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the character interactions and relationships (gay couple, vatican strike force) were the best part of the show and with everyone being stuck in a bunker they might make a decent second season. also that was the most cliffhangiest of cliffhangers but i don't think a second season is really necessary
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anyone else get a slenderman vibe from the latest xfiles? the spiel about works of imagination coming to life reminded me of two girls who believed he was real and tried to murder another girl. like if you believe in something hard enough it becomes real. Also tall, dressed in black, appears and disappears, etc. kind of cool to think an SA meme made it into the xfiles canon, if only obliquely.
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haveblue posted:maybe that's just not the sort of thing I find funny then? they are continuing the themes of the original show but there are only so many stories you can tell about flat characters who don't evolve the "elaborate mythology" allows them to more fully flesh out dr venture and brock, two different meditations on failure
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:they are continuing the themes of the original show but there are only so many stories you can tell about flat characters who don't evolve i like to think that the ongoing death/rebirth of the boys has a larger arc too. like Dr. V is selecting for traits, and eventually the V Bros become super-human death-defying clone people to rule the world. or somethign like that
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the show isnt about failure. like one season was. the creators would really like idiot nerds to stop repeating that stuff.RevusRangerous posted:i like to think that the ongoing death/rebirth of the boys has a larger arc too. like Dr. V is selecting for traits, and eventually the V Bros become super-human death-defying clone people to rule the world. or somethign like that the cloning thing was stopped for good at the end of season 3 and we're on season 6 now. so it was 8 years ago. and the last time they actually died was the end of season 1, which was 12 years ago
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by clone years theyre almost real boys now/middle aged menNotorious b.s.d. posted:they are continuing the themes of the original show but there are only so many stories you can tell about flat characters who don't evolve i read this as an x files comment about the last episode and it still made sense lol carter and his mythology im looking forward to the back door pilot with neue mulder and scully, it looks like itll be self aware in the vein of darin morgan and vince gilligan
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i loved the trash golem banksy that no one cared about because scully's mom was sick thoroughly disinterested x-files: the truth is out there but we're too busy focusing on contrived personal drama
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fishmech posted:
i only watched them for the first time two years ago in a binge, so i can't be assed to remember every detail. being clones is still a big piece of the v-bros characters. could come back to haunt them somehow. maybe.
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fishmech posted:the show isnt about failure. like one season was. the creators would really like idiot nerds to stop repeating that stuff. the thing about dr. venture is that he actually did achieve something incredible. imagine - his cloning technology would have been a goddamn medical miracle. he could grow brainless human bodies. at mass production. do you know what that means? it means the end of wait lists for organ transplants. hell, it even means if you're rich enough you don't even have to settle for "mostly compatible, you probably still want to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life", you could just have your whole body cloned and then harvest the fucker for whatever parts you need. not to mention blood donations, pharmaceutical testing, medical experimentation... hell, if the cost per unit goes low enough, you could use them to train surgeons on! rusty venture could have been a giant of medical history, and of course a permanent residence on the corner of easy street and good times boulevard. but in one of the early episodes he says congress banned cloning technology like only a few years before the show starts. so his life's work is basically nullified. no wonder the dude's a cynical, lazy fuckaround. i mean, aside from the whole massively traumatizing childhood thing.
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of course it's also mentioned a few times that the cloning results in massive genetic damage and if the v-bros ever have kids they're going to be inside out flipperbabies that poo poo from their eyesockets
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:the thing about dr. venture is that he actually did achieve something incredible. imagine - his cloning technology would have been a goddamn medical miracle. he could grow brainless human bodies. at mass production. do you know what that means? it means the end of wait lists for organ transplants. hell, it even means if you're rich enough you don't even have to settle for "mostly compatible, you probably still want to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life", you could just have your whole body cloned and then harvest the fucker for whatever parts you need. he also brought dead people back to life, don't forget that
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fishmech posted:he also brought dead people back to life, don't forget that And the joy can!
