Recruiting Forum Football Talk LVIII

Status
Not open for further replies.
#4,326
#4,326
nicksjuzunk said:
Never watched an episode of GOT. Storyline is intriguing to me, but I hear folk run around nekked. My wife generally prefers I don’t watch folk run around nekked
Click to expand...

I will add that though that the GoT showrunners invented Sexposition. If you just skip it, you will miss a lot of story exposition, most if which is very important to the story. I just avert my eyes to keep my conscience clear. I get why they do it, I mean they have to make money, I just wish it wasn't as gratuitous as it is.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#4,328
#4,328
triadvolfan said:
The one where Ray and Deborah are fighting over who has to take the suitcase up the stairs is one of my favorite sitcom episodes of all time. Such a simple concept for an episode and I was rolling on the floor.
Click to expand...

That show is hysterical. Frank and Robert are so funny
 
#4,329
#4,329
Ulysees E. McGill said:
Please tell me that you didnt just say The Office isn't funny. I literally laughed till I hurt my ribs the other night watching the one where they did the 5k race the other night..and I've seen it before...a lot..
Click to expand...

I wish I could get into the office. I laugh at all the clips but when I sit down to watch an episode I get second-hand awkwardness and am physically uncomfortable.
 
#4,332
#4,332
WinginFlorida said:
Reach back a ways...the Carol Burnett show with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway was good. If my memory is working today, it was followed on Saturday nights by the Bob Newhart Show.

Both were hilarious.
Click to expand...

Hmm, well I’m 24 but I love classic/older shows. I’ll have to give these a shot
 
#4,333
#4,333
Ulysees E. McGill said:
Parks and Rec is top 5 for me. I think The Office hit that note pretty well after a couple of seasons. Seinfeld type shows are funny, but I dont think they are all that realistic either, at least not to me, but I don't hang around with a bunch of self centered douchebags..then again in the big cities you are surrounded by them.
Click to expand...
I think The Office and Parks and Rec (really most shows that Michael Schur is involved with) do a great job at finding a middle ground between the nihilism of modern society and the deep, meaningful relationships most people are able to form throughout their lives.




But before shows like Seinfeld, Curb, Always Sunny, maybe even Arrested Development tona certain extent, most TV sitcoms weren’t willing to hold any kind of mirror up to audiences and say “y’know, most people are kind of selfish a**holes at least occasionally (once a week or so).”


Until Seinfeld (though in second thought...Married With Children beat them to the punch) most sitcoms were overly formulaic and tended to follow the “someone does something bad, everybody learns a heartwarming lesson” format. Seinfeld shook that up.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#4,334
#4,334
BJHSVol said:
I wish I could get into the office. I laugh at all the clips but when I sit down to watch an episode I get second-hand awkwardness and am physically uncomfortable.
Click to expand...

Haha...well put. The Office is great but you're right...I get uncomfortable and even embarrassed for Michael Scott.

I'm laughing as I write this...
 
#4,336
#4,336
Darth_Shiveman said:
I think The Office and Parks and Rec (really most shows that Michael Schur is involved with) do a great job at finding a middle ground between the nihilism of modern society and the deep, meaningful relationships most people are able to form throughout their lives.




But before shows like Seinfeld, Curb, Always Sunny, maybe even Arrested Development tona certain extent, most TV sitcoms weren’t willing to hold any kind of mirror up to audiences and say “y’know, most people are kind of selfish a**holes occasionally at least occasionally (once a week or so).”


Until Seinfeld (though in second thought...Married With Children beat them to the punch) most sitcoms were overly formulaic and tended to follow the “someone does something bad, everybody learns a heartwarming lesson” format. Seinfeld shook that up.
Click to expand...

I’m glad someone mentioned Arrested Development. Good god what a joy that was to watch the first time. I wish Ron Howard narrated my life.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#4,337
#4,337
BJHSVol said:
Sandersons world building is top notch. That's what really makes him different than most writers
Click to expand...

I’ll have to check him out. One hung I love about KKC is how logical and well defined the system of magic tends to be in it. I’ve heard Sanderson does an equal or better job of laying out those types of
Rules.
 
#4,338
#4,338
BJHSVol said:
I wish I could get into the office. I laugh at all the clips but when I sit down to watch an episode I get second-hand awkwardness and am physically uncomfortable.
Click to expand...

I did too at first..if you just push through it gets better. That discomfort is where it draws most of it's early energy from. Once you get to know the characters it gets better.
 
#4,342
#4,342
Darth_Shiveman said:
Well the thing KKC has going for it is that it’s a trilogy, the plan has always been for a trilogy, already has two books planned (though possibly another trilogy later on) and that Rothfuss is just in his mid 40s.

ASOIAF, though...was originally planned as a trilogy, has grown into a plan for 7 books, has 2 books left to be published, and GRRM will be 70 this year.

IMO KKC is much more likely to be finished than ASOIAF.
Click to expand...

I know KKC was always meant to be a trilogy, but never thought there would be such a long gap between 2 and 3.

Are you sure about ASOIAF though; I remember reading a while back that GRRM said he always intended for there to be at least 7 books.

I am like you though; going to be tough for GRRM to finish 6 & 7 at his age. But if I remember correctly, Christopher Tolkien had to finish up the last of his father's work on TLOTR.

One of the great things about Stephen Brust's Jhereg series is that even though the characters remained the same, the books didn't follow the same plot line from book to book; there was a connection from book to book, to be sure, but they had new stories introduced each book and usually concluded each new story at the end of each book, so you weren't left hanging for the next book to see how it was resolved. He has written 15 or so books in that series since the early '80s.
 
#4,344
#4,344
roosterjbh said:
Hmm, well I’m 24 but I love classic/older shows. I’ll have to give these a shot
Click to expand...

Give it a shot. The Carol Burnett Show was filmed live and there were countless times when they couldn't even get the lines out because they were laughing themselves.

Newhart had a number of sitcom hits and they were all funny for the most part. The show where he was a psychiatrist was his best. Watch it and let me know what you think of Elliot Carlin.
 
#4,346
#4,346
WinginFlorida said:
Give it a shot. The Carol Burnett Show was filmed live and there were countless times when they couldn't even get the lines out because they were laughing themselves.

Newhart had a number of sitcom hits and they were all funny for the most part. The show where he was a psychiatrist was his best. Watch it and let me know what you think of Elliot Carlin.
Click to expand...

Yep, and Suzanne Plescett played his wife.

But I did like the sitcom where he had the New England b&b, and Tom Posten was his handyman, and the 3 idiot brothers, Larry and his other 2 brothers, Daryl and Daryl.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#4,348
#4,348
Darth_Shiveman said:
I think The Office and Parks and Rec (really most shows that Michael Schur is involved with) do a great job at finding a middle ground between the nihilism of modern society and the deep, meaningful relationships most people are able to form throughout their lives.




But before shows like Seinfeld, Curb, Always Sunny, maybe even Arrested Development tona certain extent, most TV sitcoms weren’t willing to hold any kind of mirror up to audiences and say “y’know, most people are kind of selfish a**holes at least occasionally (once a week or so).”


Until Seinfeld (though in second thought...Married With Children beat them to the punch) most sitcoms were overly formulaic and tended to follow the “someone does something bad, everybody learns a heartwarming lesson” format. Seinfeld shook that up.
Click to expand...

Man I forgot about MWC. Great show! I feel like Al Bundy a lot.....
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
New posts
Status
Not open for further replies.

VN Store



Back
Top