The Twilight Zone
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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!
Vanessa
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I said I was out, but another episode had downloaded and figured, hey, maybe this SJW stuff was just a fluke. NOPE, episode 4: White man bad.Episode 3?
-edit- Anyway, they went full-blown SJW with this... it was awful.
Deleted the series from my hard drive. Good riddance.
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If by good you mean barely tolerable, sounds about right. These really needed to be 30 minute episodes, especially this one. There was so much opportunity to fuck with the crew or have them all start second guessing themselves but it didn't actually pick up pace until the last 20 minutes. Soon as homeboy figured out the plot, all of a sudden a solar flare pops up? Then we cut to the guy overhearing the aliens conversation about saving the human race and no CGI budget to even show us the aliens, or determine why they were the ones to show us salvation.
Vanessa
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Furthermore, I'm unsure if they were in a simulation or not. If they were (which it seems so as evidenced by the fact dude-man was in the control-room covered in slime a-la the matrix), then what is the point of the Great Filter triumph? Why kill off the ENTIRE battery supply and keep 5 (4 post-trip) alive if it's a simulation? Just keep them all alive on earth without a nuclear winter that destroys the human race to keep their minds placated. Why would they need "Salvation" whatever that means if they're just meant to fuck and repopulate the human race on Mars?
I dunno, the ending seemed like it's just a conflict of resolution to me, but whatever. The show is just a "pick out the SJW moment" exercise anyway (last episodes is having the future of the human race be mixed instead of the one white dude fucking the other white chick... but maybe I'm reading too much into it all). Evil cop was the worst of the eyeroll episodes. The shows are well filmed, generally well acted, and have pretty cinematography, but it just doesn't deliver like old-school TZs do.
They're really pushing the #1015 easter egg. Wonder what's in store for them (us) on Oct. 15th?
Gonna give EP.7 a chance and that's probably it for me. I'm too much a fan of the TZ formula (I also dug Tales From the Darkside when I was real little) to not give it ooone more spin.
I dunno, the ending seemed like it's just a conflict of resolution to me, but whatever. The show is just a "pick out the SJW moment" exercise anyway (last episodes is having the future of the human race be mixed instead of the one white dude fucking the other white chick... but maybe I'm reading too much into it all). Evil cop was the worst of the eyeroll episodes. The shows are well filmed, generally well acted, and have pretty cinematography, but it just doesn't deliver like old-school TZs do.
They're really pushing the #1015 easter egg. Wonder what's in store for them (us) on Oct. 15th?
Gonna give EP.7 a chance and that's probably it for me. I'm too much a fan of the TZ formula (I also dug Tales From the Darkside when I was real little) to not give it ooone more spin.
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"Regulated" in this sense doesn't even mean "regulated" like we mean today (As in regulation). Regulated back then meant to be in "working order" or "effective". A "well regulated militia" in other words means, literally an effective, functioning militia. Or a "well armed, lethal militia". What the founders were saying there was that in order for the states to be able to summon up an effective resistance force, the people they summon must be well armed.
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The one with the amazing twist that men are evil because they are and not because a meteor hit?
If I get angry at the sheer stupidity of that
Mudcrush Durtfeet
, the fucking moron he is, will think I'm only being political! Because why should I be upset this is the level of intelligence we've devolved to, instead of nuanced, chilling insights into the human psyche that binds us all together to something we barely understand...We'll just say "all straight men bad, gay man good!"
Vanessa
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Every TZ episode had a touch of SJW'ness in it... every one. Episode 3 dialed it up to about a 7 with the "white cop bad / black fam good" shit (their interactions were soooo unrealistic and the ending was ultra-cringe) but the Not All Men episode?
Don't forget, the only non-evil man in the entire episode was the gay guy in an interracial relationship.
THERE'S NO LEFTIST AGENDA HERE THOUGH
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Just saw that one. I didn't mind it because it went to some interesting places with the parallel universe idea. Felt like a hybrid of Man in the High Castle + Black Mirror. If I'm interpreting it right, the main character crossed over from a dimension where WW3 happened to a dimension where the Axis won WW2, with a touch of Mandela Effect thrown in. Maybe I'm reading way too much into it though.
These episodes are hampered in both directions by their length: The half hour of the original series episodes was perfect for stories like this, while the near-hour of these episodes tends to result in things being drawn out and padded. However, at the same time, an hour is too short to really explore any of the concepts past a surface level. I wanted to know more about these dimensions (like if I'm right about WW3 and the Axis victory being the primary drivers of the two dimensions) yet the episode was over before it really got into any of it. Same deal with the aliens/simulation and the aliens/Alaska episodes. They ended right when the idea got interesting.
I've got a pretty high tolerance for preachy "SJW stuff" when it means well and isn't hurting anybody. You're right about episode 3 and "Not All Men" going overboard though. In episode 3, the unrealistic interactions ("hold on officer, I've got the deed to the car right here!") and the ridiculous ending both pushed my limits a bit, but I liked the premise and even the overall message (the idea that, sometimes, people are just out to get you and there's no avoiding their eventual wrath).
"Not All Men" however was just a smorgasbord of overt in-your-face social justice clichés that made men seem super-creepy. Haven't rolled my eyes that much watching something (besides GoT) in a while. At least the main actress is super attractive to me (probably because she looks just like my first girlfriend) so I was able to get through the episode with that affinity for her. Everything else though...ehhhh. The big tweest about the meteorites just giving men an excuse to be their evil, vile selves was pretty laughable. So many facepalms, so many clichés, so many dumb "anti-woman" phrases that I never actually hear in the real world like the one about smiling more.