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19 hours ago, akg said:
She helped plan but her role in the actual murder could all be explained away. She asked the question that cued up Taffy's lecture on the radio but, as she explained to Charlie, she and Taffy did that kind of thing regularly for advertising. If Taffy requested a lead in to talk about sausage, why would she find that strange? I think the only other thing she did as part of the plot was send someone to discover her husband which the cops wouldn't have any reason to question.
Right, but that is all about her not knowing what was going on. How would she tell the cops a story that Taffy did it? She just had a feeling? I guess she could lead with the missing train horn from the broadcast but that is not a whole lot.
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On 1/28/2023 at 8:15 AM, akg said:
The radio guy also called the wife using Taffy's voice which prompted her to turn her co-conspirator over to the police. The call was recorded and he played her confession during his MAGA show (knowing the cops would be listening which was a nice touch) so the wife would be arrested as well.
It's neatly tied together, though I wonder how the wife (Mandy) could have plausibly accused Taffy without implicating herself at all.
I've seen some people say Charlie is an inadvertent angel of death who causes a lot of these murders that happen around her. But George was living on borrowed time anyways, between Taffy being reckless with the restaurant's money and Taffy having an affair with Mandy.
I don't like how Charlie has been so open about her superpower, but it is very fun to watch people who know about it figure out how to misdirect her with non-lying statements.
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[re her real-life partner at the time] Rolling Stone:
QuoteYeah. I remember rehearsing a scene with Nick Thune on Love Life where he was like, “I know my character is an asshole, but I don’t know why I’m getting so upset if you’re not gonna escalate the fight at all.” And I remember saying to him, “Well, maybe it’s just the fact that I’m crying that’s making you very angry.” And he was like, “That doesn’t make any fucking sense.” I remember thinking, wow, that character is supposed to be such a piece of shit and that doesn’t even make sense to him. That’s really bad.
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It was just reported today that in 2020, co-creator and main voice actor Justin Roiland was charged with felony domestic violence: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/justin-roiland-rick-morty-allegations-domestic-violence-charges-rcna65403
(and this has also brought up older claims about him using his fame to prey on girls: https://twitter.com/opossumopunk/status/1594218664026316801 )
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I think all those guys, Trump included, have smartphones. This fax thing was a bizarre billionaire quirk that also meant as a plot contrivance Blanc and Brand could easily find the faxed email on the Greek island mansion's fax rather than having to hack into Bron's email. I guess no one cleaned up the faxes from weeks ago even though presumably Bron only sent his mansion's staff home the day before his guests arrived. (Also it's kind of a contrivance that the island's fax machine was in the gym and not the main office. Unless he just has them in multiple rooms.)
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On 12/30/2022 at 10:32 PM, shapeshifter said:
Wasn’t Alpha ≈ Meta?
Miles is Elon Musk with a small hint of Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg (or even Jack Ma), but Alpha itself seems somewhat more like Google. Google went and spun itself off so its parent company could be renamed Alphabet, and in the scene where the delivery guy is bringing Lionel his mystery box, he passes by a big TV set in front of four beanbag chairs in Google's colors: yellow, red, green, blue. Then again, the news guy interviewing Claire says Alpha's many businesses include "Alpha Cosmos" and "Alpha Car" (Musk's SpaceX and Tesla) and "Alpha Shop" (gotta be Bezos). But the Google founders have been much better at keeping themselves out of the limelight compared to their tech baron peers.
In light of recent news, Duke Cody reads as a take on Andrew Tate and other misogynist influencers.
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32 minutes ago, rmontro said:
The examples given were from Black Panther and Endgame. As I said before, the MCU started out doing great adaptations of their heroes. The move against comic book fans seems to be a more recent one.
I think you’re seeing what you want to see in that summary of the interview. Nate Moore has been with Marvel since at least when the Winter Soldier movie was in preproduction, looking to hire writers and directors. This is the same guy who was an exec making those critical hiring decisions during the movies you liked more and now the phase you like less.
I went to the actual podcast (Spotify thankfully provides an automated transcript, making it easier to skip to stuff) and Moore is a fan himself. He talks about still having longboxes in his garage.
