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Mu Zeta posted:Watch more "grimdark" shows and you can be dead inside like me! I'm not being a dick here, genuine question. Do you have kids? The reason I ask is because I've become a hell of a lot more emotional since becoming a dad. I was never really affected by stuff on screen before hand, but since kids, I get misty-eyed during a ton of things I watch. I regularly get what I call "achy jaw" watching loving Attenborough documentaries these days.
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Looten Plunder posted:I'm not being a dick here, genuine question. Do you have kids? Children make you weak. I guess, I don't have any so I have no real data here.
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Is there a Stargate thread? I know it's not ongoing anymore, but I've been watching it on Stan and have a question: I'm enjoying the self contained, 'hey, look, a planet entirely composed of whatever costumes we already had' episodes of season 1, but does it change? does it start to become bigger and a bit more over arching? It's not a bad formula, but I'm not really down for ten seasons of just that formula. It's what killed Burn Notice for me.
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May 10, 2017 00:57
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There is a Stargate thread and yes it gets much bigger and more overarching. Starts about season 3 or 4 if I remember correctly.
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GreenNight posted:There is a Stargate thread and yes it gets much bigger and more overarching. Starts about season 3 or 4 if I remember correctly. No worries. I had a look at the episode summaries (blurbs?) for later episodes, and they made it sound the same, but that might be a symptom of whoever writes those for Stan taking spoilers very seriously.
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Rhyno posted:Stargate rules. Stargate is amazing and complicated. SG1 started on Showtime and was weird for season one, great for season 2-6? and pretty good but not great for season 7-10. Saying that, the later seasons do have some of the best episodes of the series. Stargate Atlantis is definitely a bit different and kind of struggles to reach the same cast chemistry as SG1. Ronan played by Jason Momoa was one of the best parts of the show and doesn't show up until season 2. It never really reaches the same heights as SG1 but it definitely went for a stronger comedic tone that worked pretty well especially McKay. Stargate Universe is not a Stargate show except for the central plot device being a stargate. It's clearly trying to be a Battlestar Galactica knock off right down to the angry and super dramatic military guys butting heads with the civilians. It's a good show for what it is but it takes a while to get there and struggles to lose the baggage that came with trying desperately hard to be a prestige drama before giving up and focusing on making a good show.
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May 10, 2017 01:23
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pentyne posted:Stargate is amazing and complicated. Thus far, the first season has played out like a Star Trek knock off (or, at least, the cliche of Star Trek) where, in a limitless universe, they keep finding planets full of humans who are exactly like an ancient civilisation on earth. I don't mind, since the cast chemistry is fantastic. I was just curious as to whether it changed tack or not.
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May 10, 2017 01:38
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They explain why there are humans all over the place in like the second episode.
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Rhyno posted:They explain why there are humans all over the place in like the second episode. I wasn't complaining, there's no need to leap to the extremely long running, successful show's defence. I'm pretty sure there's also an in story reason why 90% of Star Trek aliens are humans with poo poo glued to their head. It's a product of even big budget shows having to cut corners. It's fine. I'm enjoying the show.
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May 10, 2017 01:52
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Snowman_McK posted:Thus far, the first season has played out like a Star Trek knock off (or, at least, the cliche of Star Trek) where, in a limitless universe, they keep finding planets full of humans who are exactly like an ancient civilisation on earth. I don't mind, since the cast chemistry is fantastic. I was just curious as to whether it changed tack or not.
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Yeah, Stargate starts off as a pretty generic sci-fi show and then gradually builds up into a really complicated world of shows and mythology and poo poo. And the funniest part is when every 4 years they do an episode where the new Presidential candidate has to be sat down and explained all this to. I've always loved Stargate for that. And yeah, they give a good enough explanation as to why everyone they initially encounter is a culture from human history and it factors into their mythology and story. And eventually they get beyond that.
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Huh, so Playing House is back next month. Maybe I did see that it was renewed last year but it was long enough ago that I completely forgot about it.
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May 10, 2017 02:12
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SG-1 is great. Atlantis is also pretty great, but its cast chemistry is focused into like, 3 characters, rather than spread among a large cast of charismatic friends and foes alike.
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May 10, 2017 02:47
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Snowman_McK posted:I'm pretty sure there's also an in story reason why 90% of Star Trek aliens are humans with poo poo glued to their head.
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May 10, 2017 02:48
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There is. A precursor race, the ones that built all the teleporters between worlds, seeded galactic life with "humanoid dna". Its the subject of the episode "The Chase" and it's lame as gently caress. I am a lifelong trekkie, but when it's bad, it's fuckin bad.
