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sweetmercifulcrap posted:I'm watching through HIMYM, but I'm actually in season 6 and getting pretty tired of it. Could I skip to the final season and not miss out on anything? The final season was somewhat better than the one before. But the actual end was awful.
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I never really watched HIMYM but the first season seemed cute and the reveal (that I found out later) about him meeting "their Aunt Robin" was interesting. Kind of a shame that they went back to that exact plot point in the finale and played it straight.
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Sep 15, 2015 13:23
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How I Met Your Mother could have succeeded as a much shorter, more focused series. As it stands, it wears thin really quickly, and then just piles needless plot twists on itself until it has to somehow clumsily disentangle itself from them in the last episode because they'd already shot the now-age-inappropriate kids' reactions back in the first or second season.
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Sep 15, 2015 13:47
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Air is lava! posted:The final season was somewhat better than the one before. The final season was BETTER? It took them 18 episodes to get through 3 days and it dragged on so much that entire episodes had literally nothing occur until the final 2 minutes. That final season was trash. Sorry but your opinion is wrong!
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Sep 15, 2015 16:04
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Shadow posted:The final season was BETTER? Imagine how much better the show would have been if they revealed that Robin could fly before the penultimate episode of the series.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:13
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Irish Joe posted:Imagine how much better the show would have been if they revealed that Robin could fly before the penultimate episode of the series. I....hmm. YEAH!
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Sep 15, 2015 16:17
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Every single answer to this thread should have been "Sons of Anarchy after season 2. The Ireland thing was so hideously bad with its "I'm sorry Jax, your son is in another castle" kidnap plot and IRA gun things etc. Then it just careened into awful, with a particular highlight being a deranged chase sequence set to jazz and the Jax = Jesus. It wasn't even funny, it was just awful.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:21
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precision posted:I think the bigger problem with That 70s Show was "uh, what're they gonna do after high school?" They threw a bunch of ideas at it but none of them were good and they kept the worst ones (Kelso becomes a cop, etc) I think Blonde Donna is a good visual marker of when that show went down the tubes. Why did Fez stick around anyway? Wasn't he supposed to be an exchange student? muscles like this? posted:They really hosed the show up when they decided that nobody could ever change the status quo. So you have stuff like Eric and Donna not going to college or get married, instead everybody just keeps doing the same thing. ~*~the same old thing, we did last week ~*~ raditts fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 18:45
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Irish Joe posted:Person of Interest I'm in the camp that didn't think the first season was that bad. I think generally people consider the second half of the season at least is approaching good. Certainly nothing on the level of Shield, at least. quote:Marvel's Agents of SHIELD It never stood any risk of being cancelled because its purpose is just to be an hour long reminder to keep Marvel poo poo fresh in people's minds. I appreciate it for one thing, and that's for having Sam Jackson on to act circles around the regular cast while munching on every piece of scenery available. raditts fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 18:57
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Hey raddits, you should know better than to assume Irish Joe is being serious. He obviously just listed two of the best shows of recent times in this thread just to get a rise out of people.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:08
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He's right though about POI season 1 being unpopular and Shield being hot streaming garbage though.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:11
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A few people mentioned Parks and Rec, and I do agree that season 5 and 6 are kind of a directionless mess and all over the place with a million story arcs, but it did still manage to still be really funny in spite of this, so I wouldn't personally include it in this thread. I thought the final season finally got everything back on track and wrapped it up decently, plus being three years in the future was enough to make it a little more interesting.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:25
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raditts posted:He's right though about POI season 1 being unpopular and Shield being hot streaming garbage though. SHIELD isn't hot steaming garbage, it's... kind of just there. It had a string of good episodes after like 15 awful ones, then an unremarkable first half of season 2 and another half of season 2 I have sitting on my DVR unwatched because god I just can't muster up the effort to watch it.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:27
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IRQ posted:SHIELD isn't hot steaming garbage, it's... kind of just there. If you need to clear space on your DVR, season 2 has been on Netflix since shortly after it finished airing on TV. It's no more remarkable than the first half, but you do get an amusing sideshow of "we couldn't get the rights to actual mutants so have these lame dollar store X-Men ripoffs" characters.
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IRQ posted:SHIELD isn't hot steaming garbage, it's... kind of just there. Most people would consider that garbage
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raditts posted:If you need to clear space on your DVR, season 2 has been on Netflix since shortly after it finished airing on TV. It's no more remarkable than the first half, but you do get an amusing sideshow of "we couldn't get the rights to actual mutants so have these lame dollar store X-Men ripoffs" characters. Good to know, I expect it'll start filling up fast because PEAK TV  Terror Sweat posted:Most people would consider that garbage It's not bad though. Like it's not good, but it doesn't rise to the level of garbage.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:24
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Junior G-man posted:It wasn't even funny, it was just awful. I disagree. Kurt Sutter working out his frustrations with his audience by having his own character hosed up the rear end on-screen is at least amusing in a Schadenfreude way.
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Sep 15, 2015 22:17
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I dunno if this is common or not, but I actually stopped watching the Shield after season 3 not because it ever got bad but because it got too stressful. Every episode was a heart attack! The end of the world was always around the next corner!
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Sep 15, 2015 22:39
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raditts posted:Why did Fez stick around anyway? Wasn't he supposed to be an exchange student? He was supposed to go back to his home country after they graduated but wanted to stay so he married Eric's sister, which caused Red to have a heart attack, which is why Eric didn't go to college.
