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[garbon]

This SNL special tonight is a massive car wreck.

Oh no.

[CountDeMoney]

I know it's breaking your heart.

[garbon]

[Liep]

Bosch. Troubled middle-aged white detective. His black side kick is Marlo Stanfield. It seems pretty good.

[Josephus]

Walking Dead

[spoiler]Funny how it ended on such a happy note. It rained, they got water. Storm killed the zombies.  Music box worked. Nice looking friendly guy pays them a vist. And then they show a preview for next week and its like...well that's a downer  [/spoiler]

[jimmy olsen]

Flipping channels today, I see on the Disney Channel something about Star Wars called "the Yoda Chronicles". I am thinking, cool, let's see what Disney has in store for the Star Wars franchise these days, what with JJ Abrams taking shit over.  After all, the Batman cartoon was pretty serious even though it was animation, it helped the franchise, right?   What's the worst Disney could do with Star Wars, right?

WTF.  Legos and sight gags.

Watch the Clone Wars cartoon. That was pretty good.

I've heard good things about Rebels as well.

[Syt]

Clone Wars is a bit of meh in the first two seasons, though. It became more consistently good with season 3, and even then it had some bad ones.

Season 1 was a lot of miss and few hits (like the one on Ryloth with two troopers running into what seems to be a war orphan). I was ready to call it quits after season 1, not least thanks to a few horrid Jar Jar episodes, but they pulled me back in with Cad Bane.

Season 2 is for a large part rehashing of classic movies (Godzilla, King Kong, Voodoo zombie movies) and suffers from muddled chronology (some episodes fill time gaps from season 1, IIRC, and one even takes place before the bloody Clone Wars movie).

Season 3 and later becomes much more consistent.

[Darth Wagtaros]

SW Rebels seems to crappy for adults and too slow for kids. 

[Tonitrus]

Walking Dead

[spoiler]Funny how it ended on such a happy note. It rained, they got water. Storm killed the zombies.  Music box worked. Nice looking friendly guy pays them a vist. And then they show a preview for next week and its like...well that's a downer  [/spoiler]

[spoiler]He could be legit...they've done a good job in the past of editing the episode previews to throw you off.

But in summary, this episode:  God helps kill zombies.  Of course, God also created zombies, but hey, as Louis CK said, God is like a terrible girlfriend. [/spoiler]

[FunkMonk]

Kingsman is wonderful and hilarious and I recommend it.

5 zany spy movies out of 5

[Ideologue]

I need to see Kingsman.

Recently watched Secretary (2002), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014), Nightcrawler (2014) (again), 50 Shades of Grey (2015), and The Voices (2015).  I'd especially recommend The Voices.  It's pretty weird.  I would not recommend The Day the Earth Stood Still.  Bleh.

Discounting the folks whose big franchises got their start in the 1980s--I mean Schwarzeneger and Willis especially--is there any other actor that could rival Keanu Reeves as the greatest action star of the 1990s?  Discuss.

[garbon]

I know it's breaking your heart.

Having watched some of this, I think a couple big issues were that 1) all the live skits just seemed like bad imitations of the originals that they were aping and 2) is there anyone who would have faithfully watched the full run of SNL to make all the jokes seem funny?

[CountDeMoney]

I know it's breaking your heart.

Having watched some of this, I think a couple big issues were that 1) all the live skits just seemed like bad imitations of the originals that they were aping and 2) is there anyone who would have faithfully watched the full run of SNL to make all the jokes seem funny?

Oh, it was a positively atrocious broadcast.  Too many personalities (particularly many that had really nothing to do with the show beyond a host stint), too many weak references to skits that are --at best- temporarily effective for the time period they existed in, and far too self-referential.  It was a multi-hour self-congratulatory jerk off, trying to cram everybody ever connected to the show--or wished they were--into one special.

Honestly, the documentaries they've done on the specific decades of SNL are much better.

I was just pointing out that, even for President's Day, you don't take a holiday from being a cunt.

[garbon]

It was a multi-hour self-congratulatory jerk off, trying to cram everybody ever connected to the show--or wished they were--into one special.

Couldn't agree more.

I was just pointing out that, even for President's Day, you don't take a holiday from being a cunt.

Well, to be honest, I had planned on watching some of it and from your post wasn't looking forward to wasting time watching something crappy.

[CountDeMoney]

Some things you just gotta watch.  That was one of them, if only to reinforce everything you already knew.