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Gatto Grigio posted:If you want a good hard facepalm read the original script for Joss’ shitcanned Wonder Woman movie It’s so gross.
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How often does somebody land face first in her tits?
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# ? Mar 16, 2020 20:41 |
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It's surprisingly common in anime!
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# ? Mar 17, 2020 03:33 |
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Lol he doubled down on it and said it’s just people mad that the script isn’t woke enough and not that it’s disturbingly creepy and fetishistic towards her.
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Horsebanger posted:Best part of it was that movie which was decent, but the series was hot garbage. It was just the only thing on tv at the time. recognizing that Firefly is trite garbage but failing to realize that BSG is more of the same is like a fat person ordering a huge root beer float and going "do you have diet root beer I'm trying to cut calories"
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# ? Mar 26, 2020 08:19 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:When the show was on Fox had a message board for the show, and I guess to get people engaged they had the actors post on it and make threads and poo poo. Adam Baldwin posted the most out of everyone and there were hundreds of shocked replies when he posted about how George W Bush was a real American man who was going to liberate Iraq and he got so pissed off about Firefly fans being liberals that he quit posting. He even chased down one poster on the John Doe message board that Fox also made in order to berate that person. Imagine if you were arguing on the Something Awful forums about what a moron Donald Trump is and suddenly an account named Ted Danson shows up all "actually Donald Trump is an even bigger moron than you can possibly imagine, let me give you some personal anecdotes", and later that night you see an interview where Ted Danson is like "Oh yeah I love posting in GBS, I personally paid for Lowtax's new cyberpsine, by the way do you have stairs in your house?"
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# ? Mar 26, 2020 08:51 |
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QuarkJets posted:Imagine if you were arguing on the Something Awful forums about what a moron Donald Trump is and suddenly an account named Ted Danson shows up all "actually Donald Trump is an even bigger moron than you can possibly imagine, let me give you some personal anecdotes", and later that night you see an interview where Ted Danson is like "Oh yeah I love posting in GBS, I personally paid for Lowtax's new cyberpsine, by the way do you have stairs in your house?" Adam Baldwin was the first of the sunglasses-selfie-in-his-truck’s-driver’s-seat-avatar posters, so powerful that he started a decade before twitter even existed. Big divorced dad energy.
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# ? Mar 26, 2020 15:09 |
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QuarkJets posted:recognizing that Firefly is trite garbage but failing to realize that BSG is more of the same is like a fat person ordering a huge root beer float and going "do you have diet root beer I'm trying to cut calories" You don't know what the word trite means.
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QuarkJets posted:recognizing that Firefly is trite garbage but failing to realize that BSG is more of the same is like a fat person ordering a huge root beer float and going "do you have diet root beer I'm trying to cut calories" I only ever saw a little bit of Battlestar Galactica, but I saw enough to be able to say that whatever kind of garbage it is, it's substantially different garbage from Firefly. It seemed like one of those million-character dramas, which I don't think is what Firefly would've evolved into. The BSG boardgame I don't really like that much. Maybe it felt better before the market was saturated with hidden role games, but as a Cylon, there's not much you can do to sabotage without immediately being spotted and thrown in the brig. It's kinda fun to fight off the cylons as a fighter pilot, but that's not the focus of the game and there are other games better for that.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Adam Baldwin was the first of the sunglasses-selfie-in-his-truck’s-driver’s-seat-avatar posters, so powerful that he started a decade before twitter even existed. Big divorced dad energy. This is powerful truth, he pioneered the drive thru monologue, if not in practice then aesthetic.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 01:22 |
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Horsebanger posted:Best part of it was that movie which was decent, but the series was hot garbage. It was just the only thing on tv at the time. Agreed, BSG was pretty great (at least up till the last season). Feel completely opposite on Firefly though—series was great, movie was pretty mediocre. Felt really cheap with lotta generic hollywood expedencies. Idea behind the story was solid though, just poor execution.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 03:21 |
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Sleeveless posted:You don't know what the word trite means. Firefly is a rehash of a bunch of Western concepts and BSG is a rehash of a bunch of space opera concepts. I think it's you who doesn't know what the word trite means.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 03:30 |
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Firefly lost me in the first 30 minutes. I didn't need to be slapped in the face with "this show is about COWBOYS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE" in the opening sequence to that extent and the main characters being unlikable shitheads to each other non-stop just sealed it for me.
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# ? Mar 27, 2020 21:00 |
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QuarkJets posted:BSG is a rehash of a bunch of space opera concepts. Specifically BSG is Ronald D. Moore being REALLY loving MAD at how poo poo Voyager was.
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# ? Mar 31, 2020 08:57 |
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QuarkJets posted:recognizing that Firefly is trite garbage but failing to realize that BSG is more of the same is like a fat person ordering a huge root beer float and going "do you have diet root beer I'm trying to cut calories" Lol
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QuarkJets posted:Firefly is a rehash of a bunch of Western concepts and BSG is a rehash of a bunch of space opera concepts. I think it's you who doesn't know what the word trite means. Firefly is a retelling of a silly American myth from the 19th century. BSG is a retelling of another silly American myth from the 19th century.
