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PostNouveau posted:Re-watching the first season, and I think something just went haywire with this character. Pamela isn't nearly the rear end in a top hat that she is in the last episode. She's really harsh, but she never gets to the level of "No one would want to be with you," like she does in the last episode. Her character in this last episode blindsided me. What a bitch. I didn't remember her being like that either. Please, Louie, don't fall for it  He abuses himself more than enough and certainly doesn't need that kind of emotional abuse from a partner.
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Hakkesshu posted:Holy crap Ursula Parker. What a monster of a kid, it's actually kind of scary how (multi)talented she is. If she doesn't drop out of acting she's going to be loving huge in 10-15 years. Seriously, shes friggn awesome on this show.
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Am I missing something or misreading what you guys are writing? Pamela hasn't been in an episode recently? Louie's brother in a tiny towel? When did that happen?
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Zesty Mordant posted:Am I missing something or misreading what you guys are writing? Pamela hasn't been in an episode recently? Louie's brother in a tiny towel? When did that happen? Episode 6
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Which I somehow managed to watch only the second half of, and not notice. Christ I'm bad at television
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Hakkesshu posted:Holy crap Ursula Parker. What a monster of a kid, it's actually kind of scary how (multi)talented she is. If she doesn't drop out of acting she's going to be loving huge in 10-15 years. Remember Dakota Fanning? Neither does the rest of the world. (I also think that Ursula is an outstanding talent, just saying.)
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Zesty Mordant posted:Which I somehow managed to watch only the second half of, and not notice. Christ I'm bad at television I forgot about the two episodes a week thing and missed it originally too.
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mcbexx posted:Remember Dakota Fanning? Neither does the rest of the world. Dakota is really annoying to listen to in behind the scenes stuff. I wonder if Ursula is more intelligent.
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Forbin5 posted:I forgot about the two episodes a week thing and missed it originally too. I somehow started right in the middle of the scene with Ellen Burnstyn translating for Louie, and just figured the abrupt starts are this show's MO now.
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PostNouveau posted:Re-watching the first season, and I think something just went haywire with this character. Pamela isn't nearly the rear end in a top hat that she is in the last episode. She's really harsh, but she never gets to the level of "No one would want to be with you," like she does in the last episode. Eh, it makes sense as character development. I mean, last time we saw her, she was leaving for Europe to be with her ex and already it seemed like a bad decision. Now we get her two years later, and it's even worse: she's actually worse off having wasted two years and left her kid across the ocean. She hosed up big time and it's left her bitter and lovely, that happens sometimes.
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Forbin5 posted:Dakota is really annoying to listen to in behind the scenes stuff. She had this recent interview. Kid is scary smart.
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fspades posted:She had this recent interview. Kid is scary smart. She used the word "logistics", she's smarter than all of my co-workers.
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fspades posted:She had this recent interview. Kid is scary smart. Holy christ. That kid  Scary smart is the best description. I hope she survives adolescence and her college years. She's gonna have a lot of pressures put on her.
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Having done "celeb" interviews and transcriptions of said interviews, I know there's a bit of cleanup that goes on in the final rendering of words to text but regardless, that interview is astonishing. It almost reads like an Onion article or something, where the child actor on a show is presented as being the smartest person in the room. Except it's not on the Onion!
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This is completely unrelated to season 4, but I've been bandwagoning this show and man, the s2 Duckling episode was one of the better episodes of TV I've seen in a long time.
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I think I need a translation for that last scene...
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RIP Lebron and the 12 million others.
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So wait, in the flashback is ex-wife is white? 
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Joose Caboose posted:RIP Lebron and the 12 million others. 
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Mutation posted:So wait, in the flashback is ex-wife is white? I think it was to a marriage before his ex wife since he doesn't have kids yet. Unless that whole "what if you got pregnant right then" was Lily being conceived. I'm not sure. He looks like he'd be in his early 20s at latest. Plenty of time to start his career, meet Janet and pop out a few.
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It's his only ex-wife. Married once and divorced. Them sharing a cigarette both times in current age and flashback was a pretty obvious hint. Louis just doesn't give a gently caress about continuity and will throw some random people playing himself and his wife, like his mother played by different actresses in previous seasons.
