In article <k50pbv$4p...@dont-email.me>, web...@polaris.net wrote:
>TWO BROKE GIRLS:
>"And the Stickup". An incoherant plot involving Caroline pissing hsrself >when someone attempts to rob the diner and them later sneaking into a movie >theatre without paying, where they see Hong. What was the point of this ep?
This show's getting worse. Another episode that had a kind of "random-ness" to it, almost like it was cobbled together from scripts they had lying around. I get what the writers were trying to say - despite their fondness for each other, Max and Caroline are narcissists who don't mind giving each other up if the cause is right, a hollow sentiment that came out of nowhere. The whole "sneaking into a movie theater" sub-plot was a piss-poor (pun intended) way to make the point. The cold open slap fight was not funny, other than to play into male fantasies. Adults wetting themselves under stress- this is funny how, exactly? And who were those folks Han appeared to be with?
The only redeeming thing for me is that, out of the mustard and orange uniform, Kat Dennings is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. But even that's not gonna keep me tuning in for this crap too much longer. I really wanted 2BG to turn into "must see" TV for me, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
In article <k50pbv$4p...@dont-email.me>, web...@polaris.net wrote:
>I watched:
>ADVENTURE TIME:
> The Ice King's penguin, Howard, goes amok.
> The Magic Man tricks his Martian brethren into thinking Jake is him.
>THE O'REILLY FACTOR
> The rumble in America
> McCain: Response to Libya crisis was an 'abysmal failure' > The O Reilly Stewart Rumble! What happened when they went head-to-head?
>REMINGTON STEELE:
>RS is framed for murder, forcing Steele to go on the lamb while Laura tries >to solve the mystery. It turns out the frmaer is not from Steele's past, but >from one of Laura's (a case she solved before the man known as RS arrived).
>TWO BROKE GIRLS:
>"And the Stickup". An incoherant plot involving Caroline pissing hsrself >when someone attempts to rob the diner and them later sneaking into a movie >theatre without paying, where they see Hong. What was the point of this ep?
Last week we learned that pretty much everyone there is stealing from Han, and this week we learn that it s okay to sneak into a movie theater without paying, and then sit around talking loudly, while occasionally yelling things at the screen.
I felt sorry for the other people in the theater, who paid good money to watch a movie, and then get treated to the rants and opinions of an asshole in the audience who thinks they are more entertaianing than the movie.
Also, the Amazon woman from Poland is too much of a characature, and I cringe everytime she shows up with her questionable fashions and fake accent.
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:29:55 -0400, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>DWTS
>Grade: A
>ALPHAS > I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
>development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
>total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
>directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
>than money.
>Grade: A
>I blew off Revolution to read my current book, "Lucifer's Hammer".
JRStern <JRSt...@foobar.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:29:55 -0400, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >DWTS
> >Grade: A
> >ALPHAS > > I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
> >development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
> >total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
> >directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
> >than money.
> >Grade: A
> >I blew off Revolution to read my current book, "Lucifer's Hammer".
> You finished Ringworld?
> J.
His version has the Earth spinning the wrong way, so it finishes at the start.
-- "Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."
BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
> In article <k51gbo$cl...@dont-email.me>,
> Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, all the boats everywhere. And no one anywhere is making new ones. > > I guess it's not possible to build a 15th century level technology > > boat (or anything else) without electricity...Especially when all of > > their resources are going towards looking fresh and clean each day and > > putting "M" stamps on canned goods.
> > Hopefully no other country puts resources into building war ships...What > > happens if Britain builds a few dozen 19th century war ships and decides > > to reclaim the colonies.
> Exactly what I thought. That scene made me want to throw something at > the TV. Maybe clod can come up with a new retarded explanation about how > only natural objects can still float after the blackout. All artificial > objects immediately sink. Or the Monrovians are not only confiscating > all the guns (and the computers-- as Hunter wanked to explain why people > are using Doc Brown-style jury-rigged machines instead of one of the > millions lying around for the taking), but the militia is also out there > confiscating all the wood in America so no one can build a ship. Or > something.
