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Oh Quayle, you dumb little poo poo.
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Mar 12, 2018 05:32
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Oh poo poo, Conway Stern has The Tactleneck
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Mar 12, 2018 10:16
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I must say that the conversation between the two Howards at the interface was really something. All the venom, the getting under each other's skin and the escalation of their rivalry. Oh and it looks like Prime side elected Gore. Ora Tzo fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 11:38
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Ora Tzo posted:I must say that the conversation between the two Howards at the interface was really something. The way JK simmons used facial expressions without words in that scene was something else. Go ahead and lock him in for a Best Actor Emmy. Unbelievable performance in this episode.
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Mar 12, 2018 18:46
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Has the show mentioned if Peter has a living other?
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Mar 12, 2018 19:15
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wukkar posted:Has the show mentioned if Peter has a living other? Not that I can recall. The GF and I were wondering that last night as well.
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Mar 12, 2018 19:37
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Also, in case there was any doubt, Aldrich is goddamn hardcore. Don't gently caress with him.
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Mar 13, 2018 00:40
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This show owns. I was about to give up but episode 6 brought it in for me.
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Mar 13, 2018 19:48
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Tortolia posted:Also, in case there was any doubt, Aldrich is goddamn hardcore. Don't gently caress with him. Was kind of surprised Quayle called him Sir, I guess I missed it earlier but I imagined him as long time head of goon squad ops under Quayle as the upstart Director. I know its not that kind of show but I'm kind of hoping this is a one-and-done so it doesnt go all Scandal and at some point there's no reason everyone doesn't murder each other but you can't remember what for.
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Mar 13, 2018 21:29
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Trabant posted:Oh Quayle, you dumb little poo poo.
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Mar 14, 2018 00:01
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So good.
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Mar 14, 2018 14:43
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Enigma89 posted:This show owns. I was about to give up but episode 6 brought it in for me. Not being snarky, what made you flip the switch from giving up to 'owns' in one episode?
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Mar 14, 2018 18:30
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JK Simmons is really hitting it home, I hope this show in general gets the recognition it deserves. Fawning aside, I wonder how far we really are going to get into the prime's plan given there are only 2 episodes left. Expecting a pretty explosive ending either way.
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Mar 15, 2018 04:49
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His wife return to the other side but then next season THE BIG TWIST is that she was a double agent after being converted by our ipods and iphones.
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Mar 15, 2018 05:04
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GobiasIndustries posted:Not being snarky, what made you flip the switch from giving up to 'owns' in one episode? For me, the parts without JK Simmons might not be enough to sustain my interest.
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Mar 15, 2018 07:33
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GobiasIndustries posted:Not being snarky, what made you flip the switch from giving up to 'owns' in one episode? Fair question. I just thought there were a lot of things going on and to find out that the leak was married to a main character really tied in the stories together. I just felt like there was a lot of poo poo going on and the story kept going wide but wasn't going deep enough and when they tied it all together I realized that it made all sense now.
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Mar 17, 2018 14:00
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I'm watching episode 9, and holy gently caress does Stephen Rea (Pope) channel a mean Sir David Attenborough
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Mar 18, 2018 11:10
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If you want more spy master Stephen Rea try and track down The Shadow Line where he also does a mean The Terminator (its a good crime drama with Chris Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor that goes nuts after a point)
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Mar 18, 2018 11:50
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Chop Sunni posted:If you want more spy master Stephen Rea try and track down The Shadow Line where he also does a mean The Terminator I've seen it, it's boss level.
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Mar 18, 2018 11:58
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The Shadow Line is great! My friend had this script writing theory that the best shows always evolve from a central scene that the writer has in mind. For this show, it had to be the scene of Howard arguing with his alternate self about how each of them resents the other's life choices. What a fantastic scene. It isn't exactly clear what the attack was meant to do, was it? At first I thought the goal might have been to bomb the passageway to disconnect the worlds, but when that didn't happen I am assuming the attack was more of just a terrorist action, but the people they were shooting were seeming fairly specific as well so I guess the goal was just to destabilize "our" side.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:01
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My guess is that they wanted to open a clear passage for more goons to stream I'm from their side to... do something. Otherwise they could've blown it up or something.
