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Timby posted:The first episode aired on Comedy Central in late February or early March. It also aired on CTV SciFi in Canada on Thursdays for its initial run.
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Timby posted:The first episode aired on Comedy Central in late February or early March. Huh, I never saw anything about that. Hell, even a Google search turns up just a single reddit post with no replies. They really didn't go out of their way to tell anyone about it.
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Apr 6, 2021 05:58
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I just kind of assume that the temporal wars ended up with some kind of event that basically removed the ability to even time travel. You can even make that an explanation for how Discovery and Michael got separated, with the wormhole collapsing as they passed that period of history.
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Apr 6, 2021 06:11
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See a Vulcan baby was marooned on a planet filled with timeranium and then when it realized its mom died it screamed so loud that all the timeranium in the universe exploded at once prevent time travel forever and forever and ever.
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Apr 6, 2021 06:33
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Axe-man posted:See a Vulcan baby was marooned on a planet filled with timeranium and then when it realized its mom died it screamed so loud that all the timeranium in the universe exploded at once prevent time travel forever and forever and ever. Make that baby also Spock somehow and be saved by Michaels love for him and sent back in time using the last of the timeranium so he can be born closing the time loop that Spock would never of even been born with her and I'm sold.
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Senor Tron posted:I just kind of assume that the temporal wars ended up with some kind of event that basically removed the ability to even time travel. You can even make that an explanation for how Discovery and Michael got separated, with the wormhole collapsing as they passed that period of history. This doesn't work given an episode later in the season.
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Apr 6, 2021 07:16
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Just watched In the Pale Moonlight Sisko is a naughty boy
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Apr 6, 2021 07:42
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:This doesn't work given an episode later in the season. You could probably just say the Guardian is better at time travel than anyone else
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Apr 6, 2021 10:48
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Honestly, it'd probably be better for the setting as a whole if they just said "Yeah, due to the time war, the slingshot effect and other 'routine' means of time travel don't work anymore, but unique artifacts like the Guardian or the Orb of Time still work." Star Trek's acquired an embarrassingly large number of ways to time travel, and while I love a good time travel adventure as much as anyone, it'd be nice to at least pretend it's hard to gently caress around with history.
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Apr 6, 2021 11:20
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Angry Salami posted:Honestly, it'd probably be better for the setting as a whole if they just said "Yeah, due to the time war, the slingshot effect and other 'routine' means of time travel don't work anymore, but unique artifacts like the Guardian or the Orb of Time still work." Star Trek's acquired an embarrassingly large number of ways to time travel, and while I love a good time travel adventure as much as anyone, it'd be nice to at least pretend it's hard to gently caress around with history. Yeah, the Guardian is basically God level technology that doesn't count.
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Apr 6, 2021 13:59
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Hell just say if you try to do the whole slingshot thing now the Guardian shows up and tells you no.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:25
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Nullsmack posted:Hell just say if you try to do the whole slingshot thing now the Guardian shows up and tells you no. I initially read this as Guinan and didn’t question it.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:29
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I’m pretty sure that the Guardian just kind of does what it wants
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Apr 6, 2021 14:31
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Does the look and, more importantly, the voice of the Guardian hold up to the original? That voice was tremendous.
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Apr 6, 2021 15:25
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They just sampled the voice from TOS, so technically yes.
