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Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

Schadenboner posted:

Finished The Sad-Brained Horse Show.

I feel like they shoulda ended it an episode earlier than they did?

E: Don�t get me wrong, it was a good episode and even a decent final episode but it feels almost like it cheated by not having the second-to-last episode be the last one?

i 100% agree except the final episode wasn�t good it was peak navelgazing jomny sun nonsense

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:48

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Schadenboner posted:

Finished The Sad-Brained Horse Show.

I feel like they shoulda ended it an episode earlier than they did?

E: Don�t get me wrong, it was a good episode and even a decent final episode but it feels almost like it cheated by not having the second-to-last episode be the last one?

either one would have worked but one of the things that it always tried to shake was cynicism and it is a rather sincere show that purposely eschewed cynicism trying more to capture the zeitgeist of a laundry list of DSM-V problems (codependency, ocd, lifetime of building regets, obsession, alcohol/drug addiction to escape, masculinity, asexuality, etc etc) that people don't want to face/discuss and how people are affected in differing ways and that "it's okay, you aren't alone in your problems". although they did have the heart-rate machine beeping there at the end of the preceeding implying he didn't die so it could have worked, but they really wanted one more "so how do you come back from an attempted suicide" and face the people you know to wrap it up and not just leave it hanging

that said the preceeding episode was better, and final could have been better; but either or would have worked, and it wrapped up well. much better than i expected going into the last season tbf

Xaris fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 13, 2020

# ? Oct 13, 2020 02:22

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

lol did a cartoon horse try to kill itself

# ? Oct 13, 2020 02:50

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

bojack is really good

# ? Oct 13, 2020 02:51

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

indigi posted:

lol did a cartoon horse try to kill itself

I mean it's debatable maybe he just really wanted to see how glue was made

# ? Oct 13, 2020 03:00

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

new dune better have some kung fu weirding poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6e2NB7i_B8

# ? Oct 13, 2020 05:18

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Uptime Sinclair posted:

i 100% agree except the final episode wasn�t good it was peak navelgazing jomny sun nonsense

the entire genre of the wacky sadbrain self hating rich person who selfishly abuses everyone around them is regressive and should go away imo

# ? Oct 13, 2020 18:37

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

qirex posted:

the entire genre of the wacky sadbrain self hating rich person who selfishly abuses everyone around them is regressive and should go away imo

if i didn�t agree with you before bojack i certainly do now

# ? Oct 13, 2020 20:16

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0

:hmmyes:

(straight in my Radarr queue)

# ? Oct 13, 2020 21:43

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

qirex posted:

the entire genre of the wacky sadbrain self hating rich person who selfishly abuses everyone around them is regressive and should go away imo

i agree, it's extremely masturbatory

see also: movies about young scriptwriters/actors/filmmakers, who are smarter/better than everyone else but misunderstood, just trying to catch their big break in hollywood. gently caress off

e: also movies about middle aged businessmen having a crisis trying to figure out why their mansions and cars don't make them happy. especially in hollywood. gently caress off

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Oct 13, 2020

# ? Oct 13, 2020 21:46

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

Schadenboner posted:

Finished The Sad-Brained Horse Show.

I feel like they shoulda ended it an episode earlier than they did?

E: Don�t get me wrong, it was a good episode and even a decent final episode but it feels almost like it cheated by not having the second-to-last episode be the last one?

the entire point of the final episode is that the second-to-final is an incredibly dumb trope where bojack has his bad actions catch up with him, and the audience has the relief of feeling sympathy with him because it is safe and allowed now that his comeuppance had arrived. this is entirely contrary to the theme of the show however, where bojack is an incredibly real hollywood monster who will never face permanent consequences and who will continue to inflict suffering on himself and everyone else forever.

the final episode is vital.

e: should spoiler that a bit i guess.

Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Oct 13, 2020

# ? Oct 13, 2020 21:55

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Sagebrush posted:

i agree, it's extremely masturbatory

see also: movies about young scriptwriters/actors/filmmakers, who are smarter/better than everyone else but misunderstood, just trying to catch their big break in hollywood. gently caress off

e: also movies about middle aged businessmen having a crisis trying to figure out why their mansions and cars don't make them happy. especially in hollywood. gently caress off

sure all that is true... but...

counterpoint: Synecdoche, NY is a god-tier masterpiece and seymor-hoffman's (rip) magnum opus

# ? Oct 13, 2020 22:00

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Sagebrush posted:

e: also movies about middle aged businessmen having a crisis trying to figure out why their mansions and cars don't make them happy. especially in hollywood. gently caress off

American Beauty was good tho

# ? Oct 13, 2020 22:18

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Sagebrush posted:

i agree, it's extremely masturbatory

see also: movies about young scriptwriters/actors/filmmakers, who are smarter/better than everyone else but misunderstood, just trying to catch their big break in hollywood. gently caress off

e: also movies about middle aged businessmen having a crisis trying to figure out why their mansions and cars don't make them happy. especially in hollywood. gently caress off

my favorite: literary novels where the main character is a college professor who is having a midlife crisis and sleeps with one or more beautiful students

# ? Oct 13, 2020 22:26

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/headexposure/status/1316088866584002561

lol beaten by NMN and a lack of refreshing

# ? Oct 13, 2020 22:30

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

ICE (1994) looks like all -around terrible bullshit but lmao at how to deal with a hostage situation

https://youtu.be/Vh2HmB23obA?t=92

edit: tsk, embedding disabled.

