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I want Kaitlin, Queen of Horses to win this thing now because gently caress all those other forgettable motherfuckers. gently caress THEM
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"Beating Colby would be the proudest moment of my life. And I've had kids and gotten married and stuff!" That was a great line.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 17:46 |
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Binary Logic posted:"Beating Colby would be the proudest moment of my life. And I've had kids and gotten married and stuff!" Ugh, I hate alliances in my reality competition shows. They make sense, but they make for angry AlliedBiscuit. I always liked that the other two seasons were free of this stuff.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 23:20 |
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AlliedBiscuit posted:Ugh, I hate alliances in my reality competition shows. They make sense, but they make for angry AlliedBiscuit. I always liked that the other two seasons were free of this stuff. It makes sense in shows like Survivor where you're directly competing and are directly responsible for who leaves. It bugs the poo poo out of me in shows like this or The Amazing Race or MasterChef where it comes down to individual performance in challenges. Trying to shoehorn in "strategy" to create artificial drama is unnecessary. Best part of this episode, though: Slow motion dramatic yelling of MYYYYYYYY LITTTLEEEEEEEEEEE POOOOOOOOOOOOONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! The editors on this show are the best. I do editing, and I can tell they have fun with it. Runner up is the producer who asked whatsherface, "Did you just say 'loin product'?"
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 23:24 |
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BaronVonVaderham posted:
I'm an editor too, and that's a big reason I like it too. This and Drag Race, and to a lesser extent MasterChef, are the only reality shows I watch regularly, and a big reason is the fun they have with the editing. The poo poo they do on those shows is HARD. Especially Drag Race, that show is edited so over the top and to the point that I can't imagine how long it takes to get it that overly polished. With this show, they have all those silly moments you mentioned, and I love it. It's also weird to me how they've stopped censoring "poo poo" on this show. Stuff I've worked on more heavily catered to adults always bleeps it. I wonder who decided to just let it slide.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 23:32 |
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AlliedBiscuit posted:I'm an editor too, and that's a big reason I like it too. This and Drag Race, and to a lesser extent MasterChef, are the only reality shows I watch regularly, and a big reason is the fun they have with the editing. The poo poo they do on those shows is HARD. Especially Drag Race, that show is edited so over the top and to the point that I can't imagine how long it takes to get it that overly polished. I hadn't even noticed that they stopped doing that. Weird.... I guess that goes to show how much of a paradox censorship really is....bleeping draws MORE focus to what they view as a problem. It is actually a great technique on shows like Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares with Ramsay being bleeped every other line. Those shows stream uncensored, and it's actually really jarring the difference it makes; Ramsay's a really cool dude and the bleeps make him artificially angrier because his actual f-bombs have a tone that is far more joking or sarcastic than truly rage-y. That's why I love editing, though. It's truly amazing how much you can gently caress with perception just with the tiniest tweaks to things. RedLetterMedia had a video this week called "Editing Is Awesome" where they cut up Oscar footage with the live performance of "Everything Is Awesome" (link). Even in something silly like that you completely change perception of the "characters" (audience) just with a different juxtaposition of images. I can't even imagine editing for a reality show. Having a 10:1 ratio for a feature or a short is bad enough, I don't even know what theirs would be. Survivor's something like 8+ simultaneous cameras 24/7 for 39 days, with episodes spanning three days....so like 600:1?! I expect there has to be someone with a "spotter" job that makes note of when and where obviously significant stuff takes place as an ongoing rough sketch for editors to use as a skeleton to build the episode. Stuff like MasterChef that only spans a finite number of scheduled events probably winds up more "fun" just because the editors don't have to focus on fighting to pare down the pile of poo poo, they have more time/energy to polish things.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 00:13 |
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I hadn't even noticed that they stopped doing that. Weird.... I actually do edit reality tv. It's really a damned crapton amount of footage. Biggest Loser shoots for 4 months solid, with 4-12 cameras running simultaneously. And the thing is, you may want to try to edit the footage to be as true to life as possible, then your superiors demand you pull unrelated reactions or events in to up the drama. Editors are the ones who construct the manipulation, but the producers, and especially the network execs, are the ones who demand it. Notes like "I want to feel as though Ray feels like he can't win this fight because he's a little guy". Ray never says that. "Well pull some old interview bites where he talks about being a little man and MAKE IT WORK". "Make it work" is heard a lot.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 00:35 |
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Looks like Bobby Carradine just got in a pretty rough car accident.
