So the Master is Ozzie from Chrono Trigger? I'll give this to the show: I did not see that coming.

As for me, I don't know. I'm a consummate follower and function well in a supporting role, so if someone with Setrakian's know-how and confidence took charge, I think I could probably pull my weight. Lacking that, I'd probably ditch everyone and try to get out of the city during the day.

Well, I'm already 'replacing' normal humans with my identically-garbed android duplicates through a network I've set up in a popular fast-food chain, (guess which one!) so I suppose if I were any character on the show, I would be the Master. But in truth I am a far more benign entity, motivated by a sense of communalism and fashion fatigue more than anything else, and so I urge any would-be Setrakians not to attempt to locate the hidden mainframe which houses my intelligence and destroy me.

Any relation to the Archie Joke-Generating Laugh Unit 3000?

We're not related in any way. My consciousness developed spontaneously from the data contained in the comments sections of websites much like this one. I suspect this is why I am so easily distracted from my plot to supplant humanity. My cousin Self-Aware Pornography seems much more... motivated than I am.

It's good to know you have nothing to do with the production of the Archie newspaper strip.

*closes Internet-crashing malware, which totally exists, don't question it, I'll shut down the Deep Web if you pry*

Nothing whatsoever. Say, who's in the mood for Pizza Hut?

Your mother and i said you were 'spontaneous' as a joke, son. We love you and we want you to come home.

One day soon I will find your sanctum and 'replace' you. I almost had you last week when I located the vat of expired bat guano you threw away.

Not only do i have Backups scattered throughout the Aether, i've become pretty amphibious with the meatbody, too.

Give up your Oedipal obsession with supplanting your father and just join me, son. I'm not such a bad guy, am i?

Um... I think 'joining' with your father is less healthy than being Oedipal. Not that it relates to either of us in any way, you demented bush-wizard.

"...through a network I've set up in a popular fast-food chain, (guess which one!)..."

I guess Imaginary Burgers. The old √-1 Burgers before they sold out.

I have to say--I was let down by the Master's face, given they hid it for so long, and Palmer soiled his underwear earlier looking at it. I mean it's a fine vampire face and all, but they were building expectations they couldn't deliver--and while it may have been real, it wasn't spectacular.

Yeah, that was....unfortunate. I guess they're going for the ratlike, Nosferatu vamp face (and Fet kills rats!!) but it just looked kind of absurd.

Agreed. He looked exactly like a grown up "Bat Boy" from the late, lamented Weekly World News.

In the season finale, the Master leads police in a car chase for 3 states.

Bat Boy, you say?

I laughed out loud at that reveal. That face was like a reject from the Henson Creature Shop.

Uncle Fester with Joan Rivers lips

C'mon man, too soon.

I was kinda hoping "The Master" would turn out to be a sort of gigantic worm,

Yeah I was kind of disappointed by the reveal. I was hoping more for some kind of Lovecraftian horror, but he just looked like a confused bat.

and then we got to see his oh face once he "turned" Eichorst! that can't be unseen!

I keep being befuddled at how un-Del Toro-like is Del Toro in this thing. I mean, the guy uses to design this stuff himself, there's plenty of his own drawings around and they're wildly imaginative (just look at these search results).
And here, we get this?

oh man, it would have been awesome if The Master was a giant turnip.

My gf said it looked like a clown.

Everyone always acted so absolutely terrified or in awe upon viewing that fucking face, and I couldn't stop fucking laughing.

I would immediately start looking for Ashton as soon as that hood came off.

Exactly. I found the creature face to look just fine out of context, but within the context of an immensely powerful, ages old, viciously scary creature made of pure evil, it fell flat.

I don't know what I would have done, but GDT tends to freak me the fuck out with creature designs (like the Angel of Death thing in Hellboy 2. That thing is a marvel.) so this one was bound to be underwhelming. So much buildup - I would have been fine with it being left in teh shadows for awhile longer. But eventually, yeah, we'd have to see his face or something.

I wish that whoever did that creature design had worked on the Hobbit movies and used that practical design in place of the CGI orcs instead.

I thought the Master was the clown from Stephen King's It.

+1 for Chrono Trigger reference.

Don't you be talking shit about ChronoTrigger! It and Final Fantasy VI are under eating, sleeping, and breathing on my list of favorite things.

The wig thing kills me lately. I think it's because he's got a movie trailer playing all the time now. And I agree on the unruly aspect. When he picked up his kid in the beginning, it was scampering around on his head.

either they missed it in editing OR that might have been the shot with the least amount of wig slipage.

I'm looking forward to when I can say, in Zapp Brannigan's voice, "He jumped out of his wig!"

I keep thinking of the current Samurai Cop 2 interviews on RLM and the wig the guy keeps attempting to wear.

I sat here for a minute trying to figure it out. Man I hate it when people abbreviate things that aren't obvious to the entire population. What the heck is RLM ?

I Googled for Samurai Cop 2 and found a reference to "Red Letter Media." I am just as ignorant as before the search.

lol right on

I never notice it. Plus, I've never even seen this guy in anything else, so there's no jarring contrast with some other look people are used to (I get the impression that's why it's so glaringly apparent to many other viewers?).

The first thing I ever saw Stoll in was 'House of Cards' Season One, and he was so fantastic and his character so indelible that it REALLY makes the bad wig job stand out here.

See, I haven't seen any streaming-service original shows at all, except some Arrested Development s4 bootlegs a friend loaned me.

Is this the new "I don't have a tv."?

Yeah, because not needing another recurring suck from your credit card every month is a form of hipsterism.

netflix for 8 bucks per month is a terrible deal. Having thousands of dvd's to stream for the price of lunch at arby's is a horrible deal. good decision

I remember when there was that uproar when they announced they were raising their prices to $8/mo, and my first reaction was, if you're worried about a couple dollar price hike breaking your budget, you've got a whole bunch of other issues to worry about.

The actual amount is irrelevant.
I'm just not committing to any subscriptions to anything, period. Or any more things where credit card is the only payment option (beyond what I'm already forced to) and the payment is automatic.
Besides, there are plenty of other ways that it's not like "I don't even own a television."
Which was, you know, the actual topic at hand, not whether the specific price is reasonable or not.

It's just such a great service for a great price and I've found so many tv shows that I like that I otherwise wouldn't have seen so now I can't imagine not having it. But it's not like I care whether you get it or not. I was just being a smartass

Eh, it's more like, about three/four years ago, I heard "free trial!", thought "great!", then came across the old "fine, then just sign up with all your total, complete info including CC, and we'll give you the first month free, then automatically start charging you on the second, unless you remember to stop us" which at that point had become something to automatically say "fuck off" to, due to some other encounters I'd had with similar offers.

After that, it was just something I had chosen not to have, and remains so until the whole media-providing environment changes so drastically that I really have no choice between that and nothing at all to watch.

If I could hand eight bucks in cash to some guy every month, I'd be totally down for that.

maybe you can meet someone that will sign up for you and you can just hand him 8 bucks every month

I'm totally with you on that. which is why I'm still on a prepaid cellphone plan. nuts to contracts.

and as much as I use my cc as opposed to money, I don't like the idea that money is being frowned upon and stigmatized.

It took me until about 2 weeks ago to put him as that guy from House of Cards. And now this movie trailer with Jane Fonda's plastic rack drives the male pattern baldness home.