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If you haven’t watched Cobra Kai yet, then what the hell are you waiting for? It’s the most ridiculously over the top fun show I’ve seen in years. Unless you watched the movies constantly when you were a kid, I would recommend watching The Karate Kid, then Cobra Kai seasons 1 & 2, then Karate Kid Part II, then Cobra Kai season 3. Rewatching the movies isn’t strictly necessary, but you’ll definitely get more out of the show in terms of understanding in-jokes and small moments if the movies are fresh in your head.
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I finally finished Evil since I was on vacation and that was an awesome show. However, is it just me or did the season's last episode's second half seem bleh? For such an awesome and batshit series, the last half of the episode was a bore. It was really weird to me. I also watched and thoroughly enjoyed The Queen's Gambit. And caught up with The Crown. And watched a poo poo ton of UK TV Christmas and New Years specials. And I tried for the 4th time to get into The Expanse and bounced off hard. I think I need to give up. I really wanna get into it but it doesn't grab me. I'm broken. Basically I got to watch a lot of TV in the past two weeks that I haven't been able to for months since work has been insane. It was very nice.
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Croatoan posted:And watched a poo poo ton of UK TV Christmas and New Years specials. Anything good? Presuming these were older ones as there didn’t seem much worth bothering with this year.
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Jan 4, 2021 04:57
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Croatoan posted:
Don't ever be ashamed of your broke brain, we all have our issues to overcome.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Anything good? Presuming these were older ones as there didn’t seem much worth bothering with this year. Doctor who was fun for the fan service. Other than that Call the Midwife and Pointless. The rest were just the same old stuff but with decorations. I still enjoyed them though.
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Croatoan posted:And I tried for the 4th time to get into The Expanse and bounced off hard. I think I need to give up. I really wanna get into it but it doesn't grab me. I'm broken. How far have you gotten? When it first started airing on tv I think we were halfway through the first season before it finally clicked for me.
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Jan 4, 2021 08:05
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Expanse is the best scifi show ever imo but forcing yourself to like it will not work. Just take a break and try again. It took me a few years before I got into The Wire.
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I like The Expanse once I remember who everyone is (current season is ace so far) but its highs are nowhere near BSG’s highs imo
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Jan 4, 2021 08:15
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Escobarbarian posted:I like The Expanse once I remember who everyone is (current season is ace so far) but its highs are nowhere near BSG’s highs imo Agreed. For me, the show has a decent setup and some good plotting (let's not talk about it shooting itself in the foot by adapting only half a book for it's first season), but I reckon that it consistently fails to provide strong characterisation for a lot of its cast, particularly most of its villains. Some of that stuff just tips over into cliché. I'm also tempted to go against goon consensus and argue that the fourth season was its strongest complete season, but I also quite liked season three.
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Jan 4, 2021 09:16
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OldSenileGuy posted:If you haven’t watched Cobra Kai yet, then what the hell are you waiting for? It’s the most ridiculously over the top fun show I’ve seen in years. I'm going to add to this that Karate Kid 3 had the absolute best Rifftrax since it's an absolutely insane movie.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I'm also tempted to go against goon consensus and argue that the fourth season was its strongest complete season, but I also quite liked season three. Season 4 isn't bad per-se, but being planetside in one location for most of it just kinda felt antithetical to the show's whole premise to me. It also just came off like the kind of story that would've been a two or three-parter in another sci-fi show rather than an entire seasonal focus.
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Jan 4, 2021 12:54
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I haven't really seen much talk about His Dark Materials in here but I just watched both seasons and very much enjoyed it. I haven't read the books though so I'm not sure if the show is a good adaptation or if it just shits on the source material.Neddy Seagoon posted:Season 4 isn't bad per-se, but being planetside in one location for most of it just kinda felt antithetical to the show's whole premise to me. It also just came off like the kind of story that would've been a two or three-parter in another sci-fi show rather than an entire seasonal focus. This perfectly explains how I feel about season 4. I'm excited to watch season 5 but I want to wait until it's all out so I can binge it all over a couple days.
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Jan 4, 2021 13:22
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The show is one of the most incredibly faithful adaptations of any media I've ever seen. It's got some minor changes of course but basically all the major plot beats have been straight on.
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TheAardvark posted:I somehow managed to never hear that Warrior was from the same guy as Banshee and it took like.. 3 minutes to just know, oh, this has to be by the Banshee people. Is everyone as intensely unlikable as Banshee? I couldn’t get into that show because everybody sucked so much.
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Jan 4, 2021 13:31
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Regy Rusty posted:The show is one of the most incredibly faithful adaptations of any media I've ever seen. It's got some minor changes of course but basically all the major plot beats have been straight on. They really hosed up the bear fight tho
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Jan 4, 2021 13:47
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Escobarbarian posted:They really hosed up the bear fight tho That is true
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I don’t mind His Dark Materials in general but I do find it really boring at times. Season 2 was an improvement for sure - the Lyra/Will stuff was great - but it took until towards the end for me to really enjoy any scenes with Coulter or the witches, and then I thought the finale was a step down from the preceding episodes. I really hope they’re given the budget to properly portray the really crazy poo poo in book 3.
