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lol @ GAF being shocked how different they look now. It's been more than half a decade what do you expect
aging really scares some people.
anyway I thought the first episode was already pretty good, aside from
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that motherfucker seth rogen.
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I've watched like 8 episodes. It's okay but its not nearly as good as the original show which I think was to be expected. It's simply not as funny. Which is not to say there aren't funny things in it but it simply isn't funny on a consistent basis like the old show was. It really comes down to that. It's simply not as tight nor as clever, nor as revolutionary as the original episodes. It's like listening to a comeback album. A lot the admiration is simply based on nostalgia and being happy to see the old faces together. It's nothing to get up in arms about. It's not like the original show doesn't exist or anything or that these episodes have tarnished anything. I'm glad they did it to scratch the itch so we can all sort of move along now.
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As far as a clever intertwining plot that's fine and all but for me it doesn't overcome the limitations of the writing simply not being as funny or the show not being edited as well. Some scenes just seem to go on forever. A lot of it feels like stuff that would have been cut from the original to fix the pacing. Yeah it also doesn't help that its not a normal show where everybody is available for every scene to create a really fluid situation. As far as things I like, the story definitely seems a bit darker and less needing to end on family friendly themes that a network would really make you have. Everybody is really pathetic and they really embrace that here rather than trying to end episodes on high upbeat notes like the original show more often aimed for
A New Attitude is amazing.
Yeah that was my favorite episode. I finished up the season tonight. It was good. My impressions improved after the second half and how things start to string together. It was enjoyable. I think every character had strong moments. There were some exceptionally funny bits. Its definitely darker than the original episodes. It's still not as classic as the original episodes but I liked it for some different reasons.
I hope they do another season rather than a movie. A movie would fix the issue of them not being able to film characters together more often but I honestly think AD is more suited to the episodic nature it currently has.
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Some of the stuff I loved.
Everything in episode 11. The Gob and Tony Wonder stuff was amazing. Everything about the predators at the housing development was great. Busters killing people gleefully with the drones. It may not have been as tight as the earlier seasons but there was really some funny stuff especially in the second half.
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I came in to Blockheads with the expectation that they would find a way to get the entire family together for a big finale, but the direction the writers took things made me realize that the scheduling conflicts may have been beneficial to the show in some ways. Michael getting a deserved punch in the face was emotionally satisfying and understated without being contrived. By contrast, imagine if they had contrived a way to get the entire family together for a big finale. Given how splintered the characters are from one another, it definitely would have rung false. And given who these characters were from the very beginning, it really kind of makes more sense that they would be fractured from one another, and many of the situations where they were all together in past seasons did feel contrived. They did such a good job with this that it makes me think that the pressure to have everyone participating in every episode may be just as bad, if not worse, than the pressure to keep the characters relatively separate.
I also just rewatched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of season 4. Nearly every line is foreshadowing. If only LOST was this tightly conceived.
Watched the entire thing. Starts off a little slow but one the all the pieces come together it's pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.
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Tommy Tune and Tobias making a Fantastic 4 musical? Amazing
Oh and Isla Fisher :noah
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anustart
Yeah. Had to rewind to make sure I heard correctly. Stupid but :lol
Fuggin' Tobias.
I do feel there are some elements in the reboot that are sorely missing. A show about lunacy does need some sort of sane center for the lunacy to bounce off of even if Michael was always a very flawed center, it worked. I also feel the layering of events and goings-on that would normally produce jokes suffers from the structure of this reboot. The story lacks momentum due to being so fragmented, and that momentum was always a part of the humor of the show's layering of jokes and self-references. By the time we see spoiler (click to show/hide)
that Tobias is in India with Lindsay, I've already long figured it out, then forgotten about it, and am now sort of annoyed that it's coming back again while I've moved on in the story.
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remember the line in the previous season
"Is that what my hair's gonna look like?"
:dead
Also
"I'm here! I'm queer!...
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I fucking died
Do not watch unless you've seen the last GoT episode "Rains of Castamere"
Seriously.
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Also one big glaring problem about the season:
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Isla Fisher and Michael Cera? Negro please :comeon I bet kissing her the highlight of his now near dead career. Probably beats making out with plain hipster chicks.