All TV All Day
Started by wedjat, Apr 13 2011 11:13 AM
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#39
Posted 13 May 2011 - 09:26 AM
Fox also cancelled Dark Angel - who doesn't want a solid hour of Jessica Alba in leather?!?
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#41
Posted 13 May 2011 - 07:29 PM
Been watching some Sopranos episodes again as I lay down to go to sleep. Watched the whole series before but forgot how brilliant those first few seasons were. I'd consider it one of the greatest series ever made based on the first two seasons alone.
Unfortunate his mother died in real life between seasons 2 and 3. Altered the course of the series completely as the dysfunctional relationship between Tony and his mother was one of the things that made the series so original. Would love to know how the series as a whole would have turned out had she not died..
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#42
Posted 14 May 2011 - 09:50 AM
The Sopranos is my favourite series of all time (besides Red Dwarf anyway, but I've got a rather irrational love for that).
I imagine they would've killed Tony's mother off at some point anyway, but it's an interesting question. There's a real lack of focus in series three and four, and I'm sure things would've been different with Nancy Marchand around.
Firefly was brilliant. Shame it got canned.
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#43
Posted 16 May 2011 - 01:25 AM
I doubt she would have lasted the entire series as well. Their dysfunctional relationship was brilliant and I loved how her and uncle June were like a tag team nemesis to Tony. They helped keep him in check so to speak and the series lost that with her death and Junior's role in the series changed once the show lost that element. I loved Junior but once his role in the series changed/was minimized he should have been killed off(or simply died during the cancer scare).
I imagine they would've killed Tony's mother off at some point anyway, but it's an interesting question. There's a real lack of focus in series three and four, and I'm sure things would've been different with Nancy Marchand around.
Lack of focus in three and four? Those seasons are pure gold compared to the final two seasons. While season six had a few really good episodes, it was a cluster fuck. Tony basically had a skeleton crew, the NJ crew did not seem to be as powerful as we were led to believe in the beginning, and it felt like they were just making it up as they went along. The all out war that occurred in season six should have happened in 3-4 between Tony-Johnny Sack- Carmine during that Espanade(however you spell it) ordeal.. Would have been stellar as most of the great characters were still alive at that point.
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#44
Posted 16 May 2011 - 12:04 PM
I started watching season 1 of Welcome Back Kotter last night.....just couldn't get into it. Although damn if that theme song isn't totally soothing, seriously. Just lay back & listen to the whole thing w/your eyes closed.
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#45
Posted 16 May 2011 - 05:14 PM
I have been watching the following shows of late:
Community - the recent 2-part paintball episode was great
Raising Hope - has its moments and kind of quirky
Big Bang Theory - still really good after a few years
Why do you read that kind of crap, Art? Seriously, I don't get it.
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