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Mass Effect does get one thing right that a lot of sci-fi doesn't: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space.
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http://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-casts-the-walking-deads-sonequa-ma-1790119455 Sasha from The Walking Dead is the lead in Discovery.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:06
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Can't wait to see the racist backlash.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:17
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This site gives the character's name as "Rainsford."
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Dec 15, 2016 01:21
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She's pretty good. I think it was a good choice.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:27
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She'll do fine, I do wonder if this means she's off of TWD by the end of this current season but who knows really.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:31
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Show will only get good once she grows a beard.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:33
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Tighclops posted:Show will only get good once she grows a beard. She could be the gay character.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:46
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Well I hope she will be more convincing/interesting than on TWD.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:47
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I think it was revealed that Doug Jones is the gay character
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Dec 15, 2016 01:47
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It's us. We're the gay character.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:54
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I want a character who starts as a straight woman, becomes gay, then becomes a straight man because their species is like frogs and frog-infused raptors.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:00
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I gave up on TWD when they got to the farm. Is she good in it?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:02
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Evek posted:I gave up on TWD when they got to the farm. Is she good in it?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:04
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:She could be the gay character. Or the gay character's beard.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:20
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Everyone on TWD is probably trying to get off as that ship shinks. The ratings are tanking and more and more people are agreeing the show has run out of steam. After it airs, there's a lot of "Why didn't I watch Westworld instead?". I like how in Star Trek it's impossible to have a private conversation unless you're completely alone in a room.
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Dec 15, 2016 02:30
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I'm about 80% through Fifty Year Mission and I have to wonder if at some point Roddenberry was replaced by some turbo-nerd at a convention because the quotes make him sound like he doesn't get storytelling at all.
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Dec 15, 2016 03:25
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TheBigAristotle posted:This reminds me of one of the more surprising but somehow not-surprising moments in that Star Trek 50 book. They could have compromised and had a different inexplicable choice of song play over the credits every episode!
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Dec 15, 2016 03:58
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twistedmentat posted:I like how in Star Trek it's impossible to have a private conversation unless you're completely alone in a room. And even then, the computer is listening. 
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Dec 15, 2016 03:59
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Angry Salami posted:They could have compromised and had a different inexplicable choice of song play over the credits every episode! The segment on that mess was interesting as well. Another attempt to appeal to a wider audience. Also the song was from Patch Adams originally, which I have heard before.
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Dec 15, 2016 04:02
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Angry Salami posted:They could have compromised and had a different inexplicable choice of song play over the credits every episode! I really got the impression that Game of Thrones had given up on itself when they started playing contemporary songs over the credits. Another thing Westworld sent up about GoT, in fact.
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Dec 15, 2016 04:33
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Astroman posted:http://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-casts-the-walking-deads-sonequa-ma-1790119455 I'm totally behind this. She's one of the few people on TWD who can actually act.
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Dec 15, 2016 05:28
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Astroman posted:http://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-casts-the-walking-deads-sonequa-ma-1790119455 Time Travel Episode where they meet the cast of TNG Abe bursts through the wall. WHO'S DEANNA
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Dec 15, 2016 05:34
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The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves.
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Dec 15, 2016 07:35
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Subyng posted:The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves. This is the only decent Galaxy Quest 2 pitch I've ever read.
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Dec 15, 2016 08:26
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Subyng posted:The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves. This happened in an episode of Supernatural. It was cool.
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Dec 15, 2016 09:00
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm totally behind this. She's one of the few people on TWD who can actually act. I only ever see TWD after working overnight so every episode is viewed through a semi-conscious fever dream, but my impression is that the actors are all pretty solid when given good material to work with otherwise they're just staring off into space being depressed or crying Actually it reminds me of a more extreme BSG in that regard, although Bear McCreary has clearly given up on trying to do anything with this show's soundtrack; dude's been phoning it in since they were on that old man's farm 5-6 seasons seems to be the magic number with genre programming, any longer and every show becomes an exercise in "...is this still on?"
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Dec 15, 2016 12:11
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Zurui posted:I really got the impression that Game of Thrones had given up on itself when they started playing contemporary songs over the credits. Another thing Westworld sent up about GoT, in fact. What are you talking about? The only songs they play over the credits are either normal soundtrack stuff, or a couple of times they got bands to play their versions of songs from the books. It's not like they brought in *insert boy band name here* as a special musical guest or some poo poo. How does Westworld send this up? They use anachronistic songs but I fail to see what that has to do with Game of Thrones.
