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Aug 27, 2019 16:58
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Julio Cruz posted:Hugh Laurie is the undisputed best Brit doing an American accent and Gerard Butler is probably the worst. God, no, not even close. Lexx once did an episode guest starring Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge of Red Dwarf as the owners of a private Texan prison. Hayridge's attempt at a Texan accent is awful beyond parody, but it was quite probably still better than Charles's because he just used his natural Scouse accent throughout.
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Aug 27, 2019 17:56
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Bust Rodd posted:Neil Gaiman is cool, but I don’t think he’s ever done anything as impressive as Sandman. Labes for days posted:Grant Morrison is my favorite and I will back him 100% in his hilarious “real chaos magician” feud with Moore. quote:As for Ellis, the only stuff of his I’ve ever read is Transmetropolitan and Supergod. Is Planetary worth reading? I remember hearing it was good but never got around to it. Merrill Grinch posted:I liked the part about GPS/Guidance systems becoming robust enough that missiles could be replaced by lawn darts dropped from drones.
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Aug 27, 2019 20:17
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I straight up cannot get over Benadryl Cumberpatch doing an American accent to play Stephen Strange. He's fine if you don't listen too hard, or if you don't know what he usually sounds like, but he's just got this weird way of drawing out the vowels that just screams "actor doing an accent" to me.
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Aug 29, 2019 00:31
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Then there are Hugh Laurie, Christian Bale, and Damian Lewis who rely on the "fish face" and lisping to power through certain parts of the accent, though props to Damian because he's one of the few actors who can scream at the top of his lungs in another accent without making it noticeable.
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Aug 29, 2019 00:47
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Halloween Jack posted:Frankly, I can't tolerate Gaiman now that he's married Amanda Palmer and they go around doing twee bullshit together. Jeeze, I gotta say this seems pretty lame and unhealthy. He's an amazing author with lots of output of a consistently high quality. Unless he's like hurting people or doing something unethical, his personal life isn't much of your business. You can just like not follow her twitter? Let him be happy 
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Aug 29, 2019 01:04
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I think his point was that it has completely affected his writing. Neil’s writing has always been emotional and sensitive but there was a distinct darkness to it in the 90’s and early aughts that he just doesn’t have anymore, and his last collection or two have really just seemed like he’s doing his best Neil Gaiman impression. He’s much more likely to go for a sappy and sentimental ending than the poignant bittersweet notes he rose to prominence over.
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Aug 29, 2019 01:57
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Lots of people chill out a little as they age. Maybe he's gotten over the angst from his twenties and thirties? Maybe he's healthier now in his own head? I like Gaiman, and I wouldn't begrudge him feeling better about the world and his place in it just because I want more stories to read.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:03
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If that's what it is, blaming that all on his wife and not just like getting older and having four children seems weird. Also artists change and explore other things so as not to get bored. Demanding their style remains static is super lame in its own way. Sandman is still there if you wanna read Sandman.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:05
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I don’t wanna read Sandman for the 15th time, relax, I’m just saying Neil used to be edgier and if you have dark and edgy melancholia and then take the darkness and edginess it’s just sad twee stuff that I, too, have outgrown. Neil Gaiman is basically the literary equivalent of Tim Burton at this point, but I’m still happy for him and I’m not gonna pretend that huge swathes of my favorite cultures aren’t directly a result of his work.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:10
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Just made it through and I loved it, but; - Having not read the comics and approaching the show strictly divorced from that context, the non-ending was a really lovely pay off to the episodes building up to it. I had hoped for a fun caper where a rag-tag bunch of cheeky chappies bought down a wonderfully evil mega-corporation and that it might have a beginning, a middle and an end. Instead it just seems like its going to suffer the American TV disease of diminishing returns as the show trudges through increasingly lovely series and turns into a drawn out loving soap opera. - Hughie suffered from 'Jesse Pinkman' syndrome in that it seemed that the writers relied on fathoming up some inexplicable pangs of conscience on his part in order to drive the plot - Karl Urban channeled Jack Sparrow once or twice and I'm absolutely fine with that.
