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Stop talking about Lost you loving old timers. Comrad Detective is on Amazon, it's so good.
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The Constant was really good and I really enjoyed Walkabout.
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Aug 6, 2017 12:56
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Rocksicles posted:Stop talking about Lost you loving old timers. Comrad Detective is on Amazon, it's so good. Comrad Detective?
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Aug 6, 2017 13:07
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MiddleOne posted:Comrad Detective? Brah...don't sleep in it. It's wild E: Comrade, obviously.
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Aug 6, 2017 13:11
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DrVenkman posted:I get it's a budget thing, but I do wish they'd bring back some of the creature effects from S1/2. Now, regardless of what it is, it's usually a variation on the same idea (Appears like a person, but they're a monster underneath). It's vanity. You don't need money to have a monster on screen, you need money to have a monster on screen who doesn't look stupid as hell. Buffy and X-files had so many terrible looking monsters, it was great.
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Aug 6, 2017 13:27
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Mu Zeta posted:The Constant was really good and I really enjoyed Walkabout.
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Aug 6, 2017 14:16
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I don't even try to pick a favorite episode but I think the Constant stands out for people because it's a relatively self contained story with a hell of an earned emotional climax at the end.
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Aug 6, 2017 14:26
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I'm tearing up just thinking about The Constant. oh my goooodddddddd that was so good.
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Aug 6, 2017 17:00
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X-O posted:I somehow missed that Amazon Prime added all of the original episodes of Unsolved Mysteries and even added brand new updates for some of the cases. This is going to take up some significant time out of my life for the rest of this year probably. All of Forensic Files is on YouTube too.
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Aug 6, 2017 17:45
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So it turns out the new thing for TV revivals is ignoring series finales. Roseanne hasn't said how much they're undoing but the big one is Dan (John Goodman) still being alive. While Will & Grace is just going to completely ignore theirs since it involved everyone moving on, getting married and having kids.
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Aug 6, 2017 19:01
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Probably a good way to go about it. Quantum Leap should come back and ignore the finale too.
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Aug 6, 2017 20:05
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It's Always Sunny would be half the show it is if it didn't have the soundtrack it does goddamn
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Aug 6, 2017 20:09
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Rocksicles posted:Stop talking about Lost you loving old timers. Comrad Detective is on Amazon, it's so good. Important question. Is the original Romanian available as an alternate audio track?
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Aug 6, 2017 21:20
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GreenNight posted:Probably a good way to go about it. Quantum Leap should come back and ignore the finale too. I always thought the finale of Quantum Leap should have had him leaping into the body of one of the Project scientists or financers for some unrelated reason, giving him the opportunity to tell himself from the past to end the project, but in the end he realizes that it is for the greater good that he doesn't say anything, and it ends with him leaping out at the same time the "original" Sam leaps for the first time. They could even make it so he helped "Sam" solve a piece of the puzzle.
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Aug 6, 2017 21:28
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muscles like this! posted:So it turns out the new thing for TV revivals is ignoring series finales. Roseanne hasn't said how much they're undoing but the big one is Dan (John Goodman) still being alive. While Will & Grace is just going to completely ignore theirs since it involved everyone moving on, getting married and having kids. Roseanne isn't ignoring the finale, they're ignoring the entire final season. So no Dan dying of a heart attack, no lottery win, no switch out ending where it was made clear that everything in the series was just her life as she wanted it to be told and not how it actually happened.
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Aug 6, 2017 22:48
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The switch out ending is like the only thing that redeemed that final season. I usually don't care about these reboots/revivals but this one actually kind of bugs me if they're just wiping that off the board. Which is weird since that was a retcon and wiped the entire season of the board. But don't criticize my nostalgia, damnit!
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Aug 6, 2017 23:27
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That doesn't bother me at all. The entire last season was garbage and gently caress them for killing off the best character.
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Aug 6, 2017 23:29
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I mean, it was better than having him randomly cheat on his wife and then having her have an affair with a weird cartoon billionaire.
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Aug 6, 2017 23:47
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STAC Goat posted:The switch out ending is like the only thing that redeemed that final season. It didn't just retcon the entire last season, it retconned all nine seasons. You're told in no uncertain terms that she basically was just telling her idealized fictional version of her life. Which works fine for a finale to the series but leaves no room for any real continuation from that point. That's why it all has to be wiped away as if it didn't happen.
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Aug 7, 2017 00:05
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True. I guess I just liked it. I get why its necessary to revive the series. I guess I just don't feel like reviving the series is necessary. Which as I said, I don't usually care about but this is apparently pressing on some nostalgia nerve.
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Aug 7, 2017 00:10
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Comrade Detective is... 
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Aug 7, 2017 00:19
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A Short Story About NBC: I'm watching CNN's docu-series about The Nineties (which is very good, as most of CNN's docu-series are), and the first of two episodes about TV (which is basically just a bunch of ex-writers and TV critics talking about great 90s TV) features a segment talking about the end of Cheers going into Frasier, and there was a clip of an NBC executive talking about how he would be waiting by the phone for any of the Cheers actors to come back because they're worth a load of money. This would be prior to the success of Friends and Seinfeld, so it comes from a brief period where NBC was very unsure about their future, and the pure desperation in that executive's eyes was so palpable that I could have spread it on toast. Fast forward to a few days ago: "Deadline posted:NBC’s upcoming Will & Grace revival as well as the new installment of Roseanne on ABC have put a spotlight on bringing back more recent series — from the 1990s and even 2000s — as opposed to older shows that had been getting reboots, including Hawaii Five-0 on CBS; Dynasty on the CW; and Miami Vice, which NBC is developing for next season. NBC: The Physical Representation of Thirst For 25 Years
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Aug 7, 2017 01:00
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STAC Goat posted:True. I guess I just liked it. I get why its necessary to revive the series. I guess I just don't feel like reviving the series is necessary. The finale switch ending legit hit a pretty strong emotional nerve with me when it aired, but I'm more than ok with them retconning the entire final season for the continuation.
