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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 15:45:58 GMT
Based on another thread, I've decided to start this one. NX was different from anything else on TV, before and after. So, what was your favorite scene, or just one that you remember fondly? I will transfer over Marilyn Whirlwind's story that Sulla provided in edit mode. Another episode I loved was when Shelley broke a bottle of VERY expensive wine and Eve helped her "replace" it! |
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Feb 10, 2019 16:26:55 GMT
Catman remembers fondly the scene where Chris Stevens defends his thesis.
And the moose.
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 17:34:42 GMT
Catman remembers fondly the scene where Chris Stevens defends his thesis. And the moose. Hooray for Catman!  |
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 17:40:07 GMT
One of the most intelligent shows and my all-time favorite. Set in a small Alaskan town, comparisons are often made with the movie, Local Hero (1983).
What other show has stories which feature...
- a frozen Napoleonic-era soldier found with a diary which indicates Napoleon was not at Waterloo.
- a handsome stranger, who is actually a bear, falls in love with one of the women. He invites her to his cave where they dine on berries and mead, and dance to Canteloube's 'Bailero'.
- a friendly theological debate between an atheist and a Catholic priest carried on during a drunken arm-wrestling match.
- a flashback episode where Franz Kafka comes to town and meets his future wife.
- a flashback episode where V.I. Lenin and Anastasia Romanov meet to try to come to an agreement.
- a Native American ghost who is one character's spirit guide. The ghost (Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman) cannot eat, but he likes to smell food.
- a loveable town bigot who is also a millionaire and a former Mercury astronaut.
- a Native American millionaire who gets a Caucasian business rival drunk and swindles him on a land deal.
- a film buff who corresponds with famous directors such as Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas and Allen. His projects include dubbing The Prisoner Of Zenda in Tlingit, and an Orson Welles film festival which brings director Peter Bogdanovich to town.
- an annual town ritual called 'The Running of The Bulls' where all the men run naked down Main Street.
- a character who is killed by a falling satellite. He later appears to reincarnate as a Siberian Husky.
- a reclusive and surly master chef who lives barefoot in the woods because he's hiding from the CIA and its enemies.
- a doctor who discovers a frozen wooly mammoth, but when he returns with a university professor, someone has dragged it away.
- a character who earns his Masters degree in Comparative Lit by taking two visiting professors to a baseball field and demonstrating 'Casey At The Bat'.
- plans to fling a cow using a trebuchet. The artist decides to substitute a piano after learning a cow had already been flung by the Monty Python boys.
- a fugitive violinist who plays while roaming the hills at night.
- a character's low self-esteem which manifests itself as an impish, little, green man.
- a character who eats a raven spirit disguised as a trout and temporarily develops the ability to see the near future.
- three characters who visit a waterfall and hear the music from Twin Peaks (TP originally aired in the same time-slot as NX).
- a traveling circus named after Ludwig Wittgenstein which comes to town. The leader is a retired physics professor. One of the performers is silent by choice and appears to be able to fly.
- a deer whose life is spared by a hunter repays the favor with a bottle of whiskey and some cash.
- a visit from Satan.
- comical Freudian dream sequences, one which includes Carl Jung. Another features the dreamer in battle alongside Poe, Shakespeare, Beethoven and van Gogh.
- excerpts from great works of literature.
- an eclectic selection of great music.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 18:13:11 GMT
^^^^^ Thanks for the Memories (sung by Bob Hope) TERRIFIC SHOW ! on so many levels.
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Post by bess1971s on Feb 10, 2019 19:19:29 GMT
Your memories of individual episodes is better than mine. All I know is that I enjoyed the season for almost the entire run. After Rob Morrow left and the newbies came on, my enthusiasm went downhill.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 19:56:21 GMT
- a traveling circus named after Ludwig Wittgenstein which comes to town. The leader is a retired physics professor. One of the performers is silent by choice and appears to be able to fly.
The AMAZINGLY Versatile Bill IRWIN .. he also played a serial killer on CSI and was chilling to the bone !
Frequent visitor to Sesame Street !
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 20:09:00 GMT
One of the most intelligent shows and my all-time favorite. Set in a small Alaskan town, comparisons are often made with the movie, Local Hero (1983).
What other show has stories which feature...
- a frozen Napoleonic-era soldier found with a diary which indicates Napoleon was not at Waterloo.
- a handsome stranger, who is actually a bear, falls in love with one of the women. He invites her to his cave where they dine on berries and mead, and dance to Canteloube's 'Bailero'.
- a friendly theological debate between an atheist and a Catholic priest carried on during a drunken arm-wrestling match.
