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I have literally zero questions remaining from it I think.
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Arist posted:I'm starting to suspect "mystery box" doesn't actually mean anything Adrian's whole thing was a mystery box. The explanation for it is underwhelming and just feels like Lindeloff watched the first season of Westworld right before writing the show. The clocktower is a mystery box, the explanation was just the same as another loving macguffin they revealed two episodes ago. And on and on.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:29 |
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So your definition is "thing that isn't explained immediately"?
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:31 |
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My only question is "will there be another season?"
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:34 |
Aphrodite posted:So your definition is "thing that isn't explained immediately"? Yes, and that is obfuscated from the audience to encourage speculation. A mystery box is not bad in and of itself. It's the fact that Lindeloff is more concerned with the speculation part more than the satisfying answer part that is the issue.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:35 |
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The clock wasn't implied to be anything more than just a clock until 1 episode before they revealed what it actually was.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:43 |
Aphrodite posted:The clock wasn't implied to be anything more than just a clock until 1 episode before they revealed what it actually was. It was implied to be something way more important the first time Trieu shows up and does insanely over the top poo poo to get the house from that couple to build it. It sets the project up as mysterious and important right off the bat, and there was speculation everywhere about what she was really building.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:45 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Well you clearly need to go watch Cloak & Dagger and confirm it then. Let's be empirical about this. I saw cloak and dagger. I just didn't want to sound to objective there. Personally I preferred AoS by a noticeable margin. But that might just be my personal bias. Being set in new Orleans, Close and Dagger involves a lot of jazz, which I disdain.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:46 |
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my opinion of Watchmen is what it's been since the beginning: a pretty good, well-made show with fairly confused politics and a strained relationship with the themes of the source material that doesn't quite deserve the euphoric praise it's getting
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 22:03 |
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Vince MechMahon posted:The big powerful final moment is "pay off" to a throwaway line from an episode ago. It leaves more questions dangling than it answered. The ones it did answer were disappointing. Most of the characters didn't get enough time for me to give a poo poo about them (looking at you, Trieu), and it felt like it was using the comic idea of "nothing ever ends" to justify lazy, half assed storytelling, and is more interested in setting up mystery boxes than giving satisfying answers. Basically it's everything that sucks about Lindeloff in one neat package. You make it sound closer to the original than it was. Honestly yea, I was a bit disappointed by the final for just disregarding some interesting build up to fit in a less interesting villain. I was all down with the white supremacists trying to make themselves gods only to get hosed over big time, but that seemed to be pushed aside for Triu. Spoilers I guess: The whole reveal with Veidt just felt unearned. I get why someone wouldn't want Triu to become a god because she was narcissistic enough to start making people worship her, but having Veidt be the one to point this out felt logical but also a bit hollow. Also I just was never sold on Jon becoming human and falling in love. For the story purposes it was fine, but for an established character it just didn't sit right
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 22:05 |
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the exec producer sounds like a big weiner. https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1206443239894593538?s=20 https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1206464505426972672?s=20 https://twitter.com/unabanned/status/1206469572641067008?s=20
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 22:11 |
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Rhyno posted:My only question is "will there be another season?" They aren't making that dumbass Confederates show, so it's either Watchmen or Dark Materials if HBO wants to remain the network of "smart" nerds.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 22:52 |
Skwirl posted:They aren't making that dumbass Confederates show, so it's either Watchmen or Dark Materials if HBO wants to remain the network of "smart" nerds. They're making a dumbass Lovecraft show instead. No, not Lovecraft Country, the one Jordan Peele is doing that will probably be good. The GoT idiots are doing a show based on Lovecraft himself. Which I assume is going to be him yelling racial slurs and not leaving his house because he's scared and will go for 8 seasons.
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Vince MechMahon posted:They're making a dumbass Lovecraft show instead. No, not Lovecraft Country, the one Jordan Peele is doing that will probably be good. The GoT idiots are doing a show based on Lovecraft himself. Which I assume is going to be him yelling racial slurs and not leaving his house because he's scared and will go for 8 seasons. Yeah, but the GoT guys hosed off to netflix so that's not gonna happen on HBO. Vince MechMahon posted:It was implied to be something way more important the first time Trieu shows up and does insanely over the top poo poo to get the house from that couple to build it. It sets the project up as mysterious and important right off the bat, and there was speculation everywhere about what she was really building.
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Vince MechMahon posted:They're making a dumbass Lovecraft show instead. No, not Lovecraft Country, the one Jordan Peele is doing that will probably be good. The GoT idiots are doing a show based on Lovecraft himself. Which I assume is going to be him yelling racial slurs and not leaving his house because he's scared and will go for 8 seasons. that's a movie afaik
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 23:51 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:the exec producer sounds like a big weiner. All of these are entirely divorced from what he's saying and its context. Does Damon Lindelof specifically break people's brain?
