iMonrey
-
Posts
16.0k -
Joined
Content Type
Blogs
Gallery
Downloads
Discussion
Posts posted by iMonrey
-
-
It cracked me up when Jeremy told his tribe that John Rocker had made "homosexual comments." I know he meant "homophobic" but it made me picture John Rocker saying things like "Wow, that guy is hot!"
Look, anyone who has watched this show for the 29 seasons it's been on (and I've skipped several of them myself) is wise to the editing tricks they use. So it really amazes me that the producers think they're fooling anyone. Example: Probst asks if anyone wants to play a hidden immunity idol. Cut to: John Rocker, reaching down into his bag, seemingly; almost standing up, seemingly. Except: Not. Clearly these shots were taken when John first arrived at tribal council and sat down. Not foolin' anyone, show.
Same goes for the "reaction" shots of John when Baylor and Jaclyn talk about a possible splinter among the men's alliance. We're meant to think John is alerted to the fact that they may vote him out! But - no. Of course not, because John thinks Baylor and Jaclyn are voting out Dale. He has no reason to look "surprised" by what they're saying. They just cut that reaction shot in from something else.
That's what I'm really tired of.
And it makes me question everything else they show us. Did Natalie just straight up, out of the blue, call out the opposing tribe after the Reward Challenge? Or did someone or something prompt her to do so? Same thing after Immunity Challenge. I'm so suspicious of the editing I'm convinced we missed something here. Yes, Natalie could very well just be a hothead, as anyone who's watched Amazing Race already knows, but still. The editing on this show is so deliberately misleading you can't trust anything about it.
Bottom line, I think John Rocker's infamy and past transgressions overall had far less to do with his being voted off than the editing would like us to believe, and it will be interesting to see if they try to portray some kind of vindication on the Blue Tribe next week as if they had a hand in it.
(And no, I still can't remember the tribe names. I really don't see the point. They're silly, and will be irrelevant after the merge.)
-
3
-
-
I'm sort of on the fence at this point. I love the opening title sequence but the music was too loud in too many scenes and made the dialogue almost impossible to hear. They need to fix that. Overall they did a good job setting up the premise so it's kind of hard to tell how it will go. I'm glad to see Evan Peters will have a bigger role this season, since his talent was criminally wasted in Coven.
Clowns are just inherently scary, I don't care what anyone says.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they have planned for Angela Basset, Michael Chiklis and Emma Roberts.
I think it's interesting they aren't using Jamie Brewer this season, probably out of consideration for the fact that she's someone who may have been genuinely considered a freak back in the early 20th century, yet they have Naomi Grossman who is only made up to look like one.
-
1
-
-
This one was better than the last one, but I agree it's a problem to cast someone as high profile as Wallace Shawn without immediately tipping the audience off to his impending importance. They have the same problem on lots of crime shows and mystery shows, when you have a very recognizable guest star. It's too obvious. But the humor was good in this one and, thankfully, minimal usage of the kids.
Ratings continue to drop and considering the negative press this show has gotten I'd be surprised to see it get picked up for a full season.
-
Either I totally missed the fact that Peter and David were brothers in the pilot, or I forgot. Same for the female co-worker, whose name I still don't know. Didn't know she was related either. Or that they all worked for their father. Shows how much attention I was paying.
I really like the leads, but the show just isn't funny enough. Ratings are crap - I predict this will be the first cancellation of the season.
-
Is this the first time Jason has guest hosted? I thought he did just fine as a last-minute fill in, and I think he could be a good replacement host if Jon takes another break. The problem here is that too much time was filled up with shtick about him being the replacement so there was less "serious" news than usual. He and Sam kind of made the show about themselves rather than the news (although Sam's field piece was excellent, intros and bumpers aside).
Ugh, Wyatt Cenac! Love his comedy but not a fan of the homeless look.
-
1
-
-
I don't think it will last. Ratings were down to a paltry 1.1 in the 18-49 demo, and for a sitcom on a major network in this time slot, that's bad. Especially since it's only the second episode.
There was some stuff with John Cho and Facebook that I found amusing but overall, the show is weak. I think Karen Gillan is the weak link here. Never saw her in anything and not impressed with her here. They need a stronger lead to play opposite Cho and they need a stronger, and funnier, supporting cast.
