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I really wanted to like the star gate tv shows but I couldn't. Edit: AnotherUslssPoster shut the gently caress up in the god drat newbie thread.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:09
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CainFortea posted:I really wanted to like the star gate tv shows but I couldn't. Ok will do. It just sounded like he wasnt listening while watching Or not paying attention at all.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:14
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Haha, rating Lennier at number 3, citing how "nice" he is. The irony. Of course it's not TheAardvark's fault for thinking this at this point of the series, I wasn't much different back then.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:39
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It wasn't until my 4th or 5th watch through where I'd finally grown out of my own nice guy phase that I realized what a creep Lennier becomes.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:42
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Ok will do. It just sounded like he wasnt listening while watching It doesn't matter what it sounds like. It's not ours to correct him. If he misses something important then it's on the other virgin watchers to pick it up.
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Jun 8, 2020 15:54
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Just make sure no one will make a mistake of binging the show without writing it down. I still don't remember what s2 was about besides sheridan's dumb 'good luck speech' and the magic life force transfer guillotine but am looking forward to comparing my notes with what they will see.
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Jun 8, 2020 16:04
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Just make sure no one will make a mistake of binging the show without writing it down. Oh no, somebody might not catch every single thing their first watch-through of a show. 
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Jun 8, 2020 16:06
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I rewatched BSquared, it was my fault all along. Sorry. Oh god I get the point now.
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Jun 8, 2020 16:18
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Torrannor posted:Haha, rating Lennier at number 3, citing how "nice" he is. The irony. Man Vir's gonna blow him away here soon I think. I might be biased, Vir's my favorite.
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Jun 8, 2020 16:48
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CainFortea posted:Man Vir's gonna blow him away here soon I think. I might be biased, Vir's my favorite. Same, and I'd submit him as the real hero of the show, or at least the one with the most obvious hero's journey. I mean, he starts out as some wimpy assistant, ends up as perhaps the finest Emperor the Centauri ever had.
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quote:Ahhhhh God I love Lennier. No wonder the Minbari are the race humans got into a war with. They're the only ones with a culture of kindness. From the newbie thread. loving  , the next few seasons are going to hit him like a train.
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TheAardvark posted:I pray to one day get to see Lennier's "psychotic impulses and violent homicidal rages" also from the other thread, lol 
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Polaron posted:From the newbie thread. loving I saw that and thought "oh man, this guy's going to be disillusioned so hard. It's going to be amazing.
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McCloud posted:Love these little thoughts For a hot second I was like "I don't remember how this comes up a....OOOH RIIIIIGHT"
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AntherUslessPoster posted:I rewatched BSquared, it was my fault all along. Sorry. What did you say?
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Doctor Zero posted:What did you say? To be quoted exactly 'Either my english sucks more than I though or you should rewatch the episode'. Because of calling vorlons 'zorlons' (oh cmon!) and the whole 'to the future' point. Vorlons were mentioned quite some times already. 'The future' is in this episode only, while the whole B4 ordeal is to send it to past. My memory got rewritten with whole Valen thing. And 'the point' being really seeing the whole show through the newbie's eyes. I thought it was just a way of saying but indeed what it is. A blind watch through someone's eyes. Erulisse fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Jun 8, 2020 19:29
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AntherUslessPoster posted:To be quoted exactly 'Either my english sucks more than I though or you should rewatch the episode'. Because of calling vorlons 'zorlons' (oh cmon!) and the whole 'to the future' point. Vorlons were mentioned quite some times already. 'The future' is in this episode only, while the whole B4 ordeal is to send it to past. My memory got rewritten with whole Valen thing. The original intention was for B4 to have been sent to the future, so him picking up on that is actually pretty spot-on. It was only later that things changed, IIRC.
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Yeah, War Without End does a good enough job tying Babylon Squared to the different direction the show went, but you can definitely that Babylon Squared was written with the original show treatment in mind.
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Jun 8, 2020 19:51
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quote:It’s probably a bit too modern a concept, but I get a slight queer vibe between Ivanova and Talia. Lol. I liked the way they handled that, it was v nbd.
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sebmojo posted:Lol. I liked the way they handled that, it was v nbd. There was only so far they could go with it on network TV in the '90s, I think. Edit: Finally decided to have a glance at that thread, and: Eyud posted:JMS says it's coming back next month: I'll be able to finish my watch-through after all! 
