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  On 2/18/2022 at 6:03 AM, Lexx said:

That said, the tv app doesn't seem to have some sort of "save this for later"-function, only a "like", which would put it on my list ... but how can I "like" something that I haven't even started watching yet.

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Not sure which app you're using, but on my PS4 and Samsun/android tablet, (and webbrowser), they both have one of those "continue watching" category lines, often inserted under your Watchlist line, but it can vary in placement depending on Netflix's mood. So anything I click on and watch 10-20 minutes of usually gets socked into there. If you finish the entire thing (as in, credits roll on a last episode" with no episodes considered unfinished) it tends to auto-remove from that line, or you can manually "remove from row" before then, if you want. Although I notice it's slightly more annoying to do it in the browser vs. the apps..

Have never used a smart-TV app  tho, so dunno how different they are.

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Yikes, I forgot to write my weekly Discovery diatribe. I'm not going to do that in as much detail as usual, but let is suffice to say that it was, once again, patently dumb and bad. Season four, episode 10. Don't really care what the title is.

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  On 2/28/2022 at 12:01 AM, majestic said:

Discovery gets hit by a gamma ray burst - again, I might add - that's going through the shields, but everyone is strangely fine.

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Isn't that the thing where, if one were to ever strike Earth, would directly destroy a good amount of life on Earth...and indirectly finish off the rest? Seems like an inappropriate usage of it to use it so willy-nilly...I guess that's the least of that show's crimes, though.

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  On 2/28/2022 at 1:18 AM, Bartimaeus said:

Isn't that the thing where, if one were to ever strike Earth, would directly destroy a good amount of life on Earth...and indirectly finish off the rest? Seems like an inappropriate usage of it to use it so willy-nilly...I guess that's the least of that show's crimes, though.

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It's a good indicator of how much the show cares for getting the little details right. It's fine if a gamma ray burst doesn't kill everyone, that's why these ships all have fictional shielding technology, but once it's past the shields and is like a light flash on the bridge, it's everyone melts into goo time.

And yeah, Earth getting hit by a gamma ray burst is a potential extinction event.

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  On 2/28/2022 at 1:52 AM, majestic said:

It's a good indicator of how much the show cares for getting the little details right. It's fine if a gamma ray burst doesn't kill everyone, that's why these ships all have fictional shielding technology, but once it's past the shields and is like a light flash on the bridge, it's everyone melts into goo time.

And yeah, Earth getting hit by a gamma ray burst is a potential extinction event.

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Or we all turn into Hulks. That at least would be more entertaining than whatever the hell this hypothetical show from the anti-universe is doing.

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TNG: Lower Decks.

A good episode.  Sito Jaxa we hardly knew ye.  I remember the episode pretty well from first run, but had forgotten the character types (mostly remembering snips of scenes and the overall thrust of the plot) so it ws interesting to see how closely the characters here mirror the characters in Lower Decks the animated series, though, which was something I didn't remember.

Discovery, Season 2 Episodes 1, 2, 3

So far not awful by my standards (which would mostly be to become boring, but I do keep waiting for the other shoe to drop).  I don't find this Pike to be particularly like any Pike that has gone before, but he makes an effective leader character which I guess is good enough for the needs of the story.

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Characters are suffering from what I like to call "LOST-itis".  You know, where things could easily be solved if they actually talked to one another like normal people, but instead they keep secrets for no real reason other than to prolong the plot (the worst of the bunch is Tilly who keeps her secret for...like half an episode and for no real reason).

Sadly Stamets is missed a lot in the early episodes; nice to see him come back at the end of Episode 3 as the slightly jerky character we all like.  Saru gets a few good lines.  Jett Reno was a fun character in the one sequence she was in.  Tilly has been wildly all over the place.  Some of the other bridge crew get a bit more face time (and names said on screen).  Liked the gag about Lorka's ready room.

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The Klingon stuff...I kinda don't care.  Its nice to see some follow-up on the storyline, but the Klingon based story arcs were the weakest aspect of the first season, and nothing here has changed my mind.

Now to the big elephant in the room...

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Started watching "From" on Epix. Four episodes in and I am intrigued. 

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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  On 2/28/2022 at 1:53 PM, Amentep said:

Seriously though, the kind of "i'm going to defy the captains orders because I'm a hotshot and need to show up others and then immediately pilots into a meteor and dies" is what SHOULD have happened to Paris in Voyager

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Seriously can't even begin to imagine what B'Elana saw in that moron - guess it was her Klingon side telling her to fall for the closest angsty human version of a Klingon substitute possible.

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In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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  On 3/1/2022 at 12:19 AM, Bartimaeus said:

Seriously can't even begin to imagine what B'Elana saw in that moron - guess it was her Klingon side telling her to fall for the closest angsty human version of a Klingon substitute possible.

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The same thing Chakotay suddenly saw in Seven of Nine, out of nowhere. Lines of a script, written by hacks. A-koo-chee-moya. :p

I shouldn't be too hard on Voyager. Voyager is pretty watchable compared to the other stuff that came afterwards. Like One Night in Sickbay, which was probably the worst Star Trek episode until These Are The Voyages... which was the worst until every other Discovery episode became the worst until the androids in Picard summoned Mecha-Cthulhu from Dark Space (tm).

