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YggiDee posted:So how is Dimension 20 this season? I bailed out early because all the high school stress was hitting way too close to home and I didn't want to have nightmares about failing Math again.
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tsob posted:If Sam was the Taskmaster of a US production, who would be his Alex Horne? I think given his personality that he'd need someone a bit more impish and chaotic, so I'd think Emily; she's not actually part of Dropout as such though. I'd also wonder how his wife would do in the role. Katie as TM and Emily as the assistant. Also, Sam is one of the guests on Tom Scott's 'Lateral' podcast this week.
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Junior Year is really good so far, but be sure to mute/skip the godawful intro song.
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Mar 22, 2024 18:45
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One of the things you've gotta remember about Taskmaster casting is that the assistant isn't just the funny foil, they're the real person running the show, while the Taskmaster is the charismatic figurehead.
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Mar 22, 2024 18:52
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X-O posted:Museum worthy. 
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I don't think they're getting the deposit on that boot rental back.
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run on sentience posted:Junior Year is really good so far, but be sure to mute/skip the godawful intro song. Relax pal
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run on sentience posted:Junior Year is really good so far, but be sure to mute/skip the godawful intro song. It’s stuck in my head because you mentioned it. I’m humming it right now and you can’t stop me.
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If you like it, good for you! It's unbearably cringe, but it's fitting for the series.
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Doing a Starstruck rewatch, I forgot just how great Barry's intro scene was.
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Love how in VIP Vic immediately went to pointing out the brits were doing colonialism. Also cum made an appearance again.
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inthesto posted:It's Grant I genuinely cannot imagine Grant being enough of a straight man to stand off and observe as the arbiter while contestants flounder through tasks once they've been set.
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Mar 23, 2024 06:06
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Brennan as straight-laced assistant, Grant as Taskmaster.
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Katie Marovitch could be a good underdog pick for either role
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MikeJF posted:Brennan as straight-laced assistant, Grant as Taskmaster. IMO the taskmaster needs to be able to project power, and the assistant needs to be able to project being a weird little guy. Dropout is chock full of weird little guys, the power thing is more of an issue. Vic or Lisa Gilroy for taskmaster maybe? Or Wysocki?
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Ify. Edit: Hell him and BDG already have taskmaster/assistant vibes on Umm actually anyways
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Brennan and Ify would both be strong choices as the Taskmaster, but I think it's in universal agreement that we'd rather see them as contestants
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Awkward Davies posted:IMO the taskmaster needs to be able to project power, and the assistant needs to be able to project being a weird little guy. Dropout is chock full of weird little guys, the power thing is more of an issue. Vic or Lisa Gilroy for taskmaster maybe? Or Wysocki? Katie.
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Awkward Davies posted:IMO the taskmaster needs to be able to project power, and the assistant needs to be able to project being a weird little guy. Dropout is chock full of weird little guys, the power thing is more of an issue. Vic or Lisa Gilroy for taskmaster maybe? Or Wysocki? A large part of the whole "who can project power" thing is that all of Dropout's nominees for the position have been in front of the camera so much, doing such silly poo poo in a very organic manner. Yeah, Greg Davies had been an actor in comedies prior to Taskmaster, but they were scripted shows for the most part and even then, his most famous role, as a teacher in The Inbetweeners, cast him in a similarly stern role for the most part. It's a lot harder to maintain that view of someone who has mostly come through your view for doing unscripted silliness. As such, they might be better off searching outside Dropout's usual stable for someone to fill that role and I nominate Travis Willingham. Yeah, I know he's just a big cuddly bear from watching hundreds of hours of Critical Role, but he's certainly able to project physical power at 6"4' and while he's not afraid to crack a joke, he's also one of the more restrained cast members for the show so, at least in my mental image of him, he's not just a goofball.
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tsob posted:A large part of the whole "who can project power" thing is that all of Dropout's nominees for the position have been in front of the camera so much, doing such silly poo poo in a very organic manner. Yeah, Greg Davies had been an actor in comedies prior to Taskmaster, but they were scripted shows for the most part and even then, his most famous role, as a teacher in The Inbetweeners, cast him in a similarly stern role for the most part. It's a lot harder to maintain that view of someone who has mostly come through your view for doing unscripted silliness. As such, they might be better off searching outside Dropout's usual stable for someone to fill that role and I nominate Travis Willingham. Yeah, I know he's just a big cuddly bear from watching hundreds of hours of Critical Role, but he's certainly able to project physical power at 6"4' and while he's not afraid to crack a joke, he's also one of the more restrained cast members for the show so, at least in my mental image of him, he's not just a goofball. If we're pulling from the Actual Play community, Jason Carl would make for a good intimidating presence.
