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I watched ten minutes of lower decks and just can't bear how fast they're speaking. Am I just to old for this or what.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I watched ten minutes of lower decks and just can't bear how fast they're speaking. Am I just to old for this or what. Lower Decks first few episodes are REALLY loving rough. Once it finds it footing, it levels out significantly, and only Mariner retains the "talking like a normal, modern person who's watched Star Trek finding themselves within the Star Trek world would" quirk. Also gonna N'th what other folks have said about Stargate: Atlantis, it's not really good, but it IS fun and rad as poo poo and worth watching, especially for the seasons Picardo's on it as a main cast member. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Feb 21, 2023 |
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Yeah I was going to ask a similar question about whether I should stick with Lower Decks after the first episode and a half. When I thought about posting the question I realized I'd watched the entire first season in one go. Some of it still definitely feels like a 2006 era "it's a cartoon...FOR ADULTS!!1!" but yeah it improves. And I'm saying that as someone who isn't really into the Trek overall. (That said I've watched all of Picard, TNG, and the TNG era movies now. I think there's something wrong with my brain.)
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Feb 21, 2023 19:34
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If you’re not digging it by the fourth episode (Moist Vessel) then you can feel pretty confident you won’t like any of it
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That's good to know, I might give it another spin some day.
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Feb 21, 2023 19:40
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By the third season, Lower Decks is just making great regular Trek with some jokes. Hell, Reflections veers close to being a straight drama.
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HD DAD posted:By the third season, Lower Decks is just making great regular Trek with some jokes. Hell, Reflections veers close to being a straight drama. Yeah, Lower Decks has a heart and soul and a vast amount of respect for not just its audience, but its story universe and characters, which is something that shows like Picard and Discovery are absolutely bereft of. It's the same with Strange New Worlds and Prodigy, all three shows respect your time and intelligence. Picard is just trying to work a con on you to get the folks behind it a paycheck. Lower Decks is the kind of show that I, someone who's been a fan of Star Trek for 30 years, would make in order to express both my love for and my gentle frustrations with All Of Star Trek.
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Feb 21, 2023 19:47
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I think those are supposed to be field hockey helmets
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Feb 21, 2023 20:39
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Cthulu Carl posted:Didn't Early TNG have a bunch of super old dudes as admirals? Not even like regular old dudes like the ones who got the bug/worm/thing and tried to take over Starfleet, but dudes that they had to cake in bad age makeup like Bones and that admiral or got some anti-aging serum for him and his wife, then chugged it all? The way McCoy keeps calling Data "boy" is a little off-putting.
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Feb 21, 2023 20:59
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Rumor is Picard season 3 will involve the parasite bugs from Conspiracy
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Gatts posted:Rumor is Picard season 3 will involve the parasite bugs from Conspiracy I'm ok with this. It was a great plot hook, early on, that was never explored. The bad guys remind me of the Son'a. I'm going to go with that until it's proven to be something more stupid.
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atlantis was never better than okay but meaney was a great villain.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:atlantis was never better than okay but meaney was a great villain. I mostly remember Atlantis as the series my sci-fi disliking sister got way more into than me because she crushed hard on both Jason Momoa and David Hewlett.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I mostly remember Atlantis as the series my sci-fi disliking sister got way more into than me because she crushed hard on both Jason Momoa and David Hewlett. ...tough to pin down her "type" given this info
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Flipperwaldt posted:I watched ten minutes of lower decks and just can't bear how fast they're speaking. Am I just to old for this or what. I had the same complaint when I started watching it. It’s much better at 90% speed with VLC.
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Gatts posted:Rumor is Picard season 3 will involve the parasite bugs from Conspiracy I want it to be all about Beverly's adventures as a paranormal investigator
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Lord of Pie posted:I want it to be all about Beverly's adventures as a paranormal investigator that would just be a porn
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Lord of Pie posted:I want it to be all about Beverly's adventures as a paranormal investigator listen it was all a conspiracy between the cook, the baker, and the candlestick maker
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Gatts posted:Rumor is Picard season 3 will involve the parasite bugs from Conspiracy I heard as well and I also heard it is good.
