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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwU5yIVPCbA What the hell is this? Wynonna Earp is an action comedy urban fantasy series loosely based on a comic series I haven’t read and produced by Emily Andras of Lost Girl fame. To keep it short, the show is basically Supernatural only it's two sisters fighting monsters and they mostly stay in a set location instead of road-tripping across middle America, but beyond that if you like Supernatural, or at least enjoyed it before it went on six seasons longer than it really should have (Like me) you'll enjoy this show. It's got a similar sense of humor, a deep love of classic hard rock and decent action scenes for basic cable while straddling the very difficult line between stupid fun and just plain stupid by never insulting the viewer’s intelligence. The premise:  Welcome to Purgatory, a middle of nowhere farm town with only one noteworthy feature: All the outlaws that were killed by the legendary gunslinger Wyatt Earp are cursed to haunt the place as undead Revenants. They are effectively immortal, can shrug off any injury and can otherwise do whatever the hell they want, provided they never try to leave town because the curse keeps them there. They can however, be sent back to hell at any time with a well-placed gunshot from a magically imbued Colt Buntline (Dubbed “Peacemaker”) wielded by any direct descendant of Wyatt Earp that is currently over the age of 27 The main cast:  Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano) is the main character and The Chosen One. Becoming the latest wielder of Peacemaker is something she knew was going to happen, but that didn’t stop her from trying everything to get out of it. After accidentally orphaning herself and her sister when she was a kid, she spent most of her life bouncing around psychiatric institutions, prisons both juvenile and adult, and a couple biker gangs. In short, the heroine of this story is a barely functioning alcoholic who hates everyone and everyone hates her Current status: In serious need of whiskey after murdering her long lost older sister who turned out evil  Waverly Earp (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) is Wynonna’s younger sister, who is only sometimes a little miffed that she’s not the heroine of this story. She dedicated her life to solving the family curse, finding new and exciting ways to send Revenants back to hell, and other exposition-giving knowledge about magic and the occult Current status: Possibly possessed by an arch-demon after touching some mysterious black goo.  Officer Nicole Haught (Kat Barrell) is new in town, but through a combination of curiosity, intelligence and stubbornness it didn’t take long for her to figure out what was going on or to work her way into Waverly’s good graces, after all, when she sees something she likes, she doesn’t like to wait  Current status: Recovering from what I’m assuming is a bruised ribcage. Getting shot hurts whether you’re wearing a bulletproof vest or not  Xavier Dolls (Shamier Anderson) is an agent of Black Badge: a secret government agency that polices and if necessary terminates supernatural threats. Straight-laced and dedicated to the job he usually acts as the voice of reason, usually anyway. Also he’s some kind of monster/demon/thing and needs regular injections of a mysterious drug to maintain his humanity. Current status: In a CIA blacksite for disobeying a direct order  Doc (Tim Rozon) is the real Doc Holiday, after catching tuberculosis in the 1880’s he entered into a Faustian bargain to live forever, but the witch that gave him his immortality then turned around and hurled him down a well for his trouble, and he only managed to crawl his way out a year ago. He cannot be trusted around motor vehicles, cell phones or televisions, he has ruined all he comes across Current status: Just fine all things considered There are other characters but Here’s the wiki if you’re need to know And now what I’m sure most of you are here for: 
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I just finished the first season on netflix. This show is better than one would guess. Not taking itself too seriously helps.
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Jun 9, 2017 01:55
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Rando posted:I just finished the first season on netflix. This show is better than one would guess. Not taking itself too seriously helps. Yep, this show knows exactly how stupid it looks and sounds and uses that to its advantage
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Jun 9, 2017 02:20
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DarklyDreaming posted:To keep it short, the show is basically Supernatural only it's two sisters fighting monsters and they mostly stay in a set location instead of road-tripping across middle America, but beyond that if you like Supernatural, or at least enjoyed it before it went on six seasons longer than it really should have (Like me) you'll enjoy this show. It's got a similar sense of humor, a deep love of classic hard rock and decent action scenes for basic cable while straddling the very difficult line between stupid fun and just plain stupid by never insulting the viewer’s intelligence. One other major difference; much less variety of bad guys. I would like this show a lot more if it had all the different ghosts and werewolves and whatevers that Supernatural has, even if that would be a bit implausible all happening in one small town.
