tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post5362391146775231061..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Last Week in TV #32Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-83531200023991488992012-05-30T13:03:33.930-05:002012-05-30T13:03:33.930-05:00@Teebore: Definitely worth a look, especially if y...<br>@Teebore: <i>Definitely worth a look, especially if you have any opinions on</i> Fifty Shades of Grey.<br /><br />Ah! Now I remember it. That <i>was</i> good, and possibly worth another look even though I do remember it now. <br /><br />Verification "Words": <i>ngmver $8pm</i><br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-72883462399686304812012-05-30T12:37:31.539-05:002012-05-30T12:37:31.539-05:00@Blam: I want Hodor to do it.
Ha! That's even...@Blam: <i>I want Hodor to do it.</i><br /><br />Ha! That's even better. <br /><br /><i>It doesn't hurt that she's Emma Stone with a Liverpool accent.</i><br /><br />This is very true. <br /><br /><i>Is it just me, or does having Will and Sue work together kind-of, well, work?</i><br /><br />It really does. I hope they maintain that dynamic into next season. I like Sue so much more as an abrasive teacher than a super-villain. <br /><br /><i>Wouldn't the Finn established by the show be really stoked to think he has a future as one of those?</i><br /><br />I hadn't thought of it before, but yeah, at least one of the Finn's established by the show would be stoked by that idea. But not the more serious Finn that's been on display in the second half of this season. <br /><br /><i>Now there's an upside-down word, though, which is just all kinds of weird.</i><br /><br />I think we both know better than to expect logic from Blogger at this point...<br /><br /><i>Maybe I should look it up online.</i><br /><br />Definitely worth a look, especially if you have any opinions on <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i>.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87651590037077114042012-05-27T16:44:48.538-05:002012-05-27T16:44:48.538-05:00Saturday Night Live: Eli Manning & Rihanna
Am...<br><b><i>Saturday Night Live</i>: Eli Manning & Rihanna</b><br /><br /><i>Amazon.com Mother's Day Commercial</i><br /><br />I'll take your word that that was the highlight. I didn't jot anything down during the episode and have no recollection of this at all, which is weird since I tend to like the fake ads (going all the way back to Spud Beer in 1975).<br /><br />Maybe I should look it up online.<br /><br /><i>United Way Ad: Manning's best work of the night,</i><br /><br />Yeah, I think so too.<br /><br />The only really memorable moments for me were Martin Scorsese; <i>What Is This?</i>, because it's fun to see characters that are more "real-world" or crazy but not in a zany way; <i>Helga Lately </i> just for the sheer weirdness of it, even though I agree with you that it didn't quite acquit itself on the pure humor as much as it did on the admirable strangeness; and my incredulousness at Rihanna presenting (as they say in the stripper trade, or at least parodies thereof on TV) her nether regions during a song that I don't remember otherwise. <br /><br />@Joan: <i>What is he The... wait for it... Bloodhound?</i><br /><br />Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21645017792808613982012-05-27T16:43:36.357-05:002012-05-27T16:43:36.357-05:00Glee: Saturday Night Glee-ver
When it wants to be...<br><b><i>Glee</i>: Saturday Night Glee-ver</b><br /><br /><i>When it wants to be, </i> Glee<i> is very good at presenting what it felt like to be a teenager, when the world was full of potential and yet kinda scary and you felt </i> everything<i> with so much intensity.</i> <br /><br />I agree. I'm also with you that the episode was a bit of a "meh" hodgepodge, which is strange considering that it did have a theme — both in terms of music and in terms of plot. Yet I liked a lot of the lines (as you'll see) and some of the forward motion of the overall storyline too.<br /><br />Case in point: Is it just me, or does having Will and Sue work together kind-of, well, <i>work</i>? [And that's not even a spoiler for the rest of the season; I wrote it during the episode.]<br /><br /><i>I love a good pun, but that episode title is</i> painful.<br /><br />No kidding. It's not so bad it's good or even so bad it's bad, really; it's just dumb. A good rule of thumb is that if you have to resort to a hyphen, you're trying too hard; maybe it'd work once out loud, but in print it lingers and its deficiencies are too apparent.