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Well it's always been their nature to extract as much money as possible, pushing over time further and further to extract as much money as people will put up with. The original premise of cable TV was that you'd pay so you wouldn't have to watch commercials, too.
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If the big TV networks wouldn't have just sit by as Netflix dominated the market at the start, we'd have always had commercials during streaming.
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Aug 17, 2022 21:10
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The thing about ads is it’s also smoke and mirrors.
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Aug 17, 2022 21:19
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Crowsbeak posted:The thing about ads is it’s also smoke and mirrors. I work in marketing and it’s only a slight step above wearing a wizard hat and looking into a crystal ball.
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Aug 17, 2022 21:25
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Mozi posted:it got me to sign up for paramount plus... 50 bucks/year isn't bad but i hate that there are ads at that price tier lol yeah i watched the SNW premier with my parents on P+ and was real surprised there's like 20 minutes of long rear end ads... they seemed to enjoy it but thought the nuclear war planet was supposed to be Seattle (the libs destroyed the city you see) and got real confused about why Spock was there because isn't he old??
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Aug 17, 2022 21:40
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I just watched Retrospect (VOY 4-16) and wow was it uncomfortable to watch in TYOOL 2022. The glossing over of a possible assault due to some (plausible) circumstantial evidence and the guy killing himself was real bad.
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Aug 17, 2022 21:50
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MakaVillian posted:I just watched Retrospect (VOY 4-16) and wow was it uncomfortable to watch in TYOOL 2022. The glossing over of a possible assault due to some (plausible) circumstantial evidence and the guy killing himself was real bad. The episode hits differently now than it did in 1998, because one big political issue now is the MeToo movement and people not believing claims of sexual assault or rape. In 1998, the big issue in psychology and the news was recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, where well meaning psychologists would convince people they were victims of sexual abuse which they had repressed, which ked to a bunch of false accusations.
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Aug 17, 2022 22:00
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appropriatemetaphor posted:they seemed to enjoy it but thought the nuclear war planet was supposed to be Seattle (the libs destroyed the city you see) and got real confused about why Spock was there because isn't he old?? The profound lack of media literacy some people have will always astound me lmao
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Aug 17, 2022 22:23
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Or just... Any ability to process what's going on around them at all. These are the people who bought an HD TV but continued happily watching the 4:3 SD channels on their cable package - stretched out to 16:9. But act like you're the fussy cineste if you insist on fixing it. Probably have the motion smoothing on 24/7 too.
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Aug 17, 2022 22:58
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Imagined posted:Or just... Any ability to process what's going on around them at all. These are the people who bought an HD TV but continued happily watching the 4:3 SD channels on their cable package - stretched out to 16:9. But act like you're the fussy cineste if you insist on fixing it. Probably have the motion smoothing on 24/7 too. lol my in laws are probably annoyed because i turn off motion interpolation every time i watch tv at their house
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Aug 17, 2022 23:03
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Epicurius posted:The episode hits differently now than it did in 1998, because one big political issue now is the MeToo movement and people not believing claims of sexual assault or rape. Oh 100% it's because its 2022. I think a bit of my disappointment was because I thought Seven was vindicated at the end rather than...not
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HD DAD posted:The profound lack of media literacy some people have will always astound me lmao i used to watch marvel movies with my mom, because she liked marvel movies but had absolutely no ability to understand what was happening during these simple-rear end action movies. so at her request i'd explain every detail. not like, comics continuity, but more like what just happened and who that guy is. old people, amirite?
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Aug 17, 2022 23:34
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i used to watch marvel movies with my mom, because she liked marvel movies but had absolutely no ability to understand what was happening during these simple-rear end action movies. so at her request i'd explain every detail. not like, comics continuity, but more like what just happened and who that guy is. We always had to do this with my dad for any movie unless it was one he'd seen like a dozen times. And this was even when he was just in his 40s.
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HD DAD posted:The profound lack of media literacy some people have will always astound me lmao To be fair, that was like 30 years ago. People just don't know about it.
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Bouncing around and Star Trekking it up and got to episode 15 Season 2 Pen Pals and I like that the whole crew gets together and starts discussing the prime directive and Picard is like " Nope they gotta die , sorry"
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Hollismason posted:Bouncing around and Star Trekking it up and got to episode 15 Season 2 Pen Pals and I like that the whole crew gets together and starts discussing the prime directive and Picard is like " Nope they gotta die , sorry" The problem was, it was a kid who got hold of Data. Picard found that out, and....
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Just got to The Samaritan Snare which is the only time we get a introduction of the Pakleds which I kind of miss the fact that we didn't get more Pakled stories because their a interesting race Worf is like "Do we need to send our CHIEF engineer" Honestly if they listened to Worf a lot more in TNG they'd probably be shorter episodes. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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Hollismason posted:Just got to The Samaritan Snare which is the only time we get a introduction of the Pakleds which I kind of miss the fact that we didn't get more Pakled stories because their a interesting race They're a series main antagonist! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h96_pQurLeA
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It is kind of hilarious that Odo takes Worf to task for all the security breaches on the Enterprise when his primary duty as Security Chief was to be ignored at every step.
