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Alberto Basalm posted:Yeah 2% of people dying worldwide would all its own be one of the biggest events in history, but the fact that they disappeared without explanation is what makes it the most significant event in all of history. Or it would be if it really happened. Yeah, that event would be enough to completely destroy people's faith on a very large scale. It's major. Also, I liked this episode, despite a lot of the plot twists being telegraphed like crazy. Everyone in the episode was solid.
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It's not about the number of people who are gone. 9/11 was a hosed up thing, but it was terrorism. We understood terrorism. It wasn't the first time it's happened. It wasn't even the first time it happened to those buildings. The average human being however, can not process people just disappearing into thin air. It would break your loving mind if it happened. I actually think society is holding up pretty well in The Leftovers compared to how we'd react if it happened for real. I think it would play out more like Children Of Men or something.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:36
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It's getting there what with people stockpiling weapons and hunting those weird, mute "crazies."
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Jul 14, 2014 04:40
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I thought the first two episodes were awesome and tonight kept it going. I hope Lindelof sticks to his guns and they never say what happened to the people that left. Way more likely than not it will be a letdown.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:46
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Why are so many people who post itt so stupid?
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Jul 14, 2014 04:56
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There's no way that lady stayed and took care of his wife for three days straight.
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Jul 14, 2014 04:58
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Kevyn posted:It's not about the number of people who are gone. 9/11 was a hosed up thing, but it was terrorism. We understood terrorism. It wasn't the first time it's happened. It wasn't even the first time it happened to those buildings. The average human being however, can not process people just disappearing into thin air. It would break your loving mind if it happened. I actually think society is holding up pretty well in The Leftovers compared to how we'd react if it happened for real. I think it would play out more like Children Of Men or something. I guess it being more than 10 years since 9/11 clouds my vision because I do forget that his show is only 3 years after the event took place. I do agree that society is holding up well, it just sometimes feels unreal, but then again, I'm not in their shoes.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:05
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I hope this show gives us some sort of closure at the end of the season because I'll be shocked with its diminishing ratings + now it's going up against Masters of Sex and seems to be losing fans instead of gaining them. This will be this decade's John From Cincinnati This was the episode that made me go from "this show has promise" to "this is a good loving show." I don't understand why everyone's main complaint is that it doesn't have enough answers, and I wonder if the same complaints would be shouted out if Lindelof wasn't doing it.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:06
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Slackerish posted:I hope this show gives us some sort of closure at the end of the season because I'll be shocked with its diminishing ratings + now it's going up against Masters of Sex and seems to be losing fans instead of gaining them. This will be this decade's John From Cincinnati Flash forward 10 years where everyone has pretty much moved on and have tv shows cracking jokes of the event.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:08
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Slackerish posted:This was the episode that made me go from "this show has promise" to "this is a good loving show." I don't understand why everyone's main complaint is that it doesn't have enough answers, and I wonder if the same complaints would be shouted out if Lindelof wasn't doing it. LOST. That is the biggest reason this thread is bad.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:13
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I just dont understand the mindset behind people who find it boring and bad yet continue to watch and post about it. Are your lives that lovely?
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Jul 14, 2014 05:18
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I'm surprised an anvil didn't fall on the priest's head at the end.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:19
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Yaoi Mandel posted:I just dont understand the mindset behind people who find it boring and bad yet continue to watch and post about it. Are your lives that lovely? Hatewatching is a popular activity around these parts. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do it myself sometimes. But there are much more deserving shows than this one, which just produced a great hour of television.
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Yaoi Mandel posted:I just dont understand the mindset behind people who find it boring and bad yet continue to watch and post about it. Are your lives that lovely? People love to hate Lindelof and will go through extensive and painful research to gather as much evidence against him as possible E: And if that keeps ratings high enough to get us a second season, let em Slackerish fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 05:26
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Honestly this show isn't high art or perfect, but in a world where True Blood gets 7 seasons the hate this show gets is loving stupid.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:58
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Cotato posted:This was my favorite episode so far and I've really enjoyed this series so far. I wasnt sure I'd like a single character focused episode on a character we barely knew but wow that was great.
