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Post by luke on Jan 9, 2006 12:39:34 GMT -5
Yeah, but it's not an "urban legend" when nobody has ever heard of it but a few thousand office workers. Urban legends have to be passed down a bit before they have any credibility. And without that credibility, you're not "busting" anything, but merely appealing to common sense.
I see reruns from the first couple seasons and I'm like, "Wow! That was amazing." Sometimes, they'd even prove the myths were true/could really happen. Now, I see it and go, "What the fuck are they talking about? Lose that goddamn mustache and stupid hat already."
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Post by tuneschick on Jan 9, 2006 12:43:57 GMT -5
I love that show too. Tomorrow night they're testing the theory on saving yourself in a falling elevator by jumping right before you hit the bottom (AND they're attempting to build a homemade levitation machine. Awesome.)
I'm basically a total Discovery Channel nerd, especially shit on the ocean. Sharks, icebergs, whales, shipwrecks, the Bermuda Triangle... you name it.
And, er, I kinda love Monster Garage.
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Luke, I had the MSCL box on my Christmas list but my mom couldn't find it... it's been selling out of stores like crazy here. What a fantastic show that was.
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Post by phil on Jan 9, 2006 12:49:41 GMT -5
"Mythbusters" is Eldest Son's favorite show !!
Buster is his hero and he loves when they blow up shit !!
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Post by Galactus on Jan 9, 2006 13:20:26 GMT -5
Mythbusters should rename itself "Forwarded Spam Busters." Don't think they've tackled an actual myth or urban legend in seasons. This is probably true, it's still a really good show. |
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Post by Galactus on Jan 9, 2006 13:23:01 GMT -5
Have you seen the one when they blow up the cement truck? Holy fuck, there was nothing left.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jan 9, 2006 13:46:50 GMT -5
I finally just finished the fourth season of Six Feet Under (my favorite show ever to be on Television) and I can't wait for the fifth to come out. Please, no spoilers if you already know the end of the story, for I have an absense of cable and I have to rent the episodes when they come out on DVD.
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Post by RocDoc on Jan 9, 2006 19:56:19 GMT -5
I swear to god I JUST watched the last two episodes to 6 Feet Under last night...and in spite of seeing some of Mary B's points regarding 'outrageous' storylines as the seasons have gone on, I still think it's a very imaginative and affecting show.
Just think, a family of misfit funeral directos dealing with death on a daily basis...it is going to get 'outrageous' by definition, for the fact that we sure as hell (most of us anyway) don't know what's a 'normal' way of dealing with a guy who gets snapped in half by an elevator...
The Chenoweths are a perfect match for the word 'fucked up'..
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jan 9, 2006 21:01:07 GMT -5
I find that the fourth season was pretty ridiculous in several instances, but the first three seasons I thought were very realistic. My father used to be a funeral director and I can tell you that the show has been heralded in many regards to the authenticity of the funeral buisness side of things. My dad watches the show and he said they got much of the techinical stuff right.
The guy getting snapped in half in the elevater was one of the best deaths the show has done. That was just gruesome!
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Post by Mary on Jan 10, 2006 2:08:45 GMT -5
The deaths themselves are often great.... I just can't deal with the increasingly preposterous storylines involving the main characters. It's like they run out of anything interesting to do with them, so they have to add some brand new dysfunction to make them interesting again. The show seems to operate on the presumption that human relationships are only interesting when they are TOTALLY dysfunctional - and while, of course, all relationships have their snags and dysfunctions, the show just carries it waaaaaaaaaaay out of control. Eventually, I just get tired of all the characters - like, oh look, here go nate and brenda, making the same fucking mistakes for the 27th time. And look, brenda's crazy fucking brother is.... well, crazy. Again.
I still haven't seen the 5th season (i also have to wait for shit on dvd) and despite all my complaints here I still fully intend to watch it as soon as it comes out. I do think there's a lot of really interesting stuff in the show, it's better than 95% of television, and it's often quite engrossing - I just think it's terribly overhyped, which causes me to get really grumpy and excessively critical as compensation! But when it's good, it's fucking good, no doubt. I recently saw the episode where Nate and Brenda are reunited at Brenda's father's funeral for the first time in a long time, and they have a conversation by the water that damn near killed me, it was so fucking sad and well-written.
So.... 3.5/5 stars for the show. Good, but not great. And definitely gets steadily worse as the seasons wear on.
