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The fourth season of Fox’s ratings blockbuster “House”
was the one modeled on elimination-driven reality shows, with the title character assembling his new diagnostic team by hiring dozens of doctors and whittling them town to three as the season progressed. A diverting strategy.
Curiously, House’s old team – the three doctors played by Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer – all eventually returned to the series and Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, albeit to greatly diminished screen time.
Extras on the new set include:
* “House’s Soap: Prescription Passion” (6:45). A handful of funny scenes from the medical drama within the medical drama.
* “New Beginnings” (26:02). Learn that the actors playing the doctors vying for slots on the team did not know who would remain on the show as House continued his firings. Learn that Olivia Wilde, who played Number 13, would read each new script backwards to see if her character survived. Learn that showrunner David Shore and his writing team had far more difficulty ditching the players than House did. Learn Anne Dudek, who played Cutthroat Bitch, was devastated by her dismissal. Learn that she didn’t know she was coming back until after she gone. Learn that producers found incorporating House’s former team into the show a challenge. Learn that, following the writers strike, Fox wanted to just start on season five but Shore insisted on four more episodes to wrap up the fourth season’s storylines. Learn that the very expensive season finale was originally intended as the show’s post-Superbowl episode (rather than the Mira Sorvino installment).
* “Meet The Writers” (14:46). Learn that the show utilizes two teams of writers. Learn that enormous amounts of time, effort and research go into each week’s medical mystery.
* “The Visual Effects of House” (15:28). Learn that David Shore feels the show used too many special effects in its early episodes. Learn how they made the building collapse at the start 4.2. See effects house Encore Hollywood create thousands of extras. Learn how they created the ice station exteriors for the Sorvino episode. Learn that multiple versions of the drilling-into-Sorvino’s-skull shot were prepared in case the network deemed that business too gory.
* “Anatomy of a Scene: The Bus Crash” (5:47). Get a gander at the gimbal approximated the flipping bus. See the elaborate storyboards prepared for he sequence. Learn that the effects were so special even the writers all came down to have a look.
* “My Favorite Episode So Far … ” (6:48). The cast and crew pick what they enjoyed most. Executive producer Katie Jacobs picks the pilot. Shore goes with “Three Stories.” Wilde liked the episode with the gravedigging. Dudek liked the rock star episode and the unusually moving two-part season-four finale. Lots of others like the two-parter also. Hugh Laurie claims to like all episodes equally.
* Showrunner Shore and director-producer Jacobs contribute (barely) a fairly boring commentary on the season’s terrific antepenultimate episode, “House’s Head.” The duo talk so little viewers should have little difficulty following the episode’s story with the commentary track switched on. Learn that the director of photography did an amazing job on this episode. Learn that the special effects people did such a great job. Learn that Hugh Laurie could have delivered one line 900 different ways. Learn that Lisa Edelstein’s strip scene was fun to write.
James Cameron’s two “Terminator” movies are action/suspense perfection; if one stumbles upon either on cable, they must be watched to completion. “Terminator 3” is tolerable but sloppy and bankrupt of ideas. (The big selling point of “3” was a cyborg with breasts, as if we didn’t see the T-1000 morph into Jenette Goldstein and Linda Hamilton in the first sequel.)
“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” last season’s highest-rated new scripted hourlong, is another step backward for the franchise. The terminators have somehow turned stupider and less lethal, fumbling one can’t-miss opportunity to kill humanity’s savior after another.
Sarah Connor grew stupider also, enrolling her future-savior son in public school with full knowledge of the deadly robots programmed to end him. John Connor grew very stupid indeed, jeopardizing humanity’s survival out of boredom and pouting about his mom forgetting his birthday. (You’ll wonder if there was some sort of robotic clerical error; have the terminators in this universe targeted the wrong “John Connor” after all?)
In any case, terminators and humans alike now seem to be nakedly commuting in from the future as a matter of routine -- suggesting John Connor’s survival may no longer be as pivotal to a future resistance movement as previously believed. Not only does the conceit diminish our concern for the increasingly unlikeable John, it serves to lessen the gravity of the events depicted in the features.
The pilot built little confidence in the project. I watched the first season’s other eight hours largely because talkbackers insisted the series got better. It did not. Just as “Smallville” managed to turn me away from a Superman project, “Sarah Conner” threatens to turn me away from this “Terminator” timeline.
