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2 hours ago, Josh371982 said:
Also I don't see or get why Courtney got the hate she did from some of her cast mates. Shes never annoyed like others have
Bruce is in pain and waiting for the medical team
Bruce: *moans*
Courtney: Do you want me to sing for you?
Bruce: no.
Courtney: *sings anyway*
Bruce: *moans louder*
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19 hours ago, Llywela said:
Heck yeah, that one still burns, even all these years later. Not even so much that the Doctor did it, because lashing out in a moment of self-righteous fury strikes a strong character note for him, but more that the show never called him out for it, played him as the morally virtuous hero standing proudly on the moral high ground while destroying a loyal ally for the terrible crime of defending her planet. It still enrages me now. If the show had ever truly acknowledged that he overstepped the mark on that one, that he was a hypocrite who did the wrong thing, I might not mind so much. I mean, he'd even told us that Harriet Jones was supposed to oversee a golden age, and he then changed the course of human history by tearing her down like that, which led directly to the Master's reign of terror in the following season, and neither the show nor the Doctor ever acknowledged his culpability for that.
I think the whole "Time Lord Victorious" at the end of "Waters of Mars" can be seen an acknowledgement of sorts, and a reflection and bookend on this moment.
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On 9/9/2020 at 4:25 PM, Kromm said:
I just watched the I Dream of Jeannie pilot and was pleasantly surprised it actually addressed stuff I thought was stupid in the show (since I'd never seen the pilot and didn't realize there was an explanation provided).
Relatedly, the pilot/first episode of Bewitched explains something that many people think of as problematic with that series.
In that episode, the true action starts on Samantha and Darren's honeymoon (Not that kind of action, although Darren is trying to get to that.) after seeing their meeting and courtship in still images as a sort of flashback. Over the course of immediate events, we learn that Samantha had not revealed that she was a witch to Darren before they got married. Nor had she any intentions of doing so. She was going to give up her powers and be a "typical mortal wife" without having even mentioned anything about witchcraft to Darren. It was Endora threatening him that made Sam tell Darren.
So the whole plot of Darren wanting Sam to stop using witchcraft was not originally his idea. It was hers, and he was never asking her to do anything that she hadn't planned to do on her own.
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15 hours ago, marinw said:
The greatest shout out they could do would be to have Q briefly appear as Discord from MLP:FiM.
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On this day in 1966, American (and to a degree, global) pop culture was irrevocably changed with the airing of "The Man Trap", the debut episode of NBC's then-new science-fiction serial Star Trek.
Happy Star Trek Day to my fellow Trekkies, and Live Long and Prosper. 🖖
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On 8/31/2020 at 1:58 AM, SVNBob said:
the recent documentary
Speaking of this...again..., Shout! Factory is celebrating Star Trek Day with a marathon of Trek-related documentaries. What We Left Behind is part of that marathon, as is the SDCC panel from 2019 about the documentary. They're the last two pieces of the stream, scheduled to air on the 8th at 7pm PDT and 9:30 pm PDT.
Earlier in the marathon, they're also streaming Shatner's "Captains", which has him interviewing the other Trek captains. So Avery will be included in that, as well as in separate extended interview episode.
Details about everything Shout! has planned and is airing are here: https://www.shoutfactory.com/blog/star-trek-day/
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4 hours ago, Blergh said:
On innumerable shows, no matter what era or what nationality the time traveler originated from, they speak perfect, fluent CONTEMPORARY English!LOL
At least Doctor Who came up with an explanation for why that happens on that show. The TARDIS has a telepathic matrix that interfaces with the brain and translates (most) languages automatically, both spoken and written.
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5 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
I also would have loved to have seen the return of Cao-Boi,
They may not have been able to find him, let alone get ahold of him to invite him back.
According to this video from 2015, he became a nomad and was found living in Cambodia.
And there's this video from a couple months ago that has him in Vietnam.
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8 minutes ago, Annber03 said:
And holy crap, what in God's name was with that movie?
Have you not heard the "Manos" story before? You're one of today's lucky 10,000.
"Crap" is the accurate word, since Hal Warren; the writer, director, and hero of the story, was a fertilizer salesman by trade. The movie itself was basically the result of a bet between Warren, and Stirling Silliphant, the screenwriter of In the Heat of the Night. (This is not a joke.)
Lots more here. http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m18/brandt.htm
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On 9/4/2020 at 8:46 PM, preeya said:
Just wondering here. Murph said he felt awful for not getting the $60k for his team.
Perhaps he dug $50k out of his winnings ($200k) and gave each of his Savage mates $10k each. That would be an awesome gesture.
