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My co-worker came into today and I asked him how he liked the last episode. Hated it, "the whole episode was in just one room". How do I get him fired?
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Clearly he needs to go see Doctors Jeckyll and Frankenstein for an adjustment...
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May 25, 2016 04:41
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Did she get a lobotomy? I honestly can't remember that episode. Was it season 1?
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May 25, 2016 04:44
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Solice Kirsk posted:Did she get a lobotomy? I honestly can't remember that episode. Was it season 1? No, she was just trephined. Had she been lobotomized we wouldn't have a show.
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May 25, 2016 07:48
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Solice Kirsk posted:Did she get a lobotomy? I honestly can't remember that episode. Was it season 1? She got trepanned. I think the orderly said that sometimes people at that "clinic" got lobotomized though. And yes, the episode where it all went down was in S1, "Closer Than Sisters". Which was a great ep, partially because of Eva Green being the usual awesome and partially because it was structured as an epistolary flashback, which is Victorian as all hell.
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May 25, 2016 07:50
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Eva Green is just so good in this. I love it when Vanessa is just freaking out demons and suchlike. She's got Dracula and Lucifer both cowering in the corner. There's this great sort of thing where that's really cool to see but there's also a part of me being all  about it too. Like when Ethan's wolfing someone to death I suppose.Rory Kinnear was great too. I like that he just quadrupled his amount of characters this episode. It was nice to see him being something other than Mr. Glum. Don't get me wrong, he's very good at that, but a change was nice.
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McDragon posted:Eva Green is just so good in this. I love it when Vanessa is just freaking out demons and suchlike. She's got Dracula and Lucifer both cowering in the corner. There's this great sort of thing where that's really cool to see but there's also a part of me being all Frankenstein's monster would be an intolerably bad character in the hands of anyone except Rory Kinnear. For all the moping and hair flipping and poetry, he handles it with nuance and depth that makes the character sympathetic.
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May 25, 2016 15:20
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This episode almost felt like a play since it all took place in one room and was totally character driven. My roommate, that has never watched the show before, was 100% transfixed on it and is now plowing through the series to catch up.
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May 25, 2016 17:04
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The man who the creature was was just such a nice and sweet man, it's so sad.
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May 25, 2016 17:25
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Wasnt the orderly supposed to be pre-death frankenstien?
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May 25, 2016 23:01
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Gaj posted:Wasnt the orderly supposed to be pre-death frankenstien? Yes. My guess is: the orderly quits his position at the asylum. As a result, he loses the ability to afford the 'cushy' flat above the Chinese restaurant. He and his family then move to that tenement house near the factory he saw men walking from, after getting a job there. It's *there* where he has a fatal workplace accident, and someone sells his body to Victor (as dealing in cadavers for rich doctors/medical schools was a rather lucrative thing back then). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_snatching#United_Kingdom BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:16 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 23:12
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Couldn't Victor just have stolen a body from work?
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May 26, 2016 00:50
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Some really great shots in the episode. I love the one where Vanessa has the bit reinserted in her mouth, and the camera lingers. It's pretty good to be able to convey emotion when your face is physically restrained.
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May 26, 2016 20:46
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This is arguably the best TV show on right now. It's pure art in every sense. Because of my tinnitus I tend to watch things with headphones on and holy poo poo the music is profoundly good. Is it available anywhere? Eva Green deserves all the Emmys. Please don't tell me this is the last season. Also if you are freaked out by old school mental health poo poo read up on it. What they did to people is both tragic and horrific.
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May 28, 2016 03:11
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Captain Log posted:This is arguably the best TV show on right now. It's pure art in every sense. Because of my tinnitus I tend to watch things with headphones on and holy poo poo the music is profoundly good. Is it available anywhere? And they were still doing a lot of that stuff up until the 1950s (some of it even as far as the 1970s). I wonder how barbaric taking medication will seem to people in the future.
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Mouse Dresser posted:And they were still doing a lot of that stuff up until the 1950s (some of it even as far as the 1970s). I wonder how barbaric taking medication will seem to people in the future. "Why did almost every new medication come with so many 'it might make you kill yourself' warnings?" "Well, you see, Timmy...that was back before the Great Pharmaceutical Purge of 2028, when the first *real* penis enlargement pills were rushed to market and ended up causing penile necrosis in a large group of initial users...which led to the 'Slaughter by the Dickless.' After that, new medications were made far more carefully." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:55 on May 28, 2016 |
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May 28, 2016 06:38
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Mouse Dresser posted:And they were still doing a lot of that stuff up until the 1950s (some of it even as far as the 1970s). I wonder how barbaric taking medication will seem to people in the future. Hopefully they will look back and realize how dumb a lot of people were when it comes to holistic remedies and vaccinations. I mean, the worst case scenario is that there isn't a future and humanity loses in the antibiotic/bacteria arms race.
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Grinning Goblin posted:Hopefully they will look back and realize how dumb a lot of people were when it comes to holistic remedies and vaccinations. I mean, the worst case scenario is that there isn't a future and humanity loses in the antibiotic/bacteria arms race. China and India are ensuring we'll lose by being gigantic poo poo cauldron petri dishes filled with gigantic populations who will never be convinced to 'go clean,' even if given the means with which to do so. Africa might birth things like Ebola, but it'll be China and India that incubate the world-ending plague, most likely.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:China and India are ensuring we'll lose by being gigantic poo poo cauldron petri dishes filled with gigantic populations who will never be convinced to 'go clean,' even if given the means with which to do so. Africa might birth things like Ebola, but it'll be China and India that incubate the world-ending plague, most likely. I mean, that or good ol' American agriculture, routinely giving every antibiotic on the market in feed.
