Welcome to Thunderdome

Posted: **Sun May 19, 2013 5:06 pm**

Just started season 1, halfway through the first two-parter... It's pretty good, but has a little too much USA-vibe, and voiceovers.

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 9:18 am**

I love the voiceovers.

As for the USA-vibe...it comes and goes based on episode. There are some very light hearted episodes, but there are some very serious ones as well.

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 10:06 am**

RE: the "USA-vibe" ... well, duh. It was Psych and Burn Notice together that were the big successes of the network's original programming, and thus created the "USA-vibe" to begin with.

That's like complaining that your coffee tastes too much like coffee.

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 10:53 am**

I don't watch USA, so the USA-vibe is a new thing to me. My wife and I watched that girl spy chick thing a bit... meh.

Is there a grittier version of this show somewhere?

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 11:38 am**

It was Psych and Burn Notice together that were the big successes of the network's original programming, and thus created the "USA-vibe" to begin with.

Monk was the creator of the success. Let's give credit where credit is due.

Monk was such a ratings hit for cable that ABC aired repeats of it during summer months.

Anyway, Monk, Psych, and Burn Notice are all great shows.

I also still think USA really missed an opportunity when they didn't grab Chuck when NBC cancelled it. It was getting ratings like Psych and Burn Notice, and it had the "USA-vibe".

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 11:40 am**

This one does get a bit grittier as the series progresses. Not a whole lot, but a measurable amount.

While the genre, setting, story, and characters are all very different, I think if I had to pick a grittier show with similar themes playing through it I'd suggest Scandal.

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 11:41 am**

Leisher wrote:Monk was the creator of the success. Let's give credit where credit is due.

Yes! I knew I was forgetting something important but couldn't quite pinpoint it. Good call.

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2013 2:06 pm**

Fi is hot. Damn hot. The random Miami eye candy, while PG, is still nice.

Problem with Fi is there's going to be some kind of relationship crap at some point. People are going to get sappy.

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2013 2:16 pm**

I kept thinking she seemed somewhat familiar. Finally googled and found this. Hard to believe I'd remember her for 20 years, but who knows.

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2013 2:26 pm**

TheCatt wrote:Fi is hot. Damn hot.

I agree.... I think at one point in this thread I said that yeah, she is a bit of a scarecrow, but there is something about a woman who can wire explosives to secure the perimeter before she takes position with a sniper rifle, and smile the entire time. It is hard to type this with a massive erection.

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2013 4:52 pm**

She has 4 kids in real life and has a body most 20 years olds would kill to have. She is top shelf.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:21 am**

I think they made some mistakes in Season 2. There was at least one episode where yogurt was neither mentioned nor seen.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:12 am**

I think the wife and I discussed that too.

I said, we'd have to watch it all over again to see if yogurt was hidden in the background of any scenes.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:02 pm**

Right in the middle of the season, episodes 5/6 or 6/7, somewhere around there, two in a row with no yogurt that I can recall. That being said, I didn't really want to go back and rewatch just to make sure. But at the end I just thought "Huh, I dont remember yogurt" then though the same thing after the next.

Posted: **Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:03 pm**

His favorite food is yogurt, which is featured or eaten by at least one of the characters in each episode.

From wikipedia. Ugh, now I almost feel compelled to verify this.

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:03 pm**

Ok, episode 5 season 3 - no yogurt. Pretty sure no yogurt in ep 4, but not 100%

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:57 pm**

Are you checking all the ads on billboards and the sides of cabs and whatnot?

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:51 am**

No. The wikipedia quote was a character eating/talking about it, so I was purely looking at character interactions.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:25 am**

I'm pretty sure there were a few Seinfeld episodes where Superman wasn't seen or discussed either.

Posted: **Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:44 am**

Leisher wrote:I'm pretty sure there were a few Seinfeld episodes where Superman wasn't seen or discussed either.

There's a Superman figure in the background of Jerry's apartment. So he's pretty much in every episode.