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Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006; Internet Expleror

the reason RDM didnt like star trek technobabble was because on TNG and DS9 they had guys that made them stick to consistant technobabble.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 21:48

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Inverse Icarus: Dec 4, 2003; The only way to go is up.

"POLARBEAR THE HULL PLATING"
- Captain Archer, Enterprise

# ? Mar 6, 2012 21:49

lord funk: Feb 16, 2004

tobutt posted:

once again, all i want is coherence

i still can't believe you haven't watched babylon 5. ignore the nerd sperg over 1990's cgi - it is the only sci-fi series to take care about its plot devices for 5 straight seasons.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 21:59

Heresiarch: Oct 6, 2005; Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

No, just the first four, which are enjoyable if rather hamfisted at times. The fifth season and everything else B5 related is crap.

Luckily the actual story is done at the end of season four, so you're not left hanging or something.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 22:03

lord funk: Feb 16, 2004

Heresiarch posted:

No, just the first four, which are enjoyable if rather hamfisted at times. The fifth season and everything else B5 related is crap.

Luckily the actual story is done at the end of season four, so you're not left hanging or something.

yeah, agreed, but at least it was internally consistent. and you can't blame them. they were told they weren't getting a fifth season, so they wrapped up everything in four

edit: you do get character arc conclusion in season five, at least

# ? Mar 6, 2012 22:05

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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"Bacteria."

Heresiarch posted:

No, just the first four, which are enjoyable if rather hamfisted at times. The fifth season and everything else B5 related is crap.

Luckily the actual story is done at the end of season four, so you're not left hanging or something.

You got something against hunky telepaths with dreamy billowing blonde hair, son?

# ? Mar 6, 2012 22:18

lord funk: Feb 16, 2004

NoneMoreNegative posted:

You got something against hunky telepaths with dreamy billowing blonde hair, son?

don't forget only talks in parables

# ? Mar 6, 2012 22:22

that awful man: Feb 18, 2007; YOSPOS, bitch

JawnV6 posted:

soooo glad i didnt fall for lost

# ? Mar 6, 2012 23:33

Amethyst: Mar 28, 2004; masterpiece!

remember the final episode of b5 season 4 with the weird monks and space ascension or something? poo poo was weird.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 23:56

LooseChanj: Feb 17, 2006; Guess who's coming to dinner!

I love debating about stuff in fictional tv shows as if they were documentaries

yeah no one would ever throw all their technology into the sun in real life, but we'd totally make sentient robotz that's no biggie

# ? Mar 7, 2012 03:26

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003; ^{~i liek 2 poste~}

LooseChanj posted:

I love debating about stuff in fictional tv shows as if they were documentaries

yeah no one would ever throw all their technology into the sun in real life, but we'd totally make sentient robotz that's no biggie

it's... it's almost as if science-fiction reflects our own priorities in a way which allows us to examine them with critical detachment?

# ? Mar 7, 2012 03:29

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003; ^{~i liek 2 poste~}

wait, no, my mistake

# ? Mar 7, 2012 03:30

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003; ^{~i liek 2 poste~}

# ? Mar 7, 2012 04:07

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Why do Mormons always have to shoehorn their gay religion into anything they write

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:21

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007; INSOLENT

Who besides Card has done that?

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:24

LP97S: Apr 25, 2008

pseudorandom name posted:

Who besides Card has done that?

The original guy who wrote Battlestar Galatica, but that pales in comparison to Card's masterpiece "Hamlet's Father"

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:35

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stephanie meyer too

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:36

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005

also those cocksuckers got their greasy mitts all over Big Love too

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:37

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LP97S posted:

The original guy who wrote Battlestar Galatica, but that pales in comparison to Card's masterpiece "Hamlet's Father"

what, he thinks taming of the shrew has legitimate points about gender roles?

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:39

LP97S: Apr 25, 2008

TOOT BOOT posted:

what, he thinks taming of the shrew has legitimate points about gender roles?

