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Jeb! Repetition posted:Stewart's such a great actor. I really believe he was just passed out a few seconds ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGEymAXD7s
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Powered Descent posted:Lwaxana, when the dress fell.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 06:38 |
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PostNouveau posted:That episode is a goddamn war crime. Somebody shoulda gone to The Hague for it. The Worf on Risa one? Worf should've! He supports a loving revolution on a Federation planet, why the hell is he still in Starfleet.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 06:42 |
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Astroman posted:Because the future of television is apparently instead of paying $50 for internet and $50 for cable, you'll pay $50 for internet and $100 for 10 different services, each with a small and shifting amount of various tv shows and movies including partial back seasons to encourage you to buy them by the episode. I think the only way to really hurt piracy is to make a legal alternative that's more convenient. No one likes ads and most companies won't or can't give them up. But for every Netflix there's a CBS All Access. No, you see, you pay the extra money for the plane ticket so we stop kicking your seat. What are the alternatives to advertising? Not that I pirate...or advocate piracy. Cause I don't. Just saying.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 07:52 |
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Continuing the early-versions-of-starships thing from a few hours ago, here's an early concept for what became the Kelvin in the 2009 movie, still called the USS Iowa: Found on http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Kelvin
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 07:53 |
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Even though that was one of the worst episodes ever I personally consider it my best livepost ever. AlsoJeb! Repetition posted:I miss goo and slime. It was so much more common in this era. The X-Files, Men in Black, the Power Rangers movie, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, the Super Mario Bros. movie, Fern Gully, Captain Planet, obviously Nickelodeon Gak, countless others. Now all we've got is the black goo from Promethus. Bring back slime.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 09:28 |
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Okay I guess there's one other piece of good slime from the past few years: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp/heaven-is-a-place-on-earth
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Even though that was one of the worst episodes ever I personally consider it my best livepost ever. Also Force Sam Raimi to make everything
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 09:57 |
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Powered Descent posted:Continuing the early-versions-of-starships thing from a few hours ago, here's an early concept for what became the Kelvin in the 2009 movie, still called the USS Iowa: They should've had a Kelvin class show up at the Battle of the Binary.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 10:19 |
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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE gently caress "THE HIGHER, THE FEWER" MEANS?
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 11:49 |
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WampaLord posted:CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE gently caress "THE HIGHER, THE FEWER" MEANS? https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/rec.arts.startrek.current/HgcBS_l7mfw
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 12:14 |
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WampaLord posted:CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE gently caress "THE HIGHER, THE FEWER" MEANS? It means that children are easily influenced, especially when their father is a walking atrocity of a person.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:23 |
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Do Android Penises Dream of Electric Condoms?
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:39 |
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So I finished season 3 of Enterprise. It was pretty good! People kept saying so, but I was skeptical, especially after just slogging through all of Voyager and then those first two seasons of ENT. But, like, pretty good stuff. Definitely some recycled ideas, but we're talking about 16 years of uninterrupted (and sometimes overlapping) Star Trek on TV at that point. I started season 4, and holy poo poo this is dumb. Is this whole season just a huge nosedive? Seems like Brannon Braga's really boring, nonsensical, surface-level fascination with time travel is just going to torpedo this whole thing. When the Discovery people really give up and want to hasten the show's ruination, they should just have Daniels show up. Season finale cliffhanger of his smug rear end being like "Temporal Cold War," those fateful three words that someone thought sounded cool together.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:42 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:You are aware that Netflix has announced that they're explicitly planning on continuing to reduce the amount of content they license from others, right? Netflix is hemorrhaging non-original content. Except netflix has lots of original content that I might want to watch. CBS (or hell, most of the major networks) does not. Anyways, CBS doesn't care about actual subscriber numbers that much, at least, not retention. All-Access exists for one reason alone, to serve as a bargaining chip during carriage agreement negotiations. When CBS affiliates go back and re-negotiate the carriage agreements with cable companies, they now have a hard number to point at and say "people are willing to spend 'x' dollars a month for our content, you should pay us more based on this." So, while your cable company today might pay $1.50 per subscriber to carry a CBS affiliate, now they have data that says people value their content at $5.99 per month. Carriage agreements are set to pass advertising for a network's revenue very soon. That's one of the reasons why there have been more and more disputes between cable companies and networks that lead to channels being dropped for a period. Everyone wants to be paid ESPN money for their suite of channels. They are also playing a dangerous game though by potentially trying to push people to these services because if people adopt them wholesale and cancel more cable, they are also likely only going to sub to these services as long as there's something new for them to watch.
