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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 29, 2019 9:00:53 GMT -5
In the fake year of 9ABY or 4 years after the events of Return of the Jedi. I was hoping so when I saw some fucking guy who'd been carbonited, because I was under the impression that that was a sort of ad hoc solution by Vader to get Luke to the Emperor (and as a plus, to conveniently get Han to Jabba), and not some sort of established punishment, so at least the pointless some fucking guy who's been carbonited has a historical precedent. Yeah I figure Original Recipe Boba Fett probably told every single bounty hunter dude and dudine he encountered about how he froze a dude in carbonite and it totally worked as a means of transportation in the years that transpired between Empire Strikes Back and getting eaten by a sand vagina to the point that it became common practice.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 29, 2019 9:12:38 GMT -5
I was hoping so when I saw some fucking guy who'd been carbonited, because I was under the impression that that was a sort of ad hoc solution by Vader to get Luke to the Emperor (and as a plus, to conveniently get Han to Jabba), and not some sort of established punishment, so at least the pointless some fucking guy who's been carbonited has a historical precedent. Yeah I figure Original Recipe Boba Fett probably told every single bounty hunter dude and dudine he encountered about how he froze a dude in carbonite and it totally worked as a means of transportation in the years that transpired between Empire Strikes Back and getting eaten by a sand vagina to the point that it became common practice. Do you think he told the talking robot bounty hunter? Is that guy going to be on this show, or was he already dead by this time?
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Post by Nudeviking on Aug 29, 2019 9:14:35 GMT -5
Yeah I figure Original Recipe Boba Fett probably told every single bounty hunter dude and dudine he encountered about how he froze a dude in carbonite and it totally worked as a means of transportation in the years that transpired between Empire Strikes Back and getting eaten by a sand vagina to the point that it became common practice. Do you think he told the talking robot bounty hunter? Is that guy going to be on this show, or was he already dead by this time? This guy? He actually shows up in one of the trailers/previews/random scene things I saw on the internet so maybe it was him that carried on the carbonite tradition.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 29, 2019 9:29:13 GMT -5
Do you think he told the talking robot bounty hunter? Is that guy going to be on this show, or was he already dead by this time? This guy? He actually shows up in one of the trailers/previews/random scene things I saw on the internet so maybe it was him that carried on the carbonite tradition. That robot was him? Fuck yes! I've gone from "fairly excited but kind of exasperated at what seemed like an egregious carbonite reference" to "excited and realizing that it makes sense that a post Episode V bounty hunter would use carbonite as a prisoner transport method" to "very excited about the talking robot bounty hunter whose name I don't quite remember being on this show".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 9:43:01 GMT -5
This guy? He actually shows up in one of the trailers/previews/random scene things I saw on the internet so maybe it was him that carried on the carbonite tradition. That robot was him? Fuck yes! I've gone from "fairly excited but kind of exasperated at what seemed like an egregious carbonite reference" to "excited and realizing that it makes sense that a post Episode V bounty hunter would use carbonite as a prisoner transport method" to "very excited about the talking robot bounty hunter whose name I don't quite remember being on this show". That's IG-88! I'm not 100% sure it's actually him in this show, but it is an IG-model droid.EDIT - According to IMDb, it's IG-11 and voiced by Taika Waititi. So an OLDER IG-model! Neato!
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Post by chalkdevil π on Aug 29, 2019 12:30:40 GMT -5
I was hoping so when I saw some fucking guy who'd been carbonited, because I was under the impression that that was a sort of ad hoc solution by Vader to get Luke to the Emperor (and as a plus, to conveniently get Han to Jabba), and not some sort of established punishment, so at least the pointless some fucking guy who's been carbonited has a historical precedent. Yeah I figure Original Recipe Boba Fett probably told every single bounty hunter dude and dudine he encountered about how he froze a dude in carbonite and it totally worked as a means of transportation in the years that transpired between Empire Strikes Back and getting eaten by a sand vagina to the point that it became common practice. Boba spent his flight back to deliver Han to Jabba posting a cabonite freezing tutorial on /r/bountyhunters then everyone started doing it and it's just become so cliche. I mean, back in my day we just knocked them out using the stun setting on our ray gun before handcuffing them and shoving them in the brig of our spaceship. Sure, the scrappy hero was likely to escape, kill you, then steal your ship, but that was half the fun.
