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Hollismason posted:Well I think Picard has so far managed not to poo poo the bed. Quite an achievement at his age.
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zoux posted:He hit a mid level of dingers, I'm afraid .390! Second coming of Tony Gwynn I guess.
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zoux posted:He hit a mid level of dingers, I'm afraid Gotham city Bats. Lots of batmen on that team
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What year was the global thermonuclear war that killed millions?
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Hollismason posted:Well I think Picard has so far managed not to poo poo the bed. Four consecutive non-terrible episodes in a row. It's a loving miracle.
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nine-gear crow posted:Four consecutive non-terrible episodes in a row. It's a loving miracle. Enough of your lies, Garak
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zoux posted:Enough of your lies, Garak That's the thing, doctor, they're all true. Especially the lies.
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nine-gear crow posted:Four consecutive non-terrible episodes in a row. It's a loving miracle. that they found a tier below 'terrible'.
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CainFortea posted:That makes sense, Baseball is very stupid and boring. In the 24th century we have evolved beyond the need for dumb poo poo like baseball and golf. We have a more evolved sensibility
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Mar 9, 2023 23:13
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nine-gear crow posted:Four consecutive non-terrible episodes in a row. It's a loving miracle. i wouldn't go that far. i really don't think those should have even been four episodes, maybe two at most but really the fourth one is probably the best out of the lot. there's a lot of problems with the others that we've gone over ad nauseam in the other thread, this most recent one just was better about it (but not much). you could cut probably 80% of the content from the previous three and add it to the fourth to get a much more engaging story without losing much of anything at all
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Mar 9, 2023 23:17
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Tighclops posted:In the 24th century we have evolved beyond the need for dumb poo poo like baseball and golf. We have a more evolved sensibility Yeah parcheesi squares and anbo jitsu
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zoux posted:Yeah parcheesi squares and anbo jitsu I unironically miss the late-80's throw poo poo at the wall era of freewheeling science fiction writing. Here's an episode where a dude fights his dad in futuristic hockey gear!
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The Ultimate Evolution of Martial Arts is putting on dirt bike armor and hitting your dad with a gigantic Q-Tip
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Sash! posted:The Ultimate Evolution of Martial Arts is putting on dirt bike armor and hitting your dad with a gigantic Q-Tip Its like a space version of that American Gladiators event.
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Looking back at Season 2, in its last leg it was about the quality level of TNG's Season 3 or 4. "The Jem'Hadar" was comparable to "The Best of Both Worlds" and DS9's Season 3 premiere "The Search Part 1" carries on that intensity. It picks up that tension and like the beginning of Season 2, this has turned out to be a three parter. That Bajoran conflict wasn't as dire as the situation with the Dominion. I might not end up liking DS9 more than TNG but I assuming my assessment will be better than TNG.
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zoux posted:He hit a mid level of dingers, I'm afraid Are we sure he played in London, England? Maybe that team was in London, Ontario.
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Sash! posted:.390! Who the gently caress hits .368 over all but one game of a season and ends up with only 75 RBIs? Seibu must have sucked rear end up and down the lineup. Like, 1/3 of Buck Bokai's RBIs were him batting himself home via HR.  Bunch of bush league scrubs on this fictious
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davidspackage posted:Nightbird! Night, Bird!
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This isn't really the thread for it, but since I brought it up earlier: I watched the first episode of Babylon 5. I see why people think that this show copied DS9 (or vice versa); there's even a Promenade and a Quark's. I guess G'kar is a Dukat analogue of sorts? Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 quality CGI and some pretty '90s haircuts, but an intriguing show. I think I'll like it.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This isn't really the thread for it, but since I brought it up earlier: I watched the first episode of Babylon 5. I see why people think that this show copied DS9 (or vice versa); there's even a Promenade and a Quark's. I guess G'kar is a Dukat analogue of sorts? If you want to post your thoughts, there's a blind watch thread here
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This isn't really the thread for it, but since I brought it up earlier: I watched the first episode of Babylon 5. I see why people think that this show copied DS9 (or vice versa); there's even a Promenade and a Quark's. I guess G'kar is a Dukat analogue of sorts? Keep in mind the 1st season is the roughest season for B5. But it lays a bunch of ground work for future seasons. Keep at it and it'll pay off.