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May 10, 2017 02:50
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Snowman_McK posted:I wasn't complaining, there's no need to leap to the extremely long running, successful show's defence. I'm pretty sure there's also an in story reason why 90% of Star Trek aliens are humans with poo poo glued to their head. It's a product of even big budget shows having to cut corners. It's fine. I'm enjoying the show. I WILL DEFEND RODNEY MCKAY'S HONOR UNTIL I DIE DO NOT QUESTION ME
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I want to repeat it. I've always loved Stargate because they were the only show I think I've seen that said "ok, we have this massive paradigm shift government agency fighting aliens in secret so lets devote a bunch of episodes to explaining to Congress what they're funding or sitting the new President down and telling him he's gotta meet with an alien dignitary." I'm a nerd but I loved Stargate for that poo poo. edit: Hell, they had to negotiate with foreign governments about space rights. I loved that poo poo. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 03:04 on May 10, 2017 |
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I heard someone was bad mouthing Stargate. Stop that.
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Escobarbarian posted:Reactions to the supposed horrifying and upsetting nature of Handmaid's Tale HAVE been a bit over the top, though. maybe, but I buy it. reading the book bothered me on a profound level. Seeing that poo poo depicted on screen doesn't just seem like a TV show to some people. It seems like pretty close to what a significant portion of our fellow citizens would like to actually happen, including our loving vice president.
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Rocksicles posted:I heard someone was bad mouthing Stargate. INDEED.
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Rocksicles posted:I heard someone was bad mouthing Stargate. I don't think anyone was?
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Snak posted:I don't think anyone was? Look, if you wanna talk poo poo about Teal'c we can take this outside dude.
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Rhyno posted:Look, if you wanna talk poo poo about Teal'c we can take this outside dude. Shal'kek nem'ron!
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Gilfoyle drinking Old Rasputin. gently caress yeah. Edit: Dear White People is really good. Snak fucked around with this message at 06:18 on May 10, 2017 |
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Snowman_McK posted:Thus far, the first season has played out like a Star Trek knock off (or, at least, the cliche of Star Trek) where, in a limitless universe, they keep finding planets full of humans who are exactly like an ancient civilisation on earth. I don't mind, since the cast chemistry is fantastic. I was just curious as to whether it changed tack or not. It doesn't really change, it's just that unlike a lot of shows of that type they tend to remember what happened in previous episodes so the universe actually builds and changes. They develop something cool in one episode and then keep it around and there'll be background chatter about mass producing it, or "why can't we ask X for help" gets answered with "they're still recovering from that thing that happened three episodes ago." That on top of the great character chemistry is what endears it to people.
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It's just good. The continuity of setting helps, and is a real quality of the show, but honestly well-written characters count for a lot. I'm not sure that it ever gets "better" than Star Trek, but I think is better, on average, than Star Trek. Its best are even with the bests of Trek, but it's worsts are much better than Trek's worsts.
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Stargate loved taking the piss out of itself, but it also went super into the fake tech and science of it, there was effort. As much effort as you could buy with the Canucky shilling. All of the bad guys were good. Until the Ori, but even then it wasn't all that bad. The Wraith, The Replicators, The Genii. The 3 episode arc with the last episode of Stargate Atlantis season 3 and the first two episodes of season 4 is some of the best sci-fi ever put on TV.
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I guess giving comedians their own political talk shows is going to be the big thing for a while on Comedy Central.
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I was catching up on SHIELD when suddenly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EThm-Sa1LnQ
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Rocksicles posted:Stargate loved taking the piss out of itself, but it also went super into the fake tech and science of it, there was effort. As much effort as you could buy with the Canucky shilling. Shepard singlehandedly murdering like 200 Genii soldiers with a press of a button was hardcore
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Stargate gets weird when Dom Deluise's sons keep showing up like it's a Seaquest reunion.
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Gaunab posted:I guess giving comedians their own political talk shows is going to be the big thing for a while on Comedy Central. Wasn't that also the big thing for them like 10 years ago, the last time they were scrambling for talent?
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raditts posted:Wasn't that also the big thing for them like 10 years ago, the last time they were scrambling for talent? 10 years ago their strategy was "Give like half a dozen comedians hybrid stand-up/sketch shows and pray like hell we recapture that Chappelle's Show lightning in a bottle"
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JethroMcB posted:10 years ago their strategy was "Give like half a dozen comedians hybrid stand-up/sketch shows and pray like hell we recapture that Chappelle's Show lightning in a bottle" Yeah but they also had Tough Crowd, Chocolate News and whatever the hell that thing was with D.L. Hughley. I wanna say there was at least one other "news" type show that I can't think of at the moment, not including Onion Sportsdome which was actually good.
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raditts posted:Yeah but they also had Tough Crowd, Chocolate News and whatever the hell that thing was with D.L. Hughley. I wanna say there was at least one other "news" type show that I can't think of at the moment, not including Onion Sportsdome which was actually good. "DL Hughley Breaks the News" was never on my radar, but it was at CNN. Crossballs had a political slant, and Onion Sportsdome (one of the greatest shows CC ever manged to fumble their way into airing, before immediately kicking to the curb) was replaced by Sports Show with Norm McDonald.
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I'd managed to forget about most of those, except Tough Crowd, that show is unforgettable in its awfulness.
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