A huge fan of Josh Schwartz’s “The O.C.,” I watched every episode of The CW’s low-rated first season of “Gossip Girl” and I’m here to tell you it engendered little more than regret. The high school kids engage in lots of cocaine abuse, underage drinking and pre-marital sex, which is great obviously, but if you strip away the indulgences you’ll discover these kids aren’t terribly compelling characters, and that it’s hard to relate to their choices even when they’re sober.
Humor went a long way toward helping viewers forgive “The O.C.’s” rampant improbabilities, and “Gossip Girl’s” biggest sin may simply be that it’s not funny. I'd be surprised if I found myself looking in on season two.
I love serial killer movies like “Dirty Harry,” “Silence of the Lambs” and “Zodiac,” and I always quite liked the concept of “Dexter” – a tale of a serial killer who murders only bad people. But I always found myself surprisingly bored with what I’ve seen of the series itself. Emmy voters love the show, however, handing its second season a best-drama nomination while excluding from the same category “The Wire,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Brotherhood” and “The Shield.”
“Charmed” devotees will be gladdened to learn that the opening and closing episodes of “Dexter’s” second season, streeting today, were scripted by longtime “Charmed” fixture Daniel Cerone, who has since left “Dexter” to serve as showrunner on next season’s edition of ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money.” It’ll be interesting to find out if fans like the third season of “Dexter” as much without him!
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Just replace the gun with a guitar.
I've never been a fan of Dr. House. Yes, Laurie is great, but he's just playing asshole doctor #12597458 and the rest of the show is CSI, only that the victims are still alive.
I only saw the first episode of Dexter a few months ago. I liked it, but just had no chance to watch the rest of it. -
if you haven't seen house. go pickup season 4. brilliant season finale. brilliant opening epsiodes and the middle bit weren't too bad either. sad to have the regulars not all as prominent, but foreman is still quite in the forefront. Herc, thanks for confirming the sarah connor cronicles. i hated the first ep, and others said it got much better, i never got round to wathcing them ans was hessitnat to do so, but you've saved me a couple of hours! the lesson here is never watch anything with the word cronicle in it. like the fucking mutant cronicles, which was a steaming pile of turd as well
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I will watch it, but if it's no good I think I'm done with that series.
I was thinking that House's 4th season might be its best, but I've seen far from every episode so I can't judge. I do think the medical mysteries remain the least interesting element of the show, but totally fell in love with Cutthroat Bitch, who's on Mad Men now. -
I hate hate hate hate HATE Cartoon Network's new Transformers and George of the Jungle cartoons. They're both simply atrocious; animated abominations that shit on the great history of the franchises that spawned them. Especially Transformers Animated, which dumbs down the cartoon to the point of unwatchability. But ESPECIALLY George of the Jungle, which takes the great Jay Ward cartoon, shits on it, wipes it's ass with it, rolls it up and shoves it up the cunt of a fifty-cent crack whore, absorbs all the nastiness within her, she then blows her nose with it, and THEN... Uh, what's my point again? Oh, yah, it's a bad show that should never have been made, much ess even thought of.
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I've been watching House almost from the beginning, and, yes, season 4 was the best one. It was just amazingly good. I'm usually not much on medical procedurals, but I love this show.
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I'm going to go furiously masturbate now. (Though quite frankly, 'Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest' should have been tossed onto the Season 3 set as an extra.)
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It _did_ get better. Don't believe Herc; he must have snapped, gone crazy somehow. It's nowhere near the quality of the first two movies, of course; but I'd say it's certainly better and smarter than Terminator III. They haven't done anything as stupid as a terminator-virus controlled fleet of cars.
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and sucked hard. How the hell do you take the established main characters that everyone gives a damn about, and kick them to the curb for all intents and purposes for the sake of newer, less interesting characters? Well, aside from Kal Penn. I laughed my ass off when he set a patient on fire with the shock paddles. I like thirteen, but she's no Cameron. The only upside to the fourth season was that annoying fucking Doc Dundee being kicked way to the back, only showing up for a few minutes total. They need to hurry up and kill him already.
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those covers for Scrubs season 7 and Bones are laugh-out-loud bad. But on a more positive note, I am actually thinking of double dipping and picking up Band of Brothers on Blu-Ray. The commentary by the real men of Easy Company should be incredibly interesting. I have always wondered what their thoughts were on how the series depicted certain events they lived through.
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Season 4 in my opinion was not it's best. Some of the episodes were great yes, but overall I was underwhelmed. I think the reasons are because of the lack of screen time Cameron, Chase, Forman had. Hopefully they fix that issue in season 5, hoping that there is no SAG strike that fucks up our TV programs again.
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Seriously, why is that show still on the air? Who the hell's watching it?