> If my TV is going to survive the season, I may have to jettison shows > that are this abjectly stupid.
This show is really, really dumb!
If it weren't me waiting for the Tracy Spriridakos bubble bath scene, I'm not sure I could make it through... >:/
-- "Surf-crazed aliens... Of course." - Amber, "Alien Surf Girls", Episode #1.1, "Wipeout". Wait a minute... "Of course"?! "*Of course*"?!! Did I miss a step here??!!
In article <buj878tli4jp7h31f663p29hdlab4bp...@4ax.com>,
Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ALPHAS > I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
> development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
> total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
> directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
> than money.
Yes - "Alphas" and "Haven" are several steps above the rest of Siffy's stuff.
-- "Surf-crazed aliens... Of course." - Amber, "Alien Surf Girls", Episode #1.1, "Wipeout". Wait a minute... "Of course"?! "*Of course*"?!! Did I miss a step here??!!
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:16:30 -0700, BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <k51gbo$cl...@dont-email.me>,
> Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> Yeah, all the boats everywhere. And no one anywhere is making new ones. >> I guess it's not possible to build a 15th century level technology >> boat (or anything else) without electricity...Especially when all of >> their resources are going towards looking fresh and clean each day and >> putting "M" stamps on canned goods.
>> Hopefully no other country puts resources into building war ships...What >> happens if Britain builds a few dozen 19th century war ships and decides >> to reclaim the colonies.
>Exactly what I thought. That scene made me want to throw something at >the TV. Maybe clod can come up with a new retarded explanation about how >only natural objects can still float after the blackout. All artificial >objects immediately sink. Or the Monrovians are not only confiscating >all the guns (and the computers-- as Hunter wanked to explain why people >are using Doc Brown-style jury-rigged machines instead of one of the >millions lying around for the taking), but the militia is also out there >confiscating all the wood in America so no one can build a ship. Or >something.
-----
In recent post you took me to task for saying that "Homeland" is one
of the most realistic spy shows on TV because I am not an intelligence
officer. Well, are you a damn shipwright?
Do you really think it is so damn simple to build a proper ocean going
sailing ship? I am not talking about a boat that could sail on
Horseshoe Lake in Florida. Do you think it is a matter of slapping a
few planks of wood together from the remains of Home Depot and putting
up a pole for a mast with bed sheets and it will survive the damn
North Atlantic? Get a crew to properly man it and a Captain that can
read sextants and star maps because the GPS don't work, to know the
ocean currents? That it is likelyt that many of competent sea captains
who know how to handle a sailing vessels died during the chaos?
Besides as some people can't figure out things like when Maggie was
taking to that fisherman it was just a few years-call it five-after
everything went to Shit and maybe it could be different now, but not
then?
The action is soon going to shift to Philadelphia which is a port city
that is under the control of the Monrovians. Now that the Monrovians
have taken over and consolidated power-enough apparent to get at least
to refurbish at least a few miles of railroad track and have at least
one steam engine maybe they could be getting around to building ocean
going vessels. Its going to take time to recover and in many cases
relearn old technology because we lost a lot of those skills because
they became obsolete. They aren't going to magically reappear.
How is that for wanking? Better than just mindless snarking.
>If my TV is going to survive the season, I may have to jettison shows >that are this abjectly stupid.
-----
Says the expert on ship building.
------>Hunter
"No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
> In article <atropos-1D3B9F.11163009102...@news-europe.giganews.com>,
> BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
> > In article <k51gbo$cl...@dont-email.me>,
> > Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> > > Yeah, all the boats everywhere. And no one anywhere is making new ones. > > > I guess it's not possible to build a 15th century level technology > > > boat (or anything else) without electricity...Especially when all of > > > their resources are going towards looking fresh and clean each day and > > > putting "M" stamps on canned goods.