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Mar 18, 2018 21:29
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PaybackJack posted:It isn't exactly clear what the attack was meant to do, was it? At first I thought the goal might have been to bomb the passageway to disconnect the worlds, but when that didn't happen I am assuming the attack was more of just a terrorist action, but the people they were shooting were seeming fairly specific as well so I guess the goal was just to destabilize "our" side. Yeah, this was way too targeted. Richard Schiff's character for instance, why shoot his assistant and not him ? Our side's security has a lot to answer for after this. Maybe invest in some panic rooms and guards under 50 who shoot back. One odd thing is how every employee has to enter the building with a code which makes sense if identical duplicates exist. How the attackers for these codes is unclear, Baldwin immediately murdered the one we saw and yet the double knew the code.
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Mar 18, 2018 21:34
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mobby_6kl posted:My guess is that they wanted to open a clear passage for more goons to stream I'm from their side to... do something. Otherwise they could've blown it up or something. Yeah, that was my take. Break all the locks in the open position, clear security to the gate, and send over as many agents as possible without having to dick around with visas (and also to send over folks without counterparts they would have to replace). Not sure why Richard Schiff wasn't taken out; taking out the head diplomat would have been a huge blow. I figure either it was to help maintain Clare's cover or perhaps he's already been compromised and still useful.
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Mar 19, 2018 03:54
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The only thing I dislike has been Quayle being a total idiot instead of using one of the many opportunities to do the right thing. I don't mind that he's done the wrong thing, but the manner in which he keeps loving up seems particularly ham fisted when everything else has been so great.
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Mar 19, 2018 04:01
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I like this show, but "he's on the border we can't touch him" was comically loving stupid. They stalked from office to office killing your people and now the border suddenly is sacrosanct. gently caress that, they can keep the bullets.
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Mar 19, 2018 04:11
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J.K. Simmons still doing awesome. algebra testes posted:The only thing I dislike has been Quayle being a total idiot instead of using one of the many opportunities to do the right thing. I don't mind that he's done the wrong thing, but the manner in which he keeps loving up seems particularly ham fisted when everything else has been so great. I don't know, he's a dead ringer for a co-worker I had years ago. I wonder if there's a writer who could say the same.
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Mar 19, 2018 07:02
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unlawfulsoup posted:I like this show, but "he's on the border we can't touch him" was comically loving stupid. They stalked from office to office killing your people and now the border suddenly is sacrosanct. gently caress that, they can keep the bullets. Maybe it's more literal than that, some sort of freaky sci-fi poo poo? It might be coming from totally left field on a show which has, so far, completely understated that element of the overall plot, but there is some weird stuff like telling Howard that 'everyone has to cross alone'. I'm interested in the nature of the weird creaky tunnel-between-universes and I didn't expect them to go there, but who knows, maybe the finale will explore it more. Perhaps the School people know how to exploit something about the crossing point to gain the upper hand.
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Mar 19, 2018 08:56
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Maybe more than one person at a time down there causes some singularity or something. Maybe he closed the thing with his body. Still don’t see why they couldn’t just like harpoon his husk out of there though. The whole entire hit on the offices seemed kind of pointless to me. It’s a mess, yes, and tons of bodies; but if they aim regardless of how to close the border then that effectively cuts off all of their espionage efforts and doesn’t do anything to fulfill a vengeance pact for the virus. I imagine we are just really missing something the finale will show us.
