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O Captain: Patrick Stewart Dead at 86
He's been looking more and more frail for years.
Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia," longtime spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak announced. "He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all," Bush Novak wrote. "We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace."Please feel free to use this thread to talk about off-topic stuff, like movies or shows or books you'd recommend. I had not planned a mid-day entertainment thread, so I have not much to add here. I wasn't a fan of Star Trek: TNG or Stewart for that matter, but I know that many people were. As everyone always points out, he was one of the first knights to declare for Arthur in Excalibur. Which, as everyone also always says, was filled with no-name actors who would soon become big names: Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson, for example. Plus Helen Mirren and the great Nicole Williamson, who had previously dated and absolutely loathed each other and had to be cajoled into working together. But I think they were already kinda well-known, and they didn't become big stars like Byrne and Neeson. So here's what I'm watching: Elementary, again, and Person of Interest, this time, for the third time. Both shows are good but Person of Interest continually surprises me with how many genuinely good moments it has and how much smart science fiction stuff. It was commenters who recommended it to me, ten or twelve years ago. I think maybe Garrett said it was "Daredevil in a business suit," which is semi-accurate, but actually downplays how good it is. If you don't know the premise: An ultra-reclusive computer genius with the fake name "Harold Finch" created an artificial super-intelligence after 9/11 to scan all of the trillions of megabytes of data being hoovered up to find the actual terrorists and their plots. But the ASI, called "The Machine," was too good at its job and didn't just find terror plots, but any kind of premeditated crime like kidnapping and murder. It began alerting the government to these threats, but the government wanted to limit what The Machine did, largely because the entire scheme was unconstitutional and illegal and they didn't want to have to explain how they're suddenly showing up at murder scenes before the murder is committed. They can tell some lies to explain how they foil the occasional terrorist attack, but they don't want to like 1,500 times a year about the murders they thwart. So they declare all non-terrorism-related threats "irrelevant" and ignore them. But Harold Finch is haunted by these preventable murders that he could stop but doesn't. So he uses the backdoor he built into the computer to tell it to send him the social security numbers, and only the social security numbers, of people The Machine predicts are either going to be the victim of serious violence, or the perpetrator. And because he's a pencil-necked geek, he recruits a special forces ex-terrorist-hunter with the pseudonym "John Reese" to be the strongman of the team and actually deal with the threats. So the premise is: This is a murder mystery show, but we enter the murder mystery before murder happens, and if we can figure out who is being threatened and by whom, we won't just solve the murder, we'll prevent the murder. It's a great premise. Many shows would just take this premise and run with it, ignoring the background story of how this is even possible. But Person of Interest takes it to the next level and also features stories about The Machine itself, and specifically, dangerous foreign nations who have figured out that America now has an ASI and want to seize it for themselves. Most episodes are about stopping murders and kidnappings, but a fair number are about the fight to keep The Machine secret and safe from the very dangerous people who would like to hijack it. And the sci-fi and legal framework is solid. For example, the reason the government says it's legal to scan everyone's emails and bank statements is that it's just a computer looking, and it doesn't count as a "search" until a human sees the information. (That's why Finch's machine only supplies social security numbers -- the humans have to do the real digging themselves.) The point is: this isn't just something they made up for the show. This is the real-world government legal position on the use of computers and artificial intelligence to search and analyze records. The show doesn't treat you like a moron (mostly). For example, we'll see a POV shot from Reese, where he looks down at a man's pantleg and there's a slight bulge at his ankle. He doesn't say "ankle gun" to the audience. The show relies on you having seen the bulge yourself, so you know why Reese reaches for the man's ankle after punching him in the gut. And it has a lot of espionage stuff too. It's basically a mix of your four favorite genres: Mystery/detective, spy action-adventure, science-fiction, and street-level superhero.
Highly recommended, including for a rewatch, if you haven't seen it again. It holds up.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (e5z5/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at October 29, 2026 04:30 PM (U4mZc)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)
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A movie?
What is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:32 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:33 PM (hxMfc)
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)
The plot was just...ugh.
ToS had issues but it was FUN. TNG was just kind of boring.
Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
So is AP getting Intel from that General that got 'canned'?
Inside baseball: Leak stuff to see who tells others.
Posted by: torabora at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (Wt1Rs)
As opposed to the other Threads.
Where we feel free to talk about off-topic stuff.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (Qugny)
What is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (pfZGz)
I gotchu fam.
It's a bunch of pictures and sound on a big screen used to tell a story, but that's not important right now.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (l3cgK)
I mean, the state of Oregon Department of Revenue and Department of Human Services Employment Division apparently can't figure this one out and they have all the databases.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: doug at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (B1+sW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: fIREHOSE at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: tcn in AK
He's gone where pretty much everyone goes.
Posted by: rickb223
Counselor Troi?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ndZc7)
I never went beyond the OG Star Trek. The t.v. show and the movies with the original cast, that's it.
Some scary bald guy as the male lead? Gack. He made a more plausible MacBeth tricked out in Nazi art direction.