- a flashback episode where Franz Kafka comes to town and meets his future wife.
- a flashback episode where V.I. Lenin and Anastasia Romanov meet to try to come to an agreement.
- a Native American ghost who is one character's spirit guide. The ghost (Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman) cannot eat, but he likes to smell food.
- a loveable town bigot who is also a millionaire and a former Mercury astronaut.
- a Native American millionaire who gets a Caucasian business rival drunk and swindles him on a land deal.
- a film buff who corresponds with famous directors such as Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas and Allen. His projects include dubbing The Prisoner Of Zenda in Tlingit, and an Orson Welles film festival which brings director Peter Bogdanovich to town.
- an annual town ritual called 'The Running of The Bulls' where all the men run naked down Main Street.
- a character who is killed by a falling satellite. He later appears to reincarnate as a Siberian Husky.
- a reclusive and surly master chef who lives barefoot in the woods because he's hiding from the CIA and its enemies.
- a doctor who discovers a frozen wooly mammoth, but when he returns with a university professor, someone has dragged it away.
- a character who earns his Masters degree in Comparative Lit by taking two visiting professors to a baseball field and demonstrating 'Casey At The Bat'.
- plans to fling a cow using a trebuchet. The artist decides to substitute a piano after learning a cow had already been flung by the Monty Python boys.
- a fugitive violinist who plays while roaming the hills at night.
- a character's low self-esteem which manifests itself as an impish, little, green man.
- a character who eats a raven spirit disguised as a trout and temporarily develops the ability to see the near future.
- three characters who visit a waterfall and hear the music from Twin Peaks (TP originally aired in the same time-slot as NX).
- a traveling circus named after Ludwig Wittgenstein which comes to town. The leader is a retired physics professor. One of the performers is silent by choice and appears to be able to fly.
- a deer whose life is spared by a hunter repays the favor with a bottle of whiskey and some cash.
- a visit from Satan.
- comical Freudian dream sequences, one which includes Carl Jung. Another features the dreamer in battle alongside Poe, Shakespeare, Beethoven and van Gogh.
- excerpts from great works of literature.
- an eclectic selection of great music.
Oh, the memories! I LOVED that dear old shaman who helped Ed on his quest, and liked to smell food! And the little green man... I loved that Leonard the shaman was able to figure out that the movies were White Man's Healing Stories because of Ed watching an Orson Wells movie... And Adam. when he told Fleishman that the ingredient was CUMIN, dammit..., and when he expounded on the meaning of life to poor Ed... And the trebuchet, a word that was only the name of a typeface until I watched NX... One you didn't mention was Fleishman and Maggie walking in the woods, looking for a pregnant Shelley, and Fleishman admitting to Maggie that he didn't like babies - "No matter what you do, they're always... STICKY," and "They are germs in footed pajamas". There will never be another show like it.  |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 20:11:01 GMT
- a traveling circus named after Ludwig Wittgenstein which comes to town. The leader is a retired physics professor. One of the performers is silent by choice and appears to be able to fly. The AMAZINGLY Versatile Bill IRWIN .. he also played a serial killer on CSI and was chilling to the bone ! Frequent visitor to Sesame Street ! Oh, I saw that CSI episode and he was chilling to the bone! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 20:12:45 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 20:16:03 GMT
- a reclusive and surly master chef who lives barefoot in the woods because he's hiding from the CIA and its enemies. one of the few characters and arcs I didn't really care for (and a rare  neg post for a show  |
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 21:05:01 GMT
- a traveling circus named after Ludwig Wittgenstein which comes to town. The leader is a retired physics professor. One of the performers is silent by choice and appears to be able to fly. The AMAZINGLY Versatile Bill IRWIN .. he also played a serial killer on CSI and was chilling to the bone ! Frequent visitor to Sesame Street ! I never knew his name, but I see him pop up from time to time in other shows. [ points at tv] "It's The Flying Man!" |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 21:14:22 GMT
- a reclusive and surly master chef who lives barefoot in the woods because he's hiding from the CIA and its enemies. one of the few characters and arcs I didn't really care for (and a rare neg post for a show Well, to each his own, some characters we just respond to and others we don't. I never really liked the doctor, the one that replaced Fleishman, or his wife, but there were still episodes I liked, like the episode where ancient waters have been found and bottled, but the water has the strange effect of switching gender roles in relationships. The doctor's wife was tying flies... Edit: y'know, I'm snow-and-ice bound here in rural Misery, depending on my wood-burning stove... the residents of Cicely, Alaska would just shrug all this off as another day on Planet Earth. So I have to hand-saw frozen wood - no problem! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 21:19:31 GMT
rachelcarson1953 yes, some characters just click and some don't .. just like "real" people. Some ya take to right away, some grow on your and some never do ! I was not big on the new Doctor and family but kept watching to see the old familiar friends.