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 00:51 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:I saw cloak and dagger. I just didn't want to sound to objective there. Personally I preferred AoS by a noticeable margin. But that might just be my personal bias. Being set in new Orleans, Close and Dagger involves a lot of jazz, which I disdain. Well the main villain of season 2 was a jazz musician, so surely that was appealing to you?
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Vince MechMahon posted:They're making a dumbass Lovecraft show instead. No, not Lovecraft Country, the one Jordan Peele is doing that will probably be good. The GoT idiots are doing a show based on Lovecraft himself. Which I assume is going to be him yelling racial slurs and not leaving his house because he's scared and will go for 8 seasons. Oh, good. What if the things Lovecraft wrote about were because THEY WERE REAL is entirely fresh and cool.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 02:57 |
Vince MechMahon posted:It leaves more questions dangling than it answered. The ones it did answer were disappointing. This is my shocked face.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 03:17 |
Dawgstar posted:Oh, good. What if the things Lovecraft wrote about were because THEY WERE REAL is entirely fresh and cool.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 12:03 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Well the main villain of season 2 was a jazz musician, so surely that was appealing to you? Nah, hearing jazz gives me a headache, so it was really annoying to watch. But I am aware that this is a personal bias and not a negative point for everyone.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 16:33 |
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Have you considered that perhaps you've communed with an otherdimensional force that allows you to drain hope from others in order to relieve this headaches
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 22:03 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:Nah, hearing jazz gives me a headache, so it was really annoying to watch. Have you considered the groovy hiss of snake jazz?
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# ? Dec 18, 2019 02:38 |
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I've been catching up on Doom Patrol over my winter break and I'm shocked at how good it is. It does a great job with the themes and dealing with why each character is broken and also mixing incredibly serious themes with outright bizarreness that permeates Doom Patrol. It's also great to see some of the super weird characters showing up like Danny Street and Steve Larson.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 05:59 |
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It’s a ridiculous degree better than every other super tv show it’s almost uncomfortable.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 06:56 |
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I was very skeptical of how they'd pull off Danny, once getting over my initial blissed out disbelief that they'd even be trying, but I loved it. I was super verklempt by the end of that episode. What an absolute treasure of a show.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:08 |
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It's one of the few things on film this year that just thinking about it makes me start grinning, it's such an insanely good show.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:19 |
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Plus, it's got the absolute king Brendy F in it in a leading role.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:20 |
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The musical episode crushed everything in it's path and I hate musicals.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 16:13 |
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WandaVision premiere has been moved up to 2020 (it was previously spring 2021) https://twitter.com/disneyplus/status/1212372907399118848?s=21 https://twitter.com/disneyplus/status/1212432983157694464?s=21 Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jan 1, 2020 |
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Barry Convex posted:WandaVision premiere has been moved up to 2020 Yeah. D+ did stupid well, but now there's not much else once you've re-watched The Mighty Ducks trilogy.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah. D+ did stupid well, but now there's not much else once you've re-watched The Mighty Ducks trilogy. Surely you then watch the Mighty Ducks cartoon? Barry Convex posted:WandaVision premiere has been moved up to 2020 (it was previously spring 2021) CLONE WARS. Inject it into my veins, Filoni!
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 00:07 |
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Been more hyped for Clone Wars than I was for Episode 9
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 00:26 |
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Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Batwoman, and LEGENDS all renewed.
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Davros1 posted:Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Batwoman, and LEGENDS all renewed.
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Davros1 posted:Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Batwoman, and LEGENDS all renewed. That's everything but the ending Arrow then right? Which is probably being replaced with Green Arrow and the Canaries anyway.
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# ? Jan 8, 2020 00:50 |
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New poster for the crossover with Oliver in Spectre costume.
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# ? Jan 8, 2020 01:02 |
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muscles like this! posted:
I'm sad he's not just wearing a green speedo and a cape. His pose also makes him look like he's trying to calm down an angry dog.
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# ? Jan 8, 2020 01:34 |
twistedmentat posted:I'm sad he's not just wearing a green speedo and a cape. His pose also makes him look like he's trying to calm down an angry dog. Krypto confirmed.
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# ? Jan 8, 2020 02:00 |
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Aphrodite posted:That's everything but the ending Arrow then right? Which is probably being replaced with Green Arrow and the Canaries anyway. CW renewed everything on their slate except for the three shows ending and the Riverdale spinoff that hasn't debuted yet.
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