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Idle Thumbs has made it very difficult to take Jurassic Park seriously.

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Just watched Hot Girls Wanted and I'm really fucking sad now.

 

I might have real thoughts to post in the morning. For the moment I'll just say it's well made, if pretty one track.

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Rowan Kaiser of 3MA fame is reviewing the show episode by episode on the av club here and it worth checking out as is the comment section where someome made a very good point about how alot of the relationship between the 8 and the people they know feels real in a way long term friendships/ relationships should and is done so with very little screen time in the first couple episodes.

 

Also if  you don't already you should read the av club tv reviews and it's comment section cause they are pretty good. 

 

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AV Club comments are pretty scattershot these days. The TV Club regulars are usually pretty good though, same with the gameological regulars.

 

I've been watching Steven Universe and goodness it's adorable. I don't love it like I do Adventure Time, but I'm only a few episodes in. AT feels like it was made for me, while SU skews younger and has more of an anime-ish influnce in terms of being about a super team that protects a village/the world. The art and music are lovely as heck. The piano theme is just wonderful.

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Steven Universe takes a while to build some mythos, but it gets very good, and it develops the characters and relationships a lot more than simple super-team with goof-ball concept would indicate.

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Has anyone else been watching Outlander? It's a show I'm surprised does not have more internet buzz: a high concept period piece, run by Ronald "Battlestar Galactica" Moore and Diana Gabaldon, the author of the series of novels it's based on.

It's set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1750's against the backdrop of the Jacobite rebellion (topical!).

It has a female main character and a decidedly female perspective and gaze.

I would have thought it would be more notable. Any one of the above points should have at least warranted an FPP on Metafilter. It seems weird that I don't think I would have even heard of it if my wife, a fan of the books (she describes them as being as to romance novels as what Game of Thrones is to Dragonlance novels), hadn't heard about it from her friend, another fan of the books.

Maybe I've just been looking at the wrong internet.

 

I just watched the first episode and it was really slow and rather daft. Have you been watching it, Reyturner?

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AV Club comments are pretty scattershot these days. The TV Club regulars are usually pretty good though, same with the gameological regulars.

 

I've been watching Steven Universe and goodness it's adorable. I don't love it like I do Adventure Time, but I'm only a few episodes in. AT feels like it was made for me, while SU skews younger and has more of an anime-ish influnce in terms of being about a super team that protects a village/the world. The art and music are lovely as heck. The piano theme is just wonderful.

 

Keep with it. Steven Universe has long since eclipsed Adventure Time in terms of my enjoyment of each.

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I was also not enjoying this season as much, and I think Ben and Reyturner are helping me understand why. I totally agree with Ben about the pacing, and Reyturner mentioning that the artifice is showing is spot on.

In this season it seems like every character who had a goal or a plan or something had it shut down. Sansa's "friends in the north" are killed, Jon is attacked by zombies and then stabbed, Stannis goes out with a whimper. I'm sitting there waiting for the moment that character's plan is going to go awry, the show has taught me to always expect the worse, and it's just not interesting when all the characters fates are so sealed.

Also, man, I dislike Ramsay Bolton. Obviously I'm supposed to, but his character is flat, and he feels to me solely like a vehicle to deliver the audience torture porn.

 

Ramsay Bolton is mostly responsible for me souring on the show.  I've still watched it, but the focus they chose to give his character steadily eroded at my enthusiasm for it.  And I get that they needed him in a way they didn't need some other, more interesting characters, but still, there's just nothing interesting there at all. 

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Anyone here watch WWE NXT?

 

Started watching it last month and liking it so far. I think the last time I actually watched WWE was probably 2003/4 and between listening to the Bombcast, a friend of mine and the woman who started reviewing NXT on the av club NXT is meant to be a lot better than the 3 hour endurance test that is RAW these days (3 hours a week seems like utter madness to me). Kinda weird but also very cool to see two Irish wrestlers as top cards in the NXT. I am going to miss Kevin Owens when he goes to RAW for good though, such a good heel.

 

Also started re-watching community and I had forgotten how heavily the Jeff-Britta romance was featured, I had mostly forgotten about it since originally seeing it.

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I took my daughter to see Inside Out and it was absolutely incredible. Definitely one of Pixar's finest films.

