Like I use to be one of those people who, when a story like that would come up would join in the chorus of screaming CHEATING WHORE!
Now though, when it happens and it is clear the person being cheated on is just perpetuating it I wonder if the cheating party was not at least partly justified.
God one of the funniest things Cass would do before we moved in together was to call me up on the phone in a quivering, scared voice to tell me her cat was staring at her
"Aaron? Help!"
"Hey, what's going on?"
"I'm being stalked..."
"By who?!"
"An enormous baby!"
It was entertaining every time to play along but I find we don't make the joke much anymore since Wrigley's not an especially menacing baby
is that
is that funny
or really disconcerting
hmmmmmmmm
Scheck.
You are being stalked by an enormous baby.
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
Like I use to be one of those people who, when a story like that would come up would join in the chorus of screaming CHEATING WHORE!
Now though, when it happens and it is clear the person being cheated on is just perpetuating it I wonder if the cheating party was not at least partly justified.
seems irrelevant, at least to everyone but the two of them
I don't think the cast knew about all the twists in the last third of the show when they started, so
Ward's personality vacuum is less a matter of diabolical planning than the character being kinda boring.
Could be wrong, though. I think if you're going to slow burn you need to make all the weekly stuff that's happening pick up the slack and be top-notch, and I think AoS failed in that regard for two thirds of its run. It's nowhere near as shaky as, say, the first couple of seasons of TNG or the first season of B5.
Agents of SHIELD picks up immensely in the last third of the series, but it is frequently iffy before that. You can see the season long arc once it's all done and understand why some things had to be kept entirely under wraps, but it doesn't make some of the boring episodes any more palatable.
It ends up being a really good show, but it was a bit of a rocky road getting there. By the end the characters are almost all interesting and have shown some range, but up until about halfway through the show I wouldn't have cared much if everyone bar Coulson and May was thrown into a wood chipper.
That sounds like a big investment to get to the quality.
I can see where Bogart is coming from but I disagree with his assessment. I enjoyed the early parts of Agents much more than the general population. It is a slow burner but it is deliberately a slow burner and there is lots of little details going on. They made full use of the extended televisual format to tell a long form story and play with audience expectations. For example, one character in particular, Ward, is considered an incredibly boring personality vacuum. Over the first few epsiodes there was massive levels of complaints about how boring he was, and then there's an episode about Ward and how the rest of the team think he's and incredibly boring personality vacuum.
That's clever. That's good.
And the thematic development of the season is a delight, it is beautifully paced.
Most of what bothered me when I tried to watch it was that something felt so hokey and I dunno, twee? Like Skye's character in general and the dumb joke that the two scientist interns names are Fitz and Simmons
I feel like even if the show in general gets good the pace of the show wasn't really my issue with it so much as it just seemed way too different in tone than what I expected or wanted
in another age his secretary would apologetically tell the press that Mr. Fish has had a nervous breakdown and has gone for a retreat, but this is the age of twitter so one gets to disintegrate in public
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Witless Manchildren is the next impossibly good looking British actor who will take the world by storm.
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I don't think the cast knew about all the twists in the last third of the show when they started, so
Ward's personality vacuum is less a matter of diabolical planning than the character being kinda boring.
Could be wrong, though. I think if you're going to slow burn you need to make all the weekly stuff that's happening pick up the slack and be top-notch, and I think AoS failed in that regard for two thirds of its run. It's nowhere near as shaky as, say, the first couple of seasons of TNG or the first season of B5.
I'm four episodes in and it seems like perfectly watchable episodic television
there's certainly a lot of formula. we learn a bit of backstory about a character and then within five minutes that bit of backstory becomes crucial to the plot. a couple of people have a conflict, and then at the end of the show, they sit in the car and exchange banter that shows they have resolved the conflict. sometimes there is a little sting in the tail to hint at something ominous for later.
but the plots are reasonably clever sci-fi twists on action show/secret agent standards and the actors are getting to show a bit more of their range.
people were talking like this was the antichrist and really it's just kind of old-fashioned at first. in 1999 this would have been riveting television. if it gets better, I'm sure I'll be quite satisfied.
people were talking like this was the antichrist and really it's just kind of old-fashioned at first. in 1999 this would have been riveting television. if it gets better, I'm sure I'll be quite satisfied.
