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SilverWook said:

Yo ho, and a bottle of Kanar!

Hey, if Damar can kick his Kanar habit then I know Dukat can.

SilverWook said:

Maybe he could have gone back to his captured Klingon BOP and become a space pirate? 😉

Anything beats Satanic cult-leader.

SilverWook said:

Warbler said:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oj-simpson-parole-board-20170720-story.html

fuck the parole board.

I was having early 90’s flashbacks watching the coverage on CNN today. I’m no legal expert, but they probably can’t consider his murder trial in their decision process, especially as he was acquitted.

They definitely can’t. He’s in prison now for armed robbery in which no one was injured, which is all they can consider.

yhwx said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

darth_ender said:

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/please-just-fucking-die-already-acb3a879656e

Thankfully, the Left reminds us that the Right doesn’t really have a complete monopoly on hatred.

Yeah, she is not a nice person.

Personally I hope @caityjohnstone dies. I mean it too. I don’t take the high road.

You can’t endorse the same behavior you at the same time detest.

Sure I can. I was partially exaggerating, though, in the sense that I don’t actively hope that she’ll die soon, but I definitely won’t be shedding any tears when it happens. As for your accusation of hypocrisy, maybe you’re right, but I don’t care. She hates and wishes death upon John McCain based on her uneducated political nonsense, while I hate and wish nothing but tragedy upon her because she’s a total, horrible, disgusting, evil pile of shit. So it’s not quite the same.

P.S. - Just so you know yhx, I am slightly exaggerating in the second half of this post too, just to make it faster and more intense.

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

I think it would’ve been a better resolution for Dukat to genuinely see the error of his ways and have him end his story in a similar way to Garak, only have him do it on Bajor.

It’d be really satisfying if after all his atrocities and delusions of grandeur he chose to live his life in relative anonymity helping the people he’d oppressed in a humble way.

I think it would work if he ended up turning himself in for trial and most-likely execution. I don’t think there’d be any route to forgiveness for him.

Warbler said:

darth_ender said:

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/please-just-fucking-die-already-acb3a879656e

Thankfully, the Left reminds us that the Right doesn’t really have a complete monopoly on hatred.

Yeah, she is not a nice person.

Personally I hope @caityjohnstone dies. I mean it too. I don’t take the high road.

chyron8472 said:

I like Dukat. I did like him better before he converted to following the Pah-Wraith. After that, he was more like-to-hate.

I like the writing for almost the whole show, but I can’t watch the episode where Nog moved into the holodeck after losing his leg. It’s too intense.

It’s Only a Paper Moon? I love that one.

pittrek said:

moviefreakedmind said:

What’s the general consensus on Gul Dukat? I personally thought he was a strong, even occasionally empathetic, villain, but then once he started on all the devil worship stuff he just got silly. When they made him a weird serial-womanizing cult leader it just got impossible for me to appreciate the complexity of his character that had been established before.

I loved him before he turned Bajoran in the final episodes of season 7

I agree, but I think the last time he was a great villain was in “Waltz” when he’s losing his mind. Personally I think that would’ve been the best way to end his character. His weird cult-leadership in that early Season 7 episode was too weird for me too. He never struck me as that type. The Bajoran stuff with him was just a distraction from the Breen/Dominion plot and the Cardassian rebellion, which I think are great and intense.

The last Star Wars thing I bought was a 99 cent used copy of the 1995 VHS box set.

EDIT: That was almost three years ago and I don’t plan on buying anything else in the near future.

EDIT2: Or the distant future for that matter.

SilverWook said:

yhwx said:

SilverWook said:

yhwx said:

Not everybody needs to know the same things.

It’s not essential information, but a basic awareness of popular culture never hurt. I’m not even a Sinatra guy, but I know who he is and what his signature tune was.
The old joke about people who think Paul McCartney’s first band was Wings is being replaced by “Paul who?”

Yeah but I’m sure you don’t know stuff that people thirty years older than you might.

Maybe? Depends on the subject. But that’s what old movies, documentaries, and history books are for. Not to mention that internet thing the kids seem to like.
I don’t need to know about Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers to enjoy Star Wars, but it deepens my enjoyment of it.
For some people these days anything prior to 2000 might as well be a hundred years ago.

Expecting a human being to make any effort to acquire even the tiniest speck of knowledge about any subject is almost completely futile.

Handman said:

I really didn’t expect such a backlash to a surprising and embarrassing experience. I thought it would be relatable. I don’t understand why I bothered now.

It is relatable. When people can’t comprehend basic references to things that any culturally aware person should know, I get really pissed off too.

