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Another one-of-a-kind baby name to add to the 😖 list:
X (first name) AE A-XII (middle name)
Of course, I could have edited it into the previous list; but, surely a name that has managed to out-unique them all deserves its own space.
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6 hours ago, Natalie25 said:
I'm liking this show, some good lines. I didn't realize, was this the finale?
Yeah. When it comes dialogue, some of those lines are real zingers.
As for this being the finale, it does seem rather weird having a 9-episode season. But, since shows start, stop, split, and have other varying lengths...why not a 9-episode one? Even so, it still feels strange.
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42 minutes ago, sugarbaker design said:
The highlight for me was watching evolution work when the idiots volunteered to be air-locked.
At first I blamed Matt for giving them the code. He may have given them the means; but, yeah, when it came to actually doing-the-deed, the idiocy of their action was all on them.
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On 3/16/2020 at 9:14 AM, Commando Cody said:
I will just say, nothing happened in this episode.
1. Judd got bitch-slapped.
2. We lost "in-your-face" Iris from the ship?
3. We gained "revved-up" Rav on the ship.
4.The cruise was unintentionally extended to 8 years.
5. Karen had to face the fact that she is not the "Ms Perfect" she thought herself to be.
6. Billie admitted that maybe, possibly, perhaps she might have been feelings just a tiny bit warm-and-fuzzy where the Comedian is concerned.
8. Judd got bitch-slapped.
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On 3/16/2020 at 9:51 PM, BusyOctober said:
If Karen had been elevated to the inner circle of decision makers and people with authority, then why the hell didn’t she know about jettisoning the extra weight from the BACK was the ultimate (and only) plan?
I think it's because Karen was tasked with collecting the stuff from the passengers and crew…that’s all.
Billie had told Karen earlier (when Karen had hassled her for a contribution to the effort) that, in spite of what she seemed to think, she was not in charge of the operation.
I think that Karen…just being Karen…was sure she was in charge despite what Billie thought. So she (with that numbskull husband in tow) took it upon herself to jettison the stuff when it reached the required weight.
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30 minutes ago, AnimeMania said:
A space elevator gets people and cargo from Earth into space. This way a large Cruise Ship would not have to land on Earth, but always remain in space. The large amount of fuel required for a large Cruise Ship to take off from Earth would be eliminated. You can build the Cruise Ships in space, so you wouldn't have to worry about heavy structural beams in the materials because it is made in a weightless environment.
Thanks.
I had never heard of the "space elevator" concept before.
I did some "light" reading and it seems that the "roadblock" turns out to be the need for a material that's both strong enough AND light enough to do the job.
So, yeah, considering they have some viable candidates now…and are working on others…you’d think that in 40 years science would have licked the problem.
Of course, even if they solved that problem, other obstacles could have popped up somewhere along the way.
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21 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
If they have giant Cruise Ships like Avenue 5, shouldn't they also have a space elevator and giant transport and cargo space ships. Would it really be that hard to rescue the passengers or resupply the ship.
Giant transport and cargo space ships...I can see.
But, what is and what would the purpose be of a "space elevator"?
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2 hours ago, Sam Spayaid said:
I contacted HBO and told them that if they have any plans of putting out a season 2 of this steaming pile of dung, that I will cancel my subscription with them FOR LIFE!!!!
And Hugh Laurie?!!!! Shit, man! If I'd known things were this bad, I would have floated you a loan! You have way more talent to be involved in this insultingly stupid nonsense. You were in Veep for fuck's sake!
Horrible, dreadful wretched road kill....brought to you by those purveyors of good taste, HBO. This has got to be the biggest waste of time they've ever had the bad sense to air and they've had some real shit on...anyone remember "Camping" or "SMILF?" Yeah. Didn't think so.
And, yet, over the course of the season the rating ticked up from 5.6 to 6.2.
Go figure....
2 hours ago, Sam Spayaid said:I contacted HBO and told them that if they have any plans of putting out a season 2 of this steaming pile of dung, that I will cancel my subscription with them FOR LIFE!!!!
No need to deprive yourself of all the other wonderfulness that is HBO...just don't watch this show.
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23 hours ago, Commando Cody said:
They could use the shuttle and bring passengers back one at a time. They never said how long the trip back and forth was, but it didn't seem like it took much time.
I think because Avenue 5 only would be within earth's orbit for a brief time.
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8 minutes ago, BusyOctober said:
On the bright side, maybe the side-shift has helped the ship escape the ring of shit and dead bodies?
From your 💻 to His 👂.
