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pentyne posted:I'd like to petition to add Ravane and Irish Joe to rule 3.
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My younger brother started watching Mad Men, so I guess there's hope for him yet.
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Spatula City posted:The Good Wife should've been a lot higher. But it's on CBS, rather than SA's favorite network, the CW, so there's no way 90% of the posters in this forum will ever watch it.
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Jan 2, 2015 19:59
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Aphrodite posted:What kind of sad person continues to post on message boards beyond their early 20s?
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Jan 2, 2015 20:09
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Technically it does, but the bottom has to be zoomed full size.
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Jan 3, 2015 17:41
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Someone should link EvilTobaccoExec a proper tutorial for cropping pictures in photoshop or gimp or whatever he uses. Now that you mention it, yes, it is off at least by a few pixels, and all the white space on the bottom is what?
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Jan 3, 2015 17:55
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LibbyM posted:I was bored on netflix and just rewatched the first episode of How I Met Your Mother and enjoyed myself, I actually felt pretty nostalgic. Back when I was watching the show for the first time I quit somewhere around halfway through season 5, it had felt like a chore to watch for quite a while.
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Jan 4, 2015 10:07
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The alternate ending makes it more depressing because you know they not only considered it, they wrote it, shot it, then decided to stick to their guns about an ending they shot like 6 years ago and a plan they wrote in advance that never evolved with the show. Then again you could also argue the show didn't really evolve in those years where it just mostly dragged anyway.
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Jan 4, 2015 19:48
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LibbyM posted:So I know the very basic gist of the ending, that the mom is dead, and that's why Ted is telling the story of her to their children. Is there more to why everyone hates the ending so much, or just that it ended on that kind of note? And then the last season was kinda lame cause they spent the entire twenty-something episodes on a weekend for Barney and Robin's wedding only to basically undo it in the span of about five minutes in the finale anyway. Not that I should be armchair showrunning, but it would've been more interesting had they introduced the Mother into the show/group dynamic halfway through the series, maybe have her also butt-in on the voice overs which could've been an interesting storytelling dynamic as well, and would just have more material to mine with a new cast member, different interactions and all that. I did like what they did show of the Mother in the final season but it just goes to show it seemed like a waste to throw it all away. Also yeah it's kinda stupid for Ted to tell kids the story about how he met their mother, barely mention the mother of your children as if those 15 or so years didn't matter at all and focus on one of your friends you had an on-again-off-again relationship for a decade and talk about loving her and constantly being in love with her ... to your children.
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Jan 4, 2015 20:11
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Sleeveless posted:The punchline is that after half a decade of armchair television writing experts declaring LOST and BSG to be Objectively Terrible because they didn't have a set ending in mind and adapted the plot as the circumstances surrounding the show changed over its run, they turned around and complained that the ending to HIMYM was terrible because they had a set ending in mind and they didn't adapt the plot as the circumstances surrounding the show changed over its run.
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Jan 4, 2015 20:30
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The Spartacus ending was  as gently caress and almost made me cry with the final scene.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:24
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Well Joe is not wrong that some shows should just learn to end it on a good note and let them sail off into the sunset. Maybe close a few things off but I much prefer shows that know they should end on "and they had more adventures after this", although to be fair that's what most shows that get canceled end up having to do anyway.
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Jan 5, 2015 19:11
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Not prestige, not trash: The rise of “mid-reputable” TV So how about those "prestige shows". The label makes me want to throw up in my mouth sometimes. I like "prestige" shows but I don't really watch them for the sake of pretending to be cultured or anything.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:35
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zoux posted:No most stuff on TV is garbage.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:39
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raditts posted:Can't we just call it a "good show" then like we always have instead of some stupid goddamn term some internet columnist poo poo out?
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Josh Lyman posted:Liberal intelligentsia bandwagon? Did I just stumble onto the set of Fox News?
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Jan 5, 2015 22:16
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Rarity posted:So are we just going to use the Agents of SHIELD thread for Agent Carter? Cause if so I'll knock up a different OP and edit it in tomorrow. That sounds disappointing.
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Jan 5, 2015 23:32
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Mu Zeta posted:Did anyone know Buzzfeed has real articles? 
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Jan 6, 2015 00:52
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Yeah but you get to see Olmos' wife topless at least.