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I think Babylon 5's CGI mostly holds up because they went to a lot of effort to direct and choreograph the space scenes back in the day and they typically put a lot of effort into their ship designs.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This isn't really the thread for it, but since I brought it up earlier: I watched the first episode of Babylon 5. MrL_JaKiri posted:If you want to post your thoughts, there's a blind watch thread here This. If you're going to continue watching, the B5 blind watch thread will be overjoyed to have your impressions of it, whether that means detailed reviews of each episode or just vague thoughts now and then. Starting about a year and a half ago, I did my own blind watch reviews and I'm very glad I did. Yes, on paper, the show seems like dollar-store DS9 but I assure you, it immediately goes its own way and it soon gets really really good. e: The settings also have a slight difference of scale. 
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:a Quark's The Dark Star's sign in B5 is a butt hole and that will always be worth a laugh.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:TOS spent two/two and a half years building this (mostly well earned) reputation for bring a progressive show.....only to utterly ruin it in season three with patronizing, sexist stereotypes and opinions about hippies that probably sounded like it came straight from the late 1960s establishment. It's jarring how conservative a lot of third season stuff ends up after being pretty progressive - for its time - up to that point. This makes me think if Tarantino had written a Star Trek movie, it probably would have been a riff on this...and based on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Cinema Speculation, it would have been 2 two hours of slamming hippies. Quentin Tarantino REALLY hates hippies. Also for your amusement and eludification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PK-2FOyvyU&ab_channel=LAZARUSART I don't normally go in for steampunk, and I'm not sure why the AI made everyone old, but dammed if some of those aren't cool, especially the alien designs. Astroman fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This isn't really the thread for it, but since I brought it up earlier: I watched the first episode of Babylon 5. I see why people think that this show copied DS9 (or vice versa); there's even a Promenade and a Quark's. I guess G'kar is a Dukat analogue of sorts? Keep at it. The payoff is immense. Babylon 5 is one of a very few handfull of series that sticks the landing
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McCloud posted:Keep at it. The payoff is immense. Babylon 5 is one of a very few handfull of series that sticks the landing Is it worth chasing down the tv movies they made afterwards as well?
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Toilet Terror posted:Is it worth chasing down the tv movies they made afterwards as well? The one which covers the Minbari-Earth war is OK but the rest isn't very good, that goes also for the Crusade-show that got cancelled after 1 season. The one where president Bartlet from West Wing is a soul harvester is funny, though.
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Toilet Terror posted:Is it worth chasing down the tv movies they made afterwards as well? In The Beginning is the most important but you also probably shouldn’t watch that until at least after Season 4, which is when it originally aired. Thirdspace and River of Souls are both standalone outside of vague references here and there. They’re both… okay. Fine. Good low budget fun if you want to see things happen with Babylon 5 characters. Call to Arms was essentially the pilot for Crusade and again it’s okay for a TV movie. Tony Todd is in it. If you’re going to try to watch Crusade you should start with Call to Arms but all it really does is set up more stuff without concluding much of anything from B5-proper.
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Legend of the Rangers LMAO Oh man that felt like a waste of a torrent
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What the hell was up with Crusade's music. It sounds like somebody gave Bear McCreary brain damage and replaced his instruments with a midi drum set from the mid-90s
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The Borg in the Star Trek EU novels were good- they eventually said "Okay we're loving done with this entire quadrant" and invaded the Federation and everyone nearby with 11000+ Cubes.
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Tighclops posted:What the hell was up with Crusade's music. It sounds like somebody gave Bear McCreary brain damage and replaced his instruments with a midi drum set from the mid-90s Temporarily I thought you meant that sci fi with Kevin Sorbo as the captain.
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Prurient Squid posted:Temporarily I thought you meant that sci fi with Kevin Sorbo as the captain. Andromeda. Which wasn't great but had some interesting characters. The captain was not one of them.
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CainFortea posted:Andromeda. Which wasn't great but had some interesting characters. Especially after Sorbo took control of the show
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Watching the TOS episode where Scotty can't stop killing women, and I know it's childish but holy lol I was not prepared for the bald investigator's high pitched voice
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Okay, this part where they speculate an incorporeal murder cloud into existence to bail out Scotty is completely goddamn insane.
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Angry_Ed posted:Especially after Sorbo took control of the show I remember as a teenager when Andromeda's first season was airing I was at the boarding gate of a YVR-LAX flight and the people in the seats directly in front of me were clearly writers on the show, one of them might have even been Robert Hewitt Wolfe himself for all I know, because I could overhear their conversation and they were talking about the stuff they were thinking of doing for the following seasons like exploring the Commonwealth and other topics. And I just remembered sitting there being so enamored with their ideas and how cool they sounded and how I couldn't wait to see them on screen one day and how exited they all were to be talking about it. I didn't interrupt them because I didn't want to be rude and weird, but I just remember that day and feel sad about it in retrospect because basically nothing they talked about came to pass primarily because of Sorbo 
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