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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
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The only time Q was downright menacing was the TNG episode with the Nausicans. But they left it open ended at the end if it was really Q at all or just Picard having some kind of near death experience.
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The Trickster teaches you the lesson you need to learn, whether you are ready or not, and they can wait until the stars dim for you to wise up. It's only sinister from our own personal petty perspective. It's ancient, it has been doing this since humans could first communicate the experience, and almost certainly before that too. It has a wicked, detatched sense of humour and ultimately it is kind and respectful, but only when you start wising up, foolish little mortal.

That's what was so clever about Q in retrospect when you come back to Star Trek after finding all this stuff out. Someone on that glorious writing crew knew their John Keel, knew their Hapi lore. Q is the Great Phonograph In The Sky personifed, and how! And he's just a tiny element of a show that prided itself on rippling clever, thoughtful ideas through a five act structure each week whether we picked up on them at the time or not.

Mike's pain is real, yet he has learned to let go, which is perhaps one of the hardest lessons of all.
 
indigoisviolet said:
The Trickster teaches you the lesson you need to learn, whether you are ready or not, and they can wait until the stars dim for you to wise up. It's only sinister from our own personal petty perspective. It's ancient, it has been doing this since humans could first communicate the experience, and almost certainly before that too. It has a wicked, detatched sense of humour and ultimately it is kind and respectful, but only when you start wising up, foolish little mortal.
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The ending of "all good things" when the bookend picard standing infront of Q and he says.

"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."

Is such a line that sums up an aspect of TNG that appeals to fans like mike and rich.
 
ditto said:
The only time Q was downright menacing was the TNG episode with the Nausicans. But they left it open ended at the end if it was really Q at all or just Picard having some kind of near death experience.
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Even that's just tough love. Picard ends up thanking Q at the end of it (if he was responsible for it) (which he totally was).

Interesting footnote about Q: apparently the original idea was that he was supposed to be an avatar of the entire collective, which is why in Encounter at Farpoint he acts rather differently with each costume change: every time he swaps outfits he's actually a different member of the collective. I don't think this went on past the pilot, though.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
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I like that Mr. Red Herring looks like Jack.

Seriously though, this could almost be an adult swim show. Do it, guys! RLM movie show.

Interesting footnote about Q: apparently the original idea was that he was supposed to be an avatar of the entire collective, which is why in Encounter at Farpoint he acts rather differently with each costume change: every time he swaps outfits he's actually a different member of the collective. I don't think this went on past the pilot, though.
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Another tidbit: in Q Who when Riker chews out Q over the dead crewmembers, the script apparently called for Q to do this over the top "STOP! Or you will be destroyed!" line.

It was John DeLancie who convinced them instead to let him do the "oh please."
 
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Flexo said:
Another tidbit: in Q Who when Riker chews out Q over the dead crewmembers, the script apparently called for Q to do this over the top "STOP! Or you will be destroyed!" line.

It was John DeLancie who convinced them instead to let him do the "oh please."
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I think it honestly upsets me more that DeLancie's biggest character is being destroyed than the actual existence of the Picard show does. I had accepted that this was an awful reboot that fans would hate forever, but now they're making one of my favorite character actors (playing one of my favorite characters) stoop this low. I am surprised I am so unhappy.
 
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somebody spike his drink with T, bring back the no chill Mike
 
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Man, I remember when the posts by Mike and Jay on that forum were found, and Garrett's whole email server was leaked and downloaded. Many a fun time was had. It's genuinely pretty great that Mike and Jay were so hostile towards one another at one point in time but managed to mend fences and have now been raking in good money working together for over a decade.
 
Well this is interesting timing.
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I found this particular passage really informative in the Page Six article that was reporting on this.
Aphasia is a medical condition that can affect a person’s ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal and written, according to the Mayo Clinic. It typically occurs after a stroke or a head injury.
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I'll be honest, my alzheimer's senses are still tingling. Technically some aphasic symptoms can be a part of dementia. None of my business if they are trying to shield him from some of the pity that comes with such a diagnosis though, I wish him the best either way and will be remembering him for his work in his heyday.

This maybe adds some more context to the very latest film of his they reviewed where he was just repeating 'yeah' in that one scene and then the big speech almost sounded like someone else being dubbed in. Repetition of one phrase is a common symptom as well as dozens of other symptoms that can best be summed up as difficulty speaking complete and coherent sentences.
 
Well, it’s actually pretty good they got that second video out before the announcement then, if only to shut up some of the idiots.
 
It's funny that you can chart when he must have had the dementia or whatever it is by looking at his IMDB and seeing when he started appearing in these shit films. He may have been diagnosed as early as 2015 or possibly 2013.

Also, there's 9 more of these fucking movies coming out:

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No, that would be 8 movies, since Fortress 3 is in pre-production they haven't started filming yet.

I can't believe we won't know how the trilogy really ends now :sigh:
 
Internet War Criminal said:
No, that would be 8 movies, since Fortress 3 is in pre-production they haven't started filming yet.

I can't believe we won't know how the trilogy really ends now *sigh*
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I'm willing to bet they already shot some footage of him and are trying to figure out how to incorporate it into the movie.
 
They'll probably be able to use body doubles, extra or re-used footage from the first two movies and find someone who sounds like him for ADR and still get the movie done
 
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