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  1. 4 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    i am definitely having fun with the show and the action and the tone and all the rest.  my brain has been a bit nit-picky, as always.  none of this is really affecting my enjoyment level, but it's still registering as i watch.  i'm sure there's stuff that can be explained or shit i missed, but here are a few thoughts...

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    the show opens with kate at school, somewhere close, but not home.  at the time, i didn't know if it was boarding school, college, whatever.  she's shooting at a clock tower for reasons i'm not aware of, she hits it, she breaks it, her friends run away, she comes home for xmas.  she talks to her mom on the phone, her mom asks her if she's "in the city" which sounds like something you say to someone from nyc, but who doesn't live there currently.  she's in the city, she goes to see her mom at the penthouse from the beginning of the show.  we see she's still rich, it's told to us many times. 

    clint is also in town with his family, but not his wife, which again, is not really explained.  they plan a pretty sweet leadup to xmas (presumably in new york) over dinner, where everyone chooses what they want to do that week.

    shit goes down at the auction (which was public knowledge to the mom but seemed pretty secret when they were there), where she meets the old armand (the 3rd) who's with young armand (the 7th) and that's not even mathematically possible but whatever.  shit goes sideways at the auction, items are there, some are stolen, we don't know which ones and why.  then instead of going back "home", she goes to her "apartment" which is above a pizza place?  she's rich, but the apartment is not nice.  she steals a homeless dog and feeds it pizza, presumably from downstairs.  later she's seen talking about feeding the dog breakfast, and she's holding a frozen pizza.  lol ok. 

    her shitty apartment burns down leaving the suit, which seemed too important to leave behind even in a fire.  she and hawkeye are friends now, and break into her aunt's(?) apartment and just go full-on home invasion and make it their own.  they live there now.  her mother knows her apartment burned down, but hasn't really mentioned like, "oh, you're staying here at home, right?"  nothing.  also she mentions having to go to work, which is for her mother's company, and she rolls in the next morning like she goes to work there every day.  but the day before, she was at school with her friends, who she never talks to or mentions again, and also it seemed like it was in another nearby city.

    then, clint abandons the dream xmas leadup week and puts his kids in a car to travel back from new york, on their own, which seems a little dicey (from jfk?), especially considering he didn't seem to be in any danger and he didn't seem to have a good reason to stay there alone.  oh, the suit.  and the ronin.  and he has to make sure that the ronin is safe.  only he is the ronin, so he knows the ronin is fine, except for the suit.  which i guess confusingly starts this whole mess. 

    so day after day, he seems to invent new and moderately believable reasons to stay in new york running around and sleeping at the same stranger's apartment with a hot 22 year old college chick, which makes his wife the most generously fictitious character in modern television history.  also didn't he just have a hotel suite?  why wouldn't he just stay there, even if he isn't doing the xmas week he promised his children?

    sidenote - at one point, clint says "shouldn't you be in school?" which is a line i've heard muttered at least a couple dozen times in tv/movies, and it should never be said to a 22 year old. 

    why would they have him say this?  my theory is that they've tried really hard early on to let everyone know that they're just buddies, there is nothing sexual going on between them and anything like that wouldn't be possible, because she's young enough to say that to.  but just for good measure, we're gonna have clint be 45 going on 90, with his hearing aid and needing to ice down every part of his body.  we get it, he's just an archer.  he doesn't have super genes from a spider or serum.  but showing him buying neosporin and teaching kate how to dress wounds seems a little on-the-nose for me.  i'm watching marvel for a reason.    

    which i guess is all to say that i don't care about the realism in any of the action, the fighting, the storyline even, but the minor plot stuff is such a mess and was really avoidable in so many ways.  it's like i'm watching the production version of an old writing drill where you pass around the page and everybody writes their continuation but the whole story always winds up inconsistent and sloppy, which is the entire point of the exercise.  it would've taken 3 throwaway lines to avoid all of it, but alas.

    sorry, that was long, and i forgot some other shit i'm sure, but whatever.  i'm still into it.  no idea why clint seems so determined to ditch his family right before xmas, but i get it, families are the worst. 

    i decided to spoiler instead of longcatting the thread.

    Bro, do you even Shawarma?

  2. I'm really enjoying this - I never really thought much of Hawkeye's character - I didn't dislike him but I didn't miss him if he wasn't in a scene. 

    But this is series has given me an entirely new outlook - might be my fav of the 4 D+ series so far.

     

    ....and it doesn't hurt that Hailee is easy on the eyes.

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  3. I'm not convinced Georgia even tried last night.

    During one of the post game shows, maybe CFB FInal, they were discussing the drastic improvement of Bama's OL from the Auburn game to UGA.

    And during one of the clips shown you could see the Dog's DL literally just standing there watching the play

  4. Tech will have a piecemeal coaching staff lead by new La Tech HC Sonnie Cumbie who played for Leach.

    Yes it is going to be strange.