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It really was. That actor got his tone and speech patterns down perfectly.
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UnmaskedGremlin posted:so do we know what she said?
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Lord Sexatron posted:It's his only ex-wife. Married once and divorced. Them sharing a cigarette both times in current age and flashback was a pretty obvious hint. Louis just doesn't give a gently caress about continuity and will throw some random people playing himself and his wife, like his mother played by different actresses in previous seasons. Was it all in his imagination? Wondering what would have happened if he got divorced earlier? These last two episodes are especially weird.
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SaltLick posted:I think it was to a marriage before his ex wife since he doesn't have kids yet. Unless that whole "what if you got pregnant right then" was Lily being conceived. I'm not sure. He looks like he'd be in his early 20s at latest. Plenty of time to start his career, meet Janet and pop out a few. No, it's the same wife. The change in actress doesn't matter. Neither does her skin colour.
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I think he's trying to make a statement about how important the color of an actor's skin is to a role in Hollywood. As in, why do black actors only play black characters, but a white actor can play any character and race isn't a factor. Which I'm all for doing -- its a statement that should be made -- but by doing it this way I think he's maybe making the opposite statement he intends. In a way he's making race a huge issue because in that scene, the viewer (at least I was) is totally disoriented and race becomes this big question. Why is his ex-wife black but his kids are super white? Why is she black now but super white in the flashback? If he cast a black actress as the younger wife no one would be questioning her race or why she's black or any of these things. It would just be "ah yeah that's the ex-wife, mother of his kids". He made race an issue where it wasn't an issue. Or maybe that's the point? I don't know but it didn't work for me at all. Not only that, but I'm not sure that the whitest guy on TV, and also the guy responsible for Pootie Tang, is really the guy to make these sort of grand statements about race. Or hell maybe its just him not giving a crap.
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So far the Todd Barry episode has been the best this season.Jake Armitage posted:Or hell maybe its just him not giving a crap.
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The first episode is now an instant fave. I loved the scene with the... marital counselor? "Janet on the other hand is more practical and less guided by her feelings." 
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Hakkesshu posted:No, it's the same wife. The change in actress doesn't matter. Neither does her skin colour. I thought this might be the case but i dont understand, because they specifically mention not having any other kids - was this a fantasy or not? BOAT SHOWBOAT fucked around with this message at 08:26 on May 27, 2014 |
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Sub Rosa posted:The first episode is now an instant fave. I loved the scene with the... marital counselor? "Janet on the other hand is more practical and less guided by her feelings." Also I think even though Louie said that Janet is black because her actress is simply a stellar performer, I don't think it's the case anymore - Why would he cast her younger self as white again? That actress wasn't stellar, by all means. Visual gag? It'd be a cheap one if it was. Maybe present Janet being black and past Janet being white is suppose to mean she's a different person now, right? or maybe it's a cheap visual gag and Louie's a hack, I dunno Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 08:32 on May 27, 2014 |
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A theory I saw elsewhere is that she transforms into a better person after leaving Louie. For example, she finally goes to Africa like she always wanted to and couldn't with Louie. Her transformation over time is visually represented through her race. How in the gently caress has the internet not translated what Amia said at the end yet? It's killing me.
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I've waited a long time for a Todd Barry scene where he does more than lob insults at Louie, this was everything I had hoped for and more. Jake Armitage posted:I think he's trying to make a statement about how important the color of an actor's skin is to a role in Hollywood. Why does it have to be a secret statement this time when everyone was on board with his official, real-life statement about not giving a poo poo the first time he cast an actress that doesn't fit the character? PostNouveau posted:A theory I saw elsewhere is that she transforms into a better person after leaving Louie. For example, she finally goes to Africa like she always wanted to and couldn't with Louie. Her transformation over time is visually represented through her race. oh boy here we goooooo Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 09:31 on May 27, 2014 |
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Illinois Smith posted:Why does it have to be a secret statement this time when everyone was on board with his official, real-life statement about not giving a poo poo the first time he cast an actress that doesn't fit the character? Not caring kind of is the statement, though. The point is that it shouldn't be a big thing. It's just confusing now where it's unclear if they're even meant to be the same person or not.
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