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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, same. I was a big defender of Reloaded and then Revolutions came out and I was like "nope, sorry, you guys win." A few months ago I rewatched the entire trilogy for the first time since Revolutions hit DVD and also with someone who has never seen the sequels but loves the original movie, and after years of online apologia about how the Matrix sequels (especially Reloaded) aren't actually that bad it was kind of gratifying that both of us ended up agreeing that both of them were bad. So much of Reloaded is just people doing things for reasons that aren't really explained or going places because someone told them and as much as played out as it is to complain about "mystery boxes" the entire plot is just about getting a key to open a mystery
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I am and it's good. So far it seems more even than season 1. The highs aren't as high but the lows aren't as low either. Season 1 was cool and sexy and violent and badass, but every time it deviated from the books with its own ideas it was staggeringly dumb, and every scene with the Quellists would have been better replaced with screaming white-noise. Two episodes in, and S2 seems to have decided that the Quellists are great and we should have even more of them. I'm...not optimistic.
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Sleeveless posted:A few months ago I rewatched the entire trilogy for the first time since Revolutions hit DVD and also with someone who has never seen the sequels but loves the original movie, and after years of online apologia about how the Matrix sequels (especially Reloaded) aren't actually that bad it was kind of gratifying that both of us ended up agreeing that both of them were bad. So much of Reloaded is just people doing things for reasons that aren't really explained or going places because someone told them and as much as played out as it is to complain about "mystery boxes" the entire plot is just about getting a key to open a mystery The matrix sequel apologia is as baffling to me as the Star Wars prequel apologia. They’re both just absolutely terrible and I don’t get how in the past year or two huge groups have popped up to say “they’re good, actually”. And, like I mentioned before, I’m someone who actually liked Reloaded for a bit there. E: Strom Cuzewon posted:. The Quellists were great... in the book, where Quellcrist had been dead for centuries and they were mostly background. The envoys were also great until they got jammed into the Quellists to make some kind of homogenous YA Summer Camp blob.
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Feb 27, 2020 18:17
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The Quellists were great... in the book, where Quellcrist had been dead for centuries and they were mostly background. The envoys were also great until they got jammed into the Quellists to make some kind of homogenous YA Summer Camp blob. And when they were cynical anarchcommunists instead of an incredibly simplistic " immortality is baaaaaaad". S2 is on a planet that's responsible for half the mining needed to make stacks, so I can't help thinking they're gonna go even further down that road, and it's gonna be terrible. Poe is back and owns at least, and every scene with him is a loving delight.
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Feb 27, 2020 18:27
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Strom Cuzewon posted:And when they were cynical anarchcommunists instead of an incredibly simplistic " immortality is baaaaaaad". S2 is on a planet that's responsible for half the mining needed to make stacks, so I can't help thinking they're gonna go even further down that road, and it's gonna be terrible. I really preferred how in the books, a lot of people didn’t resleeve more than once or twice, not because they couldn’t afford it but because they were bored and didn’t want to deal with getting old and all that again. It’s way better than the “immortality is baaaad” thing the show did.
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Feb 27, 2020 18:32
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Let's say I barely remember the books: Will I give a poo poo
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Feb 27, 2020 18:32
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/GeeksOfColor/status/1233059679640543232 That Destiny's Child song really doesn't fit the trailer at all.
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Feb 27, 2020 18:33
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Oasx posted:That Destiny's Child song really doesn't fit the trailer at all. "Say My Name"?
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Feb 27, 2020 18:33
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zoux posted:Let's say I barely remember the books: Will I give a poo poo Wait, people actually still read?
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Feb 27, 2020 18:34
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zoux posted:Let's say I barely remember the books: Will I give a poo poo Nah, it's still cool and sexy and violent and badass. I'm just salty, cos the books had some real meaty sci-fi to go along with it.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Season 1 was cool and sexy and violent and badass, but every time it deviated from the books with its own ideas it was staggeringly dumb, and every scene with the Quellists would have been better replaced with screaming white-noise. Oh yea s2 is way more Takashi and Quellcrist stuff, but way less Quellists. They are mentioned a few times but aren't really there that much. Overall it was a fine season but I don't think the show is getting renewed since I think this was the third and final book they adapted while they skipped the second one.
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Croatoan posted:Nerds do. We should beat them up. buncha virgins. bet they all wear glasses.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Nah, it's still cool and sexy and violent and badass. I'm just salty, cos the books had some real meaty sci-fi to go along with it. Yeah, I just don't know how you get across the sheer weirdness and body/mind condundrums of resleeving without the internal monologue available in prose
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Feb 27, 2020 18:48
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zoux posted:"Say My Name"? That part of the lyrics fits, but the song itself it a fairly generic RnB/pop song that doesn't fit the mood of a horror movie.