I was originally surprised there wasn't any of that happening throughout the run. For example, when Savage Crew won the first team competition and the $12k, they could have given $3k to Dirty Hands, making the the individual shares $1500 for each Savage and $500 per Hand. Then, when Dirty Hands won the second team challenge, they could have done the same in reverse. It would have been a good thematic message: you do the work, you get paid.
And for all we know, they actually did do that. They seemed like the kind of cast that would. But since there was an overall tie in the team competition, that would also mean a wash for these potential split payouts, so TPTB wouldn't have bothered showing it.
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Series R started airing the XL versions recently, after airing all the shot shorter versions earlier in the year. If you haven't seen it yet, do look for the first episode, "Rude", with John Barrowman on the panel. He and Aisling Bea make for a very entertaining comedy duo, to the point that some people want to see them star in a sitcom together.
The R series is notable for 2 more reasons...well, one big reason with 2 unusual effects. The recording sessions for the series were affected by the UK Lockdown. Two episodes were shot without a studio audience entirely, which seems odd at first, but QI is the rare panel show that seems to work without an audience. The panelists get to banter more and not have to rely on jokey quips. But there's still a lot of humor. It does help that David Mitchell is a panelist on one of those episodes.
Additionally, a number of episode recordings, I think four, were postponed until last month. So the R series isn't quite over with yet.
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2 hours ago, BK1978 said:
I forgot how attractive I found Eliza. I am not sure what it is about her, but I just dig her.
She's got a great pair of...eyes. 😜
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Just now, Lantern7 said:
Right. But the date can still be moved.
I'm surprised a pessimist like you would get the Green Ring....
Then again, I'd be even more surprised if you had the Blue one.
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1 hour ago, Lantern7 said:
I'd say that we should be getting TAR32.
October 14th. It's been announced.
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Pluto TV now has an Amazing Race channel. TARUS 24/7 on channel 297.
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5 minutes ago, KatWay said:
see, I agree that the role of Emissary was Sisko coming full circle but I would have liked that story to culminate in him perhaps using his influence on Bajor to face off against Winn in a struggle over the loyalties of the Bajorans and their idea of their religion. Much of the storyline of his position was him coming to terms with the real power he had through the adoration of Bajoran followers and the ear of the actual prophets. I just would have found that far more interesting than the cartoonish villains that were the Pah Wraith.
I would have done the Bajoran conflict after the Dominion War. Maybe some Bajorans had lost faith in the prophets, maybe the prophets had stopped showing them visions or something. Could have been quite interesting to explore that. Much was always made of how spiritual the Bajorans were, compared to pretty much everyone else, but it's easy being a believer when you have the concrete, real proof of your gods right in front of you. They played a bit on that with Winn who never got to see the prophets and ended up resenting them for it, I just thought that could have been potentially much more interesting a storyline than searching for some evil book and an evil cave with evil monsters waiting to be released. But eh, just my opinion.
It also could have shown some idea of post-war Cardassia which always interested me and sadly hasn't been touched on in any canon TV show. A people like that going from what they were to badly diminished in the war? How would Bajor have reacted to a weak and rather helpless Cardassia now? I just feel like there were some potentially really cool possibilities that I would have rather seen. But the Dominion War storyline was definitely really well done! Like I said, overall I think DS9 is the best of the shows.
All of these are great ideas and would have been great to explore....as a Season 8 that took place immediately, instead of as the "season 8" as seen in the recent documentary. There wasn't enough time to add all this to what we did get.
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14 hours ago, KatWay said:
If anything, I would have rather liked the Bajor joining the Federation plot resolved, Winn would have been a formidable villain in that as well and it would have brought the story of Sisko full circle. After all, DS9 started out with the Bajor/Cardassia/Federation conflict, it wasn't Star Trek: Dominion War.
The way they wrote it, they couldn't have resolved Bajor joining the Federation before resolving the Dominion War.
Recall from Rapture that Sisko had the vision of locusts either passing by Bajor on the way to Cardassia, or of them destroying Bajor. Meaning that if Bajor were part of the Federation, it would have been destroyed by the Dominion and Cardassia as part of the war. But as an independent system, Bajor could have the non-aggression treaty with the Dominion that kept Bajor out of the war once the Federation had to leave DS9.
Because of that, the War had to be resolved before the Bajoran Council of Ministers could re-petition for entry into the Federation. And given the fact that they were all but members by Rapture, the process would probably have been fast-tracked. Half an episode from start to finish.
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6 hours ago, kaygeeret said:
I wonder if they were ordered to get rid of the Muslim team and they chose to do it this way rather than announce them as participants and then remove them.
Doubtful, since there was no guarantee that they'd be the last team to the Halfway Point. They actually left the Roadblock, which was before the Halfway point, before the Cho Bros. (2nd to last place, but there was a team behind them.) It seems like it was just taxicab luck that got the brothers to the Point first.
