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esperterra posted:There's no denying it was needlessly convoluted tho. They tried to make a season of television impossible to guess, which is, like, the opposite point of writing a mystery. You should want the reader/viewer to potentially pick up the pieces before the reveal! SunshineDanceParty fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Nothing that blew me away, but optimistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2h1Zfr7fs
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feedmyleg posted:Nothing that blew me away, but optimistic: yessssssss been waiting for this to have a trailer
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IS THAT A FUCKIN LAURA MARLING SONG gently caress YEAH IT IS
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GreenNight posted:I really don't read Reddit so I had no idea about any of that. Hard to put one over the hive mind.
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Jan 13, 2020 20:35
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Croatoan posted:Ok so, Westworld Season 3. This poo poo never came out? The trailer with Aaron Paul came out like 7 months ago. I didn't finish season one because it was a bit too rapey. I never watched season 2. Should I go back and watch them? Season 2 was pretty interesting, AFAIK most of the hate seemed to come from people who had it all written out in their heads and then the season went another direction entirely. Then again, I also have a pretty fuzzy memory of it all since I binged it alone instead of weekly with friends as it came out as with S1. I remember really liking the escalation of Maeve's character and I'm of course rooting for the AIs to get rights and citizenship in the regular world. IIRC the Samurai World poo poo kind of goes nowhere and seems to retread character beats I thought we'd already covered. edit: Hating Wil Wheaton reminds me of hating football. For years it was just that football sucks, sucks to hear about, sucks that it's always around, sucks that people won't shut the gently caress up about it - but whatever it just sucks and that's all you can say. Then at some point you find actually good reasons to hate it besides "you don't like it," like it abuses players, takes advantage of taxpayers, protects domestic abusers, fights against people's rights, corruption, etc. For Wil we got to graduate from "Wesley sucks" to "Wil himself was best friend's with a sex abuser and apparently never cared enough to say anything, try to stop it, or stop being the dude's friend." Khanstant fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Khanstant posted:Season 2 was pretty interesting, AFAIK most of the hate seemed to come from people who had it all written out in their heads and then the season went another direction entirely. Then again, I also have a pretty fuzzy memory of it all since I binged it alone instead of weekly with friends as it came out as with S1. I remember really liking the escalation of Maeve's character and I'm of course rooting for the AIs to get rights and citizenship in the regular world. IIRC the Samurai World poo poo kind of goes nowhere and seems to retread character beats I thought we'd already covered. The dislike for Westworld s2 is because the plot was legitimately bad and full of stupid poo poo. The "Welcome to Westworld" scene, the data in Abernathy's head(which was a s2 retcon that made the whole thing from s1 even more stupid), Dolores finally smuggling things out of the park, random character is actually a robot, the whole flooding of the valley "mystery" which made 0 sense because there were a ton of people who witnessed it and probably more stuff I am forgetting. S2 was told in a convoluted manner, but the story itself was also poor and nonsensical if you even stop to think about it.
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Croatoan posted:Oscar chat: The Joker got 11 nominations. It wasn't even a good movie imo. It was Ok, just not all that great. The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood follow with 10 nominations each. The Irishman was good just it could have been better if Scorsese cut like an hour off. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was pretty good though. I run an annual goonvote at http://crucialweb.net/oscars for anyone interested. Doesn't take long at all, it's just clicking a few boxes. Everything is scrubbed from last year, so you'll need to make a new login (it literally just asks for a name and password, no need to verify but don't lose the PW as there's no reset - you'll need it if you want to edit, or see how your scores compare). To join the Something Awful group the password is 'iamprotected', of course.
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The thing that bugged me the most about S2 is more a thematic miss: Maeve's whole storyline in Shogun World should have focused on the relationship between SW Maeve and SW Clementine, and not SW Maeve and SW Maeve's daughter. Considering the season ends with this huge, climactic standoff between Maeve and Clementine, who have an entire relationship built up from S1 that then basically gets forgotten all of S2 til the Wifi Staredown it's such a missed opportunity.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:The dislike for Westworld s2 is because the plot was legitimately bad and full of stupid poo poo. The "Welcome to Westworld" scene, the data in Abernathy's head(which was a s2 retcon that made the whole thing from s1 even more stupid), Dolores finally smuggling things out of the park, random character is actually a robot, the whole flooding of the valley "mystery" which made 0 sense because there were a ton of people who witnessed it and probably more stuff I am forgetting. Thanks for all the spoilers! Really cool!
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To me, a normal brained person: it was fine.
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Jan 13, 2020 21:26
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:The dislike for Westworld s2 is because the plot was legitimately bad and full of stupid poo poo. The "Welcome to Westworld" scene, the data in Abernathy's head(which was a s2 retcon that made the whole thing from s1 even more stupid), Dolores finally smuggling things out of the park, random character is actually a robot, the whole flooding of the valley "mystery" which made 0 sense because there were a ton of people who witnessed it and probably more stuff I am forgetting. Yeah, just read the timeline and it was convoluted just for the sake of stopping viewers from guessing everything. My hopes for s2 were that hosts get to break free of their horrible human-torture-gratification hellscape existences and it accomplished that, but it does seem like they took a sensible linear set of events and then remixed them for the sake of not-clarity. I was being dismissive before, these are legit criticisms now that I'm reliving them. Also I'm remembering how I'm not actually rooting for most of the characters, gently caress all rich people.
