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Rhyno posted:Red vs Blue? You don't have to qualify it by year, it was never good.
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Gaunab posted:I said this is the binge thread but I'm watching The Shield now just to kill time. There's an awful lot of plots involving people being raped which I don't like. Like SVU amounts of rape plots. I mean Jesus the loving captain gets forced to perform oral sex on a pair of junkies. Aceveda getting raped is probably one of the most interesting parts of the show as it reliably informs his character decisions through the entirety of the rest of the show, instead of simply being a short character arc resolved and ignored but yeah, The Shield is a weird mixture of on point high level plotting (the main characters reliably destroying everything for themselves and everyone else while convincing themselves they're the thin blue line keeping the streets safe) and a desperate need to shock the audience for attention in the episode plots (all the episodes about rapists plus the cat).
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precision posted:Finally watched Devs and welp. The actual finale kinda made me feel like the miniseries should have been shorter. It would have been a good capper to a movie or a short miniseries, but for eight hours? It just felt like all the truly interesting things about the premise are going to happen/be understood after this long preamble. On the other hand I really liked the first seven episodes and wouldn't want any of that cut so 
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Khanstant posted:I want to finish Devs, is it all out yet? I've seen two other shows do a lot of the Devs things but with way less gravity and I'm curious where Devs ends up going with it. The series is done, yeah.
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May 6, 2020 02:58
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Nah just fit Extracurricular into the Little House on the Prairie expanded universe.
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May 8, 2020 10:35
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Rhyno posted:Is there even a good episode in season 4? No Exit wasn't a good episode but I still loved Cavil demanding satisfying answers from his god.
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May 9, 2020 23:39
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precision posted:Lmao, the reaction to LEGO pulling all their police sets is that prices for them are spiking The best bit is that they aren't even pulling their police sets
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Sorry, is time travel involved in Xena? Is she immortal? Or am I just overthinking it?
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Slamhound posted:It’s got it’s problems and the last season was way too truncated but it was a great loving show. Counterpoint: the dialogue in poi is rarely more than workmanlike, the direction has flashes of brilliance but suffers from its budget. Fortunately the actors can sell almost everything the writers throw at them because they absolutely nailed the casting... ...which Straczynski almost completely failed to do in Babylon 5. That cast is just completely overmatched by his terrible dialogue, which is problematic given he insisted on writing almost the entirety of the show. The story arcs are great in a high level wiki summary but watching them without nostalgia is loving rough. And it would have been even worse if Michael O'Hare had remained the series lead as he was supposed to instead of having to leave for health reasons. He's just terrible. Bruce Boxleitner might not be a very good actor but he has enough charisma to be the center of the cast.
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Jun 26, 2020 17:47
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I'm not saying it can't be done but while the world is great it's gonna be fascinating to see how/if they translate the gameplay conceits that made the game great. I can see the personalities making a relatively easy transition but not the reactivity.
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Jun 26, 2020 18:18
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Hal, it's about cats.
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NieR Occomata posted:A fun thought exercise is replacing the resolution of the series finale of a random prestige tv show with "a magic loving frog shows up and solves all the protagonist's problems for them" and wondering how poo poo of a show that then turns out to be. How I Met Your Mother but the lionturtle kills the mother off so Ted can go bang Robin. They put a Lionturtle on the throne of the Six Kingdoms because who has a better story than an island sized turtle...that's also a lion.
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Jul 11, 2020 10:54
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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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Croatoan posted:Ok so Person of Interest keeps getting brought up and there's even a rewatch thread so I have questions. I watched the pilot with my wife and about 3/4 the way through we both lost all interest. Does it suffer from pilotitis? Is it actually good or is it just good for a CBS procedural? Is it a sci-fi or is it just a drama. At what point does it become good and can we just skip to that point or are we just better off staying away if it didn't grab us right away? Season 1 is an excellent version of a CBS procedural. There's painstaking subtle buildup of long-running arcs smuggled into the episode of the week stuff...but it doesn't really become anything more than that until season 2/3. The problem with skipping to the good bits is that it keeps putting important flashbacks or bringing in recurring characters almost every episode, so you're gonna end up missing a lot. The tone of the show remains the same, so if that was a major part of you disliking it you might just never enjoy it. Here's one essential episode guide, with some spoilers attached, should you wish to try it again while skipping the worst episodes.
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Mu Zeta posted:Where is Jessica Hyde, duderino? This was the most dispiriting trailer I've ever seen. Not that the UK trailers were very good, but this is just...awful. The music is generic, the creepy dude doesn't have any presence at all, John Cusack is there and the visuals are just kinda handsome without being interesting. At least the comic still looks good.
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Jul 24, 2020 06:54
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They even had the setup for a season three about Peter being absolutely the worst guy seeded through seasons one and two. They might not have been able to keep it going past that but there was definitely still life left.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:smh why am i not surprised Man you're lucky this isn't the Smallville era because then they just would refuse to fly as a sign of how angry they are at their childhood or something.
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The real joke was them trying to construct a self defense case for Tyrion to keep him sympathetic so that they could do absolutely nothing with him for four seasons.
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If they were gonna do what they did to littlefiger they shoulda just fed him to Ramsay in s5 and saved everyone a bunch of time.
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Arist posted:wait, wtf apparently it was supposed to be a music festival until covid happened. Now it's all gonna be radically different and they're appat still working it out, but it's still gonna be a 12 hour livestream of an immersive theater project. Apparently they're trying to keep it separate so you don't have to watch it to understand the plot of the show itself.
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Game of Thrones s1 has to be up there relative to expectations. How many actually good high budget epic (low) fantasy adaptations have there been, aside from LotR?
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To me she's the sociopath from Thoroughbreds.
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I haven't seen it myself but I know people of similar tastes and Longmire would quite possibly fit the bill. Police procedural/western combo. Justified too if he's not seen that. E: sneaky pete isn't amazing but it's a pretty fun con artist show that he might like as well. Has bryan cranston as the first season villain. whowhatwhere fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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Also it starts dropping off in quality real hard after episode 4.
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Azhais posted:That one's probably not quite a billion dollar franchise (and probably targeted at kids anyway) ....STAR WARS is targeted at children.
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Nov 28, 2020 02:15
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Now now I'm sure we can compromise by agreeing that jk rowling is bad and just agree to disagree on which ways she's bad (it's most of them. She's bad in most ways).
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Escobarbarian posted:The season 2 premiere is also quite good! But then yeah the rest of that season sucks rear end I would say that utopia is a collection of scenes loosely hung together by a conspiracy plot, and s1 has a combination of better scenes and a better way of preserving the illusion that those scenes up to a greater whole. S2 still has some great scenes but there are fewer of them and the plot scaffolding falls apart more. E: also they cost to be soldiers, the afghanistan thing is definitely not something they actually chose. whowhatwhere fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Nov 29, 2020 |
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It's a pretty safe bet that you won't actually be deployed there. It's a very small percentage of the active duty armed forces that are deployed there. Most likely you end up on some base far from conflict. Ending up there is pretty bad luck.
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Oh no, the fans, they were serviced, how could we have seen this coming?
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