Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.

'Serenity'


Premium Cable: The Cursing Costs Extra

[NAFDA] A thread for the discussion of all original programming on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other premium channels.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


Glamcookie - Aug 20, 2012 6:18:10 pm PDT #4686 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I would love to know what sent you over the edge.

I've been teetering on the edge ever since the Maryann season. Each season they seem to add more characters, more storylines, many seem to go unresolved, many more are just uninteresting. They are spread too thin. I hate the fairies (their club looks like my own personal version of hell). I didn't give a damn that Hoyt left - I used to love that character. Tara/Pam could be fun and interesting, but they barely give us a glimpse. Instead it's all of these Authority/Lilith fools who we've never seen before and who I could give a shit about. I thought having Russel back could be fun, but it's lame.

I may watch on DVD in the future, but I won't be turning on HBO as I have been for the last few seasons. Just. Too. Stupid.


beekaytee - Aug 21, 2012 7:00:34 am PDT #4687 of 7329
Compassionately intolerant

I thought having Russel back could be fun, but it's lame.

This is me.

The 'someone is doping the Authority' wheeze is going on waaay too long. I thought Russell, who is so powerful and observant, would sweep in and smell the gag but he doesn't seem to care. So. Neither to I.


Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2012 5:26:35 pm PDT #4688 of 7329
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Strikeback has got to be the most annoying show on television. It can be pretty awesome at times, and then it makes me hate myself for liking it so much.

Last season, the ladyfriends of both male leads were fridged in the same episode. And in the season premier, there was yet another fridging that was so horribly melodramatic, it makes the Kyle Rayner issue look like great literature.


-t - Aug 26, 2012 8:49:02 pm PDT #4689 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

True Blood = Crazy Bananapants


Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2012 4:23:41 am PDT #4690 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

True Blood = Crazy Bananapants

Very much so. I'm ashamed to admit how much I enjoyed all that crazy.


tiggy - Aug 27, 2012 4:30:15 am PDT #4691 of 7329
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

really? i'm so bored. i'm not sure i'll even stick with it next season. the only high points for me were Eric and Lafayette.


-t - Aug 27, 2012 4:51:40 am PDT #4692 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I crossed some kind of threshold with this show a while back - I don't care about any of the characters, I'm not invested in the plot going any particular way, but I do want to find out what happens next.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2012 6:11:28 am PDT #4693 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I laughed my ass off at Jessica's gleeful "I KNEW it!" when Pam and Tara started snogging. It's the little thing like that which keep me hanging on.


§ ita § - Aug 27, 2012 7:42:04 am PDT #4694 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Lafayette read the voyeur ghosts in Sookie's room.

Did he get much else to do, or get significant arcs? I think he's the only one there I like from guggle to zatch, so I'm sure there's something I'm not thinking of, and I'd like to be able to call it to mind.


-t - Aug 27, 2012 7:54:21 am PDT #4695 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The thing with Jesus's father was this season, wasn't it? I guess that was what the bleach in the gumbo incident and so forth was building to. I can't remember that that all made a lot of sense, though. And he talked to the Iraqi ghost lady for Terry.

For a second there I thought he'd laced the margaritas with something last night, but I guess not.