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Oct 6, 2017 02:38
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Hahaha... it was plank ×1000
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Oct 6, 2017 02:39
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Time travel?!? Or she's pulling someone's leg.
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Oct 6, 2017 02:40
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CobiWann posted:
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Oct 6, 2017 02:40
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THERE'S our high-concept sci-fi plot!
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Oct 6, 2017 02:41
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Holy poo poo the thing she was wearing to the party looked like Daniels future suit
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Oct 6, 2017 02:42
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NO NOT MY ROBO BUDDY
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Oct 6, 2017 02:48
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Ctrl+Alt+Del, CTRL+ALT+DEL!
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Oct 6, 2017 02:49
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 Welp, that was quick and unexpected.
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Oct 6, 2017 02:49
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This seems like something Isaac's people should've given them data on... E: Oh my GOD that foot
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Oct 6, 2017 02:51
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The crew chairs have the same shape as the quantum drive.
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Oct 6, 2017 02:53
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I reiterate how gorgeous this show is
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Oct 6, 2017 02:54
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The Bloop posted:I reiterate how gorgeous this show is That was some good fuckin wormhole effects
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Oct 6, 2017 02:57
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Well they have a future doodad transporter. The doctor's mobile emitter was good, so..... I'm cautiously optimistic edit: never mind, reset button? errr.... jeez i dunno
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Oct 6, 2017 02:58
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Kind of an ehhh ending to an otherwise great episode
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Oct 6, 2017 03:00
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Regy Rusty posted:Kind of an ehhh ending to an otherwise great episode Yeah I don't like them hitting the reset button. It didn't feel "earned," there was nothing poignant or bittersweet about it.
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Oct 6, 2017 03:02
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Did they though? He looked like he remembered.
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Oct 6, 2017 03:03
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Hehe, another jar of pickles. CALLING IT: at some point, Alara will ask what pickles are. Overall a good episode, Charlize Theron was used well. Still, it seems that they created a paradox at the end; if they destroyed the wormhole now, it doesn't exist in the future, so Pria couldn't travel back, so they were all killed, so they didn't destroy the wormhole, which means she did travel back... Commercials every four minutes is loving annoying.
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Oct 6, 2017 03:06
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Gynovore posted:Hehe, another jar of pickles. CALLING IT: at some point, Alara will ask what pickles are. Or he will have an actual jar of pickles he can’t open, and she will open it and be all “ohhhhh.”
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Oct 6, 2017 03:17
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She said she had to bring the crew to the future because they should be dead and she didn't want to change the timeline too much. Except, if she hadn't gone back in time, they wouldn't have changed course to rescue her and probably would not have encountered the bubbles anyways. So... eh?
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Oct 6, 2017 05:04
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Another good episode overall, but ehhh that ending was kinda lame. The floppy half-regenerated foot loving killed me though, and I love that the humour in the show is mostly hitting.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:10
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I'm still surprised she was really from the future, because the Next Generation episode like this one had the future guy be a fraud.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:15
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-great wormhole -neat idea showing dark matter which was cool, invisible stuff they couldn't detect -Ive had that fantasy where I go back in time and make millions on antiques -Blobnorm mentioned outside of sex joke, he's an engineer -mining consortiums exist, so there's an economy? -I kind of get the timeline thing? But it falls apart the more you think about it -Isaac's prank redeems the flat ending and any other issues for the next two episodes
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Oct 6, 2017 05:26
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Me and my brother were watching it together and, when the mr. potato head scene happened, we both looked at each other and said "he's going to cut someone's limb off."
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Oct 6, 2017 05:29
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Mantis42 posted:She said she had to bring the crew to the future because they should be dead and she didn't want to change the timeline too much. Except, if she hadn't gone back in time, they wouldn't have changed course to rescue her and probably would not have encountered the bubbles anyways. So... eh? I think they threw in some techno-babble about quantum fluctuations, so I assume the idea was their proximity allowed their personal timeline to stay stable with the changes. Or else the universe decided to wait out to see if FOX snuffs them out instead.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:31
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Jeffe posted:I think they threw in some techno-babble about quantum fluctuations, so I assume the idea was their proximity allowed their personal timeline to stay stable with the changes. Or else the universe decided to wait out to see if FOX snuffs them out instead. Ah, quantum mechanics: the way lazy sci-fi writers get out of any plothole.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:32
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I wonder if the teleporter thing in his desk also disappeared. If not, I wonder if they'll use it in a pinch for some future situation. Episode wasn't as good as last week's but was still better than all of the STD episodes so far.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:37
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The episode felt like it wasn't meant to include time travel at first. I think it was that as long as the wormhole is active, temporal mechanics remain in flux and history can be rewritten. Since the dark matter storm was already over they'd continue to exist. But...uh Why did she return to her time? Unless she put them in the storm's way they should've disappeared like she did right? It doesn't make sense. Why even go near the storm in the first place, what would it accomplish? If she just went back in time, baited a random ship, set up a fake storm to fake fly through to gain their trust then I get that. But why gain their trust when the end goal is to use the device to fly them through the wormhole anyway? You hate time travel! You hate time travel! You hate time travel!
