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Boardwalk Empire
LooN3y:
--- Quote from: DeeezNuuuts83 on January 02, 2011, 09:32:57 PM ---I've been re-watching the season (though at a pretty slow pace), and there are things that I'm picking up on that I didn't notice before, or things that I'm trying to look for. It's definitely not a waste of time to check it out a second time around. You notice throughout the whole season how Eli doesn't really like his brother all that much, or how Jimmy's baby mama acts when near the photography studio, etc. I'm trying to see at what point Van Alden's sidekick (I forget his name) would've been under Nucky's control since it didn't seem like that in the third episode when they storm into the hospital when Eli is trying to kill Rothstein's man who survived the ambush.
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u didn't realize this he first time around?
DeeezNuuuts83:
Of course I did. You just don't notice to what degree some of these things are, plus you get to watch the progressive buildup of people's resentment, which you don't notice the first time around.
Javier:
--- Quote from: Sikotic™ on January 02, 2011, 05:55:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on December 14, 2010, 02:04:36 PM ---There's a difference between slow and just bad. A lot of times Boardwalk was pretty bad.
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I couldn't think of anything I would consider bad off the top of my head from the season. A lot of shit bored me a little, but it eventually paid off in the end.....I'm trying to think of a few examples, but I'm starting to forget a lot of the details after just a few weeks.
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Here's some of the things I didn't really like or thought was just okay.
-Nucky's lack of depth as a character. It shouldn't have taken until the last episode to have this payoff being that he is the central character so far. There's one thing to be mysterious, but he clearly wasn't.
-Bad casting for Jimmy's character. He spends most of the time acting like he's about to cry and his lips get all pouty like if he was some 13 year old slut on myspace a few years ago.
-Way too much emphasis on Margaret Schroder. We all knew what was going to happen. She claims to be the righteous one and still ends up being with Nucky.
DeeezNuuuts83:
--- Quote from: Javier on January 03, 2011, 11:37:47 AM ---Here's some of the things I didn't really like or thought was just okay.
-Nucky's lack of depth as a character. It shouldn't have taken until the last episode to have this payoff being that he is the central character so far. There's one thing to be mysterious, but he clearly wasn't.
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But it's just the first season, and they can't unveil everything about every character's background right away while allowing the storyline to progress. But there were signs of his past, like when he'd walk by the boardwalk and stare at the place with the premature/unhealthy babies, though of course it didn't make sense until the end.
--- Quote from: Javier on January 03, 2011, 11:37:47 AM ----Bad casting for Jimmy's character. He spends most of the time acting like he's about to cry and his lips get all pouty like if he was some 13 year old slut on myspace a few years ago.
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Agreed.
--- Quote from: Javier on January 03, 2011, 11:37:47 AM ----Way too much emphasis on Margaret Schroder. We all knew what was going to happen. She claims to be the righteous one and still ends up being with Nucky.
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She never "claimed" to be the righteous one. I think one of the big themes of the show is the fact that anyone can be corrupted in some way, though of course the corruption itself varies in its degree. Nucky said it himself in the last episode where it said something to the effect of everyone deciding how much sin they can live with. But everyone in the show crosses boundaries that they probably didn't expect to cross.
Lunatic:
Wow u guys don't like Jimmy? Easily my favorite
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