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I guess I’m too easily swayed by HDR  After 4 episodes, the show is still not good but I kinda want to see where they go with the mythos. Though it’s the kind of thing that if there was like a 30 minute season summary on YouTube, I would just watch that.
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Josh Lyman posted:I guess I’m too easily swayed by HDR I'd say around episode 5-6 is when it gets pretty decent, though the lead actress never improves.
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm rewatching Community, and it's really noticeable how it goes from pretty good to some of the best TV comedy about halfway through the second season. I watched when it aired but I have a really hard time watching it again because Dan Harmon is a whiny alcoholic manchild who fucks around and just does whatever he wants and in general is rewarded for it rather then face consequences for lovely behavior. Every calls season 4 the gas leak year since he was fired from the show and it "got worse" but I don't know how showrunners work so all I can find is he wrote only 8 episodes out of 110 so I guess everyone just credits his "genius" for the fan favorite episodes written by other people?
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pentyne posted:I watched when it aired but I have a really hard time watching it again because Dan Harmon is a whiny alcoholic manchild who fucks around and just does whatever he wants and in general is rewarded for it rather then face consequences for lovely behavior. You're right, you don't know how showrunners work. The gas leak year thing was a meta joke partially at Harmon's expense; a character literally says "you can't blame it all on gas leak year." He also brought back Brie Larson's character which pretty much everyone loved from Season 4. Also, Harmon famously did multiple passes over pretty much every script, the credited writer on Community is generally the one who did the most work writing the episode before that or broke the story.
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Arist posted:You're right, you don't know how showrunners work. Yeah, showrunners and even the staff writers who are on for the whole run of a series rarely have more than a small fraction of what they actually worked on, barring exceptions like Aaron Sorkin and Vince McBreaking Bad (brain fart I forgot his last name). There is a lot that goes into who actually gets the credit for "Written by" and there is a ton of minutiae that also involves WGA rules and other union stuff. Basically it comes down to them just spreading the actual Written By credit around the room, even if it was Harmon or whoever that wrote 95% of it.
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Arist posted:You're right, you don't know how showrunners work. And one of them was Megan Ganz who he fell in love with, broke up his current relationship to be with her, and then treated her like poo poo constantly when she refused him. Yeah nerds love Harmon for his Story Circle but just like so many other influential men the second a woman turned him down he set out to ruin her life. But since he "apologized well" everyone patted him on the back and decided it wasn't a big deal and to keep giving Harmon success. Rick and Morty is going to pay for the next 20 years of his drunken rear end in a top hat behavior even if he only shits out 6 scripts worth a year.
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pentyne posted:. Rick and Morty is going to pay for the next 20 years of his drunken rear end in a top hat behavior even if he only shits out 6 scripts worth a year. I really hope that Roiland keeps doing more solo stuff, when you pull him away from Harmon he’s still really funny and creative. The alcoholic self loathing Harmon brings to the table is alright in small doses but it definitely wears thin after a while.
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I recently finished 30 Rock and it made me wonder what the writing process is really like behind scripted TV. Is there actually a writer's room? I don't really know how normal TV shows are made it turns out.
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pentyne posted:And one of them was Megan Ganz who he fell in love with, broke up his current relationship to be with her, and then treated her like poo poo constantly when she refused him. I guess I would trust Megan Ganz’s opinion on that a lot more than yours.
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pentyne posted:And one of them was Megan Ganz who he fell in love with, broke up his current relationship to be with her, and then treated her like poo poo constantly when she refused him. I think you think you are somewhere else man. No one has said anything about Dan Harmon aside from "I like Community, I think its a good show!" TheAardvark posted:I recently finished 30 Rock and it made me wonder what the writing process is really like behind scripted TV. Is there actually a writer's room? I don't really know how normal TV shows are made it turns out. There are a bunch of shows with podcasts by people involved with the show, and almost everyone features a writer at some point who discuss the process for their show. The one I would recommend is the The Good Place: The Podcast hosted by Marc Evan Jackson (he plays Shawn). Every episode has a different actor, director, writer, producer, etc. I would look at some of the episode descriptions and listen to ones with either the creator or a writer as they will talk a lot about how that stuff works. They also even have people on who are responsible for everything from wardrobe and props, to finding locations to shoot, and even digital effects.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I really hope that Roiland keeps doing more solo stuff, when you pull him away from Harmon he’s still really funny and creative. The alcoholic self loathing Harmon brings to the table is alright in small doses but it definitely wears thin after a while. OTOH Roiland was the one who went in on trying to persuade the animators not to unionize
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Also Solar Opposites kinda sucks so maybe he needs Harmon to be good.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Also Solar Opposites kinda sucks so maybe he needs Harmon to be good. The wall people will end you.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I really hope that Roiland keeps doing more solo stuff, when you pull him away from Harmon he’s still really funny and creative. The alcoholic self loathing Harmon brings to the table is alright in small doses but it definitely wears thin after a while.   Roiland and Harmon have an unearned reputation as auteurs. Their content is generally garbage unless a team of creatives are around them to fix and make interesting what they vomit out. Story circle is cool, though.  I say this as someone who absolutely loves Rick & Morty.