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infernal machines posted:of course it's also mentioned a few times that the cloning results in massive genetic damage and if the v-bros ever have kids they're going to be inside out flipperbabies that poo poo from their eyesockets huh, i don't remember that. well, the kidneys that doc poached from his kids back in the first episode seem to be holding up okay, so farming clone slugs for their organs still seems viable enough.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:54
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it's mentioned offhand a few times by dr. v. and h jon benjamin uses it to convince what's her face to go to wizard school
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arse technical tries to decode utter bullshit
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infernal machines posted:how-time-travel-works-in-star-trek the producers get a tip that a western is wrapping up and the sets and costumes are available at a steep discount
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Feb 12, 2016 20:35
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sometimes they get masterpiece theatre leftovers too
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN0InnC2POo this is quite possibly the worst carrie fisher movie
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hmm we seem to have crash landed in california in the 90's right outside paramount studios we'd better replicate some jeans and tshirts to blend in but don't forget to get some pastel pleather jackets from hot topic we want to remind everybody on the crew that we are, in fact, very futuristic
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angry_keebler posted:hmm we seem to have crash landed in california in the 90's right outside paramount studios we'd better replicate some jeans and tshirts to blend in its worse than that, actually. they've crash landed in the 1988 australian outback/coca cola commercial.
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yo in alien 3 why doesn't ripley pull rank on the warden?
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someone needs to make a movie where the big evil monster is a human hunting aliens, like punching them and biting them and poo poo. like rambo first blood sorta
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Feb 12, 2016 22:33
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lol imagine if Aliens was about newt popping out of the air ducts and biting and scratching terrified aliens
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SmokaDustbowl posted:someone needs to make a movie where the big evil monster is a human hunting aliens, like punching them and biting them and poo poo. we have a bunch of those, it's just if the movie's from the human's perspective he's not going to seem like a big evil monster and no one's going to do a movie like that from the aliens' perspective because at best you'll get complaints on the order of "why are we focusing on the dudes in purple facepaint instead of the badass commando"
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computer parts posted:and no one's going to do a movie like that from the aliens' perspective because at best you'll get complaints on the order of "why are we focusing on the dudes in purple facepaint instead of the badass commando" you just gotta do it like a combination of galaxy quest and tucker and dale vs evil
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Yeah a movie where the humans are the bad guys trying to exterminate the peaceful aliens could never be literally the highest grossing movie of all time or anything
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Yeah a movie where the humans are the bad guys trying to exterminate the peaceful aliens could never be literally the highest grossing movie of all time or anything that one has a human become an alien and they're a little more cuddly than xenomorphs
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take any cold war movie and make rename the americans and the russians. the movies never have anything to do with real poo poo anyway, all that is just words. just pretend that your guy is the alien and the enemy is the humans. if you prefer newer movies, you can do the same with the western world vs terrorist muslims
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Snapchat A Titty posted:take any cold war movie and make rename the americans and the russians. the movies never have anything to do with real poo poo anyway, all that is just words. just pretend that your guy is the alien and the enemy is the humans. you're not gettin it man
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lol imagine if Aliens was about newt popping out of the air ducts and biting and scratching terrified aliens monsters inc?
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computer parts posted:we have a bunch of those, it's just if the movie's from the human's perspective he's not going to seem like a big evil monster i mean technically theres that twilight zone episode with the old lady, but that works because you think shes an earthican https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invaders_(The_Twilight_Zone)
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Improbable Lobster posted:monsters inc? yeah! except as a horror sci fi movie
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SmokaDustbowl posted:you're not gettin it man i know 
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Snapchat A Titty posted:take any cold war movie and make rename the americans and the russians. the movies never have anything to do with real poo poo anyway, all that is just words. just pretend that your guy is the alien and the enemy is the humans. if you prefer newer movies, you can do the same with the western world vs terrorist muslims they could always make a sequel *urghpf* or a remake of enemy mine
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SmokaDustbowl posted:yeah! except as a horror sci fi movie there's a danish weirdo sci fi author who did a book about a human crew arriving on an alien planet. the natives were kinda elephantine, but also very dumb and very easy to frighten, so the humans were messing with them a lot. then things change, because a book where the "overdog" wins is boring. It was Erwin Neutszky-Wulff, I think the book was The Ocean. No idea if it's translated.
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syscall girl posted:they could always make a sequel *urghpf* or a remake of enemy mine i enjoyed the poo poo outta that movie when i saw it in idk 1992. it was pretty deep for a kid my age then.
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i was so mad at enemy mine as a kid. it starts off looking like a cool wizbang spacewar movie and then it dies. and then you watch the corpse rot for another hour and a half i used up my video rental on this poo poo?
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i thought enemy mine was absolutely awful but then i realized i'd actually rented Enema Mine, which was a scat porn movie
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infernal machines posted:i used up my video rental on this poo poo? I seriously miss going to rent a movie first DVD I ever rented was robocop
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