> > > Hopefully no other country puts resources into building war ships...What > > > happens if Britain builds a few dozen 19th century war ships and decides > > > to reclaim the colonies.
> > Exactly what I thought. That scene made me want to throw something at > > the TV. Maybe clod can come up with a new retarded explanation about how > > only natural objects can still float after the blackout. All artificial > > objects immediately sink. Or the Monrovians are not only confiscating > > all the guns (and the computers-- as Hunter wanked to explain why people > > are using Doc Brown-style jury-rigged machines instead of one of the > > millions lying around for the taking), but the militia is also out there > > confiscating all the wood in America so no one can build a ship. Or > > something.
> > If my TV is going to survive the season, I may have to jettison shows > > that are this abjectly stupid.
> This show is really, really dumb!
> If it weren't me waiting for the Tracy Spriridakos bubble bath scene, > I'm not sure I could make it through... >:/
I wonder how stuff like this works. With a non mythology show, I can see how someone as deeply stupid as Anne Coffel Saunders can write a howler line. But with a show like this and it's background ... do they really let someone as deeply stupid as Anne Coffel Saunders just add a bit about there being no boats, and let the next guy worry about it, or is there actually a writer's guide they hand to someone as deeply stupid as Anne Coffel Saunders that says 'there are no boats' and she sticks it in?
-- "Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:16:30 -0700, BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
> >In article <k51gbo$cl...@dont-email.me>,
> > Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> >> Yeah, all the boats everywhere. And no one anywhere is making new ones. > >> I guess it's not possible to build a 15th century level technology > >> boat (or anything else) without electricity...Especially when all of > >> their resources are going towards looking fresh and clean each day and > >> putting "M" stamps on canned goods.
> >> Hopefully no other country puts resources into building war ships...What > >> happens if Britain builds a few dozen 19th century war ships and decides > >> to reclaim the colonies.
> >Exactly what I thought. That scene made me want to throw something at > >the TV. Maybe clod can come up with a new retarded explanation about how > >only natural objects can still float after the blackout. All artificial > >objects immediately sink. Or the Monrovians are not only confiscating > >all the guns (and the computers-- as Hunter wanked to explain why people > >are using Doc Brown-style jury-rigged machines instead of one of the > >millions lying around for the taking), but the militia is also out there > >confiscating all the wood in America so no one can build a ship. Or > >something.
> -----
> In recent post you took me to task for saying that "Homeland" is one
> of the most realistic spy shows on TV because I am not an intelligence
> officer. Well, are you a damn shipwright?
Nope, but I know that people as far back as days of Christ could build ocean-going vessels. The idea that no one in modern America (or anyone on the other side of the ocean) could figure it out after 15 years is deeply moronic.
> Do you really think it is so damn simple to build a proper ocean going
> sailing ship? I am not talking about a boat that could sail on
> Horseshoe Lake in Florida. Do you think it is a matter of slapping a
> few planks of wood together from the remains of Home Depot and putting
> up a pole for a mast with bed sheets and it will survive the damn
> North Atlantic?
The Hawaiians did exactly that and crossed thousands of miles in the Pacific in bamboo rafts.
Get a crew to properly man it and a Captain that can
> read sextants and star maps because the GPS don't work, to know the
> ocean currents?
Books, Hunter. I could find all that in any library.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:19:49 -0700, BTR1701 <atro...@mac.com> wrote:
>Nope, but I know that people as far back as days of Christ could build >ocean-going vessels.
The Atlantic is not the Med. And in the times you're talking about
they didn't leave sight of shore. They had no way to calculate
longitude.
I've been in the North Atlantic in winter. Have you?
The idea that no one in modern America (or anyone
>on the other side of the ocean) could figure it out after 15 years is >deeply moronic.
You need to do some research about the tools, timber, and techniques
required to build ocean-going sailing ships. It's not something you
get right on a first try. And you need a crew.
