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01-25-2018, 05:05 PM | #436 |
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Most of the good things about Trek came in spite of Roddenberry, imo. TOS is basically Forbidden Planet with a lot of cool shit added by people not named Roddenberry. TNG was fairly awful before he took a step back. The more the episodes hewed to his "ideals" the worse they were. I put ideals in quotes because he was also a huge hypocrite who did pretty much the opposite of everything he preached.
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01-29-2018, 09:00 AM | #437 |
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01-29-2018, 11:23 AM | #438 |
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01-29-2018, 11:28 AM | #439 |
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Heh. I didn't really make the moon door connection. I did pick up on a bit of Die Hard feel between Lorca and Burnham. They actually confirmed that in the After Trek as well.
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01-29-2018, 11:37 AM | #440 |
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One thing I'll miss is Tilly in
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01-29-2018, 11:46 AM | #441 | |
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01-29-2018, 11:55 AM | #442 | |
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Q'ing myself here, but the only thing that bothers me about Stammets being gay is really cliche scenario as to how he and his man friend met. I get it- Star Trek does like to wink-and-nod with some metajokes (they made an intentional nu-Battlestar reference in the episode before the "break") and it makes sense that a character played by Anthony Rapp would have an affinity for the theater. But come the **** on: it's the 23rd century and the point of having diverse characters is to show that diverse people aren't fundamentally different from the "majority" culture enjoying the show. In 2017/2018 you're not gonna have a lot of heterosexual people -especially dudes- having an affinity for La Boheme or anything else haute culture for that matter. How hard would it have been to say "Oh, me and the Doctor started dating because it was the only way I could win against him off the basketball court" or throw in some activity that isn't typically associated with gay dudes? Whatever though. Rapp's doing a great job with Stammets and I'm hoping the fact the show was finally so bold as to have a gay main character hasn't turned off people from the show. |
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01-29-2018, 12:08 PM | #443 |
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When it comes to the Stammets stuff, it's sort of like GOT - I just hold my nose and look away until it's over. Don't care for it, don't want to see it, but it's there and you just gotta deal with it. Although admittedly it's probably better than seeing Tilly naked.
At least Stammets isn't nearly as annoying now as he was in the beginning. Reminded me of my old boss then. My old boss basically went through life needing to get his ass kicked. |
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01-29-2018, 03:40 PM | #444 |
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While the series continues to bounce around in a schizophrenic way I did enjoy every episode since the return very much.
Still wish this was set a generation after TNG. Could have explained different looking Klingons, why the Klingons were so aggressive now, all the new technology, the spore drive, etc., etc., etc. So far I haven't seen anything other than a few fan service elements (Sarak, Mudd) who could have been easily explained as Sarak is the son/grandson of Spock or a clone or something. It doesnt' make me not enjoy the last few episodes, but just seems so obvious... |
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01-30-2018, 01:09 AM | #445 |
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These last two episodes were by far the best of the series. Looked like it was getting its feet under them and figuring out what show they are going to be.
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01-31-2018, 09:26 AM | #446 |
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Why are you guys putting everything in spoiler tags? The episodes being discussed have already aired. By definition, these are not spoilers.
The spoiler Nazis are running amok. If you don't want to read plot details about episodes that have already aired, you should stay out of Internet discussions about the series. I got a couple of weeks behind recently, so I deliberately stayed out of this thread until I got caught up yesterday. I'll go ahead and put my comments below in spoiler tags just to adhere to the apparent de facto standard of this thread, but it makes no sense to me at all.
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02-01-2018, 09:29 AM | #448 |
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I'm with Lex. **** the spoilers. Its always been, if its aired, its fair game to talk openly.
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02-01-2018, 07:39 PM | #450 |
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