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‘HERC! No BIG LOVE Finale Talkback??’
I am – Hercules!!
“HERC! No Big Love Finale Talkback?” writes “Fico” in the Star Trek talkback. “I used to be bored with the show, but this season has been amazing. Can't believe you're not down with the Principle.”
I am way down with The Principle, but am also running behind with three more unwatched episodes on On Demand I had hoped to absorb before tonight’s season finale. (Real-world matters intervene.)
No reason non-Hercs can’t gab about it, though I won’t be reading the talkback until I catch up.
For future reference, Fico, I don’t read every post in every talkback, so if you’re especially anxious for me to see something, consider writing to herculesAICN@yahoo.com.
I think the season finale of HBO sister series “Flight of the Conchords” hit HBO tonight, so feel free to yap about that as well.
Season Eight: Volume Four!!
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Season Eight: Volume Four!!
Blu-ray Bond!!
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Does anyone think it has a realistic shot at getting renewed?
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sucks, and was funnier when it was called Tenacious D.
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After last week's episode, I finally figured out why the show's opening each week has all those veils in it.
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but then remembered I try to avoid being a huge douche whenever possible.
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Suck it
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In the words of mr. Jack bauer 'DAMN IT!!'
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In the words of Freckles Bauer, "I think Jack might be right about this one, Larry."
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Or SHO or ABC for that matter.
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someone give me the low down
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Mormon soap opera.
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and Pay Lay Ale
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I mean everything will be a letdown after Fri night's BSG finale. There was a Big Love ep a couple of weeks ago that approached real greatness ... it put the family on a road trip to Cumorah and was really out of the box for this series. I find it getting a little repetitious and afraid to take real risks. When Bill married the fourth wife, the Serbian waitress, I thought that would add some interest but was disappointed when she left the next week. I also got pissed off when Bill's teen daughter miscarried, I wanted that story to play out. It seems the producers will only go so far in one direction then feel they have to bring everything back to the status quo, which gets old fast. Like when Roman (Harry Dean Stanton, probably the best actor in the show) got shot and just lingered in a coma for weeks then got better again. I hate those soap opera tricks (didn't like it when BSG pulled them either.) Best things in the show: Rhonda (where is she?), the Hollis Green cult shenanigans, and of course Stanton.
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"LDS Temple secrets? 'Big Love' TV episode angers Mormons" -- 1200 comments! tinyurl. com/dxbnbw
"HBO apologizes for offense, but will still air 'Big Love' temple scene" -- 477 comments tinyurl. com/dld27e
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pretty much any show that makes it past one season is going to get boring, unless you're arrested development or something, in which case you don't get boring, people just don't tune in.
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...has been one of the most hilarious and original shows on TV in a long time...it's too bad that it's over.
Big Love sucks. Seriously, who gives a shit about it? It's a dud.
The only thing HBO has now is Eastbound and Down...which is fuckin' awesome. Oh, and Entourage which is entertaining.
Hopefully that 'Hung' show with Tom Jane will be worth a damn...because that No. 1 Ladies Detective Bullshit looks like a big stinkin' pile of crapola.
This used to be the home of Deadwood and the Sopranos for Christ's sake. -
Wish the thread was marked spoiler alert, lots of good stuff happened in this episode.
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I mean its only the best show on tv right now, lets just ignore its existence.
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Never miss it, very good show. Last week's big shootout was awesome.
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I mean, you'd at least hope that there'd be a Talkback for that show to help keep it alive.
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I'm kinda shocked. Nice to see something not based "in the real world" that is not sci-fi or supernatural in nature. Nice little fantasy show... it'll never survive!
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The boys aren't doing a third season, period. And dude, please, lets talk about Kings, it showed real promise last week. It had some stereotypical pilot iffyness but def one of the better pilots this year. It was just so...different...
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Just as riveting as anything The Sopranos or Six Feet Under ever did. And it has the best cast on TV. Sorry Lost and Mad Men.
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The Past Three Seasons of BIG LOVE Are all Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!! However I am very very Depressed I will have to wait a Whole Year for The Outstanding Fourth Season. SIGH
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Is that actually supposed to be a complement?
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Does Anyone Know When This Past Season(The Third)will be on DVD?
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Lost is the greatest TV show in the history of TV shows.
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personaly, I watched a couple first season and one second season episode, and I think the show sucks. It's obvious, bland humor and an attempt to do Christopher Guest type stuff, by people who are not funny.
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comment on it? I mean shit I show respect to Battlestar Galactica by not commenting in the talkback about it. Why? because I didn't watch BSG so why the hell would I dare piss on the show people love so much? Hmm oh yeah cause I ain't a prick thats it. Big Love is a good show....ohhhh maybe it ain't Lost right.....or whatever other show the great and powerful talkbackers deem the BEST....but I like it so thats all I care about.
