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Aussie Group 5: Another happy evening of multiplaying
Originally posted by deity
Yeah, stop cr@pping on fin and talk civ!
Sorry, I have a life!
" ... and the following morning I should see the Boks wallop the Wallabies again?" - Havak "The only thing worse than being quoted in someone's sig is not being quoted in someone's sig." - finbar, with apologies to Oscar Wilde.
The cool thing about being a native of the same town as Groening is that his character names are mostly snatched from local place names...every now and then you see a street and think of a Simpson's character.
Something about Portland produces great writers...must be the long, dreary winters. We've got Ursula K. Le Guin as well.
Life and death is a grave matter;
all things pass quickly away.
Each of you must be completely alert;
never neglectful, never indulgent.
It's an extraordinary piece of writing. I keep meaning to tape an episode and extract - on paper - a scene breakdown from it to examine their storytelling methods. A recent ep started with Homer and Bart using fire crackers to solve problems around the home - extracting a video jammed in the VCR, etc - and, within 30 seconds, the entire family was at a literary convention, and within another 30 seconds, the ep was about Krusty's love child. Usually the story shifts are seamless. On the odd occasion they're not, the ep just feels fragmented.
Beyond the storytelling, though, it's the density of the writing that lifts the show above most - if not all - others. You couldn't count the layers they manage to weave into their dialogue.
I haven't seen Family Guy, and Futurama just doesn't cut it for me. The characters are uninspired, the situations uninspiring, and it's always trying too hard. It labours trying to achieve what the Simpsons achieves on its ear. Which isn't to say what they do with the Simpsons is easy - it's not, it's incredibly difficult, but that they make it look easy is the indicator of their great skill.
never takes my advice...
"Old age and skill will overcome youth and treachery. "
*deity of THE DEITIANS*
icq: 8388924
What? Provoke other people into attacking you and claim a spotless reputation? Nuh. I'm already a big enough pain in the a*se.
" ... and the following morning I should see the Boks wallop the Wallabies again?" - Havak "The only thing worse than being quoted in someone's sig is not being quoted in someone's sig." - finbar, with apologies to Oscar Wilde.
Hydey calls the game off for the night and I was on the verge of a city capture too, I suppose Hydey hopes I will forget the game status before it's resumption but I have frozen it into my memory, so he is not in luck
I shan't be around tonight, chaps. People coming for dinner.
" ... and the following morning I should see the Boks wallop the Wallabies again?" - Havak "The only thing worse than being quoted in someone's sig is not being quoted in someone's sig." - finbar, with apologies to Oscar Wilde.
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