You Know What Pisses Me Off
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centrd — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 11:06 AM)
You know that "One Million Moms" is a scam, right? It's just a racist, misogynist, homophobic, father-son duo who created "The American Family Association" and a "Mom" website to push their agenda and pretend they have a lot of support. They really can't muster enough numbers to make much of an impact but they get media attention because it sounds so sensational. One Million Moms! Talk about hypocritical and deceptive. Too bad we don't protest people and organizations like that more. Like how is Westborough Baptist Church even still in business (and it IS a business) with all of the hate speech they spew and violence they promote? It's supposed to be a church, for crying out loud!
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centrd — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 06:33 PM)
Unfortunately, television doesn't work that way.
Hey, you're lucky you're getting it at the same time we are. We always have to wait forever to get British shows, the few we actually get.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. Vincent Van Gogh -
crusojalewhistef — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 10:13 AM)
It really sucks for us outside of the US who don't give a shcyte about their politics, but
hey at least we're not the ones looking at Trump as president.
Rub it in
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barbarawstuller — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 10:27 AM)
Many of us, and I truly hope it's actually MOST of us, don't get Trump either. It's like the fringe elements have hijacked our politics somehow. Usually I can understand the undecided voters who truly want to study the candidates but this year it's just too obvious, it's the nutjob vs. sane person. Seriously, how hard can it be? Democrat or Republican doesn't even matter, we're talking mental capacity here.
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bab7410 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 08:58 PM)
Well, we've also never selected a female for president; according to our tallies, that's another thing people are hissing about here, and not for any other reason but that.
Honestly, most of us aren't too keen about her either.. Bernie at least struck a cord as being honest - which is what we want - but those candidates need to be heard earlier on - so as to get them out there. I do not feel they did that properly w/Bernie. Hillary kinda picked that up as she's been in the midst for a WHILE to say the least! ..to say the least..!
Honestly, the debates should just be over they drag out all this for their own media cycle we've been endlessly hearing about the 2016 election since 2012! That's just depraved I wouldn't be surprised if we could care less because* of this never ending media cycle they put us through.. it's was just one wacko after another, really. Some kind of weird circus show - reality style with just as many adolescent zingers about only THE most important of issues affecting us
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centrd — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 08:37 AM)
And racist vs non-racist.
To be honest, it's kind of freaked me outthat people, even in my own network of neighbors, family and friends, can be okay with Trump. I do not believe you can support that guy and not be racistor all of the other "ists" he is. It's sobering to me. I mean, when a few of my circle voted for Bush the first and second times, I was disappointed, but I didn't literally question them as human beings. With Trump, that's what's happening, I'm questioning their character. And I don't think I'll ever really get over it. To give a psycho the nuclear keys and justify it because of their own selfish wants, I just can't handle it. Also, I'm having trouble with anyone who refuses to vote for Hillary because they were Bernie supporters. If those people get Trump elected by default, I don't think I'll ever feel the same about them either.
First time in my life I've felt this way, but it's the first time we've had such an extreme and dangerous candidate for President. I'm not saying others haven't been dangerous, but people were duped by them. Trump is overt, he lets everyone know exactly what kind of despicable person he is, and still they're okay with it? That's a scary thing.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. Vincent Van Gogh -
bab7410 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 08:36 PM)
Thanks bitter now
However, didn't some oogly Trump look-alike http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/25/10/337B0C4800000578-0-image-a-50_1461577865946.jpg just manage to carry forth thy Breexit?? This thing is spreading ugh -
topper24hours — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 08:27 AM)
Nice guess, retard.
I'm sure your reading comprehension isn't up to taking on my challenge of looking at the "original", or you would've commented on that, you lame.
I watched enough to see that Lucifer is a creepy "child molester" type, NOT the badass from the comic, that is led by his incredible devious schemes, mechanations, & clever use of raw power.. as opposed to a horny creepy weirdo pervy guy that's not interesting or even more than two dimensional. I saw his his badass powerful & horrifically deformed bodyguard Mazikeen (oh, I'm sorry you call her "Maze", right?? Lol) is instead a weak female stripper/bartender type, etc, etc.
It's embarrassing as a premise and as a show.
The only thing worse?????
There are actually pathetic people that eat this worthless garbage up people that are NOT angry about the waste of an amazing character, that just eat the slop in their trough happily.
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barbarawstuller — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 08:55 AM)
Maybe if you wrote in comprehensive sentences and backed up your opinions with specific criticism of something, you could be taken more seriously. Instead reading your rambling, disjointed posts are more like trying to follow Trump's train of thought. Too painful to try to make sense of.
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iabanon — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 04:36 PM)
It's funny how every single one of us said we don't like trump and then he goes on to tell us we're Trump lovers. What a douche. I'm ten times smarter than this twerp. We all are. I mean all our posts are infinitely more understandable. But fanboys always take comics so damned seriously. Like it's the end of the world. And hey good shows are still being made (other than Lucifer so stick it) and I loved Constantine and was really bummed it was cancelled. It deserved to go further. I watch schyte this idiot wouldn't understand. He thinks he's so smart, but all he watches is comic book shows and all he reads (actually he only looks at pictures) is comic books. Guaranteed he hasn't read anything by Stephen Hawking or Carl Sagan. Guess what? i have. I own many books on Quantum science and other scientific areas and that's just for fun. GUARANTEED he's never read anything by Chekov or Dostoyevsky. I have a bookshelf full of these books. Fwck this twerp. He doesn't know anything.
