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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2010 13:18:20 GMT -4
I don't even read the recaps anymore. They're either a boring play by play or written by Jacob. I mostly read the forums, but even that has been overrun by The Crazy. I wonder if Wing, Sars and Glark have any plans to start up another TV site. Since they left TWOP it's been all downhill.
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Post by incognito on Jan 16, 2010 22:50:53 GMT -4
I'm wondering why the mods haven't stepped into the late night talk show threads yet to lay the smackdown on the blatant boards-on-boards. Not that I'm complaining, because it's funny to see the insults being hurled left and right. I'm pretty sure that Conan O'Brien killed Aedy's puppy at some point.
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Post by Mutagen on Jan 16, 2010 23:01:34 GMT -4
I'm wondering why the mods haven't stepped into the late night talk show threads yet to lay the smackdown on the blatant boards-on-boards. Not that I'm complaining, because it's funny to see the insults being hurled left and right. I'm pretty sure that Conan O'Brien killed Aedy's puppy at some point. OMG, that person. My favorite was when some poster innocuously admitted they'd bought a Team Conan shirt, and Aedy went after them bitchily demanding to know "whose pockets are you lining?" Like the Illuminati were secretly profiting or something.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jan 16, 2010 23:51:01 GMT -4
Oh, and if you want blind, unadulterated hate, check out the Everyday Italian thread. They make GWOP look like a Kate frickin' fan club. Damn. I hadn't wandered into that thread in a long time. I mean Giada kinda bugs me in a few ways too, but judging from the posts at TWOP, you'd think she was the Antichrist! It's just cleavage, folks!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2010 0:09:44 GMT -4
Oh, and if you want blind, unadulterated hate, check out the Everyday Italian thread. They make GWOP look like a Kate frickin' fan club. Damn. I hadn't wandered into that thread in a long time. I mean Giada kinda bugs me in a few ways too, but judging from the posts at TWOP, you'd think she was the Antichrist! It's just cleavage, folks! I wandered in there. They seem upset with the fact that she's petite and pretty.
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Post by pomegranate on Jan 17, 2010 0:32:50 GMT -4
And that she uses *gasp* lemon zest!
What is so bizarre is their obsession with Aunt Raffi, I mean she's kinda funny and sarcastic but she is hardly a great hero to post-menopausal women they make her out to be. And their hatred of Giada's adorable husband Todd is downright vicious. One poster called him a "fucking five-year-old" because Giada mentioned he preferred to have meat in his sandwiches. Of course he does, he's from Michigan!
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Post by lowercase on Jan 17, 2010 4:30:41 GMT -4
So, I've become a hardcore insomniac in the last couple of weeks and I think I have read just about every corner of the internets, so tonight I wandered over to TWoP. I read the last couple of pages of the thread for Modern Family, and the joyless attention to detail with which some of these people watch TV is just mind-boggling.
In last week's episode, there is a plot line around one of the characters finding a pornographic picture on a computer and she assumes that her tween son was the one who found it. Naturally, there are several posts dedicated to the question of exactly how this could have transpired, since at one point, we see evidence that the son was using one computer, but a fight took place with regard to use of another computer, and doesn't Dad have his own laptop? And so on and so forth. It's...not the Zapruder film, it's a sitcom.
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Post by kostgard on Jan 17, 2010 16:34:48 GMT -4
That is it exactly - you've described it perfectly. I don't mind nitpicking and snarking (especially since I do it myself) but they are just so serious and joyless about it. I saw (and enjoyed) that episode and who owns what computer totally doesn't matter. Just sit back and enjoy the funny, for crying out loud.
They do the same thing on 30 Rock, a show that is supposed to be absurd and ridiculous. But it doesn't stop people from obsessing about a poop reference from back in season one and people seriously wondering if Liz Lemon has Irritable Bowel Syndrome. People, it's a poop joke. No one can just say "I don't find poop jokes funny" and leave it at that. No, they have to complain about it and explore a fictional character's medical history.
I'm going to have to steal this from you.
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Post by lowercase on Jan 18, 2010 19:14:25 GMT -4
It's so bizarre that it's sitcoms that warrant this kind of attention! I can understand if it's a show like, say, Lost or something, but a blow-by-blow analysis of 30 Rock just seems kind of, I don't know, ridiculous. There was a 30 Rock a few weeks ago that was absolutely hysterical, with some great sight gags, and there was at least a page worth of criticism of a plot point involving removing a door from its hinges. But the hinges are on the inside! Great googly-moogly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 23:45:47 GMT -4
It's so bizarre that it's sitcoms that warrant this kind of attention! Someone who was fairly new to the board came into that thread and asked why people were so obsessed with picking the show apart and why couldn't they just enjoy a fun show. It was either Modern Family or Big Bang Theory. Posters in each thread are equally joyless.
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