Official All Things TV Thread
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@Dashrender said:
I don't have a problem with that delay. The delay is there to drive sales of Blurays. If you want it right now, buy the Bluray, if you can stand waiting a month, well then.. lol wait.
I don't follow. BluRays come out after the digital downloads these days. We get movies months earlier than they go to BD.
You do for purchase, but not for rent or for services like Netflix or HULU.
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@Dashrender said:
You do for purchase, but not for rent or for services like Netflix or HULU.
Oh sure, but even if you do normal rental, loaning is difficult and annoying. Once you into that category you just share Netflix accounts to lend something. Or tell them to get their own Netflix account. That's not the same as owning a movie, you are already paying to borrow it, not to own it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
You do for purchase, but not for rent or for services like Netflix or HULU.
Oh sure, but even if you do normal rental, loaning is difficult and annoying. Once you into that category you just share Netflix accounts to lend something. Or tell them to get their own Netflix account. That's not the same as owning a movie, you are already paying to borrow it, not to own it.
Sure I understand that Netflix etc are just borrowing movies, but when the movie doesn't become available for months or longer, and I'm willing to go to the hassle of borrowing a Bluray versus handing over $4+ for a rental... than I am..
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Community is back and, strangely, on Yahoo! Screen.
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That was an amazing show. @dominica and I always watched that.
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What happens when Firefly cast members decide to make a spoof-ish show and base some of the show off what happened with Firefly? Well, they raise over 1.5 MILLION in two days...
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That's pretty impressive. Let's hope that it goes somewhere.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That's pretty impressive. Let's hope that it goes somewhere.
Agreed! I pitched in $50 bucks and are getting a poster for it. If I'd seen that $60 got you a t-shirt, I'd have dropped the extra $10 but oh well...
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"I are getting"? You've been away from NY for too long
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@scottalanmiller said:
"I are getting"? You've been away from NY for too long
I've spoken that way my whole life...
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Texas did not alter my speech patterns whatsoever.
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I've never seen Lost, but
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It seems like a really stupid TV show based on all I've read about it, glad I didn't get wrapped up in it like I did Earth2, I'll never get that time back.
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@tonyshowoff said:
I've never seen Lost, but
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It seems like a really stupid TV show based on all I've read about it, glad I didn't get wrapped up in it like I did Earth2, I'll never get that time back.
Never seen it either, but heard enough about it to know that I have no interest in it at all.
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@tonyshowoff said:
I've never seen Lost, but
spoilers
It seems like a really stupid TV show based on all I've read about it, glad I didn't get wrapped up in it like I did Earth2, I'll never get that time back.
I tried watching it a few times when people where saying it was so good. The show doesn't even make sense.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I tried watching it a few times when people where saying it was so good. The show doesn't even make sense.
I've discovered, and I am being completely serious, that for most people no show makes sense. People find tension from the moment to moment situations, from musical cues, from cinematography but they actually, in general, cannot follow plots and don't actually know what is happening. It is amazing how often people love shows that are not self consistent and don't make sense and have no idea because they don't actually pay attention or manage to follow the events and put them together.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
I tried watching it a few times when people where saying it was so good. The show doesn't even make sense.
I've discovered, and I am being completely serious, that for most people no show makes sense. People find tension from the moment to moment situations, from musical cues, from cinematography but they actually, in general, cannot follow plots and don't actually know what is happening. It is amazing how often people love shows that are not self consistent and don't make sense and have no idea because they don't actually pay attention or manage to follow the events and put them together.
This is why I don't like ScFi. There isn't much of a plot.. other than hey, lets us as much special fx as we can.
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Lost was definitely not for everyone. I have only seen 3 seasons to date, but plan to watch the whole show at some point in the future.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
This is why I don't like ScFi. There isn't much of a plot.. other than hey, lets us as much special fx as we can.
I love the idea of SciFi as a setting, but you are right, I rarely watch it because they end up leaning on SFX and who cares about that.
That's why I loved Mass Effect so much. It gave the setting of a SciFi but with amazingly deep storyline, writing and character development.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
This is why I don't like ScFi. There isn't much of a plot.. other than hey, lets us as much special fx as we can.
I love the idea of SciFi as a setting, but you are right, I rarely watch it because they end up leaning on SFX and who cares about that.
That's why I loved Mass Effect so much. It gave the setting of a SciFi but with amazingly deep storyline, writing and character development.
Sci-Fi can often have good story lines. Both Star Wars and Star Trek are sci-fi. The problem is that sci-fi is a less common genre to make a movie in and therefore, when the number of bad ones outweighs the good ones as badly as it does in sci-fi, and the total number of movies is so much lower than other genres, it gets a bad name overall.
