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television: maybe you shouldn't watch it. i dunno.

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  • existexist Registered User regular
    Jimothy wrote: »

    “And then there was Shawn” is such a good episode.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Castlevania
    would y'all PLEASE get out of this library

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  • McFodderMcFodder Registered User regular
    My wife has started watching Riverdale so I'm catching bits and pieces of it.

    It's as bad (in a kinda good way) as everyone said it was, and I'm really enjoying the soundtrack.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Castlevania
    would y'all PLEASE get out of this library

    Spoiler:
    No.

    if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    Castlevania S2E7
    Bloody

    Fucking


    Tears

    S2E8
    I feel like that last pair of bandits should have just run away from Isaac.

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  • WheatBun01WheatBun01 Face It, Tiger Registered User regular
    sabrina whole show spoilers.
    damn if insinuating the main bully is an asshole because he was molested when he was 11 followed by immediately outing the other bully in the same breath didn't make me kind of want to drop this already kinda stupid ass show.

    It's had some fun bits but overall I think it's actually been pretty uneven and bad? I'm pretty disappointed with it.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Castlevania
    would y'all PLEASE get out of this library

    Spoiler:
    No.

    Bah!

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Hey guys. You like Castlevania Easter eggs? Cause I got Castlevania Easter eggs: https://imgur.com/a/tJD61lz

    (warning, spoilers)

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Hey guys. You like Castlevania Easter eggs? Cause I got Castlevania Easter eggs: https://imgur.com/a/tJD61lz

    (warning, spoilers)
    Yeah I had a lot of fun pausing and looking at details in the Belmont keep

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    Hey guys. You like Castlevania Easter eggs? Cause I got Castlevania Easter eggs: https://imgur.com/a/tJD61lz

    (warning, spoilers)

    It’s not all of them though.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited November 2018
    "what if we gave sypha all the raddest shit"

    Hell yeah I am all in on this, way to go castlevania

    Also
    I love that all these vampires are just completely unprepared for fighting a guy with a whip

    Shorty on
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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    Anybody watching Survivor this season?
    It's rare that I like early on alliances but the bros are really an amazing group. I really hope they are able to stay loyal within the 3 post merge.

    This feels like the most impact I've seen weather have in a season early on (but admittedly there were a few years I fell off watching the show).

    It also feels like there are less people I've forgotten exist this season. Ususally there are a half dozen or so people that when they go home I have to ask my wife who they are, this season that hasn't been the case.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    "what if we gave sypha all the raddest shit"

    Hell yeah I am all in on this, way to go castlevania

    Also
    I love that all these vampires are just completely unprepared for fighting a guy with a whip

    Thats a canon thing
    Beside having a ladys vengeful soul in it Whips are ideal for fighting Vampires and such because its ranged but can move way faster than other weapons without losing attack power

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Hey guys. You like Castlevania Easter eggs? Cause I got Castlevania Easter eggs: https://imgur.com/a/tJD61lz

    (warning, spoilers)

    Double Shot is probably the thing I least expected to see in there.

    Peewi on
    never die
  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    There are also several movie and comic references in dialog that I believe range from the 60s to the 80s (maybe 90s?).

    I appreciated the (mostly) lack of technology, though.

    I think most of can be explained as Greendale being a poor as shit town that cant really update its facilities and also its right above hell

    they never said this and it probably has an established geography, but since I'm listening to The Adventure Zone which takes place in a part of West Virginia that's a Radio Free Zone, I kind of immediately assumed Greendale was as well.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Castlevania
    would y'all PLEASE get out of this library
    on the contrary, stay in the library forever and keep fucking pettily sniping at each other and hugging in stinky cloaks and reading books and finding treasures

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    There are also several movie and comic references in dialog that I believe range from the 60s to the 80s (maybe 90s?).

    I appreciated the (mostly) lack of technology, though.

    I think most of can be explained as Greendale being a poor as shit town that cant really update its facilities and also its right above hell

    they never said this and it probably has an established geography, but since I'm listening to The Adventure Zone which takes place in a part of West Virginia that's a Radio Free Zone, I kind of immediately assumed Greendale was as well.

    Greendale and Riverdale are supposed to be along the same river in the northwestish US but it's never well established

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Oh I absolutely thought that those towns were supposed to be in the northeast, that's kind of wild to me, that also seems....incongruent to the idea of witch trials/hangings?

    edit: yeah riverdale has no actual geography but originally it was supposed to be in new york. it's never said but it's super northeastern

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Took me a couple weeks, but I watched the premiere for the current season of Blindspot.
    Apparently Jane and Remi are not going to be switching off randomly, it's all Remi all the time, and she goddamn hates the team and it is kind of funny. Mostly because Remi is not supposed to exist anymore, so she has to pretend to be Jane. Every time she hugs someone, she grimaces when they can't see her face.