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Dec 15, 2016 13:25
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Subyng posted:The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves. They actually did this in a short story back in the 70s, for a fan fiction omnibus. IIRC it was Kirk, McCoy, and Spock took the place of Shatner, Kelley, and Nimoy and appeared on the set in 1968 or something.
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Dec 15, 2016 13:28
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Astroman posted:They actually did this in a short story back in the 70s, for a fan fiction omnibus. IIRC it was Kirk, McCoy, and Spock took the place of Shatner, Kelley, and Nimoy and appeared on the set in 1968 or something. Visit to a Weird Planet
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Subyng posted:The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves. Man in the High Castle (the book, not the show, which I haven't seen but I've heard is good) does this kind of. It's an alternate history story, but there's a book that everyone is reading within the story that itself is an alternate history. At first you assume their alternate history is ours, and then you find out that it's yet a third version of events. But just when you think you've turned that corner, the protagonist has a trippy experience (it is Philip K. Dick after all) where he sees our (PKD's) version of San Francisco outside of his window. He questions the realness of his reality, but what's to keep us from doing the same? The book within the book is no more or less fiction than anything around him...  What is real, mannnnnn? (I unironically love that book, but it's hard to describe it, or any PKD, without sounding like a stoned 20 year old).
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The lowest of bars.
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Railing Kill posted:Man in the High Castle (the book, not the show, which I haven't seen but I've heard is good) does this kind of. It's an alternate history story, but there's a book that everyone is reading within the story that itself is an alternate history. At first you assume their alternate history is ours, and then you find out that it's yet a third version of events. But just when you think you've turned that corner, the protagonist has a trippy experience (it is Philip K. Dick after all) where he sees our (PKD's) version of San Francisco outside of his window. He questions the realness of his reality, but what's to keep us from doing the same? The book within the book is no more or less fiction than anything around him... Well worth watching, and if you binge now you'll be all caught up for when season 2 hits on saturday.
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Subyng posted:The new series should have an episode where they go back in time to the present day and it's an alternate reality but guess what it's OUR reality where their entire universe is our fiction and the crew has to pretend to be the actors playing themselves. This is really similar to the premise of Redshirts by John Scalzi. It's a fun read.
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OAquinas posted:Well worth watching, and if you binge now you'll be all caught up for when season 2 hits on saturday. I'm in the middle of grading finals, but this sounds like a rad idea to treat myself after all of this is over. I like what I've heard about it: that they didn't try to doggedly recreate the book, but instead took the setting and premise and did their own thing with it. I'd rather a different medium just take inspiration from a book rather than inevitably gently caress up a too-faithful reproduction. I don't need to watch the book on film. I have the book, and if the last 100 years are proof of anything it's that films/TV rarely live up to people's preconceived ideas from books anyway. I'll definitely check this out.
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Echophonic posted:This is really similar to the premise of Redshirts by John Scalzi. It's a fun read. Let's not oversell it. It's not great.
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Railing Kill posted:I'm in the middle of grading finals, but this sounds like a rad idea to treat myself after all of this is over. I like what I've heard about it: that they didn't try to doggedly recreate the book, but instead took the setting and premise and did their own thing with it. I'd rather a different medium just take inspiration from a book rather than inevitably gently caress up a too-faithful reproduction. I don't need to watch the book on film. I have the book, and if the last 100 years are proof of anything it's that films/TV rarely live up to people's preconceived ideas from books anyway. I'll definitely check this out. I haven't read the book but I'm guessing they replaced the book with films. The show is about people finding films that show an alternate history. Which honestly, makes more sense than a book.
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The_Doctor posted:Let's not oversell it. It's not great. He only said it was a fun read, he wasn't proclaiming it the next I, Robot.
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Dec 15, 2016 18:21
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Echophonic posted:This is really similar to the premise of Redshirts by John Scalzi. It's a fun read. Why would you recommend Scalzi to someone? Do you hate people that much?
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Why would you recommend Scalzi to someone? Do you hate people that much? Oh, dear...
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