Radiation: Big bang theory
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sheesh, seems I made no sense at all...wouldn't be the first time.
Lucy, what I meant was that your discussion could be taken as being about whether these televisual geeks were realistic, and how their particular world view doesn't necessarily mesh with those who don't share their areas of interest.
then when Beyonce came up it seemed like your discussion directly paralleled...oh never mind. It doesn't matter.
much more interesting is a clip of ye olde sci-fi series Timeslip I was watching yesterday that starred John Taylor in way pre-Duran Duran days.
and going back to that Glee scene with the deaf choir - dad-dom means I'm home of a Friday now... - that did strike a very odd tone. Would they have got up and taken over with any other choir? It struck me as extremely patronising.
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I didn't see very much of it (never a whole episode), but their interview with Prince William had an excellent Clarke and Dawe vibe going (I happened to get it for Christmas):
It had highs and lows. Lows included Petra Bagust and her frozen awkwardness whenever the comedy veered near sex and religion, highs included the interviews and John Campbell taking over the last episode ("this is my studio! This is my microphone! No-one ever gave me a live audience, why do you guys get a live audience!"). Not a terrible summer replacement, but they need better ideas and a presenter who can ad-lib comfortably.
Lucy, what I meant was that your discussion could be taken as being about whether these televisual geeks were realistic, and how their particular world view doesn't necessarily mesh with those who don't share their areas of interest.
then when Beyonce came up it seemed like your discussion directly paralleled...oh never mind. It doesn't matter.
I kind of see what you were getting at, but I don't think the discussion was ever about whether their obsessions/world view were realistic? More about whether the consistency and gender essentialism of their presentation was? Which...no, I've lost you there.
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Anyone see last week's squash-the-junkie ep? Ouch!
Yes! Great!
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Loving the return o Radiation.
Petra Bagust and her frozen awkwardness whenever the comedy veered near sex and religion
And didn't the comedians play on that after a while - along with the odd christian dig and her own unforced blurts about the state of her mariage. Who would you put in that hot seat instead though?
Would they have got up and taken over with any other choir? It struck me as extremely patronising.
Exactly, Al. It trades on stereotypes that disabled folk need help, the poor dears. Was also I suspect done to reduce the audience's discomfort. Imagine what your lovely friend Caitlin would have to say in the equivalent situation.
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Who would you put in that hot seat instead though?
Ooh, thought of an answer: Jaquie Brown
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Gold stars for these beauties:
badassly
freaknroguescholar
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Just caught Breaking Bad. Quite compelling, in a weird sort of way, and having missed the proceeding stuff, that's a good thing. Having watched The Wackness on Rialto recently, I can't help making comparisons, at least in this episode. But the bad-arse gangs in need of a psychologist in the movie were far less threatening than those in BB. Lambs to the slaughter is all I could think about.
Oh, and back to the Cheerleaders, did anyone else notice the promo for Bring it on - In it to win it where a tough little love grabbed the fence and said 'let the disembowelling begin'. Umm, what?
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Ooh, thought of an answer: Jaquie Brown
There's some potential there, definitely.
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almost a pisstake of the pisstake, I thought
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I didn't see very much of it (never a whole episode), but their interview with Prince William had an excellent Clarke and Dawe vibe going (I happened to get it for Christmas):
I've caught @seven a couple of times. Didn't quite hold my attention enough.
I do however like that TV3 seems to be working hard to put our NZ comedic talent on TV. I thoroughly enjoyed Seven Days, Jacquie Brown Diaries is good. They're not going to score with every show, but someone in TV3 and the production companies deserve a gold star for trying and coming up with some good stuff.
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@seven needs to be @nine and let the humourists go for it.
Prudishness can be cute, but when she also talk of "Indian Giving", it just looks, well I suppose it looks like what it is.
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Opinions on Skins? Nicholson in the Guardian thinks it's clever and well done. I have no idea, because it's never appealed to me enough to watch a full episode.
I'm basically with Russell T. Davies, who is a big enough fan of Skins to include a positively gushing fan e-mail to co-creator Bryan Elsley in The Writer's Tale (new expanded edition just out, BTW). I think he makes a good point that it took him a long time to get a grip on the show because the writing and style isn't pitched at middle aged men like him (and me). As Chicago Tribune television critic (and excellent TV blogger) Maureen Ryan puts it, it's one of those shows that's more Not For Me than Not That Good.
