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After almost every episode, someone here complains that they made it too obvious who was going to be voted out that week. In all the seasons of Survivor I've watched, I was never sure who was going to be voted out... until this week.
Simone said her first words of the season at the beginning of the episode. She told jokes that fell flat, and talked about pooping (never talk about pooping on Survivor), and talked about "controlling the narrative". They couldn't have made it more obvious to me.
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Perhaps the old man bought the crate of books weeks ago so he could sit next to it and laugh because the kids couldn't read them.
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Wow, was that a disheveled Dan Haggerty sitting in the background looking bored? I bet he thought there would be more cocaine.
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2 hours ago, Addlepated said:
Does anyone else think that Cameron's going to come up with an MMO? Ultima Online started development in 1995, so it's about the right time.
I thought she already did two seasons ago.
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My gosh! So much 70's television glitterati were in that scene! Did I see one of the Keane brothers?
I've read that in the 70's you could get nearly any television star to show up at anything in Los Angeles for a few hundred bucks.
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The show is up to 90s nostalgia now, but the end of this one jabbed me. The modem in Cam's Internet setup was a Zyxel. I immediately thought, "Ugh! Zyxel!"
The company I worked for then had a modem at every customer site that our applications used. Naturally management found the cheapest modem in the world, bought thousands of them, then brought one to us and said, "Here. Make sure every application works with this gizmo. And do it quick because we're shipping them in a couple of weeks."
Well, this Zyxel modem was probably adequate for dialing up AOL, but it failed in everything else it said it could do in the manual. Set it up for hardware flow control and it would lock up. Hook it up to a 9600 baud leased line for credit checks and it locked up. Communicate with MNP5 compression from parts manufacturers and it locked up. Do anything but dial up AOL and it locked up. This would mean that the customer would have to reset the modem several times a day.
Zyxel was in Taiwan so we never got a new firmware more than once every two days because (supposedly) no one there spoke English. After two weeks of getting fixes that broke other things, can you guess what happened? Of course management scolded us for not being able to get our applications to work with this modem that they had spent $50,000 or $70,000 or $100,000 on (the number kept rising).
I believe we had to buy expensive Hayes modems until Zyxel fixed everything. Of course the "expensive" modem worked perfectly right out of the box.
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22 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
Also why was Bos working on a drain line if the problem was a leaky faucet?
Cam probably broke it while "fixing" the faucet with her fist.
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20 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
Is that why Donna's hair was super shiny (almost sparkly) in every scene? Because that was distracting.
That's the tons of unrealistic backlighting they're using. I really hate the art direction this season. The fog filter, the blinding lights pointed at the lens, and the sickly green background light makes every episode look like a long dream sequence.
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On 9/14/2017 at 3:32 PM, Catbookss said:
Ha ha! So very true.
To others: She wasn't planning on living in the Airstream, BTW. She bought it to live in until she could build a house on the property.
It looked to me like she forgot that plan a day or two after she bought the Airstream. What could be cooler than living in a shiny Airstream?
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1 hour ago, Dowel Jones said:
Not to get too far off topic, but I got to thinking about Airstream trailers, so I looked it up. They make a variety of sizes, and from the looks of it, the model she bought would be around $70,000 new.
Yes, they cost about the same as my first house cost in 1993, but could you imagine Cameron doing something as sensible as buying a house? I can't.
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On 9/11/2017 at 0:51 PM, Whimsy said:
I am so sick of Cameron. All she does is whine. I don’t know if her little melt down in the woods was supposed to be in any way funny, but I just found it annoying.
I was hoping to see MacKenzie Davis sopping wet in her underwear before the series was over, and there she was.
Only Cameron could think you can fix a dripping faucet by pounding on it. It completely showed her advanced problem solving skills that have gotten her so far in life.
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You mean like digging graves?
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But this show isn't now. CSS wasn't implemented until 1996 and it took a while to be supported in all browsers.
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5 minutes ago, Zima said:
Oh God, do I even want to keep watching? Just finished the season today. Lol...
There are some funny moments in the second season, but I found both Mickey and Gus to be repulsive childish characters. I gave up because I'd rather watch adults on television.
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The page she made looked like it was straight HTML which made it more of a word processing project than a coding project.
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Gus actually gets worse in the next season. It's hard to see how the audience was supposed to sympathize with a character that is childish and selfish. Oh yeah, because he's a Nice Guy (tm). Everyone loves the Nice Guy.
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On 8/26/2017 at 9:05 PM, Auntie Anxiety said:
No big observations or thoughts on the plot, but I am not a fan of the green tinged camera work in the shots at Donna's workplace nor the yellow infused ones at Joe's. What's up with that? Is it just my tv?
There is also ridiculous amounts of diffusion (probably a fog filter) that makes any light source veil the whole image. Come on, guys. This looks amateur.
Al least this season we don't have an actor crammed into a tiny corner of the frame surrounded by empty space. Mr. Robot has that style to itself now.
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On 7/9/2017 at 9:59 AM, starri said:
Did Adam West show up to one of the Turkey Day marathons, or did I imagine that?
I know Mamie Van Doren did.
That's right. Best Brains couldn't come to an agreement with Comedy Central that year, so they opted not to do a Turkey Day for the network. Comedy Central simply produced their own Turkey Day bumpers with West and Van Doren without any help from Best Brains.
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I've tried all of the fast food salads and I liked all of them, except for Burger King's which was nothing more than dry chicken in a bowl of generic lettice.
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2 hours ago, hincandenza said:
That said, I'll give it a chance if a third season comes out, because it is at times funny, insightful, and nostalgic. But I totally get your "done with it" attitude, as I pulled the same thing with "Silicon Valley". Too much amazing TV and too little time means making those cuts quickly and decidedly. :)
I'll stick with Silicon Valley since T.J. Miller left. In my mind it can only get better now.
Gillian Jacobs played her part convincingly, and in a way it was too convincingly for me. I find it hard to laugh at a person who is struggling with serious problems with addiction and self-control. And it seemed to me that Paul Rust wanted to be the Woody Allen of our generation.
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I hate them both. I have no more interest in this series.
I hope Gillian can find a decent series again.
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The problem I have with the All-Stars is that I'm a casual viewer so I don't remember hardly any of these dancing powerhouses from previous seasons. I kinda remember Cyrus and Comfort, but damned if I know anyone else or why the show is spending so much time on them like they're my relatives.
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Randy started out funny and intriguing, but like Gus, he suddenly turned into a child. I don't find men/children funny.
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This show is so much funnier without Gus. All he does is apologize and do more things that he'll have to apologize for later. He talks and acts like a teenager.
And once again a woman desperately wants to have sex with him, this time a smart woman who absolutely hates him. Yes, the women cannot resist this mumbling, confused and self-destructive man-child.
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S04.E08: Goodwill
in Halt And Catch Fire [V]
This episode was the best example of what I don't like about the show. The characters spent a lot of time talking and not really saying anything. For example the outdoor scene with Cam and Donna was a lot of "Oh this is so hard!" and "How are you doing?" with lots and lots of pauses for the actors to emote for the camera. I'm not going to miss this show.