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Season 4 is a little different, but anyone who hates it can getaway getaway, stay away stay away...
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I think Season 4 is probably my favorite season. I think the structure is genius and allows some great long term building of jokes. That being said I don't think I ever finished Season 5 so that should tell you how I felt about it.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:07
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Season 5 took me three of four tries to finish and I don’t think I can tell you anything about what actually happened in it beyond “extended unfunny Gob is gay joke” and “actually Buster is a murderer somehow”.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:45
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I genuinely can't remember if I watched S5 but I also only remember i watched S4 because the last time I thought I hadn't and watched it I realized I had and just forgot 99% of it.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:30
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I watched S4 when it came out and kind of liked it, then a while back after season 5 was out, started a rewatch of the whole series, and the jump from S3 finale to episode 1 S4 was so jarring I stopped watching. S4/5 is practically a different show. Even the greenscreen/fake actors wasn't as hard to digest as the shift in the writing and humor. It was trying so hard to be Arrested Development S1-3 humor but it just kept missing the target. Their more original ideas/plots went off a lot better, but they spent so long on the Micheal knows sea law joke (a reference to a single line from nearly 15 years ago) it was clearly just smashing the "everybody remember this classic bit?" button multiple times an episode.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:24
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Wait, is s4 the Netflix revival
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Apr 1, 2021 21:25
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Season 4 is the first season of the revival, yes.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:26
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I didn't even know there was a season 5, I really didn't like 4 that much
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Apr 1, 2021 21:35
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Arist posted:I didn't even finish the second episode of Season 5. It was just so lifeless. Lifeless is the best way to describe it. It felt like a slog getting through it, and that's something I never would've thought I'd say about Arrested Development. I'm also a big fan of season four though, I think some of the best jokes in the show are in season four. pentyne posted:I watched S4 when it came out and kind of liked it, then a while back after season 5 was out, started a rewatch of the whole series, and the jump from S3 finale to episode 1 S4 was so jarring I stopped watching. Season four's first episode I think is pretty weak, so there is a gap in quality there, but it gets better quickly. Nichael fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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Apr 1, 2021 21:42
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Yeah, season 4 is very uneven, and on average I think it's lower than any of the first three seasons, but on the other hand I also think it has some of the best episodes of the entire show. So even though there are definite downsides, the higher points still make it worth it for me. Season 5, there's just nothing. I think I remember some of the Tobias/Lucille bits to be fine but obviously unmemorable, and I remember the general premise of "Trump stole the wall idea from AD Season 4" to be kind of funny in a meta sense, but not in any of the actual jokes they try to do with it. Other than that, the only things about season 5 I even remember is that Portia de Rossi is only in like two episodes and they try to retcon Linday's whole adoption background. Oh, another reason season 4 is worth it overall: we actually get a new mini-scene of Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu doing MST3K again.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:10
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Apparently everyone involved in American Gods insists that it's going to continue in some way.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:51
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bull3964 posted:Apparently everyone involved in American Gods insists that it's going to continue in some way. I’ll believe that when I see it. I don’t count on most shows getting hoped for continuations, but that shows production was far, far more troubled than most.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:52
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It has also has no real die hard fans, even people who like it seem to be acutely aware of it's issues. They also could've told the book's story twice over by now. Makes me glad Good Omens got wrapped up in one go. Still, if nothing else, the Anansi scene in a vacuum is a really incredible scene to share. If only the rest of the show maintained the same strength. I did like all the gods-arrive-in-america scenes.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:05
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Khanstant posted:It has also has no real die hard fans, even people who like it seem to be acutely aware of it's issues. They also could've told the book's story twice over by now. Makes me glad Good Omens got wrapped up in one go. Still, if nothing else, the Anansi scene in a vacuum is a really incredible scene to share. If only the rest of the show maintained the same strength. I did like all the gods-arrive-in-america scenes. They should have ditched the actual plot of the book and worked with Gaiman to make an anthology show where the episode opens with a god-arrives-in-America bit and then done a short story for each. They didn’t know how to handle the book plot at all- the best parts of the show were always short and character focused bits.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:08
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Ugly In The Morning posted:They should have ditched the actual plot of the book and worked with Gaiman to make an anthology show where the episode opens with a god-arrives-in-America bit and then done a short story for each. They didn’t know how to handle the book plot at all- the best parts of the show were always short and character focused bits. IIRC there's supposed to be an adaptation of his Norse Mythology book in the works which would basically just be that.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:42
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Watching the Resident Alien finale. This has to be the laziest writing I've seen in a long time. The pilot showed such promise.
