[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread

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fade said:
Which makes most anime funny, because they tend to use more western style parries in anime because it looks cooler. But that would be a pretty dumb idea with the swords they're using. Of course, I suppose it's subverted when it's the Super Magical Happy Monkey Sword Which Can Cut Through Ghosts.
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Edge on edge parrying is always a bad idea when using a cutting sword, but the choreography is often taken from fencing. Fencing is mainly derived from rapier and small sword fighting, and both of those types of blades generally were narrow, rigid, and either square or hexagonal in cross section with no cutting edge, as offense was based around the thrust. Since those blades had no edge to damage, clashing blades was a perfectly viable tactic.

In European longsword fighting, most parries are slashes aimed to strike perpendicular to the path of your opponent's strike and deflect it away. In such a case, you'd be hitting their sword side-on, rather than edge-on.
 
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Frank

Frank

Holy shit fuck. I watched the Venture Bros. special tonight with my girlfriend, who's never seen the show. I tried to dissuade her but she said it was ok. That special IS NOT the place for new viewers.

That said, it may be the best thing I've ever seen.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Frank said:
Holy shit fuck. I watched the Venture Bros. special tonight with my girlfriend, who's never seen the show. I tried to dissuade her but she said it was ok. That special IS NOT the place for new viewers.

That said, it may be the best thing I've ever seen.
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Yeah, you can't just jump into the venture brothers in the middle.

Also, if you didn't watch it online, go to adultswim.com and watch the online-only epilogue.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Arrow

Finally sitting down to give this another chance. I think this is like my third time giving it a chance. And it's still...okay. I'm just finished the 12th episode, which introduced Count Vertigo. Probably one of the better episodes.

But I swear, the formula for half of these episodes is:
1) Introduce new villain
2) Make it personal for Ollie
3) Confronts villain first time, but they get away
4) Party! (sometimes to call out villain)
5) Ollie sneaks out of party in order to stop villain
6) Gets in trouble with family or friends for leaving party

And the character drama is still so much goddamn fluff teenage crap. Blah de blah de blah parents drama something something. If it's not Ollie and his mother/stepfather, it's Laurel and her cop father, or Merlyn and his father, or Ollie's sister and their mother. It's the typical teenage audience pandering B.S. that I expect from the CW.

But eh, I guess the action is still good. I'm still waiting to see the show that everyone is raving about, though.
 
Covar

Covar

Has Slade shown up? That's the start of it for me. It's where they start figuring out how to tell stories on the island without being trapped by it being in the past.
 
Frank

Frank

Also, last night's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia might be one of the best episodes of the show ever produced. Bar none. It was fucking incredible.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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I'm so late.

I've been watching the X-Files and I'm up to season 5. Just finished the episode with the one with the crazy therapist who projected her own abusive relationship with her father onto all of her teenage patients. When she started talking in her father's voice... "you piece of garbage..." Holy shit, I almost pissed myself. That kind of multiple personality stuff always gives me the willies, and I'm not sure why it affects me so much. Even in the movie Sybil when she started talking in her mom's voice, that freaked me out, and that wasn't exactly scary.

Can't believe it took me so long to watch this series. I love it. I love that some episodes are creepy and serious, then you get a break with some silliness like the one that takes place in a comic book with that elephant man looking guy. Love love love. I wish I'd watched more shows with characters like Dana Scully in my my younger years.
 
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