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Can't have fans getting invested and solving our mysteries. Writing is all about winning against your audience, you know.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Dunno man... i mean that episode specifically calls out blanche for not recognizing that she's supporting white supremacy by using the 'my heritage' argument to display the confederate flag. its remarkably ahead of its time, and incredibly salient right now.
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PittTheElder posted:I remain unsold on Mandalorian. It is a very good western, but westerns as a genre are very bad.
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teethgrinder posted:Hot take: Firefly was enjoyable.
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Zoig posted:...I'm pretty sure if you foreshadow something and people guess it right it's really bad to change it just for the sake of a surprise instead. It's faithful to the source material then. People had GRRM's twists figured out decades in advance (Jon's parentage still isn't even revealed in the books yet) and he reportedly did not take it well.
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wizzardstaff posted:It's faithful to the source material then. People had GRRM's twists figured out decades in advance (Jon's parentage still isn't even revealed in the books yet) and he reportedly did not take it well. News flash: making a tv series off an unfinished series of books causes problems when you pass the books
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As far as laugh track sitcoms go, I remember liking the Drew Carey show a lot as a teenager. I'll have to see if it still holds up.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Dunno man... Golden Palace was always considered poo poo though.
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Jul 16, 2020 23:51
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wizzardstaff posted:It's faithful to the source material then. People had GRRM's twists figured out decades in advance (Jon's parentage still isn't even revealed in the books yet) and he reportedly did not take it well.
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Sagebrush posted:it is really amazing how it went from being a global phenomenon to absolute silence basically overnight. I wish the internet was silent about Game of Thrones instead of continuously talking about how nobody talks about it anymore. mind the walrus posted:He didn't pull a Westworld or LOST and straight-up rewrite poo poo at the last second to "keep the viewers guessing." Friendly reminder that this literally never happened, it's just nerds still being bitter that their dumb theories were wrong years later.
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Fister Roboto posted:As far as laugh track sitcoms go, I remember liking the Drew Carey show a lot as a teenager. I'll have to see if it still holds up. Good luck - it's a pain to find anywhere, it doesn't stream and I think only the first season was ever released on DVD.
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it didn’t have a laugh track, but Community was a funny sitcom Also I was today years old when I realized sitcom is short for situational comedy (i think?)
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Sleeveless posted:Friendly reminder that this literally never happened, it's just nerds still being bitter that their dumb theories were wrong years later. You know who absolutely does that? Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Literally in the past fans have guessed where the wrasslin' storylines were going, so they changed them at the last minute. I don't think anyone in actual television is that spiteful and creatively bankrupt.
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Gonna bet there absolutely are people like that, but without the fanbase that's required for that to be possible.
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And most of the time they’ve already filmed the season.
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Hot take - Game of thrones was fine, but could never live up to the years of insane nerd expectation
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The show you like sucks and is for nerds also the other one you like is garbage. I am totally not a nerd despite going on an old nerds forums to discuss which pop culture consumption is for nerds.
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Sleeveless posted:I wish the internet was silent about Game of Thrones instead of continuously talking about how nobody talks about it anymore. Whether or not the theories were true is irrelevant to the fact that LOST never had a plan and just forgot half the plot threads they started, Westworld crawled so far up it's philosophical butt it forgot about the story it was telling, and GoT (even if you did like any of it) was basically abandoned in the last season. Studios want never-ending stories (woao, woao, woao,) for never ending income, and stories have endings. When you reach the end, if you don't stop, you risk ruining the story. If you stop before the end, you risk invalidating everything before it. And if your story can't survive having it's twists revealed, it's bad period. Has anyone watched "6th Sense" more than twice? Anyway, a 4 for 4, no sauce for the nuggets, raspberry Hi-C, because it's a good deal and I'm loving OLD.
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JesusGeorge posted:... stories have endings. I had an argument with someone about this It's crazy how some people just want never ending content and simultaneously don't understand what makes things satisfying
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Lost not tying up every loose end is such a silly complaint Not every mystery needs to be answered on screen That's how you get midichlorians
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That’s a bad analogy since those were an answer to a question nobody had and not a question the work shoved in your face with spooky music cues before the credits rolled each week.
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Amphigory posted:Hot take - Game of thrones was fine, but could never live up to the years of insane nerd expectation Have you watched it? The collapse in sanity as they outrun the books is genuinely amusing.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:
It was Who.
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Jestery posted:I had an argument with someone about this It’s the curse of American style television. Why have three seasons made of ten episodes each that tell a compelling story, or are clever comedy, when you can have 20, 26 episode seasons that have gotten so convoluted and up their own rear end that by the end the scripts seem more like fanfic, half of them erotic fanfic minus the hardcore grunty sex.
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The Himbo machine's always broken
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Data Graham posted:Third Rock From the Sun was pretty stupid-serviceable. I just started watching it from the start and it's got some great comedy but holy wow do the sex/gender jokes feel dated. Like general topics you could revisit today but they would need to be utterly different in the details. I also started watching Mork and Mindy and it's even more messily dated. But Robin Williams doing coke-fueled improv takes me back to my early childhood. 
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What is an "Early morning grinder"?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:What is an "Early morning grinder"? It's basically just a toasted hoagie.
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I haven't watched game of thrones but I might if it had a laugh track.
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OwlFancier posted:I haven't watched game of thrones but I might if it had a laugh track. It doesn't need a laugh track to be funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ
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Jestery posted:I had an argument with someone about this I totally agree. I’ve always found happy endings to be extremely gratifying.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:What is an "Early morning grinder"? a warning sign of an addiction to cold cuts
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SpacePig posted:It's basically just a toasted hoagie. Rhode Island?
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wuffles posted:a warning sign of an addiction to cold cuts get some cold cuts, get some cold cuts woo!
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Leon Sumbitches posted:It was Who. He said he wasnt sure, someone in another thread
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