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Tragedienne posted:Honestly, if someone asked me to recommend two episodes of AHS: Coven to give an idea of what the show is about, it would be these past two episodes of Apocalypse. I don't disagree. I might slam Coven all the time for being the most incoherent TV show this side of Dexter or later Heroes, but there was a lot of potential there; it makes it a little frustrating sometime. I liked the characters. I liked the setting. It was always shot nice, it always had neat ideas. But it was like some meth'ed out guy rambling good idea after good idea after good idea until he starts rambling bad ideas and changing his good ideas in TV form. There was a lot to like under the surface. The show was cool when it was going to be Coven vs Voodoo but then they just undid that like 4 episodes in. It seemed to abort every single plot it had prematurely and like I said above, nothing about the rules of the universe really made sense. Why I'm really surprised how much I like this season and appreciate seeing good characters done much better.* * They should have learned not to stuff a 5 minute Stevie Nicks cameo in singing again though. I think it was hilarious they remembered her, but should have left it at the dinner scene. ED: Oh yeah I think things like the Witch Hunters could have been awesome. The problem wasn't introducing them, it was doing them SO poorly. The idea of a group of hunters that evolved into a meganational corporation is right up my alley; I loving love that sort of thing. Then they all just go 'Oh hey guys witches have invited every single one of us to the same room to surrender. Let's all go in good faith, we're genius.' Ugh. Written well, that could have been a season primary antagonist with plenty of potential for some dark humor about evil corporate culture. Part of this is why I'm glad this season opened with the destruction of the world and the decay after; you know the villain this time around is a serious loving threat. There's very few side-threats that they could pull out of their hat that'd upend this. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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kjetting posted:70s singer as well, as she was also the vocalist of Fleetwood mac. Yeah, that was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT_vx6fPIoM She walks in, Sings Seven Wonders which happens actually be about the supreme test, and after the song she just . . . walks out the door? Did she leave her car lights on? Is she double parked??
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Oct 12, 2018 05:37
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I wonder when they cut back to present time if we'll ever see any of the people that got killed again or if they were entirely a red herring. Part of me wonders if we're EVER going to cut back to present time now until the end of the season, when the battle commences.
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Oct 12, 2018 05:40
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Dudeabides posted:Was this episode in need of singing Stevie Nicks? Not really. Yes because loving Gypsy. I hope she returns and busts out Sara next week tbqh This episode owned btw just finished. And not just because of Lily Rabe. Tho that helped. Very much looking forward to Madison and Behold's Murder Haus adventure next week. Now Misty just needs to lez out with Cordelia b/c I def thought they were going to in Coven before Misty died lmbo
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Oct 12, 2018 06:41
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Also Cody Fern loving owns e: Pinwiz11 posted:Still, my wig was snatched in those last few moment. plucked straight off my head and fwiw the Stevie Nicks scene was clearly a waste of time, I just got really excited when she busted out Gypsy lmao. It was a cute moment for Misty but didn't need to be like five minutes or whatever. Also is Stevie Nicks the only person in the world who still owns a crimper esperterra fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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Oct 12, 2018 06:43
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esperterra posted:Also is Stevie Nicks the only person in the world who still owns a crimper Um, clearly not. 
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Oct 12, 2018 07:05
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Having not watched since the beginning of S5, this season has been fun on a guilty pleasure level, and I didn’t expect much more than that. That said, good lord is it a loving trainwreck in terms of basic narrative structure. I’m going to charitably assume that the characters and events of the first three episodes will become relevant again in S6 or later, and that the creators didn’t just decide “gently caress this, we’re just doing Coven S2” midway through, but if you have three consecutive all-flashback episodes midway through the season, you’re doing something wrong.
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Oct 12, 2018 07:11
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Can we talk about what a wonderful addition Leslie Grossman has been these last two seasons?
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Oct 12, 2018 07:17
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Facebook Aunt posted:Um, clearly not. That's a wig and a character choice. Stevie Nicks (who may well be wearin a piece tbf) looks like she drove to set from her house and they said action lmao e: ^^ the triumphant return of mary cherry has been beautiful
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Barry Convex posted:That said, good lord is it a loving trainwreck in terms of basic narrative structure. I can't disagree though I kind of can cope with it here because it's a backdoor season and switch up of what you think is going on. But I expected the flashback to be like, an episode long. I'm starting to get really concerned we're never getting back to the present.
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Blazing Ownager posted:I can't disagree though I kind of can cope with it here because it's a backdoor season and switch up of what you think is going on. But I expected the flashback to be like, an episode long. I'm starting to get really concerned we're never getting back to the present. Well, the present is basically the witches vs the Antichrist. There isn't much left to support episodes--the bunker food supply is exhausted, the world is poo poo and bombed out, and Langdon sure as hell (ha!) isn't going to back down and let them escape now that he has them under one roof. Everyone else is already dead. So I think we're getting another 2-3 flashback narratives leading up the Bombs, then 2-3 Final Conflict eps. So if I had to guess: Next ep will be mostly MH and end with them maybe reporting back about devilbaby, Following ep is the Cooperative founding and Cordelia trying to save the Coven, Then Halloween will advance to the bombs and bring us back to the present.
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Oct 12, 2018 08:09
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You have to love the fact that Coco's only power is to detect gluten. Her personality didn't seem as awful in the flashback, maybe it was only for the personality spell?
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Oct 12, 2018 09:34
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I assumed it was more meaningful than that - the ability to detect poisons and such, since she saved her brother from eating a potentially lethal thing. But apparently not, since she would have presumably not eaten the Stu stew, or, y'know, the poisoned apple.
