Post Questions, Topics and Links for Podcast #55
May 21st, 2009
We’ll be broadcasting live via Ustream.TVm FRIDAY (5/22/09) starting between 8pm and 8:30 pm central.
IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!
- The show will be 90 min long
- Instead of the normal 15-20 topics, we are going to pick a theme for the show. Please try to post questions with regard to the theme.
This week’s theme is the just-ended 08-09 TV season.
This week’s co-hosts will be Eli and Alex.
We’ll be talking best/worst new shows, finales, what got renewed, what got canceled, etc.
See you there for the live chat.
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This Week’s Topic: The 08-09 TV Season
- Finales: Lost, Fringe
- Renewed: Dollhouse, Chuck, Castle, Scrubs, Big Bang Theory, Fringe, Parks and Recreation
- Canceled: Terminator, Reaper, King of The Hill
- Fall TV Cheat Sheet
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- Franchises JJ Abrams should reboot
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Do you like Lost again now they seem to be making the effort to form a comprehensive mythology for everything?
I was thinking about Eli being a freelance photographer and it struck me that it's the same profession as Peter Parker in Spiderman. So I was hoping you guys could determine the real life equivalents of people in the Spiderman Universe with Eli being Peter Parker.
So for example, I think Alex Castle would be the equivalent of J. Jonah Jamison with the Dallas Oberserver (of DallasObserver.com) being the Daily Bugle. But who would be Mary Jane Watson, Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Norman Osbourne etc?
Alex Castle?
I think Aunt May is obvious.
Oops, I may have just made up that last name.
But I was referring to Alex the art director at the Dallas Observer.
I guess I was the only one who thought you were talking about Fillion's show.
edit: and Aunt May is totally Estelle
who's Estelle?
I wish you guys had Josh or Denise (DENISE!) on this week, so they could talk about How I Met Your Mother. They're the only two who have mentioned watching it.
So I guess my question would be…Is Scrubs now an unkillable behemoth? The show that everyone was afraid of getting cancelled now just won't die.
oh god, I cant wait to "dont get me started" on this one.
Well Bill Lawrence's line of reasoning is pretty sound. We like to sit here and judge from the audience's POV, but there are a lot of people working on Scrubs. When the show ends, they all get fired and have to find new jobs. Bill Lawrence is trying to keep them employed for as long as he can because he feels he owes it to them, especially in this economy. And he also said that if Scrubs 2.0 fails, it won't dribble to the finish line. He wants it to fail spectacularly in a blaze of glory.
Some people feel the show had a renaissance on ABC this past season.
What was the most ridiculous season finale stunt this year?
Have you ever tried to rewrite a finale, or to imagine an ending to a show that didn't get one? In my mind, Battlestar ended with finding out Starbuck's Dad is Daniel and was the original creator of the cylons and she's a prototype, her mom was a cock-dumpster lab assistant. Just one example.
"The Wayans Bros. was a good show! And we didn't even get a final episode!"
alternatively, "What all of America wants. A reunion of the cast of friends…from Night Court!" "Court? At night? I'm already laughing! Tell me more."
Do you have recognized standards for which narrative-based shows you watch? Are there any notable exceptions to these?
I've been watching Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure and The Gruen Transfer this TV season in Australia, they're good local shows which are entertaining. LL's Choose Your Own Adventure is about this nerdy Asian guy called Lawrence Leung who does geeky things like trying to beat the most extreme of the Rubik's Cube timed solving records, finding lost childhood loves, and doing Sudoku. On the other hand The Gruen Transfer is a weekly critique of advertising and its effectiveness on the average adult hipster panel who discuss whether the advertisements featured are effective enough to sell things or whether they are just terrifying and alienating.
Do you guys get Australian TV in the States? I know you get BBC America but I'm not sure if you get Aussie TV. If you don't get it you can YouTube both The Gruen Transfer and Lawrence Leung off the Australian ABC's Youtube Channel. Would you watch an Australian program if it was geeky enough?
