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The Dark One posted:John Oliver's podcast, The Bugle, bleeps words, but has a much higher tolerance than the Daily Show. When his material covers the same ground as a much future Daily Show bit, hearing him say the entirety of the word "poo poo" makes the jokes 10% funnier. We all know whose fault that it. gently caress YOU CHRIS!
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Sash! posted:TBS ran uncut Sex and the City the whole way through exactly one time. But this isn't true. They edited it down before it ever aired on TBS. Same goes for the versions of Band of Brothers that aired on History and the Sopranos that ran on AMC.
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DrNutt posted:But this isn't true. They edited it down before it ever aired on TBS. Same goes for the versions of Band of Brothers that aired on History and the Sopranos that ran on AMC. I remember it a very, very long time ago being on TBS and showing a lot of stuff that I never saw again and it didn't fit into timeslots right.
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Dec 5, 2013 06:28
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Clearly, any new Star Trek series needs to be shown on HBO or Showtime. This way, we can actually see Kirk having sex with all of those aliens, and McCoy cursing to make a sailor blush.
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Dec 5, 2013 06:36
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Gau posted:Clearly, any new Star Trek series needs to be shown on HBO or Showtime. This way, we can actually see Kirk having sex with all of those aliens, and McCoy just doesn't strike me as much of a swearer.
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Dec 5, 2013 06:50
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Sash! posted:I remember it a very, very long time ago being on TBS and showing a lot of stuff that I never saw again and it didn't fit into timeslots right. Well, I trust a summary of TBS broadcasts of Sex and the City as I found with a few minutes on the Internet vs your memory. No offense, it being a long time ago and all.
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Dec 5, 2013 08:23
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Oh my loving God, Farscape is a thing and it's loving ridiculous and amazing. Like, I can't even come up with the words to describe how much I love this show with muppet aliens and everyone wears some sort of fetish gear and what the gently caress the ship just had a baby and it's somehow a bad guy. This show is like if some Australian dude had heard of Star Trek and wanted to make something like it.
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Gau posted:Oh my loving God, Farscape is a thing and it's loving ridiculous and amazing. Like, I can't even come up with the words to describe how much I love this show with muppet aliens and everyone wears some sort of fetish gear and what the gently caress the ship just had a baby and it's somehow a bad guy. And had all the good drugs. (Lexx is when they had all the bad drugs. And mixed the ones they really shouldn't have. But it does serve the purpose of making Farscape look normal.) MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 09:30
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Farscape is very unique because there's an Australian TV industry but no Australian sci-fi as opposed to the traditions and conventions from the US and Britain going back decades. So you had Australian and New Zealander production people, directors, guest stars, etc who had never done sci-fi and really had their own unique take on everything working with the skills of the Jim Henson Company versus a generic Vancouver show with Jim Henson's Creature Shop backing them up. The directing, cinematography, production design, everything is totally different from anything that had come before it. Lexx is Farscape if Farscape had no taste, inhibitions, or budget. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 10:06
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Even the storytelling is different. There's an incredible amount of stuff going on in each episode; most have an A, B, and C plot which interweaves with the overarcing season story. Watching this next to an episode of TNG or even DS9 makes them look positively plodding by comparison.
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Dec 5, 2013 10:12
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I also love the way the weirdest minor what-seem-to-be-single-episode-subplots become major season-spanning arcs in Farscape.
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Dec 5, 2013 10:17
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1st AD posted:No way in a post-9/11 world would you ever see an episode of Star Trek really critically tackle the idea that the United States is in fact responsible for a lot of suffering in the world and that a lot of violence directed towards us is simply blowback for our meddling. I agree that this is true and it's a big reason why I don't want to see another Trek TV show, there's just no point if odds are they're going to wuss out and avoid issues like this.
