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Human Tornada posted:Has Aaron Paul ever asked Dolores "Hey how come you get shot all the time and it doesn't seem to bother you all that much?" I wonder how long they'll try to avoid that conversation. They're on a plane now with plenty of time to waste.
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Apr 13, 2020 22:16
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Combat Pretzel posted:He gave her a weird look after she got shot by two goons while he was still tripping. Hopefully he asks her before the whole Terminator thing before Maeve shows up and hacks his mouth.
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Apr 13, 2020 22:25
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Josh Lyman posted:I feel like Devs is doing a better job with these same themes. Devs is something special. There were some cool things in this episode, but it didn’t all click for me on a first viewing. I also have no idea where things go from here. Delores freed everyone from the super computer. What’s there left for her to do?
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Apr 13, 2020 23:07
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ghostwritingduck posted:Devs is something special. - Samurai Dolires is still building a secret host army - Hale Dlrs still has some important jobs at Delos to finish - Serak is still alive and in control I think her goal is to create enough chaos to bring down Serak and the supercomputer. Once he is no longer in control of the world she will unleash her robot army on humanity and we get a future war Terminator season.
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GABA ghoul posted:- Samurai Dolires is still building a secret host army I think you’re right, but I feel that there’s a lack of clarity that’s hurting the momentum of the show.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:27
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stephenthinkpad posted:There is a random throwaway scene of a riderless bike running in the background engulfed in frame. That was Bikolores. noooooooo rip bikelores. you were the best of us
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Apr 13, 2020 23:55
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"I can't let him use you against us Maeve." - a real hard to kill robot with a gangster army behind him. *Leaves Maeve to be used against us* Like there are seven of you. If you don't want to chop her head off it's not that hard to get her to the car.
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Apr 13, 2020 23:56
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pzy posted:I bet the Genre thing looks REALLY COOL on paper, then when it came time to actually execute it they were like "uhhhh, license that music from The Shining I guess" The shame of it is SOMEONE could have done something cool with it
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You guys don't remember bikelores running into that one enemy vehicle, falling under it's tires and detonating a bomb that was on its seat? It was dead before the fire bike scene
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Apr 14, 2020 00:31
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I agree with the general criticism that this episode had a bunch of creative ideas that likely looked good in script but ended up underwhelming in execution. This is still better than most shows though. The worldbuilding of future timeline has been excellent and I'm pretty sure I saw a twizy in episode 3, which is cool. Drowning In Terror fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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Apr 14, 2020 00:41
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KoRMaK posted:You guys don't remember bikelores running into that one enemy vehicle, falling under it's tires and detonating a bomb that was on its seat? One can hope
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Apr 14, 2020 00:51
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Human Tornada posted:Another thing, how come nobody in the real world seems to give much thought to the idea that life-like robots could be running around all over the place? Or do they? I mean if some company built thousands of flawless humanoid robots, would anybody believe them when they said "oh but they're all in the parks and are never getting out, we promise" ?? I'm more concerned with why no one in this very ordered society seems to care about ATMs blowing up, random shootouts in downtown LA, or literal drone strikes in a major metropolis. I understand Serac has ~unlimited resources~ and Deo has Plot Armor, but I feel like more hay should be made out of randos pulling out their phones to record all of this. Like, Liam's friends saw his dead girlfriend have a terminator fight and just kind of went "meh."
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Apr 14, 2020 00:56
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This season is just Notes from Underground "but what if the Underground Man is also a samurai and a motorbike"
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I understand Serac has ~unlimited resources~ and Deo has Plot Armor, but I feel like more hay should be made out of randos pulling out their phones to record all of this. Like, Liam's friends saw his dead girlfriend have a terminator fight and just kind of went "meh." They rather explicitly thought it was a drug trip though?
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Apr 14, 2020 01:04
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The genre drug was dumb and added nothing worthwhile to the episode.
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Entropic posted:The genre drug was dumb and added nothing worthwhile to the episode. You all have HBO if you been watching this. Go watch that ep right now or we soon as possible please. Episode 6 "this extraordinary being"
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Apr 14, 2020 01:54
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I wanted one person reading their future to go Whoo Hoo! And it shows "they become a billionare and hang out with superstars...". This story is another version of The Forbin Project, exept with a super AI and evil Serac instead of just the AI, also its AI vs AI just like Forbin and Person of Interest.
