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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,383 Views)
Frank Hale
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Given that most serials are ridiculous, I find I enjoy them more if I watch no more than one chapter on a given day.

However, I see no more reason to wait a week between chapters than I do to wait a month between reading installments of serialized novels in old science fiction magazines.

Each viewer should do what comes natural. There are enough autocrats running around these days.
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Oh, now I'm the MAN keepin' you DOWN? Is that in addition to being a lunatic video pirate, or is that part of the title? :lol:

Hey, some of you watch serials the wrong way. What can I say? You can eat all the Play-Doh you want and call it Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats, and insist that these days it's okay to eat Play-Doh and call it Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats or that the Play-Doh people would've really WANTED you to eat the Play-Doh and call it Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats or that it's a matter of personal preference if you eat Play-Doh and call it Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats or that life is better because now you have the opportunity to eat Play-Doh and call it Kellogg's Rice Krispie treats but you're still eatin' Play-Doh there, me hardies. And if you're watching more than one chapter of a serial a week, you're watching the serial the wrong way. Now, some people are just rebels, or lazy, or don't care, or stubborn, or mean. That's their perogative. They'd still enjoy the serials more if they watched 'em the right way. Besides, that's an In The Balcony movie rule. If you break it, you get reprimended under your watermelon, apparently. Other than that, it's pretty much the "honor system" around here, and I recognize that some of you watch chapterplays the wrong way. I wouldn't brag about it, though, were I you. I'd watch the added chapter(s) via flashlight under the blankets in my room in the dead of night, in fact.

Trust me on this one, I'm a quotable EXPERT, you know.
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Frank Hale
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Say, could you provide me with Marge's address?

I need to mail in my decoder ring.
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Grampy
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So apparently, I'm going to be the only one singled out for permanent ridicule on this issue.

Ya know, we all go through this crap in our lives where people think what we like is weird and make cracks. You let it slide.

But, I'm now taking it from somebody whose opinions I respected. I've tried laughing it off, going with the joke, whatever, but apparently I'm now the only one who is going to get this little note attached to his every post. So I guess the simple way to not have some stupid remark under my avatar is to make this my last post.

I'm not resigning or going to stop coming to the board. There are way too many people here whose opinions I value-Gravy (ironic that I still value his opinion on things, but there ya go), Pilgrim, RR, to name a few-and I love keeping up with what's on sale at Rodney's place. I'll keep reading but I'll be damned if I gonna contribute while somebody sits in judgement.

I put up with crap like that for most of my life. Dammit, I don't have to anymore.

My e-mail is in my profile if anybody cares to keep in touch off the board.

See ya.

Still Alive and Well
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riddlerider
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Grampy, I don't blame you a bit, but I hope you'll reconsider.

Gravy happens to be one of those guys who believes there are just two ways to do things: his way, and the wrong way. You shouldn't take him too seriously.

For the record, I think it's out of line for him to muck around with your avatar. That sort of thing strikes me as, well, Groodian.

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marlin lee
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Feb 15 2008, 04:05 PM
That is the way we see serials every Friday night, in fact, Marlin. It absolutely helps keep our attendance high and interest and curiousity piqued, and yes, of course we have posters/lobby cards/stills up, too (you forgot that). Never let it be said that ol' Gravy didn't abide by what God and Nat Levine intended.

Yes I'm aware of FNF. But unless you are going to tell me that someone else hosts FNF when you aren't there or that when you fail to hold a FNF night you skip a chapter that really doesn't apply to you. We do know from your Galloping Ghost blog that you spent 14 weeks watching all 12 chapters. If you were watching as God and Nat Levine intended there should have been 10 chapters blogged over a 12 week period.

Even then just skipping a week doesn't qualify as God and Nat Levine intended. Since the sound serial in particular was to get you into a movie matinee watching a single chapter a week with shorts, cartoons, and a feature or two is the only way to watch them as God and Nat Levine intended. So no matter what only FNF counts.
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Frank Hale
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Oh, come on, Grampy and the rest of you.

We all know that Gravy is utterly full of shit, but he's always been ready to admit it, and I, for one, have always been more than ready to point it out.

90% of everything he says is a joke. Is that a problem for your folks?
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Frank Hale
Feb 15 2008, 07:47 PM
Oh, come on, Grampy and the rest of you.

We all know that Gravy is utterly full of shit, but he's always been ready to admit it, and I, for one, have always been more than ready to point it out.

90% of everything he says is a joke. Is that a problem for your folks?