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Apr 2, 2021 02:56
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muscles like this! posted:The CW live action Powerpuff Girls has cast its Professor Utonium and you'll never guess who. Reminds me im rewatching Scrubs and its like a warm blanket. A blanket about ppl dying but hell ig it doesnt make me feel good anyways
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Apr 2, 2021 03:24
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Finished season 1 of Arrested Development! Some of the funniest stuff I already knew/know is coming up because it's been referenced for 15 years, but a few things I really liked and didn't know about: -the "next episode on" jokes -the herd of idiots employed by the company/staff meetings/their trip to catalina -take your daughter to work day
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Apr 2, 2021 03:28
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Hughmoris posted:Watching the Resident Alien finale. This has to be the laziest writing I've seen in a long time. The pilot showed such promise. What didn’t you like? I know a lot of people have been up and down all season, but I’ve enjoyed the show overall. I think the last conversation was a bit... simple, but no major disappointments. I felt like a bit chunk of the last section was a love letter to Flight of the Navigator, but that might just be me.
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Apr 2, 2021 04:13
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Hughmoris posted:Watching the Resident Alien finale. This has to be the laziest writing I've seen in a long time. The pilot showed such promise. I felt satisfied after the glacier fall stuff and I decided it was a nice stopping place. Sounds like I made the right decision.
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Apr 2, 2021 05:15
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I thought the finale was pretty good; the season was at occasionally at risk of becoming mawkish, but the last few episodes have made an effort to complicate and darken "Harry's" behaviour to the point where he's started to become disturbing, and the town's airy, child-like positivity is beginning to look dangerously naïve. I really like the way they're getting a lot of value out of mashing up The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with ET with Northern Exposure, and how the lightness and darkness of each premise is brought into conflict by the show's narrative -- often in really exciting ways. (e.g. The stuff with the home invasion subplot, which was excellent -- both completely logical, but also completely unexpected.) There were a few moments where I felt the plot was a little arbitrary and soapy -- e.g. the (temporary) resolution to Darcy and Asta subplot is a classic narrative stall, and unfortunately doesn't make a super lot of sense -- but the show seems to have a really good sense of the morality of the situations involved, so it avoids the classic pitfalls of the genre. Oh, and Alan Tudyk has some career best acting in that finale, no lie. I'd put it up there with one of Syfy's stronger offerings from the last ten years, and their original content's been good for a while now.
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Apr 2, 2021 05:54
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Ugly In The Morning posted:They should have ditched the actual plot of the book and worked with Gaiman to make an anthology show where the episode opens with a god-arrives-in-America bit and then done a short story for each. They didn’t know how to handle the book plot at all- the best parts of the show were always short and character focused bits. ditching the vignettes was the worst decision they could have made and they were the best part to boot
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Apr 2, 2021 12:15
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Tudyk is good on Resident Alien but his best role is still Mr. Nobody
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Apr 2, 2021 16:36
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Simone Magus posted:Tudyk is good on Resident Alien but his best role is still Mr. Nobody It's Transformers Dark of the Moon by a long country mile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztK-OWOMl0
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Apr 2, 2021 16:44
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Rhyno posted:It's Transformers Dark of the Moon by a long country mile Hahaha. I always forget that those movies have inexplicably stacked casts. John Malkovich lol
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Apr 2, 2021 16:57
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Simone Magus posted:Hahaha. I always forget that those movies have inexplicably stacked casts. John Malkovich lol The fourth one has Stanley Tucci and he is clearly having the time of his life. And Titus Welliver!