All the same, RIP and condolences to his loved ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
But it was a teachable moment for Wesley, so it is to the good.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)
SSN fraud comes up in the show a few times. For example, in one case, two people are associated with the same SSN because one is an identity thief, but they don't know who is who.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (hxMfc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (hxMfc)
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It's like Twin Peaks: Desert edition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)
I might go watch Yesterday's Enterprise again. Alternate-reality where Picard helms a warship. Third season is where TNG starts arising from the bullshit of the first season and the writers-strike of the second [although I do like the ep where Riker is an officer for the Klingons]
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (88C+u)
loved that dude
anyway, sad news. he had a good run tho
watching Dark Matter season two which is pretty much terrible. season one was great! it didn't need a second season.
Carrie was good I thought, but again, not excited about the continuation into a second season there either. not sure why I guess bc King and Flanagan are best bros now
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (qBivk)
-Patrick Stewart in The Lord of the Rings
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)
https://tinyurl.com/4m4w43df
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (CWTWj)
OPutside of Star Trek, that's what I remember him for, along with 'Gurney Halleck' in Dune (1984).
And of course, Professor Xavier, in X-Men, which he did a really fine job with.
I liked Stewart in some other things as well.
His Ebeneezer Scrooge wasn't bad, and he did that Moby Dick movie I watched once.
I'm glad he got a chance to do the Picard series, even if the first and second season pretty much sucked, the third season was a nice little reunion show of TNG, so I enjoyed it.
Sucks about Stewart's politics, but he was a Brit, so you get what you get.
RIP Captain.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)
Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert
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Some innocent pedestrian in the path of Shatner's Lambo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (nEUC6)
Thanks for the good Star Trek memories.
Still not watching Picard.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)
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Season 3 is good!
Season 1 sucks, and I never watched season 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:39 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)
I honestly don't know, but my two favorite Patrick Stewart moments:
The Ice Bucket Challenge (some time in the 2010s?): All the other celebrities get doused by ice or what not. He gets a bucket of ice next to a really nice chair and writes a check for whatever the cause was supposed to be. Then pours himself some alcohol. Because the point was raising money.
Telling about his time on the set of Dune, where he meets Sting and unintentionally humbled him because he honestly had no idea who Sting was. Absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (zjgNU)
Koenig.
Stewart.
Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)
Elke Summers died yesterday... real bombshell in her prime.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (zjgNU)
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"Oh, you're in a police band!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Cqx++)
In internal communication, an employee noted they weren't doing penetration testing (checking to see how easily it can be hacked) and pleaded for time to do it before release. The CEO said that's bullshit and loser thinking.
Proton bills itself as a service for those who are interested in security and anonymity. Apparently the CEO doesn't have the mindset to maintain that illusion.
http://tiny.cc/u8vc101
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (k5CNB)
The plot was just...ugh.
ToS had issues but it was FUN. TNG was just kind of boring.
Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
Worf was badly mistreated in TNG IIRC.
DS9 treated his character better.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (FMZSx)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:31 PM (CWTWj)
He was kind of a prick on the Sopranos. Oh wait. No, that was Ben Kingsley. Never mind.
Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (8mulE)
A movie based on the country music song, Ol' Red, has been green-lit. Pre-production starts early next year with filming to follow.
There have been many threads on Reddit over the years asking opinions on which songs would make great movies and Ol' Red is almost always one that is mentioned, multiple times, even.
No idea who is going to star in it, and you won't find this being reported on the internet movie sites yet, but my information comes from a source about as close to the horse's mouth as one can get.
Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (J4Dwc)
Nicely done comedic turn.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)
Even Skynet can't deal with Identity theft. We're all gonna die!
youtu.be/xSC910M-yyM
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (6nZo9)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: one hour sober at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (rcY3Z)
i don't think I agree. Fusco and Carter are good, and then Elias is interesting, and when they add Root at first she's amazing, though then she turns into a lesbian ninja cartoon, but that's only towards the end. Shah is mostly good though I guess you can say she's the standard girl badass. I think she's better than that, thoujgh.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)
I had not planned a mid-day entertainment thread
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You and Stanley Diamond just wanted to bust his balls but you went too far and killed him, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (eGnYg)
The point is: this isn't just something they made up for the show. This is the real-world government legal position on the use of computers and artificial intelligence to search and analyze records.
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Man, I hope the humans never have to lie to a FISA judge.
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (6nZo9)
You'd think you'd fade away in a bad transporter accident, but that's not what happens...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (aKiSo)
Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)
It was what Eraserhead would have been with a budget and editorial control
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)
Voice. I saw him, as Macbeth with the RSC.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Seems impossible, doesn't it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (PSEDc)
Stewart also had a role as Karla in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)
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His finest role. No lines at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (pfZGz)
It was what Eraserhead would have been with a budget and editorial control
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (rbvCR)
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Well, Eraserhead, Lynch had total control. Spent a year in editing because it was an independent film he'd mostly self-financed over a five year shoot.
He did not have any editorial control over Dune and was contractually obligated to turn in an edit no more than 2 hours and 17 minutes long.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)
He was also a ghost (of a cowardly man)...don't remember the name of the show...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (f8snw)
DS9 treated his character better.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)
Not as bad as Tasha Yar getting killed by the tar baby.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)
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Denise Crosby had a movie career to pursue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (pfZGz)
Things are looking up as I now don't have to cook dinner, which leaves me more time to do the dreaded chores that are going away soon. I love to cook when there is not stuff to do.
