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FMguru posted:great cast, good production design, just a disaster of a script they wasted so much potential it's incredible
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Oneiros posted:they wasted so much potential it's incredible it was like g*d himself stepped in
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I read flowers for algernon one time and then i also watched the lawnmower man
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at the end of queen's gambit I was half expecting her secret service handler to offer her a position on an elite team of crime fighters
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raspurtin posted:at the end of queen's gambit I was half expecting her secret service handler to offer her a position on an elite team of crime fighters too pure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv9R1She5A
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hoverwife burst out laughing when they played that leitmotif during the ed norton one she wasn't familiar with the old show ofc
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Chris Knight posted:will ferret? he sure will!
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Achmed Jones posted:he sure will! xD
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Wife: "Hey season 2 of that weird ferret show starts tonight." is that Hamilton? gently caress watching this show I guess
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indigi posted:is that Hamilton? gently caress watching this show I guess i would watch the hell out of hamilton adapted played like the The State of Georgia v. Denver Fenton Allen no talent white guys just reading it with maybe cartoons or animes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0 is now available """On Demand"""
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reading Ash: A Secret History but im getting pretty annoyed with the main character being incredibly horny for one of the bad guys for no apparent reason i guess she likes to be humiliated and betrayed? i guess thats fine if shes into that but its getting tiresome
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Carthag Tuek posted:reading Ash: A Secret History but im getting pretty annoyed with the main character being incredibly horny for one of the bad guys for no apparent reason man for the most part i hate when "romance" gets shoveled into a book. i don't have anything against it as long as it's not the main plot, i guess, but mostly writers are so bad at writing them and it brings the rest of the book down
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romance is fine, i just have an incredibly hard time understanding the motivations at play here shes this larger than life joan of arc character who is super badass etc etc who meets this knight who seems familiar at the emperors court. like immediately after, the emperor arranges for them to be married. she realizes that they met once before the main story starts, when they were teenagers, and he literally had his friends hold her down and they all pissed on her which is pretty gross and wtf so now theyre married and he is constantly being an rear end in a top hat and calling her whore and slut, then he goes over to the enemy and gives them intel so they can capture her and send her to her certain death, she escapes and meets him again and he is still being an rear end in a top hat, all "waahh dont blame me, im just a coward, also i hate you and think youre less than dirt" all the while she is so horny that she cant help but smell her fingers if she touches him, or imagine him naked, like it literally fogs her thoughts so she cant pay attention every time he shows up. everyone else is like "why wont you let us kill him???" and now shes pregnant  i bet it ends with him seeing the error of his ways and falling in love with her. e: ive also considered a love potion or some dumb poo poo being in play, but it doesnt seem to be that kind of fantasy (its more like alt-history) Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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when a woman falls in love with a schlub in a book, its a safe bet that the schlub is a stand-in for the author
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Carthag Tuek posted:the author is a woman so [consults Big Book of Freud] then its her dad
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Carthag Tuek posted:e: ive also considered a love potion or some dumb poo poo being in play, but it doesnt seem to be that kind of fantasy (its more like alt-history) an alt-history where aggressive negging works, apparently
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done with raised by wolves that certainly was a television show
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haveblue posted:done with raised by wolves it had so much potential and ended up using none of it
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So, "I've got mad love" (as the kids say these days) for the Vorkosigan books but goddamn am I skeeved the gently caress out by the novelette Labyrinth where Miles deflowers a 16-year old werewolf then gets into v.high dudgeon over how immoral the scientist what created her was in wanting her destroyed rather than being sold as a slave. Bujold?
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https://twitter.com/maryrobinette/status/1329175924659589126?s=21 The mouse gonna mouse.
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Achmed Jones posted:holy poo poo that's egregious
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PCjr sidecar posted:https://twitter.com/maryrobinette/status/1329175924659589126?s=21 gently caress disney
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Achmed Jones posted:holy poo poo that's egregious this is some straight up legal calculus poo poo, "let's try it and if it works we'll essentially argue it as precedent for a 'use it or lose it' style approach where the burden is on the writer to enforce the contract not us to respect it, and if they don't, we claim they've abandoned the work" at the same time though, who the gently caress is buying the Alien novelisations? I think read the alien 3 one which i bought for 10p at a garden sale in 1997
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:this is some straight up legal calculus poo poo, "let's try it and if it works we'll essentially argue it as precedent for a 'use it or lose it' style approach where the burden is on the writer to enforce the contract not us to respect it, and if they don't, we claim they've abandoned the work" It seems pretty bad but will be immensely funny if there have actually just been 0 sales
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:at the same time though, who the gently caress is buying the Alien novelisations? I think read the alien 3 one which i bought for 10p at a garden sale in 1997 seems at least two people bought it
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Carthag Tuek posted:seems at least two people bought it are you suggesting I need to send Alan Dean Foster a royalties cheque?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:are you suggesting I need to send Alan Dean Foster a royalties cheque? no, but since it evidently did get sold to someone disney should
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I forget if I/someone has brought this up, but I've been reading Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire and it's really, really good. The characters are compelling and the story is complicated in a really satisfying way. Like many series the first book is a little rough, but the second book hits it out of the park and I am really into the third so far.
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Started re-watching Season 3 of Futurama, I'm amazed by how good/funny this season was. E: Did we ever get a reason that owls are their pigeon-equivalents? Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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maybe a nod at birds being rare in blade runner/do androids dream of electric sheep?
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IIRC in the commentary they say it’s one of those things they decided to change at random because it’s funny
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0 its a pretty fun, dumb movie
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I only every watched S01E01 but apparently Supernatural has finally come to a close after fifteen seasons  There's a few fandom blogs a couple reblogs distant from my usual follows and it seems the hardcore fans are not best pleased with how things have been tied up 
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