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Jun 9, 2017 04:10
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Tiggum posted:One other major difference; much less variety of bad guys. I would like this show a lot more if it had all the different ghosts and werewolves and whatevers that Supernatural has, even if that would be a bit implausible all happening in one small town. Well that problem got solved this episode  Also I wonder how many times they're going to make it look like Possessed Waverly killed someone before the joke gets old
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Jun 10, 2017 05:48
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to the expansion into Lovecraftian monsters it seems to be taking this season. Not to mention that thing in the crate. And was that a Xenomorph egg? Teases. As said, this show pulls off that tough job of not taking your cheap and sometimes ugly looking show too seriously but treating it seriously enough to make stuff like the weight of killing Willa matter. It can be a troublesome line to walk but so far it does a solid job of pulling it off.
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Jun 12, 2017 08:42
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DarklyDreaming posted:
Ahhh that eases the pain.
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Jun 13, 2017 10:04
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Oh by the way I just found out about this thing: http://purgatorysd.com/ Which is some kind of tie-in ARG involving a suspicious break in and Nicole's attempts to figure out what happened. Looks like it updates every other day so I'll keep an eye on it
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Jun 15, 2017 02:56
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Did I miss something in the first episode? Was Haught upset because she didn't get to sign a contract in blood with the evil organisation like everyone else did?
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Jun 17, 2017 08:46
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She is upset that her hot as gently caress cheerleader girlfriend is a bit broken.
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Jun 17, 2017 12:21
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Yeah, she was saying Waverly "tasted" different and keeps saying "different" over and over. She's bummed she's been benched from the A Team but she's also clearly going to either be the first one to figure out Waverly is possessed by an Old One or fall victim to it.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:32
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, she was saying Waverly "tasted" different and keeps saying "different" over and over. She's bummed she's been benched from the A Team but she's also clearly going to either be the first one to figure out Waverly is possessed by an Old One or fall victim to it. Hopefully the first. I remember the shows producers and writers last year saying that they're completely aware of TV's habit of killing off lesbians for cheap shock value and fully intended to avoid it.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:49
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my favorite part so far, at the end of episode 5, with Dolls developing the negatives and he goes "i've seen this somewhere before......." and it didn't ring a bell before with the paranormal detective, all the creepy guys standing around the hanging human corpse
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Jun 18, 2017 04:52
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A few gifs from the most recent episode:  
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Jun 18, 2017 18:07
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Suxpool posted:my favorite part so far, at the end of episode 5, with Dolls developing the negatives and he goes "i've seen this somewhere before......." and it didn't ring a bell before with the paranormal detective, all the creepy guys standing around the hanging human corpse
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Jun 20, 2017 14:00
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So is Waverly going to eat Dolls? Is that what's going on?
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Jun 24, 2017 16:01
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I'm not entirely clear on the nature of her Old One eating both demonic spiders and lipstick. But I'm glad it seems to be moving along quickly with her and Dolls and they don't seem like they're going to drag it out all season. Then again its a cable show so I guess we're already a quarter through the season.
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Jun 25, 2017 00:27
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Any chance we can get a gif of Wynonna striding out of the school with the trophy over her shoulder? That was pretty great.
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Jun 26, 2017 02:52
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Polaron posted:Any chance we can get a gif of Wynonna striding out of the school with the trophy over her shoulder? That was pretty great.  And before Rocksicles asks for it:  
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Jun 26, 2017 06:08
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Solve a minor mystery for me: last year's cliffhanger, with Waverly getting possessed and then shooting Wynonna. They're ignoring the shooting part this season, yeah? Seems like that was just plain dropped.
