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HanabaL03 posted:Critics have seen the finale. Screeners were sent out yesterday. Sepinwall has shared his thoughts: https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/869658113997250560 https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/869982743928688645
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May 31, 2017 22:05
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my body is ready (to transport to the lonely earth where Nora goes after using the machine)
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May 31, 2017 22:07
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The only benefit we have over Sepinwall, in terms of viewers, is that for us, the show is still going on. For him, it's all done  Edit: also, two things I like about Alan Sepinwall is that he does great work, and he also gave up reviewing Sons of Anarchy. 
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May 31, 2017 22:22
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https://twitter.com/TheMattFowler/status/869974881315602432 https://twitter.com/TheEricGoldman/status/869961393067261952
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May 31, 2017 22:23
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Soooo.... it's gonna gently caress me up like the Six Feet Under finale?
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May 31, 2017 22:25
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Not to get too LOSTy on you guys, but wtf is this nun's necklace from ep 301:
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May 31, 2017 22:58
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Africa with a cross?
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May 31, 2017 23:07
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homer simpson, my dudes
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May 31, 2017 23:11
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/TheMattFowler/status/869974881315602432 God drat it. This is gonna hurt isn't it.
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Looten Plunder posted:The main one I listen to is on Post Show Recaps by Josh Wigler and Antonio Mazzaro of RHAP/Survivor fame. Thanks!
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Jun 1, 2017 03:36
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Walking into the Dead & Co show at the Hollywood Bowl was much like that encampment outside Jardin.
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Last Chance posted:Not to get too LOSTy on you guys, but wtf is this nun's necklace from ep 301: Wu-Tang logo evolved over the years.
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Jun 1, 2017 06:12
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:God drat it. This is gonna hurt isn't it. Oh my yes. And we will all want to continue to be hurt, but soon we won't be able to be hurt anymore and that's going to hurt worst of all  drat I'm really going to miss this show. I remember watching the first few episodes thinking huh what a weird show well what the hell I'll give it a shot while I'm waiting for GoT to come on, and by the end of season 1 I was completly hooked. Then came season 2 which was so much more than anything I could've expected, it really was a drat near perfect season of TV. I can't think of a show that got me so emotionally invested in its characters. It's gonna break my heart to not see Kevin and Nora anymore. Maybe we will get super lucky and they will wrap it up in such a way that we get a leftovers movie or like a little miniseries of a few episodes down the road as an epilogue. Oh well, a man can dream. At least twin peaks is back to ease the pain of no more leftovers
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Jun 1, 2017 07:34
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Having just started watching Twin Peaks there are definitely some parallels to be drawn between the two shows. I love Leftovers, but don't really mind it ending as long as the last episode is good 
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Jun 1, 2017 07:36
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is there a podcast i can listen to while i watch this showing talking to myself? (commentary)
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Jun 1, 2017 07:42
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Will they come back to the super important babies? What happened to that storyline? Also, will there be an explanation of why Kevin can do what he does? Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for The Explanation of the Departure, but you cant use magical realism willy nilly like that and expect the audience to just accept it. That's LOST level lazy writing. I like season 1 so much precisely because it doesn't rely on unexplained mystery and science fiction and whoa look what is happening now. btw my all time favourite narrative is Angels in America, which relies heavily on magical realism, so it's not like I'm averse to the idea of it. But it has to be tightly structured within the framework of the story, which just seems to be missing up till now. It's just seems that everything is possible, which makes it very hard to care about anything. Also, why do people like the character of Nora? What are her likable traits? Because me and my gf just pretty much roll our eyes at eachother everytime she does or says something. Besides having empathy for her situation, I find her selfish, passive aggressive throughout, and vindictive. There's nothing I actively like about her, nothing to aspire to or learn from.
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Jun 1, 2017 10:45
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The first season was exactly as it was billed, people struggling with an unexplainable and enormous supernatural occurrence and how they personally dealt with the aftermath. Everything after is purestrain Lindelof trash. It would be 100 times better if it weren't so tonally jarring minute to minute. American Gods proves you can have Prestige TV(tm) with Mature Themes and still have goofy things like people getting sucked into vaginas, but Leftovers has dream sequence dick scanners interspersed with realistic depictions of suicide with the worst music supervision I've ever seen in a TV show.
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The music supervision is really bad though and destroys any narrative flow.
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Jun 1, 2017 11:26
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theflyingexecutive posted:The first season was exactly as it was billed, people struggling with an unexplainable and enormous supernatural occurrence and how they personally dealt with the aftermath. Everything after is purestrain Lindelof trash. It would be 100 times better if it weren't so tonally jarring minute to minute. American Gods proves you can have Prestige TV(tm) with Mature Themes and still have goofy things like people getting sucked into vaginas, but Leftovers has dream sequence dick scanners interspersed with realistic depictions of suicide with the worst music supervision I've ever seen in a TV show. finally i dont feel alone no more
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Jun 1, 2017 11:27
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^^^ S1 was all about how people groping for spirituality give in to weakness and the false promises of hucksters. S2 has the main character literally become Jesus.
