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Well when he was in the casino the bill sorter obviously went through the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. Coincidence? I THINK NOT
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RICKON WALNUTSBANE posted:I sometimes watch Louie but don't follow the thread. Brief synopsis? They had an episode this season involving the Pamela character where Louie got a kiss out of her really forcefully and dragged her around the room and poo poo. It was terrifying and clearly intended to be so, and is basically a huge dump on male entitlement, but it made some people too uncomfortable or they misunderstood it and thought it was advocating that poo poo, especially because in the later parts of the storyline they end up dating. Ambiguity is hard for people. Also I don't want to sound smug but I know I'm going to but gently caress it: it was clear to anyone familiar with the basic tenets of television that True Detective was never ever going to actually go full supernatural. Another case where people really were ruined by LOST. Okay now I've wrapped up everything that wasn't about The Leftovers y'all can go back to talking about The Leftovers
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Jul 17, 2014 08:32
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Holy poo poo, I really didn't meat to fire up this discussion, all I wanted to say that he's a better actor when he's speaking in his own scottish accent, he just delivers his lines better... His acting is fine, his accent is a bit jarring, but hey, who cares. He's a great actor, this episode was awesome etc.
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Jul 17, 2014 09:50
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Bown posted:Also I don't want to sound smug but I know I'm going to but gently caress it: it was clear to anyone familiar with the basic tenets of television that True Detective was never ever going to actually go full supernatural. Another case where people really were ruined by LOST. Yeah but it walked a thin line that was equally clearly intended to allow viewers to go either way. Arguing for one over the other is the equivalent to arguing that the Leafs are better than the Habs(  ); in the end you just choose which one you like better and are happy.
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Jul 17, 2014 12:17
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Mister Blueberry posted:Holy poo poo, I really didn't meat to fire up this discussion, all I wanted to say that he's a better actor when he's speaking in his own scottish accent, he just delivers his lines better... His acting is fine, his accent is a bit jarring, but hey, who cares. He's a great actor, this episode was awesome etc. He's English (Are you confusing him with David Tennant, another Doctor Who?)
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Jul 17, 2014 12:25
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That was one of favourite episodes of television in a long time. It was on the level of Breaking Bad, early LOST good. I feel we are in a drought of good tv and at least we have the Leftovers to hold us over until TD season 2 or whatever. The whole ep was a big set up for the last golden ten minutes. So good! EDIT \/\/\/\/ Bitching about bitching is bitching. Lampsacus fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Jul 17, 2014 12:50
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Please shut the gently caress up about accents. The derail about other tv shows' equally awful threads has been the best part of this thread so far.
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Jul 17, 2014 12:52
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Can we discuss whether the GR that were hanging out in front of the church were actually trying to recruit Matt, or were they scoping out their potential new digs?
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Jul 17, 2014 14:55
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Max posted:Can we discuss whether the GR that were hanging out in front of the church were actually trying to recruit Matt, or were they scoping out their potential new digs? I figured it was to recruit him knowing that he will lose the church soon and perhaps be more susceptible to joining GR at that time. It's so sad when you realize that the reason Matt missed the foreclosure deadline and lost his church to the GR is because he stopped to check on the GR member who got rocked in the head and got rocked himself into a 3-day coma.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:17
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I wonder if he even would have been able to get the church, or if the banker guy was just putting him off because he knew there was no way Matt could come up with the money. I'm not a banking/real estate expert but I don't think you can just walk into a bank with a bloody envelope full of money and that is the financial equivalent of the GR's lawyer-drafted, bank-approved title transfer paperwork.
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Jul 17, 2014 15:58
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Really liked the last episode as opposed to the second. I wasn't thrown off by the priest's accent but I did notice he spoke weirdly. The thing that took me out of the episode the most was the sort of cliche dream-immolation and his sister's uneven acting when he asked her for money. At several points in that scene I was taken out of it by her capital A Acting.
