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    One is the Loneliest Number: Unpopular GG Opinions

    in Gilmore Girls

    · Edited by maculae

    Aw, Milo has a birth defect where one side of his mouth is crooked. He has to really  work to keep it straight. I would imagine when he is concentrating on his lines or the scene he is in, he often forgets to pay attention to his mouth.

    Well, this I did not know. Sorry.

    ETA: I realized this sounds kind of bitchy. I didn't intend it to come off that way. I really didn't know about Milo's birth defect.

    One is the Loneliest Number: Unpopular GG Opinions

    in Gilmore Girls

    · Edited by maculae

    I never, ever liked the sulky, sullen, jealousy-prone, personality-free bore and honestly didn't get any connection between him and Rory, even back in S1.

    I think there was a brief moment early on where I could see why they got together. Dean was written sort of like Jess without the attitude. He knew Rory's movie quotes, he was well read, and he listened to the same sort of music. They made him incredibly boring; oddly agressive; needy; and a townie pretty quickly. The guy went from a motorcycle riding chill Chicago boy to blah.

    Jess needed to speak with more than half his mouth.

    Actually, Logan always smiled with half his mouth as well.

    Maybe it's a thing that Rory has for people like that.

    My UO (which seems to be popular in this thread) is that April wasn't a terrible character. They just made Luke a terrible character because of her and I think a lot of the annoyance with Luke over April made people dislike April.

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    Small Talk

    in Bates Motel [V]

    I also find it amusing that in this weed town Norma, who really needs some damn weed is so disgusted by it.

    Can you imagine an episode with a high Norma? That'd be great.

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    Everwood - General Discussion

    in Everwood

    I wouldn't have worried too much about them putting Ephram with Hannah, Amy or anyone really at that point since he was only supposed to be about 16/17 years old.

    Are we talking about Ephram from season 2 or the end of the series? Because Ephram is 19/20 by the end of the show I think.

     

     

    I personally never thought Amy was anywhere near Ephram in maturity, mentally or emotionally on the show.

    I think they both had their high points and low points. 

    Small Talk: Coffee at Luke's

    in Gilmore Girls

    They ALL turned into 'pod' people. IMO

    Paris always remained a pretty interesting and strong character. Crazy as hell and someone I'd never want to be around (a lot of her type in med school), but fun to watch from afar.

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    The Rotating Fourth Chair

    in Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    My favorite 4th chair is Greg, I think he gels really well with them and has a very quick dry wit. Chip was always a great singer, he was always solid when he was the main singer in some of the UK episodes; it's a pity he won't be on the show anytime soon.  I love the new additions of Keenan and Nyima.

    From the UK version, Greg aside; Stephen Frost and Josie Lawrence were great.

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    Colin Mochrie & Ryan Stiles: International Relations

    in Whose Line Is It Anyway?

    The two of them really have great chemistry as a pair. Bringing back sound effects and informericial was great. They just need to add Improbably Mission and the Film Noir narrationg game back to the show and all will be good.

    I watched all the UK episodes with either or both Ryan and Colin last year or two years ago. So good. I can see why they added Ryan on basically full time so quickly and I can see why they paired Colin up with Ryan.

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    Small Talk

    in Bates Motel [V]

    Am I the only one who thinks the drug subplot is just completely boring?

    No. I kind of wish they focused more on the sex trafficking since they set it up already.

    Everwood - General Discussion

    in Everwood

    · Edited by maculae

    I also always thought that it would have made for great TV to see Ephram dealing with being a father (cuz I'm fairly certain the writers were going in the direction of having Madison reverse her adoption decision and return to Everwood with Ephram 2.0) and dealing with his OTP with Amy.

    It would have been great TV if they were going with what you wrote. However, if they were renewed, we wouldn't have had the ferris wheel ending. Instead, Ephram and Amy would have missed each other and Ephram would have run into Madison.  Plus, they were going to put Ephram and Hannah get together.  At some point, having Ephram and Amy together and being OTP would have been ludicrous.

    SG:1 The Great Rewatch Planning Committee

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    Hey, how about this, why don't we start a season thread once per month?  That way it isn't "this week we watch This and That" which is where our rewatches always go wrong, because it is too long of a time commitment and with so many seasons, too much to keep track of for people.  Also, we're all longtime fans so there are invariably "oh my gods and demons, do I really have to watch Hathor sex up O'Neill??" type of episodes that aren't as fun to rewatch and the only way to get through them -- speaking solely for me -- is to barrel on through them.  

    So what if we had "In the month of April, rewatch and discuss Season One, at your own pace" type of schedule, May season two, etc. ?  While having all season threads available for ongoing discussion and if anyone wants to jump ahead because they couldn't sleep or had a full weekend free (or those Doritos weren't just going to eat themselves) .  That way we're not locking anyone down, holding anyone back or trying to keep too swift a pace.

    I'm down with the season-month idea. Perhaps we should start in May? April would be too soon. By May, most people will know about the closing of TWoP and have migrated over if they wish. It also gives enough time for people to figure out how they're going to watch it and get whatever they need to be able to watch it.  By the time TWoP closes at the end of May, we'll have a very active board that people could jump right into.

    I still believe that we should watch the Devlin-Emmerich movie; CotG recut; CotG original -->rest of season 1. We can have different threads:

    May preshow rewatch Stargate (1994) movie - (insert tag here)

    May preshow rewatch Stargate CotG recut - (insert tag here)

    May Season 1 official rewatch -We Found the Ring in the Sand

    June Season 2 official rewatch - (insert tag here)

    etc...

    But what do you guys think? (Someone already used the Daniel joke)

    Any thoughts? Suggestions?  Creative places you'd like me to shove my DVDs? (in that home brewing kit gathering dust in the storage space, as a for instance).