>> Do you really think it is so damn simple to build a proper ocean going
>> sailing ship? I am not talking about a boat that could sail on
>> Horseshoe Lake in Florida. Do you think it is a matter of slapping a
>> few planks of wood together from the remains of Home Depot and putting
>> up a pole for a mast with bed sheets and it will survive the damn
>> North Atlantic?
Exactly. Knowing someone else did it is nice. To actually build the
infrastructure to begin to lay a keep is the work of many years by
skilled engineers and hundreds of workers who are fed and safe.
Old growth timber helps a lot too. It's rather scarce on the East
Coast.
But there is a more fundamental question. If they could, by supreme
effort, come up with a way to travel to England, why do they need to?
"Steve Bartman" <sbart...@visi.com> wrote:
> But there is a more fundamental question. If they could, by supreme
> effort, come up with a way to travel to England, why do they need to?
Exactly. There is no incentive, other than by a doctor or two separated from their kids, to cross the ocean.
>>>NFL: The last part of the Jets game in which it became all the more clear
>>>that the presence of Tim Tebow is a cancer on the team that keeps them >>>from
>>>having anything close to a coherent offensive strategy.
>> Hahaha. You on drugs?
>> Mark Sanchez completes under 50% with two very costly interceptions and
>> you're blaming Tebow?
>The constant shuffling of QBs in and out of the game completely messed up >any offensive rythmn...and it was made even worse by shuffling in someone at >QB that isn't going to pass the ball.
Yeah, except for the small fact that a rookie receiver dropped a long TD
pass Tebow threw.
>> And, may I point out, the Denver Broncos:
>> Record starting Kyle Orton 1-5
>> Record starting Tebow 8-5 (including playoffs)
>> Record starting Peyton Manning 2-3
>Yes, the Broncoes wwre on a role in spite of Tebow's inability at QB.
>> A wise choice. I'm *almost* there. I'd be LONG past it if we weren't
>> snarking here. I suspect NBC is going to regret renewing it.
>They didn't renew it, they just extended the order to a full season. >Meanwhile, the show could still lose 1/3rd of its viewers and be among the >top shows on NBC, so a season #2 is very likely.
You said it, this thing looks like a lock for another season.
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:23:41 -0700, anim8rFSK <anim8r...@cox.net> wrote:
>In article <ho5978dems9ecaqcnkoi99hcsdt5a14...@4ax.com>,
> JRStern <JRSt...@foobar.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:29:55 -0400, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >DWTS
>> >Grade: A
>> >ALPHAS >> > I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
>> >development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
>> >total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
>> >directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
>> >than money.
>> >Grade: A
>> >I blew off Revolution to read my current book, "Lucifer's Hammer".
>> You finished Ringworld?
>> J.
>His version has the Earth spinning the wrong way, so it finishes at the >start.
>>ALPHAS >> I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
>>development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
>>total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
>>directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
>>than money.
>>Grade: A
>>I blew off Revolution to read my current book, "Lucifer's Hammer".
>You finished Ringworld?
It's pretty short. Very enjoyable. A+
I read a lot. There was actually a fairly dense book in between, "The
Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt.
In article <k50pbv$4p...@dont-email.me>, web...@polaris.net says...
> What did you watch?
Yesterday, I later watched:
GCB: Revelation
The final episode & I was unimpressed.
ONCE UPON A TIME: We Are Both
I was not bored unlike some other poster.
I think the writers are pretty clever, but I am not sure whether they are doing the right thing softening the character of the Evil Queen.
DEXTER: Sunshine and Frosty Swirl
I wish Dexter's sister had not found out about him.
What's going on now between the two of them just does not seem quite right to me. She should have arrested him on the spot.
Thank goodness Yvonne Strahov-very hot-ski is in the next episode. I hope the writers have done her proud. Fingers crossed I'm not disappointed.
Today, Wed Oct 10, I have so far watched:
NCIS: Recovery
I like Steve Valentine, but did the writers of NCIS & HAVEN get together re having a psychologist in each show?
