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Same here, but the last season was well... not great.erik wrote:DS9 had continuity between episodes, something other Star Treks mostly lacked. That enabled better character development and even had a recurring villains and anti-heroes that could be around for more than a single episode. Those tend to be the bones behind why DS9 was my favorite.
Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!
Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!
Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.
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The divine in me says the divine in you should go fuck itself.
DS9's last season had three problems. 1) They make Dukat too sympathetic and needed to turn him into a supervillain. The entire pah wraith plotline could have been done away with at no loss. 2)They tried too hard to make Sisko special when he was already special by virtue of being the main character. The entire plotline where Sisko is half-prophet could have been done away with at no loss. 3)They killed Jadzia. My understanding of that one is that it was a communication issue. Terry Ferrell wanted to cut back her hours, somehow that was interpreted as quit, and the negotiations fell through. Ezri isn't a bad character, but the last season isn't a good time to develop a new charcter.Leress wrote:Same here, but the last season was well... not great.erik wrote:DS9 had continuity between episodes, something other Star Treks mostly lacked. That enabled better character development and even had a recurring villains and anti-heroes that could be around for more than a single episode. Those tend to be the bones behind why DS9 was my favorite.
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I've been on hold for season 5 of DS9 for over 2 years now. I've actually managed to start and get farther in TNG than I have in DS9. Weird, since I've really enjoyed DS9 so far. I really need to at least finish season 6 so I can start watching TOS...
Who am I kidding? I'll probably just rewatch Lexx again.
Who am I kidding? I'll probably just rewatch Lexx again.
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The main problem with season 7, as I saw it, was that it tried to cram too many side-stories while attempting to finish off the whole Dominion War arc.
Did we really need more forays into the Mirror Universe? Not really, as fun as those episodes were. Was there more Vic Fontaine than necessary? Probably. Did we have the time to introduce a new host for Dax? Not with only one season. Was "Badda-bing Badda-Bang" a fun but ultimately pointless filler episode? Of course it was.
I did enjoy the introduction of Section 31, however, as the idea of Starfleet not being as squeaky-clean as we thought was interesting, and Sloan was a fun villain.
Overall, I liked it. Certainly there was nothing in it as a bad as "Course: Oblivion" from Voyager, because FUCK that episode.
(Although, other than that one episode, I actually rather like Voyager. Enterprise, too. So sue me.)
Did we really need more forays into the Mirror Universe? Not really, as fun as those episodes were. Was there more Vic Fontaine than necessary? Probably. Did we have the time to introduce a new host for Dax? Not with only one season. Was "Badda-bing Badda-Bang" a fun but ultimately pointless filler episode? Of course it was.
I did enjoy the introduction of Section 31, however, as the idea of Starfleet not being as squeaky-clean as we thought was interesting, and Sloan was a fun villain.
Overall, I liked it. Certainly there was nothing in it as a bad as "Course: Oblivion" from Voyager, because FUCK that episode.
(Although, other than that one episode, I actually rather like Voyager. Enterprise, too. So sue me.)
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Shrapel, you actually liked the episode 'Threshold'?
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Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!
Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!
Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.
]I want him to tongue-punch my box.
The divine in me says the divine in you should go fuck itself.
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And also refused an Egyptian god's judgement of the boy, and later got it overturned.
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Koumei wrote:I'm just glad that Jill Stein stayed true to her homeopathic principles by trying to win with .2% of the vote. She just hasn't diluted it enough!
Koumei wrote:I am disappointed in Santorum: he should carry his dead election campaign to term!
Just a heads up... Your post is pregnant... When you miss that many periods it's just a given.
]I want him to tongue-punch my box.
The divine in me says the divine in you should go fuck itself.
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I thought the concept of humans hyper-evolving into repto-fish was weird enough to be interesting. I mean, I don't think it's exactly BAFTA material, but it was still fun.Leress wrote:Shrapel, you actually liked the episode 'Threshold'?
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Also, I'm watching DS9 right this second ("The Alternate", to be precise), and it's making me sad. Rene was part of what made DS9 so great.
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Swamp Thing over on HBO has me hooked in episode one. The scene in the lab where they think they are doing science and then there's a monster was genuinely scary to me, and that does not happen often.
Every time you play in a "low magic world" with D&D rules (or derivates), a unicorn steps on a kitten and an orphan drops his ice cream cone.
I can't remember if that's true or not. But overall, I'd say that Marvel just throws out so much media that even though they're over the odds on Sod's Law, you can find something to like. DC seems to go for quality over quantity instead, and will get bit if something fails.Shrapnel wrote:It's been my experience that DC tends to make really good television.
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It is genuinely true that DC's batting average on the small screen has been much better than Marvel's, and the reverse has been true on the large screen.
Arrowverse got fucking Kevin Conroy to be old Bruce Wayne and DCEU got Ben Afleck to shout about Martha. It's actually profoundly weird how much better the DC TV teams do than the DC Movie teams do. Like, Arrowverse got Brandon Routh to do Kingdom Come Superman and Man of Steel was... a thing that happened. And yet, the Arrowverse is filmed in Vancouver for pocket change, and the DCEU was a billion dollar tentpole motion picture franchise. What the shit?
Marvel is really the opposite. The movies are made with such precision that even placeholder films with nothing to say are fun and popular. On the TV side... gosh even the stuff I liked like Luke Cage has pacing problems so severe that I want to chew my leg off to escape.
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Arrowverse got fucking Kevin Conroy to be old Bruce Wayne and DCEU got Ben Afleck to shout about Martha. It's actually profoundly weird how much better the DC TV teams do than the DC Movie teams do. Like, Arrowverse got Brandon Routh to do Kingdom Come Superman and Man of Steel was... a thing that happened. And yet, the Arrowverse is filmed in Vancouver for pocket change, and the DCEU was a billion dollar tentpole motion picture franchise. What the shit?
Marvel is really the opposite. The movies are made with such precision that even placeholder films with nothing to say are fun and popular. On the TV side... gosh even the stuff I liked like Luke Cage has pacing problems so severe that I want to chew my leg off to escape.
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It's fairly simple. Warner Bros has an established in-house DC television arm with decades of experience, while they were playing catchup on the movie front.FrankTrollman wrote:It is genuinely true that DC's batting average on the small screen has been much better than Marvel's, and the reverse has been true on the large screen.
Arrowverse got fucking Kevin Conroy to be old Bruce Wayne and DCEU got Ben Afleck to shout about Martha. It's actually profoundly weird how much better the DC TV teams do than the DC Movie teams do. Like, Arrowverse got Brandon Routh to do Kingdom Come Superman and Man of Steel was... a thing that happened. And yet, the Arrowverse is filmed in Vancouver for pocket change, and the DCEU was a billion dollar tentpole motion picture franchise. What the shit?
Marvel is really the opposite. The movies are made with such precision that even placeholder films with nothing to say are fun and popular. On the TV side... gosh even the stuff I liked like Luke Cage has pacing problems so severe that I want to chew my leg off to escape.
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Marvel lacks experience on both fronts, but have focused on in-house movies up to this point while outsourcing television.
Warner Bros also has this incredibly toxic competitive atmosphere in which its different departments are enemies rather than allies and enforces a sharp divide between them, which has prevented an integrated DC multimedia universe and keeps the movies from using good stuff from television.