What TV shows are people watching?

**Frownland** · 01-17-2018, 10:25 AM

Explain that to me in a high key way please.

The Batlord · 01-17-2018, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Explain that to me in a high key way please.

It'll make more sense if you just watch Buffy.

Oriphiel · 01-17-2018, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Explain that to me in a high key way please.

I'll give you a few minutes to think about it

**Frownland** · 01-17-2018, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

I'll give you a few minutes to think about it

Thanks.

Trollheart · 01-17-2018, 10:33 AM

Don't forget Hush. You want to see a master of his craft at work, watch Hush. Then tell me Buffy sucks. You realise of course that's a pun, yes?

**Frownland** · 01-17-2018, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Don't forget Hush. You want to see a master of his craft at work, watch Hush. Then tell me Buffy sucks. You realise of course that's a pun, yes?

Is it?

The Batlord · 01-17-2018, 10:37 AM

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Is it?

No.

innerspaceboy · 01-17-2018, 11:31 AM

TIL the fastest way to blow up a thread is to dis the vampire slayer.

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No he won't. ISB doesn't like drama. Leave him alone.

Thanks, TH. I understand that many viewers enjoy escaping into the melodrama of fantastical tales; (I did enjoy the comically dramatic Greta Garbo in The Grand Hotel). But my particular brand of escapism from the stressors and sorrows of the world usually involves losing myself in something meditative and pastoral, (like ambient music), something abstract, or otherwise cerebrally engaging. I've had more than enough drama in my real life, thank you.

Perhaps if there were a Buffy version of Koyaanisqatsi...

**Frownland** · 01-17-2018, 11:36 AM

Exploring something new is pretty engaging for the cereb though, isn't it? If anything you can use it as an opportunity to think up ways to tell Ori and Bat that they have gaping blind spots in their taste.

innerspaceboy · 01-17-2018, 11:47 AM

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Exploring something new is pretty engaging for the cereb though, isn't it? If anything you can use it as an opportunity to think up ways to tell Ori and Bat that they have gaping blind spots in their taste.

Do I understand correctly that you're encouraging me to watch something we know to be awful purely for the sake of chiding the source of the recommendation?

Because I might be on board with that.

I think I've just realized what is so appealing about all the -qatsi films - high on conceptualism, brilliantly minimalist scores, no characters, no dialog, no plot, no linearity... right there you have everything I desire from my entertainment.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Don't forget Hush. You want to see a master of his craft at work, watch Hush. Then tell me Buffy sucks. You realise of course that's a pun, yes? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-17-2018, 11:36 AM	#5889 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Exploring something new is pretty engaging for the cereb though, isn't it? If anything you can use it as an opportunity to think up ways to tell Ori and Bat that they have gaping blind spots in their taste. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x