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GreenNight posted:Am I missing a joke? I stopped watching years ago, knew it got cancelled, had no idea it was picked up by... Yahoo does TV shows? I genuinely had no clue. Do they have a streaming service or something I should download? I just assumed that its cancellation had brought an end to all the complaining about shows like Big Bang Theory or Modern Family getting better ratings or more nominations. Wow, Yahoo does TV shows. Learn something new every day. poo poo, I didn't know Yahoo was still a thing.
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Yahoo seems to be doing well. They bought some ad company for 600 million recently. How much could a short season of Community cost?
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Dec 13, 2014 11:31
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Well, this season they've turned on the light, replaced all the black actors with white actors and will be filming in more than one location, so.. more than it did on NBC.
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Dec 13, 2014 11:47
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Who's watching Marco Polo? It certainly is a lavish collection of scenes.
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Yahoo bought Tumblr last year. They're doing fine for themselves.
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MrAristocrates posted:Yahoo bought Tumblr last year. They're doing fine for themselves.
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MrAristocrates posted:Yahoo bought Tumblr last year. They're doing fine for themselves. Oh really?
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Yeah wait till they start taking all the porn blogs down because of advertisers.... It'll tankasaurus in no time.
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Economics isn't a real science and economists are about as trustworthy and reliable as astrologists and palm readers when it comes to predicting the future.
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Just caught up on the first half of the latest season of the Walking Dead. It was easily it's best season - and by that I mean it wasn't bad and it was ok.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Economics isn't a real science and economists are about as trustworthy and reliable as astrologists and palm readers when it comes to predicting the future. Have you ever heard of ignoratio elenchi
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Dreylad posted:It's higher quality than Hemlock Grove. Well, can you think of a show that would not benefit from the inclusion of kung fu?
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Dec 13, 2014 20:09
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raditts posted:Well, can you think of a show that would not benefit from the inclusion of kung fu? Marco Polo also has a sex ninja, and I'm only 2 episodes in. And the old asian guy teaching him kung fu is a bit blown out of proportion here compared to how it's presented in the show to be honest. It's very well crafted so far, but the pacing and plot are eh. It's also very clearly a Game of Thrones metoo. Not sure if that's a bad thing or not yet.
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Dec 13, 2014 20:15
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CaptainHollywood posted:Just caught up on the first half of the latest season of the Walking Dead. It was easily it's best season - and by that I mean it wasn't bad and it was ok. I heard it started to improve once it split everyone up and became kind of a zombie anthology character study, is that right or no?
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Mo0 posted:I heard it started to improve once it split everyone up and became kind of a zombie anthology character study, is that right or no? Not really. The last season did a lot more of that, the start of this season reunited everyone then split them into two halves. One of the halves was really really similar to the story in Z Nation and Z Nation did it far better, in TWD it just fizzled into pointlessness as plots in TWD are wont to do.
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Okay, so I don't need to feel bad about staying away. Good to hear!
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IRQ posted:Marco Polo also has a sex ninja, and I'm only 2 episodes in. Yeah it's very well made and lovely to look at but it doesn't really have much of a narrative flow to it, things just happen scene by scene. It's not particularly focused. It also seems very slow moving but not necessarily boring. Probably entertaining enough for me to keep watching.
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Wandle Cax posted:Yeah it's very well made and lovely to look at but it doesn't really have much of a narrative flow to it, things just happen scene by scene. It's not particularly focused. It also seems very slow moving but not necessarily boring. Probably entertaining enough for me to keep watching. Yeah, that's my problem so far. I don't want to say "nothing happens" because stuff happens, but, it's so meandering and every time I think they're setting something up it just stalls with few exceptions. Yet it's not boring enough to stop either. I think this was the exact right time of the year to release this. Nothing else is really on so good enough is good enough?
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So, is The Taste just the food cooking equivalent of The Voice? Because I gave it a try and it seems unbearably awful.
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I've never seen either show but I would say in an abstract concept way taste is basically to cooking what voice is to singing. Or maybe it's smell? Look I can't cook or sing okay
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pentyne posted:So, is The Taste just the food cooking equivalent of The Voice? Because I gave it a try and it seems unbearably awful. Basically yeah. And you're correct, it's abysmal. I still can't believe Bourdain and Lawson are involved. Except that I can because $$$ but still.
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He made it sound like he has a lot of fun doing it in an interview I read recently, and I'm inclined to think he wouldn't be saying that if it was bullshit. Doesn't change whether or not the show is bad (I don't mind it, personally), but it'd explain his participation, at least.
