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While It's true it's a prequel, from the season I watched, it will be enhanced by knowing Breaking Bad.
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Pan Dulce posted:Because TVIV voted Better Call Saul so highly, I just wanted to ask if it's really necessary to watch Breaking Bad to know what the gently caress is happening on it? There's just so much to catch up on... You don't HAVE to watch BB to enjoy BCS but there will be some minor moments that would be confusing, mainly some bookend parts take place in "present day" which are presented without context since you're expected to know why Jimmy is living in Omaha managing a Cinnabon.
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:53 |
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Breaking Bad is way better than BCS
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:55 |
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Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDnO2cvBbnA
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 23:57 |
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Dexo posted:Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. They should try again, third time's the charm.
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Mu Zeta posted:Breaking Bad is way better than BCS I think BCS is better just because the show has more of a tighter focus on pretty much just Jimmy.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:02 |
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I like the epic storyline of BB. BCS feels more like actors having fun being actors. Also way too much Mike.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:17 |
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You can watch Better Call Saul 100% fine without knowing a thing about Breaking Bad. You'll miss easter eggs for BB fans but that's it. All we're talking about is characters or other things from the Breaking Bad series showing up in Saul for a "oh, its _____!" reaction. But everything in the show and story stands on its own and most of it has next to nothing to do with Breaking Bad. The two shows honestly feel way too different to compare. BB is an adventure while Saul is a character study. I love both for different reasons.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:24 |
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Dexo posted:Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. So it's a worse Better Off Ted? I guess a comedic show about insurance agents probably wasn't the best way to go, no matter what they sell insurance for.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:27 |
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This is DC/Wayne Tech so I assume its different from the Marvel show about insurance agents/clean up crews? That's a weird idea for both companies to want to make shows about.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:30 |
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Batman's company is selling items to protect civilian's from Batman and his friends.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:31 |
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STAC Goat posted:This is DC/Wayne Tech so I assume its different from the Marvel show about insurance agents/clean up crews? That's a weird idea for both companies to want to make shows about. It's the insurance agents show. The clean up crew is from Marvel and I don't think it was ever officially announced, just rumored.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:32 |
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I would watch BB first if you could, even if it's not necessary to understand the plot it helps you appreciate what they're doing with the characters a lot more and gives a lot more impact to things. Plus when you inevitably decide to watch BB it will hurt your enjoyment, partly because it spoils a bunch of stuff and partly because you'll bring a bunch of baggage to characters that were never supposed to have it.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:35 |
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Yeah, that's true. You can watch Better Call Saul on its own but if you have any intention to watch Breaking Bad you should see it first. Otherwise a lot of the stuff BB was trying to do with characters or stories will fail or be ruined because of the extra information you have from Saul.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:53 |
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Don't think of Breaking Bad as some burden. It's a great show with a few boring parts. It's also way funnier than the ads and press make it out to look.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:59 |
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Who cares about Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, CW has announced that they're rebooting CHARMED as a period piece set in the 70s.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:01 |
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I wish Person of Interest had gone further in the direction of episodes like 7 and ditched the computer plot entirely.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:02 |
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Dexo posted:Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. That doesn't look good, not even I am going to watch that
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:06 |
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I hate that I'll have to wait 5 hours to watch tonight's The Good Place. I wish Hulu would put the episodes up immediately after they air, or while they're airing like HBO Now does.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:27 |
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I miss the Hulu queue. It was such a nice and simple way to see what was a new episode of a show I'm watching regularly and what was some show I had thrown on there to binge some time. Even a nice way to quickly sort it by what's expiring. If they'd just bring that thing back I'd probably regularly subscribe to it instead of signing up once every 3-6 months when I get a "free month" coupon of some kind.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:51 |
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IRQ posted:2x01. I would say the answer to that is when it goes heavy on all the Samaritan poo poo. What I liked about S1-S3 POI was how there were so many different threads and moving parts which left you wondering what was going to happen next and how it was going to happen and who was involved. But then Samaritan comes along and they throw all that into the trash. There are still a lot of great standalone episodes even then, but I think the general plot really starts to suffer at that point.
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precision posted:I wish Person of Interest had gone further in the direction of episodes like 7 and ditched the computer plot entirely. No seriously what would even be the point of the show then?
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 02:38 |
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Dexo posted:Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. If they needed a DC show I wish they had just kept Constantine instead, that clip makes me feel embarrassed for everyone involved.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 02:43 |
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The new season of Colony starts next Thursday.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 02:53 |
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Dexo posted:Wow. They completely rewrote their pitch for Powerless. My gosh, I was looking forward to this, now it just looks like some "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" 90s kids clone but without the heart or humor. Is Shooter good?
