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I think I've reached the point where Parks and Recreation feels depressing instead of upbeat. The characteristics of the show/town/characters have started feeling oppressive instead of funny. I also realize I am likely arriving at this conclusion about a season and a half late.
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Yeah, that was about when I had the same feeling and stopped watching it.
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Mar 21, 2014 03:38
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Man Parenthood is brutal tonight.
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Mar 21, 2014 03:48
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Cancer? Divorce? What happened?
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Mar 21, 2014 03:53
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MrAristocrates posted:I think I've reached the point where Parks and Recreation feels depressing instead of upbeat. The characteristics of the show/town/characters have started feeling oppressive instead of funny.
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Mar 21, 2014 03:56
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Mu Zeta posted:Cancer? Divorce? What happened? Divorce kids saying they are the reason their parents broke up and poor Max realized that he is an outcast in a pretty bad way.
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Mar 21, 2014 03:59
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I was hoping Max died. drat. Did Haddie die off-screen?
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Mar 21, 2014 04:01
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Haddie's been off-screen for a while, but she'll be back sometime around the finale. I dunno, this season has been okay, but the Joel/Julia plotline is frustrating as hell.
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Mar 21, 2014 04:04
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MrAristocrates posted:I think I've reached the point where Parks and Recreation feels depressing instead of upbeat. The characteristics of the show/town/characters have started feeling oppressive instead of funny.
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Mar 21, 2014 04:13
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MrAristocrates posted:I think I've reached the point where Parks and Recreation feels depressing instead of upbeat. The characteristics of the show/town/characters have started feeling oppressive instead of funny. I still generally enjoy it, but it's not what it was or what it wants to be.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:00
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SUPERNATURAL S05 completed. Very anticlimactic in many ways, the arc barely staying on the rails, but the narrative play with Lucifer and Sam was interesting and Ackles gave some great act. The very end with Sam's reward being granted to watch Dean's new, ordinary life was a cherry touch. Very Moses. Overall, an 8/10 run that was worth its burdens. Thanks to those who offered feedback on what good lies ahead but for now I can't imagine anything that could accentuate for the better the five seasons I just saw.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:26
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I'm on season 7 now, and like I said before, the individual episodes in season 6 are still pretty good although the overarching plots are meandering garbage that mostly get unceremoniously dropped. It seems to bother some people but I've always thought the overarching plots have been pretty weak compared to the MOTWs. I think the thing that bothers me the most is that the various deities are just arbitrarily "more powerful" than each other in a way that might as well be DBZ power levels.zoux posted:She said they get reevaluated at 18. One gets the impression that "reevaluated" just means "determined to still be guilty of whatever petty poo poo they've been in prison for and shot into space anyway." The main character girl shouldn't have been so terrified of the prospect if there was some likelihood they would've just let her out of space jail. raditts fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Mar 21, 2014 05:37
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Mooseontheloose posted:Divorce kids saying they are the reason their parents broke up and poor Max realized that he is an outcast in a pretty bad way.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:08
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Well Sydney was blaming Victor for the divorce and not herself. And Victor comes from a broken home so he's more likely to believe it.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:42
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Wow, so all things considered, the pilot for The 100 was pretty good. I think it might go somewhere. Why am I more interested in that and Reign when I haven't even gotten around to starting Black Sails or House of Cards season 2? 
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Mar 21, 2014 07:08
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I don't know. Why am I barreling through 24 when I haven't watched True Detective?
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scary ghost dog posted:I don't know. Why am I barreling through 24 when I haven't watched True Detective? Because even if it's not better written it's definitely more fun.
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scary ghost dog posted:I don't know. Why am I barreling through 24 when I haven't watched True Detective?
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Sober posted:Wow, so all things considered, the pilot for The 100 was pretty good. I think it might go somewhere. Agreed. That was much better than I thought it would be. The clips from the rest of the season look interesting too.
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Mar 21, 2014 07:51
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Party Plane Jones posted:Jesus, Sirens is absurdly graphic for a USA show.
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Mar 21, 2014 09:44
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Are you serious about The 100? It was complete garbage, but super hilarious. Hey teen model daughter in jail with perfect hair and face, let me hold you while you get shot, cue to 100 teen models and an older model get sent to CGI planet, or is he part of the 100? Are they 98 or 99 at this point?, immediately gang up on the only black kid because he was born, get attacked by snakes that scratch and laugh about it literally 10 seconds later. I won't rewatch the pilot 'cus these things are only funny once, but I'm sure I saw Mr Gaeta in the beginning and then I lost track of him, whatever happened? Evil Desmond was also funny as all hell. Haven't watched a show that bad since 4400, what is it with numbers?
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Mar 21, 2014 11:59
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Elijah Snow posted:Are you serious about The 100? It was complete garbage, but super hilarious. Hey teen model daughter in jail with perfect hair and face, let me hold you while you get shot, cue to 100 teen models and an older model get sent to CGI planet, or is he part of the 100? Are they 98 or 99 at this point?, immediately gang up on the only black kid because he was born, get attacked by snakes that scratch and laugh about it literally 10 seconds later. Tell me more about how actors being pretty makes you mad 
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Sounds like you went in looking for things to hate and created problems where there were none. Good job.
