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Well, the ads on Hulu were more interesting than the latest episode of Crossbones. Edit: I think the strangest part was that they made the crew wear sacks over their heads on the freaking boat, so they couldn't trace their way back to the island. But how the hell do you backtrack on an ocean? 
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Deadpool posted:You never know who could be reading this thread. Maybe there's a person out there that we're looking at to be the next mod. Maybe that person is you.  There's a show that aired that's basically Lost for kids. It's made by D.J. McHale, the same guy who made Are You Afraid of the Dark? It's called Flight 29 Down. It's short, but it's pretty good. Definitely worth a watch, I'd say. Edit: Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BTctdDbJRc Season 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcGNstfyZM Ravane fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Deadpool posted:Except that procedural is a term almost exclusively used to describe a formula that deals with some kind of case solving on a week by week basis. Lost would not be a procedural under the most common use. A show like Supernatural on the other hand would though. Having a set formula doesn't automatically make it a procedural. I wouldn't consider a show like Big Bang Theory or Modern Family a procedural even though almost every episode follows the same formula. Supernatural used to be a procedural, when they were hunting a different monster every week. But now it's just garbled mess of things that won't be solved for seasons on end. Procedurals, when used in a negative light, refer to crime and police procedurals which the television market is saturated with. That doesn't correlate with the quality of the show, merely the genericness of the genre. Networks love procedurals because they're risk free. You can cancel them at any time, there's always an audience, and they're cost-effective. They're very predictable and are usually full of B and C level storylines. And people say that A La Carte television will destroy the industry. No, it's risk free shows and Nielsen ratings that have already destroyed the market.
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Congrats Annakie! The fun has only begun.
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precision posted:I'm pretty skeptical about Babby Bruce and Catgirl. In season 4, we'll get to see a CW-approved highschool sex scene between Bruce and Catgirl, in which it will be revealed that Bruce wear Sherlock Holmes themed underpants, an aside to inquisitive nature.
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raditts posted:I had no idea either of those shows had even started airing. It's alright. They have good Fish Taco episode.
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GreenNight posted:Defiance is back this coming Thursday. The first season was a decent show, for Syfy. Falling Skies comes back on June 22nd. It's much better than Defiance.
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Jun 13, 2014 14:03
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Irish Joe posted:Really, though, the oppressive laugh track is the only truly objectionable part of Disney's live-action output. No, no, I don't think that was a rape joke. The theme is Christmas and she said, "Okay, who was trying to wrap me?". Nevertheless, it wasn't even moderately funny and the laugh track really does make it weird.
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Jun 14, 2014 21:22
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Josh Lyman posted:So uh, apparently this is how Rick & Morty started? This is I don't watch Rick and Morty, now I don't want to watch Rick and Morty.
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Sober posted:You're not Irish Joe! [insert laugh track]
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raditts posted:Have any of you guys seen this Hotwire commercial? Apparently it's two weeks old but I just saw it on TV and I was amazed that it featured a gay couple and didn't make light of the fact that they were a gay couple at all. Just treated them like totally normal people. I'm proud of you, TV. Aren't you acknowledging gay couples by choosing to put them in your commercial? "I want these gay people in my commercial." They're simply applying a show don't tell approach to gay people, so it doesn't just seem like they're prostituting equality. But the thing is gay people aren't normal people. Only 1 in 10 people are gay, just as many as the left handed. Clearly if you deviate from the norm, you are abnormal. And that's why One Million Moms cares about this. Assuming that 50% of America is female, that's 150 million people. According to a census in 1976, 90% of women between ages 15-50 have become normal moms. Discounting females younger than 15 and all the single ladies, that's about 100 million moms with a ring on it. Now, the 1 million moms that have pledged themselves to hatred out of 100 million total moms is 1% of all mothers. They deviate from the norm, thus they are abnormal, far more abnormal than gays or left handers. They simply wish for the same level of equality that overprivileged gays and left handed people have, and I think that this is a minority that has been ignored for far too long. 
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Fooz posted:Time jumps is my favorite plot device in TV, but it kind of stinks to have one spoiled. A time jump from season 4 to the last episode of Dexter, where he dumps his sister in the ocean and starts his life anew as a lumberjack would be perfect.
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raditts posted:And you never will, because dimension jump. Remember the first episode when random rifts open up in space time because of a defective time machine thing? So that rip in space time causes a window effect to appear between the old Carters and the new ones. So they get a glimpse of themselves five years into the future of an alternate dimension.
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GreenNight posted:Also Falling Skies. I said sometime back that Falling Skies was better than Defiance. But with this new episode of Failing Skies, I realize how wrong I truly was. Both are very mediocre, but this season's intro episode was absolutely horrendous. Do not watch.
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The forums are back. I can finally tell you guys about how amazing Continuum is and why you should all watch it. It's amazing, you should all watch it.
