Me, watching e3 of Dickinson: “This show is like Better Riverdale.”
Emily Dickinson, 1 minute later: “Who wants to do opium‽” 📺
@smokey @davextreme After I read this post to my wife she said something dry similar: “at least opium is a real drug.”
@davextreme We finished it this weekend and really liked it. It just keeps getting better as the episodes go on. Looking forward to next season.
@davextreme @smokey I’m happy to slag Riverdale. I gave up after last season. It just went too far off the rails for me. Mostly it was just how inconsistent all the characters were. It was clear they were just doing what the (rather poorly thought out) plot demanded from moment to moment, rather than anything based on their personalities or motives. It continued to have fun parts too but I just rolled my eyes more and more and finally just said enough after the season was over.
@davextreme @smokey I also ::spoilers for season 2:: still refuse to believe that Hal Cooper was the Black Hood. I just don’t buy it.😉
@davextreme There’s a decent contingent of Riverdale watchers (fans might be too strong a word) here, as we’ve had several discussions about it, but as @DrOct often mentions, the inconsistency of the characters continues to be a nagging interference in enjoying even the camp.
@smokey My first thought when I read that was: "What?? You got sumpin' against Bob Dylan?" For decades that phrase belonged to Bob. Then I discovered it is now used in a TV show! Yikes. There ought be a law. When I dug deeper, I learned the phrase was used three years before I was born (!) in music, in the title of one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. That surprised me, but I still say the phrase belongs to Bob Dylan. Forever and ever.
@Ron I’m not sure whether I knew it from “jingle-jangle of keys” in some old mystery book or from “Mr Tambourine Man” first.
How do you have a drug in a television show but not make it seem too deadly? Give it a pleasantly-retro-sounding name (“jingle-jangle”)—and then be laughed at mercilessly by the world for the name, and then follow it up with “fizzle rocks”. There perhaps ought to be a law ;-)
@smokey I don't watch much TV any more. At my age, one begins to feel an obligation to not waste any time. It sounds like I'm not missing anything important with that TV show.
We were driving back from taking a relative to her second year in college. It was great to see her excited to be headed back to her school. Paula suggested I put on some Dylan. We carry his first eight studio albums on CD in the truck. I put on Freewheelin, his second album and the first with all the songs written by Bob. It had been a long time since I had listened to it. The longer we listened, the more I found myself amazed again about what a strong album it is. Listening to it, even more than 56 years after it was first released, was time very well spent!!
@Ron For sure; it’s definitely not “must-see” TV! 😂 Glad you had a great Dylan (re)listening experience on your road trip, too.
@smokey Every trip to Thailand is full of incredible experiences. I am sooooo fortunate to have met my now wife. On the best Bob Dylan Facebook site, I got to know a Thai woman (Peachy) who was a childhood friend to Supattra, my now wife. Her US name is now Paula, based upon her Thai nickname, which is next to impossible for an American to pronounce correctly. I've never met Peachy in person, as she lives in the UK, a country we have not visited yet. But I'm sure Peachy knows that she saved my life seven years ago by introducing me to Paula!
So you see, there really ARE some good things that come from FB.