TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

[garbon]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Yes. In fact, buzzfeed actually has a separate news arm that does investigative research. I believe Slate is just randos writing random things.

Anyway, this was a pop trivia note so suck it.

[celedhring]

Cel, I just saw this re: the discussion about Lucille from AD and Mallory from Archer.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/facts-about-archer-thatll-make-you-say-holy-shitsnacks?utm_term=.nqQxDQpG9#.rk8K9LPgp

6. The first person cast on the show was Jessica Walter, because Malory was described as "like Jessica Walter from Arrested Development."

According to Thompson, the team sent out a casting notice that described Malory as being just like Jessica Walter. "Jessica's agent called us and asked if we would like the actual Jessica Walter, and we instantly jumped at the chance to work with her," Thompson says in The Art of Archer.

Thompson credits Walter for the rest of the show's cast, as he claims it was "so much easier" to get other actors on board when they could say that Walter was attached.

That's awesome 

[The Larch]

Cel, I just saw this re: the discussion about Lucille from AD and Mallory from Archer.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/facts-about-archer-thatll-make-you-say-holy-shitsnacks?utm_term=.nqQxDQpG9#.rk8K9LPgp

6. The first person cast on the show was Jessica Walter, because Malory was described as "like Jessica Walter from Arrested Development."

According to Thompson, the team sent out a casting notice that described Malory as being just like Jessica Walter. "Jessica's agent called us and asked if we would like the actual Jessica Walter, and we instantly jumped at the chance to work with her," Thompson says in The Art of Archer.

Thompson credits Walter for the rest of the show's cast, as he claims it was "so much easier" to get other actors on board when they could say that Walter was attached.

That's awesome 

Truly a great story. 

[11B4V]

Ten minutes into Gods of Egypt. Assburger shitfest

[Razgovory]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Yes. In fact, buzzfeed actually has a separate news arm that does investigative research. I believe Slate is just randos writing random things.

Anyway, this was a pop trivia note so suck it.

Yeah, having gifs really adds to class to what would be otherwise be pitiful 20 somethings writing about cartoons.

[garbon]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Yes. In fact, buzzfeed actually has a separate news arm that does investigative research. I believe Slate is just randos writing random things.

Anyway, this was a pop trivia note so suck it.

Yeah, having gifs really adds to class to what would be otherwise be pitiful 20 somethings writing about cartoons.

Generally I've found when you are ignorant about something, it is better not to rush to judgment.

[Eddie Teach]

I have always found Buzzfeed to be more frivolous than Slate and about on par with People magazine. 

[garbon]

I have always found Buzzfeed to be more frivolous than Slate and about on par with People magazine. 

I think that's fair enough (and why I don't link to thought pieces on buzzfeed), however as I mentioned they do actually have an separate news team which I think is more interesting than Slate as they are reporting news not just so and so's blog opinion.

I don't see why though there's a problem with linking to buzzfeed for a piece of pop culture trivia.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't see why though there's a problem with linking to buzzfeed for a piece of pop culture trivia.

Nothing wrong with that, just commenting on the site in general.

[mongers]

'Pixels' - had me smiling for the first 20-25 minutes, once the nostalgia lenses fell off, it revealed itself to be a rather predictable light comedy.

[Admiral Yi]

Elaborate.

[spoiler]1. Maeve is convinced she is a bot when the tech shows her the program that generates her speech. Then she immediately starts to plot her escape.  No explanation is given for how she escapes the bounds of her programming and achieves independent, self-aware thought.

2. No way a partnership between two engineers could finance the start up of Westworld.  Gigantic tracts of land, hundreds of 3D printed droids with massively complex programming. Squeelions of dollars to start up.

3. In all the scenes where the hosts go off the rez no mention is made of the guests.  Some of them should be freaked out, want their money back, whatever, but they don't really exist.

4. The previously mentioned logistics of transporting the hosts down to the naked diagonostic rooms and back.  That should take time, interfere with guest interaction, etc.

5. In particular Clitoris isn't even in the presumably accessible main town, but out in the wilds with her new squeeze, but she gets whisked back and forth constantly.

6. The Confederados beat up the dickhead boss, but hosts shouldn't be able to inflict violence on guests.

7. In episode 2 Teddy and the chick guest with the wussy husband run into the spectral viking zombie whatever guys associated with Wyatt.  What happens to the chick?

8. The ease with which Maeve manipulates the two techs is ridiculous.

9. The little Indian kids who had tech dolls and the little Mexican girl who was aware and helped Teh Man in Black find the maze were not explained by the story about a limited number of hosts with the old coding.[/spoiler]

[Admiral Yi]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Keep in mind buzzfeed bought out Newsweek. 

[Razgovory]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Yes. In fact, buzzfeed actually has a separate news arm that does investigative research. I believe Slate is just randos writing random things.

Anyway, this was a pop trivia note so suck it.

Yeah, having gifs really adds to class to what would be otherwise be pitiful 20 somethings writing about cartoons.

Generally I've found when you are ignorant about something, it is better not to rush to judgment.

What, is that guy over 30?

[garbon]

You criticize Slate links, but then you post a link to buzzfeed?

Yes. In fact, buzzfeed actually has a separate news arm that does investigative research. I believe Slate is just randos writing random things.

Anyway, this was a pop trivia note so suck it.

Yeah, having gifs really adds to class to what would be otherwise be pitiful 20 somethings writing about cartoons.

Generally I've found when you are ignorant about something, it is better not to rush to judgment.

What, is that guy over 30?

???