First of all, I never knew Saturday Night Life existed in other countries.
Second, I wish I knew what they were saying. All I can tell is that she gets invited to this family’s house for dinner, gets upset three minutes in to the video and slaps the guy in the face with some kind of spicy meat dish.
If I were Korean I’d probably find this hilarious.
SPOILERS!
Super violent episode tonight. Rick and Co. took on “The Saviors.”
They’d never tangled with this group before, but the Hilltop people had been forced into servitude to them.
Rick and the gang agreed to take out the Saviors in exchange for regular food payments from the Hilltop.
They reason that if they don’t, then the Saviors will eventually attack them.
Obviously, some parallels to today’s world. There are some who argue that it is necessary to take out bad groups, regimes, etc who are wreaking havoc before they get out of control and there are others who say we should mind our own business and don’t attack unless we’re attacked first.
Are preemptive strikes a good or bad idea? Did the group cross the line?
What say you, 3.5 readers?
By the way, JB Smoove is a hilarious guest on tonight’s Talking Dead.
Should have written more novel this weekend.
Alas, been binge watching House of Cards instead.
So, out of morbid curiosity, I watched the first twenty minutes of Fuller House.
At the twenty minute mark, I couldn’t take it anymore but here are my thoughts.
The whole extended family has gathered at the Tanner house in San Francisco for one last get together before Danny, Becky and Uncle Jesse move to LA as they all have conveniently obtained new jobs there at the same exact time.
Thus, the “Full House” is about to become empty. DJ (Candace Cameron) returns with her boys. Her husband, Mr. Fuller (conveniently named to give the show a catchy title) has croaked. Kind of like how her mom croaked. Shit the Tanner family has no luck.
John Stamos, Dave Coulier and Lori Laughlin, all old as shit now, look exactly the same as they did from the original show, thus leaving me to wonder if deals with Satan were struck.
Bob Saget looks older but not ancient.
The Olsen twins passed on the show and there’s a joke about that. The show is self-deprecating so there is an admission to the audience that hey, they aren’t out to craft amazing television here.
Stephanie (Jodi Sweetin) has enormous sweater cannons and its not my fault for noticing as they’re put out on display. Well, not “out, out” but still.
Kimmy Gibbler, formerly the goofball neighbor kid/DJ’s friend who came over to bug the Tanners constantly, is separated from her husband and has a daughter of her own.
I didn’t watch long enough but it was basically building up to DJ, Kimmy and Stephanie taking over the Full House to raise DJ’s kids and Kimmy’s daughter together.
Ugh. I don’t know. I’m sure this show brings a lot of joy to people who really loved the show.
My recollection from when I was a kid was that its main fan base was geriatric old ladies, all of whom are six feet under now.
Maybe I’m just a glass half empty kind of a guy but all this show does is make me feel old. It seemed like the show was just on yesterday. Now the adults are geezers. The kids are the adults with kids of their own and all kinds of adult problems.
I mean, isn’t there a part of you that just wanted to remember that show with everyone being young and happy?
Because time marches on at a fast and furious pace and eventually life wrecks every plan you had. Maybe we were all better off thinking that the Full House family all rode off into the sunset and were very happy.
Maybe we didn’t need to know that DJ has a dead husband and Kimmy has a philandering husband…maybe we don’t need to know that life took a big shit on all of their dreams, just as it did for the rest of us. Just as it will inevitably do for everyone.
Because that’s life. For a little while, you’re a kid. You believe in the world because it has never given a reason not to. Then you try to make something of yourself and boom, here comes the shit. That person you loved double crosses you. Shit. That degree you got is worthless because no one will hire you. Shit. That job you don’t like you’re going to be stuck in it forever because the economy is garbage. Shit shit shit.
Maybe, just maybe we’d like to think that the shit Danny, Jesse and Joey suffered through didn’t revisit the next generation but low and behold, everyone’s life turns to shit I guess.
By the way, the show isn’t really about peoples’ lives being shitty. Everyone on the show seems genuinely pleasant. Perhaps I’m just projecting my own shitty life on it.
We talk about self-publishing a lot on this blog and I think what Hollywood is doing with all these old show reboots is relatable. Fuller House probably would not have been picked up by a major network, but Netflix was happy to have it to bring in the subscribers.
A lot of old shows are coming back thanks to the Internet creating new homes for them. So maybe the lesson is maybe somewhere on the Internet, there’s a home for your writing as well.
FORMULA = ASIDE TO CAMERA + “AS THEY SAY IN GAFFNEY” + NEEDLESSLY COMPLICATED WORD CHOICES + PLOTTING
“I want some cereal.”
TRANSLATION: As they say in Gaffney, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” And as the President of the United States, my days are more important than those of the average man. But which cereal, pray tell, should I feast upon as a prelude to this glorious morn?
Captain Crunch? Hardly seems worth the time of a man of my stature. Why would a sea captain be so interested in cereal anyway? It boggles the mind.
Lucky Charms? Bland oats and sugary marshmallows. My teeth hurt just thinking about it and really, is there such a thing as luck? I’ve gotten where I am through sheer will and determination. Dumb luck had nothing to do with it.
Fruity Pebbles? As delightful as it would be to watch my milk turn various colors I must resist as this Flintstones themed product harkens my mind back to prehistoric times – the days when a man was allowed to be a man. If he wanted food, he killed it. If he wanted something, he took it. And if he wanted a woman, he took her.
Oh how I would have been a god had I lived amongst early man. It’s best to not remind myself about what I missed out on.
Perhaps I’ll just have some Kashi Go Lean. Mix in some fruit. Full of fiber. Good for the bowels. Cleanses them of their deepest, darkest secrets, the things you don’t want anyone else to know about, the things everyone has done but ironically, no one would ever forgive you for.
Also, it helps you poop.
SPOILER ALERT!
What did everyone think?
The world was expanded a bit. Another survivor community. A surprise twist. A new villain.
Should Rick and the gang fight Neegan?
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Hey 3.5 Readers,
BQB here. Late Show with Seth Meyers had a funny skit in which Lady Melisandre attends a baby shower and is her usual self.
So Game of Thrones will be back on the air soon, what are you hoping to see?
I’d like to take a moment to remember actor George Gaynes, who died this week at 98, which surprised the crap out of me because I thought he was 102 back in the 1980s at the height of his fame.
His two main roles that I remember:
Yes. Punky Brewster. The best show ever about a poor elderly man who went to take his trash out one day, found a small girl living in the alley and decided to keep her…because it was the 1980s, simpler times when the automatic assumption was that the old man actually just cared about the kid and wanted to be there for her and wasn’t trying to keep her as a slave locked up in his basement or something.
Ahh how times have changed. Punky Brewster just wouldn’t fly as a TV show today. It was a good show. There was Brandon the dog. And her friend Cheri. And Cheri’s feisty grandmother. You know, Henry and Cheri’s grandmother really should have hooked up.
Anyway, you will be missed George Gaynes. The 1980s would not have been the same without you.
Hey 3.5 Readers.
The Walking Dead is back!
SPOILER ALERT!
Wow. The general consensus is this is one of the best episodes of the series, perhaps the most emotional one.
We lost some recurring characters. Jessie, Ron, Sam – the whole porch dick family is gone.
Rick’s Valentine’s Day was ruined. He really wanted some Jessie action.
Carl’s eye is gone. Poor Carl.
Father Gabriel had a redemption moment.
The Alexandrians had their stand.
Dale has replaced his crossbow with a rocket launcher.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Bookshelf Battle 