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Damiya posted:honestly the more this show goes on the more weak the lead is. Yeah, pretty much everyone but him is fantastic.
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Damiya posted:honestly the more this show goes on the more weak the lead is. I'm hoping it's just a very difficult-to-watch chrysalis, because yeah, he basically makes you want to slap your TV.
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May 19, 2014 06:19
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May 19, 2014 06:27
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Hopefully Richard gets killed off in the finale GoT style because everything else in the show owns.
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May 19, 2014 06:28
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nooneofconsequence posted:Hopefully Richard gets killed off in the finale GoT style because everything else in the show owns. How about they just do the backstab that he was warned about when he put Erlich on the Board of Directors?
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May 19, 2014 06:55
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As lovely as Richard is they really need a straight man for the backbone of the show. Plus nobody else really has room to grow besides him so I'm ok with him in it. He is a shitlord though and I hate him, but it makes sense. God drat TJ Miller kills it again.
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May 19, 2014 06:59
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A straight man doesn't have to suck. Dinesh is a straight man and he's the best.
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nooneofconsequence posted:A straight man doesn't have to suck. yea basically this. Richard honestly does nothing to drive the plot, it happens in spite of him. he's not even funny. Idk he really hampers my enjoyment of the show because his stories are just so awful.
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May 19, 2014 07:16
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It'd be pretty awesome if he just bailed with the money after the first season and the show centered on Erlich as insaner Steve Jobs.
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May 19, 2014 07:33
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The whole "I'm not obsessed with you, random girl!" plotline served no purpose except to be annoying and then make a "hurhur oh he's gay" joke at the end. Richard is getting too intolerable for me.
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May 19, 2014 08:06
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As much as I loathe Richard, the mouth relaxing scene is one of the best ones in this show.
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May 19, 2014 13:35
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I don't think Richard is bad, I think the other characters are just a lot more interesting.
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May 19, 2014 14:02
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withak posted:Dinesh and Gilfoil (sp?) are literally the best part of this. Without question. Also, Danny Brown playing during the credits was awesome.
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May 19, 2014 18:07
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Richard is clearly the least interesting cast member but I feel like that's kind of the point, so I don't mind it as much.
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May 19, 2014 19:05
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sportsgenius86 posted:Richard is clearly the least interesting cast member but I feel like that's kind of the point, so I don't mind it as much. Same. I don't fault the character or the actor. I enjoy all of the characters on this show in one way or another. I just so happen to enjoy Erlich, Gilfoyle, Dinesh and even Jared more. The poo poo between Richard and Big Head in the first ep was as good as the Richard character got, and who else in the cast could seriously get slapped around by a little kid when trying to buy adderall in the streets?
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May 19, 2014 19:22
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AndyElusive posted:and who else in the cast could seriously get slapped around by a little kid when trying to buy adderall in the streets? Jared? I don't have any problems with the actor's performance, but Richard's character really is a weirdly redundant figure as far as comedic potential goes.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Or he managed to turn it on and it malfunctioned, tossing out an EMP that fried *everything* in the hall. Next scene would be his unconscious and bloodied body crucified on a booth gantry. Dear god you have a terrible sense of comedy
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May 19, 2014 22:43
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I don't mind Richard because it's decent to have someone boring keeping everything grounded in reality. Erlich is the best part of the show, his actor kills it every episode
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May 19, 2014 22:45
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As annoying as Richard is, we need him around for the inevitable "growing up" scenes. He's likely the character with most development potential. We still have to spend the rest of the season watching them get successful, make their first few millions THEN see Richard get cocky and inevitably falling out with his team before making up again. As long as the stories are told this well, I don't mind.
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May 19, 2014 22:51
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I just hope Jared lasts for season 2. He's the gang's punching bag- and they need someone to fill that role.
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CaptainHollywood posted:I just hope Jared lasts for season 2. He's the gang's punching bag- and they need someone to fill that role. I love him and the really disturbing little tidbits he shares about his life that no one responds to: 
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May 20, 2014 02:08
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My favourite thing was that Jared was stuck on a robot island in the middle of nowhere for days and it was barely even mentioned. I love it when shows just accept the ridiculousness of the world and run with it.
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May 20, 2014 03:47
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Everybody hates on Richard, but I actually like that he is so anticharisma and honestly I think it's on purpose. He's not suppose to be funny.
