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Byzantine posted:Byzantium wasn't a spin-off, it's a fan term for the last 2/3rds of the story. I mean I think you are a little biased.
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Toshimo posted:Dexter I don't think Roseanne was memoryholed, considering how epically it died when, whoops turns out Roseanne Barr is a monstrous person.
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I still laugh at the line "Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?" Literally anyone, Tyrion.
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hawowanlawow posted:Rome That's more HBO & BBC's fault. They didn't want to fund the super expensive show anymore, so Heller had to do what he could: Bruno Heller posted:I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end. The second was going to end with the death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the Messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end.
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RBA Starblade posted:I still laugh at the line "Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?" The character they went an entire season without showing and nothing much was lost.
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Spazzle posted:On the other hand, the X-files poo poo the bed on its plot from the beginning, and people still fondly watch it. I love the x-files; bought the boxset and rewatch it pretty regularly, and I have never watched the main arc episodes. They are boring and they suck. I do not care about stupid aliens, or Mulders tedious family or any of that crap. Monster of the week baby! (My own favorite is the one with Luke Wilson, where we get to see the same incident from Mulder and Scullys individual perspective. ) Edit: it's Bad Blood, and it is wonderful Pookah has a new favorite as of 21:25 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Randalor posted:I don't think Roseanne was memoryholed, considering how epically it died when, whoops turns out Roseanne Barr is a monstrous person. Also they just killed off her character and the show is still on as The Conners.
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Yeah, the absolute best episodes are the ones Darin Morgan worked on (Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung, Humbug, Quagmire, Small Potatoes), but just behind that are many of episodes the Vince Gilligan worked on (too many great ones to list, but includes the previously mentioned Bad Blood).
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I like the conspiracy episodes as character pieces. The plot is entirely beside the point, but there are good character beats.
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I AM GRANDO posted:I like the conspiracy episodes as character pieces. The plot is entirely beside the point, but there are good character beats. Recently rewatched the first three seasons, and the conspiracy stuff is still pretty great at that point. The scully abduction arc goes hard and has some of the best stuff in the show (mulder confronting csm, the stuff between him and Scully's new age sister) The stuff with mulder's family is still fresh and not overly convoluted, and you really feel like no matter how much he sees, he's still only got the faintest idea of what's really going on. If they ever do a legit reboot, I think the best change they could make is leaving it up in the air longer as to whether aliens are real or not, or if it's a smoke screen for geneeral government malfeasance. Because they try to play a coy a few times past when the audience at least knows that they're real.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, the absolute best episodes are the ones Darin Morgan worked on (Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung, Humbug, Quagmire, Small Potatoes), but just behind that are many of episodes the Vince Gilligan worked on (too many great ones to list, but includes the previously mentioned Bad Blood). God, I love Clyde Bruckman  Actually, this digression got me to dig out my old dvd boxset, so I'm gonna be watching me my favorite x-files for a good while now.
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BrainDance posted:AYAOTD had like 20 actors total and I think they were probably mostly Canadian. (I'm exaggerating, but they did repeat the actors a lot) Media that aged: You know the one guy from the Midnight Society grew up to be a Canadian weatherman, right? He was on our version of the Weather Channel to start out, now he works for a news program in Toronto but he still does reports for like half the friggin country because media ownership in Canada is ghoulishly concentrated
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Submitted for the approval of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council: a horrible tale of snow, followed by slush, followed by sub-freezing temperatures.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Submitted for the approval of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council: a horrible tale of snow, followed by slush, followed by sub-freezing temperatures. Acknowledged as being on the traditional land and territories of *insert Indigenous nation names here*
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Pookah posted:(My own favorite is the one with Luke Wilson, where we get to see the same incident from Mulder and Scullys individual perspective. ) Oh gently caress I haven't thought about this episode in decades! Yeah that one was hilarious. Also when they aired, we were all so excited for the main plot episodes. It took a few seasons before we all realized that they had no idea what they were doing.