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Dark Horse candidate, Hank Green.
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Katie's unbreakability on Breaking News feels like a perfect demonstration of utter self-control while chaos often literally surrounds her.
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Rehka would be good.
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paul f tompkins
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The Taskmaster really needs to have at least a slightly nasty edge to them that Travis doesn't, as well as just projecting power.
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Katie as taskmaster and Ally as assistant
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scary ghost dog posted:paul f tompkins The only right answer
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I think many of you underestimate the ability for many goofballs to turn it off and become a stone-faced monster if needed
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MikeJF posted:The Taskmaster really needs to have at least a slightly nasty edge to them that Travis doesn't, as well as just projecting power. Brennan is already there, tbh, but he's too busy to also do this.
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weekly font posted:I’ve been out of the loop in D20 since Neverafter since it landed with a big clunk for me and I gave up around episode 6. How’s Junior Year and what else dropped since then worth checking out? Mentopolis is an all-timer great sidequest campaign in terms of comedy and everything just coming together. The other side campaigns between Neverafter and Junior Year are good, it's just that Mentopolis is SUCH a standout.
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MikeJF posted:One of the things you've gotta remember about Taskmaster casting is that the assistant isn't just the funny foil, they're the real person running the show, while the Taskmaster is the charismatic figurehead. Olanphonia posted:Katie as taskmaster and Ally as assistant Ally, the Taskmaster, arbitrarily handing out points and generally being playfully antagonistic. Katie, the Assistant, quietly suffering as she deadpans "All the information is on the task." and turns rolling her eyes into an Olympic sport. You don't need the exact roles duplicated. Just the vibes.
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Honestly, the best versions of Taskmaster internationally tend to be the ones where they don't try to cram the hosts into Greg and Alex's molds, and let them figure out their own vibe. (In fairness, my favourite international assistant is the guy from the Swedish version who does do a good line in the awkward anti-comedy stuff Alex does, but he does have his own spin on it)
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For sure! "Vibes" as in... here's a bunch of relatively intelligent people being forced to do ridiculous things that make them look like complete morons for a person who doesn't really care about the results and a person who very much does. Which... could probably be accomplished by giving Sam some kind of Game Changer intern?
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I disagree, because Game Changer isn't actually all that similar to Taskmaster with the most important difference probably being that there is an actual, tangible and more importantly usually desirable prize to make the humiliation worthwhile in Game Changer. Sam has given some genuinely nice things away over time, and even done some episodes that are basically entirely dedicated to lauding people in some manner. Which is not the case with Taskmaster. The individual prize tasks at the start of the episode did occasionally include some nice things, but mostly it's worthless tat, especially nowadays and the actual prize they get at the end of it all is just a silly trophy. It's more bragging rights than anything. Beyond that though, every episode of Game Changer hits one them consistently and the game just changes episode to episode, where Taskmaster has no consistent theme to the episodes or the individual tasks. There are only really two consistent elements, in the first task being a prize task and the last task being a stage task. Outside of that, they could take 2 minutes or 2 months, they could be based in the Taskmaster house or a random location anywhere else etc. The actual tasks in Game Changer are very confined compared to Taskmaster in a sense too, because we're never going to get the sheer variety of oddity and lateral thinking that is called upon in Taskmaster in Game Changer, which is mostly an excuse to allow Sam to recreate games he likes and for the cast to stretch their improv in unusual ways. Which is completely fine, but they're not the same model at the end of the day.
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tsob posted:Yeah, Greg Davies had been an actor in comedies prior to Taskmaster, but they were scripted shows for the most part and even then, his most famous role, as a teacher in The Inbetweeners, cast him in a similarly stern role for the most part. It's a lot harder to maintain that view of someone who has mostly come through your view for doing unscripted silliness. We are Klang was his breakout act, and probably his biggest pre taskmaster success(although Inbetweeners would definitely have had more eyeballs). We are Klang is incredibly silly sketch comedy stuff.
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I mainly knew Greg pre-taskmaster from panel show comedy and stuff like that.
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Always a little disappointing when the VIP guests preview way more interesting ideas than what they ultimately go with. Wanna see the prep metal episode.
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Mostly I just want a game changer where everyone gets to enact vengeance upon Sam with him as a contestant.
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They did the Breaking News where he got shocked and had to drink toilet water but I suppose he's probably earned a full length ep of revenge by now
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I don't know anything about Taskmaster but from the posts I've read about needing a power figure how has no one thought of Lily yet? Edit: scary ghost dog posted:junior year is the best thing theyve done since sophomore year and you can skip anything else between the two Stoat season was good and worth viewing. Oyster fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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