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Television shows we hate
Ikrik:
CSI: All of Them. I used to watch this show....4-5 years ago and I really, really enjoyed it. I tried watching it again last week and it was absolutely horrendous, I don't understand what's changed, but they've lost all spark in that show, even that miniature killer thing wasn't exciting enough to bring it back to life.
Dancing With The Stars: How is this show fun or even interesting? I think what's most sickening is that they have the audacity to call these people "celebrities." Thanks to this show now I have to be reminded who Marie and Donnie Osmand are.
Survivor: Honestly this show has SO much potential to be awesome. What they NEED to do is make the people sign up for a different show....fly them to some super-remote location that's WIRED with hidden cameras and microphones. It'd be like Lord of the Flies....except so much more awesome. Last one who survives wins.
Jimmy the Squid:
I can understand how people don't like shows like House or Law & Order and CSI etc... but of course they have only slightly different episodes! The whole point of the medical/legal drama series is that they solve the case/crime by the end of the show! That's just how it works! It would be even more boring if in next week's episode of House there is no case for them to work on and they just do a couple of clinic hours and maybe get a coffee. Then House says something wittily abusive and Jesse Spencer pouts. Or if it were a slow week for SVU and Stabler gets a guy for jaywalking. No one would care.
The shows I hate are generally the soaps. Neighbours and Home And Away spring to mind.
sean:
--- Quote from: Kid van Pervert on 22 Mar 2008, 12:48 ---Heroes. All build-up, no payoff. If I wanted to follow people with Superpowers who use them less than they deal with life issues, I'd read X-Men comics.
--- End quote ---
This. Seriously, heroes is one giant letdown. Ever since the writers strike i've stopped watching it.
bicostp:
--- Quote from: Narr on 22 Mar 2008, 21:25 ---I wouldn't be susprised to see some sort of Rhino-liner paint used on buildings set up in war zones, for example.
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Well, coating an entire building isn't economically sound. (It costs about a thousand dollars just to get the bed of a full size pickup coated with the stuff; imagine what a whole building would cost.) And even if you did do the whole building, it's not going to do much against RPGs, doesn't do anything against suicide bombers walking in with explosives under their jackets, and leaves the windows and doors completely vulnerable. At the most, medium shrapnel will do less cosmetic damage.
That's why I think that episode was just a waste.
I saw that episode, and it screamed "product placement". They must have said "Rhino Liner" about 150 times. :roll:
Uber Ritter:
Family Guy. This show doesn't have characters (with the possible exception of Brian) it has gags with legs. One dimensional, not particularly funny gags. It doesn't have the Simpsons astute social awareness of razor wit, so it just juxtaposes supposedly shocking or merely incongruous things and passes them off as humor. The Simpson's comedic timing, family dynamics etc. are stripped of their subtlety and charm and we are left with a flabby mass of crap that is as attractive as Peter Griffin's character design. The one thing in family guy that doesn't seem like a total rip-off in Family Guy is the aforementioned shock gags, which are the bane of my generation's sense of humor--they are on the level of Dead Baby Jokes in every way, and should be relegated to middle school gym periods, where they belong.
American Dad. Wants to be Family Guy. The Platonic idea that copying/imitation is inherently degrading and thus a copy is worse than a original, a copy of a copy worse than the copy etc. finds its vindication in this piece of crap. I have seen it once, and I do not wish to pollute my mind further.
Note that this is all from someone who thinks the Simpsons should have quite while it was ahead and ended its prime-time run maybe 6 or 7 seasons ago, when the Zeitgeist passed its decidedly 90's sensibility by.
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