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I didn't even dislike the first season, i thought it was really engaging the entire time. Great news.
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TheRationalRedditor posted:http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/hail-mutiny-amc-renews-halt-and-catch-fire-for-season-3 And a way better source with interview! This made me smile. Yes the show has flaws, and it is not the best show quality wise on TV, it is currently my favorite show on TV. 32MB OF ESRAM posted:I didn't even dislike the first season, i thought it was really engaging the entire time. Great news. I loved both season, but in all fairness I watched season 1 in a week on Netflix right before season 2 started.
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Just found out this got renewed, didn't see that coming. Excited to see what happens next season.
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Since the first season ended with them making an IBM clone and the second one ended with Joe stealing Gordon's antivirus idea, I'm hoping the third season will be about Tom starting Sierra Online. Okay, Sierra was started in 1979. Tom invented Habitat or Meganet, whateve.r
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Oct 12, 2015 13:03
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Guess I'll have to tune in for another season, for some reason.
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Holy poo poo. AMC is the anti-Fox. At this point they've (almost) made up for Rubicon. The world needs more of this cast. I just hope the writing is more consistently as good as it can be. *edit - and then I read the AV Club article. Wouldn't mind more info about Rubicon; that little bit about metrics and a different world seem interesting. isk fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 07:56
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They also hosed with Mad Men and Walking Dead pretty hard. Don’t cut them too much slack.
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ufarn posted:They also hosed with Mad Men and Walking Dead pretty hard. Don’t cut them too much slack. Breaking Bad too, but to a lesser extent. Those split half-seasons are generally considered to be utter dick moves.
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Moltke posted:Guess I'll have to tune in for another season, for some reason. That reason is Toby Huss, you cur. 
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ThaGrandCow posted:At least Tom didn't show up at the last minute on the plane and rush into Cameron's arms, although I assume if there is a 3rd season he'll have caught the next plane or something. So. This happened: Wikipedia.org posted:In October 2015, AMC renewed the series for a 10-episode third season,[8] which will premiere on August 23, 2016. See you in less than 2 weeks! Spacebump pointed it out last year, but the thread was about dead by then.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Nice, I really like this show. Took forever to give it a shot because how interesting could working on old beige computers be right??
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I'm so looking forward to this. It seems like AMC realized that the only way this show is going to work is if they market the hell out of it and make sure newcomers can binge the first two seasons. I heard Season 1 & 2 are up on Netflix, which is great.
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Buzz on the first few episodes of episode 3 is high. (minor themes) Joe and Gordon are good because Pace is charismatic and McNairy's subtle, but they keep putting Cameron and Donna upfront because they're wonderful. Also yes, Toby Huss is gold.
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I'm not sure if I want to watch another season. I want to like this show, and I do like parts of it, but most of it ends up with drama for drama's sake. Maybe I'll watch the first couple of this season and see what happens.
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Complaining of "drama for drama's sake", in a television drama 
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isk posted:Also yes, Toby Huss is gold. Pete and Pete was my favorite show growing up, I was so  when I realized who Bosworth was.
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The season 3 trailer quotes a critic saying something like "consistently gripping drama..." That's really good enough to put on your ads? gently caress.
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They're having a loving laugh with the tech at this point. By the mid 80s this one small tech company has invented: A persistent MMO game world Social networking Online first person shooters ...and now apparently micro-transactions? This show was really better when it was just about a yuppie sociopath and a nerd trying to make, literally, just a computer. That was the entire first season. At this rate they're going to be making augmented reality brain implants by the time MC Hammer becomes a thing. As a reference, this is what computers looked like in 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ce3XUTt3W0 I'll keep watching it because that one red haired computer woman is so beautiful she makes me want to bite off my own hands.
