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Doctor Spaceman posted:Wasn't there an episode where they find some lost plays (or some other treasure), and also stop a volcano from erupting by blowing up undersea lava tubes? Yeah they found the sunken Library of Alexandria.
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Yes and the teenage girl in me has still not gotten over the fact that Jonathan Brandis killed himself.
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Aug 18, 2015 20:42
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Is there any truth to the rumour that Jonathan Brandis was under consideration to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels? I've seen that repeated here and there, but I've never been sure if it was ever a serious possibility.
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Aug 18, 2015 21:42
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Seaquest was terrible, TERRIBLE, and one of the few (unintentionally) funny things about it was how mankind was going to run out of natural resources IN JUST TWENTY FIVE YEARS by 2018
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Aug 18, 2015 22:00
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SeaQuest was what I labeled my VHS tape of porn so that nobody would accidentally watch it. Nobody ever did.
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Aug 18, 2015 22:22
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is there any truth to the rumour that Jonathan Brandis was under consideration to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels? I've seen that repeated here and there, but I've never been sure if it was ever a serious possibility. He would have been too old for the part, even as older Anakin.
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Aug 18, 2015 23:22
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pentyne posted:It's such a "geek" thing, to get excited over the fact that there's a secret knowledge base that only you and other true geeks will get. The book has some great potential for crazy sci-fi SFX and action, but without the pop culture stuff its a weak, poorly written book. There are also some terrible, terrible scenes in the book because it all takes place in an MMO so people don't see each other for real and the main character falls in love with a chunky girl because she seems so real but she rejects him because she's disfigured/ugly she's got a facial birthmark, that's it and all around is "this insanely talented 17 year old outsmarts billions of people, manages to infiltrate and hack the biggest corporation in the world effortlessly and then gets ripped as gently caress, conquers the world and gets his dream girl." Man I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt Ready Player One was pretty much a nerd wish fulfillment story without much to say beyond that. There was a quote on the jacket of the copy I read that said "At last, this generation has its Neuromancer" and I was kind of  about that.
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Aug 18, 2015 23:33
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LeviathanGunship posted:Now and Again was the name of that series. Interesting premise, though it seemed to be killed by the CBS curse of blandness after the first season. You are the best person and I'm going to go find that now.
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Aug 20, 2015 05:45
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I remember one where some kids went on a field trip to the bottom of the ocean and got stuck in a tiny submarine. Am I remembering that right? Also, did the dolphin talk through a computer, Stephen Hawking style?
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Aug 20, 2015 19:28
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seaQuest DSV was a lot of fun in the first season, and yes it had flaws but if the show had been permitted to develop to its strengths I think following seasons would have been pretty rad. Instead someone at NBC decided the show was perfect as a way for them to backdoor into TV production and they couldn't loving stop meddling. GigaPeon posted:I remember one where some kids went on a field trip to the bottom of the ocean and got stuck in a tiny submarine. There were a couple of adults with them, but yeah, there was a bunch of kids on a small sub and they got sucked into a freshwater sinkhole. Also Seaquest got its poo poo wrecked by a lightning bolt coming down a communications buoy. And yeah Darwin talked through a computer, programmed by the wonder-kid Lucas. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Yeah they found the sunken Library of Alexandria. That was a different episode. The volcano episode was one where some treasure hunters found some pirate's treasure on an island, and part of the treasure was the plays of Sir Frances Bacon. muscles like this? posted:Yeah and the submarine was still useful after all that time as it was still high tech since subs went in the opposite direction tech wise, becoming smaller. Didn't they redo the bridge set after the time jump to make it more militaristic? They might have darkened the lighting (even more) but the major bridge set change happened at the start of second season. They totally ruined that set too, the original was the best bridge set in all of sci-fi, especially with those bitchin' rear-projection screens.
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evenworse username posted:Man I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt Ready Player One was pretty much a nerd wish fulfillment story without much to say beyond that. Patrick Rothfuss gave the gooniest loser quote possible for the quote on its book jacket. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:seaQuest DSV was a lot of fun in the first season, and yes it had flaws but if the show had been permitted to develop to its strengths I think following seasons would have been pretty rad. NBC didn't realize that signing big name actors to a show, then going back on their word would turn out to be a bad idea. I think most of the news stories about the show around season 2 were quoting Roy Scheider's angry rants at the studio.
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Aug 20, 2015 20:50
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My question is, was Steven Spielberg basically going around offering his name to TV projects in exchange for an Executive Producer credit and a cut of the profit?
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Aug 20, 2015 21:41
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:My question is, was Steven Spielberg basically going around offering his name to TV projects in exchange for an Executive Producer credit and a cut of the profit? What do you mean was? He's an EP on Falling Skies.
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Aug 20, 2015 22:12
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:That was a different episode. The volcano episode was one where some treasure hunters found some pirate's treasure on an island, and part of the treasure was the plays of Sir Frances Bacon. Was that just like, they pulled the name of a famous history man from a hat, or did an episode of Seaquest seriously include the conspiracy theory that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays as a plot point?
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Aug 20, 2015 22:46
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I think i remember one scene of this pretty well. The episode was about some guy kidnapping the dolphin, and (i think) he asks the dolphin where the center of the universe is, and the dolphin (I think) replies "inside you", and then I immediately stopped watching the show.
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Aug 21, 2015 00:29
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I heard the dolphin was a real professional. But like a lot of professionals in the entertainment business, ended up having to do a lot of escort work on the side. Reasonably classy, blowhole only.
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Aug 21, 2015 00:51
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Shbobdb posted:I heard the dolphin was a real professional. But like a lot of professionals in the entertainment business, ended up having to do a lot of escort work on the side. Reasonably classy, blowhole only. Shame his career never really recovered from Johnny Mnemonic.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:07
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Lycus posted:I think i remember one scene of this pretty well. The episode was about some guy kidnapping the dolphin, and (i think) he asks the dolphin where the center of the universe is, and the dolphin (I think) replies "inside you", and then I immediately stopped watching the show. I think I remember that too. That's the best/worst thing.
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Aug 21, 2015 22:07
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The show was so full of 90s save the earth! Love everyone! New age bullshit.
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Aug 23, 2015 07:12
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twistedmentat posted:The show was so full of 90s save the earth! Love everyone! New age bullshit. I'm so glad that's been replaces with 20teens the earth is hosed! Kill before they kill you! Dystopian cool stuff.
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Aug 23, 2015 07:15
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twistedmentat posted:The show was so full of 90s save the earth! Love everyone! New age bullshit. Well not so much bullshit, just that nobody cares about sea levels and pollution and human rights and poo poo anymore.
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Was this the show were a singer was brought to entertain people on the submarine and she turned out to be the reincarnation of an Egyptian queen or something?
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