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James Woods Fan posted:I thought the first season at least had decent effects for the era of television it belonged to. It did look way worse after that season though. The first season where Clark doesn't actually do anything super and all the villains are high school students with bland ironic powers?
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Irish Joe posted:The first season where Clark doesn't actually do anything super and all the villains are high school students with bland ironic powers? Wait, you said the first season but clearly described almost every season. What's your game here?
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Aug 28, 2014 02:09
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I watched the pilot for Smallville when it first aired but was put off because they tried to say that Clark was an awkward 14 year old. Oh, I don't know.
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Aug 28, 2014 02:14
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Smallville was Superman by way of Buffy except it actually managed to age faster and worse than Buffy. I do wonder how "Shattered" (the episode where Lex goes crazy) held up, though. That blew my mind when I first saw it.
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Aug 28, 2014 02:23
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I somehow ended up watching some of Smallville when it was in the first four seasons or so? I seem to remember it wasn't very bad, and Lex Luthor in particular was good, as was his dad. I gather things didn't go well for the show in the long run.
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Aug 28, 2014 02:55
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precision posted:I gather things didn't go well for the show in the long run. It lasted like 10 seasons soooooo. (Ten horrible, horrible season though)
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Aug 28, 2014 03:02
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precision posted:All you have to do is look at their threads. It's not an opinion. Here's the first season thread for Community. You'll note the first few pages are mostly full of people saying how great the pilot was.
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Aug 28, 2014 03:03
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quote:I gave up on this poo poo before the first or second commercial. Cannot really remember. This is "intelligent" comedy for people of average or below-average intelligence and no sense of writing. Seriously considering making that the entire OP for the next Community thread.
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Aug 28, 2014 03:04
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I like the unintentional foreshadowing:quote:First episode is on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OPYUSM
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precision posted:I somehow ended up watching some of Smallville when it was in the first four seasons or so? I seem to remember it wasn't very bad, and Lex Luthor in particular was good, as was his dad. Lex Luthor was one of the parts that was very good. Along with the best live action version of Lois Lane as well. Smallville wasn't all poo poo, just mostly poo poo. It had just enough good stuff in it to string people along that were even vaguely interested in it for years.
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Deadpool posted:Lex Luthor was one of the parts that was very good. Along with the best live action version of Lois Lane as well. Smallville wasn't all poo poo, just mostly poo poo. It had just enough good stuff in it to string people along that were even vaguely interested in it for years. And those people who got really invested graced us with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07MMlFqGvQ  DISCLAIMER:THIS MAY BE THE PROEST CLICK OF YOUR ENTIRE SHORT LIVES
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That just reminds me how much I've always hated the "crystal nonsense" Kryptonian tech design.
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DOPE. DOPE. NOTHING BUT DOPENESS.
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In a loving insane, unfunny collision of Games and TVIV again, I bring you Adam Baldwin (yes of Firefly and Chuck fame) getting dragged into this mess. Oh yeah, and Adam Baldwin is actually the crazy right-wing nut he so expertly portrays. This time it is certainly more on topic than the other day.quote:Zoë ʻGRANOSʼ Quinn @TheQuinnspiracy 1h What the gently caress internet, what the gently caress.
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I certainly hope it isn't news that Adam Baldwin is the worst. I thought everyone knew that once twitter rolled around. Sucks for her and I hope she gets through it, but the sooner we all stop talking about this debacle, the faster it ends.
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Yeah, Adam Baldwin most definitely has made his personality and views known on Twitter but one thing we're not doing is bringing this subject back up here. This is not the place for it.
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The biggest news is that he's not one of the Baldwin brothers.
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Mu Zeta posted:The biggest news is that he's not one of the Baldwin brothers.
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Mu Zeta posted:The biggest news is that he's not one of the Baldwin brothers. For some reason I thought he was, albeit the black sheep, or red sheep as the case may be? He's a total shitlord though. Hopefully the Baltimore police shoot his rear end on The Last Ship if that dumb show gets a second season.
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Berkeloid posted:Here's the first season thread for Community. You'll note the first few pages are mostly full of people saying how great the pilot was. Holy poo poo, reading the first few pages explained something for me. I watched the pilot waaaay back when NBC put it on Facebook the summer before it premièred. I didn't think it was that great, so I didn't give it another chance until the internet collectively shat themelseves over the first paintball episode. The second time I watched the pilot, it was a lot funnier. I couldn't figure out why until the poster in the first few pages who mentioned that NBC apparently cut some material out of the version they aired. Those scenes are obviously in the DVD version, which is what I watched the second time. So there's that mystery explained. I wonder what they were?
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Is there a general TVIV identify thread like CD has? I got a moment in mind that I remember from something but I can't remember just from what.
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Irish Joe posted:Netflix also renewed Hemlock Grove, proving definitively that Netflix has no idea what its doing. I'm actually pleased by this. The second season was an order of magnitude better than the first, even if I'm...unsure of how well they'll be able to follow on from the ending.
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Frostwerks posted:Is there a general TVIV identify thread like CD has? I got a moment in mind that I remember from something but I can't remember just from what. I'm sure you can just post it here, it's not like it's something that happens frequently enough to warrant its own thread.
