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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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,...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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".