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Alex DeLarge

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TV these days is boring!! You can't go three channels without seeing a gameshow, and they're never GOOD gameshows. No, it's always one of those crappy phone in shows where people sing and you vote and there's always tears and,' please, it means the world to me.' nothing quality like fort boyard or crystal maze. Then when the networks finally listen to all the hate mail and decide to bring back a classic show, they totally butcher it!! I have just heard today that crystal maze is making a comeback. good news eh? Then I heard that it's going to be celebrity crystal maze, hosted by Amanda Holden! AMANDA F**KING HOLDEN!!!!!!!!!!! Plus, memo to ITV, Les DEnnis is still alive!!! You don't need Vernon Kay!!!!!!! If you think that the networks don't care anymore, please say so and we can wage a war of words with ITV!!!!!!!!!!!!(note that I said ITV because other networks like BBC still do good shows such as Dr Who or Top Gear)

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Sounds like you need to watch some Lost. Or some Dexter.

 

Eww... :/

 

Just watch Discovery Channel' date=' History Channel and Sci-fi Network. (And CNN.) I live off of that s[b'][/b]hit.

 

You don't get to say ew. Both of those shows are pretty much universally considered to be the best scripted dramas on TV these days. Discovery Channel only has Mythbusters and (sometimes) Dirty Jobs, History Channel is fine when it isn't being "lolUFOs", and Sci-Fi has Stargate (debatable) and probably Caprica. Otherwise, all their other watchable shows are syndicated.

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Sounds like you need to watch some Lost. Or some Dexter.

 

Eww... :/

 

Just watch Discovery Channel' date=' History Channel and Sci-fi Network. (And CNN.) I live off of that s[b'][/b]hit.

 

You don't get to say ew. Both of those shows are pretty much universally considered to be the best scripted dramas on TV these days. Discovery Channel only has Mythbusters and (sometimes) Dirty Jobs, History Channel is fine when it isn't being "lolUFOs", and Sci-Fi has Stargate (debatable) and probably Caprica. Otherwise, all their other watchable shows are syndicated.

 

What about re runs of Survivor Man.

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It seems today' date=' that all you see, is violence in movies, and sex on TV.

 

Unfortunately our society does not possess men with traditional family values.

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I'm fine. I just watch South Park, Family Guy, etc.

 

This. Except I love the Simpsons and hate South Park with a grudge.

 

As, for LOST and the like, I buy the DVD's.

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Lost is boring imo. :/

 

Boring? You must have a very short attention span if you think it's boring. Hell, the only other show on TV with more action than it is 24.

 

And Survivor Man is a horrible show.

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Sci-fi has The Twilight Zone and a bunch of cool movies at times. :/

 

And Lost is boring' date=' IMO.

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The Twilight Zone is fine, I give you that. The movies that aren't Sci-Fi Originals are fine, too. But I take you back to my original point: everything on Sci-Fi that isn't Stargate and Caprica that's good is syndicated. Sci-Fi is a craphole of a channel for original content.

 

And, again, what makes you say that? What do you find boring? Do you need your shows to have lots of explosions and gunfights and tense moments? Lost has those.

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Can't say I watch much TV, it's pretty much the weekly soccer game and House M.D.

 

House is still my favourite series - anything else I don't watch regularly enough to keep up with the plot.

 

Portugal has 4 main TV channels. These sprouted others, but they're utterly irrelevant. Thing is, 3 of those 4 channels air nothing but news and "telenovelas". I don't know if there is a direct translation, but it's more or less a televised soap opera divided in episodes. Naturally, women love them and they have 3 channels to choose from; guys get 90 minutes of soccer per week.

 

And they still say the guy spends his days on the couch watching TV. May be, but we also paid the damn cable.

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I watched the first episode of Lost and was bored out of my mind. In fact' date=' I didn't even finish the whole episode, an hour is way too long.

 

I haven't watched it since, although I'm intrigued to know how there can be gunfights and explosions now.

