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That was the best episode. All the music cues and everything was great. Plus it felt earned because we’d got to know the characters by now, so the show felt free to play around with them a little. Like a fine gumbo.
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MikeJF posted:I knew I knew that rat species from somewhere! It's from an early TNG episode where the enterprise has to try to broker peace between them and their neighbours, another race of lizard people they like to eat. Which episode was this?
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Oct 1, 2020 20:35
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Visual references, like the ship cheesecake shots, or how everything is lit differently, or random crew people cussing all of a sudden, are much better than the overt name dropping they've been using as a crutch too much. (Though I did think the one ref I recall - If this was real it would be the Enterprise -, I thought worked well and made sense). When you're doing parody like this, you have to trust that your audience gets it, and hopefully this episode shows that the writers room is starting to be more confident and trust us to get the joke more even if it's not directly winked at or highlighted. We won’t really know until next season. But yeah I loved this episode, absolutely tone perfect parody of movie Trek, specifically the TNG movies, while also being a good holodeck episode!
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Oct 1, 2020 20:45
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“Not-a today! Not-a on da Vinci’s watch!”
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Oct 1, 2020 21:07
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That long rear end flying around the ship while weeping scene was incredible.
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Oct 1, 2020 21:14
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The film grain complete with hairs and spots was fantastic, too. It instantly gave the episode a sense of nostalgia for those old TOS movies.
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Oct 1, 2020 21:22
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Alchenar posted:I just checked imdb and apparently her surname in Mariner and her firstname is Beckett. I'm assuming that her father's last name is also Mariner. I'm guessing Freeman didn't take her husband's last name when they married, a practice that is quite common in African American families.
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Oct 1, 2020 21:35
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That was the best Lower Decks yet. The show has evolved and found its footing staggeringly fast - considering how manic and loud and sub-Family-Guy-"hey, remember this?"-reference-y the first episode was, it's almost a different show. And holy poo poo, serial storytelling out of nowhere - wait, only one more episode left? Dammit!
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Oct 1, 2020 21:48
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And the week after next, we’re back to the Amazing Adventures of Michael Burnham!
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Oct 1, 2020 21:51
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HD DAD posted:And the week after next, we’re back to the Amazing Adventures of Michael Burnham! At least there is a cat this season.
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Oct 1, 2020 22:28
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Thom12255 posted:At least there is a cat this season. HER NAME IS DR. T'ANA!  _____________________________/
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Oct 1, 2020 22:49
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nine-gear crow posted:I'm assuming that her father's last name is also Mariner. I'm guessing Freeman didn't take her husband's last name when they married, a practice that is quite common in African American families. Oh yeah there's any number of plausible reasons it could be. Freeman kept her name (it's increasingly common across all families) and Mariner at some point changed to her Father's name as a dig at her mother. Maybe. But the show literally hasn't touched on Mariner's direct relationship with her father, despite us seeing him on screen. We know he's a senior Starfleet officer and without knowing if they're still together he seems to have a functioning relationship with Freeman. My complaint isn't that there isn't a good explanation and plausible narrative for these characters and their family dynamic, my complaint is that the show has set up and then completely passed on the opportunity to explore them. It's why I'm watching and frustrated - it feel like the show is perpetually on the cusp of genuine greatness and then flubs it by being lazy.
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Oct 1, 2020 23:05
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I just started watching, but did they program film grain into the holodeck??
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MichiganCubbie posted:I just started watching, but did they program film grain into the holodeck?? They programmed an aspect ratio into it
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Oct 2, 2020 00:20
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This is amazing.
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Oct 2, 2020 00:22
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MikeJF posted:How did they make the music sound so much like the original without actually being it? My thoughts exactly. I loved the hell out of this episode. 
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Oct 2, 2020 00:22
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On occasion, I feel like Mariner knows she’s in a Trek show in the same way Deadpool knows he exists in a comic. She namechecked Xon from Phase 2 in the most recent episode, and that’s a hella deep cut.
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The_Doctor posted:On occasion, I feel like Mariner knows she’s in a Trek show in the same way Deadpool knows he exists in a comic. She namechecked Xon from The Motion Picture in the most recent episode, and that’s a hella deep cut. Fixed that for you. I know what you're saying, but he's the science officer who gets transport accidented before McCoy beams up, so he is canon.
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MichiganCubbie posted:Fixed that for you. I know what you're saying, but he's the science officer who gets transport accidented before McCoy beams up, so he is canon. You have received 1 Trekkie demerit for confusing Xon with Sonak. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sonak
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The only ONLY ONLY thing I will nitpick is that they’re not really imaginative with the Trek species lately. Like.. you’ve so many interesting alien species to work with and you’re giving us a bird doctor, rat and lizard people, and .. mosquito boimler last week? Rat and lizard people worked for the cannibalism joke I /guess/, but the psych is just a straight up bird? C’mon give us more weirdos. Plus the lizards were kind of cute and delicious 
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A.o.D. posted:Which episode was this? Lonely Among Us. The one where Picard gets possessed by an electricity monster.
