• Re: Notes for QABF21 (A Serious Flanders [part 1])

    From Ant@1:229/2 to Matt Garvey on Monday, November 08, 2021 01:01:01
    From: ant@zimage.comANT

    I like its beginning part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CDPUTxEIA),
    but not the rest of it since I'm not familiar with that series it is
    making fun of.


    Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
    Are titles paid by the word now? Why can't this or Warrin' Priests include "part 1" in there? Anyway, I guess I'll reserve judgment till next week, but despite the tone so dark Fox had to add a viewer discretion warning it's not bad so far. However:
    the Fargo-esque parody note that it's all made up may explain why characters are dying off, but then what reason do we have to care about the suspense or mystery? Eh. Also, is this supposed to be the same Barbara we saw with Sideshow Mel all those years
    ago? They look nothing alike, even in the old photos, and yet this could have been such a great deep callback (still allowing her to look and sound like the Minnesotan type here, perhaps through an evolution in looks). It's not as bad as the total
    recasting of Sarah Wiggum, at least. Till next week!

    Previous episode stuff
    9F07: Linda Ronstadt reference, of a sort
    5F06: A Barbara in a relationship with Mel was seen, but was thin and trendy looking with (appropriately) green hair then

    Alternate version alert
    Even as a joke, that little Netflix-y corner popup announcing the start of the next episode is very annoying. But note that tonight it said 6 days, 23 hours, etc. I would not be surprised if next Sunday's encore before Part 2 updates it to 5 minutes or
    something. On the other hand, maybe it won't; it is, after all, before a commercial break, not in the last minute. I'll be recording just in case!

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  • From Matt Garvey@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, November 07, 2021 17:49:50
    From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

    Are titles paid by the word now? Why can't this or Warrin' Priests include "part 1" in there? Anyway, I guess I'll reserve judgment till next week, but despite the tone so dark Fox had to add a viewer discretion warning it's not bad so far. However: the
    Fargo-esque parody note that it's all made up may explain why characters are dying off, but then what reason do we have to care about the suspense or mystery? Eh. Also, is this supposed to be the same Barbara we saw with Sideshow Mel all those years ago?
    They look nothing alike, even in the old photos, and yet this could have been such a great deep callback (still allowing her to look and sound like the Minnesotan type here, perhaps through an evolution in looks). It's not as bad as the total recasting
    of Sarah Wiggum, at least. Till next week!

    Previous episode stuff
    9F07: Linda Ronstadt reference, of a sort
    5F06: A Barbara in a relationship with Mel was seen, but was thin and trendy looking with (appropriately) green hair then

    Alternate version alert
    Even as a joke, that little Netflix-y corner popup announcing the start of the next episode is very annoying. But note that tonight it said 6 days, 23 hours, etc. I would not be surprised if next Sunday's encore before Part 2 updates it to 5 minutes or
    something. On the other hand, maybe it won't; it is, after all, before a commercial break, not in the last minute. I'll be recording just in case!

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