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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do have to wonder when sitcoms started featuring dysfunctional abusive families on purpose. Since the beginning of time.
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Hi my name is Commander Lee Adama and welcome to Jackass! *Proceeds to blow up Battlestar Pegasus to save the critically damaged Galactica because he left over seventy Viper Mk 7s behind to cover a tiny fleet and jumped into a combat zone to shoot one ship and ram another.*
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Danaru posted:
The first one made me think they're about to shoot DBZ energy beams.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:apart from randomly disappearing planetside for months on end, although miles seems pretty ok with it He's just disappointed that marriage to his Japanese waifu didn't live up to his weeaboo expectations.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The first one made me think they're about to shoot DBZ energy beams. Nah, they are just doing a variant of the "Rimmer Salute" 
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Johnny Aztec posted:Nah, they are just doing a variant of the "Rimmer Salute"
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god drat b5 popped off. i love how accurate it is when showing the nazis and all the little eichmanns running around. well accurate in the historical fiction sense and the pulling-no-punches sense. You really have to forget about star trek to enjoy the show as it was pretty hard to go from ds9 rewatch #4 to this. both great, just extremely different. the content for b5 is very very dense and that's probably it's strongest aspect. I'm onto season 5 now and im going to watch it slowly to relish it, i could watch 10 more seasons if they existed edit the hologram ep at the end of s4 is so loving cool. i love how the show travels into hard scifi so easily thehandtruck fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I always make sure to do this before I eat rear end 
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lmao, I just got that
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thehandtruck posted:god drat b5 popped off. i love how accurate it is when showing the nazis and all the little eichmanns running around. well accurate in the historical fiction sense and the pulling-no-punches sense. You may as well burn through to the end of the telepath arc, season 5 only REALLY kicks off once that snooze-fest is put to bed.
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I stopped watching B5 a few episodes deep into S5. A mix of it not grabbing me but also not wanting the show to end 
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The best is yet to come.
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Baronjutter posted:I stopped watching B5 a few episodes deep into S5. A mix of it not grabbing me but also not wanting the show to end Keeping watching. B5 stalls hard early season 5 with the Telepath arc, but it really gets good again once it's done.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Keeping watching. B5 stalls hard early season 5 with the Telepath arc, but it really gets good again once it's done. Yeah, it's a byproduct of not knowing if they'd get a season 5, so the Earth civil war was squished to the end of Season 4, and the telepath arc took it's place.
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Bouncing between TOS and Voyager and got to the episode where B'elana browbeat the Doctor into experiencing not only losing your child but also being the surgeon who failed to save their own daughter's life  You loving suck B'elana
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Danaru posted:Bouncing between TOS and Voyager and got to the episode where B'elana browbeat the Doctor into experiencing not only losing your child but also being the surgeon who failed to save their own daughter's life She's the absolute worst.
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Danaru posted:Bouncing between TOS and Voyager Why would you do this to yourself?
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I was watching H&I last night and the TOS episode was Assignment Earth, was that a backdoor pilot for a spinoff?
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Bogus Adventure posted:She's the absolute worst. remember that episode where she is seriously depressed but the crew doesn't seem to notice or particularly care? Like, great you finally decided to do a show about that and you pick the single most unsympathetic character in the series to focus it on loving Voyager
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Iron Crowned posted:I was watching H&I last night and the TOS episode was Assignment Earth, was that a backdoor pilot for a spinoff? Sure was. That's why there's so few scenes with Gary Seven and Kirk or  together.
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CaptainSkinny posted:Sure was. That's why there's so few scenes with Gary Seven and Kirk or I love how blatant back-door pilots are. Sure we have this show that you're entirely used to, but here's an entire episode about someone you've never met before, and will never see again!
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Am I the only one who really liked that episode and wishes the spinoff had happened?
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Iron Crowned posted:I love how blatant back-door pilots are. Sure we have this show that you're entirely used to, but here's an entire episode about someone you've never met before, and will never see again!
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Am I the only one who really liked that episode and wishes the spinoff had happened? I mean, I liked Teri Garr but god no
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Am I the only one who really liked that episode and wishes the spinoff had happened? Doctor Who exists
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, it's a byproduct of not knowing if they'd get a season 5, so the Earth civil war was squished to the end of Season 4, and the telepath arc took it's place. Did we cover how Straczynski loosely* modeled B5 after the Lord of the Rings, so the Earth civil war was basically the Scouring of the Shire (that Peter Jackson infamously left out of Return of the King)? JMS's work is more satisfying than Peej's, is what I'm saying here. * I mean, subtle references like "Z'ha'dum" could be easily missed
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Iron Crowned posted:I love how blatant back-door pilots are. Sure we have this show that you're entirely used to, but here's an entire episode about someone you've never met before, and will never see again! See also The Outrageous Okona. Were there ever any of those backdoor pilot cases that actually took off? And I don't mean ones where the spinoff was already in development and the episode is more an ad than a pilot. Weirdly enough there's more cases of spinoffs being successfully launched from characters and ideas that were never originally intended as one. Codename: Kids Next Door comes to mind. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:See also The Outrageous Okona. I think Mork and Mindy was an example of this.
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I would argue that Frasier was more successful than Cheers
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That was not a back door pilot, he was a main character for years
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:I think Mork and Mindy was an example of this. It may be the only case of one being successful. The Lone Gunmen was one I wanted to like, but yeah, it sucked.
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i hope pike becomes an unintentional backdoor pilot and that it gets handed off to someone who is capable of not writing grimdark poo poo i hope also that they pass all of the budget from the section 31 spin off to the pike show, and then drop s31 like a hot rock (so garak can lie on it)
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Iron Crowned posted:It may be the only case of one being successful. Lone Gunman was successful in that it actually got picked up for a season though, lots of backdoor pilots do not. Like the Dwight pilot they aired as an office episode. Trying to think of any others that actually got picked up. Masked Rider?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:See also The Outrageous Okona. All three of CSI's spinoffs (Miami, New York and Cyber) started with backdoor pilots.
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Okona wasn't a pilot was it
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Lone Gunman was successful in that it actually got picked up for a season though, lots of backdoor pilots do not. Like the Dwight pilot they aired as an office episode. a Dwight pilot??
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I’m a little mad that people keep saying the word backdoor without also making an anal joke. What the gently caress guys you’re losing your touch.
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The Mork episode of Happy Days wasn't a pilot, it was supposed to be a one-off to capitalize on the craze for space stuff following Star Wars.
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cowboy picard is gonna go john wick on the romulans when they blow up his dog
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