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Sober posted:It's supposed to be closer to Everybody Hates Chris I think. Eddie Huang is doing VO's while someone else plays a kid version of him and his family in the 90s. Oh that sounds a lot better. I didn't even realize it was based on Eddie Huang's actual life, I thought that was a coincidence, haha. My initial worry was that it looked like that American Dad episode where Francine had that "White Rice" sitcom. The advertising makes it look like an "Asians are so different!! Haha look at their food, it's so weird!!" kinda show. Reading about the concept and a couple interviews gives me hope that this won't suck. This article (by Eddie, actually) expresses my main concerns but at the same time it's a sitcom on ABC so I know I shouldn't expect a documentary. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/fresh-boat-author-explains-controversial-comment-article-1.2078094
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old dog child posted:Oh that sounds a lot better. I didn't even realize it was based on Eddie Huang's actual life, I thought that was a coincidence, haha. My initial worry was that it looked like that American Dad episode where Francine had that "White Rice" sitcom. The advertising makes it look like an "Asians are so different!! Haha look at their food, it's so weird!!" kinda show. Reading about the concept and a couple interviews gives me hope that this won't suck.
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Margaret Cho had a lovely sitcom in the 90s.
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hcreight posted:In "Holy poo poo!" news, Fox is in talks with Chris Carter to bring back The X-Files. With Mulder and Scully. What could a Carter-run "new" X-Files do that the original X-Files run or Fringe didn't do better? Don't get me wrong, I will never fully turn my back on network sci-fi programing, but still, I can't really see the point. Now if Fox decided to air the HD remastered version of the original during primetime... I'd be down for that. Or put them on Netflix at least. That'd be pretty baller. hcreight posted:New Twin Peaks. Possible new X-Files. Let's just bring back the 90s. This but unironically. Seriously, Jerry and Larry, where the gently caress are my new Seinfeld episodes?
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hcreight posted:In "Holy poo poo!" news, Fox is in talks with Chris Carter to bring back The X-Files. With Mulder and Scully. Also that they guy who snuck into the white house was just trying to hand Obama a flash drive with FIGHT THE FUTURE written on it feedmyleg posted:Guys, the Netflix detailed content warnings are hilarious. Bown posted:Holy gently caress, Woody Allen is doing an original series for Amazon. Toxxupation posted:Reminder that Woody Allen raped his then-seven-year-old stepdaughter, then felt like it was a swell idea to attack her via an editorial
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Ariza posted:Is this the version on Netflix? I've been meaning to rewatch it with Kumail's podcast, but I had no idea that they had an HD version available. Sadly not, the only airing it's had so far to my knowledge is on Germany's 7MAXX (A sub channel of Pro Sieben, I believe). This print is then muxed with the English audio off the DVDs to make it suitable for those of us who can't understand it in a German dub. The on screen text is sadly in German still, but hey. Enjoy some screenshots though : http://imgur.com/a/QCwN8 Given how old the DVDs are, and that Netflix etc probably use the same prints... they're probably looking pretty ropey now.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Enjoy some screenshots though : http://imgur.com/a/QCwN8  Let's get that poo poo in the states, stat.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Enjoy some screenshots though : http://imgur.com/a/QCwN8 What the heck? I don't remember aliens being in X-files? Is this some german addition?
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Cardboard Box A posted:How does that only get a 4 rating for consumerism? If a literal half hour toy commercial only rates 4, I have to assume that the only things that score 5 are infomercials.
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Jan 18, 2015 07:14
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Random Stranger posted:If a literal half hour toy commercial only rates 4, I have to assume that the only things that score 5 are infomercials. The Super Mario Super Show was nowhere near the level of "toy cartoon" that say, the Pokemon cartoon is. I have no idea what it's like now because holy poo poo that cartoon has been on for like 18 years now, but I remember back when it started it was basically an animated walkthrough for Red/Blue and they would just straight up spout out Pokemon stats at times.
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raditts posted:when it started it was basically an animated walkthrough for Red/Blue and they would just straight up spout out Pokemon stats at times. It's more like that now than it's ever been before.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Sadly not, the only airing it's had so far to my knowledge is on Germany's 7MAXX (A sub channel of Pro Sieben, I believe). This print is then muxed with the English audio off the DVDs to make it suitable for those of us who can't understand it in a German dub. The on screen text is sadly in German still, but hey. How come none of the screenshots show the establishing shots or the CGI so we can see how good/bad they are?