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Aug 29, 2019 03:51
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Simiain posted:- Having not read the comics and approaching the show strictly divorced from that context, the non-ending was a really lovely pay off to the episodes building up to it. I had hoped for a fun caper where a rag-tag bunch of cheeky chappies bought down a wonderfully evil mega-corporation and that it might have a beginning, a middle and an end. Instead it just seems like its going to suffer the American TV disease of diminishing returns as the show trudges through increasingly lovely series and turns into a drawn out loving soap opera. Nothing in this series implied it was a smash em up Marvelesque super hero show. If anything it felt like they were avoiding big fights for CGI budget reasons. It's also just been eight episodes who says it's going to drag on. loving Brits produced Dr. Who they got nothing to point fingers at.
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Aug 29, 2019 05:07
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Also I consider the plot lines from S1 to be resolved because the plots were about revenge. Billy and Hughie both basically completed their revenge, except it turns out Hughie is a better person than Billy and Billy would happily murder a baby if he thought it might chap Homelander’s rear end. The final episode setting up the new and exciting different plot for S2 doesn’t make what happened in S1 less impactful. Like this isn’t a cliffhanger, it’s just a bombshell.
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Aug 29, 2019 05:11
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I felt that Haley joel osment really turned it on for his emotional scenes, dudes got some chops Pork chops
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Aug 29, 2019 05:56
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Rocksicles posted:That some anime thing? I thought Hanzo steel was a thing from kill bill
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Aug 29, 2019 06:47
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Hattori Hanzo was the name of a real deal samurai. "Hanzo's katana" and "Hanzo steel" has kinda been a pop culture thing in movies and video games for a long while and Tarantino was probably referencing old kung fu movies
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Aug 29, 2019 07:00
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Stairmaster posted:I thought Hanzo steel was a thing from kill bill Tarantino doesn't make original movies. They're a framework of parts from cinema history held together by a coherent vision of what he wants the movie to be.
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Aug 29, 2019 10:40
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Not sure how anyone can look at the end of the EIGHTH episode of a television show and complain about things getting dragged out, but here we are.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:37
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Plan Z posted:Then there are Hugh Laurie, Christian Bale, and Damian Lewis who rely on the "fish face" and lisping to power through certain parts of the accent, though props to Damian because he's one of the few actors who can scream at the top of his lungs in another accent without making it noticeable. Suddenly imagining a brawl between Charlie "do you want to know how I survived prison" Crews vs Lucas "just hosed up an albino" Hood
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Aug 29, 2019 12:24
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Labes for days posted:Not sure how anyone can look at the end of the EIGHTH episode of a television show and complain about things getting dragged out, but here we are. I honestly hate getting involved in tiny UK or Aussie serials because people like to claim that US TV is bloated but almost none of the Sci-Fi stuff from across the pond resolved hardly ANYTHING inside their tiny seasons. Like I really liked Glitch on Netflix from AU a lot, but being two 6 episode seasons didn’t make it inherently better to one 12 episode season and it still left with the biggest questions in the show completely unanswered.
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Aug 29, 2019 13:19
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Chubby Henparty posted:Suddenly imagining a brawl between Charlie "do you want to know how I survived prison" Crews vs Lucas "just hosed up an albino" Hood Now I remember how good of a show Life was again. Jerk.
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Aug 29, 2019 13:32
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Rhyno posted:Now I remember how good of a show Life was again. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TOUCH DEATH" Crews holding the Incan Death Flag has been my phone's wallpaper for at least five years. Of course the flag's cut off, but it still looks loving awesome. To go slightly back on topic, Hood would win any fight between him and Crews but Crews would smoothly talk him down before he did any real damage.
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Aug 29, 2019 14:57
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That was the spirit of the show, but I liked the few hints throughout (like the finale) that under the zen outlook, he was by nature or necessity a hard bastard.
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Aug 29, 2019 15:11
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Rhyno posted:Now I remember how good of a show Life was again. He ever find out who actually did it before it got cancelled?
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Aug 29, 2019 15:16
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Bust Rodd posted:I honestly hate getting involved in tiny UK or Aussie serials because people like to claim that US TV is bloated but almost none of the Sci-Fi stuff from across the pond resolved hardly ANYTHING inside their tiny seasons. Season 3 of Glitch is showing right now on ABC. I don't know when it will be on Netflix.
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Aug 29, 2019 16:09
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GD_American posted:He ever find out who actually did it before it got cancelled? No, which makes it even worse.
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Aug 29, 2019 18:25
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GD_American posted:He ever find out who actually did it before it got cancelled? Yeah, the series ended pretty satisfyingly IIRC.
