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It's so sad that they could have gotten 7 episodes of exposition out of the way in the first two episodes and have been off and running with this type of thing in the third and fourth ep. Also, I was kinda laughing at the whole hacker chick being in the gas station with them.
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Drifter posted:Also, I was kinda laughing at the whole hacker chick being in the gas station with them. Yeah, this episode really played up the absurdity of the characters bumping into each other all the time. We already got that earlier this season with the clock robbery. I'm not sure if that is a thing in the books too, or if it's ever even explained if so. It's playing out like Lost, but I have yet to get the sense there was some over-arching mythology in control of these coincidences.
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I am with everyone who thought this was the best episode. It had a horror movies like feel, which is where this show really excels. Also Vasilliy and Setrakian are the protagonists as far as I am concerned. I do not really hate the doctors, but they are pretty much as generic as you can get. The only thing that bothered me a tiny bit, was the fact that if the vehicle was so close to being usable, they should have put EVERY effort to finish it. I mean grab all the lamps and push back, it is a hell of a lot better than running outside to the bread truck. Also the attendant wins the prize for dumbest person this episode, with bread truck driver a close second. I laughed that the first lady actually made it as far as we can tell.
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unlawfulsoup posted:Also Vasilliy and Setrakian are the protagonists as far as I am concerned. If they don't poo poo the bed and neuter the best parts of the books, they are the protagonists as far as the story is concerned too.
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Teek posted:Yeah, this episode really played up the absurdity of the characters bumping into each other all the time. We already got that earlier this season with the clock robbery. I'm not sure if that is a thing in the books too, or if it's ever even explained if so. It's playing out like Lost, but I have yet to get the sense there was some over-arching mythology in control of these coincidences. But I mean, these characters are the ones that get followed in the show, so of course they hook up eventually. We don't get to see the 12 other hacker chicks who started to piece things together and then got eaten. Its not so much "look how the Lost passengers' lives intersect" as "this is how these random people meet up."
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I find it much easier to believe that vampires can be things than uv lights can work without being plugged in
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Didn't they say that they were running them off of batteries?
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Sep 1, 2014 16:43
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Yeah they were battery-powered. I'm not sure whether battery-powered UV lamps are really something that you would find in a medical supply store though. They did have good batteries because they must have been wired up to run the gas pump at some point also.
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if they're battery powered why did samewise have to go through the trouble of plugging the first one in?
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Fateo McMurray posted:if they're battery powered why did samewise have to go through the trouble of plugging the first one in? They needed to be charged.
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Convenient story
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The exterminator guy also happens to be an expert on the subject of how long rechargeable medical UV lamp batteries will last.
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withak posted:The exterminator guy also happens to be an expert on the subject of how long rechargeable medical UV lamp batteries will last. He must've read the instructions on the back.
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Fateo McMurray posted:I find it much easier to believe that vampires can be things than uv lights can work without being plugged in As if this were the largest plot hole of the episode.
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matrocious posted:As if this were the largest plot hole of the episode. Electricity's right up there with magnets when it comes to confusing people.
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withak posted:Yeah they were battery-powered. I'm not sure whether battery-powered UV lamps are really something that you would find in a medical supply store though. They did have good batteries because they must have been wired up to run the gas pump at some point also. For a regular person who has never seen a medical UV lamp in real life,neither knew of their existence, it worked because I thought they were like those normal lamps that you use in case of an emergency.  Well,I learned something new.
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Drifter posted:He must've read the instructions on the back. 
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Come on, no one else recognised Rick Baker as "Brooklyn Guy"?
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Sep 1, 2014 19:29
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That was Rick Baker? Haha that's awesome. I thought he looked familiar. Also in the books Fet uses the blacklights a lot to find rat urine so it's not surprising he knows about UV lamps. Plus he's the best character so he can do whatever he wants and know everything.
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Sep 1, 2014 20:26
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Definitely the standout episode of the show, and a lot of stupid fun. They are aggressively changing direction of the protagonists the viewer will actually care about as if they realized they bet on the wrong horses for the first 6 episodes. Less horrible wigs and belabored handwringing that isn't at all believable, more shooting sean astin in the head
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I didn't see them actually shooting that guy, glad they did. VVV Oops yeah I meant I watched it happen, but I expected them to drag it out for an episode or 2 like "If we kill him we're no better than the vamps!!" *kills 7 other guys without remorse* VVV bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Sep 1, 2014 |
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Sep 1, 2014 20:43
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Yeah they did, Vasily triple tapped him like a pro in close-up but then they never showed his corpse again. Must be union rules or something!
