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Marzipan Travolta

Marzipan Travolta

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Just got done watching episode 2. I'm so completely in love with the show already that it's a little bit silly. Episode 2 had crazy dandelion ladies, brutal murders, a huge song and dance number and also lots of pie.

Very intelligent, astoundingly sweet, incredibly quirky and with humour dark enough to make even Dexter jealous.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qikoHqugOs

Is basically a summary of the pilot.

We should start a sweepstake for how long it will last before being cancelled. I'm going for 7 episodes. Ambitious, I know.

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Campfire_Burning

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I love it. It's definitely my favourite of the new season's programming, and the second episode managed to live up to the sublime pie-lot, which is an incredible feat considering how quirky and original it was. It's like the TV equivelant of Big Fish, only better.

The only downer for me is that I've spent both episodes cringing whenever Ned and Chuck are onscreen together, because I don't want him to touch her. The stress is going to kill me.

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cassidy

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Heard some good things about this show.

It may be my new show for this year.

So glad this thread has appeared.

Good things is a understatement IMO. Its possibly the oddest show American TV ever commissioned buts it utterly absorbing, wonderful and entrancing.

Had a real belly laugh at "Digby licked her because he loved salt" in episode 2. THe Jim Dale narration aint too shabby either.

This and Life are my fave new shows this year, although PD is leagues above anything else. House was a cracker again tonight though.

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Cool, I shall get this down for viewing tomorrow evening.

Watched the first ep last week and very much enjoyed it. Except for the one bit when the auntie shot the burglar chap and the narrator claimed that the aunt couldn't see Chuck due to only having the one good eye.

The aunt can see out of her left eye and Chuck was standing to the right side through the doorway, so in fact it should have been Ned she couldn't see on the left side.

Pedantic I know, but they're the ones that made a point of it being the reason why she couldn't see her, at least they should get it right :lol:

House was a cracker again tonight though.

It was class wasn't it. So sad :(

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Except for the one bit when the auntie shot the burglar chap and the narrator claimed that the aunt couldn't see Chuck due to only having the one good eye.

The aunt can see out of her left eye and Chuck was standing to the right side through the doorway, so in fact it should have been Ned she couldn't see on the left side.

Pedantic I know, but they're the ones that made a point of it being the reason why she couldn't see her, at least they should get it right :)

It was class wasn't it. So sad :(

From what I remember Ned was on the left hand side of the stairway and Chuck on the right - if the Aunt can only use her left eye she has no peripheral vision to the right hand side - which makes everything work perfectly fine since the Aunt was coming out of the doorway to the bedroom (unless she was to move her head a bit but that would be being VERY pedantic)

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Meatball

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From what I remember Ned was on the left hand side of the stairway and Chuck on the right - if the Aunt can only use her left eye she has no peripheral vision to the right hand side - which makes everything work perfectly fine since the Aunt was coming out of the doorway to the bedroom (unless she was to move her head a bit but that would be being VERY pedantic)

Yes Ned was to the left and Chuck to the right, but you're wrong sorry.

Try it yourself. Look through a door or window then close your eyes alternately. You'll be able to see more to the right side by looking through your left eye than you can with your right and vice versa.

It's like this pic (behold my awesome MS Paint skillz :(). Imagine the black line to be the angle through the door what the aunt would be able to see with her good left eye and the purple line to be what she could see with her right eye, if it worked.

eyesightjh4.jpg

Like I said, I wouldn't normally be fussed, but when they use it as their argument for why the aunt couldn't see Chuck they should try to be correct.

And I'll ignore the bit where I'm meant to believe Ned didn't touch his dog again at all until after he'd killed his mum and realised his second touch is deadly :)

Still, I enjoyed the first ep and will watch the second tonight and see how I go.

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Honest to God, it's a show about a guy who can bring people back to life and you're making diagrams :) I thought the explanation of how she didn't see Chuck was very funny, and it was intentionally a bit silly.

Great shout for this, downloaded it before and I enjoyed it a lot! It looks incredible, and I was lucky enough to watch a HD version which looked even better. I could imagine it being a film though, so it'll be interesting to see how the story pans out over a TV series. And was that really Anna Friel? :(

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Meatball

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Honest to God, it's a show about a guy who can bring people back to life and you're making diagrams :unsure: I thought the explanation of how she didn't see Chuck was very funny, and it was intentionally a bit silly.

Sorry boss, was just trying to explain my point to mortis and thought the pic would help. Only took a minute to do it.

I'm not the only one wondering about inconsistencies though.

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I despise this. It's charmless and unprofound, which would be fine if it didn't clearly think that it is the most quirkily charming and profound thing ever. The narration is a giant feel-good cliché and the whole thing feels like it was adapted from a particularly shite Roald Dahl story. It oozes smugness and knows exactly the kind of viewer it can have eating from its hand and goes out of its way to get them hooked. It flatters the false and immature individuality of a certain kind of person whom I just want to baby shake until they grow up.

Sorry guys. If you like it, great. I can't bear it though. I've seen the first three episodes btw.

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The second episode was disappointing, but the third was great.

Is Tim Burton involved in it at all? To begin with I just thought it was heavily influenced by him, but in the the last episode at various points they referenced Sleepy Hollow and the Corpse Bride. Were they just acknowledging the influences? It seems a bit weird.

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cassidy

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The second episode was disappointing, but the third was great.

Is Tim Burton involved in it at all? To begin with I just thought it was heavily influenced by him, but in the the last episode at various points they referenced Sleepy Hollow and the Corpse Bride. Were they just acknowledging the influences? It seems a bit weird.

I felt the opposite actually and enjoyed Ep3 the least so far.

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