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The last episode was horrible.
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The first 4 episodes of season 2 were completely unfunny and even sadder was the songs were boring.
Then came episode 5. Where Jemaine sleeps with the Australian. Maybe you have to be an Australian with a few Kiwi friends, but this was easily one of the best episodes they'd ever made. And the rest since have been good too (Lucy Lawless was wonderful even if underused). They're not Chris Guest or Tenacious D, as much as Chris Guest isn't Tenacious D. It's obvious to me.
As for Fico writing “HERC! No Big Love Finale Talkback?” in a Star Trek TB, what about all the times TBers have written "HERC! No Supernatural or Chuck Talkback?". Or does Herc need Fico's permission? -
thanks anyways
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Because HBO has a tendency to cancel really great shows after the second season...see also: Rome and Carnivale.
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This season was Spot On. In fact it was so good that my wife often compared it to season 2 of Carnivale. I agree that the Road Trip episode a few weeks ago was brilliant. Tonight I was pretty happy with the outcome. Thank Heavenly Father HBO has already signed on for season 4.
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... because of Bret and Jemaine, not HBO. They said in an interview last year that they basically used up their whole catalog of music in the first season and had to write all new songs for the second, which would prolly lead to delays and an abbreviated season. To their credit, neither of those things happened. But the overall quality of the songs pales in comparison to the first season. Considering the "finale" type ending of last nights ep. (not a cliffhanger like last season), I think the chances of the boys doing a third season are slim.
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That show is kicking!!!
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Gawd, if we can jeopardize our careers by spending all our wage-slave cubicle-time reading AICN, surely you have NO EXCUSE!!!! ;-)
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Will email next time. I gave up hope on the talkback and decided to drink and pass out instead. This was an amazing season, with Roman's trial, the 4th wife, the road trip, the temple controversey. And I love Crazy Wanda and Creepy Selma. It was difficult for the finale to live up to this season, but there were some great moments: Alby "joking" about killing his parents and the botched letter bomb, Margie being openly giddy about Sarah's engagement, and Roman's pillow meal. Great show.
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...who was worried about a possible J.R. ending, i.e. "Who Shot Roman?" Thought they were going to stick a gun through the darkened doorway and end it right there, thank Elohim they didn't. It was great to see Joey get his revenge and Roman get his comeuppance.
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Big Love > Supernatural and Chuck
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He just said he was three episodes behind. No fair with the spoilers, directed at him with his name. I know he spoils every other show, but only if you do the invisotext thing.
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Good call mojo, he said he wouldn't read the talkback till he was finished but I shouldn't have mentioned his name. But let's be honest, he gets off on the spoilage.
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was opened just for Fico and everybody else is talking about other shit. Lolllll
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Big Love is completely flawed and not satisfying as a show since it protects it's lead characters from ever having to deal with the real consequences of their actions. For instance, Nicki this season finally gets thrown out of the family yet gets taken back with open arms before the the seasons ends. It's a much more interesting idea to have Nicki out there as a free agent next season. Will Bill take her back? What/who will she do next? Instead, this show cops out and puts everything back nice and neat before the end of the season. And don't give me Roman getting offed as an example of something happening. It's a periphery character who does it. If it were Bill or Nicki who did it, it'd be one thing, but the show protects the lead characters from anything bad happening to them that the story telling is flaccid and not satisfying. Like Sarah getting pregnant and then conveniently losing the baby on the toilet so she didn't have to deal with the situation. There's another example of how this show leads it's characters up to the edge only to safely pull them back and keep everything okay at home. Weak sauce.
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It's been a big miss. I loved season 1 and it was very re-watchable. I haven't re-watched one episode of the season II. The songs are meh. I still love the dynamic of the band and Murray and Mel is the best fucking thing on the show, but you can feel them spinning their wheels this past season. I think a better idea would have been to show them succeed and get bigger and bigger and see what that does to the band. That said, I loved the prime minister character. Mel is awesome. And I don't know why they thought they needed more Dave, but his character blows and does nothing for the show. Better songs would help everything though. Season 1 was their best music.
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Yeah that's one thing that's bugged me about Big Love, that tendency to always return to the status quo after something interesting happens. For that reason I really hope Roman is dead this time and it isn't a fake out where they revive him (even though I like the character a lot.)
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The songs were definitely a letdown, but "You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute" and "Sugalumps" were hilarious as hell and worthy of repeat viewings. The Kristen Wiig episode wasn't that bad. But on the whole, Season 1 was much, much better.
