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GABA ghoul posted:If you take this show as a reference point for absolute garbage then what does that make something like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo? Season 3 was bad but I like Season 4 so far (except for Margot's plot) I believe in the real world going to Mars is dumb because it is an empty ugly rock and I like how the show is matching my expectation there.
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I'm not sure where the complaints about bad acting are being directed at.
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No it's garbage and has been downhill since S1, I just don't currently have anything better to watch and so keep up in the hopes it either becomes good or bad enough for proper The Room style enjoyment.
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tokin opposition posted:No it's garbage and has been downhill since S1, I just don't currently have anything better to watch and so keep up in the hopes it either becomes good or bad enough for proper The Room style enjoyment. Go watch Babylon 5 if you're that hard up for good content.
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Nov 28, 2023 04:07
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That’s a good point, I should finish Battlestar Galactica
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bawfuls posted:That’s a good point, I should finish Battlestar Galactica I'm doing a very lazy rewatch, it's one of the only shows i keep on my work laptop
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bawfuls posted:That’s a good point, I should finish Battlestar Galactica tokin opposition posted:No it's garbage and has been downhill since S1  Although honestly, it was all downhill after Tigh me up, Tigh me down 
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Rappaport posted:
Untrue, the webisodes are great
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This has been way better than season 3 so far IMO. For one thing, no horrible Stevens failchildren and also no Karen.
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Nov 28, 2023 09:24
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I’ve been liking the season, but yeah they seem to be holding back on CGI and space scenes. Hopefully they’re saving it for something big
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They'll have more asteroid stuff, surely, since that was the opening disaster / gimmick.  Hakkesshu posted:This has been way better than season 3 so far IMO. For one thing, no horrible Stevens failchildren and also no Karen.  With the caveats that the Big Love, Passionate Science Ladies plot-line has plenty of potential to crash into something stupid, and I swear to Cthulhu if Margo "Apprentice of Nazi Space Pioneer" winds up somehow nudging the Soviets towards a Sorkin star trek time-line I will be a little bit irate 
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Question, why does everyone call him Big Love? I'm googling and all I find is some strange Bill Paxton show about Mormons?
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Nov 28, 2023 12:14
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The guy who plays Dev was on the teevee show House M.D., and doctor House called the character "Big Love" because they were a Mormon. It's kind of like how Taub was a guest star on Ahsoka.
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Owling Howl posted:He should implode in a submersible as is proper custom Somehow the project leads to Helios designing a new space capsule with some sci-fi gimmick aero force field tech, and for whatever reason Dev ends up on the first flight. They've pissed off the Americans so they're launching from the Philippines. Maybe make a point about its carbon fiber construction to be really on the nose. Mishap during launch, booster goes boom, capsule survives and the magic aero tech allows it to pierce the water without shattering or pancaking everyone inside, but then quickly fails because it wasn't designed to work underwater. Turns out they splashed down right above Challenger Deep. Insert Futurama atmospheres of pressure joke here, close up shot of a panicked look on Dev's face as we hear cracking noises and the screen goes black.
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Watching last week’s episode and funny how earlier this year I watched the show Fired on Mars and now I’m watching Ed and the Russian lady getting Fried on Mars 
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Escobarbarian posted:Fired on Mars Oof I did not like this. Felt like a waste of a good premise, the protagonist was just too unlikeable and it didn't have nearly enough humor for everything it was trying to do. I was sick of it by episode 4 but felt pot-committed at that point, and then ended up turning off the season finale halfway through because I just couldn't care enough to pay attention. Did we not get a new episode this week? I woulda thought they would have skipped last week for Thanksgiving if they were doing a break.
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This week’s episode is tomorrow. Last week Apple moved the Friday shows to Wednesday because of Thanksgiving. Also I really dug Fired on Mars but it’s pretty drat niche
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Wafflecopper posted:i just realised, repair guy is called Miles and his wife keeps talking about how he's miles away A suffering space repairman named Miles, it'll never work.
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I'm both disappointed and grateful that Miles isn't married to a woman named Keiko who loves to tend garden.
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If they tried the Adama Maneuver in For All Mankind they'd just jump a ship into the planet's core and kill everyone
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Reminder that in S1 Ed does use the "sometimes you gotta roll a hard six" line, and it was wonderful.
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Is Moore particularly involved in the show anymore? I thought he was working on his new thing for Disney.Escobarbarian posted:Also I really dug Fired on Mars but it’s pretty drat niche Hell yeah, I loved it.
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He's not the day-to-day showrunner/writer but in interviews he talks like he's heavily involved in breaking season arc and character arcs.
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They still refuse to say what happened to Danny, but got close. I'm guessing he found the pistol that was buried and shot himself or something while he was exiled. Why else beat around the bush when referencing him?
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Cojawfee posted:They still refuse to say what happened to Danny, but got close. I'm guessing he found the pistol that was buried and shot himself or something while he was exiled. Why else beat around the bush when referencing him? Because they spaced him lol
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danny became the first trans us president (republican)
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Ed is such an rear end in a top hat. His entire legacy is being an rear end in a top hat.
