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jng2058 posted:Dude, I saw Twin Peaks live on air. But that was twenty three years ago. There are people posting here who weren't born yet. We should cut them some slack for not going back to watch a, let's be honest, ambitious but flawed show from before their birth. My dad may have watched it while he was feeding me a bottle. I still need to go back and watch it since I'm frequently told it hits all the points of TV series that I like.
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I get that, I just don't see how Dune is a more well known reference.
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Nov 23, 2014 05:43
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Air is lava! posted:Wait! He lives in a superhero world, so if he were to start wearing an animal mask during his missions, that wouldn't be too out of the ordinary, right?
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Nov 23, 2014 06:05
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BSam posted:I get that, I just don't see how Dune is a more well known reference. More people saw it, the book is pretty popular for sci fi nerds who would also be more likely to see or hear of it in this day and age. Twin Peaks is cool, but I can't believe we're even talking about which one sticks more in the popular consciousness here.
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Nov 23, 2014 06:09
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He had an alien in him in The Hidden. No wonder he's crazy.
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Nov 23, 2014 06:41
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Kheldarn posted:Gonna be funny if that's true. Isn't Mary Sue Poots her actual name from her adopted parents or whatever? We don't know what her given name was from Muad'Dad and VisceraMom.
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Nov 23, 2014 06:52
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mikeraskol posted:Isn't Mary Sue Poots her actual name from her adopted parents or whatever? Yup, that was the name they gave her at the orphanage.
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Nov 23, 2014 07:05
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Error 404 posted:More people saw it, the book is pretty popular for sci fi nerds who would also be more likely to see or hear of it in this day and age. A show that has been in the news recently due to its return.
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Nov 23, 2014 07:25
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bobkatt013 posted:A show that has been in the news recently due to its return. Which still doesn't exactly make it overly notable. You need to have seen a thing in order to say "hey, didn't I see that guy in that thing?"
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Nov 23, 2014 07:29
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TARDISman posted:Yup, that was the name they gave her at the orphanage. Which makes "Thats not her name!!!", funny since she gave herself the name Skye. So yes dad it is her name.
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Nov 23, 2014 07:59
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Gavok posted:He lives in a superhero world, so if he were to start wearing an animal mask during his missions, that wouldn't be too out of the ordinary, right? "Do you like hurting other people?" "Not really, it's just a part of my job." "Oh."
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Nov 23, 2014 13:04
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Zythrst posted:Which makes "Thats not her name!!!", funny since she gave herself the name Skye. So yes dad it is her name. He probably gave her a name and that's what he's talking about. Like Medusa.
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Nov 23, 2014 17:35
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Pander posted:I know him best as Trey from sex and the city. You just publicly admitted to watching Sex and the City, how do you feel?
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Nov 23, 2014 18:26
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Deakul posted:You just publicly admitted to watching Sex and the City, how do you feel? Like a guy who had a girlfriend in the early 2000s.
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Nov 23, 2014 18:27
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Deakul posted:You just publicly admitted to watching Sex and the City, how do you feel? Sex and the City was a good show. The movies, however...
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Nov 23, 2014 18:35
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twistedmentat posted:He probably gave her a name and that's what he's talking about. Like Medusa.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:05
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Pander posted:Like a guy who had a girlfriend in the early 2000s.  You poor soul.
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Nov 23, 2014 19:21
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Deakul posted:
Eh. A girlfriend in 2011 kept trying to get me to watch all those bravo shows like real housewives of whereverthefuck. By comparison, SatC was a drat good show. Such a different, odd role for maclachlan too, he's almost unrecognizable compared to his christopher walken-esque performance in Agents.
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Nov 23, 2014 20:55
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Pander posted:Eh. A girlfriend in 2011 kept trying to get me to watch all those bravo shows like real housewives of whereverthefuck. To me, that was his formative role. I can't see him as anyone but Trey. You know how Nicholas Cage can only ever play himself? Kyle McLachlan can only ever play Trey MacDougal in my mind. He will forever be the stuck-up conservative guy with perfect manners who cannot get a boner and replies "Okie-Dokey" to whatever his mother tells him to do when she strokes his arm. In fact, I think, he's still Trey in S.H.I.E.L.D - after all, he was also a doctor in SatC. His life just took a very different turn around Y2K... But now he's back to being a crazy, murderous alien-lover.
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Nov 24, 2014 07:58
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I cannot tie down Nicolas 'Cage' Coppola down to any role. That guy can be anything. The next episode will be on December 2. What's going on this week?
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Nov 24, 2014 08:01
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Some stuff takes off because it's Thanksgiving week.
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Nov 24, 2014 08:03
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Error 404 posted:More people saw it, the book is pretty popular for sci fi nerds who would also be more likely to see or hear of it in this day and age. gently caress are you talking about, Twin Peaks is one of the most notable cultural cornerstones of the 90s. Agents of SHIELD would not exist today if it weren't for Twin Peaks basically reinventing television at the time, and it is coming back in a big way. I love Dune but that poo poo hasn't really been relevant in, well, ever.