My dude is a blues acoustic man by hobby and innate talent. Taught himself piano and guitar as a teen, and hardly reads music. Probably due to being a math genius. He can hear a song and play it on the piano.Not how he made his money to provide for us, as that involved computers and stuff I don't understand at all.
I don't have the blues (just the procrastination), but I love the guitar on this song as well as the entire song. He introduced this to me on a car drive up the mountains many years ago.
He's a walking juke box. We hear a song in the movies and I ask who did that...and he knows.
He's a big Moron but just hasn't met you...after all he married me, and God help him, he's stuck with me.
Still Got the Blues
Alvin Moore
https://tinyurl.com/282r98d6
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (rcY3Z)
My earliest recollection of Stewart was in Dune.
Posted by: Unkaren at October 29, 2026 04:43 PM (m6fGY)
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As Sejanus in I, Claudius.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)
They don't really have to worry until after someone kills Guy.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)
Oh, yes, he did such a wonderful job in that role. That was one character I was happy to see die.
He also played Ebenezer Scrooge in one of my most favorite versions of A Christmas Carol. I just loved him.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (ZgwKJ)
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)
I thought it was in Smiley's People.
Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (p3pWU)
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (lJ0H4)
I thought it was in Smiley's People.
Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (p3pWU)
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Karla makes no appearance in Tinker Tailor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (pfZGz)
Toilet paper here, all of them, have this stupid thing where they have on the package "30 = 62" meaning you're buying 30 rolls of toilet paper, but the value is so great, it's like buying 62 rolls!
Like how blue states count Dem votes.
Is that a US thing too?
100 small KitKat, Aero, CoffeeCrisp and Canadian Smarties were $12.99 Canadian. Not too bad.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (eRlcH)
It didn't age well, but I remember when it came out it was fantastic!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Aye laddy. The possibilities are endless with a little know-how.
Posted by: Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott, surviving into the future in the transporter buffer at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (6nZo9)
DS9 treated his character better.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 29, 2026 04:41 PM (oPFtC)
Not as bad as Tasha Yar getting killed by the tar baby.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)
To be fair, he failed miserably on TNG as Security Chief...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)
Or, a different song by the same name?
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Qugny)
Denise Crosby had a movie career to pursue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:45 PM (pfZGz)
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Yeah, great decision there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (eRlcH)
He did not have any editorial control over Dune and was contractually obligated to turn in an edit no more than 2 hours and 17 minutes long.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:44 PM (pfZGz)
I've told my wife that Dune is a great movie that spent a good amount of time world-building, developing backstory and characters... and then had to finish the last half of the book in half an hour at the end.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (zjgNU)
I saw people note that they did the same thing with Worf that they did with Superman on Justice League.
Whenever they wanted to prove that a new villain was tough and powerful, they'd have him come in and immediately one-shot and rag-doll Worf (and Superman).
I know the writers of Justice League realized that after they'd done this 20 times, they had inadvertently turned Superman into "the guy who immediately goes down in a fight."
and then I saw a compilation of Worf being used the same way, as the object that gets smashed to prove the new threat is serious.
(Kind of the same problem the Leonardo DiCaprio character had in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. )
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (1wjle)
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After being brutally told his children had been murdered. Could almost feel sorry for him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (zjgNU)
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Pretty much.
The last 45 minutes is incoherent. But some people farkin' love it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pfZGz)
Oh in this episode there are bad guys that won't listen. Patrick Stewart offers them tea. They fire phasers. Worf says to kill them all. Stewart tries to talk to them. Worf phasers them a few times. Now they listen. And we find out in the end they just needed to learn to listen and about the power or friendship blah bah
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
Like TOS, there were some very good TNG episodes. But with more than double the numbers of seasons/episodes as TOS, they can get lost.
One of TNG's problems was giving everyone and their dog spotlight time. No one gives a rat's hindquarters what Cabin Boy Wesley is up to.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pe2q3)
Posted by: dantesed
You are correct. I tend to lump those shoes into one long series.
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (lJ0H4)
Thanks for the good Star Trek memories.
Still not watching Picard.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Sco7b)
The best way is to watch Youtube videos of internet folks trashing it. You see clips, its abridged and you get jokes too.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)
He was great in Excalibur and I, Claudius, and of course Dune.
The story goes that he was so stiff and formal an actor, so professional that he had a hard time with Star Trek's themes and the other actors until he learned to loosen up and just have fun.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (TMNW7)
Unfortunately a post-scarcity economy has never and will never exist and who knows if FTL is possible
I can just imagine the protests against dilithium crystals thought, now that would be funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
Wow, an Ace post on Person of Interest and Elementary - but mostly PoI.
Absolutely one of my favorite TV series ever. Fantastic cast from top to bottom. Even though the last season was truncated, the series finale was one of the best I've seen.
Created by Christopher Nolan's brother.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (p61JE)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)
Karla makes no appearance in Tinker Tailor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (pfZGz)
__________
When Smiley is recounting for Guillam his interrogation of Karla in Delhi.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 04:48 PM (pe2q3)
Wasn't there rum, the lash, and sodomy on board the Enterprise?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (l3cgK)
All the same, RIP and condolences to his loved ones.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:36 PM (mmrXZ)
Picard was the intellectual's captain.