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So, Miles sent a Mars rock to his daughter... but sending more would expose the black market business to too much scrutiny? I have to presume that people at Happy Valley can send physical mail back to Earth without too much difficulty, the ships are going back much more empty than they arrived. If nothing else "Hey, stick this in your baggage for me, returning worker" would do the trick. The Helios lower decks people being upset at Svetlana's seeming lack of punishment seemed to be a stretch. Were they actually rooting for her to go to the gulag? They seemed disconnected from anything that was actually going on, which can be the point, but the story was an international incident and they do get CNN up there. Then they were angry she was being removed from Happy Valley and sent to Earth to stand trial for... assault? Attempted murder? EDIT: I also thought we might see the faux Lee Iacocca have a heart attack on his exercise bike to put someone we know in as head of NASA. Wheeljack fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Sending the rocks home is definitely going to invite scrutiny on what's going on. Also, I understand the need for money, but really hosed to just yoink your daughter's space rock and sell it. So if there are suddenly mars rocks on the market, someone is going look into it, if only to make sure people aren't getting scammed. I think the lower decks people just didn't understand the whole situation of what was happening. From their perspective nothing was happening to Svetlana, when a fellow lower decker was in a chamber, possibly about to die. And the non-Russian helios people might not have known that Svetlana being called home meant she was going to a gulag or worse. And like we discussed before, these are people who got tricked into a mars company town, so they aren't the cream of the crop, reasoning skills wise. I think it's perfectly reasonable for them to see one of their own got attacked, nearly killed, the perpetrator's country recalling her, and the management refusing to send her back and letting her off with seemingly no punishment.
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Cojawfee posted:Sending the rocks home is definitely going to invite scrutiny on what's going on. Also, I understand the need for money, but really hosed to just yoink your daughter's space rock and sell it. So if there are suddenly mars rocks on the market, someone is going look into it, if only to make sure people aren't getting scammed. Good point, since they think Dev is going to be their savior. Hmm, maybe he'll have an epiphany from the surfer girl encounter and go up to Happy Valley to improve everything and upset the apple cart and make things worse instead. Maybe accidentally shutting down the black market pipeline.
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Cojawfee posted:Also, I understand the need for money, but really hosed to just yoink your daughter's space rock and sell it. The one thing that's consistent about the Dale family is desperation. It also sounded like the sale happened incidentally, she didn't try to sell it.
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Their family trait is taking absolutely every opportunity that comes their way
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I'm glad mr. Short-sight didn't suffocate, but why you gotta do dirty by Svetlana, writers, she was a nice gal Also, how is India the only "neutral" country in the M7? According to this very episode, one M are ESA, which even in earlier seasons included nations like Sweden. Especially if the Cold War is "over" as per president Owlbearpig, wouldn't the US have tried to push harder for a Euro nation to take this? Or has eurocommunism taken over Europe in this timeline, making them too antagonistic for the USSR to even consider neutral? Also  at Margo learning about management by 
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Rappaport posted:Also, how is India the only "neutral" country in the M7? According to this very episode, one M are ESA, which even in earlier seasons included nations like Sweden. Especially if the Cold War is "over" as per president Owlbearpig, wouldn't the US have tried to push harder for a Euro nation to take this? Or has eurocommunism taken over Europe in this timeline, making them too antagonistic for the USSR to even consider neutral? Iirc it was mentioned earlier in the episode that all of the ESA countries + Japan had already backed the US's position, while all the CCCS countries and North Korea were openly backing the Soviet Union. The Indian space agency was specifically called out as the only M7 member that hadn't commented on the matter at all.
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Escobarbarian posted:Also I really dug Fired on Mars but it’s pretty drat niche Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear people liked it. It definitely felt like something made with vision and passion, it just didn't do it for me. Just too much awkward surreal corporate weirdness when I was hoping for more outright jokes. I think it would have gone down better for me if the protagonist wasn't such a ridiculous loser too lol, they had a lot of good bits with him but I think they needed more of a straightman character to carry the show. Episode was good! Margot in Russia is starting to get more interesting, and while I thought it was gonna be a stretch to get her involved again after being disappeared to the USSR and sitting idle for so long, it makes sense that the new government would want to use her as an impartial observer while they're still shaking all the Gorbechav loyalists out of the system. How do we get President Gore without Clinton first? God, I hope America didn't go through a whole morals realignment thing with him and Lieberman. Cojawfee posted:They still refuse to say what happened to Danny, but got close. I'm guessing he found the pistol that was buried and shot himself or something while he was exiled. Why else beat around the bush when referencing him? I'm pretty sure this is what happened. Not sure why they'd have that weird breakdown in the conversation unless the missing words were "that's why Danny ended up killing himself". Also not sure why they'd make such a big deal of burying the pistol with a little marker last season if that wasn't the plan.
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My bad, must've missed that I wonder what European policy in their time-line looks like, it was a bit funny that Finland was in ESA in the early 80's
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Cojawfee posted:Sending the rocks home is definitely going to invite scrutiny on what's going on. Also, I understand the need for money, but really hosed to just yoink your daughter's space rock and sell it. So if there are suddenly mars rocks on the market, someone is going look into it, if only to make sure people aren't getting scammed. Yeah this; the whole point of the scene with Sam and Danielle was that Sam saw Svetlana being let off with no punishment (because she's a cosmonaut/hero) and Vasily is just a grunt; and Danielle is saying "no, it's complicated" but can't go into any further details because it's some pretty privileged diplomatic information at that point. I mean I guess it becomes public pretty quickly what the sticking point is (actually I can't remember whether that office scene takes place before or after the news report) but I think the bottom line is that Danielle wasn't at liberty to explain what Svetlana being sent home really meant. Anyway I thought it was pretty funny they had to cast for a small babushka to put on a nurse's outfit and run the cafeteria cash register in a little glass box
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When Margo got the photo and everyone was off to one side, I thought she’d be told “this picture used to have six people in it, now it’s down to three” as a warning. Of course, I also thought we’d see “wrong conversions” guy get a sack over his head or even strangled right in the meeting. The show needs international drama as well as personal to work, so they may crack up the Neo-Stalinism dial high. Hmm, if a new Cold War makes Gore a one term President, who’s in next? Less of a boy wonder Clinton? Hillary, having also served as governor of Arkansas (the Clintons had planned on alternating the governorship…). Faux Lee Iacocca?
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