Aryanna

For a chuckle, watch the ad at 1.5 times speed. It makes the lyrics from the song and the lines spoken in the ad sound like there's no feeling in them and they're just trying to make it through the ad as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I know, two posts in a row...not cool. And after this one you guys are gonna say This girl's so negative. She doesn't like anything. I don't know who these ad agencies are that choose all these old songs for commercials but they seem to always choose the worst ones. The one for the Citi mobile app where the guy's walking around with two kids on his ankles. That whole commercial is cringy. I hate the song they choose. The guy looks like he's pretending to have fun with these kids more than actually having fun. They don't look related at all. The kids' laughter is so obviously dubbed in and fake. I hate hate hate this commercial and it seems to be playing continuously on my TV. The Amazon Echo ad about daddy's favorite song. The dad shows his daughter his favorite song and she listens to it through the years and then in her college dorm room tells Alexa to play it. Girl, your dad's favorite song sucks. He has no musical taste. The Walmart commercial that uses Let the Good Times Roll. I hate this freaking song. Make it stop. It's like they sat down and purposely wrote one of the most annoying songs. It is not pleasant to my ears at all.

IKR It's not a One Day Sale if it's going on practically every day.

I totally agree with you guys about the raow raow raow song but I love that one song Sia did, Chandelier. And I know you're gonna hate me for it, but I kinda like that Dior commercial with Natalie Portman that uses Chandelier in it. Except the part where he yells "I LOVE YOU" like he's mad at her and she yells back at him "PROVE IT." That's kinda goofy. And I like how it's kinda telling a story. It's like a Zac Snyder movie, it's got pretty shots that look kinda cool and pretends to tell a story but it really doesn't.

I think that the people making these adaptations believe that faithful adaptations of the books are not marketable but I think it's at least as marketable, if not more so, than the adaptations they've thrown at us. If someone does faithful adaptations (and I don't mean word for word adaptations, I know to turn a book into a movie that compromises must be made) you at least have the interest of the fans of the books. And from that maybe you bring in new fans or maybe young fans who haven't read the books yet. That's what happened with the 1985 movie. But with adaptations like Anne with an E, they're alienating the fans of the books right away and then hoping to bring in new fans by making it darker and edgier. I'm so tired of how everything has to be dark and edgy these days. I haven't watched either Riverdale or Sabrina but those are dark adaptations of fairly innocuous comics. Everything gets the Breaking Bad treatment these days of having to be dark and heavy. But Breaking Bad had it's moments of humor or times when they let you breathe instead of being oppressive all the time. It seems even the makers of Breaking Bad learned the wrong lesson from their own show since Better Call Saul has none of the appeal as Breaking Bad. Sorry, that went off on a weird tangent that I wasn't expecting.

I'm with ya 100% on a proper adaptation of Anne of the Island. As you saw earlier in the thread, that's probably my favorite book after AoGG. Again, I enjoyed the sequel but I wish he hadn't combined 3 books. I didn't care for the changes that you named off like replacing Roy with Morgan etc. Some parts I felt like went by too fast and other parts they lingered too long to the point of boring me. At points in that movie, I'm just sticking with it to see the kiss at the end. I love the kiss on the bridge.

Wow. That made me tired just reading it. Good for you. I spent too much time goofing off in high school and couldn't get academic scholarships.

Ooooh Pepperdine. You're a rich chick. I foolishly believed I had a chance to go there but I wasn't smart enough and we didn't have enough money. Pepperdine is where Zoey 101 was shot. It was so pretty. I'm guessing you spent a lot of time working hard and studying instead of having fun hijinks like Zoey and her friends. I actually don't think it had to do with losing rights. I watched an interview with Kevin Sullivan on youtube (i think) and he never was really impressed with or much liked the Anne books. That's why he started deviating from the books in the 2nd movie. The first movie was pretty faithful and pretty near perfect. The second movie was still great but he borrowed parts from 3 different books and created some new characters. In the WWI movie he went totally off the rails and after that I stopped paying attention. All that to say, he never really had any respect for the material.

