2012 Fall TV Thread

Justified >>>>>>>>>>> SOA

― Simon H., Monday, December 10, 2012 2:08 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gnaw. About equal really but SOA a little better, especially after the very strong current season (just ended).

Justified still better imo. A little less OTT or something, idk

Turns out Justified S3 isn't out til FEBRUARY over here. I was actually banking on that as a Christmas present for my dad. Got him the previous two seasons and he and my mum both love it

xpost also raylan, raylan's hat

I watched like 3 seasons of SoA but by the end of that season I just felt like characters were acting insane without a discernible motivation other than to escalate the stakes of the plot, so I stopped. What's Justified about

Elmore Leonard-penned country crime stories

hats, guns, n asskickery

xxp I dropped off the same point as you. I was told the show climbed back up again in quality afterwards, but I'm kinda willing to just wait until the show's over at this point.

Justified is pretty good, but a pretty slow burn kinda show, I dropped out sometime into season 2. Will get back to it someday, maybe.

nhex!!! season 2 was the best season!!! dude.

last resort went balls-out with the hostage episode

you can probably guess around the time when i was like zzzzzzz ok i'll get back to this show later

SOA has some great moments + cast members but so, so many headsmacking moments, plot developments, bits of dialogue, and esp. resolutions. Plus Jax sucks.

Admittedly I have not seen the new season since the S4 finale made me swear off it forever.

Whereas I feel like Justified has been going mostly from strength to strength, though apparently they're going with some sort of mini-arc structure this season, which could either be great or terrible.

haven't each of the previous seasons have mini-arc structures?

that kevin bacon serial killer show looks like it could be pretty bitchen

But see that seems like another concept that can't support more than one season because, really, how many times can you serial kill Kevin Bacon?

Six degrees of serial killing.

part of what i love about american horror story is that a season-long mystery is waaaaay more manageable than the series-long shit that's regularly botched

was it always going to be a different story/cast each season or was that just decided at some point? i was really confused when i started seeing the ads for the 2nd season and the 1st season was nominated for "mini-series" emmys.

haven't each of the previous seasons have mini-arc structures?

Kinda, but there's also always been a "big bad," which doesn't seem to be the case this time around.

ah yeah i haven't seen anything about the new season so by mini-arc i thought you meant 'this season's villain'

season 3 of Veronica Mars was a network-dictated mini-arcs season, and that sucked

yeah but CW was shook about viewers following long term narratives, FX is not

i'm not the biggest Justified fan but they've earned my trust that they know what they're doing, will see how it goes

well then this is becoming a weekly habit... but seriously it's a good thing last resort got cancelled because it is insanely stupid (and i am too for continuing to watch i guess). also, the show feels really disjointed. it's like the writers are trying to squeeze in every imaginable plot without really linking them to one another. for example this episode shows christine captured and sam going after her but iirc last episode ended with them on a boat controlled by pakistani soldiers, so wtf happened in between ?

i'd be willing to bet the network just doesn't give a fuck and is airing episodes out of order now

it might also be that i'm misremembering last week's episode. thinking about it (why am doing this to myself), christine was taken away by one of the seal guys, so the whole captured in philippines makes a little bit more sense i guess. how sam knew where she was taken to though remains a mystery to me.

they wouldn't air eps out of order would they ? like how common is it for that to happen ? and what's the logic behind such a decision, if you have all your episodes shot and ready to be aired why do it out of order ?

it's not as common as it used to be but TV history is rife with examples of networks airing episodes out of order out of some weird network logic. given that the show is already canceled i just wouldn't be surprised if they pulled something like that.

i thnk the eps are in order but they're trying to cram in a lot of plot so they kind of skip over things.

yeah i haven't watched the latest episode yet (and tbh haven't paid close attention to the last few episodes before that) so i'm just saying

It's been airing in order.

Today Nielsen announced an agreement with Twitter to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating,” an industry-standard metric that is based entirely on Twitter data.

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/12/coming-soon-nielsen-twitter-tv-rating.html

haha this should be interesting

follow-up story: Community renewed for twelve more seasons

Watched the pilot for 1600 Penn.

Just kill NBC now. Put it out of my misery.

lol seriously

i felt bad that the girl who played "Becca" in Superbad is also named "Becca" in this show, because how sad it must be to be a Becca once, let alone twice

the trailers for that show looked like terrible snl sketches.

I started a Nashville thread, btw

It's like 'Dallas' if Victoria Principal sang and Patrick Duffy played guitar: This is a thread for NASHVILLE

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