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Post by Deeky on Aug 6, 2018 23:24:40 GMT -5
The show Adam Reed did between Sealab 2021 and Archer. Did he have anything to do with Xavier: Renegade Angel? I needed a brain band-aid after an episode of that. I don't believe so. I'll always be sad his post-apocalyptic lesbian action comedy was canceled before the first episode even aired. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 6, 2018 23:36:16 GMT -5
Well, there's always Orange is the New Black, I suppose...
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Post by Choconado on Aug 7, 2018 8:26:03 GMT -5
Did you ever see the brief spin-off they did without Adam Reed of Frisky Dingo, "The X-Tacles" about that team of super soldiers the main "hero" (in major quotes) led during the main show? The only episode I recall seeing had a statue of the president anally assaulted, so they attributed it to some rapist that must have the strength of a gorilla. They then log "Rape Ape" in their criminal database, and underneath that entry is one for a simian-man hybrid that practices 17th century swashbuckling. His name of course, is "Rapier Ape". So they go after him instead, as he's even RAPEY-ER than Rape Ape.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 7, 2018 11:07:54 GMT -5
JFC.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Aug 14, 2018 5:23:36 GMT -5
Catching up on some stuff from some months back, I: Well, The X-Files is now officially done (although who knows these days?). Anderson says she's done. Duchovny and Carter alluded to the possibility of doing future episodes sans Scully, but that seems unlikely given the way the last season ended. At any rate, Fox seems to have ended it anyway. (Although, again, who knows...?) The first mini-season in 2016 was only okay. I'm curious to watch it again some day to see if I like it better in retrospect, but even the generally incredibly reliable Darin Morgan's episode was somehow less satisfying then usual, although it was still good, with a great guest shot by Flight of the Conchords' Rhys Darby.
The second mini-season, however, was much more up to par, and, in fact, contained one of the best episodes they ever did. At this point, it was kind of better to just let the mythology schtick just sort of wash over you, and not worry too much about whether or not it made sense, and I actually enjoyed the mythology episodes more as a result. Plus there were some really good MotW eps, including a return of one of the Lone Gunmen (despite being dead), a flashback to Skinner's days in Vietnam, a techno-fear episode that had absolutely no dialogue for at least the first third-to-half of it, a hilarious paean to paranoia by Darin Morgan, and the afore-mentioned high point called 'Familiar,' about black magic goings on in a small town. It was a cold damn story, and one of the creepiest fucking things they ever shot. These two pics are from it:
 
Perhaps the most surprising thing was that they actually got me on board with the Mulder/Scully as a couple thing. I was never in favor of it in the original series, but by this time, the two characters have been through so much together (including being together and then not being together), it actually felt better to root for them, something else the series delivers on (and also the reason why I think eps without Anderson would not be likely). |
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Post by Marlowe on Sept 19, 2018 12:14:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought that last season was a much higher note to go out on. (I didn't like "Familiar" as much as you did, although I agree that the monster design was aces.) Still wish they'd just given up on the mythology all together, especially considering the reveal about Scully's son's true parentage, but overall, it was decent, and far better than the first revival.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 19, 2018 14:03:20 GMT -5
I was really looking forward to the third season of Channel Zero, but my usual source only had episodes 1,3,4,5,6 loaded. No episode 2?  |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 20, 2018 12:25:16 GMT -5
I just started watching The Americans. It's pretty bonkers and I don't know who I am supposed to be rooting for here. I'm enjoying it though.
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Post by Deeky on Sept 24, 2018 12:26:33 GMT -5
I accidentally discovered a TV show on the Hallmark Channel called Chesapeake Shores about... the Eastern Shore? I dunno. It's about white people in Maryland somewhere.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 24, 2018 13:04:25 GMT -5
There's an MTV show called Floribama Shore about my neck of the woods, but I haven't watched it. They actually approached my city about it, but were wisely declined.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 25, 2018 5:05:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought that last season was a much higher note to go out on. (I didn't like "Familiar" as much as you did, although I agree that the monster design was aces.) Still wish they'd just given up on the mythology all together, especially considering the reveal about Scully's son's true parentage, but overall, it was decent, and far better than the first revival. I think one of the reasons 'Familiar' worked so well for me was that, in the very first seconds (and only the very first seconds *shudder*) I laid eyes on Mr. Chuckleteeth, I thought, "Oh, this is going to be a goofy one," only to watch an episode unfold that was not only really scary, it had a narrative that was so unapologetically unsentimental, which is not something the show has been particularly good at in the past, IMO. I mean, two whole fucking families end up dead in the course of the thing.
