Planned Summer Intake Thread

[Lumenskir]

So after surveying the offerings for the Summer 2011 TV schedule and finding it wanting (aside from Louie, Curb Your Enthusiasm, mehbye True Blood if they've taken their time off to get back to their batshit insane/nekkid roots) and wanting to do something before 2L starts sucking up my soul again I've decided to maximize my summertime fun by mapping out what I'll be wasting my time on!

The aforementioned Louie and Curb

Clone High - Criminally unremembered, seeing as its one of the greatest animated comedies ever. And has the best theme song ever. It's been like five years since I watched it straight through so the jokes'll probably be fresh again, except for the ones that I still use in conversation ("They flipped the bitch!")

Justified - Apparently this got amazing the second season. Anybody who has watched it straight through have any opinion on only watching the pilot before diving straight into the second season?

Cheers - Guys, the entire run is on Netflix and it's still awesome.

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The A.V. Club will be covering it for their TV Club Classic series, and that, plus the fact that it's on Netflix, and the fact that I haven't watched the first season in so long is like the perfect excuse to rewatch.

Maybe Cowboy Bebop - They're also covering this at the A.V. Club as well, but I've never been too impressed by the episodes I've seen. Might just slot TTGL or FLCL into this slot.

Random Criterion Movies - Imma be cultured like whoah

You Don't Know Jack - Me and my girlfriend played this nonstop ten years ago on the PC, and they made a Wii version!!

And the list will probably grow as I find more things/get more bored as my summer job.

How about all of you? Anything you're looking forward to/planning to take in over the summer?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Wait is there a new season of clone high?
That was good because htey accurately portrayed Ghandi as the attention seeking, suckup that he was.

[phil_]

I still haven't beaten Monster Hunter Tri. I'll probably just do that.

Maybe I'll watch that Wilbur show when it starts, though knowing it's a remake of an Australian show, I'll probably just end up feeling like a tool for not watching the original.

[Lumenskir]

Wait is there a new season of clone high?

No. : ((((((((((((((((( BUT, I will totally make a Clone High remembrance thread once I'm done watching.

Maybe I'll watch that Wilbur show when it starts, though knowing it's a remake of an Australian show, I'll probably just end up feeling like a tool for not watching the original.

You mean Wilfred, the talking dog show with Frodo? I've heard some interesting things about it (apparently its humor skews to the weird/bizarre), and it's on before Louie so I'll probably catch a few episodes anyways just to test it out.

[akaSM]

Remember the Steam Indie Packs and the Holiday sale? That plus some other DS, PC and Wii games I haven't played yet.

Also, MLP, I have watched only like 4 episodes.

[Kerensky287]

Clone High is fucking awesome and it always was, the fact that they cancelled it is criminal.

"Sorry, I just ate, and I heard you shouldn't... lay thrice... after eating. *cough* Yeah."

I don't really have any TV I need to watch over the summer though. I still haven't seen Dexter and I hear the first two or three seasons are great, and I love what I've seen of 30 Rock, but I feel like I've got other things to do than just fill up on TV shows.

I have to rewatch Dr Horrible, for example.

OH HEY THAT REMINDS ME I NEED TO FINISH WATCHING ALL OF CASTLE OOOH SHIT

[Magus]

Torchwood: Miracle Day looks interesting. Not sure what else is coming out this summer that'll be interesting...

Since you threw in a game or whatever, I've been playing Carcassonne quite a bit, I got the Big Box for not a lot of money because I got a gift certificate. It's pretty fun.

[Lumenskir]

I still haven't seen Dexter and I hear the first two or three seasons are great

You need to find whoever told you that the third season of Dexter was at all watchable and erase them from your life. You are not friends with that person, because that is a horrible person who deserves to die surrounded by cats.

I feel like I've got other things to do than just fill up on TV shows...OH HEY THAT REMINDS ME I NEED TO FINISH WATCHING ALL OF CASTLE OOOH SHIT

Torchwood: Miracle Day looks interesting.

Oh man, totally forgot about that. That's the one where the hook is that nobody can die for a day and Bill (Pullman/Paxton) is some shoulda-been-executed child rapist right? I don't know if it's quite as arresting a device as having all children speak in unison, but it still sounds like a pretty great setup for a five hour story.

[Magus]

I think it's that they keep not dying for days on end and the population of the planet explodes. The "Miracle Day" is just the first day this starts occurring.

I forgot movies in my last post. Captain America is coming out, right? Plus like...Harry Potter or something. I'll probably see that one, I guess.

Seems like there's some other superhero movie coming out besides Green Lantern, X-Men, and Captain America?

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

You need to find whoever told you that the third season of Dexter was at all watchable and erase them from your life. You are not friends with that person, because that is a horrible person who deserves to die surrounded by cats.

This. This so much. The first two seasons were amazing, the third was horrible, the fourth was pretty awesome again, and the fifth was kind of "meh."

As for what I'm watching, I recently started watching How I Met Your Mother and I literally can not stop kicking myself for not watching this show sooner.

Also Season 4 of Breaking Bad starts up in July I think and Bryan Cranston is the man.