Started watching a show called Dark Matter, why is the android always the best character on a space ship?
I enjoyed the show but unfortunately it got canned at the end of season 3 so you'll never get resolution to the cliffhanger finale.
Considering how much it's aping firefly that actually feels appropriate
Like it's absolutely a distillation of late 90s early 2000s sci fi. Made by the creators of stargate, with heavy influences from firefly, farscape, BSG, and a little soupçon of trek.
Started watching a show called Dark Matter, why is the android always the best character on a space ship?
Because organic-based lifeforms are dirty filthy disgusting gross feeling entropic sexy money grubbing gankbanking pudgemagnet anklebreaking poker playing chip eaters.
Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
Its going to be years before they figure this out.
Hell, No Star Trek show even has more than two named women officers on the bridge until 7 of 9 joins in season 4 of Voyager, and then Torres isn't always there, and not every episode until Star Trek Discovery.
Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
That's not the last "Troi is assaulted / impregnated by an alien" storyline either
I am in the business of saving lives.
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I just finished captain america and winter soldier as well as loki
Cap & Soldier was pretty consistent throughout the whole thing, nothing was surprising and it had a very Earnest Comic Book tone which was nice I guess but also not like exciting? I liked it overall, there were some good moments and a lot of kinda boring moments but it didnt make any major missteps for me.
Loki I thought started with a solid ep 1 and 2 and then it was very good from the start of episode 3 (the one where Loki follows Sylvie back to HQ) right up until the last 2 minutes of the final episode (where owen wilson doesnt know Loki and he sees the statue of the evil guy) I had avoided everything about the show so I thought it was going to end very definitively in preparation for a movie (like Captain America had) but instead it was an inconclusive ending to prepare for another season which wasnt very satisfying for me
Overall I liked them both, Loki was more fun but I still liked Cap and they both felt like they would have been very good comic book arcs so if that's the feeling they were trying to capture they did a good job
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Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
Its going to be years before they figure this out.
Hell, No Star Trek show even has more than two named women officers on the bridge until 7 of 9 joins in season 4 of Voyager, and then Torres isn't always there, and not every episode until Star Trek Discovery.
They don't ever specifically call it out or draw attention to it, but in all 3 seasons of Discovery so far, there is never more than a single white cishet (human) male on the bridge crew or main cast.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Started watching a show called Dark Matter, why is the android always the best character on a space ship?
Because organic-based lifeforms are dirty filthy disgusting gross feeling entropic sexy money grubbing gankbanking pudgemagnet anklebreaking poker playing chip eaters.
Hey! There's no way you could have known this, but I'm an organic-based lifeform and I'm following this thread.
Sorry to make things awkward, but that was pretty fucked up.
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I didn't realize that Titmouse, the animation studio that does Venture Bros. also does Star Trek: Lower Decks. I also did not know until now that Titmouse is doing a shirt of the week club for Lower Decks like they did for Venture Bros.
Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
Its going to be years before they figure this out.
Hell, No Star Trek show even has more than two named women officers on the bridge until 7 of 9 joins in season 4 of Voyager, and then Torres isn't always there, and not every episode until Star Trek Discovery.
They don't ever specifically call it out or draw attention to it, but in all 3 seasons of Discovery so far, there is never more than a single white cishet (human) male on the bridge crew or main cast.
PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions
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just imagine being that guy. imagine being so high on your own supply that you give yourself a job you don't deserve just because you can, and the public scrutiny that brings not only axes the new job but loses you the cushy EP gig you had.
what a fuckin' loser
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
edited August 2021
now can bialik too
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Turns out the only thing of his that would be in Jeopardy
Was his own job
:cool:
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
one interesting facet of this: the week of episodes that Mike Richards filmed as host is set to start airing on September 13 with the new season premiere (and the return of Matt Amodio, one of Jeopardy!’s winningest champs ever)
Retaping isn’t an option - the games happened the way they happened, and the show taped another three weeks of episodes with Mayim Bialik hosting last week. Even a partial retape of just the host portion isn’t particularly tenable - how do you reconfigure the Q&A segments?
fwiw, a Sony source told me last week that the five episodes with Mike Richards as host will air as scheduled
Claire McNear is a writer for the Ringer, wrote a book on Jeopardy, and is the one who broke much of the story that got Mike Richard out of there.