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I'm honestly boggled as to how you can think that the first episode was boring. It's usually not until the beginning of the 3rd season that I see legitimate complaints that the show could get boring (and it got a lot better after episode 6). It sounds like you just have a really short attention span when it comes to entertainment. And Walkabout (the 4th episode (or the 3rd if you count the Pilot as 1 episode)) is usually the place where people get hooked.

 

Well, if you had watched it, then you would know. Also, it's ending after this year. The producers had an agreement with ABC to end it after 6 seasons, to make sure that the ending was satisfactory.

Do you need your shows to have lots of explosions and gunfights and tense moments?

 

No' date=' I need my [i']movies[/i] to have that.

 

I watched a few episodes of Lost, and it just DID NOT appeal to me. :/

 

So now it just didn't appeal to you? Sure, I can accept that, but why did you change your story?

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So now it just didn't appeal to you? Sure, I can accept that, but why did you change your story?

 

There were multiple reasons as to why it didn't appeal to me.

 

Boring was the first one that came to mind. I'd rather watch something more sci-fi or 'intellectual'. :/

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I watched the first episode of Lost and was bored out of my mind. In fact' date=' I didn't even finish the whole episode, an hour is way too long.

 

I haven't watched it since, although I'm intrigued to know how there can be gunfights and explosions now.

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I'm honestly boggled as to how you can think that the first episode was boring. It's usually not until the beginning of the 3rd season that I see legitimate complaints that the show could get boring (and it got a lot better after episode 6). It sounds like you just have a really short attention span when it comes to entertainment. And Walkabout (the 4th episode (or the 3rd if you count the Pilot as 1 episode)) is usually the place where people get hooked.

 

It just wasn't my kind of thing to watch, really. Though my tastes are kind of all over the place so I can't really explain why, it bored me. But the reason I wouldn't be bored by then would be that I didn't like the show in the first place, so saying that was kind of pointless. =\ And no, I don't, otherwise how the hell would I be able to understand Death Note and Neon Genesis Evangelion? Can you not assume stuff like that again, please. :/

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So now it just didn't appeal to you? Sure' date=' I can accept that, but why did you change your story?[/i']

 

There were multiple reasons as to why it didn't appeal to me.

 

Boring was the first one that came to mind. I'd rather watch something more sci-fi or 'intellectual'. :/

 

lol. Now I know you're totally misinformed or just uninformed. Lost isn't anything if not sci-fi, and it's one of the most intellectual shows on TV. I brought up the explosions and gunfights because when people say that something was boring, they usually mean that there wasn't enough action.

 

For examples of sci-fi elements found on Lost, I'll put them in spoilers, just in case you ever want to get around to watching it and you don't want to get spoiled:

 

 

Electromagnetism causing very strange effects, including time travel ala Slaughterhouse 5; Straight-up time travel, operating under the "Whatever happened, happened" theory; alternate realities; precognition (a side effect of the in-mind time travel); probably quite a bit more that I forgot to mention

 

 

Seriously, you walked right into this one. Lost is definitely a sci-fi show, and a very high-brow intellectual one at that.

I watched the first episode of Lost and was bored out of my mind. In fact' date=' I didn't even finish the whole episode, an hour is way too long.

 

I haven't watched it since, although I'm intrigued to know how there can be gunfights and explosions now.

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I'm honestly boggled as to how you can think that the first episode was boring. It's usually not until the beginning of the 3rd season that I see legitimate complaints that the show could get boring (and it got a lot better after episode 6). It sounds like you just have a really short attention span when it comes to entertainment. And Walkabout (the 4th episode (or the 3rd if you count the Pilot as 1 episode)) is usually the place where people get hooked.

 

It just wasn't my kind of thing to watch, really. Though my tastes are kind of all over the place so I can't really explain why, it bored me. But the reason I wouldn't be bored by then would be that I didn't like the show in the first place, so saying that was kind of pointless. =\ And no, I don't, otherwise how the hell would I be able to understand Death Note and Neon Genesis Evangelion? Can you not assume stuff like that again, please. :/

 

Sorry, I apologize. I just honestly don't understand what could be so boring about the very first episode that you wouldn't even want to finish it. It couldn't have been the action, because there was plenty of that. Perhaps you just aren't a fan of character-driven drama?

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