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    Also, you know, it was a prequel to Star Wars. We knew going in that the jedi were all dead, Anakin was the walking embodiment of evil, and the Republic was washed away by a dictatorial empire that built planetkillers to keep the populace in line. There was no possibility for a happy ending. They shoulda just done a movie about Darth Vader hunting jedi. Two points. A. Tron was brought in from outside. The producers created the concept, began production, and started shopping for a studio to publish it and Disney was the one willing to bankroll it. It is only nominally a Disney film, definitely not Disney's idea, and saw a lot of resistance from within the company after they bought it. To quote Wikipedia... At the time, Disney rarely hired outsiders to make films for them, and Kushner found that he and his group were given a chilly reception because they "tackled the nerve center – the animation department. They saw us as the germ from outside. We tried to enlist several Disney animators, but none came. Disney is a closed group." As a result, they hired Wang Film Productions for the animation. When your Disney-published animated film is using a different company's animators instead of the in-house best in the business, something has gone very wrong. B. Tron was... kinda awful. It is a lot of neat pictures with no sense of pacing, narrative, or tone. It is the Star Trek: The Motion Picture of computer movies. Sorry, but it had to be said.
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    American anti-trust laws are weak as heck. They can totally buy Sony Pictures. There will be a token objection, they'll have to give up some minor division they didn't want anyways, but it'll go through.
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    I don't get this whole Disney/Sony feud. If I was Disney, I would just walk up to Sony and ask them straight-up "What will it cost to buy Spiderman back from you outright? No profit-sharing, no cross-licensing, just return the movie rights to Marvel. We will pay any number you write down. We're Disney, we can afford it." The alternative, it seems to me, is Disney swinging in to buy Sony Pictures in a few years, JUST to get the spider-rights.
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    You mean organic floppies. It was 1999, the flash drive wasn't going to come out for another year(and wouldn't be generally relevant for a few more). I understand the studio's attitude. In the context of the time, computers were only just barely starting to become mainstream. Expecting anyone but nerds to understand the original concept was a dicey proposition. It is only in hindsight that the decision looks incredibly stupid.
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    Dogs were too adorable to waste away in test tubes. Even heartless machines couldn't bear to watch that.
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    The Titan Power one looks really nice, and is a modernized take on Lion Voltron that still actually looks like Voltron(unlike some others). But it is A Voltron, not THE Voltron. (I also find the symmetrical arms and legs a little off-putting, but not as much as I would in a design that took fewer liberties in other places. It is different enough to get away with shared lion molds.)
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    It figures that even Picard's mirror would be a fastidiously moral bastion of integrity and decency.
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    Perfect! Don't have to see him to know he's there. I bet he drinks decaf, too.
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    That MONSTER!
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    Important question: does the mirror universe Picard still drink "tea, earl gray, hot"?
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    Apparently, that was the original explanation given in early drafts. It was changed to "batteries" in the final revision because it was confusing and audiences wouldn't understand.
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    That's fantastic. Headcanon accepted.
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    Makes sense to me. Toilets are just replicators in reverse. It's the circle of life.
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    So here's a random question: do we know what happened to Petit-Cola after Space War 1?
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    Use the transporters to plop it into the nearest star.
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    If you need to go bad enough, any room is a bathroom. Especially airlocks.
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    What if you have a box in the wall that makes exceptional creole at the press of a button? Spoilers: chefs are gonna swear it tastes terrible, even if it is identical to their own work. And they will genuinely believe it, too. Which was kinda my point. Whether the replicators make good food or not is irrelevant, because psychology.
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    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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