The stories were so engaging and clever and well written that it's a bit of a miracle that it lasted as long as it did !
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 21:26:56 GMT
I really liked the dream sequences.
- Maggie as Little Red Riding Hood, and the wolf is kind of a dapper, dignified psychiatrist who analyzes her feelings and easily convinces her to let him accompany her to grandma's house.
- Boy Chris running after his father while carrying two tennis balls in a ziplock baggie -- "Daddy, daddy, you forgot your balls!" He climbs into a truck and becomes adult Chris. Bernard and Chris suddenly wonder who's driving the truck -- "Hello, boys, I'm Carl Jung. And while I know very much about the collective unconscious, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!" [they all scream as the truck heads towards a crash]
Some of these excerpts were on YouTube. But that was before. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 21:27:29 GMT
rachelcarson1953 yes, some characters just click and some don't .. just like "real" people. Some ya take to right away, some grow on your and some never do ! I was not big on the new Doctor and family but kept watching to see the old familiar friends.
The stories were so engaging and clever and well written that it's a bit of a miracle that it lasted as long as it did ! I've heard that the DVD's don't have the actual original music, since the show's copyright license extended to TV only, not DVD's. It's given me pause on whether or not I want to buy them, since the music was so pivotal. For a while after the show aired, I would see Holling on 'Law & Order' as a judge; that made me smile. I loved his lines when Miranda Bliss was born, that was a heartwarming episode. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Feb 10, 2019 21:32:00 GMT
I really liked the dream sequences.
- Maggie as Little Red Riding Hood, and the wolf is kind of a dapper, dignified psychiatrist who analyzes her feelings and easily convinces her to let him accompany her to grandma's house.
- Boy Chris running after his father while carrying two tennis balls in a ziplock baggie -- "Daddy, daddy, you forgot your balls!" He climbs into a truck and becomes adult Chris. Bernard and Chris suddenly wonder who's driving the truck -- "Hello, boys, I'm Carl Jung. And while I know very much about the collective unconscious, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!" [they all scream as the truck heads towards a crash]
Some of these excerpts were on YouTube. But that was before. Oh, I loved them, too! Do you remember the conversation Maggie had with the bed bug seated at Holling's bar, and the bed bug lamenting the fact that his son had failed carpet navigation! The actor that played the psychiatrist to Maggie's Little Red Riding Hood had the perfect voice. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 10, 2019 21:41:16 GMT
Yes .. the dreams and fantasy episodes !
I met "Holling" back when he was on Broadway in One A Clear Day … it was brief and funny meeting but one I cannot share.
He was nice and so was his real life wife !
I have episodes on VHS tapes .. need to get them watched again before they turn to dust !
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 21:41:44 GMT
I really liked the dream sequences.
- Maggie as Little Red Riding Hood, and the wolf is kind of a dapper, dignified psychiatrist who analyzes her feelings and easily convinces her to let him accompany her to grandma's house.
- Boy Chris running after his father while carrying two tennis balls in a ziplock baggie -- "Daddy, daddy, you forgot your balls!" He climbs into a truck and becomes adult Chris. Bernard and Chris suddenly wonder who's driving the truck -- "Hello, boys, I'm Carl Jung. And while I know very much about the collective unconscious, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!" [they all scream as the truck heads towards a crash]
Some of these excerpts were on YouTube. But that was before. Oh, I loved them, too! Do you remember the conversation Maggie had with the bed bug seated at Holling's bar, and the bed bug lamenting the fact that his son had failed carpet navigation!
The actor that played the psychiatrist to Maggie's Little Red Riding Hood had the perfect voice.  Yes! I think it was a dust mite. I can't recall what brought that on. I think Maggie had a skin rash or something and Joel told her about dust mites.
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Post by Sulla on Feb 10, 2019 21:46:38 GMT
Yes .. the dreams and fantasy episodes ! I met "Holling" back when he was on Broadway in One A Clear Day … it was brief and funny meeting but one I cannot share. He was nice and so was his real life wife ! I have episodes on VHS tapes .. need to get them watched again before they turn to dust ! Lucky you! Now I'm jealous.
I also had them on VHS. Later I made DVD copies from Netflix DVDs. But they didn't have the final season and the DVDs have the flaw of missing some of the original music.
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