I thought it was a shame that Glee couldn't seem to find a singer in a wheelchair
I get why people would get pissed off about that, but 'diversity' in television casting can end up going some really weird, patronising and downright cringe-inducing places. Edward James Olmos, who isn't exactly shy about expressing his views on institutional racism and stereotypical casting of Hispanics in Hollywood, has one of his inimitable WTF moments when folks got pissy about a British actor (Jamie Bamber) being cast as the son of his character in BSG.
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I think he makes a good point that it took him a long time to get a grip on the show because the writing and style isn't pitched at middle aged men like him (and me).
I was twenty when I first saw it and it has never appealed to me in the slightest, so it's probably not *just* an age thing.
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I get why people would get pissed off about that
Yep, it's pretty much the same as breaking out the shoe nugget when there are black actors out there who have the advantage of, oh, being black already. Or getting men to don dresses a la Shakespeare and co.
It happens because people still think of disability as an individual medical status rather than also being cultures that actually mean something when you portrtay them on screen. Deaf is not the same as "does not hear".
The sooner we get that, the sooner we all start looking for the positive contributions rather than seeing only cost, pain and brave tragedy.
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@seven needs to be @nine and let the humourists go for it.
That's 7 Days
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Love 7 Days, and I did enjoy @seven - Bagust aside. I too love that TV3 have so much local comedy on, it does us all good. And really, Ben Hurley and Steve Wrigley are gojus.
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Love 7 Days
I concur. When they had Rove on last year during one episode, there was one moment that had me practically crack a rib. I'm not sure how much of it is scripted, but the timing suggests very little, and they are sure quick off the mark. And the kids drawings are priceless.
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I'm not sure how much of it is scripted, but the timing suggests very little, and they are sure quick off the mark. And the kids drawings are priceless.
A lot of it is about the editing. They film about two hours on the Thursday and edit it to 23 minutes on the Friday. But it looks pretty seamless.
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Yep, it's pretty much the same as breaking out the shoe nugget when there are black actors out there who have the advantage of, oh, being black already. Or getting men to don dresses a la Shakespeare and co.
Woah... so, you're really comparing the casting of Kevin McHale to the Black & White Minstrel Show? Oy... And just for the record, Sacha, you might want to have a think about the diss on cross-dressers there. I think Harvey Firestein (the original Broadway Edna Turnblad in Hairspray) would have a word or two to say about the charge that his casting was in any waty misogynistic.
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And just for the record, Sacha, you might want to have a think about the diss on cross-dressers there. I think Harvey Firestein (the original Broadway Edna Turnblad in Hairspray) would have a word or two to say about the charge that his casting was in any waty misogynistic.
I'm pretty sure Sacha was referring to the times when women were banned from appearing on stage, rather than panto dames - hence the Shakespeare reference.
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Oversimplifying again, I see. I trust others understood what I was saying.
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Breaking Bad was particularly awesome last night, especially the opening song, and as I'm not clever enough to embed a YouTube clip, here's the link.
Also, the turtle! Holy crap! BB does tend to get people out of sticky situations with just some random luck (like Jesse and the drug addicts), but it pretty much emphasises the randomness of life. Like Walt getting lung cancer despite never having smoked in his life. No talk about fate or destiny or God here, nosiree.
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3410,
turtle!
Tortoise! :)
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Oversimplifying again, I see.
WTF, Sacha? You were the one saying the casting of Kevin McHale was (and I quote) "pretty much the same as breaking out the shoe nugget when there are black actors out there who have the advantage of, oh, being black already."
Well, perhaps you'd care to enlighten me how Glee is equivalent to the long and ugly history of racist contempt for black men and women in minstrelry? I'd sincerely be fascinated to know.
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Tortoise! :)
Did you get a pendant too? ;-)
Breaking Bad was particularly awesome last night, especially the opening song, and as I'm not clever enough to embed a YouTube clip, here's the link.
I need to get the back catalogue, cause it was pretty damn good, and the better for being slept on. I mean... oh whatever.
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