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Apr 14, 2020 02:54
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Caleb was one of the outlier people right? Definitely edited DNA Genre thing is cool on paper but was poorly executed
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PowerBuilder3 posted:I wanted one person reading their future to go Whoo Hoo! And it shows "they become a billionare and hang out with superstars...". I was wondering why the people in the Incite building weren't losing their poo poo like everybody else till I realized their phones probably said poo poo like,"Gets to live a life of luxury and wealth and die old and unpunished for any crimes they ever commit."
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I didn't hate the Genre scenes but I've also eaten too much weed in one sitting and probably looked something like Aaron Paul did for a couple of hours. That said, I did find it a bummer how they dropped it and just went "eh I guess play the music from the Shining"
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Apr 14, 2020 03:08
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They should have watched Watchmen first and then done the drug trip better
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Apr 14, 2020 03:26
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I thought this was the best episode of the season so far but I have no idea what they were going for some of the genre switches. They should have just cut it down to like 3 ideas and then went all-in on those. They could have used horror and that would have been like a freebie.
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So looking at the folks like the little girl who was going to kill herself as a teen, why isn’t the AI calling for early medical intervention? You aren’t maximizing humanity by letting teens slit their wrists.
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I mean, it's not ~totally~ fair to compare it to one of the best examples of a television episode with Watchmen's Nostalgia ep... I do wish they had either done something much more stylized, ala the Dredd film, or leaned much more heavily into the five genres. It started fine with the noir, but then it was just different post-processing with the same distorted piano. It'd have been nice to see more costuming or cinematography choices to really emphasize each of the five genres. Solkanar512 posted:So looking at the folks like the little girl who was going to kill herself as a teen, why isn’t the AI calling for early medical intervention? You aren’t maximizing humanity by letting teens slit their wrists. In Serac's mind: you are if that little girl is going to grow up into an ~unpredictable~. In fact, they probably engineered it so that she would kill herself...
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The genre thing was lame and I really think the only reason it was included was to prompt the dialogue exchange: “what genre is this?” “It’s reality, man.” 
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Apr 14, 2020 05:43
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What was last song
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remigious posted:The genre thing was lame and I really think the only reason it was included was to prompt the dialogue exchange: “what genre is this?” “It’s reality, man.” I think they did it because they wanted Apocalypse Now chopter music on they slow rear end 25mph chase, and ended up adding music to the entire episode.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What was last song Space Oddity I think?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:In Serac's mind: you are if that little girl is going to grow up into an ~unpredictable~. In fact, they probably engineered it so that she would kill herself... hobbesmaster posted:They rather explicitly thought it was a drug trip though?
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TOOT BOOT posted:Space Oddity I think? assuming last song means the credits song that was definitely not space oddity
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Space oddity was played in the train station.
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I'm on team Serac.  That was a dick move by Dolores. Uncool lady, very uncool.
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KoRMaK posted:You guys don't remember bikelores running into that one enemy vehicle, falling under it's tires and detonating a bomb that was on its seat? We didn't see Bikelores' dead body after the explosion.
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Collateral posted:I'm on team Serac. Killing the bike I assume?
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I was definitely hoping for more from the Genre drug, as soon as the B/W filter appeared I figured they were going to go full film-noir, and I assumed this would be their way to get back into the period piece stuff from S1 and 2 that was so fun, so they could do some different time periods or cinema styles. But unfortunately it was just some music and slow-mo walking. Definitely a wasted opportunity. I do like Terminator Dolores, and I like that the plan is kicking off early instead of waiting until the end of the season to start loving up the RoHoBoSoNoDo or whatever the hell it is.
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Genre is good to compare to Nostalgia because it's very different. All genre did was color perceptions; Caleb didn't hallucinate anything except for music and shading. To me it was analogous to the parks in Westworld, especially the reskinning of the brothel robbery in Samuraiworld. Each park and host are dressed up in themes with all the bells and whistles, but it's an illusion covering up an immoral system destroying lives. superjew fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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superjew posted:Genre is good to compare to Nostalgia because it's very different. All genre did was color perceptions; Caleb didn't hallucinate anything except for music and shading. I like this interpretation because then the shallowness of it is on purpose.  I think my expectations were just unfairly high after Watchmen. That was such a good episode of television.  I still had a lot of fun with this episode, I'm loving the new direction of the show and really hope we get another season. Only three episodes left... 
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I think the weak link for me so far has probably been OG Delores. All of her motivations and actions make sense, but they make it hard for her to be a compelling protagonist. From memory, she's done nice things for 2 people in all of 5 episodes and despite her drive coming from having suffered for years, none of it registers when you see her because the character's become totally robotic (lol) I would've either kept the plot but had the focus more on the people trying to stop her and paint her as closer to a villain or give her more sympathetic traits or at least some emotion. Captain Splendid fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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