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Post by starman on Jan 20, 2008 18:57:34 GMT -5
Yeah, that's quite silly. Bart Carny is understandable, because it's a great episode, but Viva Ned Flanders is awful...
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Post by Pocket Ponyo on Jan 23, 2008 21:47:18 GMT -5
I've seen somebody rate Duffless' emotion lower than Bart Gets Hit By A Car's emotion... Well, at least it allowed you to create one of the funniest sigs NHC has ever seen... But seriously, I have no idea how he could say that. Jeez. jk He's a pretty nice guy.
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Post by starman on Jan 23, 2008 21:50:54 GMT -5
What the hell? Firstly, Duffless has no emotion. Secondly, the last few scenes in Bart Gets Hit By a Car, as detached as they were from where the main plot seemed to be going, nearly made me cry. Over the two, which one do you think I'D choose?
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Post by Pocket Ponyo on Jan 23, 2008 22:25:21 GMT -5
Please tell me you're joking about the last scenes in Bart Gets Hit almost making you cry.
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Post by starman on Jan 23, 2008 22:29:09 GMT -5
I'm joking.
2 baed its not opeset day!!!!!111
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Post by jerrythecowboy on Feb 3, 2008 5:22:16 GMT -5
haha, that thing ivan posted made me laugh. Firstly, Duffless has no emotion. yes it did. emotion meaning feeling. homer abandons his alcoholism for marge, because he feels love and dedication towards her, and would do anything to please her. it's barebones emotion and dedication at its finest, and its one of the clearest examples on the simpsons of a character forgoing their own personal desires for the sake of another character. in the end, it invokes on the part of the audience, a sense of incredible sympathy and like towards homer and his selflessness. there's probably about less than ten instances that are better and more clear cut than that of duffless, regarding emotion. to say duffless has no emotion is to sell the episode short of the praise it so rightfully deserves. Secondly, the last few scenes in Bart Gets Hit By a Car, as detached as they were from where the main plot seemed to be going, nearly made me cry. this is somewhat odd. while i'm not going to argue that the ending of this episode had no emotion, it did seem, as you suggested, highly distanced from the plot. the lack of coherence and link to the plot of the episode creates an effect that would be similar to killing off a character we'd never seen before, and being expected to cry. for me, it seems very odd to stick a scene in there that demands empathy, without giving any real reason to empathise with the situation. that, and the fact that it's hard to side with either character since what each of them did was so silly in the first place. on one hand, homer over-reacted to a degree that defied logic. on the other, marge over-reacted by believing what homer said, whereas her uber-sensible characterisation would indicate that she probably should have been a little more skeptical.
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Post by starman on Feb 3, 2008 20:05:35 GMT -5
That's very true about Bart Gets Hit By a Car. I guess that little things didn't really bother me with that episode, and Marge looked so sad... It's probably because Bart Gets Hit By a Car is more serious than Duffless, and Duffless has loads of wacky humour to distract me from what's really going on. I do think you guys earlier in this thread are overreacting a little because even though they spend about six sevenths of the episode delving into the car accident and everything, it's not completely unbelievable to feel the way the person who rated BGHBAC's emotion higher than Duffless' did.
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