Amentep Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
LadyCrimson Posted February 23, 2022 Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) 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. Expand 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. Edited February 23, 2022 by LadyCrimson “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
InsaneCommander Posted February 23, 2022 Posted February 23, 2022 On 2/19/2022 at 12:22 AM, majestic said: Let's see what else is in the recommendations then. Steins;Gate 0. Nope. Expand
Hurlshort Posted February 24, 2022 Posted February 24, 2022 I am binging Inventing Anna with my wife. It is a fascinating story.
Hurlshort Posted February 25, 2022 Posted February 25, 2022 Peacemaker had a pretty good cameo by the heavy hitters at the end.
majestic Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 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. A few key things: Reveal hidden contents Discovery has huge issues moving through the galactic barrier because of <reason> while no other ship in the franchise had troubles to leave the galaxy. The Enterprise didn't, only troubles with the crew afterwards, and the Enterprise-D certainly didn't either in the first season. Never mind. I said before that President Rillak read the script in advance, and now that was confirmed. The DMA is now headed to Earth, with Vulcan and Titan (yes, the moon) along it's projected path. 71 hours left on the count down to destruction. We've upped the stakes a wittle bit. Discovery gets hit by a gamma ray burst - again, I might add - that's going through the shields, but everyone is strangely fine. Eh... some hackneyed teary eye flashback for McKay while he's searching with Book for programmable antimatter to reinforce their shields with. Sounds like a plan. Michael keeps handing off the conn whenver she leaves the bridge. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Bartimaeus Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 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. Expand 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. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Expand
majestic Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) 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. Expand 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. Edited February 28, 2022 by majestic 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 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. Expand 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. 1 "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
Amentep Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 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. Reveal hidden contents They killed a blue shirt! HOW DARE THEY? 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. It would have made that show's first season 100% better, in my opinion. 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... Reveal hidden contents I've seen a lot of flap online about Tilly winning the marathon which I'm assuming is this one and not some future marathon because the show becomes STAR TREK: RUNNING MAN or something - it seems to me regardless of everything else, it might be quite legitimate to take May Aehern/fungal parasite at her word that she helped Tilly win. Unless something later contradicts that possibility. Particularly given that she is able to catch up to them after arguing with Aehern which seems like a superhuman feat that only makes sense if Aehern is right. 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... Reveal hidden contents Spock. None of the back story really fits with the backstory for Spock from the original series and the Animated series (at least as I recall it). That was to be expected since Burnham was being retroactively added, but the arc for Spock, being so profoundly mentally effected by the appearance of the Red Angel almost feels like it'd make more sense as Sybok's story arc (a character they haven't even bothered to namecheck despite the obvious reasons why namechecking him would make sense). An experience like seeing the Red Angel could have easily been established as something that would - after the events of this story - sets him on his eventual path to rejecting logic and seeking out forbidden texts and eventually Sha-ka-re - the Galactic light. As such, using Sybok instead of Spock would have been a nice way to develop further the oddities of Sarek's family, to develop a character who goes on to be an important tragic villain in a movie and who is mostly an unexplored character whose relationship with Sarek, Amanda, Spock and now Burnham hasn't really been explored. Plus you could have still had Spock essentially out of the picture for these episodes as he could have left on his vacation to search for Sybok (instead of the 'check himself into a mental health facility' aspect of the story) so structurally nothing so far would have been changed by this. Anyhow, it seems a bit of a waste, to me, and something that might have made for a richer story, since so much of Burnham's back story so far has been dealing with the awkward family dynamics she was raised in and Sybok is so awkward they haven't even mentioned him once in the show. It might have worked more for fandom, too (more so than heavily altering Spock's backstory*). *there has always been the oddity with "The Cage" that Spock was shown to be clearly emotional; an alternative path with this Red Angel visitation story, I suppose, would have been to argue that Spock's emotionality seen there was part of his 'breakdown' regarding seeing the Red Angel which in turn could have explained a long standing continuity issue that came from revising the show for the second pilot - except that the description that we get that Spock became more withdrawn doesn't fit what we see in "The Cage" either. That said, I'm not 100% sure if this is supposed to be before or after The Cage, but I think before, hence why I mentioned it. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Guard Dog Posted February 28, 2022 Posted February 28, 2022 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
Bartimaeus Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 (edited) 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 Expand 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. Edited March 1, 2022 by Bartimaeus 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Expand
