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jimmy olsen

Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:52:16 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:47:00 PM
The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

ATLA starts with Genocide :contract:
You don't actually see the Genocide though.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Viking

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:51:06 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 11:50:22 AM

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2013, 10:50:16 PM
Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

I've seen it now. And... Holy Shit. They spent all season lulling me into a false sense of expecting mediocrity and then they blow their entire load on the Avatar Wan episode and the Feature Film length Final. It feels like the lull of ATLA season 3 waiting for Sozin's Comet. Just without the character development. TBH, I don't really like Korra as a person and I think she is naively stupid. Then again, I never really liked Aang either, but he was naively principled.
She was hailed as the messiah at the age of three and then home schooled elemental kung fu in a religious compound in rural Antarctica until she was 17 before she left for the big city. Naively stupid is a rather realistic result.

Look, if there was any sign at all that he first and only plan wasn't to charge in without thinking then I'd accept that there was some character growth. Aang was trying to succeed without sacrificing his (silly) principles. Korra is just trying to succeed without using her brain.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Viking

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:56:19 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:52:16 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:47:00 PM
The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

ATLA starts with Genocide :contract:
You don't actually see the Genocide though.

We don't actually see the Murder-Suicide either. We see the aftermath of both though.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:56:19 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:52:16 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:47:00 PM
The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

ATLA starts with Genocide :contract:
You don't actually see the Genocide though.

We don't actually see the Murder-Suicide either. We see the aftermath of both though.
The camera zooms out at the last minute, but we see the explosion.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:56:36 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:51:06 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 11:50:22 AM

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2013, 10:50:16 PM
Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

I've seen it now. And... Holy Shit. They spent all season lulling me into a false sense of expecting mediocrity and then they blow their entire load on the Avatar Wan episode and the Feature Film length Final. It feels like the lull of ATLA season 3 waiting for Sozin's Comet. Just without the character development. TBH, I don't really like Korra as a person and I think she is naively stupid. Then again, I never really liked Aang either, but he was naively principled.
She was hailed as the messiah at the age of three and then home schooled elemental kung fu in a religious compound in rural Antarctica until she was 17 before she left for the big city. Naively stupid is a rather realistic result.

Look, if there was any sign at all that her first and only plan wasn't to charge in without thinking then I'd accept that there was some character growth. Aang was trying to succeed without sacrificing his (silly) principles. Korra is just trying to succeed without using her brain.
After meeting Iroh in the spirit world she consistently makes good decisions, expect perhaps for the one to leave the spirit portals open at the end. We'll have to see how that turns out.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Eddie Teach

I hope you're happy with what you started, Malthus.  :rolleyes:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Viking

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:59:48 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:56:19 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 22, 2013, 06:52:16 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 22, 2013, 06:47:00 PM
The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

ATLA starts with Genocide :contract:
You don't actually see the Genocide though.

We don't actually see the Murder-Suicide either. We see the aftermath of both though.
The camera zooms out at the last minute, but we see the explosion.

We do see the corpses

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Viking

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 22, 2013, 07:12:09 PM
I hope you're happy with what you started, Malthus.  :rolleyes:

1. It's not anime
2. It's actually quite good
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

jimmy olsen

100 year old skeletons don't count.  :P
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

Viking

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

jimmy olsen

That was an immediate cut from the dude lighting the spark.

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

Neil

I'm looking forward to Ide's hate-filled diatribe about the new Hunger Games movie.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ideologue

I working on it.  Am about halfway through writing about The Counselor, which the more I think about the more I love and the more I hate the critical community at large for being jackasses that have, with the sole and obvious exceptions of Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, consistently turned up their noses at the year's best films.  I bet that French lesbo porno ain't as good as it's been made out to be either.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ed Anger

Wait, french lesbian porno?

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

garbon

Blue Is the Warmest Color?

All I know is bitch stole my hair color. :mad:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.