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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
Sexual Chocolate said:
Idk about Mike and Rich, they seem like nice guys who probably aren't very comfortable talking to women because they're nerds. A lot of poorly socialised men (especially Millennials, who are truly fucked) think women want to be treated like men or something.
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I can attest to that, sadly. In the media I consumed, men that hit on women were always portrayed as cads or brutes. And they always failed. There were basically two types:

1) Guy hits on woman and she mercilessly cuts him down with her acerbic wit, humiliating him.
2) Guy hits on woman, and white knight hero says something like, "Sir, You're bothering the lady" and then kicks the dude's ass.

Most of the sitcoms I watched would have a womanizer secondary character that was the butt of jokes.

Throughout my teens I had the blue pill belief that "hitting on women=bad". Thankfully, I eventually woke up.
 
Patreon Update!

There was no text in this one, just the title "Watching..." and a photograph of the screening room TV (with one of the screening-room cameras behind it, recording the room) and a still image of the "Part 5" title card from The Snyder Cut.

They're doing it. The mad bastards are actually doing it.
 
Frapton66 said:
Patreon Update!

There was no text in this one, just the title "Watching..." and a photograph of the screening room TV (with one of the screening-room cameras behind it, recording the room) and a still image of the "Part 5" title card from The Snyder Cut.

They're doing it. The mad bastards are actually doing it.
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They're so desperate for content they've gone back to TNG a few times already in the past year. (And thank goodness. Again, pure kino.) Do they really have a choice?
 
Travoltron said:
I can attest to that, sadly. In the media I consumed, men that hit on women were always portrayed as cads or brutes. And they always failed. There were basically two types:

1) Guy hits on woman and she mercilessly cuts him down with her acerbic wit, humiliating him.
2) Guy hits on woman, and white knight hero says something like, "Sir, You're bothering the lady" and then kicks the dude's ass.

Most of the sitcoms I watched would have a womanizer secondary character that was the butt of jokes.

Throughout my teens I had the blue pill belief that "hitting on women=bad". Thankfully, I eventually woke up.
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Exhibit A: Saint of EFAP "The Don" from Captain Marvel. Remember how even Legal Eagle was justifying her attack on him just for the crime of talking to a woman?
 
BScCollateral said:
I'm truly torn on this debate.
1) Dr. Pulaski had a personality.
2) It was Dr. McCoy's.
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The objections to Pulaski boil down to 1) she didn't fit with the rest of the crew and 2) she was a cunt to Data. 1) is almost certainly because the rest of the cast resented her presence, because Gates McFadden only left because of the creepy behavior of some of the producers, and that resentment bled through into the performances. As for 2), it always seemed obvious to me that they were planning a vague arc of Pulaski growing to accept and respect Data, teaching him humanity in a more tough love manner than the rest of the crew.

The sad thing is that, upon rewatching, Diana Muldaur was a much better actress than McFadden, and probably would have had some more interesting episodes if the character had been allowed to develop.
 
Mola Ram said:
The objections to Pulaski boil down to 1) she didn't fit with the rest of the crew and 2) she was a cunt to Data.
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Unfortunately, again mimicking McCoy's ongoing feud with Spock. IIRC Pulaski didn't even like transporters.

It is a shame, because some effort was put into the character and she was a good actress, able to convincingly strike sparks off other characters. Why nobody said "not being male is not enough to make her different from McCoy" was brought up a lot in the circles I was in.
 
Mola Ram said:
As for 2), it always seemed obvious to me that they were planning a vague arc of Pulaski growing to accept and respect Data, teaching him humanity in a more tough love manner than the rest of the crew.
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By the end of S2 Pulaski was already more accepting of Data and they got along well enough. But those early TNG seasons were messy behind the scenes and while the coldness of the other cast members towards her certainly didn't help, you have fans even today who hate her because she "bullied" Data. Keep in mind Data didn't give a shit. Back then I wouldn't put it past the writers/producers taking into account fan letters saying how much they hated her and wanted the pretty red head back.
 
