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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #810 on: February 10, 2012, 10:10:29 PM »
Todd Margaret, you were a national hero and you shall (I must assume that was a series finale) be missed.


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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #811 on: February 15, 2012, 02:59:24 PM »
Friendly reminder:

I Just Want My Pants Back starts up on MTV tonight at 11 pm EST.

This is so much better than Skins (US)

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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #812 on: February 15, 2012, 07:48:59 PM »
Friendly reminder:

I Just Want My Pants Back starts up on MTV tonight at 11 pm EST.

This is so much better than Skins (US)

I put them on similar levels, I like the characters in Skins (US) better, but what Pants does better (and what SUS did a terrible job of) is developing a sense of place. Still don't/can't believe that show took place in Baltimore, seemed more like filler area blahsville. I enjoy both, and prefer Skins proper to both as well. But Pants is still young, still room to grow, potentially challenge Awkward. for MTV's finest program. Look forward to taking the journey.

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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #813 on: February 15, 2012, 09:59:31 PM »
Episode 1 of Survivor does not look promising at all. Unlike last season which was perhaps the best of the series so far, all of the people here seem annoying, and I hated how I really didn't get to know any of them. I can just see it going badly this season.
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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #814 on: February 15, 2012, 11:20:16 PM »
Friendly reminder:

I Just Want My Pants Back starts up on MTV tonight at 11 pm EST.

This is so much better than Skins (US)

I put them on similar levels, I like the characters in Skins (US) better, but what Pants does better (and what SUS did a terrible job of) is developing a sense of place. Still don't/can't believe that show took place in Baltimore, seemed more like filler area blahsville. I enjoy both, and prefer Skins proper to both as well. But Pants is still young, still room to grow, potentially challenge Awkward. for MTV's finest program. Look forward to taking the journey.

Pants doesn't have the "attempting to push the envelope" thing burdening every episode so it can just let the characters and the plot lines evolve in a realistic fashion.  SUS kept trying to be outrageous for its own self aggrandizement, resulting in numbing boredom. The vibe here is Friends/HIMYM/Jonathan Silverman's The Single Guy - but with better looking people well, no Aniston, snappier dialogue, and hipsters.

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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #815 on: February 16, 2012, 07:35:53 AM »
It does have hipsters.

I don't think Skins US ever tried to push the envelope, and for the most part it was a fairly tame show even by MTV standards as, with only one major exception, most of the explicit stuff was kept off camera. It made all the boycotting of the show by parents groups, to me, all the more baffling. Certainly it was much more tame than the first series of the British show. The problem was, I imagine, that the kids there were supposed to be playing teenagers on the cusp of adulthood (so obviously they were still pure, innocent, and had no idea what any of these illegal substances or devious sexual acts were because teenagers don't think about those sorts of things), while Pants presents us with independent adults.

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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #816 on: February 21, 2012, 08:44:38 AM »


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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #817 on: February 21, 2012, 11:21:06 AM »
That was a fantastic episode and that was a brilliant sketch.
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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #818 on: February 21, 2012, 11:31:27 AM »
Yep, good stuff. This was nice too.
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Re: General/Random Discussion and Thoughts (TV & Sports)
« Reply #819 on: February 21, 2012, 03:02:29 PM »
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