[TV] Thread: Non-Brazilian time traveler Dean Stockwell has taken a Quantum Leap home

Hacksaw

Old thread reached 100 pages. Come post here, in the new thread.

All your favorite shows are leaving Netflix/Hulu/whatever. Welcome to the dark new world of Everybody Loves Streaming Money (but no one wants to let anyone else play with their stuff so they're going to hire a bunch of software engineers to make them a streaming platform that's going to suck in comparison to the big competitors and every one of them is going to work slightly differently due to the madness that is Patent Law in America because this country is a hex maintained by cursed people and we're all living inside a flux bubble of damnation and pain)!

DouglasDanger

Streaming turn into cable but stupider was very obvious, in hindsight.

Librarian's ghost

This is the Garak appreciation thread now. Sorry other TV.

PiptheFair

Librarian's ghost wrote: »

This is the Garak appreciation thread now. Sorry other TV.

I call that a bargain

Pinfeldorf

What a great guy. Simple tailor. Good conversationalist. Never hurt a fly, that one.

Poorochondriac

TV is short for "television," not everybody knows that

The Judge

Poorochondriac wrote: »

TV is short for "television," not everybody knows that

This is the sort of hard hitting, insider knowledge only you can provide.

Jragghen

I sometimes reflect on the fact that "television" is the same sort of retrofuture nonsense name like all those other things from the era, but it stuck and has been around so long we don't even think about it.

Poorochondriac

Jragghen wrote: »

I sometimes reflect on the fact that "television" is the same sort of retrofuture nonsense name like all those other things from the era, but it stuck and has been around so long we don't even think about it.

"Email" feels like the fakest, laziest 50s sci-fi term. "What if mail but... Electronic???"

nightmarenny

I'm watching Breaking Bad for the first time and hey is it normal to be completely on Gustavo's side by the end of season 4?

Jedoc

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Jragghen wrote: »

I sometimes reflect on the fact that "television" is the same sort of retrofuture nonsense name like all those other things from the era, but it stuck and has been around so long we don't even think about it.

"Email" feels like the fakest, laziest 50s sci-fi term. "What if mail but... Electronic???"

My favorite midcentury sci-fi communication was from the Little Fuzzy novels by H. Beam Piper. You dictated your message, your console would broadcast it via radio at 50x playback speed, and the other person's console would slow it down and play it back for them.

Poorochondriac

Jedoc wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Jragghen wrote: »

I sometimes reflect on the fact that "television" is the same sort of retrofuture nonsense name like all those other things from the era, but it stuck and has been around so long we don't even think about it.

"Email" feels like the fakest, laziest 50s sci-fi term. "What if mail but... Electronic???"

My favorite midcentury sci-fi communication was from the Little Fuzzy novels by H. Beam Piper. You dictated your message, your console would broadcast it via radio at 50x playback speed, and the other person's console would slow it down and play it back for them.

Ha! I love that

Tofystedeth

Jedoc wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Jragghen wrote: »

I sometimes reflect on the fact that "television" is the same sort of retrofuture nonsense name like all those other things from the era, but it stuck and has been around so long we don't even think about it.

"Email" feels like the fakest, laziest 50s sci-fi term. "What if mail but... Electronic???"

My favorite midcentury sci-fi communication was from the Little Fuzzy novels by H. Beam Piper. You dictated your message, your console would broadcast it via radio at 50x playback speed, and the other person's console would slow it down and play it back for them.

Hey Jedoc, you get that thing I zipsqueeled you?

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I want awards for Zahn McClarnon for this episode of Reservation Dogs and I want them now.

PaperLuigi44

I want the Thunderbirds communication system where I call people via a portrait sized photo they have of me on their wall that changes into a video screen

Odin

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I want the Thunderbirds communication system where I call people via a portrait sized photo they have of me on their wall that changes into a video screen

The tech is there, could be a fun DIY project

Poorochondriac

Alert, alert

Latest Rez Dogs is a centerpiece for Zahn McClarnon's character

Alert, alert

It also has Wes Studi KILLING it as a dirtbag, it has Redbone jokes, it has a Drunktown's Finest easter egg, it's so fucking good

Matev

They had me at

Deer Woman

and they never let go

knitdan

Ok I have a question about Letterkenny season 3

Who is this new Native girl that’s hanging out with Wayne and did I miss a scene where she was introduced?

She’s not Tamis, though Tamis and Wayne are still friendly.

Nobody ever talks to her or says her name

She’s just kind of around in a noticeable way

Ketar

knitdan wrote: »

Ok I have a question about Letterkenny season 3

Who is this new Native girl that’s hanging out with Wayne and did I miss a scene where she was introduced?

