Saturday linkspam

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* John Oliver is leaving The Daily Show to host a weekly comedy-news-satire show on HBO. Maybe they'll call it The Weekly Show.

* This is the creepiest fucking thing ever. BRB checking my walls for secret passages.

* Doctor Who prequel minisode. I... what? Did they just... do what I think they just did?

* The Catching Fire interview where Woody Harrelson finally figures out that Chris and Liam Hemsworth are brothers. (It starts around 4 minutes in.) "You do have the same last name... I honestly never put that together. (Interviewer: "You know, they kind of look similar?") Now that he mentions it, I totally get it!" Exactly how many drugs do you think he's on?

* Katniss Everdeen kills everything. Spoilers for... a lot of things, I guess, but mostly Game of Thrones.

* The trailer for Maleficent. Thoughts?

* Tom Hiddleston will pretty much do anything you tell him to, won't he? Here he is juggling, drinking beer, and singing karaoke in a car on some German show. There was also the dance-off with Zachary Levi at the Thor 2 premiere (Zac is still my TV boyfriend, but Tom totally won that one), and The Return of Steve on MTV After Hours.

* CBS has already ordered the pilot for How I Met Your Dad, so this is apparently a thing that is happening.

Comments

[goldenusagi]

This is the creepiest fucking thing ever. BRB checking my walls for secret passages.

My main question is why there is a spiral staircase leading to nowhere. Like, the crawlspace seems like an afterthought. Lots of houses have crawlspaces without having secret passages. I'm all for secret passages, but usually they GO somewhere, lol. Original builders, explain yourselves!

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It is rather bizarre...

[snickfic]

CBS has already ordered the pilot for How I Met Your Dad, so this is apparently a thing that is happening.

What.

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Yep.

I didn't think you even watched HIMYM? lol

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I don't, but I can still boggle at silly TV executive decisions. :D

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LOL, fair enough. I just figure you have to actually watch the show to realize just how terrible an idea this is...

From a financial perspective, I can't really blame CBS. HIMYM is still wildly successful even though everyone seems to be hate-watching at this point, so a spin-off is the next logical step. It's just sort of hilarious that so many people would be actively rooting for it to end, and they go and do this.

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Is the whole premise that we're going to now approach the same endgame but from the opposite perspective? Or what?

You can tell I have done zero research on this. :D

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No, it's going to be a whole new set of characters, but with the same premise - this time it's a woman telling her children the story of how she met their father, with her group of friends, who apparently will frequent the same bar as the HIMYM crowd or something so they can reuse sets.

The problem is that what made HIMYM great in the beginning was that it was an original and different approach to the sitcom format and the subject matter. Unfortunately, HIMYM now is a stale, derivative shadow of itself. The writers have clearly run out of stories to tell that are clever and funny, or they'd be using them for THIS show, so I'm doubtful of their ability to launch a whole new show that feels fresh.

Plus, the idea of a guy searching for The One is at least somewhat unusual; a woman searching for true love is... basically every romantic comedy ever.

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Wow, yes, that does sound like a spectacularly silly idea.

[mikeda]

Based on a recent announcement, we ARE apparently going to see the Mother's side of events in HIMYM itself, although just in one episode (in the series' 200th episode) rather than over multiple seasons.

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Yeah, I'm okay with that. We SHOULD see more of the Mother, and one ep is probably enough to fill in the blanks.