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2 minutes ago, MissLucas said:
I've seen shows with lots of issues in their first season do a surprising pivot in their sophomore season. I was wondering if this show could pull it off but I'm not surprised it did not get the chance. Too many things went wrong for the TPTB to throw money at this particular show.
At this moment the MCU team has made a hard change of course. The Star Wars team seems to be still in damn the torpedoes full speed ahead mode.
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41 minutes ago, tearknee said:
Least Blair Warner wasn't like Kirk.
They just moved the losing her virginity to another character and she sat out the episode
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6 minutes ago, Notabug said:
As I recall, he objected to kissing other actresses. His now wife played his girlfriend on the show and I guess he would kiss her since they were together. He has repeatedly stated that he won't take acting roles where he has romantic scenes/kissing with another actress as it would be like cheating on his wife.
Apparently he cannot separate acting from real life.
Devout Catholic instead of Kirk Cameron's Evangelical Neal McDonough, Buck Compton from Band of Brothers is the same. Since leads need to be in the I want him that audiences see and react to role. So he now specializes in villains, but not the kind that rape on screen or have sex with the girlfriends.
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37 minutes ago, Fool to cry said:
My UO: The superhero genre has become dominant because we want to see stars be awesome. I know playing weirdos and losers is more interesting but I'm not going to pay 20 dollars and waste 2 hours to see that! Play a regular person who's not a hot mess and people will see it.
Of course most of the heroes secret identies are the weirdo and losers. Then came the MCU where most don't have a secret identity
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13 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:
Not surprised, it was extremely expensive and, one of the lowest viewership of Star Wars shows.
We're not getting another season of Boba Fett nor Obi Wan and, they both did better in the ratings than The Acolyte.
Not sure on Andor, might be that it was always planned as a limited series like Loki or they were able to offset S2 costs.
Personally I found this show boring with moments of annoyance over the stupidity/writing. I will say, I did like the action scenes I thought the hand to hand/martial arts fighting to be the only positive.
Andor was the lowest rated but it got a prestigious Star Wars tag and aclaim from the Star Wars nerds. And that's the selling point as a franchise loss leader.
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I just remember being shocked when Baywatch turned up on one of these networks. I still remember the most popular show in the world promos. Some of the later lifeguards are still in their 40s
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13 hours ago, Dimity said:
I watch the Ron Howard movie and every single time I am on the edge of my seat hoping all will end well. I am not sure if that means it was an awesome movie or I am not very bright. Possibly both. Anyway I will definitely be making an effort to watch this!
It was a great film. I wouldn't say any brightness in a trivial pursuit question but assuming Apollo 13 was seen in the theatre then if you were old enough to be noticing things about NASA in 1986 when Challenger was lost
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7 hours ago, Yeah No said:
Now FeTV went and replaced Adam-12 with Dragnet at 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. on weekdays. Meanwhile they've left Adam-12 on in the a.m. and late at night at 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. What sense does that make? Who cares about freaking Dragnet anyway? The decisions these networks make are baffling and in my opinion stupid. I wrote to complain but I don't expect to get anywhere with it.
Well MeTV is the opposite with Adam-12 in the early evenings and Dragnet following Highway Patrol at the break of dawn. I figure that all the retro networks switch up every now and then with younger shows being added to the lineup every buying season while older shows get picked up by another network that picks up even older TV or specialized focus like the western networks or START focusing on women lead cop shows..
As for the color Dragnet or Dragnet 1967, if that is what FeTV is airing, it does tie directly into Adam-12. Even if Jack Webb reused older scripts he caught a reorganizing LAPD after the Watts Riots and was doing his part to rehabilitate their public image. It is sort of like after the Rodney King Riots the LAPD wasn't featured as a TV setting and the few Los Angeles police based shows of the early 90s featured LA Sheriff's Deputies. But that was truly an era of the NYPD and Baltimore.
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10 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
I'm disappointed. It had some issues, but being on streaming I figured another season was a given.
How was it woke though?
I guess since all the good guys were female humans.
In any case I don't think it was the went woke go broke brigade that killed the show alone. They picked up valuable allies from the Church of Jedi fundamentalist for whom the Jedis are the heroes of the Star Wars that they want to watch.
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12 minutes ago, tearknee said:
Llewlyn or de Lancie?
Q Branch Shops. Every 00's last stop before going on mission
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43 minutes ago, Calvada said:
Jim also ended up in the hospital a few times; he didn't just shake off being beat up. However, he and other TV PIs were always getting knocked out by someone bashing them on the head from behind and never seemed to have long-term consequences. It was amazing when Elementary had a story line about Sherlock sustaining a concussion after being assaulted and ultimately being diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome.
I am guessing that since James Garner couldn't hide his disabilities from the wounds he received in the Korean War they allowed Jim to get hurt and show the pain he was in. Where as most characters can do anything as a partial result of their combat soldering experience.
The entire community from boxers having many more fights and football players getting up from having their "bell rung" just felt differently about concussions back then. Some old memory is telling me that my father used to joke about Mannix getting knocked out.
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On 1/9/2023 at 10:08 PM, CrystalBlue said:
Mr. Sheridan, if you're reading this, enough with the gratuitous violent outburst when one of the characters shoots another in the face or head with no warning, nothing. Please write something new. The scene with Caolan and his crew was uncalled for. IMHO.
