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I have a degree in political science so Hamilton was basically made to drive me loving insane.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I have the barest minimum of good taste so Hamilton was basically made to drive me loving insane.
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Jul 4, 2020 04:19
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muscles like this! posted:Sirens was another show that worked because the cast was pretty great. drat I miss Sirens. The cast really had great chemistry.
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Jul 4, 2020 04:24
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Graceland had a strong first season but then they had to figure out what exactly they wanted to do with Daniel Sunjata and their answer was to kind of retcon/rehab him so he wasn't such a bad guy.
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Jul 4, 2020 04:35
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hope and vaseline posted:drat I miss Sirens. The cast really had great chemistry.  Bill Nunn, he was a key part of that show and died soon after the second season ended.
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Jul 4, 2020 04:39
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Ah yes. I, too, am an intellectual who dislikes Hamilton The Musical. 
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Jul 4, 2020 05:14
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Ah yes. I, too, am an intellectual who dislikes Hamilton The Musical. Welcome brother
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Jul 4, 2020 05:28
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To be honest I just think the songs are just bad
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Jul 4, 2020 05:29
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm not that familiar with musical theater but Hamilton is way too long. Satisfied, Battle of Yorktown, and Schuyler SIsters are banging tunes but I just wanted it to end around halfway through. My mom made me see The Nutcracker ballet when I was a kid and I wanted to die and Hamilton is even longer. If I saw it live I'd leave during the intermission. I’m not big on musicals and Hamilton is aggressively mediocre, but ~2.5-3 hours with intermission is a fairly average length.
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Jul 4, 2020 05:32
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Anyone wanna take bets on how long Southern Survival is on air before Netflix takes it down and issues an apology for some stupid rear end comment from a cast member?
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Jul 4, 2020 05:39
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I never saw the show. I was into the soundtrack for a minute. There's a few songs in my shuffle. I get a lot of the political/moral issues people have with it or LMM. I imagine it probably is overrated compared to other shows given the amount of cultural focus it got. LMM isn't a very good rapper but like, I ain't someone who puts showtunes on my playlist. I'll probably check it out whenever I subscribe to Disney+. I'm not subscribing for it.
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Jul 4, 2020 05:40
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Like, I don't enjoy Hamilton personally, but I get why it was so successful. Other than LMM it has an amazing cast, and while I personally find the music to be overall bad, it's probably very easy listening for those who don't like showtunes or rap, tbh.
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Jul 4, 2020 05:46
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I'm truly sad that neither of you enjoyed it, but I'm also wondering if you were predisposed to hate it because you hate musicals (as a surprising amount of people do). If there’s one thing I’ve learned about esp over the years it’s that she automatically hates anything more than one person has told her is good
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Jul 4, 2020 05:48
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I've been watching Curb and enjoying it for the most part, but between the season I'm on now (8) and the last one, Larry has said the slur for trans people, said the N word, Michael Richards was on a couple years after he called that guy the N word, and, in the episode I'm on now, both he and Rosie O'Donnell said they hate bisexuals  This has not aged well. 2011 was a real poo poo time.
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Jul 4, 2020 06:11
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COMPLETELY UNRELATED, but I thought this was good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4U_lfgPac
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Jul 4, 2020 06:54
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I have to ask: do you both dislike musical theater in general? Because I just can't see how anyone who appreciates musicals could dislike Hamilton. It's kind of the pinnacle, especially if you're into the craft of songwriting, or American history, or hip hop -- all things I love. Saw it today for the first time. Never even listened to the soundtrack before now. The show tunes are good, especially the King George ones. The raps are loving garbage. Like embarrassingly bad. All the poo poo that would come out in normal exposition gets shoved into a rap and it sounds like something a white, 50-year-old history teacher would write to jazz up his senior class. It's pretty much a decent musical with a book report stapled to it. The opening song is like someone set a Wikipedia page to music.
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Jul 4, 2020 07:05
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:COMPLETELY UNRELATED, but I thought this was good: Titanic owns
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Jul 4, 2020 07:10
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Musicals are the anime of theater
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Jul 4, 2020 07:10
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In a good way
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Escobarbarian posted:If there’s one thing I’ve learned about esp over the years it’s that she automatically hates anything more than one person has told her is good Hey esp, sunmi is good >=)
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Hey esp, sunmi is good >=) wow, wrong good is not a strong enough word to describe how much 4d sunmi owns
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Jul 4, 2020 08:24
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alright folks here's some real hot content: after I saw Hamilton and heard they were making a movie version I decided to fantasy cast the whole thing with rappers/singers. I found this document, untouched since the middle of 2016, for your amusement: the one thing I have to put into context is that this is before Kanye's Trumpening. Also while I won't defend all of these choices I would absolutely still kill to see Bey/Alicia/Zendaya sing all of the Schuyler Sisters' songs. edit: actually I'll also defend Drake as Aaron "if you stand for nothing then what will you fall for" Burr and Chuck D as George Washington.