He really tried to avoid violence unless necessary but he did get pissed off enough a few times where he turned into a madman.
Picard was a very human ST captain.
One of his best episodes, and one of Stewart's best job acting, was an episode where he returned home to France, "Family", to be with his brother and his wife & son after the Borg had transformed Picard into 'Locutus of Borg'. Picard at that point was considering leaving Starfleet, but decided not to after a fight with his brother in the family wine vineyard over Picard being afraid to get back to his life again and head back to Enterprise.
It's a very powerful episode, but it's definitely not Captain Kirk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (f8snw)
I forgot about that movie. I agree, it was pretty good. Julia Roberts was also good in that one, and Mel did well in a quirky change of pace character.
Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (8mulE)
Oh I didn't know that. I just saw that episode this past week.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)
They had to travel the Galaxy looking for the one Pedophile who would take Wesley off their hands.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
David Crosby >>>>> Denise Crosby (talent, successful career choices)
Denise Crosby >>>> David Crosby (looks, sobriety)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (6nZo9)
Well for the record I like watching a cabin boys hindquarters
Posted by: Bill Kristol at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)
yeah.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)
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They had 25 episodes a season for 7 seasons to make!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (88C+u)
/Golf clap
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)
This is the role he was truly born to play:
https://youtu.be/C1IRqqp8vHw
Posted by: tankdemon
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That's hilarious. I remember that movie.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (mmrXZ)
The Shat outlived him. Kirk beats Picard.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)
"Strange New Worlds" series seemed to chip away at Kirk...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:40 PM (kX27y)
Robin Williams committed s**cide so he wouldn't have to go through it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (p61JE)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (wVcYX)
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And he never threw a punch again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)
Mirren was well-known in England but pretty unknown in the USA. She was in a mobster movie called The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins that I recommend.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (/OKHJ)
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Much like Alexander, all of Ireland is in both movies in different decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (rcY3Z)
One of his best episodes, and one of Stewart's best job acting, was an episode where he returned home to France, "Family", to be with his brother and his wife & son after the Borg had transformed Picard into 'Locutus of Borg'. Picard at that point was considering leaving Starfleet, but decided not to after a fight with his brother in the family wine vineyard over Picard being afraid to get back to his life again and head back to Enterprise.
Isn't the federation some sort of socialist by this point? How does anyone get to own a vineyard?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (sKqQm)
Like how blue states count Dem votes.
Is that a US thing too?
100 small KitKat, Aero, CoffeeCrisp and Canadian Smarties were $12.99 Canadian. Not too bad.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)
Single ply versus double ply. So you usually need almost double the sheets each use, but you can save a little unless you gauge by volume.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy)
i don't even know the context or get the reference but: LOL
i just like the thought of Wesley being marooned with a space pedophile
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)
Ian McKellan looks pretty frail too.
RIP, Captain Picard- even if you were a flaming left tardy in real life.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)
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He's in a crowd shot in Star Trek Nemesis!
So, I guess the pedo got tired of him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)
You can view some James Talarico ads?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (l3cgK)
Backrooms is good. I want to do a review for tomorrow but I have to watch Obsession to review both.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)
Its real. The Traveler was pretty creepy. After Wesley washed out of starfleet for being a lying little bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (zZu0s)
It took my mom in about 6 years and it destroyed me to watch what happened to her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)
The Cook the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover is the best of Helen Mirren. She's so good and so brutal at the end.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (ZgwKJ)
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Forrest Gump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (7cwvz)
Posted by: Bluto at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (SyJlc)
Posted by: 88C+u
Because Janeway sucks? Or he's sexist AND racist (sorry Cisko)?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (6nZo9)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (p61JE)
Can't blame him. He died at his home in Tiburon (Paradise Cay) and his ashes were scattered in the Bay.
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (kX27y)
I liked that part of the movie. It's an interesting conversation about realistically examining your position and your options. Sure, you're in Hollywood and appearing on TV and movies. But you're the "heavy" and you're always going to lose. The audience knows you, but will always associate you with the losing position. Why not go to Italy, make some money, be the winner for a bit, and enjoy the break?
The conversation feels real, and it does a good job painting the picture for the audience. This is a journeyman actor who is on the way out.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 04:54 PM (mkw2N)
Kirk > Sisko > Picard > Janeway. I don't know where I'd put Archer in there. But still less than Kirk, of course.
After that, well they started ruining the whole franchise.
I think in one of those last ones, they had Seven of Nine become the Captain of the latest Enterprise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:54 PM (w6EFb)
yeah.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)
That's Murder She Wrote.
Say...why is this writer always stumbling on all these murders in proximity to her nieces and nephews?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
That's not an issue if you have the right oppression points.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (6nZo9)
That was well written. The characters acted like they should have in their situations and did what they reasonably should in their situation with their abilities. Its so frustrating watching 99% of shows where people don't do things they ought to because it would harm the story the writer wanted to tell.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (TMNW7)
It's a very powerful episode, but it's definitely not Captain Kirk.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I might have been able to watch him if it hadn't been for the rest of the crew. Looked like Lost in Space meets Star Trek.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)
Exactly.
It's a very interesting and sad episode.
