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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Travoltron said:
Indeed. When I was a kid, I didn't understand why fanboys were so upset that she left the show. Rewatching it as an adult, I completely empathize.

Even if Worf was a better fit for security chief. I wonder if she had stayed on, would the writers have had Denise get her ass kicked over and over like they did to Worf?
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It was the 90s, so they wouldn't dare do that. As a comparison, how often did Kira get beat up?
 
"I'll make a thousand more STAR TREK: the next generation Re:View's before I let this company die!" ~Mike "The Fourth Reich" Stoklasa

As someone who never grew up with any star trek these videos are amazing just simply because of how much genuine fun they always seem to have making them.
 
frozenrunner said:
I love this level of content desperation (let's be honest, that's what it is), and I hope it keeps going. Mike really does love talking about Star Trek.
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I hope they start a legit TNG podcast where they review one episode per episode.

I'm already a Patreon, but I'd happily up my donation for that.
 
I grew up with Star Trek: TNG and loved it all, including the shitty episodes, so I am always down to watch Mike and That Fucker Rich Evans talk about it. I have to disagree with them about Conspiracy, though---the gore effects at the end are so batshit crazy and unexpected it makes up for everything else in the episode. Literally nothing in the show's entire rest of its run comes close to having something that fucked up again.

...Actually I take that back, Sub Rosa was pretty fucked up.
 
Blood Debts said:
I grew up with Star Trek: TNG and loved it all, including the shitty episodes, so I am always down to watch Mike and That Fucker Rich Evans talk about it. I have to disagree with them about Conspiracy, though---the gore effects at the end are so batshit crazy and unexpected it makes up for everything else in the episode. Literally nothing in the show's entire rest of its run comes close to having something that fucked up again.

...Actually I take that back, Sub Rosa was pretty fucked up.
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Sub Rosa has the unintentional consequence of being funny. Yeah, they did not dig into enough into the structure and performances into Conspiracy. Later TNG mystery episodes like Clues would try to maintain that tension as the plot slowly unfolds. Also, it's when the actors are close to the kinds of performances we see in season 3 on, especially Picard. Early Picard was very stiff in his delivery and somehow he loosens up here even though it's a tense situation.
 
Blood Debts said:
I grew up with Star Trek: TNG and loved it all, including the shitty episodes, so I am always down to watch Mike and That Fucker Rich Evans talk about it. I have to disagree with them about Conspiracy, though---the gore effects at the end are so batshit crazy and unexpected it makes up for everything else in the episode. Literally nothing in the show's entire rest of its run comes close to having something that fucked up again.

...Actually I take that back, Sub Rosa was pretty fucked up.
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I used to watch M.A.S.H, Jeopardy and T.N.G. with my mom when I was practically a baby.
Good memories.
I only liked Reading Rainbow because it had Jordi in it.
 
Sub Rosa has got to be one of the most bizarre story concepts I've ever seen in anything.

So Dr. Crusher gets turned on by her grandmother's sex diary...um...I don't know about anyone else, but if I found by grandma's sex diary, I'd burn that shit immediately and never tell a soul about it. Call me crazy.

And then she basically has sex with a ghost that was her grandmother's lover before...I got nothing to say to that.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
Sub Rosa has got to be one of the most bizarre story concepts I've ever seen in anything.

So Dr. Crusher gets turned on by her grandmother's sex diary...um...I don't know about anyone else, but if I found by grandma's sex diary, I'd burn that shit immediately and never tell a soul about it. Call me crazy.

And then she basically has sex with a ghost that was her grandmother's lover before...I got nothing to say to that.
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Zombie Grandma!
 
RumblyTumbly said:
Sub Rosa has got to be one of the most bizarre story concepts I've ever seen in anything.

So Dr. Crusher gets turned on by her grandmother's sex diary...um...I don't know about anyone else, but if I found by grandma's sex diary, I'd burn that shit immediately and never tell a soul about it. Call me crazy.

And then she basically has sex with a ghost that was her grandmother's lover before...I got nothing to say to that.
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I'm sure it's some giant convuluted metaphor for Beverley's ageing
 
Quintex96 said:
I'm sure it's some giant convuluted metaphor for Beverley's ageing
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It's a blatant PG13 rated ripoff of Anne Rice's novel The Witching Hour, swapping a magic necklace for a technobabble candle, a demon for a technobabble alien, and an incredibly contrived Scottish colony to replicate the Scottish origins of the Mayfair family. Trekkies have debated for years how exactly this happened, and if the production staff even realized it (the script was a spec submission from a writer with no other credits). The mystery is immensely more interesting than the godawful episode.
 
Mola Ram said:
It's a blatant PG13 rated ripoff of Anne Rice's novel The Witching Hour, swapping a magic necklace for a technobabble candle, a demon for a technobabble alien, and an incredibly contrived Scottish colony to replicate the Scottish origins of the Mayfair family. Trekkies have debated for years how exactly this happened, and if the production staff even realized it (the script was a spec submission from a writer with no other credits). The mystery is immensely more interesting than the godawful episode.
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I actually have a theory on that, I think Gates Mcfadden and Marina Sirtis both wanted to direct an episode, For CV padding or because the men get to do it or w/e. Anyway, they both go to Rick Berman and ask to direct and he decides to make it a competition. He makes them go off and write an episode script starring the other actress and whoever writes the worse episode gets to Direct and the loser has to do the episode. Gates submitted what became Sub Rosa but Marina Sirtis refused to the episode so Gates, the stand up gal she is decided to act in the episode she wrote too. I also think the script Sirtis wrote eventually became the episode masks.
 
Quintex96 said:
I actually have a theory on that, I think Gates Mcfadden and Marina Sirtis both wanted to direct an episode, For CV padding or because the men get to do it or w/e. Anyway, they both go to Rick Berman and ask to direct and he decides to make it a competition. He makes them go off and write an episode script starring the other actress and whoever writes the worse episode gets to Direct and the loser has to do the episode. Gates submitted what became Sub Rosa but Marina Sirtis refused to the episode so Gates, the stand up gal she is decided to act in the episode she wrote too. I also think the script Sirtis wrote eventually became the episode masks.
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I actually don't hate Masks, which is an unpopular opinion. It's a standard TNG episode where they stumble onto a weird thing and they have to understand the culture to figure out how to deal with the problem.
 
frozenrunner said:
I love this level of content desperation (let's be honest, that's what it is), and I hope it keeps going. Mike really does love talking about Star Trek.
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I mean, you're probably right about content desperation, but at the same time, I see so many creators making videos about topics that they clearly don't give a shit about.

I'll very rarely hate on someone that actually makes a video about something that they clearly actually enjoy.
 
Mike is such a sarcastic and dry dickweed (no knock, its why I love him, lol), that its actually kind of sweet to see him get legit excited over something.
 
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