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  1. 9 hours ago, willco said:

    Boy, they telegraphed that about a mile away !

    Yeah, it wasn't very shocking at all. More typical cliches from this show.

     

    Speaking of typical cliches ... Superagent Wells meets Agent ShadyBrit on a bridge so the only question is who's going off the bridge. Of course, it's ShadyBrit and, of course, he drags himself out of the water downstream and he's ok. Sigh. Then, Agent Wells simply drowns her sorrows in a drink at the local pub instead of being in meetings because she discharged her weapon in shooting ShadyBrit (without any backup, other agents, etc.). This show is chock full of cliched (is that how you spell it?!?) tv tropes.

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  2. Someone upstream really nailed it when they said that THIS is what Food Network Star should be! Here they actually used the different shows to build on the skill set needed to host without all the "culinary point of view" bull that FNS is famous for. Each week they eliminated the correct person and ended up with 2 shows that, while they won't have the staying power of Triple-D, are interesting. I know that Guy gets "shit on" a lot but he is really good on Triple-D and he was even better on this show!

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  3. Good grief, Agent Hannah Wells is everywhere! She's helping deal with warlords in Afghanistan! She's helping track down death row inmates' intel! She's almost getting run over (again)! Canoodling with shady agents! I think budget cuts have reduced the FBI work force because she's involved in everything!

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  4. On 11/27/2017 at 3:09 AM, scrb said:

    Similarly a lot of actors seem eager to appear on CYE now.

    However, for a show that uses actors sometimes playing "themselves" (e.g. Ted Danson, Richard Lewis, etc.) , having Steven Weber as the shucker really took me out of the episode as he was too recognizable. Sure, Lauren Graham is recognizable too but those glasses really make her seem a different person. I guess it's the "Clark Kent - Superman" effect.

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  5. Hogwash!  For years, HBO has been doing "Hard Knocks" which follows a single NFL team through its preseason leading up to opening week of the season. Their 1-hour episodes (with no commercials) usually air on Tuesday or Wednesday nights which includes footage from the previous week's pre-season game. It can be done but I'm sure CMT doesn't want to spend the $$$.

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  6. I'm still having problems with some of the casting. Brianna is way too "dainty" for what we know of her in the books and I'm having a very hard time reconciling how the casting of Ian (the younger) is going to fit of what he becomes downstream. Also, and I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion, I've never cared for the casting of Jamie - I always pictured someone a lot more "rough around the edges" as apposed to the pretty-boy we have in Sam. However, you can't deny the chemistry between Sam & Caitriona so I guess that wins out in the end.

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  7. Said it before ... they post the "big team reveal" on their Twitter feed and we're halfway through the season (plus 5 weeks of pre-season)?!?C'mon, sync the show up with the football season! I wish they'd start including some in-season material too!

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  8. Now that is how you do a series finale!!! I don't care if some thought it was predictable but it was incredibly satisfying to the fans of the show and contrasts greatly with the "lump of fuckery" that was the series finale of "How I Met Your Mother". #NeverForget

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  9. 17 hours ago, taanja said:

    Nope. Maybe now days they do that but when Charlie Brown first came out---it ran either on or right around Christmas. Same with Rudolf and The Little Drummer Boy. Now they milk them for all their worth-- in the 60's (Yes I was alive then) it was different.

    It premiered on December 9th in 1965 so I have a hard time seeing networks scheduling it on Christmas Eve in a "simpler" time when TV ratings were not as prevalent/important as they are today. But, I was only a toddler in the late-60's so I have no conclusive proof nor old TV Guide's to thumb through. :-)

  10. On 10/8/2017 at 7:05 AM, NeenerNeener said:

    and A Charlie Brown Christmas

    That actually threw me out of the moment. While the show is period-appropriate, television Christmas specials are always shown weeks in advance of Christmas and it's not like they had a VHS player to watch a tape. Lazy writing is what that was.

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  11. On 7/27/2017 at 5:35 AM, Shalmanese said:

    You can't get a real time video feed of a probe orbiting Jupiter...

    Plus, they made it seem like firing the thrusters for a couple of minutes would allow the probe to impact the asteroid immediately! Space is so incredibly vast -  deep space missions are comprised of small bursts of activity followed by long waits until the next important event. This show is devolving into stoopid quicker than the asteroid is approaching Earth.

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  12. On 7/13/2017 at 6:41 PM, DHDancer said:

     I only watched it because Phil Platt (Bad Astronomy) was a tech advisor and I was pleased to see Neil deGrasse Tyson in the first few minutes

    Finally getting around to watch this. I work for NASA and my two office mates are heavily involved in planetary defense research so I was skeptical about how they were going to portray the science. But, they did a pretty good job ... and now I know why. On the other hand, I highly doubt that such a rocket test explosion could be covered up ... especially at Wallops Island! As a summer fill in this has promise as long as (someone else upthread mentioned) it stays away from the silliness of "Under the Dome" and "Zoo", the reigning king of stoopid.

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