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Kesper North posted:Post your dreamboat showrunner to succeed Reed absolute wildest dreams? Hideo Kojima
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 19:30 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:35 |
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Space burn
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 04:17 |
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Caught up on the last couple episodes and the show feels like it's back on its feet now. lol at Brett showing up just to get smoked.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 06:32 |
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GreenNight posted:Space burn The "space-" variants of classic Archer catchphrases is really pleasing me this season. I don't know why, because it's so dumb, but it just works well. I haven't been this tickled by such an unimportant drive-by joke since Dreamland's once-per-episode rimshot routine: silly joke told in the bar + a distant rimshot from the band which is on break + Ray yelling, "Stop it!!" I wish there was a supercut of that somewhere.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 13:38 |
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I like that this season is doing individual episodes rather than a big overarching plot.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 17:11 |
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GigaPeon posted:I like that this season is doing individual episodes rather than a big overarching plot. I hadn't even noticed that, but you're right. I was kind-of waiting for Barry 5 to show up, babbling on about revenge or something. I wonder if all of the threads that appear to have been dropped will suddenly reappear and be tied up in the finale? Hell, if there's a next season, will it be post-coma? Or maybe they'll do a ridiculous soap opera? I got hooked on General Hospital a few years ago because of this ridiculous thing called the "Nurse's Ball," and if that show is a thing that exists, Archer could have some fun in that genre.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 18:21 |
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Second good episode in a row, seems like the jokes are finally landing at least. SPACE PHRASING!
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 19:05 |
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Nice, we get the Matt Berry and Tom Lennon cameos both in the same episode.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 03:16 |
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This one was.. pretty good? The quality is all over the place this season.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 06:13 |
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Kesper North posted:Post your dreamboat showrunner to succeed Reed Won't happen, but Vince Gilligan. quote:Pitch what Adam Reed's next project should be. Show running an Outer Limits reboot.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 07:43 |
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That was great. A throwback to the spyfi days, but in space.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 09:01 |
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Mr. Deadly's random gestures were great but yeah that was a solid episode all around.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 09:55 |
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I kind of just want this to be the show from now on.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 10:35 |
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Ray got to actually do something!
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 14:51 |
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qirex posted:Ray got to actually do something! And it was surprisingly effective. Even Cyril was useful, albeit accidentally (by becoming a cowering distraction).
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 18:35 |
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tarlibone posted:And it was surprisingly effective. Even Cyril was useful, albeit accidentally (by becoming a cowering distraction). Suppressing his inner fire!
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 18:52 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:I kind of just want this to be the show from now on. Same, it's basically just animated Red Dwarf now and I'm loving it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 19:57 |
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How has no one mentioned the mix tape yet?
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 20:04 |
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OneTruePecos posted:How has no one mentioned the mix tape yet? Because sometimes, we just wanna have fun! I loved the cover of that thing. I'm sure it's a reference to something that I don't get.
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 20:18 |
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The ending reminded me of Sealab 2021. Heads up, Kingston!
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# ? Jun 27, 2019 20:59 |
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So, what IS Mallory, now?
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 12:27 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So, what IS Mallory, now? That's correct! She is. She just is. (How great was the delivery of the line, "I hope that thing chews you like gum, you crazy bitch!"? I loved that.)
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 13:33 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So, what IS Mallory, now? Well it's a coma dream, she's the ships AI that has human properties because Archer's brain is 10 kinds of hosed up and he can't imagine her not drinking. Really don't think too much about it and just enjoy the ride.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So, what IS Mallory, now? I think she is supposed to be a Star Trek holodeck style hologram that can take physical shape.
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 16:41 |
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SimonChris posted:I think she is supposed to be a Star Trek holodeck style hologram that can take physical shape. I'm surprised they didn't put an H on her head.
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 16:43 |
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Or an 'M'.
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 17:19 |
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I'm guessing Mallory is more of a human upload than an AI. Aging is for rubes and that bitch Trudy Beakman.Megillah Gorilla posted:Or an 'M'. In which I finally realize there's a James Bond reference in Mallory's name
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 17:32 |
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"M, for...'Mancy'?"
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 17:58 |
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tarlibone posted:That's correct! She is. I think that she's a pure energy being that manifests as Archer's mother figure. Maybe she evolved past the need for physical form at some point in the past. Until they say otherwise I'm going with that.
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 21:59 |
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There an ep tonight?
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# ? Jul 4, 2019 06:10 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:There an ep tonight? Next episode July 10. Shows tend not to air new material on holidays even though that's when most of us have more time to watch.
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# ? Jul 4, 2019 06:15 |
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I liked the gag in episode 2 where Mallory energy-sphered through a wall and dropped her drink.
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# ? Jul 4, 2019 06:16 |
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so the joke was that he found the cherries after they crashed ? fakedit: oh look pam hit cheryl and called her "dicknuts" again. This is some good stuff.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 12:39 |
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They dialed the callbacks up to 1000 this season and it's easily the worst part. Space phrasing might be the lowest this show's ever been.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 13:59 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:They dialed the callbacks up to 1000 this season and it's easily the worst part. Yeah, callbacks work really well when they complement fresh jokes, but when you're just falling back on them all the time they're irritating. I think they're deliberately doing callbacks as a plot thing¹ - that it's Archer, in a coma, remembering his own past - but on an episode-by-episode basis it's really not working. ¹ There've been a lot of references to season one: Lana and Cyril dating; Archer and Pam being adversarial rather than friends; Ray being a one-note stereotype; Cristal; etc.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 14:14 |
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I don't hate the callbacks because most of those jokes have had a long time on the bench. Like, "space phrasing" was really loving funny, but if they hadn't given "phrasing" a long break it wouldn't be as good.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 16:25 |
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He mentions being a secret agent or a detective in this one as well, so it seems more likely the ‘reality seeping into his coma’ is happening.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 16:52 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I don't hate the callbacks because most of those jokes have had a long time on the bench. Like, "space phrasing" was really loving funny, but if they hadn't given "phrasing" a long break it wouldn't be as good. Yeah, and it also reminds me of that episode where Archer kept lamenting that they'd given up "phrasing" because there were so many opportunities to put it back in the mix. These kinds of things are as close to breaking the fourth wall as you can get without doing it. Red Oktober posted:He mentions being a secret agent or a detective in this one as well, so it seems more likely the reality seeping into his coma is happening. I was wondering if he'd bring up pilot, too. Looked like he was about to, but then plot happened. Milo and POTUS posted:They dialed the callbacks up to 1000 this season and it's easily the worst part. Space phrasing might be the lowest this show's ever been. I have to disagree. As Tiggum mentioned, the callbacks are probably not so much a "hey, remember this! wink wink nudge nudge" thing as they are a "this is happening because of the three-season-long framing device (Archer's coma)" thing. That at least provides a reason for all of it. And, I think it is plot related, because "space phrasing" is really lampshading the idea that something from real Archer's life is seeping into coma Archer's world, and it's just about as lazy as you'd expect it to be for Sterling Mallory Archer's imagination. I'm enjoying the callbacks.
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 17:14 |
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space phrasing is awesome
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# ? Jul 13, 2019 17:39 |
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I believe I heard a couple of "Jesus Space-Christ!"'s in there somewhere.
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