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One day we'll get to the bottom of IRQs irrational hatred of us lovable Welsh rogues.
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I kinda wanna make a Girls S5/Togetherness S2 joint thread but I don't know if there's even a point in having the Togetherness part because I literally know 0 other people who watch it
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Feb 23, 2016 18:14
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Escobarbarian posted:Wow that X-Files cliffhanger sounds totally pathetic That entire episode may as well have been Chris Carter just giving the camera the double bird for an hour straight.
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Feb 23, 2016 18:23
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Escobarbarian posted:I kinda wanna make a Girls S5/Togetherness S2 joint thread God kills an adorable innocent puppy everytime someone makes a dumb combo thread
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Feb 23, 2016 18:43
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Combo threads get moaned about a lot, but I'm pretty sure Less Laughter is the sole person who moans so based on that: do it. I've kept meaning to watch Togetherness but never had the time.
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Feb 23, 2016 19:25
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EL BROMANCE posted:One day we'll get to the bottom of IRQs irrational hatred of us lovable Welsh rogues. I think we've cracked it
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Feb 23, 2016 21:02
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Escobarbarian posted:I kinda wanna make a Girls S5/Togetherness S2 joint thread but I don't know if there's even a point in having the Togetherness part because I literally know 0 other people who watch it I'd recommend the opposite; the Togetherness thread has the potential to not be lovely (unlike how I feel watching that show), but we all know how Girls chat goes around here. I certainly wouldn't try pairing a Girls thread with anything for that reason alone.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:28
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Escobarbarian posted:I kinda wanna make a Girls S5/Togetherness S2 joint thread but I don't know if there's even a point in having the Togetherness part because I literally know 0 other people who watch it I came looking for a Girls thread as I just watched the first episode and I thought it was actually good and not in last years Ray and a bunch of hateful people way, it was actually nice, which was refreshing. Last year there were only like five people who really posted in the Girls thread. I've never even heard of Togetherness.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:28
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How about this...make a thread for Girls but ban anybody who posts in it.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:28
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I dont think last years thread went bad but that was mainly because all the characters (except Ray) were actually written as awful people so when people accused them of being awful it was because they were actually awful and everyone could see that not just because of people and what they think of Lena Dunham.
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Feb 24, 2016 02:35
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zoux posted:I'm late to the party but, whoa the Expanse. I know, right? I fell hard in love with it. The character work isn't the greatest in the early going, but the worldbuilding is second to fuckin' none. also Miller owns, Thomas Jane plays the hell out of him. I just love this super-noir detective placed in the middle of a hard sci-fi space opera. It's going to be brutal waiting until next year for more. Hopefully they get a longer episode order for season 2. it'd allow them to tell more story while maintaining the deliberate, atmospheric pacing I loved so much (rocketing through plot is NOT the only right way for a genre show).
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Feb 24, 2016 07:51
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zoux posted:I'm late to the party but, whoa the Expanse. so I just started watching the expanse because of this post, and because I really needed something to watch and goddamn it's fantastic. I'm in love, seriously.
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Feb 24, 2016 12:22
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Feb 24, 2016 13:15
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I'm loving the Appalachia-Punk aesthetic of The Outsiders on WGN. It's a bit overacted and goofy at times but it's still a neat setting.
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Feb 24, 2016 15:01
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So far "Home Again" (ep4) of the X-Files is the best. It feels the most like an episode of X-Files. The third episode was pretty entertaining, but it didn't feel like X-Files.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:40
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The Iron Rose posted:so I just started watching the expanse because of this post, and because I really needed something to watch and goddamn it's fantastic. I'm in love, seriously. I just finished it it's soooo goooooood. It's arguably the best single season of a scifi show, and that's with me knowing all the plot points beforehand. I love the attention to detail, it's amazing world building.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:43
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Snak posted:So far "Home Again" (ep4) of the X-Files is the best. It feels the most like an episode of X-Files. The third episode was pretty entertaining, but it didn't feel like X-Files. The third episode felt a lot like the writers other X-files episodes such as Jose Chung's From Outer Space, War of the Coprophages, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose or Humbug
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Feb 24, 2016 19:49
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okay fine I'll watch The Expanse four eps behind on B99 and I'm like "hm should I keep watching this" and then the cold open of the next ep is Andy Samberg being wacky and falling over on a hoverboard. You're really testing me, show.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:50
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bobkatt013 posted:The third episode felt a lot like the writers other X-files episodes such as Jose Chung's From Outer Space, War of the Coprophages, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose or Humbug Kinda, but also not. Mulder felt totally out of character for the whole thing. I don't have a problem with comedy episodes of X-Files, those are some of the best, but it didn't feel like X-Files to me. It was a good episode though.
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Feb 24, 2016 19:53
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Escobarbarian posted:okay fine I'll watch The Expanse FYI I disagree with your TV opinions all the time so we may have different tastes! Don't hold me accountable if you don't like it!!
