1120: Love Your Pet

[Bucho]

Originally Posted by 12side

I think you misunderstand how the double negative worked in that sentence, or maybe I'm terrible at grammar and I didn't get my point across. I was saying magic/fantasy is on the level of supernatural. And Dr. Manhattan's powers are of a more Science Fiction origin. And again I must stress that my argument had diverged from what I thought Keith liked and disliked, so it is there that you are incorrect. Let me decide what I was talking about in my own argument. The only thing I mentioned in that I thought drove Keith and his movie likes were story development vs character development.

Oh yeah dude, I think you're on the right track when you say that certain types of characters seem to appeal more to Keith than others. The story can't have any plotholes either.

But as much as Dr Manhattan and other comic book characters are dressed up as sci-fi it's really just magic at the heart of it. Sci-fi is about projecting what we know about technology now into the future and imagining future ways of life that might set up for us. Some massive dude who's pure energy or whatever? That's fantasy.

And when you answered Junk with that stuff about suspension of disbelief and how some people don't have it, and those people like to call those who do, "stupid"? The reason that reads like you're talking about Keith is it's a direct reference to what he said in the show.

I'm not going to call you retarded, because I also like long character driven movies and throwing myself into the experience whole-heartedly, but if a film-maker doesn't do the work required to make that experience coherent there's only so much stretching I'm going to do to join the dots for them. If Cameron is going to give me half-assed characters then 2:45 is going to feel really fucking long. Other films, that give me a good character or two, I can happily sit with for 3 hours plus.

[12side]

Well Bucho I'm turning around on you, haha. I definately see your point about fantasy masking itself into science fiction to appeal to a different audience. I guess dragons and aliens aren't so different.

And I confess I don't always remember what was said in the show so I'm sure it is in my subconsious. Was it mentioned in this episode or the last one, because I stupidly put them out of order on my playlist so I haven't finished his Avatar review episode.

So I beleive despite our bickering, we are in agreement over most things we've discussed. I'll leave arguments about Avatar int he Avatar thread, haha. I enjoyed myself but I definately understand the opposing side. (My apologies for seeming so neutral and agreeable, but that's the kind of person I am, not some troll, hah).

I said good day, sir!

[garo]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread/forum but, is anyone else having trouble downloading katg dirrectly to an ipod/iPhone? All my other podcasts connect to itune perfectly fine and download but not katg, it's always worked in the past so I don't think the problem is on my end.

Thanks in advance

[SleazyRay]

Just the dumb fuckin movies!

[eurotrash karlos]

Originally Posted by SleazyRay

Just the dumb fuckin movies!

ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuck you

and welcome to the forums

[WonderWoman]

What is more immature? Walking trees and flying dragons in the movies, or Kyle shitting on a computer? Just asking...I love both.

[Junkenstein]

Kyle's shit wasnt in 3d

[tuttle88]

Originally Posted by WonderWoman

What is more immature? Walking trees and flying dragons in the movies, or Kyle shitting on a computer? Just asking...I love both.

I also love both. I say they are both things for mature and sensible grown ups.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Snake Dick is a good guest and I would like to hear him more often.

Kyle too.