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Accretionist posted:This show is really good. Yeah, the way he sold both Howards processing the different contents of the same room and what they meant was just incredibly well done. Like I don't think the show is going to ever definitely argue at one specific event changing the course of Howard's life, and certainly Anna being born didn't mean that Other Howard and Emily worked out long term, but loss of a child as a trigger for Meek Howard ending up with the life he did certainly has to be up there.
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About malignant hyperthermia, it is a specific and can often be life ending reaction to the paralytics used to intubate someone prior to an operation. The usual situation is, anesthesiologist administers the paralytic to relax all your muscles to put the intubation tube in, and shortly after all of your muscles start to get rigid and your temperature and blood pressure go through the roof, leading to profound acidosis and potentially death. This is immediately noticeable for what it is by doctors and is reversible with medications. In Emily’s case, the majority of medications used to keep someone sedated after they are intubated for a trauma would not lead to this situation. So I am not sure how the show will use such information but in reality it shouldn’t come into play. It wouldn’t be realistic at all for the show to portray Emily in some sort of state of continued malignant hyperthermia while in a coma because she would be like posturing and rigid with a 103 temperature and severely acidotic and dead. So. Well, anyways. Just FYI about that.
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Also, Baldwin holy gently caress. That fight finisher. I really hope she's secretly one of the good guys (meaning she's working to prevent something horrible from happening. So horrible that her means are justified by the end). Well, as much as you can say that about a petite killing machine.
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Good show. I'm guessing the secret plot will either be attempting to take over prime earth gate control, or perhaps to release a pandemic on prime earth to keep it from advancing too much and keep the universes more in sync.
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I just about rolled my eyes for the first time at apparent Starz contractual nudity, but they actually made it a proper part of the story and yeah that and the fight wwas a great sequence. Maybe just my dodge headphones but something funny about the sound/adr/foley? in that episode, like where the voices where coming from and the sound of a 5 pound ashtray hitting the table when he puts his wedding ring down.
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So is sleeping with your prime clone considered cheating? Because I’m pretty sure prime Howard was sleeping with original Emily and original Howard is about to sleep with Emily prime I imagine this like sexual clone cube they are about to create is fine.
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Blind Rasputin posted:So is sleeping with your prime clone considered cheating? Because I’m pretty sure prime Howard was sleeping with original Emily and original Howard is about to sleep with Emily prime I imagine this like sexual clone cube they are about to create is fine. The whole contradiction between one Emily having a miscarriage and the other having the baby was so sad. Great episode and very well written.
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Is the guy Marcel tries to pick up in the first episode explained? Because it seems like he was working with Baldwin (I dunno why he'd lock himself in if it wasn't part of a trap), but I thought it was stated that she came through alone.
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Barry Convex posted:Is the guy Marcel tries to pick up in the first episode explained? Because it seems like he was working with Baldwin (I dunno why he'd lock himself in if it wasn't part of a trap), but I thought it was stated that she came through alone. There's obviously a greater network of agents working on this side (ex. Baldwin's handler), so they would just have tapped a local resource to assist in the hit. Whether that resource also crossed over in the past or is a native related to the leak in the Third Floor, no idea.
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It could just as easily be a prostitute she hired out that had no idea he was part of an assassination plot, just told to lead this guy to the back then go away I do hope we get some answers on the breakout fan favorite character, man locked in a gay nighclub bathroom
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Poor Howard-A, his life being revealed to be even more tragic.
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Blind Rasputin posted:So is sleeping with your prime clone considered cheating? Because I’m pretty sure prime Howard was sleeping with original Emily and original Howard is about to sleep with Emily prime I imagine this like sexual clone cube they are about to create is fine. Prime = meek Howard universe Other = black ops Howard universe
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Feb 18, 2018 09:14
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Josh Lyman posted:You’re confusing your terms. In the promos he's been referred to as such. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkX95rp2hs
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Feb 18, 2018 09:28
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The Closed Captioning also refers to Cool Howard as Prime Howard.
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What the gently caress that's intentionally confusing  That also changes things if the writers think that's the "original" universe
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Josh Lyman posted:What the gently caress that's intentionally confusing IIRC there is no original universe anymore. The original universe split into 2 that both diverged from each other, like two branches coming off the same trunk. "Prime" in mathematics is used to denote a variable that's related to an existing one, so if the variable x undergoes some kind of change then the result is named x-prime just like Howard Prime is a reflection of the first Howard we meet.
