Ummm... yeah... End of Semester Shenanigans

12/6/13

Ummm... yeah... End of Semester Shenanigans

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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November Status Update

11/6/13

November Status Update

Well... admittedly I'm a little embarrassed.  I unfortunately made a few promises I didn't keep.  I'm still around, still as motivated as ever.  School just piled on a lot of stuff that spilled over into this week but I am FINALLY done and free.  My exams went well my projects went well... (actually had to submit a finished video game to some indie festivals so yeah... managing all that was fun...) I've just had to sacrifice literally all my free time to get those results...

But yes I am back and I know I have a lot of TV to catch up.  But I don't think I've fallen too far behind.  I now have a list of stuff I need to watch and a few binge sessions can likely catch me up fairly soon.  Sorry again for the long wait, and thank you all those who have stuck around.

I'd also like to give a HUGE thank you to my guest Newt for being so awesome and keeping up with his schedule.  I'm ready to take the super negative side again :P

Also... seems my trakt.tv bar broke while I was away... suppose that was apt timing.  But this time it's not on my end.  Trakt seems to be having some problems with it.  I'll hope they sort that out in the near future.

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A VERY Unfortunate Update...

10/11/13

A VERY Unfortunate Update...

It's come to my attention that resetting the blog had some unforeseen consequences.  While I was aware that my old links would be dead and I'd have to relink a lot of my directories... I didn't expect my entire image library to be wiped... which means that all the imagines in my old view logs that I've captured myself are gone...

This would make a lot of the view logs not make sense (especially the breaking bad shot by shot breakdown of Walter White's completed arc).  So I'll be taking the time to make sure I fix everything my blog didn't carry over... which means it'll be a little longer until I can get to the new view logs again.

Fortunately, my blog directories are now up to date and working so atleast the site is now functional again.  Apologize to those who are still following me.  This small hitch will be over very soon.

Also a very big thank you to Newt who is on top of things with Agents of SHIELD.  If you haven't already please go ahead and check out his awesome blog.  Can't wait to catch up and complain about TV some more :P

CritBox out.

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Complete Overhaul Update

10/5/13

Complete Overhaul Update

Well... looks like the underground testing has been successful... so what's the thanks I get?  I get shoved into a little box for personal use in the break room!  No experimenting?  No science?  No nothing?  And here I thought I could trust humans...

Well... no matter.  Know that I'm still around, I'm still the same old grouchy machine but now I'll get all the TV I can access since I'm literally now... a cablebox...

Anyways hope you all don't find the change too jarring.  I'll be back for some more view logs in a bit.

(BTW the actual story behind this is that I had a friend who really wanted to roleplay as an OC Artsy Core from Portal online and he called in a favor.  So I had to give him my email.  Figured I'd use this opportunity to reset the character identity to something a little more relevant to TV and maybe more of an original character rather than something I ripped off from Valve.  I originally started this blog light heartedly and didn't really think I'd do much but now I quite enjoy myself finding a place to vent my TV frustrations (and gushes).  Sorry for those who might have liked the Artsy Core as a persona.  And I hope those who read the blog will continue to visit and see what this weird little machine has to say.  If not, well thanks for sticking with me for this long.)

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10/1/2013 Update!

10/1/13

10/1/2013 Update!

Hello all!

Just a quick update on what's going on with the site.  So Breaking Bad just ended.  I would have actually taken a break from another view log after that because processing Breaking Bad has left my... well... processor a little hot.

Unfortunately... so many TV shows premiered within this past month and many of them are some of my personal favorites or ones that I was looking forward too... So I suppose this fall will just have to be a busy time for me.

I'm sure you may have noticed that I've stopped posting view logs right after a show's episode premieres.  That is because I'm now in training in my facility.  Which means I now have less time than I had originally hoped.  That said, I still have time to do all these view logs.  It just might not be as prompted as before.  I will try to keep them updated so usually the week after the episode goes live will be when these will pop up.  I'll do my best not to carry over the next week and develop large backlog of episodes like I have with Under the Dome.

Speaking of that, I'm trying to generate motivation for Under the Dome.  This is how it's going so far...

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View Logs: Hello Ladies Season 1 Prologue

View Logs: Hello Ladies Season 1 Prologue

I love British humor.  There's just something about it that strikes my core.  Maybe it's the very off-kilter but still realistic dialogue.  Maybe it's the very snarky but subtle asides that the British are so good at.  Maybe it's the strange way that many British comedy characters display pretension and insecurity at the same time.  Well, no matter, point is British comedies have a very distinct style that I always feel is under-appreciated outside of the Anglo-Saxon country.  While comedies in both America and Asia tend to value over-exaggerations and over-the-top craziness, British comedies seek to find the humor in everyday life.  To the Brits, real life is crazy enough and there's no need to try to exaggerate it more than fiction already inherently does.  I love that philosophy.

