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The Holy Wayne/Tommy storyline is my least favorite by far.
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If "Go gently caress Ourselves" isn't the new thread title I'll be pretty disappointed
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Jul 21, 2014 03:34
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This show tries soooooo hard to be deep and intelligent. But its just televisions version of a kid playing dress up with his dads suits.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:35
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I think the show might be just a smidgen more bearable if just one character wasn't a complete shithead to everybody else.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:38
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How the guys in white stole christmas
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Jul 21, 2014 03:50
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Don't really know what to make of the whole nativity scene storyline, but good episode otherwise.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:52
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I feel like that was a huge drop down to episode 2 quality after a benchmark episode 3.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:54
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Two steps forward, one step back. Underwhelming episode.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:55
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as soon as they get Liv Tyler to shut up and smoke I'll be happy
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Jul 21, 2014 03:55
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I think episode 3 was only good because it followed a single character that was actually interesting and not a complete dickhead and even relate-able in some ways.
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Jul 21, 2014 03:56
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Eukodol posted:I think the show might be just a smidgen more bearable if just one character wasn't a complete shithead to everybody else. I like the Prius Twins and Matt and Sheriff Kevin. They are way overdue for making the GR more relatable though because I hate those guys. Also the Wayne/Tommy story line is super crap but at least it had the best imagery of the night: the life size reproductions of people's loved ones to bury.
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Jul 21, 2014 04:05
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Mildly interesting. Opening montage was the strongest bit only to lead to a really dumb plotline.
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Jul 21, 2014 05:19
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You'd think if they were going to cast people who's only role would be to smoke, wear white, and not speak they'd get people who could get really expressive with their face muscles rather then tons of people who stare stonily at everyone and occasionally scrawl their idiotic thoughts onto paper. I think my biggest problem with this show is that despite the Not-Rapture being a world wide event the show acts like the rest of the world doesn't matter. Do the GR have cults in other countries? Are they a world-wide thing, or is it just a few dozen assholes in this one town determined to poo poo all over anyone trying to go on with their lives? It's a really petty thing but for all the "the world will never be the same" its the same bunch of assholes causing problems to the same group of people every loving episode. And, finally, hahahaha holy poo poo. After this being a member of the GR would be like painting a target on your head. Breaking into everyone's homes and stealing their treasured photos? Yeah, at least 1/5 of the people who lost someone would just up and murder a white wearing rear end in a top hat. Plus pretty much every single one of them committed a litany of serious crimes, so at some point they can just declare them a "terrorist organization" and gently caress their world up. If Linedolf is going for some deep psychological True Detective thing he's really botched it. pentyne fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Jul 21, 2014 05:29
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Guy A. Person posted:I like the Prius Twins and Matt and Sheriff Kevin. They are way overdue for making the GR more relatable though because I hate those guys. Also the Wayne/Tommy story line is super crap but at least it had the best imagery of the night: the life size reproductions of people's loved ones to bury. Obviously you're not supposed to like the GR at all, that's been straight up said by Lindelof and Perotta in multiple interviews. I'm pretty sure everyone's negative reaction to their existence in the show is exactly what they intended, for better or for worse.
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Jul 21, 2014 05:42
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Slackerish posted:Obviously you're not supposed to like the GR at all, that's been straight up said by Lindelof and Perotta in multiple interviews. I'm pretty sure everyone's negative reaction to their existence in the show is exactly what they intended, for better or for worse. Are you supposed to like anyone on this show?
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Jul 21, 2014 05:48
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Wait, so were the corpses real dead people that other people bought or manufactured fake dead people (which would tie it into the beginning montage)?
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Jul 21, 2014 06:07
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Tomahawk posted:Wait, so were the corpses real dead people that other people bought or manufactured fake dead people (which would tie it into the beginning montage)? Manufactured. They were basically Real Dolls but for mourning.
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Jul 21, 2014 06:15
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catpowerd posted:Manufactured. They were basically Real Dolls but for mourning. Who says they can't be for both?
