2019 Couch Chat: This is not an endorsement for the show

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Most of what I watch is on YouTube now... :smith:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 00:30

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:34

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Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Couch Chat Red

Ironically, it�s mostly old BBC history documentaries. From TV. :ironicat:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 00:35

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I�d be interested to know what the pecking order is among YouTube stars.

For instance, which of these channels is :airquote:

bigger

?
Neebs Gaming - >1.7M subs with ~130k-200k views per video with 4-6 videos per week
-OR-
RedLetterMedia - >900k subs with 400-800k views per video with 1-2 videos per week

Looking at just subs, Neebs seems bigger, but looking at videos, RLM seems more popular. In reality, their weekly viewership is probably about the same, but I�m curious about how the actual content-producers see it.

EL BROMANCE posted:

So, that Battlestar Galactica finale...

So, 10 years later I finally got to rewatching this. Some thoughts:
- :bsg:

still has some of the best SFX done on TV. The work they do on The Expanse today is more detailed, but BSG looks better than many contemporary films and even modern shows!
-Each episode is fun and well done. The acting is phenomenal and they have a great, ensemble cast.
-Each episode starts with the tag line �...and they have a plan.� Clearly, the writers did not. So much of the show is undone by the choice of the final five cylons. Rewatching the first two seasons, so much is rendered completely irrelevant or has all of the drama removed by later decisions. Rewatching and seeing that two cylons are having a philosophical debate about their humanity loses its dramatic effect when you realize that the writers don�t know they are both cylons, yet.
-Michael Hogan is the poo poo: Tyclops 4EVA! :yarr:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 01:13

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greententacle posted:

I only saw the first season of Galactica because it was airing at a reasonable time here, when season 2 came out, they pushed it back a lot later, and I wasn't going to stay up that late to watch it, and didn't bother trying to record it. I did pick up season 2 on dvd but I haven't watched it. Once I looked for it on Netflix, and at the time they had the original Galactica, Galactica 1980 & Caprica, but not the reboot Galactica.

It's on Prime.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 02:12

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Using two screens to watch NBC and ABC! :pcgaming:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 05:59

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Wait, Tom Arnold is a nitecrew goon? :pisstape:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2019 18:51

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me rn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyHXzYTuLi4

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 08:24

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How does this have <10k views???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkVKjKOoacc

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 18:02

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muscles like this! posted:

I started driving in the late 90s so I've had some pretty big swings because when I was starting out it would semi-regularly go under $1. Then in the mid 00s it zoomed up to about $4 and stayed closer to that for way too long.

Started driving in '99 and filled up for $0.89! :corsair:

_{what does this have to do with tv?}

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I wish they'd do a gently caress You It's January again... :smith:

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 04:25

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I couldn�t decide on a top 10 and I think it�s over anyways, but I just wanted to share that my favorite show of 2018 was The Terror.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 22:41

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zoux posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbiwCCMDHQ

This is absurd revisionism. This woman has stolen countless national and historical landmarks, she is not a hero!!

I feel like halfway through we got the actual pitch for the show as it was delivered to the Netflix execs: "What if Carmen Sandiego only stole from other thieves?" :thunk:

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 23:52

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Mu Zeta posted:

The creator of Vikings also has a seperate project about Ancient Rome produced by Scorsese. Rather see that.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2019 00:31

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Can someone tl;dr this R Kelly thing? Everyone at work has been talking about it and I just don�t care to watch it...

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 02:11

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HorseRenoir posted:

I knew about R Kelly being a piece of poo poo for a very long time but I didn't realize the sheer scope of how evil he is until watching this mini-series. Every episode features some really extensive stories of how R Kelly systematically destroys the lives of every woman around him, and the most disturbing thing about it is how increasingly organized, meticulous, and complicated his schemes get as the years go by. R Kelly is a real life supervillain.

This is all pretty disgusting and I didn't realize the magnitude of how lovely he is, but I am tired of people laying the blame entirely at the feet of the rapist when it takes a team of handlers to find, groom, and cover up these events. gently caress the whole system and everyone involved, they're just as guilty as R Kelly or Cosby or Louis CK.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 04:50

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Wheat Loaf posted:

I wonder if we'll ever go back and do a post-MeToo re-revision of Michael Jackson, or if his legacy is basically secure now.

Edit: Wasn't the second or third ever episode of Boondocks about R. Kelly? Adam West was his defence attorney.

Essentially, but he was gay instead of a pedophile which opens a whole other can of worms...

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 14:32

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muscles like this! posted:

I think you're mixing up two different episodes. There was an episode where R Kelly goes on trial and there was a different one about a rapper who was secretly gay.

Could be...I thought those were the same R Kelly-analogue character. :shrug:

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 18:36

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quote:

At the age of 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 00:57

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Maybe they can do Stephen Tyler next... :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 01:10

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It�s almost like one of those �I had an AI watch every Golden Globes and write one� memes.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 02:08

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Why is everyone laughing at Lucy Liu? :confused:

X-O posted:

The only way I can fathom anyone not thinking that R. Kelly wasn�t a big mainstream star is they were either a child or not alive at all in the �90s/early �00s or they just didn�t pay attention to music.

