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Doctor Spaceman posted:LOST's ending doesn't try any tricks to outthink the audience, it just wraps things up in a very conventional and predictable way. It's disappointing rather than disastrous. LOST's creators also explicitly stated early on that the the show's mysteries had "scientific or pseudoscientific" explanations and obviously the ending did not fall into that category.
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The Terminal List has been a good watch so far, although I don't quite buy Chris Pratt as an action guy. Something about him doesn't really work for me.
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sad question posted:New season of Miracle Workers is starting and the theme is post apocalypse this time. Starting watching this because I was intrigued by the premise (or what I thought was the premise, as there really is none) and the billing of Radcliffe and Buscemi. So I sat through the first series and a couple of episodes of the second one, and it is just extremely bland on every level. Just low hanging fruit, really. It felt a lot like watching Plebs, come to think of it.
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I find it pretty comfy to watch though.
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I geberwlly find that the first episode or two of each season a little too light for me. It's not a particularly incisive comedy though, no, but it's comfortable and charming in a low key sort of way. Makes me laugh. Plebs did not make me laugh.
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Octy posted:The Terminal List has been a good watch so far, although I don't quite buy Chris Pratt as an action guy. Something about him doesn't really work for me. I tried this when it was new and it just made me want to watch more Jack Ryan. Chris Pratt as poe-faced action star just doesn't work great for me.
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Yeah, John Krasinkski has made a much better transition from comedy to action. I'll miss Jack Ryan. The Terminal List was about three episodes too long but it was fun, albeit relentlessly horrible in everything that happens.
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I just finished Cop Rock. Was it bad? Yes, but after 30+ years of watching bad media via MST3K and its offshoots, I've learned to appreciate bad TV & movies. The show's biggest problems were bad dialogue and poorly-written characters. Surprising for a Bochco show. The actors were perfectly fine for the most part. They just had to say such generic police drama poo poo. Production values were pretty good. It looked like every other cop show from its time. Was I entertained? Yes. The last episode ended with the characters acknowledging their cancellation and breaking out into one more song. Mister Kingdom fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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Jul 22, 2023 01:09
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'Shaun White: The Last Ride'.....a four part documentary on MAX is excellent. Shaun White is a super interesting and likable character. His story is compelling and the way this is shot and put together is outstanding.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:LOST's creators also explicitly stated early on that the the show's mysteries had "scientific or pseudoscientific" explanations and obviously the ending did not fall into that category. Re-watching LOST with the kids and I think the creators were just blowing smoke - sometimes literally. There's always been supernatural explanations all around, disguised under layers of Dharma Initiative
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I believe they wanted it, but they wrote themselves into a corner and at the end nothing could explain all that but.. magic Remember that the smoke monster was supposed to be a “security system” or something, but than at the end it was the bad guy all along (and so nothing it did on the early season makes any sense at all) Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:I believe they wanted it, but they wrote themselves into a corner and at the end nothing could explain all that but.. magic that can be hand-waved as the people coming to the island being lied to by the Hanso Foundation about the true nature of things, Esau's influence, etc. Like the Others after killing all of Dharma had only what Dharma and Jacob said to go on and I'd imagine Jacob wouldn't mention Esau/Smokey. So they took the Degroot/Hanso/Dharma explanation at face value not realizing that the smoke was sentient, especially since Ben can be seen summoning it in a later episode. (It seemed to have some level of sentience earlier as it let Locke and Mr. Ecko survive despite killing the pilot) .. look, i'm not saying it's not clunky, but it works in-universe
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Re-watching LOST with the kids and I think the creators were just blowing smoke - sometimes literally. There's always been supernatural explanations all around, disguised under layers of Dharma Initiative I agree, I think they knew all along and I'm saying that's one of the things that caused some of the disappointment and anger. If they'd left things open I think some people at least wouldn't have been as pissed at how it ended, but they went out of their way to say that there was a grounded explanation for the whole thing.
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Where did they say there was specifically going to be a grounded/scientific explanation for everything?
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Escobarbarian posted:Where did they say there was specifically going to be a grounded/scientific explanation for everything? I can't find you a single smoking gun here, but I remember it coming up in several fan interviews, including one that went up on SpoilerTV. But there's some other material floating around e.g. they negotiated with the network that they'd be "science fact" explanations for the show's various mysteries, and this was the line they stuck with ("I don't think we've shown anything on the show yet ... that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within") in at least some other public interviews back around season one. By the third season that line had become that the show would be as science factional as, say, the DNA cloning from Jurassic Park ("we never promised a show that was based entirely and grounded in science") and then by the fifth/sixth seasons they were claiming that time travel had always been a part of the show because of the twin skeletons from the first season, or whatever, despite that interview above saying that there was no such thought back in season one. (This explains the continuity hole there, btw. The Adam and Eve skeletons are somehow both 2000 years and 50 years old, depending on the season. But that's not new information; David Fury has that interview where he talks about quitting the show after season one because they just didn't have explanations to half their random plots teases.) David Fury's Rolling Stone interview posted:"there was absoluetly no master plan on Lost" insists David Fury, a co-executive producer last season who wrote the series's two best episodes and is now a writer-producer on 24. "anybody who said that was lying. Also according to a separate thing with Fury, at one point they considered making the island being an alien spaceship accessed via the hatch, before changing their minds. My point is, they made a lot of promises and said a lot of things because, for a long long time, they had no idea where they were going or how grounded they were going to be, and had to please a lot of different people. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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Lol of course Lindelof is a liar. Nice to finally see the quote from an authoritative source that supports what a lot of the show's critics have always thought.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Also according to a separate thing with Fury, at one point they considered making the island being an alien spaceship accessed via the hatch, before changing their minds. That would be awesome
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Binging through Silo. It's not very good, but the fact that Common plays almost the exact same role in the kids movie Smallfoot is leading to some laughs. Through 8 episodes, it feels like the whole thing is leading up to the same musical number he had in the movie.
