I didn't like the Community finale. It was just WAY too silly and stupid, even by Community standards. Usually, they stick with just one silly theme to go with for a whole episode, but it's like they did five or six in just this one and it was too much.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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I didn't care for it either. The school board guys were way too "I want to punch them in the face" territory. Abed was a super-flanderized cartoon of Abed. Shirley had nothing to do but "would you like some tea?" Just off all the way around.
Does anyone else here watch Scandal
Man I hate Hulu so much. I don't mind ads, I LIKE the idea of being able to watch a show and support it via advertising but shit, don't show me 4 minutes of ads, half the time the same damn ads every time. This is why people use torrents instead of pay Hulu money to stream annoyingly loud ads.
To be fair, I haven't used Hulu in a while but I remember it tending to be worse than Netflix.
The fact that there are still ads on the Hulu that you pay for is inexcusable.
You pay for cable and you still have to sit through ads. My issue with Hulu is that there are still a lot of shows that you have to wait a week to watch even with Hulu plus.
Is it? I mean people want to complain about it, but everyone's pretty fine with ads in other media that they pay for. Cable, movies both in theater and on disk, old print media, etc.
There's enough options out there that if people are really against watching ads in front of current run tv shows they can pay for them in other outlets.
I'm more okay with ads before something (like in movies) than in the middle.[DOUBLEPOST=1398098429,1398098369][/DOUBLEPOST]
Netflix and premium channels are ad-free. I think HBO sometimes has brief ads for other HBO shows before things, but I don't mind that at all.
So typical cable and satilite TV showing ads is also inexcusible then?
Yes. Showing ads during a movie is inexcusable. Unless the format gives a place for it it's breaking up the flow of the movie. Put them before or after but if I'm paying for it (obviously if it's free hulu then thats cool) don't randomly throw ads in a movie.
For the record I don't mind the concept of ads on Hulu, but I think the way they do it is total bullshit. The volume is 10x higher, they often show the same ad over and over and there are times where I've seen 3-4 minutes of ads, which is far more than normal television. Even with the paid service I don't mind ads, I just think Hulu sucks at how they do it. Plus I've found that Hulu's software (again, this was when I tested their premium service out a year or two ago) was far buggier than Netflix.
I meant that more about television shows, not movies. Since you pay for cable/satilite and get commericials right in the middle of shows too.
Like I said, I don't mind the concept of ads during a show, I would rather pay a little more to NOT have ads though but I accept them as part of TV programming. Personally though I would avoid watching any channel that showed movies with ads, no matter if it was Hulu or part of a cable package.
Here's the way I'll put it: The Hulu subscription doesn't give enough in return for the price. Access to more shows is nice but the price is way too steep for only that. At least a reduction in ads might make it more palatable, or another tier of subscriptions for ad-reduced or ad-free experiences. As it is, Hulu feels pretty dated of a subscription model. Frankly, so does cable TV.
I'm a pretty stringent movie dork, and I'll flat out say that if you watch a movie on TBS or TNT, you actually are not watching the movie at all and driving a nail through your foot in a forest is closer to watching the movie than what you're currently doing
I dunno, when I tried the premium I still got a ton of ads, and like I said, far to often it was the same ad every break. It's all about are you getting what you pay for and for me Hulu isn't worth it. Netflix is far superior in general and with other services like HBO Go, it's just not needed.
To be honest, I don't consider Hulu Plus worth it for me either...but that's because I can use free Hulu for all the shows I want it for. 
With the free service, commercials are about the same as you get on normal TV, so it's not worth it to pay just to shave that down a bit, and nothing I watch on it is behind the paywall.
With the free service, commercials are about the same as you get on normal TV, so it's not worth it to pay just to shave that down a bit, and nothing I watch on it is behind the paywall.
GasBandit
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Now there's an interesting bit of imagery. How does the forest fit in? Is there something particular that makes driving a nail through your foot in the forest worse than elsewhere, or is it simply that the scenery is yet one more thing removed from being in a place where you could potentially watch a movie?
I think they used to be short, but lately they've been adding a whole lot more breaks and commercials. It used to be 1-2 breaks with 1-2 commercials. Now a 45 minute show can have 4-5 commercials per break and sometimes as many as 6 breaks. That's pretty crazy, but I accept it as I'm not paying. If I was paying, I'd be super annoyed.
I just made that all the fuck up, I think I was still thinking of The Grey from the other thread
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This does not bother me. I grew up only seeing the edited for TV versions of most movies. I am still discovering that some of my favorite movies have dirty scenes and f bombs I never even knew about.
Yeah Sony and Apple must have dropped big bucks on HoC, because holy shit they're everywhere. The big PS3 load screen on Frank's TV almost every time you see it, the texting always making the iPhone sounds/looking like the bubbles, etc.
Adventure Time season premiere...HOLY SHIT!
And through wikipedia I learned that the freaking series director and screenplay writer of Tatami Galaxy wrote and director the episode the fourth episode of this season! It'll be released in July because Cartoon Network is fucking stupid- BUT STILL- I am hyped.
The prophecy has been foretold.
And through wikipedia I learned that the freaking series director and screenplay writer of Tatami Galaxy wrote and director the episode the fourth episode of this season! It'll be released in July because Cartoon Network is fucking stupid- BUT STILL- I am hyped.
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Late to the game, but just finished True Detective and
What the hell? So good until episode 8, where it was just... what? Not even anticlimax.
What the hell? So good until episode 8, where it was just... what? Not even anticlimax.
"You're in Carcosa now!" Uhm, what? What what what? That never led to anything. Eventually, though, they were in Carcosa, I guess.
Cohle is no longer a nihilist, in fact, is more optimistic about the state of life than Marty?
Cohle is no longer a nihilist, in fact, is more optimistic about the state of life than Marty?
There's more I just am at work