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Post by SirSourpuss on Apr 2, 2021 22:47:04 GMT
It's only natural to want the stars of any show you watch to get along and it's a shame that, after the TNG movies, Paramount didn't go on with DS9 and then Voyager movies, as was the original plan, oh so long ago. A Voyager movie now would be doing a lot better, I believe. Because, lets face it, after the 2010 JJ Trek, the other two movies weren't big hits and the cast has silently all moved away from the Trek projects. It's kind of a shame, since the recast was good for the most part, but it really didn't feel like Star Trek. And, to be honest, neither does Kurtzman Trek. Two more seasons to go and some change, then I'm going to the dreaded DS9. I'm almost considering giving Discovery another chance, but ... I'll say one thing I'm thankful to Alex Kurtzman, is that he puts his name on the credits of every show he is involved, so I know not to watch it. I actually enjoyed the three JJ Star Trek reboots (though I can not abide his overly saturated use of lens flares in the first one....It not only ruined the scenes, it actually physically hurt my eyes to look at). But I enjoyed the re-tellings of the original stories as well as the casting of all the major parts. I would have liked for them to continue to finish the saga and see where they went with it. With the Original movies, Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and Undiscovered Country are still my favourites....Though "The Voyage Home" has some good comedic elements in it: "I don't know what the hell you're talking about" (earth woman).........(Spock replies) "Yes you do know what the hell I'm talking about" in a very matter-of-fact manner.....Clearly neither he personally nor other people from his time were accustomed to talking like that, so to hear him say it was funny... I tried to watch the very first episodes of ENTERPRISE and Discovery....But watched maybe 10 minutes of each and had to turn them off. They just didn't feel or look like STAR TREK to me.....the visuals were way too advanced and technology appeared to be far more advanced than even what they had in TNG or DS 9 even though both of these shows are 1 to 300 years (or something like that) before TNG....so it really didn't make sense. The visuals and technology in Discovery appeared to make it looks as though Discovery took place that same amount of time after TNG, not before.....so for me, things really didn't seem to fit. And then as I would read reviews of both Enterprise and Discovery......Both were apparently, one phrase for it was "very messy" and every week especially with Discovery it seemed as though both viewership and ratings went rapidly down.....so I never bothered. I'll stick with TNG even 25 years after the fact. Actually, as far as Enterprise goes, it looked like a less 60s-70s "stylish"/more realistic low tech version of the TOS Enterprise. Internally, at least. It even had the sensor scope Spock uses on the bridge, but poorer looking. The Enterprise doesn't even start out with Phasers and never gets any shields, in the entire run. It also explains the human looking Klingon we saw in TOS some time late in season 4. The cast is mostly likable and T'Pol is very ... exotic.
As for Discovery, yeah, it looks more futuristic than even Voyager, or the Prometheus. It's just ridiculous.
While I generally enjoyed JJ Trek, mostly because of the great casting, I do have problems with it. I mean, the moment you realize that Nero is now back in time, 90 years before Romulus was destroyed, is just absurd. Not to mention that Kirk has never met Khan before Into Darkness, so the whole "My name is KHAAAAAAAAN" reveal is just ... nonsensical. And a hundred other issues like that. I liked Sofia Boutela and Alice Eve, though. Too bad Alice had too small a part in that movie. The movies could have been that much better and not just because of the lens flare.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Apr 3, 2021 16:47:50 GMT
Not to mention that Kirk has never met Khan before Into Darkness, so the whole "My name is KHAAAAAAAAN" reveal is just ... nonsensical.
If I am understanding your quote correctly....and if I am thinking about the sequence of events between the TV series, original movies and movie remakes correctly..... At least in the original movies, Wrath of Khan took place after the original TV series....and in that framework/timeline, there was an episode of the original tv series where Khan and Kirk first met, which is why Khan (in Wrath of Khan with Riccardo Montoban) was so hell-bent on killing kirk...because in the tv series, Kirk kills Khan's son (albeit, unknowingly).