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Post by Hachiman on Aug 29, 2019 19:30:36 GMT -5
Watched Season 3 of Young Justice and I am conflicted. On one hand, they managed to tie everything up alright. On the other hand, they took a really long way to get there. Additionally, there's just too many characters so nobody really gets much time for development and we got very few new superheroes, even though the promo materials made it seem like there would be more characters showing up. So it was less "Young Justice" and more "Several hours with various characters in the DC Animated Universe! Yay!"
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 29, 2019 21:09:57 GMT -5
That robot was him? Fuck yes! I've gone from "fairly excited but kind of exasperated at what seemed like an egregious carbonite reference" to "excited and realizing that it makes sense that a post Episode V bounty hunter would use carbonite as a prisoner transport method" to "very excited about the talking robot bounty hunter whose name I don't quite remember being on this show". That's IG-88! I'm not 100% sure it's actually him in this show, but it is an IG-model droid.EDIT - According to IMDb, it's IG-11 and voiced by Taika Waititi. So an OLDER IG-model! Neato! Obligatory mention that my derby number was IG-88.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 29, 2019 23:21:45 GMT -5
So me and Gf finished watching Letterkenny........
and I started up Schitt's Creek. The first couple of episodes didn't do much for me, although they did establish the characters, but by episode 5, I think, it's really growing on me. It helps that they are starting to flesh out the characters a bit. Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy are always a great pair, and Chris Elliot is probably my long lost cousin. If Letterkenny is my hometown, Schitt's Creek is probably the next town over, with whom we used to alternately fight/party.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 30, 2019 11:57:43 GMT -5
Season 2 of Fleabag is very good.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 30, 2019 20:41:24 GMT -5
Great British Baking Show is back!!
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 31, 2019 16:26:47 GMT -5
We're about halfway through The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and it's mindblowing. I liked the movie, despite its many, many flaws, but this is a few levels above it. The breathing room the series gives to the story make it feel like a full-blown epic in a way the movie didn't quite manage. The worldbuilding and the characterization and everything else just elevates the material beyond what the movie was capable of doing.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 1, 2019 23:17:35 GMT -5
The Great British Bake Off is back, which means the return of the following archetypes:
The person I immediately have a crush on. The person I will eventually develop a crush on. The teenager. The adorable older person who I'll keep rooting for even though they're not as good as the younger contestants and are clearly kind of in over their head. The "healthy cooking" person who quickly abandons that gimmick because date-filled gluten free cakes taste like butt. The self-consciously "quirky" person who likes to decorate their bakes with superfluous bats and kittens and such. The person who puts curry in everything. The hard-working parent who's a little sloppy with decoration but whose flavors are still good. The type-A person who is incredibly technically proficient but will probably flame out in the semifinals once their nerves get to them. The person who irritates the hell out of me but I'll still feel sorry for when they eventually are eliminated because it's not like anyone is a bad person on this show.
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Post by Celebith on Sept 2, 2019 0:48:14 GMT -5
So me and Gf finished watching Letterkenny........
and I started up Schitt's Creek. The first couple of episodes didn't do much for me, although they did establish the characters, but by episode 5, I think, it's really growing on me. It helps that they are starting to flesh out the characters a bit. Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy are always a great pair, and Chris Elliot is probably my long lost cousin. If Letterkenny is my hometown, Schitt's Creek is probably the next town over, with whom we used to alternately fight/party.