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I don’t trust Matalas to not have someone’s head graphically explode if that’s the case.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I heard as well and I also heard it is good. I have a bridge to sell you (The bridge will collapse and you will be crushed under the wreckage)
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Is Prodigy not a show for babies? I thought it was one of them baby shows
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PostNouveau posted:Is Prodigy not a show for babies? I thought it was one of them baby shows Prodigy goes from "Babby's First Star Trek" to "holy gently caress this show is legitimately amazing and whips the pants off Picard so hard the pants no longer exist." Within the span of about 5 episodes, maybe even quicker.
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PostNouveau posted:Is Prodigy not a show for babies? I thought it was one of them baby shows It’s a baby show in the sense that there is an overt moral lesson that usually falls under “trust in your friends” or “it’s important to talk about your feelings instead of using violence” but if we’re honest that’s what TNG was about too
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PostNouveau posted:Is Prodigy not a show for babies? I thought it was one of them baby shows It's definitely aimed more that way, but it's not only for kids. It's good trek.
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It's starts out as straight up Star Wars bait, but over a couple episodes shows (not tells) why Star Trek is good too. Then it gets real good at being Star Trek.
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The writing is general kid's cartoon moral-of-the week stuff, but wrapped up in some genuinely beautiful sci-fi setpieces and premises that it engages with sincerely rather than mock or ignore. Also one or two real dark ones for a kid's show... 
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I've said it in a couple of places, but both Prodigy and Lower Decks are a pair of Star Trek shows that are built on love for Star Trek, just from two different perspectives. Lower Decks is a show that loves Star Trek from the perspective of someone who's been a fan for decades and knows it well enough to make fun of how silly it is without straying into meanspiritedness. Meanwhile Prodigy is a show from the perspective of someone who has just today found out what Star Trek is and has fallen in love with it and wants to learn everything about it as fast as possible in order to be true fan of it. Picard meanwhile, is a show that has nothing but spite for Star Trek and hates you for still somehow sticking around and loving Star Trek 30 years after TNG went off the air.
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Brawnfire posted:...tough to pin down her "type" given this info Funny you should say that. I watched few minutes of a horror film called Pin a few nights ago and while trying to find out the name of the movie I had to wait for the credits. David Hewlett... Okay. What? No... That's... Yep, same David Hewlett and I'm not going to lie, I didn't recognize him. He had a real early-00s Justin Timberlake look to him as a younger man.
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Not sure what's off about my vibes this morning but I'm imagining James Spader as a captain in a future show and I think I'm into it.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Funny you should say that. I watched few minutes of a horror film called Pin a few nights ago and while trying to find out the name of the movie I had to wait for the credits. David Hewlett... Okay. What? No... That's... I watched a random Canadian sci fi movie from 2015 on Amazon that had Jason Mamoa in it and I couldn't figure out why. Then I saw it, writer and director David Hewlett. Also a small part for his sister in there.
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Endless Trash posted:It’s a baby show in the sense that there is an overt moral lesson that usually falls under “trust in your friends” or “it’s important to talk about your feelings instead of using violence” but if we’re honest that’s what TNG was about too "This is her... super... power."
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External Organs posted:Not sure what's off about my vibes this morning but I'm imagining James Spader as a captain in a future show and I think I'm into it. Captain Roberts, California Class commander
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Captain Roberts, California Class commander His counselor doesn't have to be Betazoid to know what he's thinking. Sex.
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This interview was interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnySfN02YYQ The first minute fifteen is the showrunner and Frakes basically saying that of course Picard isn’t like TNG because TNG was episodic and thoughtful which is more like SNW. Also I don’t think Dorn knows they revamped the Klingons because when he’s asked if there was a discussion about making Worf look like Klingons do now he seems to think he’s being asked about Worf’s hairstyle.
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Makes perfect sense. Why would Michael Dorn watch a star trek he isn't even in when he could be flying one of his jet planes instead?
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Trixie Hardcore posted:This interview was interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnySfN02YYQ lol @ all the idiots in the comments going "OMG Terry Matalas really gets Star Trek you guys wow!" If this is the best we got, we're screwed.
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External Organs posted:Makes perfect sense. Why would Michael Dorn watch a star trek he isn't even in when he could be flying one of his jet planes instead? I didn’t mean I don’t think he watched ST, I meant that I would have assumed there’d be some overlap between Disco & Picard from a makeup standpoint like shared artists and appliances or media and that he would have at least seen what Klingons look like now. Like none of these dudes watch ST of course not.
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