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We can only hope it's half as memorable as the live-action Mario movie.
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It will be like game of thrones in the same manner, because nerds will become insufferable about it very quickly.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 01:55 |
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So basically watch it but don't read the thread?
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 01:56 |
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Did anyone else watch Allegiance? It was pretty meh, had some okay moments. Don't get all the comparisons to it being like The Americans other than "Russian family secretly spies" angle.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 01:59 |
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zoux posted:The lesson here is that threads invariably turn against genre shows. The Whedon thread is still positive. Smaller shows, like the Booth At The End, are consistently positive. Its just people want to focus on other people being lovely. Seems like a waste of time, to me. EDIT: Shouldn't Zelda be a cartoon? It fits the tone (I haven't played any of the games after the N64 one). Shageletic fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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Sober posted:Did anyone else watch Allegiance? Watching it now. It feels a lot like "Let's get the jump on The Americans and their turn Paige into a spy storyline" coupled with an occasionally-too-cheery soundtrack. I'm willing to give it a couple more episodes, but it feels like something FX could do much better at right out of the gate than NBC. The last NBC show I really, really enjoyed was a show I first saw on TNT because they'd cancelled it and TNT picked it up out of the half-off bin (Southland). CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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One thing in Zelda's favor is a ton of incredible music.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 04:02 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:Watching it now. It feels a lot like "Let's get the jump on The Americans and their turn Paige into a spy storyline" coupled with an occasionally-too-cheery soundtrack. Also just the drastic overuse of chryrons, like actually supposed to be so confusing where people are or you don't feel like preserving a single shred of mystery for even half a scene to something.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 04:02 |
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Helix continues to be such a loving weird show. Like in this week's episode during the 30 years into the future timeline Hiroshi went fishing with his imaginary dead adopted son and during the fishing montage they played the Andy Griffith theme.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 05:17 |
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Shageletic posted:EDIT: Shouldn't Zelda be a cartoon? It fits the tone (I haven't played any of the games after the N64 one). Because nothing can top the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG6FM_X8I3c
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 06:05 |
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Shageletic posted:EDIT: Shouldn't Zelda be a cartoon? It fits the tone (I haven't played any of the games after the N64 one). Netflix is clearly gunning for a Game of Thrones-type show, and the idea here is they could build Zelda into something like that. The one obvious difference being that instead of a set story like GoT's, Zelda is pretty malleable outside of involving Zelda, Link, and probably Ganondorf. So in theory they could hire a good writer to flesh out a story. If this show is ever actually produced. Who knows?
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 06:15 |
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They only need to lock a big star for Ganondorf; each season can have a different Link and Zelda, or even rotate between Links and Zeldas to tell a story spanning eras. It'll be easy to tell them all apart because the Links and Zeldas will vary in genders and ethnicities.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 06:33 |
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Sober posted:It's a great idea. Welll excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, princess.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 06:51 |
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The only way I see a Legend of Zelda show being good is if Sam Raimi is behind it and they basically just re-release Legend of the Seeker.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 06:53 |
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It got lost in the previous discussion of genre shows, but Banshee has been absolutely slaying it in its last season, and could count as one of those shows that never has a bad episode. Sober posted:The only way I see a Legend of Zelda show being good is if Sam Raimi is behind it and they basically just re-release Legend of the Seeker. The internet is going to lose their mind with the cast is announced and when stills from the production are released. I'd like to know who's writing the story or if they're just going to adapt one of the games. Each season corresponding to a different game and have a different cast(aside from Link, Zelda, and Ganon) like True Detective could potentially make for some innovative TV but I doubt that'll happen.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 07:06 |
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pentyne posted:It got lost in the previous discussion of genre shows, but Banshee has been absolutely slaying it in its last season, and could count as one of those shows that never has a bad episode. This is the final season of Banshee? Booo.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 07:12 |
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Manos del Sino posted:This is the final season of Banshee? They haven't ordered a 4th season yet, but it's Cinemax's new signature show now that Strike Back is on its way out. If this was the last ride, there'd be more fanfare. I think pentyne just meant "this current season."
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 07:16 |
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Fooz posted:One thing in Zelda's favor is a ton of incredible music. Hence the Netflix series will be a musical, like Glee and Galavant.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 11:05 |
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ABC is reviving Battlebots http://gizmodo.com/battlebots-is-back-after-ten-years-and-its-bound-to-be-1684321001
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 11:30 |
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PostNouveau posted:ABC is reviving Battlebots I wish the BBC would revive Robot Wars.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 11:59 |
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DivisionPost posted:They haven't ordered a 4th season yet, but it's Cinemax's new signature show now that Strike Back is on its way out. If this was the last ride, there'd be more fanfare. I think pentyne just meant "this current season." Speaking of Strike Back.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLSr0dg-u9c Is it now common to use drones to get cameras into the middle of the action ? This is the first time I've seen such a drone used in TV or movie filming.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 13:06 |
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CeeJee posted:This is the first time I've seen such a drone used in TV or movie filming. Two recurring characters in Alpha House are actual drones
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 13:17 |
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PostNouveau posted:ABC is reviving Battlebots Finally, something to fill the hole in my life of "wedge-shaped RC cars idly ramming into one another until one stops working" that I've been missing since the original went off the air.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 15:44 |
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Catching up with my HBO subscription. Looking still holds up, as great comedy/drama. Togetherness is bunk. No want.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 16:58 |
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Shageletic posted:Catching up with my HBO subscription. Looking still holds up, as great comedy/drama. Togetherness is bunk. No want. You didn't even like the Tom Sawyer air-drumming?