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Jun 1, 2017 11:33
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theflyingexecutive posted:The music supervision is really bad though and destroys any narrative flow. ~~*contrasting tones*~~
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theflyingexecutive posted:The first season was exactly as it was billed, people struggling with an unexplainable and enormous supernatural occurrence and how they personally dealt with the aftermath. Everything after is purestrain Lindelof trash. It would be 100 times better if it weren't so tonally jarring minute to minute. American Gods proves you can have Prestige TV(tm) with Mature Themes and still have goofy things like people getting sucked into vaginas, but Leftovers has dream sequence dick scanners interspersed with realistic depictions of suicide with the worst music supervision I've ever seen in a TV show. Cool dude tell someone who cares
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Jun 1, 2017 11:39
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The first time they played Where Is My Mind, it went across three different scenes with Kevin and it ended up being played out of his car stereo in the third, which implies that he was listening to it on his headphones all day on loop. It's Diagetic Music 101 and slips like that are just embarrassing.
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:Cool dude tell someone who cares Cool, glad to know I'm not allowed to have opinions about TV in the TV forum
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theflyingexecutive posted:S2 has the main character literally become Jesus.
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http://www.avclub.com/video/final-season-leftovers-also-its-best-256103 Despite what I personally think about the show -- Season 1 good, Christopher Eccleston amazing, frustrated by the current season but still basically enjoying the experience -- can we all agree that this video review / discussion is ludicrously bad, given that it's made by people that are apparently doing this for a living? Choice highlights: "It's like Igmar Bergman but down to earth"; praising "Margo Martindale"'s performance; "If Seasons 2 and 3 were based on books, people would say that they were unfilmable, but then they'd watch the seasons and be, like, wow, they really captured the essence of those books." I paraphrase, but I'm not kidding. Holy hell. theflyingexecutive posted:The first time they played Where Is My Mind, it went across three different scenes with Kevin and it ended up being played out of his car stereo in the third, which implies that he was listening to it on his headphones all day on loop. It's Diagetic Music 101 and slips like that are just embarrassing. I was going to mention this. V dumb. Also, I like Max Richter, but does he actually score this anymore? I feel like they only use the one piece of his music and just play it once every episode. It's almost Pavlovian -- PIANO MEANS YOU CRY NOW. CRY! CRY!
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Open Source Idiom posted:http://www.avclub.com/video/final-season-leftovers-also-its-best-256103 everything in this post is cool + good but yes, sites like avclub are extremely bad. dont make the mistake of thinking they are serious criticism.
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I watched all 10 hours of season 1 and I hated every minute. So I watched 10 more hours of season 2 and I hated it even more. Now I am watching 8 hours of the final season and I hate every episode so far. I will continue watching.
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I watched season one and it was really good, then season two bottomed out. I didn't watch three right away, but a bunch of people on the forums said it was much better than two and here we are
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UmOk posted:I watched all 10 hours of season 1 and I hated every minute. So I watched 10 more hours of season 2 and I hated it even more. Now I am watching 8 hours of the final season and I hate every episode so far. I will continue watching.
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theflyingexecutive posted:I watched season one and it was really good, then season two bottomed out. I didn't watch three right away, but a bunch of people on the forums said it was much better than two and here we are I'm in a similar boat -- I really enjoyed a lot of the first season, I was frustrated by the ultimate destination of the second as I felt it undermined a lot of what I thought the show was doing, though I largely made my peace with it. The third season keeps trying my patience though, but it's a death by thousand cuts situation, rather than some fundamental wonkyness (other than the aforementioned season 2 problems, which I think I share with a few other posters and as such won't bother going in to). It's just a lot of little things that I've been jamming up against -- I think parts of the season have been poorly motivated, both from a characterisation perspective, and in terms of audience positioning -- but, like I said, I've mostly been fine with it.
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*Shrug* the second and third seasons don't solve any of the issues with the writing that all you guys are bringing up But the performances and the directing are just so stellar that it doesn't matter to me at all. Almost every episode this season has really struck me
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SlipkPIe posted:*Shrug* the second and third seasons don't solve any of the issues with the writing that all you guys are bringing up Exactly; for a show that shifted focus to a guy who might be Jesus, it's done really loving well. I don't need more and more seasons JUST about how people are dealing with the departure, I like the extra angle.
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Wiggly posted:Was this posted? Does nudity mean Kevin's butt?
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oliwan posted:Also, will there be an explanation of why Kevin can do what he does? Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for The Explanation of the Departure, but you cant use magical realism willy nilly like that and expect the audience to just accept it. That's LOST level lazy writing. Which is just how I loving love it. Finale is going to own. Gorn Myson fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Gorn Myson posted:I hope not and I seriously doubt it. The only two ways they can do it is either through a scientific or supernatural reasoning and the show has deliberately set up ambiguities by not providing any concrete explanations for the weird events that have happened. I'd say it's more supernatural than not, just by going by who and what Kevin sees during his experiences.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I'd say it's more supernatural than not, just by going by who and what Kevin sees during his experiences.
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