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Post by SirSourpuss on Apr 3, 2021 17:37:52 GMT
If I am understanding your quote correctly....and if I am thinking about the sequence of events between the TV series, original movies and movie remakes correctly..... At least in the original movies, Wrath of Khan took place after the original TV series....and in that framework/timeline, there was an episode of the original tv series where Khan and Kirk first met, which is why Khan (in Wrath of Khan with Riccardo Montoban) was so hell-bent on killing kirk...because in the tv series, Kirk kills Khan's son (albeit, unknowingly). Exactly. But that hasn't happened in the Kelvin timeline, the timeline in which Into Darkness takes place. Chris Pine's Kirk has never before come across Khan, so Battlefield Counterstrike going "KHAAAAAAAN" has literally no impact to their interaction. It makes no sense for Khan to do that. It's a nod to the crowd, a breaking of the fourth wall. Not saying you can't do it, in your movie, Mel Brooks does it plenty of times in his comedies, but Into Darkness is just not that kind of movie. |
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Apr 9, 2021 10:26:47 GMT
I actually enjoyed the three JJ Star Trek reboots (though I can not abide his overly saturated use of lens flares in the first one....It not only ruined the scenes, it actually physically hurt my eyes to look at). But I enjoyed the re-tellings of the original stories as well as the casting of all the major parts. I would have liked for them to continue to finish the saga and see where they went with it. With the Original movies, Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and Undiscovered Country are still my favourites....Though "The Voyage Home" has some good comedic elements in it: "I don't know what the hell you're talking about" (earth woman).........(Spock replies) "Yes you do know what the hell I'm talking about" in a very matter-of-fact manner.....Clearly neither he personally nor other people from his time were accustomed to talking like that, so to hear him say it was funny... I tried to watch the very first episodes of ENTERPRISE and Discovery....But watched maybe 10 minutes of each and had to turn them off. They just didn't feel or look like STAR TREK to me.....the visuals were way too advanced and technology appeared to be far more advanced than even what they had in TNG or DS 9 even though both of these shows are 1 to 300 years (or something like that) before TNG....so it really didn't make sense. The visuals and technology in Discovery appeared to make it looks as though Discovery took place that same amount of time after TNG, not before.....so for me, things really didn't seem to fit. And then as I would read reviews of both Enterprise and Discovery......Both were apparently, one phrase for it was "very messy" and every week especially with Discovery it seemed as though both viewership and ratings went rapidly down.....so I never bothered. I'll stick with TNG even 25 years after the fact. Actually, as far as Enterprise goes, it looked like a less 60s-70s "stylish"/more realistic low tech version of the TOS Enterprise. Internally, at least. It even had the sensor scope Spock uses on the bridge, but poorer looking. The Enterprise doesn't even start out with Phasers and never gets any shields, in the entire run. It also explains the human looking Klingon we saw in TOS some time late in season 4. The cast is mostly likable and T'Pol is very ... exotic.
As for Discovery, yeah, it looks more futuristic than even Voyager, or the Prometheus. It's just ridiculous.
While I generally enjoyed JJ Trek, mostly because of the great casting, I do have problems with it. I mean, the moment you realize that Nero is now back in time, 90 years before Romulus was destroyed, is just absurd. Not to mention that Kirk has never met Khan before Into Darkness, so the whole "My name is KHAAAAAAAAN" reveal is just ... nonsensical. And a hundred other issues like that. I liked Sofia Boutela and Alice Eve, though. Too bad Alice had too small a part in that movie. The movies could have been that much better and not just because of the lens flare.