Also, Bounding Into Comics has taken an anti-Waititi stance but objectively the fan excitement was way, way higher for Ragnarok and even Love & Thunder than it was for Thor 1 and Dark World. Marvel probably did lose some fans who liked Branagh’s take a little more, but they gained more fans than they lost. The way Bounding talks, you’d think Waititi’s movies were commercial failures.
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4 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
but I felt they barely used the landscape since all of the action basically took place in the mansion which could have been almost anywhere.
The tone of the sunlight was certainly something you wouldn't get from a New England fall or winter.
I'm actually not at all familiar with Agatha Christie mysteries that so inspire Johnson. Are they typically fairly self-contained the way the two Knives Out movies have been? I think it'd be interesting if the next movie has a little more chaos for Blanc to manage.
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On 11/23/2022 at 4:48 PM, rmontro said:
This article explains a lot. Marvel producer Nate Moore says that he does not want to hire writers who are Marvel fans, but rather people who are out of the culture that will look at them differently.
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That site is somewhere between "alt-lite" to full on alt-right. The first thing that threw me was them calling Taika Waititi "David Cohen", and looking into it a bit further, that whole site is fully on board with Comicsgaters.
And even so, the piece still says Marvel Studios do hire fans: (my emphasis added)
QuoteNoting that some Marvel writers grew up reading and collecting comics, such as Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler
On 11/23/2022 at 7:38 PM, rmontro said:All the writers don't have to be fans, but there should be some fans around that can give their input.
Feige and Moore and 'em are fans! They know the comics lore, and then they want to not have the MCU be built by an echo chamber of nerds. Like, over in DC Comics (not even the movies, just the comics), they've rebooted their universe so many times and then their writers -- often big fans of what came before -- undo so many of the reboot changes because they, as fans, liked what came before.
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21 hours ago, kiddo82 said:
Oprah's last show was in 2011
On her main show, but then she launched a new (albeit smaller, less frequent) show on OWN.
On 12/24/2022 at 12:04 AM, AnimeMania said:Miles is a genius just for creating solid Hydrogen you can carry around in your pocket.
I think the movie said he backed it/bought it, not that he invented it himself.
14 hours ago, AnimeMania said:It would have been impossible for the people who work in the company not to know that Andi was the genius and that Miles was an idiot.
It is late December 2022 and there are some tech-ish people who still think Elon Musk is a genius. <shrug>
6 hours ago, peridot said:When everyone was breaking the sculptures at the end, I was cringing because I was expecting for someone to slice up their foot.
I was expecting some of those sculptures to have been made out of Klear, but I guess even Miles wasn't that reckless.
6 hours ago, shapeshifter said:I told myself that's basically what all the props were and everything else was CGI.
The puzzle box was at least partially CGI. There's just no way a wooden disc that big is absolutely seamless once it unfolds.
I enjoyed it a lot but I only really laughed when Blanc solved the Gillian Flynn murder mystery in 0 seconds flat. "Did the game start? OK, here's the answer and how I figured it out, plus also there was that hedge maze 'B'."
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Harmon appeared on a fan podcast to talk about the upcoming movie. Episode drops soon, but here's some news about it ahead of that. https://www.newsweek.com/dan-harmon-community-movie-six-seasons-podcast-paintball-dungeons-dragons-1768631
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22 hours ago, Gharlane said:
That did occur to me as well, but maybe the "Parmeezian Universe" president doesn't have term limits.
Rick said this universe is basically the same as the one they left aside from pronouncing one word differently, so presumably they have the same rules on term limits. This president listed off all the preceding presidents who built the sci-fi basement lair in the White House and some of those guys coulda maybe won third terms if there wasn’t a term limit, so…
I hope Rickbot returns. There’s always something interesting about characters interacting with weird versions of themselves. (This show loves this trope a lot and one day I will have to get around to exhaustively cataloguing every single doppelgänger moment in Community.)
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1 hour ago, Irlandesa said:
Not only that but it's being removed from HBO Max
I’m sure there’s some accounting magic where doing this saves them some more money but it sure looks mean spirited as hell from the outside.
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23 minutes ago, Gharlane said:
Yeah, I kinda wondered what would happen if you dropped a Star Wars light saber.