Yeah, I was in high school/college then and I was aware of the R Kelly thing solely as a Golden Showers punchline from Chappelle. :shrug:

It was also ~a different era~ and we should rightfully look back with horror and disdain and what society accepted. :smith:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 02:58

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"Winterfell is yours, Your Grace..."
:asoiaf:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 03:14

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Are they dropping all of the Super Bowl commercials early?

pahuyuth posted:

Whoa. A Watchmen HBO series? Neat

Yeah, I'd forgotten about that and it actually looked good for those 8 seconds. :hmmyes:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 03:16

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pahuyuth posted:

Lol "thanks to Satan..."

X-O posted:

Christian Bale just thanked Satan, now tell me the Golden Globes aren’t worthwhile.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 03:46

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# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:08

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# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:13

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The Dick Van Dyke Show!

fakeedit: nerdy librarian is a good look on Blunt... :stwoon:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:37

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Man, they are really liberal with the Dump Button tonight... :f5:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:48

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Holy crap I am watching The Masked Singer on Hulu and I have no idea what's going on but I really expect Katniss Everdeen to break through my door or take over the broadcast...
:stare:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 20:43

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Rarity posted:

The Expanse is TVIV's third favourite show of 2018

It's a good show, Bront.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 00:01

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Lycus posted:

You have to be a big Good Place fan to get this.

idgi

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 02:18

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Adding to the pile-on:
https://twitter.com/brookswheelan/status/1082431308679135232

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 02:40

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swickles posted:

I just rewatched Chappelle's bit "How Old is 15?" and at first I thought it was outdated, being from 03 or 04. But man, by the end I realized how god drat genius he is in his joke telling. Like I knew it before, but this just reinforced it.

Yeah, at the beginning you're kind of :stonklol:

but by the end you hear the :airquote:

punchline

and are like :bravo:

Rhyno posted:

Late but the Expanse is top tier sci fi.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 05:37

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Rocksicles posted:

There is another book due out soon, i don't know if they are wrapping it up.

Book 8 of 9 just went out for publishing! :eng101:

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 18:12

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Wheat Loaf posted:

Huh, that song's 20 years old this year.

Is there a cut-off point for a song to stop being "modern"? I feel like it's tricky with music because the "in" sound of pop music keeps changing. That song sounds like it's from 1999 and I don't think there's anything in the charts today that sounds like it.

I'm probably just splitting hairs.

I think it�s 10 years for modern.* But, honestly, I�m having a hard time conceptualizing this. It�s perfectly acceptable for a �modern rock� station to play mid 90s music these days. But the idea of a �modern� station playing something from the late 60s or early 70s, during the 90s, is patently absurd.

*Anything Trent Reznor does should have 20 years added to its release date. Seriously: Head Like A Hole is 30 years old!?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 00:45

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Sirotan posted:

On the flip side I want to know what we're considering "oldies" these days because I was recently accused of listening to oldies while I had an 80's station playing and I was moderately offended.

I was driving a moving van up from Texas to Kentucky, and there was about 500 miles of nothing but Christian Talk/Rock radio. I finally get within range of Nashville and find a good station: playing my jams! I�m rocking out, having a good time, when the station identifier comes up: �you�re listening to Goooooooooooolden Oldies! The best of the 70s, 80s, AND 90s!�

Oldies is still pre-1960 to me... :smith:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 02:10

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I kind of thought that the hatred for disco would be a recurring thing and expected everybody to always hate what was 20 years ago, but apparently that was a one-off. :shrug:

Sirotan posted:

Same, friend. Same.

feedmyleg posted:

pre-1950s is olde timey music
1950s-1960s is oldies
1970s is classic rock
1980s is good pop
1990s is bad music

Wow rude. What have you got against the decade that continually chose Smells Like Teen Spirit as it's greatest song for >15 years? :crossarms:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 04:14

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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

I always hated boy bands, but I was in college from 1996-2000, and I loving loved ska and swing. It was great, fun music. People dressed up to go to the shows, they danced, the girls looked gorgeous. It helped that I was a sax player, so I felt cool for the first time ever. (It didn't last.)

Perfect username/post combo. :discourse:

In other news, after 10 years and multiple attempts, I finally finished :bsg:

for the second time since the initial airing! :toot:

Good show, great production values, each episode is wonderfully written, ~amazing~ special effects (especially for the time); but ultimately it was a product of its era and fell prey to the 00's usual issues. Namely, throwing spaghetti at the wall for the over-arching plot which ultimately either took the wind out of its own sails or just made the wonderful in-episode writing pointless.
:shrug:

Still a wonderful show which influenced a lot of modern television and helped to mainstream sci-fi in many critical eyes.

:five:

that Amazon suggested Babylon 5 as soon as the finale rolled credits. :golfclap:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 09:05

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The Lord Bude posted:

I'm struggling to comprehend the idea of people listening to the radio in 2019. You guys know that stuff like spotify and apple music exist right? you can play your own music, whatever you want, whenever you want. Even before then, CDs existed, and aux ports for an mp3 player.

I've owned a car since 2006, and I've never once listened to the radio

People say "DFW" instead of "Dallas Fort-Worth" because it the former has you move your mouth less, even though the latter has fewer syllables. People are that lazy.

To wit: plugging in your phone and turning on Spotify is many more calories than just pressing the "on" button. :shrug:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 18:09

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AceOfFlames posted:

My dad recently asked me what song that was which provided the perfect opportunity to spring this on him:

https://youtu.be/xQBGmBOhQEE

What...what the gently caress did I just watch? :stonklol:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2019 18:14

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:34

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Y�all are forgetting the best use of Nirvana in a jukebox musical: Moulin Rouge!

# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 03:08

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