Oh, I didn't know Schitt's Creek had SCTV alums. I'm way more interested in watching it now than I was before I read your post.
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Post by Celebith on Sept 2, 2019 0:55:50 GMT -5
Letterkenny finally hit the "I keep hearing about this" point where I watched the first episode, and I got a very strong sense of "I am not the target audience for this show" from it. I'll probably give it another episode or two - I didn't hate it or anything - but it seems to revolve around a certain rural/small town lifestyle that I have basically zero experience with. But Letterkenny surprised me from scene one. Its comedy is more akin to Archer for me, where fast-paced obscenity is unexpectedly interjected with feats of erudition, and what matters is more performance, pacing, and cadence than what's being said. It also has Archer's knack for running gags. I was surprised at how much of the humor is from clever / snappy dialog, and while I enjoyed season 1, I was totally on board after the alliterative alphabetical recap that kicked off season 2. Between the dialog and the callbacks, it seems like a hybrid between Archer and HIMYM.
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Post by Celebith on Sept 2, 2019 1:10:57 GMT -5
We finished Stranger Things S3 over the weekend - really enjoyed it, a lot more cohesive than S2 and I liked Robin a lot.
I admittedly don't watch a lot of TV, but the bathroom scene in episode 6 or 7 (without being too spoilery) was the best thing I've seen this summer. They both sold the vulnerability of their positions, and the resolution was sweet.
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Post by Prole Hole on Sept 2, 2019 3:15:32 GMT -5
Tried watching comedy series Plebs. It's fucking terrible. Next!
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 2, 2019 12:00:47 GMT -5
Tried watching comedy series Plebs. It's fucking terrible. Next! Good theme song, though.
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Post by Angry Raisins on Sept 2, 2019 15:48:04 GMT -5
Mindhunter, S1 and some of S2 - this is a show with apparently enough interesting pieces to keep me watching, but so much doesn't really work for me. Groff's character (all that soft-spoken, wide-eyed fascination feels artificial), his awkward conversations with his similarly not-quite-genuine-feeling girlfriend, the lack of much going on in the central story. Even the basic premise (this is the dawn of discovering useful things about a little-understood type of killer) doesn't really feel well-conveyed: people are apparently already familiar with psychopathy, and "crazy" killers, and those who kill for sexual gratification, and it's not clear (from the show at least, regardless of what may have happened in real life) that the team are actually adding a whole lot of extra insight, let alone helpful insight for actually catching people (as the show itself notes, most of the actual catching, even with the team involved, looks to come down to standard police work).
Feels like the show is leaning hard on the inherent drama of interviewing (well-acted) serial killers (and undue excitement at seeing the term "serial killer" being coined) without adding enough additional value.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 2, 2019 20:30:54 GMT -5
Feels like the show is leaning hard on the inherent drama of interviewing (well-acted) serial killers (and undue excitement at seeing the term "serial killer" being coined) without adding enough additional value. Yup, that's how I feel about it as well. The interview scenes are legitimately compelling, but it drraaaggs everywhere else. True to life, I'm afraid, as it's becoming increasingly clear that criminal profiling doesn't work.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 2, 2019 22:10:44 GMT -5
If Amazon doesn't have a merchandising deal with Hot Topic for Carnival Row, they are fucking idiots.
That's probably not a selling point for a lot of people, but I'm enjoying it so far. Cara Delevigne has I think two expressions, but it's working for this character; the world-building so far is hitting all my buttons, and it's so PRETTY*.
Also just read some reviews, because that's what I do, and jfc, apparently this is hard to understand, but all fantasy is not Game of Thrones, nor does it strive to be. Also just because it's fantasy and is starting to have some mechanations (i'm on ep 3) doesn't mean it's "trying to be the next Game of Thrones". Ugh why are divisions of genre TV/movies so complicated for professional reviewers to understand?
