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Mr. Robot season 2 censoring "gently caress" but keeping "oval office" is the weirdest censorship example ever. Happy 2017 CC! I am very excited for more Leftovers and Fargo this year especially, and Taboo sounds super interesting as well.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 16:47 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 02:51 |
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I swear to god they actually let one "gently caress" slip through, as well. Dunno if that was a mistake or if they're allotted a certain number per season or something.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 17:26 |
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I recorded all The Magicians and they have a few uncensored fucks during the season.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 17:35 |
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At this point, the censorship tangents are getting to be a bit asinine. All the cable networks want to be HBO and I don't think anyone is concerned about the audience/advertisers of Mr. Robot ditching because of some bad words. It's like a room of five year olds tittering away because they heard the teacher say "crap."
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 17:55 |
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I'm not tittering at the naughty words, I'm pointing out and wondering at the inconsistency and arbitrary nature of censorship in general. Why is oval office more acceptable than gently caress? Why are some fucks okay but others aren't? It's weird and dumb, and networks don't even seem to stay consistent with themselves in enforcing it.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 18:23 |
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Grey's anatomy started using vajayjay because the censors objected to them using vagina more than once a season.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 18:24 |
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What is The Magicians about?
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 18:38 |
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Spergatory posted:I'm not tittering at the naughty words, I'm pointing out and wondering at the inconsistency and arbitrary nature of censorship in general. Why is oval office more acceptable than gently caress? Why are some fucks okay but others aren't? It's weird and dumb, and networks don't even seem to stay consistent with themselves in enforcing it. "gently caress you" okay "I want to gently caress you" woah there buddy The difference between many a PG13 and R rating has been whether or not the gently caress was meant literally. But it's really "what do we think we can get away with? How receptive are the advertisers that show already has to million moms type groups?"
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 19:03 |
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Spergatory posted:I swear to god they actually let one "gently caress" slip through, as well. Dunno if that was a mistake or if they're allotted a certain number per season or something. They ran the season premiere uncensored but then censored the rest of the season for whatever reason
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 19:14 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:What is The Magicians about? Basically, a grown-up Harry Potter story. All of the magical stories involving Earth are real, and the story's other places are alternate planes/universes. The big bad for the first season is on a Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe analogue, so we see a bit of at least 2 other planes (a hub world is the other). Not sure how faithful it is to the books though, and someone who has read them can no doubt better explain it.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 19:37 |
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Coffeehitler posted:Basically, a grown-up Harry Potter story. All of the magical stories involving Earth are real, and the story's other places are alternate planes/universes. The big bad for the first season is on a Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe analogue, so we see a bit of at least 2 other planes (a hub world is the other). Is it a kind of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Anno Dracula / Once Upon a Time thing where it uses fictional characters, or is it original characters influenced by or based on fictional characters?
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 20:12 |
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The premise follows a group of young adults as they study at a school for magic. The main character is obsessed with a series of kids books called "Fillory and Further" which are basically Narnia, except based on real children.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 20:20 |
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X-O posted:So 2016 managed to give a last "gently caress You!" as it slithered away. We lost Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) from M.A.S.H. on 12/31. And 2017 if you even look at Alan Alda the wrong way we're gonna have words. Speaking of Alan Alda, Horace and Pete on Hulu is some extremely weird, wild, uncomfortable poo poo. I'm assuming it was filmed like a stage play since that's how it's presented, flubbed lines and all. I think a lot of it is improv actually. Anyway though, it's really good, but very honest and kind of hard to watch. Alan Alda is the best one in it.