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Wikipedia Brown posted:So I finished season 3 of Enterprise. It was pretty good! People kept saying so, but I was skeptical, especially after just slogging through all of Voyager and then those first two seasons of ENT. But, like, pretty good stuff. Definitely some recycled ideas, but we're talking about 16 years of uninterrupted (and sometimes overlapping) Star Trek on TV at that point. Season 4 is pretty much all fanservice and callbacks to trek lore. Some of it is pretty fun.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:51 |
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CrimsonAuthor posted:Season 4 is pretty much all fanservice and callbacks to trek lore. Some of it is pretty fun. I can get behind that. I'm guessing the show is canceled before they establish the Federation, which is too bad. There are some promising gestures in that direction in season 3, and it would have been dope to have that happen in televised Trek. Like, it would have been an actual worthwhile payoff for going with the whole prequel conceit.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:54 |
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Season 4 is the best season, but Braga left a huge turd behind for the next guy. That season ender is a fuckin disaster. It's like it was guest written by Russell Davies.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 13:58 |
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Is season 4 the one where Bobby Bacala fights the reptilian space Nazis? That was definitely one of the best bits of Enterprise, it's a shame there wasn't more of that sort of thing in the otherwise tedious Temporal Cold War storyline.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:02 |
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Wikipedia Brown posted:I started season 4, and holy poo poo this is dumb. Is this whole season just a huge nosedive? Seems like Brannon Braga's really boring, nonsensical, surface-level fascination with time travel is just going to torpedo this whole thing. Oh, the two-parter at the start of season 4 is basically the B&B legacy making GBS threads everywhere. Manny Coto took over in Season 4, but B&B left him a huge turd to deal with with the S3 cliffhanger. It improves dramatically after that's out of the way. Until the finale, when Berman steps back in to crap all over the show again.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:05 |
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MikeJF posted:Oh, the two-parter at the start of season 4 is basically the B&B legacy making GBS threads everywhere. Manny Coto took over in Season 4, but B&B left him a huge turd to deal with with the S3 cliffhanger. It improves dramatically after that's out of the way. The two parter just before the series finale is the actual series finale for me, as it ties a nice bow thematically on the series. I just ignore the weird B&B penned fever dream after that.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:21 |
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Has anyone intercut the finale with the episode of TNG it takes place during?
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:28 |
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MikeJF posted:They should've had a Kelvin class show up at the Battle of the Binary. They should have had a ship from one from the alternate timelines where Guinan teams up with Data's head from nineteenth century San Francisco. The dream team.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:28 |
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HD DAD posted:The two parter just before the series finale is the actual series finale for me, as it ties a nice bow thematically on the series. Might you say that the final episode breaking that bow brings the series full circle?
