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McNally posted:I'm pretty sure this actually happened during the course of the show. Looked it up, and you're right; quote:In the fifth season episode "Trilogy (Part 2)," Sam fathers a child who proves to be his true genetic child, not the child of his Leapee. Samantha Josephine 'Sammy Jo' Fuller, like Sam, is a child prodigy with a eidetic memory. She would grow up to join the staff of PQL, never knowing that Sam is her true father. I completely spaced on that.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Looked it up, and you're right; Quantum Leap was fun because whenever the question of "is it Sam's body during the leap or is it his mind (often mixed with the leapee's mind) in the leapee's body?" came up, the answer was always an emphatic
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Bucswabe posted:That's a fair point. I think it just struck me because it's the only time I can think of where they used a Captain's Log in the middle of an urgent crisis situation. There's one in "Encounter at Farpoint", where Q first appears, cut to commercial, cut back to exactly the same scene... but Picard's managed to record a log despite no time passing.
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Angry Salami posted:There's one in "Encounter at Farpoint", where Q first appears, cut to commercial, cut back to exactly the same scene... but Picard's managed to record a log despite no time passing. Originally the captain's log was supposed to be a narration made after the events to give the story a recap for when they returned from a commercial break. Then they forgot that and decided somehow the captain made an entry in the middle of running away from a bunch of angry guys with guns.
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May 10, 2017 05:15
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Yeah, it happens a lot. TOS actually handled it better in a way because it was so obviously a narrative conceit that you had to just go with it, but Berman trek uses more sparingly, so it's more jarring when the timing doesn't work. If you want to justify it in-universe (because that's what you're into). You can just pretend they recorded them later and backdated them.
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May 10, 2017 05:17
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The_Doctor posted:Wil Wheaton is literally the first thing you see in the new MST3K series, and I pretty much quit right there.
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May 10, 2017 06:49
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I'm not really sure why people hate Wil Wheaton so much in 2017. He thought Wesley sucked too, and is basically not acting because his experience of child acting on Star Trek was soulsucking.
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May 10, 2017 06:52
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dont even fink about it posted:I'm not really sure why people hate Wil Wheaton so much in 2017. He thought Wesley sucked too, and is basically not acting because his experience of child acting on Star Trek was soulsucking. He traded on his name to become something of a nerd celeb and as happens with every nerd friendly celeb, he is hated by certain types with a passion approaching the heat of a thousand suns. Felicia Day coincidentally also get's this, though it is magnified by her having the unmitigated gall to be a woman. Edit: Happened to Patton Oswald as well now that I think of it. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 06:57
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Will has a long history of being a huge oval office. Felicia Day is just a bad actress.
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"Do you know who I am? I was the most hated tertiary character on a genre show most people have heard of but admittedly haven't seen many episode of! I was more memorable than the lady security officer but not as popular as the doughy Irish guy! So why don't you get me a swag bag or whatever it is you convention people do!" Nah he's alright. People give him a hard time cause they can't think of anything he did after Star Trek despite doing a long list of roles and voice acting. So they think he went from Star Trek to a guy who keeps reminding everyone he was on Star Trek. Rhyno posted:Will has a long history of being a huge oval office. I'd like to hear more vermin fucked around with this message at 07:14 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 07:12
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He puts his foot down very heavily and very vocally about issues he feels strongly on, to the point of being an rear end in a top hat about it if you disagree with him. There's probably something else but that's mostly what I'm aware of. I don't mind him overall in managed doses though, Tabletop is neat.
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May 10, 2017 07:27
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Also the MST3k comment is pretty out of place. He's literally only in the thing for like 30 seconds, it's just a cameo.
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Bucswabe posted:That's a fair point. I think it just struck me because it's the only time I can think of where they used a Captain's Log in the middle of an urgent crisis situation. Encounter at Farpoint Edit never mind WattsvilleBlues fucked around with this message at 08:03 on May 10, 2017 |
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remusclaw posted:He traded on his name to become something of a nerd celeb and as happens with every nerd friendly celeb, he is hated by certain types with a passion approaching the heat of a thousand suns. Felicia Day coincidentally also get's this, though it is magnified by her having the unmitigated gall to be a woman. I think professional nerds like Wheaton and Day get shat on because they've made careers doing/being something that's traditionally been the domain of people who are less attractive and have worse social skills. Basically people are mad because they think the theater kids shouldn't be allowed to represent the av/chess/anime club demographic. It's stupid, but people never quite grow out of who they were in high school. As for Patton Oswald, he's fine, but he's just been really overexposed and isn't very funny in a lot of the places he shows up. I liked him on Bojack though.
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vermin posted:I'd like to hear more As Rhyno says, he's known for being quite a lot of an arsehole. Also, he completely threw his Tabletop producer under the bus. Here's his blog post about a rules messup: http://wilwheaton.net/2015/06/tabletop-kingdom-builder-and-screwing-up-the-rules/
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The_Doctor posted:As Rhyno says, he's known for being quite a lot of an arsehole. I don't know. I'd feel pretty Beltran'd too if I put a lot of work into something only to look like an idiot because someone half-assed their job.
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As far as nerd cred goes, messing up the rules of a game you're essentially demoing for the internet is pretty shameful, but relying on some producer to do it for you is worse. If you can't be bothered to read the rules, why play board games? I've screwed up the rules for table top games before, but no way would I let it happen that many times on an ongoing series. Where is Wheaton's loving professionalism? Why not take half an hour to read the manual yourself? That's what real gamers do. E: I hadn't noticed, but he does cop to reading the rules for the first two seasons and stopping for the third. Surely that has no relationship to the producer suddenly going from great to terrible. Duckbox fucked around with this message at 09:49 on May 10, 2017 |
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Rhyno posted:Will has a long history of being a huge oval office. Felicia Day is just a bad actress. 
