Saw the first two eps of that new Pac-man show. Its all right, but it feels like they made a TV series based on those awkward cut scenes you'd see in early 3D platformers, only without the video game.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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Been watching The Twilight Zone lately.
Some episodes will leave me thinking "This show's amazing. This has to have been one of the smartest shows ever." And then there are those episodes where the the whole story is a lot of nothing that may or may not lead to a bland, forgettable twist.[DOUBLEPOST=1374900324][/DOUBLEPOST]
Some episodes will leave me thinking "This show's amazing. This has to have been one of the smartest shows ever." And then there are those episodes where the the whole story is a lot of nothing that may or may not lead to a bland, forgettable twist.[DOUBLEPOST=1374900324][/DOUBLEPOST]
Need to call this from the previous page just to back it up; season 2 is my favorite. So many classic episodes and the arc of the season was fantastic.
That ending still breaks me so many years after first seeing it while in middle school.
Yes, I quoted the exact same quote earlier. That line had me in stitches.
The show is fucking wonderful,
Oh come on, his episodes are usually pretty fun and he always made for a decent background character to add a little bit of character to an episode. I don't think he would work if someone as good at character roles as Dwight Schultz wasn't playing him.
As long as he isn't turned into a man-spider. That was a dopey episode.
As long as he isn't turned into a man-spider. That was a dopey episode.
Saw the first two episodes of that new Axe Cop show, and the fact that Axe Cop is voiced by Nick Offerman is PERFECT casting.
Scandal is the best fucking show. Why did I ever doubt Shooooooooooonda?!?!
There will still be a bit of class in the future.
I mean, what they ended up doing with him was good, what with Nog and all(loved that episode), but he just came out of nowhere. It was like the producers got the rights to a bunch of rat pack songs and needed to use them as often as possible.
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I love Vic Fontaine. Possibly my favorite character from DS9.
Um... OK.
People who enjoy Star Trek have differing opinions about individual characters.
In other news, I really miss season 1 and 2 Liz Lemon. I'm still enjoying 30 Rock, but it feels like the less she's in an episode, the better. Which sucks, because I love Tina Fey. The character is just getting on my nerves the past season and a half.
In other news, I really miss season 1 and 2 Liz Lemon. I'm still enjoying 30 Rock, but it feels like the less she's in an episode, the better. Which sucks, because I love Tina Fey. The character is just getting on my nerves the past season and a half.
Well, I've finished watching the entirety of DS9. I've come to the conclusion that the main reason people have such fond memories of that series was solely for the last two seasons. Which for the most part are great. You just have to slog through 5 seasons ranging OK to terrible to get to it. The finale was good, and tied up a bunch of stuff and left you with a sense of closure of everything but the ultimate fate of Sisko.
So, now I can definitively say that I still prefer Voyager over DS9 overall. While DS9 had a better overall arching storyline with the Dominion War and the conflict between the Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths, I simply enjoyed watching Voyager more. I found the characters in DS9 to be more like cogs in a larger machine as opposed to genuinely entertaining characters, with a few exceptions.
End result, I give it a 6 out of 10.
So, now I can definitively say that I still prefer Voyager over DS9 overall. While DS9 had a better overall arching storyline with the Dominion War and the conflict between the Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths, I simply enjoyed watching Voyager more. I found the characters in DS9 to be more like cogs in a larger machine as opposed to genuinely entertaining characters, with a few exceptions.
End result, I give it a 6 out of 10.
I'd like to know more on how you thought Voyager had better characters, since I share the opposite opinion.
I disagree about the last two seasons part, having just rewatched it myself. I think DS9 has the best first 2 seasons (always the weakest) of all modern Star Trek. Of course they had their share of shitty episodes, but now watching TNG, I'm shocked the show wasn't cancelled in the first 2 seasons. I was going to watch Voyager before TNG, but in the first 6 episodes, they reused the "This energy source will be great for us, whoops, it's a sentient creature unlike anything we've ever seen" twice and I thought they were really boring.
