That's heartening to hear about Last Resort, as that's the only show on the fall slate that I've been looking forward to.
― Old Lunch, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
the biggest thing with Revolution is the medieval schtick just raises so many mundane questions, I get more lols out of it than anything. I laughed out loud at the furniture in the General's quarters in the final scene. Did they raid the local Civil War museums?
I'll admit to kinda liking Billy Burke tho, so I will keep watching.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Nashville sounds good, I will give it a try.
Wait, there is seriously a new Beauty & The Beast where the beast isn't even ugly? Lol.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
i believe he transforms into a beast occasionally
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
There was this movie last year, I guess it's kind of a thing?http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152398/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Revolution, I thought the actress that plays Charlie was terrible.
Minor detail that sticks in my craw about shows like this: Miles made a big point about that bottle of single malt Scotch being the last one in the area, and he obviously loves Scotch, but when he gets up from the bar to leave with them, he leaves it behind! Pour the damn Scotch in the glass back in the bottle, and take it with you!
Will continue to watch, though.
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Charlie was kind of annoying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Pour the damn Scotch in the glass back in the bottle, and take it with you!
I said this pretty much verbatim to my friends.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Fun from RichJuz
http://gawker.com/5944295/tvs-fall-haul-revolution-and-the-mob-doctor
As Charlie and her crew (which includes the woman her father was banging before he was killed) search to find her uncle so that he can help them find her brother, music that sounds like it's coming from a shitty RenFair Game of Thrones cover band (they have one song: the theme) plays.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
*kicks dirt* well I liked it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
i totally forgot Mob Doctor was that show with Jordana Spiro. I guess I'll give it a shot
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like jordana spiro, my boys was kinda the quintessential watchable crappy summer sitcom
― balls, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Matt Saracen QB is the boyfriendWilliam ForsytheMichael Rappaport!
it's no sopranos, more like a Rizzoli Isles kinda show without the cutesy stuff. which I'm okay with. Reminds me a bit of that Chicago cop show from a couple of years back?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
the one that had Jennifer Beals in it
Flashdance (Cop Version)?
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I'm just getting older but there are precisely zero new shows I'm looking forward to. I'm going to watch Last Resort and probably some of the comedies "just to see" but I recorded Revolution last night and I can't bring myself to watch it.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
xpost COPDANCE yes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
I still miss Chicago Code. I think it was actually moving in a good direction when it got axed.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
that's what it was called! thank you. yeah I really liked it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
...but I recorded Revolution last night and I can't bring myself to watch it.
It's probably skippable, and that's coming from someone who liked Jerico. As noted above, the reveal of Monroe and Nate, and the closing scene (which hasn't been mentioned here), seem premature for a series like this. It's almost like the producers know the series won't last and have a 13-show full arc planned. I am only continuing because I love the premise, and the show time doesn't conflict with anything else I watch.
― nickn, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
I am only continuing because I love the premise, and the show time doesn't conflict with anything else I watch.
That's the only reason I kept watching Awake last season and then it turned around and puked in my face with its final episode.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Inclusion of Giancarlo Esposito also makes it less sucky than it could be
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
pretty psyched for last resort though i have no idea how they can make that work as a Andre Braugher/Scott Speedman series rather than a Denzel Washington/Ryan Reynolds movie
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
lol i meant to write ryan gosling, but same diff
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
last resort just seems like such a weird idea for a tv show
curious to see how that plays out
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i assume they get off the sub eventually, they can't just spend three years down there going "NO, LISTEN TO US, MR PRESIDENT!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
"a very special submarine episode"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
ohhhh i see, according to wikipedia they go to an island and start a nuclear-armed family robinson
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
also apparently they're trying to prove their innocence, but if they're on an island i can assume that means lots of INTERNETS and maybe some phone calls
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think there's a drag race with a rival submarine gang in season 2
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
It is Shaun Ryan of The Shield/Chicago Code/Terriers, so I'll give it a go.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
Plus Braugher.
i'm in the great-credits-but-doomed-to-failure camp
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I was pissed about how Awake ended too
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ryan plus braugher means i might check it out though i don't know how they strech an updated version of the bounty mutineers into a tv show. stoked for jennifer jason leigh on revenge.
― balls, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
Revolution is cheesy as fuck, but I really like the premise. A couple thoughts beyond the scotch thing:
1) I'm all for suspension of disbelief, but literally the first person they talk to in the first place they walk in is the guy they are looking for? GTFO.
2) These guys are maddeningly inconsistent wrt the overgrowth after 15 years. There are tons of industrial areas and warehouses around O'hare that wouldn't have completely just vanished, foundations and all, in just 15 years. Same goes for Wrigley, there'd at least be scattered foundations right around it.
3) Main archer girl has totally taken the Marissa Cooper school of acting classes.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
watched bits of revolution and mob doctor. loved that for all the set-up and special effects and etc etc of revolution, Mob Doctor was more involving in 90 seconds thanks to just a screwdriver in a skull and some flip dialogue.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
Honestly I can't even tell why Revolution got made, it's such a flat mash-up of cliches. All for Zak Orth getting a paycheck though.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
and giancarlo esposito!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
tbf her father did tell her to go to that specific hotel
― i've hidden a white teen on Crimedoer Mountain (reddening), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
"we haven't talked in years...but...*cough*...he'll be tending bar..."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
though maybe they both had access to magic apple IIe internet machines like the lady with the inhaler
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
also hilarious that he was all "YOU LEAD THEM RIGHT TO ME!" Like that hotel bar was cloaked in secrecy.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
― da croupier, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:17 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
i think we have at least 5 more years of networks salivating to be in The J.G. Abrams Business before they stop buying these expensive-ass pilots
― some dude, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
also if all the bad guys have visible arm tattoos/brands, why not have a policy of checking everyone's wrists before you let them into the building/reveal your secret identity to them?
― i've hidden a white teen on Crimedoer Mountain (reddening), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
ass pilots
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
i hope this trend goes on as long as possible, frankly - it's not like anything would take its place besides more cop/doctor/lawyer shows, and network TV has a much bigger budget than cable for scifi and fantasy
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed. Revolution isn't too far off the radar from enjoyable cable-shlock like Warehouse 13, The Lost World, or the Secret Jules Verne one.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link