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issa good episode edit show has the trappings of lynch but isnt actually lynchian. its actually way more indebted to terry gilliam.  the influences in this show are so identifiable that it almost feels sampled. like the guy whos making this is a magpie just taking wholesale from these greats of the 20th century. if only the writing was better
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Mar 9, 2017 08:22
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Pan Dulce posted:I don't know how to compress and cut up gifs, but I found the part itself if you want to fiddle with it: You guys all see Lenny's eyes get freaky as hell in the first few frames of the top image too, right?
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Mar 9, 2017 08:35
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Great episode. Of course now I have to wait another week. I just can't take that fat demon seriously anymore, though. I was watching him and it hit me. That thing looks an awful lot like The Human Thumb, Moma June. Now I'm terrified for other reasons.
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Mar 9, 2017 08:41
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A few observations: This was the episode that really emphasized just how damaged the characters are - not just David, but Syd and Melanie as well. Syd's blindness in her longing for contact and Melanie's desperation to see Oliver again - to a point that she really doesn't try to stop David from going to D3. The footage of David disposing of the security is one of the creepier things I've seen on TV lately. Especially when TYED infrared (?) footage plays. I know that this is as far from MCU as you can get, but the astral plane thing has some potential for a Dr. Strange crossover (yeah, right) That loving ending. Overall, I used to think that First Class was the only X-Men thing that wasn't total garbage, yet this show is on a whole different level. Just wow.
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Mar 9, 2017 09:00
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I'm not a fan of horror in general, but I do like how this show approaches it. The use/lack of sound in the final scene was so clever, from Lenny's voice distorting and the gross 'kissing' effects to the sudden sting of The World's Angriest Boy in the World going past Syd. Everything about this show is just so compelling, and it really is so varied without losing cohesion.
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Mar 9, 2017 13:10
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I'm absolutely into this show, but part of me is a bit disappointed they're only going with the one extra personality. I mean, he's bloody well called "legion" for a reason.
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Mar 9, 2017 13:18
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I'm hoping that the others will start manifesting as the show goes on.
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Mar 9, 2017 13:55
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Nice to see a technobabble plot-device to go with the absurdly expository phonecall. Neither of those things was needed.
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Mar 9, 2017 14:47
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Wow. That episode.
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Mar 9, 2017 15:16
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i liked everything about this episode except the silent part, which seemed forced to me (but i'm a oval office) although the sound editing coming out of that part was good.
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Mar 9, 2017 15:25
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Do you guys think there's any particular meaning to this show's fondness for embedding people in walls/floors or does Hawley just think it looks cool/disturbing?
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Mar 9, 2017 15:26
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I mean, it's a practical use of the power if you're an evil maniacal demon using it, plus it adds to the horror in a way that your standard power doesn't since we haven't been desensitized to it. It gives off a really weird vibe.
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Mar 9, 2017 15:29
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It's been a trope ever since the Philadelphia Experiment movie that "something has gone terribly wrong" and "unnatural forces will gently caress your poo poo right up". 
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It's been used elsewhere to good effect, too. It's just a disturbing image.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'm absolutely into this show, but part of me is a bit disappointed they're only going with the one extra personality. I mean, he's bloody well called "legion" for a reason. Remember that David heard voices telling him to not try and hang himself, and we've seen scenes where he's surrounded by people yelling at him. I think they're in there, but the Shadow King has suppressed or scared them, or maybe even absorbed them which would be why he appears so fat.
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Mar 9, 2017 17:13
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Henchman of Santa posted:Do you guys think there's any particular meaning to this show's fondness for embedding people in walls/floors or does Hawley just think it looks cool/disturbing? It's shorthand for "reality bending powers". The guy is so psychic that the laws of physics are malleable to him. He can control the fundamental forces of matter or overlap the physical and metaphysical or many other ways of describing the same thing: Reality bending.
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Mar 9, 2017 18:31
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So I'm confused about the white room. Is it a physical space, where they can actually escape bullets and poo poo? Cause as it's presented at the beginning it's just a psychic mental space he shares with Syd via mind powers. Then they teleport there physically...which seems to make King a physical entity? This show confuses me constantly. Not complaining. fizzymercury fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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Mar 9, 2017 18:53
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I think we're about to find out, but Syd makes it seem like a physical projection, since she yells at him to go there, as bullets are flying towards them. Either that, or it's a mental space with an Inception/dream-like time dilation where they can work to defeat the parasite in order for David to gather his bearings and stop the bullets in the physical realm. ufarn fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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Mar 9, 2017 19:00
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Oh goddammit. I've never considered time dilation and it's effects while watching the show. That's a whole new, super rad, level. Hmmm.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:13
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So if it wasn't David who killed all the dudes, who was it? Is there a mutant that can pretend to be other mutants?