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Jul 4, 2020 08:31
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esperterra posted:wow, wrong Gah, you have outwitted me And I get irrationaly annoyed at how 'fantasy' castings are always either super famous or super popular. There's one I saw going around about fantasy casting for harry potter's dad and his friends: Dr who, Loki, Sherlock, and Bilbo.
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Jul 4, 2020 10:21
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Hamilton is the worst. But still not as bad as Grease.
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Jul 4, 2020 11:17
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I've never had much interest in Hamilton because I have a difficult time parsing song lyrics in real time unless they're slow or simplistic—like most musicals tend to be. But the snippets I've heard of Hamilton sound like I'd have to put in a bit of work to not get lost and I'm not nearly interested enough in the subject matter to do so. However, it's popularity with millennials/gen X doesn't surprise me at all because most of us grew up with Schoolhouse Rock in the classroom, and Hamilton just looks like a prestige version of that. Seems to me that a lot of the folks who loathe it would probably be a lot more forgiving if they just thought of it through that lens.
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Jul 4, 2020 11:17
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People don’t talk enough about how big chunks of Hamilton literally turned into EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY, and it’s just excruciating.
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Jul 4, 2020 12:03
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My wife is the whitest girl ever and doesn't care for most hip hop or rap but she fuckin loves Hamilton!
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Jul 4, 2020 12:16
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I've pretty much decided that anyone who stans for Hamilton is going to be the most droll person I've ever met.
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Jul 4, 2020 12:34
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Iron Crowned posted:I've pretty much decided that anyone who stans for Hamilton is going to be the most droll person I've ever met. Do you mean dull? Because it sounds like you mean dull and are calling them funny and I'm having a hard time parsing the sentence. EL BROMANCE posted:People don’t talk enough about how big chunks of Hamilton literally turned into EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY, and it’s just excruciating. When that first turned up I said "Oh, what the fuuuck" aloud. Of course it was going to happen but it was still somehow an unpleasant surprise when it did. I don't think I would have hated Hamilton as much if it wasn't so relentlessly popular, I'll admit it. But when it's hyped up for ages and ages and ages and is then... that... the gap between expectations and reality is just that much harsher.
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Jul 4, 2020 12:44
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EL BROMANCE posted:People don’t talk enough about how big chunks of Hamilton literally turned into EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY, and it’s just excruciating. That’s like two songs out of 50 haha
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Jul 4, 2020 12:52
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precision posted:Musicals are the anime of theater This post is making me wish this thread could discover Takarazuka shows now
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Jul 4, 2020 13:29
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Escobarbarian posted:That’s like two songs out of 50 haha Most of the other 50 are just bad, those ones are beyond terrible. This excludes the regular musical numbers, those are perfectly fine.
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Jul 4, 2020 14:00
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Even if Judge isn't an outright chud he still does a lot of "those damned hippies are just lazy and will sell out as soon as they are given an opportunity" running through his stuff which tells you he's never met a real hippie and he honestly thinks that the 1960s conservative caricature is 100% true. See basically any episode of King of the Hill where Hank interacts with one. Even in episodes where he agrees with them (like the co-op episode) they're still portrayed as dumb and selfish, lacking the moral fortitude of real Americans like Hank Rutherford Hill. I dont know, Ive been watching Legends From the Tour Bus (aka my fav show of 2020) and he tears into the hypocrisy of the media treating rap like a crime blotter when every real country star accidentally discharged a gun at some point. That warmed my heart.
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Jul 4, 2020 14:09
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I've been on a streak of finishing shows lately. Finally finished Mr Robot last week. Next up on the list of unfinished projects: Californication. Finished Season 6 yesterday. All I know about that show is there is an large absurd amount of too young women that Duchovny sleeps with in the show. Any hooks for it other than that?
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Jul 4, 2020 14:26
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DC Murderverse posted:edit: actually I'll also defend Drake as Aaron "if you stand for nothing then what will you fall for" Burr and Chuck D as George Washington.
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Jul 4, 2020 15:40
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The Hamilton praise/backlash/backlash to the backlash already played out four years ago so I don't really have anything to add about it but Lin-Manuel Miranda crossover success as a result has been awful. Him as Lee Scoresby in His Dark Materials was just clunker after clunker, him delivering lines meant for a fast-talking cowboy trickster with awkward theater kid desperation didn't work at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8vWvctiMQ&t=94s Plus as someone who used to be a big fan of the McElroy brothers I feel like him becoming buddies with them and exposing them to his infantile positivity grift is at least partially responsible for their comedy going off of a cliff over the past couple years. e. https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1279466466270560256 Sleeveless fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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Jul 4, 2020 18:18
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Do you mean dull? Because it sounds like you mean dull and are calling them funny and I'm having a hard time parsing the sentence. Yes. For some reason, all these years, I had thought droll was a fancy term for dull 
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Jul 4, 2020 18:54
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Jul 4, 2020 19:00
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Moana is pretty good, but I'm not really interested in Hamilton despite liking some musicals. I think I prefer older ones like Hello, Dolly and Once Upon A Mattress since those are the ones we did in high school.
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