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Sash! posted:They are in the sense that no one else owns the team. There's no main owner. The whole arrangement is strange. You can't sell Packers shares like you can with any other company though. All you can do is transfer them to family members.
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And I doubt they are an actual share of ownership, so no dividends or anything. They’re basically just a really expensive small poster.
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Yeah, the "shares" are basically just a receipt for a donation you made to the team, like when we all donated to Lowtax that one time and got wacky badges under our avatars.
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esperantinc posted:You can't sell Packers shares like you can with any other company though. All you can do is transfer them to family members. Unless they're playing the Seahawks, I always loving cheer for Green Bay. The socialist NFL team. gently caress yes.
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Max cruising to pole by nearly a half second, oof
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Of all the pointless side plots that petered out without any significance, the one I'm wondering most about, even if just from a narrative-device standpoint, is Sam's restaurant. What purpose did that even serve? If they wanted to do restaurant scenes and such, they already had a restaurant-centered subplot. Sam's story involving the Nigerian team and the rich owner guy (not to mention Rebecca) were already there as centers-of-gravity for his character. The whole restaurant thing just sort of came and went without achieving much except introducing his dad which, while great, was a one-episode thing. What a weird waste
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I liked the final episode. It feels like it was written before even season 2 but they fumbled badly getting everything into place for it with weird pacing and b plots. If you watch the last episode in a vacuum and imagine they competently got everyone where they needed to be for it, it's not far off season 1 quality. Watching this along side the final season of Barry highlights just how much they dropped the ball here (and conversely how well they handled Barry). Barry was still sticking to 30 minute episodes right to the end which kept it incredibly tight always leaving us wanting more, where as Ted was like 90% filler for most episodes. Also Barry had a ton of b plots and side character stories but everyone was engaging to watch and I never really minded when the focus was taken away from Barry himself.
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ilmucche posted:Max cruising to pole by nearly a half second, oof He was offside
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Game gets put on hold for groundskeepers to replace the net - injury time 2 minutes. There would have been a riot when that injury time went up with the home team needing to score.
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DrVenkman posted:https://twitter.com/sageyoungest/status/1664677955727917062?t=4pXcC_2vgaKnv63CzivnZA&s=19 quote:With Nate, I agree that there are quite a few offscreen moments. From an acting point of view, I love working with Anthony Head. If we’d have got to do that “I’m quitting” scene, I’m sure we would’ve had a lot of fun with it. But you have to respect the fact that there’s also an efficiency to the storytelling in the way that they do it. It means that you can then save time for more unexpected moments like the footballers singing “So Long, Farewell.” "It's good to skip major character moments, actually, because it means we had time to include that awkward song" is truly a brutal indictment.
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grobbo posted:"It's good to skip major character moments, actually, because it means we had time to include that awkward song" is truly a brutal indictment. I read that more as “Anthony Head isn’t a good enough actor to do those scenes, but he’s a good guy” personally. Why bring up the acting otherwise?
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I didn't get that at all. That has the smell of "I hate this, but can't say it" all over it. He's openly wishing he got to do that scene with Anthony Stewart Head.
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I've rewatched a whole bunch of season 1 and man, the difference is night and day. The show's premise effectively dies as soon as Ted forgives Rebecca--it's of course what the characters would do, but they weren't able to transform the show after that.
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also ted and rebecca totally banged that night, they got wasted with beard and his girlfriend.
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You can't have a story with no drama or conflicts, the first season had the switcheroo as a plot device, Rebeca was the villain in a sense, beyond that once the show got famous for being that 'feel good show' it was decided that literally everyone in the show other than Rupert is just, well, a swell guy, and even Rupert is kind of a whanker dick womanizer but we've also seen that he has his moments, like killing the super-league, so... mmm yeay, on the final episode we discoer that Roy did grow but he's only 99% of the way there, I guess that's conflict.
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LividLiquid posted:That's a damned good thing, too, 'cause somebody with the money could take the team private again. My dad used to be one of the lifelong fans who bought Manchester United shares, and was mighty pissed when a takeover forced everyone to give up their shares.
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MokBa posted:Season 8 of Scrubs is loving great because it had a concentrated effort to return to the feel of seasons 1–3. Season 9 gets a bad rap (it only existed because Bill Lawrence wanted the crew to keep their jobs) but the new cast was pretty solid and by the end it had found its footing. Lawrence even admitted season 9 taking so long to get its footing was a bit his fault and a bit studio interference. Studio wanted the first 6 scripts before they would greenlight the season and he didn't fight them on it. Once they were filmed and they could see which actors worked best with each other the wrote the back half taking advantage of that.
