I got about 25 minutes in and, though I was enjoying myself, had to stop. As yet I have not found any source for this documentary that includes subtitles for the non-English portions of the audio. There are several interviews and archival clips with dialogue in foreign languages, and I feel it would be unfair to myself and to the film to watch it without understanding these parts.
So, for now, I'll keep this on my watchlist knowing that as soon as I find complete subtitles, I will finish it.
The movie might be showing its age, or maybe I'm showing mine. The structure just felt off. The pacing was much too slow until the last quarter. There's something grating about Maverick's character—there's supposed to be, but I couldn't really find anything to like about him. And of course the romance is entirely unnecessary, but that's been a Hollywood problem since long before this movie (and still is).
"I don't want him hooked up to that damn machine again without one of you present."
Right, General, because all three other members of SG-1 being present helped so much the first time.
The control console for this memory device looks like a minimal redress of the power station controls from "Revisions".
Though it's most certainly different enough to stand on its own, this episode's premise strongly reminded me of "Ex Post Facto" (Star Trek: Voyager 1x08): In both cases, an alien tries to frame a human outsider for a murder using false memories.
Tokaku somehow got a new cell phone, identical to the one broken in the previous episode. Not a plot hole necessarily, but I don't really like it when shows just magically replace broken props so they can continue using them. Even a throwaway shot of an opened package or something during the exposition would have been nice. Goodness knows there was a convenient scene of Haru and Tokaku getting dressed for the party that could have had a cell phone box in the background of one shot.
Aside from that, the plot-armor bullshit went up to eleven in this episode. I don't believe Haru could have climbed that cable, and I don't believe Sumireko's arm was that weakly attached.
Plot. Armor.
KARR exploding at the end was short-sighted, I'd say. Now there's no chance of it coming back in a future story.
I like how this was basically Knight Rider's version of "Datalore" (ST:TNG). Yes I know this came first.
Frankie Muniz? Malcolm in the Middle? I'm just trying to figure out what the connection is, here. Why is a Disney show referencing a rival network's series and bringing on its star as a guest? (FOX is a rival of ABC, which Disney acquired in 1995.)
"I analyzed the typing speed and patterns on the hard drive." You WHAT? I so hate meaningless technobabble.
Back when I started this season of Lost, per-episode ratings weren't a thing I did. I'll forego the average episode rating calculation and just use my gut. I don't need the mean as a starting point.
This is a very strong first season. Every character's backstory is interesting. Though I put off finishing the season for a while until the episode metadata got squared away (with some help from Justin), I wanted to keep going.
Season two should be quite a ride, if this was any hint at what's to come.
Charlie, no! You worked so hard!
Why doesn't Kate put her pack down before running, like she's supposed to? She doesn't know Jack put the dynamite in his own pack.
Note for my future self, in case TVDB ever comes to their bloody senses and adds a 25th episode to match the blu-ray episode order: Yes, the first half of this episode finished exactly 43 minutes before the watched timestamp I added when completing part 2.
Part 1, 2018-11-21 01:57 UTC; part 2, 2018-11-21 02:40 UTC.
The first episode of season two that I actually disliked. Ah, well, not even The Nanny can bat a thousand.
Salem's been looking really strange in the last few episodes, and I think I know why. They changed puppets for the second half of season one, and again for season two.
The puppets used in the second half of the first season were the result of the network's art direction. It would seem that people high up in Animal Makers disliked the look of these puppets but they had to serve the specific comments of ABC.
Two new puppets were created for season two.
— http://salem.damowmow.com/puppets/home.html
So many shots of Jack make me think of Tom/Jacob from The Blacklist, now that I've finished two seasons of that show. He's not played by even remotely the same actor, but there it is.
What I do know: If I was Charlie, I'd be so mad at this woman telling me to ask for help when I need it, then saying she's not the one who can help me. Please don't let them turn him into a born-again Christian or anything like that…
FedEx containers? Syfy are you serious?!
"They can both see us. They must have us triangulated by now." Do I need to educate the screenwriters on what the prefix "tri-" means? Retracted, because I was wrong.
Same for "[…] each one heading 180 degrees from our course." There is only one point that is 180° from any compass heading, not two.
The shuttle that takes the device from Earth to the waiting Krill ship is numbered ECV-197-1, matching the Orville's shuttle. The question is, is it really one of the titular ship's pods or is it the result of lazy VFX work? Personally, I lean toward the latter; another pod numbered ECV-197-1 is clearly visible in Orville's shuttle bay when the Kaylon pod docks about halfway through the episode, and in later scenes. (Looking at you, Defiant. It's the Sao Paulo all over again.)
I am frustrated by how shallow this episode seems, despite its attempts to seem deep. Getting too far into it would be major spoilers, but let's just say there are a lot of ships critically damaged or destroyed in this episode that go completely unacknowledged. The cynic in me says that "you know why" there's only one casualty we seem to care about. Maybe the next (and final?) episode will address the rest.
Maybe.
Man, that short-form intro didn't last long, did it? Though I really wonder why the latter half of this season on Hulu (so far) has had eyecatches inserted between segments. I didn't watch any of the Stargate shows during the original broadcasts, so I have no frame of reference for whether that's a syndication thing or part of the initial cuts.
