We speed through the Tinker encounter without the aid of a major supporting character-I suppose we’ll get to that in detail, but something to be aware of is that a lot of swizzling has been done to shape the narrative for TV. What we see of the Whitecloaks is excellent, and Eamon Valda (Abdul Salis) is gratifyingly unctuous. Folks who are coming into this show expecting to see their favorite scenes echoed back at them onscreen are going to have to realign their expectations, because as you say, we’ve got so much we have to get into. And Eye of the World is one of the biggest meals to get through in the whole saga.
Mostly I enjoyed the different stories and that it was more lighthearted so I didn't feel like throwing myself off a building after watching a marathon about people whose lives were cut short in freak accidents.Īnd the end segments about a real life person who avoided dying in a freak accident were always cool.Lee: It’s a hard ask for a TV writer to get us into this story-you don’t have the luxury a book author has where you can just go ahead and take a thousand pages to do whatever. About half the deaths are treated sympathetically, the other half tends to be "Oh man, this horrible person did something really fucking stupid and got himself killed."Īctually, I don't remember really thinking "oh this show is so funny!" anyway.
Is it in reruns somewhere?), but I just disagree with you. I know nothing I say will convince you to watch this show since the humor's not your thing (is this show even still on? I thought it ended like 8 years ago. I know I'm not such a saint that I feel bad when everyone dies, even if they were a horrible person in life. I remember quite a few of them being sympathetic - the Japanese businessman who was so nervous that he practiced bowing over and over again which caused some blood clot or something, the virginal couple who basically sexed themselves to death was treated like a really touching story, and the one about the guy who got cut in half by a truck was certainly not treated humorously.Īnd if I recall correctly, the very last segment of the show is about a guy who dies peacefully, having lived a long life, surrounded by family?Īnd I never got the impression they're saying these people deserved to die, just that since they were horrible people we shouldn't feel as bad. Īlso, I haven't watched the show in a while, but I don't remember all of the segments treated the deaths like lololol this idiot. I'm fairly certain a few of the featured segments aren't even possible ways to die (the exploding breast implants, for one). I did recognize one segment as being true, but I think most of them are made up or based on urban legends.
If it helps, I'm pretty sure most of the segments aren't based on actual people. Maybe it's just because respect for the dead is important to me, but I find the premise of the show disturbing at best and horribly fucked-up at worst. I doubt even a significant minority of the subjects deserved to die, let alone all of them, which is what the show tries to lead us to believe. Should a show really be made that mocks them and treats them as inhuman and unworthy of life? The creators didn't know these people. These are people who died untimely deaths. They're not people like you and me: they're losers without a shred of humanity. In every instance they are very unsympathetic. The show crafts the subjects (the people who die) as people who more or less deserve to die: they are either morally bankrupt, insanely unintelligent, disgusting in behavior, lacking any human emotion, or some combination of the four. Now, while adding that comedic spin is probably the only way the show could have been made possible without sending the viewer into a deep depression, the humor is nevertheless very mean-spirited (as well as flat-out not funny). As I'm sure you're all aware, the show basically centers around people who do something stupid/evil/disgusting and lose their lives as a result-always with a comedic spin added by the show's creators. Not only quality-wise is this show truly awful (though it's pretty damn bad as far as that goes, too), but in my opinion every episode is invariably a fucked-up thing to sit through. Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes" R/television's favorite shows of all time (2020 edition)