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Deadpool posted:Please do not respond to anything posted by Toxxupation in this thread anymore. That's the new number one rule of the thread. It comes before all other rules. Fuckin' aces.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:All anime is terrible. I've never watched it but the internet told me it is. Now, let us argue passionately about various children's cartoons that we, as adults, are watching and critiquing as high art. It's okay though, they're western. Western cartoon fans used to be able to look down on anime fans for writing thousands of words about how thousand-year-old lesbian demons that looked like underaged girls were actually cool and good, but they lost that right around the time when they started writing thousands of words about how a thousand-year-old lesbian vampire that looked like an underage girl was not only cool and good but really, really deep and progressive.
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Nov 22, 2014 02:56
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So Hannibal is a pretty great show you guys.
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MrAristocrates posted:So Hannibal is a pretty great show you guys. But would it be a good anime?
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Vincent posted:But would it be a good anime?
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Nov 22, 2014 07:05
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This season has had more burnouts that any I can remember. Of the new shows I started watching, I've abandoned: Madam Secretary, Gotham, Scorpion, Forever, How to Get Away with Murder, Gracepoint, and Constantine. The only one left standing is The Flash, and that's in large part because I watch it with my roommate.
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I rather like Constantine.
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Nov 22, 2014 12:52
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Same. Each episode has gotten better than the last.
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Josh Lyman posted:This season has had more burnouts that any I can remember. Of the new shows I started watching, I've abandoned: Madam Secretary, Gotham, Scorpion, Forever, How to Get Away with Murder, Gracepoint, and Constantine. Hah, our lists are exactly the same (though you probably have Madam Secretary and Gracepoint more of a chance than I did). I actually stuck with Forever way longer than I meant to but can't really explain why. It was easy to watch and not completely terrible, I guess. Vincent posted:But would it be a good anime? ...I could actually see it working. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Nov 22, 2014 |
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Nov 22, 2014 16:42
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I'm sticking with How To Get Away With Murder just because the first season of Scandal wasn't anything special either. Hoping for improvement though, the first handful of episodes aren't anything to write home about really.
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Nov 22, 2014 18:15
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Josh Lyman posted:This season has had more burnouts that any I can remember. Of the new shows I started watching, I've abandoned: Madam Secretary, Gotham, Scorpion, Forever, How to Get Away with Murder, Gracepoint, and Constantine. I'm still watching Gotham. I won't defend it as a good show, but I find it rather enjoyable for the exploits of future Commissioner Gordon & Oswald Cobblepot. Scorpion is a terrible show that I still watch just because I have a crush on McPhee, and I keep thinking T-1000 might bring some respect to the show (he doesn't.) Forever is one I watch because it's there and I work from home and it helps pass an hour as background noise while I'm on the clock. Constantine, however, I genuinely like. I am an easy sell on angels and demons and supernatural mumbo jumbo. Flash is alright. I'm more into it for the connection to Arrow than on the merits of the show itself, but like Forever, it helps pass an hour work monotony. The rest of the shows never made it to my viewing schedule.
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I've abandoned HTGAWM, Stalker, and Resurrection completely this year, and I fell off of Manhattan, Ray Donovan, and House of Lies toward the ends of their seasons.
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I don't think you're missing much. In other news, Hannibal is awesome and rhythm games are for children and manchildren. But I do really like Serial tho
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Nov 22, 2014 20:24
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The newest season of Key & Peele is great, they conspicuously went out of their way to not re-use characters and sketches from earlier seasons and they ditched the Chapelle's Show-style mugging to an audience between sketches and it's a stronger show for it. And they're getting a lot better about ending sketches. Also season 3 of The Eric Andre Show has started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8KFQEPolk
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The newest season of Key & Peele is great, they conspicuously went out of their way to not re-use characters and sketches from earlier seasons And yet they spent a big chunk of an episode re-using their worst character (Slap-rear end). Don't get me wrong, this season is good, but I don't think it's that marked of an improvement. I mean it's more "solid" but the hits aren't making me laugh as much as the biggest hits from earlier seasons. e: I do love the car-driving framing segments, I would watch a whole film of nothing but that.
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Josh Lyman posted:This season has had more burnouts that any I can remember. Of the new shows I started watching, I've abandoned: Madam Secretary, Gotham, Scorpion, Forever, How to Get Away with Murder, Gracepoint, and Constantine. Why Forever and Constantine? I feel like those have been two of the better shows this season. precision posted:And yet they spent a big chunk of an episode re-using their worst character (Slap-rear end). That one Steampunk sketch from the first or second episode is one of the single funniest things I've seen this season. I don't get Eric Andre though. That show seems like Space Ghost if it was live-action and wackier but also not funny at all. raditts fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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raditts posted:I don't get Eric Andre though. That show seems like Space Ghost if it was live-action and wackier but also not funny at all. It's like Tim and Eric where the humor is in how aggressively unfunny it is. I guess some people find that funny. And by some people I mean stoners.
