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Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Symbolic Butt posted:

Kang from Crime Scene will be on The Genius 3

That's not how you spell Park :argh:

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BurningDance
Apr 27, 2010
Nam Hweejong is coming back for S3. I wonder if he'll be more humble this season or take the lion's approach again :allears:

NowonSA
Jul 19, 2013

I am the sexiest poster in the world!
I want Hweejong in every season, and for him to always be a dick, always be the first eliminated and always swear to be more humble next time.

NowonSA fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Aug 5, 2014

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Rarity posted:

That's not how you spell Park :argh:

Zythrst
May 31, 2011

Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!
I demand Hyunmoo!

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!
I just started, but I really like this Abnormal Conference show.

Subyng
May 4, 2013
Wow, episode 5 (s2)!





Awesome main game and death match. I was really rooting for Yoonsun. Especially since the plan to get infinite chips was way more clever than what the opposite team did, which was to just brute force through majority votes. She really had her head in the game but always seemed to be one step behind her competition. Same with Dahye, both smart players who I think just weren't conniving enough. But I'm glad Yohwan finally got a chance to showcase what he's good at, since he's basically been a non-entity up until now. Killing the opponent's King with their own laser was just beautiful.

Subyng fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Aug 5, 2014

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum
I stopped following this thread when s2 ended. What are people watching right now? any more genius coming our way soon?

BSam
Nov 24, 2012

Crime Scene was very enjoyable. You'll find that on the same tumblr and twitter account that The Genius is on.

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

redreader posted:

I stopped following this thread when s2 ended. What are people watching right now? any more genius coming our way soon?

The entertaining and often astonishing Abnormal Summit http://bxrme.tumblr.com/

Every country in the world needs a TV show like that.

Zythrst
May 31, 2011

Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!

MrLonghair posted:

The entertaining and often astonishing Abnormal Summit http://bxrme.tumblr.com/

Every country in the world needs a TV show like that.

Yeah this is great and amazing casting too, because out of a regular cast of 15 I don't find myself disliking anyone.

EvilElmo
May 10, 2009
I couldn't get in to abnormal summit. Dunno why.

Kangra
May 7, 2012

Yeah, I only made it a little ways into the actual debate/discussion section and stopped. I do like the idea of it, just didn't really take to that group.

Do they ever bring in different reps? (including, maybe, women?) With how much time they spent introducing everyone I would guess no.

I think Crime Scene is a good filler while waiting for more Genius. The first few episodes are harder to watch, but by the time they change the format to one crime per episode it improves a whole lot.

Zythrst
May 31, 2011

Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!

Kangra posted:

Yeah, I only made it a little ways into the actual debate/discussion section and stopped. I do like the idea of it, just didn't really take to that group.

Do they ever bring in different reps? (including, maybe, women?) With how much time they spent introducing everyone I would guess no.

I think Crime Scene is a good filler while waiting for more Genius. The first few episodes are harder to watch, but by the time they change the format to one crime per episode it improves a whole lot.

The foreigners and host's don't change, but the guests do including women.

sentimental snail
Nov 22, 2007

DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?

Kangra posted:

Yeah, I only made it a little ways into the actual debate/discussion section and stopped. I do like the idea of it, just didn't really take to that group.

The first half of the episode is really dull. I forced myself through it because of the feedback the show has been getting after the last few episodes. Totally worth it.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
I made it past all the introductions, which went well into the second half of the episode, and then they brought in their special guest dude and I lost interest. If it gets better after that, I'll give it a second look.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!
I threw this in the Running Man thread, but the latest episode with HaHa as a guest is really good. They veer off into talking about education in general, but they start off talking about Sex Ed and porn, which is hilarious. They finish things off with foreigners trying to speak English, which is also funny.

They also replaced the Brit with a German, for whatever little that's worth. I guess I agree that having the cast be entirely dudes is kind of a bummer.

sentimental snail
Nov 22, 2007

DID YOU SEE MY
PEYOTE QUEEN?
It's definitely been progressively better each episode. I'd say just give the second episode a try. If it doesn't pull you in then yeah, it's probably just not something you'll enjoy.

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

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Buglord
What's really surprising about watching Abnormal Summit is that I find myself agreeing with Enes (or at least the gist of his opinion) quite often. And I don't consider myself a conservative person... :ohdear:

Anyway, it's the most entertaining "just people talking" korean show that I've watched from what bumdidlyump translated. I'd say it doesn't really "get better", I thought it was interesting ever since the introductions so if that didn't hook you then it's probably not for you. The second episode was funnier but otoh the guest from the first episode was the best one yet.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!
How can you agree with Enes and not be conservative? I'd want to smack him across the face if he weren't so darn adorable :3:

Zythrst
May 31, 2011

Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!
BTW am I the only one that thinks that German Daniel looks almost exactly like a younger Burn Gorman?

Symbolic Butt posted:

What's really surprising about watching Abnormal Summit is that I find myself agreeing with Enes (or at least the gist of his opinion) quite often. And I don't consider myself a conservative person... :ohdear:

Anyway, it's the most entertaining "just people talking" korean show that I've watched from what bumdidlyump translated. I'd say it doesn't really "get better", I thought it was interesting ever since the introductions so if that didn't hook you then it's probably not for you. The second episode was funnier but otoh the guest from the first episode was the best one yet.

I like Enes because while he holds conservative opinions he understands "because its always been that way" isn't a legitimate way to think about things. Plus I like his proverb for every situation.

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

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Buglord

Zythrst posted:

I like Enes because while he holds conservative opinions he understands "because its always been that way" isn't a legitimate way to think about things. Plus I like his proverb for every situation.

