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Post by admin on May 13, 2010 7:08:16 GMT
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Post by glumbumble on May 14, 2010 21:20:20 GMT
Yaaay I saw a bit of it after Desperate Housewives last night! I think it was the first episode. Looks interesting! I'd love to watch it, shall watch out for when it's broadcasted at an earlier time, and with no parents around =).
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Post by Tellurium on May 26, 2010 12:43:52 GMT
Welcome aboard the good ship Tara, glumbumble!
This week's ep... man. I love Kate, and I can never really figure out where the writers are going with her, but she has one weird fucking life.
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Post by admin on May 26, 2010 12:51:12 GMT
That ending was brilliant though. "You fucked mah Paymay?!" I love Buck.
T's not been around much this series. She didn't show up in the Cabin Episode, either. Are they just sick of her, or is there something more interesting going on? Theories ahoy!
(I hope they're just sick of her, I'm halfway through an 'Adventures of T' spec script for a fellowship I'm applying for.)
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by Tellurium on May 26, 2010 13:16:54 GMT
Oh, I loved the whole episode, yes. And that ending was absolutely lovely. Poor Max though!
Marshall's storyline in particular resonated with me this week, and Alice was in her prime. Tara's mother was brilliantly cringe-worthy... Life was good on my TV, when it was on.
Now I have to figure out what to do for a whole week while waiting for the next one. :/ Life is hard.
I actually thought that "What do you think I am... a WHORE!?" bit in the Tornado episode was T. But it's easy to miss and I could be wrong. She hasn't been present really. I actually never found her terribly compelling so I can't say I'm missing her all that much, but I'm sure she'll show up again when the occasion suits her.
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Post by helwin tins on May 27, 2010 0:06:51 GMT
"I don't know how to be gay. I used to think that I was something else, like they'd make a whole new category for me. I like guys, but I like old films just as much."
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Post by admin on May 27, 2010 7:37:00 GMT
"I don't know how to be gay. I used to think that I was something else, like they'd make a whole new category for me. I like guys, but I like old films just as much." He breaks my heart. (Although, would Lionel really go cruising? In a world where there's... Grindr?*) * - Google it, lose all faith in humanity. Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by Tellurium on May 27, 2010 9:17:32 GMT
Call me a Scrooge, but I don't know if I really bought that particular line. I get being confused when you're a teenager, but I had an obsession with 90s artistic-revolution-era Chinese cinema when I was Marshall's age and I was still sure I was gay as hell.
I do LOVE his storyline, but he sort of comes off as too smart to be sucked into Lionel's one-way-of-teh-ghey mentality. It doesn't quite ring true for me sometimes. Did they really set any kind of precedent for this in the first series? Still I love the dialogue it raises, and give kudos to the show for exploring these sorts of things.
And I know a Lionel, who I met when I was 15, and he does indeed both use Grindr and cruises in parks.
And yes, Grindr is the most soul-eating thing in the history of the entire world ever.
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Post by Lemon Bloody Cola on May 27, 2010 10:05:28 GMT
Would I like this? Anyone fit in it?
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Post by Tellurium on May 27, 2010 10:14:21 GMT
Yes. Kate.
And Alice.
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Post by helwin tins on May 27, 2010 11:22:45 GMT
Hahahahaha. I have Grindr on my phone, my name on it is Acid Minnell and my flatmate and I try to make friends on it every so often.
Anyway, yeah, Kate = SO HOT. Charmaine's pretty too ("but you've always made decisions like an ugly girl")
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Post by Tellurium on May 27, 2010 11:28:40 GMT
("but you've always made decisions like an ugly girl") The best line. Ever.
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Post by admin on May 27, 2010 11:38:32 GMT
Would I like this? Anyone fit in it? Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by thornyking on May 28, 2010 1:06:56 GMT
Call me a Scrooge, but I don't know if I really bought that particular line. I get being confused when you're a teenager, but I had an obsession with 90s artistic-revolution-era Chinese cinema when I was Marshall's age and I was still sure I was gay as hell. I do LOVE his storyline, but he sort of comes off as too smart to be sucked into Lionel's one-way-of-teh-ghey mentality. It doesn't quite ring true for me sometimes. Did they really set any kind of precedent for this in the first series? Still I love the dialogue it raises, and give kudos to the show for exploring these sorts of things. I was probably Marshall's age or younger and I thought I couldn't be gay because I wasn't like the glimpse of what I thought gay men were like. But I was a silly kid and living in a bubble. Marshall's quite smart-- clearly smarter than I ever was at that age-- but sometimes people get swayed by silly things. He's spending way too much time with Lionel, man, and it's gettin' to him. I can believe that.
