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sinnesloeschen
Jun 4, 2011

fiiiiiiinnnne
:coolspot:

dr_rat posted:

Not sure if this is the reason but often the first episode of a show isn't that representative of what the show's like as there's often quite a bit of set up/exposition in the first episode, and even just the cast and crew are still figuring stuff out, so first episodes can sometimes be a bit rough. Particular if it was a pilot that was filmed a bit before.

On the audience side, yeah probably a bit of luck of confidence, the broadcasts may be thinking if they watch two episodes they may get more invested in the show, and be more likely to remember to watch it next week.

the best first ep of a tv show belongs to the thick of it

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poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


sinnesloeschen posted:

the best first ep of a tv show belongs to the thick of it

Breaking bad is perhaps the perfect pilot. I’d elaborate but I’m tired

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

Cubone posted:

look, it's gonna come up sometimes. there's like four thousand gay people itt for some reason, and it's something most of us have learned the hard way that we need to be vigilant about. if you don't like it, eradicate homophobia from society. bada bing bada boom

i like cubone’s posts and i would beat up chris pratt for them and all of the other lgbtq+ forum members. even if he wasnt a homophobe

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

the greatest pilot was star trek: the next generation's "encounter at farpoint" starring wil wheaton

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Stink Billyums posted:

take it to the manhole
weird way to ask

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Hackers film 1995 posted:

i like cubone’s posts and i would beat up chris pratt for them and all of the other lgbtq+ forum members. even if he wasnt a homophobe
see this what good allyship looks like (being nice to me)

First of May
May 1, 2017
🎵 Bring your favorite lady, or at least your favorite lay! 🎵


Chris Pratt is a dumb entitled rear end in a top hat and I would trade places with him in a heartbeat.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
RIP Mojo Nixon, someone I know exclusively from that Mario Bros movie.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Improbable Lobster posted:

Why are you so desperate to defend these bigots? This isn't secret info and elliot page getting a detail wrong isn't going to be "completely discrediting" unless you're a moron

Again, if he is too stupid to realize he is directly supporting bigotry, that isn't anyone else's problem.

I'm sorry, but you're posting on the forum that played a pivotal role in the rise of the alt-right, in the thread celebrating an internet humor group whose most prominent member actively used insulting and racist fake Chinese to get laughs. If you don't see how you are exactly as much a part of the problem as Chris Pratt, then you need to educate yourself on how guilt-by-very-vague association poo poo + internet telephone is stupid and counter-productive.

Cubone posted:

look, it's gonna come up sometimes. there's like four thousand gay people itt for some reason, and it's something most of us have learned the hard way that we need to be vigilant about. if you don't like it, eradicate homophobia from society. bada bing bada boom

As one of the queer posters ITT, don't put this on all of us. Because all that this kind of dumb hyper-vigilance does is make it harder to make people pay attention when there are actual shitheads to call out. There isn't a Christian in the country that you can't play six-degrees-of-separation to connect to some deeply atrocious ministry (hell, probably three-degrees-of-separation), and this Chris Pratt stuff is very clearly motivated a lot more by people just being sick of him than any genuine advocacy.

Outpost22
Oct 11, 2012

RIP Screamy You were too good for this world.
Mocking someone for their religion is pretty cringe, ngl.

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

LanceHunter posted:

I'm sorry, but you're posting on the forum that played a pivotal role in the rise of the alt-right, in the thread celebrating an internet humor group whose most prominent member actively used insulting and racist fake Chinese to get laughs.

did Josh really do that?!

No Mods No Masters
Oct 3, 2004

I feel like ken watanabe aged quite a lot between season 1 and now sadly. Maybe it's the hair.

This show wasted no time getting back to balancing on my exact borderline between watchable and getting dropped for its silly bullshit every second

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


I think we all were amazed by the Mastadon Men but as time passes, it keeps recurring as one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It's truly, utterly bizarre.

How the hell did it get made? How did they start off with the premise "Let's make a cartoon advocating for kids to eat dairy" and end up with four pornographically muscular elephant-human hybrids putting out a school fire then sucking a mouse through the computer to go line dancing?

It's like they all got together and then woke up six months later with an artifact to the powerful dangers of cocaine psychosis.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

No Mods No Masters posted:

I feel like ken watanabe aged quite a lot between season 1 and now sadly. Maybe it's the hair.

This show wasted no time getting back to balancing on my exact borderline between watchable and getting dropped for its silly bullshit every second

It’s weird how all of the main cast looks a lot older and not just watanabe!

I like the bit at the end of the first episode where watanabe basically turned into John wick

No Mods No Masters
Oct 3, 2004

Ansel elgort still looks pretty gorted (slang term I'm coining for a fresh elgort). I guess I probably just disagree with watanabe-san's hair

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
Yah maybe he just looks ungorted to me because he’s all beat up

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!
gort drat

Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
gort klaatu barada nikto

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004

First of May posted:

Chris Pratt is a dumb entitled rear end in a top hat and I would trade places with him in a heartbeat.

This but back when he was with Anna Faris :allears:

First of May
May 1, 2017
🎵 Bring your favorite lady, or at least your favorite lay! 🎵


Outpost22 posted:

Mocking someone for their religion is pretty cringe, ngl.

