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Post by Morag on Apr 26, 2005 20:33:58 GMT 11
Didnt they allready make an X-Files movie in 98/99? With that freaky bone eating plague thing? And the bees were carriers and Scully got stung by one...
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Post by Dark One on Apr 26, 2005 20:36:07 GMT 11
Yep, that's the one. And they've been talking about making a sequel ever since
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Post by Swallow on Apr 29, 2005 1:03:57 GMT 11
Oh dear god, please don't....
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Post by Dark One on Apr 29, 2005 2:05:42 GMT 11
lol! Not a fan then?
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Post by Morag on Apr 29, 2005 23:17:08 GMT 11
Never really got into xfiles. liked the movie all right, and one or two episodes I saw were fairly good, just wasnt something that particularly interested me. Millenium though, that was a good show!;D
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Post by Elspeth on Apr 29, 2005 23:36:44 GMT 11
X Files tended to get a bit repetitive for me. I'd watch a couple of episodes and really enjoy them... and then it would start getting stale. Never saw the movie, though.
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Post by Clare on Apr 30, 2005 10:36:21 GMT 11
I love the X-Files! Sure, there's a possessed child every three episodes, a quarantine episode every four and at least three cloning/twins episodes in every ten but the first few seasons were pure gold. The Mulder and Scully dynamic often had me in stitches... especially when they did half an episode through their perspective. They'd often take the micky out of themselves which helped.
The mistake X-Files made was that they kept going, even through seasons without their main leads. They could have easily have wrapped it all up in series 7 or 8 and saved themselves of the indignity of having fans write in scripts for them because they'd run out of ideas. And replacing the main characters like some long-running soapie.
Do you know what I want? More short, tight mini series that have a plot that they works to a conclusion. None of this "We'll keep going and going and going until the rating drops and the studios are threatening to axe us." A good mini-series sticks in your mind forever, you remember all the episodes and the writers have the opportunity to make the script exactly right without overloading on the sentimental music because someone hasn't worked hard enough to establish the emotional connection between characters. You don't have to watch a good and intricate plot become more and more convuluted as the season progresses, knowing that as they do that half a million elements of it are going to be forgotten and never addressed again... not to mention inconsistencies in characterisation.
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Post by Morag on Apr 30, 2005 14:05:04 GMT 11
Do you know what I want? More short, tight mini series that have a plot that they works to a conclusion. Think that's what I love about british comedy. The best ones only have six episodes a season, so you dont end up with quantity over quality. Much better to have six really good well explored plots rather than thirty or so weak ones just quickly run over. |
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Post by Duck on Apr 30, 2005 17:08:40 GMT 11
*unleashes a hoard of bone eating bees*
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Post by Elspeth on May 1, 2005 12:01:14 GMT 11
Do you know what I want? More short, tight mini series that have a plot that they works to a conclusion. Oh I agree with you and Morag on this one. Why not put the same amount of money you'd spend on twelve episodes into six (or even four)? There'd be more time to work the scripts and to really develop the characters. More time to get everything just so right that it will be memorable. More time to make it perfect. This is why I wish someone could kill The Simpsons. Because it stopped being fresh about four seasons ago and the later episodes are making me hate the show as a whole. |
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Post by Swallow on May 1, 2005 13:10:17 GMT 11
I agree on that as well. Spend time actually working through the script. that's why B5 was so good, the guy had written the entire show, planned out all the seasons and everything before he submitted it. Okay, i'm not going to ask anyone to write ALL of those scripts in one hit, but you can see the difference in the quality.
It's like the best ever vampire show i've ever seen was Ultraviolet It was a mini series, and they took the effort to work on charcter relations and worked out all the kinks so it actually was believable. It was one of the more convincing vampire pieces i have ever seen.... pity they never showed it in Australia, i'll have to buy the DVD set, me thinks.
But the shorter they are, the better, ER is p**sing me off. I used to LOVE that show, now i can't stand it. Carter went from screw up doc to GOD doc in a matter of episodes simply because Green had died and they needed a super doc. It didn't fit with his character at all. I'm sorry, but Carter's character was a screw up, a person who was lovely but had a lot of issues, new his work, but has a drug and alcohol problem... and now, suddenly, all of that is gone, and i hate him now. I liked him more when he was a screw up.
