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Counterpoint: none of the Arrested Development season 4 episodes needed to be as long as they were.
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1st AD posted:Counterpoint: none of the Arrested Development season 4 episodes needed to be as long as they were. Counter-counter point: this is a different show run by different people.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:33
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Triple counter-point: run-time is a lazy excuse for lackluster writing. Professional writers should be able to tell a coherent and enjoyable story no matter the length.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:36
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Quadruple counter-point: Allowing an artist to occasionally color outside the lines is usually a strength, not a weakness.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:39
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I'd rebut that, but I don't know what comes after quadruple.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:40
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Quintuple! Keep it going!
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Jul 9, 2014 01:43
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Irish Joe posted:"Our"
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Jul 9, 2014 01:43
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1st AD posted:Counterpoint: none of the Arrested Development season 4 episodes needed to be as long as they were. Blasphemy! It went for exactly as long as if should have, bug hey if they wanna put out any more seasons.. I've got the itch.
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Jul 9, 2014 01:51
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FactsAreUseless posted:You'd be amazed at how quickly alcohol will burn through your money. Yeah, but he's in the Ketel One Alliance now. That's gotta save some money. And as for special online director's cuts and whatnot, I wouldn't be opposed to shell out $20 for a 13-episode season of Community that already included commentaries and behind-the-scenes videos and such if I got to legally own it. That's pretty much the only reason to buy DVD's anymore anyway. By offering that content up front, even just digitally, that could net Yahoo some decent money.
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Jul 9, 2014 02:38
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FactsAreUseless posted:You'd be amazed at how quickly alcohol will burn through your money. Also he's into tabletop gaming and plastic wizards and goblins can be expensive as gently caress.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:06
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ashpanash posted:Quadruple counter-point: Allowing an artist to occasionally color outside the lines is usually a strength, not a weakness. Quintuple counterpoint: http://youtu.be/wXw6znXPfy4
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Jul 9, 2014 07:50
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Man, with all the news about the show coming back I kept wondering if they were going to bring back Pierce. I had completely forgotten that they'd killed off the character, partially due to all the distraction about Chevy Chase but also because the show did such a weird, unemotional, cheap, crummy sendoff for that character.  I would be totally fine with them just retconning him back to life or revealing he elaborately faked his death to avoid taxes. Also regarding show length, it's SUPER weird to me that the digital and commercial-less model of TV still has standard episode lengths at all. Like why aren't these shows just as long or short as they need to be when they CAN be.
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Jul 9, 2014 09:43
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....do you mean the polygraph episode by the "weird, unemotional, cheap, crummy sendoff"?
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Jul 9, 2014 09:47
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Yeah, the one that ends with "that character you spent three great years with accidentally and grotesquely masturbated to death haha end credits". This isn't Rick and Morty, like goddamn. (Plus while he got some nice parting words for characters through Walton Goggins, he had no real goodbye for Aybed and that kinda sucks.)
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Jul 9, 2014 09:50
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Honestly I've always thought that joke was too off-putting and out of place as well, but I don't think it dilutes the overall episode or Pierce's sendoff at all. And Abed didn't get a very emotional sendoff but that part was one of my biggest laughs of the season.
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Jul 9, 2014 09:55
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Pierce died in order to have one last gift for his only true friends. I think that's touching.
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Jul 9, 2014 11:48
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Bown posted:Honestly I've always thought that joke was too off-putting and out of place as well, but I don't think it dilutes the overall episode or Pierce's sendoff at all. And Abed didn't get a very emotional sendoff but that part was one of my biggest laughs of the season. Yeah, this was another case of Dan Harmon the twat encroaching too much on Dan Harmon the show runner.
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Jul 9, 2014 12:54
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You guys are nuts. That was one of the best episodes last season.
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VagueRant posted:
Because producers are used to a certain length and if you don't constrain them bad things will happen.
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Jul 9, 2014 15:34
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FactsAreUseless posted:Pierce died in order to have one last gift for his only true friends. I think that's touching. 
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Jul 9, 2014 16:48
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MrAristocrates posted:Dude's got cash to burn, seeing as how he pays for a lot of the music licenses and title sequence changes out-of-pocket. How does he have this much money?