This is somewhat peripheral, but I also got a kick out of the fact that one of the fathers was played by Jason Stanford-Gray, best known as goofball Lieutenant Randy Disher on Monk. I always enjoy seeing actors in things that stand in sharp contrast to what I know them best for.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 25, 2018 5:07:11 GMT -5
I was really looking forward to the third season of Channel Zero, but my usual source only had episodes 1,3,4,5,6 loaded. No episode 2? I keep meaning to check that out. As to the missing episode, my cable provider pulls that kind of shit all the time, although they swear that it's the result of the individual networks forgetting to provide them with on demand copies of particular eps. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 25, 2018 5:10:10 GMT -5
I just started watching The Americans. It's pretty bonkers and I don't know who I am supposed to be rooting for here. I'm enjoying it though. You are in for a very nerve-wracking treat, my friend. One of the best series of the era. And I don't even generally like stories about espionage. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 27, 2018 18:26:16 GMT -5
I was really looking forward to the third season of Channel Zero, but my usual source only had episodes 1,3,4,5,6 loaded. No episode 2? I keep meaning to check that out. As to the missing episode, my cable provider pulls that kind of shit all the time, although they swear that it's the result of the individual networks forgetting to provide them with on demand copies of particular eps. It's maddening. The same thing happened to me with the most-recent season of Fear the Walking dead, although I admittedly don't have as much invested in that franchise as I once did. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 28, 2018 5:20:52 GMT -5
I've actually really been enjoying FtWD recently. I was hoping that the big storm was going to be something that played out over at least a couple of episodes, but it actually ended surprisingly quickly.
One of the producers is definitely exercising their schmaltz muscles from time to time, though. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 11, 2018 5:16:59 GMT -5
On the season premiere of Bob's Burgers, there was a moment when Tina yelled out, "It's not my imagination!" To which I was required to respond, "I've got a gun at my back!"
*sits back and waits for Santo to make an appearance so someone will get that* |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Oct 24, 2018 4:55:14 GMT -5
Two nice little music moments recently. There was a sketch from the finale of the previous season of SNL in which they incorporated System of a Down's 'Chop Suey' into the proceedings. And this Sunday's TWD had a montage set to Bauhaus's 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything,' which I just recently put on a mix, actually.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 15, 2018 18:22:08 GMT -5
I just started watching The Americans. It's pretty bonkers and I don't know who I am supposed to be rooting for here. I'm enjoying it though. Just wrapped this up. Wow! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 16, 2018 2:40:35 GMT -5
But, look at what reviving FM did to Forry's legacy. With the lawsuit, it just drained his money, and the collection he worked so hard to accumulate and keep had to be sold, to pay the lawyers, and his Life's Work in this preservation was destroyed.
Of course, the recent accusations and revelations that Forry apparently was a masher, or in today's terms, a groper, would have still tarnished his reputation, but if his collection could have been kept together, and put into some kind of museum for future generations to enjoy and appreciate, he would have realized his dream of what his Mission in Life was.
Reviving Famous Monsters produced a devastating result we would have been much better off without.
Could you illuminate me on what exactly happened with the revival of Famous Monsters that it somehow came to drain Ackerman's resources? It's only been back for a few years, hasn't it? Was Ackerman even alive when they revived it? I thought other stuff drained Ackerman's wealth before he even passed away. No?
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Dec 16, 2018 3:17:24 GMT -5
Dr. Kobb, I will be glad or sad, to tell you about how Forry's Dream was Destroyed.
It basically happened when Ray Ferry, an FM fan, wanted to revive Famous Monsters magazine, a magazine, that, to me, had its place in the sands of time, and should have been allowed to Rest In Peace.
I've read Mr. Ferry's side of the story, but he became involved with Forry when? maybe a decade after James Warren's publishing company folded, and Mr. Ferry wanted Forry to be the editor of a latter day Famous Monsters magazine.
I can't remember the title of Ray Ferry's biography, but I've read it, and if you want to do a net search, it would easily come up.
The problem seemed to be that with both Forry and Mr. Ferry being Egotists, an inevitable Personality Clash occurred, which resulted in a long, drawn out court cause, which Forry won but was unable to collect the judgement in his favor, since Mr. Ferry didn't have the funds to pay it.
With Forry's health declining, due to a stroke that required brain surgery, the lawyers got antsy, needing to collect their fees, so the sales of his humongous collection began.
(I'm not a perfect historian of all of this, but even before the unpleasantness with Ray Ferry, Forry did auction off parts of his collection for whatever reasons he may have had).
Even back in the 1970s, Forry's offer to donate his collection to the City of Los Angeles, didn't succeed, and it is a sad, convoluted story, why his dream of creating a Shagri La for lovers of Science Fiction was never realized.
I've tried to answer your questions as well as I can, and give you some leads to followup on, as to why Forry was, ultimately, unable to realize the Dream of his Life's Work.
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