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CharlestheHammer posted:I actually think that is battle star Galatica which is not anime. All is anime.
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While not exactly a child bride IIRC in Twilight they instead go with arranged marriage where the vampire baby is basically promised to the werewolf guy.
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muscles like this! posted:While not exactly a child bride IIRC in Twilight they instead go with arranged marriage where the vampire baby is basically promised to the werewolf guy. The girl I was dating at the time wanted to go watch that so I took her opening night. She got super mad at me because when that scene hit and I figured out what was happening I full on belly laughed for a good 30 seconds straight.
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Push El Burrito posted:The girl I was dating at the time wanted to go watch that so I took her opening night. She got super mad at me because when that scene hit and I figured out what was happening I full on belly laughed for a good 30 seconds straight. Was that not supposed to be funny? I appreciate that in universe 1000 year old vampires that only look like children are considered abominations that need to be destroyed.
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Uh, you should post the after pic. Due to life changes she now looks like someone who stirs a pot of grits in a lumber camp.
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Is "life changes" code for getting fat and old?
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muscles like this! posted:While not exactly a child bride IIRC in Twilight they instead go with arranged marriage where the vampire baby is basically promised to the werewolf guy. I thought it was less arranged marriage and more like grooming? He imprinted on this baby as his future soul mate and was going to help raise her until the time she was old enough to marry him
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is "life changes" code for getting fat and old? It’s code for meth.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is "life changes" code for getting fat and old? various legal troubles https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/15/entertainment/star-trek-arrest-jennifer-lien-feat/index.html https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/former-star-trek-voyager-actress-arrested-in-kingston/1039307903
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Len posted:I thought it was less arranged marriage and more like grooming? He imprinted on this baby as his future soul mate and was going to help raise her until the time she was old enough to marry him Yeah its this. Also the baby ages extra fast because of its vampire genes or whatever.
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Mar 18, 2019 14:11
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Twilight manages to be more anime than most anime.
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Arivia posted:It’s code for meth. With a side order of mental illness.
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It's probably been mentioned, but I'm super late to the thread, but the first season of The Wire is super archaic now. It came out in 2002, and the cops on the case are stuck using typewriters (not super unusual, a character in the first ep even bitches that due to budget, they're stuck in the Stone Age). A homicide cop brags about their super advanced spy camera set-up! Their plot to figure out how to take down Avon involves beepers and payphones. I just got to the part where the incompetent nerd, trying to crack their beeper code, is physically holding a handset telephone on a photocopier so he can have physical copies of a phone keypad. There's also the part where Lester does all that leg work because 'Nobody has any information on Avon Barksdale!  '
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Mar 18, 2019 17:30
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One of the biggest themes of the show was how cops and gangs evolved their use of technology through the early 2000s. Season 1 was archaic by season 2.
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it makes sense that the drug gang is using cheap beepers and payphones though, they're much harder to trace as the cops have to physically watch the payphones to log when their target is using the phone. also you'd stand out if you were a guy walking around the dangerous projects with a fancy cellphone and nobody's trying to mess with you about it. lester is the physical manifestation of "technology cannot replace good police work"
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LadyPictureShow posted:It's probably been mentioned, but I'm super late to the thread, but the first season of The Wire is super archaic now. It came out in 2002, and the cops on the case are stuck using typewriters (not super unusual, a character in the first ep even bitches that due to budget, they're stuck in the Stone Age). That doesn't sound like it aged poorly, it's just set in the year in which it was produced and had characters using obsolete technology for specific reasons intended by the writers?
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Mar 18, 2019 17:55
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Now millennials just post #DoYouWantToBuySomeDrugs on Tweeter!
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Detective No. 27 posted:One of the biggest themes of the show was how cops and gangs evolved their use of technology through the early 2000s. Season 1 was archaic by season 2. Yeah, it's still funny to me though. S2 McNulty wouldn't need to pore over physical tide maps, and w/S3 stuff with Marlo's crew relying on burners, are burners even a 'thing' anymore? I would honestly love to see a remake for current day technology if it could be done?
