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I ask because you like that Vampire/Twilight stuff. I mean seriously, how much more girly can our society get?

DS
I ask because you like that Vampire/Twilight stuff. I mean seriously, how much more girly can our society get?

Twilight = shit.

The Vampire Diaries = the shit. Excellent acting, excellent writing, and actual suspense.

Gideon
I'm a big Joss Whedon fanatic: Angel, Buffy, and Firefly were all superb.

Oh yes.

Neph and TB: the third best Star Wars book ever written is

Spoiler:
Shadows of Mindor.

Nem: I can hear your fapfapFAPing.

Nai: Go to sleep.

Mindor was decent. Excellent characterization of Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando. I even prefer Stover's take on the Mandalorians than their patron saint, Traviss.

Cronal didn't come across as being too badass, though. Huge problem.

The O.C. was godly when it comes to teen dramas. Everything else since have basically been cheap imitations.

um... phuck you? I read Candide (by phucking Voltaire) today. That is what I did with my day.

Spoiler:
It was to a picture of ur mom, Faunus.

dblpst:

and now I'm fixing DotOR so stfu

Ah, to have grown up during the days of 90210 and Melrose Place, when things made sense.

Gideon
Mindor was decent. Excellent characterization of Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando.

Spoiler:
[that I have read?]

Stover makes everyone believably badass.

Gideon
Cronal didn't come across as being too badass, though. Huge problem.

Eminence
Not too badass, no, but I definitely thought he was an entertaining and threatening villain. Stover certainly sets him apart from all the other antagonists in the mythos.

He was all right.

I'm going to take your word for it and assume Vampire Diaries is actually good. My mother watches it, but I suspect that's almost entirely for Somerhalder.

With Lost gone and the couple other shows I might watch done for the summer, I need good showz. I'm starting Boston Legal and Fringe and will be sure to stay the hell away from Veronica Mars.

The only TV shows I have been following recently are The Tudors, Dexter, Spartacus Blood and Sand and The Pacific miniseries.

I rarely watch TV.

I like Whedon, but his attempts at feminism are all exactly the same. Some tiny ass chick takes on a bunch of evil hairy men/monsters.

Nothing will ever come close to matching the brilliance behind Lost, though Desperate Housewives is a definite distant second.

Eminence
I'm going to take your word for it and assume Vampire Diaries is actually good.

It's excellent. Sure, the premise is similar to Twilight (which many people consider to be the epitome of shit), but it's also similar to Buffy, which was both a cultural and critical phenomenon.

Eminence
My mother watches it, but I suspect that's almost entirely for Somerhalder.

Somerhalder does a hell of a job. If you've ever watched Buffy, Somerhalder's Damon will remind you of a combination of Spike and Angelus; he shows a genuine sadism similar to Angelus with a flippant behavior reminiscent of Spike. The best part about it is that he's not like Edward Cullen in that he's an actual badass; he murders and manipulates (particularly in the early episodes) rather casually.

Stefan is pretty much a knockoff of Angel, but that's okay, since Angel was one of my favorite characters. Elena is smoking hot; leagues and leagues beyond Kristen Stewart.

No Gary Stus or inept writing, either. The vampires are formidable, but there are other supernatural (and just natural) entities out there who are capable of subduing or beating them outright. Damon's pretty cool in that, when confronted with someone he sees to be a genuine threat, he'll cut the bullshit and go for the kill. The show is surprisingly limited in terms of PIS.

I highly recommend it.

Originally posted by Won Fei Fon
Nothing will ever come close to matching the brilliance behind Lost, though Desperate Housewives is a definite distant second.

I've never seen Lost.

I have. None of these retarded shows will ever come close to Arrested Development, Law & Order, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Eminence
Boston Legal

Quite possibly my favorite show of all time. Alan Shore is probably the greatest and most complex character in the history of television.

Spoiler:
For all you House loving losers, he doesn't even come close.

Eminence
and Fringe and will be sure to stay the hell away from Veronica Mars.

Didn't watch Fringe much, but I hear it's excellent. Mars is fantastic thus far (highly acclaimed for it's lack of O.C./90210 bullshit).

I'd also recommend Lie To Me and Human Target.

And Monk.

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
I've read Mein Kampf

Autokrat
I've never seen Lost.

The best thing about that show is Michael Emerson. I truly, truly didn't give a shit for anything else about it other than the awesomeness that is Benjamin Linus.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
You sick, evil man.

Many of the philosophy majors during freshman philosophy were talking about it (no doubt hoping someone overheard their genius), so I decided to read the book. Nothing special, just the rants of an angry man who couldn't get into art school.