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Escobarbarian posted:I don’t mind His Dark Materials in general but I do find it really boring at times. Season 2 was an improvement for sure - the Lyra/Will stuff was great - but it took until towards the end for me to really enjoy any scenes with Coulter or the witches, and then I thought the finale was a step down from the preceding episodes. I really hope they’re given the budget to properly portray the really crazy poo poo in book 3. Is Lin Manuel Miranda still being a charisma black hole in the second season? He was awful in S1.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Season 4 isn't bad per-se, but being planetside in one location for most of it just kinda felt antithetical to the show's whole premise to me. It also just came off like the kind of story that would've been a two or three-parter in another sci-fi show rather than an entire seasonal focus. Season 4 follows the book almost spot on, though the show has a bit more character growth for Naomi. Also the doctor doesn’t get horny. Both are for the better. But yea of all The Expanse books, I think 4 is the weakest. It almost felt like the authors were trying to make the universe more “grounded” (heh) but then realized their mistake and book 5 is a massive correction.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is Lin Manuel Miranda still being a charisma black hole in the second season? He was awful in S1. Yeah he still isn’t good but he’s trying bless him
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Jan 4, 2021 15:46
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LMM is just terrible at everything he does. He's like bizarro Donald glover
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I like him just fine as a composer and lyricist but drat he needs to not act ever again he needs to stop it
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Jan 4, 2021 16:02
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Hamilton sucks. I said what I said.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is Lin Manuel Miranda still being a charisma black hole in the second season? He was awful in S1. They could have at least asked him to do a cowboy accent over the phone as an audition, that's all it would've taken.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:15
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Rhyno posted:Hamilton sucks. I've never seen Hamilton, and I never heard of Linda Manuel Miranda before the Hamilton craze started. Is he funny or something?
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Escobarbarian posted:I don’t mind His Dark Materials in general but I do find it really boring at times. Season 2 was an improvement for sure - the Lyra/Will stuff was great - but it took until towards the end for me to really enjoy any scenes with Coulter or the witches, and then I thought the finale was a step down from the preceding episodes. I really hope they’re given the budget to properly portray the really crazy poo poo in book 3. What, really? She's loving grand.
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Hughmoris posted:I've never seen Hamilton, and I never heard of Linda Manuel Miranda before the Hamilton craze started. Not really. He’s obviously talented, but in a way that’s quite cringeworthy. I like Broadway and have seen Hamilton, but can’t disagree with the statement that it’s like someone saying ‘I’m not like your other history teachers, I’m cool’ or it being like Captain Dan. They did a mixtape of the songs where actual hip hop artists like The Roots did their takes on the songs, and it’s infinitely better.
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https://twitter.com/neumaverick/status/1345886414987173888 "Now it's time to say good bye to all our company. M I C - see you real soon  "
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is everyone as intensely unlikable as Banshee? I couldn’t get into that show because everybody sucked so much. I'll have to get back to you on that. Honestly here's what I remember about Banshee: - job was cool - antony starr - hot people fuckin' - people gettin they rear end beat so far this checks off the important boxes (2.5 of them anyway, no antony star) AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Season 4 follows the book almost spot on, though the show has a bit more character growth for Naomi. Also the doctor doesn’t get horny. Both are for the better. Something else, thinking on it, is the rest of season 4 is just transparent preamble for season 5. They should've compressed a LOT of this down, because all the Mars arc is all just to get Bobbie positioned to work for Avasarala and the stealth asteroids lobbed at Earth. Once you see it all in hindsight, it really could've been compressed into half a season and lost nothing that couldn't have probably been built into whatever comes after book 4.
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Open Source Idiom posted:What, really? It’s not Ruth Wilson’s fault, it’s the writing of her scenes in most of season 2. She owns
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/neumaverick/status/1345886414987173888 Listen I know some people hate That Guy, but - this is a parody. It is not a real thing that exists. yet
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Regy Rusty posted:Listen I know some people hate That Guy, but - this is a parody. It is not a real thing that exists. It's funny because a couple years ago people were outraged when a news story about Disney not letting a family put Disney characters on a tombstone was making the rounds. It's like either way they can't win.
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Hughmoris posted:I've never seen Hamilton, and I never heard of Linda Manuel Miranda before the Hamilton craze started. Someone described him as “painfully Theatre Kid” and it was one of those things that instantly gave words to how I feel about the guy. It’s like this painfully forced enthusiasm.
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That description reminds me of how someone I know once described improv, but it fits with LMM as wellUgly In The Morning posted:Someone described him as “painfully Theatre Kid” and it was one of those things that instantly gave words to how I feel about the guy. It’s like this painfully forced enthusiasm. Yes, and?
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Jan 4, 2021 18:46
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I tried watching Letterkenny, it's not funny.
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Rhyno posted:I tried watching Letterkenny, it's not funny.  A friend recommended it to me so I watched the first handful of episodes. I don't know if you have to be Canadian to appreciate it or what, but I didn't laugh at all.
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I love letterkenny even though I went into it expecting to hate it. I’m from a (non-Canadian) hick town and that definitely helps, they really nail that particular setting.
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Rageaholic posted:
I'd seen a ton of clips on FB and was very puzzled by how many people say they love it as none of them had ever even made me crack a smile.
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I love Letterkenny but it did take most of the first season before it really started to click for me. That kind of humor works for me but I definitely understand why some people wouldn't like it.
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