I like that DS9 tried out Q once and decided he wasn't a good fit for the show, something Voyager should have done.
I disagree about the last two seasons part, having just rewatched it myself. I think DS9 has the best first 2 seasons (always the weakest) of all modern Star Trek. Of course they had their share of shitty episodes, but now watching TNG, I'm shocked the show wasn't cancelled in the first 2 seasons. I was going to watch Voyager before TNG, but in the first 6 episodes, they reused the "This energy source will be great for us, whoops, it's a sentient creature unlike anything we've ever seen" twice and I thought they were really boring.
I like that DS9 tried out Q once and decided he wasn't a good fit for the show, something Voyager should have done.
This has been back and forth many times on the board already. I simply liked the characters on voyager better. I can't think of a character that I actively hated on voyager( the closest being Kim). I've already stated multiple times how much I simply hate Bashir and Kira. Sisko was meh to me. I literally just had more fun watching voyager.
Cool, it was just a curiosity question, I knew your dislike for some of the DS9 characters.
I kind of dug their weird armor though. I wanted DS9 to reuse that blocky armor in the Cardassian flashback sequences.
It's funny, the makeup for new aliens always seemed to be designed around the actor that's portraying them. Armin Shimerman was one of the first pack of Ferengi and was always the person who looked the most natural in the makeup. Marc Alaimo was the first Cardassian and they seemed to design it around his crazy long neck and he always looked the "most" Cardassian. Same goes for Michael Dorn and Klingons (the ridges were MUCH more subdued in the movies Klingons appeared in before TNG).
It's funny, the makeup for new aliens always seemed to be designed around the actor that's portraying them. Armin Shimerman was one of the first pack of Ferengi and was always the person who looked the most natural in the makeup. Marc Alaimo was the first Cardassian and they seemed to design it around his crazy long neck and he always looked the "most" Cardassian. Same goes for Michael Dorn and Klingons (the ridges were MUCH more subdued in the movies Klingons appeared in before TNG).
Yeah, and looking back, they weren't nearly as unridgey as I remembered. It's the Motion Picture Klingons that had the barely ridges (and Star Trek 6 for whatever reason).
The first 2-3 seasons of TNG, they really weren't goign for anything interesting or over-arching. Some episodes were quite literally remakes of TOS episodes, and they stuck very much to the same planet-of-hats, flavour-of-the-week thing. While I like a lot of the characters from both TNG and TOS, I don't like most actual episodes there, upon rewatching. The middle part of TNG is much more my flavour.
As for Buffy....Never got into it. I know, not liking something Whedon is practically trason these days and will get you shunned in nerd circles, and whatever, but I never did really get why it's supposed to be such a great series. It fell into the same soap-opera(preferable-with-cute-young-women-as-protagonists-)-with-some-supernatural-crap-thrown-in category as Charmed or Sabrina: Teenage Witch. Sure fun to watch, but not actually engaging or interesting. Yes, the universe behind it is an interesting setting, but the show itself? Eh.
That is a good episode, if not a little contrived (Picard as defense, Riker as prosecution).
Well sure. But that contrivance also created a couple nice moments for Data and Riker so I'm okay with it. Riker's initial refusal also resulted in a good line: "Then I will be forced to rule summarily. Data is a toaster. Report immediately for experimental refit."[DOUBLEPOST=1375191856][/DOUBLEPOST]Plus I kinda liked it better than the usual TNG tack of "let's introduce a new character, most likely an admiral, who is working against Picard in some way, so we the audience have no reason to like or agree with them at all."
By putting Riker in that role, we kind of got a tinge of "oh damn, he could win, and what's worse, part of us wants him too since he's a main character".
I like that later on in Season 5, Data's Day, the whole episode is a narrated letter to C0mmander Maddox. They definitely kept on good terms.[DOUBLEPOST=1375192010][/DOUBLEPOST]
One thing that super bothered me in that episode is when Riker shuts Data down. That, to me, is just straight up assault. Being turned off like that was terrible evidence, since Vulcans can do it to anyone just as easily.