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Bird in a Blender posted:My wife gets Prime free for 6 months through school. I plowed through the Expanse and I just started The Boys. Anything else on there I should try to get through? Patriot is really truly very good. The tale of a deeply depressed CIA assassin that is hilarious and poignant in ways you rarely expect.
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Yeah it’s pretty damning that the best episode of Boba Fett gives him exactly zero minutes of screen time.
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Which is weird because Termura Morrison has been fine.
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Its Rinaldo posted:Which is weird because Termura Morrison has been fine. Main problem is that the story just isn’t interesting, but also Temura Morrison is pretty old to be playing this part, and it feels kind of like a late Roger Moore Bond movie where no one is acknowledging how old he is.
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A part of me wishes they zagged with Boba Fett and instead of being some cool warrior fighter like the Mandalorian, he's actually very clever and outsmarts his opponents. He's old, and going toe-to-toe with younger adversaries just isn't going to be believable. After all, it's shown that he figured out Han's trick in The Empire Strikes Back, so him laying out elaborate traps or pitting forces against each other would've been better. Considering The Mandalorian is heavily influenced by Lone Wolf & Cub, The Book of Boba Fett could've ripped off [b]Yojimbo and nobody would've batted an eye.
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General Dog posted:Main problem is that the story just isn’t interesting, but also Temura Morrison is pretty old to be playing this part, and it feels kind of like a late Roger Moore Bond movie where no one is acknowledging how old he is. Finished the episode. They should just let Bryce Dallas Howard, John Favreu and Dave Filoni only direct the shows.
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I can't not like tracey ullman, even if her character is unncessarily-forced comic relief. I figured she was gonna show up sooner or later, when I spotted one of her droids on the street in one of the earlier episodes in mos eisley.
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Leperflesh posted:I can't not like tracey ullman, even if her character is unncessarily-forced comic relief. I figured she was gonna show up sooner or later, when I spotted one of her droids on the street in one of the earlier episodes in mos eisley. That's Amy Sudekis
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Abugadu posted:I have a semi-friend like this, his current favorite show that he praises is "This is Us". This Is Us is straight-up misery porn. It's like the producers watched Parenthood, which leaned pretty hard on the endless misery itself, and said, "Hold my beer, motherfuckers."
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Android Apocalypse posted:I enjoyed Invincible on Amazon Prime but then again I loved the early comics run. Invincible has no business being as good as it was.
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The thing that nobody wants to admit about The Book of Boba Fett is that Boba Fett was never actually cool, we all just underwent some sort of collective psychosis and decided that he was cool based on only having 30 seconds of screen time in the original Star Wars movies. E: maybe the old EU novels make him cool in hindsight but I'm not a fuckin nerd. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 13:23
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C-Euro posted:The thing that nobody wants to admit about The Book of Boba Fett is that Boba Fett was never actually cool, we all just underwent some sort of collective psychosis and decided that he was cool based on only having 30 seconds of screen time in the original Star Wars movies. Only cool characters get to wear cool helmets.
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Its Rinaldo posted:That's Amy Sudekis Amy Sedaris
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Android Apocalypse posted:Considering The Mandalorian is heavily influenced by Lone Wolf & Cub, The Book of Boba Fett could've ripped off [b]Yojimbo and nobody would've batted an eye. Wasn’t The Jedi episode from the last season of Mandalorian already pretty heavy on Yojimbo, or am I thinking of it referencing a different Kurosawa movie? Either way, I’ve still enjoyed the show a ton, even if the Fett episodes weren’t as good as the last one.
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Grittybeard posted:^^--wait poo poo, this made a pressure cooker's sales go through the roof? I mean the Instant pot is also fine and safe and a good thing, that's just amazing though. That's like how show writers are writing off characters by having them have heart attacks on Peloton bikes. The actual company, which already was on shaky ground, is now on the verge of bankruptcy or acquisition. dirty shrimp money fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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dirty shrimp money posted:That's like how show writers are writing off characters by having them have heart attacks on Peloton bikes. The actual company, which already was on shaky ground, is now on the verge of bankruptcy or acquisition. Peloton has always felt like a VC-backed tech company that had a sale as its ultimate goal.
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Braksgirl posted:Amy Sedaris Amy's Baking Company
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Just got moved from hourly pay to salary. Got a slight bump in pay with it (Equal to like $1.50 an hour under my old rate). Still nowhere near enough to live on my own in South Florida’s insane cocaine fueled housing market, but gently caress yeah more money (And more sick time)!
