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Well, life goes on.
First and foremost, I would like to apologize to the Critical Cablebox as well as the readers for not posting for a while. Life got busy for me, too, and I had actually had plans to upload all the remaining View Logs at once.
But I would also like to thank the Critical Cablebox for providing me with this opportunity, and the readers for reading what I had to say.
I will keep my my View Logs here, but I will be uploading them to
my own blog, as well, where I'll probably continue them. But should the Critical Cablebox ever find the time to return, I'll be back as well.
Good luck and best wishes, Cablebox.
Take care.
Newt
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Really honestly it has been for me. This isn't a character talking or anything, this is me the admin. First thing's first, I have caught up on a lot of TV and I've even cracked into mid way of Agents of SHIELD (grrrr that show...) But unfortunately I got an internship last week in the entertainment industry and it's working me pretty hard. Not that this is a complaint, I sincerely love what I do and I'd love to make a living in it one day.
The problem is I'm finding it pretty hard to write well thought out posts about these shows and while I still have time to keep up and watch a ton of stuff, I now don't have the time to think and analyze each ep as much as I would like to.
So... instead of just disappearing. I'd just wanna post here just to let anyone who still might check my blog that I'll leave this inactive for a bit. This isn't a reset. I enjoy embodying this character (even though the opinions are sincerely my own) and I've greatly enjoyed blogging about the insane amounts of TV I watch. I just don't have the time to put in the amount of effort I'd like to and instead of just trying to scrape by with each post, I think it's best if I leave this blog for a while. The problem isn't necessarily the job I have but I'm also in my final semester of graduate school and... well you've seen what happened to the Nostalgia Chick back in the day when she tried to juggle both being a net reviewer and a full time graduate student. So... I'll leave this here and I would like to revisit it in the future. Maybe I can finally have some videos to accompany my posts but we'll see. I imagine I'll have much more time once I'm actually out of school and my thesis is done.
My sincerest apologies to Newt, and he may still continue posting his View Logs here or move it back to his own blog. Sorry about how this turned out! I'm apologize if I've caused too much inconvenience to you. And I'd like to apologize to anyone who still followed my blog despite it's recent troubled history. If I get a bit more time (as how much I do in my internship kind of fluctuates) I'll try to finish off the shows I have here left. I have finished Season 3 of Homeland so I can maybe fill that up gradually. But for now. I won't be taking on any new shows atleast until the semester ends.
Thank you for reading.
(P.S. Black Sails sucks so far. Helix is ok so far. And Getting On is probably the greatest thing ever... that is all!)
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Belated Happy New Year! It's been about 2 weeks since 2013 has left us and I've been using this past 2 weeks to catch up on TV! I'd like to finish the series I promise to finish first before posting any more logs
Just a note that I'm still around and I'm not dead.
Prepare for some stuff this coming week!
CritBox.
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So... my owner's an idiot... long story short, my human decided to bring me to his college dorm for the weekend to show off all the TV show he's recorded... unfortunately, being the squishy college student that he is he threw a party with me right there and it ended up with him spilling alcohol into my circuits... the good news is I still have all the programming that he's recorded... the bad news is I can barely function or think because of all the alcohol... I suppose this is what it feels like to be drunk... I think?
Anyways my human's finals are all project based with no exams so he's trying to finish them up as soon as he can then repair me for the Homeland, Dads, and last but not least, Agents of SHIELD view logs. I might be able to muster all my energy and do a view log here and there for Dads and Homeland but for now don't expect much of an update for a week or two. My apologies.
/signoff
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Ah, Repairs. A nice little breather from the subplots, but can it remain interesting despite little to do with the overall story of the series? Let's start from the beginning.
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Episode Title: Comic Book Issues
This is a comic book episode... this is... a comic book... episode. I'm going to say it again... this is a comic book episode... *waits*... wonder if I should use the comic book signal :D
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Episode Title: Foul Play
This episode started off well... Ok the joke about virtual e-sports being lame was... lame... but it was ok. I see what they were going for atleast. And to be frank, people do take e-sports too seriously sometimes. However, what really got the ball rolling was Seth Green's dad saying
"You know, when I was your age I already had a family and left them."
Ok... that was funny. Atleast I found it funny. It's a nice twist on what the past generation likes to say to our generation. Did I go insane?... Did I just find something in Dads... sincerely amusing? Will... this last?
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Episode Title: The Drive
You know what sucks about Thanksgiving? There's too much people everywhere. I guess that's not something I should complain about but I'm a machine! I've never really been very sentimental around holiday seasons, I don't even know if I even really have a family... maybe there's other machines that were made within my production line that I can probably call as "family members"?... Whatever, the reason why I'm complaining is because my current owner invited a whole bunch of people and throughout this weekend I've been touched left and right (not like that... you know what I mean...) and made to record (and watch...) really horrible reality TV shows that this guy's family likes to collectively make fun of... DELETING ALL OF MY HOMELAND IN THE PROCESS...
Thanks... thanks a lot... so that's the bad news. Thankfully, I managed to get a hold of the season finale of Hello Ladies after Thanksgiving and after things have settled down I decided to take a look at how Stephen Merchant is going to end his journey.
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Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Commander Riker himself.
…well, I’ve nothing more to say about that.
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Been a busy week for me, so you may have noticed that these posts are late. Sorry about that.
No more time for sorry, though, we’ve got
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to talk about!