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that means it should be hitting the torrents pretty soon. Sweet... I didn't want to wait three more weeks anyway. God bless the intertubes.
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I really dug the hell out of THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. I also think that DEXTER is pretty goddamn brilliant. And I always agree with you, Herc. Especially about Whedon-y goodness. Fuck the TBers that get on your ass for whipping out the Whedon. Whedon is good, Whedon is great. Wow... he's kinda like God.
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That's nice...
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Yikes. When you state an opinion as fact, it kind of makes you look like a jerk (we all know better, though).
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All these nice box sets coming out... but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay 400 bucks for something that should rightly be half that. Maybe we'll see some nice discounts this time around on Black Friday.
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Not at the same level as the first two movies, but was a hell of a lot better than the 3rd one (which it effectively makes irrelevant by skipping forward ten years and having Sarah proactive with the cancer forewarning). For a weekly TV show it's surprisingly well done and true to the spirit of T2.
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it's one of the 3 best shows on tv. the wire - now that is a suprisingly boring show.
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sorry but i really dont get you guys who thought that season 4 sucked. chase and cameron i didnt really miss them with the great influx of new interns. Taub is i beilve the weakest character. 13 slots into the cameron role well and well chase was weak as well. kutner is a hell of a lot better. cut throat bitch was brilliant. i was sad to see dobson( the old guy and sam carters dad in stargate) go as he would have been a great regular. the epsiodes this season have been superb. and having cutty do a lapdance was genius.foreman is back and he was the most interesting of the orginal 3. this series goes from strength. if you've been watching from the begining, you cannot say that series 4 wasn't the best yet.
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People told me that The Sarah Connor Chronicles was "SOOOOOO good". So I kept watching because I thought that maybe something was wrong with ME... turns out it was just that the show was absolute crap.
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for interesting as he was. I thought the black mormon was 8 kinds of more interesting then Foreman, but in the end they made him just as back stabbing and 2 dimensional. Well done. And Thirteen did not "slot" well into the Cameron role... "OMFG she's bisexual?!" Really? In 2008 some writer somewhere seriously thought that was some kind of hook? I liked CTB more when she hooked up with Wilson, but killing her off like that was just lame schlock value, forcing us to deal with Wilson-as-moody-chip-on-his-shoulder tool for the first half of next season. Yay.
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Justice League on a BluRay.
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In the commentary on the DVD set, they said they were drawings were expanded for 4x3 TV, but you should watch them cropped at 16x9, as that is how they were intended to be viewed.
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Doesn't everyone?
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Surprisingly boring Orange Cinema?
I don't watched a lot of TV really, but THE WIRE is one show I've stucj with from the very first episode. DEXTER was a show I didn't think would grab me, perhaps too smartsy for it's own good, but as it happened it got better as it went along and now it's a definite must-see. Less must-seeish (?) is Sarah Connor Chronicles - but the first season just kept me watching and I'll be tuning in to the second season. -
pull the stick out of your rear. my god! it's tv, it's terminator. i thought it was pretty good for a 9 episode/strike season. i can't wait for it to return.
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All seasons have been out for awhile now.
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41 dollars for all of NewsRadio is an insanely good deal.
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...lame 80's cartoon that Joss Whedon ripped off to create Firefly.
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Just what is it you can expect to gain from watching a TV cartoon on blu ray? The definition is very finite. It's not like you are going to see goosebumps on wonder woman's breasts.
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I got into it at the end of last season, and it's consistently funny and interesting. And come on, it's got Angel on it!
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Bad Herc, bad!
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what the fuck are you talking about? since when has forman been a token anything. he's the one that's always stood up to house. cameron had reached the end of the line. OMG what about the patients feelings line had reached it's fill after 3 seasons. 13's bisexuality hasn't even been a fucking hook, the fact she has Huntington's makes her more intersting then cameron. the back stabbing mormon. well my friend that was the last thing i expected, so no, it's wasn't two dimensional. and the fact that ctb died as we we're just warming up to her, yeah that does provide some intersting dyanics going into the next season. i respectively suggest you dont bother watching, as you're obviously bored to the show and have a 1000 better ideas. try Grey's Anatomy perhaps.
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At first I thought she was just doing her best River impersonation, but she's shown a level of ruthlessness that River never had. C'mon Herc, the series did get better the last 4 eps and is much better than T3 even with a few plot holes. And no one ever said the TV shows continuity ever co-insided with the movie series. Think of it as an alt-universe take on the same general idea.
