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It's funny because I JUST started a rewatch of Babylon 5 this week. What struck me is how pretty much every single episode has had a tidbit that comes into play later. Even the ones that are standalone, there's always something going on that hints at the greater picture. I may skip TKO though. Because, really, gently caress TKO. B5 really has aged worse than TNG which is funny since it came afterwards. The CGI just is, it's bad, but it's just something that becomes part of the show. The set design and costuming though are 90s as all gently caress and plainly low budget. There's also nothing inspiring at all about the cinematography. It's worth it though for the story and character arcs. I keep hoping that the rumblings of a B5 movie in 2016 will push Warner to do an HD makeover in the vein of TNG. They would have to redo all the effects work from scratch since all the assets were lost, but that seriously wouldn't be too bad. I honestly wouldn't even care if they went for higher resolution textures, just give me something not cropped to gently caress and back and not suffering from horrible interlacing artifacts. The sets wouldn't hold up too well under HD, but they honestly don't look that great already on DVD so no major issue there. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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Enterprise was fun and you should watch it. Just endure the opening theme song like you would a few pain sticks.
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Aug 15, 2014 18:09
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Crosscontaminant posted:Do what I'm doing with a friend. Watch Voyager, laugh uproariously at the terrible early episodes, then enjoy the later ones where it gets okay. Never watch Enterprise. If you never watch Enterprise, you never get to see Shran, or as I like to call him, "holy poo poo why wasn't the show about this guy."
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Aug 15, 2014 18:29
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I actually like the theme song to Enterprise. I'm the worst. I'm been watching Enterprise here and there and it's not so bad. I mean, it's not great, but it's okay. I got a kick out of the episode where Trip got space-pregnant and the one with Jeffery Combs as an Andorian was great. I've also been watching through Voyager, but I'm not doing the entire show because I feel like I have better things to do with my life than watch 7 whole seasons of Voyager. I'm just picking out the best\worst\important continuity wise of the bunch. Here's my watch list: quote:Caretaker (Pilot) Anything I'm leaving out that needs to be on there?
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Aug 15, 2014 18:31
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You don't have Blink of an Eye and that's one of Voyager's best.
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Aug 15, 2014 18:57
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I quite like Death Wish, and if you're going to watch Q and the Grey you might as well watch it too.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:29
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Gammatron 64 posted:Anything I'm leaving out that needs to be on there? e: \/\/\/\/\/\/ 
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Aug 15, 2014 19:33
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MikeJF posted:You don't have Blink of an Eye and that's one of Voyager's best. Vengeance of Pandas posted:I quite like Death Wish, and if you're going to watch Q and the Grey you might as well watch it too. Thanks, I'll add those. Wowbagger2004 posted:You're missing the picture of voyager being smashed with a hammer that Aatrek got bent out of shape over. No I'm not.  That baby raper can rot in hell.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:41
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DemeaninDemon posted:Ferengi and Klingons make the best episodes. Except that one. You know which one. I'm going to guess the one with Quark in drag. That episode was shameful. Like in a truly pan-cultural way so that any sentient species or imagined species (I mean we've basically just got the one, maybe dolphins as well, but you know what I mean) will feel shame watching it.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:43
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syscall girl posted:I'm going to guess the one with Quark in drag. Yes that one. Profit and Lace was horrible and not in the funny way that Threshold was.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:47
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I watched Profit and Lace while I was eating Velveeta mac and cheese for lunch one day. I don't know if it was the fact that Velveeta is kind of gross on its own, but I felt like barfing, promptly lost my appetite and gave 90% of my lunch to the dog.
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Also be careful not to confuse Profit and Lace with Profit and Loss which is a Good Episode with lots of insight into Cardassian fashion.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:57
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Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers!
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Aug 15, 2014 20:14
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apophenium posted:Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers! Songs will be sung of this day.
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Aug 15, 2014 20:18
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apophenium posted:Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers! The gooniest of Friday nights.
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Aug 15, 2014 20:19
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apophenium posted:Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers! Qapla and savor it! (even though you'll smash the next episode button so hard you'll break the TV)
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Aug 15, 2014 20:22
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apophenium posted:Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers! It's been a long road, getting from there to here
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Aug 15, 2014 20:24
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hope and vaseline posted:It's been a long road, getting from there to here It's been a long time, but my time is finally near. Oh man it was a Rod Stewart song too.
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Aug 15, 2014 20:42
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c0ldfuse posted:Am I allowed to skip season 1? I saw two episodes and wanted to put a bullet in my head instead of watching. Buddy said I should read Wikipedia and watch finale then move forward. It doesn't get better .
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Aug 15, 2014 21:05
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Gammatron 64 posted:I actually like the theme song to Enterprise. The theme song is a perfect metaphor for the series - a final attempt at rekindling the optimistic spirit of tuning in every week to see how awesome (though imperfect) the future would be. It's one minute of pure, concentrated Gene Roddenberry's Vision, which is why it's both aspirational and cheesy as hell.
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I don't have anything against Rod Stewart and while lyrically the song was appropriate, as presented it just had no energy and came off as a really lame, hamfisted "dad-like" attempt to be hip enough to grab someone's attention. As boring as the first two seasons were on their own, I'm certain that theme contributed to a lot of people tuning the gently caress out before they even got to the actual episodes.
