Random TV Show Thoughts

[ygolo]

I binged "School Spirits" on Netflix, a high school supernatural mystery-I'm bad at characterizing TV shows, but I think that works. I don't believe I was their target demographic, but I did end up binging it.

At it's core is a beautifuly pure platonic friendship between
Madison Nears(the main character) and Simon Elroy. Their friendship is the main reason I liked the show.

 

[Totenkindly]

People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years. Until now

A song playing in the background of one episode has fascinated and eluded fans for more than two decades as they sought to track it, and the musicians, down. Now that mystery has finally been solved.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

They wrote original lyrics/music for the TV show.

 

[The Cat]

People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years. Until now

A song playing in the background of one episode has fascinated and eluded fans for more than two decades as they sought to track it, and the musicians, down. Now that mystery has finally been solved.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

sad country songs when you want to hide something right out in the open. lol

 

[Z Buck McFate]

People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years. Until now

A song playing in the background of one episode has fascinated and eluded fans for more than two decades as they sought to track it, and the musicians, down. Now that mystery has finally been solved.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

They wrote original lyrics/music for the TV show.

This was a fun twitter thread to follow. Every day new leads would surface. I just wrote a long thing about why it was fun to follow, then the draft disappeared, and I'm too angry (again) to remember what I wrote. Basically everything that seemed like a dead end would lead to someone new surfacing, and it all started with someone making a comment in passing on Twitter.

An aside:

I clicked the draft icon in the first place to go get a screenshot of this, from a few months ago. It was a convo about that same episode. My inner fangirl was screaming for days because McKean responded to my Tweet.

Dunn screaming "special agent TRAMP Scully!" Is one of my favorite X-Files moments.

 

[Totenkindly]

I clicked the draft icon in the first place to go get a screenshot of this, from a few months ago. It was a convo about that same episode. My inner fangirl was screaming for days because McKean responded to my Tweet.

And here I was cheesed off because the article just referred to Mulder switching places with an "agent" without saying the agent was played by McKean. Like, in my top 20 X-Files episodes.

That is so great he responded. Nora Dunn WAS awesome too.

 

[The Cat]

That moment when you realize Purgatory in Supernatural follows the Death is a learning experience trope. No matter how many times you get killed there, you respawn, waking up somewhere else on the map with all of your inventory gone.

 

[The Cat]

Jack in the Institute in Deep Space 9 is a little too close to home. A part of me wishes I had the kind of friends one can make in a mental institution.

 

[The Cat]

and as its a tv show. Its fine here.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

Well here we are again. Its always such a pleasure.
Remember when this show was just a joke?
Oh how we laughed and laughed.
Except someone wasnt laughing.
Under the circumstances I'm not super surprised.

​

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I guess since he had HBO specials, this goes here:

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’

“There’s one line of work that is most threatened by AI — one job that is most likely to be completely erased because of artificial intelligence: stand-up comedy,” AI-generated Carlin said. “I know what all the stand-up comics across the globe are saying right now: ‘I’m an artist and my art form is too creative, too nuanced, too subtle to be replicated by a machine. No computer program can tell a fart joke as good as me.'”

I would think humor would be one of the most difficult things to replicate. There are so many different kinds of it, and it doesn't all resonate with everybody.

I also think it's not a great idea to replace everyone under the socioeconomic order we have, where people are penalized for not working; that's a recipe for trouble.

 

[The Cat]

I guess since he had HBO specials, this goes here:

AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’



I would think humor would be one of the most difficult things to replicate. There are so many different kinds of it, and it doesn't all resonate with everybody.

I also think it's not a great idea to replace everyone under the socioeconomic order we have, where people are penalized for not working; that's a recipe for trouble.

As long as there's a red cent able to be wrung out of a legacy there's gonna be unscrupulous grifters trying to feed off the corpse of art. We can't give them an inch.

 

[Totenkindly]

Sarah Snook Reveals An Early Casting Agent Told Her: “You’re A Nobody”

The double Golden Globe winner was told off by a producer for eating a piece of cake.

deadline.com

Idiots. The very first time I saw her (in Predestination, against Erhan Hawke, who she arguably outshone), I was like, "She's amazing, why haven't I've heard of her before?" Even when she was in a lousy production, she elevated the material.