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QuarkJets posted:Firefly is a rehash of a bunch of Western concepts and BSG is a rehash of a bunch of space opera concepts. I think it's you who doesn't know what the word trite means. And there is nothing new under the sun. It's a trite criticism
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# ? Apr 1, 2020 05:11 |
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There’s some stuff that’s new under the sun imo
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Agronox posted:And there is nothing new under the sun. It's a trite criticism It's only trite once you understand the comparison, which that poster did not.
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Agronox posted:And there is nothing new under the sun. It's a trite criticism This So, if firefly and bsg are apparently unmitigated trash, what’s a good sci fi space show you guys would recommend? Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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BSG has aged poorly because it's extremely of its time and reflects a very specific cultural moment, like all good science fiction. Is there any decent science fiction that can't be immediately dated to a specific cultural context?
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OSU_Matthew posted:This Lexx
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OSU_Matthew posted:This Community
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OSU_Matthew posted:This It's foolish to assume that sci-fi, space, and television would all collide to make something decent, but well why not posted:Lexx
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well why not posted:Lexx
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# ? Apr 4, 2020 07:44 |
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I need to watch more Red Dwarf, someone should make a thread
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OSU_Matthew posted:This It's been a while since I watched BSG but my recollection is that the first season is still Good. My biggest gripe with that was the angst between Adama and his son, which never felt particularly compelling to me but I might just have bad opinions on that part. Uh, anyway, there's an anime called Planetes which I'd say is pretty darn good. It does a pretty decent job at staying relatively plausible in terms of being a near-ish future sci-fi, it's got people with varied motivations and backgrounds who are also generally decent sorts, and it also has something to say. What's it about? Oh, it's about space garbage collectors. No seriously the show follows a team of people whose job is to clean up Earth orbital space.
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OSU_Matthew posted:So, if firefly and bsg are apparently unmitigated trash, what’s a good sci fi space show you guys would recommend? Babylon 5 is good. It takes place mostly on the station but there's plenty of space travel. Red Dwarf is good, at least the early years. You might want to stop when Rob Grant leaves.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 02:31 |
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Expanse S1 was pretty good but I didn’t watch S2. I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion instead and it is now all I can think about
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QuarkJets posted:Community Ok, cool, adding Babylon 5, Lexx, and the Expanse to my plex server so I can binge in quarantine! Also planning on checking out the Lost in Space reboot on Netflix Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It's been a while since I watched BSG but my recollection is that the first season is still Good. My biggest gripe with that was the angst between Adama and his son, which never felt particularly compelling to me but I might just have bad opinions on that part. First 2.5-3 seasons of BSG are excellent, and then it veers into a weird religiosity thing and takes a hard turn south. Planning a rewatch in proper order of all the little one off minisodes and movies here soon. Not big on anime, but I really do love the premise of Space Janitors. I’ll give it a shot!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I need to watch more Red Dwarf, someone should make a thread The recent seasons have been pretty good, Boys from the Dwarf type adventures; there's a TV movie that airs next week in England that I'm looking forward to ... uh, obtaining.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 09:15 |
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OSU_Matthew posted:
Season 4 of B5 is the payoff where everything comes together. Also, I really liked the lost in space reboot except for how the kid treats the robot at the end and it ruined the entire show for me. That kid is loving evil and I can't stand it now.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 17:41 |
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Trite
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# ? May 8, 2020 13:09 |
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Well, I recently rewatched the series during quarantine and I have to say, it stands up remarkably well! The movie is truly awful though, and I feel like that’s where the cringey stuff about river hits hardest. The movie is a completely different tone, and the characters and their motivations hardly match the series. Overall it would’ve been a much better series without the river character, like if they had just been regular outlaws. For the most part it just deals with frontier hardships, which is where I feel like the series has its best moments and lines. For the most part the writing is still funny, and the acting is great. 9/10 on the series, 3/10 on the movie
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# ? May 10, 2020 13:25 |
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the doctor is even worse than river to be honest
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# ? May 10, 2020 13:31 |
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I got mixed up in the last couple posts and thought you were talking about doctor who and river song
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River might've turned out alright if her plot had gone anywhere instead of just being a bunch of abstruse plot hooks around a weirdly depicted traumatized young girl.Ghost Leviathan posted:I got mixed up in the last couple posts and thought you were talking about doctor who and river song I mean, that sure took an interesting idea and got really weird and uncomfortable.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I got mixed up in the last couple posts and thought you were talking about doctor who and river song I do sort of wonder if Joss Whedon and Steven Moffat go to the same dominatrix. Action Jacktion fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 10, 2020 |
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For what it's worth 'The Killer Angels' is a really great book, I read it not too long after visiting Gettysburg which really helped to set the scene. I once was in a board gaming group with a guy who had, if I recall correctly, the lyrics to the theme song in his email signature along with something about how it was the greatest show and was cancelled before it's time. In addition he had tattoos of something in the script of the title on the inside of his forearms on each arm.
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fuzzy_logic posted:I had to see this and now you do too
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