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You should have to make a donation to a tribal charity every time you say that or it's just huffing your own farts.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Can really tell these fashions were developed by people living in cold places. It also used to not get as hot as it does as often as it does and the cold days were much colder everywhere
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Ambitious Spider posted:Recently rewatched the first three seasons, and the conspiracy stuff is still pretty great at that point. The scully abduction arc goes hard and has some of the best stuff in the show (mulder confronting csm, the stuff between him and Scully's new age sister) The stuff with mulder's family is still fresh and not overly convoluted, and you really feel like no matter how much he sees, he's still only got the faintest idea of what's really going on. A friend of mine once said that the show would ultimately be better if Mulder was actually wrong about aliens existing but the fbi indulged him because he was so good at solving the monster-of-the-week and serial killer cases, and he would slowly become more unhinged as the series went on. I can’t decide if my friend was right about that or not. It would be a better show if Scully were right part of the time, or partially right half the time.
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FouRPlaY posted:That's more HBO & BBC's fault. They didn't want to fund the super expensive show anymore, so Heller had to do what he could: It's wild to me that there were people alive for Julius Caesar's death and then met Jesus. They seem like vastly far apart events in history.
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grittyreboot posted:It's wild to me that there were people alive for Julius Caesar's death and then met Jesus. They seem like vastly far apart events in history. The emperor Tiberius was already in his 40s when Jesus was born, became emperor when Jesus was in his late teens, and remained emperor until four years after Jesus died. His mother was married to Augustus, aka Octavian. It's like that well-worn fact that Cleopatra lived closer to our time than to the building of the Great Pyramid. We tend to conceive of history weirdly and lump things together that feel connected, I think.
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Toshimo posted:Dexter Much like Game of Thrones after its generally agreed on best season Dexter just had a slog of increasingly, and often comically, bad seasons until it hit an ending so bad everyone just quietly agreed to pretend it didn't exist anymore.
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HopperUK posted:The emperor Tiberius was already in his 40s when Jesus was born, became emperor when Jesus was in his late teens, and remained emperor until four years after Jesus died. His mother was married to Augustus, aka Octavian. Ancient Egypt had archeological teams that were digging up More Ancient Egyptian artifacts that were older to them then the stuff we have in museums are now.
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Showtime has had a very consistent policy of “keep a successful show running as long as is humanly possible.” Shameless ran into the same problem.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Showtime has had a very consistent policy of “keep a successful show running as long as is humanly possible.” Shameless ran into the same problem. So basically CW and Supernatural?
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Pookah posted:I love the x-files; bought the boxset and rewatch it pretty regularly, and I have never watched the main arc episodes. Best cold open of the entire show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TSqnVqY7c
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Best cold open of the entire show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ZJ8Et3z6E
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Spazzle posted:On the other hand, the X-files poo poo the bed on its plot from the beginning, and people still fondly watch it. But yeah nobody was watching the x-files for the metaplot while those others were all metaplot. e: Pookah posted:I love the x-files; bought the boxset and rewatch it pretty regularly, and I have never watched the main arc episodes.    Rewatched the green bugs recently and man I wish the 90s terror of ecoterrorists had been based on fact Splicer has a new favorite as of 11:28 on Apr 29, 2023 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:So basically CW and Supernatural?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also there were mammoths alive when the pyramids were built. And they were so inbred that they couldn't even smell.
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Splicer posted:What do you mean? Supernatural ended on season 5 with Castiel and Dean having Lisa and Ben over to their house for dinner (Castiel is just off screen in the kitchen) I learned decades ago that you can ignore an ending you don't like and make up your own. At the time the end of Quantum Leap really annoyed me- now I kinda like it but back then I was furious.
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Nuebot posted:Much like Game of Thrones after its generally agreed on best season Dexter just had a slog of increasingly, and often comically, bad seasons until it hit an ending so bad everyone just quietly agreed to pretend it didn't exist anymore. Someone got my partner watching Dexter a few years ago and I warned her "it ends on a wet fart you should stop after Trinity" and she didn't listen to me and kept barreling on ahead And then it ended and she started bitching about how bad it was and yes, that's why I told you to stop watching
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Alhazred posted:And they were so inbred that they couldn't even smell. The mammoths or the pharaohs? 
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Alhazred posted:And they were so inbred that they couldn't even smell. How do pyramids smell? (Beat) Awful!!!!
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