[quote="Casual Observer" post_id=111930 time=1594418673 user_id=77]
How come Devs almost entirely copied a Linkin Park video's girl statue????

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Maybe someone in the show ends up making music that sucks so bad they end up committing suicide.

How come Devs almost entirely copied a Linkin Park video's girl statue????

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[quote=pinback post_id=107853 time=1587122422 user_id=5]
It was not a wholly satisfying ending, but it was never going to be, because the entire show was ridiculous from the outset. Granted, the end was even MORE ridiculous, but I suppose that's fitting.

I think eight was the right number of episodes. It was spectacularly well-made, and I love it a lot, but any more and the fact that it's obviously the most outrageously absurd show in history would start to weigh on it.

Thanks, Devs. You were great. Now go away.
[/quote]Super great production values, agreed. Like many sci-fi's, they took one idea, focused on it, beat us over the head with it, and followed to the extreme conclusion.

I'd rather just go watch Deja Vu again for the 20th time though.

It was not a wholly satisfying ending, but it was never going to be, because the entire show was ridiculous from the outset. Granted, the end was even MORE ridiculous, but I suppose that's fitting.

I think eight was the right number of episodes. It was spectacularly well-made, and I love it a lot, but any more and the fact that it's obviously the most outrageously absurd show in history would start to weigh on it.

Thanks, Devs. You were great. Now go away.

Ok, finished this. I hate that they "lifetimed" the series (if you ever watch a movie that your wife is watching on the Lifetime network, you'll see that they like to take forever to set up the story and then write off the ending in the last 15 min). Really, they can spend five minutes making us watch a guy cut a lemon but they can't spare a few extra minutes to explain the bullshit crazy ending.

I thought it was great. I thought the opening particularly was one of the best openings of any TV episode ever. But I like dark and brooding.

I thought it was great. I mean, the things that are suboptimal about the show (namely: the lead actress, it does tend to explain things a bit much, oh and it's the most preposterously ridiculous premise in the history of storytelling) will always be suboptimal, which is why I'm glad it's just a one-off and will be done after next week.

But what it does right, it does so remarkably right that I look past the flaws and just gobble it straight the fuck up.

I do believe you when you say the geography's all fucked up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WVh1D0N50

Pinner, what did you think of this week's episode? Kinda dark and brooding. I wasn't a huge fan of the directing of this episode, especially the soundtrack, the slow focus on things like slicing a lemon before the shit hits the fan, or the cheap 'dur, tech companies have too much power conversation" (gee that's an easy popular point to make even though they made a point in the first episode that "it's not really a tech company", continuity folks). Liked the twist about the homeless guy, now I have to re-watch some episodes to see if I notice the clues. Also, that bridge looks pretty cool and I had no idea it was there, imma have to check that out when we're allowed back into parks.

Gotta quibble about geography again though cause I'm a little aspergerish: Which is it Devs? is the company on the east bay because people drive across the bay bridge to get there or is it south san francisco because they drove north on 280 from silicon valley? You wouldn't do both commutes unless the campus is some kind of quantum double slit photon experiment.

forgot about the old i before e except after c rule, damn spellcheck has failed me

[quote="Casual Observer" post_id=107225 time=1585765110 user_id=77]
I've always been an athiest[/quote]
As a fellow atheist, all I can say is, Jesus Christ! Can't you remember to spell the goddam word correctly?

(If you don't get it, this is a joke)

DEVS EPISODE SIX COMMENTARY (extremely minor spoilers)
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I had my first good ol' LOL at the show during this, one of its odder episodes.

There's a thing called a "bottle episode" in serial television, and that refers to an episode of a show where -- for financial or artistic reasons -- they reduce the cast and environment to just a few characters and a small location. An episode "in a bottle", thus. Breaking Bad's "Fly" episode was a perfect example -- just Walt and Jesse, alone together at the lab.

Devs #6 was something of a bottle episode, as Lily and Jamie go to visit Nick Offerman and Alison Pill, which I'm still not sure what their first names are on the show, so I just refer to them as Nick Offerman and Alison Pill. During the visit, the women pair off and go talk to each other, while the men stay outside to go talk with each other.

