ClarkDoom
@ClarkDoom@lemmy.world
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
This person definitely has faith of the heart.
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
I’d argue you shouldn’t watch those till you’re done with the franchise for them to be at their maximum entertainment potential. A lot of the reason Trek fans love those 2 properties is because we have years of familiarity with what’s being parodying and being paid homage.
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
If you’re new to Trek, start with season 3 of TNG to get your proper Trek indoctrination. Then proceed on to DS9 and Voyager and onward to the current generation of shows. If you love it after watching that then go back to the campy TOS stuff and move forward from there until you circle back on TNG season 3.
I know it sounds weird to start on season 3 of a show but if you follow this order you’ll understand why. Trek didn’t become what most fans love until Roddenberry stopped being directly involved. He was a great dude for starting the universe but he’s also responsible for some of the worst decisions and episodes of the franchise. Before people get mad about me saying this please think about all the awful skippable episodes of season 2 and 3 of TOS and the low quality TOS scripts that were recycled in seasons 1 and 2 of TNG.
Also a pro tip for someone new, ignore anyone that says Trek ended after Voyager. Thats the neckbeard/anti-woke section of the fan base that is small but loud.
- Comment on Star Trek: Infinite Review Thread 1 year ago:
Been loving this game. All the folks complaining about it being too similar to Stellaris or that there’s similar mods for some of the functionality in it aren’t being fair IMO. Judge the game on its own merits. Feels like a 7 or 8 outta 10 game in my 10 hours of play so far.
- Comment on Akira Toriyama’s coming back for a new Dragon Ball series 1 year ago:
This made me laugh. It’s been like 30 years since Dragon Ball was like that.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" 1 year ago:
Uncle Quarks Youth Casino, Mariner saying that Ferengenar looks like heaven if God were stupid, and the naked female Ferengi subtly hidden in the restaurant were all nice little touches. I also think the Cerritos is severely lacking in relationship representation so I hope Tendi and Rutherford actually get together, never been a fan of the will they, won’t they dynamic in any show - as Boimler said, its lowest common denominator entertainment.
- Comment on Paramount Releases ‘Mean Girls’ for Free on TikTok in 23 Parts 1 year ago:
Here’s the infamous quote,
In a clip from a special edition release of his 2006 film, Inland Empire, the director gets very heated up about people watching films on their iPhones. “If you’re playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film,” he says.
- Comment on Paramount Releases ‘Mean Girls’ for Free on TikTok in 23 Parts 1 year ago:
Somewhere David Lynch is in great pain over this being put out into the universe.
- Comment on New Series Watching Plan Feedback 1 year ago:
Google the Star Trek chronology project. That’s hands down the best viewing order IMO.
- Comment on Whats your favorite Star Trek season? 1 year ago:
Maybe television history, not just trek. I have said since Picard aired that season 1 and 2 are the worst seasons of a big budget tv show ever. The fact season 3 is so loved is remarkable.
- Comment on Is Netflix's One Piece good? 1 year ago:
Definitely worth watching. I haven’t read the manga or watched the anime but really liked the live action adaptation. The practical sets are glorious, it is able to successfully present a very absurdist world in a convincing manner, and the actors really seem invest and mesh well with their characters. The fights are also top notch if you’re into Japanese fight choreography.
- Comment on ‘The Morning Show’ Review: Jon Hamm Joins the Watchably Stupid Apple TV+ Soap for a Slightly Less Stupid, Still Watchable Season 3 1 year ago:
Slightly less stupid but still watchable does not make me wanna watch this lol
- Comment on Moopsy - Star Trek Lower Decks introduces a frighteningly cute-but-lethal new species 1 year ago:
Moopsy is awesome.
- Comment on Star Trek and ... Kid Cudi? 1 year ago:
Def still popular. He had an album come out in 2018 that was massive with the 20 year old demographic.
