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i haven't watched dr. who for years. i mostly watched with friends who insisted on watching it. did i hear right that they basically dropped the "and space" bit from the "this box can move about in time and space" concept and turned it into the "omg london is the very best place in the whole entire universe!!!" show? it seemed like whenever i encountered the show they were always farting about in or around london.
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Yep, and all the new companions are from contemporary London. You can't even claim it's a budget thing, the old show went all over the loving place on a shoestring budget and bubblewrap monsters. It's a lack of imagination, pure and simple.
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Jun 22, 2016 17:48
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i wonder how much of a rave it becomes on the enterprise if you get 100 people all asking for directions constantly
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Jun 22, 2016 18:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuObd_gSKw
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Jun 22, 2016 19:00
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william riker's terrible horrible no-good very bad day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmvMfhHyBRI
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Jun 22, 2016 19:07
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I knew nothing at all of Dr. Who when I saw it on Netflix (?) and gave it a shot. It started from the 'modern' stuff though not the old rear end stuff. It was good. It was hella British and cheesy but that's kind of the appeal in the first place no? I dunno I enjoyed it. I enjoy SciFi schlock in general though so my tolerance is higher. My SO enjoyed it, too. Then we found out it was some super popular TV show and we discovered the obsessed 'fandom' and it retroactively made me like the show less because I don't want to tell anyone I liked watching it so as to not be associated with those people. Which is silly but there it is.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:19
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Doctor Who is way better if you don't engage with other fans about it.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:21
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Met posted:Doctor Who
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Jun 22, 2016 19:22
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:now imagine you're just coming off of seven years of painfully mediocre/lovely Voyager episodes, the producers have been swearing up and down for months that Enterprise is going to be soooooo different and so much better... and you've just finished watching this turd. oh look, they took their normal scripts and did a find-replace where they replaced "shields" with "hull plating", that's... something. It was Nemesis which me and my best friend saw in a theater with maybe six others in it, fallowed by a Night in Sickbay that made me go. "gently caress this".
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Jun 22, 2016 19:28
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My favorite Dr Who episode had the Dead Parrot sketch
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Jun 22, 2016 19:40
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Fiend posted:My favorite Dr Who episode had the Dead Parrot sketch I always liked the one where the doctor fills a hovercraft with eels.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:42
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ehhh enterprise is still way more watchable than VOY once you get past season 1 though the jump in season 3 where they saved the world from the xindi weapon and then immediately got thrown into the past to fight nazis was fuckin stupid but at least there's no nelix
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Jun 22, 2016 19:48
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The only thing season 1 of Enterprise had going for it is that, occasionally, you got that sense of wonder that a crew of people exploring the galaxy for the first time would feel. It didn't happen often, but when it did it was wonderful. A good example is the episode where they find the automated repair station in space. Other than that, the only real redeeming factor is that it was the first Trek show that didn't skimp on the special effects scenes. So many times on TNG and DS9 there would be a fantastical space battle happening, but you'd only know by a bridge full off people watching some blips on a screen and narrating the action. If you're a glutton for space porn like I am, it can help make up for bad scripts.
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Jun 22, 2016 20:18
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FuhrerHat posted:watch lexx
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Jun 22, 2016 20:18
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Season 1 of voyager complete. Please remember to not make cheese during your stay on Voyager.
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Jun 22, 2016 20:19
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All of season 1 of Lexx (which is the least weird and really cool) is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRe4nl8ugM
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Jun 22, 2016 21:03
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 Did someone order extra cheese on their scifi?
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The General posted:Season 1 of voyager complete. Please remember to not make cheese during your stay on Voyager.
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Tectonis posted:
Dr Who: "Its only a model"
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Jun 23, 2016 02:31
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Picard's sicknasty flute thing > Harry Kim's clarinet The Kimtones will never make it big.
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Volcott posted:Picard's sicknasty flute thing > Harry Kim's clarinet I wonder if it's called the Kimtones simply because the other band members don't even have names.
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Jun 23, 2016 02:36
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I prefer Riker's tromboner
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I prefer Riker's tromboner 
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Jun 23, 2016 02:40
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There was no music in the Trek universe that was not absolutely terrible. But the worst music of all was from the casino-nightclub scene where Spy Bashir played Duchamps-Worf at baccarat. Season 4 episode 9, at 21 minutes in. Its so awful and out of place. Like elevator Christian surf-rock. Was something else originally subbed in for broadcast and didn't get clearance on DVD for them to use that abomination as a representation of swingin' 60's Nonaco?
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Jun 23, 2016 02:52
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FuhrerHat posted:watch lexx
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Jun 23, 2016 02:53
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I will never not laugh at this
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FuhrerHat posted:watch lexx  
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FilthyImp posted:Lt. Tuvok's Ball Busting Training is a weird episode to close the season off with. I actually kind of like the Neelix episode before. I would watch Star Trek: Federation's Worst Cadets with Tuvok.
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FuhrerHat posted:william riker's terrible horrible no-good very bad day Riker:"SHUT THE gently caress UP!" Troi: "Will, I sense your frustration." Well, at least they got ONE crew member accurate.
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Cthulu Carl posted:Riker:"SHUT THE gently caress UP!" I can still remember my whole family laughing at Riker telling Troi to stuff it.
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I also like how 99% of what Troi does is read basic body language. An alien looks pissed off he is getting the third degree from some jerks "I sense some frustration captain, he may be in a hurry" An alien seems shifty and is answering questions oddly "I sense like he has something to hide captain" The entire ship is about to explode due to some kind of phenomenon/alien "I sense great stress in the crew captain"
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Yeah I get the feeling Troi was supposed to be a much bigger deal than she ended up being. Like a psychic bridge officer? Sure, sounds cool. But they never did anything interesting with that idea.
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Aaronicon posted:Yeah I get the feeling Troi was supposed to be a much bigger deal than she ended up being. Like a psychic bridge officer? Sure, sounds cool. But they never did anything interesting with that idea. they turned "psychic" into "yo that dude mad"
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Captain that guy said he'd blow us up *grimaces* I think he's mad about something
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Aaronicon posted:Yeah I get the feeling Troi was supposed to be a much bigger deal than she ended up being. Like a psychic bridge officer? Sure, sounds cool. But they never did anything interesting with that idea. Guinan should have been the ship's counselor, offering up sage advice and a lifetime of personal and work experiences to help. Troi should have been a free-spirited psychic bartender who flirted with everyone and knew exactly how drunk everyone needed to get and what they needed to hear to feel good about themselves for 5 minutes of their lousy days.
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troi just hosed all the senior officers and kept them in line i think really
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Troi's abilities were wildly different each episode. It was either she would state something super obvious that normal humans could have seen, or she's receiving signals unconsciously and confused about what to do.Her being only half Betazoid, the writers couldn't keep her consistent. I didn't realize until after TNG was long finished that basically her costume was just black contacts, as her uniform changed season to season. When Troi's mother was around, did they actually speak telepathically or was it a narrative of them going all Bene Gesserit, reading each others body language? Troi's mom only once (as far as I can recall) ever really read anyones mind and that was when Picard was hoping for a transporter accident to turn her inside out, and dude was obvious with his dislike for her so that could have been picked up without mindscanning him.
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hold on was it TNG season 2 where Troi got pregnant by some space creep and everyone was just like "CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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