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GUESS WE ARENT ALL OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN 1999 U FAK
I just work for a company that blithely assumes everything has to happen in London
I went to a.meeting last week (in London) where none of the attendees were based anywhere south of Birmingham. Couldn't get a meeting room, apparently, so instead shipped six people to the other end of the country
I do have to be back in London for 9am in a couple of weeks, and I bet they make me get the six am train, the shits.
people were talking like this was the antichrist and really it's just kind of old-fashioned at first. in 1999 this would have been riveting television. if it gets better, I'm sure I'll be quite satisfied.
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Also I have actually, after a long series of delays, started to catch up with The Honourable Woman on the iPlayer. I think I have to watch the entire series in the next ten days before it disappears. It's pretty great, and Maggie Gyllenhall's English accent is very good indeed.
My expectations for Agent Carter are unreasonably high.
I'm expecting at least five scenes where they go "we invented this incredibly high-tech gadget" and then they pull out a fridge-sized version of something already seen in Agents of SHIELD that fits in your palm.
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games aren't any different than anything else, Phil Fish just made the poor decision of engaging with random idiots
you'll find people spewing verbal diarrhea on every subject imaginable on the internet
I bet you if I looked for five minutes I could find the textual equivalent of a prolapsed anus re: RECENT POPULAR MOVIE
Yeah this is pretty much exactly it for me
Scheck.
You are being stalked by an enormous baby.
seems irrelevant, at least to everyone but the two of them
Could be wrong, though. I think if you're going to slow burn you need to make all the weekly stuff that's happening pick up the slack and be top-notch, and I think AoS failed in that regard for two thirds of its run. It's nowhere near as shaky as, say, the first couple of seasons of TNG or the first season of B5.
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Most of what bothered me when I tried to watch it was that something felt so hokey and I dunno, twee? Like Skye's character in general and the dumb joke that the two scientist interns names are Fitz and Simmons
I feel like even if the show in general gets good the pace of the show wasn't really my issue with it so much as it just seemed way too different in tone than what I expected or wanted
He didn't so much chew the scenery as open his gaping maw to reveal an industrial wood chipper.
you can't invent treeball i already invented it and am world champion
Welp. Shutting it down.
is he mad about anything in particular or just kind of firehosing his spleen everywhere
I think more critical thinking about videogames is a good thing, but this sort of thing is not that and moreover strikes me as crass
but all that was in response to the quinn stuff posted above
It's Monday in my heart.
play the game
in another age his secretary would apologetically tell the press that Mr. Fish has had a nervous breakdown and has gone for a retreat, but this is the age of twitter so one gets to disintegrate in public
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It's raining and there are lots of German flags. I'm not sure why there has been a post World Cup outburst of flags.
I'm four episodes in and it seems like perfectly watchable episodic television
there's certainly a lot of formula. we learn a bit of backstory about a character and then within five minutes that bit of backstory becomes crucial to the plot. a couple of people have a conflict, and then at the end of the show, they sit in the car and exchange banter that shows they have resolved the conflict. sometimes there is a little sting in the tail to hint at something ominous for later.
but the plots are reasonably clever sci-fi twists on action show/secret agent standards and the actors are getting to show a bit more of their range.
people were talking like this was the antichrist and really it's just kind of old-fashioned at first. in 1999 this would have been riveting television. if it gets better, I'm sure I'll be quite satisfied.
Which one?
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u no the one bby
no but srsly wat consolez and gam do u hav
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Nah, back in.brum today
I just work for a company that blithely assumes everything has to happen in London
I went to a.meeting last week (in London) where none of the attendees were based anywhere south of Birmingham. Couldn't get a meeting room, apparently, so instead shipped six people to the other end of the country
I do have to be back in London for 9am in a couple of weeks, and I bet they make me get the six am train, the shits.
We never took them down, I think.
did germany win
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that is inappropriate language, or "flaming," I am contacting the CompuServe administrator
Maybe they just stand out more clearly against the dreary rain.
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I'm expecting at least five scenes where they go "we invented this incredibly high-tech gadget" and then they pull out a fridge-sized version of something already seen in Agents of SHIELD that fits in your palm.
No console. Lots of games on Steam.
Germany, on average, has more rain over the year than Britain.
is for the matchmaking service to suddenly stop working
it's just perfect
i wish there was a way i could send my chemist my prescription so it's ready on the way home, rather than having to drop in and wait