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DP - LOVE the new avatar. Like Forrest, are you dead inside and can feel no more pain?
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DivisionPost posted:And has also said "Lost has ruined you people," though not in so many words. People that think plot and wanky "crazy world mystery" is much more important probably hasn't watched much TV in the last 20 years or if they have, belong on TV Tropes telling each other how McGuffins are the bane of all fiction or writing another article that is basically "Chekov's gun" but in their own ~special snowflake 'this TV Troper' invented this~ way.
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Apr 18, 2014 03:06
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Part of the problem is that people want to be the ones who "called it" so loving hard.
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Apr 18, 2014 03:09
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VorpalBunny posted:DP - LOVE the new avatar. Like Forrest, are you dead inside and can feel no more pain? Somebody else (Max22) had a pancake avatar so I was waiting for some other opportunity to come up. Then I realized there was never going to be a better match to those lyrics. So hold on one second because two characters in a drama I watch are banging like two feet away from a blood stain.
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DivisionPost posted:Somebody else (Max22) had a pancake avatar so I was waiting for some other opportunity to come up. Then I realized there was never going to be a better match to those lyrics. So hold on one second because two characters in a drama I watch are banging like two feet away from a blood stain. How much do people actually spend on avatars on this website? I'm genuinely curious. Anyone still watching Star-Crossed? I'm a bit behind, but it's really disappointing. The 100 is leagues ahead in comparison.
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Apr 18, 2014 03:23
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as a self confessed TV addict, and none tumblr/shipper version of a CW fan. I have never heard of Star Crossed until just now... It can't be good.
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Apr 18, 2014 03:34
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Anyway, Scandal is basically 24 for women at this point. It's glorious.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:04
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DivisionPost posted:Anyway, Scandal is basically 24 for women at this point. It's glorious. I'm so happy that Scandal and the return of 24 aren't airing within a week of each other, I don't know if I could take it.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:06
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Rocksicles posted:as a self confessed TV addict, and none tumblr/shipper version of a CW fan. I have never heard of Star Crossed until just now... It wasn't as dreadful as I had expected, but it also wasn't good enough to make me watch more than two or three episodes. Just finished season one of Da Vinci's Demons, wow, it's actually pretty drat good. A little bit too BBC1 Saturday evening for my tastes, but certainly entertaining.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:20
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Are my options for streaming A&E stuff seriously limited to just Amazon Prime? I love the Intervention/Hoarders/Scared Straight suffering trinity so much, but as far as I can tell my access seems to be limited to whatever random three seasons Amazon feels like putting up at any given time. I want to pay for this poo poo, why won't they let me 
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Apr 18, 2014 04:22
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Pinwiz11 posted:I'm so happy that Scandal and the return of 24 aren't airing within a week of each other, I don't know if I could take it. Somebody in the thread -- and I'm actually not saying this to throw shade on him -- mentioned that he was hoping this season finale marked the end of the show, and my response was basically "It might derail at some point, but be thankful it's not derailing as quickly or violently as Glee." Yet the rate this show is going, we're looking at a season 6 where Olivia and Fitz fight for survival after they discover that half the Senate have been replaced by pod people. AND there's a nonzero chance that most people and I will go for it. That's the mark of a great nighttime soap.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:24
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Solid Poopsnake posted:Welp, it didn't take long for the Fargo thread to turn to poo poo. Now Billy Bob Thorton is Literally the Devil or maybe a living incarnation of the Trickster archetype? Depressing. Well, the show didn't really help considering his vanishing act in the basement. I'm not saying there was anything supernatural about it but I can kind of understand why some people would think so.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:29
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Just finished season one of Da Vinci's Demons, wow, it's actually pretty drat good. A little bit too BBC1 Saturday evening for my tastes, but certainly entertaining. So far season 2 is better.
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Apr 18, 2014 04:37
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So the potential series finale for community, the final 30 seconds of the show was taking the biggest poo poo ever on NBC and their original programming And it was glorious
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Accidentally caught Bam's Bad rear end Game Show on TBS and holy gently caress you know it's a piece of poo poo when even MTV - which basically MADE Bam Margera - took a pass on his latest self-made show. Aside from the bloated face of the host's alcoholism on display, the big question left in the room like a bad elevator fart is, "who in TBS actually thought they'd be expanding their audience with this crap?"
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Apr 18, 2014 05:54
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Sober posted:Ironically what I got from LOST is that characters are much more important than the plot. Plot should serve character, not vice-versa. Sometimes LOST was about the characters. The entire point of the flashbacks originally was to elaborate on the characters. The polar bears, smoke monsters, and weird magnetic phenomena should have been understood to be more metaphorical. Most people were watching LOST wrong because they were using a Sherlock Holmes decoder ring, when they ought to have been using a Socratic one. The pilot episode had a beast made of thick black smoke. Was that ever going to have an answer good enough for the theorists?
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Apr 18, 2014 06:51
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Occupation posted:So the potential series finale for community, the final 30 seconds of the show was taking the biggest poo poo ever on NBC and their original programming On an somewhat related note, I wouldn't be surprised if NBC started cribbing ideas from 30 Rock in a vain attempt to dig themselves out of the hole they're in.
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Apr 18, 2014 07:22
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Spatula City posted:Sometimes LOST was about the characters. The entire point of the flashbacks originally was to elaborate on the characters. The polar bears, smoke monsters, and weird magnetic phenomena should have been understood to be more metaphorical. Most people were watching LOST wrong because they were using a Sherlock Holmes decoder ring, when they ought to have been using a Socratic one. The pilot episode had a beast made of thick black smoke. Was that ever going to have an answer good enough for the theorists? The pilot episode did not have a beast made of thick black smoke.
