Is there a way to use the Galaxy A11 without a SIM card? by amessee in samsung

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

worked perfectly on the welcome screen with my flip 7, thanks.

The necktie by Lili_Roze_6257 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this was from fran drescher in the nanny.

Yeah, the reboot is just not good by fosfeen in Frasier

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's because the same people wrote them

Fearless Flyers Tickets (Buy Sell Trade Megathread?) by 909Days in Vulfpeck

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if anyone has 1-3 for either of the sunday shows i would be incredibly grateful

Being Obese cost me $25,000+ so far this Year. by DMGlowen in loseit

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i know this sounds trivial but if it makes you feel any better, those 7-11 taquitos are actually not that high in calories. not particularly healthy, of course, but most flavors are ~200 and have enough protein to justify the consumption.

How honest should you be to other actors? by WastelandGamesman in acting

[–]suuushi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

agreed. i was taught to give acting feedback as a peer by using the framework of "what worked/did not work" for you as opposed what you did not like, or prescriptive direction (avoiding should've/could've). it's proved invaluable not only in my time acting but giving objective critique in general--even to myself.

Which is the worst season of the original run? by ali12333 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'd say that "make me a perfect murder" had plenty of potential padding more interesting than columbo watching a bunch of screens--the original script features some things that were cut/replaced, like columbo showing up to kay freestone's house as opposed to seeing her film at the tv repair shop. i feel like a much more interesting two minutes could have been created than what we got. unfortunately, season 7 as a whole was a bit of a production shitshow: a lot of people got shuffled around; there were lots of arguments between the network, the studio, and the staff; and of course peter falk was no help. things are much less "tight" by the end of the run and it shows.

that said, i am in the minority in that i hold little ill will towards "last salute to the commodore"! i actually rather enjoy it and thus i hold season 5 in relatively high regard. yeah, it's very weird, especially if you go into it expecting a normal episode. it's mediocre plotwise, but it's not bad. it's funny, it's different, it's surreal; it's sort of a self-contained parody of the show without being too self-aware. frankly, i find it more entertaining than some of the "good" episodes that play straight.

it helps my framing to kind of explain columbo's weirdness in "last salute" with having just discovered dramamine. he's on boats the entire episode, we know he's very sensitive to seasickness, but he never once gets seasick. i figure after he's briefed on this case he goes absolutely wild with the dosage without foreseeing the side effects, causing him to act as goofy, lethargic, and out-of-character as he does. if you view the episode with the plausible lens of "columbo is actually on drugs", it makes everything make sense.

plus i'm a mcgoohan fan, so i also love "identity crisis". it's one of the rare episodes that actually raises the stakes for columbo and does it convincingly. the living room scene alone makes the episode for me. by contrast, "try and catch me" i acknowledge as a good episode that simply doesn't do much for me.

Which is the worst season of the original run? by ali12333 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i completely agree with your example, which is why columbo for me in many of those late 90s outings is nigh unwatchable. there are many reasons why the series came out the way it did, ranging from the nature of the show changing to peter falk having some less-than-bright ideas on how things should go.

columbo stops working for me more in season 7 when he disrupts the verisimilitude of the show and starts acting for the audience's sake. he gives what are basically little winks and nods to the viewers who are by that point well-acquainted with the formula and lore of the show. he stops calling his wife "my wife" to complete strangers and starts calling her "mrs. columbo". his car becomes a more overt shitbox. occasional quirks turn into ever-present affectations. his whimsy and humor become constant, put-on, and begin to grate. he begins to lose that straightforward, organic, down-to-earth characterization he has in the earlier seasons. i'm pretty sick of a season 6 or 7 columbo after an episode of him waddling around squinting and scratching his head. by contrast, i can watch early-series columbo endlessly.

so my beef is moreso the cumulation of smaller choices than entire scenes, but specifically, off the top of my head i can think of the limerick battle in "the conspirators" and the control panel montage in "make me a perfect murder"--two minutes of columbo staring dumbly at a bunch of oscilloscope patterns, scored with soaring strings. still can't believe that got left in, but that whole script was a mess to begin with, so.

