I wanted to love Futurama. I've been a fan of MG since before The Simpsons.
It left me colder than Blair leaves you. Julia Roberts cold.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
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P.M. Marc - Jul 14, 2008 2:33:25 pm PDT #7017 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
JZ - Jul 14, 2008 2:34:34 pm PDT #7018 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
But then, I also think Futurama is one of the most appallingly boring things ever to air for more than five minutes, so different strokes and all.
Good God, woman! The Kissinger slash and black licorice love and delectation of Chip Ahoys dunked in cheese dip were clearly just scratching the surface of your profound perversity.
eta: Seriously? Even "Leela's Home World?" I don't think I have cried so hard at any animated thing ever as I did at that. Lilo & Stitch doesn't even come close.
DavidS - Jul 14, 2008 2:36:09 pm PDT #7019 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Kissinger slash and black licorice love and delectation of Chip Ahoys dunked in cheese dip were clearly just scratching the surface of your profound perversity.
This is where Ple's charm lies. She has a very charismatic Wrongness.
Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2008 2:40:32 pm PDT #7020 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Didn't this end up being a Xena ep? It was weird.
It was a failed pilot that got reedited into a Xena episode. If it had gotten picked up, we'd all be talking about what a kick-ass action hero Selma Blair is right now.
P.M. Marc - Jul 14, 2008 2:41:29 pm PDT #7021 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
eta: Seriously? Even "Leela's Home World?" I don't think I have cried so hard at any animated thing ever as I did at that. Lilo & Stitch doesn't even come close.
Seriously.
The list of things I dislike that people I respect think are fantastic is long. Futurama, Freaks and Geeks, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2008 2:51:03 pm PDT #7022 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
One never has to apologize for hating a Jim Carrey movie.
DavidS - Jul 14, 2008 2:52:51 pm PDT #7023 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
One never has to apologize for hating a Jim Carrey movie.
Freaks and Geeks, however...
juliana - Jul 14, 2008 3:07:25 pm PDT #7024 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Freaks and Geeks, however...
Ehhhh, what little I've seen leaves me cold. To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of My So-Called Life, either.
waits for JZ to disown her
Jessica - Jul 14, 2008 3:08:00 pm PDT #7025 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Family Guy bored me to death before I could watch enough to hate it. Selma Blair leaves me cold, as does that other chick she reminds me of that everyone here seems to love. Invisible Girl, also on Heroes. Starts with a C? (So bland I can't even remember her name!)
Freaks and Geeks was fine, not great. Had an offputting smugness that reminded me of My So-Called Life. [HA - FG/MSCL xpost!]
Love Futurama and Eternal Sunshine.
JZ - Jul 14, 2008 3:17:52 pm PDT #7026 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of My So-Called Life, either.
I wasn't when I first started watching, either; I wanted to love it, because a writer I loved at Sassy had fallen in love with it, but I saw the first two episodes and was merely, "Ah, kind of nice." Then I went away, came back around "The Zit," and fell hard.
Re-watching from the vantage point of 40 and child-having? I still fell hard, but in a completely different way. All the places where I'd thought the mom was shrill...well, she was still shrill, but I recognized all the shrillness, and the raw terror for her kids, and how brave Bess Armstrong was in her terrified unlikeability.
And, holy fuck, but its documenting of the slow catastrophic collapse from within of an apparently solid marriage was devastating.
It's one of those things that rewards rewatching at different points in life. For all values of "rewards" that equal "makes you feel like your nerves are being scraped raw with a razor, but in a good way." You know, like that.
If you give it a try a few years from now and still don't like it much? You're TOTALLY disowned. Or, pfft, as if. I'm a freak whose favorite novels are things like Moby Dick, Lolita and The Man Who Was Thursday, which love has completely inured me to lots of people passionately disliking some of my best beloveds.