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Title: The Yoga Play
It is both surprising and unfortunate that Homeland has lost me already. During my time away, most of my view log shows have been on my mind. I've been curious on how Stephen Merchant would develop his character in Hello Ladies. I've wondered how bad Dads can really get and checked Variety.com every day hoping to see it get cancelled. I've wondered about Agents of SHIELD and how my guest is doing with it. But the one show that I've consistently forgotten about was Homeland. Which is highly ironic because Homeland was supposed to be the gold standard to all of the shows I've been looking at for this blog. If there is a TV powerhouse in my line up, it should be Homeland. But it's turning out to be quite the opposite.
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Episode Title: Game On
Once Upon a Time... Homeland used to be good... Seriously. Back in the day, oh around early 2012 (The Emmys for 2011), Homeland shocked the TV community by being nominated in place of Dexter. That was a tough year. Game of Thrones was up for it's second season and Breaking Bad just finished it's 4th season (probably the best in my opinion). Homeland surprised further by beating Emmy regulars Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire for the grand prize. That prize was deserved. While Season 1 of Homeland had some occasionally soap opera ridiculousness (the middle episodes of S1 was... weak to put it mildly), the closing episodes more than made up for it. It was a modern retelling of the Manchurian Candidate and it updated it superbly... (which is amusing because Homeland is supposedly a direct remake of Prisoners of War, an Israeli TV show.) Fast forward to 2013 and it's a little sad to see how far Homeland as fallen (although the Emmys apparently seems to still keep giving it nominations...).
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Episode Title: The Wedding
There we go. This is more like it. This is more of what I was looking for in this series. The episode wasn't completely predictable like the previous two episodes but we're back to the early episodes 2 or 3 where everything is the cringe worthy moments had to make me pause the video. Some of Stuart's antics are sincerely annoying by now but this time... things are atleast different. He develops and, once again, we see quite a bit more of his past coming out in his character. What really irritated me was actually Christine Woods' character. But there's atleast some development as a result which is something the series didn't do enough in the early episodes when it had seriously painful scenes. But back to Stuart...
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Episode Title: Long Beach
This episode baffles me. It sincerely does. Honestly I consider this particular episode the worst so far and likely the worst out of the series (since there's only 8 for S1). So the premise is that Stuart is having some construction work done and he decides to try to befriend the workers... because he's scared of them. Well ok, maybe he's not sincerely scared but he would like to try to "belong" with them to not feel so alienated around them. This reminds me of the episode in The Ricky Gervais Show (sorry I don't remember exactly which one) in which Stephen Merchant talks about being frightened by blue collared workers because of their physical strength. The skit and subsequent talk about that was charming but this episode in Hello Ladies just felt like an overly drawn out version of that Ricky Gervais bit.
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Episode Title: Pool Party
I must admit that Hello Ladies is gradually getting a little stale on me. It's starting to become a little too easy to predict the content of each episode. Stuart will come up with a scheme to meet women. It'll work just for a little bit at first but things don't go exactly to Stuart's plan or things aren't moving along fast enough for him. Thus, he tries to force the situation and this makes him super awkward but he's so concentrated on his goal to meet women (specifically hot model women) that he doesn't notice how badly he's screwing up the situation. Then he'll either get flat out rejected or leave out of frustration and find out that things would have turned out far better if he didn't push it.
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Episode Title: The Dinner
My jaw dropped within the first 30 seconds of this episode. I... won't be able to do it justice describing it but I need to describe it. Jessica is going out dressing well, Stuart comments on it and asks where she's going. Jessica says she and a few of her actress friends are going out to a gay club because they don't want the hassle of being hit on by men all night. Stuart instantly thinks that he would have no competition at the place and RUSHES TO TAG ALONG.
My. Jaw. Dropped. Stuart... this is a new low point for you.
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Episode Title: The Date
I'm going to be honest here. I did not enjoy this episode. Now... apparently there's a higher power who is screwing with me... Do you remember in one of my Dads view logs I mentioned how big of a douche Seth Green's character is? (If you don't read my Dads view logs... Seth Green's character is supposed to be this loveable sarcastic snarker but he's really just a douche). Stephen Merchant's character... is a douche... So not only am I irritated by one dick character who is poorly written... I'm also irritated by another in a properly written show... What are the chances that I happen to pick two shows who are, craft wise, totally opposite ends of the quality spectrum but have main characters who irritate me in very similar ways. Ugh... Actually, speaking of quality assessments, as of episode 3 I'm unsure how I'm to judge Hello Ladies. But I'll get to that in a sec... first... I need to explain why this episode was so painful.
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Episode Title: Foul Play
This... show... has... no shame. In a very bad way and not in ways the Family Guy writers probably intended...
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Episode Title: My Dad's Hotter than Your Dad
I almost can't believe I have to reference Louie again... remember when I talked about that fake sitcom in one of the Louie episodes that makes fun of really horrible sitcoms? The opening to Dads is a sincere example of Louie's fake sitcom. This show just finds new ways to piss me off... I can't believe that after JUST comparing the Louie Season 2 Episode 7 scene to Dads Episode 5... I need to do it again IN THE NEXT EPISODE...
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Episode Title: Oldfinger
"Dads is recorded from a live studio audience"... no... more like a high studio audience. Seriously, only someone on drugs would laugh at jokes this unimaginative. But hey... once again... atleast they are jokes... I'll look forward to the day when this statement will no longer be acceptable. But at the moment... beggers can't be choosers I suppose...
