You'll never see them again
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(Sorry LousyCornMuffins, I can't help it)
There was an episode of Stargate SG-1 where...remember the paranoid dude who turned out to be an alien? Well he ends up working in Hollywood, and produces a TV show called Wormhole X-Treme, which is a parody of Stargate SG-1. This character then tries to pitch other shows which are pastiches of Sci-Fi shows, to include a very brief send-up of Farscape, especially relevant since Season 9 and 10 take on Ben Browder and Claudia Black, John Crichton and Aeryn Soun on Farscape respectively.
So we get T'ealc in a Luxan chin and Chiana Carter.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]hey! i'm feeling mighty aggravated by this!
also, i always get that alien confused with the dan castellaneta episode in season 8. mostly because I'm so excited for that episode I can't wait for it to happen.
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Which one was filler?
The one where the whole thing is just Walter chasing a fly around the lab. I've even got a vague memory of Vince Gilligan admitting it was only there because they were an episode short of whatever they were contractually obliged to produce but had very little budget left.
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Which one was filler?
A lot of people dislike the "fly hunt" episode.
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Oh no, filler is a good thing. Filler gives you time to know the characters, and adds depth and color to the world. Filler is where writers actually get to stretch and try out ideas. Filler is what makes a show feel full.
Imagine the X-Files with no filler. We'd lose the Jose Chung episodes, "Home," "the Post-Modern Prometheus," and so many other great episodes. Without the filler, it's just an endless slog through Chris Carter's poorly planned mythology. Just the smoking man and vanishing babies for
elevennine seasons.wrote on last edited by [email protected]Filler can be good, it can also be bad, and perhaps most strangely it can be "bad" but also "fuck you I want to see Goku scream 'give me your energy' for four episodes before he releases the spirit bomb. Again."
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That explains why I'm so familiar with boomer shows and movies, despite being a millennial. There was a lot of old content and remakes on TV then.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Tbf back then I wasn't watching remakes or reboots (mostly, and I know they did make them, but..) I got familiar with those shows by watching the reruns themselves. And even as a kid who wasn't alive at those shows releases, they still held and in many cases still do hold their original magic. Ex: Golden Girls.
But I type that as my Caddyshack VHS rolls credits so maybe I'm the weirdo. Oh well, I'm alright, nobody worry 'bout me!
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I think your opinion is by far the more popular view right now. I completely disagree though. Almost every mini-series I see I'm left dumbstruck as I feel like any decent editor could have gotten the same story across just as well with a 2 or 2.5h movie instead. I feel like they are just wasting my time.
And then you end up with a 6 hour story chopped to shit and get a very disjointed movie that feels like you're watching what was left of the film stock after Bubba Sawyer had a turn in the editing room.
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it's not supposed to be good it's supposed to be fun
I… but bad acting isn’t fun!
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Twin Peaks started out good and stayed good. I didn't get around to watching it until the late 2000s. I had heard that it started to fall apart after the killer was revealed, but it just kept getting better.
It isn't for everybody, though, and it probably just got too weird for a mainstream audience.
Have you seen the third season? Came out in 2017. I think it's some of the best TV that's ever been made.
Especially episode 8. Just pure David Lynch surreal perfection, right in my veins.
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50 years ago: 6 episodes in a season and stop after 2 seasons because it's well written without a bunch of useless filler.
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I… but bad acting isn’t fun!
Comrades, make them watch the entire nonpornographic half of the Ed Wood Collection.
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Twin peaks?
Two seasons in the early 90s, then a third season in 2017 where David Lynch basically got a blank check to completely unleash his beautiful insanity. Definitely shows the differences between what was acceptable on broadcast TV back then, vs what's acceptable on cable/streaming in a much more modern era.
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And then you end up with a 6 hour story chopped to shit and get a very disjointed movie that feels like you're watching what was left of the film stock after Bubba Sawyer had a turn in the editing room.
No. Good movie editing has been happening since shortly after movies were a thing. Huge books have been made into really good movies. Streaming has opened up new outlet for mini-series like content and some of it really takes advantage of the format to deliver new kinds of story telling that can be worth the time investment. However, most of it is just about generating content with minimal editing and borrowing hook techniques that evolved from TV drama series in the 80s and 90s.
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Have you seen the third season? Came out in 2017. I think it's some of the best TV that's ever been made.
Especially episode 8. Just pure David Lynch surreal perfection, right in my veins.
Yes! I love it.
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Comrades, make them watch the entire nonpornographic half of the Ed Wood Collection.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm doing you a favor i'm sure the pornographic half is worse
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I hate when they release streaming shows one episode per week. I am not going to watch it until it’s done and I catch up on other shows. Stop trying to get me to watch weekly, it’s not going to happen. That’s just not how people watch tv anymore.
So a new show to me is new for a solid year before i can get to it sometimes. So many times a show gets cancelled before I can watch it and half the time I lose interest once I know it’s cancelled
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Is there a television show that doesn't have a gun in it?
Black Books
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There is a weird inverse relationship between how long audiences will wait to give a show a chance, and how long execs (specifically Netflix) will give the show.
I think there must be more to the Netflix example. Maybe they are monitoring other data points like web searches or show mentions on fora to quantify buzz and work out if the show has hit potential with target markets. Either that or they get some new opportunity for creative accounting with each show.
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Also TV now: This show/movie did well 40 years ago so we rebooted it with people who never saw it, a shitload of special effects, and totally missed why it was popular in the first place.
Wait… have you also been trying out the MacGyver reboot from 2015???
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Is there a television show that doesn't have a gun in it?
I had the exact same thought. Abandoning American productions is the best way, although it sometimes means reading subtitles. For example, many of these are free to watch:
Ireland https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/online-boxsets/
South Korea https://www.viki.com/categories/country/korea/genre/all
