Letters to the Editor
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good column
Sad to hear about sarah's show. i'm going to get around to downloading it soon and i was pretty jazzed. i hope it gets better.
i'm also glad you finally call out battlestar galactica. i heard for weeks how good this show was, and when i finally watched it was beyond disappointing. Ooooh, it addresses the iraq war! How necessary! You know what i'd rather watch than a half-assed allegory for world affairs? A show with interesting characters and intelligent, believable dialogue.
Good laying into those housewives too, that Jo's a real idiot isn't she? And that son shane's haircut is nauseating. i thank god every day i didn't grow up in southern california.
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Silverman: Unfunny
To bad the comedy queen isn't literaly naked; because She's gotten all kinds of praise for being a passable piece of @#$; which is somehow supposed to compensate for the fact that She is NOT FUNNY. How many times I'm I going to see that passable "raped by my doctor" line quoted by some smitten critic? It must be the pinicle of her art.
I don't know how watching a jewish princess engage in invective (that would get a goofy looking guy sent to six kinds of therapy) gets wrapped in street cred; well, yes I do know, She's with a big agency and all kinds of entertainment writers have been taken to lunch. The show stinks, Heather, because She stinks. Admit it, and beat the rush to backlash.
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Lucille Ball
never had to pretend to shit on herself to get a laugh.
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Chicks Aren't Funny
So why did you think Sarah Silverman would be any good? She's a chick, and chicks aren't, you know... funny. Everybody on the planet knows women aren't funny. And, since they put that Carl Sagan record thing on the Voyager spaceships showing life as it is on Earth, pretty soon those monsters in Outer Space will know too. One of those things is nearly at the Heliotrope!
But seriously, what can you expect from a gender that doesn't read on the toilet?
Women don't even HAVE a sense of humor! Take a poll and ask all of your friends if they like the Three Stooges. I guarentee the guys will love them and the girls....well, it'll be quite the other thing. Among other things absolutely RANCID with humor women seem to miss the point of are inappropriate activity by dogs, vomiting and the Dirty Sanchez. Was it Julius Caesar or Luca Brasi who said "res ipsa loquitur"?
Now I'm not saying men don't miss the point on some stuff, too. But what men don't get is stuff like romantic candles, shoe shopping and eating salad. Where's the humor in any of that??
I'm sorry, I know this will piss a lot of people off. But it's a proven scientific fact.
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Res Ipsa Loquitur
Neither Julius Caesar nor Luca Brasi, but none other than England's own Baron Charles Edward Pollock in his famous comedy show, um, opinion Byrne v. Boadle way back in 1863!
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Battlestar Galactica
While there is no reason why everyone should have the same opinion about art (and television), and while I do understand that Ms. Havrilesky's style is one of at times flippant jokery, I did wish that her review/critique of battlestar galactica was based more on the show itself and less on whether Baltar annoys her. The show has never been about "scary" Cylons, which is what has set it apart from other shows of its genre. Despite the unevenness of the season, what has stood out has precisely been its pushing forward of its over-arching mythology by bringing in the Cylons into it as never before. To criticize it for making the Cylons less scary for example is to truly and deeply miss what the series is about. As for its borrowing from Spielberg, like all memorable art, BSG constantly borrows and expands on iconic images. The hybrid happens to be the one Ms. Havrilesky recognized. The others require more careful viewing and thought did was given in this review.
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Trust him? He's a doctor???
I was unsure whether or not I was the only BSG fan to be fed up with Dr. Gaius Baltar, supposed scientist and self absorbed ego-driven politician and feckless love slave to a figment of his own weirdly simultaneously unimaginative and imaginative imagination. I'm relieved to hear that someone else finds him at least mildly distasteful and unbelievable, no matter how much one willfully suspends disbelief.
Baltar is the worst cast actor/character in the show, as well as the worst written. The look and the acting of this character would be perfect for a Cloud 9 Village Voice reporter who had escaped Cylonic armageddon because he was secretly sneaking onto military museum battlestars to shtup an uber-Aryan shiksa cyborg sycophant and is subsequently guilt-driven because of that. But this guy has absolutely zero qualities of any kind of scientist of any time or any culture in human history. He's totally right-brained, with no capacity for logical or linear thought or deductive capacity. He ought to be the ex-hippie music critic for the aforementioned C9VV. Oh and, the rewritten character shouldn't believe in the same scriptures everybody else does. For him, there is an older and truer scripture that makes him a pathetic and forlorn edge case who is constantly under suspicion of being a Cylon. (Like the Cylons could ever invent anything so pathetic and incompetent.) For the writer-producers to think anybody in the audience finds this character belieavable is disingenuous, or maybe they're just fooling themselves.
But it's too late now to bump him off and create some new story thread with some more believable scientific character, so I'll just have to put up with the pitiful schmuck coming on-screen with the yummy No. 6.
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Sarah is Magic
Just watched the cough medicine /cookie party show with my 13 year old son and his 15 year old friend. Both boys and myself laughing so hard we may well have "soiled" ourselves too. Had to keep rewinding to get the next absurdity.
If you'll forgive me, y'all need to grow back down. Such intellectual bullshit about "funny". The woman is hilarious and, yes, her faux innocence (the only honest kind in these times) is absolutely beguiling - despite all the insane poop and fart jokes, hallucinations, and wild leaps of the imagination and local morals.
I'd marry her today if Kimmel wasn't in the picture.