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Season two of Solar Opposites was better than the last season of R&M
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Apr 1, 2021 05:12
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rick and morty babies
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Apr 1, 2021 05:42
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Slightly Absurd posted:rick and morty babies The Aqua Teen episode where they changed more of the dialogue worked much better
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Apr 1, 2021 05:54
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The catchphrase montage was cute, if only for “Kiss, kiss KISS MY BUTT!  ”
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Apr 1, 2021 06:08
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Will this be a full, uninterrupted season or are they going to pull this half-season crap again?
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Apr 1, 2021 13:34
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The half second Arrested Development gag in Solar Opposites S2 was right out of left field, and made me cackle.
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Apr 6, 2021 00:35
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The_Doctor posted:The half second Arrested Development gag in Solar Opposites S2 was right out of left field, and made me cackle. What was it?
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Apr 6, 2021 00:49
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Cojawfee posted:What was it? It’s in ep 5 and literally just a narrator contradicting what was just said and then an AD-esque ukulele sting. It’s just completely out of left field and never happens again. Oh hey, someone put it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpNUM-8WS-E The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 01:34
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I love the holiday ray gag. I love the premise, I love that it's a blackpowder cannon complete with a scifi linstock, and I love that the scene ends with Korvo using it to light a cigar and taunt his neighbor. poo poo's funny.
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Apr 6, 2021 22:56
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Finished season 2 earlier today. Really good. I wonder what they’re going to do about Middleditch.
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Apr 6, 2021 22:58
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Season two of Solar Opposites was better than the last season of R&M Inclined to agree with this. They could just drop Middleditch, he's the weakest of the 4 main characters anyway.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:03
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It was surprisingly good, especially after the first season was entirely forgettable other than the wall.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:05
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They could make a whole series about the wall. The main stuff is funny and all, but the wall stuff is really interesting.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:09
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Cojawfee posted:They could make a whole series about the wall. The main stuff is funny and all, but the wall stuff is really interesting. I still have my pet theory that the wall was the original focus of the show in the planning stages, and as the story built up around how the humans were in there, the aliens stuck on earth side of it grew more, rapidly overtaking the wall part. Don't touch my penis.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:14
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Cojawfee posted:They could make a whole series about the wall. The main stuff is funny and all, but the wall stuff is really interesting. I loved the Wall and I tell myself this, but its probably only so good because its only 60-90 minutes of the season. Its tight and polished. Any more and it'd be bad.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:29
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The_Doctor posted:I still have my pet theory that the wall was the original focus of the show in the planning stages, and as the story built up around how the humans were in there, the aliens stuck on earth side of it grew more, rapidly overtaking the wall part. Roiland says in an interview that the genesis of the wall idea was that he was playing the mobile Fallout game.
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Apr 6, 2021 23:32
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Oh that explains why the ant farm crosssection of the Wall looks exactly like that games layout
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Apr 7, 2021 12:52
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Cloks posted:Roiland says in an interview that the genesis of the wall idea was that he was playing the mobile Fallout game. God, you loving hack.
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Apr 7, 2021 16:09
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Roiland's approach to writing seems to be "get drunk and get in front of a mic" so I dunno, I tend to think hacks at least put some effort into it.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:56
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He would only be a hack if the end result wasn’t funny or interesting. Like the people currently writing for the Simpsons, for example, are hacks.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:03
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Y'all are going to be pissed if you start reading about the origin of lots and lots of things on TV, then. A writer's room is usually just a bunch of internet nerds pitching random poo poo they thought about when they were high or that they saw on the internet at each other. Futurama is the exception. They were a bunch of math nerds.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:04
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The_Doctor posted:God, you loving hack. Is this post sincere?
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Apr 7, 2021 18:05
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It might have a dumb origin, but it did become a good part of the show, so it's no that bad.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:09
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Every post is sincere unless it is accompanied by a SarcMark
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Apr 7, 2021 20:50
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The origin of Rick & Morty is just Roiland going “what if the Doc from back to the future molests the kid?” and here we are 7-8 years later.
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Apr 7, 2021 23:43
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You guys are in here getting mad at inspiritation? Wild.