     

    Leach and all his awesome quirkiness aside has fielded some pretty lame bowl teams at times. I predict it to be a pretty sloppy game by both teams.

    However that in no way means it doesn't hold the possibility of being rather entertaining.

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  5. 48 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    I was kinda hoping they would put notre dame in instead of Cincinnati and when asked why, they responded “tv ratings. Duh.”

    that’s pretty much why they are 5, isn’t it?

    it’s absolutely hot garbage to have Cincy behind Georgia if they think ND is 5

     

     

  6. 3 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

    This is much ado about nothing. It's pretty set that it's going to be 1. Alabama, 2. Michigan, 3. Georgia, 4. Cincinnati

    Once Alabama lost to A&M Georgia became a clear number one in the eyes of the committee so why, after 10 weeks or whatever, would the committee think "Alabama and Michigan are the two best teams" and not "Alabama and Georgia are the two best teams."? You can obviously point to what happened yesterday and the committee would just shrug. I think Georgia will get "punished" for not winning the SEC, but being 2nd or 3rd doesn't really matter. I just don't see the committee throwing out 13 weeks of their data and opinions on Georgia because they lost to Alabama, no matter how bad they lost.

    These aren't my opinions, it's me trying to put myself in the mind of the selection committee.

    It’s the secsecsec starting points coming out of the gate. 

    Get credit for early top25 wins even if defeated teams don’t end the year ranked because - secsecsec

    Get credit for early season loss because - secsecsec

    Get credit for late season loss because - secsecsec

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  7. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    In the 8 team model, the only team that is remotely interesting or stands a chance is tOSU. Maybe Notre Dame, kinda? Any system that puts in two 2 loss Big XII teams is the wrong system. All of this is a better argument against expansion and for exclusion of G5 than for it. When you see the matchup written down you see how bad this. 

    That was my thoughts as well. The mire I mixed and matched possible pairings the less I liked it.

    The question then becomes - is this just an off year? Are these bad matchups the exception or the rule?

  8. Like it or not, playoff expansion is on the table and 12 is the most recent # I've heard being thrown about.

    So, since we are playing *what if* and a reduction of games is desired, how's about this...

    Today there were 12 division winners that played. And since some seem to think that it was unfair that Georgia was matched against Bama. Let's chunk the conference championships and seed the 12 division winners. Today then would have been the first round and according to the last rankings, these would have been the matchups:

     

    1 UGU vs 21 Houston

    2 Mich vs 17 Utah

    3 Bama vs 16 Wake

    4 Cincy vs 15 Pitt

    5 oSu vs 13 Iowa

    9 Baylor vs 10 Oregon

     

    Having typed that out and now looking at it, I'm of the mind that that would suck too just like the 5-12 matchups above.

    Let's see what 8 teams would look like. We'll keep the CCGs intact and seed the playoffs as follows.

    Top 4 conf champions and next 4 highest ranked (subjectivity at play and rematches pretty much unavoidable)

     

    1 Mich vs 8 oSu

    2 Bama vs 7 tOSU

    3 Cincy vs 6 ND

    4 Baylor vs 5 UGA

     

     

     

     

     

  9. 19 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

    Fuck it, leave Bama out so that we don’t have to watch them again.  Tell them that you can’t lose to aggy and expect to be national champion.

    Absolutely!!

    If there are auto-qualifiers there should also be auto-disqualifies

    😀

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Honestly, the 5-12 matchups you posted are not interesting or fun at all

    Yeah, we can throw UTSA out as they wouldn't get serious consideration.

    But I tried basing the rest off of the most recent rankings and who played this weekend and who didn't. I think BYU is the only team I bumped up that didn't play this weekend.

  11. 8 minutes ago, Coelenterate Fuccboi said:

    Season would be too long.

    But it would be a lot of fun wouldn't it?

    Today is 12/5. Semi finalists could be decided by 12/19 and played on NYD like they are now.

     

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  12. 1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

    UTSA would absolutely not qualify. Even if there was a 7th conference champion auto bid that would be ULL. Oklahoma State would also not fall out of the playoff over today. Whatever you track Baylor they’re probably right behind.

    I know. Was just throwing them a bone for the nice season.

     

    edit: swapped oSu for Ole Miss

  13. 2 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

    Bama should be ranked higher now for sure. UGA lost to Bama. Bama lost to 8-4 A&M. A circular argument for sure, but Bama is clearly in along with Cincy. You really can’t argue anyone else is more deserving of a berth over UGA, except Michigan, but that’s a weak argument. 

    I'm not arguing that.

    I'm arguing that Bama's resume is better.

  14. 32 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

    Nope. Not how this works. And it shouldn’t be how it works, unless you want to see Pitt/Wake/Baylor/Utah in the playoff. I don’t.

    Georgia has, by far, the most impressive resume of any one-loss team. There will be three one-loss teams in the playoff. 

    Bama says hi

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