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:30 |
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It sucks that the show sets up the Earth/Romulan War and then ends before they could do it.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 14:51 |
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bull3964 posted:Except netflix has lots of original content that I might want to watch. CBS (or hell, most of the major networks) does not. I'm not saying there's nothing worthwhile left on Netflix, I'm just saying the days of "why bother with $service when everything's on Netflix " are already pretty much over.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Has anyone intercut the finale with the episode of TNG it takes place during? "Hey Riker, are you OK? It looks like you just gained 10 kg and aged twenty years for a couple of days all of a sudden." EDIT: Man, imagine how hilarious it would be if they had gotten Terry O'Quinn as well. "Also Admiral Pressman has suddenly gone bald and keeps babbling about 'going back to the Island'!" AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Wikipedia Brown posted:So I finished season 3 of Enterprise. It was pretty good! People kept saying so, but I was skeptical, especially after just slogging through all of Voyager and then those first two seasons of ENT. But, like, pretty good stuff. Definitely some recycled ideas, but we're talking about 16 years of uninterrupted (and sometimes overlapping) Star Trek on TV at that point. Yeah that was my feeling when I did a watch of Enterprise- season 3 seemed to finally get the show going somewhere, and then they give you the lead in to season 4 and you're like holy poo poo they're insane. But as everyone's said- Coto makes that big turd B&B left behind as fun as he can, and in general season for 4 is really overall good. It's a great mix of campy TOS goofy adventures with Enterprise finally realizing it has some compelling stories all its own to tell and they didn't need a time war or mysterious 9/11 aliens to make it happen.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 15:24 |
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There was a gazorra edit that used clips of Troi and Riker eating ice cream, then from the Enterprise episode and then played training montage music to clips of them running down corridors and exercising to get back to normal weight, but I can't find it.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 15:24 |
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I recall reading, around the time Enterprise season 3 aired, that there was a script with Archer dying at the end and everyone else getting home safe with no last-minute time-traveling Nazi plot twist. It was either one of those fake things they leaked to throw people off the scent, or the actual series finale before they got renewed. Or maybe both.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'm not saying there's nothing worthwhile left on Netflix, I'm just saying the days of "why bother with $service when everything's on Netflix " are already pretty much over. In my fantasy universe, every network channel bundle would be available as a Channels add on for Amazon with ad free as a premium add-on. Then I would just add bundles as show seasons finished up and drop them afterwards. In some cases, I would likely keep the channel bundle all the time. I could see keeping an NBCU channel package around for Syfy alone. Basically, just replicate for other channels what's been done for Showtime, Starz, HBO, and Cinemax.
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[quote="“Sir Lemming”" post="“477045860”"] I recall reading, around the time Enterprise season 3 aired, that there was a script with Archer dying at the end and everyone else getting home safe with no last-minute time-traveling Nazi plot twist. It was either one of those fake things they leaked to throw people off the scent, or the actual series finale before they got renewed. Or maybe both. [/quote] I remember that, and I think that might have been the plan because it was looking almost certain Enterprise was going to be axed at the end of season 3. I remember it being a somewhat minor miracle it got renewed, and I think B&B had to throw together whatever poo poo cliffhanger they could think of in a panic.
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HD DAD posted:I remember that, and I think that might have been the plan because it was looking almost certain Enterprise was going to be axed at the end of season 3. I remember it being a somewhat minor miracle it got renewed, and I think B&B had to throw together whatever poo poo cliffhanger they could think of in a panic. That explains a lot. I never understood why they went to the bother of wrapping up the season-long arc story only for it to suddenly turn into a cliffhanger for a totally different story in the closing seconds. "Well it took us a year, but we defeated the Xindi and saved Earth. Now let's go and celebrate!" "Sir, sensors are picking up SPACE NAZIS" "Wow, I honestly thought they'd wait until the next episode. I haven't even sat down yet. My clothes are still on fire. Oh well, time to kick some Nazi rear end!" TO BE CONTINUED...
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:season 3 seemed to finally get the show going somewhere The Mesopotamian Expanse
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 16:09 |
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Trip report: DS9 season 6, episode 9 "Statistical Probabilities" I never liked that episode. It's all "Yes, the MATH is against us but we have HEART on our side!" That was was pretty anti-intellectual. In the real world, they should have taken that deal. Screw gambling with people's lives. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 4, 2017 |
# ? Oct 4, 2017 21:28 |
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AceOfFlames posted:I never liked that episode. It's all "Yes, the MATH is against us but we have HEART on our side!" That was was pretty anti-intellectual. In the real world, they should have taken that deal. Screw gambling with people's lives. So, as soon as any aggressor arises, roll over and quit? Even if they plan on putting you at the receiving end of genocide?
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 21:51 |
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We don't fight the Dominion because we can win, we fight the Dominion because it is the Dominion
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 21:53 |
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Sash! posted:So, as soon as any aggressor arises, roll over and quit? Even if they plan on putting you at the receiving end of genocide? If it's either that or ''total'' extermination, as what the geniuses said, sure.
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# ? Oct 4, 2017 22:00 |
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I'd rather die a free man than live with a Jem'Hadar boot on my throat! *spits*
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MikeJF posted:The Worf on Risa one? Worf should've! He supports a loving revolution on a Federation planet, why the hell is he still in Starfleet. No, the Lwaxana-Alexander mudbath one. Majel Barrett should have answered for her crimes!
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