I thought Enterprise NX01 was even more backward than the TOS Enterprise despite the modern look about it and I found it acceptable. Season 1 was slow but that's typical. I like that they weren't all friends and helpful; humans and Vulcans. It started picking up in S2 and began to get good. I was looking forward to the arc about the Romulans for S5 when it was cancelled and the writers did a hash job with one of the characters in the finale.  I tend to be a little slow in picking up new tv series so I didn't watch STD when it launched. I caught glimpses / clips on YT and chatter / discussion about it. What I caught was enough to warn me off the series, including Picard. I doubt I'll watch them. I've only caught one of the JJ Treks, the first one. It was ok but I didn't bother with two and three. When I saw the new Khan on YT, my thought was; that's not Khan. No one can replace Ricardo Montalbán's Khan. Of all the treks; Enterprise, TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9, DS9 is the only series I didn't watch entirely. I caught a few eps and they didn't grip me. The only ep I liked was the one in which Sisko and crew time travelled and ended entangled with the TOS crew in the tribble trouble.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Apr 9, 2021 10:31:45 GMT
I've watched several kdramas now. I find the ones filmed under contract with Netflix to be quite good. Hospital Playlist still top the list of recent kdramas I've seen. I'm not vey fond of tear jerkers and silly comedies so I avoid or drop them entirely when I began to realise where the story was going or when the silly comedic dramatics try my patience. Rewatching Hospital Playlist again. I always  when the med students gave their names; Hondo and Yunbok. I remembered when I first watched this and heard them intro themselves, I went  before laughing. While waiting for S2 due in May, I'm catching the NGs (bloopers of every ep) of the cast every Thursday. |
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Post by SirSourpuss on Apr 9, 2021 17:29:42 GMT
I thought Enterprise NX01 was even more backward than the TOS Enterprise despite the modern look about it and I found it acceptable. Season 1 was slow but that's typical. I like that they weren't all friends and helpful; humans and Vulcans. It started picking up in S2 and began to get good. I was looking forward to the arc about the Romulans for S5 when it was cancelled and the writers did a hash job with one of the characters in the finale.  I tend to be a little slow in picking up new tv series so I didn't watch STD when it launched. I caught glimpses / clips on YT and chatter / discussion about it. What I caught was enough to warn me off the series, including Picard. I doubt I'll watch them. I've only caught one of the JJ Treks, the first one. It was ok but I didn't bother with two and three. When I saw the new Khan on YT, my thought was; that's not Khan. No one can replace Ricardo Montalbán's Khan. Of all the treks; Enterprise, TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9, DS9 is the only series I didn't watch entirely. I caught a few eps and they didn't grip me. The only ep I liked was the one in which Sisko and crew time travelled and ended entangled with the TOS crew in the tribble trouble. There is, retroactively, a lot of love for Enterprise. It kept things simple and grounded, did away with a lot of the technobable of Voyager, which I am getting so much of, per episode with shit like emitting tachyon pulses through photon transmission deflectors that reverse the polarity of the chroniton shield modulation that goes through the neural plex of the Voyager and I'm just fucking lost. I get it, the technology advanced and shit got complicated. Congrats. There's also huge powershifts in ship damage output, where one minute the Voyager is the big boss of the Delta quadrant and the next minute it's everyone's bitch. Season 6 was a lot more boring than season 5, I'm halfway through season 7 now and there's really not much the show has left to offer. If at all. What really ticked me off with Enterprise was that it teased me with that romance for, what was it, 3 seasons? And then they end it like that. I mean, that's a real dick move. Other than that, Archer was a really good captain, Malcom needed rescuing the entire time, Flox was great, Hoshi was so and so, T'Pol was ... very ... intriguing, Tucker was great and Mayweather was mostly around. I could have gone with another season of Enterprise. As I said, when I see the name of Alex Kurtzman, I know to stay the hell away. I just don't like his writing. No offense, but I can do better. Season 3 of Discovery was the crew crying for 40 minutes per episode, with 2 minutes intro/outro, at a 43 minute runtime. I can do better. |
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Apr 10, 2021 0:17:17 GMT
I thought Enterprise NX01 was even more backward than the TOS Enterprise despite the modern look about it and I found it acceptable. Season 1 was slow but that's typical. I like that they weren't all friends and helpful; humans and Vulcans. It started picking up in S2 and began to get good. I was looking forward to the arc about the Romulans for S5 when it was cancelled and the writers did a hash job with one of the characters in the finale. I tend to be a little slow in picking up new tv series so I didn't watch STD when it launched. I caught glimpses / clips on YT and chatter / discussion about it. What I caught was enough to warn me off the series, including Picard. I doubt I'll watch them. I've only caught one of the JJ Treks, the first one. It was ok but I didn't bother with two and three. When I saw the new Khan on YT, my thought was; that's not Khan. No one can replace Ricardo Montalbán's Khan. Of all the treks; Enterprise, TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9, DS9 is the only series I didn't watch entirely. I caught a few eps and they didn't grip me. The only ep I liked was the one in which Sisko and crew time travelled and ended entangled with the TOS crew in the tribble trouble. There is, retroactively, a lot of love for Enterprise. It kept things simple and grounded, did away with a lot of the technobable of Voyager, which I am getting so much of, per episode