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Post by Tellurium on May 28, 2010 11:37:03 GMT
Fair enough, thornyking. I guess I made the mistake of putting too much of myself into Marshall. It's just that I related to him SO much until this point, up to and including meeting a Lionel-alike, that when he said that, it sort of made me do a double-take.
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Post by Tellurium on Jun 2, 2010 11:42:54 GMT
LOVED this week's episode.
Spoilers ahead, obvs.
After we watched it, I kissed my boyfriend's eyelids, to see if it was the most romantic thing in history. Nope. Didn't feel particularly good for either party. What was that about?
The budding romance of Lionel and Marshall makes sense to me. But I think framing it as "true love" is going too far. I hope the show doesn't take it too seriously. Although I guess teenagers do fall in and out of "love" on a whim. That's part of the bill.
Mimi was made of awesome. That story got interesting fast. The show doesn't seem like it's going anywhere near the season finale yet though. Wonder how it'll all end up by next week.
And Kate's story seems like it might be *gasp* actually going somewhere! Like they're NOT just making it up as they go! I'm excited for that.
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Post by admin on Jun 2, 2010 12:50:23 GMT
How weird was Chicken, though? The naming thing was a bit clumsy: 'THIS IS CHICKEN THAT WAS HER NICKNAME WHEN SHE WAS FIVE YES THIS IS CHICKEN!! CHICKEN!! CHICKEN!!'
Mimi was fascinating, though, and I was weirdly excited that T came back. Like, giant grin exciting.
Not sure what to make of Marshall and Lionel. It depends how they play it, I suppose, but... I hope Marshall keeps his smarts about him.
Kate seemed to have had a complete brain transplant, though. Some creepy internet guy who found you searching for medievil princesses who sit on cakes offers you a condo and you take it, no questions asked? I thought she was a smart girl, is all.
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by Tellurium on Jun 2, 2010 13:16:54 GMT
I think the idea that Tara had an alter at such a young age is incredibly compelling. I kinda dug Chicken, tbh. But I agree, Char's instant recognition and "ZOMG CHICKEN!" was a bit weird. I wish she'd had more of a cue than just Tara acting girlish to make it a little believable.
Smart people act stupid when there's a hot rich guy involved. I've seen it enough times to believe it. Plus she's a teenager getting offered a condo free of charge.
I guess what really makes it easy for me to buy was the fact that Kate never seems to have any fear. Sure, I'd be scared as hell of this guy, but I'd also be scared to whore myself on webcam for strangers, track down some random for a cheque, hang out in her wacko apartment, star in a music video made in her garage, and stick it out with a semi-abusive otaku boyfriend.
Kate's just cool like that.
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Post by glumbumble on Jun 4, 2010 21:34:15 GMT
I caught 2 episodes last night! The episodes where Marshall sets the shed on fire because he caught T with the guy he likes in there....and then she goes to some kind of clinic....ooh I saw Buck, hadn't seen that character before. At first when I saw what T had done I was like "no waaay" and then when Marshall's sister said that it was to protect him and said why I thought it did make sense. Why else would she do that? Her alter egos are part of her, she wouldn't do something to deliberately hurt her son. I always saw T the rare times I watched. Oh and there's this new weird character she has that freaks out at the spa with her sister and looks like some sort of animal in its behaviour.
Do we ever find out what happened that made her become this way, they've been talking about it every time I watched and it intrigues me?
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Post by admin on Jun 4, 2010 23:07:40 GMT
Do we ever find out what happened that made her become this way, they've been talking about it every time I watched and it intrigues me? It's the central mystery of the series, and they're only revealing it a tiny bit at a time. Some very interesting stuff in series two, though... Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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