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I think Im gonna throw on 3rd Rock from the Sun as my new show tonhave on while cleaning, working etc. Thoughts?
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swickles posted:I think Im gonna throw on 3rd Rock from the Sun as my new show tonhave on while cleaning, working etc. Thoughts? 3rd Rock goes badly off the rails in the final season, but those first four years are solid gold.
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Welp I finished Cursed. The last 5 minutes of the season were cool but not worth the other 10 hours. Plus I accidentally spoilered myself on a reveal by skimming the Wikipedia entry. If it were a few episodes shorter it would’ve been better. Still wouldn’t recommend it though. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Any recent-ish streaming true crime or true crime adjacent series that might have gotten overlooked that I could watch with the ol lady? It's hard to get her hooked on a series enough to sit through it. I actually got her to finish Mindhunter, but after we wrapped that up haven't found something new.
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Josh Lyman posted:Welp I finished Cursed. The last 5 minutes of the season were cool but not worth the other 10 hours. Plus I accidentally spoilered myself on a reveal by skimming the Wikipedia entry.
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Timby posted:3rd Rock goes badly off the rails in the final season, but those first four years are solid gold. I rewatched the whole thing a few years ago and second this. When it’s good it’s really, really good.
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Alhazred posted:I think people should stop trying to make arthurian fiction a thing. It's not gonna happen. I remember really liking that Merlin TV miniseries with Sam Neill, but I wonder if it held up.
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Alhazred posted:I think people should stop trying to make arthurian fiction I just want to see a version not directed at teenagers. I don't need it to be Excalibur or anything, but not having it horny and edgy for the youths is a good first step. This is why The Green Knight looks especially dope. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Alhazred posted:I think people should stop trying to make arthurian fiction a thing. It's not gonna happen. Thinking about the Camelot show from 10 years back. It felt like a bunch of kids playing dress up in their cardboard fort joseph fiennes was their big brother and then they had a big fight and then and then eva green got her boobs out and then they did some more fighting and then and then
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The Knights of the Round summon in FF7 was, all things considered, probably the best contribution of Arthurian legend to contemporary art.
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explosivo posted:Any recent-ish streaming true crime or true crime adjacent series that might have gotten overlooked that I could watch with the ol lady? It's hard to get her hooked on a series enough to sit through it. I actually got her to finish Mindhunter, but after we wrapped that up haven't found something new. Theres a doc about the Golden State Killer I saw a commercial of on HBO? gently caress the Jinx was so good.
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The GSK doc looks to be more about Patton Oswalts late wife from what I’ve seen/read. People seemed really disappointed by the first episode, and the trailer I caught for the next episode (5?) before Last Week Tonight made it look like it was entirely about her.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The GSK doc looks to be more about Patton Oswalts late wife from what I’ve seen/read. People seemed really disappointed by the first episode, and the trailer I caught for the next episode (5?) before Last Week Tonight made it look like it was entirely about her. It is about Michelle McNamara and they never hid that. There are tons of documentaries about murderers if that's what makes you happy, but this is more about her quest to identify a monster and how that changed her life and family.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Thinking about the Camelot show from 10 years back. It felt like a bunch of kids playing dress up in their cardboard fort joseph fiennes was their big brother and then they had a big fight and then and then eva green got her boobs out and then they did some more fighting and then and then The only thing I remember about that show besides Arthur being a dork and horribly miscast is that they spent something like 80mil+ on it(basically final few seasons GoT tier money) while it looked as cheap as Xena and Hercules.
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Hopefully a shitload went to Eva Green, patron saint of acting your rear end off in trash that doesn't deserve it.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I rewatched the whole thing a few years ago and second this. When it’s good it’s really, really good. French Stewart was a delight
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Also, you can tell when JGL gets into the Pixies and alt rock, it's pretty funny
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exquisite tea posted:The Knights of the Round summon in FF7 was, all things considered, probably the best contribution of Arthurian legend to contemporary art. realtalk the Mary Stewart series owns
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esperterra posted:realtalk the Mary Stewart series owns 
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I just got into a heated discussion with my wife's coworker over if the MAX in HBOMax is taken from CineMAX or not and we ended up yelling at each other over video chat and the real take away here is I need to get onto first shift so I stop overhearing their weird conversations that I might have opinions about.
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The Max is because the owner of the company is a huge Max Headroom fan.
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I just watched for maybe the second time Dark City since it came out and drat it really holds up. It's the Matrix one year before the Matrix.
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Croatoan posted:I just watched for maybe the second time Dark City since it came out and drat it really holds up. It's the Matrix one year before the Matrix. Everyone always says "oh, the Wachowskis just used the same sets and just happened to write almost the same movie, it's a wild coincidence!" But no. I think they actually ripped off Dark City and nobody wants to admit it
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precision posted:Everyone always says "oh, the Wachowskis just used the same sets and just happened to write almost the same movie, it's a wild coincidence!" And massive chunks of Grant Morrison's Invisibles.
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