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31st March 2009, 1:34pm
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#61 | | I'm a mighty pirate.
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Originally Posted by MarkMono  You're getting unduly vitiriolic over a total misunderstanding on your part. This could very well be the first time that you've cared enough about anything on here to do so.
Lost, heh, appropriate. | Aw man, unduly vitriolic? Really?
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31st March 2009, 1:35pm
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#62 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Call me a daddy I'll beat your ass like one. | |
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31st March 2009, 1:39pm
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#63 | | I'm a mighty pirate.
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Originally Posted by MarkMono Was directed at dictionary.com. I fucking HATE dictionary.com but it seemed appropriate as Lost is an American show and they can't speak English properly.
What about Lost being pretentious seems negative to you? | No, nothing - not what I meant. I meant the attribute of being pretentious to me is a negative one.
Pure are a forum daddy but. 
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31st March 2009, 1:39pm
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#64 | | Ninja Pirate of Awesome
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Originally Posted by Dec Here, was a guy who's a wrestler legit lecturing people about "stupid questions" and watching appropriate TV? Amazing. | I like wrestling fans even less for questions like "See that cunt that looks just like you, wi the same tattoos an aw that but wi a mask on... who is that?"
Took the cunt three fucking years to realise.
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31st March 2009, 1:43pm
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#65 | | Al Queda Pish
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Originally Posted by djtoast i think you're trying to insult me. | | |
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31st March 2009, 1:46pm
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#66 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Originally Posted by convectuoso No, nothing - not what I meant. I meant the attribute of being pretentious to me is a negative one.
Pure are a forum daddy but. | It isn't always, for a lot of popular entertainment merely having the superficial appearance of having deep and profound meaning is sufficient to lend the rest of the soap opera fluff a little dignity. Its hardly Shakespeare, and any improvement is an improvement.
See also: The comics of Grant Morrison, the lyrics of Tool and the movies of Guillermo Del Toro. All of which I love.
You can see it as negative thing in all cases if you really want to, but it kind of flies in the face of logic. | |
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31st March 2009, 1:55pm
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#67 | | I'm a mighty pirate.
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Originally Posted by MarkMono It isn't always, for a lot of popular entertainment merely having the superficial appearance of having deep and profound meaning is sufficient to lend the rest of the soap opera fluff a little dignity. Its hardly Shakespeare, and any improvement is an improvement.
See also: The comics of Grant Morrison, the lyrics of Tool and the movies of Guillermo Del Toro. All of which I love.
You can see it as negative thing in all cases if you really want to, but it kind of flies in the face of logic. | Well, you know what, I get that. I guess I just always associate being pretentious with, you know, pretending to be something it's not (e.g. deep and profound), which of itself is entirely subjective anyway - because how do you draw the line between entertainment that does have meaning and entertainment that pretends to have meaning?
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31st March 2009, 1:59pm
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#68 | | Tishoumaren
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This entire conversation is pretentious.
(just stirring)
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31st March 2009, 2:03pm
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#69 | | Al Queda Pish
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Pretending to have meaning: Campestral
Having profound meaning: CHUCK LIDELOL
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31st March 2009, 2:12pm
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#70 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Originally Posted by convectuoso Well, you know what, I get that. I guess I just always associate being pretentious with, you know, pretending to be something it's not (e.g. deep and profound), which of itself is entirely subjective anyway - because how do you draw the line between entertainment that does have meaning and entertainment that pretends to have meaning? | There is a lot of grey area, but something Lost is a very clear example of the latter. The story runs on constant, and mostly empty intrigue. So, from a superficial perspective its briefly like watching the most intricate and multi-levelelled mystery ever concocted. However, as its elements are only explained retroactively and the more nonsensical mysteries are quietly post-rationalised or ignored, there is no pay-off. Its just disposable entertainment, junk food for the brain.
It would take the greatest writers in the history of humanity to make sense of the sheer weight of incoherency generated by this show.
Nothing particularly wrong with that mind, if you enjoy the ride. | |
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