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Jul 10, 2014 00:21
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juniperjones posted:How does he have this much money? He created a show and got paid substantially for his work since it was for Sony and NBC.
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Jul 10, 2014 00:24
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juniperjones posted:How does he have this much money? He's enormously successful and competent at his job, and doesn't spend most of the very large amount of money he makes because he's a workaholic/alcoholic loner? NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Jul 10, 2014 00:27
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VagueRant posted:Yeah, the one that ends with "that character you spent three great years with accidentally and grotesquely masturbated to death haha end credits". This isn't Rick and Morty, like goddamn. Pierce was crude, petty, unapologetic, and just tried way too hard to be relevant. He got an extremely Pierce-like send-off. A " heartfelt" ending for Pierce would have been awful.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:57
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Lord Of Texas posted:Pierce was crude, petty, unapologetic, and just tried way too hard to be relevant. He got an extremely Pierce-like send-off. A " heartfelt" ending for Pierce would have been awful. So he was the embodiment of modern television?
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Jul 10, 2014 23:23
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Lord Of Texas posted:Pierce was crude, petty, unapologetic, and just tried way too hard to be relevant. He got an extremely Pierce-like send-off. A " heartfelt" ending for Pierce would have been awful. Harmon and Chase actually get along pretty well, according to Dan on Harmontown; the "feud" was pretty much entirely a tabloid creation. They yelled at each other because they have similarly big egos and Chevy can be a huge baby, but they understood each other because Dan can be too [goddamnit, here I was going to link the clip of Dan running through the Community writers' room with only a diaper on, but apparently he thought better of that being on the Internet and has since removed it].
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Jul 12, 2014 04:07
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If you think Dan Harmon would pass on doing a Force Ghost of Pierce if given the chance you give him too much credit.
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Jul 12, 2014 04:10
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The closing credits scene on the shows final episode should just show Troy waking up in Pierces mansion, going to the bathroom and discovering Pierce in the shower.
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Jul 12, 2014 08:08
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Abed's tracking device on Pierce's body must come up again- I'd put my money on a Halloween episode.
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Jul 12, 2014 09:08
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Senor Tron posted:The closing credits scene on the shows final episode should just show Troy waking up in Pierces mansion, going to the bathroom and discovering Pierce in the shower. ..dead.
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Jul 12, 2014 09:11
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lol greenblats a dick
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Jul 13, 2014 21:57
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Eh, it doesn't seem like too dickish a response to me. Just kind of upfront. I did like him calling out the "Six seasons and a movie" meme. Mainly because I hate how ever-present it is now. Anyway, have we heard whether John Oliver will be back or not? I know that at some point, he'd commented he'd like to be.
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Jul 13, 2014 22:06
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TV Guide posted:But last season's recurring stars are busy: John Oliver (Professor Duncan) has his HBO talk show and won't return, while Jonathan Banks (Professor Hickey) is shooting AMC's Better Call Saul (but could make a guest appearance). I'm not sure if he's actually confirmed it or not.
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Jul 13, 2014 22:55
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Sakarja posted:I'm not sure if he's actually confirmed it or not. Even if they're not regulars, I really hope they still pop up for an episode or two. They really helped season five. And I need to know if Hickey's comic ever gets picked up.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:39
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Maybe that's their in-show reason for writing him out as a regular. Jim the Duck makes it big so he doesn't have to teach at Greendale anymore.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:43
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Angry Walrus posted:Maybe that's their in-show reason for writing him out as a regular. Jim the Duck makes it big so he doesn't have to teach at Greendale anymore. His pop in episode will be showing up at a Comicon as a panelist where Abed goes all Dr. Spacetime part 2.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:44
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Rewatching season 5, and the only joke that has fallen flat so far was the sequence with Abed and the deaf girl. Except maybe "Sandals. Sandals."
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Jul 13, 2014 23:53
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Angry Walrus posted:Maybe that's their in-show reason for writing him out as a regular. Jim the Duck makes it big so he doesn't have to teach at Greendale anymore. That would be great.
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Angry Walrus posted:Maybe that's their in-show reason for writing him out as a regular. Jim the Duck makes it big so he doesn't have to teach at Greendale anymore. Publishers are interested.
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Spacebump posted:Publishers are interested. What the hell???
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