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I too lamented the loss of the main chracters but I think it was necessary to add new life to the series. House's employee recruitment drive was hilarious. I just happen to not be able to stand Kal Penn (Kumar). He's a fucking hack and a blight on the series. Not to big on Olivia Wilde either who looks like some kind of X-files alien hybrid. The Season 4 finale was strong however, and arguably one of the best of the series to date. Definitely thee best of the season. Look forward to a new season.
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It's not bad. It's kinda fun. Plus there is really nothing else on when it's on.
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least with modern shows like justice league, it makes a big difference. the image is much clearer and sharper. thats probably due to the fact they use computer to color these days but yeah. i cant see it improving old hand painted shows too much though but anything created in the computer color age looks amazing. i may not have liked the movie but that justice league new frontier looked pretty darn shiny on blu-ray.
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Give it a proper chance, Herc. See if you can blag the DVD sets off Quint. Absolutely brilliant series, full of well-written, well-acted characters, and a protagonist kept just hovering on the brink of audience sympathy loss with wonderful delicacy. Every time you're comfortable with who and what Dexter is, the show manages to tweak you out of that comfort zone with a reminder or suggestion of just how fucked-up scary he potentially is, and yet you never stop loving him.
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It's one of those shows I enjoy when watching but don't rabidly look forward to, or care if I miss the occasional episode. That being said, I thought the big reveal at the end of this past season was laughably lame. How many red herrings were thrown at us during the episode? "It's this guy, no it's this guy, not it's you, no it's you, oh, that's who it is, really?". Can't really blame the strike as having rushed it as they did seem to have plenty of episodes to work with.
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...tried and failed to be.
SC was slow at first, building up gradually the way a series can do, and a film cannot. Lena's Sarah was complex, torn, melancholy, weary, and strong--she hits a variety of notes in her superb performance, and not just the angry-fighter note that Linda did in the films.The Terminator on Terminator fight scenes are kinda lame, and Terminators are incredibly lousy shots, which is lucky for humans (and actors, screenwriters!), but the plot and characters are developing over time, which I like. Bionic Woman was stupid at the beginning, and managed to get more idiotic with each minute of each episode. -
I was rather disappointed with the absence of commentaries on the first release of the DVD. With the enormous number of actors in the series it seemed a no-brainer to gather a few (the ones more prominent in that episode) for each episode. Plus add the writer, director, veterans and you have the makings of some great commentaries. It's nice to see they'll be doing some with the veterans on the BluRay edition but I think they could have done more. The actors were together for over 10 months - I think they would all have some great stories to tell.The other thing that bugged me was the lack of trailers. I liked the "Men of Easy Company" vignettes, uneven as they were. However nowhere was the 2 or 3 minute trailer or the shorter ones for the individual episodes.I'm considering getting a BluRay player because of Band of Brothers. However, I wonder if they will be doing a "10th Anniversary Edition" with even greater features. 2011 is only 3 years away - far enough away for them to justify another release, but close enough to make me feel the frustration of buying it a third time.
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While I enjoyed Ron Livingston's video journal on the making of Band of Brothers I assumed from the title that it would be about the making of the series. It was maybe 6 episodes in that I began to see that it would never go past Boot Camp. Maybe he was too busy to continue once shooting started, or maybe HBO put a kibosh on anything he shot behind the scenes, but I would have liked to have seen his video journal during the shooting of the series. Maybe that can be on the 10th Anniversary Edition!
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What a fucking masterpiece of a Mini Series. I was floored the first time I watched it.
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ought to have a subtitle before the listings begin - "Every shit genre series that pulled more than a 5 share." It all comes down to this - "The Starlost," for fuxxake.
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Is this series properly done this time? The last time they did an Ultraman DVD they improperly licensed it from a Thai conman and didn't use the original masters, IIRC.
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I'm pre-pre-pre-preordering this! Glad I waited so long on picking them up individually. I smelled a Complete Collection as soon as the WB started blowing them all out for $100 total on their website. Hopefully these are improved transfers, but I'm onboard for the cheaper price and extras alone, aw hell yeah!
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anyone else getting a CIA style black bar across the Band of Brother's set?
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Same with me. I wa swaitinf for the mto drop fro mtheir $35 each price and the none day they dropped to $17 a piece on Amazon. I was just about to push the button, and I smelled shit. Did a quick google search and found out they were releasing the box set. alreayd pre-ordered. Although kind of pissed the box set doesn't include the three films.
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Plotholes and all. I like the cast fine and there are tender little moments that I do kind of enjoy. Also I don't think we should fault John Connor for making the occassional stupid mistake, nobody is a genius at 15 no matter how high they're IQ.