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I took my daughter to see Inside Out and it was absolutely incredible. Definitely one of Pixar's finest films.

 

Agreed, except for the part about taking Zeus' daughter. Their last few films have been wobbly but this one is really good. I don't think I enjoyed some of the visual metaphors as much as some of the reviewers, but the movie's got a lot more going on than that. I particularly enjoyed Lewis Black's side-plot, which is not something I expected.

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Zeus, would a 4 year old enjoy it? (Not sure how old your kid is).

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Zeus, would a 4 year old enjoy it? (Not sure how old your kid is).

My daughter's 6 and she really liked it but I don't think she fully understood everything that was going on. I feel like this is one that has a lot more to offer to adults. It's definitely fun for the kids but there's no way they're gonna grasp some of what's going on.

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Anyone here watch WWE NXT?

 

Started watching it last month and liking it so far. I think the last time I actually watched WWE was probably 2003/4 and between listening to the Bombcast, a friend of mine and the woman who started reviewing NXT on the av club NXT is meant to be a lot better than the 3 hour endurance test that is RAW these days (3 hours a week seems like utter madness to me). Kinda weird but also very cool to see two Irish wrestlers as top cards in the NXT. I am going to miss Kevin Owens when he goes to RAW for good though, such a good heel.

 

I don't have cable so the only WWE I get is NXT and monthly pay-per-views.  Probably a slightly weird way to consume the "sport" but NXT is extremely well put together and at one hour a week is just the right size.  They had a show here locally the day Dusty Rhodes passed away and it was really great.  A tribute in every match.

 

And man Finn is great but I hope they do more to develop his character or put him into a stable like the Bullet Club if they don't want to put him on the mic much.

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I don't have cable so the only WWE I get is NXT and monthly pay-per-views.  Probably a slightly weird way to consume the "sport" but NXT is extremely well put together and at one hour a week is just the right size.  They had a show here locally the day Dusty Rhodes passed away and it was really great.  A tribute in every match.

 

And man Finn is great but I hope they do more to develop his character or put him into a stable like the Bullet Club if they don't want to put him on the mic much.

 

It only being an hour is part of why I like it. My friend whose account I use said it mostly down to Triple H running it and wanting to make WWE Ring of Honour. I didn't even know who Dusty Rhodes was but I did tear up when his son's were presenting him with a hall of fame award.

 

 

Is Finn bad on the mic and what are their shows like in person?

 

Also just watched the Rise and Fall of ECW and so wrestlers I remember from the  WWE Attitude era were in it with Stone Cold having hair looking so weird to me.

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I wouldn't say he's bad on the mic but guys like Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are still on the NXT roster and have incredible mic skills.  By comparison they make his deficiencies much more obvious.  But I don't know how much time he's had cutting WWE style promos in New Japan.  He'll get better or if they need to promote him to the main roster extremely soon they can give him a solid manager for a little while or keep him off the mic.  Theoretically he could just play a relatively straight forward good guy but it would be nice for him to expand a bit on the whole "demon" aspect of his character.  No matter what, he's got the entrance, look, and moves of a guy who should be wrestling in next year's Wrestlemania so I wouldn't be too concerned.

 

The show was really great.  It sold out within the first few days of tickets being available and the crowd was pretty hot for the whole night.  Pretty much 3 hours of what my ideal wrestling show would be.  Maestros on the mic Big Cass and Enzo talked for a bit, you get some solid lower card matches, there were two great women's matches, and the main event was an insane indie-style spot fest.  I would heartily recommend it if you have a chance.  The venue wasn't perfect for a wrestling event but we paid for great seats so it wound up being alright.  I'm sure they'll expand their touring but it seems like they are still in the process of figuring out how popular NXT is.

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where indeed, coods

 

where indeed

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:tup: It looks even more ludicruous, continuing their downward spiral that began in series 1.

 

I look forward to this.

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Honestly it doesn't have that fucking cheerleader so I'll watch it. Until she shows up. Then I'll bail. Or I'll bail sooner. Who knows.

 

The last few episodes of the original series were kind of hilariously over the top and great.

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I have a Nathan Petrelli campaign mug and that is probably one of the few cool things I can remember about Heroes, I prefer to forget any seasons happened after 1.

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