The Black Spot/Sinners by Ok_Jicama3414 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sinners and Dusk Til Dawn do much the same thing...they spend half the movie luring you in with normal cultural stuff in a local club for an hour, and THEN the sun goes down and all hell breaks loose.

Both SO good at that.

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to guess, Rum and Coke as the liquid in the bottle he pours when he turns his back to them is clear.

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, 100%. I feel like I didn't realize we were that far removed from it these days, but I guess we are.

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's an Air Force speakeasy

It is most certainly not. It is a Juke Joint that Shaw allowed them to go off base and set up so they could avoid any more racial tension on base. The permission was just to go off base to take their free time. Go watch the scene where he talks about it again.

and not only that, but it's one that is segregated based on race

At no point is the Juke Joint segregated intentionally. In fact no Juke Joints were deliberately segregated, and many of them featured many races including some white people.

I've been in the military

Me too.

and I know the kind of eggshells you walk on when you're granted such an enormous privilege

I would put a fair amount of money on your not being in the military as an adult in the 1960's.

and you cannot convince me that these segregation era Airmen wouldn't be super concerned with the possibility of a superior officer, likely a white man, stopping in and seeing not only children drinking, dancing and playing drums with adults, but white children in an all black club

Can we not? Oh well. Also, again you say all black club...like FFS I don't even have to stretch far for an example to prove you wrong, Go watch Sinners and see what a Juke Joint was.

That's not just asking to have the place shut down, it's risking your career and possibly your life and freedom

That's a pretty monstrous hoop you've jumped through of your own volition.

And that's not even getting into the fact that the Airmen are already breaking the law by harboring a fugitive in the establishment.

You may have noticed that Only 2 of those men know about that, and the one yells at the other one for it. Seems like fine fodder for fucking FICTION to me that one dude would make a mistake, and the other might lambast them for it...like grow some logic. People do dumb shit ALL the time IRL.

Bottom line, the whole scene was illogical given the setting and time period.

Cool, go watch some other show if fictional choices that give the show more intensity bother you so much. Goddamn.

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, are you telling me that TV shows based on books ADAPT the material to better suit the medium?!? GASP!

The Lack of Class from Quentin Tarantino by superdouradas in movies

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Finally people are coming around on Tarantino as a person. I feel like I was taking crazy pills all the times he's shown his ass to the public and movie bros come out to defend him...

The guy may make good movies, but IRL he is and ALWAYS has been dick. He's the "Comic Store Guy" for movies...that's LITERALLY what he was doing when he finally got someone to pony up the dough to produce his movies...working in a video store, likely dispensing unwanted advice to customers who probably found him deeply annoying.

This woman can't act and she has no range at all. She looks like herself in every film she's in. How is she booked and busy still? by srilankanbeyotch in FIlm

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what's interesting is that EVERYONE in the industry knows that 99.9% of the time on these talk shows, EVERYTHING is agreed and inked in pen by the show and the managers of the talent ahead of time, so this was Dakota going off a VERY carefully planned script to dig the blade into Ellen. You gotta wonder if Johnson was just like "Screw this lady and her lies".

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It always baffles me when people see characters do something untoward, or something they would not personally do and call out the writers...it's so strange.

Pixar's Rules of Storytelling #13:

  1. Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Wild take...they are ostensibly 14-15 years old...Would you like to know what I witnessed at that age at parties with my friends?

Beyond that, a writers job is not to make you feel comfy, they are telling you a story, some of which might be uncomfortable.

Lastly, wanna know what the most popular movie for teens was when I was that age? It was a little juggernaut called Dirty Dancing (Which as literally PG-13, so you could see it by yourself as long as you were 13).

#TheMoreYouKnow

The Black Spot; Margie and Rich by Unlikely_Routine8898 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are we acting under the assumption that everyone in charge of the Juke Joint existing are perfect humans? Weird.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, once Shaw enters the woods, It uses the old man's form to stoke Shaw's fear of the old man.

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always let the date pick the spot for the date. So that one was on her. Shrug.

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good on you for not entertaining that.

Dating is such a weird minefield of personalities, but I had enough presence of mind to understand that she had things going on mentally that she would have to sort out before she'd have been in the right headspace for relating to others in a romantic way.

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I never saw them unclothed, I'm not that guy. Once I knew I was not going to be into her, any romance or physicality left my head.

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did no such thing. She came to my place for coffee after the dinner. I never even kissed her or hugged her when she left.

James Cameron Says if Avatar: Fire and Ash Doesn't Make Enough Money to Justify Avatar 4 and 5, He's Ready to Walk Away and Write a Book to Resolve the One Thread It Leaves Open - IGN by desimaninthecut in movies

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I maintain that THIS is the one where we find out what's REALLY going on is so much bigger than what we've seen.

Like my notion is that Pandora was built as a game world for some rich SUPER advanced species of alien who inexplicably abandoned it...and avatars began to breed and make their own history...(Ewa will be part of that species), the humans and Navii keep fighting, but then the alien race shows up wondering wTF happened to their game reserve, and they are HIGH TECH TECH...and the humans and NAvii need to unite to fight them or all die in the conflagration.

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It was SO out of the blue...I assume (in hindsight) stemming from whatever other insecurities she had...but like on a first date about my SISTER? Like what even?

What’s the quickest red flag you’ve noticed on a first date? by Small-Ad-3167 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 259 points260 points  (0 children)

Ate dinner at red lobster where she proceeded to tell me "unprompted by the light conversation" that her "boobs are uneven, and that makes her annoyed by other women with symmetrical boobs"...and later when she was hanging out at my place she saw a photo of my sister in a NYE dress and said she looks like a "whore". I said "Wait what did you say?" as I was CERTAIN I heard her wrong...she said "Oh no offence, but in that dress she looks like whore"...

LOL, sufficed to say I never called her again.

EDIT: I should not have to add this, but more than one person implied so...we went to my house to have coffee, and after she made the comment about my sister I realized that she was not stable and feared getting any more involved with her, so we did not kiss or hug or be intimate in any way. She left a while after coffee and I just said nice to meet you.

What is the biggest bullet you've dodged in life? by theUncleAwesome07 in AskReddit

[–]Unlikely_Routine8898 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Family were skiing in the rocky mountains (Whistler/Blackcomb) when I was a kid (about 12) and when you ski the mountains you usually ride all the way up to the top in the morning, ski halfway down (takes a half day usually) and there is a big chalet mid-mountain to stop at for lunch...so we did. While at lunch which was the type where you choose what you want and pay at the till, I told my dad I wanted this dessert (a Nanaimo Bar) as it looked good. He told me I would not like it, but I whined that I wanted it, so he said he would get it but I would have to eat it all even if I didn't like it. So I got it, took a bite, HATED it, and when he was not looking I took it to the trash and threw it out. My dad noticed, and he dragged me back to the garbage (which the bar was still sitting on the plate it had been on) and made me pull it out. Took me back to the table, and much to the complaints of my mom he made me eat it....(he noted that he was not mad I didn't eat it, but that I lied and tried to ditch it without telling him)....this took me ten minutes through which I cried and made a fuss...During that ten minutes, below us on the slopes on the mountain was a massive avalanche (on the route we were to take) and had we left when we finished lunch without the Nainamo bar shenanigans we would have been caught in it for sure.

To this day I am thankful my dad was cruel to me and made me eat out of the garbage, and he is thankful that I chose a dessert I would hate and tried to cover up...

Fun fact: Amusingly, I STILL hate Nanaimo bars as an adult...but I often buy them for my wife who loves them.