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Post by burrunjor on Apr 26, 2024 19:55:59 GMT
Oh dear I see Glinner has well and truly put his foot in his mouth, calling RTD a sweaty groomer. What a f*cking idiot. We all know that there are some serious casting couch rumours about Russell and Ncuti being a twink of his (though even then it's not something you should ever state as fact in the public especially if you're in the industry without proof), but groomer implies children and that is certainly the context Glinner was using it in. Morally it's disgusting for Glinner to try and smear an innocent man as that, (he's now crossed into Mr Tardis territory) but from a practical point of view what a f*cking idiot! RTD could take him to the cleaners for slander. Only posting this here because I mentioned Linehan among my bad celeb encounters and honestly I don't think he deserves a thread of his own. It's a shame for the other people who worked on Father Ted. Poor old Dermot Morgan's legacy is being trashed for a lot of people by this. Still again my fave sci fi author Edgar Rice Burroughs was a raging racist so I can't throw stones too much LOL.
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Post by iank on Apr 26, 2024 21:44:05 GMT
Sorry I don't see the problem. RTD is using his position to try and groom an entire generation of kids (not that any of them are watching) with his vile worldview. Seems like an accurate description to me for a man who boasts about having gay orgies in the pages of a magazine about a show supposedly at least partly aimed at kids.
And yes, I think we all know how Fruity got the job. Sure as f*ck wasn't down to talent or suitability for the character.
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Post by The Yak Emperor on Apr 27, 2024 10:18:37 GMT
If I'm being honest, both Father Ted and the IT Crowd struck me as being a great deal more trashy, juvenile and less intelligent than precursors such as Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, the Young Ones and Only Fools. That isn't to say they're not funny - they can be side-splitting at times - but they're definitely less prestige than the aforementioned. And given that something like Mrs. Brown's Boys was clearly not only inspired by, but directly derived from the comedy of Father Ted, it's hard to argue with that.
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 27, 2024 12:30:35 GMT
If I'm being honest, both Father Ted and the IT Crowd struck me as being a great deal more trashy, juvenile and less intelligent than precursors such as Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, the Young Ones and Only Fools. That isn't to say they're not funny - they can be side-splitting at times - but they're definitely less prestige than the aforementioned. And given that something like Mrs. Brown's Boys was clearly not only inspired by, but directly derived from the comedy of Father Ted, it's hard to argue with that. Well I disagree somewhat. I mean I do think that The Young Ones and Blackadder are far better than Father Ted, but overall I think Ted has a lot of quite clever and inspired humour that still holds up decades on and Dermot Morgan's performance as Father Ted is as good as Cleese's as Basil and Rowan Atkinson's in Blackadder. Remember as I said before Ted also wasn't just Glinner. So much of it was taken from Dermot Morgan's stage act before of a priest who wanted to be famous (which drives so much of Father Ted) and Arthur Matthews who is a great comedy writer in his own right co wrote it with Glinner. My dad always hated Glinner. He felt he was a Ben Elton type, one who clung to the coat tails of others like Elton had with Rik Mayall, Rowan Atkinson etc. He said that guys like Elton and Glinner are middle of the road hacks, who can put together some decent stories, but ultimately most of the jokes come from the actors in these things who are comedy performers themselves. I think my dad was maybe being a bit hard on them, (especially Elton who was the one who made the positive change in Blackadder that he was to be the smart one and Baldrick the idiot) but there is an element of truth there in that a lot of the jokes do come from the actors improvising and often the stories are just designed to give them lee way to do their act. After all Rik and Ade had been doing the Young Ones stuff on stage for years and would continue to do so for years afterwards, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie also basically recycled their double act in Blackadder, where Hugh is the stupid, lovable boffin who gets beaten up by a nasty, bullying Fry LOL, and similarly in the IT Crowd, the likes of Noel Fielding, Chris Morris and Matt Berry at least all play characters that they've been doing on stage for years, as did Dermot Morgan. The fact that Glinner would often get insecure about this and act as though Morgan had nothing to do with the success of Father Ted, even stating anyone could have played that part, just further convinces me that my dad was right. Incidentally I have always thought Armando Ianucci was a prime example of this too. Granted I just hate that little smug obnoxious shit anyway so maybe I'm biased?
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Post by burrunjor on May 10, 2024 18:35:26 GMT
Another underrated character is Tabetha Galavan from Gotham. She was one of my favourite characters. I am so f*cking pissed off how they ended her story (though it was hilarious and almost George Costanzaesque the way the Penguin's cheapness saved him LMFAO.)
Still season 2 Tabetha is a f*cking badass. My favourite bit is when she captures Butch. God damn is that hot.
Jump to 3:21. One of that comments is saying poor Butch. I assume they must be sarcastic? I'd have given anything to be in his shoes at that moment LOL. Best thing is even though Tabetha almost tortures Butch to death there, when they meet up later they get together and they are actually the sweetest, most genuine couples in the series. I was really rooting for them (though Butch's death was an absolute peak Penguin moment for me, but ah the sentimentalist in me was wanting to see the nice dumb guy settle down with his gorgeous dominatrix girlfriend. I wonder why?)
I totally need to give Gotham a rewatch again soon. It's by far the best DC show or thing in general apart from the Joker in the last 10 years easy. It was absolutely f*cking insane.
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Post by burrunjor on May 11, 2024 21:02:39 GMT
One of my favourite characters in the later seasons of the Flash was Kramer. She was gorgeous. From what I'm told she started out as an absolute bitch in season 7. I honestly don't remember that season at all LOL, but she seemed to go through a redemption arc as she was really cool in seasons 8 and 9. Yeah probably not surprising that I would like her. She's probably the most of my type woman who has ever lived LOL. Honestly I wish she and Barry got together. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not saying I actually wanted that, as it would have been too out of character to have him leave Iris and unlike everyone else, I rather like Iris. (Again new who has ruined my ability to judge anything LOL. Now I get bitter seeing sites like TV Tropes trash Iris as the worst, when they kiss the arse of shit like Missy, Jinx Monsoon, Donna, Ncuti etc. ) Still yeah I'd never have made Barry and Kramer actually get together, but if I could pick my ideal Flash team she'd be his girlfriend. (My ideal Flash team would be season 2 Wells, Cisco, reformed Captain Cold or citizen cold and Kramer, plus Barry obvs LOL. Sorry Caitlin became too much baggage.) I'd like to see a romance between an older woman and a younger man. Obviously I do NOT mean like 18 and 40 as that is creepy. More like 30 and 50s, as if done right that can be quite sweet. I realise you might think I'm a hypocrite LOL given I don't like Doctor/companion romances but that's different, also I admit to being a bit biased. I'll probably end up with an older woman as I don't want kids. I don't think I could ever cope with the anxiety of having kids. Obviously there are younger women who don't want kids, but to be fair they might change their mind and it would be selfish of me who obviously doesn't have a biological clock to deprive them of that. Granted I'm not saying I'd get off with a 20 year old in my 50s LOL. It does always make me laugh when these redpiller guys go on about how they can keep reproducing until their 70s, which yeah technically is true, but why do you think you'll get off with an 18 year old? Still for me older women are the best. They are my weird ship like Zarius' shipping Graham and Jodie haha. We all have them.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on May 18, 2024 15:18:57 GMT
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