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Hollismason posted:Everybody hates on Richard, but I actually like that he is so anticharisma and honestly I think it's on purpose. He's not suppose to be funny.  element clearly existent in Silicon Valley...but I like all the goons here distancing themselves super overly-hard as much as they can from the character ("what a weirdo weird guy this is ugh my dislike of this character implies I am absolutely nothing alike in social awkwardness or anticharisma" like yeah we know guys, that's the point. The lady doth protest too much, methinks) and actually saying he should be removed (which absolutely baffles me since I consider him integral to a lot of the great comedy and interactions and amusing relationships, his anticharisma and awkwardness lead to many many many many many laughs at his expense).I think the character provides a pretty sizable share of laughs, I mean if the guy wasn't useless and anticharismatic then you'd lose a lot of the opportunities for the great Erlich scenes. The vacuum (or "vortex") at the top of Pied Paper in terms of charisma and vision is what gives a chance for Elrich to shine, if he were more "normal" and well-adjusted then he wouldn't really need Erlich. Like, it's simple comedic structure guys. 
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May 20, 2014 10:24
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I enjoy this show and like the fact that like half the cast is Comedy Podcast Crew
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May 20, 2014 11:45
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This isn't the first show to depend on the roommates/extra characters while the main character isn't very interesting. New Girl is one of my favourite comedies despite Zoey Deschanel. The secondary characters MAKE that show. It's ok if Richard is boring because it's his invention keeping the weirdos I like in the same room together.
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May 20, 2014 12:44
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An unexciting protagonist surrounded by people we never quite see enough of is Jenji Kohan's MO, too.
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May 20, 2014 13:19
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Yeah, I agree, without Richard/PP this would be another TBBT but with a start-up seeder house setting. And personally I don't mind the character, I think he is ok, I just wish his subplots were a bit more interesting.
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Rexides posted:Yeah, I agree, without Richard/PP this would be another TBBT but with a start-up seeder house setting. And personally I don't mind the character, I think he is ok, I just wish his subplots were a bit more interesting. I just wish he would take this multi-million dollar idea a bit more seriously. Stop loving around and do some loving work on time you dumb loving idiot!
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Cuddly Tumblemumps posted:I love him and the really disturbing little tidbits he shares about his life that no one responds to: And that his name isn't actually Jared, Peter Gregory just called him that and it stuck right?
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thathonkey posted:And that his name isn't actually Jared, Peter Gregory just called him that and it stuck right? It was Belson, not Gregory, but yea.
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Inkspot posted:An unexciting protagonist surrounded by people we never quite see enough of is Jenji Kohan's MO, too. Entourage would totally disagree, bro.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The only thing that would've made that scene better is if one of the 'testers' started getting a nosebleed and passed out. Nah, the best thing would be a "Scanners" style head explosion by one of his subjects after he turns the machine on.
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Seams posted:My favourite thing was that Jared was stuck on a robot island in the middle of nowhere for days and it was barely even mentioned. I love it when shows just accept the ridiculousness of the world and run with it. Pretty sure that plot line was a last minute emergency fix following the death of Christopher Evan Welch. It is mentioned twice in this episode, and both times the people talking about it are facing away from the camera and the audio is pretty obviously ADR'd in.
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May 20, 2014 17:06
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Dead Snoopy posted:Entourage would totally disagree, bro. Never seen it, but both Weeds and Orange Is The New Black follow that structure. The main characters are supported by much more interesting casts.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Entourage would totally disagree, bro. You're right - although in Entourage's defense nearly every character is uninteresting, not just the main character. Seams posted:My favourite thing was that Jared was stuck on a robot island in the middle of nowhere for days and it was barely even mentioned. I love it when shows just accept the ridiculousness of the world and run with it. As nonsensical as it was, it worked for me too. I also liked how the show wrote in the line, "Only 2% of the programming world is women" in order to brush off why women are (and will continue to be) underrepresented in the show. I just realized that "gun" bit felt like something out of Seinfeld. Am I wrong on that? "How did he point it...?"
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wooger posted:Nah, the best thing would be a "Scanners" style head explosion by one of his subjects after he turns the machine on. I might be dumb, but I thought the joke was that the heater is perfectly safe and the judges ignorance and panic was about expert know-it-alls being just as superstitious as the average person about things they dont understand (while being trusted by the public to make informed decisions on those things) As well as having your knowledge of your subject of expertise disparaged and ignored by people who dont know how ignorant they are TheBlackVegetable fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 21:41
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TheBlackVegetable posted:I be dumb Yeah it's that. No you missed the entire thing. You're the guy presenting it.
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May 20, 2014 21:44
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TheBlackVegetable posted:I might be dumb, but I thought the joke was that the heater is perfectly safe and the judges ignorance and panic was about expert know-it-alls being just as superstitious as the average person about things they dont understand (while being trusted by the public to make informed decisions on those things) Ummm no I definitely thought the joke was that the product was clearly unsafe and no one would ever buy such a thing.
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CaptainHollywood posted:You're right - although in Entourage's defense nearly every character is uninteresting, not just the main character. Johnny Drama would like a word with you.
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