with shit like emitting tachyon pulses through photon transmission deflectors that reverse the polarity of the chroniton shield modulation that goes through the neural plex of the Voyager and I'm just fucking lost. I get it, the technology advanced and shit got complicated. Congrats. There's also huge powershifts in ship damage output, where one minute the Voyager is the big boss of the Delta quadrant and the next minute it's everyone's bitch. Season 6 was a lot more boring than season 5, I'm halfway through season 7 now and there's really not much the show has left to offer. If at all. What really ticked me off with Enterprise was that it teased me with that romance for, what was it, 3 seasons? And then they end it like that. I mean, that's a real dick move. Other than that, Archer was a really good captain, Malcom needed rescuing the entire time, Flox was great, Hoshi was so and so, T'Pol was ... very ... intriguing, Tucker was great and Mayweather was mostly around. I could have gone with another season of Enterprise. As I said, when I see the name of Alex Kurtzman, I know to stay the hell away. I just don't like his writing. No offense, but I can do better. Season 3 of Discovery was the crew crying for 40 minutes per episode, with 2 minutes intro/outro, at a 43 minute runtime. I can do better. Voyager lost steam mid S5 and continued until it ended. I rarely watch s6 and s7 except those eps about the Borg when I reviewed the show. The eps about the USS Equinox should have been the story of Voyager so it's disappointing the writers / producers kept to the safe well treaded path and reset button. There were so many interesting things they could have done with the show and yet still keep faith with the Roddenberry bible. Oh well. From what I've heard and seen of STD and Picard, yeah, AK and his cadre aren't the best crew for Star Trek.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 15, 2021 1:02:10 GMT
Just watched episode 1 of The Nevers.
It was...ok, and interesting enough that I'll give it an episode or two more before deciding to persevere with it.
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Post by dazk on Apr 15, 2021 1:32:32 GMT
Just watched episode 1 of The Nevers. It was...ok, and interesting enough that I'll give it an episode or two more before deciding to persevere with it. Please keep posting have been keeping an eye on that myself. Just watched Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. I think i had watched MoS before as it all seemed vaguely familiar. I was looking forward to B v S but if I hadn't been watching it in case there was something worth knowing for Justice League I might have stopped by half way. It just didn't grab me and I keep expecting big things of Gal Gadot but I just am not a fan. Anyway Aquaman next I hope it lives up to the hype but I won't be watching Wonder Woman 1984.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 15, 2021 1:38:45 GMT
Just watched episode 1 of The Nevers. It was...ok, and interesting enough that I'll give it an episode or two more before deciding to persevere with it. Please keep posting have been keeping an eye on that myself. Just watched Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. I think i had watched MoS before as it all seemed vaguely familiar. I was looking forward to B v S but if I hadn't been watching it in case there was something worth knowing for Justice League I might have stopped by half way. It just didn't grab me and I keep expecting big things of Gal Gadot but I just am not a fan. Anyway Aquaman next I hope it lives up to the hype but I won't be watching Wonder Woman 1984. Will do. Are you watching the "Ultimate Edition" of BvS, or the theatrical? Put another way, are you watching the 3 hour version, or the 2.5 hour one? I'm not an impartial/unbiased observer of these films, because Superman and Batman aren't just my favourite comic book characters, they're my favourite fictional characters, but the UE of BvS is great - dour, yes, but great - in my view, whereas I couldn't stop looking at my watch the one and only time I watched the theatrical cut. Maybe Snyder's style just works for me in a way that it doesn't for others, but I also vastly prefer the new/true Justice League over the $300 million dollar Saturday morning cartoon we got in 2017 Aquaman is a BIG shift in style and tone, but I really enjoyed it.
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Post by dazk on Apr 15, 2021 1:50:02 GMT
Please keep posting have been keeping an eye on that myself. Just watched Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. I think i had watched MoS before as it all seemed vaguely familiar. I was looking forward to B v S but if I hadn't been watching it in case there was something worth knowing for Justice League I might have stopped by half way. It just didn't grab me and I keep expecting big things of Gal Gadot but I just am not a fan. Anyway Aquaman next I hope it lives up to the hype but I won't be watching Wonder Woman 1984. Will do. Are you watching the "Ultimate Edition" of BvS, or the theatrical? Put another way, are you watching the 3 hour version, or the 2.5 hour one? I'm not an impartial/unbiased observer of these films, because Superman and Batman aren't just my favourite comic book characters, they're my favourite fictional characters, but the UE of BvS is great - dour, yes, but great - in my view, whereas I couldn't stop looking at my watch the one and only time I watched the theatrical cut. Maybe Snyder's style just works for me in a way that it doesn't for others, but I also vastly prefer the new/true Justice League over the $300 million dollar Saturday morning cartoon we got in 2017  Aquaman is a BIG shift in style and tone, but I really enjoyed it. Did not know there were two editions I just watched what was served up on Foxtel but it definitely wasn't 3hrs. Superman was a favourite for me growing up but ther became too many versions of him. Batman is a favourite of mine and Christian Bale's Batman is my favourite, that trilogy is one of my all time favourite sets of movies. Have you watched Shazam and Birds of Prey? They are recommended on a website to watch before watching Justice League Snyder's version, won't be watching the other one. 