<br /><br />I was literally laughing out loud at Sue's "Teen Solomon Grundy" line, especially with Finn's silent "Huh?" reaction.<br /><br />What's Up with That? Dept.: I usually love Santana but her rendition of "If I Can't Have You" (a big guilty-pleasure nostalgia song for me) was surprisingly lackluster and she was singing just a split-second behind the beat in a really distracting way. <br /><br />Will: "I feel like I'm out of ideas."<br />Sue: "Let's be honest, William — You've been out of ideas since Madonna Week. Why don't you just embrace that horribly treacly style of teaching and assign them a famous album?"<br />Will: "I did that last year."<br />Sue: "Yes, I remember, William, and your <i>Rumours</i> Week was a resounding success in that it seemed to solve everyone's problems for about five minutes."<br /><br />Santana: "The only difference is that I am a <i>thousand</i> percent sure that I am actually going to <i>be</i> famous, just like I'm a thousand percent sure that our man-child piano player keeps a petite Eurasian locked in a trunk underneath his bed."<br /><br />I not only love that line but the expression on MCPP's face, which I'd lay even odds could <i>either</i> be "What the f--- am I doing here?" or "How the f--- did she know that?" I'd give Sue's Grundy line the edge dialogue-wise, but this one wins on the reaction shot.<br /><br />Finn: "I mean, I did one of those quizzes online that are supposed to tell you what job you'd be good at and my results were 'competitive-eating champion'."<br /><br />Wouldn't the Finn established by the show be really stoked to think he has a future as one of those?<br /><br />Brittany: "Now that we just got your boob in the door, we <i>can't rest</i>. I came up with an idea that will make you, like, <i>Snooki</i> famous, but without all the blackout drinking."<br /><br />Brittany: "Or... this is my favorite one... you can eat <i>that.</i> It's a bull testicle. I drove <i>allll</i> the way to Spencerville to get it. It came with a pair, but I got hungry on the way home. It tastes just like a chicken testicle."<br /><br />Sue: "And look at poor Brittany. Her chagrin is limited only by the fact that she has a brain the size of a toddler's fist."<br />Brittany: <i>(to Santana)</i> "I can show you the MRI."<br /><br />We clearly had a lot of the same favorite lines, but I was more thorough — okay, went overboard — in what I typed up.<br /><br />... Okay. I've seen some pretty weird CAPTCHAs today, including a word in all caps with a period and one with a comma followed that was then "cubed" — although, thankfully, I just had to type the 3 normal rather than figure out how to superscript it in the little box. Now there's an <i>upside-down word</i>, though, which is just all kinds of weird.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-4288658986896772602012-05-27T16:39:39.072-05:002012-05-27T16:39:39.072-05:00Game of Thrones: The Old Gods and the New
I'm...<br><b><i>Game of Thrones</i>: The Old Gods and the New</b><br /><br />I'm not gonna repeat everything I said about this ep over at Nik's — mostly because we've moved a few chapters ahead in the story as of tonight — but I wrote the following specifically in response to earlier comments here before posting it there first: <br /><br />"I made some apologies on behalf of Theon after his return home, postulating that he was either just playing along with his family until he could get back to the Starks' side (literally and figuratively) or, more likely, simply accepting discretion as the better part of what passes for valor — not sending that note after deciding that the raven would be intercepted, say, and he was no good to anybody dead or jailed at Pyke.<br /><br />"You can forget all that. Schmuck!"<br /><br /><b><i>Game of Thrones</i>: A Man without Honor</b><br /><br /><i>I no longer want Robb to come kick his ass; now I want Bran to do it.</i><br /><br />I want Hodor to do it.<br /><br />"Hodor!"<br /><i>"Ow!"</i> <br />"Hodor!"<br /><i>"Ow!"</i> <br />"Hodor!"<br /><i>"Ow!"</i> <br /><br /><i>Warlock Dean Pelton</i><br /><br />You keep saying that, and it's funny, but I've thought of him from the start as a cross between Count Orlock from <i>Noseratu</i> and a <i>Star Trek: TNG</i> alien. <br /><br /><i>Both the Cersei scenes did a lot to further add some dimension to her character.</i><br /><br />I agree, with great surprise.