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Tighclops posted:I was 9 years old and it was the last time I can remember genuinely enjoying a movie in a theater. gently caress's sakes. I was already married when FC came out. 
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Tighclops posted:He's a lovely director and all his space movies suck The JJ stands for Jar Jar!
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Sep 1, 2017 22:48
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New inside look (in annoying VR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOD0AB_xXkM
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Aphrodite posted:Star Trek blows. Star Wars is garbage.
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Rhyno posted:Star Wars is garbage. It should be hauled away as garbage!
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Sep 2, 2017 03:30
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I hope there's lots of musical bits because those are actually great. 
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Tighclops posted:He's a lovely director and all his space movies suck I liked the first JJTrek okay, but the other two were trash. The third act in each of them was almost identical!
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Sep 2, 2017 09:18
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JJ Abrams didn't direct or write Star Trek Beyond 
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Well, I guess that explains why it was a rehash of Darkness. That still makes him 1 for 2.
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What, it wasn't a rehash of darkness at all.
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Yeah, I would really like to hear the explanation for that one. 
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VictorianQueerLit posted:As long as there isn't a big band frank sinatra-esque extravaganza musical piece where he gets to be a crooner in space I'll be fine. Don't be absurd They'll do the musical number on the holodeck
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Yeah, I would really like to hear the explanation for that one. The third act mostly which consisted of bad guy crashing ship into federation city, which apparently has no defenses and was taken completely by surprise, then bad guy walks away from ship wreck unharmed and it's up to Kirk to chase him down and defeat him with the power of the Beastie Boys before he can achieve his master plan of blowing up the city because blah blah who cares. raditts fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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livingfruitvirus posted:It's interesting because David A. Goodman is showrunning this series, and he wrote for Star Trek: Enterprise. Well, he was also an Executive Producer on Allen Gregory. So it could go either way.
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I dreamed last night that I was a recurring but unimportant crew member on the Orville, like O'Brien on the first three seasons of TNG, and Seth MacFarlane was trying to defeat some aliens that were able to steal a few seconds of time from you, so they would ambush you while you were walking and from an outside perspective you would stay in the same spot but be in a different part of your walk cycle and trip over something. I remember as I was sitting around the conference table, even though I was the lowest rank there and a lot of people were involved, I felt like I was such an important part of history.
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Sep 2, 2017 20:18
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Arglebargle III posted:So they tripped you? It didn't happen to me personally but we watched a video of it happening to another member of the crew.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:It didn't happen to me personally but we watched a video of it happening to another member of the crew. Would you say that they were tripping?
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Arglebargle III posted:Would you say that they were tripping? What are you getting at Arglebargle.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I dreamed last night that I was a recurring but unimportant crew member on the Orville, like O'Brien on the first three seasons of TNG, and Seth MacFarlane was trying to defeat some aliens that were able to steal a few seconds of time from you, so they would ambush you while you were walking and from an outside perspective you would stay in the same spot but be in a different part of your walk cycle and trip over something. I remember as I was sitting around the conference table, even though I was the lowest rank there and a lot of people were involved, I felt like I was such an important part of history. When you were at the conference table, did it remind you of a time when something else happened, that involved a pop culture reference?
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Jeb! Repetition posted:It didn't happen to me personally but we watched a video of it happening to another member of the crew. The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWOfK3LDQu4 God I loving hate that show.
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Now I'll admit the tendency to drag on and on like that is definitely unfunny and annoying, and it's done way too often, but I'm hard-pressed to think of much else it's guilty of a lot that really bugs me. I dunno maybe I'll try watching a few really new ones and see if I think it sucks now. (When I do watch it I tend to go for earlier seasons, as I haven't really seen a hell of a lot of it, so I try to find the oldest one that I know I haven't seen yet.)
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Sep 3, 2017 02:05
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The racism, homophobia and sexism don't do it for you?
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I haven't watched Family Guy in probably ten years. I'm not about to start again because I don't want to sour my expectations for The Orville.
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Isn't the head writer for Family Guy an Indian woman or something? That show, for better or worse, had a lot of writers and the general rule send to be Seen lets them experiment and do whatever they want.
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Sep 3, 2017 02:45
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I'm not actually as excited for the show as that dream would imply though.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I dreamed last night that I was a recurring but unimportant crew member on the Orville, like O'Brien on the first three seasons of TNG, and Seth MacFarlane was trying to defeat some aliens that were able to steal a few seconds of time from you, so they would ambush you while you were walking and from an outside perspective you would stay in the same spot but be in a different part of your walk cycle and trip over something. I remember as I was sitting around the conference table, even though I was the lowest rank there and a lot of people were involved, I felt like I was such an important part of history. I think you might have somehow dreamt the Actual Plot of the TNG episode Schisms, right down to the unimportant crew member being invited to the conference table despite this never normally happening I look forward to you having déjà vu when you get around to watching it
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raditts posted:The third act mostly which consisted of bad guy crashing ship into federation city, which apparently has no defenses and was taken completely by surprise, then bad guy walks away from ship wreck unharmed and it's up to Kirk to chase him down and defeat him with the power of the Beastie Boys before he can achieve his master plan of blowing up the city because blah blah who cares. Repetitive plots is actually a genius homage to TOS
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I can't wait for 20 years from now, after Fox gonna Fox, when we get The Orville TNG.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:I can't wait for 20 years from now, after Fox gonna Fox, when we get The Orville TNG. Can't wait for the Greatest Generation equivalent podcast in 50 years.
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That trailer fills me with equal parts dread and hope
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Looking at the people running it behind the scenes it's really hard for me not to get a little hyped. I mean I'm not expecting TNG part 2 but it should at least be decent.
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I'm optimistic about this. From that interview a couple pages ago:quote:“I kind of miss the forward-thinking, aspirational space that Star Trek used to occupy. It can’t all be The Hunger Games. It can’t all be the nightmare scenario,” he says. “I’m tired of everything being grim and dystopian. I miss the hopeful side of science fiction.” The utopianism made Star Trek special. The stories were regular sci-fi ranging from action/adventure to 'today's problems in tomorrow's contexts,' but it additionally framed everything around this really hopeful utopianism. That was the kicker. If this has the same, that'd be good.
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The utopianism also made it near impossible for early TNG writers to generate drama that didn't come from a viewscreen. Hopefully McFarlane isn't planning on going full Gene.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The utopianism also made it near impossible for early TNG writers to generate drama that didn't come from a viewscreen. Hopefully McFarlane isn't planning on going full Gene. It was harder but not necessarily impossible. They managed it in the slightly less strict Berman era and there were episodes that did it well even in the first couple seasons.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The utopianism also made it near impossible for early TNG writers to generate drama that didn't come from a viewscreen. Hopefully McFarlane isn't planning on going full Gene. From what we've seen it looks like his take is "Macro-scale Utopia" (no hunger, no want of any sort except for personal actualization) but "people are still small and petty (but only in small and petty ways) and there are dragons out past the edge of the map" which, if he sticks the landing, will be great.
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Early TNG was bad because of Gene Roddenberry going senile (and having always been a pretty crazy bastard), not because of optimism in general. Ultimately I prefer DS9's slightly grittier take, but you have to have some optimism to bounce that off of in the first place.
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