a fucking insane amount of TV shows are set in Manhattan
which ok, it's a very interesting place to set a show
but i wouldn't say there has ever been a shortage of shows/films set there, it feels like half the movies ever made are set there, i cant count the number of times ive seen something wreck the empire state building
They film on my street a lot
"BEAST!"'s building is Oscorp in the new Spooderman movies, they just CG'd some forbidding black tower over the Hearst building
In the first Spooderman, when Peter Parker gets out of the subway and goes WHOA, LOOK AT THAT BUILDING, you can see the reflection of the Hearst Tower in the building behind him
v funny such oversight
my building is the evil science company's headquarters in Fringe.
It's also where Daddy Warbucks works in the new Annie movie.
a fucking insane amount of TV shows are set in Manhattan
which ok, it's a very interesting place to set a show
but i wouldn't say there has ever been a shortage of shows/films set there, it feels like half the movies ever made are set there, i cant count the number of times ive seen something wreck the empire state building
They film on my street a lot
"BEAST!"'s building is Oscorp in the new Spooderman movies, they just CG'd some forbidding black tower over the Hearst building
In the first Spooderman, when Peter Parker gets out of the subway and goes WHOA, LOOK AT THAT BUILDING, you can see the reflection of the Hearst Tower in the building behind him
v funny such oversight
my building is the evil science company's headquarters in Fringe.
It's also where Daddy Warbucks works in the new Annie movie.
Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
i hold a really unfair bias against shows like dr who, firefly and buffy that are beloved by 15 year old american girls who love the united kingdom and livejournal
I don't understand why networks time and again invest in expensive high-concept shows without ensuring their format is one that will promote quality.
"Cop Show in Space/The Future/The Old West/Atlantis" is about the laziest thing you can pitch.
Cop show in NYC
Not really the same thing. I was talking about high-concept shows.
Though I do agree that "cop show" is pretty lazy, but oddly prolific. People love TV cops.
The Wire is the only cop show anybody needs.
Cindy has two missions in life
1) get everyone taking estrogen
2) get everyone watching the wire
not necessarily in that order
I don't think cis ladies really need to be taking estrogen.
fair enough
but you cannot deny in your ideal world we are all sitting down watching the wire with magnificent boobs
It's just so beautiful.
Sniff
i am the only impediment to this grand plan having done neither
I'm coming to Europe next year. This will be fixed
i'm almost scared to ask which one
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I always find it interesting to look at shows that have kinda come and gone and look at why their version of the formula (Cop Procedural, Buddy roomates, wacky family, etc) stood out from all the others. I mean its not like all the shows had such vastly different themes, but they still got wildly popular.
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Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
Nope that won't end with a depressing twist ending at all. A retro indie game would never do that.
it is fanneh to me that this is the first thing u jump 2
Because media is never about overcoming the odds and adversity anymore. It's so god damned grim dark
There can't just be heros. People can't just defy fate and death and say "fuck you. Everybody lives."
It's always a god damned message about how the world is shit and life is shit and everything is shit.
I can get this.
There is a general disdain for happy endings these days. I think that our culture just isn't interested in them right now.
The trick is that it's hard to do people who are heroes the way that you want and yet still give them complex motivations. Or rather, it looks really hard to TV execs.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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i hold a really unfair bias against shows like dr who, firefly and buffy that are beloved by 15 year old american girls who love the united kingdom and livejournal
i hold a really unfair bias against shows like dr who, firefly and buffy that are beloved by 15 year old american girls who love the united kingdom and livejournal
The Firefly fandom is insufferable. No, it's not coming back. No, it would not be any good even if it were brought back. Tough shit.
i hold a really unfair bias against shows like dr who, firefly and buffy that are beloved by 15 year old american girls who love the united kingdom and livejournal
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If anyone comes swinging at Firefly with tropes criticisms I swear to god I will come after you
I'm feral like a beast
EDIT: Sorry, I'm @Feral like a @BEAST!
because I fucking can
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why's everything gotta be so optimistic
I can vouch for this.
my building is the evil science company's headquarters in Fringe.
It's also where Daddy Warbucks works in the new Annie movie.
fair enough
but you cannot deny in your ideal world we are all sitting down watching the wire with magnificent boobs
when i realized that was what Almost Human was going to be, I bailed
But it wasn't a weekly police procedural in space.
um is there not estrogen in my birth control pills
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but then i am the president
I fail at social networks.
Or maybe I succeed.
I don't even know
It's just so beautiful.
Sniff
Because media is never about overcoming the odds and adversity anymore. It's so god damned grim dark
There can't just be heros. People can't just defy fate and death and say "fuck you. Everybody lives."
It's always a god damned message about how the world is shit and life is shit and everything is shit.
I didn't know you worked at Massive Dynamic
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Wild West Scifi is a pretty common trope. Firefly is just the most overt about it. A lot of scifi shows borrow thematically from westerns. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were very western, they just lacked Nathan Fillion in a duster.
Plus there was that Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones movie.
The show you're talking about is The Walking Dead.
i am the only impediment to this grand plan having done neither
Touché
Also menopause now that I think about it.
THE FUCK DID I JUST SAY SOLO
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Lasercats?
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pass
It's not a criticism!
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I'm coming to Europe next year. This will be fixed
I could solve this murder...but I choose to play with this bottle cap instead.
Oh and I already know who did it it was me, I killed the victim
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except for like
almost every single procedural show on tv or any blockbuster film or any young adult fiction or
i dunno man i think ur extrapolating from just a very small number of well-received shows
we are literally living in the golden age of superhero films and a revivification of both star trek and star wars
there is SHIT LOADS of heroic media out there
i'm almost scared to ask which one
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ok u get a pass just dis once
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I can get this.
There is a general disdain for happy endings these days. I think that our culture just isn't interested in them right now.
The trick is that it's hard to do people who are heroes the way that you want and yet still give them complex motivations. Or rather, it looks really hard to TV execs.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
The Firefly fandom is insufferable. No, it's not coming back. No, it would not be any good even if it were brought back. Tough shit.
That doesn't mean the show itself is bad, though.
can you stop Ludiousing about
please
it's too early in the day for your brand of pointless, argumentless cynicism
'cism