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    • Auspice
      Auspice @Deleted last edited by

      @admiral said in Good TV:

      @auspice I wish we still had downvotes. You deserve it. You ruined my life. 😞

      No.
      Starz deserves it.

      They ruined everything

      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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        Ash vs. Evil Dead dies and garbage reality TV and shitcoms last forever.

        Everyone who watches trash like Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother is to blame for the world's problems.

        My rage is pure and infinite.

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        • Lotherio
          Lotherio @Deleted last edited by

          @admiral said in Good TV:

          and shitcoms last forever

          Where's my ..... paaaAANTS?!?

          I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.

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          • Auspice
            Auspice @Deleted last edited by

            @admiral said in Good TV:

            Ash vs. Evil Dead dies and garbage reality TV and shitcoms last forever.

            Everyone who watches trash like Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother is to blame for the world's problems.

            My rage is pure and infinite.

            shhhh
            go watch Lost in Space

            Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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            • Aria
              Aria last edited by Aria

              I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decide whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

              https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
              There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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              • Auspice
                Auspice @Aria last edited by

                @aria said in Good TV:

                I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decided whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

                I AM STILL SO ANGRY ABOUT MARCO POLO BEING CANCELLED.

                esp because I mean hasn't Troy been done over and over and over and over

                Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                • Aria
                  Aria @Auspice last edited by

                  @auspice said in Good TV:

                  @aria said in Good TV:

                  I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decided whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

                  I AM STILL SO ANGRY ABOUT MARCO POLO BEING CANCELLED.

                  esp because I mean hasn't Troy been done over and over and over and over

                  Yes. Usually badly. And while I realize there's mythos there to depict... I dunno... you could make three goddesses seem slightly less random and lame??

                  https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                  There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                  • Jaded
                    Jaded @Aria last edited by

                    @aria
                    As an objective watcher, Troy: Fall of A City is just bad. The visuals yo yo between nice and then eh. But the writing seems to fall flat quite a bit and what should be something that should have writing along the lines of the old Spartacus tv show, I get more of the Young and the Restless from it at times.

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                    • Lotherio
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                      If you're over the same things rehashed, Netflix has a bunch of subtitled Turkish period pieces. I recommend Magnificent Century, it pulled me in oddly. Start there you'll get other recommendations.

                      I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.

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                        I enjoy some of the Turkish stuff, but there's a lot of strong political undertones to Turkish shows, especially the newer ones. They're not as bad as Chinese shows yet but they're pretty blatantly propaganda.

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                        • Roz
                          Roz Banned last edited by

                          Jane the Virgin's season finale, holy shit.

                          Holy shit!! I love this show.

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                          • Derp
                            Derp Admin @Aria last edited by

                            @aria said in Good TV:

                            I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decide whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

                            Same, but with Sense8. Troy is crap so far.

                            Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.

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                            • Arkandel
                              Arkandel Admin @Derp last edited by

                              @derp I had the misfortune of reading through the comments section on a Troy review when I was curious about the show. A lot of posts were about 'Hollywood rewriting characters for affirmative action, lol, they made Achilles bisexual'.

                              Motherfuckers, have you read the Illiad?

                              • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                              • Coin
                                Coin @Derp last edited by

                                @derp said in Good TV:

                                @aria said in Good TV:

                                I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decide whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

                                Same, but with Sense8. Troy is crap so far.

                                I can understand them canceling Sense8. It had a relatively small audience and cost 9 million dollars an episode.

                                "Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.

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                                • Derp
                                  Derp Admin @Arkandel last edited by

                                  @arkandel said in Good TV:

                                  Motherfuckers, have you read the Illiad?

                                  You have no idea how many times I have said that in RL.

                                  Patroclus and Achilles weren't hetero life mates. Come on. That's made abundantly clear.

                                  Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.

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                                  • Aria
                                    Aria @Arkandel last edited by

                                    @arkandel said in Good TV:

                                    @derp I had the misfortune of reading through the comments section on a Troy review when I was curious about the show. A lot of posts were about 'Hollywood rewriting characters for affirmative action, lol, they made Achilles bisexual'.

                                    Motherfuckers, have you read the Illiad?

                                    ....Not to mention all the times the Greeks laughed about how white and pale the Babylonians were, what with covering their skin from the sun. Y'all can keep wanking off to the xenophobic, hyper-masculine Miller version of 300 if you really want to, but uhhhh, Hellenistic Greece was full of brown boys who loved the D. #sorrynotsorry

                                    https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                                    There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                                    • Arkandel
                                      Arkandel Admin @Aria last edited by

                                      @aria Well, xenophobic wasn't even a concern.

                                      I mean a very common phrase in antiquity was "πας μη Έλλην βάρβαρος" which literally means "whoever is not Greek is a barbarian".

                                      • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                                      • Aria
                                        Aria @Arkandel last edited by

                                        @arkandel Ohh, I was more referring to the timing of the 300 movie coming out in the US and it being all about a band of valiant white boys fighting back the evil, monstrous hordes of brown people from the Middle East all in the name of 'freedom'.

                                        Kind of like how Taken, much as I enjoyed that movie, is essentially every middle-aged white American dude's dad fantasy of fighting like a badass to save his wholesome daughter from the sexual depravity of a sheikh. Like, the bad guy is literally a sheikh with a harem of drugged up white slave girls.

                                        I'm just sayin'.

                                        https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                                        There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                                        • Auspice
                                          Auspice @Coin last edited by

                                          @coin said in Good TV:

                                          @derp said in Good TV:

                                          @aria said in Good TV:

                                          I'm two episodes into "Troy: Fall of City" and I can't decide whether it's objectively just not very good or if my recurring sentiment of ".......You cancelled Marco Polo but decided to pay for this?" is just spoiling everything for me.

                                          Same, but with Sense8. Troy is crap so far.

                                          I can understand them canceling Sense8. It had a relatively small audience and cost 9 million dollars an episode.

                                          They had a similar excuse for Marco Polo. 'It didn't have a lot of viewers and was expensive to make.'

                                          I imagine Troy has a similar cost range and, at the reviews it's getting, will have even fewer viewers.

                                          Hence the ire some of us have. Marco Polo at least was a new story (Troy has been rehashed a lot) and it was done well for 'as few' viewers as it had.

                                          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                            WildBaboons last edited by

                                            but did they make Troy or just buy the rights to it?

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