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That was great but after the first episode I was really hoping that we'd get a clip from Shirley at the end of every one. Hint at the plot arc of the fake show. Also now I wanna go print out a google cardboard. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Also pretty sure the solution to half their problems is a liquor licence for an on-campus bar.
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Maxwell Lord posted:(and presumably a smaller than never budget.). The budget is larger than season 5.
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Loved the episodes, but was I the only one frustrated by the sound mixing? I watched it in browser, and had to change the sound level multiple times. The voices were really low, and some of the music way too high.
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The first episode was great - and really clever - and the VR plot in the second one was too, but that Britta plot was high-grade awful. People don't run away from home aged seventeen because their parents were kind of vaguely jerks a little bit, they do it when like, they're in actual bad/violent situations - which makes the first part of the episode where all Britta's friends are keeping tabs on her for her parents that she's cut off contact with read really weirdly. It didn't feel authentic as a plot at all, just a weird soupy mess that had a predictable and unearned conclusion.
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Mar 18, 2015 08:59
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Nevvy Z posted:"I once mistook six people for you at a pharmacy" is the best leonard joke in years. Oh Snapple! posted:For the life of me I still don't know why you bother to watch...well, loving anything, really. VagueRant fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 09:35
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Viginti posted:Even given the fact that Australians can just stream them on Yahoo? Stan seems to have a decent range of TV regardless, so I don't think signing up was a bad decision. I'm just surprised that we weren't excluded this time. We're meant to be excluded. I just tested and it gives me an error message about how the content isn't available in this region.
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Same here, and I even have Unblock-US which usually gets around most of these things. I guess they didn't get Yahoo working. Stan's not so bad, despite it using Silverlight and often having no idea how to do fullscreen windows. I only use it for Community and Better Call Saul, easier than the shady ways of watching them.
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So, why is Britta homeless if she both has a job and won the 50,000 dollar comic book last season? Would none of her friends really not offer to let her stay with them?
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Calico Heart posted:So, why is Britta homeless if she both has a job and won the 50,000 dollar comic book last season? Would none of her friends really not offer to let her stay with them? She's really bad at making sandwiches.
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Calico Heart posted:So, why is Britta homeless if she both has a job and won the 50,000 dollar comic book last season? Would none of her friends really not offer to let her stay with them? Lots of debt to pay off, well established poor money management, and then some comedic exaggeration. It would be consistent with her character if she turned down any previous offers to move in saying she didn't need that much help, just a few dollars to borrow here and there that she will pay back soon honest.
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Android Blues posted:The first episode was great - and really clever - and the VR plot in the second one was too, but that Britta plot was high-grade awful. People don't run away from home aged seventeen because their parents were kind of vaguely jerks a little bit, they do it when like, they're in actual bad/violent situations - which makes the first part of the episode where all Britta's friends are keeping tabs on her for her parents that she's cut off contact with read really weirdly. It didn't feel authentic as a plot at all, just a weird soupy mess that had a predictable and unearned conclusion. Yeah, I mean it zoomed so quickly over what would make that plot land that it just ended up terrible. Their flaws are given like two lines midway through a conversation and summarily dismissed. And it's super hosed up of her friends to be involved with her parents behind her back and then insist the're good people. Lots of abusive people seem "nice" to other members of the community they don't have power over.
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Sounds like you guys just don't like the world that was created within that world. Better find the serial number.
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You guys are correct, except for that Britta is still The Worst and would totally run away over small vague things like that.
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Remember guys the show and original website for the show hint that she was molested by a mascot at a Chuck E Cheese style restaurant and that her dad took the molesters side.
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Calico Heart posted:Remember guys the show and original website for the show hint that she was molested by a mascot at a Chuck E Cheese style restaurant and that her dad took the molesters side. When was this mentioned?
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UrbanLabyrinth posted:When was this mentioned? The dinosaur, right?
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It was strongly implied in a promotional site (I found it weird that she was being so forthcoming about it) and then the season 3 finale brought it back.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zoXdWRhCFY Also: quote:Name: MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Mar 18, 2015 15:01
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Pick posted:Yeah, I mean it zoomed so quickly over what would make that plot land that it just ended up terrible. Their flaws are given like two lines midway through a conversation and summarily dismissed. And it's super hosed up of her friends to be involved with her parents behind her back and then insist the're good people. Lots of abusive people seem "nice" to other members of the community they don't have power over. I believe Jeff actually said, "We're terrible friends" at one point in the episode. I thought it was fine.
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Wow, they even made a callback to the group of friends she defaced billboards with.
