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Never mind. I was mostly wrong.
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8 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
I always wondered if it was his nicotine fits that made him that way. In the first episode, he said he hadn't smoked in 31 hours, and yet typically smoked 3 packs a day. Which made me seriously wonder why anyone that's such a heavy smoker would go on a show like this. I remember later on he was later to smoke at a RC after bumming one from a local. That scene still sticks out to me as one of the funniest ever from this series.
I'm pretty sure it was nicotine withdrawal fits. When I did a rewatch of the season about 3 years ago, I noted this about the moment when Shane gets his first smoke in weeks.
On 6/24/2017 at 2:36 AM, SVNBob said:Meanwhile, Casaya goes to the village and feasts. And Shane gets his first couple of cigarettes in 15 days. As he's smoking them, you can see the nicotine physically change him. He becomes a "normal person" again,
Because there is a noticeable change in him as he takes the first drag. He relaxes. Tension visibly leaves his body. And soon after, he apologizes to Danielle and Courtney about his behavior, as if the nicotine allowed him to realize he was acting like an ass.
After that moment, Shane is actually a little less off-kilter for the rest of the season. There's still the "shitty apartment" argument he has with Courtney before Bruce's medevac, but that was more borne out of the coconut chop RC before that, and Courtney also reacting badly to it. He does have other wacky moments, like asking Cirie about his rash and the naked medevac assist, but he's still a bit more even-keeled than he was before those smokes.
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41 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:
I also watched The Sidehackers, but that didn't register on me. The concept of "sidehack" racing seemed interesting, and it apparently still exists today, but we get too removed from that. Meh.
Funny you should use that word in talking about Sidehackers. That movie is notable for the graphic rape/murder sequence that Best Brains were unaware of when they agreed to riff the movie. Obviously, the majority of that sequence got removed for the show. But you can tell where it was based on a line from Crow, and all the subsequent riffs having a darker edge.
It also made for a policy change. After that, all movies had to be screened entirely before they could be on the show. They didn't want to go through that again.
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5 hours ago, marinw said:
Does anybody remember what Worf did in seson one before replaceing Tasha Yar as the head of Security?
Same thing as after replacing Yar: living punching bag to show how strong certain aliens were.
See The Worf Effect on TVTropes.
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2 hours ago, Frost said:
Except I don't think Josh is out and about, is he?
Hence the "probably hare-brained" qualifier.
But it would be one hell of an episode if it was him.
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A (probably hare-brained) theory about the Fenn treasure that I saw on Reddit.
Could Josh himself be the one that found Fenn's treasure and that's why Fenn isn't saying much of anything yet? All he has said is that the finder is some guy from "back East". Josh is from Boston, and ExUHQ is New York.
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The Queen finally has her own website:
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2 hours ago, Tammee said:
I think there's been 3 people who have gone looking and never came back.
1 missing and presumed dead, 4 confirmed dead, and 1 who was found with one of the dead, but did recover in the hospital. All per Wikipedia.
Also, 4 people were charged with legal infractions related to the treasure hunt; 3 in Yellowstone. And one guy was arrested after breaking into Fenn's house and stealing a chest he thought was the treasure. He was caught in the act and held at gunpoint by Fenn and one of his daughters until police arrived.
Another guy tried suing Fenn in 2019 for "making fraudulent statements and deceiving searchers". Apparently, he thought he solved the poem and got to the end...but found nothing. So instead of thinking he had the wrong solution, he filed a suit against Fenn for $1.5 million, half of the then-estimated value of the treasure. The suit was eventually dismissed.
All that leads me to believe that Fenn would welcome Josh and crew doing a follow-up, so the story can be closed once and for all.
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On 9/20/2019 at 4:26 AM, SVNBob said:
There's one other fan-film I wanted to share back then, but I haven't found that one yet.
Found it, with a little help from my friends.
This one is a 7th Doctor story called "Time Rift", written by and starring Jonathan Blum. If that name seems familiar, it's because he went on to write some 8th Doctor novels for the Beeb, and several audio stories for Big Finish. He also married Kate Orman, another big name in Doctor Who novels, audios, and comics.
But before all that, he made a student film called "Time Rift". A 4-parter with Seven and Ace getting re-directed by the High Council to Washington, D.C. to deal with the titular time rift. Along the way, they encounter a cyborg Dalek-killer, the Brigadier of the American branch of UNIT (a black woman who takes no shit from the Doctor, and who Blum put in his first novel for the BBC, Vampire Science), more POC actors than most of classic Who combined, and only one decent actor in the bunch.
