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TV's okay but it's no videogames.
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We're watching TV on TVs again? Retro.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:30
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Thwomp posted:We're watching TV on TVs again? Retro. You joke but there was a Sprint ad recently where the guy tapped on the camera and said "you're not watching this on the new iPhone 7? Scrub" or something along those lines.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:33
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I vastly prefer to watch shows on my tablet, which is my weird thing I guess.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:34
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Thwomp posted:We're watching TV on TVs again? Retro. Yes but I'm doing it ironically.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:43
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JethroMcB posted:ER would be better off without Crichton involved, as "modern" Crichton would probably introduce a strawman character to County General who was both a pedophile and a climate change hysteric. Named after the first guy to give the revival a middling review, naturally. I entirely agree, it's just the idea that they're attempting to get in touch with the creator of ER about reviving it that makes me laugh, given that said creator is ultra dead.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:53
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Life ah finds a way.
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Aug 4, 2017 19:56
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If they use amber-encased Michael Crichton DNA to create lovely Sci-fi Writer Park I will be incredibly happy
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Aug 4, 2017 19:57
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X-O posted:Youtube Red is making a Karate Kid sequel series with William Zabka and Ralph Macchio, so uh enjoy that I guess. Please be called Karate Man. Also my brain added the word 'musical' to this, due to the Community episode, and now I'm disappointed that it's not one.
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Aug 4, 2017 20:39
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I entirely agree, it's just the idea that they're attempting to get in touch with the creator of ER about reviving it that makes me laugh, given that said creator is ultra dead. Ahhh, true. I'm guessing they meant John Wells et al anyhow, the people more involved with the day-to-day production. Though I'm sure they'd also be in the "Oh yeah, SO eager to come back" camp, after the way NBC treated Southland. (Southland became a much better show when it lost its budget at TNT...and then TNT cancelled it on the most harrowing cliffhanger imaginable.)
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Aug 4, 2017 20:40
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EL BROMANCE posted:Please be called Karate Man. Large Adult Karate Son
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Aug 4, 2017 20:46
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Isn't Karate Kid just a straight ripoff of Rocky. If Creed can work then maybe this will.
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Aug 4, 2017 20:49
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Yeah but Rocky wasn't a huge pile of poo poo.
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Aug 4, 2017 20:50
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GreenNight posted:Yeah but Rocky wasn't a huge pile of poo poo. drat dog, Karate Kid owns
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Aug 4, 2017 20:52
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Maxwell Lord posted:NBC is apparently so pleased with the revived Will & Grace that they've made offers to the creators of the West Wing, The Office, ER, and 30 Rock to just bring those shows back. None of them have accepted. Sorkin has expressed some interest in reviving THE WEST WING. To a certain extent anyway. He just said that if he has an idea that he thinks works then he would revive the show. NBC ask him every so often. On the subject of laugh tracks. Generally I don't notice they're there, but there's great uses of it early in CHEERS. The show wasn't afraid to get a bit dramatic occasionally, and you're aware the audience is there but totally silent for it (It also helps that James Burrows does well staging those scenes).
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Aug 4, 2017 20:52
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't Karate Kid just a straight ripoff of Rocky. Not really? I mean sure, plot beats and framework are similar, but... Okay Rocky is kind of a coming of age story.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:10
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zoux posted:Large Adult Karate Son If they called the legit show that, I could only imagine what the Hong Kong bootleg DVDs would call it.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:13
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EL BROMANCE posted:If they called the legit show that, I could only imagine what the Hong Kong bootleg DVDs would call it. Colossal Ancient Japanese Fighting Descendant
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Aug 4, 2017 21:17
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zoux posted:I like TV, personally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fA9sJ3LBwg
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Aug 4, 2017 21:36
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't Karate Kid just a straight ripoff of Rocky. If Creed can work then maybe this will. Nah. They're both sports movies about punchsports that follow a protagonist's personal growth as he gets better at hitting people, but that's about all they have in common, and the movies are saying polar opposite things. Karate Kid essentially says you need to win. You need to win right, but you need to win; the journey helps, but without a destination it's ultimately pointless. It's defeating the Cobra Kai kid that gives Daniel validation in the end (and especially being able to do so legitimately, without resorting to their tactics), not training and getting better. Rocky, meanwhile, says that you'll lose every now and then, but that's not the important part; your personal growth and the people you meet along the way are more important. He may have lost the fight, but he's still as happy as a clam because he got there at all.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:47
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I would say that Karate Kid is a little more "If you care about winning, you should care about winning right". Winning, in and of itself, doesn't seem important to Mr. Miyagi, but he helps Daniel win because he sees it as a goal that will provide personal growth for Daniel.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:50
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And then Daniel wins with an illegal move.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:07
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Netflix should take a cue from Nintendo and release a small Retro CRT TV With Built-In 90s Sitcoms
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Aug 4, 2017 22:24
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Apparently Youtube outbid Netflix, AMC and Amazon for the Karate Kid show.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:42
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There's a Karate Kid show? I think I'm over nostalgia.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:46
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muscles like this! posted:And then Daniel wins with an illegal move. In what karate organization is a kick to the head an illegal move? That whole tournament is ridiculous, though.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:46
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I'm pretty sure they say no head strikes when doling out the rules at the beginning of the match.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:49
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It's important to note something I had not read earlier when I posted that info, but that the Karate Kid show is a half hour comedy and is called Cobra Kai. It's about Zabka's Johnny Lawrence starting his own dojo and renewing his rivalry with Daniel LaRusso.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:49
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Yeah I'm at least in for an episode or two. It has potential to be fun.
