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This is the Trek I've been waiting for since the original series.
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Seth admiring his ship was meta as hell.
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Sep 29, 2017 05:08
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What the gently caress that episode was good
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Sep 29, 2017 05:19
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This is the best Trek series. I hope it can start an optimistic trend so other networks can see you don't have to be so grim and gritty all the time.
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Sep 29, 2017 05:24
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So did they make that episode specificity for me? It felt like it pushed all my buttons for science fiction.
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Sep 29, 2017 05:56
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MisterBibs posted:This show is too optimistic for it, but I was expecting some Nightfall action when the stars came out. I came here to talk about Nightfall. That's one of my favorite scifi yarns.
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Sep 29, 2017 06:35
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This ep was more like it. Proper sci-fi star trek plot.MA-Horus posted:LIAM loving NEESON?!?!? WHAT ABOUT NON STOP THOUGH
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Sep 29, 2017 06:35
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Pakled posted:So this was their "gently caress the Prime Directive" episode. Union doesn't have a prime directive 
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Sep 29, 2017 06:36
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Admiral Bosch posted:I came here to talk about Nightfall. That's one of my favorite scifi yarns. I've rented the novel twice and couldn't find the time to actually read it, twice.
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Sep 29, 2017 06:38
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I think Orville has a bigger orchestra than any of the Trek TV series ever had; Variety says MacFarlane was able to get a 75-piece orchestra, which I think is like double what TNG got. It's not the size that counts; it's what you do with it!
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Sep 29, 2017 06:42
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Classic sci fi episode, with a couple bits of awkward dialogue. Hope Alara just ends up with the nickname 'Pickles'. Also Isaac says 'lift' what's up with that
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Sep 29, 2017 08:29
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Jeb! Repetition posted:What the gently caress that episode was good 
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Sep 29, 2017 08:44
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Episodes keep getting better, hope they can keep it up
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Sep 29, 2017 09:05
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Love Stole the Day posted:It's not the size that counts; it's what you do with it! And he's doing just the right thing with his massive orchestra. I want to hear classical tunes to my drat sci-fi, the contrast between new and old pleases me.
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Sep 29, 2017 09:12
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Did anybody else catch the "Tom Paris and B'Llana Torres" foreshadowing in that latest episode? After the B'Llana girl was talking about how she's looking for a relationship, the Tom Paris guy was talking about how he detests the idea of having a relationship.
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Sep 29, 2017 09:13
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Liam Neeson Approved. Suck a dick critics.
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Sep 29, 2017 11:18
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Chop Sunni posted:Also Isaac says 'lift' what's up with that He's a British robot obviously 
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Sep 29, 2017 11:20
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Henry David Emerson...1000 Brown M and Ms posted:He's a British robot obviously I was expecting Mercer to respond, "No, I think it's an elevator."
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Sep 29, 2017 11:27
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Well that was just a great episode of Star Trek basically. drat I hope they can squeeze a few seasons at least out of Fox.
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Sep 29, 2017 11:46
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This episode made me smile so many times. Mortus and Klyden's domestic squabbles, the V'Ger-as-hell docking/exploration sequence, BOOM BITCH, everything Alara, the whole last ten minutes... this show is like having a pint with an old friend.
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Sep 29, 2017 11:47
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"You must be Hamelac. Nice name! Just kidding. It's not." I love this show.
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Sep 29, 2017 12:23
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All right, I'm fully on board. That was a solid episode of Start Truck right there. Please don't cancel this.
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Sep 29, 2017 12:49
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vermin posted:Henry David Emerson... I was expecting there to be elevator music. And I love that they show the bridge crew shooting the poo poo while working, unlike TNG's "everybody sits in silence".
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Sep 29, 2017 13:41
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I was expecting them to go down and discover a race of mutated Morlocks in the lower decks given that the woman in the farm asked the crew if they were from the Underland, and then the Morlocks would gently caress poo poo up and the dictator of the town would go "This is what fuckin' happens when you doubt my word, you end up with goddamn Morlocks!"
