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Almost forgot this thread existed and that I posted in it. Started Six Feet Under and after watching the pilot im pretty excited to see how it all pans out. I had no idea it was going to be a dark comedy. "Were putting the FUN back in FUNERAL" had me lose my poo poo. Definitely too early for me to judge, but I'll definitely give a quick review once I finish the first season. Glad I chose this show for a toxx.
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Ravane posted:Currently on episode 5 of season 1 of LOST. It's actually really good! My favorite characters are Saayid, Locke, and mentally challenged guy from Hannibal. Bravo! (I can't be bothered to look up the smilie how do people even remember the smilies on here anyway?) Dude from Hannibal doesn't show up until season 4.
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Jul 9, 2014 09:35
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Bown posted:Bravo! (I can't be bothered to look up the smilie how do people even remember the smilies on here anyway?) Thought that dude was Charlie the musician. 
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Jul 9, 2014 13:22
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7 seasons of Tales From the Crypt, Week One. I'm up to episode 6 of Season 2 (12 of 81 episodes done). I'd have been much further along but I ended up writing a short 300-500 word...thing on each episode. I'm having lots of fun and based on OP's advice I'm considering starting a thread about it. I'm also debating whether said thread should be on Tales From the Crypt or 90's horror anthologies (Tales From the Crypt/Goosebumps/Are You Afraid of the Dark) or just anthologies in general. And should I criticize an episode's faults when it's based off of comics from the 40's that didn't try very hard in the first place? Also I never realized how many big name actors were on this show. Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor, William Sadler, Joe Pantoliano, M. Emmet Walsh, William Hickey, Lance Henriksen, Kevin Tighe, Miguel Ferrer, Teri Hatcher, and it just goes on and on.
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Jul 9, 2014 14:07
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Bown posted:Bravo! (I can't be bothered to look up the smilie how do people even remember the smilies on here anyway?) They're generally pretty easy to guess. Like, the one you're thinking of is literally just "Lost" 
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Jul 9, 2014 15:19
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I was thinking of the "Bravo!" one with the guy clapping or whatever. Anyway for some actual content I'm five episodes into Shameless season 3 and I'm having a whale of a time. This show's ace. But the ending to the latest episode has me very worried for the future of our favourite family! edit:  oh yeah ok that is easy. I just got annoyed last time I tried to do :shh: because it took me like four tries because who has more h's than s's in the world sssh honestly
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Supernatural is especially bad at the pre-episode recaps giving away the monster of the week.
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Jul 10, 2014 02:33
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Welp, I'm now  ing myself the next two seasons of Avatar because drat. PEOPLE WERE RIGHT. This show is loving addictive and those 21 episodes went down so, so smooth.There's a LOT to love about this series (Zuko and Iro! The animation! The fight scenes!) but what I loved most about this first season is the PACING. This show is absolutely miraculous in how well it conveys an epic tone and detailed world-building in short episodes. It also has an excellent, accumulative mythology that builds from episode to episode without jarring the (generally) episodic nature of Aang's adventures with Sokka and Katara. Like Zuko and Iro - yeah, they're the villains (so far), so they pop up nearly every episode to stir poo poo up, but we also get to learn more and more about them and their relationship. The show's also pretty decent at screwing around with expectations. Like the episode where there are two clans who hate each other thanks to differing views on how their ancestors interacted, and I was kind of expecting the whole "it was a big misunderstanding!" reveal. Instead, Aang tells both clans a baldfaced lie about why their prejudice is nonsense because he's too tired of their bullshit to put up with it. "The Blue Spirit" episode was also epic as hell. FANTASTIC fight scenes, great character interaction. Seriously, there are hour-long dramas currently on television that do less with their time than Avatar. I'm off to binge on the second season! Fake Edit: Holy poo poo Zuko's sister is a loving psychopath.
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Jul 10, 2014 03:55
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AnimeJune posted:Welp, I'm now It only gets better. The final season in particular is some incredible television.
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Jul 10, 2014 03:58
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PantsBandit posted:It only gets better. The final season in particular is some incredible television. 
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Jul 10, 2014 04:04
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AnimeJune posted:And then there's Legend of Korra!!! Eh, don't set your expectations too high. Korra's first season is decent, the second not so good. It's nowhere near Last Airbender.
