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Croatoan posted:So I'm looking for a recommendation. I thoroughly enjoyed Black Mirrors, Misfits and Utopia. Are there any other BBC type sci-fi that are any good? There's Ultraviolet if you want to watch Idris Elba shoot modern day vampires with an X-Files inspired feel. No idea how well it stands up, even though I have it on DVD somewhere.
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precision posted:Not really. I mean, I can't think of any that are as good as Black Mirror or Misfits. Wait, they took Gary from Alphas and put him on a Canadian Syfy show?
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Jun 4, 2014 17:41
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precision posted:Not really. I mean, I can't think of any that are as good as Black Mirror or Misfits. I have been in the room when people were watching Lost Girl on many occasions, and your standard of "surprisingly good" must be rather loose. Anyway, best character in a genre show is clearly Miles O'Brien. Or Scully. or Hannibal Lecter as played by Mads Mikkelsen. Or Laura Roslin/William Adama/Saul Tigh/Kara Thrace/Gaius Baltar. Or Bobby Singer. Or Anya/Spike/The Mayor. Or Rygel. Or Benjamin Linus. ALL THESE AND YOU PICK A CHARACTER FROM loving LOST GIRL.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:01
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Finished up Eastbound and Down last night. I liked the resolution a lot and they totally got me with that bait and switch at the end. I though it was cool that they showed Kenny's progression into a person who can appreciate things like family and friends without fundamentally changing his character. He's still a racist, idiotic rear end in a top hat but just one that's capable of treating the people that care about him well. It's far too easy to decide that a character with personality flaws needs to completely change into something completely different in order to have some sort of redemption. Also, Kenny and Stevie are loving adorable and deserve to be up there with the best tv bromances. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 18:02
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Junkenstein posted:There's Ultraviolet if you want to watch Idris Elba shoot modern day vampires with an X-Files inspired feel. No idea how well it stands up, even though I have it on DVD somewhere. Is this something unrelated to the lovely movie from last decade? Spatula City posted:I have been in the room when people were watching Lost Girl on many occasions, and your standard of "surprisingly good" must be rather loose. To be fair, you yourself nominated characters from Buffy.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:03
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I recently finished The Middleman. It's a shame that didn't last.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:11
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Deadpool posted:Wait, they took Gary from Alphas and put him on a Canadian Syfy show? Gary 
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Jun 4, 2014 18:15
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Junkenstein posted:There's Ultraviolet if you want to watch Idris Elba shoot modern day vampires with an X-Files inspired feel. No idea how well it stands up, even though I have it on DVD somewhere. Ultraviolet all the way. Aeon Flux too, but MTV productions are so obvious.. keep that in mind so you can suspend your disbelief of MTV being involved with anything good. Of all that is holy I laughed so hard I pulled an intercostal rib muscle at this one; In Nepal, a bag of feathers is put by one's deathbed so the soul can fly to the next life. Sadly, emu, such a bag would be of no use to you. I hear it... I hear it in his voice, I see the glass of wine... the fish aspic.... the sad tear rolling down a cheek at the mention of the emu.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:39
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raditts posted:Is this something unrelated to the lovely movie from last decade? You have no conception of the disappointment that followed the realisation that the film was unrelated to the TV series. TV Ultraviolet is a classic of 90's scifi that never really got the recognition it deserved.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:31
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It's depressingly easy to make nerds mad. I'm kidding! I'm kidding! God.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:32
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Spatula City posted:I have been in the room when people were watching Lost Girl on many occasions, and your standard of "surprisingly good" must be rather loose. I'm not going to go one by one but a few of your choices there are wronger than his.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:42
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I'm about six episodes into Deadwood, and I was wondering if anyone at FX has ever acknowledged that their network is essentially the Deadwood alumni association? The overlap is ridiculous.
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Croatoan posted:So I'm looking for a recommendation. I thoroughly enjoyed Black Mirrors, Misfits and Utopia. Are there any other BBC type sci-fi that are any good? Inside No. 9
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Jun 4, 2014 20:39
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Eat poo poo, Luigi-Mariokart8-likers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKZ7BJZCdNA
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Jun 4, 2014 21:03
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That just makes it better and funnier.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:07
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scary ghost dog posted:Inside No. 9 I don't know how to feel about Inside No. 9. The first two were fantastic, the second one in particular, but the following ones just seemed dark, as opposed to dark comedy. Not as good.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:29
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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JohnSherman posted:I'm about six episodes into Deadwood, and I was wondering if anyone at FX has ever acknowledged that their network is essentially the Deadwood alumni association? The overlap is ridiculous. Graham Yost has said that a lot of the time on Justified, Tim Olyphant will just get in one of his friends from Deadwood to play a role. I think it's been like 4 or 5 they've had on there now. Still no McShane though.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:32
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I'm watching the pilot of Halt And Catch Fire. It's really strange how they've actually done a pretty good job on making everything and everyone look straight out of the 80s EXCEPT for Lee Pace who just looks 2000s as gently caress
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Jun 4, 2014 22:52
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DominoDancing posted:I'm watching the pilot of Halt And Catch Fire. It's really strange how they've actually done a pretty good job on making everything and everyone look straight out of the 80s EXCEPT for Lee Pace who just looks 2000s as gently caress Which guy was that, I saw the pilot a week or so back and nothing seemed that out of place.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:13
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IRQ posted:Which guy was that, I saw the pilot a week or so back and nothing seemed that out of place. The main character.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:17
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Oh this is absolutely perfect. I can hear the philosophical mumblings while reading it!
