The Weekly Simpsons Watch (next up, Venture!)
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I wouldn't want the watch rescheduled for my benefit if it meant you couldn't make it. Go ahead and do it on Saturday.
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We finished watching Nadesico! Fun was had by all. Well, mostly, I know I liked it.
We're currently debating what to watch next. Suggestions I've particularly liked include:
The Venture Brothers
Baccano!
Cowboy Bebop
Kill la Kill
The Saga of Tanya the Evil
So far it seemed pretty anime dominated. What do people think? Any other suggestions? Naturally remember it need to be free or inexpensive to watch this.
We're currently debating what to watch next. Suggestions I've particularly liked include:
The Venture Brothers
Baccano!
Cowboy Bebop
Kill la Kill
The Saga of Tanya the Evil
So far it seemed pretty anime dominated. What do people think? Any other suggestions? Naturally remember it need to be free or inexpensive to watch this.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do bad things. - Jingo, Terry Pratchett
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Attack On Titan is available via Crunchyroll (as can Tanya The Evil).
Also Black Lagoon can be found on the youtube (sub rather than dub EDIT: I actually meant the exact opposite of this. It's dubbed).
Also Black Lagoon can be found on the youtube (sub rather than dub EDIT: I actually meant the exact opposite of this. It's dubbed).
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You know I love VB and Baccano!, but I'm not opposed to any of the others. And personally prefer subtitles if it's all the same.
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Venture Bros. and Cowboy Bebop are options I put my vote in, but I'd be happy with other suggestions too. Baccano looked particularly interesting.
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With the new season a-comin' next year, my vote's for VB.
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OK then the question is how can we all acquire Venture Brothers?
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Since we don't have much time to get things together this week, perhaps we shall just watch two Futuramas
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So, I've bounced this off a couple of people and got positive results, so I figured I'd see what people say here.
Essentially, I'm not sure we're going to find another tv show we're going to be all keen on watching and have access to. Futurama is a bit of a special case as it's so closely tied to OFF and we all have dvds, but there's not many episodes of that before we get into the various films and later seasons thanks to its turbulent lifetime. Venture Brothers may come close, but after that it's all getting a bit dicey.
What I'd propose then is we do a new thing. Specfically, seeing as this is primarily a fanworks place, I think we should start having a 'Creativity Hour' instead.
Ground rules:
What do people think?
Essentially, I'm not sure we're going to find another tv show we're going to be all keen on watching and have access to. Futurama is a bit of a special case as it's so closely tied to OFF and we all have dvds, but there's not many episodes of that before we get into the various films and later seasons thanks to its turbulent lifetime. Venture Brothers may come close, but after that it's all getting a bit dicey.
What I'd propose then is we do a new thing. Specfically, seeing as this is primarily a fanworks place, I think we should start having a 'Creativity Hour' instead.
Ground rules:
- We set aside a particular hour ever week (the current time of the rewatches, if we're replacing that entirely).
- Folks work on some sort of creative project during that hour - writing, drawing, music, coding, whatever you're up to
- It's strongly encouraged, but not compulsory, that after the hour's up you post whatever you've been doing during that time
- It's strongly encouraged, but not compulsory, that you comment on things people post, either concrit or just 'jolly good'
- Given the above, it's probably good if you can pick something to work on you can reasonably get done in an hour, or some discrete subtask of a larger project. Nail a chapter opening, fully animate some doors, see how many hands you can draw in 60 mins. That sort of thing.
What do people think?
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I'm up for anything that gets more people doing creative stuff.
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I could behind this get, yes.
I memorized "Holy Grail" really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White and Nerdy"
"Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more, deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!" - Nny
I draw too, dammit!
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White and Nerdy"
"Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more, deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!" - Nny
I draw too, dammit!
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Yeah that could work!
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I'd totally be on board with this!
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So, I guess we'll give this a go! As things have turned out, however, (which I really ought to have realised when I made my previous post...) I'm going to be in LA for work for the next two Saturdays so wont be around. So I guess either we can either hang on for an extra week after that and start this on the 20th, or if anyone else wants to do the small amount of organising necessary the rest of you could give it a go this/next week, and I'll join in when I return?
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Well there is the matter of when.
Given that we have shows we're watching we're probably not going to stop having the rewatches for now, right? And I'm not up for having creativity hour before the rewatch because I've been streaming then fairly regularly for most of a year now, assuming those who were watching me want that to continue...
What about Friday or Sunday?
And I'm not going to be about much the next two coming weekends either.
Given that we have shows we're watching we're probably not going to stop having the rewatches for now, right? And I'm not up for having creativity hour before the rewatch because I've been streaming then fairly regularly for most of a year now, assuming those who were watching me want that to continue...
What about Friday or Sunday?
And I'm not going to be about much the next two coming weekends either.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do bad things. - Jingo, Terry Pratchett