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Kelfeftaf posted:You're thinking of Cameron. Donna is Gordon's wife. Cameron looks 12.
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Gordon shaved what the gently caress he was my spirit animal. I did like Donnas pigtails though. I don't know why I watch this show. But I'll still probably watch season 2.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Gordon shaved what the gently caress he was my spirit animal. I (probably) have some bad news.
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JohnSherman posted:I (probably) have some bad news. Yeah...
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OctoberBlues posted:Someone please gif the cookie sad face. 
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Cameron Let's be honest about the real problems with her character.
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Thanks! Something about that make me laugh every time...
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Oh my...  I hope Kerry Bishé gets another show soon.
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JohnSherman posted:I (probably) have some bad news. AMC renewing mediocre-rated TURN was considered a surprise, and the finale of that had 3 times the total viewers that last Sunday's finale got. Ratings for Sunday's finale were 570,000 total viewers, and demo is even worse looking. It's done. Oh well, I lost interest before the end of the season anyway.
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I'm sad how this turned out. It was like a perfect storm of stuff I should have been interested in, and the two episodes before the finale showed some promise. Writers came up with a cool premise, just couldn't follow through. 
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The newbie binge watcher in The Walking Dead thread makes me think that this deserves a season 2 based on the pure stupidity that was tolerated for that show.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:I'm sad how this turned out. It was like a perfect storm of stuff I should have been interested in, and the two episodes before the finale showed some promise. Writers came up with a cool premise, just couldn't follow through. This is basically it. Seriously, 11 pages for the entirety of season 1 does not bode well, and I figure this site is pretty much the target audience.  (this thread)
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Aug 8, 2014 02:10
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Hey the intro sequence and soundtrack were really good
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Gail Wynand posted:Hey the intro sequence and soundtrack were really good Also the sets and outfits and general look were absolutely perfect and fit 80s Texas amazingly well.
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Aug 8, 2014 08:38
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Worst of all, the premise was really good.
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I think they should have embraced the 80's more. I didn't see a single DeLorean, those punks from episode 2 (3?) were really lame, I didn't hear the word "rad" once, and there was no real montage or air punches / fist pumping.
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Cingulate posted:Worst of all, the premise was really good.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I think they should have embraced the 80's more. I didn't see a single DeLorean, those punks from episode 2 (3?) were really lame, I didn't hear the word "rad" once, and there was no real montage or air punches / fist pumping. I think I heard "rad" once in the COMDEX episode.
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Toplowtech posted:It would have been better as a 4-5 episodes mini-series.
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Meatwave posted:It would have been better if it was better. You're never satisfied, are you Joe?
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Philip J Fry posted:You're never satisfied, are you Joe? Burn it all down
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I was enjoying the show for the most part, but god drat that se(ries)ason finale was really dumb.
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Went through all of the season (well, series now I guess). What is so disappointing is that there was so much loving potential with this show. Ah well. I guess it doesn't help that one of the primary characters is one less sympathetic or likable than a serial killer. edit: I still can't get past Lee Pace's eyebrows. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Gordon, Cameron and Joe could all be serial killers though.......though Joe is the most Batemanesque
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Joe played the guy from Assassin's Creed in Guardians of the Galaxy.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Went through all of the season (well, series now I guess). What is so disappointing is that there was so much loving potential with this show. Ah well. I guess it doesn't help that one of the primary characters is one less sympathetic or likable than a serial killer. I agree with this, as well as other comments in this thread. The set design was great, the early 80s look, especially Donna and Gordon's house. So reminded me of friend's houses in the 80s. Cameron the character (not the actress) shat me up the wall. Yes she was young and new to the industry, but doesn't mean she has to throw the baby out with the bath water each time someone goes against her ideas. The character of Joe was something I think the writers could not work out what they wanted to do with. One minute he'd be stern and be a good guide for where the Giant was going to, the next episode he'd be indecisive and unable to decide who he wanted to back, either Gordon or Cameron. I missed the Boz in the last couple of episodes. One thing that annoyed me was the continual cliche of failure to fuel the show. Wiping the disks, the design of the Giant's casing, the Giant not starting up for most of Comdex and the ex-TI bloke making his own mock up. Just got on my nerves. Also I think Cameron's OS idea sucked. Sure it might have been good for home use, but it would've been laughed out of businesses and governments.
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You Am I posted:One thing that annoyed me was the continual cliche of failure to fuel the show. Wiping the disks, the design of the Giant's casing, the Giant not starting up for most of Comdex and the ex-TI bloke making his own mock up. Just got on my nerves. This was by far the biggest failure of the show. The best episodes/scenes were ones that focused on the main characters, their passions, motivations, mistakes, hubris etc. Watching Gordon and Cameron commiserate over their ideas of what computers could be was amazing. Joe's slick business moves, sleeping with that one rich woman's boytoy and taunting her, his "this is the future speeches". Boz being the intransigent old school business guy who's converted, sides with the PC team, and teaches himself everything he needs to know to take the fall for the embellzement so Cameron, Joe, and Gordon can succeed. All of that was great. It started to show the characters evolving from their first appearances and becoming something more then "80s IT cliche". Then the finale undid all of it. Joe is still the same guy who trashed the IBM servers, only now he was seduced by Cameron's vision and tried to force her ideas into the product. Cameron has gone rogue and founded her own IT company planning to revolutionizing the world with the Internet, but still in love with some idiotic pipe dream that will mostly likely fail. Gordon is now the head of the PC project, has no idea what to do, and his last attempt to make a personal PC humiliated him. Usually, a good show doesn't build up characters and plots, then reset to zero at the season end. That's either "we know we're getting a second season so skies the limit!" or "gently caress what do we do, just make them all act irrational and ruin their lives"
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You Am I posted:Also I think Cameron's OS idea sucked. Sure it might have been good for home use, but it would've been laughed out of businesses and governments. They were specifically making a computer for home use anyway.
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ApathyGifted posted:They were specifically making a computer for home use anyway. No they weren't. They were talking about using a computer on an airplane. Which implies business use. And They kept talking about lotus 123, a spreadsheet application. Besides even for home use that conversational OS interaction would have been horrible.
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GutBomb posted:No they weren't. They were talking about using a computer on an airplane. Which implies business use. And They kept talking about lotus 123, a spreadsheet application. And they were mainly talking about getting it on store shelves, as in retail home-use. Business don't buy computers from from Wal-Mart. Whereas people can easily use spreadsheets and word processors in their daily lives (even the secretary mentions writing a letter to her boyfriend). And considering Joe and Cameron talking about making it the future and all that crap, is it really far-fetched that they want to see personal computers on airplanes? Maybe they want to sell some to businesses, but throughout the show they're constantly talking about keeping the prices down for the individual consumer, making it portable (what business will let you take your expensive work computer away from your desk back then without worrying about you stealing it), and a bunch of other crap that signals the fact they're looking at home users as their main market. Keep in mind that "IBM compatible" did not mean "business." One of the most common tests to prove IBM compatibility was the ability to run both Lotus 1-2-3 AND Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0. As for the OS being horrible for home use, this was the mid-80's. The technology was new enough to home consumers for them to be blown away by something that appeared to converse with you, even if it only took a second glance to see past the logic of how it was doing it. After all, Flight Simulator 1.0 was basically the pinnacle of graphics and interactivity at this point. Someone without the benefit of experiencing the last 20 years of computer technology advancing as we have would easily be duped into believing the computer was actually thinking about its responses.
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It's been renewed. http://deadline.com/2014/08/halt-catch-fire-amc-second-season-822129/
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UScr00ge posted:It's been renewed. Well, that's surprising.
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