Speaking of age. Looking at Seth Rogen on the cover of Undeclared and looking at him now makes me think pot might speed up the aging process. Funny, talented guy but.... -
With regards to the terminators making many trips into the past: If you were Skynet, and you had a working time machine, would you ONLY use that to send terminators back and kill the leader of the resistance against you?
Hell no! you march in machine after machine after machine and get them all to set up as many backup plans as possible, stockpiling materials that are rare after Judgement Day, killing resistance cells that have been sent into the past and ensuring certain key events in your own creation take place without interference.
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Foreman is the token arrogant prick chip on his shoulder black man, and pretty freakin offensive sometimes. The only good part about him is watching House tear into him. True he's not as bad as that limp dick Chase, but he's a close second. And Cameron hasn't done the whiny patient care thing since season 2, and has gotten a lot stronger in the last few seasons then she was at the beginning. Seeing how I loved the first three seasons, I'm pretty sure I'll keep watching despite season 4's general ass suckiness, thanks. And Grey's Anatomy? Are you kidding? That show couldn't be more offensive to people in the medical field if it tried, and sometimes I swear to god it is trying. I don't even have my white coat yet and already I can pick out no less then 40 medical/scientific errors per ep. That's one of the reasons I love House... how anally they get things right.
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Holy crap! I had given up hope on this series, thinking I had only imagined watching it when I was but a wee lad back in the '70s. Nobody else ever seemed to remember it. Now I believe that shows like that get released on DVD solely to cater to people like me - folks who will are willing to buy a series set just to see if it lives up to their potentially-faulty memories.
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Never got to see this series, as the NBC affiliate in Sacramento (KCRA 3: Where the News Comes First) chose not to show it for reasons unknown. Usually it was pre-empted by a baseball game out of San Francisco. Hence my life-long hatred toward televised sports. Always keeping me from seeing what's SUPPOSED to be on.
Anyway, I never got to see Quark, so I'm wondering if it's any good at all. The cover art claims to be from "the co-creator of Get Smart," which would indicate Buck Henry. (If it were Mel Brooks, I'm sure his name would be in big, bold letters.) Unless there was another creator of Get Smart of whom I was previously unaware. Hmmm... -
Buck Henry created Quark.
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Yep, that's what I figured. They couldn't put HIS name on the cover in big, bold letters. Most folks would say, "Who?"
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Yes, it was a little uneven at first, but halfway through the first season it settled into a solid storyline that has been more interesting than most shows currently on TV. The season finale was also quite spiffy, especially with the effective use of Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around."
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still loves SNL? No offense Herc, but we may need to get someone else controlling the Coaxial section. Your tastes seem to be diametrically opposed to the core audience of this site.
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I never thought I'd see the day... I barely remember this, I was 8, but i can't recall if this is even worth a look.
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Is pretty damn good...it started off a little slow but it has gotten a lot better. Well worth watching..
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I have to admit I also started to like her when she was banging his friend..shes pretty hot , nice eyes and long ass legs. She's on mad men now? I never watched that show..yet.
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Core audience? Here's a novel idea: If you don't like Herc's likes/dislikes then find another site. It's that simple.
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Buy it. Best episode was Dungeons & Dragons. The future war scenes were fucking awesome.
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If you hate televised sports then you must REALLY hate the Olympics then...haha
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You wouldn't even recognize CB on Mad Men. Dark haired neighbor who was preggers most of the first season. She's only on occasionally.
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I'm pretty sure she was Booth's lawyer girlfriend in season one of Bones, and she played a religious woman in an episode of Criminal Minds, I think it was.
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And believe me, I wrote the book on retarded. It was called M-O-O-N. That spells Retarded, by Tom Cullen. I swear the creature known as Hercules has, hands down, the worst taste of any so called "tv critic" I have ever seen or read, but really, what else can you expect of someone whose main job appears to be plugging as many Amazon links as humanly possible at any one time, and reprinting stories from other sites, rather than, you know, supplying anything by way of actual content, or, well, news. Pah, whatever.
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I can't think of anyhting in recent memory I haven't liked that he did.
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Sarah Connor Chronicles is terrible, and far worse than T3.
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are you sure you're watching the saem show as i am? The only arrogant prick, token or otherwise is House!
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It turns out Herc is only one of millions of people writing about TV on the Internet. If there's a TV critic out there who's more to your taste, read him or her instead. It's completely allowed.