It probably would have ruined this episode's plot, but I vaguely understand canonically many lightsabers automatically switch off when dropped or when the wielder dies. Fans have speculated that this is probably achieved by needing to keep the button pressed continuously. (And then further speculated that thrown lightsabers stay on if desired because the user keeps the button pressed with the Force.)
I'm not super tired of evil Rick, but I'd also be happy if that storyline wraps up next season.
The President should probably be termed out by the time Morty can vote, right? I guess if this is somehow actually his first year it would just be barely possible for Morty to turn 18 and vote for his re-election. Or, more likely, there's no term limits here somehow. Which is fine, cause it's not like I wanted Rick and Morty's take on any other real world presidents.
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On the movie, mostly about the band Hello Peril, which was even invited to play at SF’s Outside Lands festival, but Randall Park declined.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hello-peril-band-always-be-my-maybe-17639155.php
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7 hours ago, Galileo908 said:
Huh, like Father like son that Morty had to (and refused to) cut off his penis to save the universe. And Rick and Morty got out of it by pulling a Vat of Acid when they tossed themselves into the sun. Love it.
I guess it was fun that the show referenced it out loud, not just mentioning Vat of Acid but having the Sun people reference it too, but... it still felt like a lazy mashup of those two episodes, albeit with a more supportive, less cruel Rick.
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Wow, Dominique Ansel! Now I wish they'd brought in celebrity guests the whole time. Why didn't he stick around for the second round???
The starter challenge concept is absurdly vague even for this show. "Be more spectacular" is not a very useful critique in general, even if it's to address the challenge, because the challenge is essentially "be spectacular". The title of the episode honestly makes it more clear than anything the judges said when they introduced the starter challenge. Did the show just want to avoid using the word "Instagram"? Because that's really what they're dancing around: make something people will share on IG.
Will and Sohla are kinda right about the Korean burrito not really having broken through. David Chang tried it with Momofuku Ssam Bar's original concept (it's in the name!) but had to pivot. Roy Choi has broken through with Korean-Mexican fusion but like Sohla said, Kogi really sells the tacos first. (Though I think Kogi's burritos are very dope.) But yeah, I think in those two cases they just used flour tortillas. An okonomiyaki wrap would be very interesting, though my experience is that most okonomiyakis are too inflexible to wrap without breaking.
Looks like everyone killed it on the second round. Glad they didn't make an elimination then.
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Every cooking competition show inevitably runs into the problem that if everyone cooks at the same time and stops at the same time, then some of the food will be cold or at least old by the time the judges can get to it. But it struck me as somehow worse this episode when they're divided into teams and making three course meals. (As far as I know, every show just quietly agrees to judge as if the food was hot??? Seems suboptimal to me.)
Mason definitely seemed like the weakest cheftestant left, both for the dishes this ep as well as previous performance. Specifically for the arancini amuse, I think the problem is that arancini are typically larger and shrinking it to fit the one-bite mandate means the breading to rice ball ratio is thrown off as a natural consequence of making the whole thing smaller.
I feel like a raw oyster and some caviar is definitely in the "you shopped, rather than cooked" vein of criticism that sank Daniel in an earlier episode. Like, it's not like a cooked oyster is better and I guess shucking an oyster demands a little more skill than slicing a bagel. But still. A raw oyster dish basically lives and dies on its garnishes, which J did cook.
I guess Dan is the most famous of the three hosts, but I wish they'd send Will or Sohla in to the kitchen interviews more often. Both just know food more.
The losing team's lack of concept -- with the excuse that the food was a decrescendo -- was a shame. Even after setting expectations, it seems like the judges didn't like the concept of dishes getting more subtle sequentially.
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12 hours ago, Galileo908 said:
Most voice actors have three, four voices at most. But it’s really noticeable in shows like this where those are the majority of voices you hear.
Yeah but this show in particular can cast basically whoever they want! The guest cast list is always stacked! I think it's detrimental that so many of the characters end up sounding like that third Roiland voice and I can't imagine they're doing it due to budgetary constraints.
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51 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:
They may not have had the population then. Namor was the first baby born to the people, and he's aging more slowly, but I think everyone else is aging in a typical human way. Depending on how many women of reproductive age (or before) that were a part of the community when they took the herb and went to the ocean, it was going to take a while to grow the population.
