|
Post by Chiz on Mar 15, 2015 14:57:18 GMT -5
Okay, wow. I just finished watching all 4 episodes...there is absolutely no semblance of a plot at all. Even less than The Room. I'm impressed. It's almost 2 hours of various caricatures (lesbian, bimbo, stoner, big angry black dude, asian guy who keeps corpsing in every scene he's in, random british "princess", semi-neurotic average white guy, simple-minded fix-it-all, etc.) all interacting with each other and advertising Tommy Wiseau's line of underwear (it keeps being shown off and talked about!) while the closest thing we have to protagonists - Charlie and Bebe - are trying to keep the daycare apartment buildings "running" by sending 72pt Arial printouts to random tenants saying " BRING $850 TODAY OR GET EVICTED!!!" every so often. I'm gonna need to digest what I saw for a little bit. What a day~! EDIT: Every episode ends with it saying "Based on the novel by Tommy Wiseau" - This novel published anywhere...? EDIT 2: Denny & Chris R make a cameo in the first episode! [2]
|
|
|
Post by Dashe on Mar 21, 2015 0:44:51 GMT -5
I'm about to wrap up what's available on Hulu now and I am relieved that there is someone in the world out there worse with computers than me. Ricky Rick managed to somehow turn "click on the icon" into "lick the computer screen." I like to think this is how Tommy sends e-mails.
|
|
|
Post by Chiz on Mar 21, 2015 19:27:23 GMT -5
Remember folks - Wiseau does a lot of things. If his The Neighbors isn't your thing, you're crazy there's always this lovely Kickstarted chestnut: imgur.com/a/rkl37 Charlie | Bebe | Glasgow Apartments Management. "What a day~!" | Ed | | Glasgow Apartments Repairman, and the laundry room matchmaker. | Cici | Fifi | Tenants in Suite 101(?). | Joe Speilberg | | Tenant in Suite 202. Delivers pizza. Seen once, not seen since. | Don | Monica | Tenants in Suite 303. Don's gay for an unseen Patrick, while Monica is 9 months pregnant with a bouncing baby basketball and wants a divorce. Don has developed a verbal tic (clicking) as of Episode 5. | Richard | | Tenant in Suite 305. Mentally unstable. Butler to Princess Penelope. | Mr. B | | Tenant in Suite 313. Has beef with unnamed 'rapper' in Suite 666. Actor can't keep a straight face to save his life, not that we can blame him. Apparently a virgin. Has unrequited feelings for Mariana. | Philadelphia | | Tenant in Suite 905 323. She likes pink and dressing in bikinis 24/7. A lesbian with a waterbed (strongly implied to be Patricia) lives immediately above her. | Troy | | Tenant in Suite 420. Avid drug user and drug dealer to most of the complex. Lula is hypnotizing him to sleep with her. | Ricky Rick | Lula | Tenants in Suite 505. Ricky Rick seems to work for Troy as a runner. He and Suzy are replacing Charlie and Bebe while they're vacationing. | ?Roland? | | Tenant in Suite 666. Hates Mr. B. Not properly identified in his single appearance, not seen since. | Tim | | Tenant in Suite 705. Has good rapport with the management. | Patricia | ?Anna? | Tenants in Suite 705, but not the same 705 as Tim. Lesbians. Patricia wants to get with Philadelphia, who is straight and wants to be with Troy. Woman in blonde not properly identified in her single appearance, not seen since. | 'Crazy' Suzy | | Bebe's relative (sister, cousin?) May or may not live in the building. | Fidel Castro | | Accidentally barged into Troy's apartment. May or may not have been a drug-induced hallucination. | Mariana | | Tenant in unknown suite. Trying to have a secret fling with Ed. | Princess Penelope | Prince George | Tenant in unknown suite. British royalty. Hired Richard to be her butler. Prince George is, as of yet, unseen, but has been shown on promotional art. |
EDIT 2015-07-17: Updated for Episodes 5 and 6
|
|
|
Post by Mikéy on Mar 21, 2015 22:51:08 GMT -5
Charts are awesome. Chiz has really been studying, everyone!
|
|
|
Post by Chiz on Mar 22, 2015 4:12:56 GMT -5
Given the discussion in iScribble tonight on the non-euclidean nature of Glasgow Apartments, and because sleep is for the weak, I rewatched the 4 episodes (AGAIN) AND the 3 trailers, and made maps of all of the various hallway shots we see of the complex, and made diagrams of each scene. I made a new diagram for each scene, and in a few cases, multiple diagrams for the same scene because the door hinge changed sides between the knock and the open (!). The triangles are shown doors, and suite numbers are given where present and legible (? was present but not legible). Standard blueprint rules apply for the doors - the right angle is the hinge, the hypotenuse (what should be an arc) is the door's swing. Walls of interiors (dotted lines) included where relevant, but doors inside suites are not included. Also, a notable exception is Philadelphia's apartment in episode 1, since we don't see much of the hallway outside her apartment and we don't see a number. The laundry room is never shown from the hallway, but during Episode 4, while beside room 909, Ed points in the general direction of the dotted circle and says "the laundry room is off limits", so one can assume that a portal to the laundry room is on the 9th floor. What I figure is that the tenants of Glasgow Apartments don't really know which floor they're going to be on until they open their door. We have 2 curious suites that are a single digit (7, 9) as well as a showing of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th floors. We see examples of different-floor suites being beside each other occasionally (3+5, 4+9, 5+6) as well as a pair of suites actually swapping positions in relation to each other (503 is sometimes beside, and sometimes ACROSS from 505). There are, thankfully, some very consistent pairs thus far (907 and 909 always appear together, in that order). We have also seen nothing of the 2nd and 8th floor, although we know at the very least the 2nd floor exists because Joe moved into suite 202. Our only indication of the 6th floor is from a fleeting shot in one of the promotional videos (suite 647) and the 'big angry black guy' in suite 666 that Mr. B hates.
EDIT 2016-04-26 (epic 1 year later necro-bump): There's apparently a season two inbound as of 3 weeks ago. Having watched all 6 episodes of season 1, I don't know how to feel about this. Thoughts Dashe, Mikéy, Kyle ?
|
|
|
Post by Dashe on May 13, 2016 20:51:07 GMT -5
Considering how long it took to make the first season, I'm sure we won't hear much from Tommy for five more years. Especially since it's 'coming soon.' Not that I'd believe a release date from Tommy Wiseau, anyway.
|
|