TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[haltz]

I like Patton - just watched one of his specials on Netflix yesterday in fact - but that was a 53-part whiff.

[thrill]

I like Patton - just watched one of his specials on Netflix yesterday in fact - but that was a 53-part whiff.

Comedians never miss an opportunity to prove they're just as sensitive as the twitter babies that they criticize.

I'm a huge comedy fan bordering on nerd, and this stuff doesn't bother me, but that doesn't mean the irony is lost on me.

[Vidor]

Watching "Better Call Saul", and maybe I'm feeling like this because I read the review at the AV Club two days before I watched the episode--but despite how well this show is made, I wonder if it's not undercut by the fact that it's a prequel. We know what happens to all of this series. Mike is going to bleed to death by a stream. Jimmy/Saul is going to go to the dark side, and make a lot of money before it all blows up and he's left managing an Omaha Cinnabon. Can't help but think that knowing the ultimate fate of all of these characters robs the show of dramatic power.

[Schlich]

Okay now you're just being a dick about the spoilers.

I agree and both disagree with the post overall though. It is what it is. It adds and subtracts from the story in different ways. It's a neutral.

[33anda3rd]

Knowing the end only diminishes the story if you're so wrapped up in the end that you lose all focus on the details and the How of the story.

[ghostrunner]

BCS and Justified had their best episodes of the season this week. And arguably The Americans too. Just a [expletive] of good TV these days.

[Vidor]

BCS and Justified had their best episodes of the season this week. And arguably The Americans too. Just a [expletive] of good TV these days.

Yep, one hell of an episode of "The Americans" tonight. A big bomb went off.

[Famous Mortimer]

Patton Oswalt has the best take on this whole nonsense

http://www.avclub.com/article/patton-os ... ng--217368

It's such a terrible false equivalency. Noah's jokes were aiming right at Jews and fat women. He wasn't telling a nice innocent joke that a few people misconstrued. All this is, is someone who wants a job circling the wagons for someone else in the industry, and I'd expect nothing less.

Or as one of the commenters said, it's giving [expletive] to people who already get enough [expletive]; or "It's just lowest-common denominator humor, attacking those who are vulnerable for the amusement of those who are not."

[Famous Mortimer]

Watching "Better Call Saul", and maybe I'm feeling like this because I read the review at the AV Club two days before I watched the episode--but despite how well this show is made, I wonder if it's not undercut by the fact that it's a prequel. We know what happens to all of this series. Mike is going to bleed to death by a stream. Jimmy/Saul is going to go to the dark side, and make a lot of money before it all blows up and he's left managing an Omaha Cinnabon. Can't help but think that knowing the ultimate fate of all of these characters robs the show of dramatic power.

I agree, sort of. I say this from time to time, and there's probably a few very limited examples that prove me wrong, but


All prequels are rubbish.

[ghostrunner]

If Saul were somehow telling the story of Walter White before he became Heisenberg, that would be a prequel. This is a different story so neither the prequel label or the idea of spoiler really applies IMO. What happens to Mike eventually is the only area that presents a problem, but they'll wtite around it somehow. Either they bring it to some dramatically logical end before the events of BB, or it goes on past the Cinnabon. I've heard the latter is the case, but I'm not sure. Thus far it's a show that depends a lot more on fun and performances than twists and turns of the plot.