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That's it, after this last episode I'm never watching again. It just sucks these days.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:While the show is getting a bit stale, they're not going to send Truman to Iraq or have a disaster wipe out the town, or any over-the-top melodrama like that. That's just silly talk. quote:READ THIS BEFORE WHINING:
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Jun 21, 2006 19:56
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torsloke posted:I think you need to read the OP on the Truman Show thread. That's not from the Truman show thread, I think you are confusing that with something else.
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Jun 21, 2006 20:05
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Discussion question: Who was your favorite/least favorite guest stars? Personally, I'm partial to Charles Nelson Riley's arc in season 18 as Truman's wisecracking but well meaning econ teacher. The worst for me would have to be Tori Spelling as the sexy new secretary in season 30. Christof must have owed Aaron a favor, though thankfully, he got her off the show as quick as possible. The TruWiki says that Thomas Hayden Church might have an arc next season. I don't know how I feel about that, seems they're moving into Ted McGinley territory. As far as whether or not the show's quality has been going down, I think it has, to a degree. However, I think we have a lot to look forward to. Some have said that Christof might be a bit burnt out and needs a break. I've heard that in a few years they might put Truman in a coma for a few months like they did last year for a week when they updated all the cameras around town to HDTV. I think that would give Christof and Co enough time to really bring back their creative juices. I'm a little hesitant of giving Christof time off though, especially considering the 6 months he quit and the network replaced him with Jean Doumanian during season 11, arguably the show's worst period. The Truman Show is still one of my favorite shows, with the possible exception of The Running Man.
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Jun 21, 2006 20:09
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HOLY poo poo! I can't believe they let a slip up like Truman picking up on that radio signal happen! Someone is gonna get their rear end canned for that one. Between this and the whole dad thing, I think someone on the inside might be part of the "Free Truman" movement. 
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Jun 21, 2006 20:34
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Konstantin posted:HOLY poo poo! I can't believe they let a slip up like Truman picking up on that radio signal happen! Someone is gonna get their rear end canned for that one. Between this and the whole dad thing, I think someone on the inside might be part of the "Free Truman" movement. God why do people keep thinking the Dad thing wasn't scripted?? They TOTALLY staged it to get a rise out of Truman. Now he goes around thinking his dad is alive and confronting his past and they get a good 3-4 week plot arc out of it.
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Jun 21, 2006 21:32
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Konstantin posted:Between this and the whole dad thing, I think someone on the inside might be part of the "Free Truman" movement. I notice that they managed to get https://www.freetruman.com shut down, now it just points to one of those domain squatter "portal" sites.
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Jun 21, 2006 21:50
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1st AD posted:Holy crap, major spoilers ahead: Tom Tucker posted:God why do people keep thinking the Dad thing wasn't scripted?? They TOTALLY staged it to get a rise out of Truman. Now he goes around thinking his dad is alive and confronting his past and they get a good 3-4 week plot arc out of it. Edit: forgot the spoiler tags. Sorry guys. torsloke fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jun 21, 2006 |
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Jun 21, 2006 21:58
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Edutainment posted:the network replaced him with Jean Doumanian during season 11, arguably the show's worst period.  Jim Doumanian has been a production advisor for years, and when he moved to the "real" staff was actually the end of season 10, and that was less to do with Christoph and more about the studio panicking over that scene with Truman and Marlon in the diner. *Smashes glass* Truman: why does he have a.... Everyone else: OH poo poo! Hoops fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jun 21, 2006 |
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Jun 21, 2006 22:02
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torsloke posted:If Christof is clever, and I think we all know he is, I think the story is going to go like this: Truman sees his dad and realizes that he's still alive. After that resolves itself in a couple of episodes, they'll have Meryl mention (or otherwise bring up) the fact that the last time it seemed like they were going to break up, they reconciled where? At his father's funeral. You're totally wrong on that theory. Turman's father died when he was in elementary school, and he didn't even meet Meryl until high school, at the earliest. It might even have been college, I think.
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Jun 21, 2006 22:06
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:You're totally wrong on that theory. Turman's father died when he was in elementary school, and he didn't even meet Meryl until high school, at the earliest. It might even have been college, I think.
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Jun 21, 2006 22:25
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FitFortDanga posted:I heard Truman is a goon... confirm/deny? Seriously, do you have to recycle ever single catchphrase ever?  I think the worst thing was the dude who actually thought so, we kept telling him that it would be illogical but he just didn't listen, who was that again?
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Jun 21, 2006 22:52
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Black Griffon posted:Seriously, do you have to recycle ever single catchphrase ever? That was me. I stand by it.
