Now that this baby's been put to bed: time to opinionate! Chime on on, guys!
Best Episodes: Holidays of Future Passed (Surprisingly cute and well-done), The Book Job (Creative narrative, nice guest voicing), A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again (Actually funny and slightly touching).
Worst Episodes: Politically Inept With Homer Simpson (Terrible VA work by Ted Nugent), Moe Goes From Rags to Riches (felt wildly OOC and out of place for what we know of the Simpsons universe), Lisa Goes Gaga (Worst. Moral. Ever)
General Thoughts: A middling-but-not-sucktackular season. Some duds, but not repulsive ones. And I'd actually willingly re-watch a few of these episodes!
Worst Trends: Fox trying to make Twitter hashtag trends happen by adding 'suggestive' semi-transparent text to the screen during episodes; the WTH-ery of the show's sudden fixation on using Marge as a fanservice figure.
Best trends: A general uptick in creativity happened this season, and I really appreciate their attempt at creating emotional episodes.
What needs to be fixed: The show needs to stop being afraid of naked emotions and make those emotional moments fully sincere.
Thoughts on canonical developments I'm totally behind the
if it means certain parties get to have their characterization freshened up. And I'm somewhat dissapointed that the thing didn't last. Ah well.
Hopes for next season: Can Skinner perhaps get a love interest to balance out his moments of patheticness with his mom?
Simpsons Season wrap-up discussion thread!
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missy_misery
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Simpsons Season wrap-up discussion thread!
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I agree on most of these points; I actually found "Politically Inept" kind of entertaining, and I'd slot in "Beware My Cheating Bart" in with the best episodes. I'd also like to applaud the show for regaining strength in episodes revolving around non-Simpsons characters (who'd've thought we'd ever see a Chalmers episode?).
The info we've learned about Season 24 holds a great deal of promise, and I'm looking forward to it.
Eh, not all that sudden. Marge has been getting fanservicey bits for years now: the entirety of "Large Marge," the Fantastic Voyage parody in THOH 15, "The Devil Wears Nada," etc.missy_misery wrote:the WTH-ery of the show's sudden fixation on using Marge as a fanservice figure.
The info we've learned about Season 24 holds a great deal of promise, and I'm looking forward to it.
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I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
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Re: Simpsons Season wrap-up discussion thread!
Old Ted Nugent sure doesn't seem to get much love - my kid hates him to pieces. I'll have to dig that episode up online to see what it was about. I actually saw that guy in concert in 1980.
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Speaking as an unreformed lech, I quite like the fanservice. It's comforting and familiar and just like everything else on tv.
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missy_misery
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@Gulliver - It's more Nugent's VA work I hold issue with in this particular episode.
@Stretch - which reminds me what we need a spoiler thread for these parts!
@Stretch - which reminds me what we need a spoiler thread for these parts!
Now known as Lisabella! (Or Missy. Missy's good.)
Creator of the Waving Universe
Crack!Fic, The Marge Simpson Way: "Just then, Sir Lancelot rode up on a white horse and saved Joan of Arc. They got married and lived in a spaceship. The end." - Tales from the Public Domain, "Hot Child In The City"
Creator of the Waving Universe
Crack!Fic, The Marge Simpson Way: "Just then, Sir Lancelot rode up on a white horse and saved Joan of Arc. They got married and lived in a spaceship. The end." - Tales from the Public Domain, "Hot Child In The City"