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37 minutes ago, Commando Cody said:
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Why couldn't it have been freaking Karen on the shuttle? They sent off a character I actually liked. My only hope is, she ends up in the control room when she gets back. Or the shuttle just has to come back to the ship.
Yes. I was sorry to see Iris go.
The Comedian would have been the perfect choice. Or let Mia sit on Doug's lap and send them both.
Neither Collin nor that fake Comms Tech deserves to go anywhere near a shuttle...they belong in the airlock! As for the Tech, too bad there is nothing for that kerchief around her neck to get caught on as she is being spaced.
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My favorite exchange of the episode is the one between Rav and the Pilot regarding the return trip to Earth on the two-seater Shuttle:
Rav: …”I don’t wanna have to fight you for a place home.”
Pilot: “…OK, look. I’m the pilot. I’m going home whatever happens. The passenger is either you or Mr. Judd; or both of you if one of you has eaten the other.”
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My favorite line of the episode is from Billie to Captain Clark as they try unsuccessfully to convince the passenger that they actually are in space:
Billie: “These people are so dumb. I’m just hanging out with pigs and dolphins when we get back.”
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21 hours ago, Cerulean said:
Aren’t the “unhappy couple” there because of Rav? Maybe she’d rather be back at Mission Control.
Yeah. Probably for Rav it's a case of "no good deed".
11 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:I love that Avenue 5 has such a dim view of humanity. Watching an idiot come up with a conspiracy theory, and then bigger idiots extrapolating on that theory, and then even bigger idiots self-destruct was like watching Fox News.
I was watching a movie the other night based on Jim Jones and the "Jonestown Incident”. It appears human nature is what it is. Be it 40ish years ago…now…40 years from now.
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15 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
They could space that comedian guy, stop trying to flirt with Billie.
For me, his not being funny would be near the bottom of my Airlock Priority List. I think I’d even put that “Green-Shirt” who would not let Former Fake Captain Ryan eat ahead of the comedian.
As for flirting with Billie, I don't know; that may not be a bad thing. Billie looks as if she really could use some stress release.
21 hours ago, Cerulean said:Also, what did Spike think he was doing with ship?!? If they were really on course, the last thing you’d want to do would be to adjust it and use fuel!
If that's the case, then it's probably good he couldn't do anything. Because, if I remember correctly, Sarah/Sarah said that the Control (whatever it's called) at the Captain's station is just a prop that she moves around as needed.
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On 3/9/2020 at 10:27 AM, Commando Cody said:
They sent the wrong people out into the airlock. Do the writers hate the viewers?
My Airlock Priority List:
1. VFXette
2. Judd
3. Karen
4. The Astronaut
5. Frank
6. Mia and Doug (with their hands locked around each other's throat)
7. Collins (should have been him instead of Sarah/Sarah)
8. Fake Comms Tech (whatever her name is)
9. TBA
10.TBA
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5 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
I'm not really laying it at Matt. No one was listening to the captain or Billie. Judd was all like "I don't know what's real." Matt didn't think they'd be stupid enough to do it.
It's really on Judd. He literally owns the entire thing.
Yeah. But Matt is the one who gave up the code to open the door to the airlock. Without that code, the disgruntled passengers would have been stymied.
No code...No opened airlock door...No deaths.
It's all on Matt.
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Once upon a time Matt was just an annoyance. Now he is a menace; and not too bright if he thought shouting out that code was the way to discourage passengers from going into that airlock.
The way he was all balled up in the corner afterward reminded me of what Iris said about suicide, and all of them being willing to swear they didn't see it coming.
I would say that Matt would make a great candidate for the next airlock departure; but, I'd miss him too much. Although...I can't see how he'll ever be able to get back that idiotically buoyant persona (his only endearing quality) after being the means for all those deaths.
On 3/9/2020 at 9:43 PM, ottoDbusdriver said:They generally pump all the air out of the airlock first before opening the external door, so as not to get explosive effects. So it should have taken longer to cycle the airlock as everyone in the airlock slowly asphyxiated, and then froze AFTER the door opened.
But I suppose that wouldn't lead to 'hilarious' comedy. #sarcasmThanks.
That's how it' done now. But, maybe in 40 years they will have worked out that little "explosive effects" kink.
Kind of wonder if watching the first up slowly asphyxiate and then freeze would have deterred anyone else from going in.
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51 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
Holy shit that airlock scene was horrifying.
I would have just let them run all out. Solved the lawsuit though.