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 15, 2021 2:25:14 GMT
Will do. Are you watching the "Ultimate Edition" of BvS, or the theatrical? Put another way, are you watching the 3 hour version, or the 2.5 hour one? I'm not an impartial/unbiased observer of these films, because Superman and Batman aren't just my favourite comic book characters, they're my favourite fictional characters, but the UE of BvS is great - dour, yes, but great - in my view, whereas I couldn't stop looking at my watch the one and only time I watched the theatrical cut. Maybe Snyder's style just works for me in a way that it doesn't for others, but I also vastly prefer the new/true Justice League over the $300 million dollar Saturday morning cartoon we got in 2017 Aquaman is a BIG shift in style and tone, but I really enjoyed it. Did not know there were two editions I just watched what was served up on Foxtel but it definitely wasn't 3hrs. Superman was a favourite for me growing up but ther became too many versions of him. Batman is a favourite of mine and Christian Bale's Batman is my favourite, that trilogy is one of my all time favourite sets of movies. Have you watched Shazam and Birds of Prey? They are recommended on a website to watch before watching Justice League Snyder's version, won't be watching the other one. Shazam is adorable and fun, and deserved to do a lot better than it did at the box office. Despite the central conceit of the character (young boy who gets super powers), it is NOT a movie for small kids. Birds of Prey is an odd one. I liked it, but not as much as I expected to like a R rated Harley Quinn movie. Your mileage may vary, but it was chaotic and deeply committed to a visual and story telling style. You don't need to watch either before watching Snyders JL, though. |
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Post by dazk on Apr 15, 2021 4:07:55 GMT
Did not know there were two editions I just watched what was served up on Foxtel but it definitely wasn't 3hrs. Superman was a favourite for me growing up but ther became too many versions of him. Batman is a favourite of mine and Christian Bale's Batman is my favourite, that trilogy is one of my all time favourite sets of movies. Have you watched Shazam and Birds of Prey? They are recommended on a website to watch before watching Justice League Snyder's version, won't be watching the other one. Shazam is adorable and fun, and deserved to do a lot better than it did at the box office. Despite the central conceit of the character (young boy who gets super powers), it is NOT a movie for small kids. Birds of Prey is an odd one. I liked it, but not as much as I expected to like a R rated Harley Quinn movie. Your mileage may vary, but it was chaotic and deeply committed to a visual and story telling style. You don't need to watch either before watching Snyders JL, though. I have wanted to watch Shazam as it was one of my favourites as a kid, so will watch it anyway and not sure if my kids have watched it so may include them, they are older teenagers. Will check out Birds of Prey as it sounds interesting from your description. 
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 15, 2021 7:44:49 GMT
Shazam is adorable and fun, and deserved to do a lot better than it did at the box office. Despite the central conceit of the character (young boy who gets super powers), it is NOT a movie for small kids. Birds of Prey is an odd one. I liked it, but not as much as I expected to like a R rated Harley Quinn movie. Your mileage may vary, but it was chaotic and deeply committed to a visual and story telling style. You don't need to watch either before watching Snyders JL, though. I have wanted to watch Shazam as it was one of my favourites as a kid, so will watch it anyway and not sure if my kids have watched it so may include them, they are older teenagers. Will check out Birds of Prey as it sounds interesting from your description.  Shazam and Aquaman stand alone in the current DC films that I can watch whatever my mood might be. That's not to say they're the best (in my view), just that there is a lightness to them that enhances a good mood and often helps lift a bad one. 
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Post by Kappa Neko on Apr 15, 2021 9:07:00 GMT
Finished The Americans last night.
I'm still in a daze from this journey...
That was one hell of a fucked up heartbreaking love story/family drama. Beautiful. Haunting.
The ending surprised me. I expected something very different. But it's a great ending. Very true to the characters.
