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Cad

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Arbitrary said:
They really cut Milchick's balls off in season two. In season one he was riding the line between menacing and disarming without every going too far in either direction. Season 2 everyone gets the better of him time and time again.



Cad confirmed plotfag.

Vince has worked on a number of shows that all had to deliver on a deadline season after season. He's going to take his sweet ass time with this one because he can. I do think this is really a bad show to do that with though. If you want to tell a story that's slow and stuffed to the gills with artful camera work you're doing it a disservice by dragging your ass in between seasons.
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I think you can have your 6 minute home depot load up the car and empty stones montage for the grave or you can have slow pacing, you can't have both. If you're going to make the show advance slow as hell and basically go nowhere for several episodes at a time, you can't ALSO have your theater kid stylized interpretive dance scenes.

One or the other. I love the concept of this show I just wish they'd actually do something with it and they're not.
 
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Cad said:
I think you can have your 6 minute home depot load up the car and empty stones montage for the grave or you can have slow pacing, you can't have both. If you're going to make the show advance slow as hell and basically go nowhere for several episodes at a time, you can't ALSO have your theater kid stylized interpretive dance scenes.

One or the other. I love the concept of this show I just wish they'd actually do something with it and they're not.
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I remember this board being early on Breaking Bad (myself included) and recognizing early that it was a slow burn and loving it (myself included). It didn’t hit right away with the normies but then it picked up and more people took notice as S2 and S3 had increased standard thrills.

I think that’s what people are hoping for here and it feels some are pretentiously calling out people who aren’t enjoying this. That’s fine, but this show so far has been mid to OK and I think for exactly what Cad Cad is pointing out. I’m not some retard that can’t handle slow pacing and build up, but this show has gone nowhere so far and the intellectual questions around the hive are like entry level sci-fi at best (not even joking when I say Rick and Morty have done it better).

I’m not hating on this show, I would love to love it, but it’s mid so far. Hoping it picks up.
 
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I get the frustration at the slow pace but I don't get it after the finale.

Its moving slow but its moving. That south american dude with the name I can never remember is great. As far as I can see S1 is his origin story.

I dunno, maybe they'll go all Lost in S2 like eight fucking years from now or some shit, whenever it airs. But so far its slow but moving.
 
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As previously stated, originally the protagonist was gonna be a man and the entire first season was just gonna be a porn fantasy before he realized he needed to save the world. We see elements of this with diabates storyline.

Since this isn't skinimax, he opted for a female protagonist and settled on a miserable misanthropic dyke lead. He chose rhea for the protagonist and wrote the first 2 episodes for her to read before he even pitched the show.

The first season was always just gonna be establishing the stakes to get the protagonist to commit to fixing things.
 
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Cad said:
Can they cut this bullshit and add more scenes that advance the story?
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They still have the Old TV Show mindset where they had 12+ shows a season, and seasons were actually...seasonal. They'd throw in filler for time/budget reasons, and it didn't matter because there were more episodes coming down the pike in short order.

It is particularly noticeable with this show because they effectively only have 1.2 characters....and not very good ones at that. We have Bitchy Carol Who is Always Bitchy, and bits of Oviedo and Zosia. Not very compelling. The only real draw is the mystery with the aliens, and it is impossible to fluff that up with essentially 6/9 episodes being fluff filler as a background to 3 uninteresting characters.

This is on top of not having any real desire to get interested in the show because the next season is 2-3 years away.

It is telling that the top 10 most streamed TV shows of 2025 are all old tv shows. 0 new shows popped into top 10. The 8/3 format doesn't work at all...for any show.
 
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Synj said:
I remember this board being early on Breaking Bad (myself included) and recognizing early that it was a slow burn and loving it (myself included). It didn’t hit right away with the normies but then it picked up and more people took notice as S2 and S3 had increased standard thrills.

I think that’s what people are hoping for here and it feels some are pretentiously calling out people who aren’t enjoying this. That’s fine, but this show so far has been mid to OK and I think for exactly what Cad Cad is pointing out. I’m not some retard that can’t handle slow pacing and build up, but this show has gone nowhere so far and the intellectual questions around the hive are like entry level sci-fi at best (not even joking when I say Rick and Morty have done it better).

I’m not hating on this show, I would love to love it, but it’s mid so far. Hoping it picks up.
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Breaking Bad wasn't like this IMO, first season was pretty action packed.
 
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Cad said:
I think you can have your 6 minute home depot load up the car and empty stones montage for the grave or you can have slow pacing, you can't have both. If you're going to make the show advance slow as hell and basically go nowhere for several episodes at a time, you can't ALSO have your theater kid stylized interpretive dance scenes.

One or the other. I love the concept of this show I just wish they'd actually do something with it and they're not.
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yea, many montages is good for the plot like we see pirate lady, is putting away a body, then changes out and gets on the dudes bike then she flies a military aircraft to get glammed up, just to fly to nm and give carol water

however spending multiple days to film that stupid brunch gathering is worthless.

did you guys know that the nog had to do 100takes of him eating his chicken? yea cuz no one gives a shit

vince gilligan is badly cosplaying as kubrick
 
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Most of the scenes being discussed do serve a purpose. They are only what? 71 days since the alien takeover of earth? They are the last 12 unaffected people left and they are coming to terms with the new world.

It's a little boring I agree but I don't think most of those scenes are as pointless as is being suggested. A little long in the tooth perhaps.
 
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The contrast is important. In the first meeting Carol is all “you people are fucking dumb for going along with this”, admonishes the French dude for taking advantage of this to live out his fantasy, then she herself gets slowly reeled in by the illusion of a relationship with Zosia, only to come to the sobering realization the hive has been gaslighting her and she nearly fell for the allure of the fantasy. The scene with the Peruvian girl really cements this fact, as they drop all pretense the moment she is converted and they ditch the village.

Season 2 in theory should be more focused on a cure/solution, although I suspect the hive will still tempt her. I think one sobering realization will be if they free Zosia and Carol realizes she isn’t “her”
Zosia and she has the moment of dilemma where she craves the fake over the painful reality
 
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If this was adapted from a series of books I'd have already bought the books and been on the third or fourth by now.
 
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