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« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2012, 01:15:54 PM » |
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I liked how the guy had a roommate who worked for BP and a sister who worked for Halliburton. His father should have been a fish who witnessed the exploding rig.
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2012, 01:40:10 PM » |
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As much as I liked it, I'm not going to argue that. Someone specifically addresses that, too, when they ask "How often do you get this lucky?" and he's like "This is the first time" or something like that. Which I think was Sorkin trying to pre-emptively deflate that argument, but it doesn't exactly work.
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« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2012, 02:25:50 PM » |
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It was unnecessary. I still liked the show even with the blowhardiness.
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« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2012, 02:43:10 PM » |
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It totally feels like a STUDIO 60 re-do, which I don't necessarily mind, but I wonder if he's consciously doing that.
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« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2012, 02:43:20 PM » |
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Just to watch a weekly show with Jeff Daniels is enough to make me watch every week, and at least Sorkin will get to be self righteous about oil spills and journalism and not sketch comedy.
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« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2012, 03:47:05 PM » |
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That is amazing.
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« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2012, 03:51:19 PM » |
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They missed a real obvious one. Every first season finale he's ever written (and I'm assuming this one will be, too) is called "What Kind of Day Has It Been." And also, perhaps his favorite, "Welcome to the NFL." He bizarrely used it in that commencement speech. And a shocking lack of Gilbert and Sullivan references in that supercut. Amateur  I can't wait for whoever's family member on THE NEWSROOM is involved in some type of life or death situation. I hope it's BP Oil Spill Brother Guy. |
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« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2012, 04:46:55 PM » |
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I liked how the guy had a roommate who worked for BP and a sister who worked for Halliburton. His father should have been a fish who witnessed the exploding rig.
This post is the best post. |
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DerickA
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« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2012, 06:03:24 PM » |
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I think SPORTS NIGHT is the worst pilot.
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« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2012, 06:08:37 PM » |
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Really? I haven't watched it in awhile. I'm mainly basing that off of nostalgia, because it was so fresh and new at the time.
It does have that bizarre laugh track, though. "Bizarre" in that they're laughing, just not at jokes.
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« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2012, 06:15:05 PM » |
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Every pilot has the big speech that sets off the tone and events of the series and in SPORTS NIGHT it was about how sports coverage is more geared toward the exploits of the players than the actual sports which is such a niche complaint that it never feels like it's anything worth yelling over.
I'm watching it for the first time and in one episode one character has a big speech about why it's mean to go hunting. It's almost parody but it's still interesting to watch.
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« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2012, 06:17:54 PM » |
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I've been watching Sports Night this month on Netflix. Every time I think they've finally abandoned the laugh track I hear a feeble titter and re-realize that they couldn't even pay for a simulated audience to find it funny on a consistent basis. It appears, like, once every three episodes.
The choice of single(-ish) camera format with three camera lighting hasn't stopped feeling weird yet either. Has anyone made a fan version that strips out the laugh track and filters the video to look more film like?
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« Reply #28 on: June 25, 2012, 06:32:03 PM » |
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I read that it's only in the first season. I also read that they WERE filmed in front of a live audience and Sorkin and Schlamme had a big pain in the ass with staging the show for a live audience.
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« Reply #29 on: June 25, 2012, 06:52:47 PM » |
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Wow, I feel bad for those audiences. I imagine them sweating out those Big Important Speeches, whispering to each other through gritted teeth and force smiles, "What the hell are we supposed to do with this? Applaud or something?"
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