Let's make a thread to discuss, review and analyze tv shows. Everybody is binging something these days.
Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.
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>>37564>>37566>progressively stupider as it goes on.>can't bring myself to give a fuck after s3 tbhOh no, I'm not there yet. That sucks.
>disappointingly lack of any commies as characters or discussion of the larger world >Previous seasons had anti-communist and jingoist elements, but they seem to have turned it up a notch. I wonder if people complained they were to generous to the Soviets.It's an American show, what can you expect? I thought them framing the first season around the commies forcing them to do gender equality was better than you could probably hope for. Sucks to hear it gets worse. I didn't read your spoilers.
>>37856I've just finished reading The Boys and I think I have to disagree. Sometimes it detours into how fucked up or silly the kinds of superhero conventions we see in comics would be irl, but the overarching theme of corporate evil and its effects are there pretty much from beginning to end.
After reading through Preacher, Boys, and Punisher Max, I think his works from 95 to 2012 have several themes that he doesn't really stray too far from
1. America the place and America the concept
1.a) 9-11
2. Corporate Evil and its related corruption
3. Vietnam/American Militarism
4. Atheism/Hypocritical spirituality
5. The hollowness of Machismo
9-11 seems to have REALLY done a number on him, but it's hard to tell how much of that is unique to him and how much is just the culture at the time.
>>38967>the one about magnification and about any type of sane transportThe way the Silos are designed is basically a gigantic social experiment. The lack of elevators is to underline the class divisions between the sections due to the lack of accessibility. Someone from the top level has to visibly walk down like a rich person visiting the working class (engineers).
The magnifying thing is pretty obvious? It's so they don't detect their shitty photoshop. Even though the image is true in substance, it's still faked to a certain degree. It's like double faked so people clean but it's still a big stinking lie.
In season two you'll see the origin of the Silos which started off as a preventive measure for an apocalypse by the US government but in typical American fashion they already have tons of social engineering in mind, and then after 100 years it evolved it's own dynamic but the American politicians who created this are still in full control >>37810it's just fiction
the drama would be completely different if you had to factor in some real world stuff like almost complete lack of public healthcare in the US
>>37810You are right but people don't rail against "docaganda" like they do copaganda because doctors aren't shooting unarmed teenagers. They do still fuck up a
lot though, and there's plenty to shit on about hostpitals. If anything the doctor shows are less problematic for gassing up doctors and more for ignoring the whole lack of free healthcare aspect of the system. Sometimes this shows up in the stories, but it's rare.
>>31147i really want to watch this crap but i don't know if i want to spend my time actually doing it
someone give me a run down on the story
>>39177"Reality is unrealistic" is part of it, but a lot of it is just budget. Most productions use shared resources. There are companies that make costumes for like Roman pieces or WW2 pieces. Some errors are just common because it's the same work. Some errors are because people copied someone else's work and copied the errors. Some of it is intentionally doing what audiences expect to avoid people complaining that it's not how they think it should be.
Your specific example is a safety issue though. You are not going to get TV production insurance to sign off on getting a phalanx of extra wielding those huge sticks. Even prop versions of spears that size are still going to be dangerous if you clothesline someone with it. They typically use rubber weapons for shots where you don't need to see it solidly take or give hits. You can't make a rubber spear that long without it bending under its own weight.
Just finished Twin Peaks Season 3, I honestly hated it, I didn't really see anything redeeming about it, apparently critics and audiences loved it though so I don't know.
Too lazy to write my own thoughts so I'll just say I agree with everything judasbooth says in this page
https://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3544&start=2145>>40961also tv is a cyclical medium
there's no clear beginning-middle-end besides the one within each episode, unless it's a miniseries or a pretentious prestige series
i get they probably decided tv was the best format since the books are a bit dense and tv allows for more total runtime than feature films, but yeah it was a bad calculation in the end, i think
>>41046finished 4th season and my opinion has flipped
getting kind of tired of gus fring and cartel shenanigans, and saul's personal development is picking up again after constant depressing nothing arcs
Rediscovered Embed rel recently and had a real laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOOItZ0-lB0 >THE BEST OF: Spike (humor) I need to rewatch Buffy.
>>41046im at s2-3
i hate him too, can't wait for the inveitable scene that i heard about him
i heard about the ending too, hate it, seems libby to me
>>41411i just saw buffy eps in New Mutants (2019) made me laugh
the lesbian kissing one and the silent creepy gentlemen
>>41470>And what was that another show where literal kids interviewed adults, asking them shit like "will you survive the revolution?"Like
>>41471 said, although the interview segments were called "Beat Kids" so that half-counts.
>>3012I finally finished watching Schitt's Creek. I could've swear that show finished after the pandemic
Well, the thread's about to be over too :)
What a bombulating experience
>>41476Wow. How did they train these kids to say that stuff
Was the entire show just kids
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