Fargo

[Theraflu 1,035]

maybe. but even tarantino spun an interesting yarn where characters behaved consistent with their established natures and the absurdly implausible wasn't key to story advancement, at least that was the case with the early films.

I hated that Breaking Bad show. All those implausible developments were just the worst.

[hank213 1,823]

you do understand there are a few degrees between dissolving a body in the bath tub and live fish falling from the sky right?

[SuitedAces21 2,723]

don't answer that thera.

[hank213 1,823]

no, no, no counselor. the man wants to talk you let him ****ing talk.

[SuitedAces21 2,723]

NO FURTHER QUESTIONS

[BigDMcGee 3,355]

[Theraflu 1,035]

Killing Tuco, the big magnet scene, Hector Salamanca's bomb, the whole 2nd half of the last season... None of the series was meant to be plausible, and certainly not if considered as a whole.

 

Look at The Wire: Who gives a fuck if inner-city Baltimore kids ever learn anything?

[hank213 1,823]

i think you guys are being willfully obtuse regarding my term "absurdly implausible." you're desperately grasping at straws to defend the indefensible because you have a boner for the coens (i guess?) even though this isn't a coen joint.

 

 

fish

falling

from the

motherfucking

sky

 

oh. and since you guys have basically cemented my distaste for this show. the beautiful white out seen looked awful. the wide shots were fine. but any time they got close to someone's face they couldn't keep the white from looking like some kind of cheap ass horror movie fx. there, i said it.

[BigDMcGee 3,355]

Or I just like the show, and can find humor in the fish falling scene w/o caring about its plausibly. When you write a fish rain scene into a show, its not because its plausibly.

 

 

 

And a remote gun popping out of a trunk and killing every single Nazi is about as likely as fish falling from the sky, only I didn't give a shit then either, because I enjoyed the scene.

 

 

[Essay21 2,387]

Keep working the body, hank. You'll get that tko in the later rounds.

[hank213 1,823]

and that is kind of my point. i can write anything i want into a show, i'm god in the machine. so if that's how they're gonna roll, then i can't wait for the cyborg unicorns and talking ninja monkeys from plant xenon to show up.

[BigDMcGee 3,355]

And if you make it entertaining, I'll enjoy it.

[hank213 1,823]

And if you make it pretty, I'll enjoy it.

 

based on your love of cinematography etc i think this is closer to the truth.

[Essay21 2,387]

McGee is pure surface. Guy has no depth.

[BigDMcGee 3,355]

I know you mean that to be insulting, but I absolutely think this show is shot beautifully and creatively. It puzzles me in general why most TV shows are visually boring. Budget, perhaps. I appreciate when a show does look great

 

But I don't think its empty eye candy, either. I guess I think ya'll are expecting it to be something it's not. If you can't see the humor of a rain of fish, particularly given the weekly disclaimer, I just don't know what to tell you. That this show makes some of you angry and doesn't make ya'll laugh, is really puzzling to me. I guess you just don't get it...

[hank213 1,823]

actually i didn't mean it to be insulting at all. i meant it to encapsulate the opposition of our viewpoints at a fundamental level.

 

for you visual aspects can be enough and the "rules" of the world the characters inhabit aren't as important. where as I would prefer a story where the rules are evident and adhered to.

 

now if i wanted to be insulting i would've said something along the lines of "I guess some people never outgrew the infantile fascination with jangling keys." because a story where visuals trump everything else really is just that, someone jangling keys in front of you for 40 minutes.

[timwakefield 68]

 

 

now if i wanted to be insulting i would've said something along the lines of "I guess some people never outgrew the infantile fascination with jangling keys." because a story where visuals trump everything else really is just that, someone jangling keys in front of you for 40 minutes.

 

But that would be a ludicrous analogy. Like saying Picasso is just infantile fingerpainting.

[BigDMcGee 3,355]

I don't think that visuals trump all other things, I think that this show is particularly visually stunning, and that is just one of it's merits. I don't concede, at all, that it's all visual flash and no substance. I think it's really funny and clever, I love the actors, I love the dialog, I find almost every scene really compelling. I am just not hung up on the realism of the plot. Is a fish storm a realistic thing to happen? Of course not. Who cares? I'm more curious to see what direction this fish storm sends the Greek, than I am the probability of a fish storm.

[mrfritz 905]

couple weeks behind on the show nerds, gotta get caught up.

[hank213 1,823]

But that would be a ludicrous analogy. Like saying Picasso is just infantile fingerpainting.

 

well then i guess i better get myself to hollywood. there's a writer slot with my name on it!

[hank213 1,823]

loved odenkirk's performance in the interrogation room.

 

still peeved about the fish weak sauce and it has diminished the show in my eyes but i don't think it's enough for me to bail completely.

[Essay21 2,387]

Lester's heel turn has been great.

[Essay21 2,387]

Weird turn moving it forward a year. Good in that it is impossible to predict.

[king_tanner 84]

Super random Key and Peele cameo in episode 7. Wtf

[Essay21 2,387]

So damn racist .Black man can't make a cameo?