Besides, this took place after the Palau season of Survivor (shot in 2004 and aired in 2005), and one of the contestants on that season was Ibreheim, a devout Muslim man who was shown at least once doing his daily prayers. AFAIK, there were no issues with his presence on Survivor, so there probably wouldn't have been any with Bilal and Sa'eed either.
6 hours ago, kaygeeret said:It is also possible that the current virus climate has allowed me to search out conspiracy theories wherever I look 🙂
This seems more likely. 😉
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Started a re-watch of this season a little bit ago.
Looking at the Racers in this season, and the short-list of other teams they considered, I think they had a slightly different theme in mind. Not just All Stars, but All Star Rivals. Look at the teams from the same season: Kevin and Drew and Team Guido from TAR1, the Beauty Queens and Kentucky from TAR10, Uchenna and Joyce and Romber from TAR7 ...all rivalries. Colin and Christie were on the short-list, but I believe declined because Christie was pregnant with their first child. If they'd been there, they would have had their rivals in Charla and Mirna. The only season exception was TAR3, because I don't really think of Teri and Ian as rivals to JVJ. Flo and Drew of TAR3 were also up for consideration, and I imagine that Eric and Danielle might have been their "rivals", if not one of the actual TAR3 teams.
We're through episode 3, but I want to talk about episode 2 more. Mainly Kevin and Drew. This was not their season. More for Drew than Kevin, what with injuring himself in the first leg with that big tumble and never really recuperating, and being the only one we're told that needed additional oxygen in Ecuador. You could see in his face throughout Leg 2 that he was over this TAR experience. We opined that the only reason that he even tried was because of Kevin. And it's a shame to lose them so early, since we know how good they can be, and how funny they are. They even got in a new variation of their famous "That's Namibia, jackass" line in Leg 1 with this bit:
QuoteDrew: "Peru is nice. It's beautiful out."
Kevin: "I'm sure it's nice in Peru. We're in Ecuador.
Even if they planned it, Snerk.
On top of that, there's the Roadblock in episode 2. This is the one where they had to find individual letters hidden throughout a board room meeting, and put them together to spell their next destination. Mary was submitting her answer and said it out loud, right in front of Kevin. He then put his hand on her shoulder and congratulated her for completing the task. She was in shock because she apparently didn't realize anyone was behind her. But the next moment is what I want really want to talk about. Kevin, even though he just heard the correct answer, and knew it was correct since Mary got the clue, submitted an incorrect answer.
Now, there may have been a rule about not changing your answer after leaving the board room, but I choose to believe that even if there wasn't, Kevin would have submitted the same answer that he did that time. Because it was the fair thing to do. TAR1 was partially about what would be "fair play" for the Race, and Kevin (and Drew, and Momily, and Rob and Brennan) was firmly on one side of that line (and the Guidos were on the other. Hence, rivals). And I think he was still on the same side of the line here. He didn't come out of the room with the correct answer (or he had it misspelled), so it wouldn't have been "right" to take advantage of just happening to be behind the one Racer that would say her answer out loud for others to hear and profit off her misjudgement. One more reason to love Kevin and Drew...they are honorable men.
On 2/15/2018 at 7:27 PM, Hera said:I imagine Rob's alright in person (or at least that he can be) but I've always found his (and others') high opinion of himself both on The Amazing Race and on Survivor to be baffling and unjustified.
Then again, with three 1st place leg finishes in a row on this Race, 4.5 1st place leg finishes on their previous Race (the half is them coming in first at the Keep On Racing point of a Superleg), and 2nd place overall in TAR7, one could easily argue that he does have a point when it comes to TAR.
In surprising news, Ian is well-behaved. In unsurprising news, Eric is still a fratty douche (but somewhat less so than when partnered with Jeremy) but the Chas are still lovely and charming.
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I also recently finished a re-watch of this season.
On 8/16/2020 at 9:18 PM, kaygeeret said:Also, and this I remembered from the initial airing, I thought the first elimination was an excruciating trick and absolutely unnecessary to anyone. Also humiliating to be that team, also never repeated, also there were no other "surprises" on the race....so what was the point? As far as I could tell there was no point except to humiliate one team.
There were other surprises. First (and admittedly weakest) of all, this was the first TARUS to have a westerly route; as in going to Asia first. All previous TARs (except TAR8, the ultimate exception) either went east to Europe first, or to Central/South America first, then east to Europe or Africa.
This was also the season that introduced the Marked for Elimination penalty for coming in last on a NEL, replacing the Philching of all monies and personal belongings. And the last big surprise was the first Intersection in TAR history. So there were some new, surprising elements.
