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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
That frumpy chick that has been hanging out with the Borg queen ended up having some really nice cans. More of her in that red dress, please.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
That frumpy chick that has been hanging out with the Borg queen ended up having some really nice cans. More of her in that red dress, please.
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Imagine thirsting over the female version of adult Haley Joel Osmet
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
That frumpy chick that has been hanging out with the Borg queen ended up having some really nice cans. More of her in that red dress, please.
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There should be a space show on a network that allows nudity. They all want to go darker and seriouser but you never get to see titty. It would definitely bring in the viewers considering the demographics for these shows. And viewers with brains will find it easier to shut their brains off.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
That frumpy chick that has been hanging out with the Borg queen ended up having some really nice cans. More of her in that red dress, please.
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She actually looked really hot for a change. She had like a fat face through other episodes, but was in shape for that one. I mean she can't act for shit, she plays the same character in every show. She already posted her tatas to twitter a while back. Enjoy

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Oh come on now, you know how it is? You're sitting there and suddenly your phone flies into your hand and your top pops off, the camera just goes into overdrive, and then automatically uploads it to the cloud, logs into twitter, formats a post, and then posts your tits online by accident.

Totally not the modern equivalent of the casting couch, you woman-haters. Why do you hate women so much, eh?
 
Excuse me, I have a question...

What gives foreigners the right to invade our sovereign nation? All the pro illegal immigration arguments essentially boil down to "they're brown, that thus gives them the right" as so much Woke ideology just boils down to "not white equals IN THE RIGHT!"

Do I have the right to just waltz into Mexico and expect to be treated like a citizen? Of course not, but I'm not brown.

It says it all that modern Star Trek just says something is bad without zero point as to WHY it's supposed to be bad.

I feel like this is coming very close to red pilling these guys what with how much they're making fun of Wil Wheaton, if only someone could tell them that Picard sucks because it's made for faggots like Wheaton and the writers only care about what's called "virtue signaling"
 
Dom Cruise said:
I feel like this is coming very close to red pilling these guys what with how much they're making fun of WilWheaton, if only someone could tell them that Picard sucks because it's made for faggots like Wheaton and the writers only care about what's called "virtue signaling"
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Its kinda happening.

Remember they went kinda went on a rant about how this issue would happen on TNG or STV where they would have a "debate" and weigh the pro and cons, which would mean the anti immigration people would be able to make their case.

Instead everyone is cartoonish evil.

But now borg queen stealing police legs...
 
Bush King said:
It'd be fine if it wasn't just a worse version of 95% of Hollywood productions these days. It's been done. It's been done better! It's been done better before with an actual message than "life shit". Maybe if you think these are problems you can take some inspiration from the brand you've co-opted and have an episode discussing the issue with different views and solutions instead of just showing it, commenting on how it's bad, and then moving on, repeat ad nauseam.
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When young Guinan had the rant about "people can't agree on facts" I cringed so hard I popped a circuit. You want to bring up facts? Trans women are not and never will be women.

Oh come on now, you know how it is? You're sitting there and suddenly your phone flies into your hand and your top pops off, the camera just goes into overdrive, and then automatically uploads it to the cloud, logs into twitter, formats a post, and then posts your tits online by accident.

Totally not the modern equivalent of the casting couch, you woman-haters. Why do you hate women so much, eh?
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No joke we had a local circuit Judge get caught posting porn to his Facebook. His excuse was similar.

But then I never understood why porn sites had a "share" button on them in the first place.
 
Mike made the same point I did about slapping some sci fi themes over the current day stuff. You can tell an immigration and xenophobia story so easily with sci fi. Just showing it current day with humans isn't sci fi just because there's a time travel element. It's grating. He pointed out that there wasn't always a clear right or wrong but both sides would at least be given some space to talk in past Trek. Sure, we'd get plots where one side was definitely wrong, but we'd still get their "why". There's none of that in Picard. It's just bad because bad.

Also agree that the episode 5 whiplash was confusing. Are we done with the ICE stuff now? The tent cities? Moving on to the next plot line about Picard's stressy depressy ancestor and ancestral Soong's genetics tinkering? When Picard said "depression in a human can be devastating" I cringed. Such a weird fucking line. So now the real enemy is depression? Just have to push that mental health awareness in there too.

Also I don't know if I'm supposed to be on Soong's side but I am. His daughter will die if he doesn't keep her isolated forever. Is it really so evil that he's trying to cure her? It's not like we get any back story where he's doing some Mengele shit that reads evil. I'm guessing this is a stand in for current day discourse over stem cell research. I'm also guessing the show will try to turn his research evil and paint him as selfish or something.

So here's the running tally of things Picard has felt the need to touch on:

Poverty/Income disparity
Crime
Immigration
Racism
Fascism
Police bad
Healthcare
Mental Health
Stem cell/genetic research

You could have picked any 1 or 2 of these and made a season out of it. It's too much.
 
KrewlKween said:
You could have picked any 1 or 2 of these and made a season out of it.
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Or, as they allude to in the review, you could tackle all of them... in episodic structure, like the old Trek would do. The theme of this episode is X, so both the A and B plots explore different angles, motivations, ideas, perspectives before they filter through the defined personalities of the characters into the show's resolution.

However, as The Wire came out before this show, now everything TV needs to be written longform. And, well, it's so hard to choose topics to randomly throw into a shitty, generic sci-fi setting - so just throw them all in. Because there's really nothing unique about the setting, institutions, characters, so-on of Picard or Discovery. So why expect that you could then use the setting to explore real-world contentions in meaningful and interesting ways?
 
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