Cheers,
M
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Post by Mary on Jan 10, 2006 2:10:58 GMT -5
Reminds me... (this is a spoiler if you haven't seen the 4th season, but otherwise, you're good...) of the one episode of the show that just went sooooo over the top that I sat there laughing the whole time even though it was supposed to be really intense and emotional: that absolutely RIDICULOUS episode where david is "kidnapped" by some mentally unstable nut whose motives are entirely unclear, forced to buy crack, forced at gunpoint to SMOKE crack (gee, i HATE it when that happens!) and then very nearly murdered.
i mean... c'mon... isn't enough happening to these characters that we don't need crack-smoking-at-gunpoint added to the script? that was just such a ridiculous contrivance....i nearly shit myself laughing.
Cheers,
M
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Post by Mary on Jan 10, 2006 2:12:52 GMT -5
oh - and one last thing, back to The Wire - Ken Holzman, if you don't watch this show, you need to start. As I recall, you're a fellow fan of Homicide - well, a ton of the people invovled with Homicide are also involved with The Wire, and the shows are similar in all the best ways. You'll love it.
OK, I promise I'm done here!
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Post by poseidon on Jan 10, 2006 10:24:07 GMT -5
Reminds me... (this is a spoiler if you haven't seen the 4th season, but otherwise, you're good...) of the one episode of the show that just went sooooo over the top that I sat there laughing the whole time even though it was supposed to be really intense and emotional: that absolutely RIDICULOUS episode where david is "kidnapped" by some mentally unstable nut whose motives are entirely unclear, forced to buy crack, forced at gunpoint to SMOKE crack (gee, i HATE it when that happens!) and then very nearly murdered. i mean... c'mon... isn't enough happening to these characters that we don't need crack-smoking-at-gunpoint added to the script? that was just such a ridiculous contrivance....i nearly shit myself laughing. Cheers, MI'm sure all the crack heads of America heartily agree with you Mary...  |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jan 10, 2006 12:51:47 GMT -5
Oh man, the Fourth season is by far the worst season of Six Feet Under. It has maybe 6 decent episodes out of a 12 episode season. The episode that Mary is referring to was the most ridiculous and boring of any Six Feet Under episode I have ever seen. The writing was terrible (which is rare on that show in my opinion) and completely fantastical. Talk about quite possibly one of the biggest upsets in a show's history, to the point where I wondered why I was even still watching the garbage. They could have put in that David was carjacked in about five minutes at the end of the episode, lose the forced crack intake, and then it would have been fine. It's Los Angelos, it can be a pretty dangerous city and it's a plausible thing to occur to people, just not to the extent that they did it in the show. The other thing that annoyed me is that they spent so much time on it and that in and of itself was pretty uncharacteristic of the show.
The character that annoys me the most is Claire. I used to love her, but I could care less with the art school/cliche typical Warholain vapidity that has claimed that little subplot. I'm hoping in the fifth season she dies of a coke overdose so I don't have to listen to her anymore.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 10, 2006 13:08:38 GMT -5
oh - and one last thing, back to The Wire - Ken Holzman, if you don't watch this show, you need to start. As I recall, you're a fellow fan of Homicide - well, a ton of the people invovled with Homicide are also involved with The Wire, and the shows are similar in all the best ways. You'll love it. OK, I promise I'm done here! I think I'm gonna have to make an exception to my "I don't rent TV shows" rule for The Wire. As you remember, M, Homicide is indeed one of my favorite television shows ever, and I've long known that The Wire had many of the same creative folks involved. I'm gonna have to check it out. |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jan 11, 2006 5:20:56 GMT -5
Skvor/Mary - waiting for the region 1 DVD ain't half as slow as waiting for this stuff to hit UK TV or region 2. The demise of Six Feet Under is illustrated simply by the channel 4 start times over here:
Series 1: 9pm
Series 2: 10pm
Series 3: 11:30pm
Series 4: 2.25am !!!
Not surprisingly I gave up on series 4.
We finally get the last twp episodes of Lost (season 1) tonight. That's the 'water cooler' topic of choice in the office right now, along with fuckin' Celebrity Big Brother.
I hate that shit, but there's two Americans in the house this year, evidently, just to prove how much we love you Americans - except for KristyC of course, who can get fucked by a rabid pack of Limey scumbags. Some black chick from Baywatch and some basketball player - Dennis someone or other - who dresses in women's clothes. Allegedly.
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