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On 5/6/2022 at 7:06 PM, Kel Varnsen said:
I really thought Chimney's brother was a goner when they were up on the roof. When he fell through I am surprised Chim saved him. Wondering if he is going to quit though. Because Chim just said you don't need to be like me and then they hugged. Maybe he actually realized he wants to be a fire fighter.
They almost exactly recreated how Kevin Lee died so I imagine a lot of Chim's acceptance of Albert leaving the LAFD comes from the reminder of what can happen to even the most dedicated firefighters.
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On 3/20/2023 at 12:35 PM, Gharlane said:
Why don't they put people back into hibernation?
Because there were only 2 hibernation bays - the one that disintegrated slowly enough for all but one crew member to escape, and the one that was destroyed immediately and catastrophically
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(Please insert "during the last 3.2 months" throughout this post as needed. I'm tired of typing it in every sentence.)
What have they been eating so far and why are they only just now getting minuscule bits of produce when there was more than that grown between Day 1 and the water crisis (when everything probably died off)?
Doc is still strung out and sleepless after all this time? Considering the depletion from the pharmacy break-in and rave, how can she still have a bottle full?
Why haven't they been using the sails to boost themselves every time they passed a star system? I have to give up on understanding the physics of space flight here.
Doesn't the Ark already have a room much larger than that "2x2" room with genetic materials/seeds/embryos? (BTW, 1 male/1 female is not remotely adequate for genetic diversity) I mean, isn't that the whole point? Or were they supposed to be sent with the "follow-up" ships once the Arks establish a colony? Kinda stupid to not have redundant Genetic Arks
The radiation suit in the ship IS actually one to withstand solar radiation!
Anyone surprised that Lane weenied out when he was put in charge? Anyone?
Hey, no deaths! BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 126 (+2 closet coffins!)
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On 3/1/2023 at 11:00 PM, ottoDbusdriver said:
This ship really hates people -- it keeps locking people behind doors during a crisis.
Honestly, it's probably one of the few sensible things in the design of the ship.
Why was there not some kind of alarm triggered on the bridge when the green goo in the Universe's Saddest Excuse for a Containment System exploded? We don't find out that there's a RADIATION LEAK until Brice notices things are a little slow and he and Garnet do some troubleshooting and then Garnet looks up the Excel spreadsheet with the daily assignments on them and they play phone tag up the command chain until Eva gets to jog through the ship to find him.
The way this is filmed, there's like an hour or two between each step of this CRISIS. SecurityFelix clears Eva when the leak starts, hacks the email, tracks down Ali, "arrests her", learns the identity of the real emailer, explains the situation to Garnet, interrogates Trent and THEN the leak turns critical?
HowTF did they scrub the ship if they didn't even have a radiation suit that can withstand that type of radiation (Why have a radiation suit that can't handle the type of radiation inherent in the ship's system in the first place?)
This "balance" ideology from Trent sounds coocoo-cocoa-puffs: Everyone having a place? Yeah, that's never a good philosophy.
BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 126 (+2 sekrit peepl!)
-1: First radiation dude (Ralph Gregor)
-2: Trapped by doors behind TitsOut and Tripping Guy (at least)
-3: Crushed in door
-8: Trent encounters dead in corridors during his run
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"The foreign toxin is smaller than a water molecule." You mean the 3 atoms of H2O? And ergot alkaloids are at least a dozen atoms per molecule?
BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 141 (No one died? Just a lot of close calls?)
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45 minutes ago, RockShrimp said:
Can someone explain to me how at no point was the DUDE IN A SLING discussed as someone to vote off?
He just had a dislocated shoulder that popped back in. Assuming they verified it was back in, there's no danger to his health thus no reason to make him leave.
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4 hours ago, 30 Helens said:
I used to think “Drug Counselor” meant helping people get off drugs, After this episode, I think it might mean counseling people on which drugs are best and where to find them.
She definitely gives the vibes of "drugs fucked me up, but I got clean and now I help other people get off them." That 'my brain will never quite work the same' energy. Carolyn also flails like a muppet.
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I was surprised Hermann didn't just ask Sylvie to bring by an IV to hydrate Cindy rather than drag her to the ER. And there's no one to help out with her? Don't they have any other family or doesn't their (very good) insurance cover home nurse visits at least?
Just when I thought OFI Gal's godawful too-short hair could not look worse, she colored it piss yellow. Will she always be chasing after Stella's sloppy seconds?
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8 hours ago, Mezzaluna said:
Oh, and that long blonde hair is too Bernadette-ish.
It makes her look too young. Bernadette looked more professional than Abby does.