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Jun 5, 2014 00:48
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IRQ posted:Which guy was that, I saw the pilot a week or so back and nothing seemed that out of place. As Gonz said, the non-engineer main character. And I don't mean that I'd want him to be a visual near-cliche like his engineer counterpart (huge glasses, thick beard). I just feel that, for example, the cuts and and colors suits are all wrong. Then again, I can't really say that I know particularly much about fashion, it's more of a gut reaction. I'd really like to see Tom and Lorenzo do a post about this show.
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DominoDancing posted:As Gonz said, the non-engineer main character. And I don't mean that I'd want him to be a visual near-cliche like his engineer counterpart (huge glasses, thick beard). I just feel that, for example, the cuts and and colors suits are all wrong. Then again, I can't really say that I know particularly much about fashion, it's more of a gut reaction. I'd really like to see Tom and Lorenzo do a post about this show. That's way more detail than I would notice, so he could be. To me he was the boneitis 80s guy from Futurama, which fit the character for me I guess. Cuts and colors of suits are a thing I would literally never notice. IRQ fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 01:49
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Fargo is so good.
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I played some Mario Kart 8 because my girlfriend's parents own literally every game system (and I honestly don't even know why and am afraid to ask). Played Luigi, came in first every time. 
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Jun 5, 2014 04:45
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IRQ posted:Which guy was that, I saw the pilot a week or so back and nothing seemed that out of place. The piemaker from Pushing Daisies.
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Jun 5, 2014 04:59
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I got a few episodes behind on Fargo and am just now catching up. While the first five episodes are merely "loving brilliant", the back half makes that leap into "goddamn transcendent" territory. Holy fuckballs. I don't even know how something this good got made, let alone by people who have little prior history of being amazing (unless the Coens secretly wrote and directed the whole thing, or had a much bigger role than previously thought). I mean, gently caress.
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Jun 5, 2014 06:10
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precision posted:I got a few episodes behind on Fargo and am just now catching up. Here's something to remember: Noah Hawley's last two shows were The Unusuals and My Generation, and he got his start on Bones. Let that sink in a moment. Good. Now, I think "Buridan's rear end" may be one of the darkest episodes of television ever produced -- even within the context of the rest of the series -- and in a world where "Ozymandias" was merely the name of a king and the title of a poem it'd be the best of the year. If you are not watching this show you are blowing it.
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Jun 5, 2014 06:20
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zoux posted:Eat poo poo, Luigi-Mariokart8-likers.
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Jun 5, 2014 07:31
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Fargo seriously loving owns. I'm surprised so few people are watching it (at least that I know irl).
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Jun 5, 2014 08:32
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Andy Dick on Riot was either a trainwreck or transcendent performance art...it was amazingly awful.
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Jun 5, 2014 08:52
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DivisionPost posted:Here's something to remember: Noah Hawley's last two shows were The Unusuals and My Generation, and he got his start on Bones. Let that sink in a moment. He's also actually a pretty good novelist and I think that comes across when he's the sole writer. It feels like it's part of the same voice. You get the same thing with True Detective, it felt authoritive. On that note I'm excited by the second seasons of both shows. Noah Hawley kind of gets it easier because the dark/funny tone is easier to maintain, Nic Polizitto (Who's name I've just mangled) has a harder time because his dialogue seemed so specific to those characters. I am interested to see where he goes with having three leads though. It's a shame that he can't get the same actors back just playing different roles.
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Jun 5, 2014 09:30
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Fargo seriously loving owns. I'm surprised so few people are watching it (at least that I know irl). GG marketing.
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Jun 5, 2014 12:14
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Yeah, Fargo's amazing. I can't believe True Detective set the movie-quality-one-season-long-story bar so high and then got beaten so soon after.
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Jun 5, 2014 13:06
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Junkenstein posted:Yeah, Fargo's amazing. I can't believe True Detective set the movie-quality-one-season-long-story bar so high and then got beaten so soon after. 
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Jun 5, 2014 13:27
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precision posted:I got a few episodes behind on Fargo and am just now catching up. I think I'm the only person on the planet that didn't like the movie Fargo although I love pretty much every other Coen Bros. movie, will that have any bearing on how much I like the TV series?
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Jun 5, 2014 15:42
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Depends on why you didn't like Fargo.
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Jun 5, 2014 16:13
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zoux posted:Depends on why you didn't like Fargo. I dunno, I haven't seen it in years now but what sticks with me the most is that it didn't seem to have a very engaging plot and the people yelling "YAAAAAAAAH" at each other in the exaggerated midwestern accents was really grating.
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If you've been to the area, the accents aren't at all exaggerated.
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