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God those old PADDs just look so funny in a world that has iPads.
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May 10, 2017 10:06
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They need padds that aren't 100% screen that can fall off a shelf when the whole ship shakes.
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Someone develop an Android LCARS launcher that doesn't look godawful please. I just spent a few minutes browsing them on Google Play and ugh.
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At least PADDs apparently have infinite battery. The annoying thing is that they were so close - every now and then they'd pull out a PADD with a full-sized screen. It's dumb Voyager didn't update to that, the writing was certainly on the wall by then. Drone posted:Someone develop an Android LCARS launcher that doesn't look godawful please. I just spent a few minutes browsing them on Google Play and ugh. Unfortunately it's only the home screen and only works for tablets on this specific ratio because the BG is an image for now, and the app icons are just a pack that kinda matches, but give me a buzz, it should work on an N7 like yours.  One of these days I want to make a generalised solution. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 10:25 on May 10, 2017 |
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May 10, 2017 10:18
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There's LCARS 47 which is a fun interactive touchscreen app. I've had it running on a windows tablet to full effect and it's pretty nifty. The next big update is going to add a hell of a lot. There's talk of bringing it to mobile at some point too.
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Drone posted:Also the MST3k comment is pretty out of place. He's literally only in the thing for like 30 seconds, it's just a cameo. I didn't even recognize it was him until I read about it later. Granted, it's both a superfluous and an awful scene.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I didn't even recognize it was him until I read about it later. Granted, it's both a superfluous and an awful scene. The non-movie parts of MST3k have pretty much always been that bad. It was supposed to be awful.
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Judging MST3K by anything outside of the movie is weird.
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Drone posted:God those old PADDs just look so funny in a world that has iPads. Just figure they're the futurespace equivalent of those workplace/military laptops and cell phones that are built like brick shithouses to survive being dropped off of catwalks and stuff.
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The thing that really stands out is tricorders. I have no idea why they invented LCARS and PADDs and then proceed to make the tricorders big slabs of flashies and buttons.
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PADDs are just text storage/display devices, right? Some little comm tech? Tricorders are magic boxes that can science every goddamn thing you'd ever want to science. It's not a great reason, but that's got to be at least a little bulky.
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Orv posted:He puts his foot down very heavily and very vocally about issues he feels strongly on, to the point of being an rear end in a top hat about it if you disagree with him. That sounds like basically every person in 2017
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Orv posted:PADDs are just text storage/display devices, right? Some little comm tech? Oh, it's not the bulk I'm complaining about, just the controls on top. Why they didn't just make the inside some panes of okudagrams I have no idea.
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Grand Fromage posted:Judging MST3K by anything outside of the movie is weird. Yep. It's been really weird to hear younger people discovering the show for the first time and being weirded-out by the interstitial segments and the hammy acting. I want to say, "Don't you remember that this is how it's supposed to be?" but then I remember that a lot of the people watching the new show were barely alive, if at all, when the old show was on the air. This is like when I asked my students (college freshmen) five years ago, "You folks remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, right?" They all just stared at me like I was talking about the fuckin Crimean War, then one of them said, "Professor, I was born in 1992." It all just makes me feel old and lame. 
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Drone posted:The non-movie parts of MST3k have pretty much always been that bad. It was supposed to be awful. I pretty much like the new show; I even don't mind most of the host segments, but that was a bad way to start the show.
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MikeJF posted:Oh, it's not the bulk I'm complaining about, just the controls on top. Why they didn't just make the inside some panes of okudagrams I have no idea. Oh, yeah I don't know, that would be better.
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Duckbag posted:I think professional nerds like Wheaton and Day get shat on because they've made careers doing/being something that's traditionally been the domain of people who are less attractive and have worse social skills. Basically people are mad because they think the theater kids shouldn't be allowed to represent the av/chess/anime club demographic. It's stupid, but people never quite grow out of who they were in high school. It's another one of those places where we nerds act like we have sole reason for anger, but the theater kids get to represent everyone.
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dont even fink about it posted:We're kind of confusing the actors with the other production staff, but: I don't think Stewart has really had that much trouble getting work, as he was already well established prior to Trek and has managed to avoid being tainted by association. If he's not been on screen he's probably been doing theatre - he was doing The Tempest on Broadway right after TNG wrapped up.
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Drone posted:The non-movie parts of MST3k have pretty much always been that bad. It was supposed to be awful. Yeah, I'll never understand people who really, really liked the interstitials. I mean I guess I'm overstating it, people like stuff I don't like all the time; but like, I guess I just thought everyone else who likes MST3K agreed that the interstitials were simply a necessary evil to make it qualify as a real TV show. The thing everyone skips. Then I read TVtropes.
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If you don't like the host segments on the puppet show then you may be dead inside. Related: https://youtu.be/sZLcIpbOHIU 8one6 fucked around with this message at 16:22 on May 10, 2017 |
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8one6 posted:If you don't like the host segments on the puppet show then you may be dead inside. Pro click as hell right here. Joel and Mike both had segments that flopped, but there's more than enough like this one to redeem all of the interstitial skits. Watch all of them, because you might be missing stuff like this, or this, or this, or this, or this.
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