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Mr Interweb posted:i remember watching the episode with the ozone hole and seeing it end with captain planet telling the planeteers "sorry, but even i can't fix that. it's up to all of you out there to do so" and thinking to myself "wait, how can you NOT fix it? don't you have the power of the goddamned PLANET? "Your powers combined". None of the rings is Time.
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People in the 90s did not often pick up on what Starship Troopers puts out, even though it is not subtle. I remember one truly egregious review from Beth Littleford on the Craig Kilborn Daily Show that accuses the film of promoting fascism. It was a radically different cultural environment—people thought that fascism and politics generally were solved problems.
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BioEnchanted posted:Look upon my works, ye mighty, and enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xBRbHI5IpiXo6UiYLqs1PPVi9hJeG23 ...those sheep are cute as hell.
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Sobatchja Morda posted:...those sheep are cute as hell. In some of the episodes, 2 of them are dating, and in the videogame dream episode the head sheep has his son over to visit 
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I still can’t believe that Starship Troopers predated 9/11, it’s just about a perfect satirical response to American culture from then until late 2003.
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Woolie Wool posted:and to think they canceled SWAT Kats for it (though SWAT Kats might arguably be considered fascist copaganda) SWAT Kats is kind of fascist in the way that basically all superhero vigilante media is, but the cops in particular are consistently depicted as incompetent assholes. I guess it does have SWAT in its name.
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Beachcomber posted:I think Rick and Morty has a lot of good episodes, but it suffers from the same thing Invader Zim does. loving people who say they're fan of Trek in one breath, then go on about it being "woke" in the next just stagger me. Like, what do you think the United Federation of Planets is if not the wokest wokeness that was ever woke? Humanity achieving the best of itself does not include racism or homophobia you loving jackasses.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It hasn't been for lack of trying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P60LvSitH4w
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The Moon Monster posted:SWAT Kats is kind of fascist in the way that basically all superhero vigilante media is, but the cops in particular are consistently depicted as incompetent assholes. I guess it does have SWAT in its name. From my memories and a youtube retrospective, I always gathered that the problem with the Enforcers was that they were not powerful and violent enough, and the protagonists are better at copping than the cops--"what if the cops had an air force and bombed people" Megillah Gorilla posted:loving people who say they're fan of Trek in one breath, then go on about it being "woke" in the next just stagger me. Some guy on the main cast of TNG should have been made to wear the men's miniskirts some of the extras had, I nominate Worf
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Mr Interweb posted:i thought it got canceled cause turner thought it was too violent?
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Mr Interweb posted:i remember watching the episode with the ozone hole and seeing it end with captain planet telling the planeteers "sorry, but even i can't fix that. it's up to all of you out there to do so" and thinking to myself "wait, how can you NOT fix it? don't you have the power of the goddamned PLANET? In the amiga video game you fix the ozone layer by carrying bundles of ozone on the back of the jet to the damaged spots and then you make polar bears walk across the ozone layer like a bridge to rescue them. Thanks Captain Planet.
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Woolie Wool posted:Some guy on the main cast of TNG should have been made to wear the men's miniskirts some of the extras had, I nominate Worf One of the episodes with the dress uniforms (possibly the first), which are basically knee-length tunics, Worf bitches about how they look too much like dresses. I think Geordi or possibly Data basically tells him to get over it and literally nobody cares what he thinks. There were actually a few times where Worf was micro-aggresively misogynistic and got called out on it. But chuds will say it's only nutrek with the black main character that's "woke"
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Woolie Wool posted:From my memories and a youtube retrospective, I always gathered that the problem with the Enforcers was that they were not powerful and violent enough, and the protagonists are better at copping than the cops--"what if the cops had an air force and bombed people" Maybe, my memory of it was that the cops always fielded massive fleets of attack helicopters, which got blown up because the cops, personified in Commander Feral, just sucked. The SWAT Kats jet was definitely better than one of the helicopters, but the Megacat City cops already had an air force that half of the countries on Earth would be envious of.
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Humerus posted:One of the episodes with the dress uniforms (possibly the first), which are basically knee-length tunics, Worf bitches about how they look too much like dresses. I think Geordi or possibly Data basically tells him to get over it and literally nobody cares what he thinks. There were actually a few times where Worf was micro-aggresively misogynistic and got called out on it. It’s Riker in 7x02, “Liaisons.” Riker goes so far as to say Worf looks good in it.
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I think my favourite Worf moment is when he screws up while Data is in charge of the Enterprise by uttering "Finally" to himself when he agrees to a course of action, and Data just drags him into his quarters and is like "Dude, do not publically disrespect me like that again. You can disagree with my decisions all you want, but once it's made that's what we are doing. You were never this much of an rear end when it was Picard." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKtKNZw4Bo
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BioEnchanted posted:I think my favourite Worf moment is when he screws up while Data is in charge of the Enterprise by uttering "Finally" to himself when he agrees to a course of action, and Data just drags him into his quarters and is like "Dude, do not publically disrespect me like that again. You can disagree with my decisions all you want, but once it's made that's what we are doing. You were never this much of an rear end when it was Picard." Worf is very cool about it too. 'You're right, I'm sorry, won't happen again, are we still friends' 'Yes we are'
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I'm not one for rewatching a lot of stuff, but it's been ages since I've watched next gen and this really makes me want to. I think I last rewatched it in college when it was reaired on Spike or whatever that "dude" network was.
