TV: Current and Recent

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Luke_X » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:26 am

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Darkweasel wrote:Was it just me or was the latest episode of The IT Crowd (Which I usually like) complete and utter rubbish?


I liked it.


ditto. wasnt as good as last weeks but it had a few good laughs in it.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Darkweasel » Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:55 am

Luke_X wrote:
Jobdone wrote:
Darkweasel wrote:Was it just me or was the latest episode of The IT Crowd (Which I usually like) complete and utter rubbish?


I liked it.


ditto. wasnt as good as last weeks but it had a few good laughs in it.

The only bit I laughed at was when the masseur kissed him on the arse. After that, the entire second half was a tenth rate attempt at Pythonesque wordplay (how many different silly descriptions for the same thing can we use?) but with only a fraction of the style.
And what the fuck was all that rubbish about Spacestar Ordering? I really like Matt Berry but he just came across sounding like a total twat.
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby isabiggles » Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:37 pm

Luke_X wrote:
Jobdone wrote:
Darkweasel wrote:Was it just me or was the latest episode of The IT Crowd (Which I usually like) complete and utter rubbish?


I liked it.


ditto. wasnt as good as last weeks but it had a few good laughs in it.


I thought it was pretty good but still probably the worst one yet. That's not saying much since I still really enjoyed it and I think the whole show's great but I didn't think it was that bad.
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby WorMzy » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:00 pm

I can't believe the previous episode was building up to that "Windows" line for the entire episode. :lol:
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Calibur » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:06 pm

Futurama now at Episode 4...and it's doing better than the films still, but I feel it's maybe being a bit too pop-cultureish at the moment. The iPhone episode just seemed so forced.

Although Bender and Amy's relationship was just hilarious.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby keera_envenomed » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:09 pm

Calibur wrote:Futurama now at Episode 4...and it's doing better than the films still, but I feel it's maybe being a bit too pop-cultureish at the moment. The iPhone episode just seemed so forced.

Although Bender and Amy's relationship was just hilarious.


The last episode contained a Star Trek joke and a rather amusing political parody that is now my avatar. As long as these nods to the nerds are still in there, i'm still good with Futurama.
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Calibur » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:22 pm

Hey, I'm still loving it. I'd just prefer more geekdom, less "lol, current events!"

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Luke_X » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:24 pm

keera_envenomed wrote:
Calibur wrote:Futurama now at Episode 4...and it's doing better than the films still, but I feel it's maybe being a bit too pop-cultureish at the moment. The iPhone episode just seemed so forced.

Although Bender and Amy's relationship was just hilarious.


The last episode contained a Star Trek joke and a rather amusing political parody that is now my avatar. As long as these nods to the nerds are still in there, i'm still good with Futurama.


i watched this episode this morning. a very good episode all round. they are getting better each time, although i fear they are tackling politics a little too much but i did love Roberto trying to stab Bender with a sock.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Jobdone » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:27 pm

Luke_X wrote:
i watched this episode this morning. a very good episode all round. they are getting better each time, although i fear they are tackling politics a little too much but i did love Roberto trying to stab Bender with a sock.


I loved the little visual gag that came out of that with the "I'm gonna have to make a shiv"
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby keera_envenomed » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:28 pm

Luke_X wrote:
keera_envenomed wrote:
Calibur wrote:Futurama now at Episode 4...and it's doing better than the films still, but I feel it's maybe being a bit too pop-cultureish at the moment. The iPhone episode just seemed so forced.

Although Bender and Amy's relationship was just hilarious.


The last episode contained a Star Trek joke and a rather amusing political parody that is now my avatar. As long as these nods to the nerds are still in there, i'm still good with Futurama.


i watched this episode this morning. a very good episode all round. they are getting better each time, although i fear they are tackling politics a little too much but i did love Roberto trying to stab Bender with a sock.


I think they need more politics! But i'm a huge politics nerd so I would say that :P
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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Calibur » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:36 pm

The shiv joke was pretty good.

My favourite has to be any bit involving Hedonism Bot though.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Calibur » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:39 pm

Oh, whoever wanted more science- one of the future episodes apparently centers around Group Theory.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Luke_X » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:41 pm

visual jokes have taken a huge step forward in this series. i think they are learning from their mistakes and taking a lot more time with detail. but then you could also say they are doing the same thing as Family Guy who focus a lot on visual and background character detail.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Luke_X » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:38 pm

some images from the new Walking Dead TV series (based on the comic book) have gone online. looks like they might do the books justice.

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Re: TV: Current and Recent

Postby Ensorcelled » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:39 pm

Is that Kevin Bacon?
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