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Smugworth posted:Sorry I don't have the ability to replay the eppie, I watch on live cable is you’re tivo broke?
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Smugworth I’m reporting every post in which the word “ep*ie” is used.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Smugworth I’m reporting every post in which the word “ep*ie” is used. Lol sorry that's just how us zoomers talk old man
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I'm into the setting and the proceedings so far, but goddamn the music selection sucks and adds nothing. There are also mirad little details that needle me as being unforced errors. Things like Navarro's dimple piercings. Like I understand the actor has them IRL but in an environment where you're dealing with sub zero temperatures for most of the year it comes across as incredibly stupid. It would be different if they acknowledged it at all, but they don't. The AI posters were a giant oops that Lopez's excuses for just make the crew look collectively bad. Some of the relationships are not clear either, particularly Fosters character and the Inuk girl she seems to have responsibility for? Like I think they're estranged parent and child? But they only ever briefly mention her dad and not what Fosters relationship to him was. Overall I'm disappointed because the setting has a lot of potential, especially for the sort of show the first season was. It just seems like they understood aesthetically how to evoke the tone they want but completely fumble or ignore any of the supporting details.
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Jan 23, 2024 20:20
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Saganlives posted:I'm into the setting and the proceedings so far, but goddamn the music selection sucks and adds nothing. There are also mirad little details that needle me as being unforced errors. Things like Navarro's dimple piercings. Like I understand the actor has them IRL but in an environment where you're dealing with sub zero temperatures for most of the year it comes across as incredibly stupid. It would be different if they acknowledged it at all, but they don't. The AI posters were a giant oops that Lopez's excuses for just make the crew look collectively bad. Some of the relationships are not clear either, particularly Fosters character and the Inuk girl she seems to have responsibility for? Like I think they're estranged parent and child? But they only ever briefly mention her dad and not what Fosters relationship to him was. The music has been decent but I agree with you about the details. Like, the show has an astounding lack of hat hair. Nobody looks like they were sweating under their many layers. The outdoor foul weather gear looks clean n shiny, no water or salt stains. These little details add up. In S1, I felt those characters sweating profusely in the southern sun. Like when they were describing the research lab, it was something like "they stay locked up, always the same people up there, they don't interact with anybody local" and the next sentence was "the lab has been open for decades." So it's always the same people across decades?? That's wobbly writing and a lack of attention to detail. I hope all the background drama for our main characters is resolved ASAP, I'm starting to feel teased. To be clear, I want to love this show.
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Jan 23, 2024 20:39
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Lynchian Xylophone posted:To be clear, I want to love this show. I want to love every show. 
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Jan 23, 2024 21:05
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Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think you could see their breaths when they're outside. I just went back and spot checked a view scenes and lol, there isn't any at all. Isn't the cold supposed to be an oppressive part of the setting? Come on, you guys.
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Jan 23, 2024 21:20
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Saganlives posted:Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think you could see their breaths when they're outside. They’re all ghosts
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:They’re all ghosts 
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:They’re all ghosts More details support this than the canon situation.
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Jan 23, 2024 21:24
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Nah, you see their breath, it's just mostly that lovely CGI fake breath.
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Jan 23, 2024 22:11
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Lynchian Xylophone posted:The music has been decent but I agree with you about the details. Like, the show has an astounding lack of hat hair. Nobody looks like they were sweating under their many layers. The outdoor foul weather gear looks clean n shiny, no water or salt stains. These little details add up. In S1, I felt those characters sweating profusely in the southern sun. You also forgot “they keep the doors unlocked at all times, just in case of an emergency”, followed shortly by “so a polar bear could have just walked in? Yep.”
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Jan 23, 2024 22:18
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Oldstench posted:Nah, you see their breath, it's just mostly that lovely CGI fake breath. You made me go back and look more carefully, and in the half dozen scenes I rewatched I saw it in two. (And it was very, very faint.) The whole opening of episode 2 where they are exposing the human rat-king there is no visible breath on anyone until the last shot. So I'll shift to "they are inconsistent about it" which frankly seems worse to me as a matter of craft.
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It was a cool bit, but the scientist still being alive after being frozen solid, naked, in -50° tundra for a week is a stretch of the imagination
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LaserPrinter69 posted:It was a cool bit, but the scientist still being alive after being frozen solid, naked, in -50° tundra for a week is a stretch of the imagination I feel like 45 minutes would have been implausible.
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Jan 23, 2024 22:49
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Lynchian Xylophone posted:The music has been decent kind of an extreme take tbh
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Jan 23, 2024 23:57
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"When your mother left us 9 years ago because of my alcoholism before tragically dying in a traffic accident 4 years later..."kntfkr posted:kind of an extreme take tbh Agnes Obel gets a pass.
