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Bown posted:It's weird that despite being the most active poster by a fair bit You can't prove that.
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Just chill in the Trek thread for 6 months, fix you right up.
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zoux posted:You can't prove that. Well you have five pages of posts, bown has four and me division post and raditts have three apiece, and were probably top five posters itt right
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Aug 6, 2014 21:58
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Manhattan: Let's kill off the only minority character in the second episode!
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Aug 6, 2014 22:02
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Cardboard Box A posted:Manhattan: Let's kill off the only minority character in the second episode! It's set in the '40's bro.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:02
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four pages....I think I need to take a break maybe e: mu zeta has 4 too thank god i'm not the only one
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Aug 6, 2014 22:28
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PM me your posts and I'll post them for you Bown.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:37
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Bown posted:four pages....I think I need to take a break maybe So what the top five posters are like what...25% of this thread?
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Aug 6, 2014 22:41
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Fooz posted:I was talking to a guy at work, and he said "I need to keep busy, there's not enough good tv not to!". I overheard 2 people in a bar talking about how great True Blood and The Following are and one told the other they have to see the amazing final season of Dexter. They did like Hannibal though. Then they talked about their Pokemon teams.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:01
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I was taking an international finance class last year and the professor was late so the kids got to talking. It turned out that literally every student in the 20 student class was watching Once Upon a Time.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:08
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I'm watching The Killing season 4. Protagonist goes into the bathroom and grimly looks at the mirror. She then smashes the mirror in a rage. Now her reflection is all distorted and she looks like a monster, like she hardly recognizes what she's become. Also the murder suspect has amnesia and can't remember what happened that day.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:38
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm watching The Killing season 4. Protagonist goes into the bathroom and grimly looks at the mirror. She then smashes the mirror in a rage. Now her reflection is all distorted and she looks like a monster, like she hardly recognizes what she's become. Also the murder suspect has amnesia and can't remember what happened that day. That sounds awesome! The Killing started out kind of rubbish I thought but it sounds like maybe I should check it out?
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Aug 7, 2014 00:41
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Holy poo poo, when clicking on the number of replies in the forum index break? 
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Aug 7, 2014 00:56
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm watching The Killing season 4. Protagonist goes into the bathroom and grimly looks at the mirror. She then smashes the mirror in a rage. Now her reflection is all distorted and she looks like a monster, like she hardly recognizes what she's become. Also the murder suspect has amnesia and can't remember what happened that day. Gotta love that fresh and exciting new spin they're putting on it now that they're on Netflix.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:58
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm watching The Killing season 4. Protagonist goes into the bathroom and grimly looks at the mirror. She then smashes the mirror in a rage. Now her reflection is all distorted and she looks like a monster, like she hardly recognizes what she's become. Also the murder suspect has amnesia and can't remember what happened that day. I like that part in The Sopranos where Tony is riding his huge yacht and he hits a rowboat and knocks it over and it's like whoa it's just like how him being rich and powerful lets him gently caress over people without consequence! Also that time in The Wire where they literally sit down and explain to the audience how they are just like chess pieces and the game is a metaphor for their lives. And in Breaking Bad when Mr. White is talking about how the guy who invented synthetic diamonds didn't get paid for it and hot drat the same thing happened to him!
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Aug 7, 2014 01:03
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I agree those scene are bad. Especially because a bunch of shows try to do the chess metaphor now.
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Mu Zeta posted:I agree those scene are bad. Especially because a bunch of shows try to do the chess metaphor now. Name three others.
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Aug 7, 2014 01:35
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Bill and Ted
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Aug 7, 2014 01:38
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DivisionPost posted:Name three others. In The Cape the manipulative villain Peter Fleming... well he doesn't have a chess motif such as an overwhelming obsession with it. He compares real world actions to specific chess strategies, wears contact lenses that make his pupils look like chess pieces, and uses a holographic interface hidden under a chessboard that when activated arranges itself into a chessboard layout. And of course his supervillain name is Chess. In Merlin King Alined (a one-shot villain) was seen demonstrating his secret plan with the pieces of a chess set (and throwing them when he was thwarted). The Walking Dead: As "Brian" teaches Megan chess in Live Bait, the lessons that you can lose all your pawns but win the war, and that victory is only ensured by capturing the king, are highly relevant. The white king even has a little eyepatch drawn on, and White moves first in chess. Did you know there's an entire website devoted to pointing out tired metaphors/motifs in popular media?