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Mar 19, 2018 09:10
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Chadzok posted:Maybe it's more literal than that, some sort of freaky sci-fi poo poo? It might be coming from totally left field on a show which has, so far, completely understated that element of the overall plot, but there is some weird stuff like telling Howard that 'everyone has to cross alone'. I guess, but if you can have people waltzing across I am sort of doubting a few ounces of metal, even at a high velocity, should do anything. vOv Blind Rasputin posted:The whole entire hit on the offices seemed kind of pointless to me. It’s a mess, yes, and tons of bodies; but if they aim regardless of how to close the border then that effectively cuts off all of their espionage efforts and doesn’t do anything to fulfill a vengeance pact for the virus. I imagine we are just really missing something the finale will show us. I think it is a distraction for something bigger. They didn't go through that much effort to kill a dozen or two random personnel alone.
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Mar 19, 2018 09:12
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Maybe he was going to "defect" and admit to the bio attack?
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Mar 19, 2018 12:46
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unlawfulsoup posted:I like this show, but "he's on the border we can't touch him" was comically loving stupid. They stalked from office to office killing your people and now the border suddenly is sacrosanct. gently caress that, they can keep the bullets. I would think someone this picky would have latched onto the ridiculous trope of the ajar draw tipping off the wife to the cigars, let alone doing it a second loving time with the air-con vent.
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Mar 19, 2018 14:44
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Qmass posted:I would think someone this picky would have latched onto the ridiculous trope of the ajar draw tipping off the wife to the cigars, let alone doing it a second loving time with the air-con vent. See and here I thought the stupider thing was that she would leave her cell phone turned on vibrate in a vent that amplifies the noise and makes it sound like a loving jackhammer. Also, "Whoops, I forgot about secret cell phone I stashed in the vent until it rang."
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Mar 19, 2018 17:59
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I mean that seemed accurate to me how else are you supposed to know when a secret cell phone is ringing?
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Mar 19, 2018 18:47
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Blind Rasputin posted:I mean that seemed accurate to me how else are you supposed to know when a secret cell phone is ringing? Lmao. Is the voice mail "hello you have reached my secret phone please leave a message after the secret tone." I know what they wanted to achieve that that's where the phone is, and she realises that she is just out of reach of it. But the way they do it, so accurately pointed out, makes no sense. I mean, I don't think it completely breaks the verisimilitude of the show too much but yeah, it's kinda hokey. The show on one hand has dead drops, but also, phones set to vibrate left on in the vent. gently caress the more I think about how stupid it is the more I kind of love this show.
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Mar 20, 2018 02:05
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I don't buy the 1-in-the-tunnel-because-scifi idea, because then the glass-separated discussion rooms would have to work on a hell of a fine line. The people in those rooms (like Howard, originally) don't go through the tunnel or even know what they're doing. I liked the other side's snazzy phone booths. Unless they're a real thing in regular Germany. I confused myself because I could have sworn the other side had snazzy-enough mobiles in that episode. Edit: I know they're making The City and The City now, but suppose it would be neat influenced by that and the tunnel is governed by breach monsters. Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 09:07
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Chop Sunni posted:I don't buy the 1-in-the-tunnel-because-scifi idea, because then the glass-separated discussion rooms would have to work on a hell of a fine line. The people in those rooms (like Howard, originally) don't go through the tunnel or even know what they're doing. I think the people from the Other Side do come through the tunnel to work each morning? They have to, surely. Now that you mention it though, they've never really shown that and I have no idea how that building would function otherwise.
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Mar 22, 2018 09:47
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Chadzok posted:I think the people from the Other Side do come through the tunnel to work each morning? They have to, surely. Now that you mention it though, they've never really shown that and I have no idea how that building would function otherwise. Yeah, I suspect that the booths are on this side of the border, for whatever reason. Coin flip, possibly, but potentially in order to keep up the ruse that our side has a more advanced level of technology than the other.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:27
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That makes sense of course. Now I'm wondering if Howard's window-mate appeared snotty at Howard's friendly gesture because it was unprofessional, or because he was a filthy disease-monger.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:20
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Chop Sunni posted:That makes sense of course. Should have gone for the elbow dap.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:34
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...pretty sure the "windows" are just screens broadcasting between the sides?
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