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In Topic: Twin Peaks, 20 years on

Posted 20 Mar 2010

EricMontreal22, on 20 March 2010 - 09:54 PM, said:
YRBB, have you, in a weird way, gotten a TP vibe when watching Peyton Place? I know it was a bit of an influence, but, that was one of the appeals to me.

Hmmm... perhaps the fact that they are both shows about very closed up, almost suffocating communities... and they're both very atmospheric, they both have this wide selection of characters that can be sinister yet lovable. Yes, I kinda see it.
In Topic: Twin Peaks, 20 years on

Posted 20 Mar 2010

God how I love TWIN PEAKS. Working my way through Season 2 right now.

EricMontreal22, on 20 March 2010 - 09:17 PM, said:
One of my top 3 shows--but I wish Frost would get as much credit as Lynch does for the show... As the Gold Box makes clear, the show woulda become derailed much much sooner without him there doing the episodic plotting. Frost did the framework--Lynch coloured it in.

That's the notion I always had as well.
In Topic: The Golden Girls Appreciation Thread

Posted 20 Mar 2010

EricMontreal22, on 20 March 2010 - 01:10 AM, said:
GG had a lot of great lines, but I think it suffered from its sitcom format--everything having to "go back" to the beginning after each episode.

Yes, that's what I have been thinking of as well. Great lines, lots of fun, but I believe the show would benefit from making things a little more serialized. All the insane time jumps they had to make in order to tell the relationship storylines they wanted to tell were kind of jarring and played havoc on the show's timeline. It gets kind of tiring how we got months of story crammed into 5 or 6 scenes, suddenly it's a month later, it takes 3,5 minutes of airtime for this character to fall in love with the other one.... Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun, but it's one of the main reasons why I hate so many sitcoms: How can you invest in stories if they're going to be over in 20 minutes with no emotional reprecussions or fallout whatsoever? If only GOLDEN GIRLS wasn't so damn funny!

DaytimeFan, on 20 March 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:
Although I enjoyed ''Soap'' I disagree that the sitcom format hurt ''The Golden Girls'' because it is the sitcom format that allowed GG to go into syndication for coming up 25 years, whereas Soap died the death of most serials.

I'm not sure if that's what Eric was talking about, but the way I see it, the sitcom format hurt the show rather than its longevity. There was a lot of soapiness in it anyways--lots of touching, shocking moments, the girls dealing with difficult, heartbreaking stuff. It could very easily have turned a little more soapy/serialized, without forgetting the funny lines. The way they dealt with sad stuff was very un-sitcom like, yet they insisted on open and shut format. It's a shame, I could see so much more... lol The soap/serialized format definitely didn't seem to hurt FRIENDS, nor the fact that it hasn't stopped being repeated since it stopped airing.

DaytimeFan said:
Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan and Betty White are the four greatest female comics of the 80s

They were fabulous!
In Topic: The Golden Girls Appreciation Thread

Posted 20 Mar 2010

Rose: I don't eat chips, I don't like them. They fall in my bra.
In Topic: DOOL renewed 2010-2011

Posted 19 Mar 2010

Awesome news.