tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post4053415511464841292..comments2024-03-28T02:30:08.913-04:00Comments on Not Just Movies: South Park — Season 1Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-43958255047394945002010-03-24T23:54:44.558-04:002010-03-24T23:54:44.558-04:00Well yeah, I don't know about anyone else, but...Well yeah, I don't know about anyone else, but if it was longer than 6 seasons, I couldn't write it. If you run out of high quality ideas and time to come up with them, write the dang series finale. That's the reality of it. But you know people, so many of them just want to keep a show going for as long as they can until it's phsyically immpossible to continue it. And finding balance? Oh god, I'm running for my life now.<br /><br />I'm certainly interested in Arrested Developement. It seems like it has an original concept. I heard they were gonna do four seasons but it got cancelled at three. Darn.<br /><br />Speaking of the Simpsons(Wait, what's the name of this review again?), have you watched the episode "Last Exit to Springfield"?Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669266022229029181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-75752429849843487072010-03-24T23:33:03.942-04:002010-03-24T23:33:03.942-04:00The thing about the Simpsons, though, is that it u...The thing about the Simpsons, though, is that it used to combine references, callbacks, gags, narrative and heart in a way that no show (and frankly no film) could approach. Now the gags are sometimes funny but the show still relies fairly heavily on plot without the jokes that work in sync with it. I love Arrested Development, which above all comedies is a show without narrative purpose, whose storylines existed chiefly to provide callback references for future episodes. It wasn't trying to teach us lessons, whereas The Simpsons often had some wisdom to impart and struggles to teach us lessons today (like MASH, which you referenced, I think it's gone on too long and now can't find the balance anymore).Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-23096219424126354512010-03-24T23:07:27.713-04:002010-03-24T23:07:27.713-04:00"As The Simpsons continues to descend into me..."As The Simpsons continues to descend into mediocrity stemming from outliving any fresh plots, and with Family Guy just plain sucking, South Park must hold aloft the flag of quality animated T.V."<br /><br />I haven't watched much of The Simpsons past season 12, but the episodes that I have seen of the later seasons seem funny enough, if just that, which is basically the key thing I look for in a comedy series.<br /><br />Between abandoning story altogether and running out of fresh ideas, I can understand why one would lose respect for the Simpsons, but you seem like someone that really cares for comedies having plots. Don't get me wrong, I would PREFER comedies that have messages and are always relevant to what's going on, but I have a hard enough time finding something that I think is funny, let alone funny and having decent plots. I just don't want to get too picky.<br /><br />So why would you feel some distance, assuming you do, from something without an unnecessary and risky amount of attention to story(Remember Mash?), if it makes you laugh every 5 seconds?Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669266022229029181noreply@blogger.com