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MillennialVulcan posted:The biggest missed moment in Beyond ... they should have had Krall/Balthazar realize he'd made a terrible error at the end and save the Yorktown from his own dipshit plan. Have Kirk make him remember his humanity and make the sacrifice. I haven't seen it in a hot minute, but I remember feeling like they were driving at that and it just never happened. Agreed, but there was something daring and against convention of having a Starfleet member reject Federation ideals, and go to the grave without repenting. If they'd done it the other way, you could argue that would be the easy way out. A.I. Borgland Corp posted:And Peter Weller had already played a xenophobic human supremacist with a superweapon in the two part Enterprise series finale! He was basically the same drat character except in a Starfleet uniform Reminder that by rights Peter Weller's character should be alive and well and presumably at least a Commodore in the Prime Timeline of DISCO.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2018 00:45 |
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Zurui posted:I love the idea that someone threw out a while before of Frakes and Sirtis appearing as the crew of a bigger ship that is basically a party barge. Make it a tiny cameo, like the rest of the X-Men appearing in Deadpool 2. The USS Commentary Track
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2018 01:37 |
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Alara vs Issac in arm wrestling? Those are some absolutely gorgeous planetary cityscapes too--it's like what they always implied on TNG but never showed due to limitations in sfx in the 80s. They may be some of the best future cities I've seen on tv. Also, at about 2:30 was Ed setting up equipment in the same spot where Kirk died in Generations? Astroman fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jul 22, 2018 |
# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 12:54 |
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I think it's less that and more a function of how tv works now. In the old days, you had Fall TV with 25 or more episodes. You'd run new ones pretty much every week, preempt a few here and there, intersperse some reruns, and you got to summer. Then in summer you show straight reruns to get to fall again. Maybe show some poo poo "summer shows" that nobody cared about, or use that as a dumping ground for failed series that got short orders. Maybe one would take off--IIRC that was how Seinfeld started. As tv shows have shrunk to 22 episodes, or even 12, and people are less likely to want to rewatch something they just saw instead of something new on demand, networks have gone more with running more short run shows. I can remember just in the last 10 years that "summer shows" began to be worth watching. Now it's kind of a rotation, so you can have new content in the same slot for most of the year with 2-3 shows. If they added a third Walking Dead show, you could have almost 52 weeks of the same show, all new episodes. I remember when The Wonder Years came on in January--it was surprising that they picked it up for a second season, because usually if you didn't debut in Fall you were a poo poo show they were dumping. Now it's not a huge deal. So it's not too shameful that Orville is being aired in the back half of the schedule. It is likely though that they are going for the 12/30 last minute premiere to say it was coming out in 2018. Especially in a world of stretching seasons out over a few years with "half seasons."
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 14:45 |
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pik_d posted:Bortus?? I think that's Klyden behind Issac too, so perhaps they wanted to spice up their bedroom life? Though my money would be on dream sequence.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 15:39 |
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NTRabbit posted:Keep the dream alive Where am I? Making Seth Macfarlane's dreams come true, I'd say.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2018 01:15 |
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https://www.afp.com/en/news/206/vanished-china-star-fan-last-social-responsibility-ranking-doc-1904681quote:China's highest paid movie star Fan Bingbing, who has not been seen in public since July, was placed last in an academic report ranking A-list celebrities on their social responsibility. quote:In the report by Beijing Normal University published earlier this month, 100 Chinese stars including popular actor Jackie Chan and award-winning actress Zhang Ziyi were ranked according to their professional work, charity work and personal integrity. Orville predicted the future, it would seem. And by future I mean the present...
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2018 00:46 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I have a very soft spot for The Critic, but I honestly don't think it would work as movies, and I think it already said everything it needed to say. "It stinks!"
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 23:58 |
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shame on an IGA posted:Its brilliance outshined all of its great throwaway sight gags. Wouldn't a non-phallic eclair just be a Boston Cream donut?
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2018 01:05 |
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Al Borland Corpse posted:drat Shatner looks good for his age Stewart stopped aging at like 50, but Shatner stopped at like 70 tops. Probably saw whatever deal Stewart made with the devil and took the Leonard Nimoy contract negotiation tactic.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 23:49 |
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PureRok posted:I'm super excited for the second season. I just rewatched the first season thinking it would help. It didn't; I'm more pumped than before. Same. Really stoked for this to return!
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 07:04 |
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After The War posted:I guess everyone who watched Clerks is in this thread. How can this be.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 20:01 |
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I was surprised that we didn't a followup epilogue where Gordon looked her up and found out she became a big star after her singing went viral on youtube and her and Greg went on to have 3 kids and died in their 80s.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 00:42 |
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Whalley posted:"According to scrawled records, Adolf Hitler built a bunker in a place known as The Money Pit of Oak Island and ran a successful campaign to become eight Presidents of the United States of America in a row" "Could it be?"
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2019 01:08 |
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Patrick $tewart
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2019 05:22 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:There not having been any word yet worries me greatly. Yeah, wasn't this greenlit for S2 like within the first few eps airing? That they are taking so long is a bad sign. Are the ratings that terrible?
