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Lol the Magicians characters being shitbirds is extremely book accurate. Quentin is the most aggravating series protagonist of any book series I have read.
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Mu Zeta posted:Expanse gets good after 4 episodes. I think it only has one bland character. Having just started it, I think The Expanse was strong from the beginning. But that fourth episode was certainly a turning point and was dope as hell. Season 2 has just been balls to the wall so far and I love it. re: the characters I think Holden is probably the blandest, but he's at least that archetype written well. Naomi is probably the second blandest in terms of just being a typical sci fi character, but her actress is great. The cast in general tho is amazing and I appreciate how all the main characters kind of just feel like fully fleshed out, actual people out from the get go as they're introduced. Show's drat good. e: also aghdashloo dropping f-bombs left and right gives me life esperterra fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 9, 2018 |
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Spatula City posted:Lol the Magicians characters being shitbirds is extremely book accurate. Quentin is the most aggravating series protagonist of any book series I have read. I can't read anything by Lev Grossman after reading this douchey article http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1686204_1686305_1692236,00.html quote:Like a pebble that has been rounded over the centuries by the gentle splashing of the ocean waves, Halo 3 has become the perfect hardcore first-person combat simulator. By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss. Every combat is even-sided and complex and can be waged in multiple ways, using an arsenal of long- and short-range weapons, plus grenades and hand-to-hand moves. Every level is perfectly paced and balanced and graced with soaring architectural compositions. Plus it's graphically gorgeous. The epic storyline and the stirring score don't hurt either. In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, Halo 3 is the very best of the bunch.
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May 9, 2018 21:01
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Spatula City posted:Lol the Magicians characters being shitbirds is extremely book accurate. Quentin is the most aggravating series protagonist of any book series I have read. Josh makes up for everyone else though.
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May 9, 2018 21:10
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feedmyleg posted:I don't care how good a show is. If it's full of unlikable or bland characters I won't be able to get into it. Fringe, Expanse, Magicians... The gently caress did you just say about Fringe?
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Croatoan posted:The gently caress did you just say about Fringe? Seriously, Walter Bishop might just be the most likeable character of the last 20 years.
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May 9, 2018 21:39
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IRQ posted:Everyone in the book was utterly unlikable too so, eh. At least in the show everyone is pretty, but I never started season 2. I mostly enjoyed season 1. Some pacing issues but otherwise a good plot. Its gone off the rails since. Feels like the characters are in 3 different universes now (they are) so its hard to care about anything.
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May 9, 2018 21:53
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Zaphod42 posted:Didn't he already do that? I mean I guess the suicide thing is new but this feels pretty similar to The Invention Of Lying or whatever. I didn't make that parallel before but you're pretty much right. This is just the basic premise of that movie when you boil down all the fat.
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May 9, 2018 22:08
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Bloody hell, i leave the internet for 24 hours and every one has fresh opinions. They're all wrong opinions too.
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May 10, 2018 00:51
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muscles like this! posted:Fuuuuuck, this week's Legion. I got dumped 2 days ago. Is it gonna make me be even more emotional?
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GreenNight posted:I got dumped 2 days ago. Is it gonna make me be even more emotional? Yes... You'll be sad. But watching videos of talking parrots would probably be good to watch after it.
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May 10, 2018 01:43
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Mu Zeta posted:Olivia sucks for the first 20 episodes Yeah the two leads are a piece of cardboard and a sack of white bread. I hear she gets better later on, but gently caress sitting through 20 episodes of that and then still having to deal with the white bread.
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May 10, 2018 02:57
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Rocksicles posted:Bloody hell, i leave the internet for 24 hours and every one has fresh opinions. They're all wrong opinions too. it's weird as hell to me to see people say The Expanse has boring characters 
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precision posted:it's weird as hell to me to see people say The Expanse has boring characters You're the only person who's used the word "boring" in like the last 6 pages of this thread at least. Nobody said boring. Nobody called them boring. You didn't see that.
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why are you so pedanticfeedmyleg posted:I don't care how good a show is. If it's full of unlikable or bland characters I won't be able to get into it. Fringe, Expanse, Magicians... my bad, not "boring", but "unlikable or bland"
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May 10, 2018 04:35
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Knife or Death has been solved. The answer to completing the course is "be fat". The fish is loving evil though, I can't believe how many people can't cut through a fish. e: weebo lady with a bastard sword lol Grem fucked around with this message at 07:34 on May 10, 2018 |
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May 10, 2018 07:30
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Holden is like the definition of unlikeable and bland, every other character is good though.
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The rear end in a top hat Martian youngster that relayed the message reminds me of Ben Shapiro. Even he has more charisma than Holden.
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Even before it ends I feel confident in saying The Americans is not only now my favourite show (other than Revolutionary Girl Utena, which is the greatest show of all, across all mediums ....) and also one of the best shows ever like top3 all shows. e: Holden has a weird gormless Kit Harrington face and grimaces in amusing ways. he's cookie cutter but inoffensive. naomi is also p cookie cutter bland archetype but her actress owns bones e2: amos is mai waifu esperterra fucked around with this message at 10:18 on May 10, 2018 |
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May 10, 2018 10:13
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Am I the only one watching Dear White People season 2?