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Aug 7, 2017 01:05
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Yeah, I think that's it. Dan's heart attack was an emotional episode arc that stuck with me and the big reveal at the end really hit me. Plus a couple of years later my dad died of a heart attack and I always kind of connected with stuff in Roseanne so I think it just kind of all left a mark. Which is probably why I seem to care about this even though I'm usually pretty chill about these things.
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Aug 7, 2017 01:12
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I like how in iasip if the gang is doing incidental around the bar drinking they have Coors product placement but if drinking is meant to be the cause of a problem or beer is being consumed while doing something dangerous (ala the Wade Boggs episode) they use either made for TV set dressing cans or microbrewery brands
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Aug 7, 2017 01:13
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hope and vaseline posted:The finale switch ending legit hit a pretty strong emotional nerve with me when it aired, but I'm more than ok with them retconning the entire final season for the continuation. I know a lot of people hate that ending, but I also think it's great. It's just impossible to continue from that in any way so if they all want to come back, and I want to see it if they want to do it, then it's gotta go.
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Aug 7, 2017 01:15
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I'm sure Tom Arnold is blasting all their phones begging to be allowed to come back too.
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Aug 7, 2017 01:21
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Dancer posted:Important question. Is the original Romanian available as an alternate audio track? No Idea man. But I assume not. precision posted:Comrade Detective is... It’s Bucharest, baby. https://youtu.be/ObfvbbByU0s I didn't realise Joseph Gordon Levitt did the other voice. Rocksicles fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 03:24
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Calaveron posted:I like how in iasip if the gang is doing incidental around the bar drinking they have Coors product placement but if drinking is meant to be the cause of a problem or beer is being consumed while doing something dangerous (ala the Wade Boggs episode) they use either made for TV set dressing cans or microbrewery brands They do have the coors sign that Charlie turns on every day
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Aug 7, 2017 04:25
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Comrade Detective is pretty great. I like that they employed all real local Romanian actors and filmed in Romania. Also that Channing Tatum made the show because he told his people to bring him the worst ideas they could think of. edit: "She's a capitalist... isn't calling her a prostitute redundant?" Snak fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 05:46
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lelandjs posted:I've seen somewhere that it was actually a gambit by Cuse and Lindelof--they made an episode that was intentionally medicore and, instead of advancing the overall plot, explained the most inane "mystery" they could think of. They then took the ratings and viewer response to the ABC execs and said "Look, either you can give us an end date so we can start working towards an ending like the viewers want, or we can keep spinning our wheels with episodes like this, we'll lose viewers, and you'll end up cancelling us in a year or two." They knew they were just spinning their wheels and they knew they produced a bad episode. Once it was done they took it to ABC and just said listen, here's when we want to end the show, if we don't get that you're going to get more episodes like this because we don't know how long this is going to have to run. ABC agreed and it's reflected in the latter half of S3 which is much better than the start. I don't think they intentionally made a bad episode for that purpose, but they made one and used it as leverage to get the end date they wanted, which was a pretty good move on their part.
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Aug 7, 2017 11:02
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One of the many reasons James Avery's death sucks is that we'll never get a Fresh Prince revival. I mean I guess you could do it, but Fresh Prince without Uncle Phil isn't Fresh Prince. I don't care how lovely and self-indulgent it would've been, I would've watched it just to see the old gang back together.
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Aug 7, 2017 13:12
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I'm assuming it's only a matter of time before they bring Fresh Prince back, Will sends Jayden to live with Cousin Carlton.
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Aug 7, 2017 13:39
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lelandjs posted:I'm assuming it's only a matter of time before they bring Fresh Prince back, Will sends Jayden to live with Cousin Carlton. 
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lelandjs posted:I'm assuming it's only a matter of time before they bring Fresh Prince back, Will sends Jayden to live with Cousin Carlton. If this actually happens I'm blaming you. Ozark, however, is amazing, I'm only 3 episodes in but I'm really digging Breaking Bad crossed with Justified.
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Aug 7, 2017 15:01
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Netflix signed a deal with Mark Millar for his comics stuff. He's the guy who wrote Kingsmen, Wanted and Kick rear end, among other things.
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Aug 7, 2017 15:26
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DC Murderverse posted:A Short Story About NBC: Miami Vice is coming back?
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Aug 7, 2017 15:33
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IRQ posted:If this actually happens I'm blaming you. Girl Meets World was a thing, a bunch of beloved 90's sitcoms are coming back from the dead, it's inevitable at this point. zoux posted:Netflix signed a deal with Mark Millar for his comics stuff. He's the guy who wrote Kingsmen, Wanted and Kick rear end, among other things. Yeesh, those three properties are really the "best" he's writen, and they had to go through a LOT of changes to get to the quality that the movies were (though I would argue that Wanted would have been better if it stuck a little closer to the source material, mostly because I want to see Eminem go apeshit on people on screen). [Edit: Oh no wait, Wanted is the one that's full of MRA "alpha male" bullshit, and also comes across like Millar read Fight Club, didn't realize it was parody, and took it even further. gently caress Wanted, and gently caress Mark Millar] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 15:33
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lelandjs posted:Girl Meets World was a thing, a bunch of beloved 90's sitcoms are coming back from the dead, it's inevitable at this point. Yeah but it doesn't have the stench of Jaden Smith on it. I don't dislike your premise, just the fact that you're absolutely right that Will Smith would shove his no-talent kid on it.
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Mark Millar is a dogshit moron and I am very glad we have Vaughn to polish his turds to a goddamn shine and make actual good movies out of them
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