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Not hating Marco Polo just yet, blind kung fu master, heaps of naked Asian birds. I'm all in for 10 episodes.
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Dec 14, 2014 10:05
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Can we have the Newsroom thread back for tonight's finale?
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Dec 14, 2014 13:48
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The pilot was Marco Polo was boss and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fuddy duddy. 
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Bown posted:Can we have the Newsroom thread back for tonight's finale? I don't think MrA can handle people talking about The Newsroom in The Newsroom thread without having an emotional breakdown.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't think MrA can handle people talking about The Newsroom in The Newsroom thread without having an emotional breakdown. Ironic given his thread was started because he toxxed himself to watch The Newsroom (and have an emotional breakdown).
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Irish Joe posted:I don't think MrA can handle people talking about The Newsroom in The Newsroom thread without having an emotional breakdown. It's more that watching the same handful of people argue about fake rape accusations for page after page is insufferable on the best of days, let alone after having to put up with it for months after The Gate That Shall Not Be Named.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's more that watching the same handful of people argue about fake rape accusations for page after page is insufferable on the best of days, let alone after having to put up with it for months after The Gate That Shall Not Be Named. The thread was closed less than a day after the episode aired. At least give people a little time to get poo poo out of their system before throwing a temper tantrum and closing the thread. Or, preferably, never close the thread because a discussion topic where you're not allowed discuss anything is boring and pointless (see: the TVIV annual poll thread).
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At least He Who Must Not Be Responded To just ignores the pages of bullshit in his show watch thread, and his isn't even also the thread for the show.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's more that watching the same handful of people argue about fake rape accusations for page after page is insufferable on the best of days, let alone after having to put up with it for months after The Gate That Shall Not Be Named. If the thread isn't opened back up, it's likely to just spill into this thread. I say contain it as much as possible.
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I told him he should combine the Newsroom and Korra threads into one terrible rear end thread, but the ball is in his court.
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Mo0 posted:He made it sound like he has a lot of fun doing it in an interview I read recently, and I'm inclined to think he wouldn't be saying that if it was bullshit. I think you're greatly underestimating Bourdain's willingness to whore himself out for money.
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Bown posted:At least He Who Must Not Be Responded To just ignores the pages of bullshit in his show watch thread, and his isn't even also the thread for the show. 
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Yeah, that wasn't my idea, people just kinda showed up.hcreight posted:I told him he should combine the Newsroom and Korra threads into one terrible rear end thread, but the ball is in his court. I am still in favor of this idea.
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Josh Lyman posted:Except it is the de facto Newsroom thread for this season. Try reading what I wrote again slowly.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:TV doesn't seem to lend itself to critics in the way that other media does. Most critic reviews of new shows are based on a few episodes or even just the pilot, if you had people review a movie based on the first 10 minutes or a game by the first level or an entire album off the first track they'd be rightfully laughed at but with TV reviews it's the norm. On the other hand, TV shows are meant to be watched episodically, so it's more like reviewing any average comic book. I want this dumb trend of TV shows turning into 12 hour long movies broken up into pieces to end, my memory doesn't have the capacity to remember this poo poo, and I sure as hell am not taking a month of my life to watch five 12-hour movies, no matter how good they are. I want more shows like The Flash, that show is dope.
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Yoshifan823 posted:On the other hand, TV shows are meant to be watched episodically, so it's more like reviewing any average comic book. Now that I think of it, even HoC did it better for the most part, each episode had a story. Occasionally they did a stupid "WHOA" cliffhanger which was pointless and resolved pretty limp-wristedly anyway (and also you could you just queue up the next episode). OITNB on the other hand pretty much worked like actual episodic TV, so I had no problems with that. This is somewhat of a problem with Game of Thrones, earlier on especially it was kinda hard to see where all the scenes are going sometimes, but they've gotten better at tying things together. Not sure if that's a byproduct of the show's writers or GRRM though, not having read the books.
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Sober posted:This is somewhat of a problem with Game of Thrones, earlier on especially it was kinda hard to see where all the scenes are going sometimes, but they've gotten better at tying things together. Not sure if that's a byproduct of the show's writers or GRRM though, not having read the books. A little of both, perhaps. The last two seasons were based on Storm of Sword, which is basically the book in which everything that was set up in Game of Thrones and A Crowning of Kings pays off. The writers of the show are also better about by giving exposition to more recognizable and interesting characters. For instance, the first season had Littlefinger telling rando whores why Ned was being such a gently caress up, whereas the fourth season had Charles Dance and Emma Peel discussing why Tyrion was being such a gently caress up.
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