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On 9/12/2022 at 9:20 AM, 4evaQuez said:
They think we can't do basic math.
Or maybe they can’t.
21 hours ago, WendyCR72 said:Good to know this show is still crap, even airing on a different platform.
I think this tells me everything I need to know. Thanks!
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On 9/4/2022 at 10:58 AM, Peanut6711 said:
... this jackassy she-shouldn't-have-been there crap that Chris Kositchek Roman spouted.
Remember when Commissioner Grampa Mumbleteeth was only Chris Kositchek and he was a lot less prone to spouting passive-aggressive crapola that was supposed to pass for wisdom? Because I do, Ron; I DO.
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7 hours ago, boes said:
I fully expected he'd be chasing Julie around the caftan store by the end of the week.
Nope. I did NOT need that image in my head, thankyouverymuch. 😉
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13 minutes ago, methodwriter85 said:
But....he wears glasses! And tacky ugly floral print blazers! He's also combing his hair forward. Totes different character!
You’ve heard of method acting? RSW is the foremost practitioner of bangs acting.
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1 hour ago, brisbydog said:
Kristen for me. Nasty rapey baby stealing sociopath with a weird fixation on a man who was almost her stepson.
Good point, @brisbydog. I find Kristen so genuinely horrifying I want to forget she exists. She may have begun as a complex, fully realized character, but she was awful long before Davidson left the role.
Yeah, I said it. :: fight chin :: 😉
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1 hour ago, methodwriter85 said:
My theory is that it's actually Diana Colville. Does it make any sense that a 70-year old woman could wield knives and stab people to death? No, but since when did that ever stop a soap?
Or this one in particular? Nevertheless, aside from the supervillain-level strength part, this theory does make a certain sense. As someone with some investment in Leo’s happiness, Diana could have a motive to tick names off Leo’s list. (Of course, the sheer logic of it probably means the show’s not going to go there.)
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13 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:
... overcame his unnamed illness and lowered the standard of acceptable acting on DOOL.
Ouchie. Hee. Though if we're talking about lowering the standard of acting, Nathan Owens was always a prime offender there, for me -- Cameron was surely not the worst character, but Owens was arguably one of the three worst at reproducing recognizable human emotion. RSW and he appear to be proof (if more were needed) that models should not become actors.
The worst character? That's easy: Darling Effin' Julie. A selfish, cruel busybody who's inexplicably treated by her family and the rest of the townsfolk as an example of compassion and goodness. Even RoboMar on her worst day can't match the Wicked Stepmothersister's bottomless well of self-righteous rage.
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On 9/5/2022 at 2:05 PM, BuckeyeLou said:
Yikes! The end of today's show! What the heck is going on with Leo?! Or does he have a Twin?
Ucch, would that mean twice the smarm from Rikaart? Hard pass.
This show is already lousy with doppelgangers. Kristen and Susan; Hope and Gina; Adrienne and Bonnie; Marlena and Samantha and Hattie; Tony and André; Stefan and Jake -- no one has ever said of this show "You know what's missing? A twin storyline!" Double ucch.
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23 hours ago, Peanut6711 said:
#ThingsRonProbablyShouldn’tRemind ViewersOf
#ICan'tWriteForBeans
#TheyPAYMeToWriteThisMalarkey
#EveryCharacterITouchIsRuined
#ITakeKillAllYourDarlingsLiterally
#LegacySchmegacy!
At least Nicole marrying ShutUp!Rafe means two stupid people are miserable instead of four.
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54 minutes ago, Lucas Rowan said:
I hate Leo a little less (and like nuStephanie a little more) for loving Olivia Rodrigo.
I just felt secondhand embarrassment at a (clearly) middle-aged man trying so desperately to sound hip. “It’s like she read my diary”? Seriously? No. Just — no.
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On 8/13/2022 at 12:17 PM, paramitch said:
The captains of warships and ships of the line would need to have that on hand as they would routinely entertain officers, crew, and visiting captains and dignitaries. It's not a stretch to me at all that Pike has a bar in his quarters.
