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Len posted:I think I only caught one season of the new Dwarf but if memory serves it should have ended a season sooner than it actually did It should have ended with Series 6.
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Len posted:Was that when Rimmer left or when they got back to the Dwarf? The one just before they get back to the Dwarf. As muscles like this! says, the premise completely changes. Losing half of the writing team can’t have helped, either.
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winterwerefox posted:No Andy Griffith Show? No, Andy Griffith Show!
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Apr 29, 2018 00:32
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Laterite posted:Why would an upper class Brit be in the enlisted ranks to begin with? Don't they pretty much hand out commissions at that level? It's part of the other dynamic between Mainwaring and Wilson: Wilson was an officer in the First World War. He doesn't mind not being the commanding officer of the Home Guard, because he knows that the Home Guard aren't important. Mainwaring, who has never seen a modern war, is convinced that they are.
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spog posted:The problem with Knight Rider is just how much stuff can you do with a car to take down gangsters and/or international terrorists in a drat car? Is your car sassy? 
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Jun 24, 2018 22:18
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dirksteadfast posted:The thing most people forget about Monty Python is you only remember the good sketches. 90+% of the bits were either too weird or just terrible, but they threw enough of it in that there was enough cream to rise to the top. Yes, this is how all good sketch shows work, really.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:There was just something about the theremin-esque score, muddy vhs quality, slate-grey 70s English skies, and drab colors that just gave me a weird sense of dread. I tell you with zero irony that this is exactly what’s good about Old Who.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:And yeah what really makes Parks and Rec a pain later on is how everything has to work out for everyone. Isn’t this how most US sitcoms end up?
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luxury handset posted:if you really boil a western down till there's a little nubbin left, it's about a heroic figure having adventures in a wide open landscape 
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Mar 28, 2019 15:59
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Leavemywife posted:Firefly isn't an awful show, but it is definitely not the show the hardcore fans believe it to be. And I didn't know Molyneux was a libertarian. I just thought he made video games. The video games Molyneux is Peter.
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May 22, 2019 15:33
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Iron Crowned posted:I think the bigger thing that has changed is that it was a parody of 60's/70's spy movies, and by that time in the late 90's I had definitely had a childhood of watching Bond movies. In the past 20 years Bond has kinda fallen out of the spotlight for various reasons, and the Craig Bond films are a lot different from the Connery and the Moore films. The Craig films are different partly because of the Austin Powers films (and partly because of the Jason Bourne films).
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Sep 17, 2019 17:29
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BioEnchanted posted:One day James is going to get kicked out of a party not because he's too close to a villain's plot, but because the host's HR rep delivers a bunch of complaints that he keeps harassing the female attendees. There won't even be a villain, just "James, we don't want you at the office Christmas party anymore. Not after you groped Moneypenny an hour ago." https://youtu.be/gIfSQW499Xc
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lemonadesweetheart posted:What's the other possible meaning of that joke? That none of the listed upsides make up for being murdered by an imperial militarist state.
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Feb 4, 2020 17:14
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Doctor Spaceman posted:And also very appropriate for the topic given Graham Linehan's recent history. Linehan was already an atheist by the time he was writing Father Ted. No idea about Matthews.
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mind the walrus posted:Buffy/Angel mostly hold up if you're an old and remember that it used to set the bar for character-driven genre TV, but I have no earthly clue how it'd look to a kid. Probably not good. From what little I’ve seen of Arrow, The Flash etc. they’re all pretty like Buffy/Angel.
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Nudge and wink jokes about Jimmy Savile (1978-2007): https://youtu.be/XeB9ZxffQAE
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VanSandman posted:I genuinely cannot comprehend why the British haven't risen up and slaughtered those who would call themselves their masters. At least in the US there's the understanding that the cops will happily mow down anyone at any time for any reason. 
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Captain Monkey posted:I mean a very popular children's rhyme in the english speaking world is about symptoms of the black plague, kid's songs are often messed up. It isn't.
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food court bailiff posted:In late 2008 I somehow got on the topic of Michael Crichton with a friend while we were drinking pretty hard, and I ranted about his idiotic climate change denialism (including putting a journalist who criticized him into a book as a child molester) and how godawful and racist Rising Sun was, the night and the drinking both kind of got away from us and I woke up the next morning with a tremendous hangover and the news that Crichton was found dead. I'm reading this as a confession that you murdered Michael Crichton in a drunken rage.
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Iron Crowned posted:Magnum PI was one Also Crockett in Miami Vice.