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Powered Descent posted:You have received 1 Trekkie demerit for confusing Xon with Sonak.  I swore they moved Xon over from Phase 2 to TMP just like Decker and Iila.
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MikeJF posted:How did they make the music sound so much like the original without actually being it? The Orville did it, like, every single week. James Horner has a really distinctive, easily replicable style. Hint, hint: it’s literally his name!
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Also, I'm unsure whether Rutherford has a hero-worship man-crush, or an actual crush expressed through the medium of engineering nerdery. I kinda hope the latter.
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Aces High posted:Mariner is starting to chill out a bit, which is nice, but Boimler is just taking a nosedive and it kind of sucks. I think my issue is that it feels like punching down, the dude's just an ensign so he's already at the bottom so him continuing to be the butt of jokes or continuously poo poo on by the plot and cast isn't funny, it's mean. It also doesn't help that any wins he gets are immediately taken away by things like "oh it was a parasite, I guess no one actually loves him" or "oh look, Mariner set up the Ferengi thing, she's always hypercompetent" or the whole entire plot of going to the planet for medical anomalies. Agreed, 100%. The poor guy just wants to do a good job and be a good guy and every episode is making GBS threads on him. Also, I clocked that Paul F Tompkins cameo as soon as he appeared, good to see. edit: and the resolution to that Tendi arc for the ep was pretty weird. Mariner realized that maybe you shouldn't cast the Orion person as a stereotype, but Tendi realizes that yeah actually stereotypes are sometimes true? Tendi should have just accepted the apology and forgave. I'm not sure what they were going for by having her meet her in the middle. piratepilates fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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So Dr. T'ana's line, "Godspeed you crazy f_____" uhm Was that censored word the word I think it is? Kind of a surprise.
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Oct 2, 2020 01:45
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They've had a few censored fucks on the show so far.
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Oct 2, 2020 01:47
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Some Orions haven't been pirates for almost FIVE YEARS! Best line from the best episode of the best nuTrek
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Humerus posted:Some Orions haven't been pirates for almost FIVE YEARS! Oh no, it was definitely Shaxs.
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Grand Fromage posted:They've had a few censored fucks on the show so far. That's not what I thought it was... Fucker's what I'm hoping it was though.
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Sexual Aluminum posted:I propose we extend Lower Decks to an hour, and cut Discovery to 25 min each ep. To hell with Discovery, just give Lower Decks all of their budget and make each episode an hour so that every episode will have movie production quality and better writing. edit-- oh wait, reading is hard Zaroff posted:How about we extend Lower Decks by 13 episodes and just cut Discovery? 
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Brawnfire posted:That's not what I thought it was... Fucker's what I'm hoping it was though. What else would it possibly be except fucks/fuckers?
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Grand Fromage posted:What else would it possibly be except fucks/fuckers? In the context of the two of them talking about running away together, it almost seemed like a homophobic slur starting with "F". Idk, I was shocked and stopped it and listened a few times because I was sort of taken aback, and really can't hear it very well, so I asked.
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Grand Fromage posted:What else would it possibly be except fucks/fuckers? Some people thought it was a different f-word used rutherford and billings being gaily romantic, which absolutely wasn't intended but was a pretty unfortunate possibility given the context of the beep.
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Oct 2, 2020 01:57
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Yeah, that. I really don't want that word anywhere near Trek, even in a raunchy comedy, so... 
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Might be time to log off for a bit if that ever crossed your mind as a possibility, tbh.
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Because I misheard/misinterpreted a bleeped swear? Edit: Okay I can see on review how it's incredibly unlikely, but at first blush it seemed like they were trying to be "cutesy" by bleeping it out and putting it in the mouth of the "crass, no-nonsense" doctor. I'm obviously sensitive to it due to my past, and was jumping the gun. Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Oct 2, 2020 02:02
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Marnier is better Khan then Benedict Cumberbatch I said it and I mean it. In your face J J Abrams.
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This was definitely my favorite episode of the season. Weirdly, the visual gag that had me laughing the most was just the stupid amount of lens flare that suddenly existed while they were flying around the ship, but especially the fist scene on the bridge after they dock. That and Tendi's line about many Orions having not been pirates for over 5 years. What a weird world we are in when the Star Trek show I actually look forward to is a cartoon. Think I agree with the others they should move Discovery's budget to Lower Decks. Also should also give it the budget from Picard and Section 31 (sigh that this is even going to exist). I will remain hopeful for Strange New Worlds, even if I should probably know better.
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Brawnfire posted:Because I misheard/misinterpreted a bleeped swear? It's cool, I was being kind of a dick about it in retrospect, sorry.
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