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Bad Television, Bad...
Sep. 25th, 2018 09:52 pm1. New Television Series tried so far and...well...
* I Feel Bad
I feel bad for not sticking with this show for more than five minutes..no, wait, I really don't.
The critics said it was two shows, one a watchable family sitcom, and one an unwatchable workplace comedy. I didn't make it five minutes into the family sitcom.
This will be gone in a month. Or retooled. One or the other.
* Magnum P.I.
Well, I can't say I wasn't warned by the bad reviews. Except the critics made it further than I did...my suspension of disbelief was sort of blown sky-high when Magnum played by Jay Hernandez, jumps out of a spaceship, in a space-suite to parachute into North Korea and save a family. Uhm, first of all...it is physically impossible to parachute in a space-suite from outer-space. You'd burn on re-entry. Not to mention radiation. And the inability to direct your gravitational jump to the surface. It's not like this information isn't available to writers out there. Come on.
But I might have been able to hand-wave, if the lead had any charisma. He doesn't. Tom Sellack, he's not. (Not that I ever was much of a fan of Sellack or the series, but it did have a certain charm that is completely missing from the first five minutes of the reboot.)
Yes, there's so many television series on nowadays that if something doesn't grab me within the first five to ten minutes? I delete.
I'm willing to predict that this will be gone in a month or two as well.
2. Dancing with the Stars
I got curious and tuned in to see who the constestants were this go around. And uhm...we only have about five out of the ten or fifteen that are worth watching. It's not a good season.
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3. Soap Opera
Spoiler Board Moderator: They'll catch Sonny because his fingerprints are on the gun.
Me: Not on a gun that has been buried for twenty-five years -- the elements will have washed off the fingerprints. Not to mention all the people who've handled it in the interim. There's no way they can get fingerprints off that gun.
Moderator: We all know that doesn't matter, if it's storyline dictated.
Sigh. I may have to give up on the soap opera. Even I have limits. My mother and I have decided to just continue to fast-forward over certain storylines.
* I Feel Bad
I feel bad for not sticking with this show for more than five minutes..no, wait, I really don't.
The critics said it was two shows, one a watchable family sitcom, and one an unwatchable workplace comedy. I didn't make it five minutes into the family sitcom.
This will be gone in a month. Or retooled. One or the other.
* Magnum P.I.
Well, I can't say I wasn't warned by the bad reviews. Except the critics made it further than I did...my suspension of disbelief was sort of blown sky-high when Magnum played by Jay Hernandez, jumps out of a spaceship, in a space-suite to parachute into North Korea and save a family. Uhm, first of all...it is physically impossible to parachute in a space-suite from outer-space. You'd burn on re-entry. Not to mention radiation. And the inability to direct your gravitational jump to the surface. It's not like this information isn't available to writers out there. Come on.
But I might have been able to hand-wave, if the lead had any charisma. He doesn't. Tom Sellack, he's not. (Not that I ever was much of a fan of Sellack or the series, but it did have a certain charm that is completely missing from the first five minutes of the reboot.)
Yes, there's so many television series on nowadays that if something doesn't grab me within the first five to ten minutes? I delete.
I'm willing to predict that this will be gone in a month or two as well.
2. Dancing with the Stars
I got curious and tuned in to see who the constestants were this go around. And uhm...we only have about five out of the ten or fifteen that are worth watching. It's not a good season.
( Read more... )
3. Soap Opera
Spoiler Board Moderator: They'll catch Sonny because his fingerprints are on the gun.
Me: Not on a gun that has been buried for twenty-five years -- the elements will have washed off the fingerprints. Not to mention all the people who've handled it in the interim. There's no way they can get fingerprints off that gun.
Moderator: We all know that doesn't matter, if it's storyline dictated.
Sigh. I may have to give up on the soap opera. Even I have limits. My mother and I have decided to just continue to fast-forward over certain storylines.