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US Office is Better I SAID IT (I mean it also has way lower lows but that's American sitcoms that go on for too long for you)
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Sep 25, 2017 17:31
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*Advertisements for Michael's suddenly start appearing on CBS* [Edit: because the thought of reversing this review amused me:] "" posted:I've watched Adult Swim all my life. I'm 25. I had Comcast up until one month ago when my parents changed their password. I have an iPhone 7+ I only watch Adult Swim on my smart phone but I love it. I always knew I watched a lot on Adult Swim but never realized it constituted the majority of my tv viewing. I wish I could watch it on some kind of larger screen but I guess the app only applies to my phone unless I buy some kind of box that gets put on a piece of furniture and displays images larger. I am currently mixing eliqid for myself so I put the phone on my lap while I blow dank clouds. Your programming has always been excellent. I've also found that your, "Streams" are better than Comcast 's a. I can watch full seasons of shows I never got to finish watching, like SQUIDBILLIES. There are so many I realized I had dropped by the wayside that I'm enjoying now. I guess if you can afford over $45 a month for Playstation Vue, perhaps one wouldn't be so content as I am. I've gone one month now with nothing but Adult Swim on my iPhone. Thank you for letting me express my opinions. BTW. I'm not a young professional. I'm one of those hipsters that don't have a clue to be the age I am. I don't wear t-shirts. Lol. I ride a fixie. Hang with the vegan club and have a pretty chill life. I'm an old soul, too. I live in flannel vests and corduroys and button up shirts. I just don't want that vaping thing to define me. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sep 25, 2017 17:40
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Between football and ST:D (Oooo, that's an unfortunate abbreviation) I've had the CBS fall lineup run down my throat. It's kind of admirable how shameless they are in playing to their audience. "Here's a show about ARE TRUEPS and America's most elite military unit, being headed up by a man who is literally 18 months from getting his first issue of AARP Magazine!" "Here are two shows that take place in 1989, yet every prop and costume looks like it came out of YOUR youth in the mid 70's!" "Remember your second favorite sitcom of 1999? Well, King of Queens is back, and we just had to fire and actress and kill her character to make it happen!" Also it's really...something that the Big Bang Theory season premiere commercial has a background joke playing on the phrase "Serial Rapist" just out-of-frame.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:01
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JethroMcB posted:Between football and ST:D Pretty sure the abbreviation is going to be DIS. None of the other abbreviations have the "ST", including TOS.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:12
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More like ST :-( eh
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Sep 25, 2017 18:13
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zoux posted:More like ST :-( eh *tries to approximate lens flair and dutch angles with ASCII text, fails*
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Sep 25, 2017 18:16
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Escobarbarian posted:US Office is Better I SAID IT Yes it is.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:18
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I saw someone in GBS complaining that STD was the "yaas queening" of Star Trek because the lead was a woman, it's nice to see someone at least drop the dogwhistling about why they hated this thing before watching even a second of it I guess.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:38
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Janeway was the original Yass Queen, duh.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:41
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Ah the first Star Trek series with either a woman or a black lead, looks like the SJWs won folks. Speaking of terrible fans, AV Club has a writeup of why that one slice of the R&M fanbase sucks. zoux fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sep 25, 2017 18:44
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Escobarbarian posted:US Office is Better I SAID IT It's funny because I think even the second series of the British Office was a case of diminishing returns. The American version obviously did a lot to soften characters, but that made it tolerable for a lot longer than the British version could have been.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:01
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I haven't seen the US Office but I have a hard time imagining it being worse than the UK one.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:02
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lelandjs posted:*tries to approximate lens flair and dutch angles with ASCII text, fails* /0*/ E: CUT TO /=o*/
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Sep 25, 2017 19:17
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Shageletic posted:/0*/ Isn't posting goatse still bannable?
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Sep 25, 2017 19:19
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I actually started re-watching the Office the other day as my "background" show. The early Michael stuff remains as shaky as I always found it but I'm already finding myself falling back into all the Jim/Pam/Dwight stuff and general tone of the show.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:03
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Shaky how? He's a narcissistic idiot rear end in a top hat, it's just like my real boss.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:06
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"Shaky" as in I just really didn't like it and it threatened to turn me away from the show entirely early on. In S2 they find a balance for it that makes it a lot easier to take and not the focus of the show. But I always really hated that part of the show and again, its why I've never tried the UK version. I'm not knocking Carrell's performance or anything. If anything he did a great job making a character THAT contemptible at times as likable as he was over the course of the series. That couldn't be easy and another actor probably would have sank the show or at least the character. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sep 25, 2017 20:10
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I haven't watched it yet and not sure I will but "The Vulcan Hello" is a great episode title, if nothing else.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:10
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Maybe it helps that S1 was only 6 episodes so I just jammed through it in one sitting same as I did Parks and Rec S1.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:16
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It's pretty impressive how much better Schur got at TV.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:20
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zoux posted:Ah the first Star Trek series with either a woman or a black lead, looks like the SJWs won folks. Uh... are we not counting Janeway for whatever reason? 
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Sep 25, 2017 20:29
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They are joking, since there have been both black and woman leads already.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:31
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Snak posted:They are joking, since there have been both black and woman leads already. The Independent had an article that initially claimed Martin-Green was the first black ST lead and those of us who rightly think that Sisko is the greatest captain rose up in angry revolt until the article was corrected
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Sep 25, 2017 20:35
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I still think the British version of the Office was miles better than the American version, just more concise, less saccharine, more biting (which makes the ending feel a lot more earned).
