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Random Entertainment thoughts
Topic Started: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:24 pm (9,650 Views)
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would the boxing day one count because it's after christmas?

unless that one started on christmas? i don't recall specifics.

and then then there was one where they covered a year in one episode that had a christmas.
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Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:36 pm
would the boxing day one count because it's after christmas?

unless that one started on christmas? i don't recall specifics.

and then then there was one where they covered a year in one episode that had a christmas.
I just watched that one. It goes from new year to new year, but no Christmas is shown. It's conceivable that the prior Christmas episode took place during that year, but it's pointless to get into continuity with MASH, because so much is off

The Boxing Day one began at a Christmas party with British troops
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speaking of MASH;

my brother was wondering if hawkeye was as promiscuous in his "regular" life (before he was drafted) as he was in the army. we decided he wasn't, because either he was bored some of the time in korea (as the saying goes: long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror) & because he'd most likely never see those women again after the war.
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By all accounts, I think we're supposed to believe that no, Hawkeye was not like he is at the 4077th, when he was back home, not a womanizer, not an alcoholic, not a constantly sardonic pessimist, not the hack meatball surgeon they needed him to be, & not the eventual mental case he became. All these things were directly because of the war, or symptoms of the effects of war on him, & ironically, despite the fact that the whole camp was like that in the 1st few seasons, by the end, he is the only one reacting to it & copying in that way

My all time favorite dramatic scene in that show is from the dream sequence episode, where Winchester dreams he's a magician doing all his tricks while a soldier dies on the table. By the end, he's covered in flop sweat, tap dancing with sparklers in his hands, powerless to prevent it. He' s the most celebrated surgeon of the group, feeling completely impotent, & Hawkeye is credited with being the most personable & caring. How must he be feeling trapped like that?
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I get so annoyed at my husband having that show on all the time I forget how brilliant it is
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The thing is, it ran f o r e v e r

Over 250 episodes. Within that, it runs the spectrum of magnificence, & abomination, from cripplingly funny comedy & ball your eyes out drama, down to embarrassingly hackish one joke episodes, & bored premises dragged out & dusted off to be retread

One whole episode is about Klinger over-decorating the company clerk's office with Lebanese junk, (with a subplot about a soldier who has a death wish because he 's Korean) If you try to find any kind of continuity, your head will explode,

Plus, until the finale, the characters stagnated terribly. No arcs at all, short of Margaret having a failed marriage, & Hawkeye going mental a couple times (sleepwalking one time & sneezing fits another) which ties into the finale about the chicken/baby

However, if you want funny, those first few seasons are killers, & if you want touching war tales, those later seasons can really get you sometimes. One whole episode is about Potter being in a bad mood, dull as all hell, until they grab you at the end, when you find out he is the last surviving member of his WW1 squad, & shares a drink from their saved brandy bottle, with the mash crew. You got no heart if that don't get you

It mastered the field of comfort TV. Even the bad episodes still made you feel at home with them. Star Trek knows a thing or 2 about that as well
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In The Green Mile, John Coffey bestows extended life on Mr. Jingles & also Paul Edgecomb, who reflects on how long he might live, given how long the mouse has lived, some 64 years or so. Though it's not stated that it will necessarily be so, by the proportional scale, Paul could live to be 1300-1500 years old :blink:
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All my shows are over except for survivor. It was sad how excited I was last night that it was on
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They're 8 episodes into Fargo season 2. I'm up to the second. You don't need to have seen season 1. It's a different story & cast

It plays on FX. You're welcome
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my brother brought this up the other day:
luke had friends on tatooine, did they ever wonder what happened to him?

my brother thinks that they thought he ran off to join the imperial academy.
i said maybe they thought he was killed along with his aunt & uncle. (if i recall the stormtroopers made it seem like the tuscan raiders did it)
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln
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Sherlock Holmes and x files suddenly don't seem that far away
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New ID4 movie coming up. Haven't seen the trailer yet.
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I've saved up some binge watching for after the holidays. I haven't seen the new season of Orange is the New Black. I hear Sons of Anarchy is supposed to be good. I never watched Law and Order, so I've been enjoying reruns of all three series.
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Ooh antman is in the new marvel movie
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while watching tomorrow never dies on the THIS channel tonight i had this thought during the scene where bond drives the remote-control car for the first time: bond must play a lot of video games. and later in the same scene when Q tells him to grow up: that's why Q is always telling him to grow up, he still plays video games.
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Technically, John Dunbar is not "Dances With Wolves". He only danced with one wolf, & as literal as they are with their other names, like Kicking Bird, Stands With Fist, Ten Bears, etc... They'd be literal to what they saw. He'd be "Dances with Wolf". There'd really be no reason to summarily suppose that he'd dance with all or multiple wolves
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While looking for a tattered coat for the character playing The Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, a costume assistant bought one from a second hand store. When the actor put the coat on he turned the pocket inside out - written in the pocket was the name L.Frank Baum who is the author of The Wizard of Oz books. Baum's widow later identified the coat as actually having belonged to her husband.
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While looking for a tattered coat for the character playing The Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, a costume assistant bought one from a second hand store. When the actor put the coat on he turned the pocket inside out - written in the pocket was the name L.Frank Baum who is the author of The Wizard of Oz books. Baum's widow later identified the coat as actually having belonged to her husband.
:huh: one of those crazy thing.
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i see that they made a movie of the book inferno by dan brown, which is the latest one. they skipped over the lost symbol for some reason. that one is set in washington d.c. & i wonder if it's harder to shoot a movie there these days, with all of the security concerns. maybe that's why they skipped it. or maybe it was the mason thing. :idon'tknow:
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disney keeps doing these live-action versions of their animated movies.
i guess it's better than 1. trying to come ups with something new & 2. it's easier and faster than doing an animated movie.
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