For them to announce the second season with the news that none of the cast would be returning, seemed to make it fairly obvious to me that Armand would be the one to die. He was the nucleus of the season, and his performance was outstanding. And while the plot kept pointing to his getting fired, there's no way that would be enough to keep him out of S2.
So I was already fairly confident he would be the one to die, but once they announced that I became 99% certain.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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For them to announce the second season with the news that none of the cast would be returning, seemed to make it fairly obvious to me that Armand would be the one to die. He was the nucleus of the season, and his performance was outstanding. And while the plot kept pointing to his getting fired, there's no way that would be enough to keep him out of S2.
So I was already fairly confident he would be the one to die, but once they announced that I became 99% certain.
Did you miss the part about it being a different White Lotus hotel in a different country for S2?
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I loved seeing Britton melt down on her family one or two episodes ago; she never gets to do stuff like that.
By far the biggest gut punch for me in the finale was (not a spoiler!) the footage of Quinn swimming with the sea turtles. With forest first forcing my family indoors for this entire summer, I've been reeeally feeling the existential suffering of animal life on this planet. The notion of agritourism, and that people see a turtle or a dolphin or a monkey on vacation and think "Hmm maybe the earth's ok after all!" absolutely terrifies me, and I started crying during that scene. Was a lot to explain to my wife who didn't really get why I was so upset in that moment.
hey, i cried when he saw the whale, and first went out on the kayak, and got misty-eyed when he swam with the turtles. that disconnect from tech, and getting quality dopamine from nature. that's a hell of a feeling.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I loved seeing Britton melt down on her family one or two episodes ago; she never gets to do stuff like that.
By far the biggest gut punch for me in the finale was (not a spoiler!) the footage of Quinn swimming with the sea turtles. With forest first forcing my family indoors for this entire summer, I've been reeeally feeling the existential suffering of animal life on this planet. The notion of agritourism, and that people see a turtle or a dolphin or a monkey on vacation and think "Hmm maybe the earth's ok after all!" absolutely terrifies me, and I started crying during that scene. Was a lot to explain to my wife who didn't really get why I was so upset in that moment.
hey, i cried when he saw the whale, and first went out on the kayak, and got misty-eyed when he swam with the turtles. that disconnect from tech, and getting quality dopamine from nature. that's a hell of a feeling.
i remember having that kind of revelation in thailand too. But i didnt cried at all. I felt super good.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Got 20 minutes into the Reservation Dogs pilot and it didn't totally grab me. Cool concept, execution feels kind of light, like Breaking Bad for kids.
i'm kind of with you...i had mentioned 2 episodes in and i wasn't sure but would give it a chance
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Got 20 minutes into the Reservation Dogs pilot and it didn't totally grab me. Cool concept, execution feels kind of light, like Breaking Bad for kids.
i'm kind of with you...i had mentioned 2 episodes in and i wasn't sure but would give it a chance
I mean Dave's got a turds falling out of butts and dope freestyles, not sure this show stands a chance in my limited schedule
I'm enoying it so far where as Dave kinda dropped off my radar part way through the first season
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