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It's the year 2020 and you're working on a show that is clearly intended for both broadcast and streaming. Can you please figure out a way to not make the commercial break cuts so jarring when there are actually none inserted? Maybe just insert a short three second blackout. Jump cuts from DRAMATIC REVEAL MUSIC to unconnected following scene don't work if there's no buffer. I'm enjoying this show for what it is but I've been really at my limit with "artificial life/synthetics/robots that look like people" thing that every sci-fi show has done to death in the past ten or fifteen years and I'm looking forward to the day when every other show doesn't rely on "they're just like us but SUPERHUMANS"
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Brawnfire posted:There's a lot I've been pleasantly surprised by that the trailer made me dread, I won't lie. The whole cube thing seemed like an internment camp, so finding out it's a scientific venture is really refreshing. It can be both. You strip sixteen drones, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt
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Jan 31, 2020 15:49
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You’d think Picard would have been all “hey maybe don’t stand spitting distance from this Romulan” after what happened last time. Agree w/everyone who is on about how long this is taking to get underway. Despite all the action over the past three episodes, I feel like I just watched a cold open. Excited to see them get underway. Disappointed that his Tal Shiar buddies weren’t coming, but I guess someone has to look after the dog. Also holy poo poo that was Hugh?? I just assumed it was some rando ex-Borg from that particular cube. Did they mention it and I just happened to miss one line?
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Feb 6, 2020 19:22
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The charge has been made that you have used MONEY to bring down a great sci-fi utopian society! What do you say to this, Picard?
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Feb 7, 2020 00:21
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davidspackage posted:I'm not too fond of the brother-sister Romulans who act evil by almost loving each other. It's a bit over the top. How else are we supposed to know they're evil? It's not like we'd give them comically out of place sunglasses to we-- Oh. Well then how about a twirly moustache?
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Feb 7, 2020 14:02
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Cojawfee posted:It's the same actor even. He looks like a thinner, less necrotic Steve Bannon which really hosed me up for a minute or so. Binary Logic posted:
I’ll like this shot but I’m getting pretty tired of every starship interior in Nu-Trek being dark and gloomy (and some shade of blue I guess?). Give me some brightly lit corridors again. Heck, even slave mining mode DS9 was brighter than I feel new trek tends to be. Ed: I’m obviously not expecting a borg cube to be brightly lit, I’m just thinking out loud about recent trek in general and this specific shot just reminded me that absent of knowing it’s a borg cube it could just be some edgy engineering set. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 00:35
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Lizard Combatant posted:It's not a true Star Trek series until someone busts out a Kirk Special Is that the command coloured speedo? I’ll pass.
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Feb 8, 2020 04:50
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I think I get what they're trying to do with the world building but it's seriously losing my interest rapidly at this point. At maximum warp, you could say. I hope they give Alison Pill more to do than act surprised at things
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Feb 13, 2020 13:07
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All this Picard made me go back and watch early TNG and I just want to call out what a magical experience it is to listen to these backing tracks where everything is that weird late 80s suspense synthesizer music. I’m going to try to pinpoint where it trails off because I definitely don’t remember it in the later seasons as much.
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Feb 16, 2020 19:49
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Timby posted:Ron Jones was fired from TNG during the fourth season. It’s not even that; I feel like there’s an evolution of music around the same time as the ultra campy uniforms made their way out. For sure the style of music changed after he departed, but even during his tenure I think we went from weird 80s synth mystery cues to more orchestral type.
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Feb 17, 2020 00:32
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I somewhat enjoyed The Adventures of Michael Burnham and her Coworkers. Which is what it should have been called from the beginning.
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Arglebargle III posted:RLM predictions: I can't wait for fat Lore
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Feb 18, 2020 13:42
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I guess I'll write this as I watch it. I could have done without the torture porn eyeball extraction but overall the opening made me sit up and take notice. I already hate everything about freecloud, it's so over the top that it's just out of place. The facer pimp outfits are just .. I'm doing the chef kiss things .. on the poo poo sandwich that is freecloud. For a hired pilot, Rios is sure ready to just start integrating into his "cargo"'s scheme. Picard's villain persona -- I can't deal with this And the most important thing about this episode: Mr. Mot finally made it big! some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 13:24
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Big Mean Jerk posted:We appear to be caught in some kind of shitposting anomaly, Captain. Back us off, goons. Nice and slow.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:14
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Ehh. I like Michelle Yeoh well enough but she really saturated Discovery. I hope they scale her way back this season.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:54
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Mostly a good episode. I'd say mostly a great episode in context of the lacklustre feeling hours we've spent over the past few weeks. I continue to mostly make zero emotional attachment to most of the nu-crew. Raffi is still uninteresting and I don't particularly care about her subplot. I'm not sure what the deal with Rios is but he's just... there... I guess I care most about Dr. Scientist and her internal struggles now, but until this all gets tied together it's just some disembodied plot floating in a vacuum. I was secretly hoping Hugh would ditch the cube and start adventuring now that he's going to be on somewhat less friendly terms with the Romulans.
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Feb 27, 2020 13:55
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I mean it's a pretty safe bet that we haven't seen the end of Space Legolas so I'm hoping he takes Hugh and yeets off the cube somehow. But obviously I'm not going to be surprised if they do kill Hugh off during the daring escape.
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Feb 27, 2020 14:10
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Locutus? Locutus! It’s me! Remember me? Eighth of Fifteen! I was your assigned buddy on assimilation orientation day!
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Feb 27, 2020 21:53
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marktheando posted:Picard was surprised by what’s going on in the cube because in typical old man using computer style he just did an image search. Had to download some ad blockers after Freecloud.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:35
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Whenever Picard is not on screen, the other characters should be asking “where’s Picard?”
