This movie is just a shortened down version of season 1. There won't be anything new that you haven't already seen. I guess it would be good for quickly summarizing season 1 before starting season 2.
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In 2024, with season 3 of the series starting, a refresher is exactly what I'm using this and the season 2 summary movie for. That's pretty much the best use for them, getting reacquainted with a franchise in less time than it would take to re-watch the whole thing.
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Is there anything more evil than Winnie Cooper ?? Man, it hurts !!
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@hljrichard I'm combing through memories of what Kevin's done and honestly, I can't think of much. If my recollections can be trusted (and that's somewhat in doubt :sweat_smile:), generally speaking, Kevin occasionally makes Winnie jealous by e.g. being too flirty with a waitress, or totally overreacting to her interactions with another boy. Meanwhile Winnie cheats on him at least twice, in addition to overreacting any time he so much as glances at anything with long hair.
It's tempting to see if anyone published an academic analysis of their relationship. This show seems like it could be great material for a college writing class like the one I took freshman year (except mine was about music in TV, not relationships).
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VIPThis doesn't make sense. How is it that she said yes when he doesn't even know her.
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Pressing onward with previously planned story beats after Josh's actor left the show was a questionable choice.
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There's only good joke about hiring a guy as a lead character of a TV show without previous acting experience.
It's probably the most homophobe episode in this show 3/10.
PS: was that how soap operas were made? It was a live show?
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Live used to be the standard way to create television. The earliest shows are lost forever because they simply weren't recorded anywhere.
Soaps held onto live production longer than other scripted-fiction genres. It's hard to beat the turnaround!
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The thing I watched in a 16:4 wooden frame TV as part of a show aired in 16:4 on my 16:9 TV was actually funny. For this moment alone, Phil dancing and Geoffrey dressed like Bootsy Collins this episode ain't totally shabby. I like most of the episodes focused on Phil anyway. Like in last episode, you feel how important the relation between Phil and Will is for this show. Question: Was Soul Train a real show?
PS: one of the best Carlton dances on the show. Geoffrey is extra naughty in this episode. Hillary's miniscule B-plot is funny. It leads to nowhere. I adore her anyway. She deserves her own episode.
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Question: Was Soul Train a real show?
Yes, and Don Cornelius was its real host up until shortly before this episode aired. https://trakt.tv/shows/soul-train
(I'm over here laughing at the idea of cropping Fresh Prince to 16:4, btw. You'd lose most of the picture!)
Since when is Latina a name?
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Spotted Phill Lewis in season 6 and apparently I missed him (or missed mentioning it) in this episode.
@justin All I hear is "This is an historical artifact and we shouldn't delete it" :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
*hovers mouse over Report button*
*sees who posted this comment*
*moves mouse off of Report button* :smiley_cat:
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I can see why this series was canceled. This last season was not good at all. Turning Lightman into more of a curmudgeon and making him unlikable really did not help the show at all. There were quite a few episodes where they recycled ideas from previous seasons. The only thing I would have liked to have seen was what they would have done with Michael B. Jordan's character. It almost seemed like they were getting that character ready for a larger role in the next season.
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@ultramookie They were absolutely gearing up for a new person on the Lightman Group staff, and I was disappointed first by how long it took him to come back—then again by the series ending before his role really had a chance to go anywhere.
KARR exploding at the end was short-sighted, I'd say. Now there's no chance of it coming back in a future story.
I like how this was basically Knight Rider's version of "Datalore" (ST:TNG). Yes I know this came first.
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@tygerboi I'm not sure whether non-VIP members can see these forum discussions, but I created a thread about the apparent (possibly destructive, in 1x22's case) metadata changes here: https://forums.trakt.tv/t/knight-rider-season-1-metadata-shuffled-probable-data-loss/16429
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@tygerboi As alluded to in https://trakt.tv/comments/600967 I'm pretty sure this is a case of metadata changing long after these comments were posted, and not necessarily for the better.
KARR exploding at the end was short-sighted, I'd say. Now there's no chance of it coming back in a future story.
I like how this was basically Knight Rider's version of "Datalore" (ST:TNG). Yes I know this came first.
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@tygerboi Argh, I bet somebody (probably TMDB) changed metadata to combine the two-part airing of 1x01 back into a single episode, and Trakt shifted all the titles around. Now my history for the season is all messed up AND I've lost any plays/comments for episode 1x22 (now 1x21).
Always known this was a possibility. Haven't actually seen it happen before now. :weary:
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VIP10Fortunately for the effects team, MacBooks can, in fact, run Windows. Doesn't explain why that one was, but it's at least possible.
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Update from the future: Slightly more difficult now that Apple has switched to in-house SOCs based on ARM designs instead of off-the-shelf Intel mobile chips.
Bridget's look during her first appearance in this episode could be ripped straight out of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody or something. Big Ashley Tisdale vibe, but maybe it's the other way around and the Tisdale look I'm thinking of was actually a callback to Kaley Cuoco's role here? (Remains to be seen if Bridget's altered style is permanent, though.)
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(Remains to be seen if Bridget's altered style is permanent, though.)
It wasn't. She's back to straightened hair a few episodes later.
