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Bown posted:....huh? Do you mean Virginia? Yes, I didn't mean her name was Mary Sue, a Mary Sue character is a term used for characters that are usually but not always an author writing an idealized version of themselves into something. In the show Virginia is just so perfectly progressive it's eye rolling.
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Hey look they're bringing Firefly back! In potentially the shittiest way possible!
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Jul 25, 2014 11:17
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Man just that premise alone is dumb. Firefly fans need to just give it up already.
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Jul 25, 2014 11:22
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I thought you must be joking since they already did comic books, but here we are.
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Midnight City posted:Yes, I didn't mean her name was Mary Sue, a Mary Sue character is a term used for characters that are usually but not always an author writing an idealized version of themselves into something. In the show Virginia is just so perfectly progressive it's eye rolling. I know what a Mary Sue is, I was confused as to how it applied to Virginia. I don't think she's especially progressive, really. The show seems to suggest that most women feel the same as her but most of them are just crushed/stifled by the society like Beau Bridges is, or they don't even know they felt it until they realised they were allowed to. They definitely had a problem with idealising her in general in the early episodes of season 1, but I think it's toned down now.
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Jul 25, 2014 11:27
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They announced that game like 6 years ago.
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I hate every ape I see
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Jul 25, 2014 15:23
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:I hate every ape I see From chimpan-a to chimpan-z?
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Jul 25, 2014 15:24
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Grape Ape was Great.  Photographic evidence: 
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Jul 25, 2014 15:32
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I'm gonna say a thing about Community but I demand you not talk about Community because it is incidental. Yahoo said they are going to release Community weekly and not all at once. I *think* this is the first time that a (non-ad driven) streaming service has released content like that, and I think it's a huuuuge mistake. Netflix has said time and time again that people prefer to binge watch and I'm not sure what Yahoo hopes to gain by doing the week to week thing. Basically if you are a streaming service and you aren't slavishly copying everything Netflix does w/r/t its business and content model, you are loving up.
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Jul 25, 2014 15:38
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bobkatt013 posted:From chimpan-a to chimpan-z? No you'll never make a monkey out of me...
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Jul 25, 2014 15:48
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Oh my god! I was wrong!
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Oh my god! I was wrong! It was Earth all along?
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Jul 25, 2014 15:55
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zoux posted:I'm gonna say a thing about Community but I demand you not talk about Community because it is incidental. Their logic is probably that it'll bring people back to their service every week, as opposed to people binging the whole show over a couple days and then never going back to Yahoo Screen again. But I agree with you tbh.
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Jul 25, 2014 16:01
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you've fin'lly made a monkey...
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E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:you've fin'lly made a monkey... yes you finally made a monkey...
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Yes you've fin-ly-made-a-mon-key-out-of-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezoux posted:I'm gonna say a thing about Community but I demand you not talk about Community because it is incidental. Isn't that how Netflix did their first series or two?
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Jul 25, 2014 16:19
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Lillehammer was afaik their first original series and it was all-at-once.
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raditts posted:Yes you've fin-ly-made-a-mon-key-out-of-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I LOVE YOU DOCTOR ZAIUS
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raditts posted:Yes you've fin-ly-made-a-mon-key-out-of-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee From what I remember, Netflix's first show was Lilyhammer and it came out all at once. Has there been confirmation that Community on Yahoo Screen will be ad-free?
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Jul 25, 2014 16:22
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If I defeat a mod at posting do I get his star?
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Jul 25, 2014 16:23
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zoux posted:If I defeat a mod at posting do I get his star? You have to eat his heart to gain his powers.
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I don't know how useful forums invisibility would be.
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Jul 25, 2014 16:26
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zoux posted:I don't know how useful forums invisibility would be. You could just walk right into any forum and steal all the shitposts without anyone knowing.