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Dec 5, 2013 10:40
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Bicyclops posted:I finally saw that dinosaur-people Voyager episode. It is typical Voyager-bad in that, despite having a show that's so far away from Earth, they would take 70 years to get home, they keep running into Earth creatures. Like, they really can't stop doing it, over and over again, they keep running into alien races who secretly originate from Earth, have visited Earth, traveled through a wormhole/time portal from Earth, are Q, etc. I know it's been a Trek staple from TOS years, but the way dudes come through the wormhole in DS9, everyone oohs and ahhs and says we've never seen this poo poo before and it's a new species and holy crap. Then the new species acts equally holy poo poo and they walk up to each other and start speaking English easily. So, what's up, bro? Not much man, just flying around and poo poo and flew into this wormhole and here you fuckers are. No kidding, yeah we're just chilling in this space station, it's kinda boring at this stage because it's just Season One but check out Dax, tidy huh? Yeah, bro, that's some top-shelf action right there. Gau posted:what the gently caress the ship just had a baby and it's somehow a bad guy. What the hell. Cheers for something new to check out. Also, despite weeks of training for the ski season and clean living - a guy came around last night and I drank a whole bottle of red and half a bottle of single malt scotch. Then the dude rolled spliffs and I smoked two. I'm loving ruined this morning.. I'm pushing to Duet. Four eps of DS9 S1 on the trot, here we loving go. It better not make me hurl. Tony Montana fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 10:43
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My favorite part about Farscape was watching the main character go crazy. Not "haha I miss home crazy", but full-on "I've got a chip in my brain and everyone's trying to kill me" crazy. And everyone just going along with it. There's something about a show going completely off it's rocker that does it for me.
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Dec 5, 2013 10:45
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Tony Montana, please report back. We need to know if you survived If Wishes Were Horses. God, that episode is worse than Melora and Move Along Home combined.
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Dec 5, 2013 12:33
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I just finished Progress, that was actually pretty good and made me like Kira more. The next episode is.. oh god
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Dec 5, 2013 12:49
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Just have fun with it. Think of it like a goofy old TOS episode. Plus Sisko gets a baseball.
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Dec 5, 2013 12:52
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Even if everything else about Wishes is pretty terrible, I still rather enjoyed hearing about the dire future history of baseball. Though as a Canadian with fond memories of the 80s and 90s it does make me wonder what happened to hockey and pro wrestling.
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Delsaber posted:Even if everything else about Wishes is pretty terrible, I still rather enjoyed hearing about the dire future history of baseball. Though as a Canadian with fond memories of the 80s and 90s it does make me wonder what happened to hockey and pro wrestling. I have no doubt that Pro Wrestling made a comeback in a slightly more interactive manner once the Holodeck came around. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 12:57
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Well.. this starts with Dax dumping Bashir on his rear end in no uncertain terms after he proclaims his need for her.. and now we have O'Brien reading his daughter a bedtime story, she has to be one of the cutest little girls I've ever seen. How bad could this be.. famous last words.. edit: oh hang on, what the gently caress is going on here Tony Montana fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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I didn't really pay attention to baseball in the mid-90's but I think it's pretty laughable that Buck Bokai was the epitome of baseball near the end of the sport, especially since Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were breaking records due to steroids and lifting weights. Just lookit' this nerd
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Tony Montana posted:Well.. this starts with Dax dumping Bashir on his rear end in no uncertain terms after he proclaims his need for her.. and now we have O'Brien reading his daughter a bedtime story, she has to be one of the cutest little girls I've ever seen. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating. I'm jealous of you. I wish I could forget all of DS9 and watch it for the first time again.
