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Post subject: Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat February 05, 2022 6:19 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
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.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: What are you currently watching on TV?
Posted: Sat February 05, 2022 6:32 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
It really do be like that sometimes.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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.
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.
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