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re: The Leftovers HBO Season 1 Thread
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:10 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:10 pm to Ace Midnight
if he won 160K at a casino, they totally would have escorted him to his car... just sayin.
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Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:13 pm to Displaced
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if he won 160K at a casino, they totally would have escorted him to his car... just sayin.
I agree, but, the scene, as shot, was better.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:42 pm to Ace Midnight
I also appreciated the irony of it all. One of the GR gets whacked in the head with a rock. The preacher, witnessing it, stops to help and for his troubles gets knocked out with another rock. Flash forward three days and the people he was trying to help ended up costing him his church, and they are the ones who bought it. To top it all of they have been recruiting him all along.
In the first two episodes I didn't like the preacher, thought he was a crackpot. After this episode I really sympathize with him, understand his motivation in doing what he does, they really fleshed this character out well. By the end I was rooting for him.
I think this episode is the one that hooked me in to staying with this show.
In the first two episodes I didn't like the preacher, thought he was a crackpot. After this episode I really sympathize with him, understand his motivation in doing what he does, they really fleshed this character out well. By the end I was rooting for him.
I think this episode is the one that hooked me in to staying with this show.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:45 pm to SoDakHawk
dammit now I'm going to watch it.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:46 pm to SoDakHawk
Same here
Posted on 7/14/14 at 12:50 pm to Napoleon
Napoleon,
The true test for me when I watch any of these shows is do I look at the clock. With GoT and Boardwalk Empire I usually end up pissed that the show is over, that it went by so fast. With Walking Dead I'll look at the clock to see how much time is left during a commercial because I don't want it to end. With True Blood I look at the clock to see how much longer I have to endure the show. Last night watching The Leftovers the show went by very fast, I was totally engaged, and I was left wanting more.
The true test for me when I watch any of these shows is do I look at the clock. With GoT and Boardwalk Empire I usually end up pissed that the show is over, that it went by so fast. With Walking Dead I'll look at the clock to see how much time is left during a commercial because I don't want it to end. With True Blood I look at the clock to see how much longer I have to endure the show. Last night watching The Leftovers the show went by very fast, I was totally engaged, and I was left wanting more.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:09 pm to SoDakHawk
So is the Preachers entire motivation to prove that this wasn't the rapture because dipshits got taken also?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:12 pm to SoDakHawk
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I think this episode is the one that hooked me in to staying with this show.
I hope we will see a couple more like this - full episodes centered on 1 character - I think it will help with issues like this. I understand they have a lot to introduce early, but this episode really ran fast - like a BB or GoT when you look up and say, "$hit - that hour flew by.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:17 pm to Ace Midnight
I don't understand how so many people on here are shitting on this show. Last nights episode was great.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:23 pm to SoDakHawk
This type of episode was needed for episode 2. I am interested to see how he will handle this crisis of faith. He is a man who wants to believe that what we do in life matters. It will be interesting to see how he processes the past 3 days since he was shown that his efforts did not matter in this case.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:24 pm to DallasTiger11
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Last nights episode was great.
Clearly the best yet - as the confusion about "structure" and "who is who" starts to clear up, thus far the source material, directing and acting have proved very intriguing. As long as they don't do the "confusion for confusion's sake" a la Lost - I think they'll be fine.
Still pretty weird and vague so far, but that's understandable - we're 3 episodes in. Thus far, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:29 pm to Ace Midnight
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As long as they don't do the "confusion for confusion's sake" a la Lost - I think they'll be fine.
This is what is bothering a lot of other posters. They are "confused" and therefore hate it. I don't understand how anyone can be confused right now. Is it weird? Yes of course. But I think this planet and the people in it would be pretty fricking weird if certain people just disappeared one day.
This story is about how these characters deal with the event. No one should be confused by it. So many on here want an answer to what happened right away.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:42 pm to DallasTiger11
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They are "confused" and therefore hate it.
Yeah - I don't get that - since I didn't watch Lost - the closest vibe to this show, that I've seen, is Carnivale - which had this gritty, realistic, hardscrabble story (set in the Great Depression), with a mythological backdrop that become more and more prominent.
This show has all the trappings of community/character based drama, with this supernatural event underlying everything - and a developing mythology of various events, sects, groups and, in some cases, individual actors. I like the structure and I'm sticking with it so far.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:07 pm to DallasTiger11
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They are "confused" and therefore hate it.
wrong, no one is confused, and i don't hate it. i just don't think it is great. It is decent enough to keep watching.
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This story is about how these characters deal with the event.
which is fine if they do a good job with making the viewer sympathize with each character. they have not done this yet imo. even the preacher, i don't care what happens to him.
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So many on here want an answer to what happened right away.
not necessarily right away, but i would like to know that happened eventually. creating a story around an event that you don't explain puts no limits and bounds on what the writers can do. it is like playing a game and making up the rules as you go. it is cheating.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:12 pm to Displaced
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creating a story around an event that you don't explain puts no limits and bounds on what the writers can do.
All storytelling can be taken to this extreme.
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just don't think it is great. It is decent enough to keep watching.
It's way too early to call it great - I agree with you on that.
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but i would like to know that happened eventually.
At this point, I can comfortably say, what happened to those taken is completely irrelevant to the story they are currently telling - obviously, anything can change, but the name of the show is not "The Rapture", "The Taken", "Vanished" - etc., it's called "The Leftovers".
So far, I'm cool with it.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:17 pm to Ace Midnight
i guess part of my problem with it is my own expectations. I wanted it to be a revelation/rapture story. i hoped it was even with the religious-esque intro.
but when i found out about the book (thanks sfp) and read the book's wiki, i was majorly let down that this was going to be another "character study".
i want a premium cable rapture story centered around the rapture of the chosen, rise of the antichrist, 7 years of tribulation, etc etc. I guess HBO is to liberal to air something this religious even though it would be a fictional story.
but when i found out about the book (thanks sfp) and read the book's wiki, i was majorly let down that this was going to be another "character study".
i want a premium cable rapture story centered around the rapture of the chosen, rise of the antichrist, 7 years of tribulation, etc etc. I guess HBO is to liberal to air something this religious even though it would be a fictional story.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:19 pm to Displaced
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i want a premium cable rapture story centered around the rapture of the chosen, rise of the antichrist, 7 years of tribulation, etc etc.
Left Behind series didn't do it for you?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:23 pm to Ace Midnight
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Left Behind series didn't do it for you?
i read the books, and always thought they would translate very well to a premium cable series.
something not staring kirk cameron would be good too,
even those only made it to the second book.
the third one was where shite started getting real.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:45 pm to Displaced
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wrong, no one is confused, and i don't hate it. i just don't think it is great. It is decent enough to keep watching.
Go read this entire thread. It's filled with wtf is going on posts and I don't get it posts.
If you wanted a rapture series then this is obviously not for you. I do think it will divert from the book though if it keeps going so who knows.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:47 pm to DallasTiger11
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I do think it will divert from the book though if it keeps going so who knows.
well considering there is only one book and the "this season on The Leftovers" appeared to touch on all story lines, if they have any hopes for season 2 then they will have to do something.
FWIW, it doesn't look like they are going to divert from the book too much during the first season based on what they showed last night.
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