clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:03 pmI've never found plastic boobs and huge lips to be beautiful. And I'm of the Baywatch generation FYI. I can appreciate Pamela Anderson or Seven of Nine certainly, but i dont find them beautiful. Not like an Emila Clarke or a Sigourny Weaver's Ripley. I actually find Picard era Seven who is wearing clothes to be better looking.
Hah! Fun-fact! Voyjager-era Jery Ryan was unaugmented and her... assets were strictly padding-related, though she was naturally well endowed. Rumors about surgical enhancements only surfaced about 12 years ago, so Picard-era Seven is the modified one.
In all seriousness, I think the ageing process must be difficult for women like her because they get typecast as sexy women and when the wrinkles set in no one wants to touch them. Marina Sirtis once said that she was happy to receive her actual Starfleet uniform because you cannot have cleavage and brains in Hollywood (her words).
I don't know what her circumstances were pre-Picard but maybe she needed the boob job for work. I can tell you for certain that none of her post-Voyager stuff ever made it across the Atlantic if there was any.
CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 9:17 pm
I don't even think it's bad. It's just not good.
It's a 2* currently on a 5* scale for me. So sure could be worse, and it hasn't done anything actively aggravating in terms of actual plot. Don't have any attachment to Maria Hill or Talos so nothing has made me actively grumpy. So yay for it not actively pissing me off, then again that last episode has often been the doozie. Wandavision especially given it had been so good, and then nose dived in spectacular fashion.
Loki and Falcon certainly weren't helped by their final acts either though. Falcon for reasons mentioned before and others beside ("do better show!") and Loki for deciding it'd be a good idea to emulate the Architect scene from the Matrix sequels. Hell, I think the only DIsney Plus show that ended reasonably well that I saw was What If. Hawkeye also ended at least competently at least. Big flashy fight which was fun enough. Try not to think about those two guys being devoured alive by the cute owl or the more clunky setup parts for the Echo show.
clearspira wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:29 pm
I don't know what her circumstances were pre-Picard but maybe she needed the boob job for work. I can tell you for certain that none of her post-Voyager stuff ever made it across the Atlantic if there was any.
Oh dang, sounds like you missed out on Leverage. Very fun show, and she pops up in a recurring role in season 2 if I remember right.
I feel like Falcon's ending needed just a bit more connective tissue to work.
* Falcon realizes Captain America is a powerful symbol
* Falcon realizes he can leverage that social change
* The politicians ABSOLUTELY do not agree with Falcon but he's persuaded the public and they can't be seen going against Captain America
* So they don't do the forced relocation.
clearspira wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:29 pm
I don't know what her circumstances were pre-Picard but maybe she needed the boob job for work. I can tell you for certain that none of her post-Voyager stuff ever made it across the Atlantic if there was any.
Erm and I can tell you for certain, that each and every TV-series she starred in post-Voyager, was released in Germany. What we are missing, are her handful of movies, but most B-movies never make it over the great pond anyways.
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CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:48 pm
I feel like Falcon's ending needed just a bit more connective tissue to work
There's show endings that I think could have been fixed in the edit if say they'd just had 1-2 extra weeks to work on them.
Take Mandolorian s3. Persuade Pedro to actually turn up to set so he can take his helmet off for that final scene, delete that scene where Gideon knows exactly where he's going in the base and so dumbly lets all his clones get blown up, and most importantly not announce a s4 so that final scene does it's job as a satisfying resolution to the Mando's and the kid's arcs and I'd have been happy with that. Sure, still flawed but I'd have been more than okay with the show for coming to a graceful end and not outstaying its welcome.
Falcon I honestly think you'd probably need to go back and do reshoots for any dialogue scene that didn't have Carl Lumby in it to end up with a quality show. Yes, I know about the issues with covid, and having to cut one of their major plotlines because of it to the point that last ep was basically hanging together with bits of string. Thing is why that might help us to understand what happened, to paraphrase SFDebris, what matters is what you actually put on the screen.
I thought falcon was great through and through. As a modern age action genre it was just about the perfect number of episodes to make it work. Watching Kurt russel’s son impale someone as captain America with the ending shot of the blood stained shield was raw shit.
Its incredible to me just how badly they've ruined Nick Fury. He started out as the quintessential badass. Strong, capable, smart, authoritative. You bought that this guy was the leader of SHIELD. You bought that this guy could command superheroes and world leaders. You bought that this guy put foot to ass for his planet.
And then... they had a cat take his eye out. Not a battle. Not an alien invader. Not being tortured. A fucking cat.
And then... they made him some tired, paranoid old man that no one likes. I said before that Picard did a better ''badass past his prime'' show and I stick by that because that show ended with him still being a hero.
And then... they revealed that all of his feats were in fact skrulls. That he is an impostor and a fraud. Admittedly I stopped watching so if that turned out to be a lie then great. But that's not what I saw.
