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Today I learned that the Mad Men that's broadcast to my television is a completely different one than the version being sent to Yaoi Mandel's TV. It's the only explanation.
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I watched like two seasons of it. Its really slow and boring and I don't even understand how I made it that far.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:15
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Mad Men is........fine.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:16
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The Leftovers is loving terrible. The direction sucks, the cinematography is perfunctory, the music cues are clunky, and the actors sure do get a paycheck. The central mystery adds absolutely nothing to the plot and barely rises to the level of Macguffin. If the story involved a plane crash or a tornado it would be exactly the same, only the tepid drama and tedious characters would be even more obvious so they throw a scifi tarp over the whole mess. If you try to examine that mystery you're a goony sperglord and should focus on the characters. If you focus on the clichęd characters and their awful dialogue, you're knitpicking and should consider their context in the bigger picture, which if you examine at all, makes you a goony sperglord. It's a shell game with a turd.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:21
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Shageletic posted:Occ was saying that Leftovers was better than Mad Men right? Just think that needed to be repeated. At maintaining a deliberate pace that doesn't feel turgid and monotonous, most definitely As a show overall? Up in the air, need more time with the leftovers
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Jul 15, 2014 17:23
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Slamhound posted:The Leftovers is loving terrible. I agree with a lot of what you say but it really has been made insanely clear that nobody should be focusing on the mystery because they don't plan on explaining it ever.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:23
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I dunno, I'm interested in finding out more about the Chief of Police and his dad and their shared delusions of people no one else can see. If his dad IS sane and actually is seeing a person who isn't there and their family has been chosen by angels or aliens or...  I find it interesting, that's all. It is pretty relentlessly depressing though, I hope some good stuff happens.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:24
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Yaoi Mandel posted:I watched like two seasons of it. Its really slow and boring and I don't even understand how I made it that far. Tbf the first two seasons are the worst, esp season two, if the last three episodes of season two you didn't like though yeah abandon ship But yeah season three is so, so much better than season two it's barely the same show
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Jul 15, 2014 17:24
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I don't see what's so bleak about The Leftovers. Everything is more hosed in Battlestar or Walking Dead.hollylolly posted:I dunno, I'm interested in finding out more about the Chief of Police and his dad and their shared delusions of people no one else can see. If his dad IS sane and actually is seeing a person who isn't there and their family has been chosen by angels or aliens or... I haven't seen the third one yet but I'm pretty sure Justin Theroux isn't delusional since his daughter and friend saw the bald guy. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 17:30
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't see what's so bleak about The Leftovers. Everything is more hosed in Battlestar or Walking Dead. Yes, well, that's just because the guy let them see him.  Edit: Next episode looks like it's more about his crazy dad so we shall see.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:35
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Slamhound posted:The Leftovers is loving terrible. This is a really stupid post and reads like you were consulting a thesaurus.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:40
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't see what's so bleak about The Leftovers. Everything is more hosed in Battlestar or Walking Dead. Well, bsg's very first episode has Adama state a win state for the series as a whole (find earth), so I would totes disagree. BSG is depressing sure but there's from the very first episode a scenario that everything could theoretically work out The leftovers, even if GR like committed mass suicide next episode and everyone decided to get along, there's no chance the departed will be brought back. The situation of the leftovers is even if it's peaches and cream from here on out, there's still 140 million people who disappeared, and the backbone of society- faith - has been proven irrevocably false. It doesn't matter what religion you did or didn't believe in in the leftovers, they were all proven wrong, and everyone in it can fundamentally sense that. It's again, a show were society is slowly rotting from within Also the walking dead could be as bleak or bleaker than the leftovers but as I have criticized other genre shows for doing it is too in love with it's own conceit to be that. The best part of TWD, in every form it has existed, has been the ruminations on how morality is fundamentally a sociological construct to help build civilizations, and when those civilizations have collapsed what is "right" and what is "wrong" becomes so malleable as to be based simply on perception. The show almost never engages with this concept, unlike the video game which is almost exclusively about this concept
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Jul 15, 2014 17:40
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Yaoi Mandel posted:This is a really stupid post and reads like you were consulting a thesaurus. He has synonyms for "lazy" and "hamfisted" so give him credit for at least not using the two most overused goon crits and taking the effort to at least use words that mean the same thing but are different.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:42
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Also I don't know how cinematography can be "perfunctory" but maybe you meant another word.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:43
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Bown posted:I agree with a lot of what you say but it really has been made insanely clear that nobody should be focusing on the mystery because they don't plan on explaining it ever. The second is there are different kinds of mysteries, different ways to not explain them, and different people to not explain them too. Given that it's fiction, any deterministic explanation is it ultimately going to be meaningless, so there's no problem with not explaining that to the audience, but shouldn't the characters be a little more concerned?