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So Tyrant has really strong points in its' visuals with great backdrops and nice settings. But the plot is just mediocre and the characterizations of the middle east are really just thinly-veiled assumptions that everyone is a terrorist or a misogynist. The show aspires to be many things, and you can see their ambition. The show wants to portray Middle Eastern traditions, which it does well when it's not alluding to the fact that everyone is a terrorist. It suggests that there might be a need for a benevolent dictator in a warring country, to bring it peace, united with the use of force. But then it shits on that idea with a good dictator/bad dictator routine that just further grounds the black and white nature of politics that they were speaking out against. "We can kill this guy and face the terrorism or save him and stop the terrorism. Politics are grey like that." The brother dictator is just comically evil. He just rapes because he's got the power to rape. But he apparently never touches his wife because he expects her to just throw herself at him whenever he desires it. If he's a rapist, why can't he rape his wife too? It's because he's a badly characterized rapist. It's just thrown in for the shock factor. "Ooh, we're like Game of Thrones." These characters have less dimensions than Paper Mario. The main character's wife is so stupid, focusing on his relationship with his dad when there's clearly terrorism going on in the background overshadowing everything. The son would rather pursue a homosexual relationship in a foreign country with a guy he barely knows simply because he's gay. Guy just wants to get laid, I understand that. But not when that is the only aspect of his personality revealed. The daughter is the only sensible one, she has two lines of dialogue and two minutes of screen time. Do not watch this show. 
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Jun 26, 2014 05:45
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Orphan Black has a pretty good opening theme. Same with House MD and also Bear in the Big Blue House MD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enwSyQo8d7k mmm that jazz.
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American Horror Story and Are You Afraid of the Dark? had perfect intros. Both were visually distinct, succinct, and gave you a great understanding of what the show was all about.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The reason you should watch Utopia Well, my interest in this show is now piqued. I heard it was an ephemeral show though, lasting only 6 episodes?
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zoux posted:FX had so many complaints about this billboard they took it down: Is this a show about river blindness? What do parasites have to do with vampures?
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GreenNight posted:Either read the books or read Wikipedia instead of asking stupid questions What if I can't read? 
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One tv show we never mentioned for having a great intro was Malcolm in the Middle. Who doesn't remember the anime dude at the beginning, the random wrestlers, the boys fighting all set to the tune of "You're not the boss of me now!"
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Whizbang posted:Peter Parker is just some lazy photographer. Spider-Man's civilian identity is that of Takuya Yamashiro, Not enough alliteration.
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Irish Joe posted:I have always been a real person, having neither the time nor the patience to craft a persona (or whatever the gently caress you're accusing me of). What you don't seem to understand is that most people are, deep down, horrendously lovely. I'm no exception. The difference between me and everybody else, however, is I don't try to hide it. I post what I think, even if what I think is mean-spirited, ignorant or completely wrong. This is the most coherent thing I've heard all day from this forum. We're culpable of many things but we should strive to be as honest as possible, like in "The Invention of Lying." Posting your mind doesn't make you a troll or even a bad person, it's merely a different perspective in a world that is dyed grey. There is no black and white when it comes to opinion, so simply following a bandwagon approach and dismissing Irish Joe's insight is an ignorant choice. It's alright to have different opinions. We're not debating evolution here, it's just tv. There are no factual insights. Ravane fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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Aphrodite posted:That's not even what that movie is about. At least Joe does his research. The entire movie revolves around the fact that people can not tell lies, and one person develops this eponymous ability. Irish Joe was saying that he's a straightforward person regardless of whether or not that makes him an rear end in a top hat, which is exactly how every character except the protagonist of the movie acts. So yes, it is what the movie is about.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Utopia will crush any faith you have in your fellow human beings like a loving bug. Also Lee and Arby are the best. It's not at all this bad. I'm on episode 5, it's certainly interesting and some characters are well-portrayed sociopaths, but if this crushes your faith in humanity, you must have barely had any faith to begin with. Also, it's barely gory. The torture scene is brutal but not to the point everyone describes. It's good, but y'all should stop exaggerating how far it goes. It's not at all disturbing.
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precision posted:It's like I'm looking at this bottle of hot sauce and thinking "How hot could it be?" Alcohol should be replaced with Tabasco in Drunk History. Then it would be entertaining.
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Bown posted:Ahh yes, I'm sure every goon here exercises 1-2 hours a day I work out an hour a day, but your average goon sir earns a different sort of gains.
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Imo, Key and Peele's best sketch is Inner-City Wizard School: http://vimeo.com/channels/keypeele/54162829 Or Continental Breakfast.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM FFS, this is all I can see now. 
