4th June 2012
Reblogged From nevver
Notes: 1728
Guy English:
If I watched the first season of Community via Netflix streaming and now want to rewatch it on my TV as fed from an Apple TV? Make it work. I don’t care how. If you want to pop up a dialog thats asks if you’ll charge me $4.99 to $9.99 for the privilege, I’d pay. Let me pick what I want to watch, regardless of the source, and let me watch it. I have very little allegiance to the network that funded the show — I want the content. Figure out how to make that work.
Fans want to watch their shows. They’ll pay to make that happen. Everything else is mired in entrenched interests. Find a way to make that happen and we’ll all agree that Firefly jumped the shark during its seventh season.
(Source: daringfireball.net)
Adorable.
- Michael Ginsberg: That was a bold last-minute decision—going with your idea.
- Don Draper: I thought it was more what they wanted.
- Michael Ginsberg: Well, we’ll never know, will we? Because they never heard mine.
- Don Draper: Look, I don’t like going in with two ideas. It’s weak.
- Michael Ginsberg: And you don’t wanna be weak, so, you picked yours.
- Don Draper: And they bought it. Which is our goal, isn’t it.
- Michael Ginsberg: What do I care? I got a million of ’em. A million.
- Don Draper: Good. I guess I’m lucky you work for me.
- Michael Ginsberg: I feel bad for you.
- Don Draper: I don’t think about you at all.
March 25
This… is by far the darkest timeline.
But we must have faith. Six seasons and a movie!
(Source: communitythings)
WINTER IS COMING.
(Source: reddit.com)
- Leonard Stiltskin: Nobody gives a shit what you think, dink.
- Roman: People care what I think. I have a prestigious blog, Sir.
Choose Your Own Adventure™ – Lost
Anyone who’ve watched the original British teen drama would know it does not lend itself well to an American adaptation. There are just too many cultural and sociological differences between British and American teens to accurately capture the essence of the original show.
The biggest difference, of course, is the FCC. What’s so attractive about Skins is that its teenage characters behave and think in very realistic and genuine ways. The dialogue in the original British series is raw and uncensored, with explicit drug and sex references casually peppered throughout. From what I can gather of the MTV remake, all of the snappy chatter is replaced with pseudo-explicit innuendo to sidestep FCC regulation. The original Skins also features sex heavily, as an authentic slice of teenage life ought. American censors, however, blanch at even slight nudity—even when it’s on a bedsheet!—let alone on-screen sex. This sheepish submission to censorship destroys the integrity of the show and removes any impact it may have had.
Unfortunately, this is the best we can currently do in this country unless we somehow shed our uptight Puritan attitude towards sex, drugs, and strong language. Needless to say, I now have a newfound respect for NBC’s adaptation of The Office, which successfully translated its quirky, awkward British humor to American tastes without losing its effectiveness.
(Source: thelandbaronandrewbanks)