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topper24hours — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 07:15 PM)
Lol, ok- I'll bite.
I'll take a genuine stab at it
I doubt I'll get anywhere with you if me making VERY clear statements describing how Mazikeen for example is a strong, ferocious, warrior of a bodyguard, w/ a horrific disfigured face in the source material, yet is a sexy, bland, stripper/bartender stereotype female in the show and that saddens and annoys me somehow comes off to you as "difficult to understand" or "incomplete sentences" or whatever your fictional problem was but here goes nothing:
Ok 1st- some background; the character of Lucifer Morningstar was created by author, Neil Gaiman. He is one of the most well known, admired, and prolific writers of this modern era. I'd say he's up there with J.K. Rowling and Stephen King. He has won some prestigious awards and medals, including: the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards.. and the Newberry and Carnegie medals (setting a record of the only author to ever win both medals for the same work). You don't seem like the "reading type", so I'm probably losing you
However, one of his books became Phil Knight's (the Nike founder) Laika film company's 1st foray into stop motion with "Coraline", which was well received. Also, his fantasy novel, "Stardust" became a film in 2007, starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert DeNiro.
At any rate. I would hope that we (if on nothing else) could agree that he is an author of quite some pedigree. In his most revered work: the comic book "Sandman" (widely recognized as the best and most successful American adult comic book, of all time), he created the character. Lucifer was SO interesting and such a fantastic spin on the "devil", that everyone cried for more!
The mantle was picked up by a superlatively creative Brit, by the name of Mike Carey.
Almost unbelievably, he spun a tale that was EXACTLY the same length of Gaiman's original seminal masterpiece. It was stellar. Seventy-five issues, at one per month, made this a 6+ year labor of love. It was so incredibly clever, the way small characters later play larger roles, how everything connected together so fluidly. It was a joy to read.
Understandably, I was ECSTATIC that such a phenomenal character was getting a TV series!!!!
Oooooh, what storyline?? Him abandoning hell? Losing his wings? His battles with Fenris, eater of worlds? His reluctance to do a favor for Heaven, that he simply MUST accept, because God lets him "name his price?". Honestly, I didn't care. They are ALL good!!!! WHAT A CHARACTER!!!! Strong. Savage. Impossibly clever. Old as time sees the big picture. Humans are tools to manipulate in his brilliant schemes and mechanations. Super fun character!
Soooooooo nothing even REMOTELY like the character in the show. The show's Lucifer is a "frat boy", somehow being alive for eons hasn't made him clever or caught up in grand schemes. Nope. He (like a frat boy but with an uber "creeper" vibe), he thinks only with his penis, and in no way seems like a powerful angel. Simply a creepy perv. Of the three or four episodes I shuddered through, hoping it would get better- I only saw lame clip after lame clip of BEYOND cheesy "quips" and one-liners. Usually accentuated with weird little moans in his speech, and not even like in clever or classy or appropriate times. Just rando stuff like if a female would say like: "we need to get down to business", his response might be: "oooooooooooh, slow moaning of word in creepy manner, raise of eyebrows in suggestive manner, we could DEFINITELY get down to business. the business of sleeping together. Mmmmmmmmmm one last creepy moan-word.
Ummm. WTF??????!!!!!
This is not MY Lucifer. This is not THE Lucifer.
This is painful to hear and/or watch. Drivel.
I've never watched Dawson's Creek, but apparently it was NOT the experience this writer needed to bring an amazing character like Lucifer from comic to television!
This show is really, really, really, really, really bad.
I was honestly worried that I was losing my mind when I saw it had decent ratings on IMDb. However, when I clicked the 1st critic review (New York Times - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/arts/television/review-on-lucifer-a-fox-drama-the-devil-tries-to-fit-in.html), my faith was restored!
Seems like those with actual critical thinking skills similarly despised this garbage they didn't even need something epic to compare it to, to hate it!
It's only a huge group of sad, sad sacks that apparently have no ability to even conceive of anything better than this absolute horrendous garbage that are eating it up. It does make me sad sad that these type of TERRIBLE shows can proliferate, because nobody demands quality. The cattle are satisfied. They chew this nasty cud, ignorantly and happily.
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centrd — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 08:59 PM)
Most people here know about Neil Gaiman and some of us are well versed in his graphic novels and literary works. As well as Mike Carey's adaptation of Lucifer, and now Holly Black's.
Interestingly, Neil is a huge supporter of the show. He gets it, just like Mike Carey gets it, as stated in interviews.
It's too bad that you are blinded to the quality that's actually in this show because your expectations are not being met.
Regardless, it doesn't really matter. You're not going to change the opinions of the 7 million people, as well as the other writers and industry people who think it's a really well-done show, by ranting, belittling others and trying to show off your superior taste in comics. It just doesn't work that way, so I'm not really sure what you get out of it. Venting, I guess?
Also not sure what the Dawson's Creek problem is. Tom Kapinos also wrote Californication. Television writers write for all kinds of genres. And as teen genres go, Dawson's Creek was pretty well done. And it doesn't really matter because they're two totally different animals.
I could go on about how females are represented in this show as well, but it's already been discussed. You can look for it if you really want to hear another point of view on that topic.
Anyway, I appreciate you attempt at supporting your position and the slightly less hostile tone. Progress, I guess.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. Vincent Van Gogh