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Aug 15, 2014 22:34
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After finishing Voyager, I move on to Enterprise. Ya'll are 'tards if you don't like Enterprise.
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Aug 15, 2014 22:51
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Gammatron 64 posted:I actually like the theme song to Enterprise. Nothing to be ashamed of. Don't Stop Me Now is great.
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Aug 15, 2014 22:56
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Enterprise isn't great, but its entertaining enough. I'm glad others got why I was referencing the Klingon Chef; that kind stuff you would never see on another Trek show. DS9's format got to explore more of the universe, because the Enterprise or Voyager tended to only meet the leaders and military of various races. DS9 being what amounts to a city in space drew all kinds of people. I watched Inner Light the other night, and i'm not ashamed to admit that I got choked up.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:08
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My favorite thing about Profit and Lace was the beetle snuff transition. I had to watch that several times to make sure I wasn't imagining it.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:12
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Crosscontaminant posted:Do what I'm doing with a friend. Watch Voyager, laugh uproariously at the terrible early episodes, then enjoy the later ones where it gets okay. Never watch Enterprise. Enterprise Season 3 is a better Voyager than Voyager was. Enterprise may have its flaws, but I'd re-watch it over Voyager any day.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:21
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Tighclops posted:I don't have anything against Rod Stewart Rod Stewart didn't sing it for Enterprise. He wrote and recorded it for Patch Adams, but the Enterprise version was done by a guy named Russell Watson who basically did his best Stewart impression.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:33
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:"Sir! We have received an order for 300 loaves of bread to be delivered by midday!" I fixed your post sir.
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apophenium posted:Well, it's been a long time coming, but I'm finally to the last nine episodes of Deep Space 9. I'm going to marathon them all tonight. Wish me well, Trekkers! If you were really invested in the Dominion War stuff.. you will be very satisfied. If you were really involved in the Prophet stuff.. your opinion my vary. But let's not kid. Everyone reading this is probably category A.
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I liked both.  Sacrifice of Angels visionary and reckoning are great episodes in their own right and marry the dominion war and prophet arcs. The resolution to the prophet thing isn't bad it just suffers from pacing issues because of all the balls in the air. DS9 still has the best serialized ending of any Sci Fi show i know of even if it's not perfect.
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The bit character in Trek I wan't to learn about the most is from YUC. The Klingon who nearly pisses himself laughing at McCoy's little arthritis joke. He seems like a nice guy. I'd have a bloodwine with him 
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Going right from "TNG episodes I must have seen once but I don't remember" to finally watching Enterprise, it's striking how boring ENT episodes are worse than boring TNG episodes, but not that much worse. Meanwhile, goofy, understated ENT kind of holds its own. I just watched the one where space radiation gives the crew space Aspergers, and it was just good old fashioned fun.
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But Captain if I can just keep mind raping women, I can bring peace, can't you see that's worth Troi's life? #24thcenturyReddit I wonder how many people learned about the concept of the Dyson Sphere from Relics? I would assume 99.99999999% of people. Haha, Scotty's  at Worf
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Trickjaw posted:The bit character in Trek I wan't to learn about the most is from YUC. The Klingon who nearly pisses himself laughing at McCoy's little arthritis joke. He seems like a nice guy. I'd have a bloodwine with him I don't want to phrase this wrong, because the undiscovered country is an excellent movie, but that is the best drat part of the movie.
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I was weak willed and didn't finish DS9 all last night, just wrapped it up now. How fitting that Quark would get the last line.  That was a fantastic finale. The only weirdness was how fast the Pah wraith stuff played out and how forced it felt, though it was a good resolution. All the characters' endings were incredibly satisfying, certainly the most fleshed out arcs from the Treks I've seen. The scene in Vic's and all the flashbacks afterwards got me kinda emotional. Now all I have left is the last 2 seasons of Voyager, Nemesis, and Enterprise.
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"Computer, kill everyone on the bridge." - Data
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apophenium posted:I was weak willed and didn't finish DS9 all last night, just wrapped it up now. How fitting that Quark would get the last line. Vics is where it ended ha ha ha nothing happened afer .. just weird dream thu balk guy had
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Growing up my only experience with Star Trek was whatever night it was on TV (Wednesdays?) my family would sit down at my dad's behest and watch Enterprise, which was when I was about 5 or 6. That theme song is ingrained in my memory but it's been at least 10 years since I've last heard it. I have no idea how it would hold up now, but 5 year old me liked it. I'm pretty sure it's one of the reasons I'm so into sci-fi now. Anyways, just recently I started going through TNG on Netflix since I never really watched any of it and holy poo poo it's amazing. Over the last week I've watched the first 17 episodes of season one in four or five sittings and I'm constantly wanting more. I'm afraid this is going to lead to me watching and re-watching every Star Trek series.
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apophenium posted:I was weak willed and didn't finish DS9 all last night, just wrapped it up now. How fitting that Quark would get the last line. Nemesis: just turn it off after the 'Picard drives space jeep' scene.
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