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The ratings say the odds of season 2 are between "none" and "lol", particularly after ABC punted on marketing it, but I still wish it would happen.
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Sep 12, 2014 03:28
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As much as I wanted to hate this show me and my girlfriend loved it. I'm sad my main man Shando did not take home the SunSpear.
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Sep 12, 2014 06:01
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Beer_Suitcase posted:As much as I wanted to hate this show me and my girlfriend loved it. In some ways Shondo's story and character arc were better than if he had cruised to victory. Also he had some great lines, not just "the dubs" but when they were squatting in the woods, telling Lina "I love what you've done with this place, the contemporary furniture is to die for". I think the big mistake production made was in not filming a second season immediately after the first, while they still had all the locations, equipment and NPCs available and set up. Such a shame that just like Whodunnit there will only be one season, while the trainwreck Big Brother rolls along, boring and aggravating even its own hardcore fans. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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Sep 12, 2014 10:58
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I'd like to see another season, but they should make a live-action MMORPG. Show players collecting 10 bear-asses, leveling up, getting groups to kill bosses in dungeons. I just think it would be hilarious.
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Sep 12, 2014 20:16
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That cliffhanger ending is never going to go anywhere...  But aside from that, the finale was fun to watch. I love how they brought everyone back at the end. Even if they were eliminated, no one got to be left out of the final battle. Everyone won in a way.  So much more satisfying than a reunion show.
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Sep 13, 2014 00:07
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I haven't seen it yet, but was there a prize for the winner?
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Sep 13, 2014 00:23
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IRQ posted:I haven't seen it yet, but was there a prize for the winner? Maybe they get to keep the Sunspear.
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Sep 13, 2014 00:46
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Geek Initiative did a whole interview series with the actors and contestants for the show. Some really interesting stuff in there.. like how the actors never broke character in front of the contestants and about 80% of what they did was improv.
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Sep 13, 2014 00:52
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That's pretty cool that one guy played all the main monsters. E: Speaking of - https://twitter.com/DouglasTait/status/510668671510138881 iastudent fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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Sep 13, 2014 13:52
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macnbc posted:Geek Initiative did a whole interview series with the actors and contestants for the show. Ha those interview are pretty hilarious, I liked the bit how Shando stayed up whole night doing pushups after seeing Verlox for the first time.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:56
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etalian posted:Ha those interview are pretty hilarious, I liked the bit how Shando stayed up whole night doing pushups after seeing Verlox for the first time. The Verlox dude said he accidently crossed paths with one of the players in the bathroom while in full make up, and scared the poo poo out of the guy.
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Sep 13, 2014 19:04
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Shondo is the real one true hero. Clearly the evil vizir and Verlox: the darkness used dark magic to help Lina win.
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Sep 13, 2014 20:27
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Mylan posted:The Verlox dude said he accidently crossed paths with one of the players in the bathroom while in full make up, and scared the poo poo out of the guy. I hope he said: [Satan voice] even The Darkness has to pee.
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Sep 14, 2014 21:30
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This show is so bad, so why can't I stop watching it? 
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Sep 15, 2014 19:13
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WarLocke posted:This show is so bad, so why can't I stop watching it? Others have pointed this out but it bears repeating: People had the times of their lives making this show and you can feel that happiness seep through your TV as you watch it.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:33
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DarklyDreaming posted:Others have pointed this out but it bears repeating: People had the times of their lives making this show and you can feel that happiness seep through your TV as you watch it. Yeah, I know, you can tell. I'm not really a reality TV fan and all the lovely 'alliance talk' and 'oh hey I'm a special snowflake make me popular so I won't be voted off' crap gets under my skin, but the presentation and the way people get into it really just works. Now if only they would just have the Furies banish whoever did worst that week, none of this 'I promised Andrew I'd back him up' or whatever bullshit.  And now I want to see a show that starts off with a premise similar to this, only halfway through the contestants find out it's all real.  I don't know if you could really do a proper scripted show but make it feel like reality TV though.Also Shondo punked out in the first episode and should have run back to save that dude from the ogre. 
