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https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1440574744776962054 "I'm here to tell you about the Glass Elevator Initiative."
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Calaveron posted:Yeah but 90s sitcoms were especially blatant. They always follow the same formula too, the episode starts like normal, then they Go To A New Location with All The New And Likeable Characters where they spend 75% of their screentime setting up their relationships, then the original show characters show up again for a minute or two, then the episode ends. The first thing I think of when I hear “backdoor pilot” is when MacGyver had this entire family of bounty hunters who would one by one that would cross paths with Mac until all of a sudden they all came together for an episode where Mac only showed up at the very end. It felt like the oddest thing because even back then I didn’t understand why anyone who liked watching Mac makeshift gadget his way out of trouble would want to watch a generic crime show.
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That CG plane looks so bad I legit wondered if this was a doctored screenshot from the game.
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GreenNight posted:I guess he figured he has to do a reboot since most of the original cast is dead. Boxleitner isn't and you can be sure he's going to demand a piece of this. Hell, he could play President Clark since he already played an evil cryptofascist POTUS on Supergirl. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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LionArcher posted:And he’s a right wing major chud so it’s not even really acting for him. He and Mr. Garibaldi would regularly show up on the Michael savage show. Garibaldi even ended up guest hosting for Michael savage at one point before becoming a talk show host on his own right. Jerry Doyle had a fascinatingly weird professional life. He got a BS in Aeronautics at Embry-Riddle (possibly the top aviation university in the world) and a pilot license, went on to become a private jet pilot and stockbroker until suddenly he dropped everything at the age of 35 to become an actor. After B5 he pivoted again into chud talk show host. It’s insane. Fun fact: that one time Garibaldi said that all of society’s problems could be solved with “electric bleachers” instead of electric chairs was something Doyle said in complete seriousness. JMS happened to overhear him and decided to gently caress with him by adding the line to the script. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621160529661952?s=21 The creative freedom is definitely great and it’s awesome that he’s being so supported but I can’t help but think of how he got screwed over by Hollywood Accounting last time around (“if a Warner Bros. set burns down in Botswana, they deduct it from B5’s profits”). Wonder if this time he’s getting a piece of the gross (I doubt it). AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:So how did that own him This was still back in the halcyon days where people still thought chuds had the minimum amount of self-awareness and shame required to be owned.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpbC72kXOsc Having listened to the original podcast I am definitely intrigued although I am a bit uncomfortable with the fact that they are making this while all the major players are still alive. I wonder how Marty feels about Will Ferrell playing out an apparently magnified personification of his former lack of assertiveness. Paul Rudd seems to be utterly nailing it, though. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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LionArcher posted:Also people sending this clip to his daughter is super loving gross bad taste. Like what the gently caress people. Why the gently caress do
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Seriously, how is Mackenzie Scott the only rich person in the world who figured that out
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I had never heard of options on actors before. Am I correct in saying that you are essentially paying for the rights to use an actor during a certain period…but you’re not paying them directly? Who are you paying then, their agent? Wouldn’t it be simpler to pay them even if they are not working (insert late capitalist mouth foaming). This sounds asinine.
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theflyingexecutive posted:No, the actors are getting paid and the agents get their 10% out of that Got it. Thanks for the explanation!
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zoux posted:I can't find the ITYSL thread This Hollow Man remake sucks.
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Khanstant posted:I don't know if I'll make it through all 8 seasons, but so far it hasn't stopped being amazing how just shameless they are in this approach. I once read a fanfiction about a version of Harry Potter who grew up with good parents who were empathetic and logical smartypants who raised a pretunaturally smart Harry Potter who is way into critical thinking and by the end of the book he's revolutionized the entire world and reinvents magic and everyone claps because he solved poverty and healthcare and even that version of OP fanfic harry potter was more reserved in their relative smartinpantsness, Hermione was basically still smarter. Here Spader is like "the fbi works for me now" after one interaction with them but he's not even kidding, they essentially are at his beck and call. It's like he personally was playing a game of calvinball with the writers, whatever script they write, he reads it, then shows up exactly ready to counter every part of it and make it go his own way, no matter how implausible and then the writers have to play catch up and just work around that, try to get him next time. But they never will, he's the one in control, the writers work for him now. I keep popping in and out of Blacklist discussions online and it's just plain bizarre how that show becomes. Some plots have almost Hostel/Human Centipede levels of cruelty to their characters (case in point) whereas everything else is just a horrible convoluted mystery that goes absolutely nowhere. Even the Blacklist subreddit is nothing more than endless screaming. And yet this show keeps going, it's insane.
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Gonz posted:It’s me. I’m the guy who’s still watching The Blacklist, 9 seasons in. To say nothing about how they managed to write themselves into a corner with the whole "James Spader is not the real Raymond Reddington" revelation. The creator clearly wanted to reveal that Spader is actually Keen's mother having undergone plastic and gender reassignment surgery and Keen's death scene seems to all but directly say it but I'm guessing that proved a bridge too far for NBC (unlike stuff like that Human Centipede-eque abortion episode) and now that said creator left the show, they will probably just drop it. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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STAC Goat posted:Huh. I had a very wrong impression of the kind of show Blacklist was. Yeah, turns out it’s an extraordinarily dumb show.
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Medullah posted:Predicting that Walt poisoned Brock in the live watch thread and people saying "No loving way" is my greatest accomplishment in life! Ironically Bryan Cranston wasn’t told that until that season’s finale, meaning he played Walt’s excuse speech when Jesse confronted him as completely sincere. Which is kind of brilliant since it further underscores just how masterful a liar Walt is, even to himself.
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Metropolis posted:I had no idea they changed showrunners after s4, that explains so much. I agree that the good seasons are 1, 2, and 4, with 4 being my fave. 4 felt like it could have been a very good ending to the series overall. Dexter Seasons 6-9 were run by Scott Buck, the guy later responsible for Inhumans and the first season of Iron Fist. That should also explain a lot.
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DaveKap posted:I had to look it up... this is hilarious. Dude never ran any shows before or after those 3, just producer and writing roles on very few others. I was going to comment on how television poison lasts that long but he's had so few gigs, I almost feel sorry for the guy. Dude shouldn't have gotten a second gig, let alone a third. He's a perfect example of how white males just fail upwards in Hollywood but still screwed up so bad that he managed to be blacklisted even with that massive structural advantage.
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Is Yellowjackets supposed to be the genderswapped Lord of the Flies remake they announced a while back which caused a huge internet slap fight over whether or not girls would follow the same path or not?
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Cojawfee posted:That's why I said to watch it while eating. It's not worth devoting all your attention to it. I have been noticing lately that I can barely hear any external sounds while I am chewing. Is this normal or am I losing my hearing?
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If they have a five season plan, maybe Yellowjackets is really a reverse Friday Night Lights where it STARTS with the sudden and bizarre murders and then turns into pure sports drama.
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Everyone is talking about Station Eleven but it's the last thing I want to watch. I don't understand how you can make a "happy" apocalypse show. We have all seen during this pandemic that people are selfish and will let mountains die for their own comforts. How the only people who matter to them are those they have known since childhood and everyone else can go die in a fire. Since I have none of the latter, none of this is relatable to me. What is the appeal, exactly? The delusion that you are one of the lucky few that will make it?
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