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Vorlons ruin everything.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:58
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Vorlons ruin everything. You are not ready for immortality.
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Oct 21, 2017 00:05
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Vorlons ruin everything. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Oct 21, 2017 00:15
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ConfusedUs posted:SeaQuest was my jam even if it was hokey as gently caress When I was a kid I was certain Roy Scheider was the captain because he had been in Jaws, and therefore he knew about boat stuff more than the other actors.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:03
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:When I was a kid I was certain Roy Scheider was the captain because he had been in Jaws, and therefore he knew about boat stuff more than the other actors. Checks out.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:15
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Dark Distorted Mirror basically addressed this in the best way possible. Now that I'm older I can see the sources it's stealing from but in middle school it was loving amazing. I reread it a decade ago and it was still very satisfying, despite recognizing the parts that are derivative.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:20
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Timby posted:What the gently caress Jonathan Taylor Thomas says, "Welcome to Tool Time -- An Unauthorized Biography"
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Oct 21, 2017 01:32
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Shbobdb posted:Dark Distorted Mirror basically addressed this in the best way possible. Is that the B5 fic that grew out of something like 'what if the Minbari killed Sinclair at the Battle of the Line?' I never finished it (I think I got through most of the 4th Volume). But I think it started really well and there are bits of it I remember fondly.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:37
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I don't recall clicking on this thread. I mean I have Enterprise running in a tab so maybe my brain is deteriorating.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:19
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Duck and Cover posted:I don't recall clicking on this thread. I mean I have Enterprise running in a tab so maybe my brain is deteriorating. I've had threads that I've never clicked on show up in my bookmarks before.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:27
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Milky Moor posted:I've had threads that I've never clicked on show up in my bookmarks before. Probably just mistapped, it's not like it's hard to miss using a Surface. Anyway I like that Penn and Teller were actual characters instead of some lame security guard number 1 on this! Sweet I was on topic good job me!
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Oct 21, 2017 03:56
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Milky Moor posted:I've had threads that I've never clicked on show up in my bookmarks before. Your wife's not gonna believe that about URL's, why do you think we would about forum threads?
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Oct 21, 2017 03:59
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Oct 21, 2017 04:25
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Duck and Cover posted:I don't recall clicking on this thread. I mean I have Enterprise running in a tab so maybe my brain is deteriorating. There is a hole in your mind
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Oct 21, 2017 04:26
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I remember it making Captain Dexter Smith a fairly major character which is certainly an interesting decision. Neddy Seagoon posted:Your wife's not gonna believe that about URL's, why do you think we would about forum threads? Do I seem like someone who goes to Pet Island??
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Oct 21, 2017 04:37
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Milky Moor posted:Do I seem like someone who goes to Pet Island?? Morally Inept parachute account spotted, inform the Mods!  Sorry, couldn't resist
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Oct 21, 2017 04:39
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Baka-nin posted:There is a hole in your mind Ohh poo poo an anomaly?! It's okay looks like Enterprise has those sphere's figured out. They wouldn't lie to the aquatic forms right? Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Oct 21, 2017 06:22
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Morally Inept parachute account spotted, inform the Mods! Neither could Morally Inept.
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Oct 22, 2017 23:41
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hope and vaseline posted:Space: Above and Beyond is what comes to mind. I loved the set design for Space Above and Beyond. Honestly, its first season was just as strong as B5's.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:46
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We watched A Call to Arms last night and, other than the music and being a pilot episode, it was way better than I thought I remembered. Turns out I hardly remembered it at all. It's totally decent and I like Galen a lot. I remember liking him in Crusade too, but I don't remember much else about it.
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Nov 5, 2017 19:26
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That fuckin music though.
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Nov 5, 2017 22:00
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Yeah.... It's not the same show without Christopher Franke. It'd be like watching Star Wars without (at least someone vaguely emulating) John Williams. If it were in a similar vein maybe, but Chen was just way out there.
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Nov 6, 2017 00:04
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:We watched A Call to Arms last night and, other than the music and being a pilot episode, it was way better than I thought I remembered. Turns out I hardly remembered it at all. It's totally decent and I like Galen a lot. I remember liking him in Crusade too, but I don't remember much else about it. My main memory of A Call To Arms is Galen talking to Sheridan in a dream-based hellscape. The converse at a fairly normal level, and the Galen ends the conversation by remembering to bring the ham and abruptly bellowing "REMEMBAH... WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN", ironically making that the most memorable part of the conversation. Oh and also how much I dislike the design of the Excalibur.