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Aug 4, 2017 22:54
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muscles like this! posted:I'm pretty sure they say no head strikes when doling out the rules at the beginning of the match. Huh, I haven't see it in a long time. That's possible.
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Aug 5, 2017 00:06
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I almost made a thread for people to poo poo on this show, but I couldn't muster the effort. Someone else do it 
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Aug 5, 2017 00:18
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Only five minutes in the new Wet Hot American Summer and already so many things have slayed. That opening shot of 1991...
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Aug 5, 2017 00:20
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That's appropriate since the Mist really isn't worth making GBS threads on and is basically the TV version of
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Aug 5, 2017 00:21
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On the other hand... a priest got dragged away with an arrow to the chest by the Four Horsemen after going out into the mist with a naked hippy grandma to settle a bet, and another dude turned into Marvel's newest Avenger, "Butterflyman."  (Please don't actually watch The Mist.)
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Aug 5, 2017 01:23
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I'm an episode behind and I'm not even sure if that spoiled me or not. I care that much about The Mist. Each week I can't remember if I'm caught up or not. Like, I THINK I'm an episode behind. But I won't actually know until I sit down and start the latest episode streaming and see if I remember it. I think the main reason I'm still watching is because I can't figure out what the hell The Mist is. Its like every episode or character is in their own differently themed movie. I'm curious if they have any idea of how to pull it all together by the end. The odd thing is there's a show on TV deliberately doing that in Blood Drive and its actually kind of working.
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Aug 5, 2017 01:32
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Bruceski posted:I know the feeling. My afternoon background noise is Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke and The Rifleman (because it's that or talk shows at that time of day) and I need to take a step back to remember it's 2017 by the evening. Let me guess, MeTV? That's pretty much the only thing I miss about having cable, since I get like two channels total with an antenna. I used to watch The Rockford Files every day at noon, I think I watched the entire series twice. Then after that was the Western block that sounds like it hasn't changed. Gunsmoke was the only one I really liked out of the bunch, but boy did it have some wild swings in quality.
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Aug 5, 2017 02:12
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EL BROMANCE posted:Only five minutes in the new Wet Hot American Summer and already so many things have slayed. That opening shot of 1991... The whole first episode was loving amazing and from the ending shot I'm assuming things are gonna get really fuckin' weird. e: I hope the plan is to keep doing time skips for the series until they get to the ages the actors actually are
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Aug 5, 2017 02:49
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Comrade Detective. It is being played completely straight with no nudges and winks in either the 'original' footage or the English dub, and I'm really digging how surreal it is.
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Aug 5, 2017 03:34
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raditts posted:Let me guess, MeTV? That's pretty much the only thing I miss about having cable, since I get like two channels total with an antenna. I used to watch The Rockford Files every day at noon, I think I watched the entire series twice. Then after that was the Western block that sounds like it hasn't changed. Gunsmoke was the only one I really liked out of the bunch, but boy did it have some wild swings in quality. Yup. It's on broadcast here, along with a bunch of other stuff of varying levels of quality (both reception and intrinsic), but I live straight across the river from the big broadcast tower for the city with an unobstructed view, so I'm about as ideal as broadcast can get.
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Is there a good site for reviews of Netflix originals? I just activated a free month after not using Netflix for over a year and other than the big ones like ST I haven't heard anything about most of the shows.
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