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Knightmare was great, but nothing sucked worse than watching a team screw up really soon into the quest and seeing it get started again. Treygard killed as the host in fairness. I could defend the team here by claiming that here in Wales left is right, and right is left... but he's just a thicko. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 00:07
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Last year's Black Mirror Christmas special was just added to Netflix today and man, that was loving harsh, even for Black Mirror.
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Dec 26, 2015 03:38
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Bates Motel is really good, everyone is perfectly cast. There is! And that show really needs more people watching it; it's fun and charming  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3746507I don't think I've posted in there yet as I've not caught up; 2 more eps left in the first season for me.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:01
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zoux posted:Double post but since many of us are with familes and friends who don't have our sophisticated and superior palates, what TV are y'all getting exposed to? i learned that a secret map proves the vikings had visited china
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Dec 26, 2015 04:08
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corn in the bible posted:i learned that a secret map proves the vikings had visited china I watched a bunch of Andy Griffith shows and learned that Don Knotts comedic skills remain amazing even unto this day.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:24
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i watched a lot of DONUT SHOWDOWN which i am now convinced is the greatest show of all time
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Dec 26, 2015 04:26
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"i'm making little aliens out of chocolate so it looks like the donut is in space"
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Dec 26, 2015 04:27
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Bruceski posted:And yet they showed an hour a night, so you got the worst of both worlds. Everything felt very rushed, no consistency between the first and second half-hours... To be fair, Galavant would have been a bad show anyway, because it felt like they didn't have enough story even for what time they did have.
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Dec 26, 2015 04:36
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A Very Murray Christmas was extremely cool and good and I'm glad I waited until today to watch it. Okay bye
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Dec 26, 2015 05:12
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muscles like this? posted:Last year's Black Mirror Christmas special was just added to Netflix today and man, that was loving harsh, even for Black Mirror. Is it intellectually interesting or just mean? I like about 50% of Black Mirror and hate the other 50% of it and think its garbage. Because I'm an egotistical snob.
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Dec 26, 2015 06:31
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It's one of the interesting ones. I disliked the pig fucker, the cartoon politician, and the White Bear memory wipe episode if that tells you anything.
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Dec 26, 2015 06:44
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Mu Zeta posted:It's one of the interesting ones. I disliked the pig fucker, the cartoon politician, and the White Bear memory wipe episode if that tells you anything. You liked this episode but disliked White Bear?
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Dec 26, 2015 06:46
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White Bear is really irritating to watch.
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Dec 26, 2015 06:49
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Mu Zeta posted:It's one of the interesting ones. I disliked the pig fucker, the cartoon politician, and the White Bear memory wipe episode if that tells you anything. We are on pretty much the same page. "White Bear' was so hyped. In fact, i went into the entire show blind except for the fact that people said things like "omg white bear". The only interesting parts of that episode are during the end credits. Its like they could have told an interesting story, but instead they opted for "mystery" and left the interesting bit as an easter egg. Edit: god drat I love Black Mirror. Edit 2: how is this one episode?! I mean I get that it's a special, it's just blowing my mind. Snak fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 07:03
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Josh Lyman posted:I watched the pilot of Colony, the new show from Carlton Cuse. Didn't Cuse join the show after a few episodes because Damon Lindelof was going insane?
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Dec 26, 2015 09:03
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Snak posted:Is it intellectually interesting or just mean? Yes. I think more than any other episode, the Christmas episode is super emotional but completely falls apart about 5 minutes after the episode ends when you think about how contrived everything about it is.
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Dec 26, 2015 09:07
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Sleeveless posted:Yes. Yeah I really liked it until the ending, when it became the poster-child for what I hate about Black Mirror. And maybe British scifi in general. Basically they had a really good premise, and a really good exploration of that premise, and a really poo poo idea of how to conclude it with a "moral".
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Dec 26, 2015 09:18
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Didn't Cuse join the show after a few episodes because Damon Lindelof was going insane? Yeah Lindelof considers/ed Cuse a mentor of some kind so he was brought in very early on to help out
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Dec 26, 2015 09:24
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Argue posted:There is! And that show really needs more people watching it; it's fun and charming Yeah, It's kind of hard to explain. OK, so this Catholic girl accidentally got artificially inseminated, then the baby daddy turned out to be the son of a Hotel chain tycoon, which leads to all sorts of crazy telenovela complications, so everybody is cheating on each other, there are secret twins, amnesia and blackmail storylines, the whole shebang. It's also about Jane who had her whole life plan disrupted by this unexpected pregnancy. So it's also about the strength of friends and family dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. It's also laugh laugh out loud funny at times but it usually comes from what we know about the characters, but the characters are usually fully developed characters. Even Jane's dad, who is usually good for a laugh, genuinely, sincerely cares about his daughter. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 13:21
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Mu Zeta posted:It's one of the interesting ones. I disliked the pig fucker, the cartoon politician, and the White Bear memory wipe episode if that tells you anything. I didn't care much for pig fucker either, but it annoys me that one of the main issues I had with it is that it just seemed too silly. Well strike that off the list. Brooker's creative stuff still rubs me the wrong way though. I just can't help but watch some of it while hearing him, sat on the couch, and calling it a bunch of pretentious poo poo. Some is solid, but generally not when it's all in his hands.
