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marakinta t1_jast5zc wrote

Reply to comment by i81u812 in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

Haven't bothered to remember anyone's name, but I kinda like the Scottish/Irish navigator dude for his snark, and the bald security guy for his no BS attitude. The vast majority are just living stereotypes.

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ReadyProposal t1_jasrto2 wrote

Reply to Self-Defense Stress Test show? by thielen

This just demonstrates a profound ignorance around actual violence in general. The idea that violence outside competition is anything less than unpredictable and chaotic is laughable. There is no "best" martial art in any sense but the situational and immediate. That's literally why there are so many.

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Maninhartsford t1_jasooit wrote

Reply to What are some of the most notable examples of a show jumping the shark? by izukaneki

Sleepy Hollow had already been meandering and pointless for a lot of the second season, but then there was an episode where they just full on ended the ongoing storyline. The next episode was basically the characters going "what do we do now?" the rest of the season was MOTW episodes not connected to anything, and after all that, which was pretty clearly the network stepping in after all the meandering, they fired the showrunner, season 3 was like a bad USA show, and in 4 one of the leads left and it wasn't even set in Sleepy Hollow anymore. Oh, and there was a Bones crossover. So yeah, that's my answer - wrapping up the main conflict 11ish episodes into season 2.

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RusevReigns t1_jase2k2 wrote

Reply to comment by errol_timo_malcom in What are some of the most notable examples of a show jumping the shark? by izukaneki

Thank you, Season 6 is a very flawed season due to how they were married to the having the big moments in the penultimate and finale episodes. It feels like they're just killing time waiting for BATB in the penultimate and Cersei to blow everyone up in the finale. The High Sparrow plotline's events are mostly done by the end of season 5 in my opinion and they're just spinning their wheels for a whole season.

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meowskywalker t1_jar9cf4 wrote

Reply to Self-Defense Stress Test show? by thielen

It’s a weird idea right off the bat, you’re being trained in self defense to fight off a rapist or kidnapper or something. Of course the average self defense trainer isn’t going to be prepared to fight a professional martial artist. I don’t know what this would prove except to make people look dumb. And not even necessarily the instructors, some expert martial artists trouncing the guy who normally teaches people “keys to the face, stomp your heel on the ankle, run like fuck” the martial artists are going to come off like bullies.

But then all the obsession with Muay Thai. You just wanna see people do Muay Thai. That’s cool, but just suggest that show then. “I like Ong-Bak and also the slightly dumber one with the elephants, I wanna see more of that.”

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hour_of_the_rat t1_jaqt619 wrote

Reply to Self-Defense Stress Test show? by thielen

>attending as undercover trainees

This is a good way to piss off the local senseis, I think. Nobody likes being caught unaware, and likely once people found out it was undercover you are unlikely to get their cooperation, and only foster bitterness, with the ending being "If they had only asked, I would have been happy to participate".

Go the opposite route: send out letters, "We will be in your area", get 4 or 5 to confirm, film at each place for a few days, and after a couple of weeks you have the 4-5 episodes worth.

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