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Aug 29, 2019 19:56
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Good gravy, seeing people angry at The Deep for the rape, but then immediately looking for redeeming qualities like Animal Rights support is hilarious. Like caring about dolphins somehow balances-out his utter obliviousness in regards to the effects of his actions. The Deep is a guy that got by on his looks and limited powerset alone. He's deeply narcissistic and dumb as a post, evidenced by his receptiveness to the dolphin's advances. The point of his arc then is seeing this literal human piece of trash feel all of the emotions when his feelings are on the line, bit being completely oblivious to the world around him. Can he be redeemed? Sure. But we wouldn't get anymore "Everybody Hurts" moments and that would be the true crime here. So I hope he stays hollow, narcissistic, aggressively dull and stupid, if only to be a stand-in for me to laugh at and wonder about the lives of horrible people I know. EDIT: with that said, I fully expect The Deep to fail upward in the series. New executives...old transgressions forgotten...past history of success. Sounds like Management material to me, boys! SpeakSlow fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Aug 29, 2019 |
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Aug 29, 2019 21:15
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That sounds incredibly boring both to watch and write for.
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Aug 29, 2019 21:16
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Bust Rodd posted:That sounds incredibly boring both to watch and write for. Fun At Parties
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Aug 29, 2019 21:23
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Bust Rodd posted:That sounds incredibly boring both to watch and write for. The number one thing said by anyone who lacks imagination.
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Aug 29, 2019 23:23
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No you can just see that kinda poo poo literally everywhere else is all. I like this show because it’s doing lots of different things. Making it samey would make it lame-o.
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Aug 29, 2019 23:35
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Like I'm going to be disappointed if Starlight's in trouble and The Deep sacrifices himself to save her or something dumb, but I do like the idea of making him an interesting character by making him feel something besides "I'm a big dick superhero on top of the world" is captivating. I wonder if Starlight will join The Boys in this. It's going to be one hell of a sell to get Butcher back to leading the team after he abandoned everybody to go on a suicide mission against Homelander.
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Aug 31, 2019 01:49
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Starlight fought A-Train and is in on the conspiracy now. If A-Train is, like, in a coma for S2 she can spy for them. I don’t really know what’s gonna happen with Billy & Becky though. Realistically how does Billy get them away from Homelander?
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Aug 31, 2019 01:55
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Not only that, but when she confronted her mom about knowing about Compound V it gave her the realization she had been lied to her whole life. I think she'll join the Boys in season 2.i think A Train will survive, at least to maintain tension about the fact that they fought each other. Shockwave will no doubt take his place in the seven, which could be interesting as well. Another possibility is A Train presumed dead by Starlight and she stays with the Seven to try to spy on them, only to get confronted later on by Homelander. Deep will try to use his powers to stop Homelander but it will backfire horribly when it turns out he can't really control sea life and he'll get eaten alive by thousands of hag fish or something.
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Aug 31, 2019 02:54
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Panfilo posted:Another possibility is A Train presumed dead by Starlight and she stays with the Seven to try to spy on them, only to get confronted later on by Homelander. I could see her picking up that part of Maeve's character from the comics. Would make better sense for Starlight to be in that role in both the books and show.
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Aug 31, 2019 05:59
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Plan Z posted:I could see her picking up that part of Maeve's character from the comics. Would make better sense for Starlight to be in that role in both the books and show. That role doesn't have a very happy ending, though.
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Aug 31, 2019 10:26
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It’s quite clear that we’ve gone off-rails WRT comics at this point, and frankly I’d be happy if it stayed that way. I really hope we get to see Mother’s Milk’s Mom, I’m stoked for the episode with Terror (who probably won’t Rape anybody) and we NEED at least a brief Love Sausage cameo.
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Aug 31, 2019 12:58
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I dunno why, but the only actor that comes to mind for LS has got to be David Harbour. I know he's playing the Red Guardian in the new Black Widow movie, but having him cameo as the big guy would be loving hilarious. I don't recall much about the comics, would anyone mind linking some pics or something of the stuff people are talking about when it comes to the weirder poo poo in there like MM's mom and brother?
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Aug 31, 2019 14:28
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Arthil posted:That role doesn't have a very happy ending, though. I don't think anyone but Hughie and Annie got a happy ending to be fair. Even then..
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Aug 31, 2019 16:49
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