No power in the 'verse can stop me.

River ,'War Stories'


The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People  

[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.


Anne W. - Jul 19, 2005 2:03:33 am PDT #1580 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Were I a parent I think would be more concerned that a parental watchdog site seemed to think that kids might be up watching such adult shows, than any specific content of the shows themselves.

Yes. This. Many (not all) of those watchdog sites seem to take a prurient delight in how eeeevil secular culture is. The fact that they highlight a "Worst of the Week" does nothing to allay those suspicions.

I'd be more inclined to take a site like that seriously if it simply had a list of shows with "graphic violent content", etc. along with networks and times.


Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 5:41:58 am PDT #1581 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

I've just read the worst review of The Inside. And by worst, I mean the review itself is pathetic. It left me thinking, "please stop watching, I feel dirty knowing that you are watching this show, and I am watching the show, and therefore, we have something in common."

I won't link, he doesn't deserve referrals. I'll excerpt.

The Inside’s only redeeming value that has me turning in each week is the star, bodacious babe Rachel Nichols. She doesn’t wear revealing clothing often, opting instead for a very professional black pants suit that still manages to show off her voluptuous curvature. And occasionally, the clothes do come off. Like always, Fox knows what the men in the audience want to see (Jonny, could you insert gorilla noises here?).

Given that the reviewer describes Rachel Nichols as "voluptuous," we can immediately ignore everything else in the review, correct?

I would like to start a site where I review reviewers. That would be voluptuous.


beathen - Jul 19, 2005 5:55:06 am PDT #1582 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

bodacious babe

The moment I came to these words I knew I couldn't take anything this person said seriously (besides have Allyson's warning). How old is this reviewer? Seriously. No one uses this terminology anymore. No. one.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 19, 2005 6:18:51 am PDT #1583 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Sounds like something off the boards (not from the reviewers) at Ain't it Cool, although at least the spelling looks right.

Tell me this wasn't actually published, as opposed to posted. Please?


Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 6:23:09 am PDT #1584 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

It's a review site I'd never heard of.


The Partyman - Jul 19, 2005 6:54:13 am PDT #1585 of 10001
[insert something funny here]

I'm with beathen on the "bodacious babe" thing. Ack.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 19, 2005 7:29:48 am PDT #1586 of 10001
What is even happening?

Oh c'mon, Allyson. You have to link us, so we can point and mock.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 7:32:10 am PDT #1587 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If it's referral links from here that bothers you, Allyson, just put the URL without the http: part -- www.crackreview.com/theinsidebabe.html, or whatever, and people can cut and paste.


Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 8:15:39 am PDT #1588 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

ruthlessreviews.com/tv/i/inside.html

It appears that they are trying very hard to be a ball scratching version of TWoP. Someone forgot to tell them that in order for snark to work, it has to be funny.

Instead, if I may review the reviewer, what has happened here is that I'm left with the feeling that the reviewer is someone who resembles Karl Rove, and sits outside junior high schools pulling at himself in his car. His "snarking" on cops leads me to believe he's been bagged standing at the bottom of escalators at a mall looking up skirts while listening to Rush Limbaugh on a walkman.

He's what happens to AICN talkbackers when they get old.

So, so very angry, and having never learnt the importance of social lubrication, they give young retail clerks the creeps by making stupid jokes about the weather in inept attempts at charm.

And so here he is, this lonely reviewer, pretending to be cool and cutting, completely unaware that no one uses the term "bodacious babe" anymore, and never really did after Bill and Ted had that Excellent Adventure so long ago.


The Partyman - Jul 19, 2005 8:56:52 am PDT #1589 of 10001
[insert something funny here]

You have to link us, so we can point and mock.

*points*

*mocks*

*compares The Inside review to rest of site*

*blinks repeatedly at the utter crap*