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Gita: They’re both so listless in their lives, and clearly found a sense of newness from being with each other. He’s going through the motions just like Danny is. We get a tidbit from Danny’s wife Theo that they weren’t good for each other, but I wonder exactly what was going on with Karl. I wish we knew a little more about him and his past relationship, and why it didn’t work. Natalie: Maybe? I was trying to get a bead on that.
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Also just checking-is Karl supposed to be a model? He goes to a fitting at one point and he really doesn’t look 38. Gita: Yeah, they implied that they’d been broken up for a year, and we met the ex in the prequel sequence, which takes place 11 years prior. Karl had just gotten out of a 10-year relationship, I think it was? Natalie: Actually though, now that you bring that up, that’s one of the most interesting aspects to me. My big question for this episode is: Is Charlton Brooker ok? This is an intervention. Then Karl gifts Danny a VR version of Striking Vipers, and well, uh. They used to play fighting games together, but lost touch. Danny got married and had a kid, while Karl maintained a bachelor lifestyle. This episode establishes that Karl and Danny are two longtime friends that haven’t seen each other in a while. Gita: OK, let’s zoom out a sec and set up the plot a little. But yeah, the in-game scenes did what they were supposed to do, I guess, even if they didn’t precisely hit the mark for me, tonally. I let it go, though, because there, ah, obviously wasn’t that much fighting going on, and more importantly, I feel like they needed a strong layer of camp to prevent those scenes from feeling too “real” and thus ruin the cognitive dissonance going on with Danny and Karl-is this cheating? Is this gay? Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, by the way-outstanding.Īnd Nicole Beharie did that, oh my god, the restraint and control in all her scenes. Natalie: I was actually going to bring up Edgar Wright! It felt like a cheap Scott Pilgrim scene. It was fast-paced, kinetic, and the punches really felt like they landed. The special moves and combos were especially well edited, I think. The actual fighting I liked a lot-it was a bit of an Edgar Wright rip, but that was the kind of dynamism it needed.
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Gita: It was like they plundered a Party City. Natalie: Interesting! The game itself seemed to draw from a lot- Tekken probably, with the polar bear character Tundra, and I also got a little bit of a Killer Instinct vibe from the footage they showed at the beginning? Also Virtua Fighter, so maybe that makes sense given the game it was apparently based on.īut then the actual in-game virtual reality footage came, which I dreaded, and it looked like the characters were dressed in cheap, store-bought cosplay, and I was just like, y’all can literally port my mind into a video game and this is what you’d have me wear? Really? Like, Roxette? Excuse me? Can I find her at 30 Rock? But it did feel like a cartoon parody of a video game, honestly. Gita Jackson: I saw some people say that it was a reference to Fighting Vipers, a 32-bit fighting game. Though it also reminds me of Cable saying “Hyper.
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People are talking about the Miley episode, “Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too,” but there was so much going on in “Striking Vipers,” which, first of all, would you pick up a video game with that title? It sounds very made-up video game in a TV script. Sometimes that’s bad, and sometimes that’s great. Natalie Degraffinried: This episode is Doing The Most.