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I was already tired at the end of second season, now it is very slow going, we feel no rush at all.
Spacey is now outright boring, repetitious and with no zing left in his fuel tanks. His artificial manner of speech has grown old. Even the obvious Obama caricature has short legs - too easy a target.
Hillary (Robin Wright) is as predictable as they come, her insatiable thirst for power is such a cliche it is hardly a script's high point - that honor certainly belongs to her pissing on the john, while talking to the Russian ambassador - although the scene clearly lacks some memorable sound effects of the famous Dumb and Dumber moment.
I suspect Clintons have reason to hate the show, and Obama finds it mildly entertaining, any narcissistic person with the knack for selfies would... as the rest of us it is becoming a piece of manure floating aimlessly in a rain barrel - so far, after six episodes there is hardly much to remember... the Russian president is so one dimensional it is not even funny, but then, of course, not much could be said in that regard since the famous:
"Hello? Uh, hello? Hello, Dmitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? A-ha, that's much better. Yeah, yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. Good. Well, it's good that you're fine, and - and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine."
Some targets are so tall, they should simply be left alone.
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Perhaps Season 1 was a fluke?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I gave up 10 minutes into the first episode.
Great phrase! ;-)
-Steve
..."floating aimlessly" makes it sound as if manure is somehow a low form of life. Doesn't manure tend to sink in water?
Use one of those and EPA, DHS, and FEMA will be confiscating everything you own. Self-sufficiency is not allowed!
...my new assignment is to defend it.
On the other hand.....
rain barrel: def...see link at page bottom.
floating: yes, turds do float.... Although not all turds float. Some do sink. Perhaps it is a variable you could study up on.
Aimlessly floating: metaphor sort of. Means the series has lost its direction and is aimlessly floating rather than going somewhere. And he thinks it is comparable to manure.
I just thought it was a picturesque description.
-Steve
..."Folks, don't try this at home". The review obviously left us with different impressions.P.S. Nothing personal here. I just found the frequent attempts at "clever" to be distractingly awkward. The subject phrase was a great example. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.......
Edits: 03/04/15
speaking of "... a piece of manure floating aimlessly in a rain barrel..."
Rush craps bigger than Billy Crystal...[g]
-RW-
Nothing personal here.
I thought my reading of the phrase in quotes was just literal. A turd floating in a rain barrel. And he compares the series so far to that.
yet when you say...
"."floating aimlessly" makes it sound as if manure is somehow a low form of life"
On a different day, in a different frame of mind, I might see it that way.
Its all about perception, I guess.
-Steve
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Edits: 02/27/18
but the audiences wanted more. As you remember, the original was just two seasons and how it ended. It has gotten monotonous as it is the same thing over and over. I'll finish it but without joy.
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