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Post by slingshot on Jul 10, 2017 14:53:40 GMT -5
Have they done a noir episode yet, Dick Tracy style? I dont recall one, but there are so many episodes at this point.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Jul 10, 2017 15:26:18 GMT -5
Gamble claimed all of season 6 was going to be noir. It didn't exactly work out that way.
I think the closest they got was "Monster Movie," which was 30s Universal films. Dick Tracey's not very noir.
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Post by saltgunempty on Jul 11, 2017 1:42:42 GMT -5
Looking back, I think I'd call season 6 a crappy noir.
Wasn't one of the travel episodes a noir or noir leaning?
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Post by thesnowleopard on Jul 11, 2017 1:53:44 GMT -5
There were some that leaned that way, like "The Third Man" or "The Man Who Would Be King." Still not sure how to classify "You Can't Handle the Truth." But overall...nah.
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Post by saltgunempty on Jul 11, 2017 17:03:46 GMT -5
I was thinking of Time After Time but I think that's because I remembered fedoras. I'm kind of surprised they haven't done a full on noir episode... or attempted it might be more accurate... it's been awhile but You Can't Handle The Truth had some noir elements in the story but probably nowhere near enough to be considered so. Not unlike Gamble's season, I suppose.
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Post by thesnowleopard on Jul 11, 2017 18:26:03 GMT -5
I sit on the fence about Time After Time After Time. It's definitely got some noir elements (the femme fatale and the doomed anti-hero aspect, for example), but it seems more like a lot of detective/police stories from the 1940s that weren't noir at all in other respects. The time Chuck villain is noirish, but he's not the Hero. Dean and Eliot Ness are, and they're not very noirish in that episode (though Dean does have his general noir elements).
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Post by saltgunempty on Jul 11, 2017 21:49:48 GMT -5
A lot of episodes probably have noir elements deliberate or not without really being so. The whole show kind of has some connection to that overall but I bet you can say that about any number of shows and movies. Not enough to be noir but some, and, yeah, Dean ticks a few boxes for stretches of the show. Quite a few boxes at times.
Time After Time may have been intended as a noir reference. Does it succeed well enough to be identified as noir? Probably not but by my memory it's the closest noir feeling episode I can recall off the top of my head, but season one or two might have a few.
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