Uncle JUICE
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1 hour ago, Schweedie said:
Yeah, in season one Keeley said she was sort of famous for being almost famous, but the Vanity Fair thing I think points to that she's at least somewhat of a legit big-ish name.
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YES. This would've been SUCH a better and more interesting storyline.
I agree with @Uncle JUICE above that much the writing in this episode felt off to me and a bit like a PSA - I don't think there's an issue with them wanting to do a storyline about a hack like this, but the way the wrote the events and the dialogue... Nah. Keeley and Rebecca's exchange with the "I'm not an idiot, I know there are tons of topless pictures of me online, but those were *my* choice." "Absolutely! It makes a huge difference!" - it's not that I disagree with the sentiment, but something about the actual dialogue just rang so false to me.
Like it's out of an after school special. Every word so finely curated, and everyone feels exactly the same way about everything. COuldn't one of those dudes at least have said "Guys, fuck you, I'm not deleting anything from my phone, I'm not sharing it, but they were given to me, with consent. So fuck off with your high horse judgement of people who keep them." I really, really hated that storyline's execution.
Also not buying that Vanity Fair did a spread on her, apparently former model, definitely dated a couple of soccer players (not premier league players, so....), who has somehow started a PR company but no demonstrable success, she's never in the office, too, by the way. Some trade magazine maybe, but no one beyond the PR world would care about Keely remotely. It's not like she did big brother or dancing with the stars or something desperate like that, she'd chosen to live a more private, less glamorous life. Not exactly Vanity Fair fare.
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29 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:
The more I think about this storyline the more I think it could have been a perfect way to show how Keeley is great at her job. If she is supposed to be this super great PR person, who especially is good at doing PR for celebrities (and is really connected to celeb culture); she should know this is far from the first phone hack like this. And she should know what kind of response works and what doesn't. And then when you have Jack coming in with her dad's lawyer response, you could have Keeley say something about how if Jack doesn't trust her to know how to respond to this, then she probably doesn't trust her to run KJPR.
SEE HOW MUCH BETTER THAT IS?!?! Seriously! It does so much more for the character AND it provides some Keely character building. She'd have a playbook for this, and when the momentary panic that it was her own video subsided, she probably would have had a good approach. Sadly she doesn't work at the club anymore, so she doesn't have to deal with the awkwardness from the boys afterward. In a week it'd be forgotten. The presence of these is no longer a controversy; the controversy is how they get out now, we all just accept that everyone has a dick / pussy pic on their phones, we're all people.
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Maybe I'm watching this show wrong. This episode was absolutely ridiculous from pillar to post.
First, I'm tired of the team members addressing things in these weird "just so" sorts of ways. it's really hard to explain, but every one of them in the leaked video scene was talking as if they were reading some public relations authored official tweet about it. I appreciate the effort to address this issue from a number of different angles, but it just sounds bizarre when there are three in a row. We're not watching a conversation, then, we're watching what sounds like a PSA, in this case, it's "Dudes, be cool about the nudes your girlfriend lets you have." A message I whole heartedly agree with of course, but this isn't a conversation 20 guys in a locker room have. And how fucking inappropriate was it for Isaac (couldn't disagree more that he's a good team captain) to take that one guy's phone OUT OF HIS HAND? If you want to talk about being adults, that's not how to do it. The whole scene was stupid and again, it's just not a natural way for people to interact. This is a professional team of professional players, not a high school. Let them be adults and reach that realization on their own.
What, EXACTLY, is Keely's job? And how do we have any idea if she's (a) good at it today and (b) succeeding? I find myself more and more on team "Straightlaced Office Lady". I find keely pretty insufferable, her character's become this weird arrested development charicature, like she's perpetually nineteen. And Jack did a U turn this week on if she was cool with Keely being her girlfriend. I don't think anyone, and I mean anyone, today would demand that an employee who made a private video on their personal devince that pre-dates employment would demand the employee prostrate herself in front of the public and declare herself full of shame. Hell, would anyone even COVER that some public relations executive had her videos hacked? Keely would be on like page 4 of the google search for those hacks. Who'd even care? Mistake making it such a big deal, except that we HAD to have these virtuous footballers all take their chance to show what an awesome and sensitive guy they are. You can play with this plot line without this "BIG DEAL" thing hanging over it and it'll work just fine. Also ALL OF THOSE PLAYERS WOULD HAVE DOWNLOADED IT. Even the gay one.
I just am disappointed it feels like every scene ends with some smiling hug between two characters and everything's going to be okay. It makes me grouchy :).
Also fuck Nate from here to West Ham. His redemption is still unearned.