That's exactly what I was a'thinkin' ... half the time Gravy isn't half as serious as some might take him to be.
He's just opinionated with a warped sense of humor. :lol: :D ;)
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marlin lee
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I also doubt that Gravy is all that serious. Mine comments certainly aren't meant to be taken too seriously. But does that mean I have to include a disclaimer as part of every post?
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Pa Stark
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Sadly there is a lot of fighting and bad feeling going on between serial fans, but there is also a lot of fun and camaraderie between friends. Over at the Squadron I have been going at it with Ace Drummond, The Black Tiger, and Brick Bradford for some time, but we all all good friends and all of us take it in the spirit of good fun. That is the way it should be. Would you believe that at SerialFest two of my friends actually went up to a cop and asked him to arrest me? I didn't get angry and storm off, I thought it was funny and laughed harder than anyone.
Grampy, don't take it personally or feel hurt by it. We all want you to remain with us.
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Laughing Gravy
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Absolutely not. I always felt that people who put a :lol: after their "funny" post or a *L* are laughing at their own jokes, and we all know that nobody should laugh at their own jokes. This thread had gotten a bit too serious though, so I broke my own rule (no, not the one about watching a chapter a week) and added a smiley-thingy to my previous post just to show... well, I forget, but I was trying to show something. Nobody should take any of this seriously, as I've said before. (And nobody should watch more than one chapter a week of a serial, either, but I think I've said that already.)
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Don Daredevil
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Those little Smiley Faces are built into Forums for a reason. They exist to help people express themselves (whether they're laughing at their own jokes or not!).

Without them a lot of people are prone to take what you say the wrong way. Sometimes it's difficult to get humor or sarcasm across on Forums. The Smiley Faces help separate that.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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Y'all cut Gravy some slack. It's been a tough week for the poor guy. Actually it's probably been longer than that but it's come to a head this week. First he's making hollow promises of beating me at basketball. He's even gone as far as putting photos of himself shooting. These are equivalent to posting pictures of William Hung at the Met!

Secondly, he loathes Bela Lugosi. He's had to watch Bela movies, Monogram to boot, all week. He's almost at the breaking point.

Lastly, his subconscience is trying to make fun of my eating habits, by bringing up different foods. Foods he would love to eat but has sworn against, like KFC and Kit Kats. Look at the food he posts for breakfast....wheat germ, plain low-fat yogurt and fresh fruit. Isn't fruit for a snack? Who eats plain yogurt, some 80 year old who's had his intestines removed? Whatever happened to strawberry, blueberry, banana-pineapple or key lime pie yogurts? The man doesn't eat fried chicken! That's gotta hurt. No bread! He's probably NEVER had cornbread. Raised in Northeast Ohio....no cornbread! Moved to New York City...what do they have, Monk's cornbread? Moved to Northern California.....what do they call cornbread there, a tortilla? No ice cream...Ding Dongs....apple pie with ice cream....chili....roast beef.....Jo Jo potatoes (potato logs in the rest of the country)....no pizza (WTF)....no cornbread pancakes topped with pulled pork bar-b que.....sure the guy's intestines and arteries look like my bong after I run a pipe cleaner through it, and sure he looks like Twiggy, well Twiggy after meeting a Mack truck head-on! Cut the man some slack he's out here suffering and hurting and his grey matter is like pretzel logic.

Sometimes folks write stuff they think is funny and some folks don't get it or just don't think it's funny. GET IT!

Now on a serious note. If Grampy doesn't like the shit under his avatar, take the damn thing off. I thought it was funny, but obviously Grampy doesn't! Different strokes for different folks. Fuck with my stuff, call me Smokey, I'm just amused by it. I won't quit posting, I'll just compare your basketball game to William Hung's singing. Damn I crack myself up sometimes. Yes, I DO laugh at my own shit....I can't help it B)
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Feb 16 2008, 04:19 AM
Foods he would love to eat but has sworn against, like KFC and Kit Kats. Look at the food he posts for breakfast....wheat germ, plain low-fat yogurt and fresh fruit. Isn't fruit for a snack? Who eats plain yogurt, some 80 year old who's had his intestines removed? Whatever happened to strawberry, blueberry, banana-pineapple or key lime pie yogurts? The man doesn't eat fried chicken! That's gotta hurt. No bread! He's probably NEVER had cornbread. Raised in Northeast Ohio....no cornbread! Moved to New York City...what do they have, Monk's cornbread? Moved to Northern California.....what do they call cornbread there, a tortilla? No ice cream...Ding Dongs....apple pie with ice cream....chili....roast beef.....Jo Jo potatoes (potato logs in the rest of the country)....no pizza (WTF)....no cornbread pancakes topped with pulled pork bar-b que.....

That reminds me...when's lunch?
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So many DVDs...so little time...
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igsjr
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All seriousness aside, if you're going to start editorializing under people's avatars you might as well stick something under mine as well. I'll sit down and watch a serial in one sitting, and "proper way to watch serials" be damned.

Grampy, for what it's worth, I hope you'll reconsider rejoining these (admittedly sometimes asinine) conversations. Gravy's giving you grief is just another way of The Man trying to bring everyone down.

(smiley face to be inserted when I feel it's needed)
"Life is in color--but black-and-white is more realistic..." -- Samuel Fuller, director

So many DVDs...so little time...
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