It's a reasonable question and the dildo was amusing. (And Jean Smart is great.)
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
sic have you even watched the show? or did you watch the Leftovers?
I thought this episode was exceptional again.
― akm, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
sic has made it clear that he's never going to watch this show
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
So judging from the conversation around this show, it is either brilliant or completely idiotic?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
it is both
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
It's really, really entertaining but also kind of completely ridiculous. Some great performances and interesting detours that I'm not sure are going to pay off over the whole season.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
it’s not really to the point how smart DL is or isn’t, and while I enjoy his work a lot he talks too much about it and rarely offers anything insightful that adds to my enjoyment. i’d recommend ignoring him!
― ryan, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
i don't think it's idiotic at all. there are elements of it that are ridiculous but I don't think it's any more ridiculous than any other comic book story.
― akm, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
fair, it isn't idiotic, but in less-skilled hands it certainly could be
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
it's not stupid, it has smart friends!
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
It's a reasonable question unless you read the comicsic have you even watched the show?I was 7 when I realised I didn’t need to re-read Lake Of Sharks any more. As a teenager, I waited for end-of-year 50%-off-backstock sales to catch up on Swamp Thing #141-171. I waited two years to borrow a friend’s TPB to read Twilight Children, having previously bought New Frontier In floppies and Absolute. I’m not going to scab now for someone who actively seeks out Abr4h4m Ri3sm4n for ethics advice, but I’m able to laugh at his thoughts in interviews when they are dumb thoughts.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
there are elements of it that are ridiculous but I don't think it's any more ridiculous than any other comic book story.you don’t think it’s any more ridiculous than The Walking Man or The Hospital Suite
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
you're reading the interviews, though
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
I meant it's not any more ridiculous than any other filmed/tv superhero story.
― akm, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
certainly not 'more ridiculous' than the original Watchmen comics.
― akm, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
I’m able to laugh at his thoughts in interviews when they are dumb thoughts.
you're in luck as he has no non-dumb interviews
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
Incidentally, it's worth pointing out that the uh apparatus (apparently) does not actually get used and she does in fact fuck a regular dude instead.
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
certainly not 'more ridiculous' than the original Watchmen comics
not sure how a comic book about comics is ridiculous
is this TV show about TV shows?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
you're reading the interviews, thoughafter Moore’s son-in-law pointed out that Lindelof was doing 900 interviews a week where he went on & on about Moore as a workaround for AT&T official publicity being legally barred from doing so, I hadn’t clicked on anything else, but I had to know if that dildo was a photoshop joke or legit from the showso I read some tweets responding to & quoting the interview instead of clicking
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
ah, well then
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
(and I open Vulture links in private browsing in case of Ri3sman)Incidentally, it's worth pointing out that the uh apparatus (apparently) does not actually get used and she does in fact fuck a regular dude instead.It was worth pointing this out, as it makes it delightfully even more stupid :)
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, November 4, 2019 4:57 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
kind of?
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
I suspect we're going to get a fair bit more American Hero Story.
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
did someone say American Horror Story?
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
American Hero Story, a serial adventure featuring an anthropomorphic Subway sandwich trying to avoid being eaten by Whiney
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
quick spoilery question about the content of the actual episode
was the car that fell from the sky angela's car? or was it just another random car?
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Was wondering the same thing myself, I wasn't sure. The various recappers seem to believe it was.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
yeah i assumed it was. it was the 'brick' that was thrown up .... in the last episode.
― akm, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
I am looking forward to the continuing discourse between people who like and have seen this show and ppl who hate it and have not seen it
― Simon H., Monday, 4 November 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
this show sucks buddy
(i haven't seen it)
― ت (jim in vancouver), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
I will say one thing for certain, like him or not, Lindelof -- and Jean Smart -- understands the person Laurie is a hell of a lot better than Snyder and Akerman did.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
that is the faintest conceivable praise
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
So this is the year's show that people who dislike it are going to be really loud and persistent in reminding us about how much they hate it, huh?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
so Jean Smart is / was also on Legion, so she's 2/2 for fucking weirdo auteur comic book tv series.
― akm, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Playing a woman whose boyfriend/husband has left earth in both!
― DJI, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Someone has probably mentioned it upthread, but at the New York Comic Con they had pictures of the cast, and it said that Jeremy Irons was playing 'Probably who you think he is'. I absolutely loved the reveal, which was so silly and over the top for something that everyone who had read the comic must have figured out, or otherwise didn't make a lick of sense. 'Ps, glad you enjoyed the tomatoes'.
The thing about Lost was that so much of it was basically postmodern meta about storytelling, knowledge, the lack of knowledge, mysteries, the unknowable, but it was mostly presented like a regular tv show, so people got annoyed when in the end it failed to pay off like a tv show is supposed to. And since then Lindelof has seemed pretty determined to make clear that he understands the rules of the games, and when he breaks them, it's on purpose.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Snyder has never understood a human being in his life
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
My partner used to have a blue vibrator that we called Dr Manhattan, so we dug that scene
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
Soooo story time
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:12 (yesterday) link
Like, on the “this show shouldn’t exist” level, I understand why some people aren’t in a charitable frame of mind about it.
That said, I’ve really enjoyed the show so far. It’s funny and weird and the world building feels very true to the comic. It could all easily fall apart by the end but for now, I’m on board.
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
First chunk of the soundtrack is up on streaming services.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
in my tireless quest to ruin the music of every single HBO show, i have to point out the music for episode 3 of Watchmen sounds a lot like "Mo Bamba" pic.twitter.com/NdPadfCL8x— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) November 7, 2019
― Simon H., Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
Lol I had that same thought
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4k8ZDEi.jpg
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
All of this has reminded me how stellar Bolland’s drawing is on the series.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
It literally says 'Dave Gibbons' in the post above yours.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
proof that stealing literally hundreds of millions of actual dollars from artists pays off for them after all, in exposure
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
yes! Just saying that I’m seeing Gibbons’ illustrations more than I have in many years and am reminded of everything I liked about him when I used to spend my days poring over the work of comics artists.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
do you like different things about Mr Mamoulian?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
Over in the mainstream timeline, the movie adaptation that Moore & Gibbons were pursuing in 1987 got made and was a big success; they’re now three film trilogies deep in the Watchmen Cinematic Universe; and Warner Bros. CEO Alan Moore is defending the rollout of yet another animated spinoff series, Watchmen Babies.
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link