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I just thought it odd that Teeni was missing from the family get-together last night. Honestly, after the incredible pace of the last 3 episodes of "Big Love," I thought last night's season 3 finale was a bit underwhelming. We've seen the Roman "death" before. After the lengths to which they went to screw Bill and his family out of the casino situation (not to mention the fall-out with Barb officially getting cast into "outer darkness" by the LDS church), I simply could not drum up any sympathy for Barb's sister's family. I'm still hoping - nearly a month after her unsealing - that we haven't seen the last of Anna.
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I, for one, knowing the show don't think Roman is dead and we'll be back to the same old storylines and shit next season. I think it was a way for the Producers to hedge their bets just in case Harry Dean Stanton drops dead before they shoot another season. They didn't want to have to do what the Sopranos had to do with Tony's mother after she died. If Harry's still alive and kicking next year, I'd expect him to magically wake up. I even thought when watching Joey kill him that Roman faked him out by quitting fighting him back. Joey's not exactly the smartest character on the show. If any rube can be duped, it'd be him. I'm glad you agree with about the "pulling them back from the edge" treatment. It's such bad storytelling in what is otherwise a very well acted show. This is all on the writers and producers. They did it last season when Barb was ready to leave only inexplicably to return to her plural marriage. This season they give Barb a cancer scare only to let her be fine. Sarah gets knocked up and conveniently loses the baby. Nicki breaks how many laws at that lawfirm and lies to everyone and she's forgiven and safe at home. They've even taken away the fear of what would happen to the family if others found out they were polygamists. Now, it seems, everyone (including the church) knows and it has had no effect on the family or Bill's ventures which leads me to ask why did you spend 3 season panicking about getting found out if it didn't have any consequences? Not to mention the whole storyline of Anna was a waste of time and went nowhere in terms of changing anything with Bill and the wives. Everyone knew she wasn't long to stay on the show and there was no fallout. That's my problem with the show. Lack of fallout for the main people. Look at Lost, Six Feet Under and The Sopranos. Shit happens to all the main characters than change their lives and their resulting storylines. They pay for mistakes. They make them again and again. Their families see them in new lights. They get kicked out of their families. On Big Love, they seem to throw up as much noise around the core family as possible to make you think something might happen to them only to have nothing happen to them. Season after season it's the same noise. There is no change. It's one of the most frustrating shows on TV to watch since it has the potential to be great. But it won't be great. They've clearly shown an inability to shake things up with the Henderson clan.
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They should do it in New Zealand--and have it be about how they become successes in NZ, but they long to be back in NYC--and then when they finally get back after being major stars in NZ, they are nobodies in New York again. Hell, I'd watch them singing in sheep paddocks for a season!
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The Old Testament God and his butterfly crowns and his prophets are reality-based?
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... but not at the expense of quality. I'd rather they take off for a few years, writing new material and testing it out on the road. Then come out with another great season on the level of the first one.
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SelMat, instead of Selma.
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That is a fact.
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You do know that Big Love doesn't have anything in common with Supernatural or Chuck, right? Comparing them seems a tad on the irelevant side. But what ever makes you happy I guess.
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so zack needs to find another crazy, hot, chick...any suggestions?
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After your post had to IMDB "Sucker Punch". Had no idea Snyder was making an what sounds like awesome premise with a decent all girl cast! Count me in! Shame Seyfried won't be in it anymore though.Really enjoyed Big Love this season. Had no idea that there were only 10 episodes this season until I started DLing the season finale! Argh, I guess we have a year to wait for season 4. Same goes for Skins after next week! :(
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IIRC, the season premiere is next month. Another one of my guilty pleasures. As I recall it got awful reviews here before it first appeared but as I reluctantly starting watching it, more or less out of boredom one night, I realized there's more to it and the lambasting it got here left me perplexed. I loved the concept that vampire blood has psychedelic properties and is sold as an illegal drug. The sequence with the psycho hippy chick and redneck boy kidnapping a vampire to drain him for his "v" was terrific. There's another scene with Anna Paquin wandering in the cemetary looking for her vampire lover boy, who she believes destroyed, when he literally digs himself up out of the earth naked, grabs her by the ankle and they start screwing right there with him still covered in grave dirt. Also any scene with Lafayette ... go to YouTube and search for "Lafayette AIDS burger" for a hilarious scene.
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Aren't there 12 episodes per season? Isn't this only 10? Are there not 2 more episodes to go? And yes, this show has become the best drama on TV, right now. Simply awesome!
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"But, you do exist, right?" "Yeah, yeah, I exist." "Because I remember you guys said you didn't exist." "No, we exist." "But you said you were from Neverland." "No, New Zealand." "Oh."
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I think the early hate was because the show had a very weak, very lame start. But, after a few eps, it got to be a really good guilty pleasure.
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"We did. On a plane."
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