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1. Fuck yeah Harlan Ellison reference.
2. Move Your Family In With Jonathan Holmes would be the first and last reality show worth watching. "Oh, wow, what are you guys doing, sitting around the table eating some breakfast? That's great! Is that a newspaper you got there, dad? And you're reading it, learning about the news and everything? Geez, I bet you get really smart and knowledgeable doing that, maybe I should start reading the newspaper."
2. Move Your Family In With Jonathan Holmes would be the first and last reality show worth watching. "Oh, wow, what are you guys doing, sitting around the table eating some breakfast? That's great! Is that a newspaper you got there, dad? And you're reading it, learning about the news and everything? Geez, I bet you get really smart and knowledgeable doing that, maybe I should start reading the newspaper."
Lou Ferrigno has been mention an absurd amount of times thus far. Not sure why that bothers me. Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno Lou Ferrigno?
Great podcast as usual. Thanks for the shout-out!
To elaborate on what I said about Jim's review of FFXIII, a lot of other critics did succinctly nail problems with the linearity and game mechanics and overall shit-show/heart-break that was that game .
Very few talked about the issues with the terrible story/characters/dialogue that really ruined it for me, however -- and Jim totally got it. Honestly, even with all the problems the game had, if the characters, story and dialogue had been compelling, I would have happily waded through it.
'Cause that's what was so great about JRPG's, wasn't it? Final Fantasy VI-XII mostly fucking nailed it, I thought, story wise. They were genuinely great stories, with characters you cared about in a world you wanted to dive into.
The fact that the directors and writers of FFXIII just don't seem to think there was an issue with their narrative...just the distinct lack of understanding they have for storytelling...it doesn't give me much hope for anything else made by this team.
But goddammit, I would love to be wrong.
To elaborate on what I said about Jim's review of FFXIII, a lot of other critics did succinctly nail problems with the linearity and game mechanics and overall shit-show/heart-break that was that game .
Very few talked about the issues with the terrible story/characters/dialogue that really ruined it for me, however -- and Jim totally got it. Honestly, even with all the problems the game had, if the characters, story and dialogue had been compelling, I would have happily waded through it.
'Cause that's what was so great about JRPG's, wasn't it? Final Fantasy VI-XII mostly fucking nailed it, I thought, story wise. They were genuinely great stories, with characters you cared about in a world you wanted to dive into.
The fact that the directors and writers of FFXIII just don't seem to think there was an issue with their narrative...just the distinct lack of understanding they have for storytelling...it doesn't give me much hope for anything else made by this team.
But goddammit, I would love to be wrong.
Max, I sort of disagree with your assestment on James Bond as a role model. To a modern standard, sure, Fleming's titular super spy does not hold up, but the specific brand names, the womanising and racism were trappings of the class which Ian Fleming himself belonged at the time. That, and Fleming didn't want Bond to be a role model,, in fact, probably the opposite.
"When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument...when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, (James Bond) is the dullest name I ever heard." Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962
"When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument...when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, (James Bond) is the dullest name I ever heard." Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962
Mmmm...
*strokes chin and points with pipe*
@Jim, old bean. It seems that Max may have had enough of the "Is it paedophilia or not?" segment!
Please make him happy again! Allow me to help.
"Is it Star Wars or not?"
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In seriousness the Willem Dafoe movie pitches were funnier!
*strokes chin and points with pipe*
@Jim, old bean. It seems that Max may have had enough of the "Is it paedophilia or not?" segment!
Please make him happy again! Allow me to help.
"Is it Star Wars or not?"
...
In seriousness the Willem Dafoe movie pitches were funnier!
JOHNATHAN HOLMES have you ever considered cosplaying as the greatest comic book crime-fighter ever, MAID MAN http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3047371.html
Haha, I didnt finish the second half till today and this episode really hit home in the most pedophiliatastic way possible! First you guys go off on a tangent about my vaguely homoerotic dream about Jim that I never told a soul! Then after that Holmes finally tells us the tooth story which sounds a lot like the fucked up dino spike Ive got protruding out the side of my head above my molar. Maybe our cluster-fucked ethnicities are evolving into shark people? Then you sultry cunts had the gull to follow that up with my question and call me out! Gave my ears a double penetration of truth spunk!
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