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A facepalm would be nice.

Yeah, tell me about it. Not all of that is stuff I'm looking forward to. Looking at you, Sailor Moon manga. Kinda hoping the live action Sailor Moon keeps being as goofy as it began, that might be some comedy gold then. Also really need to catch up on some live action stuff. And sleep. So much sleep. Night, for realsies now.

Bashir plays a 60ies Bond-style secret agent on DS9, and re-enacts the Battle of Britain with Miles. Other than that, drawing up a bit of a blank. Right, Enterprise has movie nights, but that would require me to acknowledge Enterprise. Which I kind of don't want to.

I have two episodes of Utena left, but I think I'll call it a night. The day has been exhausting, and while it's more fun to watch Utena when your brain's a mush because nothing really bothers you about it (not even Utena finding out about Anthy's late night, uhm, activities) and it doesn't matter at all if things happen for no real reason. I don't think any saving throw in the world will rescue that ending. edit: I just realized the first paragraph simply ends. I'll leave it like that, it really proves my point. Good night guys, the TV thread's been a riot. Sort of. Could have done without the Pegasus part. @KP the meanie zucchini have you decided on Utena yet?

Try as a might, I can't come up with a decent reply to that. DIO, his eyes stingy.

Amazon Trio, at Crystal Lake. Or let's make that even worse, perhaps: Makoto, her dress frilly. edit: I think I just ruined Darmok forever with that, and @KP the meanie zucchini is to blame for coming up with the idea.

Why does Toga have a motorcycle all of a sudden? I... sure. By this point, everything is daijoubu with me.

Drills, uniforms, shaving every day, being subjected to the whims of sadistic morons. Yeah, hard pass. Military life is just not for me. I spent my nine months in the army and hated every last day of it. Except the week where I got sick because our immediate superiors thought it a fun idea to pretend we're the Wehrmacht in Russia and sent us out in the cold and snow at -20° C in our summer gear. That was fun.

I don't like the Prophets either, and for the record, while I like Q the character, the Q as a race are such an infathomably stupid idea that I'm surprised the writers came up with as many decent episodes involving them as they did. Even the Voyager Q episodes were some of the better ones. With Discovery maybe, Picard? No. That entire series hinges on the idea that the Federation turned into Trump-America within 25 years, based on a crisis that isn't even in the ballpark of possible. I wouldn't ever do it, but you could kind of watch a few select season one and two episodes, and then go for three. You can potentially skip the first season completely, but you'd miss out on Measure of a Man without forming some attachment to Data prior to that, and the preceeding season two episodes won't cut it completely, I think. Yes, it really is a conundrum.

Spoilered, because horror: Ah, screw it. You will suffer. You will ALL suffer: And yes, that's some hot girl on horse action. And she's like nine. So that's perfectly fine, nothing to see here. Nothing!

You're one evil meanie zucchini, really.

Visiting Japan sure would be nice, stroll around and try all the food I keep seeing in TV shows . Alas, I doubt that I'll manage.

Have you watched his 50 hour documentation on movie making yet?

Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Well, it's the most fitting reply, sort of. Plus it's been a while. Not sure if I should be frightend that I remember that much or proud of my nerdiness. Great, now I want to watch Darmok. edit: Klingon is for amateurs. Yeah, well, dunno. I'd put most of season one at D- or worse. Anything that has early Wesley in it for longer than 2 minutes also auto-defaults to F. Except Where No Man Has Gone Before.

The quote function cannot your table. Well... to quote something non-trek yet strangely fitting for this forum: I'm sorry that you feel that way, old man. edit: Seriously though, in what universe is Code of Honor anything but an F-tier episode, or maybe an S-tier if you go for the absolute trashiest Trek-trash you could find? edit 2: I don't even disagree that Season 5 is the begin of the decline of TNG's average episode quality. But everything, even season seven, is ahead of one and two. Not even Sub Rosa is as bad as Code of Honor. Although it's really close. Really close to being the worst Trek episode of all time even. Yet, most of the episodes I'm really looking forward to when rewatching TNG come from seasons 4 and 5.

Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.

I've been goofing about in the StarCrawlers: Chimera alpha. Still really rough around the edges, and I'm hoping they won't keep the auto-heal button in the game. When you press space, turns fly by, and you have auto-healing, so when you're down on health, instead of using your consumables or anything you just stand there and wait for a spell. Well, and press space. I sure hope that won't end in a time limit. I could get behind patrols showing up eventually, or something though. Still an alpha, after all. Not liking the Force Psyker changes so far.

*backs away very, very slowly from this thread*

Even then, they had a decent setup and potential (and in the case of Voyager, it stayed mostly unrealized). Discovery and Picard are utterly devoid of that. There is nothing, absolutely nothing you can do with these. The only time Discovery got any fun as a show was when they had mirror universe episodes, and that was mostly because they threw everything out and told the actors to have fun and chew the scenery in best Shatnarian tradition. It sure wasn't Star Trek, but it was fun to watch - unlike the DS9 mirror universe episodes that I generally found very annoying. Picard's entire premise is as dumb as Jar Jar Abram's opening narration of Star Trek 2009. No, the Romulan sun going supernova will not threaten the entire galaxy you hack, and no, Mr. Dreckzman, it will not cause a refugee crisis later that will threaten to undermine - or has undermined - the values of the Federation. It will cause a crisis for the Romulans, of course, but eh, other than that? Nobody's willing to take in refugees? And that's just the premise, never mind the presence of Mass Effect style mechanical reaper beings that look like Mecha-Cthulu and regularily cull organics when called upon by repressed AIs some 30 years after "The Measure of a Man". Man, how I wish I didn't make this up.

On a whim* I rewatched episode nine of Violet Evergarden. It's probably the bleakest the anime ever gets, but also the most hopeful. It also forgoes both the regular opening and ending credits to maximize content. I've tried to come up with posts for three times now, but I always end up deleting them. So, no spoilers here. Yet, maybe. *sigh* *Not exactly a whim, was clicking through clips on YouTube after all.

SG1's final episode is called "Unending" because that's what it was, an un-ending. It resolved nothing of the ongoing storylines. Atlantis' final episode was a hastily cobbled together mess of ideas that were supposed to be developed over a full season, not one episode. Universe was cancelled on a cliffhanger. Only SG1 got final straight to DVD films to deal with the storylines, and they were, while not bad, certainly not great. You'd have a point if SG1 ended with Season 7 or 8. But it didn't...

Cantina's having their usual summer menu, which is great. Today was tuna salad or pizza, so I went with the tuna salad. Can't eat a pepperoni pizza for lunch. I mean, I totally could, but not if I'm expected to be productive afterwards.

I figured you would be, but there's no clear cut answer. The first, say, 23 episodes are worth it, and after that point you might as well finish. It does get frustrating. "Occasionally". The OVA gives some more information that's been missing from the original series. The entire scope of the conflict becomes clear when you see the sheer amount of dead letters in this region alone. It might work better... or actually, it might mean more if you already know the characters more in-depth when you watch it after the series proper, but I think the information and interactions within are too important to not use the OVA as a bridge between the episodes where you'd otherwise have to fill in the gaps of the timeskip between 4 and 5 on your own. Not that this is impossible, it's just more... complete this way. Otherwise yes, this is "just" a 10 minutes longer episode.

Right, I forgot the part where he's actually bare chested: Yay. No, it's not. It's also really different from the weird that weirds in JoJo's. DIO gives Utena a pair of earrings and suddenly has a GIANT CARROT in his hand. I don't even WANT to know if that is supposed to mean what it maybe is supposed to mean. Now he holds the carrot to his head, like Chibi-Usa did with the horse. And there's an actual horse galloping around. Sure show!

The two are currently engaged in a photo shooting where DIO takes pictures of an almost gym god like Akio sprawled out with a bare chest on a tower of cars. Edit: Now he's eating a Rose. Presumably that Rose is Utena. Sure... really, why not. Want to take a guess? It's as good as mine, it is.