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Vanderdeath posted:My childhood friend read A Game of Thrones when we were in middle school and we're both 34 now. He really, really should've ended the novels with the Red Wedding, especially considering how he recently talked about how ASoIaF was originally going to be a short story. IRQ posted:He's said in interviews before that he doesn't plan out anything he writes because he views it like gardening or something. Basically there are no notes to be destroyed, he just says stuff like that because people are mean to him for being a liar with no work ethic (I say as I post from work). Huh? What? He talks about this on his blog, all the time...  The books had the same end-point as now when it was planned as a trilogy, he just planned to time-skip a lot. He's also made extensive notes and plotted the narratives and much of the dialogue for the 9, main POV characters, so the books will be (basically are) finished: he just has to write them. I completely understand why he doesn't finish: 1) it's a cash cow-ride that ends when the series is over and 2) would you really want to be working on the same art project for 25+ years? zoux posted:
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Rhyno posted:There's no way his agent hasn't drugged his tea and made backups of his entire hard drive. dong won don’t give a gently caress what GRRM does, these days esperterra posted:GURM has spoken many a time about how he refuses to write on anything else lmbo Yeah, this is unironically true. Also, for anyone eagerly awaiting him to keep writing GoT, you probably don’t want to hear about the >10k words worth of notes he just sent my friend re: Wildcards. 
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precision posted:Squidbillies was so goddamn brilliant Seriously though Squidbillies might be the best of adultswim and I say that as a gross R&M fanboy... bull3964 posted:What do you mean was? Season 12 comes out next year!  
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Lurdiak posted:Sorry if this has already been posted. Is the cat okay?
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Escobarbarian posted:Can someone translate this post for me please https://www.hbo.com/sally4ever It actually looks good, but all I've seen so far is the final two minutes of each episode, which has been graphic soft-core porn featuring fifty-somethings with no context.
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This version of reality sure is something: https://twitter.com/TheBillyWest/status/1064639315005759488
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People forgot Star Wars is supposed to be schlock and think it's supposed to be Citizen Kane+1984+Forrest Gump+Transformers.  But seriously y'all: a new season of The Last Kingdom! Am I the only one excited? 
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I just finished episode 2 of Last Kingdom S3 and it is sooooo goooooood 
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esperterra posted:I refuse b/c Andy Samberg is a comedy black hole. wow someone didn't like dick in a box
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esperterra posted:I caught up to The Good Place last night 'cause I fell a few episodes behind. Immediately dove into the thread to catch up then remembered why I let the posts pile up on that one lmbo. It's a great thread when the episodes are airing but my eyes glaze over during the weeks between RIP. tviv.txt
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bowmore posted:rec me some tv shows to check out The Last Kingdom is up to three seasons on Netflix, if you’ve never seen it!
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:So what is Little Drummer Girl? Full on drama? drama/comedy? Does it have musical stuff or is that just my mind filling in gaps because of the title? All I know is it involves spy stuff apparently. Last Kingdom is very ~The poo poo~, just finished S3E7 last night and hoooooooooooooooo boy! I've played enough CK2 to know you don't let that guy live...I'm bummed it's almost over. And yeah, when we were popping that on the night before, Netflix is like  "oh yeah, here's Frontier Season 3, too." My cup runneth over.
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Looten Plunder posted:So catch me up a bit on The Last Kingdom. Wondering if it's worth diving in to 3 seasons of another show when I've got so much on the backburner anyway. It's like c2005 Ridley Scott made a tv show. Production values are on-par/better than the shows you mentioned with more of a bent towards historical accuracy than Vikings, for instance. The historical setting is a generation or so after the events of Vikings, so you should be able to dive right in, if you are already familiar with the other show. Honestly, Last Kingdom is one of the most film-like tv shows I've ever seen: the way they handle the character progressions and the passage of time feels more like a movie experience than the pace of a tv show. Looten Plunder posted:Just comparing the Last Kingdom/Vikings character crossover. From what I can see there is Ragnar, Ubba, Sigurd and Rollo from the Vikings side of things and Alfred, Æthelred and most of the Ecbert/Aethelwulf Wessex crew (but without actual Ecbert/Aetherwulf). Lots of shared names, but TLK starts ~100 years after Vikings. Vikings is c790, Last Kingdom takes place c.880. Ragnar is the Viking version of "Steve." 
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Mu Zeta posted:I know the years are off but Alfred has to be the same character in both shows. Alfred the Great is from the historical period that Last Kingdom is set in. The king from Vikings was based on Ecgberht of Wessex, Alfred's grandfather, from about a century earlier.
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X-O posted:I liked Fallon on Late Night but I dropped The Tonight Show pretty early on. Never cared for Colbert, Corden, or Kimmel. I watched some of Seth's stuff at the very beginning but dropped off. Conan was the only one I continued to watch. I'm pretty interested in his new show format starting at the beginning of the year and his podcast, thought only two episodes in, is really good. I miss Craig Ferguson. For me, his late night show was the perfect blend of stupidity while also sticking its thumb in the format's eye.