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I watched it. I think the only one that talked about in the streaming thread.
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I loved the movie but wasn’t so hot on season 1 of the show, unfortunately. Film was very cinematic and propulsive and then the show went all mumblecore with it.
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May 10, 2018 12:11
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Any spy thrilller dudes watching Deep State with Mark Strong? It's pretty alright, bordering on good. May even move up to great if the next episode is a winner.
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Netflix is doing an adaptation of Joe Hill and Stephen King's novella In the Tall Grass. Anyone read that one? Also: https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/994562104538656768 I mostly remember SCTV as the crappier version of SNL that Comedy Central used to show on afternoons when I was in high school. But cool, Rick Moranis zoux fucked around with this message at 15:46 on May 10, 2018 |
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It's anime-adjacent but I watched Aggretsuko on Netflix this week and it was exactly the kind of show I needed right now. It was very pleasant and I was quite happy with it.
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I recently had a conversation with someone about the last season of Scrubs. I know this is unsolicited, but I have to say as someone who went to medical school, I came away with a completely different viewpoint of that season. I know its a super niche audience, but man they nailed the portrayal of the characters. The older student/reformed gunner exactly matches up. The douche legacy student, even the naive country girl are all characters who I can instantly attach a name and face too. The season is good, but only if you are in a very small demographic, which makes it bad as a network TV show.
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swickles posted:I recently had a conversation with someone about the last season of Scrubs. I know this is unsolicited, but I have to say as someone who went to medical school, I came away with a completely different viewpoint of that season. I know its a super niche audience, but man they nailed the portrayal of the characters. The older student/reformed gunner exactly matches up. The douche legacy student, even the naive country girl are all characters who I can instantly attach a name and face too. The season is good, but only if you are in a very small demographic, which makes it bad as a network TV show.
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May 10, 2018 16:06
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Mu Zeta posted:I can't read anything by Lev Grossman after reading this douchey article Ah yes, the height of perfection in an FPS...is on a console. 
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Rocksicles posted:Any spy thrilller dudes watching Deep State with Mark Strong? Glad to hear positive things, it sounded like my kind of jam so the pilot episode is in my queue. Arist posted:It's anime-adjacent but I watched Aggretsuko on Netflix this week and it was exactly the kind of show I needed right now. It was very pleasant and I was quite happy with it. I watched an episode the other day with the English subs on with English audio and wow is it a different show depending on what version you watch! I know anime subbing/dubbing is always contested, but this one had me surprised.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I watched an episode the other day with the English subs on with English audio and wow is it a different show depending on what version you watch! I know anime subbing/dubbing is always contested, but this one had me surprised. Yeah, dubbing is generally about trying to convey the spirit of the characters and the scene rather than be literal nowadays, it's much better. I tend to listen to dubs because they have VAs I enjoy listening to, and Aggretsuko's dub is pretty good all around.
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Arist posted:It's anime-adjacent but I watched Aggretsuko on Netflix this week and it was exactly the kind of show I needed right now. It was very pleasant and I was quite happy with it. Something tells me you don't need the world's most sophisticated content generation algorithm to know that anime and metal have a lot of crossover in their fanbases.
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feedmyleg posted:I don't care how good a show is. If it's full of unlikable or bland characters I won't be able to get into it. Fringe, Expanse, Magicians... My wife has been watching this show on Netflix called Dark Matter that has the most unlikeable cast of gigantic-chip-on-their-shoulder assholes I've ever seen. I just call it Space Dicks.
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precision posted:why are you so pedantic In this case they aren't bland, they're unlikeable. Or the comment I made that that person was responding to called them assholes. Context is important, goons. I disagree on Expanse, but Magicians has rear end in a top hat characters I would never want anything to do with in real life. After 10 minutes with those people I'd go "gently caress them, I'm going to go study magic by myself" Fringe had Walter who was amazing, and Lance Reddick is the loving man, but everybody else including Olivia and Peter were pretty drat boring. Holden does suck, he's trying too hard to be Mr. Captain but he's just not. Everybody else is great though; Amos, Naomi, Alex, Chrisjen, Johnson, All people that I don't want to tear my eyes or ears our when watching. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 18:38 on May 10, 2018 |
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raditts posted:My wife has been watching this show on Netflix called Dark Matter that has the most unlikeable cast of gigantic-chip-on-their-shoulder assholes I've ever seen. I just call it Space Dicks. Prepare your wife to be extremely annoyed by how the show ends.
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https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/994623337300086789 That's seven more seasons lol For those of you that like to take a bit of action, I'm gonna set the O/U for number of episodes making it to air at 20 with: 3:1 odds it ends over some Harmon related bullshit 5:1 odds for Roiland bullshit 10:1 odds that some insane fans causes to end due to some sort of show inspired murder or terrorist plot
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