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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 6, 2016 12:32:09 GMT -5
Aw, that's too bad... That said, I have a tough time believing it's entirely true. You post about new content you read or watched all year round on these boards. Perhaps less so than when you're on break, but still way more than most of us around here. Perhaps we don't post as much about our experience with media, but you definitely consume a lot of it, haha. Oh boy, we're actually nearing post 6,800! Can you believe it? We only reached a single milestone in 2015.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 6, 2016 15:15:34 GMT -5
Yeah, kind of a bummer that our numbers have dwindled. This is a good bunch; no one ever gets out of hand.
I suppose you're right about posting my media experiences. Music and movies are sort of a year round thing (especially with this booming industry for movie news), but comics I get to much less frequently for sure. Video games are definitely only during those 2 times of the year.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 6, 2016 17:04:18 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm glad the boards are still kicking though. Our only problem is that there's no way anyone finds these without knowing of their existence, so we don't really get new members.
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Post by BackinBlack on Jan 6, 2016 19:55:24 GMT -5
Don't know if you guys were paying attention to the post count, but next one wins.
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Post by Spidey 1923 on Jan 6, 2016 21:37:36 GMT -5
Hooray!
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 7, 2016 4:37:21 GMT -5
Dammit! Well look who's back for the glory!
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 7, 2016 16:58:51 GMT -5
Just look at them, Excellent... They lurk in the shadows, tricking us to converse, and bam! They snatch the victory from right under our nose!
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 7, 2016 18:06:01 GMT -5
Spidey's been gone for weeks gosh darn it! It's not fair. We should draw up a truce. If I ever win one of these, I'm posting that video of Kelly Clarkson winning American Idol.
Speaking of American Idol, my wife and I were around 13 and 14 respectively when season 1 came out. Lately we've been using an Amazon Fire stick to go back and watch things out of nostalgia, with American Idol being one of them. It's incredible to look back and see how far we've come in this reality tv game. At that point in time, Youtube didn't exist, and getting internet famous wasn't a thing. American Idol changed things. Never say never, but I don't know if tv will ever be able to recreate what they did with American Idol's earlier seasons where your average joe/jane can be rocketed to super stardom through a tv talent show. Not with the internet doing that now. America really did seem to fall in love with Clarkson, and looking back at it all was something else. Even the current seasons of American Idol have changed drastically, from everything down to the audition process to the voting. Season 1 though man. The bleached hair, the cut off midriffs, the lingering stylistic flourishes of the 90's, the rise of Ryan Seacrest... Wow.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 10, 2016 17:10:25 GMT -5
I wasn't really following American Idol in its early days. As you were watching it back in the day, did you feel its cultural impact as you are describing it today, or is it more of a retrospective thing?
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 10, 2016 17:51:31 GMT -5
I definitely felt the impact. It was the U.S.'s number one tv show for a while. I remember everybody talking about it with their entire family. If you went to spend the night at a friend's house, their parents wanted to know who your parents were voting for, meanwhile the kids who hated Idol at least knew who the popular contestants were. It was compared to Ed Sullivan (which was before my time). After season 1, Fox put out a shitty beach movie called "From Justin to Kelly", starring its final 2 contestants to capitalize on the frenzy the show had created. They had a lot of celebrity guest judges come on the show. Quentin Tarantino went on the show twice (his first time being in 2004 for season 3) to be a guest judge. As the show went on, people started feeling the fatigue. In season 5 or 6, Howard Stern thought it would be funny to gum up the works by getting his listeners to vote for a contestant who came to be known simply as Sanjaya. Sanjaya was popular for his infectious positive attitude and probably even more so for his hair. He was considered the least talented to be voted into the top 12, and should have never made it that far into the competition to begin with. I actually stopped watching the show after season 4ish, but caught a few of the bigger episodes every now and then in college. The show definitely is not what it used to be. They've rotated through a couple different panels of judges at this point, and last season (number 14) felt like perfunctory movement through the established motions. That said, the opening two audition episodes for this season (the show's farewell season as they're calling it) were solid. Definitely an improvement on season 14. Here's hoping they go out with a bang.
The show has certainly been a launch pad for the careers of multiple big names today: Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Jordan Sparks, and Adam Lambert. There are a lot more than that of course.
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Post by BackinBlack on Jan 10, 2016 22:42:44 GMT -5
I only really followed American Idol when they showed clips on the Soup (which has also ended). The only person whose come out of the show that I was really a fan of is Daughtry.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 13, 2016 17:05:21 GMT -5
I didn't know it was ending. I thought it would go on forever, haha. Anyway, despite the rise of Internet stardom, it sure paved the way to other super popular shows like the Voice for example.
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Post by Spazz on Jan 14, 2016 0:02:53 GMT -5
I definitely remember when American Idol first really blew up, it was within the same time period Survivor was still really popular. My mom and her friends used to have small watching parties and I seem to remember watching Samurai Jack afterwards. I must have been 8-10 at the time but, yeah. It was definitely a phenomenon. Although I never really kept up with any of that, it is hard to imagine it ending.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Jan 15, 2016 0:47:57 GMT -5
I only really followed American Idol when they showed clips on the Soup (which has also ended). The only person whose come out of the show that I was really a fan of is Daughtry. ^ This
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 18, 2016 2:43:45 GMT -5
Anyone paying attention to the Oscars? I don't have much stake in the best actor category this year, but I'd really like Sylvester Stallone to win best supporting actor this year. It's the best performance he has put out in decades, and perhaps his best performance as Rocky too. However, Tom Hardy blew me away in The Revenant. He stole the show from DiCaprio, who in turn had the show stolen from him by Andy Serkis (who became a grizzly bear for the film, but he didn't get nominated). I hate to say it, but Hardy's performance was just a hair more impressive to me than Sly's. Either way, I'm pulling for Stallone.
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