For your consideration, Top 100 Sci-Fi shows: http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/… I know it's a little off topic, but it's close…
If you could create your perfect fall prime time line-up, disregarding networks, including recently canceled shows, what shows would you chose? What days? What would you put opposite Monday Night Football? In the Friday night Death Slot?
Sorry this is off the general theme but….
Will Alex and Josh every be in the same podcast?
Since Dollhouse got picked up for a second season, what sort of plot involving the Dollhouse tech would you like to see next season? Alternatively, if you had access to the Dollhouse technology, what would you do with it?
Have you come up with a reason why Fox picked up Dollhouse, but decided to leave it in it's shitty timeslot? why set the show up for failure? plus the 2 lead-ins are crap, one is a new sitcom starring an ex-football player who can't act and the other is Til Death which is always a "bubble" show. it's so frustrating. your thoughts?
Because they'd still rather give shows they think have more of a mass appeal the better timeslots.
But keeping 'Til Death around is a SERIOUS slap in the face.
Dollhouse will be up against Medium (transplanted from NBC to CBS) and… UGLY BETTY? Wow.
What adaptation would you take back (blast out of existence) if you could?
Bad TV adaptations of films kind of work for this week's theme (Stargate anybody?), but I'm also thinking of bad video game-movies or vice-versa, or bad comic-movies, bad tv-novelisations…etc.
I waited to start watching Battlestar until after the finale aired so I could watch the whole thing all the way through, and I just finished it. Now there is a gaping hole in my life with nothing to fill it. What is the next great show that I should sink my teeth into?
How would you have ended Terminator TSCC if you had another season, tying up the hanging story lines in the finally.
I'm one of those people who pretty much knows if I'm going to like something (i.e. video games, movies, television, etc.) within the first couple of minutes of watching it. For example I tried playing Fallout 3, and I tried watching Dollhouse, but I just couldn't get into them. On the other hand, when I went into Star Trek with some reservations, but about 10 minutes into it I needed a joy towel.
Do any of you have the same affliction, and if so, what do you do to overcome it? I was seriously hyped up for Dollhouse when it started but was let down. I know that it gets better later on, and I intend on picking it back up, but I haven't had time lately (so don't slay me!).
Somewhat on-topic: I bought a new TV and Blu-ray Player because I'm an adult and I can get into debt if I want to dammit!
The thing is, I don't have cable. I've got rabbit ears for basic and watch most of my TV on DVD or Hulu. I got the Blu-ray player primarily because it streams Netflix over Wi-Fi.
My question is: Am I crippling myself by not having a cable-box/DVR? Is there TV out there good enough that I should be watching it IMMEDIATELY?
What show on FOX (ANY show; not just those in the Friday Night Death Slot) would you axe in favour of Sarah Conner Chronicles? Also, what cartoon from the past (Clone High excluded, as I feel that's the easy go-to) would you put into the Sunday Night Animation Block (because God knows they can't keep a stable fourth show going for more than a season)?
For a nice comparison of the Fall 2009 season, night by night showing what shows will be competing against eachother, you can always check out Variety:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=chartwide…
(at the bottom there's also a link to the Winter 2009-2010 schedule, since it will be changing at that point for many of the networks).
Also… how long do you give the NBC Jay Leno at 10pm experiment before it explodes in NBCs collective face?
slightly off topic, but i have a few questions that pertain to the 09-10 season.
1) what do you think about "chuck" getting picked up for a half season (starting in Jan '10) with a reduced budget?
2) any thoughts on michael strahan's new sitcom "brothers," which premieres on friday nights on FOX?
http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=brothers
3) any thoughts "medium" moving to cbs, and to friday nights in the same time slot as "dollhouse?"
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/…
discuss!
Do you think anything good can actually come out of another season of Scrubs?
any thought on river tam to possibly play lara croft in a reboot?
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2…