Right now, the only way to see this film is to watch or download it from Archive.org. The quality of the video has a lot to be desired. Blum has been promising an HD-upgraded version for over a decade now, but it has yet to come to public light.
Despite the potato-quality of the video, the amateurishness of the majority of the acting, regular glimpses of the "boom mike" in the shot, and the Doctor's wandering accent (Blum is trying to do an impression of McCoy's Scottish burr, but he can't really maintain it, so the accent traipses all over the UK and US.), I still recommend trying to watch it. The story itself is decent and feels very classic Who, and there's some interesting choices in the shooting locations.
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The scenarios that brought this up to my mind are from Borneo:
12 hours ago, LadyChatts said:IIRC, Greg was actually the target at the merge, but won immunity, so the target shifted to Gretchen. Assuming Greg was voted out first at the merge, and Gretchen made the jury, does Kelly win? Because Gretchen wasn't crazy about Hatch's pompous attitude from the beginning, and after Sue's speech, I can't see her voting against Kelly for that reason. And yeah, if Joel had made it to the merge, he probably would have been pushing hard to get Pagong in an alliance.
Let's start with the latter scenario first: Joel makes the merge.
First off, to have that happen, Gervase is the most likely to have been voted out instead (the actual source of the women and cow comparison that got Joel booted). So that's the actual change here. Gervase booted instead of Joel.
That makes the merge the Tagi 4 (Hatch, Sue, Rudy, Kelly) + Sean versus Colleen, Greg, Gretchen, Jenna, and Joel. Joel would indeed push for a Pagong alliance, but the others would still not heed the warning...yet. I think the Tagi target would have been Joel instead of Greg, and with Greg winning immunity, Joel gets the boot. It plays out a little different though: 5 for Joel (Tagi 4 + Jenna (who voted Gervase with a "moo" in our reality) - 2 Rich (Colleen and likely Joel) - 1 Rudy (Gretchen)-1 Colleen (Sean (alphabet) -1 Jenna (Greg).
With this proof of an alliance, the 4 Pagongs would realize Joel was right. But they'd still believe in the meritocracy, so they'd rally around Gretchen. They'd all agree that her winning would be a "cleaner" victory than the alternatives.
At this point, the RCs don't really matter for the sake of the timeline. We'll focus on the ICs.
- F9IC: The "attached to a rope" obstacle course. Without Gervase competing, Jenna wins this one. Greg goes here, since he was supposed to go over Gretchen, so he draws 5 votes (Tagi 4 + alphabet). However, the Pagong 4 unify against Hatch, the leader of the "evil alliance", instead of sniping at each other.
- F8IC: Rudy wins the tile-flipping game. And here's where things get a little hard to read. Because this is the point where Kelly starts hanging out with Colleen and Jenna, despite Sue keeps dragging her back to the Tagi alliance. But in this scenario, Gretchen is also in play. Does her added maturity and survival skill result in all 5 women coming together instead? Let's say it does, and Hatch is now the first victim of a Survivor Women's alliance, instead of the first winner. (Jenna draws 2 votes (Hatch and Rudy), and Gretchen 1 (alpha-Sean)).
- F7IC is fire-making. Hatch won this one in our reality, but I don't remember who was next closest. My gut says Rudy. But with Gretchen in play, she could have won. In either case, Sean goes here, voted out by practically everyone.
- F6IC is the start of Kelly's immunity run. Here's where Rudy goes, leaving the 5 women as the F5.
- F5IC is won by Kelly again. And I think Sue gets voted out here, getting at least the votes from the Pagong 3. But the other two votes count more at FTC.
- F4IC is also won by Kelly. Jenna volunteers to take the bullet here, allowing Colleen (who almost beat Kelly in an IC) and Gretchen (the one they want to win) to survive.
- FIC: Hands on a Hard Idol. Kelly wins again. But this time facing harder competition from Gretchen, and without someone stepping out. (Colleen would only have stepped down if Kelly lost first.) Kelly takes Gretchen out here, spoiling the Pagong plan of revenge.
That leaves Kelly and Colleen facing the jury of Greg, Hatch, Sean, Rudy, Sue, Jenna, and Gretchen.
The votes now split along old tribal lines; the 3 Pagongs for Colleen, and the Tagi men for Kelly. Which leaves Sue in the middle. And that's why the F5TC where Sue was voted out is important. If Kelly voted with Sue and the vote was 3-2, Sue votes for Kelly and she wins. However, if Kelly voted with the Pagong 3 for Sue in a 4-1, or voted for a different person than Sue for a 3-1-1 split, Sue would see that as a betrayal and give a speech akin to, but not exactly like the Snakes and Rats, and vote for Colleen instead.