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Braksgirl posted:Amy Sedaris No that's the lady from trainwreck and I feel pretty
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fartknocker posted:Just got moved from hourly pay to salary. Got a slight bump in pay with it (Equal to like $1.50 an hour under my old rate). Get that paper 
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Congrats fart
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fartknocker posted:Just got moved from hourly pay to salary. Got a slight bump in pay with it (Equal to like $1.50 an hour under my old rate). Hell yeah congrats dude!
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C-Euro posted:The thing that nobody wants to admit about The Book of Boba Fett is that Boba Fett was never actually cool, we all just underwent some sort of collective psychosis and decided that he was cool based on only having 30 seconds of screen time in the original Star Wars movies. It's completely this. Star Wars EU built up an insane amount of hype for characters by building backstories for folks that got limited screen time. Having a whole story dedicated to IG-88 & Bossk is something else.
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That’s not the problem with Boba. The problem is that the writing and some of the casting sucks. Boba Fett is basically a blank canvas, they could have made something good with that opportunity.
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Timby posted:Peloton has always felt like a VC-backed tech company that had a sale as its ultimate goal. Then I'm guessing you've never used one.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Having a whole story dedicated to IG-88 & Bossk is something else. Yeah, but still like that leads us to wonders like this:  Now, I haven’t read the Bounty Hunters books in probably 10-12 years, but they have their moments mixed in with all the batshit backstabbery across two simultaneous narratives set 3~ years apart, and are far from the worst things in that era of EU books.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:That’s not the problem with Boba. The problem is that the writing and some of the casting sucks. its this. Like last week's episode you had so many wasted opportunities to find a direction to take this character. You can make him seem shrewd and calculating if you have him win over some of the assorted crime lords to his side. That also fits in with the weak posturing thus far that he's trying to rebuild a more peaceful Tattooine. You can make him ruthless by feeding one to the rancor, which fits with prior perceptions of the character as a cold-blooded bounty hunter. gently caress, have him drop all of them into the pit and show he's not loving around. Instead he just asks a couple of polite questions and then comes off as some milquetoast old guy who's in over his head. It's like whoever's writing this wanted to pick the Bad Guy path in a video game but just can't bring themselves to pick any of those options. Edit: also congrats to Fartknocker on the job! Quiet Feet fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Quiet Feet posted:its this. Yeah he's acting like someone who's had this position foisted upon him, but he's the one who literally stormed the palace and murdered the old guy.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Patriot is really truly very good. The tale of a deeply depressed CIA assassin that is hilarious and poignant in ways you rarely expect. Quoting this to make sure Patriot isn't slept on. It's unexpectedly great.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Then I'm guessing you've never used one. Can't say I've ever had a use for a four-figure exercise bike with DRM, no.
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Braksgirl posted:Amy Sedaris drat, lol I was misled by a phone google. Amy Sedaris sure looks a lot like tracey ullman though! hah
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Timby posted:Can't say I've ever had a use for a four-figure exercise bike with DRM, no. Have you considered that some people may enjoy exercising in this manner and while their business model of expansion and profitability has had impacts on their market cap, the actual product could actually be good? Or is it easier to just hold a strong opinion about something you know next to nothing about?
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No Butt Stuff posted:Have you considered that some people may enjoy exercising in this manner and while their business model of expansion and profitability has had impacts on their market cap, the actual product could actually be good? Awfully strong response to me saying that their business operations over the years, up until their IPO, were pretty consistent with a company whose ownership and investors had an exit strategy as their endgame. Now it's just funny to see them foundering because they're sitting on entirely too much inventory because they badly misforecast demand.
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The Dr. has a Peloton treadmill. It's a nice treadmill, but when I'm on the treadmill I want to watch TV, I don't want to watch another person on a treadmill yelling at me. You can't really even practically watch a tv elsewhere in the room because the screen on the treadmill is so big.
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i don't really know what a company designed for VC cash/sales to a company means. they are definitely on the hype train of monthly subscriptions, selling a nebulously premium example of a normal thing and a lot of lock-in via the devices but i'd say that's all symptoms of capitalism rather than something more devious than that.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:That’s not the problem with Boba. The problem is that the writing and some of the casting sucks. Sounds like that Pedro Pascal guy might actually be a good actor! Like, near as I can tell the Mandalorian show was exactly what everyone nerded out about EU Boba Fett, just with the serial numbers filed off.
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The guy who actually wears the armor is John Wayne's grandson
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Peacemaker has been pretty great. Really enjoying that one, and I loved that most recent Suicide Squad that he was in as well. Haven't seen the most recent Boba Fett but I kind of like it. It's weirdly laid back and relaxed.
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