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Apr 7, 2021 23:54
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Jonas Albrecht posted:You guys are in here getting mad at inspiritation? Wild. One person might have been? Not exactly a consensus there
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Apr 7, 2021 23:59
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And I'm not actually mad at him. I'm a writer and will happily acknowledge inspiration comes from anywhere. It's actually funny that the moment I learnt that it was based on Fallout Shelter, I could instantly see it, and all my plot theorising was miles off the mark.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:09
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Bust Rodd posted:The origin of Rick & Morty is just Roiland going “what if the Doc from back to the future molests the kid?” and here we are 7-8 years later. That's not fair, it's an artistic experiment in getting sued.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:26
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ikanreed posted:That's not fair, it's an artistic experiment in getting sued. Yeah. It’s art made out of spite which is the funniest art imo.
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Apr 8, 2021 00:35
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jokes posted:Y'all are going to be pissed if you start reading about the origin of lots and lots of things on TV, then. A writer's room is usually just a bunch of internet nerds pitching random poo poo they thought about when they were high or that they saw on the internet at each other. Futurama is the exception. They were a bunch of math nerds. That's what editing, storyboarding, and the general idea of sorting pitches and gags into a coherent narrative are for. It's pretty rare for a story to emerge fully-formed right away.
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Apr 8, 2021 06:32
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Oh yeah, the good parts of the wall stuff wasn’t because Roiland had a lightbulb moment and stayed up all night writing a screen playz Not to draw a parallel between Justin Roiland and Galileo because lol, but the apocryphal apple story is stupid as poo poo compared to the resultant theory and proofing of gravity. It’s more impressive taking the dumb innocuous thing and weaving an arguably very impressive thing out of that spark.
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Apr 8, 2021 06:43
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I mean, 'I got a weird dumb idea, let's figure out a story to support it' is probably as old as storytelling.
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Apr 8, 2021 07:48
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jokes posted:Oh yeah, the good parts of the wall stuff wasn’t because Roiland had a lightbulb moment and stayed up all night writing a screen playz Not to draw a parallel between Justin Roiland and Galileo because lol, but the apocryphal apple story is stupid as poo poo compared to the resultant theory and proofing of gravity. It’s more impressive taking the dumb innocuous thing and weaving an arguably very impressive thing out of that spark. Newton, not Galileo*. Your general point stands, stories of sudden "ah ha!" moments (or Eureka moments if you will) where an entire idea arrives fully formed, complete and correct are a) almost always bullshit, and b) actively harmful as they encourage a mindset of "this is a thing you understand and can do, or it is not.". This hides the fact that countless hours of work and getting stuff wrong go into eventually getting it right in the end, which means that people try once, dont immediately understand it, and throw up their hands and say "I just cant do this!", whether that thing is writing, or art, or physics or whatever. *The Galileo gravity story I know is him dropping a wooden cannonball and a lead cannonball the same size off the leaning tower of pisa to show they hit the ground at the same time. This is probably also complete horseshit, but at least shows the idea of testing a hypothesis by actually doing something instead of just proclaiming from nowhere that something is now understood.
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Apr 8, 2021 10:40
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jokes posted:Oh yeah, the good parts of the wall stuff wasn’t because Roiland had a lightbulb moment and stayed up all night writing a screen playz Not to draw a parallel between Justin Roiland and Galileo because lol, but the apocryphal apple story is stupid as poo poo compared to the resultant theory and proofing of gravity. It’s more impressive taking the dumb innocuous thing and weaving an arguably very impressive thing out of that spark. Sorry to burst your bubble but lightbulbs were not a thing in Galileo's day. Maybe an oil lamp, though there may have been drippage.
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Apr 8, 2021 11:20
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean, 'I got a weird dumb idea, let's figure out a story to support it' is probably as old as storytelling. My favorite version of this is the guy who wrote Tremors. He was sitting on a big rock one day and thought "what if something was keeping me from getting off of here?"
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Apr 8, 2021 14:25
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gently caress of course it was Newton, that’s the unit for measuring force. God I’m stupid
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Apr 8, 2021 16:14
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Jonas Albrecht posted:My favorite version of this is the guy who wrote Tremors. He was sitting on a big rock one day and thought "what if something was keeping me from getting off of here?" Frank Herbert was inspired to write Dune because he was looking at sand dunes on shrooms.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:41
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Auteur Theory is dumb. Unfiltered Roiland gets you Channel 101. The reason Rick & Morty is good is the writer's room...
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Apr 9, 2021 05:05
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Listening to commentary tracks, it seems the best ideas come from trying to get around the censors.
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