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Jan 6, 2015 02:49
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Sleeveless posted:I think YouTube is getting more lax in their copyright enforcement, somebody also uploaded every episodes of The Simpsons. Also 10 minutes? That seems wrong unless they were playing at double speed.
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Jan 7, 2015 01:34
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Sleeveless posted:Nah, now the hivemind thinks that Serial was never good and Sarah Koenig is a hack because it didn't miraculously solve a real-life murder mystery in 12 episodes.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:33
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I think NBC wants you to learn about Jesus or something. Or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSO8meL1sE This could go terribly wrong or be halfway decent. But it's NBC, so let's not give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Jan 9, 2015 21:16
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Bown posted:Battle Creek is a pilot Gilligan wrote over a decade ago that they dug out of CBS archives because he's a big name now. I don't think he's actually involved in any way?
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Jan 11, 2015 18:35
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Procedurals can be fine, people sometimes place way too much emphasis on wanting plot twists vomited all over them for an hour to make them think they're watching something important or revelatory. Originality is overrated anyway, or at least non-existent. You can also play procedurals differently if you want, but most don't. But that's not to say they all suck. I mean, all the CSIs and NCISs went on for some long for good reason. And Castle didn't last this long without being enjoyable at some level. People who like "serialized" television just value different things. Almost all modern TV shows are formulaic, period. Procedurals are just a little more predictable is all.
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Jan 12, 2015 11:05
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Pedantry for pedantry's sake: procedurals are episodic
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Jan 12, 2015 11:10
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He was the guy in Robin Hood, the sheriff's right hand man. What's his name, Guy of Guiseborne or however it's spelled.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:16
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Eddie Huang on Fresh Off the Boat - first his memoir, now a sitcom on ABC. This gives me some hope the show will actually be good. Has good talent behind it and he seems to be pushing pretty hard to keep his vision in it.
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Jan 14, 2015 19:42
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Metal Loaf posted:After I'd given up on Heroes, I heard that Bryan Fuller went back to it (Pushing Daisies had just been cancelled) and then left almost immediately because he decided it was impossible to salvage anything from it by that point. Any truth to that?
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Jan 16, 2015 20:35
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CaptainHollywood posted:It ranges from good to great. There are no real 'bad' episodes. I also think it will stand the test of time because if you're spoiled on the ending of the show - it's the journey getting there that makes it great. It never once feels like the show/creators don't know what they're doing.
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CaptainHollywood posted:Don't think I saw this posted, probably the most unnecessary spin-off in television history.
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Jan 17, 2015 07:03
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Wow, live musical fad continues. Fox is doing Grease.old dog child posted:Is Fresh off the Boat supposed to be Blackish for Asian people? It doesn't...feel that way, at least from the commercials.
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Jan 17, 2015 19:12
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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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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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So someone on youtube uploaded all of last night's 19-2 s2 premiere. If you want to be scared as gently caress about guns and stuff, well here ya go. The long tracking shot starts at 7:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVvrBOvdaI
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Jan 20, 2015 18:05
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The original was in French, but it's the same director. There's a few minor changes made for the English cast but all in all it's a straight adaptation. They made some more changes in the episode for stuff they couldn't get through in the French-Canadian version because that broadcaster vetoed it.
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Jan 20, 2015 18:43
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KatWithHands posted:I came here specifically to see if anyone else had watched that. What a terrifying 45 minutes of television. 19-2 has this great use of sound, whether through mood music, a lack of music, or a lack of sound at all. They didn't use any background music until about 36 minutes into the episode, after it had been resolved, and I think that made it seem that much more realistic.
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Jan 20, 2015 23:36
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JohnSherman posted:That's the problem though. They sacrificed clarity and coverage, and all they got in return was a fairly dull shot.
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Jan 21, 2015 03:41
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Fair warning, 19-2 isn't actually a gritty cop action show, most of the time it's more of a character drama, with some melodrama/soap-ish stuff attached. But their action stuff is pretty well done nonetheless.
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Jan 21, 2015 06:01
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There's a time and a place where a show can be steeped in subtext and all that. Galavant is not one of them.
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Couldn't you feasibly do something ala the style of Manhattan but with bioengineers and just have the first season end on a zombie viral outbreak? There, solved it. (not really)
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