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Cingulate posted:What about the premise would you call decent? Immortal vampire worm lords with their own secret civilizations; one worm lord trying to splinter away from their cabal and create its own unsustainable murder kingdom within the United States - leading eventually to a World War when the rest of humanity found out. That's kinda cool. And then the dude's dick falling into the toilet when he peed.
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Drifter posted:Immortal vampire worm lords with their own secret civilizations; one worm lord trying to splinter away from their cabal and create his own unsustainable murder kingdom within the United States - leading eventually to a World War when the rest of humanity found out. I can't wait till they get to the Murder Kingdom part and how he structures it all. 
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Sep 14, 2014 21:58
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MariusLecter posted:I can't wait till they get to the Murder Kingdom part and how he structures it all. I have only seen the show, not read the books, it actually gets off the ground? That's pretty badass. I hope they have new cast next season then. Aside from the ratcatcher and the old dude. Do they team up with the Swat Bunnies, or do they never meet?
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Sep 14, 2014 22:50
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I love the casual anarchy of the city. The doc heads out to find his wife, general disorder and chaos is represented by one guy running past him with a box and glass breaking in the background.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:06
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It's the worlds most boring apocalypse.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:07
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The are working on a budget, guys. C'mon. < >
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Sep 15, 2014 03:10
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From everything I've read, their budget is like 40% of The Walking Dead.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:16
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They could at least set some things on fire!
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Sep 15, 2014 03:17
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Welp, that's the end of her.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:18
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She was a pretty terrible teacher considering she just ran off and left her students without a word.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:24
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One of us! One of us!
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Sep 15, 2014 03:28
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Shoulda listened to your ex who is trained in this sort of thing, the ppl in the earlier eps are so loving retarded.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:29
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So I see they're not afraid of child murder scenes. 
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Sep 15, 2014 03:42
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Minus points for old man not mentioning tubes when talking about computers/internet.
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hcreight posted:So I see they're not afraid of child murder scenes. Well there was that dead kid at the beginning. I kind of hope we get some behind the scenes stuff because I have to imagine the pre-production shots of people doing the vampire mouth are pretty funny.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:47
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Is there anything worse than a bad kid actor? Jesus gently caress.
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I was wondering if the Master was going to use Kelly for something more than just another drone in the ranks, and sure enough he seems to be.
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Sep 15, 2014 04:32
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CVagts posted:I was wondering if the Master was going to use Kelly for something more than just another drone in the ranks, and sure enough he seems to be. In the series another vampire super-power is being able to home in loved ones, so the masster basically now has a blood hound to track the Scooby gang.
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Candy Dawn posted:Shoulda listened to your ex who is trained in this sort of thing, the ppl in the earlier eps are so loving retarded. Back to moving at a snails pace. Yes, I have to say that if your ex-husband, or significant other, who is a top Doctor in the CDC tells you to leave town to avoid a horrible virus and you don't do it, then you deserve whatever happens. The internet and cell service doesn't work, except when it does work. Eph: The Director of the Center for Disease Control put me in charge. loving really? They also took you off the case and tried to put you in jail you worthless piece of poo poo. RatCatcher, HackerGirl and Rich Guy's Bodyguard need to take this show over. Finally, jump back 34 hours, then 17 hours, then 4 hours or whatever it was. That's just really, really bad writing. radical meme fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Sep 15, 2014 |
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That child actor is absolutely terrible, Carl from TWD was even better.
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Cute n Popular posted:That child actor is absolutely terrible, Carl from TWD was even better. I just watched the series premiere of. Z Nation on SyFy and I'm in. It's the campy feel god alternative to the laborious, cliche, don't go looking for the lost cat in the dark basement poo poo that is The Walking Dead. Seriously, gently caress The Walking Dead. But, watch Z Nation. Edit: sorry for posting this here but seriously, watch this. I think everyone hoping for entertainment from The Strain would enjoy Z Nation. radical meme fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Sep 15, 2014 |
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Sep 15, 2014 05:55
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God the acting in this show is bad. The acting or the written dialog, I can't be sure because it's all just so bad. The worm going into the lady's eye was pretty cool. I'm fifteen minutes in so far. God drat if this show didn't have special effects nobody'd watch it. I'm gonna check out ZNation, we'll see how that is. It may have been you, but I sw it recommended in the series' thread here, too. Sounded like something.
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radical meme posted:I just watched the series premiere of. Z Nation on SyFy and I'm in. It's the campy feel god alternative to the laborious, cliche, don't go looking for the lost cat in the dark basement poo poo that is The Walking Dead. Seriously, gently caress The Walking Dead. But, watch Z Nation. Z nation has the Asylum low budget direct to DVD feel. I'm watching it as a punishment TV series.
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Sep 15, 2014 07:11
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Blech, what an insufferably bad episode. pile that awful child acting on alongside heaps of boring focus on the least relevant garbage characters.
