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Today's the 20th anniversary of the Buffy pilot. Taking a look again, the 90s era is obvious, but the language is still quirky and fun. It's good for a rewatch.
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Preacher back June 19th Mr Robot back in "October"
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Mar 11, 2017 00:05
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I really hope Preacher builds more on its positive elements this season (cast, tone) while actually having something resembling forward momentum.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:21
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Pan Dulce posted:Today's the 20th anniversary of the Buffy pilot. Taking a look again, the 90s era is obvious, but the language is still quirky and fun. It's good for a rewatch. Buffy is really good. Edit: I just rewatched it in the last year.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:28
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Fox's Star is a pretty decent but not great show, though not something I see being a bit hit around here, but man the music is really good. I still have the song from the end of the last episode stuck in my head two days later.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:47
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Rocksicles posted:Imposters 5 episodes is already better than half the shows on TV.
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Mar 11, 2017 01:50
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They should have cast Iron Fist as an Asian guy, because nobody would have gotten mad at all about anything if the only Asian male protagonist in the entire MCU was a mystical kung-fu master Should have cast an Asian guy as Luke Cage, that way everyone could be angry together Also Patriot is good like everyone here says, but too depressing for me to binge-watch.
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Mar 11, 2017 05:47
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Metropolis posted:They should have cast Iron Fist as an Asian guy, because nobody would have gotten mad at all about anything if the only Asian male protagonist in the entire MCU was a mystical kung-fu master To be fair, if they'd cast, say, a Hispanic dude, I think it would have avoided a lot of the critical problems people seem to be having.
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Mar 11, 2017 06:13
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muscles like this! posted:Mr Robot back in "October" Is there loving any shows which don't exceed 12 months in-between season's at this point? This is getting ridiculous.
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Mar 11, 2017 06:31
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Hoooooooooly poo poo Legion is creepy as all hell. I'm a big 'ole chicken when it comes to scary poo poo, and episode 3 is hard to watch.
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Mar 11, 2017 06:50
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What network/channel/cable/service is Legion on? Aka where do I have to pay to watch it?
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Mar 11, 2017 07:36
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Hughmoris posted:Hoooooooooly poo poo Legion is creepy as all hell. I'm a big 'ole chicken when it comes to scary poo poo, and episode 3 is hard to watch. Don't worry, it gets much more lighthearted over the next few episodes, almost a comedy! Watch it late at night when you're alone! Snak posted:What network/channel/cable/service is Legion on? FX. It's available on Hulu too.
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Mar 11, 2017 07:39
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Pan Dulce posted:Today's the 20th anniversary of the Buffy pilot. Taking a look again, the 90s era is obvious, but the language is still quirky and fun. It's good for a rewatch. Sometimes I think about how Buffy season 1, if it hadn't been renewed, would probably be this really beloved cult thing because it's really good, fun, effective and self-contained. The show wasn't a formula yet, and people weren't trying to rip it off left and right. It was pretty drat unique.
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Mar 11, 2017 08:12
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Yeah it's a long time until Mr. Robot returns but Sam Esmail had commented that he likes having long breaks between seasons. While I loved season 2 a lot of people were less hot on it, so giving the crew more time to prepare seems best. Especially if Esmail's doing it all himself again.Open Source Idiom posted:To be fair, if they'd cast, say, a Hispanic dude, I think it would have avoided a lot of the critical problems people seem to be having. It'd still be a lovely show from the sounds of it, but it'd certainly dodge one the biggest criticisms, and contribute to dismantling Marvel's definition of diversity as "black men and white women."
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Mar 11, 2017 09:03
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I think part of the reason behind the delay is that Esmail's trying to get his version of Metropolis off the ground. MiddleOne posted:Is there loving any shows which don't exceed 12 months in-between season's at this point? This is getting ridiculous. Better than Europe -- they average two years between seasons, sometimes three. (Deutschland 83!)
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Mar 11, 2017 09:12
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And their seaons are like 4 episodes.
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Mar 11, 2017 09:27
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Snak posted:And their seaons are like 4 episodes. I feel like you're conflating Sherlock with literally thousands of European shows.
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Mar 11, 2017 09:33
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MiddleOne posted:I feel like you're conflating Sherlock with literally thousands of European shows. And also Britain with Europe in large -- European shows tend to have longer gaps, but British ones are usually a bit more reliable. So, something like Fortitude, Spiral, Les Revanants or Spotless, as opposed to Being Human, In The Flesh, No Offence, ect. Sherlock was also an odd case -- thanks to the availability of the lead actors. People also talk about each season only being three episodes long, but every episode is a double length episode, so it's actually about as long as most British shows usually are. (Or used to be, anyway. British television seasons are slowly becoming a bit longer, thanks largely to the sea change brought about thanks to Doctor Who and the influence of American television generally. Not that there haven't been longer seasons before, but they've become more common, if not the point of ubiquity. Nowadays, I've noticed far more eight and even ten episode seasons than there used to be.) Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 10:12
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Yet mismanagement has reduced Doctor Who from 13+Christmas to 12+Christmas in recent years, while 13 seems to be becoming the new industry standard in American TV. I think more freedom in episode count would be a good thing creatively (especially for Netflix), though probably even less advantageous for advertisers.