 

[The Cat]

Sarah Snook Reveals An Early Casting Agent Told Her: “You’re A Nobody”

The double Golden Globe winner was told off by a producer for eating a piece of cake.

deadline.com

Idiots. The very first time I saw her (in Predestination, against Erhan Hawke, who she arguably outshone), I was like, "She's amazing, why haven't I've heard of her before?" Even when she was in a lousy production, she elevated the material.

Apparently because she "was a nobody."

Its crazy to think how much we've missed out on over the years because of this attitude.

 

[Totenkindly]

Maybe you want to move all of these "Stand" posts to the actual thread we have for "The Stand" miniseries? Especially if you are going to watch the 2020 version?

The Stand

One of my all time favorite Stephen King novels, and I really enjoyed the 90s made-for-TV adaptation (at least when it first aired). Kind of looking forward to this new series, with a few caveats. First, I think casting Eric Northman as the walking dude is abysmal casting. I know he's an...

www.typologycentral.com

It looks like I plugged away through the 2020 version but no one else cared at the time, lol. But if you consolidate, people might actually discuss it.

From what I recall now:

It's like the 90's version can feel pretty dated in that 80/90's TV show kind of way (it's not on the level of high-quality drama productions nowadays), but the new "The Stand" aside from a few great moments kind of bombed in terms of Vegas -- like, so much of Vegas was so fucking silly/ reedic. Basically the 2020's version was just as clunky as the 1990's version, but had much better production quality. The remake was mostly inert.

I am not a fan of Heather Graham personally -- she just doesn't register much with me -- and this was one of the few things I've seen her done that I actually really liked with her (she's playing Rita, and they did a nice adaptation of her secondary character). I also was skeptical of Owen Teague as Lauder simply over the casting -- but he's actually not bad, if there's a flaw it is in the writing and just that he doesn't match the physicality of the book version.

 

[The Cat]

Maybe you want to move all of these "Stand" posts to the actual thread we have for "The Stand" miniseries? Especially if you are going to watch the 2020 version?

The Stand

One of my all time favorite Stephen King novels, and I really enjoyed the 90s made-for-TV adaptation (at least when it first aired). Kind of looking forward to this new series, with a few caveats. First, I think casting Eric Northman as the walking dude is abysmal casting. I know he's an...

www.typologycentral.com

It looks like I plugged away through the 2020 version but no one else cared at the time, lol. But if you consolidate, people might actually discuss it.

From what I recall now:

It's like the 90's version can feel pretty dated in that 80/90's TV show kind of way (it's not on the level of high-quality drama productions nowadays), but the new "The Stand" aside from a few great moments kind of bombed in terms of Vegas -- like, so much of Vegas was so fucking silly/ reedic. Basically the 2020's version was just as clunky as the 1990's version, but had much better production quality. The remake was mostly inert.

I am not a fan of Heather Graham personally -- she just doesn't register much with me -- and this was one of the few things I've seen her done that I actually really liked with her (she's playing Rita, and they did a nice adaptation of her secondary character). I also was skeptical of Owen Teague as Lauder simply over the casting -- but he's actually not bad, if there's a flaw it is in the writing and just that he doesn't match the physicality of the book version.

Well hey thanks for the link! ^_^ didnt realize we had one of these.

 

[The Cat]

watching early xfiles. episodes. Is it supposed to look like Mulder and Scully hate each other?

 

[Totenkindly]

watching early xfiles. episodes. Is it supposed to look like Mulder and Scully hate each other?

I could be wrong, but my recollection is that they brought Scully in to anchor Mulder down and hinder/slow his investigation that could have uncovered the conspiracies -- but it backfired and they ended up bonding and developing a reciprocal relationship that together strengthened the investigation.

 

[The Cat]

I could be wrong, but my recollection is that they brought Scully in to anchor Mulder down and hinder/slow his investigation that could have uncovered the conspiracies -- but it backfired and they ended up bonding and developing a reciprocal relationship that together strengthened the investigation.

Because like to watch them It looks like two people who hate each other from the patterrn recognition software I use to identify human emotion. As we humans say: It's a vibe get ayup.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Because like to watch them It looks like two people who hate each other from the patterrn recognition software I use to identify human emotion. As we humans say: It's a vibe get ayup.

I think they bonded over their worst case ever, where they took on the assignment where they visited that one city in the Pacific Northwest where there was a glowing alien who turned out to be nothing more than the local nuclear power plant owner.