after that it felt like they had no clue what they were doing and ran out of story
i stuck with it (mainly for Hiro and Ando), but it wasn't the same.
I felt the same way, although I sort of just failed to remember to watch it by the beginning or middle of the second season. It had so much potential as a story early on, but they just kept throwing on bad twists and desperate left hooks in the hope that something would click, and nothing clicked.
the first season works pretty well as a complete story arc
there are a few plot holes and loose ends hanging, but i don't think they ever resolved those anyway
Exactly. That is the problem: They didn't even bother with the stuff that they could have built on that was left open, but they had already cleared up most everything, so they started pulling things out of their rears to keep things going.
Spiky Hair thinks Karl Pilkington is a 'banterous lad' who 'tells it like it is' and won't hear a word against him, and i don't get this at all
The few snippets of Gervais' own show that I have seen he comes off more as endearingly naive than the heinous prick that he reveals himself to be in An Idiot Abroad, but at least part of that is in contrast to how insufferable Gervais himself can be. Of course, it's probably mostly staged anyway, and culture shock makes blunt, difficult people even more annoying and dumb, but still...
Roommate has started watching "How I Met Your Mother". Personal reaction is similar to Big Bang Theory, if not as vitriolic.
Perhaps I just have no taste for sitcoms, outside of the early Disney variety. And iCarly.
Joints in left hand are all stiff from carrying saxomaphone case in the blistering cold. Should be fine eventually, but man this is uncomfortable.
I actually like How I Met Your Mother, if only in small doses. The Big Bang Theory, on the other hand... the first season had some very clever, funny moments, but it's pretty stale and irritating at this point. Then again, it still manages to somehow be less painful than a lot of other things on, the slow devolution into awful stereotyping and unlikeable protagonist problems aside.
Roommate has started watching "How I Met Your Mother". Personal reaction is similar to Big Bang Theory, if not as vitriolic.
Perhaps I just have no taste for sitcoms, outside of the early Disney variety. And iCarly.
Joints in left hand are all stiff from carrying saxomaphone case in the blistering cold. Should be fine eventually, but man this is uncomfortable.
I actually like How I Met Your Mother, if only in small doses. The Big Bang Theory, on the other hand... the first season had some very clever, funny moments, but it's pretty stale and irritating at this point. Then again, it still manages to somehow be less painful than a lot of other things on, the slow devolution into awful stereotyping and unlikeable protagonist problems aside.
I'm basically agreed with you on both shows.
I think the reason The Big Bang Theory isn't as painful as it could be is because it does maintain an aura of vaudeville-esque professionalism. There is something oddly admirable about that sort of machinelike competence, even if you don't like the results of it.
As cool as it is to diss Arcade Fire for being ludicrous blowhards... I can't hate them for that. To the contrary, while their bombast can feel a bit fluffy with its vague sentiments, the fact that a band that large can be so on point and yet so clearly enthusiastic about what they are doing is just so infectious. They're a bit like Dexy's Midnight Runners in that way. Except Texan/Quebecois/Haitian instead of Irish/Liverpudlian. And apparently their most recent album is kind of a mess, if an interesting mess.
I'll probably like it a lot better than The Suburbs, though, to be honest. That album was very meh at points.
The worst part about having a kinda-abusive kinda-authoritarian mother is that I have very little in the way of self motivation. I put off ACT Registration until literally the last day (today) and it was exhausting.
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I also found a drawing of my soul tonight
after that it felt like they had no clue what they were doing and ran out of story
i stuck with it (mainly for Hiro and Ando), but it wasn't the same.
there are a few plot holes and loose ends hanging, but i don't think they ever resolved those anyway
So very close and yet victory eludes me still. Submit, game! Submit!
can i have the source for your last avatar, assuming it is sfw-ish?
i kinda miss that happy wink
i went to the kitchen and my flatmates and i sat up watching a ton of old cartoon openings
it's funny how different our interests are
we like a lot of the same things, but for different reasons
and then sometimes one of us will like one thing and others will go 'what, really?'
i feel like the odd one out but that might be some form of bias talking
thank
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Spiky Hair is Asian and i'm not going to tell him what he should be offended by, but i don't see the appeal
but still
both were surprised that i was not a fan
my brother used to be hugely into How I Met Your Mother
i've enjoyed what little i've seen of it
Mrglefrgle goddamn Grand Cross always inflicting the worst possible effects frglemrgle
i am kind of into rock music, although not as much as i used to be
can you recommend a good introduction to them?