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Probably done on purpose. The effects were done in 4x3 so have been cropped and up scaled from memory. Pretty sure I read it's no major deal because there aren't *that* many, in comparison to something like Star Trek that had the same problem.
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I don't know why the gently caress people would get excited about The X-Files coming back, particularly with Carter in charge. It's as if no one saw the latter seasons of the show or the last movie. The heavier into the mythology that Carter got the worse the show became.
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DrVenkman posted:I don't know why the gently caress people would get excited about The X-Files coming back, particularly with Carter in charge. It's as if no one saw the latter seasons of the show or the last movie. The heavier into the mythology that Carter got the worse the show became. Isn't it public knowledge by now that Carter admitted flat out that he made things up on the fly and there was no overarching plot? All the speculation and mystery was for nothing because there was no long term plan, no meta-plot, etc.
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PriorMarcus posted:How come none of the screenshots show the establishing shots or the CGI so we can see how good/bad they are? Establishing shots and CGI are going to be upscaled. No two ways around that. They didn't do a full on rebuild of the series like they did with TNG. Still though, MOST of the effect work in X Files was done in camera so those instances should be few and far between. They just need to decide one way or another if they are bringing the X-Files back because that's the big holdup for the Blu-Ray release. They don't want to release discs now and not have some sort of synergy with a relaunch of the series later. So they are holding back.
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pentyne posted:Isn't it public knowledge by now that Carter admitted flat out that he made things up on the fly and there was no overarching plot? All the speculation and mystery was for nothing because there was no long term plan, no meta-plot, etc. I'd always heard mixed things. I'd heard there was a plan but with Anderson getting pregnant it forced their hand. Other times I'd heard that Carter basically had stuff planned up until the movie, but after that he floundered and they basically just made poo poo up. I just can't really get that excited about seeing The X-Files again, outside of seeing Duchovny and Anderson working together. That last movie was dreadful and the show hit the world in a very particular time and place, a time that's basically gone now.
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DoctorWhat posted:It's more like that now than it's ever been before. Would you listen to a pokemon radio drama? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm actually curious. DrVenkman posted:I'd always heard mixed things. I'd heard there was a plan but with Anderson getting pregnant it forced their hand. Other times I'd heard that Carter basically had stuff planned up until the movie, but after that he floundered and they basically just made poo poo up. I just can't really get that excited about seeing The X-Files again, outside of seeing Duchovny and Anderson working together. That last movie was dreadful and the show hit the world in a very particular time and place, a time that's basically gone now. I really want to watch the episode of X-Files where it turns out Mulder was Satoshi all along.
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DrVenkman posted:I'd always heard mixed things. I'd heard there was a plan but with Anderson getting pregnant it forced their hand. Other times I'd heard that Carter basically had stuff planned up until the movie, but after that he floundered and they basically just made poo poo up. I just can't really get that excited about seeing The X-Files again, outside of seeing Duchovny and Anderson working together. That last movie was dreadful and the show hit the world in a very particular time and place, a time that's basically gone now. The best thing to ever happen to the show was Anderson getting pregnant. The abduction arc really kicked off the show
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JohnSherman posted:Variety claims that most of Top Gear will be disappearing, with only seasons 17-20 remaining on Netflix. Well poo poo, MI5 has been in my queue for awhile, guess I need to get on that this week. Also seriously unhappy to see Top Gear's catalog get dropped. If anything I'd want them to add the various other country versions (even US is alright after they found their own voice).
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bobkatt013 posted:The best thing to ever happen to the show was Anderson getting pregnant. The abduction arc really kicked off the show Except 1) the pregnancy noticeably aged her and 2) The X-Files metaplot was dumb and dragged down the series.
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Never actually watched the X-files, thought it was about ghosts actually. Season 9 appears to have come out when I was 10, it's understandable why I never watched it. Might catch the reboot though.
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Irish Joe posted:Except 1) the pregnancy noticeably aged her Like a fine wine
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Ravane posted:Never actually watched the X-files, thought it was about ghosts actually. Season 9 appears to have come out when I was 10, it's understandable why I never watched it. Might catch the reboot though.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Enjoy some screenshots though : http://imgur.com/a/QCwN8 Leading up to the new series, Fox should just start showing X-Files again in a primetime slot, never acknowledging that it's not a new show.
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Irish Joe posted:Except 1) the pregnancy noticeably aged her and 2) The X-Files metaplot was dumb and dragged down the series. I don't really agree with the first, but I thought everyone agreed universally with the second. I'm not really excited about this or Twin Peaks coming back, it seems like trying too hard to recapture lightning in a bottle and I feel like they were both products of their time. There's no shortage of supernatural monster-of-the-week shows these days, what would be the point? Ravane posted:Never actually watched the X-files, thought it was about ghosts actually. Season 9 appears to have come out when I was 10, it's understandable why I never watched it. Might catch the reboot though. Oh shut the gently caress up.