Man, that short-form intro didn't last long, did it? Though I really wonder why the latter half of this season on Hulu (so far) has had eyecatches inserted between segments. I didn't watch any of the Stargate shows during the original broadcasts, so I have no frame of reference for whether that's a syndication thing or part of the initial cuts.
Having Picardo deliver that line about "a… 'federation', if you will" was an absolute master stroke because he spent 7 years on Star Trek: Voyager playing one holographic component of a Federation starship.
Unfortunately, Picardo was the only master stroke of this clip show. I suppose the silver lining (if one could call it that) is that Atlantis proved that it inherited the DNA and habits of SG-1 before it, saving budget for the season opening and ending arcs by aggressively optimizing costs for the middle stretches.
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@bkoto Didn't have Syfy, and wasn't really aware of them at that age anyway.
Syndication is best explained by a proper source, rather than my two-finger pecking on a smartphone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_syndication
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VIP7"We may not be a global epidemic yet, but... we've leapt from bat saliva to humans and... and we've just killed our first few villagers."
Watching this during COVID, and I hear that line :grimacing:
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@morphinapg ikr? I had to double check the air date
Another one Trakt thinks is 23 minutes, but is actually 25…
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@thatvegasguy Mm, I figured out how to edit the external data sources. Or maybe for this show, someone else did. Fixed either way.
@rasslingrob7 Same. Absolutely did not recognize him, though the "blues" theme should have been a big hint.
This is an adolescent high school soap dressed up as a wannabe SciFi. Maybe it's just trying to find its legs, but I very much doubt it.
The whole thing looks like it was developed on a shoe string budget and then someone spent half of it on lunch.
I only rolled my eyes several times this episode.
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I remain hopeful. Stargate Universe seemed like a soap opera too with all the interpersonal drama at first, but it grew out of that.
Too late to avoid cancelation, but it did grow out of that.
Just to remind myself, if I ever rewatch this, to skip episodes 3 and 7.
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@amasulem The damage was done long before OP watched this show, don't worry.
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A good episode but they just repeat the storyline from season 2 in the episode fluffed except this time it’s Jess who is the fluffed rather than Nick, this feels a little like lazy writing and makes it tiring
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@lexieknight Thank goodness Winston and Aly make it tolerable, along with Schmidt and the points of entry :grin:
They're really hitting us over the head with this 'Jess and Nick are meant for each other' stuff now. Like they're cute but there is nothing subtle about this. Just pull the cord already
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@reiko_lj Yeah, but they had to stretch all this out for another "season" (even though it was a shortened one). :weary:
3 things needed to be achieved in this episode to ensure the success of the season finale and the build up to an epic season 2.
1) Ellie is the strong element on the equation, she is truly special and not a clever little girl. She is a natural leader and powerful women (super clear during the talk in the cell and when she grabs that cleaver, cleverly );
2)that Bella Ramsey can be adult, raw, fearless and agressive . Her face covered in blood, the knife cuts and the fire behind makes it very visual
3) and finally that the the relationship with Joel is of love and dependence. They would do anything to save the other. When they meet at the end we can see it in their eyes.Thats why this simple episode needed an amazing performance and we got it. Truly incredible and remarkable with so many small references to the game and one HUGE one: Troy Baker :)
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@movielijst Came here to say the same thing :joy_cat:
Filler episode that added nothing to the story long-term. Meh.
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@drive95 World-building for Part II and giving Ellie a chance to show her own mettle is filler?
Man that was tense! I totally see why Bella said there would be some divided opinions on this one because David was one sick guy. Like... not even the game went there haha. IMO though it worked pretty well, as it made me sympathize a little less with David here than in the game. Great episode and tense all the way through! Sad we're coming up on the finale but man... The hype is real haha. (Nice work here by Troy, did a great job!)
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@shmuckle The game went close enough to there that it was obvious if you paid attention. Just requires a little reading between the lines, same as Bill/Frank.
Nothing says 80’s like the mall. Damn great episode. The acting is so very good.
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I don't know why the mall should say '80s, since Outbreak Day in the HBO timeline was in September 2003
David and Patrick are the damn best.
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@larziej Dare we say, simply the best?
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@vortilion Just let us nerds have our fun, hmm?
* What an ending.
* Favorite and scariest/most chilling part of this episode - the Indonesian professor telling the general to start bombing the city and everyone in it.
* Entire clicker scene was a masterclass in suspense.The set design is fantastic, that alone really puts a huge divide between it and other similar zombie shows. Pedro is solid, Bella I'm still not a huge fan but she was better this episode,
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Bella I'm still not a huge fan but she was better this episode
I suspect this will be a major "unpopular opinion" for this series, but for what it's worth I agree. There's something about both her performance and her appearance that feels "wrong" for the character as I remember her from the first game. She doesn't look quite young enough or innocent enough to fit the role, maybe? Ramsey's face is, for lack of better words, harder than the in-game character model, and even after two episodes I haven't gotten used to it yet.
(Casting a true 14-year-old probably would have been a very hard sell because of how heavy the filming workload is for the character, though, if they could even find one with a look closer to the game character. I get that in the end, the art form of television is restricted by production considerations.)
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They wasted 2 espisodes in a row (this is part 1) of showing clips from previous episodes...If I wanted to watch reruns I would watch those episodes. Total waste of time...
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@giyex74541 Total waste of tool time!