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Apr 6, 2021 15:28
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a neat cape posted:Just watched In the Pale Moonlight the only bad thing about Pale Moonlight is that there's only like one really good episode after it until the baseball one e: okay the one where garak is having another breakdown is pretty decent
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So it turns out 3 different groups have completed 3 different versions of DS9 AI upscales for the entire series (one of them has released S1-4 of Voyager and is working on the other 3 as well). I tracked down what's generally accepted as the best of the 3, and while it's clearly not a professional effort... holy poo poo it's like watching the show for the first time again. We watched You Are Cordially Invited and I had to pause multiple times to marvel at just how amazing stuff like Alexander's uniform or Sirella's jewelry look. e: the craziest thing is thanks to better encoding etc. the upscaled versions are actually smaller files than my original DVD rips. Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 15:52
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bull3964 posted:Huh, I never saw anything about that. Hell, even a Google search turns up just a single reddit post with no replies. They really didn't go out of their way to tell anyone about it. Yeah, it was very strange. I remember it because I was in the hospital at the time, doped to the gills on IV painkillers, and Comedy Central was just running episodes of South Park; out of the blue at 7 p.m., there it was, the pilot of Lower Decks. Then at 7:30, it went right back to South Park for the rest of the night. Maybe it was the drugs talking, but the pilot was better than I remembered, outside of the gag at the beginning with Mariner teasing Boimler about his log entry taking for-loving-ever to finish. Jesus, that scene just didn't end.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:So it turns out 3 different groups have completed 3 different versions of DS9 AI upscales for the entire series (one of them has released S1-4 of Voyager and is working on the other 3 as well). I tracked down what's generally accepted as the best of the 3, and while it's clearly not a professional effort... I'm going to need to find these. I'm pretty nonplussed by any artifacting and upscaling abnormality because it already looks quasi-lovely as a fuzzy upscaled 480p picture on my HDTV. If I'm going to be annoyed by one I'd rather be annoyed by some weird artifact every now and then than by the copy that is essentially watching TV through vaseline coated glasses.
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That's pretty much exactly what you get. There's artifacting here and there (it was really only glaring in 1 scene I've seen so far) and some scenes look better than others (the early seasons don't seem to be nearly as clear as the later ones) but overall it's really an incredible experience.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:So it turns out 3 different groups have completed 3 different versions of DS9 AI upscales for the entire series (one of them has released S1-4 of Voyager and is working on the other 3 as well). I tracked down what's generally accepted as the best of the 3, and while it's clearly not a professional effort... Joy is the version of these you want BTW. I have it and it's very good.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Joy is the version of these you want BTW. I have it and it's very good. yeah, Joy is the release and UTRCorp is the uploader if you want to search for it
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Snow Cone Capone posted:yeah, Joy is the release and UTRCorp is the uploader if you want to search for it
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WhiteHowler posted:I've only found the first season from my usual places, did they do the whole series yet? Yep.
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Apr 6, 2021 17:41
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HD DAD posted:They just sampled the voice from TOS, so technically yes. Oh, well once again even though I haven't watched it, Discovery has disappointed me. I mean I'm glad they didn't make it awful, but the Guardian to me should be a little more sentient than my insurance company's automated phone bot.
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Goblin Craft posted:Oh, well once again even though I haven't watched it, Discovery has disappointed me. I mean I'm glad they didn't make it awful, but the Guardian to me should be a little more sentient than my insurance company's automated phone bot. It is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrheVRk7-pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ3yqKjwF0
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Apr 6, 2021 17:59
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Well, that's oversimplifying it. It presents as an entity and only sample the voice (combined with the current actor's voice) when the big reveal happens. Edit: Beaten with clips.
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Apr 6, 2021 18:00
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"I was made to present the past in this manner. I cannot change. Nah, I'm loving with you. You go to whenever, kid."
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a neat cape posted:Just watched In the Pale Moonlight He can live with it.
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a neat cape posted:Just watched In the Pale Moonlight He's not a naughty naughty boy, he's the messiah
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So really it is the Bajorans that are a bad people because their Messiah is not perfect 
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No Bajorans are bad because they’re racist against Skrreeans, secretly love the caste system, and elect the most boring, blank-faced white men as their religious leaders.
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The Skreeans said they would bring that unfarmable land back to being fertile grounds, but they make a lot of promises and they always flake
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It is. I'm going to assume by "it is" you meant both that it's depicted as more sentient than I thought, and that they made it awful.
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Goblin Craft posted:I'm going to assume by "it is" you meant both that it's depicted as more sentient than I thought, and that they made it awful. Nah the episodes were a waste of a 2-parter focusing on Mirror Universe stuff, but the depiction of the Guardian was some good stuff that felt very much like a TNG/DS9/VOY godlike alien.
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Ah, well then they should have posted some clips that showed that, instead of these ones.
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Apr 7, 2021 04:46
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I mean, those two clips are essentially 90% of the Guardian’s total screentime in S3.
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Good to know that I'm not missing out on anything I'd like then, lest I be tempted to hatewatch just to catch a few nuggets of something worthwhile.
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Apr 7, 2021 05:00
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The Guardian was boring, and the way they found him is peak Discovery writing: Literally asking the computer to advance the plot for them.
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I did my time with RTD in Doctor Who and vowed never again.
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