He carried that flute, or whatever it was, with him for the rest of the series.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah, pretty disappointed myself. It just seems to meander around. It introduces "mysteries" that are not very mysterious, the resolution of which is sorta boring. Doesn't help that it hops around between different versions of the same character and keeps introducing new characters.
Posted by: notalawyer at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (fR677)
most of what they do with hacking is stuff you actually could do with hacking.
Hacking is not magic.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (n5tGW)
Primal Fear is creepy.
The Ring and those style of movies are not outright gory.
8mm
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (Izpxn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (eRlcH)
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The Alec Guiness production is the best "Tinker, Tailor".
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (AKptf)
vimeo.com/611368124
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:56 PM (88C+u)
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Forrest Gump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (pfZGz)
Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)
All in all, TOS aside, my favorite characters of the whole thing were Elim Garak from DS9 and The Doctor from Voyager.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (w6EFb)
Something This Way Comes, you can watch with kids
The Wailing it's Korean.
Prince of Darkness, I always thought that was really creepy and I liked the premise that everybody had the same Dream
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Ql60S)
The way I would write this (we've talked about it before here) is to have it run exactly like an Agatha Chrsitie-type adventure. She comes up with this complicated solution that makes the police detective with a simpler answer look foolish and nails someone. But after a few books, the detective eventually proves she's killed all of those people and framed others.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (TMNW7)
After that, well they started ruining the whole franchise.
I think in one of those last ones, they had Seven of Nine become the Captain of the latest Enterprise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
In some of the movies, they had characters promoted to Captain of other ships. Sulu and Worf come to mind. Future zombie Bill Kristol would be applying for cabin boy from the grave for the position on Sulu's ship.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (6nZo9)
Oh I didn't know that. I just saw that episode this past week.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:49 PM (1wjle)
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He's from Mount Vernon but I suspect they used Puyallup in the show just to have someone say it properly. My neighbor went to school with him.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (uhVAy
Maybe that's it. I think it's size of the rolls. Still stupid.
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The animated Superman series around the same time as Batman was actually really good. Superman would really get knocked around and actually had to use his brains to defeat some enemies.
And considering there was a Holodeck, it was amazing we ever saw Wesley at all. Teenage boy with a holodeck. See you when I'm 75.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (mmrXZ)
You probably wouldn't have liked it.
The first three, and into four, seasons, had some moments but were not that great.
The last three and half seasons are really good sci-fi.
And then things got better with DS9.
The rest are so-so to ughh.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (6ydKt)
I'll try Backrooms, looks promising.
I did like 8MM. That might be a good re-watch.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (n5tGW)
Well, he was on the list.
That's why he had to keep traveling.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Qugny)
I didn't like that production the first time I saw it but it kinda grew on me.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:42 PM (uhVAy)
They don't really have to worry until after someone kills Guy.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 04:46 PM (88C+u)
Stewart was a competent actor, I'll give him his due. But did he ever get five curtain calls for his portrayal as Richard III?
Posted by: Sir Alexander Dane at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2026 04:50 PM (aKiSo)
That's Murder She Wrote.
Say...why is this writer always stumbling on all these murders in proximity to her nieces and nephews?
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)
Yup, being a relative of Jessica Fletcher is a death sentence.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)
Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)
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Thought that title went to Rose in Titanic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)
The Woman in Black.
Starring Harry Potter.
It's one of the first Hammer productions after it came back from the dead in the late 2000s, and it's just gothic horror fun. Genuinely my favorite Hammer film of them all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (pfZGz)
I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (AKptf)
I'll try Backrooms, looks promising.
I did like 8MM. That might be a good re-watch.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (n5tGW)
If you watch each scene backwards, that is, last scene first until first scene last, you still get a coherent movie...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I just saw recently the actor that played Garak was the same guy that played "Scorpio" in the first Dirty Harry movie. He's really good.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (6nZo9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)
what makes you think that ?
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (AKptf)
Starring Harry Potter.
yes that is very good.
I have heard that the 1989 British TV version is even better, though it doesn't have the super-atmospheric sets and lighting of the Harry Potter version.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle)
I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)
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Final filmed auditions were done in the last week or so. Decision is very likely made at this point, but it was probably made in the last few days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
The Babadook
Black Phone (but not Black Phone 2)
Smile
The Witch
Heredity
oh and not really horror, but if you haven't seen it check out Frailty.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)
I think they already have him cast and are started shooting, but are trying to build interest and speculation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)
Not enough ugly handicapped lesbians of color?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (l3cgK)
Are there any good Halloween or scary movies the horde knows of that are over looked and not slasher type?
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There are tons that aren't slasher but the endings are almost always silly.
The Conjuring
Hereditary
The Black Phone
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)
yes that is very good.
I have heard that the 1989 British TV version is even better, though it doesn't have the super-atmospheric sets and lighting of the Harry Potter version.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:59 PM (1wjle)
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I've never seen the TV version, but that HP version is just dripping with dark atmosphere.
And, it's well lit at the same time.
Also, the director and writer, James Watkins, just released Clayface, which is supposed to be pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (pfZGz)
Which does have the most evil Villain of all time in it.... Jenny.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (mP0Kj)
__________
Thought that title went to Rose in Titanic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)
Ewww.... that is a toss up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Andrew Robinson, and he did indeed do a damn fine job with the Garak character. That was a truly Interesting character.
