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Joss Whedon is directing a Batgirl movie. He's a strong feminist right? Should be smooth sailing.
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Mu Zeta posted:Joss Whedon is directing a Batgirl movie. He's a strong feminist right? Should be smooth sailing. Oh god.
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Mar 31, 2017 11:06
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That's not a can of worms that needs to be opened in this thread. CD is right around the corner.
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Mar 31, 2017 11:16
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I thought we could go back to talking about his show about the women mind slaves but they do kung fu
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Mar 31, 2017 11:18
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Can we just add No Whedon to the rules? He's a perfectly good writer that some people just lose their loving minds over.
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Mar 31, 2017 11:43
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I'm so glad that Sepinwall talked about 13 Reasons Why so much, it really is a great show so far (2 episodes in). Anyone else watching?
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Mar 31, 2017 12:47
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No but read the first two paragraphs of Sepinwall's review and I am DOWN
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Mar 31, 2017 13:38
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X-O posted:As much as I love Review I don't think it stuck the ending at all. I enjoyed the first two episodes of this season quite a bit but if this last episode was the best ending they could come up with they should have ended it last season. It was flat and completely anti climactic. I understand what they were going for but it just didn't land at all. I legitimately thought this was a six-episode season, so I wasn't expecting quite the rapid progression from point to point. It sounds like from interviews to a certain extent that's what they were going for, disrupting people's expectations of how a plot would progress, Forrest's murder charge being essentially killed off off-camera being the biggest example. It seems like it just moved so fast that the sheer insanity of the progression never had time to sink in. I loved how dark that ending was, but it feels like it might've landed better if, say, reviews 2 and 3 in that episode were actually review 3 of one episode and then review 3 of the following? You hardly got any time to register what an awful, evil thing Grant did only to have the rug pulled out from under it about 2 minutes later. More than anything I'm impressed with the show and the network's willingness to come back for such a short exclamation point on the show. I love when a show sticks to a vision like that. I thought it was nice of them to work in the original Reviewer for the finale, too.
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Mar 31, 2017 13:45
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I think its going to be really good. Adam Pally can be really hilarious, so I am glad he has something. I think the problem with Making History is that they should have shown the first two episodes back to back as an hour long pilot. As a result, the show just feels slow, and I don't think I would feel that way if the first two establishing episodes were gotten out of the way more quickly.
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Mar 31, 2017 14:07
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I just wish it would figure out how seriously it wants to take the time travel. I realize this makes me That Guy but the way they write the people from the 1700s ping-pongs between going for some semblance of accuracy and weird winking acknowledgment that they're in the past, kind of. And the lady they take with them to the present might as well be Kimmy Schmidt, her being from the 1700s doesn't seem to really have a direct effect on her general "super-naïve" archetype. The end of the most recent episode indicated that they do, in fact, plan on having some rules in place, so there's that. I'm still giving it a shot, because as you said, it's not earth-shattering, but it is funny in spurts. It just feels like it's still figuring out just what kind of show it wants to be, and I guess I'm annoyed because if you boil it down to them weighing two choices, there's one show I'd watch and one show I wouldn't that it's bouncing between.
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Mar 31, 2017 14:20
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X-O posted:As much as I love Review I don't think it stuck the ending at all. I enjoyed the first two episodes of this season quite a bit but if this last episode was the best ending they could come up with they should have ended it last season. It was flat and completely anti climactic. I understand what they were going for but it just didn't land at all. I expected something more like Porkin' Across the USA. This ending fell pretty flat for me.
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Mar 31, 2017 14:39
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I thought the Review finale was perfect. It summed up the series with a feeling of there all is aching.
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Mar 31, 2017 14:58
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While I was hoping for a more climatic ending to Review what we got was bleak and sorta unexpectedly meta in several ways. I liked it for what it was at least.