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Nov 23, 2014 02:17
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I don't smoke but I also find Eric Andre hilarious v v
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I'm repulsed by Tim and Eric's comedy and I think The Eric Andre Show is incredible.
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Yeah we've shown it to maybe 10 friends in total, and all but 2 loved it. And one was down to a maasive cultural difference.
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Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHn8f9cFEw
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Exhibit B (watch through to the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWa4ScfQXc EDIT: I don't want to flood this page with YouTube embeds, so just click through for Exhibit C. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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I assume having never seen Space Ghost helps a little but I adore The Eric Andre Show. Any time there's interplay between him and Hannibal (the perfect foil to his manic style) I laugh my rear end off.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fm-xSSARyo The reactions to this kill me every time I watch it, especially that last guy 
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raditts posted:That one Steampunk sketch from the first or second episode is one of the single funniest things I've seen this season. Oh poo poo, I forgot about that sketch. Yeah that was loving amazing.
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precision posted:Oh poo poo, I forgot about that sketch. Yeah that was loving amazing. "I live in a clock now. I'm just an ill-rear end Lemony Snicket in this bitch.  "I can't find a clip of it that isn't somebody recording their TV with a potato so here's the Family Matters sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Zdp1RfoyI
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PostNouveau posted:I don't know why Sepinwall is trying to make this sound absolutely insane. Networks sometimes pick up shows that other networks pass on. Like, 3rd Rock from the Sun was originally a failed ABC pilot. This isn't saving a pilot though, this is taking a show that got ordered and was going to air.
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I never realized how absolutely insane Nielsen ratings were. I recently received an offer to be part of the Nielsen TV ratings panels, and accepted - they included some free cash in the envelope! I'll be rich!! Fast forward a few weeks, and a bulky envelope arrives with $25 cash and two big bulky survey forms. In 2014 they really expect me to fill out this "diary", with pen, of my TV watching habits. Its clunky and labor intensive, probably would take me a good 30-45 minutes just to fill out one and they segregate it by TV (one packet per TV in the house). They ask me to look up my TV stations by call sign and name, I have no idea anymore what channels are or what time stuff airs, its all on my DVR. It really makes me wonder who the insane people are that actually fill this thing out, my wife and kids just laughed in my face when I asked them to fill it out for $15  Maybe if there was a website I could go to that I could do a few button clicks on shows I watch or even better a smartphone app that I just press every time I start/stop watching TV, but nope I guess filling out 40+ pages of paper is pretty modern too.I really, really hope network executives make decisions off other data, because if its still based on Nielsen ratings well the system is massively hosed.
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You should've offered them the whole $25 rather than trying to profit off your family you jerk  spronk posted:I really, really hope network executives make decisions off other data, because if its still based on Nielsen ratings well the system is massively hosed. 
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DivisionPost posted:Exhibit B (watch through to the end): "Watch it to the end" is the new "I'm not racist but..."
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spronk posted:I never realized how absolutely insane Nielsen ratings were. I recently received an offer to be part of the Nielsen TV ratings panels, and accepted - they included some free cash in the envelope! I'll be rich!! Fast forward a few weeks, and a bulky envelope arrives with $25 cash and two big bulky survey forms. I didn't even know they still did the diaries. I thought they were using creepy set-top boxes that could actually track which members of the family are currently sitting in front of the TV watching shows.
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smg77 posted:I didn't even know they still did the diaries. I thought they were using creepy set-top boxes that could actually track which members of the family are currently sitting in front of the TV watching shows. The diaries are for a one week sample. The set top boxes are permanent.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Western cartoon fans used to be able to look down on anime fans nah icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/23/nbc-not-picking-up-back-nine-episodes-of-constantine/330982/ Constantine is not getting a back nine though NBC says they have not ruled out renewing it.
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bull3964 posted:http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/23/nbc-not-picking-up-back-nine-episodes-of-constantine/330982/ Fuckin' NBC. Figures that they would cancel the one show I still watch on their lovely network.
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A show on the rear end end of Friday night not getting huge numbers, what a loving surprise.
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Constantine should be on the CW so it can get a million seasons just because of tumblr fangirls alone. drat it, I really like that show. 
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