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OT: Movies/TV Shows

Preston said:
It's a television show that I watched from literally day 1. And honestly the week wait in between episodes was tough at first because interest in the program wasn't at its peak, but it eventually became awesome. The anticipation for a new episode every Sunday was fantastic.

And then when I binged it I enjoyed it too. Zeke needs to get on it of course. Similar programs in a lot of ways for obvious reasons, with breaking bad being far more suspenseful. But they're both great, I agree.
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The funny thing about the suspense in waiting a week for each new episode, now I find it annoying.

Saul still has like 5 unreleased episodes on the way, and I'll be caught up to the end of what's out there probably next week, so having to wait as the last few trickle out is going to be torture now that I've been watching one after another and am almost at the end.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
The funny thing about the suspense in waiting a week for each new episode, now I find it annoying.

Saul still has like 5 unreleased episodes on the way, and I'll be caught up to the end of what's out there probably next week, so having to wait as the last few trickle out is going to be torture now that I've been watching one after another and am almost at the end.
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I probably can't do the weekly thing now but at the time it was great. Sundays were always something to look forward to. It was an event! Like what I imagine Monday night football is like for football fans.
 
Preston said:
I probably can't do the weekly thing now but at the time it was great. Sundays were always something to look forward to. It was an event! Like what I imagine Monday night football is like for football fans.
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You're forgetting that the once a week thing was what made us dump Saul in the first place when it first came out!
 
I just remembered that the exact same thing happened with BB back then. Everyone kept saying for years how it was so good, and then AMC ran a marathon and I literally recorded 55 episodes on the DVR and started watching them. By the time I got to the end, there was like 1 or 2 episodes that still weren't released yet, so I saw it end with everyone else. Saul is probably 5 weeks away from finishing up though.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
You're forgetting that the once a week thing was what made us dump Saul in the first place when it first came out!
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It's true. Breaking Bad was probably the last show where I tolerated the weekly episode thing. I could never do it now. Too much tv at my finger tips. The feeling of scarcity or exclusivity of a single new episode got me horned up. It's too easy to watch television now for that feeling to continue.
 
Preston said:
It's true. Breaking Bad was probably the last show where I tolerated the weekly episode thing. I could never do it now. Too much tv at my finger tips. The feeling of scarcity or exclusivity of a single new episode got me horned up. It's too easy to watch television now for that feeling to continue.
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I did it with This is Us, but that's an entirely different kind of show where you don't have mini or major cliffhangers each week. For something like that, it's easy still. But something like this, maybe I'd wait till it got close to the end again and then watch. Or wait for the end of each season.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
As good as GOT was for the most part before the end, how can you forgive that last season? It fully ruined it for me.

Coincidentally, I was with my cousin and uncle last week and the subject came up, and someone we got to talking about my favorite character (Oberyn) and so we rewatched his last scene on YouTube. That was some unbelievable tv. But all ruined in the end.

I'm sort of hoping the Jon Snow spinoff, if it happens, redeems it so that I can just consider the last season a weak middle season, but I really don't think I can, not with how pretty much every story of every character ending in a way I hated. Did any of them end well? Off the top of my head, I can't think of one.
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A good 5 years of must watch TV is as good as it gets imo. Just pretend the last 1.5 seasons didn't happen.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I like this self-deception, but I can't pretend as well as you can, so it remains ruined for me.
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Like with BCS the ending doesn't really matter to me. It's not some mystery show where the solution makes it all work out. I could give a fuck who "won the game" in fact I don't think George ever wanted anyone to win. GoT could have kept going for ages without any wrap up.
 
zeke said:
Like with BCS the ending doesn't really matter to me. It's not some mystery show where the solution makes it all work out. I could give a fuck who "won the game" in fact I don't think George ever wanted anyone to win. GoT could have kept going for ages without any wrap up.
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Nah, a good story has to have a proper ending, one that lines up with the beginning and middle. Especially a story so expansive and detailed.

I can't just be like oh, all the good seasons are self-contained awesomeness, and how all these characters die or live on is meaningless. Wish I could.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Nah, a good story has to have a proper ending, one that lines up with the beginning and middle. Especially a story so expansive and detailed.

I can't just be like oh, all the good seasons are self-contained awesomeness, and how all these characters die or live on is meaningless. Wish I could.
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Nah.

The Books are also still great and there's no ending.

Life has no endings my friend. The game always plays on.
 
zeke said:
Nah.

The Books are also still great and there's no ending.

Life has no endings my friend. The game always plays on.
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The ending has been written for all of us.

The question is whether it's a good one (Sinatra) or a bad one (Lennon, Elvis, Cornell, Prince, Winehouse, Cobain).

There are more bad ones sadly.
 
You can't invest in a bunch of characters for several years only to see them end up dying in stupid ways or randomly walking or sailing off somewhere.
 
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