As for the team that got eliminated at the Halfway point of Leg 1, I'm of two minds about it. I agree that it's a nasty, unnecessary trick and that it probably shouldn't have been a thing at all. That said, I'm somewhat glad that it happened to the team that it did. I liked Bilal and Sa'eed, and it would have been great back in 2006 to see a team of affable Muslim men compete throughout more of a season of TAR, and show the other Racers (David and Mary as the best examples), and thus a good portion of America, a positive example of real Muslim people that we hadn't seen for...oh, at least 5 years or so. But, since they said in their opening TH-interview that they were planning on staying devout and true to their religion, including stopping Racing 5 times a day to do their prayers, they weren't really going to be long for TAR in the first place. It was probably better they got twist-fucked immediately than screwed over by their own respectful and respectable decision.
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22 hours ago, SVNBob said:
I did notice another exit door near where the dummy was,
Quoting myself because I've been thinking about this a little.
This door I mentioned is probably where TPTB brought the dummies in for the challenge in the first place.
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17 hours ago, jabRI said:
And did Murph really say something in the team challenge "and then the ladies are going to come in behind us to clear up..." I don't think he means to sound so misogynist, right? Just say their names, or say 'other teammates'. It's not so hard.
To be somewhat fair, both teams are split evenly on gender lines. And in the quote in question, Murph was saying that he and Young were doing the cutting work with the ax-like tools, and Luis as foreman had no tools so he could observe the rest for safety reasons. So it was the three women on Savage using the rake-like tools to do the clearing. Calling them collectively "the ladies" in a TH that was probably just meant to be a quick summary of the plan was probably inadvertently misogynistic. However, it could have been worse; he could have called them "the girls".
On 8/19/2020 at 10:54 PM, mlp said:I like Young but he's been in the bottom four times so I couldn't feel very bad for him whereas Murph has been doing well. It must have been embarrassing to lose during a challenge featuring his own profession.
15 hours ago, AncientNewbie said:As soon as they made the edit "Murph has no chance" I knew he was going to win the OT. Young didn't embarrass himself at least, in my view, in that it was very close. He just never seemed to move with urgency in any task. Which is why I also feel bad about the individual, because Young seemed to do it according to his training which was slower than people just racing. If they did a drywall challenge and it counted if the mud was just thrown somewhere near the seam but Danny lost because he did it properly, we'd be mad...but Young's history prevents a lot of miffed feelings, I think.
I felt Myles getting a strong edit again. We've been teased on Murph vs Danny so long he's probably just our Brett Clouser.
Bolded: Exactly. While I do assume Young got razzed by his firehouse crew for losing OT (like I assume he'd been getting razzed for going into OT each time before), I don't think he got razzed for doing things properly in the individual task. I'm sure every single person on his regular crew would have acted the same way in his place on that task. And to be honest, I'm glad a firefighter fell back on their training during a reality show competition. It means they'll do actually their job correctly in a real situation.
Italicized: That's kinda how I knew Murph was going to win. They've been using too many clips that setup a Murph vs Danny showdown for that not to happen. If Murph had lost here, they wouldn't have been using those THs from Danny or Murph.
5 hours ago, Browncoat said:Ah, Young, done in because he knows the right way to do a thing, and won’t cut corners. And good for him, too. He has absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about or ashamed of. Too bad Murph didn’t hesitate just a little bit longer before the rappel. Between the two, I’d rather Young have stayed.
If I could ask Phil any question about this season, it'd be the times for this OT prior to the rappel. As in, did Young do the actual fire-fighting part faster? Because I'm pretty sure the rappel is where Murph actually won. Between his fear of heights and wanting to get back down to the ground as quickly as possible, coupled with his taller build (recall Phil said the time stopped "when both feet hit the ground", and Murph has much longer legs than Young) allowed Murph to shave off enough time to win.
44 minutes ago, Spicymustard said:poor young going out on a firefighting challenge. I agree with him that his training might have been a hinderance. He mentioned that they often find people right by the door trying to get out. He was thinking like a firefighter, not like a person in a competition where they put the dummy in the back of the building .
That's exactly what my mother was saying as we watched. TPTB were absolutely going to put the dummy near the back, so that the challenge actually was a show challenge. The rest of them may not necessarily have thought about that, but Young absolutely didn't.
However, I did notice another exit door near where the dummy was, so Young wasn't entirely wrong either. It's just the rules were to go back out the same door to the finish line, not just "exit the building with the dummy".
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3 hours ago, Maverick said:
Nah, we'd just re-evolve into salamanders.
Gotta break the Warp 10 barrier (as well as the series barrier) for that to happen.
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1 hour ago, Maverick said:
just heard that a potential COVID vaccine works by stimulating T-Cell production. Great, now we're all going to start devolving into spiders and lemurs.
That might be a good thing. Then we can re-evolve into a species closer to the humans of the 24th century than we are now.
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