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Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:11:09 2015 No.6307617 [DELETED]

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Is watching series going to improve my story-creating skills?

Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:14:31 2015 No.6307628

It's really not all that good.
You have to understand that the people who say BB is the greatest show ever are also the people reading 50 Shades and Harry Potter.
Hoi polloi scum in other words.

BB had it's moments and developed the main character decently but it was kinda tryhard and contrived at times and it definitely went on for longer than it had to.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:14:54 2015 No.6307629 No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:16:12 2015 No.6307632 >>6307628 Well it has a pretty decent rating on RT (98%) but I was not prepared for that much plot devices. But how about series in general? As a TV show-style?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:18:04 2015 No.6307639 >>6307632 Forget TV, it's fast food for your mind.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:18:50 2015 No.6307641 The first two seasons were okay but then it just became a soap opera imo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:20:28 2015 No.6307648 >>6307628 This: >>6307641 is why it should be watched. You can see the traps the BB writers fell into (the last two seasons compared to the first three) and avoid them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:23:22 2015 No.6307654 >>6307639 nigga gets it, only worth pleasure, you won't learn much. you might as well read YA

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:24:52 2015 No.6307664 File: 12 KB, 560x407, 1378493552468.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6307617 Nope, but it goes to improve your belly fat

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:27:29 2015 No.6307672 >>6307617 No television show is worth watching when you could read literature instead. So, no.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:29:16 2015 No.6307678 >>6307672 not even Frasier?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:47:14 2015 No.6307740 >>6307672 Not even muh The Wire?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:52:02 2015 No.6307751 >>6307740 TV it's specially more misleading when it markets itself as 'for adults'.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 18:52:04 2015 No.6307752 >>6307672 How about Friends?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:02:32 2015 No.6307791 >>6307752 Freinds is mind cancer friends are mind cancer so alone

Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:03:55 2015 No.6307795

>>6307617

This show is schlock even by TV standards.

>"Haha, the old man shit himself! LOL"
>"Wow look at these guys walk away from an explosion AND NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT LOOKING BACK."
>"Oh, cool, Walter's checking on his money in the vent for the fifth time!"

Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:22:35 2015 No.6307872

I'm kind of surprised to see how much /lit/ hates breaking bad. The show's actually pretty complex in its execution. We see a motif of physical ailments and disabilities that represent a character's insecurities (cancer for walt, paralysis for hank, drug addiction for Jesse) and we get to see the constant change in characters to keep the show interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:27:41 2015 No.6307895 >>6307795 low quality man

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:27:44 2015 No.6307896 >>6307752 >enjoying forced humor lel

Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:47:42 2015 No.6307949
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>>6307872
/lit/ is basically a pool of people trying to prove they're smarter than each other. As such generally it hates discussing actual fiction. If it's not philosophy there's a high chance it'll be called pleb-tier by someone here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 19:52:42 2015 No.6307976 Sopranos is much better

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 23 22:21:50 2015 No.6308614 If anything its going to make you stretch things out to much instead of striking for maximum effect.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 00:28:46 2015 No.6309005 File: 980 KB, 704x528, gRGE3sr.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6307672 but Seinfeld

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 00:31:12 2015 No.6309007 >>6307976 Just started watching it a couple of day ago, on season 2 now. It's amazing how much HBO shits on AMC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 01:39:32 2015 No.6309197 Twin Peaks is another good tv show to check out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 01:42:24 2015 No.6309210 Also Tim and Eric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_QOwRXF0w

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 02:50:17 2015 No.6309385 >>6307639 >>6307654 there's more to tv than you think

Anonymous Tue Mar 24 02:56:31 2015 No.6309398

>>6309385
This. TV is in a golden age right now and yet you plebs still have disdain for it. Some of you may not know this, but a lot of the most talented writers right now are writing for TV shows and films, rather than writing their own novels. The writing in Mad Men, to take an obvious example, is magisterial!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:01:43 2015 No.6309410 >>6309007 Well, you're watching perhaps the greatest TV series ever made (The Sopranos is zillions of times better than The Wire). Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and even Better Call Saul, are all high quality TV shows, some of the best ever made.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:02:00 2015 No.6309411 >>6309385 >>6309398 >PLEB AND PROUD OF IT

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:08:45 2015 No.6309426 >>6309411 because tv explores unique relationships, settings, characters, with good writing AND acting, I think if you can pay attention and watch what's happening in all the details spread throughout the show there's a lot to be gleaned from it

Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:21:15 2015 No.6309447
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>>6309398

>lot of the most talented writers right now are writing for TV shows and films, rather than writing their own novels

Because it pays well.

>>6307976
>>6309410

I saw the pilot and it was really corny. That part where the housewife thinks the house is under attack and pulls out an AK, pfffft. I don't think I've ever seen a "quality" show jump the shark in the first episode.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:22:46 2015 No.6309449 >>6309447 Great, you've seen one episode. keep going

Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:29:56 2015 No.6309460

>>6307672

I'm not sure this is true. If you're going to be reading pablum such as Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Franzen, you may as well be watching TV. The truth is that no literature is worth reading unless it is over 70 years old, written by someone who died broke, and not actually enjoyable to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:52:34 2015 No.6309506 >>6309460

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 03:55:24 2015 No.6309508 File: 95 KB, 500x607, Ellis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6309460 I only read literature with no plot. It's the only literature. MUH literature.

Anonymous Tue Mar 24 04:36:04 2015 No.6309577

>>6309410
>>6309398

Mad men is cucktopia. A quick thinking stoic whiteknight who drinks whiskey at work and doesn't fawn over women like the rest of the muh-soggy-knee goobers. The story of building an attractive man without improving the male audiences understanding of anything based in reality outside of slogans.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 11:32:11 2015 No.6310488 >>6309447 >hating the Sopranos You're literally retarded.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 11:33:28 2015 No.6310497 >>6307617 Louie and The Sopranos are better for improving your "story-creating skills".

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