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precision posted:Occupation trolling harder than Ravane all up ins. Hannibal is a bad show? I like Hannibal.  And Occupation is entitled to his own opinion. It might not represent the majority, doubly so with his fondness of "The Leftovers," but he is entitled to it nonetheless. However, his argument against Hannibal makes little sense. He should be making the comparison that if pornography, which is an extreme version of the beauty of human sexuality, can not be considered artistic, then Hannibal which offers gratuitous violence as its mode of entertainment should not bear artistic value either. But this, of course, probes the inner meaning of the show: what constitutes art? Hannibal doesn't demonstrate his artistic ability through these violent acts. He chooses his victim carefully, a person he values less than dirt. He kills this person, like he kills every person, without emotion, apathetic to his victim's past. And he recreates him. He envisions himself as God; he is an artist recreating this terrible carbon form into a flawless diamond for all to admire. It's not the violent act itself that's artistic, no matter how great the cinematography may be. It's the end product. The dish and the crime scene. He's invited to every crime scene where he inspects his own work and the work of others like a jeweler authenticates a gem. He is no serial killer, he's an artisan. He understands that humans are truly free to do whatever they want, whether it is to kill or create. And Hannibal blends the polar opposites of beauty and morbidity, as only a truly free man can. Just like Tim Allen.
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feedmyleg posted:Guys, I'm posting from the future, all the way in July of 2014. Anything you want to know? Do people think I'm cool in the future?
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scary ghost dog posted:add me to that first list lol I don't mean to be pedantic, but the first line is not a list since it doesn't actually list any people. So the first list would actually be "List of posters who have raped children:" But hey, if you wish to be added to that list, more power to you. Rape is, after all, about power.
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Mu Zeta posted:AV Club says Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain sucks. FX was on a roll for a while but after Tyrant and this I'm not feeling good. Is that the Solar eclipse from Heroes on that guy's pupil? It was doomed from the beginning.
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The finale of Utopia was great, but not at all depressing like some were saying. Looking forward to season 2. The soundtrack is really good, the music director should win an award.
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Deadpool posted:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21hgrx_kacy-catanzaro-american-ninja-warrior-dallas-finals_sport Her previous run is also worth a watch, it's really great. The problem with the leftovers is that the premise is absolute poo poo. Over 98% of the world is still remaining, there's no way any government system could crumble. Yet random rednecks are shooting dogs on the street in front of cops for no loving reason. The world has not gone to hell, 2% means 1 in 50 people you know are now gone. A guy has 500 friends on facebook, statistcally, that means 10 people would disappear, and I seriously doubt, unless a few of those people are really close, that he would even notice. It's a tragic event, but the show treats it like it's the apocalypse. Like if the exact reverse happened, that 98% of people disappeared, leaving only 2%, that'd be poo poo and justify every action taken by these characters. That'd be a show worthy of the name "The Leftovers." But right now, it's just "someone stole a grape from the fridge and I'm pissed off" worthy. I've only watched the pilot, but it was so bad I can't bring myself to watch the rest. The dialogue is terrible. "Your dog is dead." "I don't give a drat, it was my husband's." Bitch, this callousness is why you weren't raptured. The sad thing is that the side-story of the dog was the only enjoyable part of the entire episode. Then there's the scene with the Westboro Baptist copycats protesting a day honoring the missing. The crowd starts beating them up, then the police starts beating them up, and horses start flying out of nowhere neighing and poo poo. The scene seemed like it was trying to make you sympathize with the cult, but really it portrayed them as being such lovely people, that they really did deserve it. It's... E PLURIBUS ANUS posted:Plus sometimes I think what would I do in this situation, if I were the last man standing. Fack, he's trolling us all.
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Shageletic posted:Not being in the comic doesn't mean a thing for an adaption, I think. And even if he isn't a lead, I guess I've been burned by hokey teenage plots in other TV shows before. Can anyone think of the last teenage supporting castmember whose plots were ACTUALLY an interesting part of their respective shows? Boone from Lost.
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DominoDancing posted:Neither character nor actor were teenagers though? Character was 20 years old when he died. Just about a teenager.
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DominoDancing posted:Wrong. The character was 23 when he died. And if we're expanding the original question to include people in their twenties it becomes meaningless. quote:While starring on Lost, Somerhalder was voted one of "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" by Teen People, despite being 26 years old at the time. Teen People also called him "the next Johnny Depp." Where is your God now?
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The only great thing about Star Wars was the nostalgia. I remember the prequels being great because of nostalgia. It's the same reason that children in the 70's thought their Star Wars was great. The truth is that they're not all that good. Remember Return of The Jedi and its deus ex machina of an ending, and its plot being the exact same as A New Hope? A New Hope was good, The Empire Strikes Back was brilliant. But the entire series is not as infallible as their fans built it up to be. star wars christmas special Are the prequels full of plotholes? Sure. But are they entertaining? Absolutely. Jar Jar was great comic relief to the suspense of Qui Gon Jinn's death. The Pod Racing scene produced one of the greatest Chuck E. Cheese's video games known to man. Considering that J.J. Abrams made the only successful and decent Star Trek movies in Star Trek's history of bad movies, I have no doubt that these upcoming Star Wars movies will be successful.
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