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Absurd Alhazred posted:He's no Neil Gaiman. There was a guy on these forums who described Neil Gaiman as "someone who is such a good genre writer he has transcended it's limitations and become a very bad normal writer".
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Josef bugman posted:There was a guy on these forums who described Neil Gaiman as "someone who is such a good genre writer he has transcended it's limitations and become a very bad normal writer". Sandman remains a masterpiece, though.
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If you ever need to lose all respect for Alan Moore in a hurry just peruse a summary of "Lost Girls". Actually physically holding and reading it rends you insane so dont do that. Not a specific negative but its the only book i know of where a gay man rapes a straight man using only his butt
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This is pretty old hat to point out but Nightmare at 20,000 Feet has aged really hilariously in almost every way, from people dressing up to go on an airplane to the plaid curtains to the fact that a dude is open carrying a revolver on a plane. And like pretty much everything made before the 80s the smoking game is insane.Absurd Alhazred posted:He's no Neil Gaiman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-KKYgmtqqg
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Comstar posted:A hit Australian TV series that went for 7 years is never going to be shown again after the lead actor was convicted of two counts of sexual intercourse with a child, seven counts of indecent assault upon a person under the age of 16 and one count of committing an indecent act. The final episode everyone dies from a bank robbers bomb which is kinda dark for a sitcom (which the characters mentioned). There's an American show called "Seventh Heaven" that will never be aired again for similar reasons. The show was long over by the time this came out, but it was a favorite of family/religious networks in reruns. Oops.
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Aug 20, 2017 02:17
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Arthur is full of weird celebrity cameos that have aged terribly, whether due to irrelevance or death or controversy or how horrifying the animal-ized likenesses are.    
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Aug 20, 2017 02:21
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Guy Mann posted:Arthur is full of weird celebrity cameos that have aged terribly, whether due to irrelevance or death or controversy or how horrifying the animal-ized likenesses are. Backstreet Boys, ?, Lance Armstrong and ?
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Philip Seymour Hoffman (I think) and Matt Damon.
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Barudak posted:If you ever need to lose all respect for Alan Moore in a hurry just peruse a summary of "Lost Girls". Actually physically holding and reading it rends you insane so dont do that. That might well be the stupidest, gooniest summary I've ever read. Embarrassing. Guy Mann posted:This is pretty old hat to point out but Nightmare at 20,000 Feet has aged really hilariously in almost every way, from people dressing up to go on an airplane to the plaid curtains to the fact that a dude is open carrying a revolver on a plane. And like pretty much everything made before the 80s the smoking game is insane. I don't really know if I would count Nightmare as agin poorly. Since it's still well done and relatively entertaining it's more like a time capsule to me. Absurd Alhazred posted:Backstreet Boys, ?, Lance Armstrong and ?
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Second from the top's Roger Ebert, I think. Though I'd kinda prefer if it were Hoffman, tbh
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Rangpur posted:Second from the top's Roger Ebert, I think. Though I'd kinda prefer if it were Hoffman, tbh Good news, you're wrong and it was (Why is there an Arthur fan wiki?)
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someone awful. posted:Good news, you're wrong and it was Everything has at least one fan wiki.
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Why is one of the backstreet boys black in Arthur
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Backstreet's black, alright
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:There's an American show called "Seventh Heaven" that will never be aired again for similar reasons. The show was long over by the time this came out, but it was a favorite of family/religious networks in reruns. Are you being ironic or did you not know 7th Heaven was back on the air within a year of being shelved? I hate the fact I even know this, but my wife likes the worst television and the adventures of the Camden family still occasionally pops up in our TiVo library. I think Cosby is even back on some of those niche channels. It helps that it probably costs next to nothing to rebroadcast at this point.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Are you being ironic or did you not know 7th Heaven was back on the air within a year of being shelved? The only Cosby episode they should ever air is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDRwiSZSBg
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Krispy Kareem posted:Are you being ironic or did you not know 7th Heaven was back on the air within a year of being shelved? Actually, I was seriously unaware of that. What an extraordinarily depressing turn of events. I did know that Cosby is still on, though -- I'll occasionally see it on the channel guide in the super-high cable numbers.
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Guy Mann posted:This is pretty old hat to point out but Nightmare at 20,000 Feet has aged really hilariously in almost every way, from people dressing up to go on an airplane to the plaid curtains to the fact that a dude is open carrying a revolver on a plane. And like pretty much everything made before the 80s the smoking game is insane. The Great Gatsby has aged horribly. A WWI veteran would not be that young! Hamlet has aged horribly. No one says "thee" and "thou" anymore! The Odyssey has aged horribly. No one uses wooden boats to travel that far!
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The Great Gatsby has aged horribly. A WWI veteran would not be that young! Look, I tried pointing out how silly things like complaining about Seinfeld not working if they had cell phones are but that ship has sailed so 
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Actually, I was seriously unaware of that. What an extraordinarily depressing turn of events. And TLC keeps trying to find a way to reboot the Duggars. Peak TV indeed.
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Josef bugman posted:There was a guy on these forums who described Neil Gaiman as "someone who is such a good genre writer he has transcended it's limitations and become a very bad normal writer". Ahahahahahahaha.
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It's not just the Duggars. Almost every show that follows a family on that channel ends up with something hosed up about them, and it's usually pedophilia.
