Hell of a Month Coming Up..

So I decided I'll try it - All the Simpsons episodes in one month, along with reviews here. Is there any sense in it? No, of course not, but it's just the kind of crazy challenge I can't keep myself away from once I come up with it. I will not even bother to rationalize it. There's lots of time constraints next month, for one I'll try to play more poker than even before at the same time, so it won't be easy. Besides I have to live monophasically again, so that means hours in my day are very limited.

But I'll try it. This challenge basically means that I have to watch something around 15-17 episodes a day. I'll promise 6 episodes every day. Even if day is fucked up with other stuff, I'll do 6 episodes a day. Also, I am aiming to do new record on most episodes on a day. If possible, I'll try to do that for every week in September, so basically four new records. Even if I only improve it the minimum, my record should be after the month 30 episodes a day. Damn impressive if it happens, but it's certainly a challenge when you write reviews at the same time. That said, if you've read my South Park blog, you know that they're not that elaborate.

What about the first run on viewings? I'm four episodes away from watching every episode there is. I'll soon sit down and watch them. I won't come back to write anymore about what I thought about the season, so I'll say what I think now: I finally get why nohomers.net is all doom and gloom. Quality had gone downwards from, I don't know, seventeenth season? Anyway, it was still decent in Season Twenty. But Twentyone has had too much plonkers and almost no real classics. Pretty sad, but I think it doesn't have to be permanent drop in quality. It doesn't have to be that bad, writers might just be a little off-form or just not caring. If they start caring again, show can improve. Maybe never back near the classic era, but to somewhere around the solid quality of when Al Jean originally took over. I'd be happy with even somewhere near it, current quality isn't.

20th Season Watched

And it took nine days to finish it. One season to go and I've been thinking a lot about the second viewings and starting of the reviews. I'd actually entertained a thought of watching all of the episodes within a month. That would be pretty insane, I know, but I just might do it. One thing is for certain, I want to improve my record of 26 episodes in a day.

About Season Twenty.. Well the parts that I've seen before didn't feel that wrong in context of whole episodes, but the quality keeps it's steady drop. There were a few more mediocre episodes and excellent episodes keep getting more rare. That said, it's still decent, but season 21 should see the quality dropping even further.

Season Nineteen Finished

Not that interesting update once again, but I'm really closing the end now. Season Nineteen is finished. It was a little twosided season, early half got it's best episodes and the second half was a little mediocre. Still, not that bad. I'm still waiting for those episodes that has brought such venom out of some Simpsons-fans. I'm starting to doubt it'll ever happen.

That said, I've already seen a bits of Season Twenty. It has aired here on tv pretty much the whole existance of this blog and while I didn't intend to watch it, I've watched couple of moments from couple of episodes. If I remember correctly I was doing Season Fifteen or some season thereabouts at the time and you could really feel the contrast diffrence. I'm expecting worst season so far, but you really can't go too far on basis of two bits.

So Nineteen's 20 episodes in thirteen days, ok rate but I need to up the tempo if I'm going to get this blog "done" this year. I mean that there's whole another round of episodes to watch. I guess I should also get the Simpsons Movie - that's right, I'm yet to watch it. It aired on pay-tv here already last year or something but I just didn't feel right about watching it before first getting to a more closer contact with the series than casual watching, even if I hadn't missed anything by just watching it. But yeah, see you in couple of weeks again.

Depressed

This is somewhat unrelated post compared to the other, but I figured that me updating what season I'm on isn't that interesting anyway. I was a little depressed today. Why? I've been thinking a lot of classic era and especially Lisa's Wedding episode since, you know, it was the wedding day couple of days ago (August 1st). Why does it make me depressed? I don't know. It just does. Simpsons' classic era makes me depressed.

I was extremely depressed around late April and early May - and what do you know, it was around the time I was on my most intense run of watching Simpsons and straight on the classic era. In fact the depression was the reason I started this blog even when I was at least months away from first review - I thought that I was getting depressed because I didn't write the stuff I thought. But that wasn't really it.

I don't really know what is it - Is it that the episodes in the classic era were so good, that I feel depressed when I'm not watching them? That seems plausible, cause I felt better while I was watching the episodes, but felt empty afterwards. That was one of the reasons I made the junkie-analogy.

As the seasons have wore on the depression has subsided, in fact it was only a couple of weeks. I don't know what then happened - Did the episode quality dip just enough? Are the episodes less emotionally involving? Did the fact that I watch fewer episodes per day come to play? Or did I just get used to it eventually.. Well not that since I was depressed today.

I don't know really the point of this post, it's more of self-reflecting than anything. But perhaps it proves that earlier seasons were much better episodes since they make me react so strongly, even just thinking about them. Not that it needed any prove. I realise now that I've watched over 10 seasons past the classical era that Simpsons is not what it was on the classical era. That said, I'm not one of those Comic Book Guy-esque fans who think every episode nowadays is worst episode ever and the series should be ended after every weeks episode is abomination worse than the previous (that said, I've not watched Season 21 yet, though every season that has been called horrendous so far haven't been that terrible in my opinion).

So bring on the Simpsons, I'm ready for yet another 20 seasons!

Wait a minute, that wasn't the point of this post. I don't know what is it, but not that!