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sporkstand posted:Was Zava based on any actual real-life footballer? Yes, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who happened to retire from professional football yesterday at the age of 41.
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Zlatan: "Only God knows who will go through." Reporter: "It's hard to ask him." Zlatan: "You're talking to him."
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When my non-football acquainted friends & relatives as that inevitable "who is Zava based on?" question, I always show them this vid, which is about the most perfect representation of the inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxrVrU724k
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"When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway and you step on the gas. [Pep] Guardiola filled up with diesel and took a spin in the countryside. He should have bought a Fiat."
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Yannick_B posted:I've rewatched a whole bunch of season 1 and man, the difference is night and day. It’s pretty loving weird they couldn’t recognize how saccharine it became with literally 0 conflict. I have never seen a show fall off like this without a writers strike or someone dying
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I knew season three was a bit doomed when Zava just left without incident. Felt like his character was going to end up bringing some fun conflict into the show but nope. Everyone loved him then he quit to grow a giant avocado and they were all great at soccer without him anyway. Served no purpose to the plot or arcs or themes or anything. Like you need conflict for a story. That's what makes them stories. Nate was kind of an antagonist for half an episode maybe despite that turn being a huge part of season two. Rupert still sucks but nothing he does actually challenges or hurts the characters in any way — he's just a douche in what could be an entirely isolated story from anything Richmond (or even Nate!) is dealing with. I liked the last couple episodes more than most because the characters and the actors are endearing, but watching millionaires be friends isn't any kind of story. Anyway, everyone should watch Bill Lawrence's new show, Shrinking. It also turns into a neighborhood comedy about upper middle class people but it has genuine emotion and edge to it in a way that Ted Lasso completely lost. (And it's very nice to see modern Harrison Ford actually give a poo poo in something.)
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Data Graham posted:Remember when Jamie was an rear end in a top hat It wasn't his fault it was because of his dad. And now his dad's not even an rear end in a top hat.
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Data Graham posted:Remember when Jamie was an rear end in a top hat Jamie becoming not an rear end in a top hat is one of the things the show did really well, especially the growth of his friendship with Roy and increased maturity and self-reflection in dealing with Keeley.
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MokBa posted:I knew season three was a bit doomed when Zava just left without incident. Felt like his character was going to end up bringing some fun conflict into the show but nope. Everyone loved him then he quit to grow a giant avocado and they were all great at soccer without him anyway. Served no purpose to the plot or arcs or themes or anything. Y'know. On paper. Gods, what a disappointing season. I really thought they'd stick the landing.
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Data Graham posted:Remember when Jamie was an rear end in a top hat I did ! I just watched it and it was great. He grew up a bit and then was yanked off the team by Rebecca and thought it was Ted's fault. A great dramatic move that affected every character involved!
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They point to Keeley over and over this season as vaguely PR for the individual players/also a dating app or something/also marketing for the team and it all adds up to I think she's Vincent Adultman but she doesn't know it. Everyday she goes to work and does a business and Rebecca pats her on the head and pays her employees.
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It felt like they were afraid to have Nate be an antagonist. So they'd have him say something bad about Richmond and then immediately see an article about Ted being nice and then feel bad about it. Then they tried to make Rupert be an antagonist, but he ended up being a cartoon character. Then they made that therapist guy be an antagonist for no reason. Seems like the writers were afraid to make tough choices for this season and always just left themselves an out for every big decision.
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The show started losing its way as soon as it stopped whole sale ripping off Major League. They had one season of worthwhile story to tell and then spun their wheels with saccharine swill. Not to mention getting super preachy about their swill this last season. The juxtaposition of Rebecca and Ted’s stories of their parents during the funeral followed immediately by them all singing a group song was where it totally came apart for me. Finding your dad’s body after he took his own life is NOT the same as someone staying with a cheater. Like, what the hell?
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grobbo posted:"It's good to skip major character moments, actually, because it means we had time to include that awkward song" is truly a brutal indictment. This is loving hilarious. The episode run times were as long as they've ever been and it's not like Apple wasn't going to give them whatever time they asked for. And the team singing Farewell isn't even that memorable, it comes out of nowhere with no build up. We felt "lol sports guys singing a showtune was way more important to shoot than pivotal scenes of a main protagonist."
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So was there really a scene where a guy was trying to pick a picture to use on Bantr, the dating app whose entire point is that there are no pictures on it to allow Rebecca and Sam to You’ve Got Mail? I mean the show invented the app itself how do you mess that up
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The amount of apps that change their entire core to become just a generic clone makes that feel fine. OKCupid is now basically Tinder with all of its original functionality essentially stripped.
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