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  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • Personally I consider The Good Place one of the rare shows that is solid all the way through without a single bad or weak episode, however the end of season one is certainly where it goes from great to fantastic.

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • IMO DS9's s1 is way worse than TNG's, but that might be because TNG has a nostalgia factor for me from watching random episodes as a kid, and so by the time I did a full start-to-finish watch-thru I already knew the characters well and understood that the series would get better, whereas I was an adult when I first watched DS9 and went into it completely blind (after watching the first two-parter episode I nearly cried, because I was on a mission to watch all of the 20th century Star Treks, and there were seven seasons of this to slog through!? And now it's my favorite Star Trek series of all time.)

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  • Technically a streaming series rather than a TV series, but the second campaign of Critical Role (Mighty Nein). I started watching the series after seeing how popular Critical Role was online and that Mighty Nein was recommended for CR beginners, but I really didn't get it at first; it seemed so boring and slow. Still I stuck with it (listening to it in the background while I did other stuff), and I remember there were two specific moments where I finally understood its popularity:

    episode 7 "Hush" when Nott kills the manticore baby (which was my first "holy shit they did what" moment), and episode 12 "Midnight Espionage" during the hospital heist (I could not stop laughing at the debacle and completely lost it at Nott's negative charisma roll). In other words, thanks Sam Riegel for making me a fan!

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  • I think the comedy and overall quality of the early episodes is pretty solid, making those not bad episodes per se but rather deceptive ones. I personally enjoyed how the series takes its time in settling into its drama, and suspect it was an intentional metaphor for how the surface glitz and glamour of Hollywood obscures its dark underbelly.

    Hmmm, that would make another good asklemmy thread: series with deceptive beginnings that obscure their true genre...

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • Apparently it depends on whether you consider the series premiere as one episode or two; Wikipedia (which I used for reference) lists it as two separate episodes, providing a total s1 episode count of 20, vs imdb which lists it as one single episode, providing a total s1 episode count of 19. Memory Alpha lists the episode as s1e19, and I'm inclined to trust those nerds. At any rate I edited my comment to include the episode title for clarity.

    Regardless, yeah, I think it's probably a turning point episode for a lot of folks, and it's the first of many war introspection episodes that help make the series timeless.

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  • I feel like season one was trying too hard to be The Office, and then in season two it sheds that to become its own entity. I've heard that the writers sincerely considered s1's less-than-stellar critical response and made changes to s2 accordingly (e.g. making Leslie Knope more likable and less dumb). It's definitely a "don't judge it until you've gotten at least part way through season two" series.

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  • I remember watching American Dad's premiere and being excited for the concept but disappointed by the execution. You can tell there's aspiration to be a good parody of the contemporary political climate in the first episode, but iirc it's undermined by its crassness.

    The Orville also struggled to get its footing in the early episodes; maybe Seth MacFarlane just does better once his series gets established?

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  • My go-to example for this is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Season one is overall quite rough, however s01e19 "Duet" (second-to-last episode of the season) is IMO the first episode that shows true glimmers of promise. In season two the series starts to find its footing, by season three it's proven itself to be Star Trek gold, and then the series manages to maintain its quality through to its seventh and final season.

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  • Obligatory "fuck AI," however I've reluctantly found that the AI summaries can be helpful on occasion, such as when deciding if a video with a clickbaity title is actually worth watching, or when I'm on YouTube looking for a solution to a problem (in which case the summary can sometimes get me the content way faster than watching the video). So of all the dumb shit YouTube has done to their platform in recent years, I'd argue the AI summaries fall on the "actually not that bad" end of the spectrum.

  • Maybe Morn is barking orders.

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  • It's not like the Defiant is properly staffed either; they had to draft DS9's station doctor and station shrink just to fill out the bridge crew!

  • Does no one wear pants on this planet?!

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  • I'm more concerned with the federation's prevailing onesie fashion trend...

  • TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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  • To learn more about earth-eating in animals and humans, check out the Wikipedia page on geophagia.

  • P-Stews didn't want to be completely upstaged by one of Brent Spiner's best performances

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  • Strangely, in the next season (s4e3) when Data finally meets his dying creator, he never thinks to mention Lal, despite the many dialogue lead-ins about procreation and disappointment over Data's joining Starfleet instead of following in Noonien Soong's cyberneticist footsteps.

  • What is your favorite media villain?

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  • Silco from Arcane.

    I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.

    His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.

  • Do Americans really only shit once a week?

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  • American here. I've always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don't poop at least once a day on average.

    As mentioned in other comments, the United States' climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher's explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.

  • Movies

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  • How many more versions of Tron do we need?

  • But we're so evolved though

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  • Pakleds.

    (Is it racism if they deserve it?)

  • just think of the optimizations!

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  • It's definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).

  • Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

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  • HIPAA is serious fucking business (or at least, was).