Scary for you, cool for me, I'd say, Ple.
Am-Chau, yes, although for obvious reasons I prefer the phrase "there's nowt so queer as folk".
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Angus G - Jun 15, 2003 10:44:29 pm PDT #5088 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Leigh - Jun 15, 2003 11:30:50 pm PDT #5089 of 9843
Nobody
and West Wing, another show I can't stand.
It's makes me sad that the overall tone of the show is so idealistic and fantastical that my ability to suspend disbelief is completely shattered most of the time. Because there's a lot of intelligent humour and I like Aaron Sorkin's way of writing dialogue (apart from his thing with women, I don't know what's up with that), but actually watching an episode is rather gag-inducing esp. in the later seasons.
Kassto - Jun 15, 2003 11:35:35 pm PDT #5090 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
Now, West Wing -- that started off so well. Never forget that opening episode where El Presidente didn't appear till right at the end, and he entered quoting the Bible while his staffers (Jewish) and the Christian Fundies (Anti-Semites) were having a huge stoush. Was all down hill from there. Can't think why Joss regards it so highly.
Leigh - Jun 15, 2003 11:49:09 pm PDT #5091 of 9843
Nobody
Was all down hill from there. Can't think why Joss regards it so highly.
Well, to be fair, it's crap in a good way, unlike the crap which is simply crap. The production values, the writing--it's not like they're not trying, but I think an heart-warming political drama is possibly the most incongruous-with-reality premise which anyone has ever come up with.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2003 4:24:06 am PDT #5092 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A co-worker of mine can't work out why I watch fantasy -- i.e. Buffy, but he swears by West Wing.
I can't make him understand the irony.
Madrigal Costello - Jun 16, 2003 4:45:04 am PDT #5093 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
I'm a fellow disliker of SFU and "American Beauty." They're like watching presentations by classmates who tried really really hard, but never quite figured out that Simón Bolivar and Simone de Beauvoir were completely different people. Of course, I'm a "Vets in Practice" addict, which is probably seen as some sort of Baywatch with puppies in the UK.
Angus G - Jun 16, 2003 5:24:45 am PDT #5094 of 9843
Roguish Laird
The English have their own naff vet shows, don't worry about that.
Madrigal Costello - Jun 16, 2003 5:28:16 am PDT #5095 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
Um, it is a British show. That, or somehow Michigan annexed Leeds after I stopped taking geography. It was more of a how anything from the UK is seen as automatically better, even if it isn't considered much back home.
Angus G - Jun 16, 2003 5:31:34 am PDT #5096 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Oh, right, I getcha.
Tom Scola - Jun 16, 2003 5:35:41 am PDT #5097 of 9843
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I could never get into SFU, mostly because I seriously hated a couple of the characters, and was indifferent to the rest of them. They're all rather passive; stuff keeps happening to the characters, rather than the characters causing stuff to happen. I figured out pretty early on that the reason the characters exist is so that the writers can torture them.