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Tachyon

DOOP Secretary

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I browse reddit all the time, but only as a source of interesting news and miscellaneous stuff.
Speaking of Rick and Morty, I have seasons 1&2 here, and ought to get to watching them!
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UnrealLegend

Space Pope
   
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It's really pathetic seeing people go so crazy over some nasty dipping sauce.
Really so much enjoyment of something can be retained if you avoid tumblr or reddit.
God I hate those websites. Full of assholes looking for excuses to be horrible to you and gang up on you if you defend yourself, and people just automatically downvote things if they don't like you or simply because you have an unpopular opinion rather then bothering to read, and the moderators seem far more concerned with joyless hairsplitting then putting trolls in their place.
Reddit is kind of shit sometimes for those things; there's no voicing my true opinion on Spec Ops: The Line (which I think is the most overhyped piece of shit in the world) without being torn down. I enjoy lots of other sub-communities there, though. If you've got niche hobbies there's likely subreddits which fit your interests. I'll never defend Tumblr, though. I think it's one of the most toxic websites on the internet.
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Tachyon

DOOP Secretary

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I think that's how I was conceived.
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DannyJC13

DOOP Secretary

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I'm sure most peeps on PEEL have already seen the news, but the show was renewed for a whopping 70 episodes. That takes it to 101 episodes, total.
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Tachyon

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Simpsons did it first!
I'm going to be taking things *very* slowly over the Memorial Day weekend (26-28 May), which would be a good time to sit down and crack open my R&M discs and get a bit of binging in. I've seen a lot of the episodes, in random order, but it might be nice to just zone out a bit and take in the show.
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
 
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That series finally made it's way to Germany. The episodes I have seen so far gave me a "Imagine Parker/Stone write Doctor Who episiodes" vibe, which was highly appreciated.
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Tachyon

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I've seen a few episodes and have the first two seasons on disc, which I'll get around to watching eventually. Often, R&M is a visual lesson in the law of unintended consequences, and mostly very entertaining. Rick is of course a terrible person, but at times his don't-give-a-fuck attitude is perfectly appropriate, and ought to be adopted by a few people I know who frequently get completely wrapped around axle over inconsequential matters.
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DannyJC13

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Season 4 premiered last night in the US, and it was a really, really cool episode imo! Did anyone else catch it?
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DannyJC13

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This week's episode was 3 B-plots stitched together to make a full-episode. I didn't hate it, but it could have been better! That being said, I loved Taika Waititi's Glootie. I hope we get to see more of him in the future.
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DannyJC13

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As a huge fan of the Terminator franchise (well, mostly just T1 & T2), this week's episode was a blast for me! Interesting to see the show sort-of touch-on time travel, pretty sure I remember reading a few years back that the writers/creators were going to avoid it as much as possible.
If I recall correctly, didn't the Futurama writers also say the same thing? And then it went on to become one of the most popular plot devices on the show, as we all know!
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DannyJC13

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« Reply #476 on: 05-18-2020 12:11 »
« Last Edit on: 05-18-2020 12:15 »
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This week's episode name-dropped Futurama! Morty asks Rick to build him a device that let's you "save" a point in time of your choosing and allow you to return to it like in a video game. Rick says he already saw the idea on Futurama, which I can only assume is a reference to the time button from "Meanwhile". I feel like there were a couple of other visual references to animated shows in this episode, Morty is definitely stood in front of what looks like Moe's from The Simpsons in one scene and one of the survivors he is stuck with after the plane crash is wearing Stan's hat from South Park.
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SolidSnake

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I'm not gonna lie, I was a little bit underwhelmed by Season 4 overall. The only episodes I truly enjoyed were the first two episodes, the vat of acid episode and the finale. All the others just sort of ranged from OK to straight up meh. It had it's moments don't get me wrong, wasn't bad by any means but I'm a little bit annoyed with how long they drag things out in an episode sometimes. Whether it be through a montage or a scene involving a differnet species with no real dialogue, R&M has done this sort of thing way too much in Season 4. I personally just found those moments or montages very cliche. I did still have fun with the episodes, but it just doesn't rank up the standards the last 3 seasons set me up for. Something just kind of felt missing for me this season up until the finale. Hoping Season 5 doesn't rely too heavily on montages like this season did. But what do you all think of Season 4 overall? I'm curious to see how everyone else enjoyed it.
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DannyJC13

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Whether it be through a montage or a scene involving a differnet species with no real dialogue, R&M has done this sort of thing way too much in Season 4. I personally just found those moments or montages very cliche. Hoping Season 5 doesn't rely too heavily on montages like this season did.
I do wonder, is relying on montages a sign that a show has run out of ideas? I remember back in about 2011, when season 6B of Futurama was on the air, a user on PEEL (I believe it was homerjaysimpson) made a video titled something along the lines of "Revived Futurama in a nutshell", and it was just a compilation of the massive amounts of montages used in season 6 as a whole. I didn't mind season 4 at all. The only episodes that I thought were meh were episodes 2, 4 and 9. Of course the vat of acid episode is a massive highlight, definitely worth all the praise. I just love how ridiculous that idea is.
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