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 18:01 |
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Shageletic posted:Catching up with my HBO subscription. Looking still holds up, as great comedy/drama. Togetherness is bunk. No want. My opinion on both is the exact opposite of yours.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 18:40 |
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Ariza posted:My opinion on both is the exact opposite of yours. GET OUT Eh, might as well state reasons. Togetherness, at least from the first ep I watched, has no characters that I particularly like, the main thing a pilot is supposed to provide. From the first frame, its about how miserable these people are, and the unrealistic dialogue and situations they use to communicate it. Amanda Peets (who I think is great) is borderline insane, the husband (Duplass, another person I like, is given nothing interesting here) and the wife (who I've seen pop up everywhere), are doing the most cliche sitcom thing imaginable. Oh, they'd rather masturbate than actually have sex?! How surprising! The sad sack fat guy who's down on his luck and underappreciated even though he has a heart of gold and constantly knows exactly what to do while given the show's best comedic lines makes think he's the creator/creators avatars or something. Anyway, plenty of good things on TV, nothing there for me to come back for. Unlike Looking. Maybe it's because I saw the whole first season at once, but I think its going through some interesting twists/turns on the maturing urban dweller genre. I like the main character, from the first moment of him giggling his way through a ridiculous encounter, and I like the dialogue and relatively lax plotting in the eps I've seen. Its a world that hasn't really been portrayed on TV without dwelling into stereotypes and melodrama, and more than anything, I want each and everyone of these characters to succeed (with maybe the exception of the artist friend, maybe a purposeful point). I can see some intelligence riding behind this thing. Also, the music is dope. savinhill posted:You didn't even like the Tom Sawyer air-drumming? Shrug.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 19:00 |
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raditts posted:Finally, something to fill the hole in my life of "wedge-shaped RC cars idly ramming into one another until one stops working" that I've been missing since the original went off the air. Sometimes the spinning ones are cool
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 19:34 |
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I remember seeing a few episodes of the British robot fighting show and it was terrible. All the robots barely did anything and just kind of nudged each other. At least the US version had those wedge flippers that threw robots 20 feet into the air.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 19:40 |
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I imagine it's gotten at least a little bit easier/cheaper to design and build a robot in the last decade so I'm hoping for some cool designs.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 19:59 |
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PostNouveau posted:Sometimes the spinning ones are cool Until they face a wedge. Any dumb robot fighting show that allows wedges is going to be boring garbage. Also spinny things for that matter. You might as well just let people strap a brick of C4 to an RC car.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 20:02 |
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Mu Zeta posted:I remember seeing a few episodes of the British robot fighting show and it was terrible. All the robots barely did anything and just kind of nudged each other. At least the US version had those wedge flippers that threw robots 20 feet into the air. This one is pretty fun.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 20:25 |
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VDay posted:I imagine it's gotten at least a little bit easier/cheaper to design and build a robot in the last decade so I'm hoping for some cool designs. Not really, those kinds of parts are still expensive.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 20:30 |
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IRQ posted:You might as well just let people strap a brick of C4 to an RC car. Like, one robot is just a moving chasis with a giant blast shield on the front and C4 on the other side of the blast shield? Yeah, that would be awesome.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 20:34 |
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IRQ posted:Until they face a wedge. The problem with robot fighting is that practical beats cool looking.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 21:38 |
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PostNouveau posted:Like, one robot is just a moving chasis with a giant blast shield on the front and C4 on the other side of the blast shield? Yeah, that would be awesome. Two legged androids v. giant spider machines. We have the technology.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 21:41 |
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Shageletic posted:
I watched a few episodes of this show and it just seemed sorta dull to me. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy though so that coulda messed with my expectations.
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# ? Feb 7, 2015 22:45 |
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savinhill posted:I watched a few episodes of this show and it just seemed sorta dull to me. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy though so that coulda messed with my expectations. Its a dramedy like Girls, which means it's not funny nor a good drama
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# ? Feb 8, 2015 01:38 |
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Just because a show is 30 minutes doesn't mean it has to be a comedy or a "dramedy".
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# ? Feb 8, 2015 02:02 |
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muscles like this? posted:The problem with robot fighting is that practical beats cool looking. Yeah, I know, and from a purely competitive standpoint yeah, it makes sense to just do that. But iirc they disallowed projectile weapons before, it doesn't seem like banning instant win designs like wedges would be a problem. It's not fun to watch Sportsball City Team come out to try to score a home field basket and the other team has 4 technicals driving around the endfield.
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