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Jun 8, 2020 21:42
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They also had Marcus and Franklin pretend to be a couple and that was (mostly) treated as nbd too
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sebmojo posted:Lol. I liked the way they handled that, it was v nbd. B5 did an amazing job of depicting a future free of bigotry. Nobody even talks about gay rights because it's a settled issue. Zorak of Michigan fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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CainFortea posted:
(Alien healing device) It comes up again immediately first though
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CommissarMega posted:Same, and I'd submit him as the real hero of the show, or at least the one with the most obvious hero's journey. I mean, he starts out as some wimpy assistant, ends up as perhaps the finest Emperor the Centauri ever had. One of the best comedic scenes in the series is the bit where Vir and Londo are just sitting silently in Londo's quarters after they got told they would both be Emperor constantly looking back at each other and trying to chat and immediately suspicious of what the other says.
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Jun 8, 2020 22:15
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pentyne posted:One of the best comedic scenes in the series is the bit where Vir and Londo are just sitting silently in Londo's quarters after they got told they would both be Emperor constantly looking back at each other and trying to chat and immediately suspicious of what the other says. Comedic but dumb - Londo has no reason to be suspicious of Vir until he has become Emperor. Until then he's bulletproof.
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Jeez Louise, can we stop posting spoilers in the blind watch thread? Let the watchers figure stuff out or be surprised later on about how folks act the way they do.
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Bell_ posted:Jeez Louise, can we stop posting spoilers in the blind watch thread? This is why we can't have nice things.
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Bell_ posted:Jeez Louise, can we stop posting spoilers in the blind watch thread? make it a 1 day probe it's literally happening 2x a day now.
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pentyne posted:make it a 1 year probe it's literally happening 2x a day now.
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For the record I have heroically resisted the urge to spoil Bablyon 5 in that thread and limited myself to spoiling Game of Thrones.
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Sanguinia posted:For the record I have heroically resisted the urge to spoil Bablyon 5 in that thread and limited myself to spoiling Game of Thrones. Those folks knew what they got themselves into.
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pentyne posted:make it a 1 day probe it's literally happening 2x a day now. Make it a 100k probe, cancelled when the Blind Thread gets to the end of S5. I've been biting my tongue not mentioning things in there that aren't even technically spoilers, like telling The Doctor he was right in spotting the Forbidden Planet reference. I'm sure I could confirm that, but the more I post in there the more likely it is I'll slip up. Better not to start.
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Jedit posted:Make it a 100k probe, cancelled when the Blind Thread gets to the end of S5. I've been biting my tongue not mentioning things in there that aren't even technically spoilers, like telling The Doctor he was right in spotting the Forbidden Planet reference. I'm sure I could confirm that, but the more I post in there the more likely it is I'll slip up. Better not to start. Super same. Like I find it hard to even blame someone for seeing a watcher write "I get a romantic vibe off Ivonova and Talia, but that can't be right in a 90s TV show, can it?" and wanting to reply to let them know that no, that is in fact right. I mean, its not a spoiler exactly even though there is more to that story to come, they've already seen it happen, you're just telling them that they have interpreted what they've already witnessed correctly. But even going that far is clearly too far when you can just let them keep watching and see how their relationship plays out and get their confirmation themselves. Which leaves me just resisting the urge to post anything at all and mostly just lurk the thread.
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Jun 9, 2020 01:33
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Jedit posted:Make it a 100k probe, cancelled when the Blind Thread gets to the end of S5. I've been biting my tongue not mentioning things in there that aren't even technically spoilers, like telling The Doctor he was right in spotting the Forbidden Planet reference. I'm sure I could confirm that, but the more I post in there the more likely it is I'll slip up. Better not to start. I wanted to talk about production stuff and things like Richard Briggs being deaf but now I realize they're watching that and letting it affect their perception of the actor's performance when it's one of those things better learned after the fact and then its "holy poo poo I never would guessed" I like the meta commentary in the thread like how the Ben Zayn actor went 110% with role and pissed everyone off but those details should be discussed here with the episode titles bolded in the post for later reference when the blind watchers finish and come back here to read what we reacted and discussed while watching them. I do love seeing them all call Garibaldi Chief ACAB and see him as this hyper fash thug since some of the character is literally Jerry Doyle just being himself.
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I don't even want to start telling them to see who's still alive 
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pentyne posted:
I don't know about that, I feel like at a certain point that just leaves the thread as nothing but the two watchers talking to each other, or more often past each other since they're not going at the same pace, and us creeping on them with gleeful grins occasionally. A little bit of meta-commentary and cross-talk helps keep the thread feeling lively and everyone feel like they're participating in some way.
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maybe you guys should just not read along with the thread and commit yourselves to going back and reading through it after it's finished
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