You'll see Robinson in a lot of the older shows, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, etc, etc, running on MeTV. He could play a good creepy villain type.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (w6EFb)
Very fun show. In terms of Captains Archer was up there because everything was new. They were hesitant to use the transporters unless it was an emergency.
And they made it a point to expose as much of Jolene Blalock as they could.
And that was a good thing.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 04:52 PM (1wjle)
Its real. The Traveler was pretty creepy. After Wesley washed out of starfleet for being a lying little bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 04:53 PM (zZu0s)
The Traveler was some kind of alien that could manipulate space, time, and warp fields with his mind.
Supposedly he recognized this same gift in Wesley and offered to take him to train him, kinda like a Jedi as far as I could understand.
Wesley agreed and he was gone after that episode.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sir Alexander Dane
Say the line! Say it!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (TMNW7)
Personally I am excited about watching the next black, gender-neutral Daniel Craig.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (rbvCR)
I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Ql60S)
If you want to be a big fish in a small pond, you can find a sparsely populated, beautiful planet and thrive. You ship in a replicator and a nearly endless power unit and you're all set for life.
If you have political aspirations, go do that. If you want to create, go do that. If you want to be a hedonist, go do that.
But why would you bust your butt to get into Starfleet academy only to end up a third tier night shift maintenance man? All of the work, danger, no pay, isolation, etc. for what benefit? You get a small bunk, a small job, and no recognition. The best part of your day is Troi walking by and you get a glimpse of her butt. Why would you live that life?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)
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Dolley hated me for getting her to watch that.
I enjoyed it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pfZGz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (pfZGz)
Elordi is too pretty. Maybe Lowden or Norton.
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (sAmhv)
Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
Have you seen Exhuma (also Korean horror)?
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pe2q3)
Beverly: thirty Borg are coming through the door, delay them
Doctor : I'm a doctor not a doorstop
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (AKptf)
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Elordi is also like 9 feet tall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pfZGz)
I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.
I liked the build up but the ending was underwhelming
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)
Because there's almost no interest in James Bond any more and its what I would do to try to generate buzz
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (JrHfD)
The original 80s Fright Night is fun, and not too scary or gory. I recall a 2009 movie called The Hole that was very creepy, but not so gory. Or you could say "fuck normality" and watch "Rubber". It isn't scary, but does have gore. And it's made by a crazy Frenchman.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (6nZo9)
I thought that movie was really good, a whole class of kids disappears except the teacher and 1 student.
oh yeah that one's great. Big recommendation, no caveats.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (1wjle)
🚨BREAKING: Jane-Michelle Arc, a biological male from the San Francisco area who identifies as a woman, left the United States for the Netherlands and applied for asylum, citing fears about the political climate and personal safety.
He arrived at the Ter Apel asylum registration center, the main entry point for asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The facility has long struggled with severe overcrowding and repeated security problems. The Netherlands Red Cross recently paused some outdoor services at the site after a rise in violence that local authorities linked to a disruptive group inside the center.
Conditions at Ter Apel have been difficult, with ongoing reports of tension, limited safety, and strained resources.
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: museisluse at October 29, 2026 04:35 PM (GcqYB)
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Little-known fact: In that same production, Jonathan Frakes played his younger brother, Hughjanus.
Posted by: From The Folks Who Brought You at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (3VDCT)
TNG is such an awful series it's not even funny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (eRlcH)
NO Vaccine for you!!!
Posted by: The Space Wakandans at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (brIJB)
one of my favorite 80s horrors, along with The Thing.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)
Ciaran Hinds -- there's a strange little flick called The Eclipse, with Hinds, Aidan Quinn, and Iben Hjelje. A sorta kinda ghost story maybe set around a small literary festival in Ireland. Worth a watch.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (q3u5l)
Supposedly he recognized this same gift in Wesley and offered to take him to train him, kinda like a Jedi as far as I could understand.
Wesley agreed and he was gone after that episode.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)
And now he uses his amazing powers to travel to every nerd convention...
Although gotta admit his wife is pretty hawt.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (mP0Kj)
There is rumor that Bond is narrowed down to 3 actors. And one sekret actor! Jacob Elordi, James Norton, Jack Lowden. They are supposed to announce by the end of the year.
Posted by: runner
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Your name must begin with "Ja" to be considered for this part!
Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (mmrXZ)
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)
__________
Only if he pledges personal allegiance to Trump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)
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He's over 40 now.
Amazon wants 25-30 or so, so they can last at least 15 years of grueling, physical shoots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (pfZGz)
And that was a good thing.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)
I would volunteer for every away mission with T'Pol just so we'd be stuck in the observation room for a night rubbing anti-bacterial gel all over each other.
No wonder Trip lost his mind for her.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (6ydKt)
Oh thanks! I like Korean stuff usually.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
Have you seen Exhuma (also Korean horror)?
Posted by: Tribble Monger
Train To Busan.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (NMvV5)
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Because it was a totalitarian society that drafted your ass. They had to, because otherwise everyone would just fuck off and do whatever. The whole thing is totalitarian utopianism.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 04:58 PM (eRlcH)
Ewww.... that is a toss up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Rose screwing her own husband and kids out of the diamond, and bilking the salvage company as well to jump overboard takes the giddy biscuit.
