With Chuck, I find I can handwave most WTFastic stuff because it totally doesn't take itself seriously. It's a giant spy-thriller spoof and the spy stuff is deliberately cheetastic. As long as it makes me laugh, I can dig it.
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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Vonnie K - Oct 08, 2007 8:29:50 pm PDT #7333 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Fay - Oct 08, 2007 8:52:46 pm PDT #7334 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I will continue to be befuzzled as to why the fairies were screwing around with Gwen FOR NO APPARANT REASON AT ALL.
I hear what you're saying, but it didn't actually bother me, because it just struck me as a typically fairy kind of thing. They don't need a reason to fuck with you, and that's part of why they're scary critters. They're whimsical, and Captain Logic isn't steering their tugboat because they ate him and wove his entrails into a butterfly net. Because it struck them as fun.
DXMachina - Oct 09, 2007 1:46:58 am PDT #7335 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I kept finding myself watching a little bit of Chuck, and then clicking away whenever it started to drag, which turned out to be quite a lot last night. Then I'd realize that there was absolutely nothing else on worth watching and flip back to Chuck. Lather, rinse, repeat, at least until the final fight at Buy More. Baldwin is still good, but the rest just has me at meh.
Ginger - Oct 09, 2007 3:46:00 am PDT #7336 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The CIA woman and the scary international arms dealer (also a woman) had an all-out brawl on the rooftop near the end, and even *I* could tell whoever the stuntwoman was for the CIA woman didn't know how to throw a punch.
I started to post last night that that fight was horrendously bad. It made my head hurt, so ita should probably avoid it altogether. Note to stunt coordinator: Kicks, even when blocked, should still be set up so that the kick ends closer than three feet away from its target. Just waving the foot around in the air won't do anything, unless you have lethal foot odor.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 09, 2007 4:00:32 am PDT #7337 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
The combination of these descriptions of horrible fight scenes and people being taught how to dance is giving me Farscape flashbacks.
And not the good kind.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 09, 2007 4:07:03 am PDT #7338 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jazz-hand-fu!!!!
Tom Scola - Oct 09, 2007 4:36:59 am PDT #7339 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I liked Chuck. I like how he isn't completely incompetent. I liked how he was smart enough to his interrogator exactly what she wanted to hear, without actually revealing anything.
Pacing is a problem, though. It was just like Supernatural in that it ended ten minutes before the episode was over.
sumi - Oct 09, 2007 4:38:25 am PDT #7340 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I liked Chuck too.
The Tango Lessions with Capt. Awesome were hilarious and so were many, many things that Casey did. AB is so great in this.
sumi - Oct 09, 2007 4:47:35 am PDT #7341 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
BSG: 1st Season 4 promo!!
Jon B. - Oct 09, 2007 5:13:12 am PDT #7342 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Chuck was entertaining despite the bad fight scene. What I really liked were the opening credits! Weird that it took until ep 3 to show them.