My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


Vortex - Apr 28, 2012 8:22:53 am PDT #9452 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

As in "which one of you bitches is my mother?" ?


quester - Apr 28, 2012 9:44:22 am PDT #9453 of 11998
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I thought it was terrible.


Amy - Apr 28, 2012 11:12:22 am PDT #9454 of 11998
Because books.

The miniseries probably looks pretty dated by now, but the book was actually fun, with a lot of period detail about London in the '60s and stuff. And the four women they follow are actually interesting, and all very different. It might seem a little dated now, too, but not in the same way the movie would.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 28, 2012 2:51:47 pm PDT #9455 of 11998
"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

See, I could get behind a third Sex and the City movie if it also turned out to be a remake of Lace.


-t - Apr 28, 2012 7:23:25 pm PDT #9456 of 11998
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Did Fairly Legal do the same plot as Ringer? Weird.


Polter-Cow - Apr 29, 2012 7:47:31 pm PDT #9457 of 11998
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I really liked that episode of Mad Men. Are people still hating Megan? Because she was pretty badass tonight. I also love that Peggy was happy for her rather than being jealous of her, which is what I expected.

Poor Sally. That kid is so scarred. Also, those boots were great.


Typo Boy - Apr 29, 2012 8:15:41 pm PDT #9458 of 11998
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Some belated thoughts on Justified.

Boyd and Ava are not just likeable. They are super likeable. The writers have us cheering for them. But they are have very real dark sides. Boyd is a crime lord. He heads an empire of drug dealing, prostitution, extortion. They have both sides - caring often heroic, but bad guys as well - and I don't just mean law breakers. That he often ends up in alliance with Raylan and likes Raylan enough to take risks to save his ass does not change that.

Boyd is not above using threats of violence (I'll bet not bluffs) to get people to work for him - like threatening the mother of that doctor who wanted no part of the Oxy business. That is not an "honorable outlaw" schtick - but straight out bad guy action.

Ava, aside from sitting still for murder, crossed the line when she decided to become a Madam. Note that in the election, pineapple juice was being handed out, which implied that blowjobs were being given without condoms. Further in the season finale, she descended to slapping around one of her prostitutes.

Ava and Boyd are multi-layerd characters. Ava especially tends to be awesome a lot, though Boyd is not slouch at that. But their darks sides are real and not going away. (BTW Raylan has his own dark side. We have seen him deliberately maneuver things at least twice to legally kill someone he believes deserves killing (and of course we agree with him). In the first episode of the first season, and when he killed Dickie. That is murder too. In this fictional world Raylan only murders people who deserve it, but in the real world murdering cops are seldom as perfect judges of "needs killin" as Raylan is.

I'm pretty sure that is one of the strengths of the show - how the good guys and the bad guys kind of blend into one another. Even Raylan's semi-by-the-book boss was willing to torture a suspect and threaten (again not bluffing) to kill that suspect while he was tied up - to save someone's life and get revenge for his friend. All the simple codes don't work. Raylan fails his own test if he ever looked at it too closely, and Boyd's quest for a simple set of rules lead him into huge trouble. I'm pretty sure that in the end, "getting paid and blowing shit up" won't be enough for him either.


-t - Apr 29, 2012 8:45:28 pm PDT #9459 of 11998
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, I really dug tonight's Mad Men. Peggy and Megan, and Joan and Peggy especially. And that sad tableau at the table, everyone disillusioned with their prizes.


Polter-Cow - Apr 29, 2012 8:56:32 pm PDT #9460 of 11998
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Inspired by that great last scene: Who Watches the Mad Men?

It's a dirty city, but only Sally Draper and Rorshach can see it.


-t - Apr 29, 2012 9:03:44 pm PDT #9461 of 11998
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nice. I can see Sally growing up to be a masked vigilante. That seems like a viable option for her.