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Sep 29, 2017 14:00
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I think it was good, but not great, but mainly because of the hammy overacting villain they just decided to punch out. There really wasn't much of a dilemma here, just"we find crazy stuff, figure it out and get the plot told to us". And then everyone gets ice-cream and spaceships at the end. On the other hand at least we didn't get a similarly hammy message trying to put forward the idea that lying to people to keep them safe is fine like a man in the cave situation. Heck the moral here is that you should be open to new ideas, interfere with people for their own good if they can't help themselves or are in a really bad spot and that it is fine to punch out religious fascists. Sometimes a nice simple moral and optimistic ending is all you need after weeks of depressing drama and worrying about the future in real life.
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Sep 29, 2017 14:47
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That was just the best Star Trek episode since DS9 went off the air. I actually got a bit misty when they opened the dome and the settlers saw the stars for the first time. Fox, please don't gently caress this up like every other sci-fi show in the history of the channel kthnx.
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Sep 29, 2017 14:54
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Episode 4 owned, this whole show fuckin owns Seriously its good and I never expected this
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Sep 29, 2017 14:54
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Stairs posted:Fox, please don't gently caress this up like every other sci-fi show in the history of the channel kthnx. I thought this episode was excellent, and it could have easily been a storyline right out of mid-run TNG (minus a stupid Prime Directive dilemma, and more people calling each other dicks). And... The AV Club gave it a C, calling it mediocre. I feel like half the critics are determined to hate anything Seth MacFarlane does, and the other half are disappointed that it's not Family Guy in Space. WhiteHowler fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Sep 29, 2017 15:21
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I was half-expecting the XO go go full HAM on Hamelac when she got freed, like break a chair over his back beatdown. And I like the weapon effects too. Phaser beams never made a lot of sense to me.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:22
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I did think it was a bit funny that the people seeing the first "nightfall" in 2,000 years were like "huh, lookie that" instead of freaking out.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:23
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Ep 4 was good as gently caress. I have many questions for the critics who initially panned this show.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:41
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I was actually half expecting the nerve serum to not work on her since she's human and not their species. I was hoping she was just acting at first and was going to say "just kidding, that didn't do anything."
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Sep 29, 2017 15:43
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WhiteHowler posted:I feel like half the critics are determined to hate anything Seth MacFarlane does, and the other half are disappointed that it's not Family Guy in Space. A lot of goons too, which is too bad  . It's that loving awful trailer that makes it look like an aborted Adam Sandler film. Chances are they're not going to see the episodes and just assume it's bad. The Orville's out there though for the public, and I doubt the majority of people give a poo poo what critics have to say these days.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:49
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Brawnfire posted:I did think it was a bit funny that the people seeing the first "nightfall" in 2,000 years were like "huh, lookie that" instead of freaking out. I was expecting at least one quick shot of someone getting ready to kill himself or I don't know, at least praying? Maybe that kid's mom or something. It would have ruined the feel of the scene though and at this point I definitely trust that Macfarlane and the writers know what they're doing here. Edit: Personally I loved the subversion of the very Star Trek cliché of eating alien food with no problems or issues
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Sep 29, 2017 15:50
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bull3964 posted:I was actually half expecting the nerve serum to not work on her since she's human and not their species. I was hoping she was just acting at first and was going to say "just kidding, that didn't do anything." I was really hoping for this too.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:53
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It's like they have a wheel, with three options for tropes: "lampshade", "invert expectations", or "go for broke".
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Sep 29, 2017 15:57
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vermin posted:I doubt the majority of people give a poo poo what critics have to say these days.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:17
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WhiteHowler posted:Not just sci-fi. I'm still pretty loving salty about what they did to Wonderfalls. It was a different reviewer this week. I suspect Zach Handlen, who did the previous reviews would have had a different opinion - He's been more positive on this show than other critics, and it's no surprise that he also did all the TNG and DS9 reviews for the site.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:21
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Huh, that was weird. I actually liked it. It was hammy as hell and you could drive ten generation ships through the various plot holes, but I really didn't care. TNG was the same way for me. It was a cool pulp sci-fi tale, presented in a competent manner, with fun characters and it was not taking itself too seriously to have fun. Also, it had an optimistic tone. Good job, hope they get a second season.
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Yeah I think that's what is making me root for the show. Managing to have a plot that is optimistic without being overly sweet is difficult and tends to have the opposite effect, but this time it just seems earnest instead. Hammy as all hell, but still something I didn't realize I was missing.
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