Posted on 11/15/2012 8:14:00 AM PST by Bon of Babble
The other great documentary is “The World At War.” When I think of Laurence Olivier, I think primarily of his narration on that series.
And eating Carl's Jr's "Big A** Fries."
There were a couple of interesting things to Terminator, but I stopped watching after only a few episodes because of one nagging question.
How can a man who is emasculated by the two women protecting him ever turn out to be the leader of the free world? I remember an old Bugs Bunny cartoon that opened with printed words on the screen. "The Klondike - where men are men and women are women. (A darned good arrangement!)"
I miss that arrangement.
Go to hulu.com. Try free stuff before you sign up for pay content. I don’t pay for anything and I do OK.
Target has banners all over their stores proclaiming Christmas, they cam out last week
In the last decade it has been the Worldwide Disaster Channel. All of their shows seem to promote the global warming/environmental agenda.
They dress up this poor kid for talent shows and slather on the makeup and parade her around pageants
It is so grotesque I could not even watch one episode
I dont know if these people are on Welfare but they should be- they have no discernable talents of any kind that I can see.
I haven’t owned a tv in about 5 years and don’t really miss it. So much to do on my laptop that I do not really need it. I do catch American Idol and especially Shark Tank which are two fascinating shows.
I did the same thing. I didn't watch The Walking Dead when it first started because the zombie-genre wasn't really my thing (or my husband's). Well, we were bored one summer weekend, and Netflix had the first season of The Walking Dead available, so I asked him if he wanted to watch it. I got this look, like, "okay, she has finally gone completely around the bend". But, I convinced him that I had read great reviews, and people seemed to like it; and, anyway, if we really don't like it, we can turn it off and never watch it again.
He sighed and said, okay --- and, we got hooked. It is now one of the few shows we look forward to every week. Same with Breaking Bad. I really wasn't interested in this show because of the subject matter; but, we both like Bryan Cranston (my husband is of the opinion that he will do anything for his "craft"). So, Netflix again, and, again, we are hooked.
AMC really is putting out some good stuff. Interesting stuff; but, adult stuff.
That's tantamount to child abuse.
I Love Lucy, frankly, even as a kid born in 1983, I think it’s funny, and frankly innocent in its scope too. I mean, in the show, a married couple doesn’t even share a bed, and I believe the lead actor/actress were also married in real life too. I found it interesting, and frankly a stark contrast to what constitutes entertainment now: naked people, sex, and political issue obssession. Even films about the past time periods seem to be biased towards the liberalism of the 2000s.
LOL now that was funny!
Oh, it is just a week before Thanksgiving, so it is appropriate. I love that skit.
Making the whole Terminator thing into a show was just bad. So the issue I had with the show was that it redundantly repeated the theme for many episodes emphasized in the films. When is this John ultimately going to really fight for himself? I ran this question repeatedly in my head as I watched it. Stand up for once, and perhaps you’ll realize that you don’t need some random Terminator chick or not, and your Mom to babysit you every step of the way. I do respect mothers, but the level of actually standing up for himself was disappointingly less than I expected. I will admit, for a TV show, it was a great dazzle of special effects, but the plot felt reused from the movies.
I get Diane Sawyer at 6 PM on ABC nightly news.
I switch over to a Fox retro station & watch Hopalong Cassidy.
More interesting & I know the bad guys won’t last beyond the 1/2 hour. Nice horse, also.
Cisco Kid & Pancho are on in the afternoon & are far more interesting that another re-incarnation of Ricki Lake.
I only get Jim Bowie once a week on Sunday afternoons, tho. Scott Forbes is a real hunk!!
That was actually a big part of the internal conflict in the show, everybody desperately wanted to protect but how’s he supposed to develop the skills necessary to save the world if they never give him a chance to do anything more interesting than re-arrange supplies. I wouldn’t say they emasculated him, but they were certainly over protective. As the show went on he developed more independence, of course he’s a teenager so a lot of that independence was making very stupid decisions, which of course is why they wanted to protect him all the time.
The article says that NBC's ratings are improving.
I watch re-runs of The Honeymooners and have the same reaction. Just good, funny entertainment!
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