I'm with sumi. Although I gotta wonder if that mega-plot most of us didn't like would work better when seen in a compressed format.
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le nubian - Aug 13, 2010 6:24:52 am PDT #3003 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
erikaj - Aug 13, 2010 6:25:52 am PDT #3004 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought so.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2010 6:29:15 am PDT #3005 of 7329
"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
I'm currently halfway through, so we'll see this weekend if I find said mega-plot tolerable watched one episode after another rather than spread over multiple weeks.
People have said that Buffy's endless rally-the-troops speechifying and training montages in Season 7 worked better when viewed all at once. Though having watched them sequentially for what seemed like 157 weeks in a row I have no desire whatsoever to find out for myself.
erikaj - Aug 13, 2010 6:41:42 am PDT #3006 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
Still boring. Just not *as*.
le nubian - Aug 13, 2010 7:08:19 am PDT #3007 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm not sure I thought they were boring (but I guess I need to read my old posts!) - but I did feel that it was repetitive without leading to new information.
-t - Aug 13, 2010 8:58:46 am PDT #3008 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll be interested to get your opinion, Matt. I'm sure compressing the viewing schedule will have some effect.
I'm currently reading Club Dead, the third book, since I realized I had missed it entirely in my skipping around the series, and just finished re-reading the first one (I idly read the first chapter and realized I had forgotten a lot, so I kept going). I was surprised at how much True Blood had kept the same the first season, it had seemed so different while I was watching.
tiggy - Aug 13, 2010 9:41:42 am PDT #3009 of 7329
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I had a hard time finishing the first book because it was so much like the first season.
i've also realized i've forgotten a LOT about the books. a friend comes over every week to watch the episodes and we discuss the books too. so my plan is to re-read the books(minus the first one because i just don't think i can do it again).
-t - Aug 13, 2010 9:45:56 am PDT #3010 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I skipped the second one because I remember not liking it much and the parts of the second season I liked best were definitely big changes from the books, but I think I will end up reading through the series, too (only partially 'again', I know I've read some but not all and the titles are so similar it's hard to puzzle out which I've read and which I haven't...)
Java cat - Aug 14, 2010 11:11:50 pm PDT #3011 of 7329
Not javachik
Kashi Go Lean: I really liked the most recent season of US of Tara. Loved the subplot with the daughter and the costumed heroine, though NSM with the subsequent cake-sitting etc. Hell yes the parents should be slapped... or arrested. My biggest quibble and squick was Max ditching Tara to have a toss with Joey Lauren Adam's Pammy. I think it was totally OOC for him and it pissed me off.
Java cat - Aug 14, 2010 11:13:29 pm PDT #3012 of 7329
Not javachik
Is anyone watching this season of Hung? Is it worth tracking down?