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Mar 9, 2017 20:30
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fizzymercy posted:This show confuses me constantly. Not complaining. Agreed. Until Syd's ridiculously disturbing story about her "first time", I was really unsure how her powers work. I thought it was just swapping minds, which it is but apparently when she switches back the original bodies flip flop as well. Which makes that story all the more hosed up.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:34
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Woah, if she swapped with her mom mid-coitus with her mom's boyfriend, wouldn't she immediately swap bodies into her mom's boyfriend?
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Mar 9, 2017 20:50
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The body switching doesn't follow transitive rules.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:52
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:So if it wasn't David who killed all the dudes, who was it? Is there a mutant that can pretend to be other mutants? David is extremely powerful. King, nominally a resident of the Astral Plane unable to come to Earth, detected that when he was very young or an infant and latched onto him. King wants to use David's powers for his own ends, and appears as a series of avatars to convince him to use his powers. David wants to save his sister. King wanted to interrogate his sister to figure out where he came from. King convinces David to hit D3, helping exercise his powers when he needs them. ufarn posted:I think we're about to find out, but Syd makes it seem like a physical projection, since she yells at him to go there, as bullets are flying towards them. "Where are the bodies left" has multiple plot-convenient answers. hatelull posted:Agreed. Until Syd's ridiculously disturbing story about her "first time", I was really unsure how her powers work. I thought it was just swapping minds, which it is but apparently when she switches back the original bodies flip flop as well. Which makes that story all the more hosed up.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Woah, if she swapped with her mom mid-coitus with her mom's boyfriend, wouldn't she immediately swap bodies into her mom's boyfriend? My question is, what happens to the clothes? If he was, ahem, 'inside her' when she teleported back, and real Syd still had clothes on... I can certainly understand why there would be lots of yelling.
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hatelull posted:Agreed. Until Syd's ridiculously disturbing story about her "first time", I was really unsure how her powers work. I thought it was just swapping minds, which it is but apparently when she switches back the original bodies flip flop as well. Which makes that story all the more hosed up. Well, they have shown that happening in action at least twice so far.
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Pokemaster #421 posted:Christ that was some really disturbing use of sound when Lenny was sticking her tongue down David's throat at the house. It sounded like she was eating him and it made me physically cringe up like something was drilling into my brain. drat I love this show. The last part of this episode was incredibly drat freaky and awesome I couldn't stop thinking that that *thing* has been with David since childhood. That so messed up. No wonder his memories are glitchy and half missing. Here's hoping that next week they have to work with The Eye and we find out a bit more about him n3wt fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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Mar 9, 2017 22:08
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n3wt posted:Here's hoping that next week they have to work with The Eye and we find out a bit more about him Everyone he might have worked for has died a horrifying death, so I guess there's no reason for him not to help.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:So if it wasn't David who killed all the dudes, who was it? Is there a mutant that can pretend to be other mutants? I think whatever came back from the astral plane in Ep4 wasn't quite David but a mixture of David and Lenny. Hence why he feels so confident with his power. Then at the end of this episode we see them trying to split again or David realising that Lenny is TYED/King/Angry boy.
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me every week after this show:   I audibly breathed "jesus christ" without meaning to when they showed the carnage SK/David left in their wake. Also my wife and I were already both going  when Syd was relating that her first time was with her mother's boyfriend when she was 16 and then it got a million times worse.I love this goddamn show. Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Mar 10, 2017 02:08
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also he's legit disturbing but the entire time during SK's reveal at the end the only thing I could think is GIMME A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG Probably wanted to make his face a little more malevolent there guys
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Part of me wonders if they're going for a twist with Oliver being the big bad. When Melanie was describing him, she said he "found a place he could control, where he was in charge" or something along those lines.
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Mar 10, 2017 02:46
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That rear end though! Syd not David. Ok maybe both.
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Mar 10, 2017 03:44
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If only Syd could swap with the Shadow King.
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Mar 10, 2017 05:04
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Ossipago posted:If only Syd could swap with the Shadow King. and then they swap back 
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Mar 10, 2017 05:08
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I really hope they delve more into the Eye next episode, he's oddly intriguing. I also have no idea what his actual powers are; it seemed like shapeshifting via hypnosis but might actually be actual shapeshifting but also hypnosis?
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:So if it wasn't David who killed all the dudes, who was it? Is there a mutant that can pretend to be other mutants? Are you not paying attention? hes called Pretendo. wiki it.
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Sanschel posted:I really hope they delve more into the Eye next episode, he's oddly intriguing. I also have no idea what his actual powers are; it seemed like shapeshifting via hypnosis but might actually be actual shapeshifting but also hypnosis? I think he was able to disguise himself because he understood that it was a psychic projection.
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Is there any chance the big bad this season isn't Shadow King?
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