Yeah. It was a tad on the 😕😱. Interesting how easy it is to work folks into an irrational frenzy; based on someone’s supposedly 'bit of knowledge' without a lick of proof that what being said is true.
Anyone ever notice how the security team just materializes out of nowhere. They are never anywhere to be seen; yet when someone mentions security...there they are.
I think they are robots.
51 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:I assuming the shuttle can fly higher %c due to the lower mass.
Avenue 5 is so big its got a gravity well and they needed still to slingshot around Titan.
They did say they would have burned all the fuel to correct the 2 degree miss.
It's thin, but they did say it on the show. They are playing fair with the viewers for me.
Thanks.
Since there seems to be a few questions about the nearness to Earth/shuttle delivery maneuver, it's good you put that out here.
I knew they (probably Billie) had given an explanation for the whole set-up; but I couldn't remember which episode(s); so couldn't go back and share.
Anyway, despite much finger pointing, it appears that they do not just make things up as they go along...some things they make up beforehand.
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21 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:
Plus, that's not how airlocks work.
How do airlocks work?
12 hours ago, TexasGal said:Well, I certainly didn't expect multiple people to air lock themselves. Especially Judd's arch nemesis. We were just getting to know you!
Same here. I didn't expect anyone to go. But, after the first one, I figured no way was anyone else ever going in there.
Have you ever heard of the "Darwin Awards"? Well, that airlock-parade is a prime example of how it got started in the first place.
11 hours ago, Commando Cody said:They can send a shuttle to pick up the Jack Black/Vince Neil hybrid, but they can't send any sort of transport to pick up the passengers - or send a replacement ship pilot or real crew members? Plus, it appears to take very little time to reach the ship from earth.
Does Mission Control even know yet that the captain and the bridge crew are fake. Maybe not, since Rav seemed OK trading places with Judd...that is, until the bodies started hitting the shuttle.
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I liked Sarah/Sarah. Sorry to see her go.
Why are the recent departees not caught in the same "S-obit” around the ship as the earlier departees?
If the VFX rabble-rouser was so certain it was all a simulation, why wasn't she the first in line for the airlock?
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3 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
No, I think the shuttle will dock. It's too much of an opportunity to not have Rav thrown in with all of them. Does she even know the captain and the crew are all fake?
Good questions.
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9 hours ago, SG429 said:
Not to get into a "thing," but it is fun to discuss the physics of a stream of s**t... The leak looked like there was pressure behind it, didn't it? (not going back to check the recording). Not enough force to be Newtonian? Is there an Avenue 5 Science thread?
Yes, It looked like a gusher from an oil well. As for a "Science Thread"...don't know; but wouldn't be surprised.
Also, shows usually have subject-matter-experts consulting; so maybe the cargo-drop method works while the S-streaming one (even though it probably would have been funnier); doesn’t.
12 hours ago, TexasGal said:Do they know the supply shuttle is coming? I'm speculating they will complete the jettison and then the shuttle won't be able to get to them somehow.
12 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:I don't think they know the shuttle is coming.
I don't think they know the shuttle is coming either. Avenue 5 probably will have been there and gone by the time Rav and the shuttles shows up.
I think it would be a blast if instead of just missing them Rav and the shuttles somehow get drag into Avenue 5’s orbit and have to come aboard.
Of course, the downside would be that then we would have no one back at Mission Control to hysterically carry on as if they were permanently hooked up to an upper-Iv.
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17 hours ago, PentaHookUp said:
Even if it were so easy a chimp could do it, no way Team Judd will ever complete the task without fate (or some boo-boo) throwing in a monkey wrench to gum up the works.
12 hours ago, SG429 said:I think it will end up being another element orbiting the ship, but if they're looking for a Newtonian effect, why didn't jettisoning the poop in the first place propel them away from it?
It wasn’t jettisoned in the first place; it was released as the result of a leak and, then, caught in the ship’s gravitational pull. If it had been in, say, a container and released all-at-once, (instead of coming out in a stream) maybe because of its combined weight...it would have.
Assuming, (I guess) it was weighty enough to handle the heaviness of those 500 NEPs.
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15 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
You know it won't be that easy
Even if it were so easy a chimp could do it, no way Team Judd will ever complete the task without fate (or some boo-boo) throwing in a monkey wrench to gum up the works.
Future Judd
in Avenue 5
Anyone else wondering how the writers are going to write Judd now that his Doppelgänger is no longer front-and-center? Will his character still be as interesting without the audience being able to “knowingly” chuckle when he does/says something utterly outrageous?