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tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sat February 05, 2022 5:55 pm

Lol nice one Mickey

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42202

Great job, Mick.

Mickey · **Posted:** Sat February 05, 2022 6:19 pm

epilogue wrote:

satire is probably the wrong word. parody.

Somewhere between parody and pastiche. It's parodic when the voiceover says something like "if you do nothing, then you risk nothing, which is risking everything." It's pastiche when the subsequent scene is played straight. Satire, for me, requires an objective, something more salient than an awareness of the vacuousness of a set of formal tropes. This is less Mel Brooks and more Scary Movie. Look, women do be spilling wine on TV shows, they do be staring at their neighbors and forming sinister conclusions. For me this isn't compelling enough to sacrifice four hours of my life.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Sat February 05, 2022 6:25 pm

Mickey be trying to double dip on his “be spilling wine” joke after it caught a little heat.

Mickey · **Posted:** Sat February 05, 2022 6:32 pm

It really do be like that sometimes.

epilogue · **Posted:** Sat February 05, 2022 7:43 pm

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

satire is probably the wrong word. parody.

Somewhere between parody and pastiche. It's parodic when the voiceover says something like "if you do nothing, then you risk nothing, which is risking everything." It's pastiche when the subsequent scene is played straight. Satire, for me, requires an objective, something more salient than an awareness of the vacuousness of a set of formal tropes. This is less Mel Brooks and more Scary Movie. Look, women do be spilling wine on TV shows, they do be staring at their neighbors and forming sinister conclusions. For me this isn't compelling enough to sacrifice four hours of my life.

Keep going, I'm almost there

epilogue · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 3:11 am

Welp, I really liked it. Watched the whole goddamn thing in one sitting. Kristen Bell for President!

Bammer · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 3:14 am

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey be trying to double dip on his “be spilling wine” joke after it caught a little heat.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 3:28 am

epilogue wrote:

Welp, I really liked it. Watched the whole goddamn thing in one sitting. Kristen Bell for President!

glad for you!

Anders · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 4:03 pm

Wisting

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 5:04 pm

Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 5:56 pm

BurtReynolds wrote:

Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

same

JuanHamm · **Joined:** Wed May 30, 2018 6:10 pm **Posts:** 6950

BurtReynolds wrote:

Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

This is how I feel about The Expanse. I watched an episode and it was pure garbage.

epilogue · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 6:07 pm

JuanHamm wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

Tried watching Battlestar Galactica a couple of times and I find it unwatchable garbage. I don't get the hype.

This is how I feel about The Expanse. I watched an episode and it was pure garbage.

Totally disagree about BSG. It's fantastic.

Totally agree with The Expanse. Couldn't do it.

Anders · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 6:09 pm

Both are good.

epilogue · **Posted:** Tue February 08, 2022 6:10 pm

I'm committed to giving The Expanse another shot. I only watched the first episode and a lot of shows have terrible first episodes and end up being amazing. I'll give it another shot one of these days. Probably after The Foundation.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed February 09, 2022 1:17 am

Short-lived 80s sitcom starring Geena Davis. Stickman will be pleased to know Bill Maher is also in this.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed February 09, 2022 1:39 am

I think I just discovered a way to finally cancel Bill Maher. His character is a monster by today's standards.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed February 09, 2022 2:16 am

One of the worst 80s/90s tv tropes is the nagging mother of the main characters. Just death.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed February 09, 2022 3:25 am

There are a lot of dead parents in 80s sitcoms.

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