Please have an internet user serial killer.
And have him kill celebrities turned ballroom dancers.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
AnthonyDe - Jun 16, 2005 10:47:35 am PDT #9288 of 10001
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely A One at all.
Allyson - Jun 16, 2005 10:48:12 am PDT #9289 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
In all fairness, it is Television Without Pity.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2005 10:50:29 am PDT #9290 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
No one MAKES you watch bad TV
Relatedly, no one makes anyone read TwoP either.
Kevin - Jun 16, 2005 11:09:08 am PDT #9291 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
This is true.
And, I almost don't want to post this, but I might as well...
"The Inside" (households: 2.6/4, #13; adults 18-49: 1.6, #13). The new summer drama was off 19% in households and 20% in adults 18-49 from its debut numbers last week (households: 3.2/5; adults 18-49: 2.0 on 6/8/05).
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 16, 2005 11:11:30 am PDT #9292 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, kinda the raison d'etre of the site is to bust on guilty pleasure shows. Though I am slightly mystified by the people who loathe something passionately right out of the gate and continue posting to that effect for months on end.
Kiba Rika - Jun 16, 2005 11:11:47 am PDT #9293 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Relatedly, no one makes anyone read TwoP either.
A true, true thing. But it seems to me that most of the people here seem to be reading it with fun in mind, or, in Tim's case perhaps, to gauge a general reaction to the show. I myself, for example, am not reading anything over there right now.
I do enjoy the Veronica Mars recaps.
askye - Jun 16, 2005 11:36:19 am PDT #9294 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I understand that people have problems with gore on tv shows and that context does play a lot into it.
But, honestly, I don't think that anything on prime time is as gorey as what Discovery Health channel shows during the day.
A couple months ago I was flipping through the channels and lighted on Discovery Health. It looked interesting, trauma in the ER. There's this guy on the exam table, obviously in pain and shock, he's moaning, there's blood and medical professionals all around. They say something about an accident, and the doctors are talking. And then one hands the other the guy's severed foot.
I almost threw up on the cat.
They were probably going to try and re attach it or something, I don't know, I couldn't watch anymore.
That's my bench mark for gross now. So far The Inside has not topped the severed foot and I don't think it will.
Daisy Jane - Jun 16, 2005 11:44:37 am PDT #9295 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Gore doesn't bother me. I might turn away (never seen a surgery on Nip/Tuck and never will), but I'm not upset or offended that it's there.
That being said, I haven't had to hide my eyes yet.
Kevin - Jun 16, 2005 11:48:52 am PDT #9296 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Personally, gore doesn't remotely bother me, at all. I'm not sure why.
Kristen - Jun 16, 2005 11:51:44 am PDT #9297 of 10001
But, honestly, I don't think that anything on prime time is as gorey as what Discovery Health channel shows during the day.
I can't watch any of that stuff. I get completely squicked. I think it might a switch in my brain that knows: This gore is real vs. This gore is fake.