- Comment on Star Trek Day 2023 Special 1 year ago:
I cannot get over how corporate, forced and soulless this was. Especially with Prodigy not even getting a mention. Reminds me of those segments in late night shows where they pay the intern to go out on the street with a camera and talk to people cuz it’s cheaper than using the staff writers.
- Comment on #Poster #Movie The first official teaser poster for David Fincher‘s “THE KILLER” has just been released. 1 year ago:
Can’t believe I’m excited about a Netflix movie.
- Comment on Invasion Season 2 general discussion question 1 year ago:
I just binged this show over the weekend including the new season 2 episode. I keep watching because I think it’s gonna get interesting but it honestly hasn’t yet. It’s first and foremost written like a bad network drama, trying to be something like “this is us” and then some expensive cameras and a few generic sci-fi plot points are mixed in. I’m a big sci-fi fan and this is a major letdown from that perspective. I think most of the dramatic elements also are a letdown because the characters are constantly making the absolute worst decisions possible at all times and none of those decisions make any sense in the context of their characters. The amount of frustration that family it focuses on generates is palpable. Every single person in that family is a straight up idiot. The wife for enabling her shitty husband, acting like his lapdog, and for constantly making poor decisions after the invasion (season 1 she is more preoccupied with her failing love life than watching her kids or staying alive), I don’t even have to explain why the dad is a POS, and the kids seem to have been taught absolutely nothing their entire lifetimes. Idc if there’s an alien invasion, no one is so sheltered they will make a bunch of a noise when a scary alien monster is in the next room.
I could rant about each of the storylines but I’ll spare that unless someone wants discuss. Overall season 1 had major pacing and story issues but ones I kinda thought could be corrected in subsequent seasons. While this season 2 opener felt like it was from a different show, I’m happy about that and hope it will find its footing. Lots of great sci-fi doesn’t happen till season 2 or 3 of shows so I’m sticking it out for now.
Tl:dr, the show is a disappointment and the writing is almost always awful. Hoping season 2 improves because sometimes sci-fi shows take time to develop and find their footing.
- Comment on Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music 1 year ago:
I 100% agree.
- Comment on Netflix is going to let DVD.com subscribers keep any unreturned discs 1 year ago:
Yeah, your theatrical edition blockbuster isn’t gonna have any value but you’re limited run boutique remaster or out of print cult classic will sell for an arm and a leg.
- Comment on Netflix is going to let DVD.com subscribers keep any unreturned discs 1 year ago:
General sales are down but boutique labels are flourishing. Physical media isn’t dying anytime soon, especially when streaming still can’t reach the quality of streaming media.
- Comment on Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Tease | Paramount+ 1 year ago:
Looks awesome
- Comment on A real tweet from Walter Koenig yesterday. Anyone planning on seeing him at GalaxyCon? 1 year ago:
Gigachekov
- Comment on Every game developer company should be like this 1 year ago:
It’s very good. D4 was also really good to be fair too, minmaxers just screamed a lot online while most people just played the game. I intentionally played a fire sorc this season because these people said it’s unplayable, currently in wt4 and doing tier 20 nm dungeons with my level 65 character so those people were obviously wrong.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
Which is literally so outrageous of a statement that idk how you could take it as anything other than light hearted, like most other peoples comments on this post.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
Go back to Reddit if you wanna be a troll.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
I was making a very obvious joke and you didn’t even respond with a comment, you just dropped a link with no context. You’re the one taking things overly serious here and broaching “dick” territory for absolutely no reason.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
I think they are real cuz they included Chapel’s song and the amount of autotune they added probably wouldn’t have happened if they hired a professional singer. Still liked the song, it was just very noticeable.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
If someone would have asked me a year ago if I thought Spock/Chapel and La’an/Kirk were gonna be my favorite ships in the Star Trek universe I woulda laughed at them.
Yes, this a starship joke lol
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
Looks like the test is already working!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody" 1 year ago:
I don’t think it was the singing bringing dishonor but instead the fact the singing happens by expressing inner feelings and emotions.