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Feb 24, 2016 19:54
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If this show sucks I'm gonna come to your house and beat you up
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Feb 24, 2016 20:00
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Escobarbarian posted:If this show sucks I'm gonna come to your house and beat you up I will say it is pretty, ah, deliberately paced and it does that sink-or-swim drop the audience in media res into the middle of the world with no explanation thing that sci fi books love to do.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:05
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I was already interested in it from the positive buzz when the pilot was first released, but I just kinda forgot about it. I'm not usually a sci-fi fan but it definitely sounds like more of my kind of thing than any show in the genre since BSG. B99 update: Bradley Whitford is so perfect as Jake's dad that it's won me over again temporarily edit AND NOW DAMON WAYANS JR IS HERE YAY Escobarbarian fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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Feb 24, 2016 20:10
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zoux posted:I just finished it it's soooo goooooood. It's arguably the best single season of a scifi show, and that's with me knowing all the plot points beforehand. I love the attention to detail, it's amazing world building. Yes! There are other people watching this show besides me!
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Feb 24, 2016 20:10
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zoux posted:I will say it is pretty, ah, deliberately paced and it does that sink-or-swim drop the audience in media res into the middle of the world with no explanation thing that sci fi books love to do. As someone that primarily read cerebral sci-fi and detective fiction growing up, absolutely none of that bothered me, but it could and apparently does bother people who have expectations of crazy-fast moving plots due to recent pacing conventions in genre shows.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:12
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MacheteZombie posted:Yes! There are other people watching this show besides me! Bro the internet is mad fer this show. Spatula City posted:As someone that primarily read cerebral sci-fi and detective fiction growing up, absolutely none of that bothered me, but it could and apparently does bother people who have expectations of crazy-fast moving plots due to recent pacing conventions in genre shows. Yeah I'm a hard sci fi reader from way back and I love poo poo in the show like no artificial gravity and how punishing acceleration can be. Usually actual hard scifi elements are taken out of stuff for movies and TV because, well, physics and math are scary, so I was glad to see all the "realistic" space stuff in the show.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:20
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zoux posted:Bro the internet is mad fer this show. Guess I should look into the Expanse tviv thread.... I don't know a single person who watched it.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:23
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MacheteZombie posted:Guess I should look into the Expanse tviv thread.... It's chock full of book spoilers.
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zoux posted:Yeah I'm a hard sci fi reader from way back and I love poo poo in the show like no artificial gravity and how punishing acceleration can be. Usually actual hard scifi elements are taken out of stuff for movies and TV because, well, physics and math are scary, so I was glad to see all the "realistic" space stuff in the show. Okay I'm sold. No one told me there were hard scifi elements in the show.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:23
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zoux posted:It's chock full of book spoilers. Are the books good and does the show follow the books?
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Feb 24, 2016 20:24
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MacheteZombie posted:Are the books good and does the show follow the books? I've not read all the books, just the first 2.5, and they get kind of sprawling because it was expanded from a planned trilogy to a uh, nonology, and POV characters appear and disappear. But the show is dead the gently caress on to the first book at least, they make some changes, add some characters, move them around and such. But Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the authors, are EPs on the show so any changes made seem to be blessed by the creators. It's an incredible adaption.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:27
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MacheteZombie posted:Are the books good and does the show follow the books? Yes and yes. The changes made to the show make sense for the change in medium, and the authors are involved with the show heavily. In a sense it's a do-over for some story elements that could potentially need tweaking. Season 1 of the show is about 60-70% of book 1.
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Snak posted:Kinda, but also not. Mulder felt totally out of character for the whole thing. I don't have a problem with comedy episodes of X-Files, those are some of the best, but it didn't feel like X-Files to me. It was a good episode though. Would you say he acted more like...Kolchak?
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Feb 24, 2016 21:37
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DrVenkman posted:Would you say he acted more like...Kolchak? I haven't actually watched any Kolchak. I caught half an episode of the Night Stalker remake on tv once, prompting me to look it up. I was aware of Kolchak before that from being a nerd, but I never watched it. I would say he acted more like his character from Californication.
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I haven't read any of the expanse books and I found it relatively easy to follow? The only thing that really confused me was the fact that I didn't know what OPA stood for until like episode 8 or so. But seriously, great show, marathoned it today and yesterday, very excited for season 2.
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zoux posted:I've not read all the books, just the first 2.5, and they get kind of sprawling because it was expanded from a planned trilogy to a uh, nonology, and POV characters appear and disappear. But the show is dead the gently caress on to the first book at least, they make some changes, add some characters, move them around and such. But Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the authors, are EPs on the show so any changes made seem to be blessed by the creators. Tortolia posted:Yes and yes. The changes made to the show make sense for the change in medium, and the authors are involved with the show heavily. In a sense it's a do-over for some story elements that could potentially need tweaking. Sweet, well I know what books I'm getting with my next paycheck. Thanks.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:02
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Snak posted:I haven't actually watched any Kolchak. I caught half an episode of the Night Stalker remake on tv once, prompting me to look it up. I was aware of Kolchak before that from being a nerd, but I never watched it. I've seen very little of it too actually, but that script was an aborted episode of the recent Stuart Townshend Kolchak show that lasted all of like 7 episodes.
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The only bad thing about The Expanse is Thomas Jane's dumb haircut.
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You mean the best thing
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MacheteZombie posted:Sweet, well I know what books I'm getting with my next paycheck. Thanks. From what I hear the writing is pretty bad, so only get them if that doesnt bother you
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