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Jul 17, 2014 17:07
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Max posted:Can we discuss whether the GR that were hanging out in front of the church were actually trying to recruit Matt, or were they scoping out their potential new digs? I think the idea was that we were led to believe in the beginning that they were watching him but, as it turns out, they were just watching the church. That makes it more of a "gotcha" moment. Unlike the GR who watch Liv Tyler, the GR who are watching the church are not shown to be watching Matt anywhere else, as far as I remember.
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fullroundaction posted:I wonder if he even would have been able to get the church, or if the banker guy was just putting him off because he knew there was no way Matt could come up with the money. I got the feeling he would have let him do it, if it was at all possible. He was trying to get a hold of him for a while, Matt was just ducking his calls. Like, that would have been much more possible had he just addressed the phone calls when he first started getting them. messagemode1 posted:The thing that took me out of the episode the most was the sort of cliche dream-immolation and his sister's uneven acting when he asked her for money. She was kind of putting it on, but it really hit home when he dropped the "your husband was cheating on you" bomb. tadashi posted:I think the idea was that we were led to believe in the beginning that they were watching him but, as it turns out, they were just watching the church. That makes it more of a "gotcha" moment. I got that.
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Jul 17, 2014 18:10
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Max posted:I got the feeling he would have let him do it, if it was at all possible. He was trying to get a hold of him for a while, Matt was just ducking his calls. Yeah the more I think about it there was probably a hard date that Matt had to make a counter offer. Even though the bank repossessed it he probably has some sort of legally-mandated time period to get it back or whatever. Someone who knows what they're talking about please feel free to expound.
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Jul 17, 2014 18:14
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I was trying to think about what the "Two Boats" were in the episode. The bank guy trying to call him for weeks has to be one, and his sister telling him she'll give him the money if he just stops his investigations must have been the other one. I don't know about the helicopter.
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Jul 17, 2014 20:12
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Max posted:I was trying to think about what the "Two Boats" were in the episode. The bank guy trying to call him for weeks has to be one, and his sister telling him she'll give him the money if he just stops his investigations must have been the other one. Maybe he took the helicopter.
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Jul 17, 2014 20:48
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IMB posted:Maybe he took the helicopter. Then some rear end in a top hat bird got caught in the engine and "OH NO! I'M IN A COMA!"
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Jul 17, 2014 21:02
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thathonkey posted:I figured it was to recruit him knowing that he will lose the church soon and perhaps be more susceptible to joining GR at that time. That was some nice irony there, I like how at the end of the episode he gave them the death stare - that whole situation was the kind of thing that could make a man snap (I don't think he is though). messagemode1 posted:The thing that took me out of the episode the most was the sort of cliche dream-immolation and his sister's uneven acting when he asked her for money. Were we supposed to take from the immolation scene that he had something to do with the fire/felt guilt over it? I wasn't sure what they were trying to say there.
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Jul 17, 2014 21:46
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Max posted:I was trying to think about what the "Two Boats" were in the episode. The bank guy trying to call him for weeks has to be one, and his sister telling him she'll give him the money if he just stops his investigations must have been the other one. Somebody brought up that he has 160k with no burden to continue running the church now. Maybe that is the helicopter.
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Jul 17, 2014 22:22
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Can someone link that season trailer people were talking about after the last episode?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can someone link that season trailer people were talking about after the last episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_Zahx334E Pretty nuts
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Jul 18, 2014 00:34
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Christopher Eccleston piloting his new helicopter over the GR.
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Jul 18, 2014 00:41
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Oh wow poo poo is going to go down. This looks good.
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Knives and Hot Dust posted:Somebody brought up that he has 160k with no burden to continue running the church now. Maybe that is the helicopter. For another character, like one of the teenagers, that makes sense. But for his character, I doubt he cares that much about personal wealth. Like, he wasn't burdened with it to begin with. It was foreclosed and he was staying there only because the bank let him. Dude could have walked whenever.
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Max posted:For another character, like one of the teenagers, that makes sense. But for his character, I doubt he cares that much about personal wealth.
