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by Riedquat
Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:10 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck
Replies: 990
Views: 94141

Re: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck

People like Barcley are just the 24th century version of hikikomori. Also, I don't take it so much as Chuck thinking everyone has to want to live a high-tech world so much as a reaction against the rather naive depiction of "rural simplicity." I've lived the rural life, and I'm right there with him...
by Riedquat
Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:57 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck
Replies: 990
Views: 94141

Re: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck

His massive dislike for anyone who doesn't love having as high tech a society as possible is something I strongly disagree with. True, whenever episodes feature such they're usually pretty naive / ignorant / unpleasant characters, but then again they usually seem set up as strawmen by people who fai...
by Riedquat
Sun Nov 05, 2017 5:01 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: Enterprise: Desert Crossing
Replies: 17
Views: 2447

Re: Enterprise: Desert Crossing

There's something to be said I think for not having Zobral going around doing good deeds but instead just showing him trying to live a life, neither huge saint nor sinner from what we see, instead being what most people are. But considering that normally Enterprise wants to beat you over the head...
by Riedquat
Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:46 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"
Replies: 118
Views: 13855

Re: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"

I really wish they'd separate the idea of a holographic projection and an actual AI. There's this strange disconnect between what's really an interface and the processing behind it, and looking at that would make for far more interesting stories. There's a lot of science fiction potential with AI bu...
by Riedquat
Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:43 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"
Replies: 118
Views: 13855

Re: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"

There's a lot of fascinating stuff which can be done with the idea of immersing yourself so much in a piece of fantasy that you start to lose track of the real world and how much you can enjoy it even though it's not real. I mean, this is a site which panders to the original crazy-fanboys in Trekki...
by Riedquat
Sat Oct 28, 2017 7:33 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"
Replies: 118
Views: 13855

Re: VOY:Spirit Folk or "PaddyWorld"

Compared with Threshold at the end but even Threshold has some redeeming factor in the so bad it's good stakes, whilst this just looks cringeworthy.
by Riedquat
Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:18 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: TOS: A Taste of Armageddon
Replies: 75
Views: 10204

Re: TOS: A Taste of Armageddon

I can't see many people going along with letting themselves getting disintegrated whatever decision the leaders have come up with. And I find it unlikely that either side would accept a stalemate situation that still involves people getting killed. This really only works as an "explore the concept,...
by Riedquat
Sun Oct 08, 2017 11:06 am
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: TOS: A Taste of Armageddon
Replies: 75
Views: 10204

Re: TOS: A Taste of Armageddon

I don't think the premise is as weak as it first appears. There are enough real world rivalries where the participants have no idea what started it anymore that the fact these two planets don't seem to know why they are fighting isn't that big of a problem. As for the apparent lack of rhetoric and ...
by Riedquat
Sun Sep 24, 2017 6:06 pm
Forum: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Topic: Borg Cloaking Devices
Replies: 8
Views: 886

Re: Borg Cloaking Devices

They aren't efficient, they don't do tactics, because they don't regard any component of the Borg as being signficant. Seven is pretty obsessed with efficiency. There isn't much sign of technological adaptability despite what they claim. Oh, they can adapt themselves to deal with whatever's used ag...
by Riedquat
Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:31 pm
Forum: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Topic: Star Wars, Highly Illiogical Captain
Replies: 126
Views: 12082

Re: Star Wars, Highly Illiogical Captain

Is there any sense anywhere that "balance" includes the Dark Side? A bias towards the Light Side can hardly be described as "balance".