Sorry — just to be clear, I didn’t mean “a full bar” in the sense of a well-stocked liquor cabinet. I meant the crew could stage a revival of Cheers in there. His quarters appear to be enormous — and look to me a little like a hotel bar. All that’s missing are the ferns.
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On 8/10/2022 at 2:18 PM, BuckeyeLou said:
I was never an RSW/Ben fan at all(either the actor or the character), but he is rather a "Hoot" as Alex...his whole scene with Chanel & "Sweet Bits" made me laugh. And I am enjoying Zach Tinker as NuSonny, he has good on-screen chemistry with Billy/Chad & RSW/Alex, and other characters.
I’m behind enough that when I thought I saw BOllie tell NuSonny “I love you,” I figured the show (or I) had gone completely insane. But are they putting RSW in glasses to make Alex look brainier than Salem’s Favourite Serial Killer? Because I’m not sure it’s working.
Leo’s still an atrocious waste of my time, Stephanie seems like a whiny mess of a girl, and I cannot be made to care about Snorpheus and the Ex-ISA Silver-Haired Babysitters Club. Or British What’shernose (Gwen?), either. Please let Billy Flynn get away from that charisma-sink.ETA: I was not expecting to see Sonny get perforated!
There: All caught up.
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On 4/11/2022 at 8:57 AM, AnimeMania said:
Not sure this is exactly the place to report this, but, aw, man:
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On 7/7/2022 at 10:36 PM, cdnalor said:
… I loved the recreation of the Romulan reveal from TOS right down to the theme music.
I thought the use of the stinger from TOS was nice touch, too. I thought Peck’s lifted eyebrow was well deployed at that moment; Spock’s version of a “Well, shit!” face.
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So, the Gorn are like the Xenomorphs, but more insectile?
Grrrreat. This episode’s not gonna give me nightmares at all.
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On 7/8/2022 at 4:42 PM, RedElf said:
Why is Ciara dressed like she's going out to a party instead of sailing away?
Because these people think clubwear is appropriate for funerals, christenings, board meetings, and scrubbing in for cranial surgery?
Just guessing.
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I’ve never seen Orpheus as particularly bright. He does, however, seem to have a knack for inhibiting the townsfolk’s access to the Salem Brain when he’s around. Just because he makes everyone else dumber than usual doesn’t make him a criminal mastermind.
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14 minutes ago, Dani said:
Strange was one on the founders of the Defenders in the comics and the look in the movie was based off of that.
That part I knew, but I was pretty sure Cumberbatch wasn't part of the Netflix series. Thanks for the confirmation.
On 6/22/2022 at 2:02 PM, Ailianna said:I should add I love Wanda and WandaVision and hate them making her a villain again without some developed, emotionally resonant reason.
Agreed.
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On 12/29/2021 at 9:49 PM, Brn2bwild said:
My hope is that they'll avoid making Wanda a villain because she's powerful and unhappy. That's so cliche, and already covered in WandaVision besides.
Well, so much for Wanda's character arc -- this movie makes WandaVision feel entirely pointless. How many times is Marvel going to back to the "redhead gets drunk on her own power, wrecks everything for everyone" well? Jesus. Enough!
Olsen is never less than mesmerizing, but I hated that Wanda is so completely without self-awareness for nine tenths of the movie. Visually, the movie is arresting, and it was nice to see Christine again; I always like McAdams, and she and Cumberbatch have nice chemistry, but it's hard to feel much sympathy for Wanda. Crazy Bitch Wanda is ... not that interesting, sadly. And I don't buy the whole retcon of the Scarlet Witch being some prophesied* bringer of universal doom. (I also don't buy Wanda as more powerful than absolutely everyone. Charles Xavier, in particular, is the most powerful telepath on the planet. Wanda should not have been able to trounce him that easily, Darkhold or no. Now, Reed Richards, on the other hand, has the dumbest power in any universe. I have no trouble imagining that Wanda could best a guy made of gum.