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joedevola posted:As a reference, this is what computers looked like in 1986. "I had this monster database, 12 megabytes, and it was corrupted!" Christ, i'm old. I remember those tiny hard drives as a young kid in the mid to late eighties, especially at places like Radio Shack, and thinking "12 MB? THAT'S INSANE". Then I went home and turned on my gargantuan CRT monitor with a loud "BWONNNNNGGGG" to play my Commodore 64 games. Years and years later, I got a Gateway desktop with a Voodoo 2 card in it, and my skull was exploded after watching a high resolution GPU benchmarking test for Quake 2. quote:I'll keep watching it because that one red haired computer woman is so beautiful she makes me want to bite off my own hands. Kerry Bishé is so gorgeous it's not even funny.
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This show is good, and I'm glad literally everybody including the cast was wrong about how it was going to get cancelled and I'm excited it's back.
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TheRationalRedditor posted:Complaining of "drama for drama's sake", in a television drama It's ham-fisted and forced. Plenty of good dramas on TV where the drama makes sense.
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joedevola posted:Social networking In the sense that chat rooms and newsgroups are social networking.
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Aug 24, 2016 02:22
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Are they still casting Joe as a bad Steve Jobs ripoff?
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gret posted:Are they still casting Joe as a bad Steve Jobs ripoff? He's somewhere between Steve Jobs and John McAfee now.
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Aug 24, 2016 03:23
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GobiasIndustries posted:Gordon looks extremely on his last legs Yeah Joe is toying with an unwell man. That whole deposition thing is bullshit, Joe retained Gordon to work on that oil company's servers, they obviously had a business relationship.
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joedevola posted:They're having a loving laugh with the tech at this point. By the mid 80s this one small tech company has invented: Also they're making a 'mainframe'. Out of what looks like PC104 cards. That runs IBM PC DOS. 
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feedmegin posted:Also they're making a 'mainframe'. Out of what looks like PC104 cards. That runs IBM PC DOS. They used to run on banks of what looked like stock IBM XTs so maybe.
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feedmegin posted:Also they're making a 'mainframe'. Out of what looks like PC104 cards. That runs IBM PC DOS. Cards that didn't even plug into a socket... he just seated it in between the rails lmao
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Wacky Delly posted:He's somewhere between Steve Jobs and John McAfee now. I hope he starts off more Jobs but goes pure McAfee by season's end.
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Donna kicking open the stall door to reveal someone in it was probably the highlight.
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bring back old gbs posted:I hope he starts off more Jobs but goes pure McAfee by season's end. Show ends with Joe shooting some guy in Belize and running for president, I can dig it.
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I did like their GUI game chat rooms looked a lot like Maniac Mansion which wasn't far from release at that point. Still like the show and everyone save Cameron.
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Mortanis posted:I did like their GUI game chat rooms looked a lot like Maniac Mansion which wasn't far from release at that point. I always figured Community was a takeoff on Habitat, which predated Maniac Mansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc The speech bubbles are definitely inspired by it.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Plenty of good dramas on TV where the drama makes sense. Subjective but this is one of them, and it's currently one of the best.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I always figured Community was a takeoff on Habitat, which predated Maniac Mansion: Oh good catch. I hadn't even remembered that, and Lucasfilm to boot.
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Someone do up a Season 3 thread, I work a new schedule and won't be able to watch the show on a regular basis.
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joedevola posted:They're having a loving laugh with the tech at this point. By the mid 80s this one small tech company has invented: They are telling the big, expansive history of computer tech progress through the prism of a small group of entrepreneurs. It's sort of an alternate universe, in the same way Mad Men was. There wasn't really a guy named Don Draper who was singlehandedly responsible for all the major campaigns and slogans of the 60s and 70s, either. I don't mind that approach at all, given the alternative is some sort of anthology series with a new group of historically accurate nerds inventing something every week. At some point, character development has to enter the picture otherwise they might as well just make a documentary series. But I do agree that the anachronisms are jarring. I'm not sure why they feel the need to cram modern technology into a story taking place in the mid 80s. Like... I think they were talking about end-to-end encryption in consumer focused BBS chat rooms in that last episode, if I heard correctly. If its a thing people are starting to discuss in earnest in 2016, you can be sure no one was doing it or even thinking about it 30 years ago.
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