Yeah, he's generally pretty good at presenting a different perspective to the topic to consider, and he frames it well enough that... Suddenly I'm agreeing with some hella old-fashioned ideas. :saddowns: And oh don't get me started on the proverbs...

Now the chinese guy is just kind of an asshat.

Nexal
Apr 21, 2010

Moby - Extreme ways
Edit: Everytime there is a post this huge rear end image i posted and ranted about ruined this thread page for everyone so I decided to snip it.

Nexal fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Aug 31, 2014

qbert
Oct 23, 2003

It's both thrilling and terrifying.
I binged the first 3 episodes of Abnormal Summit yesterday and I'm really enjoying it. It's essentially a talk show but it's also one of the funnier ones I've seen in a while, and listening to different cultural points of view on a topic is pretty interesting.

Also surprised how quickly I memorized a 14-person cast, although it really helps when you can just call people by their country name.

MoPZiG
Jun 6, 2006

Just getting into Abnormal Summit - its a great conceit for a talk show. They should look to have a latin american voice in there too tho.

G20 Sumbitch
Sep 29, 2007

Happy Hockey Is The Best!!!
Or, you know, women...

Silvain
May 19, 2006

I'm kinda awesome.

Douwe posted:

Or, you know, women...

Something like 7 years ago they had a pretty popular talk show on KBS called Global Talk Show (미녀들의수다) that focused on gathering a group of foreign women and have them talk about their experiences in Korea and such. A few of the female foreigners became to be pretty popular in Korea because of their quirks and personalities. The Italian representative way of talking Korean became so popular, Korean celebrities imitate her. And this isn't the only talk show that involved foreigners either, it's just that these two, Global Talk Show and Abnormal Summit are the most popular ones.

I guess what was going on in the minds of the producers was, "Hey, there used to be a popular female foreigner talk show, so let's make a male foreigner talk show!" Who knows, they might bring in some of the Global Talk show members in as a special one time thing or as guests.

Subyng
May 4, 2013
I know the season finale of Genius 2 was forever ago but I just finished it and I'm just going say that I was rooting for Yohwan mainly for the fact that personality-wise, I liked him a lot better than Sangmin. Yohwan was a goof with brief moments of lucidity, but Sangmin was, though competent, a slimy bastard.

Also, asking if the product of the lowest two numbers is greater than one was a totally USELESS question since the only two numbers whose products equal one are 1 and 1, and he already knew that there were no repeated numbers. He should have asked if the product of the two lowest numbers is greater than TWO, then he would know that the lowest two numbers are 1 and 2, thus he would know all 4 numbers. Then with the other questions he asked he would know that the first two digits are 19, and with two guesses can guess either 1982 or 1928. ARGH. loving Yohwan'd.

Superrodan
Nov 27, 2007
If Yohwan had won it would have seemed like he failed his way to victory. For me it's less about personality than it is wanting to see cool games that smart people figure out how to win with intelligence. I didn't much want Sangmin to win either, but of the two at least he came off as somewhat competent.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

BurningDance posted:

Nam Hweejong is coming back for S3. I wonder if he'll be more humble this season or take the lion's approach again :allears:

Oh this is old but I am going to reply to it anyway. As much I loved seeing this guy fall, I really would like to see him be more humble like he acted during his outro interview and kick some rear end, I am sucker for "redemption" arcs like that.

Also you two are crazy, Sangmin makes "slimy bastard" an art form. I love the guy, he is hilarious.

BurningDance
Apr 27, 2010

mr.capps posted:

Oh this is old but I am going to reply to it anyway. As much I loved seeing this guy fall, I really would like to see him be more humble like he acted during his outro interview and kick some rear end, I am sucker for "redemption" arcs like that.

Also you two are crazy, Sangmin makes "slimy bastard" an art form. I love the guy, he is hilarious.

He's pretty much my first interest going into the third season and I'm a sucker for the story he'll make in this season whether or not he can redeem himself.

Speaking of the third season, Bumdidlyump's twitter just listed the participants of the third season. The airing date is also the first of October

https://twitter.com/Bumdidlyump/status/507730163678056448

Lotus Aura
Aug 16, 2009

KNEEL BEFORE THE WICKED KING!
Holy poo poo, Kang Yongseuk's a participant. Looking forward to see how he handles this after the Crime Scene stuff! :allears:

Zythrst
May 31, 2011

Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!
Ah man I was hoping Hyunmoo would be in this too. Either that or somebody like Bisu.

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

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Buglord
I guess Jinho is out unless they make it 14 players this time.

And Kang will definitely be the next Mr Magoo

Maduo
Sep 8, 2006

You see all the colors.
All of them.


Someone more immersed in korean pop culture could correct me here, but I like that a lot of these are unknowns/listed for their normal careers. There's something really cool about these normal people being celebrated for their skills.

They've got some good narratives going here too, like poker player vs poker dealer and Hweejong possibly redeeming himself.

I totally expect a swerve somewhere though, there's no way you keep Jinho and Sangmin away forever, even if not in a contestant capacity.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Is Dealer Nuna confirmed to be back for season three? This is important :ohdear:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Will the KAIST and Seoul National students team up or have a blood rivalry? :suspense:

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
Kawaii dealer Nuna-chan has been confirmed.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Suspicious Dish posted:

Kawaii dealer Nuna-chan has been confirmed.
Yuuuuussss, best news of season 3. :toot:

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zekezero
Apr 8, 2004

BSam posted:

Crime Scene was very enjoyable. You'll find that on the same tumblr and twitter account that The Genius is on.

thanks, im trying to catch up too.

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