RE: Otter's Official Television Thread
November 18, 2020 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2020 at 9:36 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Currently a third of the way through Blue Mountain State. It's a good show about a college football team and how depraved they can get (in one episode, Thad actually gets around restrictions on performance-enhancing drugs by injecting himself with rabies).
And part of me is a bit disappointed by one aspect of Season 1, Episode 6:
Why? Well, funny thing is that in this episode, most of the comedy surrounding this girl is basically her failing to use the arms she doesn't have. Like, for instance, the instance she's revealed to not have any arms when Sammy throws a beer to her and she doesn't even bother to catch it. In real life, girls with this problem tend to find ways around it:
To be fair, the actress who played her does have both arms intact, and to get her to master shit like that on such short notice may be a bit much, but, still, if they actually hired someone who could actually do it, well, the decent person in me would at least be relieved that she can at least cope with living without arms, the writer in me can hope that this is a sign the writers might find some room to add to her character if she has any other episodes (she does not; we can't all be Katawa Shoujo, especially when this is the sort of college show where the Dean Wormer type is 100% right about antagonising the protagonists), and the foot fetishist in me can rejoice at the content...
I waited a while to find a way of expressing this without coming across as gross... but then I saw Thad demonstrate an oil change and I figured "Eh, can't be worse than that."
Apart from that, it's a good show.
And part of me is a bit disappointed by one aspect of Season 1, Episode 6:
Why? Well, funny thing is that in this episode, most of the comedy surrounding this girl is basically her failing to use the arms she doesn't have. Like, for instance, the instance she's revealed to not have any arms when Sammy throws a beer to her and she doesn't even bother to catch it. In real life, girls with this problem tend to find ways around it:
To be fair, the actress who played her does have both arms intact, and to get her to master shit like that on such short notice may be a bit much, but, still, if they actually hired someone who could actually do it, well, the decent person in me would at least be relieved that she can at least cope with living without arms, the writer in me can hope that this is a sign the writers might find some room to add to her character if she has any other episodes (she does not; we can't all be Katawa Shoujo, especially when this is the sort of college show where the Dean Wormer type is 100% right about antagonising the protagonists), and the foot fetishist in me can rejoice at the content...
I waited a while to find a way of expressing this without coming across as gross... but then I saw Thad demonstrate an oil change and I figured "Eh, can't be worse than that."
Apart from that, it's a good show.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.