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Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

Thanks Reverend

Echo Chamber posted:

Another SNL 2008 story.

They did a skit that was essentially "the media is biased against Hillary" and because it was media criticism that didn't threaten anyone meaningful, CNN and MSNBC ran with the "Are we biased against Hillary" narrative for like a week or two after Clinton gave that skit a shoutout.

I watched less than two full SNL skits that year, but I feel like I have an encyclopedic knowledge of how SNL processed the election narrative that year because of osmosis.

SNL is forced on us, whether we watch the show or not.

i'd guess that snl writers just follow dumbfucks on twitter and make skits out of bad takes

cuz if they aren't, then they are spending far more effort than they need to reach that [low] quality of entertainment

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Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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"I won't kill you... but I don't have to save you" - christopher nolan on his role in the batman franchise

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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Plank Walker posted:

bran loving sucks and it's hilarious that his whole plotline was going on a magical vision quest to get a bunch of side characters killed so he could gain the power to idk see the past maybe? a power which had no effect at all on the plot and then tyrion's like "oh he's the three-eyed raven" and everyone in the council somehow knows what that even means

don't forget when bran hosed up hodor (thus making hodor) and also was the one that was controlling the mad king right before the kingslayer turned

bran was actually a huge negative on the whole world, but he just keeps that part to himself

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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The real curse of the white walkers was the neoliberalism they left in their wake

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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Rated PG-34 posted:

I stopped watching the good place after it went from capitalism means no one is morally good to world is too complicated for anyone to be morally good

what a loving dumb take

the actual take is the world is too complicated for people to understand that capitalism means no one is morally good. but also specifically the bad place is manipulating the results and hiding the manipulations in the increased complexity


also its pretty loving clear that neither the good place or the bad place hold any actual authority over truth or reality and are just whiney ignorant children, so forming any take-aways from just their nominal explinations is pretty dumb and counter to what the show is actually trying to present (and the show is a really low level of presentation of the time knife)

Reverend Dr has issued a correction as of 17:42 on Nov 3, 2019

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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3 episodes in and watchmen is just a fuckin cop show with overtly fascist cops, so the writers have to make the thing they fight even worse somehow

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

hell ye a this is the star war content ive been waiting for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGa2c3rEuE

scifi gun nerds are the absolute loving worst

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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I remember watching Riki-Oh, but holy poo poo that write-up.

quote:

He encounters various cult leaders which wish to destroy the world to bring the second coming of Christ

quote:

The cultists succeeded in bringing about the apocalypse in his timeline by launching nuclear bombs but Christ did not appear. They fled the nuclear wasteland they created by going into space where they decided that if Christ wouldn't appear, they would make their own Christ. And so Mukai was created in the year 2500 after all humanity had died out and was named Christos. His mission was to travel back in time to the beginning of the 20th century and incite the apocalypse without nuclear weapons so that the earth would not be destroyed and Christ then would come.

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

Thanks Reverend

been watching the watchmen and lol its loving garbage

the last four loving episodes have been almost completely flashbacks, but finally revealing the actual meta plot of the series, and its out of left field because its too loving dumb to let slip early 7th cavalry want to imprison dr manhattan, who is sister night's husband and she has known the whole time, and kill him to become dr manhattan. the loving plot all revolves around the blue wonder and they missed the memo that manhattan is supposed to biting commentary on how lovely superman is and how humans (particularly americans) love the loving idea of a big daddy strongman

its obvious that all of the reviewers that gave it stellar reviews were only allowed to see the first few episodes of this rubbish

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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Some Guy TT posted:

loving the contrast of opening this thread today and discovering that watchmen has apparently been leading up to the plot of an old superfriends episode then i go to the dailies and discover that watchmen not getting any golden globe nominations is apparently being reported as a snub of the actual best stuff on tv

Some of the craft involved (acting, cinematography, editing) are really drat good enough to get some noms.

But also anyone that has worked in the field knows right well that no matter how good your craft was, if it was on a lovely show, you won't get anything other than your paycheck.

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

Thanks Reverend

lol watchmen fuckin sucks so bad

7th cavalry wants to do a racist superman, a lot of monologing about how they stumbled into their plan because the writing was so bad they didn't even foreshadow any of it
trieu activates her trap card because all along it was her plan to interrupt them because she wants to do a narcissist superman/god
she vaporizes all of 7th cavalry, in some anti-climatic bullshit
manhattan teleports blake, ozymandias, and looking glass (lol ozymandias was on earth the whole time, he was saved years ago and kept in a statue, that whole plot arc was in the past) to antarctica and he rains frozen squids destroying a lot of tulsa in the process

lol can't end it there with manhattan's power gone forever, where is our big strong daddy? so maybe sister night ate an egg that gave her the powers, lol we don't know they don't have the loving conviction to end on anything other than the loving cliffhanger from inception

show sucks, only reason it exists is because manhattan can only get hard for his co-worker's daughers

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

Thanks Reverend

everything the show claimed "to be about" occurred during specific tour guided time and places, racism against blacks only existed in hooded justice's past or when the cavalry were present, vietnamese animosity towards the us only happened in a flashback. once outside of each theme's "designated time and place" those themes completely disappeared.

the most succinct summation of how the show handled all of those themes is "liberal performance"

the hooded justice episode, if taken alone, is absolutely loving fantastic, but then the show moves on and everything in the story of that episode becomes immediately irrelevant

edit: about the vietnamese annexation itself absolutely nothing direct. in older flashbacks there was a suicide bombing (relevant to main character), some scenes with orphans doing sweatshop work (also relevant to main character), and then in the present nothing explored it was just a set piece

Reverend Dr has issued a correction as of 06:57 on Dec 16, 2019

Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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Boba Pearl posted:

let he who hasn't spanked it in an opera house throw the first stone.

the phantom was a sex pest

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Reverend Dr
Feb 9, 2005

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22 Eargesplitten posted:

Goon project: Disco Elysium but you're a goon waking up from a two month bender and have to figure out what the gently caress happened with the forums.

So its in part about finding out about the dumb poo poo you did to compound the problem?

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