This kinda stuff drives me crazy. On the opposite end, I hate when a movie/TV show is supposed to be taking place in the summer and people are wearing jackets, long sleeves, etc. You would be burning up in that attire.

I had an 8 book boxed set of the paperbacks. I was about college age when I got into Anne. But when I did get into those books (and movies) I jumped in with both feet. I so disliked the movie with Anne and Gil in WWI that I barely paid attention to it or remember much about it. It was all just so ridiculous to me because as a fervent fan of the books I knew that it should've been Anne's children and not her and Gil. The timeline was so off.

This old Chanel No 5 commercial is great. I love it. It has such a great feel to it.

What's the deal with She's A Rainbow being used in commercials these days? Acura has a commercial with that song and I just recently saw a Dior commercial with Jennifer Lawrence that uses that song.

Someone on another forum (it may have been imdb before it died) said they should've had Haley and Alex have an apt together. I think that would've been a fabulous idea. They could have some of their own plotlines together as two young women becoming independant and dealing with adult life. I think this whole Haley/baby storyline and Cam and Mitch moving to the farm is just the writers trying to set up endings for the series. It happens a lot in sitcoms where the status quo gets upset at the end and the characters start a new direction in their life that we don't get to follow them on.

Two things I love about this episode: Mandy's blue dress she's wearing when they're shopping for wedding gowns and how when they finally turn on the TV and the game is over and Mike says Wow, that was some game. I don't know why that just always makes me laugh.

Ha ha...Were you typing this on your phone? Because it changed pediatrician to pedestrian. I was like whaaa? I agree that it's alright to have just the parents sometimes but the show is called Single Parents. Meaning they have kids. And I'm not as bothered by the kids as most of you seem to be.

I loved when Taylor told Oliver "Maybe Dan can loan you a starter cat."

You make good points. And I think that if someone got pregnant without meaning to and wasn't expecting to at that point in their life that they would freak out. But the show is treating her freakout more as someone getting pregnant in high school rather than someone who's 25. And like you said, she needs to mature. And I think she was maturing a bit in the past couple of seasons but now that they've put her back with Dylan she's taken several huge steps back from maturity. There are times during the series when you thought, Oh Haley's getting it together. Like her job etc. But those things are only there when it's convenient. Kinda like how Lilly disappears when it's convenient for the plot. As funny as this show can be, it sucks at story arcs and character arcs. They'll mention something about a character or show something to never be seen or heard again.

The new Macy's commercials with the redhead who skulks around the house hugging the walls as if she's a recon troop securing a building. She points at things around the house turning them into not all that stylish Macy's things. Is it just me or does her hair look like she just got out of the shower?

I've had the Can you feel it song from the Amazon commercials stuck in my head the last few days.

Awwww...that sounds like a charming show. I would love to see Sue conquer the city. It sounds a little like Kimmy Schmidt. Sue was such a sweet girl. I'd like to see her conquer the city and have some success. I wish another channel would pick it up like Freeform or something but I doubt that will happen.

Well I don't know why I would even start it if I was only gonna watch the first season. I may just bow out then. Is Jenny Humphrey gossip girl?

What?! This is the first I've heard of this. There was supposed to be a Sue spinoff? I would've loved that. What was it supposed to be about? Sue being married?

I think we can all agree that Joey annoys everyone.

I was watching a season 1 episode on USA network the other day and Gloria had many different notes then. Now she's just a one note character - she's always yelling and she is always upset with Jay.

I love Phil. He's the best. Claire is so quick to crap on everything, like keeping the car, and Phil sees the positive side of things and is always ready to have fun. And even though Cam can get his feelings hurt a littl too easily, I think he would be a lot of fun to hang out with. I could've done without the Egg Bagels Jr. character. That storyline added nothing. I wanted to feel for Haley because she's scared about having a baby and scared that she won't be a good mother. They were making as if it were a baby having a baby but it wasn't sweet or cute because you realize how old Haley is. By my count she's about 24 or 25 years old. It's not like she's a teenager. And let me reiterate, I really really really don't like her with Dylan. I have never liked Dylan.