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SardonicTyrant posted:I hope they never explain the lube man. I hope Lube Man is Dr. Manhattan's penis
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Nov 29, 2019 13:50
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I hope there's a Kobayashi/Fight Club moment where it's revealed that Lube Man was present in every pivotal Watchmen scene but nobody remembered him. When HJ puts on the hood for the first time and beats up the muggers, who's that watching in the background? Lube Man. In the aftermath of the Squidfall, as people are wiping them off their cars, who's that sliding down the highway on a flow of dissolving squids? Lube Man. When Laurie is alone in the hotel room and opens up her suitcase, is it a blue dildo she's pulling out of it? No. It's Lube Man.
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Nov 29, 2019 14:01
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howe_sam posted:Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald can be pretty insufferable, assuming we're talking about The Watch. I thought it was suspect that they were sudden in love with The Leftovers after they became employed by HBO (at least partially). They have some really bad takes imo. Except for Greenwald's take that the finale of Lost wad fine if not good which is accurate.
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Nov 29, 2019 14:29
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I don't really care about the backstory for Lube Man but I'll be disappointed if whoever is in the suit isn't Justin Theroux.
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Nov 29, 2019 15:18
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Nail Rat posted:Same. It's clearly Petey but to just never acknowledge it again would be perfect. But.... Mike Yanagita actually served a crucial purpose? EDIT: Beaten quote:The Mike Yanagita scene is important because it sets up Marge going back to the dealership to question Jerry again about the missing car. She initially believes Mike about his dead wife, but when she discovers he was lying she realizes that she might also have been too quick to believe Jerry when he said the dealership wasn’t missing any cars. Yes, and it also serves to show you that one can find a good place for lunch in Downtown Minneapolis that IS reasonable. InfiniteZero posted:I don't really care about the backstory for Lube Man but I'll be disappointed if whoever is in the suit isn't Justin Theroux. SECOND MaoistBanker fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Nov 29, 2019 16:13
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I've been aware of that explanation but to me it's kind of weak though because it's essentially like she's never realized lying is possible before that. I don't know, maybe small town Minnesota is really like that.quote:Yes, and it also serves to show you that one can find a good place for lunch in Downtown Minneapolis that IS reasonable. Different times, but nowadays if you go to get food in Minneapolis and it's not at a brewery you're doing it wrong IMO
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Nov 29, 2019 16:49
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InfiniteZero posted:I don't really care about the backstory for Lube Man but I'll be disappointed if whoever is in the suit isn't Justin Theroux. He would've never have fit under that grate.
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Nov 29, 2019 17:57
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fancy stats posted:He would've never have fit under that grate. Dr. Manhattan's suit.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:36
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The Lube Man scene would be 100% better if someone added Putty sound effects to Lube Man.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:37
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Spacebump posted:The Lube Man scene would be 100% better if someone added Putty sound effects to Lube Man. Or WB cartoon slipping sound effects
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Nov 29, 2019 18:45
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Lube Man is obviously the hero, hes already saved this thread from turning into a joyless analytical romp.
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Nov 29, 2019 19:33
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MaoistBanker posted:Sorry for the giant wall of text, but the flashlight being used on both Judd AND Angela has got this guy thinking on Reddit, and it's pretty good. It's a theory, so I won't spoiler it but beforewarned: See, part of this is why I think the real villains are largely the old guard characters and how they influence and gently caress with the present day cast. Veidt inspired Trieu, Will trying to get Angela to see his worldview, and maybe Will influencing Trieu, Trieu to her daughter, etc. Not 100% on the Trieu/Will interaction but I can totally see Will's story being a sort of spark to inspire her. Like their experiences and biases bleed into the next generation and more or less poison them and Angela for one is fighting against it. SardonicTyrant posted:I hope they never explain the lube man. THE gently caress?!
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Nov 29, 2019 19:43
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Lube Man greased up with love and knee-slid his way into the sewer drain of our hearts
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Nov 29, 2019 19:44
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SardonicTyrant posted:I hope they never explain the lube man. You mean as in that was the last we ever see of him? 
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Nov 29, 2019 20:02
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I wanna see more of the panda guy who didn't want to release the guns to the cops.
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Nov 29, 2019 20:29
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What's with the panda theme for that cop and the connections to looking glass's pamphlet in 1985? Never got touched on
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Nov 29, 2019 21:37
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KoRMaK posted:What's with the panda theme for that cop and the connections to looking glass's pamphlet in 1985? Never got touched on The only real meaningful thing we've seen him done all season is oppose letting the cops act violently, he's literally a teddy bear. They probably went with a panda because they're cuter and generally seen as less dangerous (plus it lets them avoid the race connotation of someone named Black Bear) but regardless he's a big friendly stuffed animal among a bunch of violent action figures.
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Nov 29, 2019 23:21
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I wonder if Red Scare listens to the podcast.
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Nov 30, 2019 00:01
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Nah I don't think Dasha gives a crap about comic book movies or whatever
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Nov 30, 2019 01:12
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This shot from the trailer hasn't shown up in the show yet. Me thinks this is Angela trying to get out of Lady Trieu's compound to stop... whatever.
