As an aside, I'm choosing to believe that Zonugal created those Xena episode lists completely from memory, without needing to look up episode numbers or summaries.
While looking them up I did find a wonderful fan site that stopped being updated in like 2007. Although it had a brief note from 2018 advertising something else they'd done.
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As an aside, I'm choosing to believe that Zonugal created those Xena episode lists completely from memory, without needing to look up episode numbers or summaries.
Netflix shows me a trailer for a new miniseries and it looks interesting. Also John Goodman is there. Black Earth Rising. Looks like mystery political thriller.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who watched Rent Live
it was HYSTERICALLY bad
I'm going to need more details.
It was a complete shit show. It wasn't actually live (except for the final scene) because one of the actors got injured during dress rehearsal and none of the main cast had understudies. What they aired was the recorded performance from the night before.
I don't know if the actors were saving some energy for what was to be the live TV performance
The sound mix was horrible. You couldn't hear vocals over the instruments or the crowd. The crowd was cheering and screaming the entire time like a concert, they were set up on parts of the stage or between stages like the VMA's or some shit.
I'm not a fan of Rent to begin with, but it got fucked by ill preparedness and bad luck.
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Apparently they did an actual live performance that night while the broadcast was happening? Roger was in a wheelchair and it was basically a high energy table read with a full orchestra. But Fox didn't want to broadcast that one. I don't really like Rent, but if I did, I would probably enjoy watching that more than a dress rehearsal
There is much more continuity than I remembered - the pieces hang together surprisingly well. With maybe four exceptions (The Mutation, The Familiar, The Journey, and The Unexpected), each installment is generally referenced by a later book, or in some way lays groundwork.
And, taking into account the intended demographic, the only one I felt failed to deliver was Megamorphs #3.
this is not to say that they're amazingly well-written or anything. There are passages in every book that are repeated nearly verbatim. There's very little sense of time passing. But the characters do seem to grow.
I will say that two things bug me a little:
The sudden escalation at the end and the shift from being fully defensive to occasionally offensive are hindered by the formula.
The given timeline (years) doesn't quite mesh with every book using 'months ago'.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who watched Rent Live
it was HYSTERICALLY bad
It was a dress rehearsal.
Apparently the lead hurt his foot and they had no understudy because that's a smart idea.
I was already mad theres no Bobs burgers this week but that they didnt even put out something that was of professional quality is just insulting to me as a viewer.
Thats putting aside that Rent is for people far older than me and has aged horribly
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Apparently they did an actual live performance that night while the broadcast was happening? Roger was in a wheelchair and it was basically a high energy table read with a full orchestra. But Fox didn't want to broadcast that one. I don't really like Rent, but if I did, I would probably enjoy watching that more than a dress rehearsal
The clips people from that audience posted to Twitter were a thousand times better than what they aired. They did the last 15 minutes live and you could tell the cast saved their energy for the live performance
I saw Rent (the movie) at the exact worst time in my life to see Rent. I was working minimum wage for 38 hours a week (another two hours and they'd have to give me benefits, you see), living in a rented room, eating once a day.
I was furious that none of those motherfuckers would just get a damn job. Livid that being broke was portrayed as noble or aspirational. Peeved beyond measure that one of the final messages is "White dude who observes and doesn't experience is the one who will profit from suffering." (That last one is true, but Rent is sympathetic to him, so, fuck it)
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I just kept hearing/reading that news.
I don't get a lot of what's going on, but this show seems alright!
I'll have to do that! We just finished it and I really liked it!
Uhhh.... Yeah!
Don't you dare speak ill of Harry Lyme and Marv Murchins!
There is no story that can't be improved by the addition of a martial arts fight.
I have spent ten minutes trying to find an exception to this and I've got nothing
This is pretty difficult
it's like the dumbest episodes of voyager got shot through with dick jokes
...i'll watch it
He's definitely helped turn this place around.
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A show that follows the guy that wrote the itchy. Tasty note.
I don't know what to think of what she thinks of me.
Do you have a book prison?
it was HYSTERICALLY bad
It was startling how much I could accurately predict Joe's next move.
Only one?
I'm going to need more details.
It was a complete shit show. It wasn't actually live (except for the final scene) because one of the actors got injured during dress rehearsal and none of the main cast had understudies. What they aired was the recorded performance from the night before.
I don't know if the actors were saving some energy for what was to be the live TV performance
The sound mix was horrible. You couldn't hear vocals over the instruments or the crowd. The crowd was cheering and screaming the entire time like a concert, they were set up on parts of the stage or between stages like the VMA's or some shit.
I'm not a fan of Rent to begin with, but it got fucked by ill preparedness and bad luck.
Kind of does them dirty to air that.
It was based on the musical Rent, right
And, taking into account the intended demographic, the only one I felt failed to deliver was Megamorphs #3.
this is not to say that they're amazingly well-written or anything. There are passages in every book that are repeated nearly verbatim. There's very little sense of time passing. But the characters do seem to grow.
I will say that two things bug me a little:
The sudden escalation at the end and the shift from being fully defensive to occasionally offensive are hindered by the formula.
The given timeline (years) doesn't quite mesh with every book using 'months ago'.
Anyway. Carry on.
It was a dress rehearsal.
Apparently the lead hurt his foot and they had no understudy because that's a smart idea.
I was already mad theres no Bobs burgers this week but that they didnt even put out something that was of professional quality is just insulting to me as a viewer.
Thats putting aside that Rent is for people far older than me and has aged horribly
its poverty tourism that romanticizes being so poor you fucking die
and also its treatment of lgbtq is horrific
its the whitest white people shit imaginable and I hate it so much
But I remember hating every single character in the story except for Taye Diggs.
The clips people from that audience posted to Twitter were a thousand times better than what they aired. They did the last 15 minutes live and you could tell the cast saved their energy for the live performance
I was furious that none of those motherfuckers would just get a damn job. Livid that being broke was portrayed as noble or aspirational. Peeved beyond measure that one of the final messages is "White dude who observes and doesn't experience is the one who will profit from suffering." (That last one is true, but Rent is sympathetic to him, so, fuck it)