Also how does Richmond go on a 4 game win streak and we see none of it?
And nice guy or not, I don't think you last in the EPL if you lose seven straight contests nowadays.
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I think this finally broke my addiction guys. This is a terrible episode of an absolutely awful show. First, please stop with the Lindsey and Blaine stupidity. This story was never real, it doesn't sound anything like it's real, it's literally just a couple of losers thinking this is their big break. If that Blain guy speechified any more, I swear! And a grown up's reaction to problems isn't "Smash an old toilet into a fire I am burning on my own property". Plus the lawyer just calls and says give me $3K to get that ankle monitor off?? No effort at all on the part of this show to make that seem authentic.
Everyone else I just can't even stand. Tayler and Chance are too sad a storyline. Monique and her tiny husband, Aris and Tiny Montana (that sister had some SOLID BURNS on him), Montana Moron and his Jugalette, you can keep every one of them. I can't take it. I'm out!
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1 hour ago, cmfran said:
Really wanted some comeuppance for Nate after being terrible for so long, but I guess we aren't going to get that.
Ugh, I didn't even TOUCH on this Nate stuff. I can't for the life of me understand what the show wants me to do with Nate. I can tell you if it's root for his redemption, they've done nothing to make his character amend or realize how his actions were super douchey. I'm currently rooting for that waitress to humiliate him, or for Nate's boss / Rebecca's ex to fuck her behind Nate's back (okay, maybe that last one's a little harsh!), because I can't figure out what the redeeming factor for Nate is. You can't make him into a villain, have him act like an ass this whole season, then literally just DECIDE he's a good dude again. There's nothing to show us that. Bad job show!
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I guess I'm in the vast minority here, but this episode was ridiculous, and it seems to me that Lasso's one of these shows where the second I find something, some flaw in the armor of it, then all of a sudden it's ONLY the problems I can see. I feel like I need a folksy one liner to get me back on track here.
The first sin here is there's no two ways around this, the Jack / Keely relationship is inappropriate and uncomfortable to watch. I'm sure it's mentioned above, but if Jack were a man (and I don't appreciate the cheap sleight of hand on the name, either), that relationship is far less cute than it is currently reading. The gift itself is inappropriate and announcing your relationship in front of the office doesn't make it better.
THe Sam stuff; first, his dad is indeed Xoro Xarandoxos from Qarth and that was the best thing about his appearance. What happened at Sam's restaurant is clearly awful, but there's zero chance they get it all painted and back together in what feels like 24 hours, and you definitely can't just leave broken mirrors where food's going to be served without treating them. THere was no news coverage? Why not? The team would have definitely made a big deal out of that, it'd be everywhere!
Speaking of being everywhere, I'm sorry but there's zero chance anyone would be employed at RIchmond the moment that string around the dicks thing got out to the press. Literally everyone in leadership would be fired. You simply can't do that with grown up men (OR ANYONE), I'm sorry, that was nonsense. I also hated the clearly for the audience history lesson on Total Soccer.
I don't like when things all just work out perfectly, maybe I'm just a crab. I also hated last week's nonsense pillow fight in a hotel lobby, that's a BAD story for AFC Richmond, but here it's like "aren't those grayhounds cute." They're adults, folks. Pros.
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2 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
Isn't all fuel in Star Wars basically magic? I don't recall Han ever saying they need they needed to stop somewhere to fuel up the Falcon.
I'm totally fine never thinking about where they get their fuel...until you make Han Solo say "we're almost out of gas," which breaks the magic they're relying on. It's not a problem until the writers make it one, then ignore that it WAS one, that's all I'm saying. You're inviting the questions as a writer that way.
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17 hours ago, TV Anonymous said:
What is the fuel capacity of the jet packs anyway? In Chapter 20 when they followed the raptor that snatched Ragnar, the jet packs ran out of fuel. In this episode, Axe flew around with the jet pack, went down to subterranean cave, then made an orbital flight from there, and still had fuel to safely escape from the ship.
THe jetpacks are confounding as hell. It's like when the Jedi forget they have command of the force. The problem you point out is just an unforced error by the writers. If you don't make running out of fuel a plot point in an earlier episode, no one cares about how much fuel a jet pack carries. Once you bring it into the equation, a certain segment of viewers (AKA hardcore fans like me) there's a giant ripple effect. Where do they get the fuel? The Mandos on The Land Before Time planet have no problem using their jetpacks to fight a space turtle, so there must be a SOURCE of the fuel on that planet, no? Where do they STORE the fuel, both on the planet and on their person (suddenly getting shot at while wearing a jetpack seems 100X more dangerous, since the fuel is volatile enough to apparently make a space filght from the surface)? Is there something inside the helmet that displays remaining fuel? Nothing would be a dumber way to die than to start a flight without enough fuel to finish it, right? If fuel isn't really an issue, then why use Gauntlets at all, can't you just drop out of orbit?