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Mar 31, 2017 17:20
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For the Review finale, I thought he'd have to start selfie filming himself since the show was canceled, but he kept getting filmed somehow, and his final star rating for Pranks went up on the board. I don't know, maybe that's just me being pedantic. Overall I agree the ending was a little unsatisfying, the stuff with Grant didn't really pay off for me. Like, Grant clearly hates him but actually did let him move in with him, why? He didn't seem to be secretly undermining Forrest at home. And then yeah, Grant resents him and manipulated him out of quitting the show, but I think Forrest then just going into denial and the series ending was a pretty limp finish. When Grant goes into his office to tell him the show is canceled and Forrest says he should just kill himself, Grant handing him a gun probably would have been a better ending than Forrest just wandering around in denial and then the curtains falling... idk
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I wouldn't say the ending for Review was perfect, but it ended on an appropriately bleak note. It's hard to wrap a show like that up in a tidy bow when you've got only three episodes to do it.
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Mar 31, 2017 17:40
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They were vague enough about the runtime of this last season (on purpose, from what I can gather) that I kind of feel like they could've had more if they wanted it. I kind of like this, the more I think about it, though - it was a surprise gut punch, and by its very nature it's going to feel like a ripoff because they're not holding to what you want out of a finale, or the leadup to a finale. Not that it's perfect, mind - the aforementioned logic hole where it doesn't make sense that he's still being filmed after the show is cancelled doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I did just realize, though, they could've gotten around it by insisting that every shot after the cancellation being a tripod shot, which would let you subtly figure out Forrest is doing it all himself. No need for him to do something obvious like set up a camera or knock one over or something, just shoot the show differently for 3 minutes. So yeah, it wasn't perfect, but it feels of a piece with the rest of the show, and for a show as ridiculous as that one, that's all I can really ask for.
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Mar 31, 2017 17:49
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I enjoyed the other two episodes of the season more, but that was a really heavy ending for Review, IMO. And technically he finished his last review  e: I also think that Forrest actually forsaking his family for his job only to have the show be immediately cancelled is darker and less easy than him actually killing himself. And re: being filmed after being cancelled, saying that they decided 'this review is your last one' makes sense enough to me. Jessica St. Clair and Megan Stevenson were really great this episode. GobiasIndustries fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Mar 31, 2017 17:51
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Thanks to the bros using tags, frowny face @ the rest of y'alls
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Only a couple of episodes in but so far 13 Reasons Why feels like what Riverdale wanted to be.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:41
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Riverdale is most likely going all supernatural once they introduce Sabrina from Riverside.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:18
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swickles posted:I think its going to be really good. Adam Pally can be really hilarious, so I am glad he has something. I think the problem with Making History is that they should have shown the first two episodes back to back as an hour long pilot. As a result, the show just feels slow, and I don't think I would feel that way if the first two establishing episodes were gotten out of the way more quickly. Yeah, I can see that. I was surprised when they went to times and places besides Colonial America in the third episode because I had kind of gotten the impression they were stuck going back to one place. They could have done a better job establishing the premise, but I'm watching so I think it has some potential.
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I'm gonna reactivate our Hulu just because I want to watch some loving old Taxi episodes god drat it :fogey: e: I kid but I wonder how much Hulu makes from people older then me who do know how to use computers and want to watch old shows
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Mar 31, 2017 21:06
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That's an interesting thing I've never though of. Are shows like that up for the older people who grew up with them who seem less likely to use the service or for people raised on Nick at Nite who are more likely to be streaming?
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Mar 31, 2017 21:11
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STAC Goat posted:That's an interesting thing I've never though of. Are shows like that up for the older people who grew up with them who seem less likely to use the service or for people raised on Nick at Nite who are more likely to be streaming? Yeah I mean, clearly they're there for somebody. I both grew up with my parents/grandparents watching reruns of them (Taxi and MASH were favorites of my departed grandfather, he was in the Korean war) and later got hooked on them via "coming home drunk and stoned and watching them before bed while I eat an entire pizza".