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People have been asking for a Dexter talkback for two years now. I'm sorry, but I guess my business background is failing me here. When you have a site that generates revenue based on web traffic, you ignore what your audience wants and appease your own interests. Ok, I see that is how it works.
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I couldn't care what Herc likes or doesn't like, but he refuses to give the people of this site the Talkbacks they want because he doesn't like the shows. That is just moronic to utmost degree.
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I've actually lost track of all the shows he's (she's?) turned me on to. Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, The Wire, Weeds, Alias, Buffy, Firefly, The Venture Brothers, Carnivale, Rome, Pushing Daisies, probably a dozen others I'm not thinking of. If you don't get his taste, go switch over to TWOP or one of the fan sites dedicated to Sarah Connor or something.
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You both DO realize that these "complete series" TV sets almost ALWAYS have the discs hosed in those HORRIBLE cardboard sleeves that are all but guaranteed to scratch the shit out of them if you take them out more than twice? I got a steal on the complete X-Files set, but was absolutely BULLSHIT when I opened it up and saw how the discs were packaged within. Just a word of warning. I'd only buy the complete Batman: TAS if it included some substantive extra features not on the original season sets (I always thought it sucked that each set had less than four commentaries apiece).
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I can finally quit bitching. Anyway, for what little it's worth, I think the show's best season was the first. Anyone new to House needs to see only one episode: Three Stories.
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It's perfectly justifiable to just not like it, but it quickly went from an okay show with great source material to a very good show that actually shows hints at greatness. I was looking for excuses to ditch the show, but every time they made what appeared to be the worst decision ever (see the Reese stuff), they made it work, and work WELL. My highest hopes were initially that we'd get some okay action on the small screen and hopefully it wouldn't be an embarassment - instead, I see them laying groundwork for higher concepts that work with the material, like artifical intelligence (when is AI sophisticated enough that it becomes equal to a human life? Or even more valuable?), SkyNET's motivations, John Connor's duty to become a great leader in the future versus enjoying his life and his humanity, etc. And they might actually be able to do it WELL. I'm impressed so far, so here's hoping the second season delivers on the promises of the first.
PS: I love House! One of my favorite shows of all time - and I called the final picks for the team three episodes in (hooray for a degree in literature! Story structure actually makes predicting where TV shows will go next easy enough that I can win money over bets with friends... now I just need Tony to come back for sure on 24 and I can complete my trifecta (along with who was in the coffin in Lost!). -
I actually remember Herc posting a bunch of DEXTER talkbacks over the past two years. You can probably find at least some of them by typing "DEXTER" in the AICN search box.
But I think you may be a little too focused on AICN talkbacks. If you just want to chat about a show, you can use AICN's The Zone or Television Without Pity, or a lot of other sites. There's got to be at least one devoted exclusively to DEXTER.
Whoever said nobody cared much about Coaxial before Herc came along was right. It used to be a ghost town, and now Coaxial gets written about in Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide and Us and the NY Times. Herc kind of put this side of the site on the map. -
There are NO significant plot holes. Yes, there are things that have not been fully and intimately explained, but any degree of common sense or imagination can fill in the blanks and spare us a 9-part lecture on how pseudo-sci-fi-action science works. Use your heads, people - like it or not, but don't pretend that there are serious plot-holes/mistakes to justify it. They're not there (unless I'm missing something, in which case, enlighten me, but think first!)
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But he has all but ignored Angel, Dexter, Chuck, Reaper, Entorage,Jericho, and a lot of other shows that are very popular with the readers of this site. Some aren't my taste, but on the movie side you don't see Harry blackballing a movie that is popular with the readers that he particularly has no interest in seeing.
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I can't remember a single Dexter talkback. Go look at Quint's talkback that he posted a few days ago. Many people agree with me. That talkback has several hundred posts for a show that isn't even broadcasting new episodes for another month or month and a half.
Not saying Herc is horrible. He is informative and entertaining when he is interested in a show, but off the map all together if he doesn't care about the show. For example, he spends more time covering 90210 2.0 than he has ever spent on some the other shows I mentioned. And I don't think many people on this board care at all about the new 90210 especially since Rob Thomas isn't involved in it anymore. -
There are 8 articles and the last one I could find is Herc giving spoilers for season 2. No specific episode TBs though.
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How about using your business background and start your own TV site. Then you'll have insufferable whiners like yourself to contend with. In case you didn't get it the first time: Go someplace else if AICN is not to your liking.