-
I actually thought this one was pretty darn good. I like the ones that are centered around one big accident event. Although, for impact, they could have killed someone off, I'm just not sure who. In any event the crash and the aftermath were particularly well done, I thought.
I admit that I, too, was kind of scratching my head over the whole red light/green light thing, since surely fire trucks, ambulances and police cars run red lights all the time. Then again, they can't run through cross-traffic, so they must have to at least slow down. I mean, they can't just rely on cross-traffic to get out of their way. I knew a driver on a fire truck who said there are some people that will just not get out of the way, even with the sirens blaring and the lights going. But, if Cruz had been brought up on vehicular homicide or something, there's no way in hell a jury would ever convict him. I agree that both trucks were technically at fault.
-
1
-
-
I'm enjoying this season much more than last season, that's for sure. I loved CeCe and Winston messing with Schmidt and Coach, but honestly? Either one of those guys could be male models. And I thought Schmidt actually looked pretty hot on that billboard. He looked great in some of the photos in his portfolio too. The poses he and Coach were doing in the photo shoot were hysterical but let's be real, both of these actors are very attractive when they're not being goofy.
Micro penis guy was pretty funny too. I don't even want to think about what's on Butt Chat.
-
3
-
-
I continue to enjoy the relationship between Abe and Henry the most, and I do enjoy Henry's interactions with the police, and the assistant ME (I'm glad they're fleshing out his awkward personality). Unfortunately, the "mystery of the week" continues to be a weak spot and feels too silly and contrived. The whole bit with Henry knowing what kind of rubber they used on certain shoes in the 1960s (womens' shoes, particularly, and knowing what designer/brand they were) was just - silly. I mean, it's nice that he was actually wrong about something for once, but his ability to pull obscure details out of thin air is too over the top.
This show seems to be getting fairly decent ratings for its time slot so I expect it to last at least the full season. I just wish they'd make the stories a little sharper and make Henry less of a know-it-all. This isn't Elementary.
-
Oh, Geez, I honestly don't think I'll be able to watch the Bill O'Reilly interview. I simply cannot stand to look at that guy.
I thought the UN piece was pretty good actually. Too bad they're so useless.
-
I also didn't get Dash's sudden evilocity.
I'm probably giving the show way too much credit, but maybe the mind-sapping trick Frederick used on Dash turned him over to the dark side. Ingrid burned those books because they were full of spells for dark magic. She didn't even want Dash looking at them because she thought they were too dangerous. Maybe they didn't affect him right away when he looked through them because he couldn't read them, but once Freddie extracted them through his head (hee) they sort of manifested themselves into his consciousness. Kind of like when Evil Willow extracted all the dark magic from Giles' books at the Magic Shop. Similar FX too.
I doubt they want to kill off either Dash or Killian, so there's a potential to "save" Dash eventually by extracting the dark magic out of him. Kind of hard to come back from what he's done to Killian, but then again he's already tried to kill him.
-
1
-
-
I think the recapper pretty much nailed all the problems with this episode. I watched the pilot and liked it because the cast is so good and it was fairly easy to follow. I missed the second episode due to all the football, so this is my second episode and boy was it dumb. Just the idea of some top Russian government official willing to broker a backdoor deal to sell Pakistan some kind of dangerous weapon in exchange for an "A" for his daughter - wow. Just, wow. Whoever came up with this plot should be fired, and banished from writing anything more important than a grocery list ever again.
I'm not quite ready to give up, yet, this being only my second episode, but this show better get a lot better.
-
Too many Rumba tributes to dead people. I mean, really? "My grandma died, so - here's a rumba!" I'd prefer they not do this gimmick at all, but if they're going to, let them at least pick a style that's more or less appropriate to the message, even if they're limited to dances they haven't done yet. Although really, only a Contemporary is suitable for that sort of thing. And I wonder if Lea would have gotten a high a score without pictures of dead pappy behind her. Too manipulative.
