And contractions -- what the hell? It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.
Stupidest. Plot device. Ever.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Sean K - Sep 10, 2003 8:56:12 am PDT #207 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
askye - Sep 10, 2003 8:58:36 am PDT #208 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I can't remember which magazine it was--Starlog ?? or something like it--that had a cartoon about Data's no contraction thing. It was Data explaining it to Worf. "I can not use contractions such as 'can't' ." and Worf just repeating "Can not say can't" over and over going insane trying to figure the logic in it.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 10, 2003 9:05:27 am PDT #209 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm not sure how I feel about this development, I may have to wait until I see the movie to know for sure. Either way, it's been a while since I really cared all that much.
Sean, it sucked like a thing that sucks. So stupid - either have the balls to go all the way, or don't bother.
Jeff Mejia - Sep 10, 2003 9:05:51 am PDT #210 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
And contractions -- what the hell? It's just language. You can have a computer use them without exploding.
Stupidest. Plot device. Ever.
No, that's second place. First place is when the android contracted a virus (in "The Naked Now" episode). And no, it wasn't a computer virus.
sumi - Sep 10, 2003 9:07:15 am PDT #211 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Apparently, UPN will have repeats of Jake 2.0 but I cannot get into the tvguide.com site today so I cannot find out when.
Also -- the Bashur you guys are talking about is he the one that was mentioned (here or lj?) as being the Algerian terrorist on MI-5 last night?
Sean K - Sep 10, 2003 9:07:52 am PDT #212 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
either have the balls to go all the way, or don't bother.
That is my dissatisfaction with the series and what they did with it right there in a nutshell.
Dana - Sep 10, 2003 9:08:39 am PDT #213 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Also -- the Bashur you guys are talking about is he the one that was mentioned (here or lj?) as being the Algerian terrorist on MI-5 last night?
Yes. AKA Alexander Siddig AKA Siddig El Fadil.
shrift - Sep 10, 2003 9:09:35 am PDT #214 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Also, the lead reminds me of Shrift a little bit. <hides under desk>
Having never seen DLM, I have no urge to go HULK SMASH on you.
Heh.
And why didn't they have early 19th-Century Methos more often?
Wrod. What Dana said about the floppy hair and the threesomes.
askye - Sep 10, 2003 9:12:41 am PDT #215 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Oh, yeah, back when TNG was recycling all of TOS's plots. Except I'm sure they didn't calling it recycling and called it something like homaging.
I'm fuzzy on the details but I'm pretty sure Riker didn't act any differently than he did through out the rest of the series---play his trombone ('cause did you know Jonathan Frakes can play the trombone?) and try to get in the sack with all the women.
My whole (extended family) thought I was nuts for like Star Trek--well they thougt I was odd anyway, but more nuts for liking Star Trek---so I was at my grandparents house and finally convinced them to watch one episode to show that it wasn't some stupid ass sci fi show.
So they agreed and I turn on the tv and find TNG and I notice that it looks kind of like a rerun, but not really. And oh wait there's Riker trying to get busy with an alien and another alien and...
it was the clip show episode where Riker contracted some virus and was dying and so they flooded his brain with something so he'd remember all his happy sexy memories and then decided he needed all his bad horrible memories to live.
I just stood there hands over my face saying "this isn't what it's like, not really, I promise it's really good." No one believed me.
I think this is when my irrational Riker hate started.
Sean K - Sep 10, 2003 9:17:01 am PDT #216 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think this is when my irrational Riker hate started.
I don't have any of it any more, but I suspect you would have really liked my court martial of Riker for the destruction of the Enterprise D in Generations.
The destruction of the D was unnecessry, avoidable, and (I felt) directly attributable to Riker's incompetence and willfully bad tactics.