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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Trembling Eagle on September 10, 2008, 05:31:07 AM
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Just now catching this show
wow it is TERRIBLE. Which just goes to show how important writing and directing are because the main actor was awesome in 6 Feet Under. Just God awful dialogue, it could work as a parody maybe that's what they are going for.
I like the black guy though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlCqJffEdY[/youtube]
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"you owe me a f---ing michelin."
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That show is all about the characters, and even then, that can get pretty thin. I trudged through both seasons in a week a couple months back, and S2 was really rough to finish I remember.
Also, I could never get over the idea that I was supposed to be rooting for Dexter, as they loved to paint him as some Batman/Punisher anti-hero type most of the time, stock with his own origin story played out over S1.
From what I heard, the third book in the series really takes a dump on everything and went all supernatural, Dexter's killer obsession had something to do with some demon who fed off his whatever. Shit you not.
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Yeah, I really don't like that show. Showtime seems to constantly miss the mark with its original series'----great ideas, bad scripts. Also, every show is lit like a soft porn movie.
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I like the black guy though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlCqJffEdY[/youtube]
If he's the only reason you would continue to watch, you won't make it to season three! I've enjoyed following Dexter, but it's never over-the-top compellavision, like I wish it was.
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That show is all about the characters, and even then, that can get pretty thin. I trudged through both seasons in a week a couple months back, and S2 was really rough to finish I remember.
Also, I could never get over the idea that I was supposed to be rooting for Dexter, as they loved to paint him as some Batman/Punisher anti-hero type most of the time, stock with his own origin story played out over S1.
From what I heard, the third book in the series really takes a dump on everything and went all supernatural, Dexter's killer obsession had something to do with some demon who fed off his whatever. Shit you not.
what?! i thought he was messed up because he was locked in a shipping container with his brother swimming in the blood of his two dead parents.
i guess sometimes its never that simple.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_in_the_Dark
Man, that sounds soooo bad. Yikes.
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Bad, cheap, and lazy.
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Total trash.
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I've downloaded the first episode of the third season, have yet to watch it. No high hopes though. Liked/loved the first season, tolerated/half-hated the second. I fear things can only get worse.
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We've had this discussion before, but I liked the first season, but on good counsel will not bother with any of the others.
I found the show kind of enjoyably dumb, like American Psycho.
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Dexter's AA sponsor really ruined Season 2 for me. Both the character and the actress who played her were infuriating.
Also, I don't think the series is going to follow the book's supernatural plot line. It's already veered off from the source material considerably.
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Dexter's AA sponsor really ruined Season 2 for me. Both the character and the actress who played her were infuriating.
she's the sultry, smoky, hot chic that gets real close and intimate and personal, but thinks she's being totally platonic about it while the girlfriend (who i also dont like) freaks out on the inside.
note: ive only seen disc one of season two for this entire show and i feel like i could trash talk this whole show.
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I am sticking with Monxter.
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Dexter's AA sponsor really ruined Season 2 for me. Both the character and the actress who played her were infuriating.
she's the sultry, smoky, hot chic that gets real close and intimate and personal, but thinks she's being totally platonic about it while the girlfriend (who i also dont like) freaks out on the inside.
note: ive only seen disc one of season two for this entire show and i feel like i could trash talk this whole show.
I can't buy that actor as being straight...
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(http://i37.tinypic.com/9bbwnq.jpg)
I wanna learn to fill out a Polo like this guy
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That guy is by far the worst actor on the show. And that's saying something.
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That guy is by far the worst actor on the show. And that's saying something.
No fucking way
the sister is the worst actor.
That guy at least has charisma.
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That guy is by far the worst actor on the show. And that's saying something.
No fucking way
the sister is the worst actor.
That guy at least has charisma.
I've come to expect these wild, insane statements from you so I'm not too shocked. Let's just say you're wrong and leave it at that.
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Wow
man this is really, really bad now.
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I like the actor who plays the latin detective. That guy's always pretty funny.
I'm just really bored in general with shows and movies that start out with the premise "So there's this serial killer,right?" One too many trips to the well, guys.
Also hitmen. Seriously, are we done with hitmen?
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I like the actor who plays the latin detective. That guy's always pretty funny.
I'm just really bored in general with shows and movies that start out with the premise "So there's this serial killer,right?" One too many trips to the well, guys.
Also hitmen. Seriously, are we done with hitmen?
Yes! I couldn't even get behind the Sopranos for this very reason. I don't ever want to see anything else about people who murder other people all the time.
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ive never seen one episode of the sorpanos. however, lately, ive debated on and off putting it on my netflix.
forget it. i think ill throw it on there.
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Also hitmen. Seriously, are we done with hitmen?
I can't watch any show with hitmen, crooked cops, lawyers with real-world problems, or doctors/nurses/ERs. That pretty much means all major network dramas are off-limits. Which is fine by me.
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Never seen this show, but I liked this ad:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniemole/2872759534/
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They made a couple of those, one for Wired and one for Rolling Stone Mag, as I recall.
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I think they've done it for every magazine. I get subscriptions to like everything, so I saw the Dexter ad campaign in Esquire, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair (I think), NY Times Magazine, and at least two others.
Also, The Sopranos doesn't just focus on them doing hits and mob business.
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I liked the first ep of Season 3. Like Weeds Season 4, it appears to be getting back to what made it interesting in the first place, after some time in the wilderness.
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Also, The Sopranos doesn't just focus on them doing hits and mob business.
I know. I just wish for a show that has the sophistication and intelligence of the Sopranos that focuses on people who aren't gangsters. If it's about their human side, why does it have to be about killers?
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Also, The Sopranos doesn't just focus on them doing hits and mob business.
I know. I just wish for a show that has the sophistication and intelligence of the Sopranos that focuses on people who aren't gangsters. If it's about their human side, why does it have to be about killers?
That exactly sums up this whole thing that I have with The Dark Knight. I thought it was great and certainly the best superhero movie I've ever seen (well, along with Superman II, obviously). But I couldn't help but notice how all the praise around it - including mine - centered around the fact that it was so NOT like a superhero movie, all the great pains that Nolan et al took to make it "realistic" and not like a "regular" comic book thing. I remember reading an interview with Nolan about developing the costume and makeup for the Joker where he said that, basically they worked backwards from the concept of someone who was just a regular non-supervillain criminal, and then added just barely enough "Jokerness" to it to make him The Joker - it seems like that was the general concept for the rest of the movie, too.
My question the whole time, though, is - why not just take the superheroes out of the equation entirely? If all that's making these movies good is how much we can downplay and minimize the "super" elements to these stories, why even bother with that part in the first place?
I've never seen the Sopranos so I can't say if this applies to it, but it sounds like that's your basic compaint with it, too. I dunno... it's just frustrating to see stuff sometimes get hamstrung by the chore of having to remain within arbitrary 'genre' boundaries. Sometimes I think it feels like we're getting back in the 30s and 40s mode of Barton Fink-style filmmaking, when you'd have cigar-chomping studio heads reading scripts and going "It's great! Just shoehorn an orphan and a war hero into it and we're golden!" Only instead of orphans and war heroes it's hitmen, serial killers, and sexy doctors.
But then again, maybe I'm just a dummy for expecting mass-market TV shows and movies produced by gigantic studios to not be within super-popular genres, like complaining that the script for Armageddon focused too much on the asteroid.