I refuse to believe I'm the problem here.
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2 minutes ago, Keywestclubkid said:
I grew up in a dysfunctional home where my mom chose men over her being a mother so it already rubbed me the wrong way but this just feels like it shouldn't be on tv and her kids def need to be removed from that situation
Even the less "disturbing" stuff, like that poor kid having her bio dad revealed ON TELEVISION, it seems like these kids need an advocate in the production process to say "whoa, man, no one who is stoned at home waiting for one of these 'rap guys' to spit some terrible bars wants to watch a child get emotionally abused, guys, we need to get the kids into the hands of a caretaker for a couple hours."
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2 hours ago, Keywestclubkid said:
Taylor and Chance just totally skeeves me out now .. shes a freaking doormat and hes just a mentally abusive looser ... its not fun to watch esp with her kids involved its just SAD
This is a major problem with this show. Kids being involved take it from trashy but kinda fun to pass the time with to "prequel to disaster drama."
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3 minutes ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
He wanted Grogu's blood because he's force sensitive. I think he likes the Mandalorian culture because they are supposed to be some of the best fighters/warriors, and have beskar. Moff Gideon wanted the beskar.
Yeah, that part I got, but I don't know, I guess I thought he went Mando-crazy, like one of those people my parents were friends with in the early 80's who were really into Japanese culture, like they wore kimonos on the regular, had Japanese characters framed on their wall, didn't know what they meant, ate all their meals with chopsticks, even though their names were like James and Amy Bukowski. Gideon seemed to really want to BE mandalorian. I don't know if the show ever explained why.
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On 4/23/2023 at 1:11 AM, Dobian said:
Too bad the handle of the Dark Sabre was made from cheap molded plastic. You would think that the greatest sword in the galaxy would be housed in something a little more sturdy.
Like a beskar of quality the likes of which hadn't been seen in a thousand years? Because I'm pretty sure either the Armorer or Bo Katan described it that way in canon. The dark saber turned out to be a major narrative problem for this show. Mishandled at every turn, right up to the end. Let Bo Katan decide what happens to it, not Gideon.
Can anyone remind me why Gideon's got such a boner for Mando culture? Is he of Mando descent, perhaps outcast for joining the Imperial ranks? I get that he wanted mandalorian blood for its warrior qualities, but he moves his base there, he has a helmet that's basically from the Maul era, I just wish among the many minor tweaks that could have been made in this season, this explanation was among them. I guess "power" isn't a good enough motivation for a villain for me.
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15 hours ago, paigow said:
Which is how Kenobi lost the moral high ground to bitch at Anakin about Padme...
I see what you did there.
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3 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
Almost? Given how restrained Kenobi is, they were practically dry humping in the middle of the battle.
I remember it as they were basically living on Fuck Mountain, but that might be my head canon.
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Imagine being a Mandalorian and your name is KORKIE? Good luck sounding cool with that. Dude would dread every introduction, forever. "Boba Fett." "Paz Visla." "Axe Woves."
"Hi fellas, nice to meet you, I'm Korkie."
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4 hours ago, topanga said:
Speaking of which, why don't the couples have access to relationship counselors or experts? Or do Nick and Vanessa serve that role?
Oh god, I hope it's Nick and Vanessa. Please please please please give us two bonus episodes of them counseling the couples. PLEASE.
And you know they're not providing any counselors. Mental health, emotional stability and self awareness do not usually mix with love-based reality shows :).
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13 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
. Where did she learn to purify the sabre crystals from?
Maybe he wouldn't learn how to make a sabre himself, but where did Luke learn it?
I believe her learning to purify the kyber (sp) crystals was explained in her book. And if I recall correctly, Luke's lightsaber is built during the book Shadow of the Empire, which covered the gap between Empire and Jedi rather nicely. If I recall, he found directions basically at Ben's house on Tatooine.
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I try to be as forgiving as possible with these shows, for sure, but I'm sorry, I just can't get past that this just isn't a good season of television. Yes, it's still a worthy star wars franchise, but I'm seeing a number of different issues. First, they don't seem to know what to do with Din and Grogu at all. That dynamic drove the first two seasons. I'm not saying it can't change, but the show needs a driving narrative, whatever it is. This doesn't have one, and if it does, it's not compelling.
