"Olive Snook loved to win..."
That made me think of msbelle.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2007 8:31:01 pm PDT #8045 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
hippocampus - Nov 01, 2007 2:15:12 am PDT #8046 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
New tag line!
oh, rats. That was my first thought too!
for some reason Olive shouting 'the old gray mare she ain't what she used to be...' made me giggle, but that was after I was smitten with small details again:
- the house that was stenciled on the outside with the same pattern as the upholstered chairs inside
- the monkeys.
- the sheer number of places a person can not be interred.
- the floor of Ned's old bedroom.
Not in love with Olive's new haircut. Makes her look older and too worldly for her technicolor role.
Chuck doesn't bother me, even all wide-eyed and blinky. The aunts are a riot: "I'll get my gun." "And I'll get the candy bowl!" Ah. There's a tag - maybe not the best tag (points up), but a good tag.
Theodosia - Nov 01, 2007 2:41:59 am PDT #8047 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I watched the whole thing when I came home last night exhausted from a lonng day, lonnng after I should have been in bed, so I haven't retained nearly enough of it, but on the other hand I was laughing helplessly a whole lot....
Frankenbuddha - Nov 01, 2007 3:19:05 am PDT #8048 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Joyce Millman weighs in on PD in this week's Phoenix (she seems to love it and hate it, and I think she's wrong like a wrong thing on the show lacking sincerity): [link]
Dana - Nov 01, 2007 3:55:08 am PDT #8049 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why should we give our hearts to a show that seems to fear sincerity so much that it shrouds itself in artifice? Pushing Daisies has the potential to be a luscious homemade apple pie, but it would rather be a Twinkie.
Yeah, I'm with you, Frank. I think that's not the show she's describing there, but the character of Ned, who is afraid of deeper feelings.
hippocampus - Nov 01, 2007 4:08:58 am PDT #8050 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
But Pushing Daisies is too compulsively ironic to take anything very seriously.
um. did she miss Fairy-Tales 101? Serious topics administered via candy coating. duh. Plus - Fun! Irony! Sarcasm! Wit!
Think she watched the trailers and did the review from that?
Toddson - Nov 01, 2007 4:18:51 am PDT #8051 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I want the dress Chuck was wearing in the first part of the show, the green one. Also a body that would look good in it. sigh.
Jessica - Nov 01, 2007 5:30:17 am PDT #8052 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Loved last night's PD. Want to marry it and have little half-human-half-PD babies.
They finally got Olive to a point where I'm able to enjoy her as a character and not just as a Kristen Chenoweth performance. They brought both the spooky and the absurd to pitch-perfect levels.
"Coming up next...kittens on parade" = LOVE.
"I love you, shovel" = LOVE.
Fay - Nov 01, 2007 7:31:08 am PDT #8053 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
God, you've got me liking this show and I've never even seen it.
!!!
Meanwhile - where are people discussing Dollhouse?
Dana - Nov 01, 2007 7:31:40 am PDT #8054 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Minearverse.