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Oct 12, 2018 14:38
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OmegaBR posted:I assumed it was more meaningful than that - the ability to detect poisons and such, since she saved her brother from eating a potentially lethal thing. Pretty sure she didn't eat the poisoned apple; she was off getting face-stabbed well before they bobbed for those apples IIRC.
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Oct 12, 2018 14:59
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Really digging this season so far. I've been expecting a big twist but nope, it's actually halloween, and the outside world really is a poo poo. I was a little confused when they did the Halloween episode when it was like 10/1 but now it makes more sense. It's also super refreshing to see a character on a show not be a total idiot and instead have used the 7 wonders as a test of how strong the anti-christ is.
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esperterra posted:Yes because loving Gypsy. I hope she returns and busts out Sara next week tbqh See I hate this thinking. There seems to be a line in this thread where you have to like every campy bit of this show because it's campy. This show is half campy/half serious and a lot of people like the serious aspect of it with Asylum/Murder House/Roanoke/Cult. The Stevie Nicks portion was just plain bad. She's atonal, it was jarring, and it went on for way too long. Even from a campy point of view it was terrible.
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I mean I even admitted as such a couple posts after lmao. I just really loving love Gypsy.
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Doltos posted:See I hate this thinking. There seems to be a line in this thread where you have to like every campy bit of this show because it's campy. This show is half campy/half serious and a lot of people like the serious aspect of it with Asylum/Murder House/Roanoke/Cult. I fast-forwarded through the entire song and couldn't be happier.
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esperterra posted:I mean I even admitted as such a couple posts after lmao. I just really loving love Gypsy. Don't get me wrong Stevie Nicks loving owns. She was the soundtrack to my mom's life growing up so she played her constantly for me growing up too. I just really hated that scene. Stevie's so drugged out that at this point it's embarrassing for her.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:00
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A Stevie Nicks performance either before or after doing the Seven Wonders is the super secret Eighth Wonder. As it has been since back in Salem.
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Oct 12, 2018 20:27
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The 7 wonders were mostly unimpressive tbh
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Oct 12, 2018 20:29
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Phi230 posted:The 7 wonders were mostly unimpressive tbh And how many can you do?
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Oct 12, 2018 20:30
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Also just with Coven the bringing people back from the dead thing kinda ruined the finality the first two seasons of AHS set in stone.
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Liking the majority of the season so far but Stevie Nick's loving suuuuuckssssss and if I never hear her sing a single atonal note again I'll be so happy, skipped through all of that awful segment. Like maybe if they had her singing in the background as something actually interesting happened it might be tolerable but the whole thing is so cringy as it's basically hey watch the cast do what they did in coven and sit around fawning over this over the hill singer which reeks of the creator of the show pandering to her because she's a big get I guess? And I love the cheesy nature of the show but my god I hope she goes the way of that interrogating detective next episode.
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Tragedienne posted:Honestly, if someone asked me to recommend two episodes of AHS: Coven to give an idea of what the show is about, it would be these past two episodes of Apocalypse. Yeah but then we wouldn’t have gotten to watch incestual sexual assault so.... (Coven was bad)
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Tragedienne posted:And how many can you do? Is "can't do the 7 wonders so can't judge witches" the new "doesn't make video games so can't criticize video games?"
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As bad as the Stevie Nicks scene was, I think another reason it didn't bother me much was I 100% expected this to happen at least once, since I'm p sure we already knew Nicks was also returning. Like at least they very tenuously tried to have it fit as a 'hey misty is back from hell and we know her idol stevie nicks so let's get her to sing for her again as a welcome home' thing but it still didn't need to be 4 minutes long lmbo
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Andrew_1985 posted:You have to love the fact that Coco's only power is to detect gluten. Given her assistant is likely the true new Supreme, they likely used the terrible personality to help hide her better. That said I have to wonder about her husband. Is he mind wiped too or just a really poor bastard?
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Just Chamber posted:Liking the majority of the season so far but Stevie Nick's loving suuuuuckssssss and if I never hear her sing a single atonal note again I'll be so happy, skipped through all of that awful segment. Like maybe if they had her singing in the background as something actually interesting happened it might be tolerable but the whole thing is so cringy as it's basically hey watch the cast do what they did in coven and sit around fawning over this over the hill singer which reeks of the creator of the show pandering to her because she's a big get I guess? I would love if it it wasn't as sincere as it obviously is and they're setting up a huge troll. Like she starts singing, then 10 seconds into the song her neck snaps because Mr. Langdon has had enough.
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Next week's episode is going to be 1:18 (roughly 55 minutes after commercials). I think I read in the same article that we are going back to bunker in 2 weeks.
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SalTheBard posted:Next week's episode is going to be 1:18 (roughly 55 minutes after commercials). I think I read in the same article that we are going back to bunker in 2 weeks. It's a 55 minute Stevie Nick's concert
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Oct 13, 2018 15:57
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Just Chamber posted:It's a 55 minute Stevie Nick's concert would lol
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Just Chamber posted:It's a 55 minute Stevie Nick's concert Would watch twice
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Oct 13, 2018 16:11
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Both of you are the real horror stories
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Oct 13, 2018 18:16
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I liked the boob window.
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Oct 13, 2018 18:23
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Happy Murder House night, everyone!
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Who was the little girl with no eyes? I dont remember her from the first season
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Oct 17, 2018 22:47
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That's pretty much the first thing I thought of when I saw the sheer quantity of loving candles in the bunker
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Chris James 2 posted:Would watch twice Here with y'all. I like the Stevie Nicks bits purely for how mad they make people. Though like, has she even done any actual magic in the show? I only remember the music segments. They just keep mentioning it but she doesn't actually do anything at all, ever. Agreeing with whoever said the Rescuing Misty scene was cool and good, I loved the weird face effects going on when the 'kids' started communing with Michael.
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