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loquacius posted:I wonder if it would have been as funny to be on Twitter if it was around when Seinfeld ended https://twitter.com/seinfeld2000/status/663398271205965824?lang=en
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Open Source Idiom posted:Disney's pretty open (ish) about focus testing all their movies and shows but I found out recently that their focus testing audiences are almost exclusively drawn from within the company. (I think I read that their upcoming The Marvels is an exception to this because the film loving stank that bad.) this makes so much sense
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I've said it a lot, but the maddest people weren't mad about how Dany's heel turn was executed, they were mad that it happened at all. They were ignoring all the subtext through her whole arc because she was their white-savior girl-power wish fulfillment vessel. It was Her Turn, but for real this time. This is a character whose biggest scene was being carried around on the shoulders of a bunch of liberated third-worlders literally chanting "mommy! mommy!"
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loquacius posted:I've said it a lot, but the maddest people weren't mad about how Dany's heel turn was executed, they were mad that it happened at all. They were ignoring all the subtext through her whole arc because she was their white-savior girl-power wish fulfillment vessel. It was Her Turn, but for real this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwLz-pUpF6c
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That photoshop of Hillary's face on end-of-season-1 Dany with the dragons, but it's saying this about the Lannister forces in King's Landing
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Xaris posted:lmfao ah yes they killed it so hard that the show's prequel series was dead on arrival and nobody watched it
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does Disney hire Disney adults? on the railroad we absolutely screen for Train Enthusiasts
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theflyingexecutive posted:ah yes they killed it so hard that the show's prequel series was dead on arrival and nobody watched it house of the dragon was fun and had a different tone two years between seasons is insane though
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Man, Scavengers Reign is such a better way of doing what Raised by Wolves tried to. It actually feels like a living, vibrant (and weird) ecosystem vs a desert with the occasional snake skeleton and mermaid mutant. Starting on the third episode and I love these strange bird/raptor things.
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BadOptics posted:Man, Scavengers Reign is such a better way of doing what Raised by Wolves tried to. It actually feels like a living, vibrant (and weird) ecosystem vs a desert with the occasional snake skeleton and mermaid mutant. Starting on the third episode and I love these strange bird/raptor things. yeah anyone that liked snake milk mommy needs to get watching this poo poo now. vibrant is a good description
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i say swears online posted:two years between seasons is insane though I suspect it's the new normal for most shows.
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i say swears online posted:house of the dragon was fun and had a different tone *laughs in doctor who fan*
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KirbyKhan posted:I cannot overstate how the irl presence of Game of Thrones dropped. Immidiately. I could pin ping it to Season 8 Episode 5, after the short hiatus. People were all "I waited for this...?" Then the world ended that spring. Yeah, it went from one of the bigger media cultural phenomenon of the 2010s to instantly just dead. Nobody I know talks about it, it doesn't get referenced in other shows or even in a lot of random online chatter. It doesn't help that people got burned on the books too, Winds of Winter is not loving coming and the show's story beats are the actual beats that were planned, so now nobody cares about that poo poo either because the anime blew past the manga and the manga sucks anyway. The thing about the thermal binoculars is nuts, did you ever bust someone? Bro Dad posted:ahh the dark forest theory lol
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DoombatINC posted:the seinfeld finale was perfect and their fate was correct I think thats why so many people got mad about it
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Nix Panicus posted:I think thats why so many people got mad about it yeah khaleesi stans and people that were mad at the seinfeld finale are kindred spirits skooma512 posted:the show's story beats are the actual beats that were planned is this true? i had no idea lol, rip grrm
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Bro Dad posted:most disney employees are Disney Adults who took a huge paycut to work at their dream company so the venn diagram is just a circle I was interviewing for an imagineer position once, and another time as an adguy in their internal agency yellowshoes and both times every single person I spoke to fit this bill. This plus, the pay cut, and hard requirements to live in florida kept me away from the job.
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Bro Dad posted:most disney employees are Disney Adults who took a huge paycut to work at their dream company so the venn diagram is just a circle The entire games industry is this way too
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Re: the goat of show finales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk
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The fake Breaking Bad ending where Hal from Malcom in the Middle woke up from a bad dream about scary drug dealers was p good
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i say swears online posted:yeah khaleesi stans and people that were mad at the seinfeld finale are kindred spirits Sort of. I think the broad outline is true, but the characters that do them are different and for different reasons. Like for example there is no singular Night King leading the White Walkers, Euron Greyjoy is a mashup of two different characters: Victarion Greyjoy who is a Viking metal dumbass, and Euron Greyjoy who is essentially an ocean warlock who sailed to the ends of the earth and found some spooky Cthulhu, considers himself a borderline god and has a horn that can enslave dragons. Instead of working for Cersei, the Golden Company is actually working for the “real” heir, claiming that Rhaegar’s son was actually switched before the Mountain killed him — this is probably a lie. My guess is that Book-Euron was probably intended to serve the Night King role somehow, and that rather than fight Cersei, Dany was to return south only to find that King’s Landing had already been taken by another Targaryen with a stronger claim and a better story than her, and that’s what would make her finally go crazy.