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I would have totally been as addicted to the VR machine as Dean was. I'm a sucker for extremely elaborate calibration/setting up processes. JESUS WEPT
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I felt the VR dude gave up his life ambition way too unrealisticly, even for this show. I did like how he was going in and all those references though, but I felt the lazy message that "VR is lame" was a bit too flat, like it was just directly from some personal grievance a single writer had, that wasn't really fleshed out enough to put in a show. The Britta's parents thing skeeved me out too, it had a good generic message at the end, but it really seemed to be oblivious the fact that some people do actually have horribly abusive and manipulative parents who employ gas-lighting techniques to control their children. The first episode I definitely loved, was laughing the whole way through. I think it just feels a lot like Dan Harmon played minecraft for 9 months and wrote all the episodes a week before the deadline. Still looking forward to the rest, I'm just not as into it as I used to be.
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Solaris Knight posted:I would have totally been as addicted to the VR machine as Dean was. I'm a sucker for extremely elaborate calibration/setting up processes. As someone who just bought an Oculus Rift last month, I can confirm that this was a pretty accurate representation of the owner's response, as well as that of those around him. 
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I just saw the second episode. Have to say I hated it. There were some jokes i thought were genuinely really funny and got laughs out of me, but the VR stuff was just painfully boring. Long segments of the show that are visually hideous and devoid of any jokes seems like it should be a pretty obviously bad idea. And the Britta storyline made me feel incredibly sad and frustrated for Britta. Given that we know she was at least felt up as a child and that her dad took her molester's side, I felt uncomfortable during the whole thing. It was like Britta's new family are not only not on her side again but been deceiving her, too. By the end of the episode I didn't feel like she had had a cathartic victory, I feel like she gave up and was manipulated into forgiveness.
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I agree with that sentiment. And also it was skeevy that their defining trait as "good" people was paying for stuff. Also, the "We're POOR" retort to Britta is also off considering she paid for Abed's film class and other things for her friends when it basically wiped her out (also true of running Shirley's sandwich shop in her absence). It's not like being charitable entitles you to charity from others, but acting audacious about the existence of charity to someone who has exhibited such charity is pretty bizarre.
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I really want to watch Portuguese Gremlins.
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The first episode was pretty meh. Abed already said everything I would want to say about 'Frankie,' and what the admittedly boring character promised to bring (efficiency and results) sounds like something a comedy show about loser failures doesn't need. The second episode was significantly better. The dean running in that VR machine was exactly as majestic as he believed it was. Not sure about you, but that font made me larger if y'know what I mean (it gave me a benign tumor). I think Britta's parents helped her out because they, like, wanted her not to be homeless? I heard somewhere that having to poo poo in a bucket and/or sell yourself into prostitution sucked. Her friends being in on it and guilting her about it was weird. But then, her friends are weird. Hopes for the season: Annie and Abed start dating, and things get super duper uncomfortable for everybody on the show as a result. teamcharlie fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Throwing money at your offspring doesn't make you a good parent. By those standards, Paris Hilton had great parents. It's heavily suggested, basically stated, that Britta ran away due to mistreatment, including molestation as implied above. Likely she wouldn't need that money now if she hadn't been mistreated before.
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k cool pick we get it
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Toxxupation posted:k cool pick we get it Good post please post more
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^^^christ that post is bad if you don't like a portrayal that's fine but bringing it up over and over and over and over is just hysterically ranting about something you don't like and it's obnoxious
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Toxxupation posted:if you don't like a portrayal that's fine but bringing it up over and over and over and over is just hysterically ranting about something you don't like and it's obnoxious I know for a fact you're not new to this thread~
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Toxxupation posted:^^^christ that post is bad
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You're not loving helping
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This strikes me as more a loose approach to continuity than anything- Britta's character changed quite a bit from the outset and "may be a molestation survivor" was just something they threw out once and never pursued. That I don't even remember what episode it's from may be telling.
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I just wish we get back Britta the Overly Enthusiastic And Kinda Annoying Activist, because Britta The Worst is just the worst.
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Pick posted:Yeah, I mean it zoomed so quickly over what would make that plot land that it just ended up terrible. Their flaws are given like two lines midway through a conversation and summarily dismissed. And it's super hosed up of her friends to be involved with her parents behind her back and then insist the're good people. Lots of abusive people seem "nice" to other members of the community they don't have power over. Dan Harmon agrees with you: Britta was right and everybody else was wrong.  (this is the Reddit thread the op was linking)
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Maxwell Lord posted:This strikes me as more a loose approach to continuity than anything- Britta's character changed quite a bit from the outset and "may be a molestation survivor" was just something they threw out once and never pursued. That I don't even remember what episode it's from may be telling. It came up repeatedly in the first three seasons, it wasn't just a one time gag. If I remember right, the last reference was in the final episode of Season 3 where Evil Abed "therapizes" her.
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