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Jul 5, 2017 10:53
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Open Source Idiom posted:Solve a minor mystery for me: last year's cliffhanger, with Waverly getting possessed and then shooting Wynonna. They're ignoring the shooting part this season, yeah? Seems like that was just plain dropped. This season started with them running from some monster, and Waverly said something about "You're lucky I saw it behind you and shot at it." So basically another fakeout like with the axe.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:21
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DarklyDreaming posted:Here you go: Hey, that's everyones thing
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Jul 8, 2017 16:33
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Rocksicles posted:Hey, that's everyones thing Yeah it really is  It's possible that Wynonna lost track of time because she was possessed but it's also possible she just didn't care:  
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Jul 8, 2017 19:41
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I love the Chris Evans trickledown banging winner.
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Jul 9, 2017 06:22
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I'm enjoying this season more than S1 but I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Wynonna getting a pregnancy AND a 3rd love interest. I'd assume they were just going to put the Doc and Dolls stuff on hold, but... I assume there's a Holliday-Earp kid coming.
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Jul 9, 2017 06:34
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I gave this show a shot because I heard it was actually pretty good. At first I was rolling my eyes at it but by the end of the first episode, I dunno. I still was rolling my eyes at it but I like it. I will continue watching it. It feels like it's feeling the supernatural void pretty well, gave up on supernatural after 5 or 6 seasons.
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Jul 9, 2017 11:11
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Standard Syfy procedure, first season wonky legs. If you came expecting the Magicians, you're barking up the wrong tree. You know a show has a rabid fanbase when you're browsing redbubble for Syfy logo laptop stickers and there are piles of Earp stickers. You bailed on Supernatural at a good point, the magic didn't come back from season 5, until last season. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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Jul 9, 2017 11:28
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Yeah I decided to check this show out and two episodes in it could definitely do with some improvements, but it's fun enough for me so far. Helps that I was expecting at least one of the male main characters to be terrible in a 'designated love interest' kind of way, but they've both been pretty fair so far, even if officer deputy whatever title man can be a bit bland, so hopefully that sticks. My two specific complaints are A: that first loving fight in episode one has to be the shittiest effects I've ever seen, I mean the other special effects in the show are very budget too especially the melty fires when the monsters get killed but that was both our introduction to supernatural fighting which you'd think they'd splurge a little extra on, and far worse than all the rest so far combined as well. And B: the audio mixing is dire, as in 'can't hear what the gently caress people are saying over the music/sound effects' dire. I noticed it several times but it first got bad enough I really felt a need to complain about it in episode 2 when they're going in to wake up ol' Killer Miller, drat is it bad in that scene.
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Jul 12, 2017 20:46
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What did the note at the end of the latest episode say? I read "I am all" but couldn't make out the last word.
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Jul 15, 2017 11:27
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Tiggum posted:What did the note at the end of the latest episode say? I read "I am all" but couldn't make out the last word. "In.." it's cursive. Handwriting, was a thing until 2007. Remember notes... they got poo poo done.
