Unpopular Opinions about TV

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Mythbusters started "I Fucking Love Science".

 

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

Mythbusters started "I Fucking Love Science".

Call me a retard but I don't think it was a bad thing at first. The US isnt putting out too many scientists these days
Then again it's become a secular religion or a team now.
Also intelligent or educated people tend to have big egos or complexes putting themselves above others, and are a tad unsufferable to be around if you say the wrong thing.
I dont know man I know the I LOVE SCIENCE MEME and know fuckers like that, at it's root I dont think it's bad.
But it annoys me to no end the people who look down on to others because they arnt well informed or educated when the populace isnt (supposed to be ) taught critical thinking or have an education worth a damn from public schools.

Pretty sure Ford worked it out in the early 1900s.
Teach em enough to build this or do what ever, teach em too much and they'll question why they're doing any of this.
But you'll get "le reddit" type people who will stick their noses up at you.
I could go on but I've been drinking and don really care anymore.

I'm not against education or intellectualism but those groups tend to be full of "loves to smell their own farts" types

 

[Never Scored]

We are not in the Golden Age of Television.

We are in an age of serialized Dramas, just like before this we were in an age of Reality Tv..and before that was Sitcoms.

God, I fucking hate serialized dramas so much. Everyone talks about how well they are written, and they huff their own farts talking about them, but I don't think they're well written at all because they never bring a satisfying end to the conflict and it drives me up the wall.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

God, I fucking hate serialized dramas so much. Everyone talks about how well they are written, and they huff their own farts talking about them, but I don't think they're well written at all because they never bring a satisfying end to the conflict and it drives me up the wall.

I don't hate them, Breaking Bad is a good show.

But there are other Genres and if your top Five shows of all time are the same Genre you need to watch different shit.

 

[Aquinas]

bring back reality tv

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Didn’t they try that with that Tim Allen show Last Man Standing, but they did it to the extreme, and it became a show only the reddest of red could enjoy?

No, it started like that and mellowed over time. Originally, the eldest daughter was the liberal foil for Tim Allen's conservative character. Then, in seasons 2 through 9, she was replaced by her baby daddy, a deadbeat liberal from Canada. They would preach some hippy bullshit, but by the end of each episode their beliefs would prove to be untenable and they had to be rescued by the reliable and steadfast conservative father.

By season 4, that element of the show had been greatly reduced. They'd still do "issue" episodes a couple times a season, but overall the show moved towards standard sitcom beats.

By season 8, all the political shit was gone. Tim Allen had adopted an asian daughter. He made a black friend (and also hung out with Jay Leno). He was attending pot conventions with his liberal son-in-law. And he ended up loving and respecting all his daughters equally.

Of course by season 8, the audience was mainly conservative, but it didn't really pander to them. Rather, it didn't go out of its way to insult them like many shows.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

bring back reality tv

It's still here.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Inserting #DefundThePolice storylines to your TV police dramas does not make the story line any more interesting if the plot and characterization are not well done, and it has nothing to do with politics.

Spoiler

See Law and Order: SVU and the spin-off it has created since the last year and a half

 

[Screamer]

Mythbusters started "I Fucking Love Science".

It may have contributed, but I think it was tapping into what was there. I remember when Mythbusters was new, there were a few young women I met who would be like, "I love Mythbusters." As a personality quirk signal. Then 30 seconds later it becomes apparent they probably just watched part of an episode once.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Freaks and Geeks ended on the perfect amount of episodes
Also the only time Seth Rogan was tolerable

 

[Eloise419]

Freaks and Geeks ended on the perfect amount of episodes
Also the only time Seth Rogan was tolerable

Speaking of which, has James Franco always been such a shit for brains? I never watched the show, so I'm not sure. I know he reportedly bullied Tobey Maguire on the set of Spider-Man over his looks, but did it extend even further?