    Also hallucinate her dead brother (hi still-probably-season-regular Roman!), because that's a symptom of the thing that's killing her. And what The Team is trying to cure her of. So not only does she hate them all, especially Kurt, Remi has to pretend she's still Jane while trying to re-start Sandstorm AND has to work with them for her best shot at being cured of what's killing (or will kill) her.

    In case anyone is curious as to what's killing her, the premise of the story is that she was injected with a fuckton of this drug that induces amnesia. The idea was so that Remi could then 'infiltrate' the FBI as Jane, take them down, etc., except Jane never turned back into Remi and the terrorist org she worked for (Sandstorm) was effectively annihilated. Well a few years later, and the drug is now showing signs of not having dissipated in her system, and since her dose was so high, it's affecting her ability to function. Long-term, it's kind of like a nastier man-made Alzheimer's, where ultimately her body will just 'forget' how to move, breathe, and do all the involuntary stuff it's normally really good at.

    What really helps make the show (unintentionally) hilarious is that it's under the Greg Berlanti umbrella. So the city shots are the ones used in The Flash, guest stars have a 50% chance of also being from that particular universe, and Blake Neely does most/all the music.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    Oh I absolutely thought that those towns were supposed to be in the northeast, that's kind of wild to me, that also seems....incongruent to the idea of witch trials/hangings?

    edit: yeah riverdale has no actual geography but originally it was supposed to be in new york. it's never said but it's super northeastern

    My bad I meant northeast. I had gravity falls on the brain

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  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Shorty wrote: »
    "what if we gave sypha all the raddest shit"

    Hell yeah I am all in on this, way to go castlevania

    Also
    I love that all these vampires are just completely unprepared for fighting a guy with a whip

    Well, in their defense...
    If the end of the whip touches them, they explode.

    Viskod on
  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    If Sabrina is in Greendale does that mean Jeff Winger could be her law professor? Joel McHale does work for Netflix and that could be a pretty funny, if bizarre, tie in.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Joel McHale don't work for Netflix anymore

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Oh. Well, then.

  • EmperorSethEmperorSeth Registered User regular
    For me, the biggest disappointment with Castlevania Season 2 is
    how they never worked Grant into the story.

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  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
    Riverdale's richest family being maple syrup magnates limits the possible location to the either the Northeast U.S. or the Great Lakes Midwest regions.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    For me, the biggest disappointment with Castlevania Season 2 is
    how they never worked Grant into the story.
    Honestly I feel like he would have been too much. The balance of characters was basically perfect

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Huh, didn't expect this, Showtime is making a Penny Dreadful spin-off, City of Angels. It is "set in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension. Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, the new series will explore a mix of the supernatural and the reality of the time period."

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    That sounds super cool!

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Is it worth finishing Penny Dreadful?

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Riverdale's richest family being maple syrup magnates limits the possible location to the either the Northeast U.S. or the Great Lakes Midwest regions.

    They are right at the tip of America's northeast region.

    They mention Canada being right next to them a lot.

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I think so?

    The "main" ending is not great, but like, the plot was never the show's strong point. And the side stories (Dorian and Victor) go to some pretty great places in the end.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Dorian was not interesting to me, but Victor was kind of my main draw. I'll finish it out one of these days

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Dorian was not interesting to me

    Well yeah, you're straight

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    God, Penny Dreadful's Dorian Grey is so pretty.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Castlevania moves so fast. I start and episode and it's over before I know it

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    For me, the biggest disappointment with Castlevania Season 2 is
    how they never worked Grant into the story.

    warren ellis was quoted as saying he didn't really know how to work him in, on top of the fact that "his name is dumb", which I thought was funny

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Riverdale is referenced as being very nearby G
    Castlevania moves so fast. I start and episode and it's over before I know it

    I finished two seasons in two days, yeah. It fuckin' flies along.

    if this is how you folks make art it's fucking depressing
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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    God, Penny Dreadful's Dorian Grey is so pretty.

    I'm doing the best I can, alright!

  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    For me, the biggest disappointment with Castlevania Season 2 is
    how they never worked Grant into the story.

    warren ellis was quoted as saying he didn't really know how to work him in, on top of the fact that "his name is dumb", which I thought was funny

    I assume it's the last name which is the problem, in which case just change it back to Danesti, which was an actual noble house in Wallachia.

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