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I'm not feeling this season as much...they are clearly more focused on the story but at least so far the story is not at all interesting. I preferred having more stand-alone episodes which could give them more options for comedy, instead of one arc.
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HopperUK posted:Adam Reed apparently says Ray isn't a main character. I think he's self-conscious about his voice acting. Which is really good and Ray is the best dammit.
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May 13, 2017 20:50
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get that OUT of my face posted:He's been voice acting for more than 15 years. I wouldn't say it's impossible for him to be self-conscious but it's definitely unlikely. I'm sure I saw him being self-effacing about it in an interview. Eh maybe not.
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Finally sat down to watch this season. I think it's great. Just got to Barry's Terminator / Pee Wee's Big Adventure homage.
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May 16, 2017 04:28
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Gramercy, Halberd! Archer and Len Trexler try to escape from a rampaging Barry.
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May 17, 2017 14:58
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So many Frisky Dingo references this week.
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May 18, 2017 03:17
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Poor fat Mike.
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May 18, 2017 03:51
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Wild Prediction for the season finale: Archer will return to Dreamland for a... Freudian encounter with Mother. It may seem appalling, but it'll be quite delightful... like all taboos.
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May 18, 2017 05:04
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Well of course that's who killed Woodhouse. The story wouldn't make sense any other way.
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May 18, 2017 06:16
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sHoUlD yOu Be DoInG tHaT
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May 18, 2017 07:52
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How long's it been since he slept? I think the speedball he's been doing for the last 3 episodes is going to kill him in the end.
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May 18, 2017 08:49
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he's in a coma. He can pop all the pills he wants.
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May 18, 2017 10:13
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The 'what are you, hourly?' gag in the latest episode absolutely slayed me.
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May 18, 2017 14:18
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I half wonder if this season will end with another coma and flow into WW2 based Archer.
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May 18, 2017 14:41
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Man Barry really had an ax to grind with Archer.
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May 18, 2017 15:22
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I'm like 80% sure the season finale is going to end with Archer waking up from the coma, accusing Mallory of killing Woodhouse, and then falling back/getting slapped by Mallory into a coma again.
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May 18, 2017 17:02
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Really liked the episode, but I envy people who will get to binge watch this season.
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May 18, 2017 22:22
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I binge watched the first six with my friends, and enjoyed watching the story pick up steam a great deal. Probably wouldn't have been wild about it week-to-week though.
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I think we're going to incept this. Archer loses it, falls into a coma inside his coma and dreams of the war. Adam Reed did say that this season reinvigorated his creativity for the series and gave him material for the next two. So that's my bet.
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May 19, 2017 01:57
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm not feeling this season as much...they are clearly more focused on the story but at least so far the story is not at all interesting. I preferred having more stand-alone episodes which could give them more options for comedy, instead of one arc. While the stand-alone, comedy-focused episodes in the earlier seasons were better, I am at least relieved they are not trying so hard to be funny and failing like they did (in my opinion) in Archer Vice. I am happy to watch a show that's a good blend of action, drama, and comedy. While not being as funny may be more boring, watching a show try to be funny and fail is appalling. Especially from a show that was successfully funny for a long time. I haven't really seen a lot of it but I bet a show like Venture Bros. is a fair comparison to going from episodic comedy to a light serial drama with especially good comic relief. Overall though I never really saw anything wrong with the episodic spy comedy formula. To me the real reason the show was getting stale was all the jokes were the safe... a lot of callbacks and running gags but not really a lot of new ones thrown in. All they really need to do to refresh the show was make a rule like "only one callback per episode this season" or something and it would have been fine. But, there is also something to be said for what the creators are interested in and what they will be passionate about making. If they were really tired of the spy show formula then even though there may have been plenty of material left to mine, from their perspective it was no longer worth it, so the show's format had to change if it was to continue as anything other than a soulless shell of its former self.
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Anybody else thinking the next Adam Reed series will be Krieger spin off? I feel that could work.
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swickles posted:Anybody else thinking the next Adam Reed series will be Krieger spin off? I feel that could work. I've always wished we had more krieger episodes going back to the start of the series, but I'm not sure if he can carry a whole show as well as Archer can.
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Time for the season finale! Auflösung At Dreamland, Archer receives a big break in his search for Woodhouse's killer.
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May 24, 2017 21:25
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That was a good sendoff for Woodhouse. 
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...So are they just gonna stay in 1940s Noir Dreamland next season? I mean, I liked it overall, but what now? I guess they could dive into the WWII flashbacks? Problematic Pigeon fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 25, 2017 |
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So they killed off Lana and they're staying in dreamland. Fitting for a noir season I guess. Kind of a dumb ending to me, but I was never really in love with the Dreamland concept. Still a good send off for Mr. Coe. 2 or 3 seasons remain.
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May 25, 2017 03:36
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Problematic Pigeon posted:...So are they just gonna stay in 1940s Noir Dreamland next season? I don't see why they are locked into that. After all, they took like 2 minutes this season to segue into Dreamland, they could take 2 minutes next season to segue out...
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May 25, 2017 04:39
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I love that song they exited on.
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May 25, 2017 04:50
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i think this season will play better when the dvd comes out and you can watch it, basically, as a super-long alternate reality Archer movie. It's only 160 minutes, and the "episodes" don't feel so episodic, even compared to Archer Vice, which was supposed to be a similar single season story. But the tribute to Woodhouse was very lovely.
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May 25, 2017 05:12
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Only 8 episodes and nothing really happens? The setting was pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like they accomplished anything.
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That's noir for you.
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Cojawfee posted:Only 8 episodes and nothing really happens? The setting was pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like they accomplished anything. I mean, he found out who killed Woodhouse.
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PostNouveau posted:I mean, he found out who killed Woodhouse. In the lamest way possible. All those episodes and then Barry runs in and says "I did it" and then dies. We don't even have any closure for what is going on in the real world. They really goofed this whole season up, which sucks because they could have made this setting really good.
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Cojawfee posted:In the lamest way possible. All those episodes and then Barry runs in and says "I did it" and then dies. We don't even have any closure for what is going on in the real world. They really goofed this whole season up, which sucks because they could have made this setting really good. We also don't really know who
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Saved all those sex slaves too. I was thinking Archer might have another season in Dreamland (or WWI or whatever) and then wake up and go straight. He dreamed up a whole season where Mallory spent the whole time making him do awful things and then she killed Lana. Maybe he wakes up with the realization that Mallory's scheme have been putting himself and the mother of his child in mortal danger for too long and walks away from it.
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May 25, 2017 06:29
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The graveyard scene was really good, very touching.
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I really enjoyed this season. Fun noir tribute, funny, they even dropped the callback-overuse. By the way, who burgled Archer's apartment? Cojawfee posted:We don't even have any closure for what is going on in the real world. This was never about what is going on in the 'real world', and people trying to analyze it for metaphors were mostly misguided. "Archer is dreaming" is just a frame to let them tell a story with the characters remixed into a different setting.
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I don't know how Lana's gunshot wounds tracked to Archer's in the real world, but him telling Pam no one could ever survive them ever even in parallel dimensions seemed to be pointed back at the real world.
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I feel like this whole season was a memorial for George Coe, really- an entire story about the unfairness and arbitrariness of death, told through noir, which has always been a genre that dabbles in that kind of existentialism. A lot of the time the mystery isn't really the point.
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I should have seen Krieger's cyborg dogs making a comeback coming. You don't introduce us to a concept like that and only use it in once scene.
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