<br /><br />Okay, Ygritte is my favorite character on the series. (It doesn't hurt that she's Emma Stone with a Liverpool accent.)<br /><br />Maester Luwin: "So far hunting seems a lot like <i>riding</i>, milord."<br /><br /><b><i>How I Met Your Mother</i>: Good Crazy</b><br /><br /><i>I did enjoy the bit about how no one puts Quinn in a cage except cardboard ones on Cage Night, though.</i><br /><br />Me too. I typed up the whole thing.<br /><br />Quinn: "Barney — If I took this job, you would <i>own</i>me... I would be willingly stepping into a cage, which is something I don't <i>do</i> — except for Thursdays, when it's cage night at The Lusty Leopard, but that's a cardboard cage and I can get out of it anytime I want."<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21478079486659032092012-05-21T11:35:55.264-05:002012-05-21T11:35:55.264-05:00@Brother Teebore: no that isn't how it happene...@Brother Teebore: <i>no that isn't how it happened in the book</i><br /><br />Good to know. It was especially clumsy on the show.<br /><br /><i>Kind of getting annoyed at the holes the show is creating by making the story more likable to the TV structure.</i><br /><br />Though, in the show's defense, you don't yet know how they'll address the holes they're creating. I mean, I can understand you being worried about it, but maybe they'll end up dealing with the holes just fine. You never know.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-65537928875422592182012-05-20T18:03:52.197-05:002012-05-20T18:03:52.197-05:00@Teebore Concerning Ygritte: no that isn't ho...@Teebore Concerning Ygritte: no that isn't how it happened in the book. I am still curious to see how the show deals with the difference because the change could potentially mess with things. My guess is the show wanted more season 2 Ygritte so they had to find a way to give her more screen time, but in doing so messed with a nice sequence of events. <br /><br />Kind of getting annoyed at the holes the show is creating by making the story more likable to the TV structure. Fine, change things, but don't be sloppy about it. Not that I'm bothered in the big picture. A nearly perfect adaption with a few holes is better than a lot of worse possibilitiesBrother Teeborenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-14689647461426424752012-05-18T16:12:29.079-05:002012-05-18T16:12:29.079-05:00@Matt: By the way, did anyone else know that Joffr...@Matt: <i>By the way, did anyone else know that Joffrey is in Batman Begins?</i><br /><br />That was actually pointed out to me not too long ago by reading Chris Sims and David Uzumeri's three part breakdown of <i>Batman Begins</i> over on Comics Alliance. <br /><br />Though technically Batman gives Joffrey a periscope thingy, though a batarang would have made more sense...Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-15171169570752809312012-05-18T16:10:25.071-05:002012-05-18T16:10:25.071-05:00@Matt: Bran and Rickon are just kids, and almost T...@Matt: <i>Bran and Rickon are just kids, and almost Theon's brothers, at that.</i><br /><br />That's what really bugs me about Theon: yes, he was used as a hostage by Ned Stark, but it was his dad (the one he's so desperate to impress) who rebelled, who gave him to Ned. And since then, he's been raised alongside Robb, Bran, etc. as one of Ned's kids, so it isn't like he lived some terrible life of servitude and suffering at the hands of the Starks. <br /><br />I'm not saying it's a great situation for Theon, but it seems like his allegiances are just all kinds of screwed up. <br /><br /><i>I think they should stick into the "Previously..." segment at the start of every episode whether it's needed or not.</i><br /><br />Agreed. <br /><br /><i>Also, I loved the Eli Manning courtroom sketch. My favorite part was his verbalizing "hehe".</i><br /><br />It definitely had its funny moments. Just felt like it was a tad long.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-57203707107844282822012-05-18T16:04:28.016-05:002012-05-18T16:04:28.016-05:00By the way, did anyone else know that Joffrey is i...By the way, did anyone else know that Joffrey is in <i>Batman Begins</i>? My brother just told me about it the other night. He's the little kid on the fire escape to whom Batman gives a batarang.