# ? Oct 13, 2020 22:54

in a well actually: Jan 26, 2011; dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

the entire point of the final episode is that the second-to-final is an incredibly dumb trope where bojack has his bad actions catch up with him, and the audience has the relief of feeling sympathy with him because it is safe and allowed now that his comeuppance had arrived. this is entirely contrary to the theme of the show however, where bojack is an incredibly real hollywood monster who will never face permanent consequences and who will continue to inflict suffering on himself and everyone else forever.

the final episode is vital.

e: should spoiler that a bit i guess.

agreed re importance of final episode but

everyone else (except pb) cuts him out of their life, and their life goes on without him; not the first time that happened (eg herb having a full life etc).

there�s more going on than standard premium cable antihero californiacation and i think the creator tried to emphasize over the course of the show how you should not identify with bojack, but i get that not everyone is going to read it that way

and I�m sympathetic to the argument that the depiction is glamorizes it; eg no such thing as an anti-war movie

# ? Oct 13, 2020 23:04

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

come and see would beg to differ

# ? Oct 13, 2020 23:07

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/headexposure/status/1316088866584002561

lol beaten by NMN and a lack of refreshing

cool

# ? Oct 13, 2020 23:40

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

NoneMoreNegative posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0

(straight in my Radarr queue)

this looks like someone wrote a predator script and it got rejected by fox

and it's better for it

# ? Oct 13, 2020 23:50

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

FMguru posted:

my favorite: literary novels where the main character is a college professor who is having a midlife crisis and sleeps with one or more beautiful students

did you steal my manuscript???

# ? Oct 14, 2020 00:01

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

every stephen king novel: a widowed writer moves to a small town in maine and griefbangs a college girl. also there�s a ghost or w/e who cares

# ? Oct 14, 2020 13:55

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

sometimes it's a poorly-parented child getting drunk

# ? Oct 14, 2020 15:27

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

and then the writer gets hit by a speeding vehicle

# ? Oct 14, 2020 15:51

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

Jabor posted:

and then the writer gets hit by a speeding vehicle

# ? Oct 14, 2020 15:55

MacPac: Jun 2, 2006; Grimey Drawer

The fellas making a animation short based on the Blindsight novel by Peter Watts just dropped the finished product after 4 years:
https://vimeo.com/467342474

https://blindsight.space/

# ? Oct 14, 2020 19:58

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

https://twitter.com/PFTompkins/status/1316199859251150848

# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:19

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

Things I never expected to see for 800

https://tvline.com/2020/10/14/dexter-revival-showtime-season-9-michael-c-hall/

drat why couldn't it have been more Hannibal :mad:

(I only watched Dexter until the end of the season with Lithgow in, but from what I have read it went downhill)

# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:28

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

ive never watched a dextwer

# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:30

psiox: Oct 15, 2001; Babylon 5 Street Team

NoneMoreNegative posted:

drat why couldn't it have been more Hannibal

# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:34

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

i dont think heroic serial killers and cannibals are appropriate subject matter for tv shows

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:01

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:01

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

rotor posted:

i dont think heroic serial killers and cannibals are appropriate subject matter for tv shows

nice to see a believer in hollywood professional courtesy

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:01

Kenny Logins: Jan 11, 2011; EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.

i still have not forgiven those craven maniacs for joe dirt

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:03

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Things I never expected to see for 800

https://tvline.com/2020/10/14/dexter-revival-showtime-season-9-michael-c-hall/

drat why couldn't it have been more Hannibal

(I only watched Dexter until the end of the season with Lithgow in, but from what I have read it went downhill)

skip the books after the second one too

book 3 completely fucks everything up and it only goes downhill from there

also supposedly he ended the novels, but i'll only believe it when the author dies

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:10

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

"it's never too early to stop reading ~~dune sequels~~ Dexter novels"

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:14

Bhodi: Dec 9, 2007; Oh, it's just a cat.; Pillbug

MacPac posted:

The fellas making a animation short based on the Blindsight novel by Peter Watts just dropped the finished product after 4 years:
https://vimeo.com/467342474

https://blindsight.space/

this is cool but it's more of a trailer of a movie that was never made

# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:22