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This is a totally random aside, but last night, for some reason, I was compelled to watch the last 30 minutes of one of the worst movies ever made, Street Fighter. And who did I notice at the end, but Ming Na, playing Chun Li. I think the only one in that entire movie who still has a career.
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Palleon posted:This is a totally random aside, but last night, for some reason, I was compelled to watch the last 30 minutes of one of the worst movies ever made, Street Fighter. And who did I notice at the end, but Ming Na, playing Chun Li. I think the only one in that entire movie who still has a career. Maybe cheating but Kylie Minogue
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Dec 13, 2011 18:22
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RDA  http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/13/macgyver-richard-dean-anderson-broken-down-car-malibu/#.TuhGp2NVQ7k
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Dec 14, 2011 07:48
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Palleon posted:This is a totally random aside, but last night, for some reason, I was compelled to watch the last 30 minutes of one of the worst movies ever made, Street Fighter. And who did I notice at the end, but Ming Na, playing Chun Li. I think the only one in that entire movie who still has a career. Raul Julia played M. Bison as a gift to his kids because was dying from cancer and they loved Street Fighter.
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Dec 14, 2011 07:59
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kri kri posted:RDA Eurgh. I mean, I'll be surprised if I live to 61, but he looks really horrible.
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Dec 14, 2011 09:57
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kri kri posted:RDA Hahahaha holy poo poo 
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Dec 14, 2011 12:09
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poo poo, that'd be me if I was rich and retired.
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Dec 14, 2011 12:44
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Doesn't seem that different from his guest spot on SG:Universe. Granted, he was also basically retired at that point so much the same situation.
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Dec 14, 2011 12:45
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Watch out for that ancient repository of knowledge under the hood!
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Dec 14, 2011 12:49
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BLT Clobbers posted:Watch out for that ancient repository of knowledge under the hood! The repository is in the sides of his face
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Dec 14, 2011 13:02
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If I still care what I look like at 60 I'll just off myself.
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Dec 14, 2011 13:51
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He only needs a white beard and he's santa. The guy's passed 60. It's okay to be a pudgy when you're 60+. Personally people that age or over freak me out if they are fit and thin. Going through this SG-1 again, halfway in season 4. I haven't watched it in so long I've forgotten lots of it. I remembered Urgo, oh god how I remembered Urgo. Tangent (4x12) was better than I remembered, so it's all cool
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Dec 14, 2011 14:03
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Wingon posted:He only needs a white beard and he's santa. The guy's passed 60. It's okay to be a pudgy when you're 60+. Personally people that age or over freak me out if they are fit and thin.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Raul Julia played M. Bison as a gift to his kids because was dying from cancer and they loved Street Fighter. Plus he got that magnificent line, "..for me, it was Tuesday" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhOUyy4wbs That line alone redeemed that entire movie for me.
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Did Brad Wright or Robert Cooper ever explain what SGU's series finale (e.g. what exactly Destiny's Mission) would have entailed if it had gone on for its planned 5 seasons? Back in May of 2011 on Joe Mallozzi's blog(http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/may-12-2011-stargate-universe-beyond-season-2-what-might-have-been/), it seemed like they were going to reveal it at some point. quote:....
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Jan 13, 2012 20:48
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They haven't yet talked about it.
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Jan 13, 2012 20:53
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It was supposed to end with a shot of Rush sitting in a mental hospital staring at a snow globe, fade to black.
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Jan 13, 2012 21:14
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It should end with Eli powering down his computer and saying "That's one hell of an MMO"
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Mrens posted:It should end with Eli powering down his computer and saying "That's one hell of an MMO" Just to punch everyone in the nuts over the fact that we never got a (good) video game out of the franchise.
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Jan 14, 2012 21:27
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It ends with somebody giving a pitch for Voyager, then the camera pans to look out a window and Ba'al is standing their laughing while writing everything down.
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Jan 14, 2012 22:18
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I watched SG:U, and was very disappointed by its cancellation. It started off a bit weak, but grew much better over the course of the second season. Now I'm just starting season 3 of SG-1; starting to really enjoy it.
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On a whim the other day I started going through SG-1 from the very beginning, because all though I've seen most of the show, I've never watched it all the way through from the beginning to end. I just got the beginning of season three, and I honestly can't believe that the season finale for two was a clip show... Oh well. I am absolutely loving the show so far, especially 1969.
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Feb 26, 2012 21:21
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Pesticide20 posted:On a whim the other day I started going through SG-1 from the very beginning, because all though I've seen most of the show, I've never watched it all the way through from the beginning to end. I just got the beginning of season three, and I honestly can't believe that the season finale for two was a clip show... Oh well. I am absolutely loving the show so far, especially 1969. Ugh, they sure were a fan of clip shows. It worked out ok a few times though, like the episode where the system lords come over to negotiate a treaty with Earth and the Asgards.
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Feb 27, 2012 01:32
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Supreme Commander.
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richardfun posted:Ugh, they sure were a fan of clip shows. It worked out ok a few times though, like the episode where the system lords come over to negotiate a treaty with Earth and the Asgards. I really enojoyed the one with Dan Castellaneta. It was relaxing.
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Feb 27, 2012 02:38
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200 owns and I will hear nothing against it.
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Feb 27, 2012 03:04
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Out of Mind was the only bad clip show of SG1.