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Jul 10, 2014 04:08
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AnimeJune posted:And then there's Legend of Korra!!! Korra is not nearly as impressive as ATLA, sadly.
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Jul 10, 2014 04:10
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AnimeJune posted:And then there's Legend of Korra!!! Ahahahahaha sorry dude.
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If you liked the first season of The Last Airbender you will probably like Korra just fine. This goes doubly so if you liked the third season of The Last Airbender.
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Jul 10, 2014 05:14
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I didn't realize this became an anime endorsement thread.
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Jul 10, 2014 05:34
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AnimeJune posted:And then there's Legend of Korra!!! R.I.P.
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Jul 10, 2014 06:09
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computer parts posted:If you liked the first season of The Last Airbender you will probably like Korra just fine.
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Jul 10, 2014 14:00
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AnimeJune posted:That's my question - is it just *not as good* as Avatar? Or actually actively terrible? They didn't realize they were renewed for more seasons until halfway through production, so halfway through the first season the pacing gets really, really, really weird. It's not actively terrible, though. Just a disappointment compared to Avatar.
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Jul 10, 2014 14:02
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Yes, let's blame everybody except the people directly responsible for making the show. Its all Nickelodeon's fault! Its all Studio Poirot's fault! Its all because of the shortened seasons!
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Jul 10, 2014 15:10
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AnimeJune posted:That's my question - is it just *not as good* as Avatar? Or actually actively terrible? It's just not as good as Avatar for the most part (some episodes last season were, the early ones this season look very, very promising). The characters, setting and stories are simply not anywhere as good as they were in ATLA and they had to resort to a sub-par animation studio for many episodes because the usual one (that made ATLA) didn't have enough time to do everything. Which all is of course very disappointing, but for some its bordering to be the biggest insult ever broadcast on TV because of the high hopes they had and they react very venomously online because of that. Korra is still a show that's good and better than nearly all animation shown on screen, despite the faults. It just could have been so much more, the creators of ATLA had it in their hand to top it and they simply blew it, making "only" a mostly good series.
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Jul 11, 2014 06:16
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Today marks two weeks since we started this thing. To make this easy, everyone please check in within the next 7 days (before midnight PST a week from today) if you haven't posted an update yet, except KilGrey and Uznare who have a late start exemption. Also, no more Korra / ATLA talk in the Korra thread except for checkin talk, please. 
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Jul 11, 2014 11:47
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Other than the holiday last week I'm trying to keep to at least two episodes a day of Supernatural. Yesterday I watched the first two episodes of season 2. While I enjoyed the first season as a whole I did think it was kind of weird how often the person they were helping would be a young woman. I'm also not sure why/how normal people don't know about the various monsters what with all the demonstrable proof out there.
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Jul 11, 2014 12:01
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I am unpopular so I have no weekend plans, so reading and watching TV is on the top of my list 
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Jul 11, 2014 14:28
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I'll try to get through the first season of Twin Peaks by the end of the weekend, it's only five more episodes.
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Jul 11, 2014 14:49
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I'll probably watch Series (Season) 1 on Sunday and review it then, I've been busy with family and other stuff and haven't touched it past the first episode. This was partly why I picked a short show to watch.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:09
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It's totally cool if your update is "I haven't started yet", this is just to know who's abandoning their Toxx early. I should probably update to say I'm somewhere in the middle of season 3 of The West Wing right now. Still enjoying it, though it gets kind of overbearingly preachy sometimes, even for someone fairly liberal in my politics. I'll probably keep going after season 3 at least for awhile. 
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Jul 11, 2014 15:24
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If you want to see Sorkin preachiness at its most horrifying you should check out The Newsroom (but no seriously don't do that). I haven't started on The Wire S3 yet but hope to get going this weekend.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:35
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hcreight posted:If you want to see Sorkin preachiness at its most horrifying you should check out The Newsroom (but no seriously don't do that). To clarify: the Newsroom's very first scene is a rant about modern-day America that eventually turns into straight-up "millennials suck" generational resentment.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:40
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Oh man I forgot how a baby boomer wrote another baby boomer to literally say that Millenials are the worst. generation. ever. Also remember how in season one of the newsroom there was that trolling side plot that involved getting permission to make fun of Olivia munns body to get into a secret troll enclave, that had levels of trolling like they were fuckin Freemasons or some poo poo Christ that show was fuckin garbage
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Jul 11, 2014 16:57
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The Newsroom is hilarious and I eagerly await the third season in hopes of more ridiculous stupid crap. People shouldn't be giving it awards though.