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# ? Mar 12, 2015 20:42 |
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Apparently it happened last week, and TMZ only just now found out about it. It doesn't seem to be clear just how badly he and his wife were injured, though. Hope they're alright.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 01:10 |
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Those damned Alphas have gone too far this time!
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 05:47 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Those damned Alphas have gone too far this time!
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 06:58 |
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Well, the weasel won. Dammit.
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 17:52 |
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Irish Joe posted:Rooting for Ben because he's the only one who doesn't look like he's missing a chromosome. Dammit, so close.
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 17:55 |
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I was rooting for the guy that won until no one stepped up to be on Bens team. Also, I wish Colby could be a permanent talking head on this show.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 00:20 |
I like how they did the finale 2 this year, but the f4 contest was horribly designed, with to much of an emphasis being put on the buzzing in and to little on the supporting nerds. They should shamelessly steal the "power up" concept of "The Genius" and give each nerd an ability that they can grant to the contestant from the f4 contest up to the f2.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 11:54 |
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One of my favourite aspects of this season is how Kaitlyn went from villainous edit at the beginning to sympathetic but still arrogant 3rd place finisher.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 12:16 |
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Binary Logic posted:One of my favourite aspects of this season is how Kaitlyn went from villainous edit at the beginning to sympathetic but still arrogant 3rd place finisher. I loved her, "I'm not a 'nerd nerd', I'm just a smart person." Total, screw you comic book geeks, I have a PHD.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 15:44 |
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KilGrey posted:I loved her, "I'm not a 'nerd nerd', I'm just a smart person." And a horse, don't forget the horse. Yeah Kaitlin seems like that rich privileged girl pushed to excel, who has a big ego about it
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 02:38 |
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Yeah, I grew to like Kaitlin after a bad first impression. She's still super arrogant but she was weirdly chill about it once we got to know her. Lily also grew on my big the last couple of episodes. She was really amusing in her talking heads. Colby and Jacob too. Jacobs first episode outing was a loss. Did not like Jonathan. Probably my least favorite outcome of like the final eight and one of the few nerds that didn't grow on me. But ah well. I also enjoyed the continuing King fo Nerds tradition of having female nerds being overtly flirtatious and sexual and awkward male nerds who have no idea what to do with it. Maybe my favorite running theme. And holy poo poo did I have no idea how to do that last puzzle. KilGrey posted:I was rooting for the guy that won until no one stepped up to be on Bens team. Man, when jonathan won and everyone jumped on him to celebrate and Ben was just standing there sad being comforted by a Todd I almost heard Charlie Brown sad music. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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STAC Goat posted:And holy poo poo did I have no idea how to do that last puzzle. The picross puzzle? I was pissed because I've done like a million of those and that looked like a pretty easy one. I would have crushed both of them
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 21:27 |
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I've never seen one of those so it just had me spinning. I'm sure it just takes a little calm focus and it was only so hard to me because I didn't even know the rules until they explained them. It just had me spinning after all the other puzzles/games were stuff I thought I could manage (within reason, I suck at chess).
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 23:55 |
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Sad Kaitlin didn't win. I am good friends with her IRL and she's not nearly as outwardly arrogant as she appeared to be on the show. I suspect they had her play it up to create a more marketable character (I mean really, "the girl who likes horses" is pretty dumb). Also, not at all a spoiled rich girl. She's a very nice, down-to-earth person and I think you all would like her very much
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 00:44 |
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Are you a NASA person too?
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 01:26 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Are you a NASA person too? Not even remotely
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 01:40 |
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LargeHadron posted:Sad Kaitlin didn't win. That's awesome :-). I retract what I said. She was definitely my #2 behind Colby. A finale between the two of them would have been the best. One of these days the show will have a winner I actually like.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 05:32 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 16:20 |
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no one going on ben's team almost seemed staged, like they were really building him up as the guy to beat (which i guess he was). didn't really matter though because unlike season 2, the teammates didn't really seem to help that much. i liked jonathan though he seemed alright, doctor king of the nerds.
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