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  1. Dynaman
    They could have just repackaged Lord of the Rings toys...
  2. Dynaman
    You know that is what they said about cartoons in my day too.
  3. Dynaman
    For me ST hit the nadir with Voyager and Nemesis. The one took the preachy factor of ST and turned it up to 11 (showing my eighties teenage roots) and the other tried and failed miserably to turn NextGen to an action movie series. The first 2.5 seasons of Next Gen was just as bad but finally figured out TOS was twenty years prior and things had changed. The problem for ST today is that the fans want it to be the sixties still but it is now 2020 and we should not need to hide the moral story behind the alien of the week. On the other hand ST action movies can't compete with Super Heroes that bend physics to say nothing of reality.
  4. Dynaman
    I prefer the miniseries Dune to that dreadful movie as well. It is a real pity it did not have a higher budget.
  5. Dynaman
    I don't know, things must get pretty ripe in that Iron Man suit.
  6. Dynaman
    After Casino Royale and all the jumps he did in the first action sequence, any one of which would break his legs, I don't think that bridge swing is anything to worry about. Super Hero movies have upped the ante (in a very bad way) on what is required in action sequences.
  7. Dynaman
    I'm watching Cagaster on Netflix. The english VA is ok but nothing great and the plot and characters are pretty bog standard. I did read that it picks up soon (I've watch 3 episodes) so I will continue on with it.
  8. Dynaman
    I miss Roger Ebert. And when I get round to watching this I'm hoping it is nearly as much brain dead fun as the original and not quite the more cerebral misfire the sequel was.
  9. Dynaman
    No worse then already subscribing to Netflix or Amazon to see their movies.
  10. Dynaman
    With Eddie Murphy.
  11. Dynaman
    Actually gave me a bit of a chill when it switched from Batman to Superman theme. Well done.
  12. Dynaman
    And yet it was two men pissing on each other that made the mess.
  13. Dynaman
    Disney should give up prequels for ANY character. It would be far better to have them as background characters that show up in movies primarily about NEW characters.
  14. Dynaman
    Utopia is impossible since eventually conflicts will get to the point where one person does not accept the result. We also tend to forget that even in civilized societies - the threat of force is the way that the law is applied. Someone always has to be the "has not" and that even applies with Star Trek's universe, as a very limited example Sisko's restaurant can not possibly seat everyone who wants to go and some kind of "currency" has to determine who that will be. Currency in this case does not have to mean money, political connections is another example. EDIT - ST is also a reflection of the times. TOS - USA USA USA! (funny how Kirk TELLS every other race how to live properly). TNG - Touchy feely time (Picard goes out of his way NOT to tell others how to live). That goes for Voyager and DS9 too - but Sisko does get to piss on the Klingon's warrior ways. At least DS9 made the Ferengi interesting. Enterprise - Bounce back from the earlier shows. The latest shows - Man, we screwed up in real life and the ending of the Cold War didn't make things turn out as we wish.
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    No that was the issue. If our characters are having conflict then Utopia cannot exist since the instant the best and brightest, which Starfleet was supposed to be, could have conflicts Utopia has to go right out the window. You can't have one with the other.
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    I forget who said it but it is true. Utopia is boring. Trek found that out in the first couple seasons of TNG when they were REALLY pushing that Federation is Utopia bit.
  17. Dynaman
    If I had to listen to Tasha Yar blather on one more time about the "rap" gangs on her just across the border of the Federation world I think I would have screamed. The Marquis in were no great shakes either. And who would WANT to live on the Horta homeworld if money was not involved in some way? Trek has never had consistant internal logic from the very start in regards to being the utopia it was pronounced to be.
  18. Dynaman
    Kinda like Raiders of the Lost Arc. Take Indy out of the whole attempt to get the Ark and nothing actually changes. On the negative side Hitler might have been there when it was opened if Indy had not gotten in the way. Any nobody says Raiders is bad because of it.
  19. Dynaman
    I can practically hear the dialog. "Hey Ralphie boy..."
  20. Dynaman
    Isn't that "Below Decks"?
  21. Dynaman
    Give "The Expanse" a look. The season that Amazon just did is not the best but that is due to the book it is tied to being the least interesting one in my opinion. They did a good job bringing it to the show though. At this rate they will reach the end of the book line soon, two books left IIRC but unlike Game of Thrones the writer doesn't take a decade to write a book.
  22. Dynaman
    Which is strange (on the treatment of the character) since last year he was supposedly pulling a Sigurney Weaver to make the changes he wanted to the character. Strange that a failing show (Discovery) is nearly ready to start showing its third season and a spinoff is in the works.
  23. Dynaman
    Old Trek had to do that - society at the time would have exploded to have their foibles thrust in their face. Seems times have not actually changed. And when Old Trek thought they could get away with it the Federation was directly implicated - Women not allowed to be Starship Captains comes to mind. Pure racism (against the Horta) in Devil in the Dark.
  24. Dynaman
    Sorry guys - you are simply giving different names to the same exact thing. If the Kirk speech of the week is not bashing your head in things directly to make SURE we all got the point then nothing is. A large number of the Trek episodes are not timeless.
  25. Dynaman
    I know it keeps going round and round but Star Trek was always "Woke". And comparing social justice to bleak and dreary is unique.
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