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Remember, the last time Patrick Stewart had script control on a screen project, we got Insurrection. I think we're past the point that we should think that he has good ideas about the character.
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Forget about sexuality for a moment. I question the judgment of any person who looks at Rios and goes "Yes, this is a good idea for a romance."
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May 21, 2020 18:32
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I just hope that at least Goldsman and Kurtzman aren't sexual abusers like the old Trek cohort producers were.
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May 21, 2020 19:05
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Maybe if Jurati didn't have like permanent broken bird and cult eyes syndrome I'd have liked her. The part where she said make is so I groaned for a solid 10 seconds.
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May 21, 2020 20:15
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Man, you guys are sour. I liked the whole cast, I thought she had a solid performance threading the needle between quirky and traumatized.
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May 21, 2020 20:20
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May 21, 2020 20:22
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She'll never be the "head" of a major corporation What with the murder charges and all
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May 21, 2020 20:34
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Arglebargle III posted:Forget about sexuality for a moment. I question the judgment of any person who looks at Rios and goes "Yes, this is a good idea for a romance." But damaged goods hidden in a gorgeous package are very tempting.
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May 21, 2020 20:56
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I do actually give respect to the show for the fact that the 'Secret that breaks people's minds' actually did turn out to literally be a secret that breaks people's minds and not just the star trek equivalent of 'Bernie lost because he doesn't actually have broad appeal'.
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May 21, 2020 20:56
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Brawnfire posted:Nothing was important Hey now, without Picard's involvement like 40 people (?) would have died and Hugh, several Romulan refugees, everyone in Vajazzle's bar and thousands of Borg would have lived.
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May 21, 2020 21:03
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Hey now, without Picard's involvement like 40 people (?) would have died and Hugh, several Romulan refugees, everyone in Vajazzle's bar and thousands of Borg would have lived.
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May 21, 2020 21:04
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Arglebargle III posted:Forget about sexuality for a moment. I question the judgment of any person who looks at Rios and goes "Yes, this is a good idea for a romance." Romance? More like "oh, I guess these two are loving now. Okay."
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May 21, 2020 21:12
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just remembered that we see all of these Federation scientists on the Borg Cube but they just magically aren't on it when everything goes to poo poo Oh, huh, yeah, I'd never thought about that aspect before
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May 21, 2020 21:16
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PostNouveau posted:Once Gold Soji gets killed, Soji totally takes over the "kill all life" plan for like 15 minutes. Gold Soji isn't killed, Soong just turns her off. You know, after the show spent a whole season establishing that androids are like people and deserve to be treated as such and not like a device you can turn on and off.
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May 21, 2020 21:17
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galenanorth posted:Oh, huh, yeah, I'd never thought about that aspect before
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May 21, 2020 21:21
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just remembered that we see all of these Federation scientists on the Borg Cube but they just magically aren't on it when everything goes to poo poo It really felt like the show got 'smaller' as it went along - it started off feeling like quite a fleshed-out world and it was all gone by the time they actually got to the Cube.
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May 21, 2020 21:21
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Man, you guys are sour. I liked the whole cast, I thought she had a solid performance threading the needle between quirky and traumatized. I liked the cast too, it's the writing that soured me, especially this bit: Thom12255 posted:It really felt like the show got 'smaller' as it went along - it started off feeling like quite a fleshed-out world and it was all gone by the time they actually got to the Cube.
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May 21, 2020 21:29
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Man, you guys are sour. I liked the whole cast, I thought she had a solid performance threading the needle between quirky and traumatized. I genuinely thought the cast was great with what they had.
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May 21, 2020 22:26
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I thought they did a good job with casting, but Raffi and Elnor got some of the worst material on the show and I feel for them. Even with that, Raffi's actor was super into the little backstory she had and really cared about it in her Behind the Scenes interview with Wheaton. I don't like it when actors get all the poo poo when it's really the writers fault.
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May 21, 2020 22:46
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Alison Pill is never bad and the poo poo eating grin moment was great even though it made no sense I think they don't realize that people don't care if it's nonsense, TOS was loving bananas, as long as it's good and not... this poo poo
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May 21, 2020 22:47
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Michelle Hurd is on Punisher and was good in that. Allison Pill was in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World so has bragging rights p much for all time.
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May 21, 2020 23:08
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precision posted:I think they don't realize that people don't care if it's nonsense, TOS was loving bananas, as long as it's good and not... this poo poo This right here. Completely off the hook is just fine, if it actually feels like Star Trek. E: Like, for this very reason, TFF is better than any nutrek, and TFF sucked (comparatively).
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May 21, 2020 23:15
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Arglebargle III posted:Allison Pill was in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World so has bragging rights p much for all time. Everyone in that movie nailed their role but especially her
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May 22, 2020 00:19
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I normally completely ignore Youtube comments but this one from the Plinkett review:quote:They literally just stole the plot of Mass Effect beat for beat, right down to the dead hero being copied into a mechanical body. Does that happen in Mass Effect? Did they really just rip off everything from Mass Effect? Please tell me that isn't in Mass Effect.
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May 22, 2020 00:42
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Animal-Mother posted:I normally completely ignore Youtube comments but this one from the Plinkett review: It's not a mechanical body. The main character dies in the beginning of the second one, and a shadowy organization gets the body and shoots it full of blue resurrection juice.
