.

The Holmes, Poirot, Marlowe, and Maigret stories get better as the books go on.

TV as a medium worries me more than books because enstupefication is so profitable. If you have a great book series and you make it dumb you will lose far more readers than you will gain, because readers are so much more selective. If you enstupify your TV or movies, the base of the pyramid just gets wider and wider as you debase yourself.

The other problem isn't the Great Unwashed at all, it's the limits of an author. It's the Boston problem. Their first album was the blood and sweat of 7 years of working and thinking and creating. It's brilliant. Their second album was 2 years most of which was heavy touring with their first album's material, and it's crap. Quality takes time. "I'm sorry this letter is so long, had I had more time I would have shortened it."

If the authors of TLOU are working off another solid game, and those who loved the first love the second, then that is a good sign. They earned our trust.

BTW, TIL there is a sequel book "After Worlds Collide." I need to find that.
 
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