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I don't even think it would need a remake. A continuation would be cool. I hear that some of the actors do unofficial stage plays.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I don't even think it would need a remake. A continuation would be cool. I hear that some of the actors do unofficial stage plays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmryAVUoL8
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Tiggum posted:That doesn't sound like it aged poorly, it's just set in the year in which it was produced and had characters using obsolete technology for specific reasons intended by the writers? Said reasons being the Baltimore PD were cheap as gently caress and things like expensive, long running investigations into the upper levels of drug gangs got little to no priority. It even comes up in dialogue how the old and barely working technology is a huge impediment to effectively policing the city.
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LadyPictureShow posted:Yeah, it's still funny to me though. S2 McNulty wouldn't need to pore over physical tide maps, and w/S3 stuff with Marlo's crew relying on burners, are burners even a 'thing' anymore?
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LadyPictureShow posted:are burners even a 'thing' anymore? ...why wouldn't they be?
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Burner Twitter handles and Instagram accounts. Don't @ me.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:There was a full investigation and a senate hearing after the nature of Killer’s “love” was discovered. Sarge shot himself in his office in his full dress uniform. The note pinned to his chest read simply, “we should have known from the cookies.” I thought we already figured out that the whole strip is set in purgatory after everyone died in the Korean War?
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luxury handset posted:lester is the physical manifestation of "technology cannot replace good police work" Yeah, and "tech can't replace humint" comes up in basically every serious surveillance / spy drama (also in reality).
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The Wire season 1 felt outdated even the day it aired because a lot of the stuff they show with the cops is also in David Simon's book "Homicide" which came out in 1991.
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Season 2 features this wonderfully 2003 exchange when McNulty is staking our Vondas: “What’s that thing he just did with his phone?” “Probably sending a text message. My kids are obsessed with those.”
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I definitely remember a dodgy CG demolition at the start of season 3, a rarity since there were a number of CG shots in The Wire most people didn't notice.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I definitely remember a dodgy CG demolition at the start of season 3, rarity since then was a number of CG shots most people didn't notice. I’m in the middle of season 3 on my current rewatch and yeah it looks like poo poo.
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It's a pity, real life demolitions are some awesome poo poo. I remember when a neighbouring house got torn town I brought out a goddamn folding chair to watch.
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At least they didn't use stock footage from Pruitt Igoe
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skooma512 posted:At least they didn't use stock footage from Pruitt Igoe Koyaanisqatsi!
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In preparation for the upcoming movie, I've finally convinced my wife to watch Deadwood with me. Her first viewing, my 3rd or 4th. We're about half way through season 2. It's still perfect. That is all.
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Tony Phillips posted:In preparation for the upcoming movie, I've finally convinced my wife to watch Deadwood with me. Her first viewing, my 3rd or 4th. We're about half way through season 2. We watched that back to back with Justified last year. Lots of fun playing spot the actor across the two.
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Not Operator posted:We watched that back to back with Justified last year. Lots of fun playing spot the actor across the two. My wife and I were bored enough to run through all of Sons of Anarchy last year. (Her sister loved it and wouldn't shut up about it. I don't recommend it.) The Deadwood / SoA crossover is insane though. Time and time again, I'd have a "Where the Hell do I know that actor from?" moment. The answer was drat near always Deadwood. Took me forever to recognize Robin Weigert though. Just started laughing when it finally clicked.
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Tony Phillips posted:My wife and I were bored enough to run through all of Sons of Anarchy last year. (Her sister loved it and wouldn't shut up about it. I don't recommend it.) If you add in The Shield as well, you have even more actor crossover. Though, like many things SoA hosed up, Michael Chiklis was horrendously misused.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:If you add in The Shield as well, you have even more actor crossover. Yeah, but Goggins was NOT. 
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Remulak posted:Yeah, but Goggins was NOT. Well, the whole Venus Van Damme thing was dumb (not from an anti-trans perspective, I love trans people  ), but Sutter was clearly only interested in the laughs and being all extreme and poo poo with how it's handled, much like everything else. The name was probably my favourite part, harkening back to Shane on the Shield.The irony is, he put so many shootouts in the goddamned show that that aspect because predictable, boring, and stupid. gently caress SoA.
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Breaking Bad was good about making the main character become antagonist but made me want to keep watching. SOA did the same thing but did it so badly in the end I hated Jax I was glad he was dead and the show was finally over.
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