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Jul 15, 2014 17:45
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Yaoi Mandel posted:This is a really stupid post and reads like you were consulting a thesaurus.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:46
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Slamhound posted:This post reads like every other post you've made in this and The Leftovers thread. Oh no poo poo???!?!
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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Yaoi Mandel posted:This is a really stupid post and reads like you were consulting a thesaurus. Just a note that everyone should check this guy's rap sheet before interacting with him on any sort of meaningful level.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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zoux posted:Also I don't know how cinematography can be "perfunctory" but maybe you meant another word.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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You don't rise to Macguffin level, you sink to it. Come on people.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:47
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Bown posted:Just a note that everyone should check this guy's rap sheet before interacting with him on any sort of meaningful level. Lmfao jesus christ
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Jul 15, 2014 17:48
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Slamhound posted:Serviceable, nothing special or out of the ordinary, a certain uninspired professionalism. Lol are you a fuckin film studies undergrad
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Jul 15, 2014 17:49
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Slamhound posted:Serviceable, nothing special or out of the ordinary, a certain uninspired professionalism. That's not what it means.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:50
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Doesn't the Leftovers have its own thread for all this toxic poo poo?
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Jul 15, 2014 17:50
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Bown posted:Just a note that everyone should check this guy's rap sheet before interacting with him on any sort of meaningful level. Ughhhhhhhhhhh
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Jul 15, 2014 17:50
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PriorMarcus posted:Doesn't the Leftovers have its own thread for all this toxic poo poo?
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Jul 15, 2014 17:51
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It's a shame cause I like his username but everyone just report Yaoi Mandel so we can get back to the more friendly slapfighting.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:52
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zoux posted:That's not what it means.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:52
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Report him for what.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:52
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The $10 'P' word you are looking for is pedestrian. Perfunctory means lazy.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:52
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FactsAreUseless posted:Yes, it does. These posts are the spillover. The extras. The uh... the bits that there were more of than could fit in the thread. I don't know the word. Bravo.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:53
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Bown posted:It's a shame cause I like his username but everyone just report Yaoi Mandel so we can get back to the more friendly slapfighting. Are you serious dude
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Jul 15, 2014 17:53
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zoux posted:Report him for what.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:53
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FactsAreUseless posted:Having a rap sheet, apparently. It's like how you can be sent back to prison for having gone to prison. I've been personally banned by Lowtax, does that give me any special status?
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Jul 15, 2014 17:54
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zoux posted:The $10 'P' word you are looking for is pedestrian. Perfunctory means lazy.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:54
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More for substanceless 'lol ur dumb' posts and constant troll posts every minute and a half.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:54
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Peter Berg is bad and he made the Friday Night Lights pilot unwatchable and the episode sucked too. The movie also sucked. Everything he touches sucks.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:54
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Bown posted:More for substanceless 'lol ur dumb' posts and constant troll posts every minute and a half. Hey man lay off occupation.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:54
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Bown posted:It's a shame cause I like his username but everyone just report Yaoi Mandel so we can get back to the more friendly slapfighting. Jesus Christ bown just say "Ugh FYAD  " it's marginally less embarrassing at this point
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zoux posted:The $10 'P' word you are looking for is pedestrian. Perfunctory means lazy. What I've seen it used for is more just "automatic" or "unthinkingly." But still not really what he was using it for. e: Also jesus christ Bown don't do this.
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