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Sep 1, 2014 20:58
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Whispering Machines posted:That was Rick Baker? Haha that's awesome. I thought he looked familiar. UV lights are like basic equipment in the cleaning business. More like flashlight types, but they're not some arcane thing you can only get from 2 stores in a city like Mew York. We have a bunch of them at work. I just conceded that the show needed high-intensity ones for vampire reasons, but in all fairness grow lights for weed growers would probably do the trick too.
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They really should have sold Vasilliy as the protagonist of the show imo. A badass literal ratcatcher turned vampire hunter? Hell yes. Instead they spent episode after episode showing us Eph's divorce and kid and zzzzzzzz Eph and the woman doctor (she's so boring I can't even remember her name) are just the worst.
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withak posted:The exterminator guy also happens to be an expert on the subject of how long rechargeable medical UV lamp batteries will last. He's the smartest person on this show so I don't doubt he knows something about them.
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Noirex posted:Eph and the woman doctor (she's so boring I can't even remember her name) are just the worst. Her two character traits are an Alzheimer mom and irrational convictions.
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I can get over Eph being all "The master sees what now?" because the disease can be somehow grounded with science, but the master seeing through all of his slaves/being able to order them around is basically fantasy world -level stuff with no reasonable chain of reasoning at all. He's still dumb, of course. This episode kept me on the edge of my seat, constantly. I have to say I liked Vasiliy ever since he was in that shop showing a sketch of the vampires, I mean, by then I realized "This guy can't be just a regular rat exterminator, dude can draw, that's some clear characterization going on there." And apparently he was academically gifted which we found out from the conversation with his father. Why didn't they use the infected guy as a bait/fighting force that doesn't have to be afraid of getting infected and off him later on?
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Badass episode start to finish. RIP Rudy.
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I liked that Hassan elected to stay in the station even after he presumably heard the rest of the gang discuss their plan to blow it up.
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So yeah this show basically sucks when it's not about Vasiliy or whatever Eichorst is doing. As most people have mentioned, the lead character is insufferable, and every time they dwell on any given character's personal problems, it's even more insufferable. Ephraim is a huge rear end in a top hat and a moron. If the show had any hint of genius it would have surprise-killed him off in episode 8. Watching him sit around and whine about his life at custody hearings and therapy sessions was easily the worst part of the show, and when they had other characters start doing it, it was nearly too much. The show needs to be more about crises and less about downtime to explore characters' families, because it's not good at the latter thing, and really it gets the wrong idea by thinking that this is a draw. The way they handle it, it's not raising the stakes at all or making anyone interesting, it's just burning up time. The show's insistence for most of the first season that it's a police procedural about the simplest mystery ever also got a little old, and the show is pockmarked with plot holes and convenient coincidences at this point. It was awful nice of Setrakian to remember that you can kill the Master to end the plague only after several days of trying to kill a list of 200+ people by himself. So, the writing is terrible and some of the characters are worse, but Kevin Durand and his in-and-out Ukrainian accent, along with the Nazi Vampire who thinks Setrakian "just takes things too personally," hold up the show. Name Change fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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I have to know what magical force made the gas pump accept a credit card but the machines and phone lines inside the store were down. Did you guys miss this?
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life is killing me posted:I have to know what magical force made the gas pump accept a credit card but the machines and phone lines inside the store were down. Did you guys miss this? Phone lines and cell towers work when the power of the plot compels them.
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Capitalism trumps human safety in America.
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life is killing me posted:I have to know what magical force made the gas pump accept a credit card but the machines and phone lines inside the store were down. Did you guys miss this? Gas pumps run on generators apart from the main power grid just in case of emergencies and giant hurricanes. And have a different internet for validating credit cards. The secret internet for banks. ...just run with this
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Drifter posted:Gas pumps run on generators apart from the main power grid just in case of emergencies and giant hurricanes. And have a different internet for validating credit cards. The secret internet for banks. You're doing better than the writers with this so let us continue
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I love how many people are taking this show seriously. They show is ridiculous, is too much like Blade 2, I love it for what it is.
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Plus, it's likely that the credit machines weren't DOWN, but simply rarely able to get a transaction through and they got lucky at the pumps, whereas Hassan's thought was likely 'no, I tried once a few hours ago and I am not trying another card transaction until tomorrow or death by vampire, whichever comes first'
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Comrade Fakename posted:I liked that Hassan elected to stay in the station even after he presumably heard the rest of the gang discuss their plan to blow it up. He fit right in with the shows theme of having characters that are so stupid that you have to pause it and take a breather once in a while. I'm sure bread restocking dude would have joined him in there given the opportunity. Also, I'm kind of bummed super hacker isn't wearing her "OS" shirt anymore.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I liked that Hassan elected to stay in the station even after he presumably heard the rest of the gang discuss their plan to blow it up. I lost my poo poo when Joshua  called the Quick Stop guy "Apu"
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