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BoosterDuck posted:pokemon's mainline games have been trash since 2003 oh I've got little kids so none of that matters. seriously though that Post Malone Hootie cover slaps. -thing I said in 2021 without irony
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MonsieurChoc posted:Sorry for gushing about The Expanse long after everyone else, but I'm just in one of my phases where I devour an entire show and want to talk about it. This show has a great knack for making me like characters I hated at first. It did it with Miller, and now Ashford. I thought that might be the case so I tried to be very vague with my comment about her role in season 5. Anyway Miller owns and Ashford owns and the whole show owns and I'll leave it at that.
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Echo Chamber posted:I really haven't watched that much TV since the pandemic began. And clips like this surface and I'm like, "I'm not missing out too much." did getfiscal write this script
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vyelkin posted:I thought that might be the case so I tried to be very vague with my comment about her role in season 5. I have no clue about what happens to her, I'm jsut dreading it a bit now. XD I didn't like Miller at first cause he felt like a bit of a cliché stuck to a less interesting subplot. As things developed and the stakes got higher and we got a better view of the man, I realized that he owns yeah. Same with Ashford. After the episode where he's stuck with Drummer you get a better feeling of what makes him tick and that's when I started loving the guy even as the poo poo went down. That's some good writing.
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Feb 26, 2021 05:10
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Echo Chamber posted:I really haven't watched that much TV since the pandemic began. And clips like this surface and I'm like, "I'm not missing out too much." theres something genuinely sad about this people with such abstract definitions of culture and ethnicity they stereotype themselves harder than actual racists stereotype them as much as id like to just blame this on whatever weird as hell show that clip came from i know the trend is far more pervasive than that and it really sucks
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Feb 26, 2021 05:18
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The Expanse really benefits from some great acting. The characters of Drummer, Ashford, Avasarala, and especially Amos are really elevated by the performances. And then there's Holden, who I struggle to care about. I'm also unsure if Frankie Adams is giving a good performance or a mediocre performance.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Sorry for gushing about The Expanse long after everyone else, but I'm just in one of my phases where I devour an entire show and want to talk about it. dont apologize friend this is the thread for people who are streets behind on their pop culture references why one of these years i might even watch the expanse and post my belated thoughts about it
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BoosterDuck posted:pokemon's mainline games have been trash since 2003 hmm wrongo
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Feb 26, 2021 05:36
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Some Guy TT posted:theres something genuinely sad about this people with such abstract definitions of culture and ethnicity they stereotype themselves harder than actual racists stereotype them that show was written by two white women
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Feb 26, 2021 05:58
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Farm Frenzy posted:that show was written by two white allies fixed that for you
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Feb 26, 2021 06:05
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Atrocious Joe posted:And then there's Holden, who I struggle to care about. Same. I care because the rest of the crew care about him. But I don't hate him. He's just... there.
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Feb 26, 2021 06:09
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Farm Frenzy posted:that show was written by two white women Could've fooled me, the dialogue sounded so authentic
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Feb 26, 2021 06:46
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i am reading far too much twitter and i think tv writers are probably doing the same
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Looking forward to a future where zoomer liberals start their bending style on their Twitter profiles.
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The acting in the expanse is ok until they're doing dubbed stuff during action sequences where they appear to have been given no direction for the scene Also just got to S2 and I'm really struggling with the kiwi accent
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Farm Frenzy posted:that show was written by two white women https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1365090348188499969
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well this is one of the funnier contexts to find out that the extremely dumb screenwriters guild rules are preventing pocs from getting recognized for their writing credits
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Atrocious Joe posted:The Expanse really benefits from some great acting. The characters of Drummer, Ashford, Avasarala, and especially Amos are really elevated by the performances. Yeah Holden is like the epitome of the blank slate do-gooder protagonist who's there to give the audience somebody to identify with. I can't tell if it's the writing or the acting but he's definitely the weakest link in the main cast and I feel bad about that, because like, he's fine but everybody around him is good so he drags them down whenever a scene revolves around him. Also tbf he gets a lot better once his character chills the gently caress out at the end of season 2. His season 2 arc of glowering and shouting at everybody all the time gets old really fast. Also Frankie Adams is great because she grows into the role at the same pace as Bobbie grows as a character, so at the beginning both the character and the acting are really one-note, but after a season or two they're both excellent.