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Aug 7, 2014 02:01
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Yes, and TVTropes is the worst place on the internet
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Aug 7, 2014 02:06
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Skin Wars is on, and already I hate two of the contestants. I hate Dutch because he's a red-headed Guy Fieri, and I hate Gear for shopping exclusively in the Naruto section of Hot Topic. And for having a name like Gear.
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Aug 7, 2014 02:06
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I like that part in The Sopranos where Tony is riding his huge yacht and he hits a rowboat and knocks it over and it's like whoa it's just like how him being rich and powerful lets him gently caress over people without consequence! thats not what that scene was about
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Aug 7, 2014 02:14
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Well you have five pages of posts, bown has four and me division post and raditts have three apiece, and were probably top five posters itt right poo poo, I never realized I posted that much.
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Aug 7, 2014 02:46
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Psh, you guys post?! What losers 
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Aug 7, 2014 03:09
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Anyone want to bet on which episode of The Leftovers has a Leftover Return? I bet it's the final minute of the final episode of S1, because without that hook, no one is wasting a loving moment on season 2.
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Aug 7, 2014 03:11
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DivisionPost posted:Name three others. Person of Interest
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Doesn't stop you from postin though Someone get me some ice for this burn stat!
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Aug 7, 2014 04:50
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I like that part in The Sopranos where Tony is riding his huge yacht and he hits a rowboat and knocks it over and it's like whoa it's just like how him being rich and powerful lets him gently caress over people without consequence! I think the second two examples are a little better because it's the characters talking about their lives knowingly, albeit obliquely, rather than "the show" doing it. Like a character in a David vs. Goliath scenario saying something like "even a pawn can checkmate a king" vs. a character in a David vs. Goliath scenario and they say "well I'm going to try to beat the other guy now" then the camera pans over to a chess board where only a pawn and a king are left. It's characterization in addition to very basic, bland symbolism instead of just the show hitting you over the head while thinking it's being subtle.
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Irish Joe posted:In The Cape the manipulative villain Peter Fleming... well he doesn't have a chess motif such as an overwhelming obsession with it. He compares real world actions to specific chess strategies, wears contact lenses that make his pupils look like chess pieces, and uses a holographic interface hidden under a chessboard that when activated arranges itself into a chessboard layout. And of course his supervillain name is Chess. 
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Aug 7, 2014 07:39
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I enjoyed the goofy premise of The Cape. Summer Glau is the kiss of death to any television show. Do not allow her to be a co-star and/or a recurring character on your show no matter what, unless you enjoy cancellations.
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Aug 7, 2014 07:42
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Gonz posted:I enjoyed the goofy premise of The Cape.
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Sober posted:Arrow is still on and probably plans to continue. Never seen it, though I probably should. I guess that's the exception, then.
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Aug 7, 2014 08:31
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Yeah at this point Arrow survived the Summer Glau kiss of death since it was renewed. Maybe the key is to kill off her character?
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Cardboard Box A posted:Yeah at this point Arrow survived the Summer Glau kiss of death since it was renewed. Maybe the key is to kill off her character? Apropos, how's Sequestered, the latest show she's in? It sounds a lot like Murder One, which I liked back in the day.
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Cardboard Box A posted:And this is why The Cape was awesome. The Arrow is rightfully praised for its brisk pacing but the pilot to The Cape is so fast that it's practically a fever dream.
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Aug 7, 2014 12:46
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The main actress in the Killing looks sooo tired all the time.
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Aug 7, 2014 14:28
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It's just an actress not wearing makeup. The series finale was awful too but it was directed well by Jonathan Demme. Not even he can save that shitheap.
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Aug 7, 2014 14:35
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For The Cape they really should have just given him a magic cape instead of the whole weird bit about how he just trained really hard.
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Maybe its because Glau isn't a main character in Arrow? I think where her arc ended up was dumb anyway.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The Arrow is rightfully praised for its brisk pacing but the pilot to The Cape is so fast that it's practically a fever dream. The Cape was loving dumb as hell but at least it was an interesting, self-aware kind of dumb, which is more than can be said about Heroes or any of its lovely me-too superhero contemporaries. I would rather have had six seasons and a movie of The Cape than one season of Agents of B.O.R.E.D. and God only knows how many seasons we'll be getting of that poo poo. Also "Why do you always bother me while I'm drinkin'?!" is one of my favorite Keith David lines of all time, he did a prime scenery-chewing job in that show.
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