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FourLeaf posted:This is so strange. I thought I was implying that each form of media has pros and cons, and making a blanket statement about books being better didn't make much sense. But apparently I was the person saying one is inherently superior all along I was referring to Precision's post equating not liking the way television handles characterization to a learning disability there at the end.
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tweet my meat posted:I was referring to Precision's post equating not liking the way television handles characterization to a learning disability there at the end. Oh. My bad. TomViolence posted:Y'all need to chill the gently caress out itt and stop interpreting everything as personal attacks. Yeah... sorry about that.
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tweet my meat posted:You must have autism if you do not agree with my opinions and prefer books to the clearly superior televison format. There's simply no other explanation for someone not sharing my objectively correct opinions. My wife has Non-Verbal Learning Disability, that's why I know about it. Not everything is a personal attack man. When a person posts "you", they are usually using the general "you", not the specific "you". But it is a real thing that some people simply do not easily - or at all - perceive nonverbal communication. And if you think I was insulting anyone by mentioning it, that's on you - I was just saying that people are very different and reality is far more subjective than most think, and that it is legitimately possible to find it very hard to pick up on nonverbal stuff. My wife didn't understand the scene with Moss where her face went through all those emotions; she had to ask me why I thought it was so well done. I edited my original post to hopefully be less hostile, even though it was never hostile and the only person I was actually responding to was TomViolence. edit2: "Tom Violence" is a good song precision fucked around with this message at 09:04 on May 23, 2017 |
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"The U.S. Government has people in Canada."   #resist Man, actually seeing the U.S. flag with 48 hollow stars was a real heartbreaker.
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May 24, 2017 07:13
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holy poo poo the end of the most recent episode had me in tears. that episode blew me out of the water
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May 24, 2017 15:03
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Such a good episode. Pacing, little bits of extra world building... and of course I can't help but feel some national Canadian pride regardless of the fiction of it all. Counting down until next week.
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May 24, 2017 16:50
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 I presented my senior thesis about The Handmaid's Tale in the room where they did the scene where the US government in exile gives Luke the letter from June. And I lived a block away from the "Little America" park for 4 years--it's the Esplanade in Toronto. I also like that they left the CN Tower prominently in all the shots. I don't know how they could tailor this show to me any more than they have.
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Wrong thread, whoops Anyway, vaguely on topic, Ross Douthat just put out a column about The Handmaid's Tale and boy I can't wait to read that poo poo hah Rygar201 fucked around with this message at 20:15 on May 24, 2017 |
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May 24, 2017 20:10
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Bamabalacha posted:
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Rygar201 posted:Anyway, vaguely on topic, Ross Douthat just put out a column about The Handmaid's Tale and boy I can't wait to read that poo poo hah  fellow Douthat hatereader
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timp posted:That's loving crazy I mean, it's in University College at U of T and they film a tooooon of stuff there, it just gave me the wiggins.
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May 25, 2017 01:32
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Oh man that was so good. And another great song at the end.
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May 25, 2017 03:26
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That episode gave me Last of Us vibes and that was a good thing. I couldn't tell because it happened so fast, was the husband and mute the only ones who made it onto the boat? I did see Zoe get shot up 
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May 25, 2017 03:33
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Ballz posted:That episode gave me Last of Us vibes and that was a good thing. I got the exact same vibes. E: Only Zoe got shot in the boat escape.
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JUICY HAMBUGAR posted:I got the exact same vibes. Correct, but there were some others with her that got suppressed by the gunfire and couldn't make it to the boat, right? Or were those Gilead people coming up on them from behind, it's hard to tell when everyone wears dark clothes at night.
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I think it was just him and the mute woman that made it on to the boat. Hard to tell for sure though.
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May 25, 2017 05:55
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I would be totally okay with it if season 2 has this show become a spy thriller about June and Lucas infiltrating/taking down Gilead.
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May 25, 2017 06:29
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drat the song at the end of the most recent episode was super good
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precision posted:I would be totally okay with it if season 2 has this show become a spy thriller about June and Lucas infiltrating/taking down Gilead. They've done a really good job with the new material so far. I've been curious about stuff like the resistance and what life was like up in Canada for years.
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May 25, 2017 15:44
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How does a show on a limited budget look so loving great. It's really something...
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I really love the use of colour in this show. It's got a really dark and austere palette that chimes perfectly with its themes and subject matter and manages to use it to best effect without ending up with the grimy, washed out quality so many movies these days end up with.