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Nov 30, 2019 01:51
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Also, since we have seen from the trailer for next week's episode that they basically redressed up the Tulsa street to look like Hanoi (and the shot of the trailer of people in Vietnam with Dr Manhattan balloons), and that there is an explosion I wonder if THIS shot is actually from Angela's childhood in the 80s in Saigon.
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Nov 30, 2019 01:53
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i'm sure DC have a whole slew of Before Watchmen comic miniseries lined up to reveal the true identity of Lube Man and the secret history of Panda and whatever gotta keep pumping stuff out to keep the book out of Alan Moore's hands
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Nov 30, 2019 01:58
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Box of Bunnies posted:i'm sure DC have a whole slew of Before Watchmen comic miniseries lined up to reveal the true identity of Lube Man and the secret history of Panda and whatever Is that really how it works? They have the rights as long as they are developing things? I know movies are like that, with the captain America & fantastic 4 movies they made and never released in the 80s or whatever.
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Nov 30, 2019 02:00
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Dc tried to get Moore back a while ago and give him full rights back or whatever but Moore said get hosed because they screwed him once and be doesn't trust them
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Nov 30, 2019 02:01
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Bernstrike posted:I wonder if Red Scare listens to the podcast. “Who is dis beetch who use r-word so much? Class consciousness is not fad! Room in revolution for many genders! All genders!” [Spits]
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Nov 30, 2019 02:08
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beanieson posted:Is that really how it works? They have the rights as long as they are developing things? it's not how it usually works, but the contract Moore/Gibbons had with DC was that the publisher would have the rights while the book was in circulation and then they'd revert back to the authors, which probably seemed reasonable to them because in the 80s you'd do your single issue run and then maybe print a collection and that would be it, comics weren't kept constantly in print like they are now. of course, it was a big hit, and an important work for the medium, and so DC kept printing it and doing stuff the live action movie, the Before Watchmen comics, and this show from the comic's wikipedia page: quote:Not wanting to work under a work for hire arrangement, Moore and Gibbons had a reversion clause in their contract for Watchmen. Speaking at the 1985 San Diego Comic-Con, Moore said: "The way it works, if I understand it, is that DC owns it for the time they're publishing it, and then it reverts to Dave and me, so we can make all the money from the Slurpee cups."
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Nov 30, 2019 02:09
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I bet in the Watchmen world people get mad at cumtown for “ironically” talking in the Rorschach voice.
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Nov 30, 2019 02:15
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Real talk, there are no podcasts in the Watchmen world because technology never made it far enough for people to have mp3 players.
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Nov 30, 2019 04:47
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Real talk, there are no podcasts in the Watchmen world because technology never made it far enough for people to have mp3 players. Yeah, in one of the Peteypedia memos it mentions that they just reintroduced top-of-the-line portable computers (aka laptops) to the FBI and agents are literally ordered to look happy using them in the field to offset post-squid technophobia. They have e-mail and file servers, possibly something like listserv/newsgroups but the free-range multimedia internet as we know it doesn't exist.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:13
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drat then I wonder who nick is talking to epstein about
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Nov 30, 2019 05:15
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Real talk, there are no podcasts in the Watchmen world because technology never made it far enough for people to have mp3 players. i like to imagine you'd have groups of people recording themselves talking about the kinds of topics we have podcasts about on cassette tapes, then dubbing that onto other tapes and mailing them out to people that express interest from flyers they've posted on community notice boards and whatever like, audio zines or some poo poo
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Nov 30, 2019 05:27
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McSpanky posted:Yeah, in one of the Peteypedia memos it mentions that they just reintroduced top-of-the-line portable computers (aka laptops) to the FBI and agents are literally ordered to look happy using them in the field to offset post-squid technophobia. They have e-mail and file servers, possibly something like listserv/newsgroups but the free-range multimedia internet as we know it doesn't exist. What do they do for porn?
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Nov 30, 2019 05:42
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twistedmentat posted:What do they do for porn? Pray to the Lube God.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:50
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Box of Bunnies posted:i like to imagine you'd have groups of people recording themselves talking about the kinds of topics we have podcasts about on cassette tapes, then dubbing that onto other tapes and mailing them out to people that express interest from flyers they've posted on community notice boards and whatever The guy in our world who got laughed out of court for suing apple for a cut of all podcasts because he patented the audio-tape-by-mail concept in 1990 was the Watchmen world’s first trillionaire.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:52
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Probably lots of AM and HAM radios but instead of cool trucker handles like HogMan62 they'll have superhero names like MadeByManhattan85...twistedmentat posted:What do they do for porn? the secret mind control plan is going to work because people still need movie theaters for porno in 2019 in this universe 
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Nov 30, 2019 07:34
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
yea I was gonna say jerk off booths
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Nov 30, 2019 07:39
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twistedmentat posted:What do they do for porn? Magazines
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Nov 30, 2019 07:59
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In that case, in Watchmen world the richest billionaires should be Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt not Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Bezos is the manager of a Barnes and Noble, lmao.
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Nov 30, 2019 08:10
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They would have just found something else to do that would have similar enterprising and exploitative properties.
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