Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

[Browncoat]

But the ads will still run for weeks after the Super Bowl.  Why put them online early?

FWIW, I am also the person who hates to be spoiled for movies and TV shows.

[Raja]

Just now, Browncoat said:

But the ads will still run for weeks after the Super Bowl.  Why put them online early?

FWIW, I am also the person who hates to be spoiled for movies and TV shows.

YouTube then sells advertisers the time for ads during the ads that you want to see,

[andromeda331]

4 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Puppy Bowl for the win!  Though I'll watch football, too, and think about how much my father enjoyed it.  And I'll root for the Eagles, which might be the unpopular opinion.

My family is huge football and Super Bowl fans with their Super Bowl snacks.  While they watch it I watch the Puppy Bowl with the Super Bowl snacks. I look forward to it every year. It's always so much fun and the puppies are so cute. And all are adopted. It's a win win for both of all of us. 

Edited February 10 by andromeda331

[ABay]

Ah, football. 10 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours of television.

[Shrek]

3 hours ago, ABay said:

Ah, football. 10 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours of television.

2 minutes of excitement in this game, it was all over by the end of the first quarter. And the half time show seemed to go on for ever as well.

Now, GET OFF MY LAWN !!!

[Wiendish Fitch]

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

[Dimity]

37 minutes ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

There are specific episodes I have liked and a few scenes that had me in stitches but overall I agree with you.  The way Edina treats Saffy just isn't funny to me.

[ABay]

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

[proserpina65]

20 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Puppy Bowl for the win!  Though I'll watch football, too, and think about how much my father enjoyed it.  And I'll root for the Eagles, which might be the unpopular opinion.

I live about an hour south of Philly, so while I don't care about the NFL, I was rooting for the Iggles.  And I was happy to see that they dominated the game, after all the talk about how hard it would be to beat the Chiefs.

2 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

There are a few moments which amused me: "Who is Jesus these days?  Charles Dance" and "LaCroix, baby spew, LaCroix, baby spew" but other than that, I never found the show funny.  I not only don't like AbFab - I actively hate it most of the time.

 

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, ABay said:

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

I am really good at deciphering thick accents, but Magda was a challenge for me.  Only because I love that show enough to re-watch many times do I know what she said -- I got a percentage each time until it finally came together at some point.  But now when it has been a few years since the last time I watched, I have to strain to listen again.

[Gharlane]

On 2/9/2025 at 8:47 AM, Affogato said:

People who have been following it the whole season/seasons are interested in the outcome. People have parties every year, February can be a hard month and it is a chance to enjoy yourself and be with friends and family. 

I was invited to a party but felt cheated because there were no owls of any kind.

 

On 2/10/2025 at 12:06 PM, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

I enjoyed the show when it was new, but lost interest when my friends quoted it ad nauseum. I tried watching it fairly recently and I guess things have changed since the 1990's because I definitely didn't like it.

On 2/10/2025 at 1:14 PM, ABay said:

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

[Shrek]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

 

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

 

[Gharlane]

2 hours ago, Shrek said:

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

Darn you, autospell! 😀

[Misslindsey]

My very unpopular opinion is I like Santos on The Pitt. I actually, like all the characters. I may not like everything they do or say, but still enjoy watching them all. 

[Affogato]

9 hours ago, Misslindsey said:

My very unpopular opinion is I like Santos on The Pitt. I actually, like all the characters. I may not like everything they do or say, but still enjoy watching them all. 

The one show, one hour idea sounds good in theory, but there are too many extreme emergencies and everyone has only been there four or five hours, but it seems longer to us. Maybe to them, as well. 

[proserpina65]

Riffing off something in another thread: I like that most shows don't have theme songs anymore.

[sistermagpie]

On 2/19/2025 at 8:46 AM, Gharlane said:

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

 

On 2/19/2025 at 10:10 AM, Shrek said:

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

 

I think it's the opposite. She sounds 100% Londoner to me--she just talks very fast and her specific local accent is strong.

Edited Thursday at 08:59 PM by sistermagpie

[Shrek]

I have no idea but it's still WELSH not welch.

[Spartan Girl]

In light of Michelle Trachtenberg’s horrible and untimely passing, I will say once and for all:

Dawn Summers deserved better from both the writers and the fans. All her whiny and obnoxious moments can be chalked up to Whedon originally wanting a little girl to be cast, and staying in that mindset because he hates teenage girls. He acted shocked that fans hated Dawn, paying lip service to defending her publicly while privately ensuring that the writers continued to write her as bratty (while bullying Michelle behind the scenes).

And despite her many flaws, she still didn’t deserve the vitriol from fans. It’s only now some of them are stating to wake up and realize that there were other characters that deserved the hate more. 

[proserpina65]

5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

In light of Michelle Trachtenberg’s horrible and untimely passing, I will say once and for all:

Dawn Summers deserved better from both the writers and the fans. All her whiny and obnoxious moments can be chalked up to Whedon originally wanting a little girl to be cast, and staying in that mindset because he hates teenage girls. He acted shocked that fans hated Dawn, paying lip service to defending her publicly while privately ensuring that the writers continued to write her as bratty (while bullying Michelle behind the scenes).

And despite her many flaws, she still didn’t deserve the vitriol from fans. It’s only now some of them are stating to wake up and realize that there were other characters that deserved the hate more. 

Eh, I couldn't stand the character of Dawn and don't agree that she deserved better from the writers at all.  I don't, however, believe that Michelle Trachtenberg should've been blamed for Dawn being annoying as shit.  She was an actress doing the best she could with the crap character she was playing.

[Spartan Girl]

I will always maintain that knowing Joss Whedon is a sexist jerk puts all of the show’s characterization in a new light. Would Dawn have been written any differently with someone else in charge and not a misogynistic asshole who was bullying Michelle and countless others behind the scenes? We’ll never know.

Edited Friday at 06:08 PM by Spartan Girl

[Affogato]

21 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Eh, I couldn't stand the character of Dawn and don't agree that she deserved better from the writers at all.  I don't, however, believe that Michelle Trachtenberg should've been blamed for Dawn being annoying as shit.  She was an actress doing the best she could with the crap character she was playing.

I believe she may have been originally meant to be younger but I think having an older person acting younger provided important cognitive dissonance. She had just been born. I also suspect that she took a while to become accepted because tv viewers don’t like change, and because she was supposed to be annoying to Buffy, our POV character in the family. 

Edited Saturday at 02:26 PM by Affogato