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Sep 25, 2017 20:41
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IRQ posted:Maybe it helps that S1 was only 6 episodes so I just jammed through it in one sitting same as I did Parks and Rec S1. Yeah. S1 is really heavy on Michael at his worst but it passes quickly enough and then they tweak things in S2. Its very like Parks and Rec in that sense. Although Leslie's never quite as bad as Micheal is right off the bat. FactsAreUseless posted:It's pretty impressive how much better Schur got at TV. The big skill he has that a lot of showmakers don't seems to be the ability to recognize what's working and what isn't and adjust. He doesn't seem to get married to an initial premise or character if its not working or if something else is working better. Some comedies fall apart because they can't do that. Something like 2 Broke Girls had a lot of early potential but when the creator was criticized he lashed out and doubled down on what people didn't like.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:43
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Discovery is pretty good so far, halfway through episode 1. But why the klingons look like this now? Nice budget too
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Sep 25, 2017 20:48
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One thing, perhaps the only good thing, that Enterprise did well was come up with a reasonable retcon for why the Klingons look different in TOS and the rest of ST (besides that it was because of production costs and makeup tech)
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Sep 25, 2017 20:52
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zoux posted:The Independent had an article that initially claimed Martin-Green was the first black ST lead and those of us who rightly think that Sisko is the greatest captain rose up in angry revolt until the article was corrected Don't forget that when Enterprise was about to start Paramount did a commercial going on about the legacy of Starfleet captains and somehow left Sisko out of the lineup.
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Sep 25, 2017 20:52
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On episode 2 now and yeah Discovery is surprisingly good. Unsurprisingly Trekkies hate it haha Science officer guy is great
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Sep 25, 2017 21:14
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Discovery is really good overall. I love positioning the Federation like the Borg, coming to assimilate and strip Klingons of their pride and heritage. I liked 90percent of the characters and teared up at a few scenes. Alien Rincewind rules and you all should have listened to the cowardly voice of reason. I'm not tired of Klingons, esp when they amp up the racial purity thing which is quite topical at the moment. Not a fan of the heavy prosthetics though it made every single Klingon slur and mumble. Hope they fix it or get expert actors like Ron Perlman. Also this version of Sarek is peado creepy.
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Sep 25, 2017 21:16
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Is the intro a swelling orchestral arrangement with scenes of the Discovery flying through nebulae, ringed planets and other space oddities? Are there lyrics?
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Sep 25, 2017 21:18
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zoux posted:The Independent had an article that initially claimed Martin-Green was the first black ST lead and those of us who rightly think that Sisko is the greatest captain rose up in angry revolt until the article was corrected Oh man I can't imagine Avery Brooks was pleased about that.
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Sep 25, 2017 21:18
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‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci Gets HBO Pilot Order For Space Comedy How is every word in that headline better than the last
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Sep 25, 2017 21:36
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Oh god drat Veep In Space is gonna be great
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Sep 25, 2017 21:40
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zoux posted:One thing, perhaps the only good thing, that Enterprise did well was come up with a reasonable retcon for why the Klingons look different in TOS and the rest of ST (besides that it was because of production costs and makeup tech) Not a thing that ever needed to be addressed more than DS9 did. Also, I don't know what their explanation was exactly, but how did it address characters that looked both ways?
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Sep 25, 2017 21:53
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zoux posted:One thing, perhaps the only good thing, that Enterprise did well was come up with a reasonable retcon for why the Klingons look different in TOS and the rest of ST (besides that it was because of production costs and makeup tech) Why did it need to, though?
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Sep 25, 2017 21:56
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zoux posted:Ah the first Star Trek series with either a woman or a black lead, looks like the SJWs won folks. I kind of assumed that was the entire fanbase.
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Sep 25, 2017 22:14
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Wheat Loaf posted:Why did it need to, though? It didn't, I was just surprised it was done in a way where I wasn't rolling my eyes at it. Basically they discovered some of our Khan super soldiers, were impressed with how powerful they were, and so a group of them made a retrovirus with the supersoldier DNA to change and enhance their own genetics. A side effect was a more human appearance so the dudes that used it had their facial features literally melt away. Of course this led to conflict within the empire and some used it and some didn't, but that's the in-universe reason why TOS Klingons look different. I also didn't like Enterprise very much. In fact the only ST I really like is some of the movies, about half of TNG and the last five-ish seasons of DS9. Voyager could've been amazing but once Berman took an interest in it, it was dead meat. In fact, it was Berman's lidless, frame-wreathed eye turned toward Voyager that allowed DS9 to get away with half the poo poo it did. There's an apocryphal story that RDM and co. pitched the Dominion war (the best storyline Trek has ever done) to Berman, he hated it, said they could do two episodes of it, and then went back to micromanaging Voyager. The DS9 did it anyway to see how far they could get with it and it turned out, all the loving way zoux fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Sep 25, 2017 22:15
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zoux posted:‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci Gets HBO Pilot Order For Space Comedy I guess The Orville can gently caress off now (this isn't an invitation to talk about The Orville for another 3 pages btw)
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Sep 25, 2017 22:15
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