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Jun 21, 2006 22:59
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Konstantin posted:HOLY poo poo! I can't believe they let a slip up like Truman picking up on that radio signal happen! Someone is gonna get their rear end canned for that one. Between this and the whole dad thing, I think someone on the inside might be part of the "Free Truman" movement. dude he was freaked out
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Jun 21, 2006 23:03
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penismightier posted:That was me. Oh come on dude, if Truman was a goon he could read this thread and learn he was on television. Unless he already knows and is playing along. 
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Jun 21, 2006 23:03
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I for one would really like to see a kid in this show, the episode where Truman and his wife had to take care of Tommy's kid was great.
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Jun 21, 2006 23:17
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Max Nitwit posted:Oh come on dude, if Truman was a goon he could read this thread and learn he was on television. Bingo. You really think they could keep this from him for so long? He's in on it. Remember when they were "updating the cameras"? Remember how it was right after the breakdown? Christoff told him. Gave him a choice, the outside world or his insulated little pad where nothing can go wrong. Of course he chose to stay. All he has to do is play along. I guarantee you, he's reading these boards every now and again, laughing his rear end off.
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Word on the street is that MTV's going to do a Real World: Seahaven. This latest push to grab the teen demographic is really getting lame.
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Atma_Weapon posted:Word on the street is that MTV's going to do a Real World: Seahaven.
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DrScorp posted:dude he was freaked out The show is definitely getting weird. I know Truman accidently got the cast's broadcast radio (confirmed with recordings of the incident from the car cam), but he seriously freaked out. He was walking around the streets and roads just getting in front of cars and stopping them. Something's seriously wrong, this screw-up coupled with the light fixture falling from the sky last week and the "dad" incident has made the show look really amateurish. Is Christof slipping at his age? He's drat near 60 now and it's tough to imagine him doing this much longer. Hopefully this is just a temporary lapse and they'll get their stuff together. I also don't like how they're doing this "dad" storyline. Truman brought it up with his mom and she just brushed it off. Sorta lends credence to the idea that the "dad" was an accident, but who knows where they're going with that.
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Black Griffon posted:I for one would really like to see a kid in this show, the episode where Truman and his wife had to take care of Tommy's kid was great. I wonder though, will there be an actual pregnancy, or will Meryl just fake it and have them bring a kid in from the outside? Will the kid have lines when they are old enough to talk, or will he be the sucessor to Truman? Face it, an old guy does not work with the young people that the advertisers want.
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Jun 22, 2006 00:41
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nfreakct posted:The show is definitely getting weird. I know Truman accidently got the cast's broadcast radio (confirmed with recordings of the incident from the car cam), but he seriously freaked out. He was walking around the streets and roads just getting in front of cars and stopping them. Oh my loving god, will you fanboys ever shut up about this poo poo? The Truman dome was completed what, 20 years ago? Of course you're going to have technical malfunctions, not even loving NASA was able to create a self-sufficient biosphere, Christoff really put together a great team of engineers that did what a government agency wasn't able to do. Electronics poo poo malfunctions, get over it, it happens in the real world too. Let's see YOU build a gigantic biodome And they came up with a perfectly plausible explanation for the light fixture thing, so it's not like Christoff and the other producers are slipping or anything. It's live television for gently caress's sake, but at least they never have incidents like the time half the cast and crew on EdTV were killed by that sarin gas attack.
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Konstantin posted:I wonder though, will there be an actual pregnancy, or will Meryl just fake it and have them bring a kid in from the outside? Will the kid have lines when they are old enough to talk, or will he be the sucessor to Truman? Face it, an old guy does not work with the young people that the advertisers want.
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That scene in the travel agency was priceless. I love the little background detail they put in all the buildings in the dome. Kind of creepy, really...   ChristofStill, looks like he's really wanting to get to Fiji. Pity about the bus afterwards though, they could have used some improv people there... All quiet now though I think. Tedious fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jun 22, 2006 |
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Jun 22, 2006 01:08
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 HOLY poo poo TURN IT ON NOW.Truman's flipping out with his wife in the car!! he finally noticed the extras looping around his house, like they've been doing for about 30 years.
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Jun 22, 2006 01:16
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WTF is going on!? He's flipping out. Where the gently caress is he going to drive to!?
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DrScorp posted:
:dramabomb: Oh man, I knew, I just KNEW the second I stopped watching they were gonna pull some poo poo like this. I went from not caring to really interested. I wonder how the producers are going to handle it if he actually decides to go on Vacation. Will they have a camera crew follow him in secret. My guess is that they'll either A) Pull some lame poo poo where he "wins" a "contest" to be filmed during his vacation, or B) Somehow keep him from going. EDIT: OH MY GOD HE IS FLIPPING OUT!