She’s not Tamis, though Tamis and Wayne are still friendly.

Nobody ever talks to her or says her name

She’s just kind of around in a noticeable way

Tanis, not Tamis.

I'm not sure who you're talking about though. Can't recall any native women hanging out with Wayne at that point. Do you mean Rosie? https://letterkenny.fandom.com/wiki/Rosie

knitdan

I do mean Rosie, because i’m watching a scene where the gang is actually interacting with her and they mentioned her name.

My apologies if she is not in fact Native.

Edit: apparently she is a recurring character and also Gail’s cousin? Maybe I need to watch this show more carefully and not just vibe to the musicality of everyone yapping in Canadian about random stuff.

Matev

That's fair. It's legitimately the best patter I've seen on a TV show ever.

Ketar

Yeah, she's Gail's cousin. She had been in season 2 - I think her first appearance was bringing her dog to spend time with Wayne's dog.

Hacksaw

This is your regular reminder that the HBO Max app is a piece of shit engineered by garbage people with bad playback and even worse captioning.

Thanks for taking my money, HBO! So glad you're on top of making sure your one and only streaming platform is working like a charm!

Undead Scottsman

https://twitter.com/HistoryMuppet/status/1432324801310470146

Incredible moment from the Muppet Show pitch reel to CBS

RMS Oceanic

Movies are called Movies because things Move around in them

WeedLordVegeta

I look forward to the moment in everyone's ds9 rewatches where they realize that the true star is and always has been Jeffery Combs

Shorty

does he fight a puppet?

nightmarenny

nightmarenny wrote: »

I'm watching Breaking Bad for the first time and hey is it normal to be completely on Gustavo's side by the end of season 4?

This is very interesting to watch so many years late because

Halfway through the scene where Gus comes to Jesse in the hospital I remembered that I already know that Walter poisoned the child. That's like, the one thing I knew about the show when I started.

Despite forgetting, I never bought Walt's obvious lie about Gus doing it. I'm a little surprised. I thought finding out that Walt poisoned a child was supposed to be a twist but after like a season and a half of Walt fucking up his relationship with the worlds most forgiving drug dealer I had no doubt who was responsible for this.

Also God I hope that everybody hated Ted when this came out because that privileged mansplaining idiot drives me crazy. I'm pretty sure this is an accurate reproduction of how idiot CEOs manage to go to prison.

Librarian's ghost

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

I look forward to the moment in everyone's ds9 rewatches where they realize that the true star is and always has been Jeffery Combs

Combs is one of the only good parts of Star Trek Enterprise.

Peen

I love that the people in charge of DS9 recognized what they had and gave him two parts.

Edit:

I'd love to know which one is everyone's favorite, mine is definitely Brunt.

The Geek

Peen wrote: »

I love that the people in charge of DS9 recognized what they had and gave him two parts.

Edit:

I'd love to know which one is everyone's favorite, mine is definitely Brunt.

Three. There's also Tiron

Well, technically

Like, at least 7 or so, if you count the Weyouns separately.

The Geek

Also, one of his greatest other roles

https://youtu.be/yRU4iZUsTY0

cj iwakura

I thought it might be the Matt Berry appreciation thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-ZGP68-3w

He wishes he was cool, like Dagless.

Zonugal

The thing to remember about Jeffery Combs is that his body is a roadmap of pain and pain has its valves.

Tofystedeth

Peen wrote: »

I love that the people in charge of DS9 recognized what they had and gave him two parts.

Edit:

I'd love to know which one is everyone's favorite, mine is definitely Brunt.

A while ago I finally did the JojaMart path in StarDew Valley. I named my farmer Brunt, and my farm was the FCA .
Every time I logged in I'd go "Brunt! FCA."
Every time.

Blake T

nightmarenny wrote: »

I'm watching Breaking Bad for the first time and hey is it normal to be completely on Gustavo's side by the end of season 4?

You aren’t supposed to like anyone in that show.

Cept maybe Pete and Badger.

Drez

Oh my god, Six Feet Under.

They actually have a paintball episode.

astrobstrd

I wonder if I had to give Jeffery Combs notes for anything, how many sentences would I last before I slipped in “Cat dead; details later.”?

WeedLordVegeta

Librarian's ghost wrote: »

WeedLordVegeta wrote: »

I look forward to the moment in everyone's ds9 rewatches where they realize that the true star is and always has been Jeffery Combs

Combs is one of the only good parts of Star Trek Enterprise.

Combs is one of the best of the many good parts in Enterprise

Sleep

Started watching a show called Dark Matter, why is the android always the best character on a space ship?