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Offline Kosh

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TIME's top 10 shows of the year
on: December 28, 2005, 06:26:53 am
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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #1 on: December 28, 2005, 06:50:38 am
Sweet! Hopefully this will propell the Nielsen ratings (or whatever that measurement of how many people are watching a show is called) through the roof, securing many more seasons of BSG goodness. :D
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #2 on: December 28, 2005, 08:37:01 am
What !!

Mainstream approval of a geat sci-fi series? :yes:

That I watch?  :eek2:

And is still in active production? :D :D :D

With more episodes on the way soon.  ;7
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Offline an0n

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #3 on: December 28, 2005, 10:07:41 am
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Offline ionia23

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #4 on: December 28, 2005, 10:25:46 am
Not a bad list.  Pity that 'firefly' isn't (can't be) in there.
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Offline Roanoke

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #5 on: December 28, 2005, 10:40:41 am
How can you not like The Office ?
  

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #6 on: December 28, 2005, 10:42:49 am
American Office is pure ****.

Don't know about Izzards. I'd assume that one was funny.
 

Offline Roanoke

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #7 on: December 28, 2005, 10:46:48 am
I thought it was a direct re-screen of the original. Never seen the US version.
 

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #8 on: December 28, 2005, 11:53:16 am
Quote from: ionia23 on December 28, 2005, 10:25:46 am
Not a bad list.  Pity that 'firefly' isn't (can't be) in there.

I went back through to 2002, but no Firefly. :(
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline ionia23

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #9 on: December 28, 2005, 12:12:36 pm
Doesn't surprise me at all.  The best sci-fi series since Babylon 5 and it gets jacked around.  Shame.
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Offline Fury

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #10 on: December 28, 2005, 12:16:51 pm
I never really got into Firefly, perhaps its just me.
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #11 on: December 28, 2005, 01:58:22 pm
There are some good picks on that list-- I love The Colbert Report and The Office. However, it's missing the greatest comedy ever to grace television: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #12 on: December 28, 2005, 02:19:25 pm
Quote from: Mr. Fury on December 28, 2005, 12:16:51 pm
I never really got into Firefly, perhaps its just me.

Firefly was either loved or hated by FOX viewers: people loved it because of the characters and because of its atmosphere, while other people hated it for its social commentary and political undertones. I personally loved it.

As for BSG, great work getting recognized by the mainstream. :yes:
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Offline Rictor

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #13 on: December 28, 2005, 03:48:46 pm
I watch exactly one show with any regularity, and that just happens to be BSG. I rule.
 

Offline aldo_14

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #14 on: December 28, 2005, 04:11:00 pm
Isn't there a FOX tradition of cancelling any sort of intelligent show, achieved by shuffling it about the schedules until it kills off any chance of picking up a regular audience?
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #15 on: December 28, 2005, 04:29:57 pm
Well they've kept House, which I think is a pretty good show.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #16 on: December 28, 2005, 04:37:57 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on December 28, 2005, 04:11:00 pm
Isn't there a FOX tradition of cancelling any sort of intelligent show, achieved by shuffling it about the schedules until it kills off any chance of picking up a regular audience?

Or throwing in a sports game instead of the show. Very annoying when I sit down to watch the Simpsons and see pro football instead.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #17 on: December 28, 2005, 08:02:34 pm
FOX is generally known as the TV Critic's Employment Network for a reason...
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Offline Deepblue

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #18 on: December 29, 2005, 01:15:53 am
BSG would have been much better if it didn't have such a massive emphasis on naked number 6.
 

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Re: TIME's top 10 shows of the year
Reply #19 on: December 29, 2005, 01:51:17 am
Quote from: Deepblue on December 29, 2005, 01:15:53 am
BSG would have been much better if it didn't have such a massive emphasis on naked number 6.

Quite right. We need more emphasis on naked Boomer.
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