I'll admit I have never seen a single episode of Fresh Prince so I had no idea which part of that dance was "The Carlton" until it was pointed out after the fact, but that dance was incredibly fun from start of finish. Alfonso is head and shoulders above anyone else, he's a born Broadway performer.
I'm so torn on Sadie because her into package was somewhat off-putting, but that dance was a lot of fun and she's cute as a button. My favorite of the night after Alfonso.
Poor Jonathan. I'm nervous how long Michael is going to stick around and outlast much better dancers. He doesn't have near the personality Bill Engvall had and isn't improving either.
-
3
-
-
RE: Hook's inability to cut through the ice:
Doesn't mean it couldn't "heal" it self, or only let it go so far.
That's just an excuse, really. We can rationalize all we want, the point is that we were never shown anything to indicate there was anything preventing anyone from cutting through the ice with ordinary pick axes, which we know for a fact the dwarfs have. At first, I assumed David was under the impression - as I was - that Emma and Elsa were so far buried under mountains of ice that manually trying to dig them out would be useless. So when Elsa finally blasted a hole I was rather surprised and amused to see there was nothing more than a wall between them that was no thicker than six inches or so.
This show always has that built-in loophole where you can go "because, MAGIC!" but too often, that's a big cheat. It's one thing to say "Well, Emma couldn't use her powers, because she can't control them." Even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, at least they've addressed it. They did not address why they couldn't just break through that rather thin wall of ice with ordinary tools. Us trying to make up reasons is doing the writers' job for them.
-
1
-
-
They could have avoided this if they hadn't ramped up the attention meter to 11 in the first season finale. There's really no turning back from that so I don't know how they thought they could get away with this.
-
I thought he thought it was useless since it was a magical ice wall, so not your normal wall. That it would be useless to dig at it, it would be impenetrable due to the magic.
Except that the ice Hook was chipping at was coming off, so there was no evidence that some kind of magic prevented him from cutting through. This would have made more sense if we'd seen that it was impossible for him to even make a dent in it. David seemed to be saying, "Don't bother, it's too thick," but it turned out not to be after all.
On a side note, is anyone noticing Michael Socha's name in the starring portion of the credits? Does this mean Will/the Knave is crossing over here down the road?
Yes, he's supposed to be in the cast this season, and is obviously on contract since his name appears in the opening credits even though we haven't seen him yet. I keep getting my hopes up but so far, nothing. I don't have much hope for seeing him next week either if it's going to be all about Elizabeth Mitchell.
-
Uhh, hello crazy lady carrying around TruBiotics, do I know you? or do you always come up to total strangers trying to run a 5k to discuss digestive health?
Is that Erin Andrews? It kind of looks like her. But yeah - if you're running in a 5K marathon, you're probably already in pretty good shape. Then again maybe they figure this is the kind of health-nut audience most likely to be interesting in probiotics.
-
Ironically, as Hook was desperately hacking away at the ice wall with his hook, David kept telling him to stop because it wasn't doing any good. Yet when Elsa finally blasted a hole through the ice wall, it didn't end up being that thick. Maybe six inches or so. Meaning if Hook had just kept hammering at the ice he would have eventually broken through on his own. Heck, where were the dwarfs with their mining picks?
The show has always had a problem with magic - it works when they need it to and it doesn't when they need it not to. Emma trained with Regina last season to use her powers and ultimately learned they work best reflexively. She even managed to open a damn time portal, albeit with the aid of a magic wand. Still, it doesn't make much sense that she couldn't have used her powers to break through the ice wall.
Worse, it didn't make any sense that Elsa couldn't break down the ice wall. She'd learned the secret of undoing her magic by the end of Frozen. Are we now to believe she cannot control this power without Anna at her side?
While I still enjoy the show, it feels like they are struggling needlessly to keep it going. Too much time coming up with shiny new villains to terrorize the Storybrookers, too little time hitting the emotional beats. A lot of people have pointed out the lack of concern - or perhaps even awareness - Snow seemed to have about Emma's predicament in this episode. They keep trading these things off for flashbacks with new villains like Bo Beep and revelations about this new Ice Cream Queen.
