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Hypnolobster posted:I just watched it on Netflix. Magical semen is very important. Just swallow it already.
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GreenNight posted:Magical semen is very important. Just swallow it already. My roommate made egg nog and labeled a jar "Largess".
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I finally got around to watching the first season on Netflix over the weekend and... I actually kinda enjoyed it? I expected not to--I liked the books and I knew enough about the differences in how the show was doing things to know I'd probably disapprove--but aside from the fact that I thought Julia's story was largely fumbled (shoulda had Free Trader Beowulf right off the bat) and the end of the season finale was dumb as hell (I know it would've cost too much, but I really wanted the Beast to be as bestial as he is in the book) it was pretty all right. I even liked Quentin's self-aware narration in the season finale. I was also pretty surprised that Penny turned out to be my favorite character. I wouldn't have guessed he'd spend the back half of the season as the only sane guy. I've noticed in season 2 trailers that Penny has his hands back and I hope that's not as much of a cop-out as it seems. Like, I know he's going to be a way more on-screen character in the show than he was in the second and third books so having to show him handless for all of season 2 would've been a pain, but I hope the consequences of that still matter. Like, I dunno, maybe he has nerve damage or something and can't cast complex spells, I dunno. I've also noticed they're teasing Alice vs. the Beast pretty hard in all the trailers, so they better save enough of their CGI budget for that one. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Just finished season 1. I like it, but Im probably personally giving it way too many extra points just for not being another loving vampire show. Wizards are cool.
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Error 404 posted:Just finished season 1. I like it, but Im probably personally giving it way too many extra points just for not being another loving vampire show. Sexy wizards are cool.
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I'm looking forward to it, despite myself. I liked the book series quite a bit, but I also thought that reviews really played up its brilliance and subversiveness. They're entertaining fantasy books written pretty well and with a few clever twists, nothing transcendent. So the fact that the show takes a lot of liberties with it, simplifies some things, and amplifies some character traits really doesn't bother me. Also I really didn't expect Penny to be my favorite character but I'm looking forward to watching him be angry about his hands.
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I plowed through this on Netflix over the last few weeks. It certainly has it's problems (mostly around pacing) but it was really entertaining and it's fun to get a show set in a magical world that isn't centered around children. Looking forward to season 2, does SyFy do streaming or am I going to have find some hackjob site to watch this on?
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I love how Penny was silent for like 10 minutes of the episode just staring until he blurts out "My hands are in a loving box!" Also, "You know of....Swayze?"
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bull3964 posted:I love how Penny was silent for like 10 minutes of the episode just staring until he blurts out "My hands are in a loving box!" That was probably the best part. I actually really like the dynamic between Martin and Julia. Glad to see this back on air.
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Holy gently caress that was a funny premiere. Penny's rant about being charged after-the-fact for use of "a natural resource on public property" was great. And when Julia said "I'll put the knife down" or whatever, I rolled my eyes at the obvious setup. Later when Martin was like "oh yeah nice little loophole there you sketchy dick" it paid off. The knight who accidentally died sometime in the 90s was possibly my favorite part though. Or maybe Alice getting distracted by the (rude) horses.
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Really enjoyed that. Penny's indignant rant was the best followed by Eliot's mastery of Dirty Dancing getting him crowned king. Pretty far off the rails from the books at this point and I think the general consensus is that's only strengthened the show. In a show full of absurdly attractive people Olivia Taylor Dudley is insanely pretty. I like how the after-preview was throwing quotes from S1 at the screen and they had to make sure "sexy people" was one of them.
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Rhyno posted:I'm Facebook friends with a guy from Five Second Films and he posts about how funny it is that they're keeping her almost totally covered in every episode. Meanwhile every other role shes had has showcased her goods. I hope it's Pauly P, Dark Days for Pauly P. was the best.
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It's not but I have met him and he's also awesome in person. He bought me a beer!
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SLOSifl posted:Penny's rant about being charged after-the-fact for use of "a natural resource on public property" was great. I mean he's not wrong
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Um, that was a fantastic season premiere. While I enjoyed season 1, it was a big old mess. I'm thinking that they'll continue to deviate wildly from the books, and I'm looking forward to see where they take us.
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Mortanis posted:In a show full of absurdly attractive people Olivia Taylor Dudley is insanely pretty. She really is the most attractive. Thought the first episode of the season was great hope it keeps up!
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I'm amused at how they decided to handle Penny's hands. Keeping him handless would've been a huge pain in the rear end for both the actor and the crew. I figured they'd just go for nerve damage from the reattachment or something, but making the uselessness of Penny's hands a consequence of his short temper is a pretty funny way to handle it. Penny and Eliot remain my favorite characters.
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I read these books, could hardly stand the show though. Have they made it to Fillory yet?
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Transistor Rhythm posted:I read these books, could hardly stand the show though. Have they made it to Fillory yet? Yeah, they went there towards the end of the first season. Things are definitely different than they are in the books, though, especially with Julia, Alice, and the Beast, but I find it entertaining enough. I really liked the books but I didn't think they were the brilliant, subversive books that some reviewers treat them as, so the liberties the show is taking don't bother me too much. And I'd definitely say that the show improves during the first season--I only really started liking it around the middle of the first season (though there are some hilarious scenes in episode 4).
