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Lovecraft Country [HBO]

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    #62
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    kerplun k wrote: »
    Jeez, I know he was a bad dude, but did he deserve that?

    A bit OTT. I hope they move away from all the characters being massive racists. It’s a bit one dimensional.


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    #63
    kerplun k
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭kerplun k


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    A bit OTT. I hope they move away from all the characters being massive racists. It’s a bit one dimensional.

    I thought he was a bit more rapey than racists myself.


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    #64
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,960 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    A crap "Green Book", but with monsters.
    I don't see the point of watching beyond ep 1.


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    #65
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    kerplun k wrote: »
    I thought he was a bit more rapey than racists myself.

    He was both, he said some pretty racist things during the interview. It would have made more sense if he did actually raped the girl rather than just groping her. Now it’s the protagonist that escalated her response. Not sure how the audience is suppose to identify with the characters response.

    The first episode was good, the racist sherif worked. The second episode was like a season finale, too much going on too fast. The third episode had issues with the neighbours blaring the horns, that is a nightmare for all the neighbours. The fourth had issues where being white gets you free ice cream (really) and ‘I don’t need money because I’m white’. walking into a managers job with no references. How was she getting home drenched in blood? Who was cleaning up the remains after she transformed? So much not explained.


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    #66
    dr.kenneth noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 5,665 ✭✭✭dr.kenneth noisewater


    Think this started off well with 2 really strong opening episodes but bit all over the place since. Jumping all over the place with little connection I feel


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    #67
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Haven't watched ep5 yet, managed 4 episodes which is one more than I usually manage
    Tic character is lost most of the time, should have dropped him and kept the uncle


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    #68
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,778 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    how long more are they going to pretend that his father was his father and his uncle was his uncle?


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    #69
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Episode 6 was the best episode of the series - maybe because
    it was a completely separate story with just a small link to what has been the show so far

    Still despair at the show as a whole


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    #70
    Denny61
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Denny61


    Its a pile of cack ...its all over the shop .I tried to get in to it. But lost the will to live


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    #71
    fret_wimp2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭fret_wimp2


    Finding the storylines quite poor, the cast make really big leaps of intuition when solving problems that feel more like maguffins to keep the plot moving than the characters being that clever, and the monsters are just too conventional, fast, sleek with sharp teeth as opposed to the what people expect from lovecraft which is indescribable horror.

    Will persist with one or two more episodes, but so far its been very disappointing.


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    #72
    thegreengoblin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭thegreengoblin


    Gave up three quarters of the way through Ep 2, having found Ep 1 quite decent. But I found myself getting really annoyed at Ep 2 and just got a bad feeling about the show.


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    #73
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    6: At the start I was like..
    hey that's Ando from the Heros TV show. 5 minutes later...
    :eek:
    Once her powers of knowledge were revealed, I could guess how she'd end up knowing what happens to Atticus. I'd thought his heritage might have survived a full on encounter.


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    #74
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Slydice wrote: »
    6: At the start I was like..
    hey that's Ando from the Heros TV show. 5 minutes later...
    :eek:
    Once her powers of knowledge were revealed, I could guess how she'd end up knowing what happens to Atticus. I'd thought his heritage might have survived a full on encounter.

    That was a warning about the future but in any Lovecraft story the main characters are screwed anyway.


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    #75
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I haven't taken to it at all, but Ep. 6 was a fantastic episode that could probably just be watched on its own, better than any of the 'Twilight Zone' reboot episodes by far.


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    #76
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,379 ✭✭✭Homelander


    I have only watched the first two episodes, first one was decent enough, but the second....completely fell off a cliff for me.

    The first episode had really rich visuals and decent story building in general, second was just so cheesy, full of ropey CGI, and the dialogue/behaviors weren't remotely realistic, even within the context of the fantasy setting.

    I will watch more and see, but that Episode 2 was a rare HBO dud for me.


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    #77
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,749 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Well that latest episode was crap. I only seen the first 30 mins but got bored of it. I don't know how anyone else here thinks it was any good it was not even linked up with the rest of the episodes. It's like they said let's throw on episode in there where she is talking korean and there Is subtitles and that has nothing to do with the rest of the series. Worst episode so far. Absolute rubbish.


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    #78
    brevity
    Registered Users Posts: 8,508 ✭✭✭brevity


    Of course it’s linked up with the rest of the episodes. It’s the person who he was speaking with on the phone. And a main reason why Atticus is the was he is.

    I liked it anyways...interesting characters and backdrop. I liked how the relationship between Atticus and Ji-ah developed.

    I’m enjoying the series, not sure how anyone could find it boring. There is heaps happening.


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    #79
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    AMKC wrote: »
    Well that latest episode was crap. I only seen the first 30 mins but got bored of it. I don't know how anyone else here thinks it was any good it was not even linked up with the rest of the episodes. It's like they said let's throw on episode in there where she is talking korean and there Is subtitles and that has nothing to do with the rest of the series. Worst episode so far. Absolute rubbish.

    God, you really didn't take any of it in. WHO do you think was talking Korean?


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    #80
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    I did think it was odd that they glossed over what caused the war. The Americans just show up. Everyone would have known the North invaded the South.


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    #81
    oleras
    Registered Users Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭oleras


    Birneybau wrote: »
    God, you really didn't take any of it in. WHO do you think was talking Korean?

    The Koreans. :confused:

    Are you mixing up the Vietnamese war with the Korean ?


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    #82
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    oleras wrote: »
    The Koreans. :confused:

    Are you mixing up the Vietnamese war with the Korean ?

    It said Korea in the intro.


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    #83
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Clue is in the episode title

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu


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    #84
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    oleras wrote: »
    The Koreans. :confused:

    Are you mixing up the Vietnamese war with the Korean ?

    No. Tic fought in the Korean war.


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    #85
    oleras
    Registered Users Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭oleras


    Im more confused than i was watching Dark now...lol


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    #86
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    oleras wrote: »
    Im more confused than i was watching Dark now...lol

    That whole episode was a flashback. Tic is America is the current timeline.


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    #87
    oleras
    Registered Users Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭oleras


    Birneybau wrote: »
    That whole episode was a flashback. Tic is America is the current timeline.

    Not about the show, just the last 5 or 6 posts...:pac:


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    #88
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    oleras wrote: »
    Not about the show, just the last 5 or 6 posts...:pac:

    Tic fought in the Korean War, after WW2, before Vietnam.

    Lovecraft Country is set in the 50s.

    Korean War was 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953


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    #89
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Episode 7 is all kinds of weird

    Series is becoming a disjointed mess


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    #90
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    7: Episode of 2 halves really.

    At the start it was getting fairly positive but then the eerie intro music brought it back down to earth.

    That second half was kinda cool. Very scifi dream like the intro in the first episode. I wonder if they are linked.


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    #91
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,778 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    more upset that his father is
    gay
    then that he killed a person in the previous but 1 episode...

    why didn't those guys use their guns?


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