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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah Medical Police is pretty much guaranteed to be great. It’s set in Brazil for gods sake. I watched the trailer earlier. It looks like someone went ingredients shopping for an action comedy, and cooked it in the microwave.
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bull3964 posted:if you aren't excited for Medical Police, I don't know what to tell you. 
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If nothing else, it's an entry in the criminally underserved category of "Shows set in Brazil." Which it totally is.
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Isn't the dumb name also part of the in universe joke that the entire show is actually a fictional show within another show? Like NTSF:SD:SUV?bull3964 posted:Children's Hospital. Childrens 
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It's is going to be a long year if you keep banging this drum, boss. Can we skip to the end where the young kid gets totes nekkid in Californication about 14 years later and the earth slows down.
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Rocksicles posted:It's is going to be a long year if you keep banging this drum, boss. Nah I'm already halfway through season 3. I'll be over this by next week.
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Jan 9, 2020 09:45
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is the young girl who gets naked in Californication the same one who gets naked in Twin Peaks
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Escobarbarian posted:is the young girl who gets naked in Californication the same one who gets naked in Twin Peaks yes
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Hell of a resume.
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I'm loving "The Circle" on Netflix and it's such a guilty pleasure show but hits all the pleasure points, from the catfish spy game to the actual emotional eliminations, to the challenges and games. Social Media sucks, but that rear window Exposure is brilliant
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Can somebody reboot The Outer Limits again already? I need more goddamn monsters in my life.
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There's already so much teeth gnashing in the star trek thread that Picard is gonna be bad.  TelevisedInsanity posted:I'm loving "The Circle" on Netflix and it's such a guilty pleasure show but hits all the pleasure points, from the catfish spy game to the actual emotional eliminations, to the challenges and games. Did you watch the UK version? I loved season 1 but they changed it to where it sucked in season 2. It was way more like Big Brother the second time around. I don't have that much time to dedicate to a reality show. I wonder how the Netflix version stacks up. feedmyleg posted:Can somebody reboot The Outer Limits again already? I need more goddamn monsters in my life. Do you keep up with politics?
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Croatoan posted:There's already so much teeth gnashing in the star trek thread that Picard is gonna be bad. Based on what?
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Croatoan posted:There's already so much teeth gnashing in the star trek thread that Picard is gonna be bad. You went into a non-chat thread in TV IV. You know what you signed up for.
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zoux posted:Based on what? Picard wants the federation to be based on a post-trump and brexit world, he doesnt think the optimistic future of TNG is realistic anymore patrick stewart in io9 article posted:“In a way, the world of Next Generation had been too perfect and too protected,” Stewart added. “It was the Enterprise. It was a safe world of respect and communication and care and, sometimes, fun. [Picard] was me responding to the world of Brexit and Trump and feeling, ‘Why hasn’t the Federation changed? Why hasn’t Starfleet changed?’ Maybe they’re not as reliable and trustworthy as we all thought.”
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That's not substantially different from DS9.
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Rocksicles posted:Netflix have lost their drat minds. First they turn Gwenyth Paltrow's scam buisness into a tv show for rich morons. I mean Marie Kondo also sells magical bullshit like magic healing crystals and magic healing oils and her show was a phenomenon.
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Croatoan posted:There's already so much teeth gnashing in the star trek thread that Picard is gonna be bad. Anything that isn't TNG will be considered bad by that thread.
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Croatoan posted:There's already so much teeth gnashing in the star trek thread that Picard is gonna be bad. The problem here is you’re reading Star Trek discussion on the internet
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The Trek thread sucks. The Disco thread is better.
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"The optimistic future" is one of Roddenberry's mandates and led to great rules like "no inter-personal conflict anymore because we've all evolved beyond it". Don't let your premise get in the way of good storytelling. DS9 is the least Roddenberry trek and it's not coincidence that it's also by far the best.
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Reminder that if Roddenberry had gotten his way Spock would have been on the grassy knoll
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Gene was not a good person so the further we get from his vision the better.
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Croatoan posted:Do you keep up with politics? No, I mean gruesome, repulsive-looking, uh... hm.
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Rhyno posted:Gene was not a good person so the further we get from his vision the better. Is there any genre other than sci-fi where fanboys building the narrative that the creator of a work not only had nothing to do with its quality and success but was actively detrimental on every level is so widespread and accepted.
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Sleeveless posted:Is there any genre other than sci-fi where fanboys building the narrative that the creator of a work not only had nothing to do with its quality and success but was actively detrimental on every level is so widespread and accepted. There's plenty of lovely fantasy writers.
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Sleeveless posted:Is there any genre other than sci-fi where fanboys building the narrative that the creator of a work not only had nothing to do with its quality and success but was actively detrimental on every level is so widespread and accepted. In Trek’s case, it’s absolutely deserved and correct though. Gene’s vision was mountains of coke and binders full of guests stars he could gently caress behind his wife’s back. Nearly everything you recognize as Trek was either created wholesale by or extensively expanded by someone else. The franchise’s success has more to do with Gene Coon than Gene Roddenberry.
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Genesis fanboys who hate Peter Gabriel.
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zoux posted:Genesis fanboys who hate Peter Gabriel. He got fuckin weird after Us.
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Rhyno posted:Gene was not a good person so the further we get from his vision the better. Rhyno posted:He got fuckin weird after Us. That is a correct and accurate statement.
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This looks really good. From Alex Garland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNloYTsH0Y
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Yeah, really excited for this one. Garland owns.
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Alright, fess up, who has the Monkey's Paw. https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/more-tv-news/american-horror-story-renewed-for-3-more-seasons-by-fx/ American Horror Story has a 3 season order. Actually, I think I'm fine with this. This last season was actually rather fun.
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Sleeveless posted:Is there any genre other than sci-fi where fanboys building the narrative that the creator of a work not only had nothing to do with its quality and success but was actively detrimental on every level is so widespread and accepted. Read Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, by Joel Engel, Inside Star Trek by Herb Solow and Bob Justman, and the two volumes of The Fifty-Year Mission, and then come back and tell me that Gene Roddenberry wasn't a sociopath and a serial cheater with his brain addled by LSD, booze and cocaine. He hosed over David Gerrold so badly that Gerrold wound up getting a huge cash payment from Paramount, because he wrote so much of the TNG writers' bible that the WGA decided he had a justified claim to a co-creator credit on the show. Roddenberry took everything Gerrold wrote and claimed it as his own and the WGA looked at all of the documentation Gerrold produced and was like, "What the gently caress, Roddenberry?"
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I don't really think there's anyone in the Star Trek thread that idolizes Gene Roddenberry or think he's all things Trek. Quite the contrary in fact. Pretty much everyone recognizes he was batshit insane and while he got the ball rolling things were better when he wasn't at the helm. I think people are just weary of corrupt federation stories at this point as that's comprised the vast majority of Trek media over the past decade. Hopefully the characterization of the Federation in Picard is not so much corrupt or xenophobic but rather rooted in real fears and understandable human failings. THAT would keep with the theme of Trek that humanity wants to do the right thing even if occasionally we need a positive push to get the courage to do it. I could see a federation that has turned inward after failing to save Romulus and the resulting backlash of that which leads to them turning a blind eye to other suffering out of a fear of making things worse. Star Trek has never been subtle though, so people are skeptical.
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