Would have been a good epilog to have her body rise up and be found and recovered.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: The French at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (KRh8R)
Whenever they wanted to prove that a new villain was tough and powerful, they'd have him come in and immediately one-shot and rag-doll Worf (and Superman).
I know the writers of Justice League realized that after they'd done this 20 times, they had inadvertently turned Superman into "the guy who immediately goes down in a fight."
and then I saw a compilation of Worf being used the same way, as the object that gets smashed to prove the new threat is serious.
Posted by: ace
It's such a trope that TVTropes calls it "The Worf Effect."
And illustrates it with a panel from a Superman comic.
https://tinyurl.com/bdcswhae
Posted by: mikeski at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (VHUov)
During the last season of Voyager, there was an episode where the Doctor had to hide in Seven of Nines "brain implants" or something. So, he took over body at times, and hilarity ensued. Jerry Ryan did a hell of a job of channeling the Doctor's character.
And she gave one of the funniest lines to the Doctor, "You became sexually aroused in my body!".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)
I like Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp but it is gory
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (+gK6I)
OMG, I thought I was the only one! Whenever he tried to act passionate or excited about something, all I could see is, "Community Theater." It was just so amateurish.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)
__________
Only if he pledges personal allegiance to Trump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
F that. Sorry. No takebacks. Remember, the US isn't safe. That was the whole point of leaving. LOL
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (NMvV5)
Precrime? Solving murders before they happen?
Zombie PKD is disappoint.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (f8snw)
I'd probably watch it if they chose him.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 04:57 PM (Sco7b)
I had a pretty good time on the HoloDeck.
A dwarf Riker was my best creation.
Posted by: Lt. (jg) Reginald Barclay at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (wVcYX)
TNG is such an awful series it's not even funny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Thank you. I'm going to quit equivocating about it.
Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:00 PM (n5tGW)
Gonna watch HOPE tonight looks really good an alien invasion at a small Korean Village.
We just watched THE EAST PALACE the King has a curse placed on him that will end him and all his children.
Still like KINGDOM good show
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (Ql60S)
I liked that one. Laura Linney's "But that's just me" schtick was pretty funny.
The whole cast was pretty good:
Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton
Posted by: No Name Today at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (8mulE)
Saw a creature feature on Prime titled, "Hungry".
About a group of tourists in the Louisiana swamps to see gators and instead run afoul of a very territorial hippo or two.
I'm not going to tell you that it's a great movie but it is a very entertaining one. Well worth a watch.
There will be chomping!
BONUS! You get a minor history lesson. The story's premise is based on a 1910 Congressional Bill to introduce hippos into Louisiana to alleviate a meat shortage. In reality the bill didn't pass. In the movie hippos were brought in anyway.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (YSUhf)
Currently I've been binge-watching Breaking Bad on DVDs which is quite a change for a guy who usually only watches light-hearted comedy or movies in B&W with John Wayne in them.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: runner at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (AKptf)
i really like that movie, despite it being too Burtony and Deppy at times.
The sets look like paintings in a storybook.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)
'1408' - Even if it stars John Cusack
'Oculus'
'Dog Soldiers'
Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (LNmRB)
May have to watch some on election night too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW)
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (NMvV5)
No, still too dangerous here. Better to stay with your Muslim friends in the Netherlands.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)
He would be perfect as a post war Tommy Hambledon. Which series never seemed to have any films made from it.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (+gK6I)
It would be funny to have Bond investigating a gay MI5 officer and getting him fired for hiring Russian rent boys.
Of course that get's you a PM role in Britain now...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (TMNW7)
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Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness are among my favorite horror movies.
Both are genuinely disturbing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (FZ29D)
The Brothers Grimm is kind of related, its not gory but it is pretty spooky. Not Gilliam's best work but its pretty solid
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (TMNW7)
Dude, I already told you I liked the show, you don't have to sell it to me.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Zach John Galt at October 29, 2026 05:08 PM (9sQ2j)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (TMNW7)
kinda decent. It had its moments.
The main actress, playing a corpse, is all kinds of naked for almost the whole movie.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (1wjle)
Never understood why the Muppets never did that one.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (Qugny)
Posted by: bonhomme
So, like being stateside in any branches of the US military?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (nEUC6)
*high five*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (TMNW7)
Yup
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (+gK6I)
I watched that because of Karen Gillan and it was really kind of meh.
1408:
Had a big curveball I wasn't expecting
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
According to reports, he apparently now wants to come back to the US.
Posted by: rickb223
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Oh yeah, I've been watching those people on TikTok and he's one of the early ones.
I'm pretty sure he was denied asylum because the claim was blatantly idiotic -- OMG THEY'LL KILL ME IN TRUMP'S AMERICA. Then he wound up in that lousy camp.
Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.
Posted by: Purist Casting Director at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (mmrXZ)
A couple at a deserted beach.
Feral teenagers.
Feral as in just crappy inner city, heartless things ...but white and English. It's creepy because you can easily see that happening.
Easily.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (Sco7b)
Another good Doctor-channeling-Bones line was, "I'm a doctor, not a battery!" when they had to use his mobile emitter thingy as a power source.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (w6EFb)
Had a big curveball I wasn't expecting
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
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Samuel L. Jackson as the hotel manager?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (FZ29D)
There's a movie that's like the Pulp Fiction of horror, with four separate stories that cross into each other like Bruce Willis crossed into John Travolta's story.