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ufarn posted:You're killing me here. Big fan of Kyle Xy if that makes you feel better. I may have seen a scene or two of X-files, the intro music is certainly recognizable. I remember someone mentioning that Kumail Nanjiani does a commentary on each of the episodes of X-files, so I may check that out sometime later this year.
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raditts posted:I don't really agree with the first, but I thought everyone agreed universally with the second. Was The X-Files the start of the "every genre show must have a big, mysterious, twisty-turny mythology arc" or is the credit/blame more justly assignable to Lost? I mean, of course The X-Files did it first, but is it the one everyone tries to emulate?
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Later seasons aside, I felt the X-Files was a fairly procedural show with an arch to keep it from being grinding to a halt; Lost was more focused with its core narrative, and the standalone episodes felt more like filler than something else. A better example is JJA's Alias's semi-supernatural Rambaldi arc that drove the show as the main, where double- triple-crossing was a sub-arc to that. That's why X-Files is so great; the episodes can be watched outside of continuity like a Twilight Zone or Black Mirror episode can - with exceptions of course. Mulder's sister was not exactly a plot arc, and all the conspiracies felt more like worldbuilding than a plotline in itself. I just finished Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and it's funny how X-Files it is in the first half of season one; it has this great world with some standalone episodes that are dead ringers for X-Files each with their own philosophical themes. ufarn fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Was The X-Files the start of the "every genre show must have a big, mysterious, twisty-turny mythology arc" or is the credit/blame more justly assignable to Lost? X-Files kept it to season finales and premiers mostly, but it's the first thing I remember really doing the overarching plot arc thing (until it got lovely). The bulk of it was MotW stuff, like Fringe, for people who are literal babies like Ravane. Stop making me feel old you fucker. Lost was a different animal, in that it was aware that it had a greater narrative in mind, until it actually turned out it didn't. X-Files is worth revisiting (or visiting) for some of its really outstanding episodes, but as a whole I can't say it's worth a full watch. Fortunately there are plenty of lists of what's great, though tbh the mythology episodes don't rank among them in 2015 in my opinion. e: that is to say that the X-Files' standout moments are in one-off MotW episodes like Home or Darkness Falls rather than Lost's focus on each season having a story to tell. IRQ fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Was The X-Files the start of the "every genre show must have a big, mysterious, twisty-turny mythology arc" or is the credit/blame more justly assignable to Lost? Definitely Lost. Despite X-Files leaning more on its lovely mythology toward the end, it still maintained its strength in its self-contained episodes. And I don't remember any shows that tried to piggyback off X-Files narrative structure, whereas when Lost hit it big you couldn't change the channel without running into another terrible serialized me-too.
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raditts posted:Definitely Lost. Despite X-Files leaning more on its lovely mythology toward the end, it still maintained its strength in its self-contained episodes. And I don't remember any shows that tried to piggyback off X-Files narrative structure, whereas when Lost hit it big you couldn't change the channel without running into another terrible serialized me-too. I don't know, when I watched it the whole way through last year, I thought seasons eight and nine weren't quite as strong even on the MOTW front. I think a lot of the series' success rests on the shoulders of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny (which isn't meant as a slight on Robert Patrick by any means).
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IRQ posted:X-Files kept it to season finales and premiers mostly Not at all the case. I's say about 1/2 to 1/3 of any given season was mythology. Usually the seasons started out mythology-heavy, had a few monster-of-the-week episodes, had a string of mythology episodes, a long run of MotW episodes, then the back end of the season were tradeoffs. e: but yeah, X-Files created it, but LOST defined and refined it.
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The goony love for Enjer Govkai will never cease to amaze me. Granted, he is an amazing actor next to Eliza Dukushku, but, let's be honest here, that's not exactly a huge accomplishment.
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Irish Joe posted:The goony love for Enjer Govkai will never cease to amaze me. Granted, he is an amazing actor next to Eliza Dukushku, but, let's be honest here, that's not exactly a huge accomplishment. What was this Irish Joe nonsense even prompted by? Did you have a stroke, Joe?
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Irish Joe posted:The goony love for Enjer Govkai will never cease to amaze me. Granted, he is an amazing actor next to Eliza Dukushku, but, let's be honest here, that's not exactly a huge accomplishment.
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