*For values of "pretty" that include Celtic-influenced faerie steampunk, Indira Varma, centaurs, various and sundry fae species, wing'ed creatures, and lovely costumage
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Post by LazBro on Sept 3, 2019 8:38:25 GMT -5
Lucifer was supposed to end after S3.E24 right? Like, the show was cancelled, everybody thought this was it.
Of course I can't really put myself in those shoes now knowing that it goes on, but I think I would be pretty disappointed in that ending. We finally get to "the thing" and then ... it's over. Like immediately over.
Don't get me wrong, it's a hell of a season finale, but it'd be a real bummer of a series finale.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 3, 2019 12:25:29 GMT -5
We got to the end of S1 of Mindhunter last night and I have a few thoughts that are unrelated to serial killers re Holden/Debbie: so my read is that she really just wanted to have an honest discussion about how he'd been acting/treating her, and was feeling kind of defensive or like it might turn into a fight, but he had to go be all Sherlocky and cut right to what he thought was the end result. And given what an arrogant jerk he'd been - and the fact that I never really thought they were right for each other anyway - it wasn't a bad conclusion. But I don't think that was necessarily her intention.
That said he's still being an arrogant jerk and holy crap the scene in the hospital room had me very tense.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 3, 2019 14:31:05 GMT -5
Tried watching comedy series Plebs. It's fucking terrible. Next! Good theme song, though. Much like the television show Cowboy Beepbop.
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Post by chalkdevil π on Sept 3, 2019 15:36:19 GMT -5
We're about halfway through The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and it's mindblowing. I liked the movie, despite its many, many flaws, but this is a few levels above it. The breathing room the series gives to the story make it feel like a full-blown epic in a way the movie didn't quite manage. The worldbuilding and the characterization and everything else just elevates the material beyond what the movie was capable of doing. Seconding the The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance love. I'd say if you've never seen the original film then it might be worth skipping it and watching the series first since it's a prequel.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 3, 2019 20:46:50 GMT -5
We're about halfway through The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and it's mindblowing. I liked the movie, despite its many, many flaws, but this is a few levels above it. The breathing room the series gives to the story make it feel like a full-blown epic in a way the movie didn't quite manage. The worldbuilding and the characterization and everything else just elevates the material beyond what the movie was capable of doing. Seconding the The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance love. I'd say if you've never seen the original film then it might be worth skipping it and watching the series first since it's a prequel. I'm liking it a lot. And not to get too analytical on a forum that spun-off of a website that analyzes pop culture, but so far I feel like the show has a strong message for our current political and environmental climate.
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Post by Hippo on Sept 4, 2019 2:50:48 GMT -5
Much like the television show Cowboy Beepbop. Cowboy Bebop is terrible? Well now, you know wars have been started on less.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 5, 2019 1:01:54 GMT -5
Much like the television show Cowboy Beepbop. Cowboy Bebop is terrible? Well now, you know wars have been started on less. There was a war near where I grew up over some pig eating some other dude's potatoes.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 5, 2019 8:13:32 GMT -5
Cowboy Bebop is terrible? Well now, you know wars have been started on less. There was a war near where I grew up over some pig eating some other dude's potatoes. Ah, yes, literally the only thing anyone remembers from the mandatory Washington State history class.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 5, 2019 19:17:00 GMT -5
There was a war near where I grew up over some pig eating some other dude's potatoes. Ah, yes, literally the only thing anyone remembers from the mandatory Washington State history class. It would make a great BBC/CBC co-production! They could even make it funny since it is such a dumb story to begin with and only got dumber. Also, a ton of important people were there just hanging out. For example, the dude who wrote Robert's Rules of Order was stationed there. It would have been great to have a few throwaway lines of him muttering about things being disorganized. "This is no way to run a meeting" "Oh, Robert with his rules!" Some of us also remember learning that Washington didn't have laws to keep out black people, which makes us better then Oregon. For some reason, Oregonians get offended when you remind them of that.
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