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That episode of lower decks was... sweet. Enjoying the kinda calmer vibe between the characters as they settle in and get along better. Everyone at the bar at the end was so nice. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Sep 10, 2021 |
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Picard season 2 looks real bad but I’d appreciate if someone could put together a montage of John DeLancie’s scenes after it’s over. I’d watch that.
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Sep 10, 2021 02:20
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Honestly it seems to get better and better each week. I really look forward to it in a way I haven't for weekly Star Trek in a long time.
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Sep 10, 2021 02:20
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Also I assume his DJ name is Outrageous
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Sep 10, 2021 02:21
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Nitrousoxide posted:Duncan 100% has to die. It's like vitally important that he does. Gonna suck if they don't get up to God Emperor so we can have Jason Mamoa playing like three different characters
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Sep 10, 2021 02:39
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MikeJF posted:That episode of lower decks was... sweet. I’m really starting to get attached to these characters. They’re doing a bang up job developing them.
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Sep 10, 2021 02:41
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MikeJF posted:Also I assume his DJ name is Outrageous looking forward to the backstory of exactly how he got that eyepatch and why he's just lugging that guidance system around with him everywhere he goes now
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Sep 10, 2021 02:52
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Cross-Section posted:looking forward to the backstory of exactly how he got that eyepatch and why he's just lugging that guidance system around with him everywhere he goes now That’s his DJ persona.
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Sep 10, 2021 03:01
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This episode was sweet but the whole doopler thing was awfully pointless and felt like a ten second gag that was stretched out to twenty minutes. The Rutherford and Tendi arc felt kind of weird but I can't articulate why. I still think it was a super fun episode, I just find myself nitpicking the last two episodes more than the entirety of the show to this point.
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Sep 10, 2021 03:04
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Martytoof posted:This episode was sweet but the whole doopler thing was awfully pointless and felt like a ten second gag that was stretched out to twenty minutes. The Rutherford and Tendi arc felt kind of weird but I can't articulate why. Because they keep dancing around the fact that they should be a couple but for whatever plot reason they’re stuck as weird awkward friends. The Boimler and Mariner plot was sweet though.
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Sep 10, 2021 03:08
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i wish the orville had fewer dick jokes
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Sep 10, 2021 04:38
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punishedkissinger posted:i wish the orville had fewer dick jokes Agreed
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Sep 10, 2021 04:44
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The doopler thing gave me serious Rick and morty vibes for some reason, but other than that it was another great episode. There's some great stuff on the walls and behind the bar in the last couple scenes.
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Sep 10, 2021 05:06
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I also like that they've evolved Boimler past the point of freaking out about Mariner's plans and instead having stuff like him just going "ooo!" at her using the chaos to take the chance to override the transporter, keeps things from being too one-note and repetitive and slowed down by early freakouts. He's not quite up to embracing things when they go full chaotic but he's not a total weenie anymore.
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Sep 10, 2021 05:21
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It’s absolutely wild and totally unexpected that this cheap little cartoon would be the best star trek in 20 years
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Sep 10, 2021 05:45
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Picard is after an Almanac confirmed https://twitter.com/LeaKThompson/status/1436163765788049411
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Sep 10, 2021 05:58
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The ending of Lower Decks contrasted with the Picard trailer shows just how busted New Trek is. You create characters, grow them, let them confront obstacles and let us root for them as they overcome them, and organically we grow to like them. Not everything has to be We have to go back in time to stop the Trump campaign it can just be we learned something about each other from trying to crash this party / build this spaceship. A bunch of cartoon nonsense has 10x more heart than the entire season 1 of Picard.
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Sep 10, 2021 07:17
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I will watch Picard because I am a mark for Star Trek. I'll probably find some stuff about it I like, but i'm prepared to be disappointed.
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Sep 10, 2021 08:10
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How is the audience supposed to care about characters doing anything but the most important thing to ever happen in the universe?
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Sep 10, 2021 08:36
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HD DAD posted:I finally figured out what Picard slightly reminded me of, and couldn’t quite put my finger on it. It’s Mission Impossible - but the 60s series. It’s a weird modern take on those 60s spy thriller shows with a ragtag band of experts led by a sagely older man. Picard should be more like Indiana Jones and the Vessel of Ra, with everyone else out in the field and Picard waiting by the phone if they need him for advice. In all his scenes, he's on a couch in his bathrobe. Not Picard's bathrobe, but Patrick Stewart's.
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Sep 10, 2021 08:43
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I'd like a Star Trek series where two crews are each trying to Prevent The Apocalypse and they're constantly stepping on each others' toes because they're each convinced their apocalypse event is The Apocalypse (and they may both be right)
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Sep 10, 2021 12:57
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Brawnfire posted:I'd like a Star Trek series where two crews are each trying to Prevent The Apocalypse and they're constantly stepping on each others' toes because they're each convinced their apocalypse event is The Apocalypse (and they may both be right) "We prevented the wrong apocalypse" is literally a line in The Magicians
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Sep 10, 2021 13:05
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The Bloop posted:"We prevented the wrong apocalypse" is literally a line in The Magicians Hey, that's a show I've almost started a couple times while having a Buffy craving, is it worth a watch?