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Jan 24, 2024 01:48
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kntfkr posted:kind of an extreme take tbh The opening isn't bad either
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Jan 24, 2024 01:52
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There was one scene in which a character opens a window to smoke, but the smoke just drifts away normally and isn’t affected by the window at all. MAX Amateur hour
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Jan 24, 2024 01:54
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i;'ve only seen ep 1 but, but i hated the clunky expository lines like "oh hey, remember how we are sisters and share a traumatic past" or "remember that time of the bad stuff and i'm not your real daughter -- we sure don't talk about it much. Anyway, lets move this plot along." clunky poo poo
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Jan 24, 2024 01:54
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Prestige television
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I just looked and it's a shame they didn't keep T Bone Burnett to pick the music. The season 1 soundtrack was freaking epic. But I'm sure this one will be just as epic!
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Buce posted:i;'ve only seen ep 1 but, but i hated the clunky expository lines like "oh hey, remember how we are sisters and share a traumatic past" or "remember that time of the bad stuff and i'm not your real daughter -- we sure don't talk about it much. Anyway, lets move this plot along." This is exactly why I think the boyfriend is going to get eaten by the dogs. “One of these days those dogs aren’t going to eat you.”
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Jan 24, 2024 02:15
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Smugworth posted:The opening isn't bad either go smug yourself fuckworth
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That Spice Girls sing a long in the car was so natural and well performed that I forgot that I was watching PRESTIGE TELEVISION for a second. I was Navarro's sister. NAVARRO: Hey sis'! Listen to this! Zigga zig ah! This was our jam, "back in the day"! Ha ha ha! Big smile! Happier and with your open! I say get 'em liquored up and take em to the PEACH TREE DANCE! Sis? Sis r u there? INT: ABUSIVE BEDROOM NAVARRO HSA A FLASHBACK TO HER ABUSIVE MOM ABUSING YOUNG NAVARRO I mean..... wow. Real art makes you feel something, even if it's challenging or unpleasant. Sometime I forget how powerful PRESTIGE TELEVISION can be.
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Jan 24, 2024 03:40
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kntfkr posted:go smug yourself fuckworth Queuing a sixer
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Ah shitttttttttttttttt nooooooooooooooooooooo (sixer me on this post) (sixer me timbers)
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They had better have an episode that explains what that necklace was for and why she threw it out of the window. In that episode they should flashback to this episode when she threw it out.
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It was a cross. She was throwing off the shackles of christianity and the associated trauma it has historically inflicted upon the native people of north america. You see it's a ll very smart. You have to pay close attention or you'll miss important subtext of this shallow slop.
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kntfkr posted:It was a cross. She was throwing off the shackles of christianity and the associated trauma it has historically inflicted upon the native people of north america. You see it's a ll very smart. You have to pay close attention or you'll miss important subtext of this shallow slop. poo poo, I had no idea. I was walking around and messing about on my phone. Though I think maybe she was like putting the cross down at a crossroads to ward it against spirits.
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covidstomper58 posted:poo poo, I had no idea. I was walking around and messing about on my phone. It was her mom's. She threw it away because of the lovely memories it brought up. Are you people even loving watching this piece of poo poo?
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Relying on flashbacks is a hallmark of brilliant television.
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Chrs posted:This is exactly why I think the boyfriend is going to get eaten by the dogs. They were alluding to their relationship with each other: [To his dog whose wounds he is tending to] "Stubborn lady ain't ya, picking fights with those big boys." Navarro walks in. "One of these days those dogs are gonna eat you." "Nah, me and this girl go way back, huh gorgeous? She thinks she's real tough, come close and she snaps at you. Deep down she's a softy. She just needs a little love and affection. Then she's gonna melt." Navarro rolls eyes and leaves.
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Jodie Foster is a terrible actress in this. The second episode was all kinds of bad. Pulling out a book on the rules and regulations and explaining that she had jurisdiction or whatever. True Detective nosedived halfway through season 2 and has never been good since.
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Jan 24, 2024 14:30
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huh posted:They were alluding to their relationship with each other: Move over Shakespeare.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Jodie Foster is a terrible actress in this. The second episode was all kinds of bad. Pulling out a book on the rules and regulations and explaining that she had jurisdiction or whatever. True Detective nosedived halfway through season 2 and has never been good since. She has nothing to work with to be fair but it's hard to respect her decision to take this role. Money aside, it shows a lack of integrity.
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kntfkr posted:Relying on flashbacks is a hallmark of brilliant television. season 1 was almost entirely a flashback
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Smugworth posted:season 1 was almost entirely a flashback no, that was jumping around to different timelines/years. at no point did any character flashback to their traumatic childhood and subsequent casting off of religious symbolism.
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You’re all gonna be singing a different tune when your expectations are completely subverted in the penultimate episode
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Fargo Season 4 is alright, but the murdernurse should have her own season. She has barely anything to do with the plot but she's the best part.
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