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-88582675681338759832012-05-18T16:03:06.890-05:002012-05-18T16:03:06.890-05:00I really hope Theon gets what's coming to him....I really hope Theon gets what's coming to him. I don't think he killed Bran and Rickon there, especially since earlier in the episode they saw two orphan boys at that very farm... plus if he <i>did</i>, I really don't think there's any coming back from something so despicable. Executing Ser Roderick was pretty awful, but at least he was a warrior refusing to submit to Theon. Bran and Rickon are just kids, and almost Theon's brothers, at that.<br /><br />Also, I want to see Tyrion slap Joffrey as often as possible. I think they should stick into the "Previously..." segment at the start of every episode whether it's needed or not.<br /><br />Also, I loved the Eli Manning courtroom sketch. My favorite part was his verbalizing "hehe".Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-20774666196996078562012-05-18T14:54:56.202-05:002012-05-18T14:54:56.202-05:00@Joan: Haha! How great was that - little freak nee...@Joan: <i>Haha! How great was that - little freak needs that to happen to him on a regular basis. </i><br /><br />Agreed. <br /><br /><i>He has gone out of his way to protect her and he knows what this terrible news means... so why did he hurry it along?</i><br /><br />Good question. Maybe his affection only goes so far, and doesn't trump his loyalty, to Cersei if not Joffrey? <br /><br /><i>The... wait for it... Bloodhound?</i><br /><br />Nicely done. <br /><br /><i>Theon has no excuse, he's just weak. </i><br /><br />I still give Joffrey the edge because while Theon is inherently selfish, I think he means well deep down inside, but just lacks the courage (and cares too much about status) to stand on his own. <br /><br />That said, he's totally pissing me off right now. <br /><br /><i>so it was um, good? (that sounds weird) to see her love for her... twin and her vulnerability and guilt about her monster child.</i><br /><br />Just the fact that she's at least able to acknowledge, in private at least, that yes, Joffrey is a monster, does a lot to endear me to her. <br /><br />@Sarah: <i>Pretty worried that since there's only 2 episodes left, that the body count may start rising. </i><br /><br />Are there really only two left? I feel like there should be three more, and HBO is pulling the old "there's only two episodes left...(until the final episode)" routine. <br /><br /><i>I actually forgot all about it until you mentioned it here.</i><br /><br />Glad I'm not the only for whom it was less than memorable.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-79207660086535896892012-05-18T14:09:57.359-05:002012-05-18T14:09:57.359-05:00Love GOT as usual. Pretty worried that since there...Love GOT as usual. Pretty worried that since there's only 2 episodes left, that the body count may start rising. <br /><br />We pretty much couldn't stand the Glee-ver episode, mostly because we really can't stand Disco. Outside of that, like you said, the episode was blah. I actually forgot all about it until you mentioned it here.Sarah Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795455714801965956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-36324014674645896002012-05-18T12:51:43.745-05:002012-05-18T12:51:43.745-05:00So the shit hit the, er, erstwhile king's face...<i>So the shit hit the, er, erstwhile king's face</i><br /><br />Haha! How great was that - little freak needs that to happen to him on a regular basis. <br /><br />I haven't read the books so I have no idea why it is Sandor <i>(you can tell I have a crush on him now that I've stopped using The Hound)</i> tells Cersei about Sansa's menarche. He has gone out of his way to protect her and he knows what this terrible news means... so why did he hurry it along? And just how did he know the minute she got her period? What is he The... wait for it... Bloodhound? Why was he there, randomly, like 1 minute after whatsherface left? <br />How much do we hate Theon! What a weasel, a louse, a coward. Hate him maybe even more that Joffrey because at least Joffrey has the excuse of being an inbred psychopath. Theon has no excuse, he's just weak. <br />Really liked Cersei's scenes this last week - it's easy to dismiss her as gross and mean and incompetent, so it was um, good? (that sounds weird) to see her love for her... twin and her vulnerability and guilt about her monster child. Loved Tyrion in this scene as well, she probably would have shoved him away again, and he was smart enough to know this, but it was nice to see how good-to-the-core Tyrion is.Joan Crawfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513335615114222374noreply@blogger.com