Clarice wrote:

WHO ELSE LOVES BLACKADDER. COME ON, COME ON, I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE.

YES!

Also for British comedies, Black Books is worth checking out.

Last edited by Ragnarok (05-13-2008 10:56:29 AM)

Raven Nightshade wrote:

Allo! Allo!, Mr. Bean

I think there's not a single episode of Mr. Bean I haven't seen less than ten times. And Allo! Allo! is one I remembered my father made me watch "to better understand Britishmen's view on Frenchmen".

No love for Yes, minister, though?

Last edited by Asfalolh (05-13-2008 05:09:54 PM)

Black Books and Yes, Minister have never been made available to me, so I'll be reserving judgment until I see it.

Since we have a TV thread now, I can do all my squeeing about Boston Legal here. Next week's season finale should be a good one. It looks like Alan and Denny might break up...again. Next season better be really damn good since it's their last one.

Ragnarok wrote:

Raven Nightshade wrote:

Black Books and Yes, Minister have never been made available to me, so I'll be reserving judgment until I see it.

All three series/seasons of Black Books are available on dvd in North America, you could probably rent them from somewhere if you were so inclined.

Hell, I've even seen them at my local Borders. Seriously, those episodes just don't get old, and the kind of humor in them is hilarious. And as a bonus, Simon Pegg guest stars in an episode, and is brilliant as usual.

Edit: Oh, yeah. A bit different from the kind of shows we've been talking about, but I'm a huge fan of classic cartoons and I've been loving the hell out of the Talespin DVD boxsets. Why can't they makes cartoons this good anymore?

Last edited by Baka Kakumei Reanna (05-14-2008 10:33:34 PM)

So my station's showing this new Japanese drama based on a famous shoujo manga called "Hana Yori Dango." The basic premise is that a middle-class girl ends up going to this elite private school full of rich spoiled kids. Among them are four uber-rich ultra-spoiled kids who run the school like a dictatorship and viciously bully any who oppose them.

It's like, Utena comes to Ohtori, except she's not popular at all, and all the students are Nanami (or a version of her whose evil schemes are effective), and the student council consists of four Tougas (or variations of him with no appealing qualities at all).

It's a very evocative series. I find that Tsukushi, the main character, is very likable and easy to relate to. I found myself cheering out loud when she punched out the bad guy. But I don't like the direction the series is heading, which appears to center around one or more of the four rich assholes becoming love intersts for her.

I have a big problem with this. To cap off their bullying in the very first episode, these wastes of skin send a group of flunkies to literally gang-rape the main character. I shit you not. Gang rape. I don't care if the "sensitive and mysterious" one steps in at the last minute. Just being involved in the attempt of something so sick rules out the possibility of forgiveness, don't you think? What sort of message is this sending to girls? "Go for the guy with money and looks even if he sent people to violate you." Ugh. Pardon my rant.

OnionPrince wrote:

Hana Yori Dango

At first I thought you meant the anime, which is slightly older than Utena. But I'm guessing that both follow the source material to a fair extent. I haven't seen the whole (anime) series myself; I saw maybe fifteen episodes out of the fifty-one total. And I completely agree with you, the main character is subjected to horrible crap by these guys and yet it's supposed to be a romantic series? As I said, I didn't get far in the series, but even when the boys seem to become less antagonistic... it gets worse.

I'm watching Britain's Missing Top Model right now. It's sort of my ultimate guilty pleasure, because the idea sounds too offensive to be true. It's basically Top Model, but with girls of various disabilities (ie. parapelegic girls, girls with missing limbs, deaf girls) competing for a modeling contract. It sounds horrible, I know, but I think that so far it's been really tastefully edited. I actually find myself skipping most of the competitive parts to see how the girls interact and discuss their struggles. They all seem really believeable, and so much more appreciative to the opportunity than so many other reality tv contestants usually are. And so far the show feels a bit more like a documentary to me than a gimmicky reality tv series. It kind of upsets me that they have a judging panel and eliminations, though. I'd really like to know more about how some of the girls cope with their disabilities and so it's frustrating to see them leave so soon. I don't think that any of them actually will be able to make a change in the industry, but it's nice to see them at least be given an opportunity. Some of the girls are really beautiful, too.

Raven Nightshade wrote:

SexingTouga24/7/365 wrote:

I fully agree (the only thing that I have not seen is the Vicar of Darby) and We must totally meet up and have a viewing party of BritComs...I shall bring the DVD set of Are You Being Severed ? and Rum cake. Someone should bring Blackadder.   

  Mmmm, rum cake. I'll bring the apple turnovers I'm supposed to make for you, and Season 5 of AbFab.

And I forgot about BlackAdder. I've only seen random episodes of each season, so it's somewhere in my NetFlix queue. That and Allo! Allo!

So, who's watching Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Game Show besides me and possibly Triforce?

Damn it, when does it play? I'm awful at keeping track of show times. I've missed it the last two times now , and actually want to see it again.

Last edited by Triforce742 (07-15-2008 06:23:16 PM)

Thank you Raven, And to avoid making this a 3 word post I'll try to think of some stuff to say. Ummmm, how many people are watching the live E3 coverage on G4?

I miss watching Fawlty Towers.

Giovanna wrote:

I haven't had access to television (TV yes, TV stations, no) since I got to Canada and you know what? I don't miss it at all. Was there really so little in the way of good stuff? Because I could swear none of us are talking about like...new shows.

It staggers the mind that they haven't made an all-anime TV station yet. I mean even if they only played the old skool stuff...

There isn't anything all that interesting on anymore unless you're into reality tv shows.

An all anime tv station would be great, but something tells me concerned moms and distantly wary and offended religions would take up issue with it.

Nah G4 has been pretty awful for awhile outside of Ninja Warrior, and Unbeatable Banzuke. Even X Play is awful now, but they have the first good E3 covereage I've seen from them in years. The last one I can remember they went to a commercial break every 3 minutes. Not exaggerating all that much on that one.

Razara wrote:

I'm pretty sure that there is an all-anime TV station. Anime Network, if I'm not mistaken. I never actually watched it, since the anime they show kind of sucks, and I don't like to start watching things in the middle of the series.

I have an anime station, I think it's like Funimation TV or something. It actually does show good series (SKU among them!) but they're all dubbed, so I don't watch it at all. It really sucks too, because otherwise I would definitely tivo quite a few series. Maybe I should write a letter of complaint?