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MikeJF posted:I have no doubt that Pro Wrestling made a comeback in a slightly more interactive manner once the Holodeck came around. If you smell what Pendari Champ is cookin'
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Well. Goofy TOS episode was a good way to think of it. Dax fighting with Dax about Dax made me laugh out loud. Drippy mindless Dax was also quite funny. However, that was some pretty drat dumb poo poo to the extent I'm going to have to watch something else now for a bit. Sheilds down, O'Brien.. and you have to believe The ending was actually nicely scifiy as an explanation but insufficient for 45 minutes of silly poo poo. Odo chasing emus was also rad. kelvron posted:I've said it before, but it's worth repeating. I'm jealous of you. I wish I could forget all of DS9 and watch it for the first time again. This is what happened with TNG too, people were saying exactly that to me. It's fun for both of us, I come in here and have people to talk Trek to (which, particularly when moving around, I don't have IRL) and you get to enjoy me enjoying it 
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I'm doing a first-time watchthrough of TNG with my wife. We're up to Conspiracy (although we skipped a couple of the real stinkers in season 1 for now). She already realizes that Picard is a superior captain to Kirk  After this, DS9 I'm just wondering if we should do airdate viewing with TNG/DS9/VOY. There aren't any major need-to-know bits are there? is there an EMH in DS9 towards the end?
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Trent posted:She already realizes that Picard is a superior captain to Kirk Pretty awesome how quickly she came to the wrong conclusion.
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Trent posted:is there an EMH in DS9 towards the end? Yes and no, there's an episode where Zimmerman is trying to make a new EMH using Bashir as the model because people don't like the version in Voyager. Having said that they explain everything you need to know about the EMH for that episode.
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LeafyOrb posted:In none of these scenarios is "IT'S A FAAAAAAAAAKKKKE" proclaimed so be glad they never happened.
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Then her shuttle is blown up by a childlike god being or a transporter duplicate or space gangsters and Kirk has a wistful one liner.
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Kirk owns. Case Closed. Picard is in his room reading a book while this all occurs.
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Tony Montana posted:Picard is in his room reading a book while this all occurs. As it should be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BK19G254zc
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MikeJF posted:I have no doubt that Pro Wrestling made a comeback in a slightly more interactive manner once the Holodeck came around. We know it did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUyTcoe0qw
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1st AD posted:I didn't really pay attention to baseball in the mid-90's but I think it's pretty laughable that Buck Bokai was the epitome of baseball near the end of the sport, especially since Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were breaking records due to steroids and lifting weights. You don't know, maybe Buck Bokai was secretly an Augment. They'd test him for juice to no avail, all because he hit a ball out of the county in his rookie year.
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Majel and Odo. We seem to have entered a nebula of lovely episodes. Although they are known to exist in great numbers in this quadrant of the series, we are amazed by their potency and frequency. We are attempting to rig a solar sail to channel some TOS and if this fails.. we may have to get off our asses and go outside. Please respond.
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Tony Montana posted:Majel and Odo. In DS9 Majel becomes a character. She is not taking mud bathes with Alexander in it.
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Apollodorus posted:Oh there are plenty of Americans who thing that's stupid, too, don't worry. See, this is pretty good, but it really is hard to compete with some of the New Zealand landscapes used in movies to represent fantastic worlds like Middle Earth or whatever. Like, how are these real places? (Granted, some of those aren't real.)
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bobkatt013 posted:In DS9 Majel becomes a character. She is not taking mud bathes with Alexander in it. It's pretty amazing what they do with her, really. After watching DS9, it's kind of sad to go back and see Deanna do nothing but  at her mother constantly.
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Tony Montana posted:Majel and Odo. The first time I watched that episode, I came in with all my TNG assumptions about Lwaxana Troi and hated it all the way through. After a few years, I watched it again, and went in with more of an open mind. It's still a little grating (season one) but I actually found the payoff really touching.
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That one episode with Lwaxana in TNG was great, it had everything -- Picard reciting Shakespeare, TNG-era Ferengi, Lwaxana Troi and her wacky marriage/romance hijinks. It was just hilarious.
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I didn't think Lwaxana was particularly interesting in either TNG or DS9, to be honest. Plus, I think she's in that weird Midsummer Night's Dream in space episode, which was awkward at best. I have like four episodes left of DS9 in season 5 and a few left of Voyager in season 3. At least Kes will be leaving soon. I'm sick of her being used as a love object/compassionate support person for just about everyone on the ship.
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