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I just watched the Orville season two episode All the World Is Birthday Cake last night, and that is a weirdly bad episode. The entire show is obviously heavily influenced by TNG, but this episode, more than any other, really feels like season one TNG. It's got the classic "this society is just like modern Earth except for one crazy thing" aspect and the extreme oversimplification that you'd expect from a TV show from 30 years ago. Basically, the entire society is represented by one individual. There's no indication of any internal politics or differing beliefs, the leader speaks for everyone and has no opposition other than the outsiders from the Orville. And, like an old Star Trek episode, they're able to pull off a simple trick that not only allows them to escape but also causes massive societal changes pretty much immediately. I also rewatched the 1998 Stargate SG-1 episode Secrets and I was stuck by the similarity between the childbirth scenes in it and the Orville. In both cases an untrained and inexperienced main cast member has to "help" a woman give birth (by saying "push" a few times and doing literally nothing else) and in both cases it was quick, clean, and straight-forward and the mother was on her feet immediately afterward. Inspector Gesicht posted:Probably not as racist as TNG's "Code of Honor"
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Comstar posted:Wait, what? My wife is a HUGE fan of SG1, and now I need to ask her opinion of that episode. Which one was it? Season one, episode three: Emancipation. Wikipedia posted:SG-1 visits a planet inhabited by the Shavadai, a nomadic tribe descended from the Mongols. They regard women as property, and restrict their rights in the belief that to do otherwise would bring "demons" (the Goa'uld) down upon them. Carter ends up being 'sold', but when Carter beats a chieftain in hand-to-hand combat, the team changes the tribe's opinions about the rights of women.
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May 21, 2020 14:23
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alexandriao posted:The stepping box that makes dimensional power is powered by a potato. I really like the series but. What the gently caress? I never finished the series either. 
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Aug 7, 2020 16:46
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Doctor Who had an episode where the Doctor got mad at a group of people who wanted to punish Hitler for his crimes. The way they set up things, it wouldn't cause any trouble for the timeline. The story probably would've worked if they chose somebody besides Hitler but they did and created a situation where the Doctor was literally defending Hitler. That was the final nail in the coffin for me.
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Aug 8, 2020 09:32
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Captain Monkey posted:You can’t give the person-about-to-die a life without altering the timeline. alexandriao posted:I mean, yes. But consider that the "the doctor killed hitler" series would diverge so much from our world it would be impenetrable to get into based on the amount of social change and difference in the 'modern day' characters. It would be mostly unrelatable.
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Aug 10, 2020 08:07
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blatman posted:season 5 episode 18 "The Warrior" alexandriao posted:The magic stuff in the later seasons of Farscape is really really lovely. I didn't mind the death stuff with Zhaan, but I really, really do not care for whatever the gently caress Noranti is doing with her powders and visions that she mentions in the second(?) episode can somehow change the loving past?? Like... What??? CharlestheHammer posted:Dr. Who isn’t a kids show
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Aug 11, 2020 07:53
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's meant to be a family show that appeals to as wide an age range as possible. So, just like pretty much every half-decent kids show?
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Aug 11, 2020 10:01
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John Lee posted:To me, that's not the dumb part of that dumbass book. It's dropped casually some ways through the book that they can't actually send people back in time at all. They have a time-viewing device, and a disintegrator. They just blow up a guy, then look for a spot in the multiverse where he appears, in the past, coalescing randomly out of particles. Did you confuse this book with Timeline by Michael Crichton or did two people use the exact same incredibly stupid form of "time travel"?
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galagazombie posted:If your working on Terminator 2 "Going back creates a new future" rules then you shouldn't go back except in the most extreme case of preventing humanities extinction via something like a robo-pocolypse (where everyone will die anyway). Because going back is literally murdering everyone currently alive by erasing the present with a different one with different, not currently existing people who didn't ask to be born. No good you do will ever be outweighed by the blood of billions of innocents on your hands.
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