I'm with you on that. I spend far more time re-watching older stuff than I do keeping up with the new rubbish.
breaking bad is my current pick of whats worthwhile viewing. a very normal and frankly boring chemestry teacher joins forces with a delinquent ex student to create the finest drugs around. loads of plot twists with a good injection of dark humour. south park remains a favourite but instead of shows full of gags and one liners they, in the latest series, resorted to 1 or 2 gags stretched out over half an hour. just aint what it used to be
Not trying to nit-pick, just love TV Nice taste in Psych, its not a well-created show, but Roday does great and its well written. The Cape is terrible, the writers have no idea what they are doing in the show, and it looks like its gonna be a bad guy of the week kinda show. It's too bad what they did with it, it could have been pretty cool. Wow, comparing the Cape to Batman. First, there has never been a good TV series of either, I can give you that. Second, The Cape is ridiculous. The guys primary weapon is a piece of fabric. And yeah, I've seen every episode but it almost makes me laugh. It's just so underdeveloped, and the writing is terrible, so with the editing and filming, they try to hard. Some of the bad guys are just ridiculous too, did you see the episode with Scales? Don't get me started on Orwell or the wife or any of her nerdy lawyer friends. I actually liked the Mr. Sunshine pilot for what it was. Not good, but probably the best show possible as long as Matthew Perry is in it NOF is just meh to me. I mean, the point of the show is unrealistic, but at some point the story has got to come down to earth. With recent episodes, they just explain everything with superpowers, and let Katie's boyfriend change words, and Daffney(or whatever) implant thoughts into people's mind, just is a lazy excuse to speed up the plot, and so they don't have to explain many parts of the episode. I agree, its better then the Cape, but at this point the writing is getting slightly ridiculous. One thing that struck a nerve was the JJ episode when they made it so he could predict horse races. It's impossible, and being a numbers guy myself, I just wish they let him do something that could actually be achieved possibly. Agreed. Not the best show, (probably), but still a worthwhile and hilarious watch in my book. I watch it before The Office now. Anyone watch ABC Wednesday night comedy?
They sort of have to do a superhero show unrealistically for it be interesting. In reality, these people would be controlled lab rats if they unexpectedly received enhancements like these. It's realistic for what it is, I think they did a surprisingly great job working with it. I was expecting a dull version of The Incredibles, with the family constantly teaming up to fight crime, but they have executed the show very well. I think they can do whatever they'd like with the superpowers until there's a real explanation, which the show is working up to. They can't let you know everything from the start. I like how they're revealing new powers over time that people such as Daphne didn't know they had until some experimentation. I'm sure Katie's boyfriend knows what he's capable of, but there is a fun mysteriousness surrounding his powers. As long as this leads to something, such as Katie realizing how he was able to control her mind and manipulate objects to fix situations. I agree that the horse race part of the episode with Jim's brother Michael was ridiculous, but at least JJ wasn't right about every race, proving that numbers didn't mean much in horse race betting, so it wasn't completely ridiculous, but it was obvious he would lose the money on the last bet.
Modern Family can be really funny, last night's episode was good. I think that's the only show on ABC's Wednesday lineup that doesn't rely on "sitcomy" cliches half of the time.
I watch Nancy DisGrace. I call her show pretending to be one of those hick chicks from Texas, squealing "NANCY, WE LOVE YOU!!!!!" Honestly, I don't watch networks anymore or anything scripted. Reality TV ruined television, even though there is no such thing as "reality" "television." It is a theoretical impossibility for these two words to coexist. I don't watch that either. Just the mere existence/proliferation/saturation of reality television has watered down everything. Unless you have HBO or Showtime, which I don't. It's sad that ligitimate, scripted television has been banished to places like FX and the USA Network. There is only so much those cable networks can do considering their budgets and their resources. I watch some combination of CNN, MSNBC, HLN, and, believe it or not, the Disney Channel. Then I watch some local sports. And that's about it. My TV isn't on for more than 4 or 5 hours a day, at most. Even then, I'm not watching it most of the time. It's kinda just background noise.
Look, I already said the only reason for my comparing it to Batman (and it was in the post you quote no less) was that they both heroes have no superpowers, and both have a big focus on the city they are based in. I think you, like many people, are expecting some kind of serious, gritty Dark Night experience out of The Cape. It's gone in the opposite direction, light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, easy to watch TV. The writing seems bad because it's supposed to be cheesy. You said it yourself, his main weapon is a cape: tons of superheros have capes that do nothing. It's a purposefully funny twist for him to just have a cape and for it to be the source of his powers; as opposed to a cape being a superfluous addition to a costume. Again, Scales fits the series perfectly, and I admit Vinnie Jones can't act to save his life anymore, but that awkwardness almost (almost) plays into the character, although I admit it does miss the mark a little. I was hugely skeptical watching the first couple of episodes of The Cape, but it's managed to win me over. Just don't go expecting something amazingly serious from it.
HBO should pick up a live-action Spider-Man show. If the crew is able to do any reminiscent to the first two Spider-Man movies and the better Spider-Man comics, it could be great. It would certainly be worlds better than The Cape if it the Spider-Man show took itself seriously.
There's a Wonder Women series in the works, I can't imagine it being anything but terrible http://www.thesuperficial.com/adrianne-palicki-is-wonder-woman-02-2011 I'm not saying a Spiderman series couldn't work, but it'd be a miracle if it was any good.
Honestly, I'm a big Daily Show & Colbert report fan. I used to watch countdown before olberman got fired. Also, Jump city Seattle is a new series on G4. Parkour ftw!
I hope that guy is not mocking fresh prince, just reminiscing. this is one of my favourite moments of the show. I still laugh at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvkxamFizY Also has Game of Thrones started in America?? Its coming to sky atlantic soon and Im wondering is it any good as Im really looking forward to it.