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Apr 2, 2021 17:01
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Anthony Hopkins is in them too and has a robot butler
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Apr 2, 2021 17:08
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Mu Zeta posted:Anthony Hopkins is in them too and has a robot butler That one sucks the most. AoE (4) is a goddamned masterpiece. It has Markey Mark, John Goodman and Kelsey Grammer!
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Apr 2, 2021 17:46
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"Phantom Train of Doom" is a better Young Indiana Jones episode than the second and fourth Indiana Jones movies. It was fantastic. The second half was slower, but the whole concept of a hostage berating his captors on being incompetent and lecturing them the whole time on how to be better soldiers was great, and it had a good ending.
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Apr 2, 2021 17:52
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Rhyno posted:The fourth one has Stanley Tucci and he is clearly having the time of his life. And Titus Welliver! I have said it before, but I will pay someone cold hard cash to recut the movie to JUST be the Stanley Tucci scenes only. It's so goddamn stupid, but him screaming "ALGORITHMS! MATH!" as he slaps a whiteboard is one of my favorite movie moments ever. You're also right and AoE is the best one by a mile and is the one that's actually out and out fun. One is too goofy/fish out of water, two is weirdly racist, three I remember very little about besides the action stuff at the end was cool in Imax 3d, and five is just baaaaaaaaad.
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Apr 2, 2021 18:04
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Cael posted:I have said it before, but I will pay someone cold hard cash to recut the movie to JUST be the Stanley Tucci scenes only. It's so goddamn stupid, but him screaming "ALGORITHMS! MATH!" as he slaps a whiteboard is one of my favorite movie moments ever. I've probably watched AoE thirty times, I love Tucci's scenes that much. "How do you say GET THE gently caress OUT OF THE WAY in Chinese?"
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Apr 2, 2021 18:14
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Apr 2, 2021 18:18
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galenanorth posted:"Phantom Train of Doom" is a better Young Indiana Jones episode than the second and fourth Indiana Jones movies. Attack of the Hawkmen, too. I'd throw Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life in there as well, but it's more of a drama than an adventure riff. Daredevils of the Desert is better than Crystal Skull but not Temple of Doom. e: I really wish that show wasn't so forgotten because the DVD edits make it such a vastly better show than when it aired. I really wish Disney would take the unproduced scripts and make an animated miniseries or something. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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Apr 2, 2021 18:51
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If Phantom Train is the one with the old retired badass soldiers then yeah that's my favorite. I can't remember if it happened in the episode but I recall a cool scene where it's Indy's first time using a whip.
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Apr 2, 2021 19:00
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How's the Get Shorty TV series? Worth checking out? With Resident Alien, American Gods, and Snowpiercer all over I need new shows.
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Apr 2, 2021 19:41
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GreenNight posted:How's the Get Shorty TV series? Worth checking out? With Resident Alien, American Gods, and Snowpiercer all over I need new shows. first 2 seasons were fun but 3rd (and last?) is kind of a mess, imo
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Apr 2, 2021 21:15
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Stanley Tucci is like 90% of the reason the hunger games movies are good The other 10% of course being Elizabeth banks
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Apr 2, 2021 21:24
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Wut?
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Apr 2, 2021 21:53
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Okay, I need to watch this. feedmyleg posted:e: I really wish that show wasn't so forgotten because the DVD edits make it such a vastly better show than when it aired. I really wish Disney would take the unproduced scripts and make an animated miniseries or something. I think a big problem is that the rights are probably so tangled. Lucasfilm is Disney now but before that, Young Indy was split between Lucasfilm, Disney, Amblin, and Paramount. But I think it's also the fact that the Indy "EU" never sold as well as Star Wars. Even the Indy comics were only made because Lucasfilm required Dark Horse to do Indy as a condition of buying the rights to Star Wars comics. Outside of Fate of Atlantis, none of the Indy games were really hits. It's a world that is harder to get people interested in outside of the movies.
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Apr 2, 2021 22:12
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Inspector 34 posted:Wut? idk, just keep seeing this card on Hulu and keep momentarily thinking it's a werewolf thing and instead it is just some dumb poo poo about some shady company
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Apr 2, 2021 22:26
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