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I enjoyed Westworld S2, but I can’t remember like 85 percent of it. For whatever reason it just didn’t stick with me like S1.
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Croatoan posted:Thanks for all the spoilers! Really cool! Nothing I said was a spoiler unless you haven't seen a single s3 trailer(which shows Dolores out of the park) or believe that random character is a robot was something they actually built up and dropped hints at instead of deciding on the actual day of shooting the scene so that it was a complete surprise to everyone, including the actor. Khanstant posted:Yeah, just read the timeline and it was convoluted just for the sake of stopping viewers from guessing everything. My hopes for s2 were that hosts get to break free of their horrible human-torture-gratification hellscape existences and it accomplished that, but it does seem like they took a sensible linear set of events and then remixed them for the sake of not-clarity. I was being dismissive before, these are legit criticisms now that I'm reliving them. Also I'm remembering how I'm not actually rooting for most of the characters, gently caress all rich people. 
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Croatoan posted:Thanks for all the spoilers! Really cool! It aired over a year ago dude
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Croatoan posted:Thanks for all the spoilers! Really cool! 
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And this is a general chat thread that isn't strictly about the show, and people binge watch these things months/years after they air. We've had this conversation so many times now.
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Sure, I dislike Westworld S2 because it's a convoluted mess. But I dislike it more for being a series of missed opportunities—not of my own head-canon, but of interesting science-fiction concepts that are set up and never explored. The first season spends a huge chunk of time examining the nature of consciousness and exploring the implications of a man-made (or human-assisted) consciousness on both the artificial beings themselves and the humans who interact with them. On what makes a being truly conscious, on the humanizing nature of empathy and the dehumanizing animal instincts of man. The second season, however, didn't seem all that concerned with thoughtful exploration of issues surrounding AI, consciousness, or human nature at all. Like, in Samurai World you have one character encountering her own Eastern double, another person who shares her programming at a core level. Who shares her soul. Two persons born from one mind. And then... they never touch on the implications of that, instead dedicating their time to a lame cowboy vs. ninja vs. samurai battle that was extremely poorly shot. Bernard encounters a room full of his body, perfect copies that might make one question their own corporeal nature, that could make one question their own unique nature in this world, but then it goes absolutely nowhere. There are also drone hosts who aren't modeled after human beings, an underclass of robot servants who don't feel any kind of identity crisis, don't feel the push and pull between the worlds of man and machine and they... just kind of wander around. Season 1 felt like the kind of show that would explore those ideas. Season 2 had very different priorities.
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Belated but the best anime is Gankutsuou which is The Count of Monte Cristo in space and it owns bones. I think it's up on YouTube for free but it's only in 360p which is a shame since the show is gorgeous. It's also directed and partially written by the guy behind The Second Renaissance (aka the best part of the Animatrix) for what it's worth.
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EL BROMANCE posted:And this is a general chat thread that isn't strictly about the show, and people binge watch these things months/years after they air. We've had this conversation so many times now. "Spoilers" as a concept also isn't something everyone thinks is important. Personally if the place I'm posting has enforced spoiler rules or is specifically for that kind of shrouded discussion, I'm fine abiding them, but these forums don't seem have that rule except for stuff that hasn't yet aired or is leaked. Spoilers seem like a natural risk for anyone who looks up their shows or participates in general online chats about shows in general. That's the spoilees risk and I don't think anyone, outside of specific circumstances, has a special obligation to safeguard Those Who Waited. At worst, it is discourteous.
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This conversation was started by someone asking 'is it worth watching Westworld S2?' and we have a general unwritten rule of keeping quiet about past shows in the chat thread when we know someone's in the process of catching up.
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Since it's the new year, I'm down for revisiting spoiler rules for this thread if people want to start dropping opinions on how we should handle them (should there be a limit of time before you can freely discuss a show? does it matter if it's a year old or five years old? etc). Obviously things currently airing or very new should always be spoiled, or discussion taken to their general thread if one exists. But it's kind of a weird nebulous thing atm for anything that's been out for a while. Should we say it's okay to discuss things unless it's been made clear someone is freshly about to watch it, in which case we begin to spoil things? Kinda like how (random example) the Witcher Wild Hunt thread works. If you try to read the whole drat thing you're going to get spoiled. But if you come in new and mention you're doing your first run, everyone starts spoiling important things again so the new person can have a fresh experience and share that experience with the thread. e: Vanderdeath posted:Belated but the best anime is Gankutsuou which is The Count of Monte Cristo in space and it owns bones. I think it's up on YouTube for free but it's only in 360p which is a shame since the show is gorgeous. Yeah that show owns and is visually interesting af.