     It also gives you enough time to do a new brew that would be ready by the time the rewatch starts with your home brewing kit. I'm going to make a one gallon brew of Abydos Ale ~10%ABV (in honor of the stuff they gave O'Neill in CotG) and a 5 gallon Chappa'aIPA next weekend when I figure out the recipe.

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    Everwood - General Discussion

    in Everwood

    Ooh, I never heard what the next season would have been about. Wanna give me a quick summary?

    Can't find the interviews, but here's a summary someone made:

    1. Madison returning to Everwood

    2. More of a focus on Delia

    3. The wedding of Andy and Nina

    4. The coupling of Ephram and Hannah

    5. Jake no longer being on the show

    6. Andy's dad visiting again

    7. Nina pregnant with Jake's child

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    Small Talk: Coffee at Luke's

    in Gilmore Girls

    I couldn't contain myself and just rewatched the first 3 episodes. The show set itself up so well and I think that's what made the ending so perfect (forgetting the rest of season 7). How close the Gilmore's got as a family unit, Paris being one of Rory's best friends, Luke doing everything he can because he just wants to make Lorelei happy, Sookie & Lorelei having their own inn...I can go on forever. Definitely some clunky bits, and Alexis' acting is laughably bad at times, but still such a fun show. I can't wait for the actual rewatch so we can discuss this stuff ad nauseum. 

    Everwood - General Discussion

    in Everwood

    The Harold-Andy, Harold-Bright (can you tell I'm a Harold fan?!), Ephram-Bright and Andy-Emphram relationships remain among my favorite familial relationships and friendships ever depicted on TV. I was also struck recently by how vastly I prefer Season 1 to any of the seasons that followed!

    One of my favorite relationships on the show was actually the Ephram-Delia relationship early on. The best example I can think of is S1 when Ephram went out of his way to make Thanksgiving like their mother did. Or when Delia was down Ephram would try to cheer her up.

    Harold was a great character. Tom Amandes did a great job portraying him as both comedic subplot and serious main plot when the story dictated it. Same goes with Treat Williams. The best was whenever the show put the two of them together. I still can't believe they chose ANOTHER season of 7th Heaven (after giving that show a series finale) instead of Everwood. Then again from what the writers were saying, the next season of Everwood did sound bad.

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    Putting The Hi In Hieroglyphics

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    Some people I respect -- including my wife -- loved Vala but she always set my teeth on edge, except as a super-baddie in Stargate Continuum.

    I did think that Vala had great chemistry with Daniel originally. I wish she would have been more like Martouf or Doc Frasier: there when the story needed her there but not the story written to have to have her there - and maybe die at some point.

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    SG:1 The Great Rewatch Planning Committee

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    · Edited by maculae

    I seem to be in the minority in preferring the recut of CotG. For instance, Carter grows substantially as a character simply by removing of few of her more egregious lines and giving a few additional reaction shots. We do lose a few good moments, like the opening crane shot and Major Samuels getting upstaged by a tree branch. The removal of Kowalski getting snaked is going to make hash of "The Enemy Within," I admit. And I miss Teal'c surrendering his staff weapon to Carter, the start of a beautiful, 10-season arc.

    I'm with you, I too enjoy the recut.

    Why can't we watch both? Watch the recut and then watch the original to get into The Enemy Within?  The recut is signifcantly better cinematically in terms of flow, the characters, the music, and dialogue. It removes a lot of discrepencies that may have popped up later in the show and addresses a lot of the holes and other issues it had in general. However, you simply cannot watch The Enemy Within without the necessary scenes with Kawalski. The recut grew from the show and is a great standalone feature. The show grew from the original despite being mildly cringeworthy at times. It's tons of fun watching them back to back.

     

     

    Sounds good to me, seasons maybe?  There are more than 200 eps and since it's been over for a while you'd likely end up with more posts trying to have episode threads.

    Seasons sounds like a great idea. Would it be a one episode a week thing? Or one episode a day? Or multiple episodes a week but not quite one a day?

    SG:1 The Great Rewatch Planning Committee

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    · Edited by maculae

    I think we should watch what is available. I have the DVD set and Amazon. I don't think either of them have the re-cut CotG and I'm OK with that. Was there anything besides the full-frontal scene cut/added?

    Cut: Carter's reproductive organs line; MacGyver line; Kawalski being taken over, Kawalski not knowing about Charlie.

    Added or changed: Chris Judge re-recorded all his lines. Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks have a new scene. Some better effects. Peter Williams refilmed his SGC scene. Some part of the briefing. Completely new music, original one used the movie soundtrack, this used the guy who composed for SG 1

    Not too sure, but they may have used different takes for some scenes.

     

    Eta: 16x9 and 5.1 surround sound.

    Putting The Hi In Hieroglyphics

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    I kind of wish we saw more of mini-Jack or got to hear from him or about him. The ending of Fragile Balance was pretty pervey - 50 year old mind in a teenage body still oggling teenage girls? I want to know what he's doing now. Did he join the Air Force? Does he get to join the SGC? Or maybe he went to Annapolis or West Point. Maybe he was so fascinated by what Carter or Daniel were doing he's a scientist or researcher of some sort. I want to know dammit. 

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    Putting The Hi In Hieroglyphics

    in Stargate SG-1 [V]

    who was the brain trust that came up with the idea to introduce Jonas as culpable in Daniel's death and besmirching his memory?

    Indeed. Introducing a new character by having him be involved in the death of a much loved character is dumb but could still work. By making him an exact duplicate of the person he's supposed to be replacing and making him nothing else but a glutton was not what they needed to do.

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