And The new Simpsons episodes i haven't watched at all. Just refuse to, there is no charm left in them. They either need to stop, or get some new writers in with that old saterical wit the writers used to have....Argh! I pressed Modify instead Quote - many apologies, good Flit. I swear, I haven't been tampering with your posts...  -- Bunne
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Post by Elspeth on May 1, 2005 13:23:57 GMT 11
And The new Simpsons episodes i haven't watched at all. Just refuse to, there is no charm left in them. They either need to stop, or get some new writers in with that old saterical wit the writers used to have.... Huzzah! Someone who agrees with me on The Simpsons! You're right - they have absolutely no charm any more. Homer used to be a loveable buffoon, now he's an irritating, selfish moron. And un-funny at that. And what about poor Lisa? Could they possibly pick on her any more? Once upon a time, she was the moral voice of the family, now she's just everybody's whipping boy/girl. There's no originality left in that show. Please just let it die while nobody's looking. |
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Post by Clare on May 1, 2005 16:24:35 GMT 11
Die quietly? What a bitter sad end. It has been the most constant, consistent cartoon for the last ten years. Barely a conversation goes by in this world that cannot and isn't related back to an episode.
I don't watch it regularly at all... maybe once a month but for the life of me, I can't imagine a world without the Simpsons. What could possibly fill its space? There is absolutely no tv show that pulls in such a wide audience, world-wide and that can be played at any hour of the day.
Take away the Simpsons and we are looking to an unknown horizon, a whole new generation. Really, the death of the Simpsons will have huge ramification on western society. Can anything after it be original?
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Post by Elspeth on May 1, 2005 18:32:58 GMT 11
No, I don't think anything can ever be as original as The Simpsons was. But it isn't even original itself any more. It's just sad.  |
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Post by Miky on May 1, 2005 18:41:04 GMT 11
*silences Buneater* HOW COULD U!
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Post by Swallow on May 1, 2005 21:57:23 GMT 11
Off topic for a moment....
Ack! Lol! The Serenity trailer looks spiffy!! I can't wait!! Is it coming out here, so is it only for the states and i shall have to buy the DVD?? Whatever.. looks bloody brilliant....
*sits on edge of seat chewing nails in expectation*
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Post by Lucy on May 2, 2005 8:09:15 GMT 11
No, I don't think anything can ever be as original as The Simpsons was. But it isn't even original itself any more. It's just sad.  |
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Post by Elspeth on May 2, 2005 10:45:12 GMT 11
Futurama's fantastic! I love it! And I think you're right, Lucy. Everyone was comparing it to The Simpsons instead of judging it on its own merits. Who's your favourite character? For me, it's a tie between Bender and Dr. Zoidberg, although Zoidy has pulled ahead of late. 
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Post by Swallow on May 2, 2005 11:45:28 GMT 11
Nibbler!!! I loooooove Nibbler!! tehe... i want one...... be an excellent rubbish disposal unit...
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Post by Morag on May 2, 2005 12:43:12 GMT 11
Nup, gonna have to go with Zoidberg. A woobwoobwoobwoob woob woob!  ;D |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on May 2, 2005 13:54:21 GMT 11
*pats all four seasons of Futurama* Sorry? What was that? I don't know who my favourite is.. |
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Post by Roland on May 2, 2005 14:52:02 GMT 11
GOOOO STARGATE!!!! Hands off Daniel Jackson gurllsss.... he's mine!!  (It's all about the flag baby |
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Post by Clare on May 2, 2005 20:12:03 GMT 11
Futurama is more ecclectic than The Simpsons - it automatically appeals to a smaller audience simply because it's set in the future.
Having said that, Zoidberg!
And god I love those depth perception jokes.
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Post by Duck on May 2, 2005 20:12:58 GMT 11
Ladies, Hands off Daniel Jackson, Im going to swap my mind with his so I can have his body MUHAHAHAHAH ^_^
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Post by Madame Kat on May 2, 2005 20:56:29 GMT 11
Mu gotsh!  Fururarma is one of my fav. shows. I even got my mother to like it . *clears throat* Ok, I never realy saw that Futurama was classed si-fi *slaps forhead* I guess because it was a cartoon.. I guess my sceptism towards Si-fi's is what made me think that Futurarma wasn't Si-fi genre *slaps forhead again* um, did you understand that?  I have to say that Bender is my fav. Hands down. Fry would be my second. I could put down a few random quotes, but I'm too lazy and the sensor would probably stuff it up... |
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