What’s the general consensus on Gul Dukat? I personally thought he was a strong, even occasionally empathetic, villain, but then once he started on all the devil worship stuff he just got silly. When they made him a weird serial-womanizing cult leader it just got impossible for me to appreciate the complexity of his character that had been established before.

TV’s Frink said:

Don’t do it!

Really?

I might be vanishing from the forum again soon. I’m not sure though.

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

I’m taking a break for a couple of days. I think it best.

If that’s what you think you need. I think you just need to relax a bit though.

I would have to agree with this.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

I can’t quite figure it out either. I thought he doesn’t like that people complain about Star Trek because it somehow prevents him from talking about the things he likes about Star Trek, but…

¯\(ツ)/¯

Let me put it simply for you: I’m not fond of jerks and trolls.

Now if you would kindly shut up, that would be appreciated.

I’ll ignore your second statement and respond to the first.

How is it that people who don’t like certain aspects of Star Trek (or Trek at all, for that matter) are jerks and trolls?

Especially since the last complaints in this thread were about Ezri Dax and Vic Fontaine. For non-Trekkers, those are characters only appearing in season 7 (and at the very end of season 6 in the case of Vic) of Deep Space Nine.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t really care much about remakes, though, the originals are still around so just watch those instead. Regardless of what they do to the main characters I tend to just ignore Hollywood’s remakes these days.

A lot of people agree with you but for me it completely depends on the execution. The new Ghostbusters had different characters and jokes and it made me laugh. The Judge Dredd remake was an actual movie instead of a silly Stallone vehicle. I haven’t seen True Grit yet but it is supposedly really good.

I don’t avoid things just because they carry the same name as other things.

True Grit was great. Like I said, I tend to ignore them. If it interests me and it seems to be an honest attempt to reimagine an existing property, I’ll give it a shot. If it looks to me like purely an attempt to cash-in on an existing name because of it’s brand recognition, I avoid it. A good example of that would be CHIPS, or the Netflix Full House sequel. It’s usually pretty easy to tell.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

So no, it’s not my problem.

Perhaps someone else will agree with you but so far evidence points to the contrary.

I can’t figure out what he’s talking about, but I might agree with him if I were aware.

I liked Vic Fontaine a lot. I thought his character was done really well, especially compared to Whoopi Goldberg’s Guinan, whose acting talent was tragically underused in a lot of her appearances.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

To be fair, changing James Bond or Sherlock Holmes to women would be incredibly stupid.

No, the idea that a fictional character can’t be reimagined is what is incredibly stupid.

They wouldn’t really be the same character. Doctor Who is the same character whether a woman or not. I recommend people stop reimagining stuff, just make new characters.

All just semantics and labels. You can make a Jane Bond that is exactly the same as James Bond except for her first name and her vagina and it’s not a big deal. Or at least it shouldn’t be a big deal but some people insist on making it a big deal.

James Bond is supposed to be all one timeline, so they just recast the actor whenever he gets too old (I think they started a new timeline recently with Daniel Craig). Sherlock Holmes is a character from classic literature, and a female in his role wouldn’t make much sense given the time period he’s set in. If they did some kind of modern day version of it, it could work, but they’d have to change his name to a female name anyway so why not just be creative and make a new character in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes? The reason that isn’t as desirable is because

Realistically they won’t do anything like that to Bond or Sherlock after how big of a flop the Ghostbusters remake was.

Well they just did it with Doctor Who, so…

They made another installment in a long-running sci-fi series where the lead character is capable is changing bodies. Much different than remaking a beloved classic for no reason and spending several hundred million dollars to only make a little over 200 million. I don’t really care much about remakes, though, the originals are still around so just watch those instead. Regardless of what they do to the main characters I tend to just ignore Hollywood’s remakes these days.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

To be fair, changing James Bond or Sherlock Holmes to women would be incredibly stupid.

No, the idea that a fictional character can’t be reimagined is what is incredibly stupid.

They wouldn’t really be the same character. Doctor Who is the same character whether a woman or not. I recommend people stop reimagining stuff, just make new characters. Realistically they won’t do anything like that to Bond or Sherlock after how big of a flop the Ghostbusters remake was.

Give him a chance, say what’s on your mind, and let him figure the rest out.

The novelization of Jedi said that Owen Lars was Obi-Wan’s brother.

See you later then brother.

TV’s Frink said:

To be fair, changing James Bond or Sherlock Holmes to women would be incredibly stupid. They’re each their own character, Doctor Who is supposed to change into different people all the time.