however i'm still enjoying myself so whatever
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
It seems like the funniest lines this season are almost all Jason and to some extent Derek, I feel they're kind of wasting actual funniest cast member Janet
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
treading water otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
im not gonna complain. ted danson is an absolute gift. 72 and crushing every line.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
love ted danson as vicky
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
lmao @ the chip driver extracts
― imago, Monday, 11 November 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
i see lots of complaints about this season upthread already but i feel like this show lost the plot story-wise somewhere ... after season 2? i don't know exactly. but it's gotten so convoluted and based on special effects and moving from crazy place to crazy place. there's just too much going on now and it's too BIG in what it's trying to say. i still watch it for the LOLs and bc i keep hoping they'll get back on track. also how did they essentially take chidi out of the entire season and not tahani who actually sucks.
― na (NA), Monday, 18 November 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
i feel like this show lost the plot story-wise somewhere ... after season 2?
correct
still really enjoyed the most recent two episodes of this season, it was nice to feel like there were stakes again
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 18 November 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
yeah this last season (and change) has mostly been a drag on the conceptual level
― Simon H., Monday, 18 November 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
yes and yes. it's out of gas but not so out of gas i'm not willing to give it about two or three more hours of my time.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 18 November 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
the jokes are still good, so that helps.
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
i am curious to see their answer to why humanity should continue if human society is unable to produce good people and only removing ppl from society and prodding them to be better by angelic consorts works
chassidis has good answers to this question imho fwiw first that to do good in this world (which includes the society into which we're born) is a very difficult task and so we should celebrate every act of good that is done even when compromised (if nothing else in the inevitable consent we all give to the status quo through participation in it) and second that the purpose of creation is to repair a flawed world and so you shouldn't worry about earning points in the world to come anyway the whole purpose of creation is to labor in this world. or in a general sense Rabbi Tarfon taught: "It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either" (Pirkai, Avos 2:16).
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
what's the closest we have to a chassidic tv comedy iyo
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
lol idk i'd have to think about it but my first impulse was to say neon genesis evangelion which def shares some themes and also prominently features a sefirah tree in its opening credits
https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life?file=Sephirot.png
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
oops sorry if big
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/evangelion/images/d/db/Sephirot.png
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
oh that's not a comedy tho (sometimes...)
― Mordy, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
conveniently enough that is a show i have recently thought 'i should watch that' ty
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
lj you should definitely watch eva
i feel like i've posted this before
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 18 November 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
the funerals last week were great
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
Very empire records I thought
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
Hoping the show becomes Universalist propaganda.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Tahani does not suck
― akm, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
she's a little one note
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
she's written that way
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
yes it's a criticism of the writing lol
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
looks like they are heading towards purgatory for everyone. kant would approve.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
only two episodes left, right?
― akm, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
chidi was missed, I wondered if this overlapped with the filming of Midsommar at all
Have found this season a little flat, after getting used to them constantly reworking the surroundings in previous seasons, and a lot of the jokes haven’t really worked for me. Still it’s very likable, and Jason’s “that’s how I got my nickname” gag a couple episodes back was perfectly delivered.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
Still 6 more episodes, aren't there? Still enjoying it, but it's become a bit enervated.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
this week's episode was crazy good
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
Agreed. Chidi at peace may turn out to be my favorite Chidi.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
funny I found this one felt like a giant retreading waste of time lol
― Simon H., Saturday, 23 November 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah me too, I feel like the show is floundering and has lost its emotional center at this point. But the jokes are still good!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 23 November 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
I'm just glad the Dougie Jones Chidi finally woke back up as the supercharged Dale Cooper Chidi.
― OneSecondBefore, Saturday, 23 November 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
CHIDILUV
― Dan I., Sunday, 24 November 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
it was literally retreading old ground but new unseen corners of that ground, through a specific (and one of the show’s most well-written) character’s perspective. it kinda reconnected me to the show emotionally even though nothing really happened with the plot (which i no longer care about anyway). also as i’ve stated upthread i find eleanor/chidi boring but sometimes the writers convince me, this episode was one of those times
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 November 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
This is the first time I've found Chidi and Eleanor's relationship at all convincing, so for that alone I liked it.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 24 November 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
it was literally retreading old ground but new unseen corners of that ground, through a specific (and one of the show’s most well-written) character’s perspective
I felt like the reason it was unseen was that they were rewriting the character in ways that didn't really match what we've seen before, that's exactly what gave me that floundering feeling -- that and "bad janets are good now."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 24 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
they were rewriting the character in ways that didn't really match what we've seen before
did not feel this at all
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
This whole "there must be AN ANSWER if only I think hard enough!" thing was completely out of the blue and is foreign to the entire tradition of philosophy Chidi is supposed up till now to have devoted his life to.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 24 November 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
ok i definitely get that but idk in the experience it felt true to his character regardless
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 November 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
i know it's antithetical but "there must be an answer if only i think hard enough" just seemed to be anxiety stretched out into a full sentence to me. i can still feel that way even if i'm familiar with the idea that the opposite is true (not that this is how the show necessarily depicted it lol)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 November 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
I don't know, I think it makes sense as an origin story for all his dithering. I mean, yeah, he considers a lot of possible approaches to everything, but that's not the same as thinking there are multiple answers to everything. What's unhealthy about Chidi's approach to the world is that he feels compelled to make the right decision and can't bring himself to make any decision at all in case it's the wrong one, and that seems compatible with what we saw in this episode, I think.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 24 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
i haven't caught up on this show in a long time so idk context but 'there must be an answer if only i think hard enough' sounds TOTALLY on-character for a philosopher in ANY context sooooo
― j., Monday, 25 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
loved this ep! i think part of why this season fell flat was the dearth of Eleanor/Chidi interactions - not even romantically, but just the way they play off each other seemed to generate great moments, not just together but also with the group & splitting the two them off into separate plot roles felt like a bit of a missstepbut i didnt realize it until i saw this new ep
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 November 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
gah so this is on a break until January
― kinder, Monday, 9 December 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Wish Netflix would show that somehow.
― stet, Monday, 9 December 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
It's trolling me by saying 'NEW EPISODE' under it
― kinder, Monday, 9 December 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
A great big gap in the schedule will really help the already knackered pacing of this last series.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link