So it still comes down to a 4-3 decision, but with one different name in the mix, and two possible outcomes.
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Recent discussion in the Media thread reminded me of this line of thought.
As fans of the show and the game of Survivor, there's always that question of "What if?" What if certain events played out a different way? Things that did happen didn't? Or things that didn't happen did? Multiversal theory says there are alternate universes out there where those are the reality, and that what we saw play out is the "what if".
So, let's speculate and discuss how we think these AU Survivor seasons went down. But first, some basic rules.
- Every initial change has to start from a real event or possibility as presented in the show. The thread like this back on TWoP said: no creating random new events to change things, like Fairplay getting chomped on by a shark and medevaced, or creating a brilliant strategy for the cute but less-than-strategic player you may be crushing on. But random events that did happen (ex: Jeff in Palau tripping on the coconut) can be undone, and failed coups/bootings can succeed instead.
- Unless the event is specifically changing the winner of a single challenge, the original winning tribe/team/individual still does so. How they do so may change, and any other results, like additional placement and take-alongs on rewards, may also change. However, if the winner of a challenge was voted out before that challenge in this AU, then the 2nd place (or later, depending) should probably be the winner, unless someone else now in play makes even more sense as the winner.
- After the change, play out the chain of events as far as you can, and show your reasoning.
- Since all possibilities can be real (per the multiverse), anyone can construct another timeline based on the same initial change, but it can go in a different direction. And all are valid. (IOW: Disagree politely, but no one is ever "wrong".)
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10 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
Gretchen was one of those who naively thought the show was going to be about survival and skill, not about scheming and alliances. IIRC, Greg was actually the target at the merge, but won immunity, so the target shifted to Gretchen. Assuming Greg was voted out first at the merge, and Gretchen made the jury, does Kelly win?
This reminds me of a thread we had back on TWoP. I thought we had it here, but it doesn't seem so. But since there may be a prolonged hiatus, I think I'll bring it back.
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7 hours ago, Maelstrom said:
But one of these days I'll have to just give in and restart my Viki subscription,
There's another service you might want to look into: Kocowa.
It's a joint venture between the three main Korean networks (KBS, SBS, and MBC) that was designed to be a central hub for their international streaming distribution to other services like Viki. Also, the shows on Kocowa are professionally subtitled and don't rely on crowd-sourced fan-subbing.
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It is like that a lot. Josh and the local archaeologist and/or treasure hunter will come across a possible endpoint for the investigation. But because of local property laws and regulations regarding excavations and the like, that's as far as they can go. They can speculate based on what they've found, but that is it.
Occasionally, they'll find actual period artifacts near the end of an episode, like ship wreckage in pirate stories, or plane wreckage in the Bermuda Triangle, but they're not able to conclusively say at the time whether those things are precisely what they were looking for. Related to your interest in actual historical figures, look for the episode about Boadicea; that's all I'll say about that episode.
However, there's sometimes follow-up episodes. In those, the local had gotten government permissions after the show left the first time, or they found other evidence related to the story, and now Josh and crew are back to see what was actually found and continue with the search. There's a couple episodes about the Mayan Snake Kings. and also about the lost Spanish fleet of 1715. But the episodes most like what I described are the ones about the heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The follow-up on that story is huge.
In the end, the show is more about showing off and celebrating the processes of archaeology and treasure hunting, and not necessarily the results. But on occasion, they do get to show off those results.
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22 hours ago, ratgirlagogo said:
Back in the day they would have THROWN SOMETHING INTO THE MIRROR and SMASHED it.
Or punched the mirror, breaking it and cutting their hand in the process.
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4 hours ago, Ms Blue Jay said:
So as soon as Boston Rob is voted out of the Villains tribe in HvV, Rupert says "It's a woman's alliance!" based on no evidence. Hahhahahahahahaaha. Idiot.
In Rupert's defense (a phrase that's a little funny to say), he never flat out says that there is a "women's alliance". He says it looks like there's a women's alliance. Which is distinctly different.
2 hours ago, KimberStormer said:I don't think it's no evidence as much as it's evidence that is analyzed completely wrong. I can't think of any other season where the first boots on any tribe are all men, especially not extremely strong challenge performers like Tyson and Rob, and challenge liabilities like Sandra and Courtney are kept in.
Precisely. That's why the "women's alliance" exchanges are part of my defense of the Idol Pass play. As is the following fact, related to Rupert's observations:
While we the audience are able to see the machinations and plotting on both sides in the tribal phase, the players are not. All they know about what is going on in the other tribe is what they see when everyone shows up at the next challenge. But unless a tribe says why they voted someone out right then, or Peachy mentions there was an evac or quit, the reasoning is guesswork until revealed later (either at the merge/swap, or by watching the season like us.)
