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.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Madrigal Costello - Jun 16, 2003 4:45:04 am PDT #5093 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
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.
billytea - Jun 16, 2003 5:35:50 am PDT #5098 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Suddenly America makes sense. You're Romans! (Romans with Greek architecture, granted.) The Romans had the same deal going on with Greece; all the best literature an' stuff had to come from Greece. All the best kids had to learn Greek and Greek literature, taught to them by Greek slaves of course. Which may not fit quite as well, unless there's a black market in Scouse and Geordie pedagogues that has hitherto escaped my attention. But you have the powerful military! And the obsession with family values! And the mad emperor trying to make his horse a senator, I tell you it all fits!
amych - Jun 16, 2003 5:37:55 am PDT #5099 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Which may not fit quite as well, unless there's a black market in Scouse and Geordie pedagogues that has hitherto escaped my attention.
Well, there was that plan to kidnap Fay. But she managed to find another ticket and make her escape, the clever girl.
Madrigal Costello - Jun 16, 2003 5:40:35 am PDT #5100 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
Oh, we are so Rome. We've even got our own Gladiators, and what is Reality TV and Jerry Springer if not slightly different versions of the fights for public spectacle. We even get lead poisoning the way they did. I didn't spend three years in Latin Club just to learn the language - it was all about survival.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 16, 2003 5:53:32 am PDT #5101 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I figured out pretty early on that the reason the characters exist is so that the writers can torture them.
Well sure, but this could be the Mutant Enemy mission statement.
They're all rather passive; stuff keeps happening to the characters, rather than the characters causing stuff to happen.
This part, not so much.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 16, 2003 5:54:49 am PDT #5102 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
It was more of a how anything from the UK is seen as automatically better, even if it isn't considered much back home.
Replace 'UK' with 'US' and you have a general idea of how many British critics view what we get. Not all of them, but there's a definate trend to say "of course, the Americans make better TV".