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Apr 18, 2014 07:34
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Sober posted:30 Rock pretty much did this all the time. Are they going to land Will Ferrell for Bitch Hunter, or are they going to try and grab an up-and-comer, you think?
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Apr 18, 2014 07:56
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Sober posted:
after all these years, how have they NOT made MILF Island?
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Spatula City posted:The pilot episode had a beast made of thick black smoke. Was that ever going to have an answer good enough for the theorists? Indeed, after season 1 I knew it was never going to have an ending that would satisfy me. Meanwhile three friends of mine were huge theorists, and we'd get together to watch it every week, I'd just sit back and listen to the crazy stuff they'd come up with.
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Occupation posted:So the potential series finale for community, the final 30 seconds of the show was taking the biggest poo poo ever on NBC and their original programming Intensive Karen Mr. Egypt Celebrity Beat-Off Captain Cook Dead Snoopy posted:Accidentally caught Bam's Bad rear end Game Show on TBS and holy gently caress you know it's a piece of poo poo when even MTV - which basically MADE Bam Margera - took a pass on his latest self-made show. Aside from the bloated face of the host's alcoholism on display, the big question left in the room like a bad elevator fart is, "who in TBS actually thought they'd be expanding their audience with this crap?"
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Apr 18, 2014 09:42
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Cardboard Box A posted:TBS made King of the Nerds after all At least that one was watchably entertaining.
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Apr 18, 2014 09:59
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Syrg Sapphire posted:At least that one was watchably entertaining.
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King of the Nerds was actually really good, season 1 had so much entertaining cringe and a few genuinely likable characters. Season 2 has one of the gooniest motherfuckers I've ever seen and he's gloriously awful.
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muscles like this? posted:Well, the show didn't really help considering his vanishing act in the basement. I'm not saying there was anything supernatural about it but I can kind of understand why some people would think so. The window to the outside in the basement was prominently displayed in the last scene taking place there. But enough about plot, the tone to FARGO is basically perfect. Just pitch black, shot through with lines of pure smirking comedy. Its Coen as gently caress! EDIT: And lol about people saying LOST was about the characters. They did such a good job with fleshing out and giving satisfying arcs with Kate, Jack, Locke, or pretty much anyone else in the show. No, they did not burn any interesting characterization of their characters on the alter of never-ending twists and mystery hooks. Nope, none of that happened at allllll. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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lelandjs posted:Not that I'm agreeing with the theory, but the idea that there would be some middle management office in the middle of Minnesota or whatever that handed out instructions to angels of death and looks like the set of Office Space is quite amusing. Wasn't that pretty much Dead Like Me, minus the office? Cardboard Box A posted:Was it? Was it really? Sure, if you loving hate yourself.
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Apr 18, 2014 13:32
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How the gently caress haven't I watched Rick & Morty until today? Finally another cartoon that's funny besides Archer.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:How the gently caress haven't I watched Rick & Morty until today? Finally another cartoon that's funny besides Archer. Bob's Burgers has the highest jokes per minute ratio of any show on TV, animated or not.
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lelandjs posted:It also doesn't help that the Coen brothers had a character that actually was the Devil. Or maybe not? I don't remember Barton Fink that well I figure that like most 20-somethings your average goon has only seen The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, and/or Fargo. If you've ever seen Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, or A Serious Man then the idea of something they're involved in having overt supernatural elements or a character who is the devil isn't ridiculous at all.
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I swear to God I'm going to punch the next person who uses the term "filler episode" in reference to a sitcom or procedural.
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Apr 18, 2014 17:08
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Joramun posted:Bob's Burgers has the highest jokes per minute ratio of any show on TV, animated or not. The most recent episode was gold. 
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Joramun posted:Bob's Burgers has the highest jokes per minute ratio of any show on TV, animated or not. It is the best tv show currently airing.
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That's crazy you're crazy.
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Cardboard Box A posted:Was it? Was it really? S2 madman aside, the show took a bunch of awkward yet bright people, never shat on them for it (they did themselves sometimes, but the tone of it never did), and came up with some creative endeavors you'd never see on another reality show for the challenges. It was pretty good, even if occasionally someone did cross the line into "oh no please stop talking" territory.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I figure that like most 20-somethings your average goon has only seen The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, and/or Fargo. If you've ever seen Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, or A Serious Man then the idea of something they're involved in having overt supernatural elements or a character who is the devil isn't ridiculous at all. Yes, but this is Fargo. And while it's not really a true story, it's supposed to be designed like one. Of course the disappearance of Lorne Malvo from the basement is supposed to imply some Satanistic tendencies, but if this leads to a True Detective-esque insistence on Lorne Malvo actually being Lucifer in the flesh, somebody's getting punched in the dick.
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It's just a version of the dude from No Country for Old Men dropped into the Fargo style world, stop over analyzing things.
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Syrg Sapphire posted:S2 madman aside, the show took a bunch of awkward yet bright people, never shat on them for it (they did themselves sometimes, but the tone of it never did), and came up with some creative endeavors you'd never see on another reality show for the challenges. It was pretty good, even if occasionally someone did cross the line into "oh no please stop talking" territory. Yeah, if you enjoy Reality TV and the Big Brother/Survivor type of elimination/social game then King of the Nerds is a pretty easy to digest and charming version of it. The show doesn't make fun of them too bad and does it with a good spirit, and for the most part while they're all cringeworthy on the surface most of them come off as pretty reasonable and likable people with a few weird or awkward quirks. I've enjoyed it as a fan of those games and as someone who doesn't really consider himself a "nerd" and is kind of annoyed by "nerd culture" I think its a really charming and positive look at it.
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