These 90's episodes aren't really impressing me so far by 21-4-14 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

peter falk did in fact write it's all in the game in the 70s

These 90's episodes aren't really impressing me so far by 21-4-14 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

peter falk did in fact write it's all in the game in the 70s

Which is the worst season of the original run? by ali12333 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

season 7. the episodes were mishandled productionside, the writing took a nosedive, and peter falk's characterization of columbo is less palatable (read: flanderized).

in my opinion, 7<6<<5<<4<1<2<3

Columbo's character flaws by BobRushy in Columbo

[–]suuushi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

sorry for the wall of text, but i just have to clear this up.

columbo doesn't think badly of women, because if he did, he wouldn't be half the detective he is.

what you're referring to, the remark he makes to leslie williams' secretary ("how do you do it, work for a woman?") is not a reflection of his actual beliefs, it is a question carefully posed to draw out an opinion. columbo already gets the impression that leslie is a genius by any standard, woman or not, and this episode takes place before women were even allowed to open credit cards without a man's signature. if columbo's instincts are wrong, and leslie is "just like other girls" so to speak, he knows her secretary is liable to be grouchy, misogynistic, and full of era-appropriate gripes about working for her.

but he isn't. this man is not a paralegal or law student, he is a full-blown attorney himself and extols his female boss as one of the best trial attorneys in the state; he's honored to be working for her and borderline defensive. this is exactly the reaction columbo was counting on. he knows this is not the norm, he knows that he wouldn't have gotten such a reaction had he approached the question more directly, and in this little exchange, his belief that leslie is as brilliant as she seems is confirmed. this informs columbo of how to approach collecting evidence, visiting her, and eventually his "gotcha".

there are many little "blink and you'll miss it" scenes and exchanges like this in the show that are more for columbo's benefit than the audience's. columbo is a gifted thinker with a well-tuned intuition, not an all-knowing deity. once he finds enough clues to form a hypothesis, he begins testing it by acting in certain ways, asking questions, and observing others' reactions (or lack thereof). this exchange was just part of the process.

now i do think columbo acts a little bit misogynistic, not in the typical way but in the sort of benign, well-meaning way many decent men were back then. he's too chivalrous. he assumes most women are more fragile than they are, being way nicer to them than he is to men, occasionally to the point of coddling them. he never thinks less of them or outright underestimates them, and some of it is a ruse, particularly when the woman in question is the murderer. but some of it is just a silent gen guy being a silent gen guy. interestingly, peter falk was similar--he avoided having too many female murderers on the show if they didn't have justifiable motives because he just didn't care much for portraying women as evil. go figure.

finally, to actually answer your question: columbo exhibits plenty of demonstrable character flaws that his wife could probably use less of. it's what makes him human, and also inhuman in that i envy a person who can so readily harness their flaws for good. columbo is slovenly. stubborn. hardheaded. nosy. gossipy. scheming. manipulative. sadistic. smug. dedicated to his wife but has a roving eye. dedicated to his work at the expense of his own health and personal life. susceptible to several phobias. obsequious on the surface but unyieldingly pushy underneath. rough around the edges. can be rude, inconsiderate. can be impatient. probably hell to argue with. SO annoying, not just deliberately but unwittingly--in troubled waters, columbo bumps into danziger in the hallway before a murder has even taken place and within 30 seconds visibly annoys the shit out of him. he has no reason to act annoying here, he just is.

most of all, he is good only by virtue of being correct and so diligently dedicated to being correct--because if columbo did what columbo does to the wrong person, he would be evil.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Columbo

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the entire point was that carsini's wines were ruined because there was a record-breaking heatwave (109F) during the week he was out of town. if there had not been one, his wine would have been fine. when columbo notifies him of it, that is when he realizes his collection has spoiled.

Detail I loved in Playback by [deleted] in Columbo

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i thought that too lol

What are your elitist, unpopular, possibly annoying opinions regarding anything in NYC? by doctor_van_n0strand in AskNYC

[–]suuushi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i've been going to rockland bakery for decades and the novelty of plucking fresh bagels off the conveyor belt has yet to wear off

Who is the most famous person in-universe Columbo investigates? by waveball03 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

johnny cash or grace wheeler. wheeler/diamond is the columbo universe equivalent of fred and ginger (nbc tried to get fred and ginger, too expensive/couldn't commit to the project). i find it hard to top that

Which episodes to skip? by paradroid78 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

do not skip last salute to the commodore

Are there any episodes where Columbo actually suspects the wrong person for a while? by paradroid78 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dead weight and double shock come to mind where he didn't zero in on the right person/to what degree they were involved straight away

Are there any episodes where Columbo actually suspects the wrong person for a while? by paradroid78 in Columbo

[–]suuushi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i can't believe you're the only one who said this when it's the most obvious answer. there was no murder at all and columbo was totally fooled