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The title of the writer's bible of this show
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Watching the 9-1-1 episode where a death row inmate wants to donate his heart to his kid - CA prisoners apparently CANNOT donate organs, either after death or live donations like liver/lung/kidney. So, Bode is a moot point until he serves his time.
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Ok, this might be a totally ridiculous question, posed out of complete ignorance but:
Is there any way they could have cut down the tree she was wrapped around low enough to lift her over the stump? Or would it just be insanely dangerous to everyone involved?
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Like the way they threw themselves into the hurtling space debris rather than just flattening against the hull.
Let me add my vote to SHUT UP, CHATTY McTWITCHY!
So Trent MommyIssues is now Trent PoopSlinger?
Mr. Trust = Steve Jobs?
Man, Trent PoopSlinger was actually banging his
mommymentor?Lt. Napoleon Pissy is just a child. Petulant, whiny about authority - he practically stomped his tiny foot while crying over the officers' quarters. And "You're not the boss of me!"? Really, Pissy?
These two Lt Assholes constantly arguing with Lt Garnet, who is nothing but sensible. Yeah, we're going to risk our only NAVIGATOR, makes total sense. Dial your testosterone down about 98%.
Angus, we know you have a Garnet boner; try to play it a little smoother, child. What's with the cougar chasers on this ship?
Ok, Lt Garnet finally cracked. Karen TitsOut has no idea what empathy is. This is the stupidest thing Garnet has ever thought of. The idea of also bribing her? Christ. She also didn't have the right to give up the other Lt's room. They need a private area as much as she does. They should have moved in with Garnet, at least thrown down a couple mattresses on her floor.
How did they end up with a crew that mistrusts everything? That has an attitude that wouldn't work in a decent professional white-collar job, let alone the most elite group of humans on Earth, specially chosen for a dangerous and demanding job that the fate of humanity hinges upon? Steve Trust built the mf-ing Arks and Lt. HotScot is talking shit about him to underlings. The officers are dismissive to the security personnel when McStoic is just trying to do his job. 90% of the crew have no idea WTF a team is! Garnet needs to join up with McStoic and use his people as stormtroopers or something. I've never heard "it's not my job" so often in my life.
BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 141 (Space Javelin Victim)
ETA: HOW is this a Dean Devlin show? HOW?! Leverage, The Librarians ... and this piece of shit.
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On 2/6/2023 at 8:59 PM, KaveDweller said:
It doesn't make sense though. They said Earth had 17 years left and it takes 6 years to get to this new planet. So they really should just be sending everybody up as fast as possible, rather than waiting to see if a colony can be established. Sounds like there is no plan B if it fails.
The first wave of Arks are being sent to each possible habitable planet. Ark One is being sent to the best and (possibly?) nearest, for maximum chance of success. If an Ark successfully colonizes a planet, they contact Earth (I assume) and their families, along with others, are sent to that planet to start continuing the human race. Since Wave Two will be at least 10-15 years behind Wave One, the Arks will have to be a self-sustaining colony population-wise until then, which, judging from previews, will be news to some people.
On 2/6/2023 at 8:59 PM, KaveDweller said:They also said they'd had no messages from control while they were all asleep. But did they say if they can send messages back to Earth?
They didn't say anything about whether outbound communications are presumed operational, but it seemed weird that there are no communications regarding the state of the Earth and/or the Ark program. We also have no idea how close to light speed the communications will be. Will it take X light years for their report of success to reach the Earth for Wave Two? Makes you wonder if their families will even be alive to follow by then.
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Second watch thoughts:
Watching people fail miserably trying to input passcodes during an emergency will never grow old. God forbid there be a retinal or thumbprint option as well.
Baldy McStoicPants has the competence and gravitas one appreciates in a Head of Security and not only manages to get the door unlocked, but returns with a helmet for the person directing the evacuation. Lt. Pissy whined about waking up the captain after an ENTIRE CRYO BAY disintegrated. I think she's gonna wanna know, buddy.
"My god, man, did you pay no attention in orientation?" Have you MET these people, doc?
Aaand we start the "piss off, that's not my job" counter at 3 so far. Lt Pissy, Lt. HotScot and now Imposter.
WHAT is with the kerchief on Babushka, ffs? Was the accent not thick enough to scream East European? Or the outright declaration of nationality?
Chatty McTwitchy, SHUT UP. You give me a headache every time you open your mouth. Farmer Angus is adorable.
You know, if I were an Impostor, I would try to lie low and not antagonize everyone I talked to.
And again McStoic steps up to the plate and showerblocks Karen TitsOut. I thought the drip of water from the shower head as they left might become Chekov's Leak, but nothing came of it.
I like Lt Red putting Lt Pissy in his place in the farm - she's right; he had a decent point but made an ass of himself grandstanding. He's That Guy in a meeting that makes up stuff to complain about but never offers solutions, just more blockers.