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# ? Jan 1, 2017 20:58 |
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I'm Senerio, somehow I became owner of the IRC. Anyway I've decided new year new chat, so I made a discord for our live watching pleasure. Click here to join.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 00:31 |
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DrVenkman posted:Rhyno was right about Amell in that ARROW episode. He was great in that moment, and I actually really like what that episode did. It's even more potent given how FLASH has really been dragging out how Barry hosed up in creating Flashpoint. Yes he did, and it was selfish, but I don't think that show really knows what to do with that story and just keeps repeating the same thing over and over. I'm glad other people agree. I'm always impressed with Amell these days. He went from a pretty-boy model to an actually decent actor. He was even good in TMNT2! Also the Magicians is hot loving garbage but the quipping between Quentin and Penny makes it absolutely worth it.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 01:47 |
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man....sherlock is just godawful
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 02:00 |
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Senerio posted:I'm Senerio, somehow I became owner of the IRC. Discord is so much better than IRC for the most part.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 02:14 |
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Escobarbarian posted:man....sherlock is just godawful I have the same problem with Sherlock that I do Luther, everybody keeps trying to get me to watch them and I give it a few episodes each and have no idea what the appeal is at all. Either I'm racist to British stuff or people specifically like generic British stuff just for being British, or both. It's probably both.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 02:49 |
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SpannerX posted:Discord is so much better than IRC for the most part. Yep. I now added in channels for most everything, including a "banned from couch chat" channel.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 04:02 |
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The Magicians is a lot loving darker than I imagined going in.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 05:32 |
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I usually don't like Instagram ads, but one of them told me that the third season of Man Seeking Woman debuts on January 4th after Always Sunny, so they're not all bad. I don't think I'll make a thread about it but I do wholeheartedly recommend it.Party Plane Jones posted:Incidentally Chozen (the FX animated series) is still the only show that I've seen in the US that dropped 'oval office' in the original broadcast (albeit on basic cable) and nobody noticed it.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 06:08 |
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GreenNight posted:The Magicians is a lot loving darker than I imagined going in. Works a hell of a lot better on a binge than it did week to week.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 06:14 |
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I ended up watching most of it on Netflix, which is nice since half the swears aren't muted.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 15:31 |
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Love Crime posted:I have the same problem with Sherlock that I do Luther, everybody keeps trying to get me to watch them and I give it a few episodes each and have no idea what the appeal is at all. Either I'm racist to British stuff or people specifically like generic British stuff just for being British, or both. You're definitely not alone on that. Neither show is very good, though both had some decent episodes. In both cases I think I was expecting them to get better to match the hype, but instead they got worse as they went on.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 16:21 |
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I don't think I've seen anyone say that Luther doesn't get worse as it goes on.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 16:23 |
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I'm enjoying THE CROWN more than I thought I would've. It isn't quite a love letter to those people, but I'm interested to see where it goes
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 17:12 |
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GreenNight posted:I ended up watching most of it on Netflix, which is nice since half the swears aren't muted. Half the fucks weren't muted when it broadcast, although it was completely schizophrenic week to week as to whether they would censor it or let like 4 of them go in a single episode. Literally no rhyme or reason, it wasn't the context as far as I could tell, just entirely arbitrary. The show ignored a lot about the books too, which was a very good thing since the books are trash and the protagonist (not to mention nearly everyone else) is even more unlikeable in them.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 20:25 |
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I saw the first episode of The Mick. It's pretty good, and when you compare it to the average pilot episode it's really good. I'm sure it'll get even better as it goes on.
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IRQ posted:
Is the CS Lewis analogue still a pedophile? E: Actually I guess I'll tag that because I can't remember which book its from Oh Snapple! fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:I saw the first episode of The Mick. It's pretty good, and when you compare it to the average pilot episode it's really good. I'm sure it'll get even better as it goes on. I assume from the ads that part of that is that Kaitlin Olson has already been playing the part for 11 years so it came fully formed.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 22:48 |
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X-O posted:I assume from the ads that part of that is that Kaitlin Olson has already been playing the part for 11 years so it came fully formed. Sepinwall talks about that in his review. It's even from former Sunny writers. But seeing as Sunny is starting up again, it makes more sense to just see her do the real thing.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 23:22 |
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Hell, I'll watch both! I ought to watch some Always Sunny right now if I want to fulfill my goal of watching all the episodes before the next season starts.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 23:38 |
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Finished Trevor Noah's book the other night. Holy poo poo, the last chapter is the kind of thing you just can't make up. If anyone is interested in it, do not look up anything about the book beforehand, because it will probably end up spoiling the ending for you.
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# ? Jan 2, 2017 23:54 |
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Just spoil it I'm not reading it.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:03 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Just spoil it I'm not reading it. In the very beginning of the book, Trevor lets you know that his mother eventually gets shot in the back of the head by his stepfather. This is not really every brought up again as he goes through his life because his stepfather enters the picture rather later. At the end, he finally gets to the part where his stepfather shoots his mother. She survives via pretty much "literally miracle" as the bullet enters the back of her head, missing her spinal cord by millimeters, ricochets off her cheekbone and comes out by her nose, leaving her perfectly fine and she gets sent home from the hospital the same day. You really don't get the full effect unless you've gotten to "know" his mother, which is what the book is really about; it's almost entirely about him and his relationship with his mom, and the ending is such a surprise happy one that it made me go whoah.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:16 |
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That sounds good. I thought the whole thing would be about how South Africa sucks.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:19 |
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I mean, he does go into a lot of detail about how Apartheid worked (and why it didn't and why it was nonsense) but yeah the main narrative thrust is his relationship with his mom, who sounds cool as hell.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:26 |
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Oh Snapple! posted:Is the CS Lewis analogue still a pedophile? Yup.
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 00:40 |
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I want to start a new drama. House of Cards or Boardwalk Empire?
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# ? Jan 3, 2017 01:42 |
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Gay Horney posted:I want to start a new drama. House of Cards or Boardwalk Empire? House of Cards american version starts bad-silly and gets much worse, all the while pretending its so much more. Boardwalk Empire, while it often suffers from the latter problem, works as a slow-paced genre show that builds exquisitely.
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