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cheerfullydrab posted:The man who the creature was was just such a nice and sweet man, it's so sad. NIce? His disturbing description of the surgery and its effects gave me nightmares! I watched the show late at night and when I woke up the next morning it was the first thing on my mind.  Dracula Vs. Trepanation: which is the greater horror. Pinky Artichoke posted:I mean, that or good ol' American agriculture, routinely giving every antibiotic on the market in feed. quote:An open letter signed by 150 international doctors, scientists and researchers Friday called for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to be moved or delayed due to the Zika virus. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 11:09 on May 29, 2016 |
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May 29, 2016 11:05
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So I'm a little confused by the evil entities at work in this show. Obviously Lucifer was the one who was haunting Vanessa's dreams and giving her visions, etc., and the witches last season definitely seemed to be in his employ. But in the first season, it was Dracula who took Mina, right? Everything about that seemed way more in line with his MO than Lucifer's. The thing that throws me is that there seems to be a general sense that Dracula is a "new" presence on the show, but if I'm right then he was an active antagonist before Lucifer.
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May 29, 2016 11:52
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The characters thought the egyptian vampire was "the master", they kill him and all his minions immediately die. But then Mina was still alive so it implies that the egyptian vampire wasn't her master. So we just assumed the master was Lucifer but then in season 2 Lyle reveals that there are 2 brothers so...
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ShakeZula posted:So I'm a little confused by the evil entities at work in this show. Obviously Lucifer was the one who was haunting Vanessa's dreams and giving her visions, etc., and the witches last season definitely seemed to be in his employ. But in the first season, it was Dracula who took Mina, right? Everything about that seemed way more in line with his MO than Lucifer's. The thing that throws me is that there seems to be a general sense that Dracula is a "new" presence on the show, but if I'm right then he was an active antagonist before Lucifer. Not sure but I think Lucifer and Dracula are 'brothers'. Lucifer is the soul or spirit based evil entity (and can take over people to communicate), and Dracula the animal who resides on Earth, on our physical plane of existence. I agree that Eva Green should get all the Emmys but even though the Luci/Drac relationship is murky, John Logan's writing on this show is fantastic. Also, I'm grateful that Billy Piper has dropped the accent, she's much better without it.
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May 29, 2016 17:16
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Tonight's a Western episode, and thus far it seems like Hecate is back up to her old tricks.
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May 30, 2016 03:06
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Hey, the Western storyline finally got interesting. Only took them four episodes.
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May 30, 2016 07:21
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I was wondering if they'd be able to get a suitable heavy to play Ethan's father, and I'll be damned if Brian Cox wasn't the perfect choice.
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ShakeZula posted:I was wondering if they'd be able to get a suitable heavy to play Ethan's father, and I'll be damned if Brian Cox wasn't the perfect choice. Yeah I don't follow casting news so what a pleasant surprise. I like Josh Hartnett but I'm glad they realized he can't carry an ep, so they surrounded his episode with some solid supporting cast. It was about him but he had to do like 10% of the lifting.
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Hopefully they fit in another scene where Cox and Dalton get to verbally spar again. I could've watched a whole hour of them debate about whiskey/whisky. This was also the first episode where I actually felt some interest in Hecate's character, and got *really* interested in the Inspector's character. I kind of hope the Inspector kills Ethan, but not until Ethan's bitten him or something, allowing the Inspector to go on as a righteous Lupus Dei. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 11:32 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 11:28
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I was so surprised and happy to see Brian Cox, definitely my favorite thing that's happened this season. He's good in everything he does.
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I really like Hecate this season. I kind of hope she turns Ethan and he's a full out "gives no fucks" Werewolf in the next season.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I really like Hecate this season. I kind of hope she turns Ethan and he's a full out "gives no fucks" Werewolf in the next season. I don't think Ethan's going to survive this season - but if we don't get a fourth, it's not like it matters. At the moment it's not looking promising: http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/penny-dreadful-season-three-ratings/ Gotta love that jump in viewership after the amazing 5/22 episode, though.
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Finally caught up and drat this season has been amazing. Last week's, Eva Green was fantastic. Will definitely be a shame if it's not picked up for another season.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I don't think Ethan's going to survive this season - but if we don't get a fourth, it's not like it matters. Halt and Catch Fire made me believe that ratings do not matter at all!
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cheerfullydrab posted:Halt and Catch Fire made me believe that ratings do not matter at all! It's not like Showtime can't milk the poo poo out of their planned EIGHT seasons of Homeland, or however many seasons of Shameless they're planning on running into the ground.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:22
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Not counting Netflix views would be pretty silly, considering that's probably how most of Europe watches this show.
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Economics for premium cable shows are all different. You care about subs, not eyeballs. Same is true for Netflix. Netflix needs to calculate how much revenue in subs they get vs licensing fees. The generally accepted wisdom is that a highly watched show SHOULD correspond to subs, but that may not always be the case. Your could have the most watched show on Netflix, but if all your viewers would all still subscribe if the show was dropped, you aren't actually bringing in any revenue for the service. Obviously it's a little more complex than that since one show is rarely the make or break and your have to take into account things like brand image. But subscription services have more to consider than just eyeballs in a timeslot.
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Well, the western storyline sure delivered. 
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Symbolic Butt posted:Well, the western storyline sure delivered. I half expected Malcolm to say something pithy like 'no one talks to my son like that' either before or after killing Talbot Sr. I was disappointed that the Inspector character went out like he did, though. =/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 09:38
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Poor Dorian, he was so lonely because of being immortal, and he thought that he'd finally found somebody else who was immortal, and that they could bond over being bored and possibly capriciously mess some normal people up for shits and giggles. Now his house is full of ladies who want to kill any men they can and he's a little over his head.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I was disappointed that the Inspector character went out like he did, though. =/
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