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Post by Jam Jar on Apr 11, 2018 18:06:51 GMT
I've decided to watch all of these because they're on Amazon and I'm giving them £6 a month so I might as well binge-watch something. I'll probably stop when that tit Ashton Kutcher shows up.
It's okay.
The kid grew up to be a religious mentalist though I think. Makes sense when you hang around with Charlie Sheen.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 18:38:33 GMT
I've decided to watch all of these because they're on Amazon and I'm giving them £6 a month so I might as well binge-watch something. I'll probably stop when that tit Ashton Kutcher shows up. It's okay. The kid grew up to be a religious mentalist though I think. Makes sense when you hang around with Charlie Sheen. Does you Amazon package include Babylon 5?
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Post by Jam Jar on Apr 11, 2018 18:49:35 GMT
I've decided to watch all of these because they're on Amazon and I'm giving them £6 a month so I might as well binge-watch something. I'll probably stop when that tit Ashton Kutcher shows up. It's okay. The kid grew up to be a religious mentalist though I think. Makes sense when you hang around with Charlie Sheen. Does you Amazon package include Babylon 5? No idea. I never liked Babylon 5 though. I only paid for Amazon because I wanted to watch The Man in the High Castle. They haven't got as much as Netflix.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 15, 2018 0:51:16 GMT
Hope you enjoy it.
Me, I liked Two and a Half Men up until Charlie Sheen left and was replaced by that Ashton Kutcher guy. I was able to DVR every single episode off of one of my local cable channels that has played the series from start to finish several times. As such, I have every episode from every season on my DVR.
I thought it was well-written with an interesting cast. People mistakenly think it's all about Charlie Sheen (whom many people do not like) but the show was more of an ensemble effort: every episode, one of the cast members other than Charlie gets his or her moment to shine. Had some good guest appearances by well-known actors/actresses too, over the years. All in all a good, well-written and fun/funny show. Up until Kutcher, that is.
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Post by Jam Jar on Apr 15, 2018 0:54:54 GMT
Yeah, I like the simplicity of it. There's no gimmick.
I can't bring myself to watch How I met your mother. That shit will just annoy me.
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Post by MightyMikey on Apr 18, 2018 17:53:46 GMT
I'm on season 7 now. The Alan character is both entertaining and annoying. How can this guy complain about anything?
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Post by Jam Jar on Apr 18, 2018 18:06:49 GMT
I'm on season 7 now. The Alan character is both entertaining and annoying. How can this guy complain about anything? To justify the Charlie character. As long as Alan acts like Charlie's conscious and points out that he treats women like fuck-meat, the audience will be inclined to ignore it.
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Post by Jam Jar on Jul 21, 2018 17:42:38 GMT
So I just finished all 12 seasons.
Very enjoyable for the most part. There's something to keep you entertained and the performances are great (especially Cryer) though it's obviously pretty formulaic stuff overall. The show works best with Sheen and Cryer by I actually thought Ashton Kutcher was great in season 9 (one of the better ones in fact). One suspects that might be due to most of that season already having been written for Sheen and they just tweaked it for Kutcher. He has enough charisma to keep the show going but the dynamic of the show changes, as do the characters (mostly Alan).
Sadly, the show starts to go downhill quickly in season 10 (I think around the time they make Alan have a heart attack) and the writers clearly know it because they start throwing new characters at the problem. Some of them are actually quite good such as Walden's business partner played by Patton Oswalt and then his apprentice (the chubby guy from hot tub time machine) but the real stinker is Charlie's long lost daughter (played by Amber Tamblyn). The writers are basically saying 'we miss writing for Charlie' so they get in a new character who is basically him... but a woman.
She's not only pointless but she actually undermines the Walden character by reminding us how much we miss someone like Charlie. Unfortunately, she doesn't work as a character AT ALL and they quickly push her into the background (there are literally bout five or six episodes where she isn't even there... despite living in the house).
Then in a last-ditched attempt to regain the spirit of the show they introduce the Lewis character who is actually very good but it's already too late. Truth be told, Walden should have had a son to begin with (that kinda being the whole premise of the show) but they missed a trick there.
By this point, the show is a mess. Walden and Alan live there, Charlie's daughter lives there, Lindsay practically lives there and then Lewis lives there. Oh and then Walden also has a heart attack (what?), they both screw Lindsay together, they both screw the social worker, everybody screws everybody and blah blah blah. Worst of all, they completely do a 360 on the Alan character. He was the conscious, the heart, the anchor of the show but by the end he's a total, non-recognisable caricature.
To be fair, 12 seasons is still pretty good.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jul 21, 2018 18:15:33 GMT
Haven't seen it for years, only ever watched it when in the US, but from what I remember, the smaller the 'half', the better it is. When the half becomes a fat teenager with attitude, it's just annoying.
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Post by Joc Spader on Jul 21, 2018 18:26:23 GMT
So I just finished all 12 seasons. Very enjoyable for the most part. There's something to keep you entertained and the performances are great (especially Cryer) though it's obviously pretty formulaic stuff overall. The show works best with Sheen and Cryer by I actually thought Ashton Kutcher was great in season 9 (one of the better ones in fact). One suspects that might be due to most of that season already having been written for Sheen and they just tweaked it for Kutcher. He has enough charisma to keep the show going but the dynamic of the show changes, as do the characters (mostly Alan). Sadly, the show starts to go downhill quickly in season 9 (I think around the time they make Alan have a heart attack) and the writers clearly know it because they start throwing new characters at the problem. Some of them are actually quite good such as Walden's business partner played by Patton Oswalt and then his apprentice (the chubby guy from hot tub time machine) but the real stinker is Charlie's long lost daughter (played by Amber Tamblyn). The writers are basically saying 'we miss writing for Charlie' so they get in a new character who is basically him... but a woman. She's not only pointless but she actually undermines the Walden character by reminding us how much we miss someone like Charlie. Unfortunately, she doesn't work as a character AT ALL and they quickly push her into the background (there are literally bout five or six episodes where she isn't even there... despite living in the house). Then in a last-ditched attempt to regain the spirit of the show they introduce the Lewis character who is actually very good but it's already too late. Truth be told, Walden should have had a son to begin with (that kinda being the whole premise of the show) but they missed a trick there. By this point, the show is a mess. Walden and Alan live there, Charlie's daughter lives there, Lindsay practically lives there and then Lewis lives there. Oh and then Walden also has a heart attack (what?), they both screw Lindsay together, they both screw the social worker, everybody screws everybody and blah blah blah. Worst of all, they completely do a 360 on the Alan character. He was the conscious, the heart, the anchor of the show but by the end he's a total, non-recognisable caricature. To be fair, 12 seasons is still pretty good. Yes it was bizarre how they brought in Jake's doppleganger to fill the void when he left. The only time the daughter made me laugh was when Linda Carter guest starred and they all sneaked out of her bedroom.
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