-
7
-
-
Damn, sometimes this show is just depressing. I mean, they did a fantastic job on the civil forefeiture piece, but it's depressing! Stuff like this makes me think, every person in the country should be required to watch this piece just so they realize what's going on and demand a stop to it.
Good God, Jeff Goldblum is so old. I feel so old now.
-
5
-
-
It was certainly a wild ride, I"ll give it that. I have to admit I'm a sucker for time-travel stories so I was amused by all the Freya and Wendy shenanigans in the past. I think the thing with Killian being Poe was dragged out a bit too much but then again considering how it ended I kind of see the point. I just wish they'd killed off Tarkoff for good because he's really the one I don't want to see again.
Wendy, on the other hand, they simply cannot kill off. She's the best thing about the show. Frederick, I could take him or leave him.
-
3
-
-
Do we even know what the factory made ?
Furniture.
but the show's in its infancy (if it's allowed to continue), and I can't imagine the writers giving answers so soon.
The show is in its second season. Granted, the first season was limited, but I'd say the show has moved past the infancy stage. A weekly series is just a poor vehicle for a mystery: you answer the mystery too soon and the story ends, you drag the mystery out too long and viewers lose interest and give up. It's a real Catch-22.
I don't have as big a problem with Resurrection as I've had with so many other series that had some kind of mystery at their premise, mainly because I like the characters here more. Still, they're in danger of losing me and the rest of what little audience they have if they don't start giving us some solid clues, at the very least.
And after the strong finale in the first season they've back-tracked themselves into a big problem. There should be a lot more people literally descending on this town searching for returned love ones. I don't care if the media has played down the story as some kind of hoax, there are way too many people in the world who take that shit seriously. They should be over-run with tourists and tabloids.
-
I think the show had to make Terry and Jake the A plot, as it furthers a key relationship between characters.
It's hard to say what constitutes an "A" plot vs. a "B" plot, unless you're just basing it on whatever story Jake is in. I'd say the inspection with the Kyra Sedgwick character was equally an "A" plot in this episode in terms of air time and importance.
I hope the move to Sunday Night plays out rating-wise.
Unfortunately ratings took a huge hit this week, going down to a 1.6 from a 2.6 last week, and that's a lot. I think it was hovering down around 1.2 or 1.3 by the end of the first season on Tuesdays and there are higher expectations on a Sunday night.
-
I could have sworn that back when King Charles came and took David away to replace his dead twin brother, his father was still alive. Can anyone deny or confirm this?
As usual on this show, the timeline is confusing. Rumpelstiltskin apparently had Elsa locked up in an urn in some secret chamber for who knows how long, are they going to explain how she got there? Anna met David after leaving Arendell to look for her parents, so at what point did Elsa wind up in Rumpelstiltskin's clutches and how long did she spend in the urn?
I'm not especially looking forward to Elizabeth Mitchell being on this show, I've kind of soured on her after Revolution, and the last thing this show wants to do is remind me of Lost.
-
2
-
-
Was I the only one who noticed that one of the third teams to check in (I think it was the candy scientists) had painted on a Charlie Chaplin mustache to go with her bowler and umbrella and did a Charlie Chaplin waddle to the mat?
Yeah, that was the cyclists. They might turn out to be a team to root for, if they would show more of them.
It seemed like either Amy and Maya or Tim and Te Jay could've been called #TeamInvisible this week. I know there are still a lot of teams to keep track of but, for example, they didn't show a single one of Tim/Te Jay's rehearsal attempts at the first task (even though they were the second ones to arrive), and I think they were the only team not shown at the train station. Maybe they just don't create enough drama for compelling television, but for me, anyway, they were noticeable by their absence.
Which is how I knew they weren't going anywhere. When you don't see a lot of a particular team, you know they're safe for the leg, because the producers are going to show you lots of talking heads from the team getting eliminated or coming in last if it's non-elim.
I call foul on that whole Express Pass thing. Have a "Save" or have an "Express Pass," don't do both. And they didn't have to "search" for it either, they just walked up to the pub and had someone hand it over. Lame.
-
1
-
"The Daily Show": Week of 10/6/14
in The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [V]
Good to know, because what we were shown was of little substance. I didn't get much from Panetta beyond platitudes and Jon did most of the talking.