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Jun 22, 2006 01:20
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Maybe I'm just being silly here, but I don't like where this is going. My favorite part of the Show was always its down-to-earth nature, a regular nice guy in a regular nice life, the kind of life everyone always wanted to have. Whatever his little travails, you could always be sure he'd work through them and end up better off. The whole "and in case I don't see you..." bit never fails to bring a smile to my face. But now it looks like they're buying into the whole "dramatic action" thing that's popular lately. I don't know what it's specifically going for, if he's going to uncover some conspiracy in Seahaven, or god forbid, a terrorist subplot, but it definitely looks like they're taking him away from the show we've known and loved for years. Despite the people around here calling for plots about zombies and holocausts, I like him best when he's just a regular guy.
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Strudel Man posted:Maybe I'm just being silly here, but I don't like where this is going. My favorite part of the Show was always its down-to-earth nature, a regular nice guy in a regular nice life, the kind of life everyone always wanted to have. Whatever his little travails, you could always be sure he'd work through them and end up better off. The whole "and in case I don't see you..." bit never fails to bring a smile to my face. Psh, you're just like those GINO's from BSG. Why can't people see that drama is better than cheesy corny fluff of the "old days"?
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Jun 22, 2006 01:33
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This show is really jumping the shark now. I bet it all ends on a boat.
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Jun 22, 2006 01:37
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Ahhahahah he's driving across the bridge with his EYES CLOSED! Meryl looks like she's going to poo poo a brick! EDIT: HOLKY gently caress a fire! How are they going to stop him?
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Jun 22, 2006 01:41
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Man I wonder if the actress will just quit after this little episode 
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Jun 22, 2006 01:43
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WOW! What a close call. The chase through the forest was intense, I never thought Truman had it in him to get this far. For a second I was almost rooting for Truman to escape, but thankfully the biosuit people caught him.
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Jun 22, 2006 02:28
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Bah, we don't get the feed live here, it's broadcast about 12 hours later so that the times match up to here, even though that just makes things worse since it ends up being the wrong freaking day. As for Truman being a Goon, that's kind of silly...even if Truman is in on the whole thing we can watch him 24 hours a day, when exactly would he sneak away to look on the internet?
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Jun 22, 2006 03:00
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Woah holy poo poo guys are you watching this?? I think he's going to kill her! edit: OH poo poo SHE YELLED RIGHT AT THE CAMERA gently caress poo poo WHAT THE gently caress
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1st AD posted:Man I wonder if the actress will just quit after this little episode Good riddance, I say. I hate that bitch.  I made macaroni! Her product placement acting was horrid, horrid, horrid. I can't believe Truman hasn't suspected anything weird about her. Way to ruin the show, whore!
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eLGee posted:Good riddance, I say. I hate that bitch. I agree, anyway I think he should hook up with that Yoga instructor he's been running into lately. She's hot as hell. 
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Jun 22, 2006 03:18
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Tom Tucker posted:Woah holy poo poo guys are you watching this?? I think he's going to kill her! Holy poo poo, what if the government gets involved? That's assault with a deadly weapon.
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1st AD posted:Holy crap, major spoilers ahead: You're going to be seriously disapointed. Seriously, 20 loving years of the truman show watching this idiot poo poo his pants through childhood, whine about his daddy issues through his teenage years and awkwardly fail at attracting the opposite sex only to have it reach the ultimate climax of his life and they [spoiler]turn off the drat lights and mute the audio! What's with that? It's like I grew up along with truman only to miss the best part. They didn't even turn it back on until the morning (I think it's edited out in the DVD's) poo poo like that makes me believe that this stuff is scripted like all those conspiracy nuts keep saying. :edit: holy poo poo are you guys watching this?!? Truman is going NUTS. I never saw this coming! I always figured if something like this happened, he'd just probably not realise anything, as he's been conditioned to live life this way and never be suspicious. if anything, this show makes for a fantastic psychological experiment.
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Isometric Bacon posted:You're going to be seriously disapointed. Of course it's scripted, real people are too unpredictable to control for a TV show. Mark my words, Truman's been in on it since he was old enough to talk, there's no way it could work otherwise. Why does he seem like such a wholesome whitebread WASP? Because HE'S ACTING LIKE ONE. Seriously it's getting worse than the Simpsons and all you sheeple buying into Cristof's hype are why this show's still on. I bet this whole "OMG WILL HE FIND OUT!!!111!1" thing is just another ratings ploy. Every failing show burns out with a last death gasp of absurd sensationalist development before the teary-eyed finale.
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