The show stumbled in S5. It was amazing until midway through S4. Then it started spinning its wheels a bit. There were still a number of individual amazing scenes but the plotting was a mess. They should have scrapped S5 and worked it into the shorter but excellent S6. It would have been a near flawless show. Really impressive acting throughout in any case.
Still, one of the best shows I've ever seen. If one is willing to suspend disbelief on the silly spy stuff, that is. This was a marriage drama at its core.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Apr 15, 2021 13:53:31 GMT
Just watched episode 1 of The Nevers. It was...ok, and interesting enough that I'll give it an episode or two more before deciding to persevere with it. Please keep posting have been keeping an eye on that myself. Just watched Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. I think i had watched MoS before as it all seemed vaguely familiar. I was looking forward to B v S but if I hadn't been watching it in case there was something worth knowing for Justice League I might have stopped by half way. It just didn't grab me and I keep expecting big things of Gal Gadot but I just am not a fan. Anyway Aquaman next I hope it lives up to the hype but I won't be watching Wonder Woman 1984. Aquaman is horrible.....As bad (in my opinion) as THOR Ragnarok, the humour was so forced, misplaced and not funny. Which is unfortunate because I was looking forward to both of those titles. Man of Steel had tooo many gand scale fight scenes (especially the last one) where they just dragged on and on to the point where it got ridiculous and BvS or Justice League, I didn't even bother with. THOR Ragnarok's opening scene was promising, and it had some interesting elements in it (such as the destruction of Thor's hammer and the destruction of Asgaard).....But the supposed humour between Thor and Hulk and that silly character played by the Director Taika Waititi....was not funny and too much. It took up too much of the movie and made it into (or tried desperately) something it shouldn't've been. But the thing I really didn't get in the last/final Avengers movie is that (or how??) does Thor's hammer magically appear out of nowhere if it had been destroyed by Helga in Ragnarok? I mean, if he could have gotten it back at seemingly any time....What was the point of forging the axe? And where did the hammer manifest from at random to suddenly be reuinited with Thor at just the right moment when he needed it most? For me, the last good THOR movie was The Dark World...And Superman, well, the very first and original one with Christopher Reeve, but even those got silly as they made more.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Apr 15, 2021 17:30:29 GMT
Voyager's second half of season 7 was ♫ shiiiiit♫. I mean, seriously shit. Most episodes weren't worth going through. And Seven of Nine hooking up with Chakotay? I haven't seen an actor in a major role give such dry deliveries, since my school play. Went on to DS9 season 1 and having the benefit of foresight, having watched Voyager first, I saw B'etor, B'elana's mom in one of the first episodes of the show and Admiral Chakotay, who is not played by Robert Beltran and looks nothing like him. I assume it's a coincidence and there's plenty of Chakotays in Starfleet. If anything, Janeway makes note that Robert Beltran's Chakotay was only a captain, before joining the Maquis, not the admiral we see in DS9. Kira has some of the worst arcs in the show, so far, but I find her incredibly cute and Nana Visitor is really into her role, giving her 120% in every scene. I have a real fondness for Quark and we lost a great actor in Rene Auberjonois,a.k.a. Odo. Great performers all around and solid acting, lots of charisma, I am really feeling this show, which I wasn't expecting. And Superman, well, the very first and original one with Christopher Reeve, but even those got silly as they made more. Hey, there's always the alternate universe where Nicolas Cage is Superman and he fights a giant spider, so I guess we're doing pretty good for ourselves. I mean, we still got the "Superman fights an insland" in Returns, but things could be worse. There's Peta Wilson in the airplane scene, at least. |
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Voyager's second half of season 7 was ♫ shiiiiit♫. I mean, seriously shit. Most episodes weren't worth going through. And Seven of Nine hooking up with Chakotay? I haven't seen an actor in a major role give such dry deliveries, since my school play. Went on to DS9 season 1 and having the benefit of foresight, having watched Voyager first, I saw B'etor, B'elana's mom in one of the first episodes of the show and Admiral Chakotay, who is not played by Robert Beltran and looks nothing like him. I assume it's a coincidence and there's plenty of Chakotays in Starfleet. If anything, Janeway makes note that Robert Beltran's Chakotay was only a captain, before joining the Maquis, not the admiral we see in DS9. Kira has some of the worst arcs in the show, so far, but I find her incredibly cute and Nana Visitor is really into her role, giving her 120% in every scene. I have a real fondness for Quark and we lost a great actor in Rene Auberjonois,a.k.a. Odo. Great performers