For all I know, every single new show they're adding to the lineup could be fucking wonderful...but it doesn't matter, because no one even watches NBC anymore unless it's football, singers, Donald Trump and/or people losing weight.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 May 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
weird they're not putting a single new show on thursdays. Up All Night is the only show of the 4 I can't imagine every potential TV viewer hasn't already decided whether they'll watch or not
― da croupier, Sunday, 13 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
also do they know they've got two single-cams about tv showrunners followed by two mockumentaries about bureaucracy
― da croupier, Sunday, 13 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol. kinda telling, isn't it?
― Nhex, Sunday, 13 May 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
many xps, NPH just tweeted that tonight's hour-long HIMYM season finale will reveal Barney's bride. There it is!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
by the fall NBC will be begging Brian Williams to retool his newsmagazine so that it's primarily about his daughter masturbating
― kitty shayme (some dude), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
allison william's father is such a tool
― Mordy, Monday, 14 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
the trailer for revolution isn't half bad? out of all the crap abrams has produced since lost, it seems like the closest thing to lost, in that the pilot might be really good and the rest of the crap show will be intriguing enough to foster an annoying cult fandom. but NBC probably would've killed for lost's numbers so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfCRAtkYEI
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
also, PIRATES: http://www.avclub.com/articles/nbc-decides-you-might-also-like-a-show-about-pirat,74028/
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
See...based on the trailer, Revolution looks like high-concept done right (using the concept as backdrop, not foreground). I mean, that's something you can get a lot of mileage out of without having to constantly tease ill-developed "reveals" that ultimately disappoint. The less you have to rely on clicking puzzle pieces into place in order to propel the narrative, the better off you're gonna be. But it's entirely possible that I'm wrong and they'll actually go that highly-devalued route and crank out one convoluted season before turfing out. Time will tell.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
STFU SPOILERS
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
I can't even think of a pretend-science reason for electricity to stop working on the whole planet.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
like unless all electricity in this show was being provided by some sort of glowing cube that some guy found and the electricity wirelessly transmitted to everybody and everybody who knew other ways of generating electricity died then the cube got sad and turned off
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
because otherwise uh no point in ever revealing why the electricity turns off, the right move is to just treat it like magic, there's even a special amulet
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
next 1,200 posts itt will be abt revolution
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
I mean come on do electrons stop moving but only in copper wire
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
does static electricity still exist in revolution?
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
what about covalent or ionic bonds
a world without ions is a world without acids or bases, that'd be even more problematic, everything wld have a pH of 7, your saliva wouldn't work right anymore, stomach couldn't digest shit, now that's a show I'd watch, people crapping out entire unmolested porkchops
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPym09LQfnc
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
strange how this show would be more plausible in a fantasy setting where the magic went out instead of the electricity and everything went all freaky crossbow-punk on them.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
also strange how in this world i can watch a youtube video of home camcorder footage of a computer screen playing a pirated stream of a television show, my head hurts
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
not to mention that most of the tv show footage in question is of a diegetic film projection, so there's like five nested screens here, I might die over here
― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
You're angling for a consulting credit on Revolution, aren't you, silby? I'm onto you...
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
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― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
So this Revolution is pretty much a rip-off of SM Stirling's Emberverse series then?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
yes, that seems to be a likely scenario
― thomp, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
30 Rock had a good run, it's for the best. This season was by far the worse.
― UnderControl, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
Nah.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
under control, off the money.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
You know how you could tell shows were NBC shows just by looking at them for the past few years? Heroes, The Event, The Cape, Harry's Law, etc etc? I was watching the Revolution trailer and, even though I knew it was an NBC property the whole time, it didn't look or feel like one. Maybe they've at least turned a corner here.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
They downloaded a new Final Cut filter, iirc.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
hey, hey - Harry's Law at least recruited the old Boston Legal editing and music team
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
this has been the best 30 rock season in several seasons
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Revolution looks a bit like Jericho--which also a bunch of 1776 jive mixed in with the disaster/sf--but probably done better.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
looks pretty low budget and bad for a network show, imo, especially comparing it to something like Fallen Skies
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
First thing I noticed in the Revolution promo was how crisp and new their clothes looked, supposedly after 15 years of no electricty. And then I couldn't un-notice it. I know it's possible to continue with fine tailoring by hand or water/animal-powered looms, but it's not fucking likely everyone would continue to do that as they struggled to survive.
― nickn, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
try explaining that to an nbc suit
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
So Community apparently isn't alone: The Office will also be getting a regime change, although apparently not coupled with the complete overhaul which had been discussed.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
You guys can breathe easily now: Rules of Engagement will be back for a seventh season.
― polyphonic, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
i saw the Revolution promo in the theater before The Avengers and i thought it was gonna be a movie
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Also: holy shit, my interest in reading a book about the history of NBC's last few decades has apparently retroactively spurred the universe (and Warren Littlefield) into action.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
i'd much rather hear about the failing years of the past decade tbh (The Office/30 Rock on)
― Nhex, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
It can't get much worse at this point, a change might improve it slightly.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
with the showrunner and one of the most senior writer/exec producers leaving, it would be hard not to have a "regime change"
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Paul Lieberstein is doing the Dwight Shrute spinoff.
― polyphonic, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Um.......yeah? I don't understand your scare quotes.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
well we've already discussed itt Lieberstein leaving, and Kaling's series got picked up weeks ago
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/226074304410968064
RIP
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link