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EvilTobaccoExec posted:I learned who she was yesterday in one of the threads about terrible youtube people. Well kind of, I learned she's a "gaming goddess" and that this guy really, really, really likes her. She's a Fake Nerd and Not A Real Gamer Girl but she's also a disciple of the almighty Whedon, so she just makes dumb angry internet males thrash and foam as their mind tries to reconcile hating women with loving everything he touches.
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Cactus posted:I reached about 40 seconds and had to turn it off. You mean when the interviewer had an orgasm five seconds after meeting Felicia? Yeesh. Felicia's not bad as far as internet personalities go, but she's a very limited actress and not even close to being the internet dream girl she desperately wants to be. Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Dec 16, 2013 |
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That guy sounds mentally retarded and not at all angry, and she looks like Batman villain Clayface.
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Dec 16, 2013 21:48
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Felicia Day is like a lady-version of Chris Hardwick. Also, for all of the stuff of his I don't like, Dr. Horrible owns. I don't know how much of that is Whedon and how much is NPH, but it's really cool.
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Dec 16, 2013 22:11
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zoux posted:We could fight about Tiller dailies I don't even play WoW anymore and my bad posting haunts me still. 
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Dec 16, 2013 22:14
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Thank you for the thread title change.
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Less Whedon chat, more Muppet chat. So Farscape is pretty good in a late-90s, low budget scifi way. I'm just starting Season 2 (and started with the wrong episode, thanks NETFLIX) and I was really surprised how Season 1 built to its finale in a satisfying way. Especially considering how the show starts off.
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Dec 16, 2013 22:21
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Did Once Upon a Time in Wonderland get canceled? I don't see it on the mid-season schedule. (I only watched the first episode.)
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Dec 16, 2013 23:00
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hollylolly posted:Did Once Upon a Time in Wonderland get canceled? I don't see it on the mid-season schedule. (I only watched the first episode.) The most recent episode (#8) was the mid season finale. It comes back in March I think. No idea if it is renewed for next year though.
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It's done really poorly in the ratings. I think it was up in the air initially about it getting a full season. Then after it started bombing, the production people came back saying it was always intended as a "limited run" thing.
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This is neat. AMC is teaming up with Netflix to promote Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff. The entire season will be available on streaming the day after the season finale airs on AMC. I think they did something similar in Britain this last season of BrBa, but they did it with each individual episode. Anyway, hopefully this works out well and becomes A Thing.
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Yep, in the UK they put BB on Netflix the day after it aired in the US. Astoundingly, it never aired on UK TV after season 1 (I think, might've been 2). We get pretty much every trash reality show though at least!
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I'm not sure that's ever happened with a US show, we have to use HuluPlus for next day stuff.
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Teek posted:It's done really poorly in the ratings. I think it was up in the air initially about it getting a full season. Then after it started bombing, the production people came back saying it was always intended as a "limited run" thing. I was excited for it until I watched it and it looked like it had an even smaller budget than Once Upon a Time (i.e. more CGI and more bad CGI). Bleh.
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zoux posted:I'm not sure that's ever happened with a US show, we have to use HuluPlus for next day stuff. It's a new, but welcome, thing. They did it with The Killing Season 3 a couple of months before BB as well. It's a really smart move.
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Dec 16, 2013 23:45
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Wait, why do we hate Felicia Day exactly? The first four or five seasons of The Guild were really good at poking fun at "gamer life" and had a decent cast with above-par writing. I mean, I know she did that "so bad it's incredibly bad" Dragon Age webseries (it's like the Sharknado of fantasy, watch it) but she seems like a nice person. Then again, so does Chris Hardwick, but he mostly just hosts things and does a podcast so comparing Day - who pretty much made The Guild from the ground up herself - to him seems like... not a thing you should do.
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precision posted:Wait, why do we hate Felicia Day exactly? The first four or five seasons of The Guild were really good at poking fun at "gamer life" and had a decent cast with above-par writing. I've found that most people who hate Felicia Day (and Chris Hardwick for that matter) fall into two categories- The "Nerd Blackface" people who hate her for the same reason they hate the Big Bang Theory, ie she's not a real nerd and how dare she make money off of the plebes who think she is. The other being the "She's insufferable" crowd, which as far as I can tell means because she references things on the internet and is "twee" she's insufferable. Sure there are the occasional folks out there who just admit she's not their cuppa, for whatever reason, but the seething hatred comes from those two camps.
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zoux posted:I'm not sure that's ever happened with a US show, we have to use HuluPlus for next day stuff. Leverage was available the next day on Netflix for the first 2 seasons.
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JohnSherman posted:Leverage was available the next day on Netflix for the first 2 seasons. I'm pretty sure they did something similar with the first season of Spartacus.
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JohnSherman posted:Leverage was available the next day on Netflix for the first 2 seasons. I always wondered why that stopped. It was awesome. Edit: And I've just learned that the whole series is now up on Netflix. Sweeeet.