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It's kind of mean for mild mannered Howard to act like a nice dad to Anna when she's just going to get her lovely dad back in a week Unless he secretly has a cunning plan to replace rear end in a top hat Howard in the world where he has a conscious wife and the daughter he always wanted 
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Prime Berlin seems way too empty for losing 7 percent of the global population to the plague 20 years ago unless it was ground zero and that would mean it came from the crossing. From the licence plate in the first scene where Baldwin kills the cops there is also no EU in Prime, maybe some world government was created from the efforts to stop the plague.
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CeeJee posted:Prime Berlin seems way too empty for losing 7 percent of the global population to the plague 20 years ago Could be an aversion to density
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This guy cashing in on clone sex. Counterpart 2: prime time
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But for serious, man what an emotional ending. From the hospital scene to that ending I was nearly in tears. This show is amazingly good.
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Blind Rasputin posted:But for serious, man what an emotional ending. From the hospital scene to that ending I was nearly in tears. This show is amazingly good. 
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Croatoan posted:Counterpart is fantastic and good. It's like if Fringe and The Americans had a baby and that baby was played by J. K. Simmons.  Josh Lyman posted:Just finished pilot of Counterpart. Good but not great, but that's mainly a script issue with pacing.
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I love sad JK Simmons and also not-sad JK Simmons.
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Is that sad that his counterpart has the family he never had but wasted it JK Simmons, or sad that his counterpart has been living in quiet bliss but it turns out that was all a lie too JK Simmons?
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The dopest thing they did was have mirroring external shots of the appartment, but to show the transition to "our" world they just added in a bunch of noise of cars and people. It was super subtle and awesome. Show is great.Accretionist posted:I love sad JK Simmons and also not-sad JK Simmons. This
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CeeJee posted:losing 7 percent of the global population to the plague 20 years ago
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Tiggum posted:I'm confused about that number. I thought Howard said "that's nearly a billion people", but world population twenty years ago was six billion and 7% of that is only 420,000,000. Did I mishear? He said half a billion. That's still most of the EU if it was hardest hit. It's still not yet clear what the hell is going on over there and how the desolation in their Berlin is also combined with the skyline of a giant pyramid (maybe a monument) and several of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_Tower
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CeeJee posted:He said half a billion. That's still most of the EU if it was hardest hit. I am thinking the desolation may not just be everyone is dead but that people are less likely to want to go out and there is a pretty ingrained fear of disease in general given the epidemic.
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Yo, technically, neither universe would be prime anymore. THey are both forks of a past event.
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unlawfulsoup posted:I am thinking the desolation may not just be everyone is dead but that people are less likely to want to go out and there is a pretty ingrained fear of disease in general given the epidemic. Yeah something like that would leave deep scars on a population. Case in point, only a couple thousands died on 9/11 but look how deep the scars are to this day
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yeah something like that would leave deep scars on a population. Spanish flu killed 50 million people a hundred years ago, after the end of a war that killed 41 million people. Hardly anyone remembers it.
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CeeJee posted:From the licence plate in the first scene where Baldwin kills the cops there is also no EU in Prime The names of the restaurants in Prime also make me think that the Soviet Union didn't break up and that Germany is possibly part of it.
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Xenix posted:The names of the restaurants in Prime also make me think that the Soviet Union didn't break up and that Germany is possibly part of it.
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Howard has been forever stuck in prime and now has a new job. He walks in to his first day at work, manning a checkpoint booth. “Next.” A face appears in the window. “Glory to Arstotzka...” *credits roll*
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Laughed out loud at the sci fi polygraph scene Interrogators: Tell us your secrets dumbass nice guy Howard: I dunno  Interrogators: Oh my god he's more devious then ever 
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“You have to love the lie.” Man, truer words have never been said.
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Well, I did not see that particular revelation coming, yet I feel like I should've.joe football posted:Laughed out loud at the sci fi polygraph scene That was excellent.
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At first I thought that scene was meant to be testing if there was a switch - like, in other cases of that happening you'd want proper evidence. But lol nope. Its a nice touch that you see all the scenes of ...older security guy actually going around doing his job competently, not just being a goon to get yelled at by Quayle.
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I keep getting an Adrian Veidt vibe from Dull Howard’s boss.
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