And for anim's benefit, no *you know who*.
NCIS:LA: Recruit
I thought there was some silly dialogue in this one, otherwise the usual sort of thing.
In article <anim8rfsk-66CB5D.10033409102012
@news.easynews.com>, anim8r...@cox.net says...
> In article > <ijball-NO_SPAM-6EFC89.08322909102...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball-NO_S...@mac.invalid> wrote:
> > I also had H-5-ZERO on in the background, but was not paying attention > > to it, aside from seeing that Cynthia Watros and Julie McNiven > > guest-starred.
> And Kono never once appeared in a bikini, not even in the opening > credits.
> >>ALPHAS > >> I really liked this episode. Lots of good stories and personality
> >>development. The business about Gary and his mother could have been a
> >>total schlockfest, but they did a great job with it. Excellent writing,
> >>directing, acting -- it just shows how much more importance competence is
> >>than money.
> >>Grade: A
> >>I blew off Revolution to read my current book, "Lucifer's Hammer".
> >You finished Ringworld?
> It's pretty short. Very enjoyable. A+
Yeah, it's a quick read, and a pretty good re-read.
Next: THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS
-- "Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."
What does your paranoia have to do with television, murphy?
In fact, I don't see anything in your post with any apparent relationship to television at all, murphy.
"violating one basic rule in continually posting to or creating "off
topic" messages is a violation of group's charters."
--murphy
How ironic.
"I had 'volunteered (years back) to support those who do endeavor
to provide free Free Usenet access, support those who offered
subscription based Free Usenet access, nothing more than
cooperation expected in return for what has been many
thousands of hours of work. I note most of those I joined with
are either deceased, severely disabled, or plain ole' MIA..
now it is my Time. ...
You just read my last. ...
For those who think they see me in future times I can only wish
you severe Tinnitus in your dreams. For those who know me
well (eMail, whatever) and see me, know I will be smiling also.
It is to you I say "adieu mein frenz and adios .. grazie' [hugs]
for all the Good Times! May you and yours always bear well
with all Life brings you".
>> But there is a more fundamental question. If they could, by supreme
>> effort, come up with a way to travel to England, why do they need to?
> Exactly. There is no incentive, other than by a doctor or two separated > from their kids, to cross the ocean.
Maybe to get out from under a sadistic dictator? Maybe there's one there,
too, but maybe not. Worth it to at least check it out. Or maybe just find
some little island somewhere and live there without having to worry about
the machinations of the broader world.
In article <MPG.2adfb852a42f1a4c989...@news.bigpond.com>,
David Barnett <dbar3...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> In article <anim8rfsk-66CB5D.10033409102012
> @news.easynews.com>, anim8r...@cox.net says...
> > In article > > <ijball-NO_SPAM-6EFC89.08322909102...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > "Ian J. Ball" <ijball-NO_S...@mac.invalid> wrote:
> > > I also had H-5-ZERO on in the background, but was not paying attention > > > to it, aside from seeing that Cynthia Watros and Julie McNiven > > > guest-starred.
> > And Kono never once appeared in a bikini, not even in the opening > > credits.
> She now looks anorexic to me.
+1
-- "Surf-crazed aliens... Of course." - Amber, "Alien Surf Girls", Episode #1.1, "Wipeout". Wait a minute... "Of course"?! "*Of course*"?!! Did I miss a step here??!!
> In article <MPG.2adfb852a42f1a4c989...@news.bigpond.com>,
> David Barnett <dbar3...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> In article <anim8rfsk-66CB5D.10033409102012
>> @news.easynews.com>, anim8r...@cox.net says...
>>> In article >>> <ijball-NO_SPAM-6EFC89.08322909102...@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball-NO_S...@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>> I also had H-5-ZERO on in the background, but was not paying attention >>>> to it, aside from seeing that Cynthia Watros and Julie McNiven >>>> guest-starred.
>>> And Kono never once appeared in a bikini, not even in the opening >>> credits.
