What Are You Watching Now
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@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched the first two episodes of Star Trek Discovery. Have not made up my mind yet. The only thing I don't like is how the damn Klingons look. They should look like they did in TOS. This is set before Kirk and after Capt. Archer in Enterprise, they are in that universe, not the JJ Abrams universe. In Enterprise they explained what happened to the ridges of the Klingons. Also, the Klingons don't even look like Klingons from TOS, STTNG, DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise. FFS how hard is it to have a little continuity.
If it took place 5-10 years before Kirk, I suppose ridgeless might have been the best option, but the ridged version of Klingons still existed in the Empire. Just oddly somehow humans completely forgot (history wise) that Klingons had ridges, etc... and instead where the pansies that existed in Kirk's time
I haven't seen the show yet, but it sounds like Paramount made them look like JJ's Klingons - which is sad, because they look even worse than Kirk's Klingons in my opinion.
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@dashrender exactly it took place 5-10 years before Kirk. In the Star Trek Enterprise series in Season 4 episode 15 "Affliction", it explained the Klingons were experimenting with the DNA of the Human Augments (Khan and his people the genetically altered humans) and spliced it into Klingon DNA. However, the experiments end up creating a deadly virus and the cure for the virus is incubated in Capt. Archer; the virus ends up dissolving the cranial ridges which would last for several generations. Thus carrying it through Star Trek Discovery and into Kirk's time. Thus these Klingons are only looking they way they are because the knuckleheads in charge wanted them to look different. The only excuse they gave is, well they redesigned Klingons before so why not now too.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender exactly it took place 5-10 years before Kirk. In the Star Trek Enterprise series in Season 4 episode 15 "Affliction", it explained the Klingons were experimenting with the DNA of the Human Augments (Khan and his people the genetically altered humans) and spliced it into Klingon DNA. However, the experiments end up creating a deadly virus and the cure for the virus is incubated in Capt. Archer; the virus ends up dissolving the cranial ridges which would last for several generations. Thus carrying it through Star Trek Discovery and into Kirk's time. Thus these Klingons are only looking they way they are because the knuckleheads in charge wanted them to look different. The only excuse they gave is, well they redesigned Klingons before so why not now too.
Sure, I get all that (as for the Enterprise timeline - nice save by the way for them.. lol), but it didn't effect 100% of Kingons, only those that were experimented on, or so I thought.
It just so happens I'm almost to that episode in my current binge watching.
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The redesign was absolutely stupid because there is no reason. They just wanted to. That have publicly stated as much.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
The redesign was absolutely stupid because there is no reason. They just wanted to. That have publicly stated as much.
Then I hope they get rioted and mobbed by a bunch of ST:TNG Cosplay Klingons in full battle gear with their bat'leths.
chaq curl 'ej painfully unusable ghop. -
Watched a little over half of the first season of Ozark on Netflix. Really good so far, plus I like Jason Bateman and it's fun to try and spot locations that I recognize since it was filmed at the 2 large Corps of Engineers lakes near Atlanta.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched a little over half of the first season of Ozark on Netflix. Really good so far, plus I like Jason Bateman and it's fun to try and spot locations that I recognize since it was filmed at the 2 large Corps of Engineers lakes near Atlanta.
I really liked that series. I was never a fan of Arrested Development but I really like Jason Bateman's dry pan execution of this character. I really can't wait for the next season.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
The redesign was absolutely stupid because there is no reason. They just wanted to. That have publicly stated as much.
Exactly, that is my whole beef. It isn't for any reason other than, we wanted to. The justification: it has been done before.
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@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched a little over half of the first season of Ozark on Netflix. Really good so far, plus I like Jason Bateman and it's fun to try and spot locations that I recognize since it was filmed at the 2 large Corps of Engineers lakes near Atlanta.
I had to stop watching it. The Lake of the Ozarks while in the middle of Missouri is fairly well developed.
I know I go there at least once a year. When they had the whole thing about not being able to get Pistachio Ice Cream, I just laughed. There are really nice grocery stores that would have Pistachio Ice Cream. -
@nerdydad said in What Are You Watching Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
The redesign was absolutely stupid because there is no reason. They just wanted to. That have publicly stated as much.
Then I hope they get rioted and mobbed by a bunch of ST:TNG Cosplay Klingons in full battle gear with their bat'leths.
chaq curl 'ej painfully unusable ghop.I am going to a renaissance fair with my kids this weekend. Dressed as Klingon. Will complain about puny humans the whole time.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:
@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched a little over half of the first season of Ozark on Netflix. Really good so far, plus I like Jason Bateman and it's fun to try and spot locations that I recognize since it was filmed at the 2 large Corps of Engineers lakes near Atlanta.
I had to stop watching it. The Lake of the Ozarks while in the middle of Missouri is fairly well developed.
I know I go there at least once a year. When they had the whole thing about not being able to get Pistachio Ice Cream, I just laughed. There are really nice grocery stores that would have Pistachio Ice Cream.Im on episode 6. In my facebook feed I have friends from Lexington Louisville who go over to party on their racing boats. Lots of big coal and horse money. Im sure they come from a lot of other places to whatever area that is.
To contract, In 2000 I went throught the Ozarks and we went hours without electricity. Stopped at a Walmart and to this day have seen nothing like it.
I read somewhere (maybe above) that it was filmed outside Atlanta.
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Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Classic
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Peter Sellers, FTW!
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@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Peter Sellers, FTW!
Heck yeah. Those old PP movies are great.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Peter Sellers, FTW!
Heck yeah. Those old PP movies are great.
Definitely! My parents and I used to watch them all the time. I will have to suggest we do it again soon.
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@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Pink Panther 4: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Peter Sellers, FTW!
Heck yeah. Those old PP movies are great.
Definitely! My parents and I used to watch them all the time. I will have to suggest we do it again soon.
My dad and I used to watch them. Just like my Liesl and I do now. My youngest, my mom, and my wife all don't like them. But my dad, Liesl, and I all do. I own the entire collection, even the obscure ones.
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@scottalanmiller How can they not like them? They are genius.
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@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller How can they not like them? They are genius.
My kids? I agree. How did you know?
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Well, I watched the first two episodes of Star Trek Destiny - meh.
I agree, the new Klingons are horrible. Who's person in charge of alien design? I'm guessing they have a background in horror films. That all one color black face just made me think of aliens and horror movies in general.
And it horribly doesn't fit the timeline that's already been established Enterprise and TOS - i.e. in TOS, klingons had no head ridges, and in Enterprise, they explained why so many Klingons didn't have head ridges.
So I guess we have a completely new universe to look forward to. Heck this one might not even have Captain Kirk on the Enterprise.
Oh and what about cloaking? Now I can't recall if Klingons had it in Enterprise or not?
