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The original series is, more or less, quite shitty. There's basically a lot of shittyness in star trek, but when it's good it can be pretty amazing.
Next Gen has some great episodes in there with the sometimes dull ones. The one where the enterprise is taken over by terrorists and Picard pretends to be the ship's barber and is running round killing people with a crossbow is 'Under Siege' as fuck!!
Everything past Next Gen is pretty meh... Voyager is bloody horrible, I only need to hear that woman captain's voice and I go into an immediate murdarizing rage.
Basically Picard and Shatner are good.
Also Prox what are you making for ND's birthday present?
Edit: How come I didn't notice ND posting before me
I'd heard about an episode of DS9 I hadn't seen called The Visitor. I just watched it. Let me just say that there were tears. Possibly heaving sobs. Voyager is a bit of fun, but yes, also full of shittyness.
There were like 24 episodes a season. About 7 or 8 would be amazing. 7 or 8 would be entertaining enough. And 7 or 8 would be piss boring.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/02/11/satellites-collide-in-orbit/
Any angsty petulance today?
It's a complete whiteout fog here. We're on the 17th floor and can't see a thing in any direction.
No.
A friend whose opinion on TV I generally trust has begun a campaign to convince me that it's good, but I don't believe her and I think she's just trying to troll me. I can't believe the show is actually any good, but she was right about 30 Rock and Always Sunny.
What are you basing your judgment on? I mean, the disbelief that it could be good. What information are you using to form your opinion?
My own petty insecurities.
I really have little to go on other than:
a) I find almost any network sitcom to be banal and boring
b) Every snippet of BBT that I've ever seen has been banal, boring, and patronizing
I've grown to accept the fact that it's probably watchable, at least in small doses, but I'm stubborn so I refuse to. Keep in mind my reason for not watching 30 Rock for years was that I worked on the 30th floor of 30 Rock up until a few weeks before the show premeired. It's a stupid reason not to watch a tv show.
Also, I just don't watch that much tv.
I find it to be the most endearing and well-constructed sitcom I've seen in a long long time, and of course the science nut in me loves the references and in-jokes.
Either way, the point was that Bill Prady, one of the co-creators, is giving the keynote at TAM this year and I get to meet him.
Woooo.
See, your recommendation carries way more weight. The whole premise looked so ridiculously patronizing to geek culture. I guess it's not as bad as I thought it would be? Off the top of my head, I think only Futurama has ever really done that kind of humor well.
You know, I actually here that a lot.
The thing is, the geeks are the heroes in this one. They aren't the comic relief or the foil to some hollywood beauty. The show is really about them and how they deal with things and while it certainly exaggerates certain things, I know people exactly like every single one of them.
And there's a large percentage of the jokes where they say something smart and the "normal" blonde waitress across the hall doesn't get it. It's her not understanding that's the joke, not that these geeks are saying geeky things.
So, yeah, I like it. And there are little things like how the equations on their white board is actually progressing through a physics issue written up by a CalTech professor.
Ok, I'll give it a shot. Is it good right from the beginning, or does it take a while to get its legs?
I'm just stating my personal preference. I look forward to it every week, but I won't be bothered if you decide to skip it.
In other news, why won't the sun come out?
Awesome. Do you live in Southern Spain Crawdaddio? I've wanted to go there for a few years now.
I'm living there at least until the middle of June; I'm doing this teaching program there, helping kids in the public schools learn English by pretending I don't understand their Spanish. Which, honestly, isn't always that far from the truth; kids are apparently a lot harder to understand than adults, and that's saying something, going off of Andalusian Spanish...
I'd love to do this.
Does anyone else think the schools in the US should do this too? I sure as shit do (but with another language besides english... obviously). We'd probably get all those "SPEEK AMARICAN DAMMIT!" people though.
NAC: keep your filthy paws off him, he's mine.
EDIT: By the way, if it seems like something you'd be interested in doing, you could always apply. Or learn more about it.
I actually put both legs into my pants at the same time. However, I tend to suddenly meet the floor face to face when I do this...
Yeah, it's just a figure of speech.
I actually don't wear pants.
You're a genius. Why didn't I think of that?
Because I wear pants?
I totally set myself up with that comment.
I wish I were brave enough to jump in your pants.
But then you go and teach people. So that is awesome.