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Frostwerks posted:Is there a general TVIV identify thread like CD has? I got a moment in mind that I remember from something but I can't remember just from what. You can use this one or create a thread for that if you want. It'd probably be handy. raditts posted:I'm sure you can just post it here, it's not like it's something that happens frequently enough to warrant its own thread. I imagine it would get some use if it existed.
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Frostwerks posted:Is there a general TVIV identify thread like CD has? I got a moment in mind that I remember from something but I can't remember just from what. Might as well just use that one for tv id too. Often people don't remember enough about what they're seeking to even specify for sure whether it's a movie or show anyway. Besides everyones in that thread is already absorbed into the mystery solving mindset of the great detectives of all media.... Sherlock Holmes, Jake Gittes, Scooby Doo.
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I just figured it out hahaha. I couldn't remember what show it was in. It was a four way between Venture Bros, Family Guy, Archer, and American Dad. Maybe more.EvilTobaccoExec posted:Might as well just use that one for tv id too. Often people don't remember enough about what they're seeking to even specify for sure whether it's a movie or show anyway. Besides everyones in that thread is already absorbed into the mystery solving mindset of the great detectives of all media.... Sherlock Holmes, Jake Gittes, Scooby Doo. I'm still desperately trying to remember just what I was watching when I heard a character pronouncing Tuxedo as Tuzeedo. I could have swore it was Tracy Jordan. Frostwerks fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Semi TV related question: Why does DJ Qualls keep getting work? He seems like the kind of person best suited for doing voice work, and not showing his face to a camera. And just for the record, DJ Qualls is awesome and should keep getting work. Jingleheimer fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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precision posted:TVIV inexplicably expects shows to come storming out the gate with their incredibleness. Which is funny considering, if you look back at the first threads for Bob's Burgers and Community, reactions to the first several episodes of both consisted of a lot of "this is the worst show I've ever seen" type hyperbole. I feel like the Bojack convo is a little rundown, but I think it leads to a much more interesting place, intellectually. Why do you like pilots? They're rough, especially for comedies. Generally, there is usually a thing or two in there that shows signs of potential. I don't really believe in huge changes in quality over a show's lifetime, with people's obsession with ranking seasons, episodes, individual nanoseconds in SA. Yes, things improve or don't, but the people behind the shows you love generally make these shows to scratch an itch they've had for yeeaaars. You get a sense of its ethos, its hook. I liked Bob's Burgers from the start. I liked Pars and Rec from the start. Both pilots turned my head around enough to say to myself hmmm this is interesting and NEW enough for me to see what happens next. Generally, if I have to work at watching a pilot, an episode of TV, I'll loving bail. Life's too short, and there's too many good things on already for me to see it. Good TV doesn't feel like work. TLDR: Bojack sucks horse sized testicles.
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Re: DJ Qualls He's in the "Buscemi zone". I'm finishing Bojack and it's not bad, but everone that's been endorsing it here keeps quoting bad jokes from it. It actually has some good jokes, and the main character arc is fun once it gets going. The secondary characters are not as great, and the facial animation could have stood to be much better though. Edit: thanks for undermining my short post as I was writing it.  At least I get to be the Zelda to your Zoe. Get it? From the show! Do you get it?
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I thought Bojack got better as the show went on (I'm 9 episodes down), although it never stopped having bad jokes, just started having decent ones. Also I may or may not have been too high to properly remember what happened during episodes 7 & 8, which is supposedly the big turning point.
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Amazon has five new pilots up that people can vote on to see if they go to series. https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001155581 Hand of God A psychological drama about a morally-corrupt judge who suffers a breakdown and believes God is compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice. Starring Ron Perlman and Dana Delany. Red Oaks A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. Starring Jennifer Grey and Paul Reiser. The Cosmopolitans A dramatic comedy about a group of young American expats in Paris searching for love and friendship and an ocean of distance from their past. Starring Chloë Sevigny and Adam Brody. Hysteria An investigative thriller about a haunted young doctor who is summoned back to her hometown to investigate an epidemic that may be linked to social media - and her own tragic past. Starring Mena Suvari and T.R. Knight. Really A funny, honest, behind-the-curtain look at the psychological and emotional complexities of marriage and the charged dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends grasping on to what's left of their youth. Starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Sarah Chalke, Selma Blair, Luka Jones, Hayes MacArthur, and Lindsey Sloan.
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Deadpool posted:Hysteria these sound slightly interesting, but the rest are pretty cookie cutter.
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Fooz posted:I vote none? You have the choice of Ron Perlman as psychotic judge murdering people in the name of his hallucinated god and you vote "No"?
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Deadpool posted:Hand of God
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Decius posted:You have the choice of Ron Perlman as psychotic judge murdering people in the name of his hallucinated god and you vote "No"? My exact thoughts. Sign me up for that one.
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From the director of World War Z and Quantum of Solace. Pass.
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Zaggitz posted:And those people who got really invested graced us with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07MMlFqGvQ Wow, everybody needs to watch this. I guess this is like what a TVIV live post thread would sound like if it were made human. It could be applied to any vaguely exciting or interesting episode of television.
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David Chase has officially answered the is Tony Soprano dead at the end of Sopranos question. Oh also the Discovery reality show Sons of Guns got cancelled. BECAUSE THE MAIN DUDE RAPED HIS 11 YO DAUGHTER!! zoux fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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