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Dec 26, 2015 14:16
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The cartoon bear politician one was really weak, but it was also originally an unused Nathan Barley script making fun of Sascha Baron Cohen which explains a lot. Then again I liked the pigfucker episode and that started its life as a script satirizing the media coverage of Princess Diana written back when she was still alive so idk.
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Dec 26, 2015 14:26
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So did anyone catch the early premiere of Second Chance? I'm still not sure what to make of it. I didn't dislike it, but on the other hand, I can't remember a single thing I actively liked about it. It was just this side of inoffensively boring. But I've missed Tim DeKay as an FBI agent since White Collar got cancelled, so I'm almost conflicted.
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Dec 26, 2015 18:28
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I must be broken. The Waldo Moment is my second favorite episode of Black Mirror after 15 Million Merits.
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Dec 26, 2015 18:44
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So yesterday my internet/tv reception was hosed, so I decided to pop in those Wire dvds I had bought ages ago... Motherfucker.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:20
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I don't know if it's a thing with British television in general, but Black Mirror has a really bad habit of coming up with a clever idea and then twisting it and exploring it in interesting ways, and then running it into the ground yelling "GET IT? GET IT!? DO YOU GET IT!!" in your face. It's a huge turn-off.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:25
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Christopher Nolan also does that so it must be a British thing
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Dec 26, 2015 22:28
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I mean, Sherlock and Dr. Who also do it, which is why I said that. But I removed mentioning either of those from my post because I didn't want to talk about them.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:30
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let me know when you two finish jerking eachother off, I will clean the bad opinions off the floor ^_^
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Dec 26, 2015 22:32
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I like Black Mirror, it's just a rollercoaster watching it. even the episodes I like I'm like huh neat -> haha holy poo poo -> oh gently caress oh gently caress -> drat -> okay yeah -> yeah okay -> are you serious
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Dec 26, 2015 22:35
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Snak posted:I like Black Mirror, it's just a rollercoaster watching it.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:38
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:I was really surprised to see you and Zetas opinion on the hristmas episode. I thought it was a spiritual successor to White Bear. I would have assumed if you disliked that episode this one would not do it for you. White bear was basically the opposite of what I'm describing. White Bear was lame until the scenes during the credits, which were the best part.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:40
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Kurtofan posted:So yesterday my internet/tv reception was hosed, so I decided to pop in those Wire dvds I had bought ages ago... Sheeeeeiiittttttttt.
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Dec 27, 2015 00:03
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Is Colony the scifi version of The Leftovers, but from Cuse instead of Lindelof? I watched the pilot, looked mildly interesting, but reading up on it, he said it's about the life under an alien invasion. Kind of feels like it's going to be there on a hanging thread, never going to be detailed.
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Dec 27, 2015 00:18
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Kurtofan posted:So yesterday my internet/tv reception was hosed, so I decided to pop in those Wire dvds I had bought ages ago... Omar comin'
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Dec 27, 2015 00:21
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Marco Polo special is out, One Hundred Eyes. Watching it tonight.
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Dec 27, 2015 06:15
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Manos del Sino posted:I must be broken. The Waldo Moment is my second favorite episode of Black Mirror after 15 Million Merits. Same here. I must be doubly broken because I also think White Bear is complete unadulterated garbage
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Dec 27, 2015 08:09
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I'm curious about the percentage of non-HD tvs in the general public still in use, and if the prices will adjust accordingly when nobody really has a non-hd tv anymore. I was browsing through the on-demand menu for comcast and shows on channels you don't subscribe to are 1.99 for regular or 2.99 for hd. That seemed kind of weird since if you have HD through comcast, you're already paying a fee for that. Shouldn't the content cost the same no matter the resolution?
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Dec 27, 2015 11:25
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FetusSlapper posted:I'm curious about the percentage of non-HD tvs in the general public still in use, and if the prices will adjust accordingly when nobody really has a non-hd tv anymore. I was browsing through the on-demand menu for comcast and shows on channels you don't subscribe to are 1.99 for regular or 2.99 for hd. That seemed kind of weird since if you have HD through comcast, you're already paying a fee for that. Shouldn't the content cost the same no matter the resolution? The thing is comcrap likes money.
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At this point charging extra for hd packages is on the level of cell phone providers charging extra for text messages, in that it's total bullshit that probably costs them little to nothing extra but they'll try to squeeze that extra bit of profit out of you because gently caress you.
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