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Nov 24, 2014 10:48
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Hakkesshu posted:gently caress are you talking about, Twin Peaks is one of the most notable cultural cornerstones of the 90s. Agents of SHIELD would not exist today if it weren't for Twin Peaks basically reinventing television at the time, and it is coming back in a big way. 
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Nov 24, 2014 11:53
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Hakkesshu posted:gently caress are you talking about, Twin Peaks is one of the most notable cultural cornerstones of the 90s. Agents of SHIELD would not exist today if it weren't for Twin Peaks basically reinventing television at the time, and it is coming back in a big way. Exactly. I was going to post something similar, but you nailed it. People who didn't see it for themselves really have no idea how huge TP was.
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Nov 24, 2014 12:09
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Hakkesshu posted:gently caress are you talking about, Twin Peaks is one of the most notable cultural cornerstones of the 90s. Agents of SHIELD would not exist today if it weren't for Twin Peaks basically reinventing television at the time, and it is coming back in a big way. I've never seen Twin Peaks myself (I would like to grab the new Blu-ray set), but wasn't it essentially the show that began the more modern, serialised, arc-based type of tv as opposed to episodes always being essentially self-contained? Or was there popular stuff that did that even earlier?
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Nov 24, 2014 12:20
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Well, soaps and prime time soaps. You want a quintessential experimental arc based show that eschews conventions before its time, check out Mary Hartman Mary Hartman
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BreakAtmo posted:I've never seen Twin Peaks myself (I would like to grab the new Blu-ray set), but wasn't it essentially the show that began the more modern, serialised, arc-based type of tv as opposed to episodes always being essentially self-contained? Or was there popular stuff that did that even earlier? It wasn't really the first show to do arcs, but it, followed by something like X-Files and Homicide, basically showed that it was possible to do a movie-level production on television with actual location shoots and dramatic editing and a score, and was instrumental in popularising the heavily serialised hour-long shows that comprise a large part of modern popular culture to the point where it has become as big of a business as the movie industry. Before Twin Peaks, pretty much every TV show looked like cheap garbage. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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Nov 24, 2014 13:50
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Hakkesshu posted:It wasn't really the first show to do arcs, but it, followed by something like X-Files and Homicide, basically showed that it was possible to do a movie-level production on television with actual location shoots and dramatic editing and a score, and was instrumental in popularising the heavily serialised hour-long shows that comprise a large part of modern popular culture to the point where it has become as big of a business as the movie industry. Before Twin Peaks, pretty much every TV show looked like cheap garbage. Also there would be no X-files if Twin Peaks did not exist. They share some of the same actors, and they share some of the same themes.
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Nov 24, 2014 16:09
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Hakkesshu posted:gently caress are you talking about, Twin Peaks is one of the most notable cultural cornerstones of the 90s. Agents of SHIELD would not exist today if it weren't for Twin Peaks basically reinventing television at the time, and it is coming back in a big way. Except for the 'Sting in gold-plated hot pants' fetishists. 
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Nov 24, 2014 16:28
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I watched the Get Smart movie on a whim last night, Christian Ward is in it briefly as a secret service agent. That's probably well before White Collar.
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Nov 24, 2014 18:58
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Except for the 'Sting in gold-plated hot pants' fetishists. Also Venture Brothers.
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Nov 24, 2014 19:08
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Except for the 'Sting in gold-plated hot pants' fetishists. The movie is amazing. 
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Nov 24, 2014 23:13
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That tantric sex must really work out the core.
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Nov 25, 2014 04:37
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If I looked like that I'd wear bird underwear too.
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Nov 25, 2014 06:32
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kingcom posted:The movie is amazing. They are also shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etoRUtBRd-U
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Nov 25, 2014 06:46
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I'm 38 and Twin Peaks is poo poo. Wanna fight about it?
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Nov 25, 2014 09:12
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I'm 42 and agree. Twin Peaks knocked everyone's socks off when it started, sure. But that lasted only up until the point everyone realised they had no loving clue where to take the show and were making it up as it went. Often poorly. Watching the Battlestar reboot or Lost was the same. Some people raved over them, but I could never get over the fact that they just weren't going anywhere further than drowning in their own accumulated bullshit.
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Nov 25, 2014 10:34
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'm 42 and agree. Twin Peaks knocked everyone's socks off when it started, sure. But that lasted only up until the point everyone realised they had no loving clue where to take the show and were making it up as it went. Often poorly. Heroes as well. When they changed from the plan of "new people with a new story each season" to keeping the same plot and people you could smell the writers' panic through the TV. Heck, even good TV shows have those moments like Babylon 5 ("you're cancelled" "well, I better shove S5's planned plot into S4, thanks for the heads up" "They loved it, give us another season!" "...crap.")
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Nov 25, 2014 10:39
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Rocksicles posted:I'm 38 and Twin Peaks is poo poo. Wanna fight about it? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no, I absolutly agree with you.
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Last Resort was the same thing. Pilot has a nuclear submarine captain declare sovereignty, follow-up episodes spent as much, if not more, time on relationship drama than the actual geo-political consequences of him launching and detonating a nuke off the east coast.
Slashrat fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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