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Sep 10, 2021 13:13
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Brawnfire posted:Hey, that's a show I've almost started a couple times while having a Buffy craving, is it worth a watch? First season is a little rough but it turns into something genuinely charming and wonderful
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Sep 10, 2021 14:31
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J33uk posted:First season is a little rough but it turns into something genuinely charming and wonderful I agree with this goon It's veers a little in to CW territory occasionally, if you catch my drift, but I am really glad I watched the whole thing.
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Sep 10, 2021 14:49
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The Bloop posted:I agree with this goon Oh you have no idea, that sorta cringe is catnip to my lame rear end
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Sep 10, 2021 14:51
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The Magicians is like, what if Narnia but 40% gayer and with 97% more swearing and loving
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Sep 10, 2021 14:55
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The Bloop posted:The Magicians is like, what if Narnia but 40% gayer and with 97% more swearing and loving I would watch it on this sales pitch alone.
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Sep 10, 2021 15:00
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HD DAD posted:I would watch it on this sales pitch alone. Yeah that sounds loads better than "edgy Harry Potter" which is how I'd categorized it
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Sep 10, 2021 15:02
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah that sounds loads better than "edgy Harry Potter" which is how I'd categorized it I mean there is a magic school but it's literally graduate school not middle school
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Sep 10, 2021 15:05
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Yeah, it's very explicitly based on Narnia if it's anything like the book.
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Sep 10, 2021 15:36
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so it's heavy handed christian allegory, but ~sexy~? is Aslan circumcised?
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Payndz posted:Picard should be more like Indiana Jones and the Vessel of Ra, with everyone else out in the field and Picard waiting by the phone if they need him for advice. In all his scenes, he's on a couch in his bathrobe. Not Picard's bathrobe, but Patrick Stewart's. 
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Okay, so a couple random thoughts. Quark has a chain of bars and cool model kits he’s selling. He is making at least USS Cerritos and DS9 models, so presumably he has a whole line of them. Even if he’s not the Negus, his brother is, and I bet that he has tons of Ferengi that are queuing up to loan him money for whatever business venture he wants to that he doesn’t have cash on hand for. I bet he’s bringing Marauder Moe dolls back if someone else hasn’t yet. This is I think the third time that they’ve mentioned capital ships in the show, and apparently the California class isn’t one. And the bouncer at the party mentioned Luna class and bigger ship captains only were invited. I would be interested to know if this sort if dividing line between “real ship” and second-tier/support role ships is an actual thing that gets fleshed out more.
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Problematic Soup posted:Okay, so a couple random thoughts. Back in the movies they always described the Enterprise as a 'heavy cruiser', and the technical manuals fleshed it out a bit more - there was that three nacelle dreadnaught class Federation class I think. There's not a full article on classes and their meanings but you can see links to all the named classes on the memory alpha page here with examples of where each was given.
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Sep 10, 2021 22:24
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Fun episode (even if the Dooplers were straight-up Futurama aliens rather than Star Trek), and more openly warm-hearted than usual - the ending with the main cast all hanging out in Space Cheers had a real 'crew as family' vibe for probably the first time. But ironically, the story took advantage of animation being able to do things live-action TV can't without an enormous budget and gave us... an interminable car chase? I was at the 'come on, end now, END!' stage before they even reached the aviary. I did enjoy the further recanonisation of TAS with all the races from 'Jihad', though. (And one of Bem's species was in the mid-season trailer.) Keep 'em coming!
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Sep 10, 2021 22:28
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Problematic Soup posted:Okay, so a couple random thoughts. This post made me imagine an Olympic class ship in an episode with a giant space baby where he mistakes the ship for a rattle. I could see Lower Decks doing that.
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Sep 10, 2021 22:28
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Payndz posted:Fun episode (even if the Dooplers were straight-up Futurama aliens rather than Star Trek), and more openly warm-hearted than usual - the ending with the main cast all hanging out in Space Cheers had a real 'crew as family' vibe for probably the first time. But ironically, the story took advantage of animation being able to do things live-action TV can't without an enormous budget and gave us... an interminable car chase? I was at the 'come on, end now, END!' stage before they even reached the aviary. This is the second time they showed the Kzin on the Cerritos, a member of a race that is pretty much the diametric opposite of everything the Federation stands for. My brain hungers for an an explanation as to how this is possible.
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Sep 10, 2021 22:40
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It's like Star Trek it's self had a transporter accident and was split in two. All of the good got put in the animated show and all of the bad went to the live action ones.
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A.o.D. posted:This is the second time they showed the Kzin on the Cerritos, a member of a race that is pretty much the diametric opposite of everything the Federation stands for. My brain hungers for an an explanation as to how this is possible. What were people's reactions when TNG had a Klingon on the bridge? I was 4 months old when the first episode aired so I can't say I remember what people who knew what Klingons even were thought of that.
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