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gently caress THIS  Make me a bazillion more season of The Last Kingdom and stop ruining old IPs. 
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MiddleOne posted:How many times can Uhtred get denounced and expelled jesus. ALL THE TIMES But it did get a ~little~ silly as a plot device this season. Really hoping for a season 4 and he can be done with all of that since everyone is dead.
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Alfred's daughter is a bad b but I can never remember all these Saxon names so I just call her Wiffleblat. Loved when she went all Wonder Woman in the finale. 
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The Death Note adaptation was hilarious bad. There's no way a live-action Bebop is anything other than poo poo: the best they could hope for is to recreate the original and that has been shown over and over to be a pointless endeavor.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think Southland is still on Hulu if you haven’t seen that. Southland is awesome and became too intense for me, at the end. feedmyleg posted:
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Just finished the new season of Great British Baking Show. I didn’t care about any of the contestants this season, for some reason. Also this: https://twitter.com/qimiza/status/1067770679091757057?s=21
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feedmyleg posted:I just hope they go big with it. Black Out was just a bland repeat of the first film, but there is so much in that world (and the offworld colonies) to explore. I'm more optomistic about this than a live-action Bebop but
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Vikings is good, but TLK is like an entire show of Vikings S2. 
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Wow that really sucks, I never would have thought he would be a lovely person like that... I hope it isn’t true: I like telling stories about him and my dad sharing an office in grad school. 
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Mu Zeta posted:What's with all these French stories with British accents. BBC did War and Peace a few years ago and British accents everywhere. Even the Assassins Creed game that takes place in the French revolution has British accents. My Favorite was Enemy at the Gates, a WWII film where the Russians have British accents and the Germans have American accents... X-O posted:Well localized adaptations of historical literature are usually done that way. Hamlet generally is not performed in Danish I'd imagine unless actually being done in Denmark. Yeah but the original Hamlet isn’t in Danish...
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Mu Zeta posted:Assassins Creed is made in Canada so I think it's just a given that any historical French drama will have British accents unless it's a French production. But...they speak French...
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Mu Zeta posted:In what? The Les Miserables trailer has British accents. I mean the studio which made that game is located in French-speaking Canada...
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IRQ posted:I like that over a year into #metoo the men getting accused are still saying really dumb poo poo like this and thinking it sounds good like "oh it was all just a misunderstanding." It worked for Hardwick. 
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Mu Zeta posted:Tom Cruise has a valuable PSA for HDTV owners Hey realtalk though: I loving hated when they added this feature to TVs and turned it off as soon as I had one with it defaulted...
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Timby posted:Netflix paid $80 million to keep Friends through the end of 2019. That will for sure turn a profit.  precision posted:I started watching AHS Cult today, goddamn it's hilarious 
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Iron Crowned posted:Nice, although I hope it doesn't attempt to make me feel bad for all those rich fucks who got grifted. I'd feel worse for their parents...right before I ate them.
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Taco kisses for my Ben!Wheat Loaf posted:I only became aware of Jennifer Lopez's acting career after I was familiar with her as a singer, so for a long time I assumed she was a pop star who also acted rather than an actor who became a pop star. feedmyleg posted:Genuinely thought that until this post. In my defense, I'm a loving idiot when it comes to music. Milo and POTUS posted:Is this a joke because by the time I ever saw Selena thanks to high school Spanish, she was already so established a pop star that I can't even wrap my mind around it being the other way around. 
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Dancer posted:Hey, sorry for a side-track, just a quick answer will suffice: is Jim Jeffries no longer a massive shithead? I remember watching some stand-up of his a long time ago and being very uncomfortable (I think cuz lovely comments about women plus some of that I-offend-everybody "not-racism") Jim Jeffries is awesome and I really enjoy his show on Comedy Central. His brand of humor does push the envelope of what is tasteful: he especially loves ~ironic racism~ to make a point. He's a pretty dyed-in-the-wool liberal, however. VVV edit: also he's Australian.
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Rocksicles posted:This battlebishop geezer on Vikings is butchering his role this season. His acting his loving awful I really enjoyed him in The Tudors but then I found out he wasn't ~acting~ like Henry VIII...
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Rocksicles posted:Please tell me he didn't bone The Dormer? Because i'd feel validated in hating him a bit more. He didn't just bone her, he started the trend of her not surviving shows!
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I loved Top Gear, and don’t give a poo poo about cars, and the adventures were the best part, but the whole thing lost its luster for me when I found out what an insufferable douchebag Clarkson is. If you feel the need to punch someone over a meal that they brought you as part of their job: you can get hosed.
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