Did you read this bit?

quote:

Here's the punch line: Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people. The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy�along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay. We learn that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are now "as fusty and peculiar as an old married couple. I pity the woman who tries to wed her way into that house."

Hamlet is damned for all the needless death he inflicts, and Dead Gay Dad will now do gay things to him for the rest of eternity: "Welcome to Hell, my beautiful son. At last we'll be together as I always longed for us to be."

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:41

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003

my favorite bit of card lunacy is this interview from 2000.

summary: grad student in literature reads ender's game, falls in love with it and its anti-war message, figures the author must be a liberal feminist pacifist like herself. she books an interview with him and doesn't do any checking up on card's background. hilarity ensues.

# ? Mar 7, 2012 06:47

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Yeah, hello? I lost my frog.

wow Orson Scott Card really hates they gays

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html

# ? Mar 7, 2012 07:08

fork bomb: Apr 26, 2010

JawnV6 posted:

soooo glad i didnt fall for lost

i still haven't seen the last season

# ? Mar 7, 2012 09:03

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005

DO NOT WATCH IT

# ? Mar 7, 2012 09:08

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Yeah, hello? I lost my frog.

Jonny 290 posted:

DO NOT WATCH IT

good advice

oh dammit that magic toilet

# ? Mar 7, 2012 10:51

Boner Buffet: Feb 16, 2006

lost was a good show to watch with loved ones and talk about around the water cooler the next day. you might say it was about the journey and not the destination

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:04

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you

Jonny 290 posted:

DO NOT WATCH IT

watch it but turn it off twenty minutes before the end of the last episode, then draw your own ending with crayons

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:11

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005

might as well, they sure fuckin' did

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:16

Boner Buffet: Feb 16, 2006

Trig Discipline posted:

watch it but turn it off twenty minutes before the end of the last episode, then draw your own ending with crayons

draws jack and dog sleeping in the grass

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:17

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; heh

FMguru posted:

my favorite bit of card lunacy is this interview from 2000.

summary: grad student in literature reads ender's game, falls in love with it and its anti-war message, figures the author must be a liberal feminist pacifist like herself. she books an interview with him and doesn't do any checking up on card's background. hilarity ensues.

i can't imagine being so full of myself as to believe that enders game had an anti war message. he literally exterminates an entire race because the only other option is to be exterminated.

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:36

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you

yeah but it was an accident and he feels really bad about it

# ? Mar 7, 2012 13:39

sticky wizard: Nov 19, 2008

Trig Discipline posted:

yeah but it was an accident and he feels really bad about it

mlyp

# ? Mar 7, 2012 14:28

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005

maniacdevnull posted:

i can't imagine being so full of myself as to believe that enders game had an anti war message. he literally exterminates an entire race because the only other option is to be exterminated.

it's antiwar compared to the book version of starship troopers, I used to compare the two when I first read them both

then again pretty much everything is antiwar compared to that

# ? Mar 7, 2012 14:33

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you

sticky wizard posted:

mlyp

hell no i am remorseless

# ? Mar 7, 2012 14:50

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY

# ? Mar 7, 2012 15:35

JawnV6: Jul 4, 2004; so hot...

ender's game is also a hitler apologia and card, ostensibly the author, is unaware of that

# ? Mar 7, 2012 15:39

Emacs Headroom: Aug 2, 2003

i could see spinning it in such a way that enders not responsible, he was manipulated, much like the poor people that join the military at a young age or something

plus he saves the arachnoid queen or whatever

# ? Mar 7, 2012 16:06

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

whats was losts ending

i think i remember hearing '....and it was all just a dream!'

# ? Mar 7, 2012 16:44

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005

graph posted:

whats was losts ending

i think i remember hearing '....and it was all just a dream!'

# ? Mar 7, 2012 17:16

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theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

they were in purgatory or whatev for the the entire final season and the island is magic

# ? Mar 7, 2012 17:17

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