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Feb 29, 2020 15:59
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Speaking of set design and user interfaces, was there ever a reason given that Disco had these awesome hologram comms and they’re never used again over viewscreens other than Lorca didn’t like them? Other than the obvious “lol no way can we retcon these so let’s never mention them again”
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Mar 1, 2020 18:28
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I thought Enterprise was hosed up from scanning the weird alien planet/archive and Pike just wanted the holograms ripped out while they were at it? That’s what I’m wondering though. Other than “it’s a tv show get over it” this just seems like disco is the one ship that’s using view screens while everyone else in the federation has badass hologram chat. And everyone in the federation then went ahead and forgot they had awesome holograms by the time TOS and TNT era rolls around Disco is like the one friend you kept your AIM account around for because they wouldn’t go install a better chat app. I know it’s stupid and inconsequential and I’m reading way too much into it but it just makes me laugh how they obviously wrote themselves into something they couldn’t retcon so they just Poochie’d the technology. E: and my bad, I thought it was Lorca not Pike who was the techno luddite. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Mar 1, 2020 20:20
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Pretty good episode imo Bla bla bla I’ve said it every week and I’ll keep saying it until it isn’t true. Raffi is a bad, uninteresting character and no matter how hard the poor actor tries she isn’t going to be able to act her way out of a badly written role. The planet stuff was ace. The sad dead kid thing was pointless but ok. If the writers trying to tug unnecessarily at my heart strings is the worst thing about an episode then I guess it’s pretty okay imo. What a poo poo way for Hugh to die. Like that was so unnecessary and such a wasted opportunity for a genuinely interesting recurring character that I’m actually irl a little angry. And not in a “goddamn I hope sexy Romulan sister eats poo poo for killing Hugh” way like the writers likely intended. Wait maybe I mean, pretty good episode in spite of everything I posted.
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Mar 5, 2020 15:31
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The more I think about Hugh’s death the more annoyed I am. Aside from the obvious reason I hate it, I just thought back to how stupid sexy Romulan only killed him once he said the super secret phrase that broke his diplomatic immunity instead of, oh, I don’t know, just killing him and telling everyone he was going to do something.. The dumbest villains.
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Mar 7, 2020 04:38
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News to me, but I try to actively forget as much about Discovery as I can.
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Mar 11, 2020 15:44
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Pretty good episode. Good pacing, plot was decent. My nitpicks: - Would have loved to see Seven in control of a poo poo ton of Borg. Not loving that they spaced the whole collective and she can't just, like, shut the doors while in charge of the cube, to save a handful. - Actually, I guess that's it? Surprisingly few nitpicks.
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Mokinokaro posted:I actually really liked Raffi this episode. It was nice seeing her have agency. Yeah, now that you mention it this was the first episode where I enjoyed Raffi. I guess we're on an upswing 
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Mar 12, 2020 17:16
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Not really anything to do with the current episode or anything and maybe this is just a "me" thing, but I really hope that TV gets to a point soon where we can stop making artificial life the central plot of sci-fi shows. It's best used in small measure for effect, like Data in TNG, but when you revolve entire plots and series around it (Picard, BSG) the premise just .. ehh.. fizzles and loses my interest. Maybe that's because I haven't seen any series do anything truly interesting with it yet. Fully prepared to be called an idiot for thoughtcrimes tho
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Mar 13, 2020 12:34
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It's because they stronk super soldiers Every Time
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Mar 13, 2020 15:46
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The way this is unfolding, now I *REALLY* wish they’d written Picard’s Tal Shiar buddies from ep 1 & 2 sticking around instead of the NuTrek cast we have. Honest Romulans vs Zhat Vash ideology would have been an amazing tangent IMO.
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Mar 15, 2020 23:04
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Discovery is mostly good except the overarching plot is garbage. It didn’t feel like Start Trek but more “The Adventures of Michael Burnham and Her Coworkers” Also the super saturation of Michelle Yeoh by the end is really overdone. (spoilered for the guy just watching the series now I guess) I know I jokingly said I tried to forget as much Disco as I could but I actually did enjoy (most of) the characters and the visuals are hella nice even though they have all the NuTrek stuff going on.
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Mar 16, 2020 23:41
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Star Trek: Enterprise? Never heard of it.
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I really liked the S31 episodes of DS9 for what it’s worth. They didn’t seem out of place but also didn’t seem overblown. I think S31 is a topic that makes for a good episode or two but the more you take it seriously and weave it into the fabric of the Star Trek universe the less interesting and more trope-y it gets.
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Mar 18, 2020 16:24
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Ugh, this is going in the most banal contrived direction it could possibly go. Just show us the super Cylons and get it over with
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Thom12255 posted:I was hoping on this season of STAR TREK we wouldn't have all life in the galaxy being threatened again. Pff it’s not all life, just all biological life Duh.
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Mar 19, 2020 18:22
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That was 15 minutes of really touching Star Trek book-ended by 45 minutes of literally the dumbest thing I have ever watched on TV Notable exceptions: Acting Captain William motherfuckin T motherfucking Riker some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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Mar 26, 2020 16:17
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:They had a whole season and all the cool toys of modern TV, and even had Patrick Stewart giving a poo poo about what he was doing, and they couldn't make a story that cracks the top 10 of TNG episodes. Amazing work. That didn't even crack the "Weseley stepped on the flowers" episode
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Mar 26, 2020 16:24
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:The synth girl who got stabbed in the eye gave it to them to repair their ship. Guess she should have held onto it to fix her eye.
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Have you ever been pressed back into service by an old friend?
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Kazy posted:I didn't remember this either. I honestly thought Raffi was offering Rios her pipe in an effort to "open his mind" so he could fix the ship. I 100% thought the same thing.
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