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May 22, 2020 00:46
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Animal-Mother posted:I normally completely ignore Youtube comments but this one from the Plinkett review: Eh kind of, it’s more like you get smashed into hamburger at the start of the second game and the space fascists rebuild you as robocop. I doubt ME had anything to do with the decision not to kill off the shows title character and raison d’etre
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May 22, 2020 00:47
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Animal-Mother posted:I normally completely ignore Youtube comments but this one from the Plinkett review: Shepard dies at the beginning of ME2 and the reason why you work with the terrorist organization Cerberus is that they rebuild you after the intro. You're essentially a cyborg more than a robot.
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May 22, 2020 00:48
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Animal-Mother posted:I normally completely ignore Youtube comments but this one from the Plinkett review: You have to understand that anybody saying things like "Picard stole from Mass Effect beat for beat" has absolutely never in their life played Mass Effect.
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May 22, 2020 01:13
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The basic problem with nu trek seems to be that a ton of talented actors and artists are willing to sign up for a big budget tentpole studio drama written and produced by the same group of J.J. Abrams' less-successful friends. Hopefully after Rise of Skywalker his reputation in Hollywood will be somewhat punctured.
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May 22, 2020 01:23
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Seemlar posted:You have to understand that anybody saying things like "Picard stole from Mass Effect beat for beat" has absolutely never in their life played Mass Effect. Can you elaborate for those who have never in their life played Mass Effect?
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May 22, 2020 01:28
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mastershakeman posted:Can someone give me a plot synopsis of Picard because I'm watching reviews of it and what the flying gently caress ACTING CAPTAIN WILL RIKER
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May 22, 2020 01:39
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Right up until she killed her lover and used a potentially suicidal method to burn out a tracking chip. If only there was a show who could deal with such questions because it is actually an interesting topic, where does personal responsibility/"individuality" start or end with all those "mind altering" events that happen in ST.
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May 22, 2020 02:14
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Can you elaborate for those who have never in their life played Mass Effect? The inciting incident for the plot of Mass Effect is an ancient alien psychic beacon that inflicts traumatic visions of mechanical god-beings wiping out all organic life in the galaxy, complete with dodgy stock imagery. The ancient mechanical god-beings enter the galaxy through gateways and are shaped like crustaceans, NOT cephalopods COPYRIGHT CBS DO NOT STEAL. Synthetic life forms really are banned by galactic treaty, and the heroes eventually reconcile a race of rebellious androids with their creators. It's more of a constellation of themes and plot points than a Force Awakens beat-by-beat retelling. (By the way the idea of an eight-sun star system left behind as a colossal monument is lifted directly from The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke.) Anyway the Mass Effect franchise is a great pastiche of classic 60s and 70s space opera and deserves a whirl despite its disappointing third act. (EA acquired the studio early in development of the second installment and by the third had cut timelines and budgets enough that many of Bioware's talent had left for greener pastures.) Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 02:53 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 02:47
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Picard Season 2 spoilers: a random person joins an expidition to a new galaxy then gets promoted to leadership through nepotism. The plot is uninspiring, the worlds are sterile and boring and it's received so badly it kills the franchise. Picard is mentioned in passing.
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May 22, 2020 03:29
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Picard Season 2 spoilers: a random person joins an expidition to a new galaxy then gets promoted to leadership through nepotism. The plot is uninspiring, the worlds are sterile and boring and it's received so badly it kills the franchise. Also everybody's facial movements are all hosed up
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May 22, 2020 03:40
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precision posted:Everyone in that movie nailed their role but especially her It's so funny that watching years later it's this crazy crossover event. Captain Marvel is dating Superman, who is arrested by The Punisher and Nero's lieutenant from Trek 2009 using nothing but finger guns. And Captain America plays Tony Hawke so hard he explodes. And Michael Cera is inexplicably ripped.
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May 22, 2020 04:13
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Picard Season 2 spoilers: a random person joins an expidition to a new galaxy then gets promoted to leadership through nepotism. The plot is uninspiring, the worlds are sterile and boring and it's received so badly it kills the franchise. Supposedly a Mass Effect game is in development, what is dead may never die.
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May 22, 2020 05:10
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DrNutt posted:Supposedly a Mass Effect game is in development, what is dead may never die. I thought Andromeda was widely reviled and failed to meet any of their sales expectations? It’s hard to overstate how loving dull Andromeda was, and I say that as a huge ME fan who genuinely liked the endings in ME3. I didn’t even bother finishing Andromeda, there just wasn’t a point.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I thought Andromeda was widely reviled and failed to meet any of their sales expectations? That is true, nonetheless there are rumors of a Mass Effect game in development right now. Given that they shitcanned any more Andromeda DLC I'm going to guess they're going back to the drawing board and doing a reboot, a prequel, or just picking a canon ending and saying "gently caress it." I'll be honest despite Bioware's lackluster recent history, all they'd have to do to get me back on board would be a ten second trailer with the old Mass Effect theme and some kind of voice over (maybe Mark Meet/Jennifer Hale) saying "you thought I was dead? You should know better by now." And no, your first sentence is entirely correct. But I do think they're probably more willing to go back to that well after Anthem was another massive bust.
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I will add if anyone is thinking about playing the Mass Effect series after watching ME: Picard that Mass Effect 2 is legitimately one of the best games of the last 20 years.
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