While we viewers knew the "women's alliance" was not a thing, the Heroes did not. However, it was a reasonable and logical assumption based on the pattern of Villains voted off, and the presence of Parvati, the leader of the most successful all-female alliance to date.
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Since this adaptation is into a visual medium, I'm expecting us to get glimpses of "Min-vision". As in, we'll occasionally be shown the symbols as if we're seeing through Min's eyes. We'll definitely see the ones around the core players.
That means we might also get occasional ta'veren "rainbow flashes" from Rand, Mat, and/or Perrin about one of the other two.
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5 hours ago, KimberStormer said:
I do like SUGAR, DESTROYER OF WORLDS. Was she the first Ox since Boston Rob in All-Stars? I think she might be the only self-aware Ox ever?
I'm pretty sure the answer to both these questions is yes.
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2 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
Randy was an asshole (not a racist;
Randy is not a racist, nor is he a misogynist.
Randy is a misanthrope; he hates all people, with some individuals hated more than others.
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Reddit post with the Torch Auction stats after 10 days.
Main range is from $1.6K for Wendell's, to $6.2K for Tony's. With B-Rob's the outlier at the top at $15K.
But then again, it's a little hard to outbid Peachy.
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12 hours ago, ABay said:
Conspiracy theorists in real life often complain that the term is pejorative and dismissive of their beliefs. In depictions of conspiracy theorists in popular culture, they may initially seem bat shit crazy but are inevitably proven correct.
If you are a law enforcement agent and your former partner or mentor shows up, there are only 2 ways the story will end: They were corrupt and you have to arrest them or they are killed and you have to find the murderer.
10 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:There is also option 3 where your (usually retired) mentor needs your help with solving their white whale.
Option 3 is usually coupled with Option 2. Or Option 2 variant B: partner/mentor dies for reasons not related to the case (typically age and/or health related reasons). But however they die, it falls on the living one to solve the case in their honor.
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3 hours ago, Maverick said:
I caught bits of Code of Honor and The Naked Now today. O. M. G. Just what the hell were they on? And why is there a different chief engineer every damn week.
I'm pretty sure Naked Now was an old Phase II script repurposed for TNG. Obviously it was a reference to TOS's Naked Time. But since they were in syndication to start, they could get away with being a little more risque than the original did. (Although the original did get in one great stealth joke from Uhura on the bridge while Sulu is in his musketeer delusion. S: "I'll protect you, fair maiden." U: "Sorry, neither." I think I once heard that Nichelle ad-libbed that line, and it is a good one.) There's no defending Code of Honor though.
As for the rotating chief engineer, there's a real-world reason, and my in-universe head-canon. Real world reason is that Gene didn't originally want to re-invent Scotty. The Engineering set wasn't even part of the original Farpoint script. But while building the sets, Gene eventually decided to set a single scene in Engineering to justify building that set, just in case they decided they needed/wanted it after all. But since there were no plans for a chief engineer as part of the regular cast, that got role was delegated to one-offs for the first season.
My head-canon is based on one fact that I believe was mentioned in Farpoint: the Galaxy-class ships (including the -D) were a new class of ships and had a new engine design. So I've decided that the Enterprise, being the flagship, was tasked with training engineers on the operation of this new engine. Every time we saw a new Chief Engineer in Season 1 meant that the previous one had been transferred to a new ship with this new engine, and the next Chief was preparing to do the same.
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9 hours ago, tracyscott76 said:
One innovation with hiding idols that I liked was I think in Second Chance (31) when they hid an idol at a challenge. Jeremy had gotten a clue that told him roughly where on the challenge course it would be, but it was up to him to grab it when no one was looking. Kelley Wentworth did this too, but I can't remember if that was also in Second Chance or on the first Edge of Extinction season.
It was Second Chance, and she did it first.
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Talk about coincidence. I just found out about this on Reditt.
A half-hour documentary from 2004 called Hotel Torgo, all about Manos. I haven't watched it yet, but it could be interesting. However, there is a comment thread on Reditt that says it's not that accurate.
There's also apparently a Blu-Ray remaster of Manos, with a different documentary as a special feature. And apparently also on the Blu-Ray is a filmed version of "Manos: the Hands of Felt", a musical puppet version of Manos. (I'm thinking Manos meets Avenue Q.)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - General Discussion
in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Memory Alpha concurs with your assessment. After the Armus incident, he was made acting security chief until his transfer to Operations Division at the start of Season 2, which was when he was officially promoted to security chief and chief tactical officer.