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The best Trek was Babylon 5.
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The Lone Badger posted:The best Trek was Babylon 5. 
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Mar 10, 2024 22:39
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Babylon 2 was good with londo and g'kar, but it would have been better without the babylon 3 worth of self-insert character lord of the rings stuff
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Mar 10, 2024 22:41
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Grendels Dad posted:If I remember correctly, his character was supposed to be more overtly high as gently caress. They scrapped that to make the movie more family friendly, but he's still pretty obviously high.
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Mar 11, 2024 04:22
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Ommin posted:My head-cannon was always that he got high making out with the alien chick (pheromones or toxins or whatever, I don't know). Or shock. There was definitely something way too chill about his demeanor, but without the context, it does came across as odd. It definitely was odd and he was like that right from the start. There were so many signifiers like him wandering off to get snacks and they just never made it explicit.
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Mar 11, 2024 04:36
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Cowslips Warren posted:everyone in this movie is so perfect but i have a hard time believing Tony Shalhoub just didn't wander onto set high and improv everything. In any similar situation I can only hope I'd be able to just go with it similarly. stringless has a new favorite as of 05:49 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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Jen heir rick posted:I don't know, I feel like I remember a lot of ds9. Maybe I watched the first season? I remember all the characters and their backstories pretty vividly. I liked the characters, but it just seemed like nothing happens. I want to get to the part where something happens. I just really don't want to watch season 1 again. I think it's the second season when they start dropping hints of the Dominion and the third is when things start to escalate quickly. But yeah, the first season is a bit dull and felt more like "TNG but on a station" than it's own thing.
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Mar 11, 2024 11:24
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Ommin posted:My head-cannon was always that he got high making out with the alien chick (pheromones or toxins or whatever, I don't know). Or shock. There was definitely something way too chill about his demeanor, but without the context, it does came across as odd. Maybe the alien chick just made it stronger later, but I remember him being pretty calm about almost everything before that too. Remember the transport scene where veryone else was freaking out screaming and he lands a little bit after them and just looks around and says huh, that was a hell of a thing and just smiles.
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Mar 11, 2024 16:47
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Cowslips Warren posted:Maybe the alien chick just made it stronger later, but I remember him being pretty calm about almost everything before that too. Remember the transport scene where veryone else was freaking out screaming and he lands a little bit after them and just looks around and says huh, that was a hell of a thing and just smiles. Just watched this yesterday cause I'd never seen it before. This is correct; he's obviously gonked out from the beginning. The reason he's transported after them is he's trying to get snacks from the vending machine.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:10
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Cowslips Warren posted:Maybe the alien chick just made it stronger later, but I remember him being pretty calm about almost everything before that too. Remember the transport scene where veryone else was freaking out screaming and he lands a little bit after them and just looks around and says huh, that was a hell of a thing and just smiles. Diet Poison posted:Just watched this yesterday cause I'd never seen it before. This is correct; he's obviously gonked out from the beginning. The reason he's transported after them is he's trying to get snacks from the vending machine.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:15
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I rewatched yesterday and yeah, Guy even says "are you stoned??" at one point
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Mar 11, 2024 21:33
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I kinda assumed he was just like that, to be honest. Like this guy 
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Mar 11, 2024 21:46
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Diet Poison posted:Just watched this yesterday cause I'd never seen it before. This is correct; he's obviously gonked out from the beginning. The reason he's transported after them is he's trying to get snacks from the vending machine. He hotboxed the transporter beam crystal thing, there's smoke coming out of his but not the others.
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Mar 12, 2024 00:51
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Tunicate posted:He hotboxed the transporter beam crystal thing, there's smoke coming out of his but not the others. I read this as "there's smoke coming out of his butt" and thought well I missed THAT.
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Mar 12, 2024 01:24
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Oh, that's there, too, did you miss that?
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Mar 12, 2024 01:34
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I've been watching The Sopranos lately, and this scene is playing and I find it extremely distracting The focus is so soft that I'm convinced this is a death dream or hallucination Every scene in this season is this way. Every background looks like a dreamy matte filter
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Mar 13, 2024 02:54
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credburn posted:I've been watching The Sopranos lately, and this scene is playing and I find it extremely distracting Maybe they're using too wide an aperture cause they forgot how to light stuff?
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Mar 13, 2024 14:44
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credburn posted:I've been watching The Sopranos lately, and this scene is playing and I find it extremely distracting Might be the void of pure light outside the windows?
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Mar 13, 2024 17:18
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Lighting by the same people who did the stained glass hospital rooms in Scrubs.
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Mar 13, 2024 17:23
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Something that annoys me about the 90s X-Men cartoon is Beast's refusal to wear clothes. They make clothes for big guys, Hank. Hairy guys wear clothes too, Hank.
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Mar 18, 2024 01:11
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muscles like this! posted:Something that annoys me about the 90s X-Men cartoon is Beast's refusal to wear clothes. They make clothes for big guys, Hank. Hairy guys wear clothes too, Hank. If you can walk around naked why wouldn't you? There's a reason people consider him a genius.
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Mar 18, 2024 01:22
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Ugh, imagine wearing a fur coat under a leotard. If I were Hank, they'd be lucky I was wearing briefs.
