Dunno, the fights in American Hero Story have been consistently hilarious. But yeah, these ones were legitimately good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, I specifically meant the "real-life" fights; the brief one at the trailer park was especially glaring. The AHS stuff is perfect.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Agreed on the fight choreography, it's really good and almost makes me forget he can't possibly see very well and someone can grab that noose around his neck any time. Blake had the right idea opting for armor and guns
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
You're probably right that Reeves wanted her to take the pills, he does say she needs to experience something and not hear it
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
Esther Rosenfield on Twitter has the most likely/coherent theory on where this is all headed for the curious.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
that theory seems... eminently plausible
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDqxCbyGVk
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
snake?!? SNAAAAAAAAKE
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
can't find what you're refering to in the Esther Rosenfield twitter; the Lynch stuff?
― akm, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
oh wait I found it.
― akm, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
telegraphed by the relatively small cast but as soon as I heard “it’s someone in Tulsa” I figured it out, and oh no
― mh, Monday, 2 December 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
withholding judgment till next week but props to the Reddit sleuths who guessed this many weeks ago
― Simon H., Monday, 2 December 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link
come for the sleuthery, stay for the Excalibur joke
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 2 December 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
on one hand the focus on Vietnam is just what I was hoping for, otoh there are a lot of ways this could go very wrong. I'd be curious to hear some knowledgable takes on the semi-"Americanized" Saigon depicted
― Simon H., Monday, 2 December 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
― mh, Sunday, December 1, 2019 10:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, as soon as Trieu said this, I said to my wife, "The Law of Economy of Characters says that it's X."
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 2 December 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Immediately thought about how much Sally was lusting after Cal.
― dan selzer, Monday, 2 December 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
Sorry. Laurie.
Show is about race in America = there is a literal elephant in the room
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
never forgets
― mh, Monday, 2 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Ok, I love how audacious this show is. On the other hand, let's start wrapping up some loose ends before the last 15 minutes of the series.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
I mean there aren't *that* many loose ends - the Millenium Clock, Veidt, and the inevitable climactic showdown with the 7th Kavalry, and of course finding out the ballad of Angela/Jon. But that's not so much for two episodes.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
And lube guy!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 07:57 (four years ago) link
Kinda hoping he tries to intervene in 9 and dies horribly
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
I hadn't realized till I actually put the soundtracks on that Reznor/Ross were doing all that instrumental jazz as well; neat!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
Respectfully, I disagree rather strongly: I think that is an awful lot to explain in two hours without it feeling rushed.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Lindeloff wrapped up his last series in a monologue and it was awesome
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Just from the measly Spotify credits, it looks like this guy is involved in the jazz tracks:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beasley_(musician)
And this guy performed the silent movie piano I believe:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Garson
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
Reznor/Ross score has been really great. Even though it was an instrumental of “Life on Mars” I couldn’t help but think the “take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy” had an additional draw to it’s cover selection.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I just tweeted asking when trent's gonna work Pop Will Eat Itself into the soundtrack.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
I suspect his former signee and fellow score pro would block any usage.
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
soundtrack is realll good
also: does everything need to be wrapped up? do we know that this is a one-and-done series, or will there be another season?
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
Lindelof has said it was written as one-and-done but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be tidy.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
“We want to see how it's received by you guys," he said. "If the show comes out there and the conversation surrounding the show suggests you're hungry for more, we'll certainly take that into consideration.”That sounds like there will be more than one season.
― DJI, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/watchmen-may-end-one-season-damon-lindelof-1245569
Lindelof also said he may hand the show off to a different show runner
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
He's hoping the curse will migrate to a different target.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
he could do a leftovers thing where each season is essentially a hard reset
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
is that...a spoiler?
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
nah
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
not reallythey just changed the setting each season and introduced new characters
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
ah ok
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
I'm not looking for a neat bow on everything, more just don't pull a GoT and cram two seasons' worth of story into two episodes.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
It hope this chapter of the story basically wraps up, with some questions left open-ended and DL comes back in 5 or 6 years with The Watchmen we need then.No rush.
― Brio 3, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
In the interim - 5 years of deep Lube Guy origin story.
― Brio 3, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
There are so many things that have to get resolved or at least addressed in the next two eps – why Trieu couldn't or didn't warn Angela long beforehand that Manhattan was a target, for example – that it's hardly worth speculating about them (Lindelof has said that the audience should be feeling 'panic' at this point but all will get sorted out) ...
But the Veidt scene this week bugged me, for not advancing that storyline at all that I could see. We doubled down on his contempt for the environment and the clones, we learned again that time passes glacially (the trial took an entire year) and that he's frustrated by the time but also resigned to endure it, it's reinforced again that he is the guy behind the squid, we discover again that the only rule for this environment is that he and the clones can't leave. (Given that, the only thing he has to work with is the stupidity of the jailers, so he must be conning them to some degree.) We may find out that he's inside his own statue carbonite-style being fed invented, not experienced, memories, or that he really is on Europa in the future or in the past and that he's returned via meteorite, but this week didn't get any closer to any of that or move the ball appreciably
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
So is Trieu busting him out? Or keeping him in? Is Veidt her dad, or the Comedian?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
"We may find out that he's inside his own statue carbonite-style being fed invented, not experienced, memories" this is my wife's theory
― akm, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhh
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
curious too about whatever crashed into the farmfield that trieu needed ownership of the land to claim
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
I'm colder on the idea that Trieu is related to, or even is, Veidt, because to have Trieu's accomplishments be the mere result of being possessed by someone (an older white guy) smarter than her devalues any agency or audience interest the character would have had. So I think she's her own woman and is this generation's equivalent of Veidt, rather than being him (Acquiring all of his patents and Pyramid-this-and-that companies would be extremely helpful, though)
Veidt's experiences being generated would explain the dreamlike tone and general wackiness (in favor of the statue), but given that Trieu's things seem to be vivariums, clones, time, memory, and 'micro-fusion' satellites, the environment could be real (in favor of Europa). I'm thinking Veidt is arriving from space at the farm, but when that happens or why Trieu'd be interested, I don't know. Manhattan could either be on Mars in episode one through time travel (though why Mars and not Europa), or he could just be a Trieu projection to distract people into not thinking he's on Earth. There are so many red herrings I can't keep track of them all. The only thing I would say is the Veidt sequences are most likely running from 2012-2019, since he vanished then (nobody'd seen him since 2007, but it wasn't until 2012 when Trieu's people tried to meet him and couldn't find him), so you could consider them an extended flashback, which should dovetail to the 'present' of the show somehow, probably by having him leave and arrive in the same sequence.
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link