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bobjr posted:It's not just the Duggars. Almost every show that follows a family on that channel ends up with something hosed up about them, and it's usually pedophilia. When I was a kid, the one TV channel in Israel had a show called "Family Connection", which was kind of a proto-reality show, with families coming on to talk to a therapist about their parenting issues. Eventually they would have actors play the parts instead of showing the family, for the sake of their privacy. (Kind of the anti-Jerry Springer, in that sense). Since then one of the therapists on the show was convicted of molesting and assaulting some of his clients, while another turns out to have raped a minor under his care for 12 years, although this was exposed only after his death, so he was never put on trial. I don't think it's really been big in reruns, but I doubt I could watch the show the same way now anyway.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:There's an American show called "Seventh Heaven" that will never be aired again for similar reasons. The show was long over by the time this came out, but it was a favorite of family/religious networks in reruns. It's okay, here's the only good part of the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJngfdSj6s4
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Ziv Zulander posted:It's okay, here's the only good part of the show The only thing I remember about the show at this point is that one of the daughters wanted out of her contract so badly she posed nude and the mom accidentally made Jewish mom eat something that wasn't kosher at a potluck.
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Guy Mann posted:Look, I tried pointing out how silly things like complaining about Seinfeld not working if they had cell phones are but that ship has sailed so That ship has sailed so hard it lost half it's crew to Scylla, got caught up in a hurricane and got thrown straight into Charybdis.
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someone awful. posted:Good news, you're wrong and it was
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54 40 or gently caress posted:That might well be the stupidest, gooniest summary I've ever read. Embarrassing.
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54 40 or gently caress posted:That might well be the stupidest, gooniest summary I've ever read. Embarrassing. Ignoring how one feels about odd dialog choices or non-standard sexual behavoirs, the actual conceit and content of Lost Girls serves no interesting purpose and reads like a totemic tijuana bible. Reinterpreting a work like Wizard of Oz as an all you can handle fuckfest both reveals no new interesting areas of exploration when discussing the work since its based on literally nothing within the text but also actively diminishes a work with a female lead. Barudak has a new favorite as of 11:08 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Barudak posted:Ignoring how one feels about odd dialog choices or non-standard sexual behavoirs, the actual conceit and content of Lost Girls serves no interesting purpose and reads like a totemic tijuana bible. Reinterpreting a work like Wizard of Oz as an all you can handle fuckfest both reveals no new interesting areas of exploration when discussing the work since its based on literally nothing within the text but also actively diminishes a work with a female lead. At some point in the 90s Allan Moore jusT permanently relocated up his own rear end. So much of his early stuff is really great, then just one long wet 25 year fart.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The only Cosby episode they should ever air is this one: The Cosby show used to creep me the gently caress out as a kid and now I'm just totally confused how no one else was picking up those vibes at the time. The dude was pretty obviously some sort of serial killer or rapist just from the content he chose to show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYx09p2la90
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Aesop Poprock posted:The Cosby show used to creep me the gently caress out as a kid and now I'm just totally confused how no one else was picking up those vibes at the time. The dude was pretty obviously some sort of serial killer or rapist just from the content he chose to show Maybe I’m just old, but Cosby was a huge part of my childhood with Fat Albert and Picture Pages. I never watched much Cosby Show because the Simpsons were on at the same time (which is a crazy thought). Still, in retrospect I don’t see anything alluding to his rapist self. He did a pretty fantastic job keeping that part of himself hidden. It sucks that it’s tainted everything else he did because I don’t think there was another mainstream TV Black actor/comedian as popular as he was in the 70’s and 80’s. Remove his stuff and you take away a significant chunk of all Black material from that time frame.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Maybe I’m just old, but Cosby was a huge part of my childhood with Fat Albert and Picture Pages. I never watched much Cosby Show because the Simpsons were on at the same time (which is a crazy thought). Still, in retrospect I don’t see anything alluding to his rapist self. He did a pretty fantastic job keeping that part of himself hidden. It sucks that it’s tainted everything else he did because I don’t think there was another mainstream TV Black actor/comedian as popular as he was in the 70’s and 80’s. Remove his stuff and you take away a significant chunk of all Black material from that time frame. Well there was OJ Sim... gently caress
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Aesop Poprock posted:The Cosby show used to creep me the gently caress out as a kid and now I'm just totally confused how no one else was picking up those vibes at the time. The dude was pretty obviously some sort of serial killer or rapist just from the content he chose to show Do you have some other clips to prove this aside from a dream sequence where he gives birth to a giant sandwich and a drink?
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The only thing i know about Alan Moore is that he dabbles in the occult. He became a magician at the age of 40. I watched a Youtube clip of him talking about magic and art. I too practice sorcery so i have a soft spot for this. Havent read any of his actual works though.
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LoEG is some extraordinary trash, but it did give us Jess Nevins, a research librarian who specializes in the pulp era that went from documenting all the references on Geocities to publishing books and writing backmatter for better works, and getting people to go back and read otherwise forgotten stories from the era Moore was dabbling in. oldpainless posted:Do you have some other clips to prove this aside from a dream sequence where he gives birth to a giant sandwich and a drink? More like olddreamless.
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I know this is two pages back, but... gently caress, this entire show was the first thing that popped into my head. I watched Saved by the Bell for the first time as an adult about two years ago because of a podcast, and that show has so goddamn much, not including all the technology stuff (eg. Zack's brick cell phone). A lot of stereotyping, sociopathy, gay panic, reefer madness, etc. Not to mention Jessie infamously becoming addicted to caffeine pills.
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funmanguy posted:At some point in the 90s Allan Moore jusT permanently relocated up his own rear end. So much of his early stuff is really great, then just one long wet 25 year fart.
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