Please stop assassinating your female heroes, Marvel.
Other Wanda tells her "Know that they're loved."
I've seen references to the first iteration of Strange we see (the one with the ponytail, pre-Zombie) as "Defender Strange." Does Strange ever make an appearance on the Netflix Defenders series?
(*And, no, Waldron, "prophesized" isn't a word, no matter what Dylan told you. Just, no.)
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On 6/23/2022 at 12:36 PM, dwmarch said:
Spock just wants to be a wizard I guess.
Hee! Guess so. I think Peck was having a ball, as were the others. The costumes, especially Gooding's glittery fingernails of eeevil, and Mount's butt-part hair, were peak Eighties. The production style seemed more Dungeons & Dragons (the movie) or Labyrinth than The Princess Bride to me. (The Princess Bride seems more of a loving take on the material than a strictly camp treatment would allow for. But then I'm usually in the anti-camp... er, camp.) I thought the episode was unlike TOS to the extent that there was little focus on breaking the crew out of their delusion -- which I think would have been the way the plot would have run on Kirk's Enterprise.
On 6/23/2022 at 1:24 PM, LydiaMoon1 said:The storybook plot dragged a little at times. Pike was amusing as a simpering coward and tough-as-nails La'an was entertaining as the pampered princess, but I wish the rest of the cast had utilized a bit more camp. Don't get me wrong, the episode was good. It had the potential to be great...
The Dr.'s performance was just so muted. The actor always seems so low energy. It's fine when he's in the background, but front and center? Nah. His separation from Rekiah could and should have been heartwrenching, but it felt like....IDK...like he was ready to go eat a ham sandwich. There just wasn't much emotional resonance there, at least not to me.
I think the episode stayed on the right side of the line; a more flagrantly camp approach would not have worked for me. I think it would have run the risk of draining all of the emotional resonance out of the scenes for Dr. M'Benga and Rukiya. I actually liked the way he played those scenes. The doctor isn't a particularly demonstrative guy. Yes, he's reserved, but I definitely felt the wrench of it. Maybe bringing Rukiya back after an instantaneous lifetime of adventuring foreshortened the doctor's path of grief and doubt, but I thought all three actors were moving and convincing. (I was thinking that this was how the Traveller could have worked on TNG -- without Wesley Crusher's purported (and yet somehow never perceptible) awesomeness.
On 6/23/2022 at 3:16 PM, Llywela said:Okay, that was hilarious until it was heartbreaking. A bit of a surprise, though, to have the sub-plot of little Rukiya wrapped up so soon and in what ended up being a fairly muted fashion. That felt like something that could have run longer and ultimately involved more people. In the end, only M'Benga and Una even knew she was ever on the ship, if I recall correctly. ...
I still wish PIC had been more like this. Those characters deserved this kind of showcasing too.
"Hilarious until it was heartbreaking" is a great way to put it. I agree that I was expecting the Rukiya plot thread to run a bit longer. Somehow the idea that so few people on Enterprise knew about Rukiya, and now no one else knows what happened at all, makes the doctor's situation worse, rather than less wrenching, to me. Lonelier, I think. Agreed about Picard. I can't help thinking that the second season wasted a lot of potential.
On 6/23/2022 at 3:16 PM, Stardancer Supreme said:Thank you, SNW, for the ugly cry I didn't know this episode would bring out. I lost my father recently and I was totally with M'Benga and Rukiya.
The fairy tale come to life was so surprising and hella funny. I especially loved Uhura being the vengeful Queen! It gave us another insight into the crew; Pike the Boy Scout becoming a cowardly minion, La'an becoming a pampered princess, etc. That Christina Chong used her actual dog in this episode was a plus. I wonder what the dog showed up as in M'Benga's scan?
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I figured that the cure for Rukiya would come with a steep cost. I was okay in the decision he made, since she couldn't stay in the sickbay transporter buffer forever. Letting her go caused the waterworks for me; I cried even harder when she came back to reassure her father that she was okay.
