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Pretty sure by TOS and whatnot, everyone in the Federation were well aware of the dangers of alcohol and willingly avoids it. Except Scotty.
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Leavemywife posted:He was also in Reaper, where he helped his buddy (who worked for the Devil) capture escaped demons. That show went places. Turns out the protagonist was actually the son of the Devil, his step-father dies, returns as a zombie and they send him to Hell to spy on Satan, Sock - the guy you were talking about - gets into an anime "She's my step sister" plot and actually sleeps with her, the other friend eventually begins dating a demoness, and in the last episode of the second season(That ended up being the last one) the main character challenges the Devil for his girlfriend's soul but as he is almost winning his angel buddy appears and breaks his hand because God told him so and he loses. Samuringa has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Preem Palver posted:The Defiant in DS9 is a good example of this. It's essentially some big engines attached to even bigger guns protected by shields and a prototype cloak. It's one of the smallest ships in the fleet, but can fly circles around much larger ships and blast them to pieces; it also skips all of the usual Federation amenities. The ship runs on a barebones crew that sleeps on bunks in the main hallway and only the captain has some small personal quarters. There's no holodeck, science labs, or families and civilians being tugged along into a warzone. If you want to hang out with friends or spend your days killing and/or loving everything in the holodeck you need to complete your mission so you can go back to port. It was a nice change of pace from the luxury yachts with guns vibe that the TNG-era ships have. It was a shame they didn't have the budget to make a more military Enterprise-D for the alternate timeline in Yesterday's Enterprise. Then again, it was weird that they didn't have a counselor onboard but still had a bartender. e: Thinking about it, they could have used the model of the main hull without the saucer section. Sunswipe has a new favorite as of 16:20 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Jun 3, 2018 16:07
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B-Rock452 posted:When I was in middle school I was at a con and I got food poisoning and threw up right in the middle of the floor. Nana Visitor took me to a back room and found me a ginger ale. I can't picture Kevin Sorbo doing that so you guys definitely won out in the end. Aww
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Leavemywife posted:He was also in Reaper, where he helped his buddy (who worked for the Devil) capture escaped demons. That was a seriously fun show. drat shame it died before its time.
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EDIT - okay, finally worked on the third try. Weird.
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Samuringa posted:That show went places. Turns out the protagonist was actually the son of the Devil, his step-father dies, returns as a zombie and they send him to Hell to spy on Satan, Sock - the guy you were talking about - gets into an anime "She's my step sister" plot and actually sleeps with her, the other friend eventually begins dating a demoness, and in the last episode of the second season(That ended up being the last one) the main character challenges the Devil for his girlfriend's soul but as he is almost winning his angel buddy appears and breaks his hand because God told him so and he loses. Almost got it. After it was cancelled they did some interviews and he wasn't actually Satan's kid. His dad was a demon who fell in love with a human and gave up being a demon. Only since he wasn't a human he couldn't really die which was why he came back as a zombie
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Reaper was super good and I am really upset it was cancelled. The leads all had really solid chemistry with each other. And Michael Ian Black as one half of a gay demon couple that started a demon rehab group to oppose the Devil. Ray Wise was an excellent devil, too, being intimidating and menacing without any overt anger.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:I just totally ready Worf's dialogue in Michael Dorn's voice and it made me ridiculously happy. Dorn does a lot of voice acting for superhero cartoons and he's fabulous at it. He's Kalibak in JLU and they couldn't have found a better fit. He also owns a jet! El Gallinero Gros has a new favorite as of 17:48 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Dorn does a lot of voice acting for superhero cartoons and he's fabulous at it. He's Kalibak in JLU and they couldn't have found a better fit. He’s one of the default male human npc voices in World of Warcraft: Worf is really a bank teller in Stormwind.
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Leavemywife posted:Reaper was super good and I am really upset it was cancelled. The leads all had really solid chemistry with each other. That show was on Netflix for a minute when streaming started picking up, but it vanished before I finished it. I was so pissed, but it’s not like I would have gotten an actual conclusion.  Torquemada posted:He’s one of the default male human npc voices in World of Warcraft: Worf is really a bank teller in Stormwind. He was also in the FMV stuff for Emperor:Battle for Dune
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That show was on Netflix for a minute when streaming started picking up, but it vanished before I finished it. I was so pissed, but it’s not like I would have gotten an actual conclusion. I think it's on Hulu now?
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Leavemywife posted:Ray Wise was an excellent devil, too, being intimidating and menacing without any overt anger. With smooth-talking huckster mixed in. You knew he was up to something, but he knew exactly what to say to convince you. Season 2 is where it really picked up. Season 1 was OK.