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IRQ posted:You could just walk right into any forum and steal all the shitposts without anyone knowing. Those are already stored in one convenient place 
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Jul 25, 2014 16:43
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Does anyone else watch Major Crimes? It's one of those shows that isn't really TVIV material (procedural, crime drama, direct successor to The Closer), but it's consistently great, mainly because of the strength of their characters. Anyway, last week they introduced the Special Operations team of the LAPD led by TNT is doing an online poll with some of it's shows recently called the TV Inner Circle (The Last Ship is one), and there was an extensive poll for Major Crimes today, indicating they're thinking about spinning out another show in the Closer/Major Crimes universe centered on the SO team and possibly getting Jon Tenney's Fritz Howard to lead the team. Which may or may not be a good idea - I'm not confident on Laurie Holden's ability to carry a TV show but her character at least seemed smart and confident (with a tragic past). The SWAT characters they introduced were great, though, including one I'm sure posts in YLLS. So, um. That's a thing. The end.
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muscles like this? posted:Its on some "FYI" channel. I wouldn't exactly call that real. Not like this......not like this 
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bobkatt013 posted:From chimpan-a to chimpan-z? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB3eL1sZxuI&t=23s
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zoux posted:I'm gonna say a thing about Community but I demand you not talk about Community because it is incidental. I'm glad you brought this up, because I disagree completely. This is one of those situations where I think you have to analyze the data a bit more than just "people use our service in this way." I mean, there are definitely times that I wished I didn't have to wait a week for the next episode of Fargo, Sleepy Hollow, or Arrow, but that doesn't mean that it's smart as a content provider to allow access in such a way. Releasing episodes week to week allows you to build up tension, and as a result builds excitement in your audience. A show like House of Cards has none of that. Every cliffhanger can be resolved by pressing the Next Episode button. Honestly, this is why I think that, years from now, we won't remember House of Cards in the same way we do The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, or Fargo. The former was just sort of a flash in the pan as far as pop culture goes. People talked about it for a couple weeks and then it dropped off the radar, owing in part to the fact that it was more of a long movie than a TV show. In comparison, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad managed to build themselves into event television. They both dominated popular culture for months at a time, in a way that House of Cards could never hope to achieve in a dozen seasons. Note: Very little of what I just said applies to 30 minute comedies. 
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Counter-point: Orange is the New Black has been very successful and continued its hype for a while after each season had finished.
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JohnSherman posted:I'm glad you brought this up, because I disagree completely. It's worth noting a couple of things for either side: 1.) It's arguable that Orange Is the New Black has done a much better job of keeping the momentum you speak of going (Bown, of course, is far quicker on the draw here), and 2.) Amazon Prime originals like Alpha House (getting a second season) release on a week to week basis. Alpha House hasn't gotten a hell of a lot of traction, but it's got a second season, and I suspect the new crop of shows are going to do better (though I'm pulling this suspicion directly out of my rear end, so feel free to disagree).
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I know competition is good and all that jazz but I couldn't give a poo poo about streaming sites that aren't Netflix.
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PriorMarcus posted:I know competition is good and all that jazz but I couldn't give a poo poo about streaming sites that aren't Netflix. Well, I'm primed for Bosch, Transparent, and Mozart in the Jungle. Transparent, in particular, is something you're going to be seeing a LOT of critics talk about, whether they end up liking or hating the series as a whole. And while Bosch doesn't do much outside the boundaries of a long-form police procedural (to the point where not everyone's going to like it), it does what it does so drat well I have trouble caring.
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Mozart in the Jungle seemed like it could be rad but also maybe sorta generic. Which one was Transparent again?
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Mozart in the Jungle is the first time I've ever thought that a TV show was written specifically for me to enjoy and nobody else. Bosch looks good too. The rest of their new shows are things I'll probably never watch.
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I don't think they've confirmed it, but Community will totally have ads. I don't see why it wouldn't.
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PriorMarcus posted:I know competition is good and all that jazz but I couldn't give a poo poo about streaming sites that aren't Netflix. I find it hard to justify getting a paid prime membership when I can get the free 2 day shipping on a guest prime account. I'm just not aware of Amazon having anything Netflix doesn't aside from some original content I'm not very interested in.
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IRQ posted:I find it hard to justify getting a paid prime membership when I can get the free 2 day shipping on a guest prime account. I'm just not aware of Amazon having anything Netflix doesn't aside from some original content I'm not very interested in. HBO
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I dropped Netflix after House of Cards season two. Will pick it back up when season three starts. I use Amazon Prime frequently. Way more than I did Netflix.
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