Believing in a religion is pretty immature, tbh

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

First of May posted:

Believing in a religion is pretty immature, tbh

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

LanceHunter posted:

As one of the queer posters ITT, don't put this on all of us. Because all that this kind of dumb hyper-vigilance does is make it harder to make people pay attention when there are actual shitheads to call out. There isn't a Christian in the country that you can't play six-degrees-of-separation to connect to some deeply atrocious ministry (hell, probably three-degrees-of-separation), and this Chris Pratt stuff is very clearly motivated a lot more by people just being sick of him than any genuine advocacy.
oh was somebody having some kind of argument about chris pratt? must have missed that

trilobite terror and I were merely exchanging comedically facetious remarks
see, trilobite terror said that the only lgbtq advocacy that they wanted to see here was jay, mastodon men, and erotic fanart of the boys
lol
so I says I says to them I says look, it's gonna come up, because there are 4,000 gay people itt, so the only way to stop it is to eradicate all homophobia from society
hehe

if in the course of this exchange I accidentally implied that all the queer people itt don't like chris pratt because hypervigilance is good, I do not apologize, and I will do it again, and the police can't stop me

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Cubone posted:

I do not apologize, and I will do it again, and the police can't stop me
wait, poo poo, I meant "I'm sorry"

force of habit

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde
the only religion i believe in is rich evans

Dr. Thoss
Aug 22, 2011

i am a doctor. my name is thoss.

PostNouveau posted:

It's Wil Wheaton, not Will. His parents took an L the day he was born.

this is not an empty quote

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Outpost22 posted:

Mocking someone for their religion is pretty cringe, ngl.

To be fair religion is pretty cringe too

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004

Outpost22 posted:

Mocking someone for their religion is pretty cringe, ngl.

Couldn't agree more, it's about time someone stood up for Tom Cruise and Scientology, frankly

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


I always shake my head whenever Nicole Kidman is on screen lest someone think I endorse catholic priests getting away with sex crimes

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

His Divine Shadow posted:

To be fair religion is pretty cringe too

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009






Interesting. Great movie, but I wonder what the equivalent of the leatherworker/burakumin reveal will be. What would be best American parallel be? Passing? If it's starring Denzel that's kind of out.

*fake edit*

Actually the article doesn't say Denzel's starring, so who knows, he might just be producing.

Crescent Wrench
Sep 30, 2005

The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
Grimey Drawer

Arbite posted:

Interesting. Great movie, but I wonder what the equivalent of the leatherworker/burakumin reveal will be. What would be best American parallel be? Passing? If it's starring Denzel that's kind of out.


Argyle Gargoyle
Apr 1, 2009

ABSTRACT SHAPES CREW

Does anyone really enjoy Daniel Craig in anything? Him being on screen is like watching paint dry. We got it, youre stoic action man I guess. Even Layer Cake is only saved by Colm Meaney.

NorgLyle
Sep 20, 2002

Do you think I posted to this forum because I value your companionship?

Argyle Gargoyle posted:

Does anyone really enjoy Daniel Craig in anything? Him being on screen is like watching paint dry. We got it, youre stoic action man I guess. Even Layer Cake is only saved by Colm Meaney.
I really enjoy him in the Knives Out movies which is just him doing a funny voice and loving around the whole time.

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

Argyle Gargoyle posted:

Does anyone really enjoy Daniel Craig in anything? Him being on screen is like watching paint dry. We got it, youre stoic action man I guess. Even Layer Cake is only saved by Colm Meaney.

He's great in Casino Royale. As much as I don't care for them, he is pretty fun in those Knives Out movies.

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Jason Statham plays a better stoic action man and that's not really a compliment now that I think about it

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


NorgLyle posted:

I really enjoy him in the Knives Out movies which is just him doing a funny voice and loving around the whole time.

Oh yeah him in glass onion was pretty fun to watch

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

poisonpill posted:

I think we all were amazed by the Mastadon Men but as time passes, it keeps recurring as one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It's truly, utterly bizarre.

How the hell did it get made? How did they start off with the premise "Let's make a cartoon advocating for kids to eat dairy" and end up with four pornographically muscular elephant-human hybrids putting out a school fire then sucking a mouse through the computer to go line dancing?

It's like they all got together and then woke up six months later with an artifact to the powerful dangers of cocaine psychosis.

I mean this is all well and good but did you notice their hot muscular bodies?

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Argyle Gargoyle posted:

Does anyone really enjoy Daniel Craig in anything? Him being on screen is like watching paint dry. We got it, youre stoic action man I guess. Even Layer Cake is only saved by Colm Meaney.

Logan Lucky, Casino Royale, Layer Cake, Our Friends in the North. He's good

X JAKK
Sep 1, 2000

We eat the pig then together we BURN

His Divine Shadow posted:

To be fair religion is pretty cringe too

Voodoo is cool because there is no central governing structure so any houngan or mambo has pope-like authority over their individual sects and can basically make up any rules and beliefs they want as long as it doesnt piss off the spirits.

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dreezy
Mar 4, 2015

yeah, rip.
i just wear a WWRED bracelet (what would rich evans do?)

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