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Mar 18, 2024 03:16
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was it this thread or another that had some comic panels of Beast being a massive a-hole? like pretending to be gay to hurt his ex, or having a council of clones of himself, but he made the clones shortsighted so original had a "greater vision"? (also i dont get why the clones dont just do lasik on each other) e: there's been plenty of full furry humanoids that are technically naked, i mean yeah 99.9999....99999% of them are female, but there's a non zero amount of males.
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Mar 18, 2024 03:18
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In the Age of Apocalypse storyline where an alternate universe pops up due to Professor X being assassinated, Beast goes full heel. When the timeline resets itself "Dark Beast" finds a way to the regular 616 universe. There are other instances where regular 616 Hank McCoy is revealed to be an rear end in a top hat too but those instances are also escaping my mind.
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Mar 18, 2024 04:06
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Being a mastermind behind a ton of the X-Men stuff, including killing wolverine plus brainwashing his clones into killing people for him, plus doing some seriously dark poo poo to follow his new vision, kinda makes the regular beast way darker than the"dark" one from aoa.
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Mar 18, 2024 05:10
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I think that came up before and it's real dumb poo poo given the whole charm of Beast being a gentle soft spoken intellectual who's also a huge hairy monster. The cartoons had him be basically the nicest of the X-Men.
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Mar 18, 2024 08:35
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Jen heir rick posted:Maybe they're using too wide an aperture cause they forgot how to light stuff? lots of early 2000s tv has a similar problem.
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Mar 18, 2024 08:44
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It was one thing for Xavier to have secretly been a monster, but Beast? That idea was just stupid.
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Mar 18, 2024 08:48
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Android Apocalypse posted:There are other instances where regular 616 Hank McCoy is revealed to be an rear end in a top hat too but those instances are also escaping my mind. He's a massive coffee snob. You don't really need more.
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Mar 18, 2024 10:03
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Jedit posted:He's a massive coffee snob. You don't really need more. (Spittakes fine single origin Ethiopian Wolenso Dabessa) "Wait a minute… I'm Dr. Hank McCoy?!?"
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Mar 18, 2024 15:36
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i watched Titane recently and it seems like nearly every single scene is designed to make the viewer more uncomfortable than the last in fresh and exciting ways but the grossest and most irritating part is that multiple characters put alexia’s hairpin in their mouths over the course of the movie, often immediately after it is in someone’s loving brain, loving blechhhhh
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Mar 18, 2024 17:44
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Barry Cousineau told his son that he had a new phone number, how did Sally know it?
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Android Apocalypse posted:In the Age of Apocalypse storyline where an alternate universe pops up due to Professor X being assassinated, Beast goes full heel. When the timeline resets itself "Dark Beast" finds a way to the regular 616 universe. The Watcher paid him a special visit just to call him an rear end in a top hat: 
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Mar 20, 2024 05:49
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"I saw you trying to clean yourself cat-style. Please never do that again."
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Mar 20, 2024 06:32
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I just finished watching the entire series of The Sopranos. It was a good show but it was so directionless. Tony Soprano works as a good central character for everything going on, but he is a terrible character to be the focus of the show. Nobody in this show has any arc at all, except his nephew Chris, his wife Carmella and kids Meadow and AJ. But the kids never get enough time for that arc to develop, and though Chris and the wife briefly have their couple episodes of having agency, that sort of just fizzles away and they just return to orbit around Tony. It's a show that is frustrating in how much better it could have been. If you watch an episode from Season 1 and an episode from Season 6, nobody has changed. Some characters have died, and others have taken their place, but nobody is any different. Nobody evolves, nobody learns anything, there is no character development at all. There's no storyline that goes anywhere. Every season has maybe or two interesting characters that are introduced, but there's never really a setup or resolution about what the seasons are about. It's just barely a step above Law and Order in terms of continuity; there IS continuity, but to what end? I get why the final scene is really significant, though, and I think not only a well-done scene but also sort of addresses the issue of same-ness throughout the series. The final scene of the series famously cuts to black, with no resolution. But because the scene repeats the same beats as the show has has throughout the series to show when someone is about to get killed, you know what happens next. The guy looking over his shoulder, the constant ringing of the bell as strangers enter the diner, the camera following the guy to the bathroom, the tension of Meadow unable to properly parallel park. The show expects that you're by now familiar with its editing and cinematography moreso than its bland and unchanging characters with their singular mindsets and motivations. I can't really imagine a conclusion to The Sopranos that has a better ending, because anything else suggests a conclusion to a storyline or arc that was never there to begin with. credburn has a new favorite as of 22:23 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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I'm trying to think, has there ever been a series that was remade as a series, like a movie being remade? Maybe the next time someone makes the Sopranos, they can fix those issues.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:07
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Ommin posted:I'm trying to think, has there ever been a series that was remade as a series, like a movie being remade? Maybe the next time someone makes the Sopranos, they can fix those issues. Battlestar Galactica comes to mind.
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Ommin posted:I'm trying to think, has there ever been a series that was remade as a series, like a movie being remade? Maybe the next time someone makes the Sopranos, they can fix those issues. I mean, if you look at stuff remade in another country, you get a lot of stuff, like Sanford and Son or The Office.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Battlestar Galactica comes to mind.
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