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Yeah the Marwa ending is disturbing on a very deep level but it's supposed to be. Nandor is an idiot sociopath, his idea of "granting a wish for someone" is turning them into another person and then releasing them into the world on their own. Guillermo's the only "good" person and even he is in a bit of moral grey area considering how many murders he's covered up over the years.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Yeah the Marwa ending is disturbing on a very deep level but it's supposed to be. Nandor is an idiot sociopath, his idea of "granting a wish for someone" is turning them into another person and then releasing them into the world on their own. I'd say the whole murdering thing is far worse
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Yeah I think people forget/overlook a lot of the poo poo Guillermo has done https://twitter.com/toobrlght/status/1554683308688171009?s=21&t=WhmER3m7Rgmg49GXE_HP4A
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The Colin stuff was great. Love a good chicken butt. I'm glad the night club arc is done. It wasn't great and it made Nadja super annoying. I liked the celebrity gag but I had to look two of them up to see who the hell they were. Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm pretty sure that Matt Berry really really could keep reeling off fake vampire band names for several hours I'd love that. I never saw much Matt Berry before this show but he's just amazing. ChesterJT fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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In the context of the show... Gizmo is arguably the worst of the lot. The vampires are driven by their nature. Gizmo is choosing to do all that awful poo poo in hopes of joining them. I think they should all get a happy ending, or none of them.
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I liked the $5000 Celebrity Special gag which gave Nadja a fun new way to eat the rich 
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EugeneDebsWasCool posted:I'd say the whole murdering thing is far worse Objectively the murdering is far worse. But it’s a comedy show and the murdering has always been played up for laughs. The complete erasure of Marwa as a person is just really disturbing in a way that the murders aren’t.
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Is only lovers left alive good? The only thing by Jarmusch I've seen is the dead don't die and it was pretty bad
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Sep 1, 2022 16:23
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Hughmoris posted:In the context of the show... He's inarguably the worst. He's seen past all the romanticized vampire bullshit first-hand, knows how miserable and poo poo-awful they are at forming communities even on their own terms, and still wants in. He doesn't even really have a compelling motivation for it.
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hawowanlawow posted:Is only lovers left alive good? The only thing by Jarmusch I've seen is the dead don't die and it was pretty bad Yes, but if you want to see Jarmusch at his best you should just watch Dead Man, Ghost Dog, or Down By Law or preferably all three.
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Surprised some of you are so attached to Marwa, a dead person among many of Nandor's dead wives, who never really demonstrates much personality or character before being replaced with djinn wish personalities.
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InfiniteZero posted:Yes, but if you want to see Jarmusch at his best you should just watch Dead Man, Ghost Dog, or Down By Law or preferably all three. Agreeing on Only Lovers Left Alive and Dead Man are good. Both movies have killer soundtracks
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Khanstant posted:Surprised some of you are so attached to Marwa, a dead person among many of Nandor's dead wives, who never really demonstrates much personality or character before being replaced with djinn wish personalities. Yeah, and Marwa hasn't been functionally Marwa since the wedding episode, and even before that was getting reconfigured by wishes.
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ChesterJT posted:
Please watch dark place.
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sonatinas posted:Please watch dark place. also Toast of London
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Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?
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“I don’t make that kind of money!” was the line of the night.
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Oasx posted:Objectively the murdering is far worse. But it’s a comedy show and the murdering has always been played up for laughs. The complete erasure of Marwa as a person is just really disturbing in a way that the murders aren’t. This is the fate of every side character on this show. Topher was turned into an undead monster toiling away underground as a slave making mini license plates, Jeff was decapitated and turned into a ghost, and Marwa was turned into a twee little british fop. We've got a mockumentary about vampires, where Sophia Coppola's head was ripped from her body in the first three minutes. I'd rather be turned into a fop. Marwa getting any kind of happy ending would not match the timbre of the show. Nobody gets a happy ending. It's a pretty dark universe these vampires inhabit and it ends up destroying everyone around them. Why should this situation be any different? I think that's one of the reasons Our Flag Means Death doesn't hit as hard as WWDITS does for me. It's too sweet in its disposition and I had my fill of that with shows like Parks & Rec. EugeneDebsWasCool fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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The neighbors do all right, no terrible fates for them yet.