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precision posted:Wait, why do we hate Felicia Day exactly? The first four or five seasons of The Guild were really good at poking fun at "gamer life" and had a decent cast with above-par writing. Hardwick started and cohosts one of the most popular podcasts out there, and has a network that has a bunch of awesome podcasts on it. The Nerdist YouTube channel also has a bunch of Web series on it and has done some cool stuff with other networks.
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The original plan for Wonderland was to have it fill in during OUAT's 3 month winter hiatus. ABC kiboshed that plan for some reason and scheduled it against The Big Bang Theory instead. Hence its poor ratings and unlikely renewal despite being a very good show. cool kids inc. posted:I've found that most people who hate Felicia Day (and Chris Hardwick for that matter) fall into two categories- If Hardwick was a good interviewer or Day a good actress you wouldn't hear nearly as much griping about them. The problem with both of them is that they're pretty much non-talents who are only successful because they constructed 'nerd' identities right when the nerd/internet trend took off. Whether Hardwick is a nerd of not is irrelevant because there are a lot of nerds who shouldn't be hosting interview shows either. The only thing that matters is how lame he is and how little he brings to table. Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Dec 17, 2013 |
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Irish Joe posted:If Hardwick was a good interviewer or Day a good actress you wouldn't hear nearly as much griping about them. That's our Joe! Wait, no, actually I agree about Hardwick, he's likable but not what I would call a particularly talented interviewer. He's like Conan O'Brian in that way. An example of a good interviewer would be Marc Maron. Though he's not very likable. 
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cool kids inc. posted:I've found that most people who hate Felicia Day (and Chris Hardwick for that matter) fall into two categories- The "Nerd Blackface" people who hate her for the same reason they hate the Big Bang Theory, ie she's not a real nerd and how dare she make money off of the plebes who think she is. The other being the "She's insufferable" crowd, which as far as I can tell means because she references things on the internet and is "twee" she's insufferable. I hate Chris Hardwick because I watched part of his Comedy Central special, and there's no way he can give me that time back.
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@Midnight fully redeems Chris Hardwick for just about any of his past sins, in my mind. It's the perfect application of his particular brand of person.
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Mo0 posted:@Midnight fully redeems Chris Hardwick for just about any of his past sins, in my mind. It's the perfect application of his particular brand of person. In that he just stands there while funny people are funny, and then occasionally ruins it by speaking? Edit: Funny people, and also sometimes Kristen Schaal.
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edit: ^^^  Mo0 posted:@Midnight fully redeems Chris Hardwick for just about any of his past sins, in my mind. It's the perfect application of his particular brand of person. Why did you get red texted in such a lazy manner? Haha.
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precision posted:Why did you get red texted in such a lazy manner? Haha. I really wish I knew what the hell I did. It can't have been that bad to warrant the complete lack of effort, though. Aphrodite posted:In that he just stands there while funny people are funny, and then occasionally ruins it by speaking? The guy's a TV pro if nothing else, and keeps the show moving at a brisk pace. He's good at what he does on that show! 
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He'd be fine as the host there if he just never tried to tell jokes. His are always so bad.
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Irish Joe posted:The original plan for Wonderland was to have it fill in during OUAT's 3 month winter hiatus. ABC kiboshed that plan for some reason and scheduled it against The Big Bang Theory instead. Hence its poor ratings and unlikely renewal despite being a very good show. Yes... The only reason Wonderland has bad ratings is its timeslot. 
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Uggggggggggggh, I'm watching last week's Almost Human on my cable's On Demand service and they have commercials that you can't fast forward through. I'm only watching it through On Demand because the cable was out last Monday.
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Aphrodite posted:He'd be fine as the host there if he just never tried to tell jokes. His are always so bad. He's basically the Jeff Foxworthy of nerd culture. Tuxedo Jack posted:Yes... The only reason Wonderland has bad ratings is its timeslot. Well, ratings that low. I think the show would have pulled a solid 1.5 if it aired when it was originally meant to air. Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Dec 17, 2013 |
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They tried outsourcing Hardwick's hosting duties to a plank of wood once, but test audiences complained that the plank was too charismatic.
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I am not a Chris Hardwick fan in general, but I have to give him credit for being a great interviewer on his podcast. He's still a bit of a creep to some female guests (his video interview Yvonne Strahovski interview is legendarily off-putting), but he's better at interviewing than most people out there. He's a shite Comic Con moderator, though.
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Irish Joe posted:Well, ratings that low. I think the show would have pulled a solid 1.5 if it aired when it was originally meant to air. We made it like 20 minutes into the pilot. And we suffer through vanilla OUAT every week.
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zoux posted:Edlund also wrote all the greatest Supernatural comedy episodes. Did he do the Supernatural Christmas episode in season 3? Because I'm up to that episode now on Netflix and this might be one of the best Christmas episodes of a TV show I've seen. I've always had a soft spot for that CBS Special Presentation bumper, though. raditts fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 17, 2013 |
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