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

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See Law and Order: SVU and the spin-off it has created since the last year and a half

once again I state that SVU died when Stabler left

 

[MysticMisty]

Freaks and Geeks ended on the perfect amount of episodes
Also the only time Seth Rogan was tolerable

You could never make Freaks and Geeks now. Mainly because of the first episode, where Lindsay tells the retard that he's, well, retarded. Even though she wasn't being mean (and it does end very badly), even though it was an acceptable word both in 1980 and 1999, people would still freak out that the opening storyline is "girl tries to be nice to retard, calls him retard, and he falls off the bleachers when he gets upset."

Also I think Bill was legit retarded himself and was an undiagnosed autistic. I'm sure it was unintentional (ie just giving direction based on experience and stereotypes), but still funny.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

You could never make Freaks and Geeks now. Mainly because of the first episode, where Lindsay tells the retard that he's, well, retarded. Even though she wasn't being mean (and it does end very badly), even though it was an acceptable word both in 1980 and 1999, people would still freak out that the opening storyline is "girl tries to be nice to retard, calls him retard, and he falls off the bleachers when he gets upset."

Also I think Bill was legit retarded himself and was an undiagnosed autistic. I'm sure it was unintentional (ie just giving direction based on experience and stereotypes), but still funny.

you could never make any decent teen sitcom now because they're all on their fucking phones all day and Inclusivity and Diversity are more important than actual good casting or plots.


Also, here's one. The Netflix adaptation of Sandman has cast a black woman as Death, and literally that's all the reason I need to know it's fucking trash. The character of Death is literally shown with WHITE skin, we are talking PAPER WHITE. It's a fucking comic book, we already know what the characters look like! For fuck's actual fucking sake. I loved that series and was incredibly worried about it after seeing what happened with American Gods, and lo and behold it's already a pile of steaming poop. Let's just ignore that the cast release also included everyone's pronouns because that's what we all have to do these days to avoid accidentally himming a they.


Gaiman has sold out so hard to the woke lefties; I blame Amanda Palmer's influence.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Gaiman was always like this

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Gaiman was always like this

Didn't he write some 3edgy5u Narnia fanfic about Aslan boning Susan or something?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Didn't he write some 3edgy5u Narnia fanfic about Aslan boning Susan or something?

It was the White Queen. While all the kids are dead.
He also made an edgy retelling of Snow White called "Snow and Apples" in which Snow White is a vampire, the prince is a necrophiliac and the Queen gets her head shaved and burned alive nude, during their wedding. Available online (text) and and as a physical illustrated book.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

It was the White Queen. While all the kids are dead.

Try not to cut yourself on all that edge, Neil.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

you could never make any decent teen sitcom now because they're all on their fucking phones all day and Inclusivity and Diversity are more important than actual good casting or plots.


Also, here's one. The Netflix adaptation of Sandman has cast a black woman as Death, and literally that's all the reason I need to know it's fucking trash. The character of Death is literally shown with WHITE skin, we are talking PAPER WHITE. It's a fucking comic book, we already know what the characters look like! For fuck's actual fucking sake. I loved that series and was incredibly worried about it after seeing what happened with American Gods, and lo and behold it's already a pile of steaming poop. Let's just ignore that the cast release also included everyone's pronouns because that's what we all have to do these days to avoid accidentally himming a they.


Gaiman has sold out so hard to the woke lefties; I blame Amanda Palmer's influence.

Gaiman has always pandered, and has taken everything terrifying and interesting about myth and turned them into after school specials. His talent lies in elevating his stories just enough to make the reader feel smart without having to do a significant amount of reflection about what they've read.
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As far as my own opinions go, TV drama just tends to bore me within a few minutes. I feel like I'm the writers' therapist and this is their first session where I figure out what books and movies they like, what their perversions are, and whether I should run, call the cops, or try and stick it out.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I think the reason why The Big Bang Theory ran as long as it did despite its detractors from the nerds is because the show called out nerds on their consoomer and coomer habits, which normies find hilarious. I don't actually consider it to be a bad show although there are better 90s sitcoms than it. People blame it for normies getting into nerd culture, but I'm not sure it was the cause, but a symptom of the popularization of comic book and fantasy media.