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This just in: It turns out that the Fox television show "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" isn't quite as good as the two movies that James Cameron directed while he was in his prime. A shocked geekdom is left to ponder the possibility that this may not be an accurate indicator as to whether the show sucks or not.
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TVguy4566, if you think you can attract a bigger audience than Herc has, you should start your own site. You can post posts for every episode of every show ever broadcast, or just emphasize the shows you like, as Herc does. If I like your site better than Herc's, you can bet I'll be reading yours every day.
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I was a huge skeptic and watched the first few episodes with a fine tooth comb ( not that that makes sense ) The only thing I ever caught them do was possibly bend a rule in the established universe. When the Cromarty Terminator's head travels through time, his flesh melts off, and as is established in T1, you can't time travel if you're pushin metal.
This could be explained away though as a matter of timing... that the flames from the explosion ( or whatever it was, I'm going on a few months since I saw it ) actually went into the time field with the terminator and the flesh did not get burned off until *after* the head had been transported.
Anyway... it's a minor point, and not a plot hole per se.
I love the show and can't wait for it to come back. My old favorite "Prison break" jumped the proverbial shark and just keeps on jumpin so I'm going to have more room on my Tivo now :)
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wait, I thought they just built a better time machine. was the t-1000 not considered metal?
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I think I've posted something like 300 "Angel" stories over the past decade. If you can't find them, it's because AICN's search engine is a less-than-perfect device. And I've posted on those other shows as well, albeit admittedly not in the same quantity.
And even though I've not yet personally fallen under "Dexter's" thrall, I am working on getting more content related to that series on Coaxial. Patience. -
Herc, I've never heard a good explanation for how the T-1000 got sent back. Maybe its liquid-metal composition counts as organic somehow... no explanation was ever given in the movie, and that's the biggest (perhaps _only_) real plothole that I know of in the first two movies. I think it does imply they are sent through the same machine; in fact, I got the impression they left just minutes apart.
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Aug 19, 2008 11:09:22 PM CDT
You know, not everyone's going to like the same shows.
by voice o. reason
Herc is entitled to his opinion, and half the fun is the discussion an opinion you don't agree with brings.
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"Three stories" is still my fav. Though "One Day, One Room" is quality, with the raped girl who only talks to House. Or Larroquette's ep, Coma Guy. I liked season for, the opportunity for new people to be shocked and appalled by House, then gradually learn to appreciate his brilliance and dedication to his craft. They better not let Wilson go, he's the best foil for House. I've be calling for House TBs for a while now, but I kinda like that AICN hasn't done it, it still feels like a private show, my personal secret. Unlike, say, Lost, which everybody chimes in on.
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What in the heck? They're still at the stores, yo. Did Michael Richards do a full season commentary track apology? I kid, I kid. Anyway, yeah, I am a tad bummed that Herc didn't dig on Terminator (kind of harshly, might I add) but, c'mon Herc, you HAVE to have at least admired one of the final scenes of the S1 finale when Cormartie killed the hell out of all those cops to Johnny Cash. THAT was a cool scene and still showed the industructable Terminator can still Terminate. Whoo.
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I can kind of understand why they haven't really covered House that much. This really is much more of a scifi/fantasy/animation/comedy type of fanbase website. Still, it is nice to see it recognized once in a while. Even if it is a little outside of the demographics here, it's still an amazing show. What gets me is that House gets great ratings, yet almost no one I ever talk to watches it. I hear daily people babbling on about Dancing with the Stars, but House is pretty damn far from a watercooler show. I guess its probably a lot of people's 'secret' favorite. It's kind of cool actually.
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Hard not to like that part.
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was previously part of a 1.x/2.x box, but never before issued on its lonesome. I've no idea why they're doing it now.
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With the following two comments:
RE: Gossip Girl "A huge fan of Josh Schwartz’s “The O.C.,” "
RE: Dexter: "But I always found myself surprisingly bored with what I’ve seen of the series itself."
You negated the possibility I could take your critique seriously, or that anyone else should.
Dexter is an excellent series in general. It is well acted, with interesting stories that are directed with an eye toward making the emphasis on the acting and story rather than the flashy crap so many shows rely on.
You liked the OC? OMFG! How is that possible? Yet another show about a bunch of whiny, self-involved, foolish, entitled brats and their idiotic parents?
You've had some good articles on AiCN in the past, but maybe you drank too much before posting this one. -
I come so close to agreeing that last season was the best of House, but I found myself lamenting the missing back and forth between House and Dr. Cameron...as Herc points out the screen time for the three former fellows was vastly diminished. I can take or leave Chase and Foreman for the most part, but I miss Dr. Cameron.