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  On 2/28/2022 at 1:53 PM, Amentep said:

Discovery, Season 2 Episodes 1, 2, 3

So far not awful by my standards (which would mostly be to become boring, but I do keep waiting for the other shoe to drop).  I don't find this Pike to be particularly like any Pike that has gone before, but he makes an effective leader character which I guess is good enough for the needs of the story.

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Characters are suffering from what I like to call "LOST-itis".  You know, where things could easily be solved if they actually talked to one another like normal people, but instead they keep secrets for no real reason other than to prolong the plot (the worst of the bunch is Tilly who keeps her secret for...like half an episode and for no real reason).

Sadly Stamets is missed a lot in the early episodes; nice to see him come back at the end of Episode 3 as the slightly jerky character we all like.  Saru gets a few good lines.  Jett Reno was a fun character in the one sequence she was in.  Tilly has been wildly all over the place.  Some of the other bridge crew get a bit more face time (and names said on screen).  Liked the gag about Lorka's ready room.

Speaking of Tilly...

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The Klingon stuff...I kinda don't care.  Its nice to see some follow-up on the storyline, but the Klingon based story arcs were the weakest aspect of the first season, and nothing here has changed my mind.

Now to the big elephant in the room...

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Ah, minor tip here, I don't think it'll help, but try not to think about anything that happens in Discovery going forward. It'll just break your brain if you try to make sense of it. Just "enjoy" the ride. You'll get to watch Skynet ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL at some point. That'll probably make no sense yet, but unfortunately it will soon enough...

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I'm not sure whether to give that the 'laugh' or 'gasp' icon...

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  On 2/28/2022 at 12:01 AM, majestic said:
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I don't quite understand. You said DMA is multiple light years in size. How can just one of the moons of Saturn be in it's way when it's coming towards earth?

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  On 3/1/2022 at 12:34 AM, majestic said:

The same thing Chakotay suddenly saw in Seven of Nine, out of nowhere. Lines of a script, written by hacks. A-koo-chee-moya.

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Poor Chakotay - the most boring and lame character possible compounded by writers who clearly did not give a crap about said character. Didn't know they tried to do that, though.

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In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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  On 3/1/2022 at 4:58 AM, kirottu said:

I don't quite understand. You said DMA is multiple light years in size. How can just one of the moons of Saturn be in it's way when it's coming towards earth?

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There's two answers, or rather, one answer with two components. First, the writers all have no concept of astronomical scales, but that's probably something Alex Kurtzman got from Jar Jar Abrams, or maybe it was the other way around. Han could watch the "Republic" die from Angkor Wat in The Force Awakens and Spock watched Vulcan disappear in a red-matter black hole too. The other is that since we barely have established any locations, Vulcan, Earth and Titan are the entire sum of the places the viewer is supposed to care about from the last season.

In the third season, Discovery could jump to Titan because it was outside of Earth's sensor range, and the outpost on Titan was capable of launching raids on Earth without being discovered. All from a moon of a planet that's visible from Earth with the naked eye.

Combine that and what does it matter that the DMA is large enough to encompass the entire Solar System and it's closest neighbours.

  On 3/1/2022 at 5:56 AM, Bartimaeus said:

Poor Chakotay - the most boring and lame character possible compounded by writers who clearly did not give a crap about said character. Didn't know they tried to do that, though.

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Last minute addon to the series. Like, literally. Chakotay and Seven are seen having a date in the very last episode, with an undertone of "this has been going on for a while" while nothing of the sort ever happened in the series. After on and off teasing a potential romance between Mr. Boring and Ms. Bipolar.

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  On 3/1/2022 at 12:34 AM, majestic said:

I shouldn't be too hard on Voyager. Voyager is pretty watchable compared to the other stuff that came afterwards. Like One Night in Sickbay, which was probably the worst Star Trek episode until These Are The Voyages... which was the worst until every other Discovery episode became the worst until the androids in Picard summoned Mecha-Cthulhu from Dark Space (tm).

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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Time to revisit an old friend I haven't seen in almost 30 years:

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My buddy and I watched this show religiously when it was on TV. He was a HUGE fan of Wild Wild West (the TV show), we both loved Bruce Campbell (who doesn't?), this was completely up our alleys. I remember absolutely loving this show then being horribly crushed when it got canned after season 1. That cancellation hurt worse than Firefly getting yanked.

Will it hold up? I'll report back.

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When rewatching Brisco County, just remember

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St... St... Discovery, thing. Episode something, season whatever.

"We're in orbit around a former gas giant. The gas was burnt off by meterorite impacts."

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Except for the beginning, the episode was fine, actually. Not good, but in the context of the endless sea of stupid this is, it was passable.

 

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appearance on youtube keep switching to light for some reason

anyone know what is going on?

boys presents diabolical

trying far too hard with all the blood and gore

each episode are independent and parody some trope or genre

episode 6 might be the best one

those news short are far more entertaining

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I saw the Adventures of Brisco County Jr a few years ago and it held up really well for the most part. The sci fi elements were always a bit silly* but all the Bowler/ Socrates/ Brisco/ Dixie interactions were good as ever.

As an aside, I'm not sure if we got the post orb episodes shown here first time around as I couldn't remember them at all. I actually checked if they'd made a 2nd season they were part of.

*they at least made more sense than meteorites burning the gas off a gas giant though.

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