TV Guilty Pleasures

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Okay, just how much of Megaforce have you seen? I have to ask this before I continue.

From what I've taken from your comments, you've only watched the first episodes of each half. People who are complaining about the show have actually watched more than that, and have voiced issues with the product based on everything we've gotten. You see the difference? You're pretty much saying "Stop complaining about this show I've only seen the first episode." Your whole frame of reference is the prologue to the story, the tutorial level.
 
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The writing is formulaic as hell, the budget severly decreases as the episodes pass, the diaogue can be pretty corny in parts but man.... I love Sharpe. Anytime I catch it on TV I sit through it.

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Kamen Rider Black RX dijo:
Okay, just how much of Megaforce have you seen? I have to ask this before I continue.

From what I've taken from your comments, you've only watched the first episodes of each half. People who are complaining about the show have actually watched more than that, and have voiced issues with the product based on everything we've gotten. You see the difference? You're pretty much saying "Stop complaining about this show I've only seen the first episode." Your whole frame of reference is the prologue to the story, the tutorial level.
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I have seen exactly one episode of each of Power Rangers Samurai (except "Super Samurai" which didn't need to be a 2nd Season), Power Rangers Megaforce, and Power Rangers Super Megaforce. I cannot watch a television show and give it a proper judgement based on a youtube video and especially not from others comments and criticism. Thus, I'd simply have to be on the lookout for it on Nickelodeon. But I rarely watch television these days, so I had simply stumbled upon the episodes I watched and… they all did a damn good job of drawing me into their worlds, something the Disney seasons failed to do.

I mean, perhaps their problems are justified, but I still think to each their own. I'm waiting till Super Megaforce gets on Netflix (in my region) to do a full watch through of Megaforce since the 2 are a continuation of each other.
 
But that's the thing, you're telling people to stop complaining about a show you're not watching. Issues with any season can not be gleamed through only the first episode, and Megaforce has a lot of issues.

I'm not saying this as someone who hates on Saban Brands and what they've done to the franchise since buying it back. I'm one of those sick fucks who like Samurai. It's pretty much the Plan 9 of Power Rangers. I liked Mega Mission too, felt it was a good update to Day of the Dumpster (I was even going to buy a Megaforce Blue action figure, just to support the show).

But, and this is the important part, it's the episodes that came afterwards that made me hate this season. If I had only seen Mega Mission, I'd have a more positive outlook on this season.

I remember, when Megaforce first started, everyone was being so nice to this season. Let's just say that Samurai is considered a low point for a reason, and anything not Samurai just had to be better. It was like everyone was actively trying not to say bad things about this season. Eventually, people stopped trying and were honest about how they felt. Now, there's some debate whether it is worse than Samurai.

If someone watches Megaforce and likes it, I have no problem with that. It's telling people to stop voicing how they feel I have a problem with, writing them off as haters. I know this one sperg who thinks this season can't do any wrong and a lot of people are getting sick of his shit. Not because he likes it, but because he tries to dismiss major complaints because he said so, makes excuses for everything people criticize and can't understand the simplest of arguments. He even claims people who don't agree with his fanon are hating on Megaforce.

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It's just missing the last 2 episodes, but the show is on hiatus until September. Plenty of time to catch up to everyone else.
 
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One of my favorite new shows of the 90s was… Sabrina the Teenage Witch, weird, huh? I must've been like 10.

I'd still sit and watch it if I couldn't find anything else to watch.
 
Sabrina was good, Boy Meets World was better. That was an awesome lineup back in the day.
 
Boy Meets World was okay, but I surely could've lived without it. At least it had the badass William Daniels in it.

All of those old TGIF shows were great. Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, Step by Step, Full House...
 
exball dijo:
Since it's Sean Bean does he turn traitor, die, or both?
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It's set in the early 19th century, so presumably he's dead by now. I don't think he died during the series.

Anyway, one for me is the cartoons I used to watch as a kid in the 80s, specifically Thomas the Tank Engine and Tugs. Both were made by the same creative team, and what I love now and didn't appreciate back then was the amount of work that went into them. Sure, the animation was limited, but the model work was superb for something intended for the under-10s. Tugs in particular also had fantastic writing.
 
I can't believe I'm admitting this, but....Popular - the short-lived WB sitcom/drama.

For a really brief period in 1999/2000, I often caught reruns late at night. I don't remember much about the show now, but it sure had an attractive cast: Leslie Bibb? Sara Rue? Tamara Mello? Nice.

