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Man, I am about halfway through and the AVASARALA ELECTION DRAMA and BOBBIE FUCKIN' AROUND sideplots are just boring as gently caress. Also, the editing in this season is (occasionallyh) really bad. All the cuts have just a few too many frames on the lead-in, so everyone just has that short beat before they speak and it makes it really stilted and weird. Not in every scene, but pretty frequently. Burn Gorman is basically carrying this season on his shoulders so far.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Oh here we go again. "I haven't read the books but I'm especially curious about a certain fact!" Yeah, gently caress that bullshit. And yes, this book was weak af, so it's impressive they made it into something as good as it was.
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OldMold posted:Binged the whole S4; havent read the books. Thoughts on entire S4: RE: thin piece of tin, holding back water and the related pressure is a function of depth, not volume. Little kids can build a sand berm that can hold back the ocean at a foot or two of depth.
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Johnny Truant posted:^^^^ yeah, play the victim of these mean forums. go eat poo poo you dumpsterfire gently caress. I am really enjoying your little ragebursts with your angry shaking turtle avatar, btw. Your profane fury doesn’t really add to the discussion at all. Take a lesson from the post you praised. Skepticism is good. Understanding that skepticism can be a barrier to the truth in these situations is also good. Finding the right balance is not automatic.
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Jul 2, 2020 19:10
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Yeah, if there were an award for "most polished turd", it would be Season 4. Just not a very good book, and somehow the show feels even more like someone just rolling the dice and coming up with things like UHHHHH... NEUROTOXIN WORMS!!
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Jul 2, 2020 20:32
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OK, there's just way too much belter this season. The accent is just intolerable. Everyone sounds like they're trying to do british baby-talk right after having major dental surgery. It grates, and it's preferable to just mute and read subtitles for about 80% of these episodes.
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Jan 10, 2021 23:35
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TraderStav posted:On the other hand, I really like Belter creole and it’s associated English accent. Deeffawan’ stwokes. And yeah it’s the opposite end of last season. I am not sure I am enjoying everyone off doing solo missions as much, but it is at least a lot of variety.
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Jan 11, 2021 01:05
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Never thought I’d see the Expanse crossover with Killing Joke, but crazed belter cultist Jaz as the antagonist would be amazing.
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Bedshaped posted:I was expecting this 3 episodes ago This. This season is boring as hell, and I love this show. I am watching it at 1.25x even, and it STILL just absolutely drags.
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Jan 22, 2021 05:42
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Jakabite posted:
Sunk costs at this point. I mean I love slow movies and methodical television, but this season has been scene after scene, and way too many of them are just filler and/or flat-out boring. No one seems to be in any danger, none of the stakes seem to matter very much. Last season suffered from this a little bit, even during the awful poo poo happening on Ilus, it just didn't resonate well. I seriously think it's a fault in the scripting/editing/direction.
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Jan 24, 2021 05:46
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Zzulu posted:In a season where every character has been in multiple life and death situations and earth has been blown up with a colossal war raging between belters and everyone else, this is a very strange thing to say That’s why it fails. LIFE AND DEATH situations with this much plot armor are boring. There are other possible stakes that can create just as much drama. At no point this season, despite the crazy circumstances, has the show ever managed to generate any actual “how will they get out of this one?!?” type suspense.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:56
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Barreft posted:I really miss the alien stuff. Might be some of this. The conflicts in this season are the most common and boring variety possible.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:06
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:The only way I know of Winnipesaukee is through What About Bob. Glad I am not alone on this one.
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Jan 31, 2021 04:57
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Imagine getting outwitted by Amos that loving hard. I died.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:Did Cas Anvar do a "send all" with his pocket rocket to the whole production crew? Maybe hitting on an obviously pregnant castmate lead to an ultimatum? I thought the issue was pretty well documented. More than a couple of women came forward with actual text transcripts and other communications that detailed some pretty shady poo poo. Some of them were a lot younger, maybe too young, I don't remember. It was a pretty big pile of bad poo poo.
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Taintrunner posted:I saw people getting them on Amazon then buying the decals separate Or you use a transfer and then try to use a clear coat sealer and end up causing the finish of the mug to craze and freak out. Whoops.
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Feb 8, 2021 05:34
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Arc Hammer posted:Knowing what Naomi did with the protomolecule sample in Season 2 makes her a really unlikable hypocrite. She's got the nerve to call put Holden for not telling her about the extra PM samples still out there. I know she's feeling inner guilt for being responsible for not destroying the sample but it doesn't make her any less of a jerk for taking it out on Holden. Naomi is terrible. Her idealism and ethics are a fine layer of electroplate.