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Hollismason posted:Just got to The Samaritan Snare which is the only time we get a introduction of the Pakleds which I kind of miss the fact that we didn't get more Pakled stories because their a interesting race it’s funny before seeing them pop up a bunch on lower decks i had no memory of them. but they’ve been on a few episodes spanning the shows but i assume mostly just background aside from TNG:TSS https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Pakled
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Up to the TNG episode with Lal. Considering editing together an alternate intro that uses the same theme but replaces everyone's credits with "Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data" set to footage of Data. I like episodes where you can see Picard think "I really should have anticipated that this could happen and now I have to have The Talk with him post-facto, this 'being a father' thing is difficult."MakaVillian posted:I just watched Retrospect (VOY 4-16) and wow was it uncomfortable to watch in TYOOL 2022. The glossing over of a possible assault due to some (plausible) circumstantial evidence and the guy killing himself was real bad. This sounds like the episode where Riker is accused of murder and by his own testimony (and the holodeck recreation) he acts like Picard but by everyone elses story he really just acts like Riker, down to the guy killing himself. I mean, it was no Broca Divide, but is this another thing where sci fi writers go "oh boy, new franchise, time to sell literally my worst script again"? Also, question regarding continuity because this is my first TNG viewing, is it like X Files where I should stop between certain seasons for a particular movie, or is the correct viewing order all the episodes followed by the movies?
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tv then movies theoretically ds9 if you care came on the year before generations
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Not Evans posted:Also, question regarding continuity because this is my first TNG viewing, is it like X Files where I should stop between certain seasons for a particular movie, or is the correct viewing order all the episodes followed by the movies? The movies were made after the series, so you're ok watching the TNG movies after the show.
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Epicurius posted:you're ok watching the TNG movies after the show. Frankly, I wouldn't recommend it
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infernal machines posted:Frankly, I wouldn't recommend it It's great.
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Not Evans posted:
I like how the trope of "someone in our trusted cast has been accused of murder by aliens and put on trial and they have zero defense or alibi!" is so common in just about every SF show. It's at the point that I literally want an episode of a show where a main cast member is accused of killing someone and everyone on the alien planet* just goes, "Its cool, you don't even live on this planet, that guy was an rear end in a top hat, the court already had the trial and decided it was justified so you're free and clear, see ya." (*Other than the Klingons.)
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you're right, house of quark was a great episode
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Aug 19, 2022 06:49
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Mx. posted:you're right, house of quark was a great episode Thats what I was thinking of, but I want more of everyone just wringing their hands at the trial portion of it being "We literally don't care that you killed that guy" while the main characters are more like, "We DIDN'T kill anyone! Reopen the case! We're not leaving here until you admit we didn't kill anyone!"
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JediTalentAgent posted:Thats what I was thinking of, but I want more of everyone just wringing their hands at the trial portion of it being "We literally don't care that you killed that guy" while the main characters are more like, "We DIDN'T kill anyone! Reopen the case! We're not leaving here until you admit we didn't kill anyone!" Splicer fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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watching the orville season 3 and i like that it opens with, in order, a ds9 episode, a voyager episode, and a tng episode
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Splicer posted:Janeway getting increasingly angry that they keep agreeing that Paris didn't kill a guy but it's clearly just because they're worried she'll photon torpedo the capital and she wants them to mean it. This is how bad my memory is with Voyager: I literally can't tell if that's a real episode or not.
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JediTalentAgent posted:This is how bad my memory is with Voyager: I literally can't tell if that's a real episode or not.
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Minera posted:watching the orville season 3 and i like that it opens with, in order, a ds9 episode, a voyager episode, and a tng episode They've also done a few shows that feel exactly like Sliders scripts with the character names changed.
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Powered Descent posted:They've also done a few shows that feel exactly like Sliders scripts with the character names changed. man sliders could be so loving good today. i would be extremely down for a reboot. i've always been a sucker for parallel dimension media as is it is absolutely not worth watching past john rhys davies
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Sliders is a great show if you stop at right time. If they rebooted jerry o'connell would insist to still be in it somehow and it would be very bad.
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mediaphage posted:man sliders could be so loving good today. i would be extremely down for a reboot. i've always been a sucker for parallel dimension media Wayne Knight posted:Sliders is a great show if you stop at right time. If they rebooted jerry o'connell would insist to still be in it somehow and it would be very bad. Oh my god this was nine years ago but it's still great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtasHWLKWSM And hey, O'Connell is doing awesome on Lower Decks, so I don't know what you're complaining about.
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mediaphage posted:man sliders could be so loving good today. i would be extremely down for a reboot. i've always been a sucker for parallel dimension media Sliders peaked when they went to a dimension of vampires and Tommy Chong was a vampire hunter and Hyde from That '70s Show was the head vampire and had a guitar that shot laser beams.
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Powered Descent posted:Oh my god this was nine years ago but it's still great: lmao holy poo poo id never seen this
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The "standing next to portal about to close" always gives me anxiety lol Like on SG-1 when oniell kinda stops and looks around. Like go through dude poo poo!!
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appropriatemetaphor posted:The "standing next to portal about to close" always gives me anxiety lol But like it's always just good to stop for a second and think like "did I remember my keys? My wallet? My phone? anything else I need to remember" Pretty sure it costs $10'000 everytime the use the gate, they air force are 100% not going to let you go back and get your keys just because you left them on a rock somewhere on another planet.
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