I've started watching it as a winddown show and it's quite delightful
I accidentally started at season two because I wasn't paying attention, and I was like, "Wow, they really dive into the deep end! This feels more like a second season premiere than a pilot, this rules!'
Whoops!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Oh lol Mike Richards also got fired from his EP position on Wheel of Fortune
Dude beefed it so hard he lost three jobs, what an icon. An icon of bed-shitting, but an icon nonetheless
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
if the universe has taught us anything repeatedly (well, twice), it's that if your name is Michael Richards you should really keep your head down and quit while you're ahead.
I cannot imagine an easier more fuckin amazing job than being the EP of Wheel and Jeopardy, what a giant dingus that guy is. I hope he steps in a puddle and then on several rakes, get bent idiot.
I hope his socks get wet, and every time he takes off a sock it is revealed there is another, wetter sock underneath it, and that the socks also never dry.
It's been pointed out elsewhere but it's very funny that this isn't even the first Mike Richards to completely self-destruct their whole Hollywood career
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Michael Richards might be one of the few cases I can think of where a (white male) person got cancelled and it actually stuck.
"That's right Mike--you lost! And let me tell what you didn't win: a twenty volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat. But that's not all! You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people! And you brought shame and disgrace on your family name for generations to come! You don't get to come back tomorrow! You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game! You're a complete loser!"
Huh, Disney+ has a new murder mystery show starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. That's certainly a combination. Might have to check that out.
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So does Spaced.
(Which is also a much better show)
I enjoyed the show but unfortunately it got canned at the end of season 3 so you'll never get resolution to the cliffhanger finale.
Considering how much it's aping firefly that actually feels appropriate
Like it's absolutely a distillation of late 90s early 2000s sci fi. Made by the creators of stargate, with heavy influences from firefly, farscape, BSG, and a little soupçon of trek.
Because organic-based lifeforms are dirty filthy disgusting gross feeling entropic sexy money grubbing gankbanking pudgemagnet anklebreaking poker playing chip eaters.
Pros: already looks way better, Riker has the beard, Ten Forward is a cool set, Whoopi is here!
Cons: holy cow we still don't know how to write for women on this show, the Deanna Troi pregnancy story is just, hmm, I don't like it folks
Its going to be years before they figure this out.
Hell, No Star Trek show even has more than two named women officers on the bridge until 7 of 9 joins in season 4 of Voyager, and then Torres isn't always there, and not every episode until Star Trek Discovery.
That's not the last "Troi is assaulted / impregnated by an alien" storyline either
Loki I thought started with a solid ep 1 and 2 and then it was very good from the start of episode 3 (the one where Loki follows Sylvie back to HQ) right up until the last 2 minutes of the final episode (where owen wilson doesnt know Loki and he sees the statue of the evil guy) I had avoided everything about the show so I thought it was going to end very definitively in preparation for a movie (like Captain America had) but instead it was an inconclusive ending to prepare for another season which wasnt very satisfying for me
Overall I liked them both, Loki was more fun but I still liked Cap and they both felt like they would have been very good comic book arcs so if that's the feeling they were trying to capture they did a good job
They don't ever specifically call it out or draw attention to it, but in all 3 seasons of Discovery so far, there is never more than a single white cishet (human) male on the bridge crew or main cast.
Hey! There's no way you could have known this, but I'm an organic-based lifeform and I'm following this thread.
Sorry to make things awkward, but that was pretty fucked up.
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And they have body types now
what a fuckin' loser
Was his own job
:cool:
Claire McNear is a writer for the Ringer, wrote a book on Jeopardy, and is the one who broke much of the story that got Mike Richard out of there.
I've started watching it as a winddown show and it's quite delightful
I accidentally started at season two because I wasn't paying attention, and I was like, "Wow, they really dive into the deep end! This feels more like a second season premiere than a pilot, this rules!'
Whoops!
Oh wow there is a real plate you can buy. I want it.
Dude beefed it so hard he lost three jobs, what an icon. An icon of bed-shitting, but an icon nonetheless
Triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall.
Obligatory,
"That's right Mike--you lost! And let me tell what you didn't win: a twenty volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat. But that's not all! You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people! And you brought shame and disgrace on your family name for generations to come! You don't get to come back tomorrow! You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game! You're a complete loser!"
This is a good day for schadenfreude
I don't know.... how to react to things like this