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I don't hate the Olympics, as they're SUPPOSED to be on. And even then, only in even-numbered years.
My main beef as a kid was when a show that was supposed to be on NATIONALLY BROADCAST NETWORK TV was, instead, pre-empted for a baseball game - and as I lived in Sacto, but the game was from SF, it couldn't even really be considered "local." Fuckin' San Fraciscans, always hogging the spotlight... (This was in the days before cable, and TiVo, and the internet... if a show was pre-empted for something else, odds were very good that you weren't going to see it AT ALL!)
Besides, how could I hate the Olympics when it offers up such visual goodness as women's beach volleyball? I ask you! -
It's too early for this shit.
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Denhilist will never again take your critiques seriously because you liked the OC and found Dexter boring. Don't you know that AICN readers are all supposed to like the exact same TV shows and movies? Of course Denihilist is a dipshit so you've got that in your favor.
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but I loved what they did with the secondary characters from the movies. It was fun to see the arms dealer from T2 show up, even if he did end up betraying Sarah. My favorite episode to date has been the one with Sarah's old doctor who becomes a crazy end of the world theorist. Unfortunately, all of the high school hijinks were kind of bland. The series has been doing a much better job with Sarah Connor and the new terminator than it has with John Connor.
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Did they ever get to the bottom of that graffiti that caused the girl to kill herself? If they did I must have blocked it out...
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Aug 20, 2008 1:44:42 PM CDT
I keept thinking it's Charlie Sheen on that Dr. Who cover
by crimson dynamo
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I think they left that girl's suicide dangling by the end of the season. Maybe they weren't able to fit it in the story because of the writer's strike.
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What spirit is that? The spirit of retconning the rules of time travel (unchangeable uroboros loop becomes you-can-change-everything branching timelines), of having whiny, unlikeable characters, of copping out over the inevitability of the future horrors that must be endured, and of having cheesy Arnie one-liners?
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I can't believe they're putting that out on DVD. I remember watching it when I was a kid. I think it used to be on CBC. Not a terribly good show, though the look of the domes on the ship always stuck with me (as well as the music). I do believe that Harlan Ellison had his name removed from the show because of how badly it turned out.
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What an incredible wit you possess! I wish that my ability to respond to well thought out, polite commentary was limited to calling others names and poor attempts at sarcasm.
Perhaps in time you and you abilities will grow to offering something useful to society, even if it is only fertilizer.
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Lame response junior. Try again.
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You've hit upon the closest thing that show has to a "mistake," and it's based on incomplete information that we got from probably unreliable characters (none of them were time-travel scientists, after all) about a different machine altogether. And even if all of that were not a valid point, I can imagine that Cromartie's (y's?) head had just enough faux-flesh covering it that it could've made it through - or imagine that the "rule" only applies to traveling backward, or this new machine was better, or the Terminator endos were now made to make the jump. Or something we didn't think of. And in a worst-case scenario - even if it IS a mistake, did it ruin anything? If it did, I'd question someone's priorities big time!
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I do appreciate your response. I do hope you will accomodate those of us who like shows you don't when there is a large number of people asking for it in the future though.
Sorry about the Angel thing. That was my bad, you were always a supporter of all things Whedonverse. I was thinking of something else like either Smallville or Supernatural and put Angel for some reason, Weird because I loved Angel and don't watch the other two.
I will hold off further judgement at least until the new season of Dexter is on. I do agree with most of the shows you do love (although I will never get your fascination with the current version of Saturday Night Live), but I guess I and other like other shows you either don't or don't have the time for. -
I've not seen it in years, and had forgotten how stark the opening 5 mins were. No voiceover - just a shot of L.A traffic which then flash forwards to the future war in full shock and awe glory. Coupled with the model work - full animatronic T-800's and non cgi explosions. THATS what the future war should be like.
The TV show can't do things like this week on week and to it's credit to play on some interesting ideas and themes. That's what good sci-fi should be - IDEAS. Not all kiss kiss bang bang. What's going on in the future basement? How is the timeline affected as a result of sending terminator technology into the past? Questions that provoke thought. If it can continue to expand on this I'd be very happy to offer full support to the show. -
I loved that show but I only caught the last couple episodes, the dvd's will be mine!
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The guy who runs the show said that the reason the T-1000 was able to time travel was because there was some flesh still attached to the head. I guess it wasn't that visible.
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New Alloy. That will just be my explanation from this point on. Kind of like when something that defies logic happens in Star Wars we just say ummmmm, "the force?"
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