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Dec 31, 2020 00:37
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Push El Burrito posted:I've been watching a lot of Best of the Worst and let me tell you, avenging a sexually abused and killed woman isn't a recent trend for movies. That's the premise of like 70% of the action movies they watch. I mean it's basically the plot of Dracula, published in 1897, and I bet that's not even close to being the earliest example.
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Feb 1, 2021 16:13
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hyperhazard posted:It makes something like Arrested Development seem incredibly dated, especially the reboot. Isn't that a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison though? The heir of Arrested Development is Succession.
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Feb 6, 2021 19:59
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normal-rear end vampire posted:This just reminded me that Marilyn Manson played a Nazi rapist on Sons of Anarchy. Not that the show raged well in general, but ooof. Wow, I thought he just played the Nazi rapist in The Wonder Years.
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geeko55 posted:Would love to know more about the authors Marenghi is based on, my only real experience is on an episode of the I Don't Even Own a Television podcast that discussed Hutson's Slugs, and I seem to recall them bringing up Darkplace a bit then. I'm pretty sure I remember Matthew Holness naming Lionel Fanthorpe as one of the inspirations: Wikipedia posted:The exact number of books and stories Fanthorpe wrote for Badger Books is not known, but is estimated to be in excess of 180, 89 of which were written in a three-year period – an average of a 158-page book every 12 days.
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The above things are all true, but I think a large part of this is also about how WWII was racialised, both at the time and in post-war memory. The Germans were seen as more "like us" than the Japanese were. And in the post-war films that form a lot of popular memory about the war, then by the 60s you've got plenty of German characters appearing who are just people, in a way that doesn't happen anywhere near as much for the Japanese.
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My problem with Sherlock is that it started out as a fun show centred on Holmes and Watson going around solving mysteries, and gradually disappeared up its own arse as it became centred on the writers trying to prove how clever they are, and doing Buffy-esque drama with the main characters.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). Without a Clue (1988).
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Der Kyhe posted:So it can be assumed that Poirot did not show any affection to any women besides that one Russian royal lady because they were always too old, or low class, for him? I remember seeing arguments that Poirot is 1930s-coded as gay.
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I always wanted to go to a sci-fi convention, meet Mark Hamill, and tell him that I really liked him in Sam Fuller's The Big Red One.
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Jezebel posted:Speaking of inappropriate 80s "it's not sexual assault when it's a 16yr old boy! High five man!"... Lots of people didn't realise Don Draper was raped.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I don’t think that exact mixup would happen, since it’s not a “packy shop”, just a “packy” The shop thing does exist in colloquial UK English, although I don't think you'll hear many people use it, for the obvious reasons.
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DreadUnknown posted:When I think punk I sure think George Bush! https://youtu.be/W6gyPC9DYzU
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Jun 30, 2021 13:31
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Dr Christmas posted:90s sitcoms loved having someone trying to tutor the bad boy character in English or make him cultured, and then get flustered and interrupt him when he said “Eyyy, I love poetry! ‘There once was a man from Nantucket…’” and I never knew what the actual poem was. I don't think there is an actual poem that's being referred to, it's just that it's obvious where a rhyme for "Nantucket" is going to end up.
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Friend, do you think that a person living their life as normal for years and then having questions raised about their legal status is unrealistic?
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BioEnchanted posted:He had a long running recurring role in Roseanne as the toxic idiot that all the other characters hated but put up with because he happened to work with Dan. A role now occupied by Roseanne Barr.
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Jul 23, 2021 18:22
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Henchman of Santa posted:She got killed off several years ago That was Roseanne Conner.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It was 20 years ago. People can be clumsy or have incorrect ideas while meaning well. Y definitely belongs in the past, though. It’s an artifact of a dead world. We all are: act accordingly.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Lincoln’s assassination completely hosed Reconstruction and I’d like to see an alternate history where Johnson wasn’t running it. Haunted West.
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hallo spacedog posted:I think this came up not too long ago and it sucks that that's in there because otherwise it's got some really amazing stuff in it otherwise but it's almost impossible to recommend because of how bad the transphobic stuff is. Like most of the rest of the show is great so it's very out of left field. It's out of left field because if you go back 20 years, most people didn't know much about trans people. I certainly didn't, and I don't think I was unusual. When I was watching The League of Gentlemen for the first time I don't think I'd ever heard the word transphobia, let alone know how to recognise it. I have seen some recent interviews with the League guys where they've said they absolutely wouldn't do things the same way if they were making it now.
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