Slightly less embarrassingly, Xena: Warrior Princess, but not for the reasons you may be thinking (eye candy). If you can get past occasional bouts of cheesiness and obvious appeals to sex (Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor are easy on the eyes, but that's not why I watch), it's actually a really good show with a surprising amount of depth. The episode "The Bitter Suite" is worth watching just to see a successful attempt at merging good drama with musical numbers.
 
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Golden Girls is probably my favorite sitcom. The writing and acting wasn't as contrived as other sitcoms from that era were.
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I was just coming to say that Golden Girls is a more recent guilty pleasure. It's a bit of a "chick flick", as it's aimed towards women, but it's a pretty good show. I honestly like Rose Nylund better than the character Betty White plays in "Hot In Cleveland", which I've never seen but just doesn't appeal to me. Rose is like someone's grandmother. White's character in "Cleveland" seems like an oversexed, foul-mouthed version of Sophia Petrillo.
 
I never actually watched much Golden Girls, but I'm sure its another show I'd put on if theres nothing else I'm interested in.

My favorite retro sitcom will probably forever be, Taxi. I first saw it in 2004, when I'd switch it to WPIX (yes, the Channel 11 in New York City. Before our television technologies expanded, the cable company in the Bahamas would use the feeds of several American channels) to watch Pokemon for the afternoon, only it looked like Pokemon was postponed because the Base Ball game is still playing, but since its raining in NY, they aren't playing Base Ball. And so "to pass the time, lets take another look at Taxi…"


The opening music instantly hooked me in, because hey, everyone knows I love music that sounds like that. And I actually recognized everyone in the cast list (Marilu Henner was the only one I've never heard of before Taxi) and I thought for a show that was clearly late 70s, thats impressive. It was this very same episode that I watched on TV instead of Pokemon that day. Strange. I bought the first three Seasons and only stopped because they stopped (at the time, it was many years in between Season 3 and Season 4 and these days, I can't buy a lot of DVDs anymore) and that means I can sit back and watch it whenever I want.

Seriously. No one is ever going to take my retro television programming away. I have many, many tapes.
 
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Second season of Under The Dome starts tonight! It's just sooooo bad, it's almost mesmerizing!
 
While I prefer Super Sentai, and why would you settle for a poorly xeroxed copy when you can have the real thing, but I do acknowledge that there are two good seasons of Power Rangers: In Space and RPM.


Interestingly both were written to be what the writer's thought was the last season of power rangers.
 
Despite it's detractors, I kinda liked Johnny Test. Sure, it was a Dexter's Lab ripoff but I liked/missed Dexter's Lab. Hell, in many ways it was the anti-Dexter's Lab by focusing on the Deedee standin.

And this is my favorite season of Power Rangers
I started watching it because I liked the theme and really liked the show.
Flawed season? Yes on many counts (Dumb morphers, overuse of sentai footage at time, pacing issues, Mentor becomes boring when he becomes a ranger, Rhino Ranger has little focus, writers unable to make up their minds on whether the villain is the ex-student or the force possessing him, annoying announcer for the Zord fights).
Fun season? The most (awesome fight scenes, awesome scene, American-Exclusive Rangers, great main trio, awesome Zords, adorable side character, villain looks like the love child of Ned Stark and Cersei Lannister and has an awesome voice...).
 
These days, I don't really have a guilty pleasure anymore (having stopped watching TV regularly a decade back), though as a kid, one of those obnoxious things I had was tuning to channels that did nothing but display text messages, news, and other junk over "Beautiful Music".

Cable TV was a different beast in those days. Nothing mainstreamed, channels would scrap at the bottom of the barrel for content to show. Nickelodeon in those days didn't use to be the powerhouse they are today, and often relied on a lot of outside/foreign programs and cartons to fill up it's schedule in those days. One such program I remember TOO well was Pinwheel, not so much for the low-rent Sesame Street knockoff puppetry but for the bizarre foreign crap they use to stick on there from all over (especially Europe). These days I find it sad not to see any of it anymore outside YouTube (of course the internet supplanted all of this). Here's one such screwed-up cartoon I loved seeing when I was 4...
 
This is going to sound weird, but the opening to Gundam Wing. Not Gundam Wing itself, since it couldn't keep my interest for long as a child and as an adult I see it's flaws more. But man, that opening. It was so different from anything else on at the time. The singing was in Japanese along with a bunch of writing left untouched. Just Communication is an awesome song and the animation is top notch for the time.
 
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