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I flat out didn't really like the books but somehow they still hooked me enough that I read them all, and wanted to check out the adaptation too. After the first book when (half of this happened in the show already and half I think won't happen but spoiler tags to be safe) Quentin cheats on Alice and then she dies I was pretty much just like, okay, I hate absolutely every character now, and then kept reading anyway. Who knows, it's just like I feel sort of attached to the world and the weird difficult grinds they had to go through to get from place to place.Rhyno posted:I'm Facebook friends with a guy from Five Second Films and he posts about how funny it is that they're keeping her almost totally covered in every episode. Meanwhile every other role shes had has showcased her goods.
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So did anyone else have a lot of problems watching that psych ward episode in season 1?? That poo poo hosed up some of my friends and they quit watching after that. I totally get it tho.
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Lupus Rufus posted:So did anyone else have a lot of problems watching that psych ward episode in season 1?? That poo poo hosed up some of my friends and they quit watching after that. I totally get it tho. Honestly, Quentin's plot in that episode felt like one of those bullshit holodeck episodes of Star Trek and I didn't really care for that episode. Unless you're talking about the deliberately super-racist Penny, which yeah, that was weird. I guess the best thing I can say about this show is that it's self-aware more often than it's not.
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Lupus Rufus posted:So did anyone else have a lot of problems watching that psych ward episode in season 1?? That poo poo hosed up some of my friends and they quit watching after that. I totally get it tho. That was the result of 2 major problems with the first season: 1) having story of the week episodes, when this is NOT that show 2) trying too hard to integrate Julia with the rest of the crew so early on. Other problems: 3) making Penny absurdly overpowered, although I suppose they'll undercut that with the loss of his powers this season 4) trying too hard to integrate Fillory into the plot too early on, ie the Beast trying to attack via Eliot's boyfriend etc, the reveal of Fillory being real was supposed to be a huge shock 5) Making Brakebills seem like a huge university, when it was really just like 100 students in a crazy mansion 6) not really showing how dirty and raw Julia's journey was.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Honestly, Quentin's plot in that episode felt like one of those bullshit holodeck episodes of Star Trek and I didn't really care for that episode. Unless you're talking about the deliberately super-racist Penny, which yeah, that was weird. I guess the best thing I can say about this show is that it's self-aware more often than it's not. I thought the super-racist Penny was funny just because the joke was at Quentin's expense, not Penny's. Plus, we got to see real Penny get pissed off about it, and Penny getting angry is never not entertaining. I also liked that Quentin's a lovely singer even in his dreams. The episode as a whole was weird and felt like filler, though, and a show with 13-episode seasons really shouldn't have filler. Fast Luck posted:I flat out didn't really like the books but somehow they still hooked me enough that I read them all, and wanted to check out the adaptation too. After the first book when (half of this happened in the show already and half I think won't happen but spoiler tags to be safe) Quentin cheats on Alice and then she dies I was pretty much just like, okay, I hate absolutely every character now, and then kept reading anyway. Who knows, it's just like I feel sort of attached to the world and the weird difficult grinds they had to go through to get from place to place. I really don't think Quentin got anywhere close to actually likeable until the third book, at which point he's like 30 and has finally started to at least try to grow up. He still does some boneheaded selfish poo poo, but it's also the only book in which he actually sort of is the hero (because it's Alice in book 1 and Julia in book 2) and not just wishing he was. (I have no idea if I need to spoil that because who the hell knows how much the show is going to take from the books from here on out, but hey, better safe than sorry.) Nihonniboku posted:6) not really showing how dirty and raw Julia's journey was. My biggest disappointment in season 1 is about Julia's journey, because it left out so much of how smart and resourceful she was in the process of finding her magical community. Bringing in Free Trader Beowulf towards the end actually kind of made it worse. It really should've been about them the whole way--have her decipher their riddles in one episode, try to track them down in the next, and then hang out with them for the rest of the season. If Marina had to be there, she could be on the edges tempting the group with a fast track to easy power or something to keep roughly the same role of "self-interested, amoral hedge magician." In the show, Julia just sort of lucks into learning magic after being assaulted by a dude in a bathroom. Harrow fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Mortanis posted:In a show full of absurdly attractive people Olivia Taylor Dudley is insanely pretty. I like how the after-preview was throwing quotes from S1 at the screen and they had to make sure "sexy people" was one of them.
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Josh Lyman posted:You meant to say Margo but I'll forgive you.
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Binged through the first season over the weekend. It's good trash and I love the reckless pace burning through the book plot for no reason when Brakebills is the only set they can afford. It's doomed to turn into shamefully low budget Tales From Fillory like the season finale but seems like a fun trainwreck. Huge fan of Penny and the show's obsession with swears and boobs they can't actually air.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Binged through the first season over the weekend. It's good trash and I love the reckless pace burning through the book plot for no reason when Brakebills is the only set they can afford. It's doomed to turn into shamefully low budget Tales From Fillory like the season finale but seems like a fun trainwreck. Huge fan of Penny and the show's obsession with swears and boobs they can't actually air. I was seeing commercials to watch Season 1 "uncensored" on-demand and I was curious what the hell was there, until I finally realized it was all the curses that Magicians bleeps out and my mind just fills in for them.
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GreenNight posted:You can watch it on Netflix without any bleeps too. Thats how I watched it. S2E1 was hilarious because I swear so much irl I never noticed just how much they swear in Magicians. I love this garbage show so much
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GreenNight posted:You can watch it on Netflix without any bleeps too.
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It be fair, they BARELY censor it on the broadcast. They like cut out a tiny bit of the 'u' and that's it.
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Yeah, that's what I meant when I said my mind just fills it in. They're so clear about it that my head just covers the one syllable they pull out and I don't even notice its censored. That's why it took me awhile to figure out what was "uncensored" about the On Demand/Netflix episodes.
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