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Sep 15, 2015 22:40
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Yeah they really tried to make that story work. Then the actor was like "this poo poo has run its course" and left anyway. I think they had him join the peace corp and move to Africa.
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Sep 15, 2015 23:33
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The Simpsons House NCIS SNL Family Guy American Dad anything else Seth Macfarlane made after Family Guy Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (seriously this is still on I think its hosted by a dog now)
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Shadow posted:Yeah they really tried to make that story work. Then the actor was like "this poo poo has run its course" and left anyway. Then they had him break up with Donna like two episodes after he left through a letter. Also for some reason despite Eric being gone and Hyde moving out everyone still hung out at the Foreman house.
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Sep 16, 2015 00:56
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Steve Yun posted:I dunno if this is common or not, but I actually stopped watching the Shield after season 3 not because it ever got bad but because it got too stressful. Every episode was a heart attack! The end of the world was always around the next corner! This is The Shield as in, cop show? I only ever heard of people bailing after season 1. If you got to s2 most people were generally locked in. It is a very tense show though, and if it made you on edge too much then yeah... that ain't gonna go away. Goddamn was that a good show, I miss it but what you gonna do about a show that ended perfectly and at exactly the right time?
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BSam posted:Hey raddits, you should know better than to assume Irish Joe is being serious. He obviously just listed two of the best shows of recent times in this thread just to get a rise out of people. Agents of SHIELD? Really?
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Sep 16, 2015 03:04
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Tiggum posted:Agents of SHIELD? Really? It's pretty much a hit with audiences and critics. The only people I've seen who haven't been able to get over the rocky start have been on here. It's okay not to like it, though.
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Sep 16, 2015 03:08
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Futurama. The Comedy Central run was decent for the most part, but it still felt like a let down compared to the original run. The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings was such a great ending, I kind of wish they had just left it alone. And while I enjoyed the first movie, the other three movies rapid declined in quality.
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The first one was with Lars right? The tentacle heaven thing was dumb.
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The big problem with the Futurama movies is that CC said they were each going to be split up into four episodes. So instead of actually producing movies they just made four episodes that were loosely related.
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Sep 16, 2015 20:35
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Same happened with the Family Guy movie. 3 or 4 episodes == 1 movie.
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I think LOST could have been okay if it was 2 seasons long or 6 seasons long, but they got the worst of all worlds by having the writers have no clue how long it was going to be and making the story a weird mess of alternatingly stretching the show out then rushing everything.
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muscles like this? posted:The big problem with the Futurama movies is that CC said they were each going to be split up into four episodes. So instead of actually producing movies they just made four episodes that were loosely related. They also said that when they were going to air they would have additional content added to make them more like mini-episodes. Instead now they just air them in a 2 hour block without any extras.
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Sep 16, 2015 23:26
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Sealab 2021 should have died with Capt. Murphy.
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MildShow posted:Futurama. The Comedy Central run was decent for the most part, but it still felt like a let down compared to the original run. The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings was such a great ending, I kind of wish they had just left it alone. And while I enjoyed the first movie, the other three movies rapid declined in quality. The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings is such a great episode that basically anything that came after it would be a disappointment, but even so, the movies go steadily downhill and the two seasons that followed were just garbage.
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The final seasons of Futurama were not on the level of the originals, but they still had some great episodes - for example, "The Late Phillip J Fry."Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think LOST could have been okay if it was 2 seasons long or 6 seasons long, but they got the worst of all worlds by having the writers have no clue how long it was going to be and making the story a weird mess of alternatingly stretching the show out then rushing everything. I think if there were ever a show that would benefit from some sort of director's cut release, it's Lost. Cutting out the filler and dropped plots of the early seasons, and cleaning and tightening up the later seasons and reducing the show to about 4 seasons would make a huge difference.
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pentyne posted:Boardwalk Empire (Trying so desperately hard to be the next Sopranos it whiffed it hard pentyne posted:True Blood (schlockly vampire/violence porn runined by some stupid attempt at a mythos.) pentyne posted:Scrubs: After Zach Braff left it got worse, and given the standard up to that point that's saying something
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Moonbeam City is going to be canceled in a few months, and when it does I'm going to say that it should have been canceled tonight
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Sep 17, 2015 07:28
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xcore posted:Didn't this basically just become a spin-off series at that point? Not really. They sort of tried to sell it as a spin-off, but most of the characters were still in it, the format was basically the same, it just followed a different protagonist rather than JD (who became a secondary character).
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The creator of Scrubs wanted to actually change the name of the show to give it more of a spinoff vibe, but ABC wouldn't let him. I think if it had a little more time, it might've separated itself more from the original Scrubs - the last few episodes of the season were definitely better than the first ones. As it is, I think it kind of works as a postscript season, an epilogue to the first eight seasons.
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Tiggum posted:The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings is such a great episode that basically anything that came after it would be a disappointment, but even so, the movies go steadily downhill and the two seasons that followed were just garbage. The Late Phillip J. Fry and the second series finale are the best of the new lot really.
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Yeah, it was one of those heart wrenchers. In fact, you want someone who thinks "that show is stupid" to watch the show, have them watch the Jurassic Bark, the one with Lela's parents montage showing how they always watched over her, Lars, etc. They usually had at least 1 per season. If you can watch those episodes and not feel anything, then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa6Kv1fOStM
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