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Mar 11, 2017 18:28
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Lurdiak posted:Sometimes I think about how Buffy season 1, if it hadn't been renewed, would probably be this really beloved cult thing because it's really good, fun, effective and self-contained. The show wasn't a formula yet, and people weren't trying to rip it off left and right. It was pretty drat unique. Wasn't it like a last minute pickup as is? So it was pretty close to being that. Sometimes I wish it had been. It would have saved us from an entire generation of terrible fans.
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Mar 11, 2017 18:58
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Nah, Firefly fans are way more insufferable than Buffy fans.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:00
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Snak posted:Nah, Firefly fans are way more insufferable than Buffy fans. That's actually what I was referring to but every time I talk poo poo about Firefly 8000 people jump down my throat.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:04
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Rhyno posted:Wasn't it like a last minute pickup as is? So it was pretty close to being that. Yeah the marvel movie fandom is kinda terrible.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:05
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Most fandom but who cares.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:06
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GreenNight posted:Most fandom but who cares. All fandom really. We're all terrible. But Browncoats are the goddamned worst.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:13
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Sorry, you mean bronies.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:22
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GreenNight posted:Sorry, you mean bronies. I don't even want to go down that road again. But at least Bronies have something large to latch onto, Browncoats have 14, 44 minute episodes (and 8 of them are bad) and a poorly filmed movie and that's it.
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Mar 11, 2017 19:26
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I remember watching a video of a Joss Whedon Q&A at a big convention held just after Avengers came out and made all the money in the world and came away with the impression that he sort of deserves his terrible fans. Like, he's a decent television writer and he's done some comics I enjoy, but he came off like a bit of a prat in that. He was talking about that adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing he did around that time (probably still forthcoming then) as if he was the first person who'd ever had the idea of adapting Shakespeare to film or something.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:00
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Oh he is 100% a huge prat. But his tv shows gave us the excellent Angel season 5 so I can deal with it for the most part.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:05
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If you're still identifying as a Firefly Fan in the goddamn year two thousand and seventeen then gently caress you.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:26
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precision posted:If you're still identifying as a Firefly Fan in the goddamn year two thousand and seventeen then gently caress you. I endorse this statement.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:41
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Same, but British TV.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:51
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I think it's because they keep dicking them around about a renewal. Every year at least one of the actors (Fillion does this the most, but so has Glau) or Whedon himself hint it might happen. It's bullshit. Say it's over and pull what everyone seems to be doing and relaunching Hawaii 5.0, Beverly Hills 90210, and upcoming Charmed and Cruel Intentions. Apparently some tv executives hinted at a Buffy renewal ages ago and got a ton of fan backlash, leading to it being quashed.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:56
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I don't want to see Buffy or Firefly to come back. I'm a huge Angel/Buffy (mostly Angel and early Buffy) fan, and I enjoyed Firefly. At this point though, any relaunch of either series really can't go anywhere but down, and won't live up to the expectations anyone has. The X-Files revival was mostly trash (with the amazing Were-Human episode). I can't really think of any show that was brought back after 5+ years that was great (I guess Arrested Development was pretty good). I'm not talking about complete restarts like Battlestar Galactica or V (snicker)
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Mar 11, 2017 21:03
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Agreed. Edit: to be pedantic: were-human does not make sense. The 'were' part of the word already means human.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:08
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Keeping an open mind about Twin Peaks. Also MST3K will probably be as great as the original.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:08
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GreenNight posted:Also MST3K will probably be as great as the original. But even that is more of a reimagining than a revival. Sure it's got Crow and Tom Servo, but it's not like a series that's picking back up.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:14
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Snak posted:Agreed. The actual name of the episode is "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster", so the title is not only correct but really clever. Also, Guy Mann being dressed in the exact same outfit as Kolchak the Night Stalker the entire time. Such a fantastic episode.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:19
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The X-Files revival was literally worth it just for that episode alone. Though honestly I liked all of it, at least a bit.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:29
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Guy Mann posted:The actual name of the episode is "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster", so the title is not only correct but really clever. I know, it's great. Wasn't the episode original written for the Kolchak reboot?
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