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 03:02 |
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Yes, it's not bad. Ryan Phillippe is killing it as the main guy.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 03:14 |
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Rocksicles posted:Yes, it's not bad. Ryan Phillippe is killing it as the main guy. That's interesting. The first time I ever liked him was on the first season of Secrets and Lies. I was thinking maybe his performance in that was an anomaly since I'd never liked him in anything else.
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X-O posted:That's interesting. The first time I ever liked him was on the first season of Secrets and Lies. I was thinking maybe his performance in that was an anomaly since I'd never liked him in anything else. I guess he was incredibly close to being cast as Danny Rand for the Iron Fist show, he'd even tweeted cryptic picture of a dragon but something happened and he didn't get the gig.
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Kraps posted:My gosh, I was looking forward to this, now it just looks like some "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" 90s kids clone but without the heart or humor. I don't know, but I have no interest unless it's just this looped over and over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvjJcaVJlH0
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X-O posted:That's interesting. The first time I ever liked him was on the first season of Secrets and Lies. I was thinking maybe his performance in that was an anomaly since I'd never liked him in anything else. Dunno man. I've really paid attention to him much in anything. Put it this way, I thought I would hate it and I don't.
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X-O posted:That's interesting. The first time I ever liked him was on the first season of Secrets and Lies. I was thinking maybe his performance in that was an anomaly since I'd never liked him in anything else. He was fun in Macgruber.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 03:41 |
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Anyone watch Queen Sugar? I think it aired on Oprah's channel. The first episode's atmosphere reminds me of Rectify. JUICY HAMBUGAR fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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muscles like this! posted:Who cares about Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, CW has announced that they're rebooting CHARMED as a period piece set in the 70s. Call me crazy but this actually sounds interesting.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 06:35 |
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Snak posted:I can tell that it's a slow start, but the first 3 episodes of Person of Interest have been aggressively boring. Without trying to sound like a snobby dick, when does it get good? I'm used to shows that have bad starts before getting good, so I'm still keeping an open mind, but I kind of want to know how much more of this I'm in for... It starts out as a standard procedural with some interesting B-plot, then the B-plot starts taking over the show. "When it gets good" really depends on how much you buy into the procedural part of things. E: personally I watched it off and on for a couple of seasons, stopped because something else was on that timeslot (I think) and came back for season 5 at the insistence of my family who had kept with it and things were wonderfully insane by then so I caught back up.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 06:44 |
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Taboo starts next Tuesday. I can't wait to see Tom Hardy incomprehensibly mumble on TV.
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JUICY HAMBUGAR posted:Anyone watch Queen Sugar? I think it aired on Oprah's channel. Yep! It can drag at times and sometimes get a little too generic family drama but for the most part I enjoyed it a lot. Great set of characters.
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Pan Dulce posted:Because TVIV voted Better Call Saul so highly, I just wanted to ask if it's really necessary to watch Breaking Bad to know what the gently caress is happening on it? There's just so much to catch up on... You don't need to, but quite a few of the show's plot lines will feel inexplicable if you don't. Edit: In the sense that you'll be wondering why they exist, or why the show's spending so much time on seemingly random side characters who never interact with the lead, rather than it being impossible to follow.
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Mu Zeta posted:Taboo starts next Tuesday. I can't wait to see Tom Hardy incomprehensibly mumble on TV. That and The Young Pope are the two new shows I'm looking forward to the most (January division). But there's a lot of really cool poo poo coming down the pipeline this year. * Godless (Soderbergh's new Netflix Western) * Legion (Dan Stevens and Noah Hawley -- the guy who writes Fargo) * The Santa Clarita Diet (Weeds + Zombies??? No-one actually knows. Also Timothy Olyphant) * The Terror (Ridley Scott, Tobias Menzies) * A Top Of The Lake sequel * GLOW (Alison Brie, Jenji Kohan) * Mindhunter (David Fincher, Anna Torv) * Altered Carbon (Joel Kinnaman) * The Tick and I Heart Dick are going to be Amazon series this year * American Gods * Counterpart (STARZ parallel universe show with a crazy loving cast -- JK Simmons, Harry Lloyd, Olivia Williams, Ulrich Thomson) * Warrior (martial arts show from the Banshee guys) Plus pilots with potential pick ups on: * Roadside Picnic (Mathew Goode) * The Book Of Strange New Things (Amazon) * Happy! (Grant Morrison, Chris Meloni) Plus there's the second half of Vice Principals, the final season of The Leftovers, planned adaptations of Cat's Cradle and Metropolis, new Mr. Robot, Orange Is The New Black, more Preacher, Better Call Saul and American Crime.
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 11:30 |
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They're making a show of 'Happy!'? That's super cool.
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The Tick was pretty good. I laughed my arse off.
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