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Tiggum posted:Yeah, that just seemed incredibly dumb. As long as Mexico hasn't also outlawed science and medicine as Gilead seems to have, thetre's no way they could be worse off. The vibe I got from that whole sequence was that free societies weren't as efficient at leveraging what few fertile women exist as Gilead's raping.
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May 25, 2017 18:43
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DasNeonLicht posted:Man, actually seeing the U.S. flag with 48 hollow stars was a real heartbreaker. Kinda wonder why they would actually do that. I mean, stars weren't removed during the Civil War. (I get it, poetic license, etc. Still, Little America was the most  moment of the series to date.)
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May 25, 2017 18:47
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Rygar201 posted:Wrong thread, whoops it's awful. #notallchristians!
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precision posted:I would be totally okay with it if season 2 has this show become a spy thriller about June and Lucas infiltrating/taking down Gilead. It really would work well with the end of the book, too.
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May 25, 2017 18:50
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Screencap of the flag with the 48 hollow stars:
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May 25, 2017 19:46
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Stellar Curiosity posted:Screencap of the flag with the 48 hollow stars: I did Good Academic Work in this room, but also a lot of shitposting on SA, Hahahaha.
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May 25, 2017 20:38
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So what was that scene? Is he helping other people escape now or something?
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I kind of wanted Luke to die if for no other reason than I am Dead Inside, but here is something thoughtful someone else wrote that I happen to agree with:quote:I know the adaptation of a book for a screenplay must evolve into an extension of drama and suspense for consistent viewership of a prolonged series, but what I liked about the book especially was how there was no timeline as far as how long Gilead’s reign would last and how the book could only therefore be a story about survival. How a few can make it while most do not. Or that surviving was just heroic enough. For me this is how the brutality of Margaret’s world building sank in for me in large part due to its never-ending nightmare. Which comes down to why I’m skeptical about Luke’s new fate in the show and how it potentially sidesteps an account of survival for one of saviorship.
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Nah he's banging the mute. When he finally meets up with her and she is big with nick's spawn. He will say "gently caress it, you damaged goods baby. I got me another cute blonde and she doesn't talk" Cue spunky pop tune.
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Cojawfee posted:So what was that scene? Is he helping other people escape now or something? Seems like it. Between Luke, Whitford, and friendly hunter guy, this was a real "not all men" episode. Too bad it didn't make Luke any more interesting as a character.
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Mustard Iceman posted:Too bad it didn't make Luke any more interesting as a character. This episode is probably the setup to do exactly that.
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mcmagic posted:How does a show on a limited budget look so loving great. It's really something... I had no idea the budget was only $13M. It looks great, period, and knowing how inexpensively it was produced makes it even more amazing.
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I liked that they subverted our expectation that an outdoorsman hunter rural shitkicker would be on the side of Gilead and rat them out. "It's hosed up."
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I liked that they subverted our expectation that an outdoorsman hunter rural shitkicker would be on the side of Gilead and rat them out. It makes sense to me. A New England outdoorsman type might also be really libertarian, and horrified by Gilead for those reasons. "Live Free or Die" and all.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I liked that they subverted our expectation that an outdoorsman hunter rural shitkicker would be on the side of Gilead and rat them out. I also enjoyed that. It was nice to see men treating this like the apocalyptic government takeover that it was instead of being happy they get to treat women like poo poo. Hope there are more of them out there...
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I liked that they subverted our expectation that an outdoorsman hunter rural shitkicker would be on the side of Gilead and rat them out. My husband grew up for part of his life in rural Appalachia. When that dude came onto the screen he said "There's no way some country redneck would be happy with this government."
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DasNeonLicht posted:I kind of wanted Luke to die if for no other reason than I am Dead Inside, but here is something thoughtful someone else wrote that I happen to agree with: If Luke follows the note, his story will be locating their daughter, not saving June.
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Yet again. Another week of Emotional Devastation. This loving show is so good and I hope it wins everything. If this show ended the way the book did then it would be loving awful.
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Xealot posted:It makes sense to me. A New England outdoorsman type might also be really libertarian, and horrified by Gilead for those reasons. "Live Free or Die" and all. Not to mention the South. The book even talks about rebel Baptists still fighting against Gilead. As a religious person I appreciate the book/show goes to lengths to suggest this isn't Christianity, it's something else entirely. Like ISIS.
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