Yep -- this was my reaction, too. (Also, I wish I'd come up with "Deb the Neb"; that's nice.)
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On 6/4/2022 at 12:16 AM, Frozendiva said:
The aliens were interesting and again, it wasn't all about Pike saving the day.
I liked the fact that the aliens’ empathy was presented (their affect and behaviour shifted to match whoever else was in the room), but wasn’t hammered home or the primary plot point it might have been.
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20 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
“I'm not a boy scout."
"It’s in your file."
My favourite moment in that exchange was that even Spock’s expression implied “Busted, dude,” (or at very least “Such demurral is unsupported by available evidence, Captain.”)
20 hours ago, tennisgurl said:Never a dull moment at their family reunions, the shit Amanda puts up with.
“Logic, logic — I’m sick to death of logic! And also the forty-leven various kinds of assorted shit you guys come up with on the regular!”
Also, I thought Ethan Peck did a really nice job with Spock’s nonplussed moment of sip-of-wine-down-the-wrong-pipe “… wut??” I laughed out loud at that.
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8 hours ago, cambridgeguy said:
Sybok was not half human, he's a full Vulcan.
Huh. I guess I remembered this movie even less than I thought; I was sure there was something in it about Spock's not being the first Vulcan-human hybrid (which would have been in a change to TOS canon -- which is why (I thought) I remembered it).
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On 6/17/2022 at 9:27 AM, jah1986 said:
This part cracked me up too, as did #1's "Please stop.” All in the delivery.
Una is becoming my favourite character. This line and “Our mutiny is still in progress” were certainly my favourite moments in the episode. I don’t disagree that the pirates had far too easy a time taking over the Enterprise. (I would have thought Starfleet had standard training on how to repel boarders.) Even so, I found the episode entertaining. Maybe I’m easy, too.
I barely remember Star Trek V. I seem to recall it as both preposterous and dull. Mostly what stands out is how thoroughly wretched Laurence Luckinbill’s performance was; just mind-bogglingly awful. That, and the fact that Spock’s half-brother was also half-human — a troublesome canon wrinkle which the episode took some pains to iron out. Not looking forward to the Sybok character here, in any case.
I was hoping to see Spock’s friendship with Chapel develop without verging into angsty unrequited Feelings with a capital Feck. Ah, well…
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S01.E06: Part VI
in Obi-Wan Kenobi
· Edited by Sandman
Looking back on it, I'm sure you're right about her redemption being inevitable. It made sense to me, and I found it worked, given that the character had to have some purpose, since we know she wasn't going to kill Luke. Prequels (and fanfic) are already written into corners, pretty much by definition. But the actress did a better than decent job with it, I thought. A little more development of her character along that line wouldn't have gone amiss, though.
(The Grand Inquisitor, by contrast, I found unthreatening and almost entirely useless, in that overweening yet mingy way -- a badly written character, played without noticeable conviction by Rupert Friend. A real misstep for the series.)
I had put off watching the end of Part VI, but I'm glad I saw it through. The first half of the episode dragged a bit, I thought, getting everyone in place for the denouement. Up to the first section of the climactic lightsaber duel I just wasn't feeling it -- I know Obi-Wan was supposed to be obviously holding back, but the fight choreography itself struck me as grindingly slow and full of holes in tactics or technique that seemed to sap the thing of any real risk. The second stanza, as it were, after Obi-Wan un-buries himself and seems to remember, Oh, right; I taught this little pisher everything he knows, and I was trained by the greatest was far more coherent and engaging.
I felt absolutely everything after that. Reva's heel-face turn, the power of mercy, the goodbye scene with Leia (and her holster!), the reconciliation with Owen, meeting Luke, and the return of (:: snif ::) Qui-Gon -- I knew it had to be coming, but it still worked! I found it all quite moving. A lovely end to a mostly satisfying series.