Maybe it's Bo Katan's story, but with two episodes to go, you have done zero work on the character and instead are relying on the uberdorks like me who would be like "Hey! Bo Katan Kryz, cool!" She's got an insane rich backstory, but we don't know who she really IS (you need to give her back story if you want the audience to care about her or the dark saber).
Question fellow fans: are any of the episodes in this season better than the two episodes that were in Book of Boba Fett? Seems like a couple of real wasted bullets there, particularly as it eliminated one of the potential drives of this season (their reunion).
My problem is there's 22 episodes of this show, and it seems 4 of the last 5 AT LEAST would be ranked below 15, without looking.
DROID BARS?!?
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Oooofff, forgot to mention the absolutely disturbing Puppy stuff. That dude is dope-nodding on television. He's intermittently incoherent, it's really, really hard to watch. That's a dangerous person that Puppy should be a million miles away from.
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Just now, DoctorAtomic said:
I haven't watched Andor. I like Burr in general, and the speech is something he's said in some of his shows when he calls out the audience. It's the hypocrisy I like.
I watched it once, thought it was blah, then in a lull in Star Wars content, decided recently to go back and rewatch it. I think it's the best of the Disney era Star Wars. If you do watch it, it helps to know that it's basically four "sections" of story. I didn't know that when I put it on and I think it made the pace feel strange. But if you ever wanted a show where there are no skywalkers in sight, no one uses the force, and you can get a look at how the Empire worked, could not recommend it more highly.
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26 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
Burr's monologue is probably the best in the entire history of the franchise. I use variations on it all the time when I'm pissed off at work because people are just gaming rules as they suit.
Luthen Rael would like a word. The "what do you sacrifice" speech in Andor is for me the best speech in the history of the franchise. Although less useful for when you're pissed off at work :).
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2 minutes ago, Dani said:
When of the most telling lines of the show came from Mayfield last season.That episode is sooooooo good.
While the last two, the nicest thing I can say about them is that they're definitely in the top 20 episodes in the history of the show.
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12 minutes ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
According to the people who do those analysis videos on YouTube (superfans?), they are allowed to take their helmets off for that because they can take their helmets off in front of immediate family. If this is true, theoretically, Ragnar has seen Paz Vizsla's face, because in the privacy of their own home, they can take their helmets off. BUT - if this were true, wouldn't Din be allowed to take his helmet off in front of Grogu in the privacy of their own ship because the Armorer dubbed Din "you are as his father" back in season 1? So Din doesn't seem to agree with the superfans.
This is totally sensible, but does that mean only after marriage? What's wrong with me, why do I care how a Mandalorian gives their beau a handjob, do they both need masks on? How would you know what you were doing was right?!?
The code frigging sucks, man. Same as the Jedi code.
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Look everybody, I love this show. I really, really do. But I'm on record as having hated the last episode (no apologies, the adventures of Dr. Pershing was a complete shitshow for me), and while this one is a step toward more what I like, it felt "off" for a couple of reasons.
First, the training stuff just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't like the way it felt like Din was pushing Grogu, for one thing. I really didn't like how it resolved, either, with the weird looking double flip over then shooting with paintball darts. Firstly, isn't that basically a quick draw contest? That's not really training as much as checking your training to this point. But more importantly, having him freeze the paintballs mid-air (or trying to and failing the first time or two) would have told us a lot more about Grogu than the bizarre looking flip thing.
Really though the thing that sticks out is HOW they talk. Everything's super formal, completely non-conversational, and in this particular episode, I felt like we were hearing a lot of "this is what I'm currently doing at this very second, but if I don't say it, the audience won't know". "I'm plotting a course to intercept them," for example. I hate that. And I thought the whole thing was that a 'foundling' was essentially an orphan. Ragnar is directly related to Vizla, so is he NOT a foundling? Weren't they all supposed to be foundlings? Ugh, enough with the code.
And don't pretend I'm the only one who heard that thing about them eating and thought, wait, is that how they fuck, with their helmets on??? How do they perform {WIFE CUTS ME OFF}...
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S03.E08: We’ll Never Have Paris
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I buy the Amsterdam team hang out, just not the pillow fight. Grown men aren't getting into pillow fights in hotel lobbies. And yes, team bonding sessions will happen, but usually in larger groups.
The bolded didn't make a lick of sense at all to me and I hated the shit out of it. That entire storyline took less than half of one episode and one of the players just HAPPENS to know how to do neon? Isn't it more sensible that they'd band together as a team, pool funds, and renovate the restaurant by using CONTRACTORS? And where was Ms. Public Relations to do a story about it? That was a gold mine and they resolved it by his delightful dad being like "Hang in there son, smile! We can ignore this!" COME BACK TO ME LASSO.