I liked Pulaski. Crusher had that DILF thing going for her, but Pulaski was a better character and more believable as an actual doctor.

Obviously Data was a fan favorite and Brent Spiner was great at making him sympathetic, but it made sense not everyone in the Star Track universe would be delighted to be around a creepy robot with a plastic face who could easily kill you in about five seconds if the inclination to do so ever entered his positronic brain.

In fact, it's weird how non-robophobic everyone on the Enterprise seems to be, including Pulaski. Even if you were willing to believe Data is "good" (and he's literally an appliance that can't feel emotions, so...), we know computer glitches and malware are still things that can happen in the TNG universe. TOS also had evil computers / evil entities possessing the Enterprise computer.

If you aren't terrified of a freakishly strong machine with genius level intelligence that is obsessed with trying to become you and could BSOD and start terminating everybody at any given moment, for any number of reasons, you're a dumbass hoo-mon.
 
Sexual Chocolate said:
I liked Pulaski. Crusher had that DILF thing going for her, but Pulaski was a better character and more believable as an actual doctor.

Obviously Data was a fan favorite and Brent Spiner was great at making him sympathetic, but it made sense not everyone in the Star Track universe would be delighted to be around a creepy robot with a plastic face who could easily kill you in about five seconds if the inclination to do so ever entered his positronic brain.

In fact, it's weird how non-robophobic everyone on the Enterprise seems to be, including Pulaski. Even if you were willing to believe Data is "good" (and he's literally an appliance that can't feel emotions, so...), we know computer glitches and malware are still things that can happen in the TNG universe. TOS also had evil computers / evil entities possessing the Enterprise computer.

If you aren't terrified of a freakishly strong machine with genius level intelligence that is obsessed with trying to become you and could BSOD and start terminating everybody at any given moment, for any number of reasons, you're a dumbass hoo-mon.
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So unreasonable! It's not like Data ever malfun--

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BScCollateral said:
Unfortunately, again mimicking McCoy's ongoing feud with Spock. IIRC Pulaski didn't even like transporters.

It is a shame, because some effort was put into the character and she was a good actress, able to convincingly strike sparks off other characters. Why nobody said "not being male is not enough to make her different from McCoy" was brought up a lot in the circles I was in.
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She actually made an impact on me as a character and wasn't just "emotional woman doctor".

I like Crusher too, but she's so bland for the most part.

Mola Ram said:
So unreasonable! It's not like Data ever malfun--

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To be fair, he DID potentially save her life with that. Now feature film Data was one hell of a lose canon.
 
Frapton66 said:
Patreon Update!

There was no text in this one, just the title "Watching..." and a photograph of the screening room TV (with one of the screening-room cameras behind it, recording the room) and a still image of the "Part 5" title card from The Snyder Cut.

They're doing it. The mad bastards are actually doing it.
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My prediction is that they’ll still hate it for being a typical Snyder dark and edgy superhero movie, just like BvS and MoS, but they’ll concede that stuff does make more sense in terms of character arcs and motivations and that it at least has a clear creative vision.

They’ll also probably give kudos to Snyder for managing to get his own way and release his own version but they’ll still dunk on him for making it 4 hours long.
 
Frapton66 said:
Patreon Update!

There was no text in this one, just the title "Watching..." and a photograph of the screening room TV (with one of the screening-room cameras behind it, recording the room) and a still image of the "Part 5" title card from The Snyder Cut.

They're doing it. The mad bastards are actually doing it.
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Awesome.

I mean, I didn't have any doubt that they'd do a video on it. That's an easy 1m views right there.

I've only sat through Part 1, and I shockingly enjoyed it (context: I do not like MoS, and BvS is unwatchable to me). The rest of the movie may become an absolute trainwreck from there, but after actually enjoying a part of it, I'm now really curious to see how RLM reacts.
 
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