Trent MommyIssues is a canary in a space coal mine. Sensors haven't detected the reduced O2 level yet, but his sensitive lungs can. Why has THE ENTIRE SHIP lost oxygen? That's not a leak, that's explosive decompression in every section. How many hours were they in a sealed room that they could have used up allllll the oxygen?
Do I advance the Not My Job counter if it's Impostor again?
Aw, McStoic's first slip-up, losing a prisoner.
BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 142
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6 hours ago, kariyaki said:
A few too many whiny people with emotional issues, you’d think the ark would have a better screening process for that when embarking on such an important project.
Chatty McTwitchy already makes me want to shoot her out an airlock. She's like if Billie from Avenue 5 went horribly wrong. Half of these people (not in the command council) seem like emotionally stunted 12-year-old geeks. Like, honestly, they seem like they'd have a hard time figuring out how to navigate a middle-school lunchroom, let alone creating a new colony.
They are also the most self-involved people I've seen in a while (other then Avenue 5!) on a semi-realistic space-faring show. You don't usually see astronaut types carefully chosen for a very small population in constant life-or-death situations have to constantly be told not to do/touch things that can kill everyone. They're either just idiot-idiots or horrifically selfish idiots who don't get that stealing water is Bad and your freshly-showered titties will not keep people from dying of thirst one day, or bitching about not getting more food is pointless because it will not appear out of thin air because you Want It. Or the oxygen tanks you just stole from MED BAY and stashed in a hallway vent might be needed elsewhere.
From the previews, it looks like The Lieutenants will be more worried about dick measuring with each other going forward than the actual state of the ship and crew.
6 hours ago, KaveDweller said:One question, they said all the commanders are dead because the area they were in was blown off the ship right? But since we don't know what happened, could that be functioning and just not connected? It is a sci fi show so anything seems possible. It also seems dumb they'd put all the leaders in one section of the ship and all the low level crew in another. Wouldn't they split off a couple people in case of a disaster exactly like this? Also, if the trip is only 6 years wouldn't you have one person who's job it is to not be asleep and keep an eye on things?
If they were smart, there would be several pod bays around the entire circumference of the ship with a mix of "leadership team" people and a cross-section of all departments. That way, something hitting one side of the ship wouldn't take out the entire chain of command or an entire department's worth of knowledge.
It's like Ark B from Hitchhikers Guide, except Arks A&C launched and were taken out by whatever hit the ship instead of a virulent disease contracted from an unsanitized telephone.
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Freddy, it's not like the whole fire house traipsed down to the hospital to visit the baby - it was literally DELIVERED in the FIRE HOUSE. They aren't mocking the fact that you were at work when she arrived and gave birth.
During the pink rain, NONE of them thought that maybe putting their goggles down would be a good idea, especially since they went through the trouble to say it stings and is hard to get out of clothing? Maybe, y'know, protect your eyes? Did the writers have everyone be idjits just to give the out for Freddy later?
"My wallet's in the fire! And $500!" WTF, dude, seriously? Like, you didn't have a go-bag strapped to you since you sent the wife off in the ambulance? You deserve to lose all that shit you just left in there.
Is Jake still measuring himself against Bode? Realistically, when did Bode become the yardstick for anyone who knew him back in the day when he was messed up?
Gabriela, what kind of chastity-ring dickteasing was that? Not the idea that they should avoid a relationship for the next year while they get their shit together, but the "It'll be like a precious gift!" for abstaining.
I'm guessing the cliffhanger firebug is Harlan getting "revenge" for the loss of his house.
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AVA has cochlear implants herself and just doesn't use them, so her bitching about how "barbaric" it is seems pretty hyperbolic. The kid can just stop using it if it's not helping or gives her splitting headaches. My friend's toddler got her "skull drilled into" for shunts to prevent ear infections - it's a quality of life issue, not life-threatening, but still worth it. Kids get operations all the time to fix things early enough before they become an issue and there are plenty of babies out there in social media that are happy enough with their CCs and have agency to remove the external receiver when it irritates them.
IN ANY CASE, the real issue for her was not the operation but that she felt the parents wouldn't choose to raise Lucie in the manner that she felt best. Honey, the "Supreme Court" is not going to hold that up as the standard for removing children from their parents. She was hella deluded when she started on her mini "life on the run". If she'd really cared about that family, she'd have kept in touch with the mom to encourage her existing desire to support Lucie. If Ava'd shared her experience as a Deaf person rather than freak out about "barbaric skull drilling", she might have gotten somewhere. If she gave testimony about how CCs worked for her (or didn't), they might have tried other things first. And Ava was not in the meetings with the audiologist - maybe Lucie's type of deafness responds better to CC, maybe hearing aids would help - SHE DOESN'T KNOW. And yet she abducted a child.