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Jul 21, 2014 06:21
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pentyne posted:Do the GR have cults in other countries? Are they a world-wide thing, or is it just a few dozen assholes in this one town determined to poo poo all over anyone trying to go on with their lives?
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Jul 21, 2014 06:46
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Umm if you watched tonight's episode, it appeared that there was a chapter in wherever the hell Tommy was, which is somewhere warm enough to not have snow (and not even seem that cold) on Christmas Texas! 
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Jul 21, 2014 07:02
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Eukodol posted:Who says they can't be for both? I'm calling the police.
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Jul 21, 2014 07:19
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I appreciate that this show has brief glimpses of dong, but would prefer they be utilized in a more sexy context.
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Jul 21, 2014 08:40
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Slackerish posted:Obviously you're not supposed to like the GR at all, that's been straight up said by Lindelof and Perotta in multiple interviews. I'm pretty sure everyone's negative reaction to their existence in the show is exactly what they intended, for better or for worse. I just wish that someone, in-universe, would challenge the GR on how full of poo poo they are. I mean, they have no more information on the nature or the significance of the departure than anyone else, no specific doctrinal or dogmatic foundation on which they're formulating their beliefs and indeed, no clearly articulated ethos beyond, "Hey, I guess we should send our legions of douchey, chain-smoking mutes to collectively participate in a campaign of civil douchebaggery that might best be described as Project Mayhem's mildly retarded cousin".
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Jul 21, 2014 08:52
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Leb posted:I just wish that someone, in-universe, would challenge the GR on how full of poo poo they are. I mean, they have no more information on the nature or the significance of the departure than anyone else, no specific doctrinal or dogmatic foundation on which they're formulating their beliefs and indeed, no clearly articulated ethos beyond, "Hey, I guess we should send our legions of douchey, chain-smoking mutes to collectively participate in a campaign of civil douchebaggery that might best be described as Project Mayhem's mildly retarded cousin".
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Jul 21, 2014 09:01
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It's easy to not like the GR, but not based off of the merits of the story. It's the talking for me, I just think the concept is really stupid. If they're writing everything down on paper it's pointless, I would have targeted their rule be something like they can't talk to outsiders but are free to talk to each other.
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Jul 21, 2014 12:21
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Ersatz posted:Aside from the douchebaggery, I think my major problem with the GR is that I'm failing to understand why it is that a group that apparently embraces nihilism gives a poo poo about other people doing the same. Are they meant to be nihilists? They seem, just absolutely destructive and a-cultural. They bought Eccleston's church just so they could cover it with white paint. They broke into people's (their own?) homes, just so they could destroy people's sentimental objects. It's like they're trying to Rapture themselves out of the world, destroying anything that tethers them to the culture and replacing it with a noticeable absence, much like the people who were taken are now defined largely by their own absences, rather than what they actually did with their lives.
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Jul 21, 2014 12:28
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The GR just come across as pathetic trolls, and they really don't make for good TV. The smug smiles from the GR leader versus wide-eyed stares from the sheriff are annoying, every scene with them is annoying, Liv Tyler's lisp is annoying, this show is 50% annoying which is a shame because I think it has a lot of potential. I'm enjoying the sheriffs gradual transformation into Dog Man. Now he's driving his truck!
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Jul 21, 2014 12:52
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I'm done with this show. Episode 3 was pretty good but overall it's underwhelming blue balls of a show. I don't care if they never answer where the people went, I'm not waiting for those answers but what the gently caress is just going on. No headway is happening. I love a good mystery, I love a good character piece but after breaking bad and true detective, this show is just so behind the curve. I have felt every minute of the last four episodes, it's glacial. This is a ten episode season and 40% of it has done nothing but peak into the lives of very unlikable characters aimlessly traversing through this world with the promise that something special will happen.
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Jul 21, 2014 13:08
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The GR remind me a lot of the Goth kids from South Park. They don't care so much that they devote their entire waking lives to letting others know how much they don't care while pulling drags from their cigarettes.