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Mar 31, 2017 21:20
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Might it have something to do with Hulu just acquiring an entire catalog of some distributor, so it doesn't really cost them much of anything to throw Taxi up because that's what got them access to <insert show they actually want> for a year?
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Mar 31, 2017 21:44
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It's probably stuff NBC or Disney-ABC always had or acquired the rights to over the years and they just put it up there so they can say "we have over seventyblorp billion shows available!!!!!!!!!"
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Probably. But it briefly interested me to wonder who's watching those shows. But its passed. I watched Imaginary Mary last night and I gotta say, it should be SO MUCH weirder than it is and yet they somehow made a show about a CGI imaginary friend being real in an adult's life into a pretty standard family sitcom. It was really disappointing from its premise's potential.
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Mar 31, 2017 22:10
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Finally joining up and watching Patriot this weekend.
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Mar 31, 2017 22:15
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I feel like I shouldn't groan every time Chuck Plot Time comes around in Better Call Saul but I do, everything else in season 2 is way more interesting to me 
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Mar 31, 2017 23:37
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Is Elementary good?
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Digital Jedi posted:Finally joining up and watching Patriot this weekend.  I'm really enjoying the show, going to watch the final two episodes tonight.
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Apr 1, 2017 00:35
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is Elementary good? It's better than Sherlock 
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I've been watching Santa Clarita Diet the last few nights, a couple of episodes at a time. Last night I finished Episode 10 and was really interested in where it had gone. I just turned on my Netflix to finish off the season and... discovered that was the end of the season? Wow. I really enjoyed the show but that ended really abruptly IMO. Its kind of leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Pardon the unintended pun.
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STAC Goat posted:Its kind of leaving a bad taste in my mouth. 
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precision posted:I feel like I shouldn't groan every time Chuck Plot Time comes around in Better Call Saul but I do, everything else in season 2 is way more interesting to me I really don't like the direction they took season 2 in and if season 3 is even more spinning their wheels instead of actually moving on to Jimmy becoming Saul I am going to be disappointed.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:It's better than Sherlock Well, that sounds promising. I quite like Sherlock. Though if I'm honest my favourite adaptation is probably the Guy Ritchie movies from a few years ago. Nothing to equal the Granada series with Jeremy Brett, of course.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:It's better than Sherlock With every new season of Sherlock fewer and fewer people disagree with this
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Popelmon posted:I'm so glad that Sepinwall talked about 13 Reasons Why so much, it really is a great show so far (2 episodes in). Anyone else watching? Never heard of this but I just looked it up and see that it stars Dylan Minnette which makes me instantly want to watch. I've enjoyed him greatly in things I've seen him in and have been wanting to see him with a bit more substantive role in something.
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OldSenileGuy posted:So if I want to watch one of the 55 time travel shows on now, which one should it be? My head says 12 Monkeys, but my heart says Timeless. Both. 12 Monkeys is good, S1 is intelligently written. S2 is more approachable. Timeless is very cheesy and corny but has charm and the leads seem to enjoy being on the show. You will roll your eyes at the dumbness of it but you might also enjoy it. .. Wheat Loaf posted:Is Elementary good? It starts well but quickly becomes extremely formulaic. Here is every episode: introduce half a dozen red herrings, pick one at random as guilty and justify with evidence discovered or exposed in the last five minutes. It's literally the worst kind of mystery and "Sherlock" is a slightly smarter than average guy with a database like brain with millions of random facts and suppositions that would only work on a TV show against two dimensional criminals. S1 and maybe 2 are worth watching, that's it. wormil fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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I watched the series finale of Grimm, a show I really liked for the first seasons until they made an unfortunate decision in the writers' room and switched female leads. Still, I had not seen any episodes since that one and was curious to see how it wrapped up. It was awful oh god was it awful. one decent fight (with Trouble involved of course) and a bunch of absolutely terrible ones. Emotional beats that had no depth to them and terrible dialogue.
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