I've seen enough Law & Order to know that even the most well-meaning person in a child's life cannot just RUN OFF with them and ADOPT THEM in another state. Even if the parents were beating the child. Like, seriously.
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On 1/9/2023 at 2:10 PM, Lady Calypso said:
I don't blame the parents; I do think someone would have told them that the lawsuit wouldn't fly because of the hit and run she committed that landed her in the position to, I dunno, fall down a cliff herself, that would have not been positive for their case. And it being enough where a legit investigation was about to incriminate Bode for no good reason because, again, he didn't DO anything. But apparently, they needed Vince to tell them instead.
The whole deal about Manny and Vince being crappy leaders wasn't even a factor in Hit and Run's death, as far as I can tell. Like, yeah, great story - relevance? The fact that anyone even found her body can be chalked up to Vince's dumbassery and Manny's inability to secure the car. Gabriela was pointless, but at least she gave Hit and Run a few more hours - Max alone wouldn't have been able to carry her as far as they did (if his broken/cracked ribs were realistic and not just convenient). At best, Max would have hiked out and gotten help, who would never have found the fugitive in time.
It's not Cal Fire's fault that the fugitive disappeared into the woods. It sure as hell was not their responsibility to locate her, given she seemed healthy enough to sprint far enough away that it took ages to get back. The cops might have sent out a search party, but...
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On 1/6/2023 at 10:44 PM, NJRadioGuy said:
The technical advisor for this show must have taken the day off. A small car like that weighs very little (comparatively speaking) and could be easily secured to the far side of the bridge, or even dragged away from the precipice. Figure about 3500 pounds spread across 20 people, less if there's a snatch block pulley or two (for a double or triple-line pull) if someone on the scene had one. But even if not, the lines and chain would have easily sturdied that load, and they could have easily cut up some timber for cribbing if they didn't have any on the truck that they could bring.
Or in a pinch, just have half a dozen grab onto the ass-end while Bode was scrambling out. Or throw a rope into the car for Bode to grab onto and the car would have fallen out from under him. I know they tried to say something about the "undercarriage being compromised", but come on... the entire frame couldn't have crumbled. And even if the posts on the bridge couldn't hold the entire weight because they were made of paper mache, they could have held long enough to stabilize the teeter totter. They had plenty of cribbing which, for some reason, they put under the other, flattened stable car with no one in it.
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On 1/22/2023 at 12:03 AM, bros402 said:
Max did his horrible crusades, but he didn't really have much of an opportunity to permanently screw someone up.
Fair point! If Max is anything, it's ineffectual.
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On 1/16/2023 at 8:26 PM, chaifan said:
I also thought the female tattoo artist was going to end up being a mermaid. I'm glad they didn't go there. I'm ok with a little island magic, but I don't want them to go overboard.
When it turned out she never worked at the shop, I thought Isla would be the Spirit of the Island...
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I dunno; I think Max is consistently The Worst. Like, there's just a baseline of cluelessness and naivete and stupidity that others only aspire to for an episode or two.
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4 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
I am guessing Wilder and Max did not stay together long term. She didn’t seem ready for any kind of long distance relationship or to move with him. Maybe they had a fling for a little while and that was it.
Max never really seemed to invest in his relationship with Wilder. I was not terribly surprised that he bailed on her with nothing more than "Hey, you can pine for me, or not, whatever, que sera, sera! Later!"
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S1.E08: Every Single Person Matters
in The Ark
Alicia might end up showing SusKelly the human recycler up close and personal.
Wife UnTrustWorthy is such a smug, self-important cunt, she fits right in on Ark One. I'd wonder how her creepy husband keeps getting so much tail, but we have enough proof in real life that socially-repellent rich troglodytes manage, so... With any luck, he'll go through the female crew just to wipe her smarmy little smirk off.
They have to stop parading people through the ship for the Ark B hoi polloi to gawk at and get worked up about. First Kelly, now these two. Wife UnTrustWorthy is strutting around like she should be treated like an Empress.
Did Brice ever check Ark 3's medical database or ask SusKelly to see if they'd come up with a cure for Klampkins?
JFC, they doubled down on "let's make sure information is so tightly keep secret that a few key losses will risk everyone's survival" this episode. Super-secret fail safe EMP! Sucks that UnTrustWorthy was right; I mean, Garnet made the right decision given what they knew. 2 might have exploded, but 3 and 15 are tooling around the galaxy with that retrofit.
UnTrustWorthy, if you think any five of these people have a common goal, you're loony. And that includes basic survival, judging by their actions so far.
BSG Memorial Personnel Count: 129 (No deaths)