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Feb 27, 2020 20:04
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Not gonna argue with you but it was fine.
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zoux posted:Let's say I barely remember the books: Will I give a poo poo I haven't read the books but I thought a lot of S1's story was dumb and apparently those were the parts that diverged from the books So I expect similarly I won't care about it not being the book story in S2 but it will also be dumber than the book story and that'll be something I don't like That said gonna give it a watch, here we go
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The trailer for Tales from the Loop is out, it's based on Simon Stålenhag's art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htuNZp82Ck
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Oasx posted:The trailer for Tales from the Loop is out, it's based on Simon Stålenhag's art YESSSSSSSSS thanktyou I've been excited for this for a full year now, funny to see the absolute hugest piece of poo poo on VEEP in a kindly dad role (at least for the one shot) bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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zoux posted:Presume, if you will, David Lynch was a masked gay canadian country music singer (he could be we don't know who this guy is irl) That's a really good song
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Oasx posted:The trailer for Tales from the Loop is out, it's based on Simon Stålenhag's art  how man I gotta say I really appreciate that Netflix and Amazon are funding all these amazing shows I feel like cable would have never given a shot
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Feb 27, 2020 23:38
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Zaphod42 posted:man I gotta say I really appreciate that Netflix and Amazon are funding all these amazing shows I feel like cable would have never given a shot same but i wish that Netflix would actually do more quality control. Amazon's pretty good about it tho,
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I've been staring at his paintings for years and I have all my own stories and theories in my head that I've made up over time and there's no way the show matches up with any of it but i dont caaaaaaaaare just show me live action Stålenhag world I don't think this is from the series the show is based on but it's a sequence of paintings that play out like a little comic and I just hope we get a bit of this side too:     
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I'm watching a show from 2012 and, well, trans people sure have made great strides in public perception in the last decade, huh.
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bring back old gbs posted:I've been staring at his paintings for years and I have all my own stories and theories in my head that I've made up over time and there's no way the show matches up with any of it but i dont caaaaaaaaare just show me live action Stålenhag world The prestige!
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Lurdiak posted:I'm watching a show from 2012 and, well, trans people sure have made great strides in public perception in the last decade, huh. Which one
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Oh yea s2 is way more Takashi and Quellcrist stuff, but way less Quellists. They are mentioned a few times but aren't really there that much. And it makes sense they skipped book 2 as the trilogy is very loosely connected outside of having the same main character.
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Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU have all been given three-season renewals by NBC. That means, at the very least, SVU will reach its twenty-fourth season.
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Feb 28, 2020 02:02
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Kind of funny how Year of the Rabbit has a special credit that Matt Berry wrote his own stuff.
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Feb 28, 2020 02:25
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Feb 28, 2020 02:35
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zoux posted:Presume, if you will, David Lynch was a masked gay canadian country music singer (he could be we don't know who this guy is irl) I discovered Orville Peck about a year ago, and he's incredible. If you like Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, or Chris Isaak, he's your guy. He only has one album so far, Pony, but it's awesome like this from beginning to end, and was my favorite album of 2019. All his stuff sounds perfect for David Lynch soundtracks.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbvi5iDkao Trailer for the final season of Future Man.
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbvi5iDkao Looks like they got an actual budget this time, unlike season 2.
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbvi5iDkao Hell drat yes
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Looks like they got an actual budget this time, unlike season 2. I enjoyed the second season but it definitely wasn't as amazing as the first. Especially the entire episode about what Corey Wolf-Hart was doing during the eighties.
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muscles like this! posted:I enjoyed the second season but it definitely wasn't as amazing as the first. Especially the entire episode about what Corey Wolf-Hart was doing during the eighties.  And it looks like the showrunners feel the same way as this seems to be more along the lines of season 1 and loving around throughout time.
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Feb 28, 2020 04:04
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Yeah, Season 2 was funny but was hurt by the fact that they weren't time traveling into different eras. This season looks like it corrects that.
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Feb 28, 2020 04:10
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For people who use a VPN to watch iPlayer et Al from the us, what vpn software do you use?
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Mokinokaro posted:The showrunners have said that if it continues into season 3 it'll be a completely new story instead of an adaptation. Yeah if. S1 worked better as a contained story, S2 is clearly setting the ground for the hope of more seasons to tell a epic story. They dropped more hints and details in 30 seconds about the Elders in one episode then in the entirety of season 1. It's pretty obvious they want to explore that angle but with Netflix's propensity to abruptly cancel shows its not like they can really plan out that much.
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