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MacDougall posted:Brian is building quite a set of skills. The issue is that he only has partial access to his skills when not on the drug.
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Kegslayer posted:Amateur paper mache enthusiast. I love that the little clay dolls/figures he likes to make are a recurring thing. They could have easily been a one-off joke for his Sands diorama, but instead became the most adorable little idiosyncrasy.
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Change the world? I think Brian is going to lead the Sesame Street revival on HBO.
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karrethuun posted:ROFL the "hacking" montages. Another hilarious episode, although I could do without the downer dad. That was a loving cutting sendup on the accuracy of "exciting hacking sequences" (but while also explaining why that's necessary in a pretty funny way). Show's killing it. It's filled my Leverage-hole. 
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Despite my fear of being boo'd from this thread, I can't shake the feeling that a cross over w/ Elementary would be epic.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Despite my fear of being boo'd from this thread, I can't shake the feeling that a cross over w/ Elementary would be epic. Craig Sweeny DID used to write for Elementary...
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Dead Snoopy posted:Despite my fear of being boo'd from this thread, I can't shake the feeling that a cross over w/ Elementary would be epic. The plot implications would be too much. If Holmes cottoned on to the existence of NZT, he'd never let it go.
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I was thinking of more of a partner exchange, where Brian & Watson would work half of the case while Holmes and Rebecca covered other leads.
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Watson and Rebecca would spend the whole episode doing difficult police work and hunting down leads, Finch and Holmes would solve their part in about 5 minutes and then spend the rest of the episode doing crafts and experiments and playing with Clyde. It would be the greatest hour of television ever made.
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Holmes on NZT would be beyond a super human. He would solve every unsolved case in new York City history in a day.
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Holmes seems like he's supposed to be akin to a Greek demigod, just instead of serving as a superhuman exemplification of the virtues of physical heroism, he exemplifies enlightenment era ideals of mind. If he came upon NZT, he'd be intractably fixated. He'd never concern himself with anything ever again. He likes helping people, so the 'Pandora's Box' angle would ensnare him as NZT getting out would be worse than nuclear proliferation. He's committed to elevating his mind, so the nootropic angle would ensnare him as NZT would bump him up to 'Minor Deity' and he'd never want to come down from there. He's addicted to puzzles, so the elevated perceptions and capacities would open entirely new domains of thought he'd never want to leave. He'd build an Olympus, invent ambrosia (often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it) and completely leave the show's format behind. A Holmes that knows about NZT would never pursue anything else ever again, not until he had it.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Despite my fear of being boo'd from this thread, I can't shake the feeling that a cross over w/ Elementary would be epic. I did briefly think that the Anonymous hacker collective on Elementary ("Everywhere") was the same on Limitless , but that lot's called "Everyone".
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I've watched very little Elementary but here's a good asspull to dodge the NZT problem (not that this will ever happen) - Holmes already has smartbrains, so NZT can't make his smartbrains that much more smart. For people who are already geniuses you can just say it is only a minor benefit but retains the terrible side effects (and of course he won't know about the shot).
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Holyshoot posted:Elementary worth watching I take it?  and Clyde.
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Holyshoot posted:Elementary worth watching I take it? Personally, I'd rank it #2 in between Jeremy Brett's #1 and Cumberbatch's #3.
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Anyone who has given Elementary a fair shake should honestly put Miller's Sherlock Holmes over Cumberbatch's, unless you absolutely, unconditionally love the BBC Sherlock for the pure spectacle of it or you have some weird Cumberbatch fetish.
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Yeah Elementary is really, really good. Doubly so if you've ever dealt with or know someone who's dealt with addiction. But even apart from that the show is pretty fun, Liu and Miller are great fits for Watson/Holmes, and the two of them get some very natural and rewarding character progression that you usually don't see in 20+ episode procedurals on a major network. Plus some of the goofier crime-of-the-week episodes come pretty close to Limitless levels of fun, minus the visual flair of course.
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Finally got around to catching up on the latest episode, I absolutely loved the tech montages. That cute kitten montage had to have saved some intern or low level writer a few hours of wikipedia time.
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Accretionist posted:Holmes seems like he's supposed to be akin to a Greek demigod, just instead of serving as a superhuman exemplification of the virtues of physical heroism, he exemplifies enlightenment era ideals of mind. If he came upon NZT, he'd be intractably fixated. He'd never concern himself with anything ever again. Holmes is also an addict. It would be bad, and he'd probably kill himself with the effects except that of course he'd figure out everything about Morra and figure out how to get the shots. I love this show (Limitless) - and I loved how when Finch's dad was showing him the box of stuff he was like "I guess I've always been arts and craftsy!" I love his little dioramas and clay figurines he makes for illustrating stuff. 
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So was the most recent episode a midseason finale or something? Otherwise, where is my favorite new show? This is unacceptable 
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Shakugan posted:So was the most recent episode a midseason finale or something? Otherwise, where is my favorite new show? This is unacceptable Nah, this gap's just for who knows what reason, the midseason finale's next week
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Allyn posted:Nah, this gap's just for who knows what reason, the midseason finale's next week They did this poo poo to Person of Interest for years, now they are doing it to one of their great new shows? God network execs are terrible. Like, really. A two week gap for no reason, then a mid season finale, then a gap for who knows how long? I don't understand how tv channels, that are typically so obsessed with ratings, don't seem to understand that putting random breaks in the middle of a show (particularly one that isn't purely procedural) isn't good for ratings.
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Shakugan posted:They did this poo poo to Person of Interest for years, now they are doing it to one of their great new shows? God network execs are terrible. Like, really. A two week gap for no reason, then a mid season finale, then a gap for who knows how long? I don't understand how tv channels, that are typically so obsessed with ratings, don't seem to understand that putting random breaks in the middle of a show (particularly one that isn't purely procedural) isn't good for ratings. They only had a 13 episode order before getting extended. They've already aired 10. You have to give them time to produce the episodes. Almost all 22 episode shows either have one long break in the middle or multiple small ones because of production time. If you want them to actually make the show you have to deal with it.
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Yeah if you think about it, call it 16 weeks off for the summer, then 52 - 16 = 36. For a 22-episode season that means 14 weeks off that they've gotta find somewhere. Also Sidereel has it returning January 5th, which, if accurate, is pretty good considering 
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The issues not the amount of break, but the randomness of the breaks. Casual viewers have very little patience. The show being off for 2 weeks without any real explanation, then on for one week, then off again for an extended period of time is confusing and hurts the ratings. It's much better to have the show run uninterrupted to mid season, at which point it came be made clear that it's coming back after an extended break. This limbo of "is the show still on or not???" is never a good thing.
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Fwiw (nothing) I really like this show. Not enough to evangelize or anything but enough to be like, cool, thanks DVR I'll watch this while high.
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It was a real downer of an episode all-around, really. As soon as Casey's guys took those pills, things were always going to go badly. I like that the show isn't afraid to have downer episodes on occasion.
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This show isn't afraid to flip the switch between fun and serious. Hoping the Doyle stuff gets resolved without any major shakeups, his stuff was sad to watch.
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I wish Casey had gotten away with the full stash. Having someone also on NZT as an antagonist, but slowly running out of pills as they get worse and worse side effects could have been a fun arc.
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Shakugan posted:I wish Casey had gotten away with the full stash. Yeah, but it was also the expected arc, wasn't it? Depending on how things play out over the rest of the season, this might end up being the smartest play they could've made. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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DivisionPost posted:Yeah, but it was also the expected arc, wasn't it? Depending on how things play out over the rest of the season, this might end up being the smartest play they could've made. IMO, it felt like a demonstration of things to come. Hard Boyled
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