OT: 60th Obsequious Banter Thread: Some Guy Named Nate Raduns

[LegionOfDoom91]

A sadly, strangely underrated great show. Those first few seasons especially are up there with the best we have seen, easily. It wasn't local for me, but I love that time period to death - an endlessly rich source of material. Jack Huston's character, Richard Harrow, was just awesome. But then pretty much all of them were.

That guy used to make me laugh. I liked the show but it tailed off at the end I thought. But it happens with most shows.

 

[orangecrush8]

I had to cut off the part about "Entourage" because that's diabolical lol but I loved "The Office" too. The first few seasons (again) were very romantic.

 

[The Rage Kage]

That's another one that takes off, and once it does, it never lets go. The best fantasy series since Tolkien - with the possible exception of "A Song of Ice and Fire," although since his fat ass would rather peddle pewter figurines than write, it will never get finished - was called "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" by Tad Williams, and it is the perfect example of this. It take 65-70 pages and then it is relentless the rest of the way. I even put that down once, but thank God I went back to it.

Another great fantasy series is the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear are the first two parts of the trilogy already released, but the author Patrick Rothfuss is doing his best GRRM impression and taking 6+ years to write the final book The Doors of Stone. The main character can be a bit of a "nice guy" sometimes but Rothfuss' prose is unmatched. He is actually a bit like you sometimes Captain, what he says is beautiful and seems incredibly profound, but when you look a little closer you realize just how absurd it really is. Great series though.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Lets also not forget,

OZ and The Wire uncensored and those shows were great.

Never saw OZ but the Wire & Sopranos were top shelf as far as HBO shows go. For being a serious show the Sopranos had some good comedic value to it too. Like the Pine Barrens episode with the Russian guy they kill in the woods.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Another great fantasy series is the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear are the first two parts of the trilogy already released, but the author Patrick Rothfuss is doing his best GRRM impression and taking 6+ years to write the final book The Doors of Stone. The main character can be a bit of a "nice guy" sometimes but Rothfuss' prose is unmatched. He is actually a bit like you sometimes Captain, what he says is beautiful and seems incredibly profound, but when you look a little closer you realize just how absurd it really is. Great series though.

I think that one is vastly overrated, actually. I finished the second one last year because I thought the third was on the way - I had been waiting to start it until all three were out, but I got some bad intel. I thought it was fine and everything, but definitely not worth all the attention it has gotten, at least according to my tastes, which as you know are impeccable.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

That guy used to make me laugh. I liked the show but it tailed off at the end I thought. But it happens with most shows.

It tailed off at the very end, but up until then it was amazeballs.

 

[PHILOUDELPHIA]

Never saw OZ but the Wire & Sopranos were top shelf as far as HBO shows go. For being a serious show the Sopranos had some good comedic value to it too. Like the Pine Barrens episode with the Russian guy they kill in the woods.

Well OZ is a prison show. Alot of the people in The wire are on OZ. As said it's uncensored

 

[PHILOUDELPHIA]

Never saw OZ but the Wire & Sopranos were top shelf as far as HBO shows go. For being a serious show the Sopranos had some good comedic value to it too. Like the Pine Barrens episode with the Russian guy they kill in the woods.

Here's a trailer

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

^^^
Yeah I know what it is I just never watched it.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Well OZ is a prison show. Alot of the people in The wire are on OZ. As said it's uncensored

I never got into Oz because the subject matter just didn't interest me at all - that hasn't always stopped me from watching something, far from it, but I just never had any desire to watch much of it. The Wire was great, but Deadwood was better. I'd argue that Deadwood is possibly the greatest TV show of all time - better even than the Sopranos. I'm not hardcore on what number it is and I completely understand arguments for a couple of others, but it's right at or near the top of them all. Ever.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I never got into Oz because the subject matter just didn't interest me at all - that hasn't always stopped me from watching something, far from it, but I just never had any desire to watch much of it. The Wire was great, but Deadwood was better. I'd argue that Deadwood is possibly the greatest TV show of all time - better even than the Sopranos. I'm not hardcore on what number it is and I completely understand arguments for a couple of others, but it's right at or near the top of them all. Ever.

