Planned Summer Intake Thread

[Lumenskir]

Lumie you are going to have to come to terms with the fact that we are the universes badasses. We always win!
Alien invasion- humans win!
Robot apocalypse- humans win!
Zombie uprising- humans win!
Sun about to die- humans win!
Erasure of the entire universe except for one planet- humans win!
Aliens ain't got shit.

I'm perfectly fine with humans throwing a big "Come at me Bro!" at whatever challenges them, but only if it's "Humans v. X." When there is ostensibly a much more trained and experienced force fighting X, except they turn into complete pussies in order to let the new guy win the day...I mean, I have History HD on demand, if I want to watch a WWII documentary and get that plotline I don't even have to leave my seat.

Ideally, the perfect GL origin story is him getting the ring, training by himself, having to defeat some world-conqueror by himself, and then the after credits stinger is a bunch of alien GLs coming to earth to tell him that what he just dealt with was their equivalent of a cat in a tree.

AmIdoinitright?

You are just too precious.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Bbut like 100 years of alien training is like a year of human training, or 1 week of human training montage. We defeated the dinosaur! Fuck yeah!

[Amake]

Gee thanks dude but I'm just trying to pick up some cues on proper television discipline here.

[Lumenskir]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

We defeated the dinosaur! Fuck yeah!

No, it was MEEE!!

Wait, in the comics, can GLs make the green energy equivalents of Lucy Liu-bots? Because then this plotline would totally make sense if every GL has like a week's worth of do-gooding in them before they discover that sexy function and become worthless.

[BloodyMage]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

I am having the exact opposite reaction, but mostly because the original trailers promised a straightforward origin story with some Blake Lively eye candy, and these newer trailers are suggesting the most annoying origin story* with Blake Lively's visual presence being increasingly diminished. I am however hoping to be surprised, especially since GL is my third favorite Justice Leaguer.

Blake Lively is eye candy?

[Magus]

You guys have written a ton of stuff about TV past and present so I'll just throw a few thoughts out there:

1. If you at all liked Cowboy Bebop then yes you should watch Black Lagoon immediately because it is wondrous. I would actually say that I like it more than Cowboy Bebop but I think you are cursed if you do that...

2. If you like anime at all might as well throw Baccano! out there one more time, why not?

3. People didn't watch Breaking Bad to see a meth dealer's family fall apart (in a "dramatic realism" way, anyway), they watched it to see a fish out of water attempt to deal with psychotic, screwed-up gangsters and hilariously bad attempts at getting rid of bodies, or just "out there" storylines that are entertaining as hell. Breaking Bad is actually quite surreal and unrealistic. Pulpish, I guess you would say. It actually reminds me of Pulp Fiction in a lot of ways, or a Tarantino-esque type of plot, where they are attempting to capture that pulpy noir feeling. Hell it reminds me of the old Mike Hammer show sometimes (no not the '80s one, the '50s one), but it reminds me more of Tarantino, if I had to find something to compare it to for someone who hasn't watched it. It has dramatic moments but within a quite fantastical universe, really. That's why it's so unique and momentous.

That's how I feel about it anyway.

4. I've only watched the first two seasons of The Wire but I do have to say it is actually as amazing as everybody says, I don't think it's been overhyped. I have no complaints.

5. Deadwood was pretty boring, yeah. I watched a good portion of the reruns on that Direct TV 101 network or whatever...it was interesting but not really gripping. I think the creators thought they were doing something unique by having a bunch of flea-bitten gunslingers swear for an hour when in fact there were plenty of movies that had already done that. Yes, it is the first hour-long Western premium television drama to do it. That's about it...

6. GAME OF THRONES...GAME OF THRONES!!!

7. Camelot is okay.

8. Fringe was really cool.

8. When is the next season of Spartacus coming on???

[BloodyMage]

Originally Posted by Viridis

I suggest giving Better Off Ted a go. Funny dialog, fun characters. Has an oddly Arrested Development feel at times.

I second Better Off Ted; it's really kinda wacky but it's pretty funny too.

Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid

I actually really like HIMYM. The characters feel like actual people compared to a lot of other shows. It still doesn't hold a candle to Community or Park and Rec. but it's good stuff. If any of you decide Smallville is your thing you could get a head-start on watching the whole series this summer before Season 10 hits DVD.

The cast of HIMYM doesn't feel anything like real people. Ted is horribly inappropriate in a story he's telling to his children, Barney was wacky and cool until they started trying to explain why he was wacky and cool and gave him as much father issues as the girls he bones. The will they wont they with between Robin and Ted has been once of the stupidest plots since we learned in the very first episode that she wasn't the mother. Lily and Marshall are actually perhaps the only tolerable ones now and even Lily has moments of just sheer stupidity. Over time the show wore me down until I eventually just dropped it, most of all because after all this time we still are not closer to knowing who the mother is, and we haven't had a solid clue in about two seasons. I can understand if you like it, I use to find it funny, but nothing in that show is close to being like real people's lives.

Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid

And Game of Thrones is alright. Not as good as the likes of Deadwood or Dexter but it's okay so far. True Blood should be starting up soon so I'm down for that as long as the vampires stop floating around and all that fairy bullshit get taken care of quick. And no, I'm not making any derogatory remarks about gay people (Lafayette is totally my favorite character on that show). There are actual fairies. Yeah.

Yes but their fairies are different. My girlfriend watches it, and enjoys it immensely. She's looking forward to the next season soon, partly because it focuses on Eric and Sookie and she likes those characters. As for the other shows mentioned, I'm really liking Game of Thrones, but I found Dexter difficult to get into. I watched the first episode, but I just found that I really didn't care enough to continue.

You know what I'm raging about having to wait until 2012 to watch? Mad Men

[Fifthfiend]

You know which show owns that I watched through just recently was Sons of Anarchy. If you have Netflix or anything look up the first two seasons, it's pretty much all gold. In fact what's really a shame is that Netflix doesn't have the third season because that one's even better than the previous ones, I've never been so happy to see a federal law enforcement agent executed by a criminal mob .

[Lumenskir]

Blake Lively is eye candy?

I guess I have a cute girls with great bodies fetish?

Deadwood was pretty boring, yeah... having a bunch of flea-bitten gunslingers swear for an hour

I believe the proper term is meandering, but yeah, Deadwood is all about a chaotic assortment of people forming a community from nothing, and that basic structure plus Milch's tendency to follow every branching path he can can make the sprawl a little unwieldy looking. Still, the guy can pull the threads tight when he wants (Boy The Earth Talks To climactic biking scene comes to mind).

Also, I know the swearing can seem overbearing, but it is mostly there because it helps to make the arch-Shakespearean cadence of the dialog flow better. The guy can write some pretty damn impressive monologues, and the best one-off insults in all of TV (The "Be brief"/"Be fucked" exchange and "Any who disagree with me sucks cock by choice" being two of my favorites).

The will they wont they with between Robin and Ted

The one they ended after the first season, with a minor (one episode B-plot) revisit in the fourth?

You know what I'm raging about having to wait until 2012 to watch? Mad Men

I'm really hoping the rumor that the delay was on purpose so that Sally's actress could age into where she needs to be for a major storyline is true.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by BloodyMage

we still are not closer to knowing who the mother is, and we haven't had a solid clue in about two seasons.

The twist is Lily's the mother and the kids are retarded.

"So how'd you meet Mom?" "Well, she was born. That's how it happened."