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Rarity posted:There are an indescribable number of problems with Glee but the main problems that have brought the show down are these:
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Mo0 posted:From watching over my roommates shoulder, a lot of it boils down to giving up on some of the more high-falutin' aspects like "I wonder how the world would cope with having no power....." and being a Lost style BIG MYSTERY show and just making a solid post-apocalypse action thriller with a dose of sci-fi magic.
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muscles like this? posted:The final season of Burn Notice is kind of weird because they were obviously acting off the idea that it was the final season but the finale still kind of comes out of nowhere for the last two episodes. Also Michael makes what is pretty objectively the wrong choice at the very end. They almost go in a really interesting direction but chicken out at the last minute as in the second to the last episode Michael quits working with his crew and joins the bad guys because he feels like he could actually do more good there. But then, nah, he changes his mind and goes back to his friends.
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So after hearing how Revolution S2 is actually at least decent television, I picked up where I left off a few episodes into the second half of S1 (after the midseason break) and I think it really picked up (considering they were lurching around for the first ten episodes) and really opened up the larger world.
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Dec 16, 2013 06:11
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zoux posted:Homeland spoilers:
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Dec 16, 2013 18:36
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Tuxedo Jack posted:We made it like 20 minutes into the pilot. And we suffer through vanilla OUAT every week.
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Dec 17, 2013 04:24
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Spatula City posted:No, this is a wrong opinion. The reason to be excited about Smith leaving is PETER loving CAPALDI. Doctor Who's going to be awesome next year. Well, I mean it was okay.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:55
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DrVenkman posted:Psych does what it does well. It's utterly disposable but doesn't strive to me anything more. It's just a fun little show with some great chemistry between the leads and some comedic banter. It doesn't always land, and to be honest it's gone on a little too long now, but it's easy viewing.
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Dec 19, 2013 07:26
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I mean it's not entirely off base that it's a spoiler where the simple reveal is the shocking bit, since you pretty much watch how Will basically goes batshit crazy over the course of the season. It doesn't make that development or that single moment less if you know or see it coming unlike other certain shock-spoilers.
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Dec 20, 2013 03:14
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DivisionPost posted:A rational, level-minded plea for you to watch the US remake of Shameless, whose 4th season drops next month.
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Dec 23, 2013 08:14
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bobkatt013 posted:An rear end in a top hat surgeon first had his arm chopped off by a helicopter. Then a couple of seasons later a helicopter fell on him. It was the same actor that got acid sprayed all over them and hit by a car.
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Dec 24, 2013 06:45
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Bown posted:Even though I do think BSG became a pretty big mess somewhere in season 4 I was happy they went for total insanity instead of sticking with the military thing, which is overall my least favourite aspect of the show's framework.
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Dec 25, 2013 22:26
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Does that show have a huge budget too? Because I know that it is a terrible show, I just thought it was cheap since it looks cheap. Camelot cost like 70 million dollars, had terrible writing and the sets looked like poo poo. Xena had better looking village / town sets than they did.
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Dec 26, 2013 10:31
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Cactus posted:I'm a Person of Interest convert now, having caught up to all but the last two episodes. It's good but you have to watch all the below-average episodes in the first season to appreciate the rest of it I think. There are too many bits and pieces scattered throughout that all add up to the character moments and mythology, and missing those would detract from when the show later draws on them to get good. Season 1 is only below average because it is followed by seasons 2 and 3 
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Jan 8, 2014 05:58
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There's no thread for Intelligence? Anyway I thought it was an okay start, props on not doing the whole origin story thing and dragging it out and just jumping it when the new girl shows up. Otherwise it was a pilot so who knows what else is supposed to happen and change between shooting that and them getting used to going into full production mode.
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Great, now I want to watch Girls to satisfy my curiosity about it... because of this conversation. Lena Dunham 
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Manos del Sino posted:I asked a friend this question who watches and is a fan of the show. She spent the next five minutes explaining how SHIELD is dull by design, largely due to Marvel something something and ABC something else something else, the gist being that SHIELD will have to suffer through two seasons of being milquetoast before anything interesting will even be allowed. VDay posted:I don't get why people think SHIELD would be a way better show if it was suddenly allowed to have actual superhero stuff in it. I mean, that'd certainly be neat, but there's nothing stopping them from coming up with actual interesting stories/characters/villains. If anything, having the freedom to make up their own poo poo should theoretically be better for the show than if they were forced to have Marvel C-List Hero #235235 on every week.
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Jan 12, 2014 18:55
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The only way the Dexter spin-off would be any good and not be Dexter Season 9: Sorry Guys But We're Back is if they literally did the entire trajectory of Dexter in reverse, so it begins with lumberjack Dexter being spit out of hurricane and washing up on shore in Miami.
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Jan 18, 2014 04:52
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gently caress yeah the instructor for the class I'm taking (writing episodic television) decided to e-mail us a recommended show list. I am so  after reading it:quote:CURRENT
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Jan 20, 2014 21:52
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scary ghost dog posted:Is this a community college course?
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Jan 20, 2014 22:31
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IRQ posted:For an episodic writing class that list has a lot of highly serialized shows on it. It's not a study of episodic television, it's a course for writing episodic TV, as in I will end up writing a bunch of fake TV scripts, loglines, trying to pitch poo poo and all that. I doubt much time will be done  about every detail about TV Canon. That's what TV/IV is for!
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Jan 21, 2014 02:20
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lelandjs posted:I had a class just like this when I was in college and it was loads of fun.
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Jan 21, 2014 02:35
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Well later seasons of Heroes is also proof Bryan Fuller obviously knows what he is doing because when he came back to do a few episodes they were surprisingly good.