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Ambitious Spider posted:I'm not one for rewatching a lot of stuff, but it's been ages since I've watched next gen and this really makes me want to. I think I last rewatched it in college when it was reaired on Spike or whatever that "dude" network was. There are a couple episodes that have aged really, really badly ("The Outcast" was the one I couldn't finish in particular, since uh hey people do try conversion therapy on trans folks irl and it doesn't work and instead ruins their lives), but I wrapped up my first 99% complete watch recently and it's overall held up very well.
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HopperUK posted:Worf is very cool about it too. 'You're right, I'm sorry, won't happen again, are we still friends' 'Yes we are' The most unbelievable element of TNG isn't the warp drive or the forehead aliens or the replicators It's that people in the future are actually professional adults who're able to talk issues through calmly and respectfully in a work environment
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Barry Foster posted:It's that people in the future are actually professional adults who're able to talk issues through calmly and respectfully in a work environment DS9 is that crossed with "positive Dad figures." It's like Bluey in Space if every 10th episode got hijacked by a weird bigot who doesn't realize they're being bigoted.
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That's why it's called Science Fantasy. e:fb by the subspace anomaly in the plasma coils.
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I demand to see a rerun of TNG with the BBC America News Chyron saying King Charles III had been coronated.
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Barry Foster posted:The most unbelievable element of TNG isn't the warp drive or the forehead aliens or the replicators I remember in the early 2000s some people on the internet complained about this because they wanted everyone to be a macho rear end in a top hat like in other shows.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:loving people who say they're fan of Trek in one breath, then go on about it being "woke" in the next just stagger me. It probably wouldn't have mattered because brainworm-infested weirdos will just gloss over or justify their cognitive dissonance, but it certainly didn't help that the producers were frequently racist, homophobic, and sexist.
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Woolie Wool posted:I remember in the early 2000s some people on the internet complained about this because they wanted everyone to be a macho rear end in a top hat like in other shows.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Also that an alcoholic literally pickled himself. The message of the episode could literally not be more on the nose, but all people heard was "I'm pickle Rick". That's subtext, but you can see the periscope.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Also that an alcoholic literally pickled himself. The message of the episode could literally not be more on the nose, but all people heard was "I'm pickle Rick". Funniest poo poo I ever saw
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Sometimes I think about all those people who crowded into McDonalds restaurants to get the meme Mulan nugget sauce, and that one video of the guy climbing up on the counter and yelling “I’m pickle Rick!” and jumping off to writhe around on the floor, and about how he later became a nazi and murdered some people.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Sometimes I think about all those people who crowded into McDonalds restaurants to get the meme Mulan nugget sauce, and that one video of the guy climbing up on the counter and yelling “I’m pickle Rick!” and jumping off to writhe around on the floor, and about how he later became a nazi and murdered some people. I uh, didn't know about that last part. loving what?
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It's important to note the full title was 'SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.'
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Vandar posted:I uh, didn't know about that last part. loving what? there's like 5 internet twitter guys who that can apply to
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man i wish the hieght of rick and mort sauce stupidity was a few dude spending K$s for sauce packs(because they thought they could flip them for profit) or trading their car for it. lol what do you put on your tax for that year. "spent 10 K$s on a high risk food commodity futures, had a 99.999% lost."
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Humerus posted:There were actually a few times where Worf was micro-aggresively misogynistic and got called out on it. There was the time on DS9 where he got wrapped up in a terrorist plot on the sex planet (all that he did was knock the nice-resort-weather-all-the-time device offline, nobody died, but still, goddamn it Worf) BioEnchanted posted:I think my favourite Worf moment is when he screws up while Data is in charge of the Enterprise by uttering "Finally" to himself when he agrees to a course of action, and Data just drags him into his quarters and is like "Dude, do not publically disrespect me like that again. You can disagree with my decisions all you want, but once it's made that's what we are doing. You were never this much of an rear end when it was Picard." Data did the same thing to his XO when he was in command on another ship in one of the episodes with Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter. Can't remember which one was first though Phy has a new favorite as of 00:59 on May 7, 2023 |
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EthanSteele posted:In the amiga video game you fix the ozone layer by carrying bundles of ozone on the back of the jet to the damaged spots and then you make polar bears walk across the ozone layer like a bridge to rescue them. Thanks Captain Planet. Polar bears are at the north pole, the hole was at the south, what the gently caress???
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I AM GRANDO posted:Sometimes I think about all those people who crowded into McDonalds restaurants to get the meme Mulan nugget sauce, and that one video of the guy climbing up on the counter and yelling “I’m pickle Rick!” and jumping off to writhe around on the floor, and about how he later became a nazi and murdered some people. I think you're misremembering that last part.
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jazzyjay posted:Polar bears are at the north pole, the hole was at the south, what the gently caress??? Captain Planet is really bad at his job.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I think you're misremembering that last part. It could easily be a different guy.
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A friend of mine and I were right on the verge of joining in on the Mulan mcnugget sauce lines, but at the last second we decided to go to an all you can eat sushi place instead. Much better use of our time.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Sometimes I think about all those people who crowded into McDonalds restaurants to get the meme Mulan nugget sauce, and that one video of the guy climbing up on the counter and yelling “I’m pickle Rick!” and jumping off to writhe around on the floor, .... and then he Naruto-ran out the door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GC5rAX0xHg The staff behind the counter as so goddamn tired of this poo poo I AM GRANDO posted:and about how he later became a nazi and murdered some people.
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