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Nov 6, 2017 11:17
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Dirty posted:Oh and also how much I dislike the design of the Excalibur. Give it a minute. 
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Nov 6, 2017 11:29
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Dirty posted:My main memory of A Call To Arms is Galen talking to Sheridan in a dream-based hellscape. The converse at a fairly normal level, and the Galen ends the conversation by remembering to bring the ham and abruptly bellowing "REMEMBAH... WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN", ironically making that the most memorable part of the conversation. I don't remember ACTA at all, really, but my brain is wondering if you're referring to The Lost Tales with a similar exchange that I swear ends with a similar line from Galen. quote:Oh and also how much I dislike the design of the Excalibur. It's ugly as sin. It doesn't look anything like what I'd expect some kind of ISA ship to look like, particularly one which was a joint EA/Minbari design. I always remember thinking 'Destroyer-class White Star' was a really weird designation, as well. The Warlock-class from that time period is ugly, too.
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Nov 6, 2017 14:02
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Milky Moor posted:I don't remember ACTA at all, really, but my brain is wondering if you're referring to The Lost Tales with a similar exchange that I swear ends with a similar line from Galen. quote:It's ugly as sin. It doesn't look anything like what I'd expect some kind of ISA ship to look like, particularly one which was a joint EA/Minbari design. quote:The Warlock-class from that time period is ugly, too.
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Nov 7, 2017 16:43
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The Excalibur's such an unmemorable design, I had to Google it just now to see exactly what it looked like. All I could remember was that it looked like a tripod light stand, and I was pretty much right. It doesn't fit with any of the previous B5 designs for Earth or the Minbari, either. Maybe if they'd taken the name literally and actually made it look more like a sword (with two 'crossguards' rather than three, and a longer 'hilt') it might have been better, but it's just a bland dark grey stick with wings, as if someone took the Liberator from Blake's 7 and stripped it of its distinctive detailing like the gun pods and the big glowing green ball. I can't remember whether it was Gene Roddenberry or George Lucas who once said that an effective and memorable spaceship design is one that a child could draw with a few pencil strokes and it still be instantly recognisable, but whoever it was, the Excalibur would fail the test as there's nothing to it. On the other hand, my son can recognise a doodle of the Enterprise and tell me its name, and he's two.
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Nov 8, 2017 15:33
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B5's back on in the UK from next Monday, the Freeview channel Pick TV is starting a complete run every weekday evening. Mildly curious as to which version of The Gathering they're going with, or whether it's going to be 4:3 or 16:9.
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Nov 8, 2017 22:31
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It'll be the zoom and cropped 16:9 same as on Amazon I bet
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Nov 8, 2017 22:58
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If I could draw in 3D, it's just three curved lines. Personally, I think JMS had one good story in him. And it was a loving great one. After that . . . ehhhh. It's trying to be iconic without actually doing anything. The inkwell is dry.
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Nov 10, 2017 02:56
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I'll say that I spent about 15 minutes yesterday just reading B5 lore on the B5 wikia, and it really made me wish that there was more of that poo poo.
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Nov 10, 2017 15:20
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Shbobdb posted:If I could draw in 3D, it's just three curved lines. The same can be said of his inspiration/influence, JRR Tolkien.
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Nov 10, 2017 18:16
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I'm not sure I'd equate B5 with the Legendarium. Unless  and you only like LoTRs for some strange reason.
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Nov 10, 2017 22:01
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Dirty posted:
The rotating section was still there, it was just repurposed into missile batteries. Which is a very EA thing to do, since I seem to recall that in the background stuff Earth's big Thing was supposed to be being really good at building nuclear missiles and being willing to build fucktons of them.
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Nov 11, 2017 19:31
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Reminds me of Star Control.
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Nov 11, 2017 20:54
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I'll always wonder if JMS should have gone the prequel route and mined the Dilgar War for one of his post-B5 projects. Imagine a movie/series/mini-series all about the EA going around nuking the poo poo out of Space Nazi cats...
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Yeah, the fact that we never got a Dilgar War miniseries/TV movie is disappointing. They could've done a lot with that but went with the Lost Tales/Legend of the Rangers nonsense instead.
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Nov 12, 2017 17:41
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Polaron posted:The rotating section was still there, it was just repurposed into missile batteries. Are you sure? It doesn't look anything like a rotating section, and I don't think it rotates on-screen.  I like that the missiles seem to have flat noses. No need for a nosecone in space, I guess.
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It doesn't rotate.
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