I'm watching on broadcast and by episode 6 I was detecting a lot off substitutes for the word "shit". But with Dwight's revenge murder and the self defense killing of the biker the violence could have been more graphic like in the seasons of Mayor of Kingston given away or Yellowstone given away in the other sales attempts. So I'm wondering did a TV edit also do visuals? I did notice someone being beaten in the dark on the street before the attack on the bar but I'm not sure who was who. Maybe episode 7 will clear it up.
On 5/12/2024 at 4:48 AM, Ottis said:And OMG what a terrible use of “In the Air Tonight.” Kiddies, if you want to see a good one, look up Miami Vice. That was an all-time classic.
I would say more than an all time classic. When I heard In The Air Tonight on Miami Vice it was the first needle drop and change TV forever
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1 minute ago, baldryanr said:
I can feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if scores of irate fanboys are powering up their webcams and getting ready to gloat about how woke goes broke.
This one was like newspaper pre written obituaries. They just have to add the dateline and upload
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2 minutes ago, tearknee said:
And that sugar glass!
(Although an upside of 1985-A Biff Tannen getting hit in the face with the Delorean door in BTTF II is that the asshole probably had a broken jaw until the timeline was repaired!).
Jim Rockford is the only character that I remember who regularly hurt his hands when throwing bare knuckled punches.
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48 minutes ago, Trini said:
LOL -- Sometimes I do wonder who sells all that bulletproof furniture!
Q has a shop, he'll sell to anyone.
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24 minutes ago, Shannon L. said:
Can we revisit (from quite some time ago) parking and traffic? I always read about it in regard to places like NYC, but I was watching an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles last night and they went to a small restaurant on the beach and not only was there a parking spot, but there was also almost no one on the street at all. The reason I hate beach towns/cities is that they are super crowded with both traffic and people and parking is a nightmare. It's a little easier in the winter, but when the weather is good, forget about it.
I guess it would only work if they parked their cool undercover cars in reserved police parking spots. I remember a plot point from Starsky and Hutch that everyone knew Starsky's Ford was a cop car.
As we are working out of the pandemic lock down rules there was that small pause with little traffic to worry about
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6 hours ago, Palimelon said:
What is that story between GP and Cameron?
When Kirk Cameron was born again he went towards the fundamentalist branch of Christianity. And started to object to what was expected from even a nice boy teenager in the story.
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1 hour ago, Mindthinkr said:
Was given this show as a suggestion on Netflix. So far it’s ok, but some of the illnesses are far fetched. Who knew so many diseases could be located in the Hamptons.
What was the old term the jet settters. Since the series normally time skipped and concentrated on the high season even the local resident workers picked up infections from around the world.
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40 minutes ago, Dimity said:
In almost every Hallmark Christmas movie the heroine arrives in town with a single suitcase that somehow manages to contain at least 5 coats. I guess that's what they mean by a Christmas miracle.
But it is never cold enough for a hat or gloves to be worn
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1 hour ago, chrisrose said:
If so that's a shame...to punish Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen (the actual showrunners) because of Joss Whedon's actions. My understanding is Joss was barely involved after season 1...
Also wondering if it helps that Daisy Johnson is a character from the comics... would the Whedons still get paid when she's technically not their own original character?
If my Star Trek writer friend is correct it makes no difference. Taking an on TV first character, even those from other media or public domain like Thor, to the movies or another TV show still the rights go to that first TV creator.
He figures that's part of the reason MCU Thor wasn't a human doctor and converted Shazam like into the Thunder God like the original Marvel TV Thor did.
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1 hour ago, tv echo said:
From Fan Expo Chicago on Aug. 17...
Not a chance on Quake/Daisy Johnson , the Whedon's get paid if they use any character that first appeared on ABC TV. Few franchises are like Star Trek in that they are willing to pay that price. And in this case more is in play since Joss Whedon has been cancelled due to his Buffy years behavior. .
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1 minute ago, Palimelon said:
Was Paul written that badly? I remember he came back a couple of times and they were all ok episodes...certainly not as bad as Jaime's return.
They ripped Johnnie Cochran from the OJ Simpson murder trial headlines and placed Mr. Robinette in that role as faux Cochran. I think it was on the Tommyverse linked Chicago Justice that Paul came back to his former self when going up against Ben Stone's son Peter before he transferred to SVU for a season.
Seeing as a Chicago PD detective was loaned to FBI for a while, Connie has a secret soap opera twin in the FBI's New York office.
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2 minutes ago, Palimelon said:
Age wise, I can see that for Paul, being the DA. Connie, not quite there yet.
Connie should be about the age that Vice President Harris was when she was elected DA in San Francisco. They might have shown a history of New York County voting in older folks but I want this office for her.
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2 hours ago, Palimelon said:
Or how they reference a non-parent family member by their designation instead of their name. "Hello brother/sister/cousin/niece/nephew/etc". Why, it's almost like they are giving exposition to how they are related to some unseen audience who is watching them for the first time...
It caught me on The Cleaning Lady that the Filipino mother didn't not use terms like someone raised there would, particularly when she was dealing with a lawyer and she didn't identify him as Attorney Jones as they do like we would say Doctor Smith. And only the baby child would refer to his older cousin as that since in normal address the elder siblings and family members are efered to their title like a parent or uncle would be. But then on that show the older kids were raised in America
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