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Sep 15, 2014 19:45
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My only problem with the show is that the "story" they told was very vanillla. I'm not expecting GoT style twists and turns but the characters straight out of a "adventure by the numbers" guide. The evil vizir, the harsh warrior/drillmaster with a heart of gold, the craven believer. And why did they start each episode with a behind the scenes interview with the producers?
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Sep 15, 2014 20:53
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GaussianCopula posted:And why did they start each episode with a behind the scenes interview with the producers? My guess is that ABC got cold feet on the show and thought viewers would be too stupid to figure out what's going on without it. S'also why their marketing and scheduling for the show was so muted after its initial announcement.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:07
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macnbc posted:My guess is that ABC got cold feet on the show and thought viewers would be too stupid to figure out what's going on without it. S'also why their marketing and scheduling for the show was so muted after its initial announcement. I had no idea what the show was, based on the commercials I saw a couple times, until some goon posted about it in another thread. So having the explanation at the beginning wasn't really a bad idea.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:42
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Greatest series finale of all time.
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Sep 16, 2014 00:20
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GaussianCopula posted:My only problem with the show is that the "story" they told was very vanillla. I'm not expecting GoT style twists and turns but the characters straight out of a "adventure by the numbers" guide. The evil vizir, the harsh warrior/drillmaster with a heart of gold, the craven believer. I won't argue that the plot wasn't cliche to hell, but it does have to be something the viewing audience is able to follow (as well as the contestants themselves). They could probably be a bit more original, but push that too far and you get Shondo or Andrew just going off the reservation because they're totally lost.
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Sep 16, 2014 05:11
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I actually thought the plot was going to be twister than it turned out to be - that the Vizier was going to be a good guy who was just skeptical about the prophecy, that Crio was working with Verlox, that Sir Ansgar was going to be brainwashed into turning evil after being captured. That last one would have forced the contestants to make an interesting moral choice at the climax - should they try to turn him back to the light and risk him wreaking more havoc if they should fail, or should they kill their beloved mentor to save the kingdom? But I guess that they felt that they had to telegraph things so that the contestants (and the viewers) wouldn't be confused. The main thing that bugs me about the show is that the one guy with a non-Western job title in this Western fantasy is a vile traitor. Why couldn't the Vizier be the Minister or the Steward or the Viceroy instead? I'm fairly certain that they didn't mean to imply that Middle Easterners are evil and Europeans are good, but they do seem to be doing that!
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Sep 16, 2014 07:38
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Pththya-lyi posted:The main thing that bugs me about the show is that the one guy with a non-Western job title in this Western fantasy is a vile traitor. Why couldn't the Vizier be the Minister or the Steward or the Viceroy instead? I'm fairly certain that they didn't mean to imply that Middle Easterners are evil and Europeans are good, but they do seem to be doing that! Viziers are always evil. Didn't you watch Aladdin?
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Sep 16, 2014 11:57
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Generic American posted:Seriously, I almost feel embarrassed by how much I'm enjoying this finale... But I don't care how schlocky the show is, bringing all of the paladins back in that Big drat Hero moment made me grin from ear to ear. DarklyDreaming posted:Others have pointed this out but it bears repeating: People had the times of their lives making this show and you can feel that happiness seep through your TV as you watch it. These comments sum up my reaction to the finale and show as a whole. My wife and I really enjoyed watching because we could just imagine how much fun the contestants were having getting dumped into a situation they had likely fantasized about their whole lives. Having all the paladins come back at the end to fight in the battle was a masterstroke that drove the fun factor off the charts. It's a shame we probably won't get more of this show, but it was good fun while it lasted. I honestly thought that by now, one of the paladins would have made an appearance in this thread to reveal they've been a goon for years.
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TheChad posted:Viziers are always evil. Didn't you watch Aladdin? The residents of Castle Saectum didn't see that movie - they couldn't accept that the Vizier was a traitor, even when the paladins were all going "HE'S TOTALLY EVIL YOU GUYS." 
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This show is a special fun kind of hokey that's strangely addictive. Haven't caught up completely yet but I would watch a second season, based on what I've seen so far.
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