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Jul 14, 2014 06:03
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SgtSteel91 posted:Flash forward 10 years where everyone has pretty much moved on and have tv shows cracking jokes of the event. Ask the countries invaded how the whole moving on thing is working out for them. Also, the government wiretaps everyone on the planet. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was just one guy but his death spun out two wars, both consuming the entire planet. Its not the events that shape the world, its the reactions to them. I don't understand how there's people who can form complete sentences and string together a phrase like, "so what if 2% of the people on earth up and vanished, its not THAT big of a deal guys".
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Jul 14, 2014 06:19
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hcreight posted:Hatewatching is a popular activity around these parts. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do it myself sometimes. But there are much more deserving shows than this one, which just produced a great hour of television. I hatewatch too (True Blood if only so I can see it die at last), it's alright. This was a good episode, certainly better than the first two in my opinion. Only reason I'm not calling it great is, like I said earlier, I just don't know what happened throughout that last 20 minutes. Need to rewatch it again. It's like Lost in a couple ways, and like Lost, I'm willing to give this at least a full season's chance and hope others do.
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Jul 14, 2014 06:55
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Man, screw all y'all hating on this episode. I found the first episode pretty dull and the second to be middling but this episode was pretty drat engrossing and if the show is interlacing character vignettes of this magnitude then I'm all for more of it.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:35
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Holy god drat gently caress poo poo that season trailer.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:46
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What was so confusing about the last 20 minutes? He got hit in the head, had a dream that showed that he was with Nora when their parents died in a fire, implied that he had an affair with Kevin's wife, woke up three days later because he was comatose and saw his church being taken over by the GR. Do you really need everything spelled out for you detail by detail? That's kind of sad.
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Slackerish posted:What was so confusing about the last 20 minutes? He got hit in the head, had a dream that showed that he was with Nora when their parents died in a fire, implied that he had an affair with Kevin's wife, woke up three days later because he was comatose and saw his church being taken over by the GR.
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Jul 14, 2014 07:53
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That was pretty cool, to see a character go from crazy guy screaming nonsense in the background to a central character with deep motives and emotions. I'm interested to see where this goes if this keeps up, this episode was great. A lot of things are coming together and a lot of things are just flipping either way. I also hope the "event" is never really explained and only examined on the personal level. I like that nobody would be sure what happened and they just have to deal with it, it's nice to see that carried over into stories. I'm also wondering what happened to his wife, cause three straight days of unpaid overtime is a lot to ask of anyone. The white smoking note writing cult isn't grabbing me yet however, they better do something other then have old ladies stare at people. Just to be clear, is the "I hug you" guy cult different from the white smokers?
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nopants posted:Because people can vanish into loving air. God or something else equally hosed up does exist. You lose your bagel? Maybe God took it. I feel like people are being willfully dense when they don't get this.
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AxeManiac posted:Just to be clear, is the "I hug you" guy cult different from the white smokers?
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Jul 14, 2014 08:48
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I cannot take the White Cult seriously anymore. At this point they are so needlessly antagonistic towards everyone that their inevitable death by mob is almost certain.
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Jul 14, 2014 09:10
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Great episode compared to the last two.
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Jul 14, 2014 11:36
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Weird episode but i liked it. Now there's two interesting characters at least in my mind (sheriff and priest). Thread is still loving retarded as hell though. 9/11 gets brought up every episode. Seriously how are some of you so obtuse that you cant realize how 2% of the population VANISHING WITHOUT EXPLANATION is about as different as possible be compared to a terrorist attack that killed a tiny fraction of that number with ample explanations to go around.
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I would watch an entire season of Father Who break bad on the cult's asses, with a supporting cast of the dog shooting guy and stupid teenagers.
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pentyne posted:I cannot take the White Cult seriously anymore. At this point they are so needlessly antagonistic towards everyone that their inevitable death by mob is almost certain. I think that is kind of their point. That the rest of the world is blind to some ultimate truth that they've discovered so they have to basically force their presence. It is pretty blatantly in the towns face but that's not unheard of in reality either (i.e. Westboro Baptist Church). What kind of got me thinking was how the guy at the bank mentioned that whoever was purchasing the church was some "corporate LLC". Made me wonder if there's going to turn out to be some bigger force at work with the Guilty Remnants. Do cults incorporate? So we've seen the two main cults, the Guilty Remnants and the followers of the Hugger. But what was that shot in the pilot and the trailer with two people in rocking chairs cloaked in black on a porch? I hope some other cults from other areas are mentioned (I'm sure they're out there), even if they don't really go into detail.