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Mar 21, 2014 12:38
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I find it more interesting that the CW of all places is doing more sci-fi/concept shows and having them be good or decent. God bless them for it. Also, for Parenthood, the whole reason the Joel/Julia thing feels strained is because the show A) did this before and B) had to make Julia look really bad to get to this point. Joel gave up his career for the kids and then when Julia was asked to do the same, couldn't handle it and dragged Joel down a bit.
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Mar 21, 2014 12:59
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zoux posted:There doesn't seem to be a the One Hundred thread so The title of the show is pronounced The Hundred, not The One Hundred.
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Mar 21, 2014 13:00
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Mu Zeta posted:Well Sydney was blaming Victor for the divorce and not herself. And Victor comes from a broken home so he's more likely to believe it. I haven't watched Parenthood regularly in a couple seasons because it got to be way too much of a downer, but I'm guessing they split up because Julia is a horrible loving person who pushes herself on everybody around her. Am I far off base?
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Mar 21, 2014 13:06
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Joramun posted:The title of the show is pronounced The Hundred, not The One Hundred. Don't gently caress with my head canon.
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Mar 21, 2014 13:32
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Elijah Snow posted:Are you serious about The 100? It was complete garbage, but super hilarious. Hey teen model daughter in jail with perfect hair and face, let me hold you while you get shot, cue to 100 teen models and an older model get sent to CGI planet, or is he part of the 100? Are they 98 or 99 at this point?, immediately gang up on the only black kid because he was born, get attacked by snakes that scratch and laugh about it literally 10 seconds later. Actually they hate the black kid because his dad is in charge and enforces their law of death penalty for any crime. But also lol too many pretty people on TV 
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Mar 21, 2014 13:33
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Actually they hate the black kid because his dad is in charge and enforces their law of death penalty for any crime. But also lol too many pretty people on TV Goons, I suggest our fat neckbearded asses take over television. Arrow, sure let's watch a 300 pound archer with half a fu-manchu break the poo poo out of Slade Wilson. Supernatural? Here we go!  It's time to reform the CW!
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Mar 21, 2014 13:59
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Actually they hate the black kid because his dad is in charge and enforces their law of death penalty for any crime. But also lol too many pretty people on TV I mean it is a bit  that the token black kid's dad is in charge and is a horrible unfeeling tyrant and all who sent his own kid to die on a hostile planet, but yeah, saying they're ganging up on him because he's the token black kid is just plain wrong.
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Mar 21, 2014 14:05
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Well they're obviously setting up the chancellor to be an actual Good Dude doing What He Has To to save humanity, so I'm sure were supposed to root for him over Henry Ian Cusick. Also, why is Henry Ian Cusick doing an American accent???? I thought the two faced deer was creepy and cool.
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Ravane posted:Goons, I suggest our fat neckbearded asses take over television. Arrow, sure let's watch a 300 pound archer with half a fu-manchu break the poo poo out of Slade Wilson. "Walter White should have been played by Chace Crawford." --Ravane
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Somehow I'm pretty okay with attractive people on television, it's not realistic, but then again, nothing else on tv is. 
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zoux posted:Well they're obviously setting up the chancellor to be an actual Good Dude doing What He Has To to save humanity, so I'm sure were supposed to root for him over Henry Ian Cusick. Oh, no doubt they are, but I'm not sure how they plan to reconcile that with the fact that he's clearly had a history of shooting people into space (which is really a pretty hosed up way to die) for petty offenses, including the main girl's dad for exposing the flaw in the space station that will eventually kill everyone. Austrian mook posted:Somehow I'm pretty okay with attractive people on television, it's not realistic, but then again, nothing else on tv is. I don't get the rage against pretty people on TV either. On the one hand I hate to support the notion that you can only make it as an actor if you look a certain way and are the right color, but on the other hand, if I wanted to see ugly people I could just look in the mirror.
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It's pretty common in scifi in situations where the entire civilization is in danger to have extremely draconian laws in the name of continued existence. At first I was like, hmmm capital punishment for everything seems dumb as hell, then I realized population reduction is a desirable goal in this context. I'm not going to become The 100 White Knight because I'm not super invested in this show, and there was plenty of dumb poo poo and pretty tired archetype characters but it was interesting enough that I'll at least check out the next episode. lol this is Patton Oswalt in the 6th grade: 
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Mar 21, 2014 14:34
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zoux posted:I'm not going to become The 100 White Knight This one? 
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I'm not raging goonsay about the pretty kids, I just thought it was funny seeing the beautiful girl escaping beautifully out of the water and laughing about it. I guess you could argue that if we're dumbing down humanity to a few hundred people on a spacestation, they should have the prettiest bestest genes of all and also full supplies of makeup and tweezers. The two faced deer was the coolest character, I hope it makes a return. A carnivorous return.
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Elijah Snow posted:The two faced deer was the coolest character, I hope it makes a return. A carnivorous return. "You either die a deer or live long enough to see yourself twice." - TwoFace Deer
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Mar 21, 2014 15:14
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I almost want to watch the one hundreds now just because of all these dumb arguments.
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