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POSTED BY: Iremisst
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 05:46
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NCBROWNCOAT

Monday, July 27, 2009 4:27 PM

I can't stand the "reality shows" either. I've just about given up on the big networks, except for Castle, Dollhouse and Chuck. So cable and DVDs are the way to go.

Give True Blood a try. The first season is out on DVD and the 2nd is currently running on HBO and it has already been renewed for a third. And there are 9 books out there to base the remaining seasons on.

There's a psychic blond waitress (Oscar winner Anna Paquin), murder, vampires (2 extremely good looking ones-Stephen Moyer (a broody Mal type) and Alexander Skaarsgard,(the Viking bad boy type), lots of sex, blood both vampire and human, shapeshifters, and a plot worthy of any soap opera with triangles, angst, fluff and even humor.

Burn Notice and Royal Pains on USA are also both very good and Psych restarts soon.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

IREMISST

Monday, July 27, 2009 4:59 PM

Well I had fun with Forever Knight years ago...

Maybe I'll look up True Blood when I get back from Vacation...

We're goin' ta Williamsburg VA! Should I or should I not bring my banjo?

dadada da da dada

NCBROWNCOAT

Monday, July 27, 2009 6:04 PM

Just got back from Washington, DC myself. Back to work tomorrow.

Just found an interview with the 3 main stars talking about the show. Don't be put off by the accents. Instead of his British accent Stephen Moyer does a marvelous northern Louisiana soft drawl and Anna Paquin (they are a couple in real life) also does a really authentic accent. BTW she's a Kiwi (New Zealander).

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

ECGORDON

Monday, July 27, 2009 10:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Iremisst:
Fox produces The Unit, CBS runs it...

Tell the truth I'm not completely sure CBS didn't drop it but I didn't find anything that said whodunnit so, given Fox's crappy track record and the fact they sold it to another station- yea I'm runnin' with them as did it...

(This is the point where you all jump on the angry bandwagon just cause they cancelled FF...)

Don't confuse 20th Century Fox Film Studios with the FOX Television Network. Yes, they are both owned by the same corporation, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., but they are completely separate business entities.

The FOX Network canceled Firefly, but 20th the studio is the one behind the release of the Firefly DVDs, so they are still in our good graces. Any studio can sell any of its shows to any network that is interested. That's why you can see a Universal produced show like House on FOX, and a 20th Century Fox show like The Unit on CBS.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

IREMISST

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:38 AM

Thanks for the info... sorta.

I don't even really care who made it... And it's not like little ol' me pointing fingers at people who I'm sure consider their viewers to be akin to the buzzing of just so many flies is going to have any affect whatsoever... besides if you are an exec in this country you have most likely committed various sins "en grosse" or are going to and so are completely diserved of a few finger pointings, for good measure , but you're missing the point and that is

I AM ANGRY!!! I want to rant, and You my good sir are getting in the way of a perfectly good old fashioned Irish Rant(you know the type where we blame the British for certain Potato Famines even though they may or may not have had anything to do with it)

Oh and by the way, everything in this country is owned by the same few freaking corporations so wether you jab at the toe or the eye of the monster is inconsequential....

Also ecgordon, do you work in the legal industry?

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Iremisst:
Thanks for the info... sorta.

Also ecgordon, do you work in the legal industry?

Nope, not in the slightest, just thought I would point out that in this particular instance your anger seemed to be pointed in the wrong direction.

The main reason I don't hate FOX the way many other Browncoats do is that they aren't any worse than any of the other networks. Over the many years I have been watching television, all of them have screwed me out of great shows time and time again.

IREMISST

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 4:25 AM

So, why do we keep watching? What's the point?
Are we hoping that our show will be the lucky one that actually gets an ending? Just masochistic? Fascination with a temporary circus? So shallow we don't want to think about the way they constantly screw with us? Don't want to be the only one with nothing to talk about 'round the old water cooler?
All of the above?

Are the people that come here still in love with FF or just have a serious problem letting go? Are we the only ones that get it or the only ones that don't? Is this just our little way of exercising control over our ultimately powerless little lives?

See, you think your brain won't shut up, try being me........

ECGORDON

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:17 AM

I can't answer for anyone else, but I am still in love with Firefly, probably more so now than ever before, and I can't forsee that changing anytime soon.

As for why I keep watching television, I have to paraphrase the old adage, "Better to have watched and lost than to have never watched at all."

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

IREMISST

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:45 PM

ok, I have an idea...

I'll start my own alphabet soup group. How do ya like P.E.E.S. -People for the Ethical Ends of Shows. Get people to boycott channels that don't guarantee finishing episodes.

Or how about
Stop Hollywood from Interrupting our TV...
wait, I don't think that one will work...

See, if you were a part of my group 10 years ago Firefly would still be on the air...
or banned completely!

HAWKS

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:00 PM

Lol @ Iremisst

Typical i just started watching the unit on tv over in the uk and now find out it's cancelled, happened when i started watching firefly in 2003 only to find two ep's in it was cancelled to.

I've given up on expecting the shows i watch to go the distance anymore.

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