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Oct 6, 2017 05:42
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But I do appreciate how alien the 29th century alien looked. I secretly hate rubber foreheads. Don't tell the Star Trek thread.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:50
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I liked how Star Trek handled it. The first civilization-building race seeded lookalike races before screwing off to god know's where. That's why there's a gajillion humanoid races. Non-Humanoid races were always such a bother. The Sheliak Corporate. The Dominion. The Q. Animals and poo poo.
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Oct 6, 2017 05:55
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Great episode, great prank, meh ending.
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Oct 6, 2017 06:05
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Mantis42 posted:She said she had to bring the crew to the future because they should be dead and she didn't want to change the timeline too much. Except, if she hadn't gone back in time, they wouldn't have changed course to rescue her and probably would not have encountered the bubbles anyways. So... eh? They were back on their original course, the one they'd have to deviate 5 days from to get repairs at Outpost 49. Really solid episode. I think the humor has settled down to a perfect mix of absurdities played straight and actual laugh out loud funny stuff. Mixed with both a good SF and a good character plot made for a very entertaining show. Everyone had good moments, except for Bortas and he had an episode and a half just now, so its fair. If it stays like this I'm going to be a very happy fan. The ending, I do not think was flat. It was bittersweet and showed real character for Ed. His personal issues are no longer affecting his performance as a Union officer. Good on him.
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Oct 6, 2017 06:10
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Davros1 posted:"I don't ever do it near the food, you know that." The best thing about this show is the fact that lines like this reinforce Ed's previous history with his ex-wife in more detail than Riker and Troi ever really got. I really respected that Pira's plan seemed like it was genuinely, for lack of a word, humane. Looking at things from a temporal third-party perspective, the only change was three-hundred people who died got to keep living. Sure, she's making bank off it, but hey, Money + Saving 300 People seems like a pretty decent thing.
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Oct 6, 2017 06:24
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Ugh, that dangly foot was so gross and hilarious. Re: Timeline stuff. Them diverting course to save Pria probably didn't matter. The timeline had them dying in the dark matter storm, it probably didn't matter exactly when it happened. She gets saved, they head off in their original course which still leads into the dark matter storm. They get bashed up, she kills communications, and then takes over the ship. The reason why she didn't immediately take the ship and fly to the wormhole is because she needed something to convince them to live in the 29th century. She couldn't just steal the ship and say "It's ok, you guys were about to get blown up anyway, I'm actually saving you." Them getting stuck in the dark matter storm and her being the only person who can get them out makes it believable that they really would have died originally.
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Oct 6, 2017 06:26
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Solid acting from Seth in this one Isaac is the poo poo and the prank made me audibly laugh Seriously that poo poo was funny Ending was meh and wrapped up too quickly Junior Mints
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Oct 6, 2017 06:55
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shades of eternity posted:as for the episode itself, I keep getting reminded by an old canadian scifi known as starlost. Ellison struck his name from the show because he's a crusty gently caress that doesnt understand how things get adapted, and like 30 years later released a graphic novel about his original pitch.
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Oct 6, 2017 07:51
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FilthyImp posted:Hey, from a few back but I think that show was the butchered carcass of Phoenix Without Ashes, a Harlan Ellison spec about, you guessed it, a multi-level genship that has its nav crew taken out by a freak meteor storm. The protagonist is some teen that is constrained by his NotAmish life, and he discovers they're in a ship and gets exiled with some girl, only to embark on a way to save the ship from crashing into a sun or something. Starlost ?
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Oct 6, 2017 07:58
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mllaneza posted:Starlost ? quote:
Another problem Starlost had was trying to use an experimental FX system (Magicam) to sync camera movements between actors on a green screen and a miniature set.
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Oct 6, 2017 08:11
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Even when I was told about the practical joke ahead of time by reading this thread it still managed to be hilarious when I saw it. I mean yeah, it was an entire episode almost wrapped around that joke but that didn't diminish it in the least. Heck it is probably the one time I laughed out loud when watching the show so far, but that's because jokes need to be pretty intense to get a laugh out of me. Story itself was good, no real complaints.
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Oct 6, 2017 08:30
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Why did they get stuck in the star's gravity when they were under the time limit of how long they can be there without getting stuck in the star's gravity
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