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PCjr sidecar posted:so you know heroes was a trash fire? turns out it was even more so completely unsurprising, but still depressing. ironic, then, that larter was a terrible actress and had some of the worst characters on the show. i would groan when scenes revolved around her and was pretty annoyed when they killed her off only to soap-ily bring her back as a sibling
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heroes completely fell apart when they weren't allowed to get rid of any characters like they had originally planned all along of course now that happens all the time on anthology shows but they were a few years too early
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haveblue posted:heroes completely fell apart when they weren't allowed to get rid of any characters like they had originally planned all along nah they just should have stopped with one season. they could have fixed this with heroes reborn but it was also a complete shitshow
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:actually thanks to the solo movie the kessel run is now canonically difficult because there's a big space monster in there space monsters are my favourite navigational hazards
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Shaggar posted:i know the navigators were so hosed up on spice that they were mutated super humans, but idk if it was just that it gave them the ability to do the calculations or if they actually had the ability to fold space. little of each i think
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Improbable Lobster posted:space monsters are my favourite navigational hazards the elon thread is over there
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I always thought it was the calculations, except not so much "calculations" as using prescience to eliminate all the paths that resulted in collisions with stars and focusing on the one that got them to where they wanted to go. the space folding is then performed by an unthinking machine after being programmed with the path the navigator found
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Bill Burr is the best Star Wars character
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freaks and geeks was a good show and it’s so good it was only one series
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i ran out of melville films so I'm watching the five venoms again and not falling asleep this time Shaw brothers rules
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echinopsis posted:freaks and geeks was a good show and it’s so good it was only one series if you see a show on the screen, cancel it
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it’s more xenophobia than racism since Mandalorian is a culture not a race. it’s like being anti Islam
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Achmed Jones posted:Shaw brothers rules they're pretty great
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first episode of the new adaptation of the stand dropped yesterday and its doing that thing where they keep cutting back and forwards in time, i'm not sure i like that part of it but i also had to keep referring to the cast list of the previous adaptation so i could remember which character was which so i might be biased will have to see how it feels in the next episode Achmed Jones posted:i ran out of melville films so I'm watching the five venoms again and not falling asleep this time ive been slowly watching their films on amazon prime and i just watched five elemental ninjas, they make fun movies
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duz posted:first episode of the new adaptation of the stand dropped yesterday and its doing that thing where they keep cutting back and forwards in time I generally hate this as a narrative device, it’s almost never worth it and even in the rare cases where it is I’m still frustrated by it
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it's obnoxious and 100% it's the writers jerking off over how clever they are
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duz posted:first episode of the new adaptation of the stand dropped yesterday and its doing that thing where they keep cutting back and forwards in time,
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duz posted:first episode of the new adaptation of the stand dropped yesterday and its doing that thing where they keep cutting back and forwards in time, i'm not sure i like that part of it but i also had to keep referring to the cast list of the previous adaptation so i could remember which character was which so i might be biased five element ninjas is so good
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indigi posted:I generally hate this as a narrative device, it’s almost never worth it and even in the rare cases where it is I’m still frustrated by it I'm raging just remembering that I wasted hours of my life on the first 2 seasons of Lost before figuring out there would never be a good payoff
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infernal machines posted:it's obnoxious and 100% it's the writers jerking off over how clever they are sometimes its the writers trying to cover up that the plot is simplistic or dumb (that birds of prey/harley quinn movie was guilty of this) FMguru fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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the time skips really reduced my enjoyment of the witcher as well, i get what they were trying to do but it was just really unnecessarily confusing. find a different storytelling device
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i think the only place i've seen it that wasn't horribly obnoxious was use of weapons, and only because there was a very clear structure to it that you could follow after the first two chapters
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gently caress jj and his mystery box legacy though. keeping the audience guessing isn't actually good storytelling in and of itself
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Tarantino movies are the only place where crazy nonlinear storytelling ever has a decent payoff. Obligatory foot fetish reference.
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memento was real good, shame he spent most of the rest of his non-batman career inventing increasingly insane narrative structures until he finally made one that collapsed under its own weight
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it's horseshit that memento lost best editing to black hawk down
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shoeberto posted:Tarantino movies are the only place where crazy nonlinear storytelling ever has a decent payoff. Obligatory foot fetish reference. i think david lynch does pretty well at nonstandard storytelling imho
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fart simpson posted:i think david lynch does pretty well at nonstandard storytelling imho I was actually thinking about him earlier, but has he really done like nonlinear stuff? Mulholland Drive was really unique but it didn't jump around much. He has a few movies I haven't seen though. loving love David Lynch so much.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQZRSploe0 I'm a big Adkins fan usually, this one might test my resolve a little 
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shoeberto posted:I was actually thinking about him earlier, but has he really done like nonlinear stuff? Mulholland Drive was really unique but it didn't jump around much. He has a few movies I haven't seen though. lost highway is arguably nonlinear
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s1 and s3 of True Detective do it really well. probably because there's a cohesive story they know has 10 episodes to be told.
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Chris Knight posted:s1 and s3 of True Detective do it really well. probably because there's a cohesive story they know has 10 episodes to be told. in true detective it's a framing device to tell it in flashback not a whole thing where they intentionally confuse the audience leading up to some big reveal about it
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the new pratchett city watch adaptation is garbage, unsurprisingly https://www.polygon.com/tv/2020/12/18/22187906/the-watch-review-terry-pratchett-discworld I think a looser adaptation was probably a good idea, but bbc america probably aren’t the people to do it
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season 2 finale of the mandalorian just came out and...well, that was certainly a cameo. huh. after credits sequence was good too
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qirex posted:in true detective it's a framing device to tell it in flashback not a whole thing where they intentionally confuse the audience leading up to some big reveal about it ya TD uses two linear storylines, one in the present and one in the past, and it's never a question which is which
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Bhodi posted:the time skips really reduced my enjoyment of the witcher as well, i get what they were trying to do but it was just really unnecessarily confusing. find a different storytelling device hoping s2 drops the device entirely as either way it’s served its purpose. maybe one or two eps where it’s contained to just the ep, i can live with
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the witcher gets a pass cause its so much fun and isnt completely up its own rear end like ww
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hmmm. gently caress.
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