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Nov. 5th, 2018 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Half-watching latest Doctor Who episode, and VERY bored. I'm surfing the net during it. Lots of sci-fi babble, very little suspense. Don't care about anyone. There is a funny little creature devouring the ship though. And no spiders, so better than last week's in that I can actually watch it.
I'm guessing this episode sort of shows who are the die-hard fans of the series and the casual viewers who are wildly entertained by it on occasion? Either that, or those who are entertained by Chinaball's writing and those who aren't? It's notable that his previous Doctor Who episodes under other show-runners did little for me, and I fell asleep trying to watch Broadchurch S2 and 3. Let's face it Moffat's metaphorical puzzle box writing entertained me the most...although Davie's had his moments.
2. Saw the neurologist today who has decided to oversee the sciatic nerve problem. He was surprised to learn it was now cascading down my left leg, after having been down my right for the last five years.
This basically means that after I vote, I have to lug my sorry ass back into the city for a neurological exam by a guy who talks faster than a loony tunes character. Wish me luck.
On the voting front, not that you will care unless you are a New Yorker, apparently the ballot is two pages long. Why? Three referendums and judge ships. (Which 90% of New Yorker's do not care about). I've decided to vote no on the three referendum's proposed by our erstwhile Mayor. Other than that? Straight Democrat. Because you know, lesser of two evils and the Republicans not only moved to the dark side, they sort of dove there and kept on going.
Although not sure it matters in regards to the judges since 90% of them appear to be running on the Democrat and Republican tickets. I guess the two parties couldn't be bothered to come up with separate candidates for judgeship?
3. Now, half-watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- which errs on the side of excess. Subtlety isn't exactly in these writer's repertoire. It's broad social satire (emphasis on BROAD) by way of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler...and possibly Austin Powers, Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live. With musical numbers. (I'm watching for the musical numbers. Note - there needs to be a lot more musical numbers, one or two per hour is simply NOT enough.)
Have just about given up on Murphy Brown -- it's not funny. Too political for it's own good. Needs to take a few pages from The Connors and the other sitcoms...which is water down the political satirical humor a bit. We don't live in the age of Duba, we live in the age of Doofus...and well in regards to the Doofus, the political satire is not only writing itself and it's sort of scary.
I also miss the old Murphy Brown and the crazy secretaries.
Sigh. You know there's a problem with sitcoms, when you laughed hardest at Ant-Man and the Wasp.
The Good Place -- still the best of the sitcoms, possibly because it's not even trying to be a sitcom half the time it's more interested in exploring the thorny field of ethical philosophy. This week it tackled the whole...putting others before oneself bit and family drama rather well. Instead of beating up on relatives that made them miserable, they took a page from Jason's book and made peace with them.
I'm guessing this episode sort of shows who are the die-hard fans of the series and the casual viewers who are wildly entertained by it on occasion? Either that, or those who are entertained by Chinaball's writing and those who aren't? It's notable that his previous Doctor Who episodes under other show-runners did little for me, and I fell asleep trying to watch Broadchurch S2 and 3. Let's face it Moffat's metaphorical puzzle box writing entertained me the most...although Davie's had his moments.
2. Saw the neurologist today who has decided to oversee the sciatic nerve problem. He was surprised to learn it was now cascading down my left leg, after having been down my right for the last five years.
This basically means that after I vote, I have to lug my sorry ass back into the city for a neurological exam by a guy who talks faster than a loony tunes character. Wish me luck.
On the voting front, not that you will care unless you are a New Yorker, apparently the ballot is two pages long. Why? Three referendums and judge ships. (Which 90% of New Yorker's do not care about). I've decided to vote no on the three referendum's proposed by our erstwhile Mayor. Other than that? Straight Democrat. Because you know, lesser of two evils and the Republicans not only moved to the dark side, they sort of dove there and kept on going.
Although not sure it matters in regards to the judges since 90% of them appear to be running on the Democrat and Republican tickets. I guess the two parties couldn't be bothered to come up with separate candidates for judgeship?
3. Now, half-watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- which errs on the side of excess. Subtlety isn't exactly in these writer's repertoire. It's broad social satire (emphasis on BROAD) by way of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler...and possibly Austin Powers, Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live. With musical numbers. (I'm watching for the musical numbers. Note - there needs to be a lot more musical numbers, one or two per hour is simply NOT enough.)
Have just about given up on Murphy Brown -- it's not funny. Too political for it's own good. Needs to take a few pages from The Connors and the other sitcoms...which is water down the political satirical humor a bit. We don't live in the age of Duba, we live in the age of Doofus...and well in regards to the Doofus, the political satire is not only writing itself and it's sort of scary.
I also miss the old Murphy Brown and the crazy secretaries.
Sigh. You know there's a problem with sitcoms, when you laughed hardest at Ant-Man and the Wasp.
The Good Place -- still the best of the sitcoms, possibly because it's not even trying to be a sitcom half the time it's more interested in exploring the thorny field of ethical philosophy. This week it tackled the whole...putting others before oneself bit and family drama rather well. Instead of beating up on relatives that made them miserable, they took a page from Jason's book and made peace with them.
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Date: 2018-11-07 01:17 am (UTC)Insult humor has it's place...but it can be destructive. It repeals.
Also dlgood made a really good point about The Good Place - it's not really a situation comedy, it's whimisical meta on philosophy wrapped inside a situation comedy. The writer's aim isn't to make me laugh, and his jokes seem to have an intent that may be similar to what Hannah Gadfrey was doing with Nanette and the writers did with the Connors, exploring the morality behind the humor.