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Jan 21, 2014 03:00
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Man, so how about that English adaptation of 19-2? Anyone else catch it?
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Jan 31, 2014 23:01
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The sixth season had a Kal Penn cameo and a nuke going off in LA in the first few episodes, then it was mostly forgotten about for the rest of the season, which focused on James Cromwell as Jack's dad, the villain, right?  blob in my mind?
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Feb 3, 2014 07:07
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Deadpool posted:Secretary of Offense came from when he was kidnapped and Jack rescued him and he helped Jack kick rear end. . That was when I first got into watching TV like a maniac. Ahh, the good ol' days.  Then after S4 ended I immediately barreled through S1-3 even though yes I knew what was coming, but didn't make go go  any less. (well, they still had some shockers I somehow didn't learn about until I saw them).
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zoux posted:Hannibal 2 trailer, spoilers obv.
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Feb 6, 2014 19:27
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zoux posted:C-dub renewed Arrow, Supernatural, The Originals, TVD and Reign (which is apparently good?) quote:Really? The two most insane shows on broadcast TV are time traveling Ichabod Crane stopping the apocalypse from the Headless Horseman who is also one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.... and Mary Queen of Scots trying to stop the Pagans in the Blood Wood from killing everyone she knows and loves while also defending herself from the ghost/ghoul daughter of her evil nemesis, the gay icon Catherine di Medici. also IIRC from watching the pilot, Catherine di Medici is Anne of Green Gables
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Feb 13, 2014 23:52
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Deadpool posted:The Sarah Connor Chronicles is many times better than any of the movies that came before or after it. edit: in any case I feel like I should get around to watching TSCC again, it was definitely great but I feel like my younger self might've given less a poo poo about it at the time, at least until the end of it.
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Feb 15, 2014 03:59
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DivisionPost posted:The end of last season is a pretty strong hint that regardless of whatever differences they have in loyalty to the cause, Elizabeth wants to be with Phillip. To me, telling her husband/partner to "come home" in the Russian she's forbidden from speaking is about as good as an "I love you." But yes, it is a complicated situation -- honestly their love for each other was never in question, their problems came from the way that love opened them up to be hurt in ways they just weren't ready for -- and I'd be surprised if they no longer had any differences with each other.
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Feb 16, 2014 23:05
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DivisionPost posted:That's why I was so into it. The spycraft stuff was cool, but you can tell that it really wanted to be a love story just as much as it wanted to be a spy thriller, and its love story is actually really drat clever... No, I had the same complaints during that stretch of the season then realized it wasn't primarily a spy thriller and it's more set dressing and promptly thought I was stupid for thinking otherwise.
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I might give BSG another watch, maybe the finale wasn't as bad as everyone convinced me it was back when it aired. I mean, I liked the LOST finale, possibly in the same fashion....of SCIENCE! posted:Basically despite a long storied history of sci-fi being a platform for religion/humanism the modern sci-fi fan gets fairly loving mad at anything other than  plot at them and have characters vomit hard sci-fi technobabble all day, that's why sci-fi is treated like a joke. I want a loving goddamn dense as gently caress character study in a sci-fi setting, if only to piss off sci-fi fans. Like a True Detective in space. True Space Detective.
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Feb 20, 2014 08:04
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feedmyleg posted:Have you read the True Detective thread? It's approaching early LOST days in there but going the other way. Everyone is so convinced this grounded character study is going to suddenly be crawling with Elder Gods out of nowhere. BSG talked about God's from minute 1. Hell, in season 1 or early two Six said she was an angel sent by God to help guide Gaius . Turns out to be true, despite gritty realism dude's wet dream.
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Feb 20, 2014 09:01
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precision posted:I didn't like the way LOST ended, but I really liked the last episode. Other than maybe the god cork, the island mysteries seemed mostly resolved, it was just that you had to look for clues rather than have a character vomit exposition.
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Feb 20, 2014 18:53
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STAC Goat posted:But are they really terrible science? Because I think that's the key here. Like imagine if the Walking Dead was abetter, more consistent show when it came to character drama and plot. If it lived up to the brilliant pilot episode. Those weirdos would still be in that thread obsessing over bullet counts, zombie biology, fence building, and proper presentation of diarrhea after eating expired food. I never get caught up on poo poo like bullet counts or how Carl can headshot zombies or unironically use the term 'plot armour' to explain why or how a character survives a hail of gunfire. It doesn't matter any way in something like The Walking Dead because sometimes you have to move the plot along. Granted there are probably smarter ways to go about it but it's secondary to what the creators want to achieve.
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Feb 21, 2014 00:52
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zoux posted:Yeah. Also I'm hella sick of Jean-Ralphio. He was great when he was used very sparingly but know it's just "Hey JR showing up saying swag or something".
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Feb 21, 2014 17:17
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The Wolf Among Us has less instances of action moments ending up with having to restart the game only by virtue of the fact that in The Walking Dead, that is the whole ton of that series, but they aren't that intense in terms of how much input you need to put into it either way (TWD just has more 'game over'/fail states). Also they are on ton of platforms, you could even get it on your iPad if you've got one.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:27
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DivisionPost posted:Yeah, they should actually have a free demo available for you to try, which should be enough for you to get a feel for the mechanics and the story being told.
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Feb 23, 2014 03:29
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Twee as gently caress posted:I don't know. I thought that up to the finale, the first season of Heroes was really solid (and just outstanding when it comes to a few episodes like Company Man). The big problem was that instead of following their original concept (every season following a different group of them), they decided to stick with the same people.
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They should reboot Journeyman. And by that I mean wrangle up the original cast and crew. amongst other shows. or give us a dvd release already
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