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Jul 11, 2014 19:22
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I kinda started? I decided to finish Farscape. I made it through a few more episodes into season 3 and I swear I was gonna write something but I forgot. Yes, I even have Peacekeeper Wars to do too after all this. All I can remember is season 3 is pretty drat amazing, I'd probably mistake it for something that aired in the last few years and there was maybe one not-so-great episode. MrAristocrates posted:To clarify: the Newsroom's very first scene is a rant about modern-day America that eventually turns into straight-up "millennials suck" generational resentment.
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Jul 12, 2014 05:11
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I finished my toxx. Hooooooooooooray
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Jul 13, 2014 02:03
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I'm nearing the midway point of my 5 season commitment to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and kicking myself for not checking this show out sooner. The show so far has been consistently hilarious. It reminds me a lot of Seinfeld but taken to extremes that show couldn't get away with. I was a bit iffy on the the retooling season 2 went through when they brought Danny DeVito on as a regular, but his character integrates well within a few episodes.
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Up to 307 with Shameless. There was a moment in the sixth episode that made me wish a hundred kinds of death on a certain character and I'll be really sad if that doesn't happen before I finish. This show is really great.
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Update #1: First Series (Season) of Spaced Outside of the unusually dark plot of Colin's kidnapping for illegal animal testing, I thought that the episodes were good although a few bits haven't aged well at all like the rave scene. I liked that they actually wrapped up various bits like Tim's lingering feelings for his ex although shooting her new beau's nutsack probably helped there and his guilt for Mike's injury even though it wasn't the reason for his ousting from the TA. Daisy seemed to be trying a bit too hard to be the wacky roommate in these episodes but that subsided by the end. The rest of the cast had their turn although Brian's arc was the most pleasing to see. Hopefully the 2nd batch of episodes will be the same quality-wise as the first.
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Ok, here's an update: Farscape season 3 episode, "Scratch and Sniff" Honestly I thought this was a hilarious sort of one-off in a season that was pretty much going full-speed serial. I suppose it's supposed to be in the same vein as a previous season 2 episode, "Crackers Don't Matter". In the same way that it kinda wasn't your typical Farscape episode, it really messed with your head and all that (just absolutely bonkers poo poo happens that isn't typical Farscape fare, which is hard to explain). It's also somewhat of a frame story, being told by Crichton to Pilot about why they can't stay on the planet any longer and they need to leave. So basically, the crew head down to a pleasure planet on shore leave and the two girls (Chiana and Jool) get kidnapped (in a sense) because some guy wants to milk them dry of some super-potent natural aphrodisiac. It's hilarious as Crichton and D'Argo basically have to break them out when their plan to buy them back in an auction goes awry. There are plenty of hilarious character moments between Crichton and D'Argo (up to and including this point of the season) that are fantastic. It's a kind of goofy/lighter tone episode that shouldn't really work but in the end I thought it was fantastic and really fun to watch. Next up is a 2-parter. I might update it with that because I'm assuming something deadly serious and important happens and I want to tell you all about it. I remember bits and pieces of this episode when I watched it years ago on TV, but seemingly out of order, so it was fun to see it now. Actually S3/S4 of Farscape is kinda the part where I mostly missed it (even when it was in syndication/repeats/something on a sci-fi channel in Canada) and I wanna see what happens next.
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Haven't even had time to start yet, but I promised myself I would get one in tonight so I will.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:55
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For real now I have an actual toxx. I am going to watch three Netflix Original shows. Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, And Hemlock Grove.
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Jul 14, 2014 14:23
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Can we do show-for-show with people? Like, say I'll watch a show that someone else picks for me if they watch a show I pick for them?
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Jamesman posted:Can we do show-for-show with people? Like, say I'll watch a show that someone else picks for me if they watch a show I pick for them? We've done this a few times among the IRC crew and it worked pretty well! Zaggitz and I traded Pretty Little Liars/Person of Interest earlier in the year, and I have Utopia queued up to watch so that whowhatwhere will finish season 1 of The L Word.
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