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Sep 15, 2014 07:11
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Does it loving LOOK like I found Mom, you walking failed abortion?
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Sep 15, 2014 07:27
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It really was completely unnecessary to show how the mom got changed and changed others, we get how the whole system worked did we really need 3/4ths of an episode devoted to re-explaining how they go after loved ones and the like? Seriously now.
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Justin Credible posted:It really was completely unnecessary to show how the mom got changed and changed others, we get how the whole system worked did we really need 3/4ths of an episode devoted to re-explaining how they go after loved ones and the like? Seriously now. But you had WORM VISION this time. What the eph is wrong with this show? I just want you to be good but you're letting me down so much.
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Sep 15, 2014 07:44
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That kid stinks and I don't like him.
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This show is seriously getting worse.
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Have they reduced the incubation time between infection and murderous zompire? Wasn't it like a day before you started attacking people? Or are Diane and her son now chosen as well? So did Dutch stick with the group or leave? I like her.
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Andrew_1985 posted:Have they reduced the incubation time between infection and murderous zompire? Wasn't it like a day before you started attacking people? Or are Diane and her son now chosen as well? The incubation period moves at the speed of plot. But I think the show has tried to get across that you will become a vampire more quickly if you are drained dry, as opposed to suffering an incidental worm. We're two episodes out from "army of vampires attack a gas station" and well into the total breakdown of society--it's literally too dangerous to walk on the street and has been for days--and characters are still sitting around having chats and ruminating about their personal lives. Or they're going off alone to go on quests of personal reflection. And we have to withstand Eph the Incredible Shithead who drives characters away by pulling rank as a CDC official, an organization that does not really exist at this point and he was made persona non grata from days ago. After an episode that was more of Eph's boring stupid personal life than ever. This is not even touching on the multiple moron characters, like security guy who wants it to be on the record that he "disagrees" with destroying civilization but has nothing further to contribute. The pacing of this show is miserable, it looked like they were all set to actually ramp things up with the encounter with Eichorst followed by the gas station episode, but somehow the show is now moving more slowly than ever. It feels like it's running up on significant budget constraints combined with just lousy writing all-around. It's not even fun to watch as a trainwreck, it's just kind of boring at this point. I think I'm done.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:The incubation period moves at the speed of plot. But I think the show has tried to get across that you will become a vampire more quickly if you are drained dry, as opposed to suffering an incidental worm. It's like everyone wakes up in the morning and has just forgotten about all the horrors that happened during the night. Whoever said that this is the most boring apocalypse ever was completely right.
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Christ this episode was bad. Just pure garbage. On the whole the series is kinda enjoyable when it's not taking itself too seriously... but this episode has forced me to complain on the internet.
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Love the cgi tears on that child actor's face in the last scene, such an emotional way to end the episode.
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radical meme posted:Rich Guy's Bodyguard need to take this show over. Roger Cross may get that chance if Continuum doesn't get renewed. He's a great actor and if you think he's good on The Strain he's even more of a badass as a super soldier/terrorist from the future.
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The weirdest moment was the way she instantly walked out on her classroom when her teacher friend said half the kids hadn't shown up. Not a "hey class, keep reading chapter 15" much less a "I have knowledge that there's an infectious disease spreading and you should go home". Just straight-up sociopath kids what loving kids I'm outta here.
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hepscat posted:The weirdest moment was the way she instantly walked out on her classroom when her teacher friend said half the kids hadn't shown up. Not a "hey class, keep reading chapter 15" much less a "I have knowledge that there's an infectious disease spreading and you should go home". Just straight-up sociopath kids what loving kids I'm outta here. Nuh uh. The weirdest moment was Felders storming out onto the streets at night over basically nothing, Setrakian saying nothing about it after previously yelling at people for divisiveness, and no one else having a problem with Eph pulling "rank" and driving her away after he spent the day abandoning the fight to search for his obviously-infected wife while Felders was actually trying to do something useful.
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Sep 15, 2014 16:18
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I think next week I'll just watch the last 15 minutes, and then if they're good, I'll watch the first 45 minutes of the immediate replay. Because the only important parts of that episode were "Fitzwilliam doesn't agree with his boss" and "Eph's wife is a vampire and now he knows it." We didn't need an hour to get there.
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CVagts posted:I think next week I'll just watch the last 15 minutes, and then if they're good, I'll watch the first 45 minutes of the immediate replay. Because the only important parts of that episode were "Fitzwilliam doesn't agree with his boss" and "Eph's wife is a vampire and now he knows it." We didn't need an hour to get there. This is the best course of action for this show, yeah. But to also play the initial 45 minutes at 2x speed if you decide to watch it.
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Whispering Machines posted:It's the worlds most boring apocalypse. I think that Argento's Mother of Tears still wins that one. It's not nearly as exciting as The Strain's NYC apocalypse (think about that one), but it still drives women to despondently throw their babies into the Tiber.
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