all around and solid acting, lots of charisma, I am really feeling this show, which I wasn't expecting. And Superman, well, the very first and original one with Christopher Reeve, but even those got silly as they made more. Hey, there's always the alternate universe where Nicolas Cage is Superman and he fights a giant spider, so I guess we're doing pretty good for ourselves. I mean, we still got the "Superman fights an insland" in Returns, but things could be worse. There's Peta Wilson in the airplane scene, at least. Yeah, unlike the last season of TNG in which the last episode was heart-breaking for both cast and viewers alike, I really got the feeling that for Voyager-- they couldn't end the season/series or final episode fast enough....Like everyone (the cast) just wanted to get the hell outta Dodge.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Apr 15, 2021 18:28:10 GMT
Yeah, unlike the last season of TNG in which the last episode was heart-breaking for both cast and viewers alike, I really got the feeling that for Voyager-- they couldn't end the season/series or final episode fast enough....Like everyone (the cast) just wanted to get the hell outta Dodge. I've been checking out Rick Berman's twitter and the reunions he does with the various Star Trek casts is ... very heartwarming. It feels like they're all a big family, even across shows. Very nice to see so many of them get along. |
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Post by fylimar on Apr 16, 2021 14:55:17 GMT
I'm watching 'The Serpent' on Netflix right now. It's a crime show based on the case of Charles Soubhraj, a serial killer and con artist, who targeted mostly backpack tourists and hippies in Thailand in the 70th. It's a really good show. I didn't know the case before, but since learned, that Soubhraj was the nightmare of a lot of backpack tourists back then, since rumours were flying around. The actors are quite good and there are scenes, that just leave you speechless. I was on the edge, when a character tried to escape Charles circle (I'm not going to spoil if that character made it or not - although you probably will know, if you know the case) for example. And I did feel the pain of that dutch embassy worker, Knippenberg, who was one of the few, who were interested in solving the murders and got frustrated so often along the way by his own superiors and the tricks of Charles himself. I really can recommend this show, one of the more intelligent crime shows, I saw recently.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Apr 17, 2021 4:20:34 GMT
I'm watching 'The Serpent' on Netflix right now. It's a crime show based on the case of Charles Soubhraj, a serial killer and con artist, who targeted mostly backpack tourists and hippies in Thailand in the 70th. It's a really good show. I didn't know the case before, but since learned, that Soubhraj was the nightmare of a lot of backpack tourists back then, since rumours were flying around. The actors are quite good and there are scenes, that just leave you speechless. I was on the edge, when a character tried to escape Charles circle (I'm not going to spoil if that character made it or not - although you probably will know, if you know the case) for example. And I did feel the pain of that dutch embassy worker, Knippenberg, who was one of the few, who were interested in solving the murders and got frustrated so often along the way by his own superiors and the tricks of Charles himself. I really can recommend this show, one of the more intelligent crime shows, I saw recently. We watched the first episode of that a couple of days ago. We thought it was “ok”, but the time jumping back and forth got annoying
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Post by fylimar on Apr 17, 2021 6:48:41 GMT
I'm watching 'The Serpent' on Netflix right now. It's a crime show based on the case of Charles Soubhraj, a serial killer and con artist, who targeted mostly backpack tourists and hippies in Thailand in the 70th. It's a really good show. I didn't know the case before, but since learned, that Soubhraj was the nightmare of a lot of backpack tourists back then, since rumours were flying around. The actors are quite good and there are scenes, that just leave you speechless. I was on the edge, when a character tried to escape Charles circle (I'm not going to spoil if that character made it or not - although you probably will know, if you know the case) for example. And I did feel the pain of that dutch embassy worker, Knippenberg, who was one of the few, who were interested in solving the murders and got frustrated so often along the way by his own superiors and the tricks of Charles himself. I really can recommend this show, one of the more intelligent crime shows, I saw recently. We watched the first episode of that a couple of days ago. We thought it was “ok”, but the time jumping back and forth got annoying You get used to it. It really is worth it in my opinion.
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Post by TooHotToHandle on Apr 19, 2021 8:13:36 GMT
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when the med students gave their names; Hondo and Yunbok. I remembered when I first watched this and heard them intro themselves, I went 
before laughing. 