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Arc Hammer posted:"I feel bad about getting your husband killed. Now let me get the gently caress on your ship and let me fix it for you so I can deal with my own guilty conscience whether you like it or not." Yes. It absolutely sabotages her at every turn and causes her to be sympathetic to people she shouldn’t and continuously make bad decisions.
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Nov 25, 2021 06:25
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Selling movie rights is great, because it’s usually a time period. Then if they don’t make it the rights revert and you can sell it again. You can make good money selling rights that never actually reach production. Paying you $250k for rights for 2 years is nothing to a studio but not too shabby of a paycheck for work you already did.
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Nov 25, 2021 21:52
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Honestly, they should have just skipped the entire asteroid/Inaros books entirely. Pretend they don't even exist. Skip Cibola Burn, too. Finish season 3, gates work, all's well, hooray. Maybe do half a season to go over the Mars breakdown and Free Navy formation that doesn't involve Inaros and then just pick up with Persepolis Rising, finish the whole thing out. Six books, six seasons, done. Edit: modified to remove light book spoilers that weren’t even important to the point. AlternateAccount fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Finally found the worst Expanse take. Inaros was a terrible boring character on the page and he was not improved on screen. Even the attempt to force it via his connection with Naomi falls flat. Compared to the other major human villain of the (TV)series, he’s a paper cutout with no meaningful motivations or character traits besides lust for power. Sure yeah these people exist in reality, but it’s not compelling fiction.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm not quoting your other post, because I have a sneaky feeling it might be full of book spoilers in this, the TV thread. Not terrible stuff, even if I post what is technically a book spoiler, I will try to keep it something relatively vague and not necessarily a major plot point. Probably should avoid it altogether though, I’ve griped at people and I don’t wanna be a hypocrite.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:How the gently caress is Filip off causing this poor bartender so much trouble? Before his father recruited him, he was a Gamer.
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Dec 13, 2021 23:33
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That Laconia set looked cheap as hell. I don’t care if it was the most sensible option, it was embarrassing.
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Dec 15, 2021 03:00
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Hakkesshu posted:He's the worst thing that ever happened to this show Also the books
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Dec 19, 2021 01:23
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Yeah if you go back and watch Season 1, the vibe is extreeeemely different. Miller is just way more watchable and interesting than almost everyone else in the cast.
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Alchenar posted:Yeah that means at this point all the production will have been spun down, sets and costumes gone, crews dispersed, actors all long free to commit to something else. Even if Bezos signs a personal cheque now it'll be a huge challenge. This already happened once. I am kinda ready for it to be over, but…
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Dec 23, 2021 21:58
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[ vuvuzela honks ]
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Bip Roberts posted:He's willing to shoot a rail gun at him, he's willing to shoot a torpedo, but then he stealthy disables it so she thinks he only wanted to kill them. It's dumb and out of character and obviously just written to prolong the plot. Yeah but Felip hadn’t done his little peekaboo
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Dec 26, 2021 04:57
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Mameluke posted:Lol at the long scene of Camina kicking Michio off her ship last week only for them to spend all episode in the same room this week This is the kind of poo poo that makes you insane. You have NO TIME TO WASTE but we’ve had weepy Michio for like 20 minutes so far this season.
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Iirc the books suffered from the same.
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Havelock got impaled by rebar
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kazmeyer posted:I just have to say if you don't follow Keon Alexander on Twitter you really ought to. He's spent the past few weeks flirting (in character) with the actresses who play his opponents on the show, taunting Holden by putting him in fake ads (Holden looking grim during the space battle - Imodium, "Where Will You Be When the Diarrhea Comes Back") and he sent Ty a humongous rock for Christmas. I deeply appreciate this and wish he had better material on the show.
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Jan 1, 2022 02:36
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Lol that is clearly a goof. No one would ever hitch their wagon to the shambling nightmare that is Star Citizen.
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We were robbed of a Magnetar loving poo poo up. Chekov's weird alien space-gun indeed. I felt really bad for Naomi despite being desperately sick of that family drama and Marco/Filip. Dunno if I'd have trusted her to push that button. Glad Holden continued to Holden.
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Also weird that they spent all the time around Clarissa's deteriorating health for basically no reason.
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Sash! posted:Only thing missing is no "Vanderhuge, B" on the assault team roster Also Samson, B. But that might make the whole thing too easy.
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Wes Chatham is also a big part of one of the Stallone movie ESCAPE PLAN 2 that was heavily bankrolled and modified to appeal to Chinese/foreign audiences and it’s terrible and great and you should watch it.
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Not his fault the character sucked to watch and was somehow boring. The book version was the same.
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