majestic Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 (edited) 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. Expand The same thing Chakotay suddenly saw in Seven of Nine, out of nowhere. Lines of a script, written by hacks. A-koo-chee-moya. 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). Oh how I wish I'd be exaggerating just how breathtakingly stupid this was... edit: 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. Reveal hidden contents They killed a blue shirt! HOW DARE THEY? 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. It would have made that show's first season 100% better, in my opinion. 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... Reveal hidden contents I've seen a lot of flap online about Tilly winning the marathon which I'm assuming is this one and not some future marathon because the show becomes STAR TREK: RUNNING MAN or something - it seems to me regardless of everything else, it might be quite legitimate to take May Aehern/fungal parasite at her word that she helped Tilly win. Unless something later contradicts that possibility. Particularly given that she is able to catch up to them after arguing with Aehern which seems like a superhuman feat that only makes sense if Aehern is right. 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... Reveal hidden contents Spock. None of the back story really fits with the backstory for Spock from the original series and the Animated series (at least as I recall it). That was to be expected since Burnham was being retroactively added, but the arc for Spock, being so profoundly mentally effected by the appearance of the Red Angel almost feels like it'd make more sense as Sybok's story arc (a character they haven't even bothered to namecheck despite the obvious reasons why namechecking him would make sense). An experience like seeing the Red Angel could have easily been established as something that would - after the events of this story - sets him on his eventual path to rejecting logic and seeking out forbidden texts and eventually Sha-ka-re - the Galactic light. As such, using Sybok instead of Spock would have been a nice way to develop further the oddities of Sarek's family, to develop a character who goes on to be an important tragic villain in a movie and who is mostly an unexplored character whose relationship with Sarek, Amanda, Spock and now Burnham hasn't really been explored. Plus you could have still had Spock essentially out of the picture for these episodes as he could have left on his vacation to search for Sybok (instead of the 'check himself into a mental health facility' aspect of the story) so structurally nothing so far would have been changed by this. Anyhow, it seems a bit of a waste, to me, and something that might have made for a richer story, since so much of Burnham's back story so far has been dealing with the awkward family dynamics she was raised in and Sybok is so awkward they haven't even mentioned him once in the show. It might have worked more for fandom, too (more so than heavily altering Spock's backstory*). *there has always been the oddity with "The Cage" that Spock was shown to be clearly emotional; an alternative path with this Red Angel visitation story, I suppose, would have been to argue that Spock's emotionality seen there was part of his 'breakdown' regarding seeing the Red Angel which in turn could have explained a long standing continuity issue that came from revising the show for the second pilot - except that the description that we get that Spock became more withdrawn doesn't fit what we see in "The Cage" either. That said, I'm not 100% sure if this is supposed to be before or after The Cage, but I think before, hence why I mentioned it. Expand 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... Edited March 1, 2022 by majestic 1 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Amentep Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 I'm not sure whether to give that the 'laugh' or 'gasp' icon... 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
kirottu Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 12:01 AM, majestic said: Reveal hidden contents I said before that President Rillak read the script in advance, and now that was confirmed. The DMA is now headed to Earth, with Vulcan and Titan (yes, the moon) along it's projected path. 71 hours left on the count down to destruction. We've upped the stakes a wittle bit. Expand 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? 1 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Bartimaeus Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 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. Expand 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. 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Expand
majestic Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 (edited) 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? Expand 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. Expand 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. Edited March 1, 2022 by majestic 2 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted March 1, 2022 Posted March 1, 2022 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). Oh how I wish I'd be exaggerating just how breathtakingly stupid this was... Expand 1 "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
Keyrock Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 Time to revisit an old friend I haven't seen in almost 30 years: 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. 3 1 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Amentep Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 When rewatching Brisco County, just remember Reveal hidden contents that NOBODY touches Pete's piece! 2 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
majestic Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 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." Reveal hidden contents You'd think they're walking towards a space shuttle that'll bring them and some nukes to an incoming asteroid, like in a certain Michael Bay film ca. 1998. Michael leaves for an archeological expedition hoping to find something to help them communicate with the creators of the negative space wedgie that's en route to destroying Earth, Vulcan AND Titan at the same time. Yep. The black leather hyper cool walk moment is for... visiting a dead world hoping to find some ruins. Episode is called Rosetta, so that probably means they'll find something, at least. Fun fact, Rosette, which is pretty similar to Rosetta, is a German colloqualism for the anal sphincter. This has more to do with the sphincter than the Rosetta stone, really. Cool and the Gang land on the gas giant's solid core and just step outside willy nilly. Yeah, almost. They ARE wearing space suits, for all the good that would do them. For reference, Jupiter's core is in the ballpark of ten to fourteen times as massive as Earth. Even if all the gas went away for some reason, you... ah to hell with it, never mind any of that. They find some ancient ruins, Saru has premonitions of DEATH and a mass grave of what's presumably species TEN-C, giant fossilized bone structures from creatures "floating" in the gaseous layers of the former, ah, gas giant. No, this is not a screenshot from Mass Effect, although it may as well be. Book and McKay infiltrate Discovery to install a sensor hack so Book's ship can piggyback on Discovery. It's a really riveting, interesting and fun subplot that's about as fun, riveting and interesting as it sounds. McKay runs into Reno, and we cut away from the scene, yay, tension. Michael finds the TEN-C Rosetta stone: A group of 16 pheromones presumably used to communicate. Progress, progress... Book finds Reno on his shuttle, apparently McKay took her hostage. Well, why not. 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. 4 1 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
InsaneCommander Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 On 3/4/2022 at 10:00 PM, majestic said: "We're in orbit around a former gas giant. The gas was burnt off by meterorite impacts." Expand 3
Raithe Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 Oh Boy! New Quantum Leap Pilot Has Cast Raymond Lee in Lead Role | Tor.com "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
uuuhhii Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 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
Zoraptor Posted March 5, 2022 Author Posted March 5, 2022 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. 1
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