Topic: The Unoffical TV Show Mega Thread

@jump
I looked into the comics a bit a more and it's much more expansive than I expected.
For some reason I was under the impression The Sandman was a limited run like Watchmen. It'd be far too expensive for me right now to get the comics physically. Maybe in a couple of years.

Unpopular opinion, or maybe not so unpopular depending on whom you ask: I don't think people should be shamed for not watching a TV show or even playing a game. I mean, I get that it sucks for people to miss out on things you like, but if I say I'll skip a show, maybe for personal reasons, then what's the big deal? If marketing failed to attract a person like me to watch their show, then maybe the fault lies with them.

People keep white-knighting these companies, calling out the people who criticize the show rather than the companies trying to get people to pay for the show in the first place. FYI: shows aren't completely free anymore like in the old days. I don't know how TV in America works. Maybe good shows would appear on TV for free for certain states in America, and you might feel privileged to watch the show on a network that's broadcasting in your state. So it's understandable if you call out someone for harshly criticizing a show when they got it for free. But nowadays, it's all about streaming services, meaning you definitely still have to pay money to watch a show, so I think it's fair to hold companies to a higher standard now.

And besides, I think the problem has more to do with saturation. With thousands of shows coming out every year, it's inevitable that we skip one or ten shows based on the word-of-mouth alone. Maybe we took things out of context, maybe we missed out on great shows because of a few clips, but so freaking what? It's a TV show, not donation for cancer patients. Chill out. If you like a show, that's your business. People need to stop calling out others, especially on Twitter, over "sleeping on a show" and "judging a show from its trailer." Blame the trailer editors, not us.

I've just watched the suprise! extra episode of The Sandman and it's immensive. I can see why the cat episode was kept as a surprise since too many people would take it a typical of The Sandman rather than as an one shot but Calliope was very much a key part of the story with how it links into the future so I'm not sure why it was not used as a main episode. Unless it's to serve as a teaser into what is to come in the next season?

@jump
Even though I loved the first six episodes more than the last five, I adored The Dream of a Thousand Cats segment. That was a really nice surprise.

@jump Oh, yeah, I just watched The Sandman for the first time over the weekend, and finished the season. I actually skipped that animated cat part and only watched Calliope. I liked the show. It's fine. I see some touches of Doctor Who, but I'm ok with that.

Should I go back and watch the animated cats part?

@WoomyNNYes The cat episode is like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, it's a standalone story that's building to an ooh twist/I never thought of it like that moment. It's makes no difference to the overall story of the show so you don't need to watch it but you may enjoy it for what it is.

@Rambler Delirium was always one of my favourites from the funny books, as she's a nutty character her speech balloons were multi-coloured. Destruction was based on Brian Blessed so I really hope they cast him in it!

You'd probably like The Sandman, it's odd (although not as off as Twin Peaks) and trippy.

Fudge! Finally the fabled Community movie looks like it could be happening. Community whilst it had a lot of ups and downs, when it was working it was probably the comedy show on tv, even better than Mrs Brown’s Boys!

https://www.newsweek.com/dan-harmon-community-movie-update-ex...

I watched the first season of Midnight Diner on Netflix over the weekend.

It centers around a small old school Japanese diner in the back alley of Shinjuku that's only open from midnight to 6 a.m., and although it runs a sparse menu, the proprietor will make anything a customer asks for assuming he has all the ingredients.

Each episode centers around a different person stopping by the diner & ordering a specific dish that's meaningful to them in some way, and over the course of the episode you'll follow their story which can either be happy & uplifting or sad, and some even brought me to tears. It's really good stuff.

Blackadder

Pfft, it’s just too sophisticated for the likes of you and don’t get the intelligently crafted nuances of a man wearing a dress whilst shouting a lot!!!

I'm on season 5 of The Office (US) and it's pretty good...... I'm not going to debate about which The Office is better... it's Stromberg

is Ms. Brown like Ms. Doutfire but British and annoying, I just watched a clip and I'm confused. Ms. Brown is even in a Tyler Perry movie...

@Kermit1 It's not like Ms Doubtfire as Mrs Brown is meant to be an actual woman but the actor is a man unlike Ms Doubtfire which is about a man pretending to be a woman.

Mrs Brown Boys is just garbage telly I like to make fun of because it's garbage.

I don't know how it didn't occur to me until now that the infamous twist from the season 9 Simpsons episode, "The Principal and the Pauper", was eerily similar to the one from Mad Men, involving Don Draper. lol This feels like one of the more interesting and iconic "The Simpsons did it first!" examples out there. But hey, at least Mad Men turned a badly done twist into a good one.

Speaking of which, I really need to get back to watching Mad Men again someday. I stopped at season 2 to go play SMT. lol

I've been slowly working my way through watching classic Simpsons with commentary (seasons 4-10-ish). It's been fascinating & kind of amazing to hear the writers talk about the origin of the stories and jokes. That writer/show-runner David Mirkin is so great<333 Oh, my god, listening to him. The way he talks oozes Simpsons in it's prime.

Found a reddit page via google with the mp3s of each episode's commentary. I just hit play on my tablet for the audio commentary the same time I hit play on the mp4 Simpons episode on tv, and the commentary syncs up fine. It's taken me 5 months or so to slowly work my way through the 177 commentaries I downloaded. I've only got a few commetaries left I havent' watched/listened to.

The Warner Bros Discovery HBO MAX situation keeps getting worse and worse.

Tons of family programming is being axed by Zaslav, including the upcoming Batman: Caped Crusader animated show. Even shows that were already available on the service aren't safe, like 200 episodes of Sesame Street. All because they don't want to pay residuals.

Lots of people in the industry are furious about it. Who wants to work for this company anymore, knowing they might axe it whenever they like? I know I wouldn't.

Dammit, someone just spoiled the ending to Investigating Diana: Death In Paris to me! It was the Queen with the Secret Service in Bucking Palace.

@jump
Oh no! I hope nobody spoiled Titanic for you.

@Rambler Well she couldn't do it in Buckingham Palace, too many servants with loose lips about and it's a lot effort to replace butlers and maids after murdering them to keep silent so she used the secret second palace, Bucking Palace.

Also autocorrect fidgeting ducks.