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imperialparadox posted:That was some nice irony there, I like how at the end of the episode he gave them the death stare - that whole situation was the kind of thing that could make a man snap (I don't think he is though). On second viewing, it's pretty clear from his look there are going to be consequences. imperialparadox posted:Were we supposed to take from the immolation scene that he had something to do with the fire/felt guilt over it? I wasn't sure what they were trying to say there. I figure that, accidentally or purposely, he's the one that set the fire. That seems too obvious, though.
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Jul 18, 2014 02:37
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Haha all the top reviews on imdb are like one star. So many people still mad about Lost.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Haha all the top reviews on imdb are like one star. So many people still mad about Lost. Blaming Lost for everything is still a pretty popular choice, as seen in this thread.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Haha all the top reviews on imdb are like one star. So many people still mad about Lost. My girlfriend has never watched LOST but would more than likely give this show a one-star review. I guess for people who really like this show it comes with a built in crutch against criticism. I think it's an okay drama with potential to be good or bad.
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Jul 18, 2014 11:45
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Matt certainly has his flaws but the fact that he was like the only person who stood up for and helped the GR and they repaid him by royally screwing him over (which was only made possible because he was trying to save the life of one of their members) makes them incredibly unsympathetic. That in and of itself may be intentional and not a flaw of the show and we may be supposed to hate the GR for this action, but based on the way that the Judging Amy/Liv Tyler interactions have been going so far I'm not sure that this is the case. I'll give the showrunners the benefit of the doubt as of now, but if they continue on a path where we're supposed to root for the GR and Judging Amy to succeed in their goals and recruit Liv Tyler to their cause and whatnot then they have seriously misjudged things.
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I don't think there's an argument against the show trying to paint Patti as a bad dude and the GR as a menace. The previews make it seem like they might paint the town's reaction to them as bad stuff as well. I'm down for everyone being kind of a shitheel tbh.
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I wasn't sold on this show based on the first two episodes, but the third one definitely won me over. It has a lot of promise, and I'm honestly surprised that people have such an issue with the premise. Even ignoring the theoretical implications of such an event, it strikes me as being a largely allegorical story - unlike Lost, I'd actually qualify the absence of any explanation as one of its strengths, because one of the major points of the show seems to be people are angry because there are no explanations. Which is pretty apt all things considered.
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Jul 19, 2014 21:50
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I hope that we can get another episode as good at the third. I am somewhat doubtful though.
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Jul 19, 2014 22:24
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Yeah basically everyone I talk to was struggling after episode 2, and this episode turned them around. I love how Lost like the intertwining story feels. Also, of course this is the worst thread and everyone posting in it is poo poo (including myself).
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Jul 19, 2014 22:42
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The Dave posted:Also, of course this is the worst thread and everyone posting in it is poo poo (including myself). It's also a summer escape for the True Detective thread, doubling down on poo poo! Edit: The 2% are in Carcosa Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jul 19, 2014 |
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Jul 19, 2014 23:18
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bbf2 posted:Matt certainly has his flaws but the fact that he was like the only person who stood up for and helped the GR and they repaid him by royally screwing him over (which was only made possible because he was trying to save the life of one of their members) makes them incredibly unsympathetic. How could they know he had the money? Only he knew he could afford to buy the church. It's not like they intentionally screwed the guy over, poo poo just happened.
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The GR seem to be pretty well funded. They have homes (a whole subdivision?), minivans, and now a church. Theyve showed how Wayne's cult of hugs earns money but i assume GR money comes from its members who figure they dont need it any more now that they have joined a weird rear end cult.
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Jul 20, 2014 12:49
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I get the feeling that the Guilty Remnant like it when people attack them. It confirms that humanity is violent and terrible. Moreover non-violent resistence often gets results because its hard to fight someone who doesn't fight back without feeling wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the extras who have attacked GR members already don't show up in white robes later on.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:26
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I'm surprised any of those are still made here to film this part.
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