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SEANIIIIIIIE!
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EugeneDebsWasCool posted:This is the fate of every side character on this show. Topher was turned into an undead monster toiling away underground as a slave making mini license plates, Jeff was decapitated and turned into a ghost, and Marwa was turned into a twee little british fop. I mean by the standards of the show total ego death and dating your clone is a happy ending, it's just that it also wasn't funny. And I know that humor is subjective so maybe it worked for other people, but it did NOT work for me.
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"Stop saying things that I have done!" was the biggest laugh for me.
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Henchman of Santa posted:"Stop saying things that I have done!" was the biggest laugh for me. I was dying laughing at pretty much the whole thing but this particular line was just too perfect.
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sonatinas posted:Please watch dark place. Oh poo poo I love that show and completely forgot he was a doctor in it. 20 years, a beard, and a few pounds difference but I should have remembered that. Is Toast of London good?
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:He's inarguably the worst. He's seen past all the romanticized vampire bullshit first-hand, knows how miserable and poo poo-awful they are at forming communities even on their own terms, and still wants in. He doesn't even really have a compelling motivation for it. I can see the escapist appeal from when he was a closeted gay man. Now that he's out, he's had a real, healthy relationship, he's found personal power for himself as a vampire hunter, he's set up pretty well to grow past his Nandor/vampire obsession. Or, I mean, he would be if he wasn't trapped in this nightmare comedy hellworld. Best case for Gizmo is he dies in the finale in an amusing way and the gang throws a deeply disrespectful funeral for him that turns into an orgy and they forget what they were doing
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hawowanlawow posted:the funniest part of this whole season was the announcer at the familiar fights making GBS threads on all the familiars The announcer was fantastic, the night market was one of my favorite episodes this season
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EugeneDebsWasCool posted:This is the fate of every side character on this show. Topher was turned into an undead monster toiling away underground as a slave making mini license plates, Jeff was decapitated and turned into a ghost, and Marwa was turned into a twee little british fop. I don't think anyone would argue Marwa needed to get a happy ending, but she had a complete lack of agency and the character was wasted.
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They created a character for djinn gags and nandor's stupidity and selfishness this season and they used that character for exactly that, how was she wasted? Were the other resurrected wives wasted? Was the other Sklar brother? Given that the character was going to be turned almost immediately into a wish-consequence vector, and ultimately into another person entirely, it seems like it would've been a waste of time to overdevelop this character fated for a bit.
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~turned into a white dude~ ~erasure~ ~lack of agency~ what in tarnation is going on here
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Flinger posted:I hope the murdered Coppola will be a gateway to a nic cage cameo He has played a vampire too so they couldn't immediately drain him
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There’s only one episode left? I grow weary of 10 episode seasons.  We’re at the darkest before dawn plot point, so I hope next week ticks upwards. I want my dumb vampires a little happy.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Guillermo's the only "good" person and even he is in a bit of moral grey area considering how many murders he's covered up over the years. Arguably Guillermo is the only "bad" person in the show. You can't really judge the Vampires as bad as then you'd have to judge a lion for not feeling any remorse for killing a gazelle. The vamps are monsters with human faces and they just lack that capacity. Guillermo on the other hand is fine with murder and other vile acts to get his wish of being immortal and becoming a creature that murders countless humans forever. But it's a comedy so it doesn't actually matter, but it is funny if you take a step back and see what absolutely awful things he's done and yet we still have sympathy for him. Just Chamber fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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lions are definitely bad whatever lion people are called. I've got no problem judging lions, who would? They can eat factory meat like us, I've seen em do it, and choose not to.
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ChesterJT posted:Oh poo poo I love that show and completely forgot he was a doctor in it. 20 years, a beard, and a few pounds difference but I should have remembered that. Is Toast of London good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bYY8m1Lb2I
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