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Jul 21, 2014 13:37
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Professor Shark posted:The GR remind me a lot of the Goth kids from South Park. They don't care so much that they devote their entire waking lives to letting others know how much they don't care while pulling drags from their cigarettes. Yes, this exactly. Apparently The Leftovers book has more of a dark comedy tone going for it, and from that perspective I can see where it would be more successful at what it's trying to do. But you can't expect me to take these cultists seriously. I might keep going with this for shits and giggles to see where it's going. But the potential shown in the 3rd episode went out the window in the 4th. hcreight fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Jul 21, 2014 16:29
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I hope everyone who stops watching this show keeps me updated on things like what day they stopped watching it, what episode forced them to stop and what storyline caused them to quit.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:37
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IMB posted:I hope everyone who stops watching this show keeps me updated on things like what day they stopped watching it, what episode forced them to stop and what storyline caused them to quit. Yeah, LOST really hosed up a lot of people.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:39
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No way that the population went that batshit retarded as shown in that series. Sure, TV requires some overdramatization, but this one's an inch beyond it. A large inch. And those GR people, no way that these annoying nuisances wouldn't be at the receiving end of beatdowns every day.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:40
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Combat Pretzel posted:No way that the population went that batshit retarded as shown in that series. Sure, TV requires some overdramatization, but this one's an inch beyond it. A large inch. Curious what exactly is 'batshit retarded'. Cults popping up, people acting erratically seems pretty plausible to me after an event like that. The unrapture would be the single craziest thing to happen in the history of the planet. Combat Pretzel posted:And those GR people, no way that these annoying nuisances wouldn't be at the receiving end of beatdowns every day. It seems like they are rolling this into more and more of the episodes. They showed the rock throwing, the tamato sauce(?) being thrown at them, and the GR people in Texas had bandages on.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:45
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Yeah this episode was pretty underwhelming. I don't have much faith left for this show but somebody earlier was wondering if the GR was local to the New York town where most of the show has been set so far. This episode at least showed that they are not when two GR members hand Tom a pamphlet at the bus station in another state (presumably Texas). Not much else happened from a plot perspective other than the GR committing a ton of crimes at the end and a bit more vague mystery was haphazardly tossed in regarding the crazed German-speaker's dream about white bodies then their bus coming across that very scene later in the episode. The one interesting character development/moment was Kevin's wife trying to retrieve the gifted lighter. This shows that she doesn't actually believe there is no more family. thathonkey fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Jul 21, 2014 16:51
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The Dave posted:It seems like they are rolling this into more and more of the episodes. They showed the rock throwing, the tamato sauce(?) being thrown at them, and the GR people in Texas had bandages on. After the mass breaking $ entering and theft of emotionally significant photos smug face lady will be dealing with near constant assaults on her members and a police force not terribly concerned with stopping them. So, I don't really see what their plan/endgame is because after this incident the blowback will likely destroy the cult. Maybe if Linedof was serious about the show being "all about the characters" he'd stop teasing all this mysterious stuff going on and write character driven stories.
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Jul 21, 2014 17:37
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One thing that really bothered me was how unsympathetic every character in the Tom/Hugging Cult is. Why would we give a poo poo/root/care about what happens to any one of them if they haven't presented us with a single reason to? Like maybe at first Tom is a good guy and he's in love with this chick so we want him to escape and get the girl, but now she's clearly crazy, he's clearly crazy, and bad stuff happening to them is more justified than them "succeeding" (whatever that is)? I don't get it.
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Jul 21, 2014 17:44
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Horrible episode. Show is mostly about people bumbling about, not doing much.
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Jul 21, 2014 18:19
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Combat Pretzel posted:No way that the population went that batshit retarded as shown in that series. Sure, TV requires some overdramatization, but this one's an inch beyond it. A large inch. And those GR people, no way that these annoying nuisances wouldn't be at the receiving end of beatdowns every day. I think were about to witness the beatdowns. Notice how the GR in Texas were pretty badly wounded?
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Open Source Idiom posted:Are they meant to be nihilists? At any rate, I think that Professor Shark nailed it. Ersatz fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Jul 21, 2014 18:35
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