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precision posted:Do you also need context to know what KGB, FBI, and CIA mean? No, my point was that EST as an acronym is useless to the actual show so I didn't know what it was, because context of what it is is provided amply
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It's mentioned like a hundred times over 12 episodes though?
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It's the timezone that the show is set in. Hope that helps!
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Yeah, if you don't know what "EST" is in this thread you weren't paying attention while watching this season.
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Baloogan posted:Yeah, if you don't know what "EST" is in this thread you weren't paying attention while watching this season. oddly i think i live posted every episode E: well, except the last two when i was on vacation
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EST is français for 'is' in very strong form conjugaison, hth 
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Fetus Tree posted:oddly i think i live posted every episode yeah like I said, you weren't paying attention while watching this season.
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Baloogan posted:yeah like I said, you weren't paying attention while watching this season. Nah I disagree.
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As someone who wasn't born until years after the last session, I'd never heard of the drat thing and all I get from the show is the same tired motivational speaker bullshit that is still somehow an industry. The Wikipedia article reads like marketing schtick for it, and seeing now that it turned into that loving Landmark cult, I imagine that's exactly what it is.
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Cugel the Clever posted:As someone who wasn't born until years after the last session, I'd never heard of the drat thing and all I get from the show is the same tired motivational speaker bullshit that is still somehow an industry. The Wikipedia article reads like marketing schtick for it, and seeing now that it turned into that loving Landmark cult, I imagine that's exactly what it is. I never heard of it and I was alive back then. Maybe it was a regional thing?
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savinhill posted:I never heard of it and I was alive back then. Maybe it was a regional thing? It was pretty widespread. It even made its way into the lyrics of an REM song circa 1991: We've been through fake-a-breakdown Self-hurt, plastics, collections Self-help, self-pain EST, psychics, gently caress all e: forgot to give context for my three letter acronym. REM were an American rock band.
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I was alive at the time but I don't recall Est, I do remember Landmark education though, my parents got into that poo poo.
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Do you guys think this is the best season of TV this year so far? I guess this or Better Call Saul? There's quite a few contenders that have yet to begin / finish (GOT, Hannibal, Rectify), but in my opinion this is the show to beat right now! Fantastic batch of episodes!
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phosdex posted:I was alive at the time but I don't recall Est, I do remember Landmark education though, my parents got into that poo poo. EST was mainly late 70s through early 80s really. We're reaching the late couple years of EST.
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Riled Shareef posted:Do you guys think this is the best season of TV this year so far? I guess this or Better Call Saul? I think it was very good but I was disappointed by the way the season finished up. It felt like very little happened in the last few episodes other than setting up anticipation for next season.
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Riled Shareef posted:Do you guys think this is the best season of TV this year so far? I guess this or Better Call Saul? No, not even close. This has been a slow season that lead to nothing really.
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Riled Shareef posted:Do you guys think this is the best season of TV this year so far? I guess this or Better Call Saul? I wouldn't even put The Americans in my top 10 list of 2015. Its decent but it veers wildly between completely unrealistic James Bond/Bourne levels of spy work on the part of Philip and Elizabeth, to comical (more believable) complete ineptitude from the rest of the world. I also think they focused way, way, way too much on really boring stuff like Paige and visiting Grandma and Nina's adventures in Siberia and not enough on the Mujahideen, Nicaragua, and Iran/Iraq.
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Riled Shareef posted:Do you guys think this is the best season of TV this year so far? I guess this or Better Call Saul? I'd be torn with a few others but probably. It's been a really good season. I think the paige revelation was handled really well. The way that elizabeth and, to a greater extent, philip are portrayed as steadily splintering under the sheer weight f the awful thongs they are doing all the time was really good as well. When Philip said 'I feel like poo poo all the time' in the final episode, I could really feel his exhaustion and I think it sets up him finally breaking down next season. I don't know what that looks like but I bet it will be intense.
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I think it was a solid season that got a little messy near the end. I wouldn't call it the best show of the year but I can't really think of much that are better right now. I haven't seen the last few episodes of Mad Men yet though.
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spronk posted:I also think they focused way, way, way too much on really boring stuff like Paige and visiting Grandma and Nina's adventures in Siberia and not enough on the Mujahideen, Nicaragua, and Iran/Iraq. What show have you been watching this whole time? Because this one has always been about the internal struggles of a bunch of people involved in spywork. That's why they focus on 'boring stuff' like characters. It has never been about the nuances of the various conflicts that the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in during the eighties, which is why the season(s) largely don't depend on any of that. Pedro De Heredia fucked around with this message at 12:19 on May 10, 2015 |
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I thought this was the best season, though it was also the most unsatisfying in the end because yeah, the finale was just a setup for next season.
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I think this season will be a fantastic one...when watched as part of a marathon of the series. As a standalone season, though, it was really lacking a sense of urgency.
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bowser posted:I think this season will be a fantastic one...when watched as part of a marathon of the series. As a standalone season, though, it was really lacking a sense of urgency. If they just had one more episode to set up the stories for Martha and Paige after what happened in the last episode it would have built a lot more drama. The Americans has developed a habit of their making their first episodes of each season hit very hard and I think we will be pleased by the start of the next season but in my opinion the final episode was a letdown.
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Just finished up the season and it was interesting to see how wrong Elizabeth was about Paige. Right after Paige tells her she can't lie Elizabeth tells Philip he is not understanding Martha. Talk about reading people incorrectly.
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