The Boys
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Sanrith Descartes
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"I didn't watch this show passed episode 1. GOT was overhyped. I'm so cool."
Episode 1 ends with the Queen fucking her twin brother who is the King's guard, and murdering a child who catches them. Or at least we believe they murder him. Yeah shit happens in every show I watch. Most overused trope ever.
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Izo
Tranny Chaser
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....but yeah, GoT 1 episode drops would not fly today, must binge a season or not at all. Losing intrest in the boys for this reason.
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Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Depends on how good the pay off is. Nobody minds a slow burn with a compelling crescendo. Everyone minds a slow burn with no payoff whatsoever. I think the viewing experience will be the same for all of us whether we watched it weekly or binged the entire thing soon after the last episode airs.
I fully expect some shit to start happening and then to be left with a cliffhanger since they ended season 1, annoyingly, on a cliffhanger.
I fully expect some shit to start happening and then to be left with a cliffhanger since they ended season 1, annoyingly, on a cliffhanger.
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Caliane
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The weekly versus all at once, just depends on how its written/edited.
A weekly needs a start middle end, every week. and ideally, if its a serial, a cliffhanger. the GoT s1 ep1 example is perfect. It ends with Bran getting pushed out the window.
Thats EXACTLY how you end a weekly serial.
s1 the Boys was written more like that. each episode built into the next, and things kept ramping up. S2 is now meandering. the stakes aren't building, and episodes dont have cliffhangers. Its being written as if they expected all to drop at once, so no need to have weekly crescendos. or, like a 90's episodic.. kindof like a Buffy. small contained episodes/tales, occasional character growth, and only real cliffhangers in the season finale.
Episodics have their place. but will never generate much buzz.
A weekly needs a start middle end, every week. and ideally, if its a serial, a cliffhanger. the GoT s1 ep1 example is perfect. It ends with Bran getting pushed out the window.
Thats EXACTLY how you end a weekly serial.
s1 the Boys was written more like that. each episode built into the next, and things kept ramping up. S2 is now meandering. the stakes aren't building, and episodes dont have cliffhangers. Its being written as if they expected all to drop at once, so no need to have weekly crescendos. or, like a 90's episodic.. kindof like a Buffy. small contained episodes/tales, occasional character growth, and only real cliffhangers in the season finale.
Episodics have their place. but will never generate much buzz.
Fadaar
That guy
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does it go live that early? hell yeah, saves me from having to watch another Toilet Bowl
kegkilla
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Ishad
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Oh we’re already at strip mining the ip? I expect very little to happen the remainder of the season
Arbitrary
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How about instead we do an adaptation of Black Summer or No Hero or any of the other edgey deconstructions/reconstructions.
Garth Ennis did Crossed right? That would be a cool show.
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