The funny part is -- Here were are dealing with an issue of Ultimate Importance and Seriousness -- the Devs project, its consequences, the crimes commited to protect it -- and the women are dealing with it very Importantly and Seriously in the kitchen, with lots of intense, meaningful stares and coolly dangerous talk.

Meanwhile, Offerman -- the guy who came UP with this whole thing -- and Jamie -- the guy Offerman's henchman busted up -- share some nervous, silent energy, then eventually start talking in quiet tones, but by the end of the episode, are [i]playing frisbee in the street[/i].

That's hilarious. Even in the most intense, dangerous, potentially earth-shattering circumstances, put two of the most important women together, and they will discuss it seriously, and put two of the most important men together, and within a half hour they'll just start playing frisbee.

Pretty much.

It seems like the "Big AI/Quantum AI" boogyman is the new plot device for a bunch of scifi. So far recently theres a super similar theme in shows like:
- Star Trek Discovery (Control AI is going to destroy all life)
- Westworld (super powerful AI monitors and directs everything)
- Devs (quantum AI sees the past and predicts the future)
- Picard (AI based artifical life forms will destroy all humanity).

AI has always been a staple of scifi but It's almost like AI is the new God for nerds. I get it, in fact I've always been an athiest but once I started learning about quantum mechanics that has affected my spiritual belief system in terms of the idea of connectedness. This is an enjoyable show but I'm starting to see a pattern of these types of shows almost taking a shortcut of using AI as an easy plot point to make anything realistically happen.

[quote="Casual Observer" post_id=107210 time=1585722299 user_id=77]Also, the they must have filmed in the middle of the day or on a weekend because it would be pure gridlock when they're claiming the commute.
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The version where every episode was just 60 minutes of all of the characters sitting in traffic did not focus-test as well as the final version they settled on.

Made it to episode 4. Best thing is I love her pet homless guy, he's so much cooler than the real ones I walk past every day on the way to work.

Started this tonight, it's right up my alley.

So far what they got right: homeless sleeping on your porch in SF

What they got wrong: Their commute makes no sense, you wouldn't be taking a bus east across the SF bridge because all the techheads are in Silicon Valley. This company wouldn't be on a campus in the east bay if they want the right workers. Also, they filmed at UC Santa Cruz which is straight south through some of the worst traffic you can imagine, they would be leaving at 4AM for a 3.5 hour drive. Also, the they must have filmed in the middle of the day or on a weekend because it would be pure gridlock when they're claiming the commute.

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[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=107140 time=1585407203 user_id=3]
Episode 5 was great, but I had to drop Nick a bit in my manager's rankings. If you're going to hire a 12 year old girl playing a 12 year old boy and they do something you don't like, that's on you for hiring them.
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That was episode 4.
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Please do not continue to yell at me.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=107140 time=1585407203 user_id=3]
Episode 5 was great, but I had to drop Nick a bit in my manager's rankings. If you're going to hire a 12 year old girl playing a 12 year old boy and they do something you don't like, that's on you for hiring them.
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That was episode 4.

Episode 5 was great, but I had to drop Nick a bit in my manager's rankings. If you're going to hire a 12 year old girl playing a 12 year old boy and they do something you don't like, that's on you for hiring them.

Episode 5 was fantastically well-made. The car crash scene (you know the one!) is one of the best-constructed scenes in the history of television.

I'm surprised you gaggle of fucking nerds isn't eating it up by this point.

Neither Nick Offerman nor Rhea Seehorn will win supporting actor Emmys this year or any year, which simply invalidates the Emmys forever. Nice to have that off our collective plate.

If we can get back to the topic, which we never, ever can with certain people involved, episode 4 was very good. Episodes 1, 2, and 4 were very good. Episode 3 was just okay. But let's not nitpick. Let's just stick to the topic. Any topic. For the love of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You'll have to forgive me for waiting closer to the date to buy the candles.