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Caught up now, it's pretty fun. I'm undecided on how I'm feeling about season 2 (and end of 1 I guess) developments though. On one hand, I quite like the cast additions overall. Scientist guy may be written very stereotypical 'goofy comic-relief' but I feel like the actor has decent charisma and executes it well. And fireman dude seems like he could be cool too if he keeps showing up. I also like that the show isn't limited to just revenants now in theory, since it allows for more weirdness and variety in theory. I like how it feels a lot tougher to predict the major plot points now, season 1 did a decent job of throwing curves but overall it was pretty rigid. 'Earps vs Bobo, enemies are revenants, nothing relevant happens outside the triangle or enters it', all that stuff. Even if I'm not sure the whole pregnancy thing will be great for the show, I did like how they skipped past the inevitable lengthy period of Wynonna not/barely showing in a way that actually addressed it rather than have her suddenly have a stomach but give in indication that any real time passed, which is surprisingly common. Or worse, stretching it out with tons of denial/refusing to tell people angst. Plus, it means an actual action/adventure series with a pregnant protagonist which is pretty cool if nothing else. On the other, I'm not a huge fan of antagonistic government conspiracy set-ups, and I felt like Dolls in season 1 was about the right amount which leaves me a bit cold on that aspect of season 2. Second gotta say, not a fan of Tucker as antagonist so far. All the attempts at making him menacing fall flat to me, and him starting off as the lamest of all the show's regular one-dimensional assholes (and drat does the show love those by the way) doesn't help it. Also, I kinda worry the show is throwing away its strengths to make up for its weaknesses. To be honest I wasn't very impressed by the revenants at all, though Bobo made a decent big bad himself, so I should be happy with th cast of potential antagonists expanding. But by doing so it feels like the show is losing most of its connection to the Earp family, which also means losing a lot of Waverly's usefulness since her thing was being an expert on Earp history. In addition to making her place in the show less clear, it also means they weren't capitalizing on the contrast between her knowledge of and interest in Earp history with her doubts of being an Earp at all, which was a bit of a missed opportunity I felt. And it also loses any personal connection and stakes between the heroes and the monsters too. Finally, it kinda feels like any of the Wild West connection that the first season had is basically gone at this point. Not a huge deal to me since I was never big on that setting myself, but it was undeniably one of its draws. Final complaint, show abandoned the entertainment value of Doc being baffled at modern things far too quickly. Surely they realize this is where they struck gold already? I mean besides gifs of Waverly and Nicole I suppose, as this thread proves. Insurrectionist fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jul 15, 2017 |
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Insurrectionist posted:Second gotta say, not a fan of Tucker as antagonist so far. All the attempts at making him menacing fall flat to me, and him starting off as the lamest of all the show's regular one-dimensional assholes (and drat does the show love those by the way) doesn't help it. I don't think he's a very good actor, unfortunately. Insurrectionist posted:Also, I kinda worry the show is throwing away its strengths to make up for its weaknesses. To be honest I wasn't very impressed by the revenants at all, though Bobo made a decent big bad himself, so I should be happy with th cast of potential antagonists expanding. But by doing so it feels like the show is losing most of its connection to the Earp family, which also means losing a lot of Waverly's usefulness since her thing was being an expert on Earp history. Earp apparently had four(!) wives. I assume the two brides are at least related to the Earp family tree, if not actively two of those four women. It'd certainly could explain some of their anger at the Earp lineage. In terms of villains, I'm mostly just disappointed that they've killed off their best villain off screen. Cloutie ruled, and the actress owned. (Also how does Doc still have a head after that?)
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A good episode, especially when Dolls got to geek out about Bass Reeves  And I had to share this gif: 
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Jul 22, 2017 05:46
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Drunk Nicole was excellent
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ShakeZula posted:Drunk Nicole was excellent I keep one in my sock. How smart am I? I'm uh... Smart 
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Am I misremembering, or has Waverly used the magic gun? If so, how could she not be an Earp? Doesn't it only work for Earps?
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Jul 26, 2017 14:26
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Tiggum posted:Am I misremembering, or has Waverly used the magic gun? If so, how could she not be an Earp? Doesn't it only work for Earps? She can be an Earp and not be her sister...
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Jul 27, 2017 10:28
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drat, that was a good episode. Poor Bobo 
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Jul 29, 2017 04:55
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I feel like i missed when Wynonna and Dolls actually got together. But I accidentally watched Ep 8 before watching Ep 7 so my entire timeline for this show is hosed up.
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STAC Goat posted:I feel like i missed when Wynonna and Dolls actually got together. But I accidentally watched Ep 8 before watching Ep 7 so my entire timeline for this show is hosed up. Same here, I did a double take when it showed them in bed.
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