Comments on: Pop Culture Pet Peeves

By: Amie

Amie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:45:16 +0000

I know I am late writing this but this is the first time that I ever checked out your blog. I know there are laws about this but I think it is crazy when they show a newborn and it is very clearly a 5 month old baby. Newborns are so small that it is ridiculous to believe a baby that big is a new born.

By: Kimi

Kimi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:03:04 +0000

I am late getting here, and read through all the comments first thinking someone would surely mention my biggest TV pet peeve EVER, but nobody did! I HATE when someone knocks on a front door then they only give the person inside like 2 or 3 seconds to get to the door. If they don’t come, they say “Well, he must not be home” or “let’s go around back”. Hello????? Maybe they weren’t standing in the front hall just waiting for someone to knock on the door. Maybe they’re in the den reading. Maybe they’re on the toilet. Maybe they’re having some “alone time”. Give it a minute!

By: The Ryan with the Cupcake

The Ryan with the Cupcake — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:44:13 +0000

Justin: I do have a Twitter feed.

I protected my Twitter feed when I realized that Google had it near the top of the results when people searched for my name. I wanted to be able to talk about Puntabulous decongesting without worrying about professional type people reading it.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:55:56 +0000

& Craig I’m sorry to disagree but *I* thought that whole storyline was just a cheap, shallow, facile “oo aren’t we deep” faux-analogue of suicide bombers in occupied Iraq (Simpsons did it better in one of their Treehouse of Horror episodes) without actually taking ANY STAND — in their usual chickenshit way, like they didn’t take a stand on rape, murdering civilians who don’t agree to be impressed into the army, or faking an election. And don’t get me started on the totally-out-of-character Anders moment “You know what you have to do [i.e. cold-bloodedly murder your own wife]“. Bah! I say. Just … BAH!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:46:30 +0000

Oh, and SK? I’m not sure I can promise to do as you ask

(j/k)

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:40:24 +0000

But season three is worth it for the New Caprica episodes alone!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:35:59 +0000

Thanks Exactly. I would probably even watch the show again on DVD despite my misgivings.

BTW: Does Ryan only have cupcake or does Ryan also have twitter feed?

By: The Ryan with the Cupcake

The Ryan with the Cupcake — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:26:45 +0000

Justin: There is a reason I only own the first two seasons. I pretty much agree with your assessment. I still enjoyed the show, but it just wasn’t as good.

By: Suburban Kamikaze

Suburban Kamikaze — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:55:37 +0000

Don’t hate me, but I always get that parking spot. I can’t explain it really. There I am, whipping through the parking lot, my cinnamon dolce latte secure in the extra long fingers of my perfectly manicured right hand, and voila! there it is.

Oh well. Que sera, sera, right?
SK

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:50:46 +0000

So actually about BSG it wasn’t JUST the finale — though that pissed me off (yeah, I *really* believe 30-odd-thousand people will all just meekly agree to give up technology) — but most of the 3rd and 4th seasons. It just became increasingly clear that they DIDN’T have this all planned out, that they WERE just making it up as they went along, and what’s worse, that they had very little respect for their characters or their integrity or consistency and could just make them do anything without regard to what actually made sense based on their previous history. It seemed arrogant to me.

There were still sublime moments in the last 2 seasons. Really impressive acting. There were even some phenomenal moments in the finale (basically *everything* involving Laura Roslin was always phenomenal). The “revelation” episode with Ellen Tigh and the Brother Cavill conversation where everything was revealed was an episode I really enjoyed, though then I felt they ruined it by wasting another episode on Ellen and Saul and #6 having their hissy fit, as if Ellen would still be the same person after regaining all her memories from “Earth”. So, all in all, a very mixed bag.

I’m still going to watch Caprica though. And The Plan.