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The fact that the show just dropped the entire Young Grif storyline in its entirely is pretty solid proof that whole 'real' heir thing was another of Martin's red herring subversions that will end just as suddenly as Quentyn Martell's Prince Charming journey Martin really only has one or two tricks that he keeps going back to. The series should have been a trilogy at most
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Honestly I think they just combined aspects of his storyline with Cersei. I just don't think the showrunners were putting in enough effort at that point for me to necessarily believe they knew what they were doing there. I mean regardless you're still right that it's a red herring because book 6 isn't coming out, let alone book 7.
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christmas boots posted:Sort of. I think the broad outline is true, but the characters that do them are different and for different reasons. Yeah you can see the bullet points GRRM provided, but even GRRM himself was probably still feeling his way through it because he's a "pants" writer so he doesn't actually have the thing solidified before it comes out of his rear end. You can find his original pitch to the publishing company which cites how Arya and Needle are basically the focus of the whole plot and see how much it changed even from that first draft. It's also why he wrote himself into a corner and couldn't figure out how to get back out, so he's just procrastinating until he dies now. If GRRM got off his rear end and wrote it, you'd probably end up with some squishy bits that were unsatisfying but the eventual plot would make sense and the arcs would be logical. He provided those bullet points to poo poo writers and they went "Okay! This is what happens!" and rushed through it so there's no sense of character progression and it's jarring and confusing. Also, a lot of the plot points rely on stuff from the books that aren't in the show, and need to be more carefully reworked to make sense. They didn't do any of that because they were in a rush to make Star Wars. ArmedZombie posted:why doesn't grrm just hire a ghost writer Like literally, if the showrunners had just picked any random fan theory off the internet they would have made a better season with less work. I actually enjoy the theory that Bran wins the throne because BloodRaven is controlling him. It actually makes a lot of sense in the context of what we know about what was provided to the showrunners, but that part of the books was left out of the show.
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Tagra posted:I actually enjoy the theory that Bran wins the throne because BloodRaven is controlling him. It actually makes a lot of sense in the context of what we know about what was provided to the showrunners, but that part of the books was left out of the show.  Checks out E: also lmao that GRRM apologists exist
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C-Euro posted:Also I finally finished Fall of the House of Usher last night, probably my second-favorite Flanagan after Midnight Mass. Though I'll admit I wasn't paying my full attention to Hill House or Bly Manor when they were new. its very good tho the political stuff gets a little too eye rolley in the end. i audibly groaned when the ruthless soulless corporate hitman did his "even i cant support that orange cheeto!" bit at the end
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it sucks regardless Jon Hamm doesn’t get more comedy vehicles / when he does they get ignored. Everyone go watch “Confess, Fletch” right now. 5 stars!
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I like him and Daniel Radcliffe playing off of each other in A Young Doctor's Notebook
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BadOptics posted:Man, Scavengers Reign is such a better way of doing what Raised by Wolves tried to. It actually feels like a living, vibrant (and weird) ecosystem vs a desert with the occasional snake skeleton and mermaid mutant. Starting on the third episode and I love these strange bird/raptor things. i miss milk snake mommy though
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I was big into comedy around when mad men was airing and jon hamm would frequently show up to his friend's sets or podcast recordings and proceed to be the funniest dude by far. he's like john cena, a comedian trapped in a leading man's body
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hell just let him hang out with richard ayoade again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5p_hOzccg
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Disneyland is probably the worst theme parks Universal Studios is worse.
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ArmedZombie posted:why doesn't grrm just hire a ghost writer pretty sure he has a stable of library nerds that can finish the job when he croaks also lol that he'd rather 
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babypolis posted:its very good tho the political stuff gets a little too eye rolley in the end. i audibly groaned when the ruthless soulless corporate hitman did his "even i cant support that orange cheeto!" bit at the end Oh yeah that felt out of place after the series had largely avoided that type of commentary. It did give us Madeline's final "we live in a society" rant which was funny in how it ended though.
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Miss Lonelyhearts posted:Re: the goat of show finales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk uncontested
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Durf posted:pretty sure he has a stable of library nerds that can finish the job when he croaks wild cards is gritty superhero fiction actually also is getting adapted as hulu's new tentpole series
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