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shipperxOkay, I still like Heroes and I'm still 'meh' on Studio 60.
Again Studio 60 isn't funny. Stop showing large sections of skits and having supposedly 'funny' characters who crack jokes which aren't funny. They should write around showing the skits and leave them to the audience's imaginations, that way the show can stop trying to be funny when it isn't. In audience imagination these characters can be good at what they do, so stop showing us that "Studio 60" within the show Studio 60 is anything but brilliant. It works against the premise. You can't tell us that Matt is brilliant for writing a Tom Cruise joke when there are much funnier Tom Cruise jokes on YouTube! Also -- cluebuse -- Tom Cruise jokes are not up-to-the-minute or topical any longer, and they haven't been in about six months. By now, the 'Tom Cruise rant against psychiatrists' schtick is so lame any ordinary ten year old could come up with a belated parody. You've got to raise the bar here to still be funny. A Jeopardy sketch with a bad Tom Cruise impression... er... I thought that the show was supposed to be on the rise. It looked like a skit that the utterly lame current version of SNL would air... on a bad night. And yet this was supposed to be delivering boffo ratings? Wha-huh?
And I find myself agreeing with Harriet regarding the repeated use of the Christian jokes. I'm not a religious person, so I'm not coming at it from that angle. I'm just remembering Jane Eperson's blog recently about stepping on a joke. You can't make the same joke six times and it still be funny. You can exaggerate it and perhaps layer the joke, but if you're essentially making the same point repeatedly, it loses the funny.
It seems to me that whoever it was who suggested that Sorkin would have been better served staging his 'behind the network scenes' show at the nightly news or a news magazine was right. Sorkin has all sorts of political fodder that he still wants to excise from his system. He also clearly has many things he wants to say about the television industry, but a news venue would be more appropriate to the 'serious' tone he gives to the debates he has. Having them go on behind SNL and giving them heft is a bit absurd. SNL, when it's been good has had good political impersonations/parody (the Bush/Gore skits several years ago were great), but, in the large scheme of things, iSNL is not an intellectually heavy show. It's the show of 'Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy', 'I'm Gumby, damnit,' 'Cheeburger, cheeburger,' 'The Amazing Bassmatic', 'Wayne's World', 'The Ambiguously Gay Duo,' 'Tounces the Driving Cat', etc. In short, these characters need to lighten the hell up. They take themselves too seriously.)
I was mildly entertained while watching the show, and there was nothing else on that I wanted to watch, but I remain underwhelmed.
And I find myself agreeing with Harriet regarding the repeated use of the Christian jokes. I'm not a religious person, so I'm not coming at it from that angle. I'm just remembering Jane Eperson's blog recently about stepping on a joke. You can't make the same joke six times and it still be funny. You can exaggerate it and perhaps layer the joke, but if you're essentially making the same point repeatedly, it loses the funny.
It seems to me that whoever it was who suggested that Sorkin would have been better served staging his 'behind the network scenes' show at the nightly news or a news magazine was right. Sorkin has all sorts of political fodder that he still wants to excise from his system. He also clearly has many things he wants to say about the television industry, but a news venue would be more appropriate to the 'serious' tone he gives to the debates he has. Having them go on behind SNL and giving them heft is a bit absurd. SNL, when it's been good has had good political impersonations/parody (the Bush/Gore skits several years ago were great), but, in the large scheme of things, iSNL is not an intellectually heavy show. It's the show of 'Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy', 'I'm Gumby, damnit,' 'Cheeburger, cheeburger,' 'The Amazing Bassmatic', 'Wayne's World', 'The Ambiguously Gay Duo,' 'Tounces the Driving Cat', etc. In short, these characters need to lighten the hell up. They take themselves too seriously.)
I was mildly entertained while watching the show, and there was nothing else on that I wanted to watch, but I remain underwhelmed.
Heroes on the other hand is developing into some mindless fun. We have hints of bad guys (Claire's father is creeeeeeepeeeeee). We have a new supervillain (freezing people and cutting out their brains?! Yikes!) We have our Hiro in danger (teleport yourself out of the police station! Oh, and the ending with the nuclear bomb, and Hiro resolving to change that future, gave chills. Well done, guys!) Also the sweet new hero, the psychic cop (Lost's dead pilot) who just got arrested for being the same murderer that Hiro was arrested for being has potential as a lovable lug of a hero as well. Mohinder, in contrast, remains exceedingly hot.
All in all, this one is holding its 'good, popcorn munching fun' status (yeah, there is cheese and some cliches, but it's fun and that's good enough for me. )
All in all, this one is holding its 'good, popcorn munching fun' status (yeah, there is cheese and some cliches, but it's fun and that's good enough for me. )