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Davros1 posted:Pretty sure by TOS and whatnot, everyone in the Federation were well aware of the dangers of alcohol and willingly avoids it. Counterpoint: Saurian Brandy.
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Len posted:I think it's on Hulu now? Just season 1, though, for some reason.
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mojo1701a posted:With smooth-talking huckster mixed in. You knew he was up to something, but he knew exactly what to say to convince you. Lucifer is probably the most consistently fun casting I've seen, it's always a good time when they let an actor have fun with the role
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Samuringa posted:Lucifer is probably the most consistently fun casting I've seen, it's always a good time when they let an actor have fun with the role I could never for the life of me understand why they had to marry the Lucifer concept with a police procedural though. It's a pretty stunning lack of imagination.
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Volcott posted:No aliens blew up florida with a laser. The thing that will always grind my gears about that: Aliens that humanity has barely even heard of are secretly building a weapon that will destroy Earth entirely, and they decide to test a prototype by sending it to Earth and carving a strip down the Eastern seaboard. If they'd tested it almost anywhere else, their actual plan probably would have succeeded.
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The acting in Lucifer gets better? I watched season 1, still no clue why i finished it.
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datajugend posted:The acting in Lucifer gets better? I watched season 1, still no clue why i finished it. I gave up on Lucifer after the rapper scene in the first episode.
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I watched one episode of Lucifer and I continue to make fun of my friend's bad taste.
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I know the Vertigo comic it's based off would be basically unfilmable but jesus they could have done better than some plain rear end police procedural.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:31
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Did the show explain why the devil would care about solving crimes?
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Alhazred posted:Did the show explain why the devil would care about solving crimes? yep.
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Sunswipe posted:It was a shame they didn't have the budget to make a more military Enterprise-D for the alternate timeline in Yesterday's Enterprise. Then again, it was weird that they didn't have a counselor onboard but still had a bartender. a bartender is even more necessary during wartime like in M*A*S*H*
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I mean I sort of get it. Police procedural is probably the safest format in the history of television, so if you’re worried about any weird show concept not working you can pretty much just wed it to the procedural format and be on your way
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Alhazred posted:Did the show explain why the devil would care about solving crimes? (I assume this is not the real reason)
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Maxwell Lord posted:I believe the Synthehol thing in Star Trek TNG was because Gene Roddenberry was a recovering alcoholic and didn't want to have his utopian characters drinking actual booze. He was a bomber pilot, an airline pilot, and a cop, so I would be honestly surprised if he didn’t have massive substance abuse problems.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:hey everyone gets bored eventually You're more generous than I am because I assumed that was 1000% the real reason. How about a lawyer show where the devil tries to get everyone the death penalty so he can rack up more souls?
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Fumaofthelake posted:You're more generous than I am because I assumed that was 1000% the real reason. But if the Devil gets the killers released, he'll get even more souls.
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Krispy Wafer posted:But if the Devil gets the killers released, he'll get even more souls. I assumed a network procedural wouldn't really truck with an "everyone is damned" premise and assume only criminals go to hell, but I like the way you think.
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Fumaofthelake posted:I assumed a network procedural wouldn't really truck with an "everyone is damned" premise and assume only criminals go to hell, but I like the way you think. Season 3 episode 4, the Devil balks at getting a school shooter free with the realization the damned to saved ratio isn't in his favor.
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When I hear about 'Lucifer' I can't help but think about that fake show in '30 Rock' where God becomes a detective.
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FELD1 posted:When I hear about 'Lucifer' I can't help but think about that fake show in '30 Rock' where God becomes a detective. I love God Cop. God: "I have an idea. Let us pray." Partner: "To who?!"
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If Brimstone had just come out 10-15 years later, it'd probably have been fairly successful. The gimmick of The Devil as a Detective seems so far removed (from what little I know of the Lucifer comic and TV series) from the original comic that I wonder why someone just didn't pitch that and dump the whole nightclub/comic book connection. It seems like that is enough.
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The weird thing about Lucifer is how him being the devil never helped solve any cases. You could have changed his backstory to just be a charismatic, successful and slightly shady nightclub owner and most of the show would be exactly the same. The show wasn't really that bad but that was mostly because of the actors being fun and not really the stories.
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I wish I could have taken a photo but the electronic billboard by the megachuch by the freeway was showing an ad for Lucifer a few weeks ago. 
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mojo1701a posted:I love God Cop. This is why I can't bring myself to give the show a chance.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I wish I could have taken a photo but the electronic billboard by the megachuch by the freeway was showing an ad for Lucifer a few weeks ago. #[country]LovesLucifer was trending on twitter when the last season began and boy, did people throw a shitfit over it.
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