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2019 11:36 |
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Brawnfire posted:Bask in the erotic attentions of a dozen strong, nude Moclan lovers. I am a virgin, in that way.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2019 00:14 |
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Han Nehi posted:
Well a moclan divorce would also involve Dolly Parton was a great choice for this episode not just because of her feminism theme in that song, but she herself is one of the most LGBT friendly people in country music (and you can count those on like 2 hands).
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2019 00:38 |
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It was cool for a one off "Seth Does Star Wars" episode. Fun for an alternate timeline, and next season they can slide right back into the TNG bread and butter.
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 01:54 |
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Brawnfire posted:Why, because you want a flower? Yes.
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# ¿ May 2, 2019 00:49 |
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Andrew_1985 posted:So did we get a renewal for S3 yet? If not, what are the odds? The Wrongest of Takes.
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# ¿ May 3, 2019 13:26 |
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I think Bortus leaving Klyden to get a happy ending is the easy narrative way out. Having them stay together without Bortus compromising on his progressive beliefs is better for the story. Especially if Klyden learns and grows.
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# ¿ May 7, 2019 00:09 |
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Taear posted:Oh right. It sounded like you meant the network Stars had bought The Orville. A fate truly worse than death...
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# ¿ May 11, 2019 08:21 |
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Praise
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# ¿ May 11, 2019 22:03 |
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Sliders was OK, but I checked out by the final season. Kromaggs were dumb, Jerry's brother was dumb. Killing Wade was beyond dumb. The worst thing was they never really did enough with the premise. Part of it is the limitations of budget and SFX and lack of CGI at the time, but I always felt they could have show more cool, parallel worlds and explored the implications of them. Oftentimes they'd tease some really cool world in an unseen adventure, starting an episode with them jumping away from someplace we'd rather have seen like "Boy, an actual planet of the apes! That was crazy!" or "I can't believe there's a world where the Roman Empire never fell" and they're wearing a toga and now it's just another Amish world.
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# ¿ May 15, 2019 00:37 |
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Snow Cone Capone posted:You know he won't, he'll probably end up hiring the guys He'll let them do it in exchange for the unreleased 1701-D version.
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# ¿ May 22, 2019 03:24 |
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Brawnfire posted:And I'm the Trevi Fountain when I spit water.
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# ¿ May 24, 2019 01:43 |
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Taear posted:At least for me I don't like it when it turns out a person has a kid/sibling/etc that never gets mentioned.
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# ¿ May 27, 2019 12:34 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I kind of suspect where translation is now is as good as it's going to get for a while, but I'm one of those people who thinks machine learning/AI is being really overhyped right now and is going to be a much harder problem than a lot of people have been claiming lately. Those commercials where they smugly gush over Microsoft "AI" drive me nuts. ITS NOT REAL AI. We are nowhere near true artificial intelligence, and when it happens it will be one of the biggest events in human history and be all over the news. All they have now are really good computers. Calling them AI is like calling those two wheeled electric balancing boards "hoverboards."
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 08:36 |
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Fans make interactive starship video game: Star Trek-shuts that poo poo down immediately even thought he creators didn't want to make any money off it Orville-raves about it and makes it official and probably pays creators well This is what happens when shows are done BY FANS.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 12:52 |
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Beachcomber posted:Iirc, that's literally the entire point. Will it support the Moclan "Cove of Pleasure" program?
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2019 06:22 |
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Like...how much did the studio model cost?
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2019 18:06 |
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Donovan Trip posted:He has a name. It's Tobias Funke Also he's not "a rapey guy." He's a licensed Analrapist.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2019 03:00 |
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By 2027 Seth will be on every network and streaming service.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 20:24 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Definitely getting that regular Orville, but man I forgot how ugly that minivan shuttle design is. Minivan design is a feature, not a bug.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 03:45 |
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In the 80s and 90s DW was obscure nerd poo poo in the US but since 10 it's very mainstream. The casting of a new Doctor makes headlines in regular news outlets.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 13:56 |
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The Lord Bude posted:Eh a lot of the Maquis were people who left Starfleet to fight for a cause. Some of them were dropouts or poor fits discipline wise like Torres - and I don't think the show shies away from her problems with controlling her temper, and her struggle to conform to a rigid command structure, especially in the early seasons - but many others were people like Chakotay who were very successful and accomplished officers before they gave it up to fight. Absent that cause to fight for it isn't surprising that for the most part they settled back into Starfleet roles. Voyager had a number of problems but I don't think that was really one of them. Yeah but it's like--why even have that plot point and set up that conflict to just nerf it anyway? Like it could have been "regular Starfleet crew is Lost In Space." Son of Sam-I-Am posted:Was Nowhere Man later too, then? For some reason I have always thought that was a first year UPN thing. What a great show that was, unbelievable travesty they canceled it. If there was ever a show they should reboot now, it's that one. The concept of instantly losing one's identity and shadowy conspiracies is made for today's prestige tv. In fact, that was one of the first "prestige" shows in my opinion. It was, along with X-Files and post S2 TNG, one of the first times I appreciated quality writing and directing. It was on a higher level than it's peers on tv at the time.
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 01:27 |
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Also as great an abbreviation as STD would be, 5 letter DISCO is the superior. For me it was canonized onscreen with the workout shirts.
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