You're excitable and I understand that. I will forgive you this trespass.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

You're excitable and I understand that. I will forgive you this trespass.

Not a trespass, paisan, nor a transgression against your people, just the truth. And like I said, I understand ranking the Sopranos ahead of it. It's wrong, but I understand it.

It's very much a 1 and 1A situation.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

By the way, SOMEONE could have warned me that ****ing Keaton was in ****ing Spiderman

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Not a trespass, paisan, nor a transgression against your people, just the truth. And like I said, I understand ranking the Sopranos ahead of it. It's wrong, but I understand it.

It's very much a 1 and 1A situation.

Deadwood was great. Really was. But it's hard for me to put it in that kind of air when it had less than half of the run of something like The Sopranos. It didn't have the real downturn at the end that brings down your overall score. So undeniably great, but not greatest.

Also, it wasn't even my favorite quasi-Western this century -- Justified is really just ridiculously good. Maybe the best thing on broadcast/basic cable in my lifetime.

 

[kudymen]

You know that episode where Country Mac comes to visit and they do that daft karate routine, making those sounds? I very nearly died. It is almost fatally hilarious.

"I very nearly died"

"Striiker likes this"

the hell

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

He's such a stupid dillhole. Why would you let this ass clown in your movie? He ruins everything he touches. Every word, every scene. Piece. Of. ****.

 

[Pablo Sanchez]

I badly want to like Game of Thrones, but I just couldn't get into it after the first episode. It seems I have a bad habit with this Although I wasn't a fan of Breaking Bad's first season at all, and it's probably my favorite show of all time.

You know what show I really can't stand? Big bang theory. Just, ugh.

Seriously...f*** the Big Bang theory

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Parks and Rec wanted to be The Office so badly, and in my opinion, it doesn't even come close.

 

[Striiker]

"I very nearly died"

"Striiker likes this"

the hell

Well now that it's out in the open...

 

[Tripod]

By the way, SOMEONE could have warned me that ****ing Keaton was in ****ing Spiderman

Christ, you do live in a hole if you did not know that.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Parks and Rec wanted to be The Office so badly, and in my opinion, it doesn't even come close.

Well The Office wanted to be The Office so badly too, but was still good in it's own way.

I can't believe people think Parks and Rec isn't funny. Andy Dwyer and Ron Swanson are all time sitcom characters.

 

[Lord Defect]

Deadwood is one of my all time favorite shows.
I gave up on the wire two episodes in. I can't even remember why I gave up.
The Big Bang theory is one of the worst shows in television history. "Hi" laugh track. "Sheldon" laugh track. "How..." laugh track. "Are you doing" extended laugh track where someone is laughing so hard their heart stops.

 

[Amorgus]

By the way, SOMEONE could have warned me that ****ing Keaton was in ****ing Spiderman

Talking about Keaton as Vulture is what brought our whole Keaton discussion up a few days ago! Hooked on Phonics much?

And if you want to be allowed to hate Keaton, you have to allow me to hate Jerry Seinfeld. He's the worst part of his own damn show!

 

[Striiker]

Deadwood is one of my all time favorite shows.
I gave up on the wire two episodes in. I can't even remember why I gave up.
The Big Bang theory is one of the worst shows in television history. "Hi" laugh track. "Sheldon" laugh track. "How..." laugh track. "Are you doing" extended laugh track where someone is laughing so hard their heart stops.

Most overrated show of all time.



Don't @ me

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Talking about Keaton as Vulture is what brought our whole Keaton discussion up a few days ago! Hooked on Phonics much?

And if you want to be allowed to hate Keaton, you have to allow me to hate Jerry Seinfeld. He's the worst part of his own damn show!

I can only tell you what does and does not suck - what you choose to do with that information is up to you.