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Jury Duty. I'm only on episode 3 but I've had more giggles at this then anything lately. The narrator, just describing whats being shown, gets me sometimes. Kind of sad about there only being 8 episodes honestly.
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Robobot posted:So it’s basically Below Deck in space? After looking that up, yes.
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After Cop Rock, I decided to watch Blackpool. It took me a while to figure out that the star, David Morrissey, was The Governor on The Walking Dead.
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ShowTime posted:Jury Duty. I'm only on episode 3 but I've had more giggles at this then anything lately. The narrator, just describing whats being shown, gets me sometimes. Kind of sad about there only being 8 episodes honestly. It was funny in parts. Kind of Joe Schmo redux.
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I've started watching Secret Invasion and it's... bad? Honestly I am three episodes in and I have thought several times that I must have missed some show or movie or that there is some other reason why I can't understand what the characters are saying or doing, like I am not hearing things right or not paying enough attention or something. It's just a mess, it's got big time characters and great actors yet it feels like they're just doing whatever, like there's no real reason for any of it. Really weird.
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Jul 27, 2023 21:45
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Its a bad show hth
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Throw Secret Invasion in the trash and check out Deadloch.
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Deadloch is great.
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Deadloch rules, Secret Invasion was bad and a huge waste of time
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withak posted:Deadloch is great. The line from episode 8 that absolutely killed me was "Why don't we forget about this, just go have a cuddle on the couch and watch a Buffy?"
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I just binge-watched Melrose Place season 1 over the past couple weeks, hot drat that's some good 90s. Not exactly Twin Peaks, but there's a certain magic to the kind of earnest quirky charming melodrama cheese. I feel like I wouldn't love a prime time soap kind of show from say 2007, but this one from the early 90s is highly addictive. I did also really enjoy Beverly Hills 90210 season 1-6 (Luke Perry leaves etc) a few years ago too. Just a lot of charm, and since it's so different from the TV I'm used to, these shows feel fresh to me somehow. And I like their quirks and nuttiness.
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Watched Devs. It sucked. Too bad. Alex Garland can make great movies, Annihilation is one of my favorites, but it was torturous to watch a TV show that was 90% filler and 10% boring recycled sci-fi ideas. Somehow they managed to make even Nick Offerman seem like a bad actor. Atrocious writing, atrocious cast, extremely stupid characters, and like half the screen time was the rear end in a top hat security guy being an rear end in a top hat.
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100% disagree.
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DamnGlitch posted:100% disagree. 100% agree with your disagreement. Have no idea what show he was watching.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:100% agree with your disagreement. Have no idea what show he was watching. The boring one with bad pacing, way too many helicopter shots set to music, and a wet fart of an ending. I would like to know what was good about the show though. The music was pretty good and the sets were neat. I liked Jamie, he got done wrong. It could have been a decent movie.
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my bony fealty posted:The boring one with bad pacing, way too many helicopter shots set to music, and a wet fart of an ending. Not so much bad as boring, I had a hard time even recollecting any of it reading the synopsis. One of those shows where I wonder if it is aimed at people who get stoned to watch TV. Agreed on the wasted potential.
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Just got through the first season and on to the second of Hulu's This Fool. If you're in the mood for a half hour comedy you could do a lot worse.
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Just finished Hijack. First 4 episodes were pretty engaging, although it is a very dumb show. I could recommend it if you want to be thrilled and don't mind actions and decisions that don't make any sense
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Finished up Perry Mason season 2 while on a work trip this week and I enjoyed it. I would give the season and the series overall a solid 8/10. Shame that HBO cancelled it because it spent a lot of time in seasons 1 and 2 building the characters and the world of 1930s LA. Could have really paid off with a longer series. Still very much worth a watch and it ended in a good place. Matthew Rhys and Shea Whigham are legit the best buddy cop duo to come along in forever.
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From what I remember the show was absurdly expensive for no reason. There was at least one flashback war scene and it looked like it was from a movie.
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Mu Zeta posted:From what I remember the show was absurdly expensive for no reason. There was at least one flashback war scene and it looked like it was from a movie. They spent a fortune on the sets and costumes all around, I think. It had to have been outrageously expensive reproducing 1930s LA with the fidelity they managed, even if it was visually impressive as all hell. I'm sad it got cancelled either way. Noir at its finest and absolutely gorgeous to look at in just about every scene. Matthew Rhys yet again showing off his big league acting chops.
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