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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE
Mar 31, 2010


ZorajitZorajit posted:

EDIT: I'm not actually going to do any of that. I'm not actually that much a goon.

loving blueballs.

Wear the shirt ZorajitZorajit

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Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
well if he looked as good as Eliot, pretty sure it would work out

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Sy Fy is launching a new show about random people in random professions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR9fdQJsa4

Rocksicles
Oct 19, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

Alhazred posted:

Sy Fy is launching a new show about random people in random professions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR9fdQJsa4

2019? gently caress

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
That was a great promo. I love this show.

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Rocksicles posted:

2019? gently caress

What did you expect? It has always been a January show.

Atarask
Mar 8, 2008

Lord of Rigel Developer

Rhyno posted:

That was a great promo. I love this show.

The "please watch our show and tell us what's going on" would be played straight if it was from the Westworld actors.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

It took me a moment to get the joke but its pretty funny once i did.

Pompous Rhombus
Mar 11, 2007

Alhazred posted:

Sy Fy is launching a new show about random people in random professions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR9fdQJsa4

Haha, this is great and very creative.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Alhazred posted:

Sy Fy is launching a new show about random people in random professions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR9fdQJsa4

A reality show I would actually want to watch?

ZorajitZorajit
Sep 15, 2013

No static at all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf8s9xzSPRg

Season 4, January 23. Hail the High King.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
This greatly pleases me.


Let's celebrate with a song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mfBt3mhtc

Habibi
Dec 8, 2004

We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.
Should have brought him little cakes

hangedman1984
Jul 25, 2012

Rhyno posted:

This greatly pleases me.


Let's celebrate with a song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mfBt3mhtc

I literally can't hear this song ever without thinking about this scene now.

mastajake
Oct 3, 2005

My blade is unBENDING!

hangedman1984 posted:

I literally can't hear this song ever without thinking about this scene now.

If it wasn't for the Quentin/Eliot slashfic episode, this scene would have made it the best episode of the show.

Fauxshiz
Jan 3, 2007
Jumbo Sized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrFJIq3W3k

This is the best song/scene combo, people.

ZorajitZorajit
Sep 15, 2013

No static at all...

Fauxshiz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrFJIq3W3k

This is the best song/scene combo, people.

Well thanks. I'm gonna go have another cry today then.

Aexo
May 16, 2007
Don't ask, I don't know how to pronounce my name either.

ZorajitZorajit posted:

Well thanks. I'm gonna go have another cry today then.

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Fauxshiz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrFJIq3W3k

This is the best song/scene combo, people.

Nobody is disputing that but also none of us felt like crying tonight so...good job?

Fauxshiz
Jan 3, 2007
Jumbo Sized

Rhyno posted:

Nobody is disputing that but also none of us felt like crying tonight so...good job?

I apologize:(

hangedman1984
Jul 25, 2012

Fauxshiz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrFJIq3W3k

This is the best song/scene combo, people.

Maybe so, but I end up hearing "Under Pressure" a lot more in my day-to-day.

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War
https://youtu.be/Xsp5O5ZEgAU

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!

Not sure how I feel about this.

Much rather prefer a show about random people doing random jobs.

(Is season 4 still based on the books or have we gone past that?)

Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Nov 24, 2018

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!

Boris Galerkin posted:

Not sure how I feel about this.

Much rather prefer a show about random people doing random jobs.

(Is season 4 still based on the books or have we gone past that?)

Regarding plotlines left from the books:

For the most part, they've finished most of the major plotlines from the books. There are still a few though that I can think of:

- A great heist of magical artifacts on Earth, with different groups of thieve magicians battling it out on flying carpets
- Quentin becomes a professor at Brakebills
- Fillory dies, officially
- Quentin and Alice learn how to create their own worlds

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
That all sounds dumb, I just want more of Margo cusssing.

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
I would like to see Margo's subplot from the third book brought to the screen.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Does she cuss in this plot?

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Argue posted:

I would like to see Margo's subplot from the third book brought to the screen.

Is that the really gross one or was that in book 2?

She lives with a random Fillorian tribe to learn their magic as their put her through as sorts of Mr Miyagi training poo poo. Then they reveal is all a trick so they could humiliate and gently caress her.

Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Nov 24, 2018

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
I don't remember that to be honest, I just remember she got a cool axe and was killing a lot of people. But if that's what happened in that book then welp

Xun
Apr 25, 2010

I feel like this is one of the rare shows that gets better when they don't follow the books because lol that's gross af

Nihonniboku
Aug 11, 2004

YOU CAN FLY!!!

Xun posted:

I feel like this is one of the rare shows that gets better when they don't follow the books because lol that's gross af

Yeah, the books are a lot more self serious, and while there is some humor, it's nowhere near the same degree where I feel that the show is often times one of the funniest shows on television. Certainly funnier than any network sitcom, with the exception of The Good Place.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Xun posted:

one of the rare many shows that gets better when they don't follow the books

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EWqCtQ-dc

I was hoping they were building up to Fen singing Isaac's song but it didn't happen; anyway, woo!

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Xun posted:

I feel like this is one of the rare shows that gets better when they don't follow the books because lol that's gross af

I don't know, I guess it depends if the planned worked. I could totally see TV Margo getting tricked up to a point, figuring it out, then turning the tables with some payback.

I didn't read the book though. If the plan worked it might be significantly darker.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Atarask posted:

The "please watch our show and tell us what's going on" would be played straight if it was from the Westworld actors.

Poor Ed Harris. He was so loving confused this season and if he saw how it came out, he'd still be loving confused. He deserves better.

Seriously anyone who hasn't caught Westworld's 2nd season yet.. it stinks.

ED: Highllight episode with abstract spoilers - A soldier hired to murder sexbots gets half his friends killed by sexbots, then decides to stop shooting at one to go try to gently caress said sexbot and drops his gun only for the sexbot to go 'Welcome to Westworld' and offer a "surprise" twist of.. it was a trap! Oh, I never saw that coming!

I thought the now sentient rebellious sexbot shooting at everyone was just trying to bone the soldier. Oh boy, that show keeps me guessing!

Seriously gently caress season 2. There are major plot holes setup in the first episode you could sail an aircraft carrier towing a larger aircraft carrier through. The central opening mystery turns out that every single character was present at and should remember by the end, too.

Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Jan 15, 2019

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Blazing Ownager posted:

Seriously gently caress season 2. There are major plot holes setup in the first episode you could sail an aircraft carrier towing a larger aircraft carrier through.

So, just like season one then?

ZorajitZorajit
Sep 15, 2013

No static at all...
Westworld s2 was definitely worse about it. Season 1 was self contained enough that it's issues could be overlooked. They took over the show in Season 2 because the showrunners were leaning in to the idea that Westworld is a puzzle for Reddit to solve more than a story that's about anything or anyone. And the loving timeline. I don't want to give the impression I dislike unreliable narrators or out-of-sequence storytelling, but it only served to be a big finger-waggling mystery. And naturally True Detective s3 is doing it too (though it seemed a lot more restrained in its first two episodes.)

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Blazing Ownager posted:

I don't know, I guess it depends if the planned worked. I could totally see TV Margo getting tricked up to a point, figuring it out, then turning the tables with some payback.

I honestly can't. Margo is the most competent character on the show and seems extremely capable of seeing through misogynist bullshit right away.

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Blazing Ownager posted:

I don't know, I guess it depends if the planned worked. I could totally see TV Margo getting tricked up to a point, figuring it out, then turning the tables with some payback.

I didn't read the book though. If the plan worked it might be significantly darker.

It did work, she mentions living with them and going through that for six months before they got tired of her and told her the truth.

They tell her the secret to their weaponry is found in black grains of sand that are mixed i with their regular sand at like 10000/1 and every child must gather a bag full to forge into their first weapon. She spends the six months sifting sand for the black grains. After going through all of that and bringing the bag to the man she’d been sleeping with he laughs at her dumps out the bag to reveal she was just fooling herself into seeing the sand as black and that they would never teach their secrets to a “filthy earth whore”.

Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jan 15, 2019

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geeves
Sep 16, 2004

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

It did work, she mentions living with them and going through that for six months before they got tired of her and told her the truth.

They tell her the secret to their weaponry is found in black grains of sand that are mixed i with their regular sand at like 10000/1 and every child must gather a bag full to forge into their first weapon. She spends the six months sifting sand for the black grains. After going through all of that and bringing the bag to the man she’d been sleeping with he laughs at her dumps out the bag to reveal she was just fooling herself into seeing the sand as black and that they would never teach their secrets to a “filthy earth whore”.

What book was this in, I don't really remember this detail?

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