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lifts cats over head posted:followers of the Hugger. Wayne-enites
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ApexAftermath posted:Holy god drat gently caress poo poo that season trailer. Yeah. I was already on board but that just sealed it. I don't really get a lot of the hate even if it is to do with Lost because wasn't Lost insanely popular on here?
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CODChimera posted:Yeah. I was already on board but that just sealed it.
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I just noticed in the preview the daughter holding a flaming Nerf bow and arrow. I hope its them wrecking poo poo rather than angsty teens playing chicken again
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AxeManiac posted:That was pretty cool, to see a character go from crazy guy screaming nonsense in the background to a central character with deep motives and emotions. I'm interested to see where this goes if this keeps up, this episode was great. A lot of things are coming together and a lot of things are just flipping either way. I also hope the "event" is never really explained and only examined on the personal level. I like that nobody would be sure what happened and they just have to deal with it, it's nice to see that carried over into stories. Yeah, the "Hugs" guy's cult is out west but the smokers are in NY where most of the characters we see live. At least that's how I understand it from the AV Club's coverage. Considering the insanity of what the preview showed, I wonder if they'll switch back-and-forth between character-centric and present tense episodes. I think it works well to give us an overview of where people are first and then take us into the back stories of some of the characters. I like how they blended the present and past tense through the dream sequences.
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tadashi posted:Yeah, the "Hugs" guy's cult is out west but the smokers are in NY where most of the characters we see live. At least that's how I understand it from the AV Club's coverage. It was also nice to see it was integrated into the opening scene. It makes the car crash more than just a spectacle. Makes me wonder if we'll see any more characterization of the boy screaming for his dad or the mother.
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A few things I didn't get/missed about the last episode: 1) How did that random painting make the priest suddenly realize both that there was a peanut butter jar full of money buried in someone's yard, and he should gamble it all? He said something like, "Your father in law (the cop's crazy dad) left something for me to have?" to the cult woman. What's the connection between the Crazy Cop Dad and the priest? 2) How did the cop's ex-wife know the priest would be there at that exact time? I know he's had cultists watching him, but she wasn't one of them, being assigned to Liv Tyler and all, so how did she know to go there? Even if other people were watching him, they couldn't exactly call someone else to get there ahead of time, since they both don't speak, and couldn't have known where he was headed. 3) What did the ex-wife write down on the paper? I tried to pause it, but the HBO Go thing popped over part of it so I couldn't read it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:A few things I didn't get/missed about the last episode: I'm not totally sure about the first one, but I'm pretty sure the ex-wife was there on her own, unrelated to the priest coming. I got the sense that she sometimes sneaks out from the GR to be at her family's house because she feels guilty for abandoning them, or misses home, or both. Also, I believe she wrote down "Don't tell anyone I was here," and the priest says he won't tell anyone if she won't.
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DrBouvenstein posted:A few things I didn't get/missed about the last episode: The Priest exposed the judge who took bribes. The CrazyCopDad was Chief of Police. He approved of the Priest's work and felt bad that he got screwed in the NotRapture. DrBouvenstein posted:2) How did the cop's ex-wife know the priest would be there at that exact time? I know he's had cultists watching him, but she wasn't one of them, being assigned to Liv Tyler and all, so how did she know to go there? Even if other people were watching him, they couldn't exactly call someone else to get there ahead of time, since they both don't speak, and couldn't have known where he was headed. She didn't. DrBouvenstein posted:3) What did the ex-wife write down on the paper? I tried to pause it, but the HBO Go thing popped over part of it so I couldn't read it. "Please don't tell him you saw me here."
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DrBouvenstein posted:A few things I didn't get/missed about the last episode: I'm not exactly sure about #1 but she was hanging out in the yard because it's right next to the cop/her husband's house. She wasn't there following the priest, it was just a coincidence. She wrote on the paper "Don't tell him I'm here" so I took it to mean her isolation might be cracking a bit.
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