It still would have been three hundred years. That might not be many millions (I’m gonna skip doing the math), but every one of their warriors would have been Black Panther level superhuman*. And with vibranium being the super McGuffin that also accelerates technological development, they would also have been far better armed than the surface world.
* Namor has additional powers beyond the other Talokans in that he can fly and doesn’t need the water-breathing apparatus they do, but they’re all super strong and heal from severe wounds. And they’re water breathing. They could have destroyed any navy of the 1800s. There’s a line in the comics where Captain America bemoans the loss of Erskine because if America had its whole army on super-soldier serum they could have won the war without using nukes—and that version of the serum only made “peak humans”, not people who could outrun cars and hold helicopters down.
also, speaking of hidden societies not interfering in history when they probably would have if the story logic was internally consistent, did the Eternals know about the Talokans? And do the Talokans have any opinions about the giant hand of the dead space god that’s in the middle of the oceans now?
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6 hours ago, Galileo908 said:
That was probably the most meta episode of a show I’d seen.
I do love meta stuff, and Dan Harmon does too, even if he seems to have some justifiable self-loathing about it. Community was suffused with meta stuff, from minor asides like Abed talking about TV ("you're keeping us from being Friends") to full on episodes about Community (Documentary Filmmaking: Redux, Celebrity Pharmacology, Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples). And see also this show, with episodes like the first story train episode, which was not only meta but actually featured Harmon's story circle concept.
(That said, Reboot on Hulu is also wonderfully meta, and so was She-Hulk: Attorney At Law)
I feel like Justin Roiland has about three voices: Rick, Morty, and Mr Poopybutthole. The latter voice shows up a LOT in smaller roles like the Interdimensional Cable, and it's also the Previous Leon guy. (And TBH, the Mr Poopybutthole voice is not that far from Morty.) But I had a hearty chuckle at "Previous Leon".
The episode was mostly just amusing but I laughed hard at the end when the writer guy pitched some absurdly narcissistic stuff and ghost Joseph Campbell looked on in horror.
(Sigh, Tag-man also has that third Roiland voice.)
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Hmm. I can see an argument for all three of the bottom three going home, but ultimately I think that baking and cooking are quite separate disciplines and so I'd lean towards excusing baking errors more than cooking errors, even if this was the baking episode. So I'm glad they kept Antwon* and I was leaning towards eliminating Roman.
Also, it really felt like Will was leaning too hard on praising presentation. "you eat with your eyes first", yeah, but you eat with your mouth last. Tell us how it tasted!
* tbh, more for his previous track record than what he cooked this ep
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It strikes me that Kip probably could have done much better with more time, both time to taste and time to recalibrate on the concept if necessary. I guess competition cooking shows really select for people who can do it all in an hour and change. (And Danielle's carrot muffin is something she had worked out over a long period of trial and error before this show ever started, so I guess that's the other way to do well on any given challenge: adapt something you've got down cold to meet the specific challenge of the day.)
California produce is amazing. NY-based chef David Chang has spoken about how jealous he was about what's available in California. And I'd imagine the Santa Monica farmer's market is a particularly nice one of the farmer's markets in the LA area.
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On 11/10/2022 at 11:14 PM, dwmarch said:
Unfortunately, the theater I was in didn't have the best audio so a lot of the dialog was muddy while the explosions were absurdly loud.
I saw it in a premium theatre and the mix was bad in the same way.
Y’know, if the Talokans have been around since the 1500s, you’d think they would have had a full war with the surface world back when the surface world was hunting whales to near extinction and devastating a key part of the oceans’ circle of life.
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S01.E05: Time of the Monkey
in Poker Face
Charlie's really gotta think smarter about these confronting-the-murderer moments, esp now that she's equipped with a (dumb)phone again instead of being totally off the grid.
Speaking of which, how and why did she get a job at Mossy Oaks? Didn't Marge from ep 2 tell her to only take gigs that paid cash? Surely this place took her SSN and does tax withholding and all that other stuff you don't want to do when you're on the run.
Besides the incredible arm strength, Joyce and Irene also managed to rig up the golf cart to explode, which seems nearly Hannibal levels of murder wizardry. How could they possibly have known Charlie would be the next person to turn the ignition on that particular golf cart? When did they even have time to do it?