Having Picardo deliver that line about "a… 'federation', if you will" was an absolute master stroke because he spent 7 years on Star Trek: Voyager playing one holographic component of a Federation starship.
Unfortunately, Picardo was the only master stroke of this clip show. I suppose the silver lining (if one could call it that) is that Atlantis proved that it inherited the DNA and habits of SG-1 before it, saving budget for the season opening and ending arcs by aggressively optimizing costs for the middle stretches.
What the hell does "This place is deader than a Texas salad bar" even mean? :joy: Please try to make sense, Mr. Shaft.
Almost a season ago (https://trakt.tv/comments/388513) I was pretty annoyed that Vala had stuck around. At the time, her character felt shallow—and static. Since then, I'm quite pleasantly surprised that the writers turned her around into someone capable of growing and changing, someone with a conscience and a sense of the greater good. So what if her jokes still aren't funny? :grin:
Meanwhile, I still haven't figured out exactly why the creative team puts her in twintails most of the time. Best I can think of is that it's to emphasize Vala's playful, often childish attitude—which works, but doesn't mesh quite as well as the flippancy they were probably trying to replace since O'Neill/RDA left the cast.
Why does Rodney talk about "finding the ZPM" in the underground city? Why does draining the city's power by firing up the star drive work? Surely this weapon-chair is just like the others and has its own ZPM at one of the points on its base to the right of the seat.
I swear an episode in season 4 implied that Bra'tac had been killed. Somewhere along the way I must have misheard a line of dialogue.
Update: It was "The Serpent's Venom", in a conversation between Teal'c, Rak'nor, and Terok. It's from when Terok says, "Not even Bra'tac lasted this long," and later, "He did die, Teal'c." So it wasn't misheard dialogue; it was misleading dialogue. I didn't quite pick up on the "interrogation intimidation" vibe.
Any episode that continues expanding on Teal'c and his deep backstory is a great one in my book.
It's utterly impossible to believe that Sarah could be from Israel. Her accent and personality both scream English. I'll have to explain it away for myself by just saying she must be a UK special agent on loan to Israeli intelligence, or something.
Oh, so that's what happened to Jeff's car: nothing. Continuity? Cool.
I hope Jeff was exaggerating on purpose when he said "sixty inch diameter cookie". Clearly not (not even when it was intact).
That's no triangle. It's a three-pointed star. Maybe I should just be glad it wasn't four-pointed (Shirley didn't even kiss Jeff once.), because that would have been pushing it even more than already having three of the four main/recurring female cast competing for Jeff.
So what happened to Jeff's car? Are we just going to throw away the Troy/plumbing thread? So many questions.
Daniel Davis is an underappreciated talent.
I haven't much to say about the episode itself except:
Pretty sure Will was using the stethoscope upside down in that scene where he examines the baby at Rebecca's apartment. Whoops?
This season starts off pretty okay, with a great bit riffing on The Muppets and carrying through into David getting chewed out multiple times for offensive humor. It's still not my favorite show (and there aren't enough episodes left for it to earn that title, at this point)—but at least I'm not completely bored?
As soon as I saw the high school hallway, my immediate thought was, "What is this, Boy Meets World?" It's literally the same hallway, lockers, stairs, and trash can that Cory Matthews lit up a few years earlier. (Boy Meets World began in September 1993, three and a half years before Smart Guy premiered.)
The opening run of credits also showed me an unexpectedly familiar name: Danny Kallis, who's recognizable because I've been watching The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (and The Suite Life on Deck), which he co-created several years after Smart Guy.
And once we got a better look at the Henderson kitchen, it sure looks like the Matthews' kitchen, just without the island.
You know what makes great sense? Encouraging people to cut up perfectly good rope when you're stranded on an island indefinitely and might not be able to get more rope. Good job, Locke.
> Jeffrey Combs
> and Ethan Phillips
I heard Phillips' voice immediately. Yes, I was a bit excited. Yes, I was later disappointed.
It's so fun seeing recognizable real-life products disguised as futuristic sci-fi props. In this episode, it was two bottles in Sickbay that were clearly SIGG brand (and only very slightly touched up by the props crew). Nothing compared to Quark using my family's picnicware glasses every day in his bar on DS9, but still fun.
So there are only 173 Rules of Acquisition at this point in time? A lot changes in a century.
"There are fourteen weapons lockers on this ship." — And none of them should be accessible without any authentication at all. The key word is locker. They're supposed to be locked. Sigh.
Nice touch that they threw in "Do I look like a Menk to you?" as a reference to "Dear Doctor".
So Porthos wasn't affected by the gas? Does it only work on humanoids?
I thought at multiple points, "This looks like it's actually going to be better than the anime" (which, full disclosure, I haven't finished yet)—but ironically, I rated the first episode of the anime higher than this.
But actually, I'm cautiously hopeful that my enjoyment of this version won't taper off the same way it did with the anime adaptation. Maybe when I reach the same point in the drama, I'll start alternating the live-action and animated versions. Could be fun to compare them more directly like that, since they have identical episode counts and (from what I remember of the anime) covered the same material in their respective first episodes.
@LuckyNumber78, I'm pretty sure the dishes in the first scene of this are the same as yours. Kind of like how I grew up using the same plastic picnicware cups as were used in Quark's on DS9…