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I don't think it's a reasonable expectation to ask people to discuss a show and then have no details about the show revealed. If your definition of spoilers is anything that would ruin a cool reveal from a show, then most trailers do that. If your definition of a spoiler is revealing the end-game of a season, then I don't think that anything that's been discussed here spoils the season in any significant way, at least not without the context of knowing why certain plot elements are relevant—which you'd only know if you'd seen the show. I'd say my thoughts are that you shouldn't talk about The Big Reveal of any show in explicit terms, but generally discussing the events of the season a year after it came out is fair game.
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I like the once it's aired it's fair game rule, I think CDs eternal spoiler policy is dumb as poo poo, but also I'd like people to use some basic courtesy if a poster is specifically asking for recommendations on poo poo they haven't seen. The Honor System, you see. One of the few ways you can directly negatively affect a person through posting is by being my posts. Another is spoilers, you can really ruin some poo poo for people and why lessen a person's joy when so much is already misery.
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Once it's aired it should be fair game. If I am trying to avoid spoilers for something I just skip over the post as soon as I realize what is being discussed. Knowing a plot point shouldn't discourage someone from watching a show, I know the plots of my favorite movies and TV shows and that doesn't ruin them on rewatch. e:. Of course I am only speaking from my perspective, if you want to prevent people from trolling with spoilers then I see that leading to rules. I think people in general put too much emphasis on going into stories completely blind, but I also get the general idea of trying be surprised so if rules are necessary then so be it. ONE YEAR LATER fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Yeah, for me personally I'd say a show currently airing or that recently finished airing shouldn't be spoiled, if only because maybe someone doesn't want to enter the general thread for that show b/c it is probably a spoiler minefield, or it may not have a general thread. But after a show has been out for a while, it should be safe to discuss fairly openly. Then use the honour system for when a person who has clearly not seen it is either asking for a recommendation, or mentioning that they've just started said show. With this being the general chat thread I feel like it should be relatively safe from spoilers, if only to function as a space for people who want to be posting in TVIV, but may be avoiding general threads 'til they're caught up. But it shouldn't be completely devoid of real discussion of stuff, either. idk i'm high af fam. Basically just be courteous is my rule of thumb. But if enough people want to enforce some actual rules in the Couch Chat threads I am 100% down to sort that stuff out with all of you fine folks, and muscles.
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zoux posted:Gah, no no rules drat right 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLMBLuGJTsA Lol I can't believe this is still happening.
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What if we avoid show threads because they're all trash? 
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New Penny Dreadful trailer is basically just Carnivale but with more divas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2h1Zfr7fs
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I love the rules as written in the rules thread. It's a matter of courtesy. If you're a Courteous Good poster, you will thoughtfully invoke spoilers based on context. Chaotic Courteous, "if it's aired it's faired!" Chaotic Discourteous is buying spoiler banner ads and PMing people spoilers. There's 3x3 grid of spoiler morality here and I think True Neutral is the approach for the rules. Individual thread cultures and enforcement seems sensible enough. As for on the Couch, I don't think couches get rules, that's not a couch, it's a theatre! Sometimes your friends are jerkass spoilers, sometimes they are cryptics who won't even tell you why a show is worth watching out of fear of spoiling.
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Rarity posted:This conversation was started by someone asking 'is it worth watching Westworld S2?' and we have a general unwritten rule of keeping quiet about past shows in the chat thread when we know someone's in the process of catching up. That's kinda what I was thinking. Now going into the second season I already know that the robot folk gain some sort of freedom. I just thought that's a bit excessive but it's not a super big deal. Also CD's eternal spoiler rule is effing stupid imo
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Open Source Idiom posted:New Penny Dreadful trailer is basically just Carnivale but with more divas. which is exactly why i've been hype about this since it was announced forever ago also my bae laura marling getting a song licensed for dat trailer awwww yissssssss e: also is dormer playing two characters?? why am i being #blessed so in 2020???
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Khanstant posted:I love the rules as written in the rules thread. It's a matter of courtesy. If you're a Courteous Good poster, you will thoughtfully invoke spoilers based on context. Chaotic Courteous, "if it's aired it's faired!" Chaotic Discourteous is buying spoiler banner ads and PMing people spoilers. There's 3x3 grid of spoiler morality here and I think True Neutral is the approach for the rules. Individual thread cultures and enforcement seems sensible enough. Are you loving drunk on ethics farts?
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CD isn't under eternal spoiler rules, what If a thread isn't about a specific movie, you always tag them just out of courtesy, but in movie-specific threads everything's fair game after the first two weekends of theatrical release
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feedmyleg posted:the hell did you do when you stayed home sick from school Got through an entire season of Madden in one day while listening to Ed, Lisa, and Dre. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Rocksicles posted:Are you loving drunk on ethics farts? No but it's D&D night so I'm in the mindset
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I don't care about getting spoiled myself but a lot of people do and typing (spoiler) (/spoiler) is a ridiculously small ask, why not just do it Like man y'all got some real issues with empathy
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