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Some Guy TT posted:well this is one of the funnier contexts to find out that the extremely dumb screenwriters guild rules are preventing pocs from getting recognized for their writing credits also they were writing for a paycheck, and probably knew what the people in charge wanted to see, so that did that as well. the whole "well a poc told me about it so it must be true" is another thing white people love to do to reaffirm their weird ideas about race.
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Feb 26, 2021 18:59
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it's gonna be Donald Glover
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I think Marco Inaros has the Zeon Eagle on his jumpsuit, making the Gundam/The Expanse article even more relevant somehow.
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Feb 26, 2021 19:14
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Atrocious Joe posted:And then there's Holden, who I struggle to care about. His mouth is always hanging open.
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Feb 26, 2021 20:30
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lol hes currently the writer for black panther and captain america and is so bad at it he almost singlehandedly tanked their franchises
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Feb 26, 2021 20:32
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Bro Dad posted:lol hes currently the writer for black panther and captain america and is so bad at it he almost singlehandedly tanked their franchises wait, he wrote the film in which the plucky CIA guy loving around in an independent African nation is a hero?
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what is this https://twitter.com/PaleoSteno/status/1364985191220011008
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Feb 26, 2021 20:42
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Man of Steel already made the story about Kryptonians being settler colonialists who destroyed themselves through environmental destructions, which is where I would expect TNC to go with the Superman story. People call Snyder as fascist, but he's just a liberal with a sense of style, which is similar but not the same.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:it's gonna be Donald Glover im sad that we will never get to see his movie about the hatian revolution
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World War Mammories posted:wait, he wrote the film in which the plucky CIA guy loving around in an independent African nation is a hero? nah the comics, he rebooted them after very successful runs (like the avengers and x-men had wakanda tie-ins) and now they're both some of the lowest selling comics marvel puts out. 
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People lean on the "Superheroes are the New Gods" thesis, but love to avoid the conclusion that Disney now exists in a role equivalent to past organized religious institutions that determined canon. Which makes that whole position creepy instead of dorky. Everyone loves to "Attack and Dethrone God" until god is in spandex I guess.
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Atrocious Joe posted:People lean on the "Superheroes are the New Gods" thesis, but love to avoid the conclusion that Disney now exists in a role equivalent to past organized religious institutions that determined canon. Which makes that whole position creepy instead of dorky. Does it make the position creepy, or the reality of the situation creepy? Because imo that's a very valid interpretation, and it does highlight the power that Disney--as well as a lot of mainstream entertainment--has in shaping our culture and values, explicitly and implicitly.
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yeah, people treat Disney properties with a creepy amount of reverence quote:The thing about the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that the people behind it have a talent for pushing buttons in the human brain. Like any major brand in 2021, they’ve gotten as far as they have largely by figuring out how to cut past people’s mental defenses and make them feel something. It doesn’t work on everyone, of course, nor does it work with every MCU product. But, far more often than virtually every other entertainment franchise, this one is able to hit your pleasure receptors and turn you into a giddy, drooling, and/or bawling mess. https://www.vulture.com/article/wandavision-episode-8-recap-previously-on.html
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Atrocious Joe posted:yeah, people treat Disney properties with a creepy amount of reverence If anything that just supports the "superheroes are the new gods" thesis
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Scorsese saying that superhero movies are like amusement park rides was hitting the nail on the head. It’s trying to justify having fun as being a cultural artform when it’s really just a rollercoaster that either pumps you up for bores you. I can be totally fine with fun movies that don’t mean anything. But nerds really want to justify their obsessed habits as being peak culture instead of just admitting that they really enjoy the zany rollercoaster.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:If anything that just supports the "superheroes are the new gods" thesis yeah, I'm not totally against the idea. I guess my main point is, that if it is true, it has disturbing implications.
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Bro Dad posted:nah the comics, he rebooted them after very successful runs (like the avengers and x-men had wakanda tie-ins) and now they're both some of the lowest selling comics marvel puts out. lmao oh my lord
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The more I read about this show, the less I want to watch any kind of television anymore. I guess that's good?
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weren’t the greek pantheon not so much a true working religion among the people as they were the patron deities of cults not representative of the general population?
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