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I've also recently been going through SG1 and Atlantis again since SPACE is playing every episode in order, three times a day. What an awesome show. For some reason, though, I am enjoying SG1 much more than Atlantis this time through. Last time was the opposite. It's weird! The only thing that kinda annoys me about the shows is that, just before every commercial, it plays a little stargate-related graphic with the SG1/SGA logo and music. It does the exact same thing after the commercials end, too. It really takes away from the tension and drama and is just generally annoying. Am I the only one who hates this?
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Feb 27, 2012 12:31
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It doesn't do that on the DVD set, when it aired on SciFi, or Netflix streaming. Canada is weird.
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Feb 27, 2012 12:38
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vandelay industries posted:I've also recently been going through SG1 and Atlantis again since SPACE is playing every episode in order, three times a day. What an awesome show. For some reason, though, I am enjoying SG1 much more than Atlantis this time through. Last time was the opposite. It's weird! Where's your socialism now?  When I used to watch SG-1 and SGA casually I remember liking SG-1 more, but that was because I felt like I knew the characters better. I guess I'll have to watch SGA once I finish SG-1
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I like SG-1 overall but SG:A has by far the best characters in McKay and Zelenka. And also Sheppard I guess.
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Feb 27, 2012 18:26
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This made me laugh pretty hard when I saw it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7hVOSRHAEM&t=7s
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MrBling posted:I like SG-1 overall but SG:A has by far the best characters in McKay and Zelenka. But Atlantis also was balanced out by having the worst characters in Teyla and Ford (and any Ethosian when they showed up, although the worst one redeemed himself by becoming Todd).
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Feb 27, 2012 19:00
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Yeah, as good as SPACE is, they do some questionable things.Palleon posted:But Atlantis also was balanced out by having the worst characters in Teyla and Ford (and any Ethosian when they showed up, although the worst one redeemed himself by becoming Todd). I'd like to think Todd was the Ba'al of SGA. Though I'm not sure who became awesome first?
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Finally getting around to watching S2 of SGU. Greer helping Eli hook up with Ginn was awesome.
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vandelay industries posted:Yeah, as good as SPACE is, they do some questionable things. Ba'al, by-far. He became awesome BEFORE Atlantis was even on the air (Season 6 SG-1, Abyss). I like to believe that while Continuum happened, that there's at least still one Ba'al clone out there, just to leave open some more Cliff Simon in the future.
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SourKraut posted:I like to believe that while Continuum happened, that there's at least still one Ba'al clone out there, just to leave open some more Cliff Simon in the future. It's not TV, but Cliff Simon is reprising his role as Ba'al alongside Michael Shanks and Claudia Black in the third series of Stargate audio adventures from Big Finish, which will be out in May. http://www.bigfinish.com/Stargate-SG-1-Season-3
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So I've been watching Stargate from the beginning in airing order, but after 8 seasons of SG-1 and one of Atlantis, season 2 of Atlantis is about to break me. I could put up with all the casual racism, knuckle-dragging world views, tired good-vs-evil plots, etc. of SG-1. I could put up with the fact that it's the most bland, unimaginative sci-fi possible. I could even put up with the lazy writing that relies on characters being perpetually incompetent and impulsive, because the actors seemed to be having fun and it was whitenoise background entertainment. But Atlantis just takes the lazy writing to a new extreme. "Conversion" is the episode that did it. It's aggressively stupid television. The entire plot relies on Sheppard, Weir and everyone except A.D. Skinner making the worst decisions possible. Two redshirts dying to save Sheppard because everyone just stands around like idiots in a cave of bugs, the writers being to lazy to even come of with a scenario for Sheppard's escape other than Weir going into his room alone. Am I supposed to like these characters? Weir is the complete opposite of the academic, seasoned, even-keeled diplomat she was introduced as (with the original actress) on SG-1. Sheppard is just aggressive, narrow and stubborn. Ford was at least unoffensive until they realized they accidentally had a major black character in the Stargate franchise who wasn't a magical negro/noble savage and turned him into a violent junkie. McKay is fine from time-to-time but his shtick wears thin. In general Atlantis just seems like a distilled version of all the bad things about Stargate. They'll introduce a premise with the potential to create novel plots, then immediately neuter it to be another variation on the same tired tropes. The Goa'uld were good villains because of the possibility for subterfuge, explorations of the host/symbiote relationship, portraying themselves as gods, etc., but after the first few seasons of SG-1 it's like the writers decided they didn't want to deal with any of those characteristics anymore and started to rely on Carter being able to detect them, etc. The replicators went down the same road, ending up just being evil Carter. With the Wraith, they shortened the process so that within a few episodes, they're just bad guys you have to shoot a few extra times. At least with SG-1, I could look forward to RDA phoning it in more-and-more each season. Is there any reason to keep watching Atlantis? Does it at least improve to SG-1 levels?
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Breakfast All Day posted:I dunno... it's campy cheesy sci-fi. Some people enjoy it and some people don't but it sounds like Stargate isn't really the franchise for you. Atlantis doesn't get less cheesy so you should probably stop now.
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Atlantis does genuinely improve over time, starting with the second season, eventually matching and maybe surpassing SG:1. But then they also bring in a new noble savage who is essentially a more blindly aggressive, monosylabic, Teal'c with none of the character depth. They do the same thing in SG: Universe, except by that point the noble savage has devolved into what is essentially the master's loyal but barely restrained attack dog. It really is repugnant when you stop and look at it. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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