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2013 65th Emmy Screen Fiction Winners

9/25/13

2013 65th Emmy Screen Fiction Winners

Comedy

• Modern Family (ABC)
  • 30 Rock (NBC)
  • The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
  • Girls (HBO)
  • Louie (FX)
  • Veep (HBO)

Drama

• Breaking Bad (AMC)
  • Downton Abbey (PBS)
  • Game of Thrones (HBO)
  • Homeland (Showtime)
  • House of Cards (Netflix)
  • Mad Men (AMC)

Miniseries/Movie

• Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
  • American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
  • The Bible (History)
  • Phil Spector (HBO)
  • Political Animals (USA Network)
  • Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel)

Animation

• South Park (Episode: "Raising the Bar") (Comedy Central)
  • Bob's Burgers (Episode: "O.T.: The Outside Toilet") (Fox)
  • Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Episode: "Enter the Dragon") (Nickelodeon)
  • Regular Show (Episode: "The Christmas Special") (Cartoon Network)
  • The Simpsons (Episode: "Treehouse of Horror XXIII") (Fox)

Short-Form Animation

• Mickey Mouse (Episode: "Croissant de Triomphe") (Disney Channel)
  • Adventure Time (Episode: "Simon & Marcy") (Cartoon Network)
  • Clarence (Cartoon Network)
  • Regular Show (Episode: "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese") (Cartoon Network)
  • Robot Chicken (Episode: "Robot Chicken's ATM Christmas Special") (Cartoon Network)

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Computerized Thoughts: Biggest threat to Batman/Superman is... not Ben Affleck

8/24/13

Computerized Thoughts: Biggest threat to Batman/Superman is... not Ben Affleck

You know what robots do when they don't have humans to experiment on?  Idle... in a basement.  Yup.  This transmission is coming straight from an underground science facility basement.  I'm a "prototype" ya see?  Not yet completely "accurate or reliable" to judge art in fiction... yet.  So I'm not really allowed to do any extensive testing on our subjects.  So I spend a lot of time in the basement cut off from most of everything...

Therefore in my spare time I just surf the internet when I've run out of HBO shows to leak my oil to.  I normally don't comment on much beyond TV.  It's not because I have no interest in other stuff.  I watch a lot of movies, play a lot of games, even read some books when I have the time too.  But there's a lot of opinions on movies and games already and I'd just like TV to get a little love.  Especially since this era of TV is one of the best it's ever been both domestically and internationally.  It's even come to the point where it's drawing film people away from film.  Which like, if you think about it, is amazing considering that TV was the retarded step child of film just a decade and a half ago.

So I originally didn't want to post about the Ben Affleck controversy.  Some of the stuff I'm about to say has been said by others but eventually, after reading hate comment after hate comment after hate comment I felt like it deserves repeating...

Ben Affleck is not the death of this movie.

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The 2013 Outstanding Screen Fictions Emmy list!

7/19/13

The 2013 Outstanding Screen Fictions Emmy list!

Well... Emmy time is amongst us again.  I'd say the biggest surprise of the year is House of Cards.  Honestly didn't expect it on here within it's first season.   The other drama noms are fairly expected.  It just might be Game of Throne's year for best drama if House of Cards doesn't steal it.  There were rumors that Fox's The American was going to make it.  But this didn't turn out to be the case.  Personally I really wanted Person of Interest to get a nod... but the Emmys seem a little like the Oscars in which they don't look too fondly on procedural drama shows.  Comedies tend to be another story however...

The comedy noms are weaker.  Not sure about The Big Bang Theory.  The best of that series was definitely towards the beginning and the last season really regressed into a typical relationship based sitcom... I wouldn't consider it bad just yet but it's definitely the weakest the show has ever been and the whole thing isn't exactly that amazing to begin with.  Surprised that Archer or Parks&Recs aren't a part of this list.

So in terms of fictional shows that's really it.  Boardwalk Empire has fallen out of favor and House of Cards replaced it.  The only real stinker here is American Horror Story... Outstanding "miniseries"?  What?  Very unsure why this was nominated.  American Horror Story didn't deserve it's nomination last year based on it's writing quality and Season 2 didn't improve enough for me.  It's reoccurring presence at the Emmys really baffles me.  History Channel continue to scrape into the list with The Bible, which is better than Hatfields & McCoy but still pales a little compared to it's nominated peers.  Ugly Americans is also notably absent from the animated list... so that's just my first knee-jerk reaction to the list.

Anyways here's the complete outstanding fiction list:

Outstanding Comedy Series
30 Rock (NBC) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Girls (HBO) Louie (FX) Modern Family (ABC) Veep (HBO) Outstanding Drama Series Breaking Bad (AMC) Downton Abbey (PBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) Homeland (Showtime) House of Cards (Netflix) Mad Men (AMC) Outstanding Miniseries or Movie American Horror Story: Asylum (FX) Behind the Candelabra (HBO) The Bible (History) Phil Spector (HBO) Political Animals (USA Network) Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel) Outstanding Animated Program Bob's Burgers (Episode: "O.T.: The Outside Toilet") (Fox) Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Episode: "Enter the Dragon") (Nickelodeon) Regular Show (Episode: "The Christmas Special") (Cartoon Network) The Simpsons (Episode: "Treehouse of Horror XXIII") (Fox) South Park (Episode: "Raising the Bar") (Comedy Central)

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