boombangbing: (Greg - superhero)
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I could be doing other things right now. Like, say, sleeping, or something equally as weak as that, but instead I bring you pic!spam, because you know you want to see Jason Bateman and Greg Grunberg together - don't you even try to deny it.


So. There was this show, The Jake Effect, starring Jason Bateman and Greg Grunberg that ran for six episodes and then got canned. I can kind of see why, it's a little samey and directionless, but Bateman and Grunny absolutely save it and their comic timing raises it above the slush of crap. (All I did today was buy comics and watch all the episodes, so.)

Anyway, you don't care about that, you care about Grunny making slapping motions at his crotch, oh yes.
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And pulling funny faces...
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And being slashy.
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Taking phonecalls together, eee! (Although they're trying to outdo each other in a game, but context matters not.)

Oh, and wearing a hat. Which, you know, is just cute.
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Bateman does some stuff too:
Scruffy.
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Teacher-y.
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One night stand...y.
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Scruffy again, but it's worth having two different shots - for the sake of comparison.
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And confused.
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I'm kind of glad it did get canceled, otherwise Grunny might not have joined Heroes, but it would have been nice if they'd managed to at least last a season.

In other news, does anyone else read Teen Titans: Year One? Because WTF happened with that last issue? Five solid enjoyable issues, and then... that to finish us off. Seriously disappointed right now. (And Secret Invasion: Frontline #2 - 'We have to get these women to safety', crank up the sexism a little higher, why dontcha?)

Fingers crossed my computer arrives tomorrow (doubly crossed since I spent £9.99 on delivery) and that Ubuntu runs on it and that I can fathom have to create a partition, because my IT teacher did it for me on this machine, and I know there's a walkthrough, but I could still screw it up.

Lastly: I have lost my funny. I get very twitchy and unsatisfied when I can't write, and I'm trying to write a stupid little crack!fic and it's denying itself to me. But I am considering tackling NaNoWriMo again this year. I've failed spectacularly two years running, but I think I've built up a little more stamina this year (sort of related: my excerpt got posted on [livejournal.com profile] heroes_bigboom today, and look, someone's already commented that they want to see the whole thing! *preens*). And anyway, I need to start writing non-fanfiction stuff to show to the creativity writing course panel at UBC. If I get in, that is.
Mood:: 'restless' restless
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posted by [identity profile] becs1024.livejournal.com at 01:29pm on 08/09/2008
I read TTYO!! I thought the series as a whole was very cute, and the last issue wrapped up the emotional issues posed in the first one, in a way, but after the sheer joy and adorable of #5, the pacing just seemed off. I think I need to re-read it as a continuous whole to maybe get what they were trying to do. Like, it was a good issue, but it didn't fit with the others.
 
posted by [identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com at 01:38pm on 08/09/2008
Yeah, I think it definitely warrants a re-read - to be honest, after the lag between #5 and #6 and me being away, I kind of didn't completely remember what was going on. And it took me all of five minutes to get through it while in the bath, so it just seemed to end really abruptly (and the cliffhanger, wtf?).
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posted by [identity profile] becs1024.livejournal.com at 01:53pm on 08/09/2008
I kind of like how it ended with, "You can read about it...in every other issue of Teen Titans!" in the "Next Week" box.

I think they were going for a theme of, like, living up to the bigger heroes as it was presented in the first two or three issues, but then the gratuitously cute stories took over. Not that I'm complaining.
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posted by [identity profile] jill-calico.livejournal.com at 04:29pm on 08/09/2008
Oh, eep! I knew I forgot something. I haven't been to the comic shop in a while.

But my impressions of #4 and #5 weren't that fantastic either. It there a story being told here or are we just looking at pretty pictures? Because I am totally okay with that if that's the case. I'm really only in it to point and go "AWWW!"
 
posted by [identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 08/09/2008
Yeah, I don't even really remember what happened in #4 and #5, to be honest. The last issue just seems half finished to me, but as you said, it's really the art that's the draw, not the story.
 
posted by [identity profile] kitten-of-rain.livejournal.com at 04:54am on 09/09/2008
-- how did I miss this post. WHAT.

Anyway, I finished the show! And... hm, thoughts. "Samey and directionless" says it, I think. I was so thankful it didn't have a laugh track because I haaaate those most of the time, omg obnoxious. But this show didn't have one, and it still managed to feel incredibly like a sitcom, which... eh. I get irritated easily with cheesy ff-action, stuff like that. Not to say it was a total waste of my life or anything, because BOYS. Hee. Some parts I found actually cute, if in a kinda average way. Like, what you said about comic timing? They totally had it. I could watch these guys have ridiculous contests and do odd little dances together all the time. Adorableeee ♥

Plus, Greg in a hat! Aww.
 
posted by [identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com at 12:38pm on 09/09/2008
Oh man, from the little clip I found on youtube, I was sure it would have a laugh track - I was really pleased to find it didn't. The whole thing just seemed mismatched, like Bateman played the character he always plays (love him, but he's really only ever himself on screen) which is basically the straight man, Grunny had all the slapstick comedy stuff (which, I don't know, didn't work for me - it was way too obvious) and then the rest of the characters were just filler. The blonde secretary? Jesus, she was annoying. Also, the narration was little overdone, though it's always nice to hear Grunny's voice. :D

I'm really glad they went on to better things, because they're both way too good to get stuck in a mediocre comedy!

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