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  1. JB0
    That's the most reasonable approach.
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    Neo's end was ... a thing. It might charitably be described as "layered thick with vivid biblical and arthurian imagery"(or less charitably as "copied wholesale"). To put it delicately, the biblical reference is exceedingly clear about how impermanent that particular death is. While the arthurian side is less concrete, it still carries strong implications of resurrection. So I'd very much argue against Neo being dead-dead as opposed to recovering in Cyber-Avalon before his return. ... Maybe they reloaded Trinity from a backup? And the "death scene" is pretty much all I remember of Matrix 3. But all I remember of the second movie is the girl eating the cake, so I guess "shamelessly overt literary and religious symbolism" is a step up. I guess there was a scene where Neo fought a whole bunch of Agent Smiths somewhere in there. I've never had much desire to rewatch either one. I sorta feel that The Matrix needed no sequels, let alone the ones it got, and try to forget that they piled more onto it. I kinda hope that Matrix 4 just ignores everything but the first movie.
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    Especially given some of the transporter malfunctions they've had. Picard got turned into a child, Riker got cloned, Kirk got split into a nice guy and an a-hole, Tuvok and Neelix got combined(and then they tore the new entity apart and murdered him instead of splitting a clone)... and that's just off the top of my head.
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    Thread title demands this of me. Not sorry.
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    Saw translations of the graffitti in Pompeii once, and large swaths of it are "Soanso was here" and "for a good time call"
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    Obviously they had to ration food replication because most of their surplus energy budget went into replicating shuttles. Honestly, I've always attributed that to psychology. People know the source isn't identical, and convince themselves they can taste the difference. They never perform blind A/B taste tests, because "I know what I tasted." Sisko's dad is exceptionally biased as a professional chef. If replicators are just fine, then he's wasting his life. Therefore, they're obviously horribly flawed and pour out inedible slop.
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    I know in several of the old books, they made an explicit point of figuring out some way to get parts to build replacements in the end of any book they fired a torpedo in. It was almost like the book authors at the tim cared more about the show's premise than the showrunners...
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    There's some strong similarities between the two franchises. Maybe Uhura should've tried singing to the klingons...
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    That can work, honestly. Those which we think are alien, unrelatable aggressors can be much more than that. But that payoff needs to be there, the moment when everyone realizes that the monsters are just another race, and they can be communicated with, negotiated with, and worked alongside, More than one episode did that within an hour. The one which springs to mind is the misleadingly-titled Devil in the Dark, where a stock horror movie plot tips over on its side as the muderous monster is simply protecting her children, which federation miners have unknowingly been slaughtering with reckless abandon.
  10. JB0
    *applauds* Everything I wanted to say. Attitude matters a lot more than continuity or setting.
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    Customs is gonna confiscate your Switch as capitalist propaganda(read as: they are bored out of their gourd and want it for themselves). Hope you brought a good book. ... Seriously, though. Enjoy the trip.
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    It isn't all even consistently lit. Which, okay, deep space surrounded by explosions, sure, maybe everything SHOULD be lit from a diffrent angle. But it looks really bad, and appealing takes precedenoe over realism.
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    I thought they were supposed to trace stuff they couldn't legally include. How is tracing stuff they actually have a license for showing an understanding of the source?!
  14. JB0
    ... in the new ongoing series "The Shadow Sentinels"!
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    I just want to fit Macross 2036 into the time line. Spent too much time with that CD rip and TurboGrafX emulator for it to be non-canon.
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    How else are we supposed to know that him Grimlock king? Kind of a shame they stumbled at the finish line here. If they'd kept it up for all five of their legally-distinct converting robot dinosaurs, this woulda been something very impressive. I do like that the transparent plastic is a part of his dinosaur neck on this one, though. The previous iterations suffered a bit from trying to offer both toy-style and cartoon-style with the add-on smoky plastic pieces. Integrating the smoky plastic into the design makes for a nicer end result.
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    Kinda makes you wonder about the protoculture, though. They coulda dropped these thing into stars, folded them into supernovas, filled 'em up with antimatter, or stuffed 'em down the gullet of a black hole, but decided "nah, a pile of dirt'll be fine." I'll give them a pass on the protodevlin, but the Delta battleship shoulda been rendered inert before they disposed of it. ... But then, their idea of safe genetic testing in 7 WAS "spring-loaded spikes in the floor collect ample blood samples, it'll be fine". I probably shouldn't be surprised they just buried their doomsday weapons under dirt.
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    Because God's light cannot shine upon the images they are finding, I assume.
  19. JB0
    A. Shoulda used private/safe/incognito. B. Google never forgets. Shoulda used Duckduckgo.
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    I watched season one expecting hilarious trash I could laugh at. I ended the season honestly loving it. Which is impressive for a show done on the cheap and rather blatantly designed first and foremost to sell CDs. I'm more ambivalent about G and GX. There's some stuff they did that I really like, and some stuff I could do without. Can't fairly offer an opinion on the rest yet.
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    I think you're thinking of Chris's season one arc. That wasn't a sexual relationship, and I'd call it torture and brainwashing, not BDSM. Chris's whole backstory is all kinds of messed up. And then she got saved by someone punching an explosion to death, and now she lives with the good guys. Happy ending(except for the part where she's got boatloads of psychological baggage)
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    I just finished that one recently. I'd been watching it when it was new, but fell out halfway through and never got back to it. Partially because life problems, but mostly because I wanted to punch Hibiki's dad and the screen was in the way. I'm mostly okay with how it turned out in the end.
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    You're right, that's way better.
  24. JB0
    And then the remnants of the Galaxy fleet folded in and forcibly annexed the 29 fleet. The end.
  25. JB0
    I keep reading this and just thinking "Picard got an STD?"
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