Trick r' Treat -- gory, but not like extreme gore that makes you uncomfortable, more the gore that just gives you a jolt and then a laugh
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (1wjle)
Stewart.
Who will be number three?
Posted by: Robert at October 29, 2026 04:34 PM (dpXJq)
Elke Sommers, Barbara Barrie and Susan St. James are very recent celebrity deaths but I guess you could count them as the three before Koenig.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (iIyc0)
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Because it was a totalitarian society that drafted your ass. They had to, because otherwise everyone would just fuck off and do whatever. The whole thing is totalitarian utopianism.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)
They didn't draft anybody on ST, lol.
It was a prestigious thing to be in Starfleet.
They were exploring the galaxy.
As for their economic system, yeah, that was TV magic, and they contradicted themselves over and over as the shows went on.
Their economic system in TNG was basically the replicator.
Without that thing the entire system fell apart.
And as for recreation for maintenance crew, they could date and have sex with real people on the crew or in the HoloDecks.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM (TMNW7)
+1 for The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins gives a terrific performance, with one of the best acting jobs ever in my book in the very last scene. He doesn't speak in that scene. He gives the viewer a progression of facial expressions with accompanying body language, showing a range of emotion, that viewers will immediately understand and can sympathize with. I won't give any spoiler beyond that.
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (5rh/l)
You might get lucky and meet her going the opposite direction in a Jeffries Tube?
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Qugny)
Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.
Refugees in the long ago: They will kill me for my race/religion if I go back home
Refugees now: They won't get him go into the women's locker at the gym. Its literally genocide!
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (sKqQm)
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Reanimator.
Posted by: Dr. Herbert West at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)
It's rated R for one thing: "Terror." That's what it says on the rating certificate.
also good: The Others.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:11 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:02 PM (pe2q3)
has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)
No Spoilers gonna watch it tonight, set up the projector outside and watch it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Ql60S)
The 2nd season of "The Terminal List" is now showing on Prime.
When we left our hero at the end of Season One, he sailed off to die at sea from a brain tumor.
Surprise! he didn't die and now has been roped into a mission to stop a new Al-Queda terrorist cell.
The once the show actually gets going. It has some spectacular action, very fun, tense watch, buuuuuut it takes you around 4 episodes to get there.
If you can put up with the slow plot mechanics, you'll have a great time.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (YSUhf)
Oh lord sock off
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (f8snw)
Posted by: beckster at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (kX27y)
I read that as 'The Otters' and immediately thought, 'Oh, won't Nurse be pleased!'.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (Qugny)
Somebody gotta get these damn [spoilers] outta my damn hotel!
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)
OMG, I thought I was the only one! Whenever he tried to act passionate or excited about something, all I could see is, "Community Theater." It was just so amateurish.
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How could he go from frickin' HAWK, badass on Spencer for Hire...to that flouncing "Captain" of the Enterprise on a show that shouldn't have ever been called "Star Trek" in any way, shape, or form?
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)
If you can put up with the slow plot mechanics, you'll have a great time.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (YSUhf)
Yes... I read all the books so I'm impatient..
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)
Dead Heat.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Pablo Escobar chuckles in hell.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (b99Hl)
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (pe2q3)
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)
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Babylon 5 >>> Deep Space 9
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Brometheus at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (2/cZo)
has anyone seen Hope? Is it worth watching?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:03 PM (rbvCR)
"Hope" is not good. Surprising, given who wrote and directed it, but it is.
Once you get to the end, you'll be rolling your eyes and muttering "Oh, fuck you "Hope"!!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (YSUhf)
I caught Person of Interest first run from about mid season three to the end. I'm trying to work my way from the beginning to that point now. Hopefully Amazon will continue to keep it on Prime until I can finish. >8^O
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2026 05:12 PM (f8snw)
Made worse by Judges in Bogotá whose contact with wildlife management is they once fed a chicken and sometimes cucarones fly in their windows when they leave them open in the morning.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (Sco7b)
You can find all sorts of videos of it on the internet...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (LqJAf)
Picard season 3 was excellent. It is essentially a send off for the TNG crew instead of that abomination Star Trek: Nemesis
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: Brometheus at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (2/cZo)
He was Guerney wasn't he ? At least in the original
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (+gK6I)
I caught Person of Interest first run from about mid season three to the end. I'm trying to work my way from the beginning to that point now.
definitely do, the first two seasons are great. the later seasons actually sag a little.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (sKqQm)
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)
Yes, that's what mean, by the time DS9 was on you'd hear about gold-pressed latinum every episode.
Mostly because of the Ferengi but the humans weren't above using it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)
I met Lucy Liu. Unlike a lot of actors, she looks just as good in person. Seemed really cool too.
She’s tiny, tho.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (Q8pAC)
Precrime? Solving murders before they happen?
Zombie PKD is disappoint.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2026 05:06 PM (brIJB)
Almost the premise of a Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett) story about a dude trying to get away with murder in a world where the cops could look back in time after the murder looking for clues. Has a twist ending. Called Private Eye.
Alfred Bester's Demolished Man was a murder investigation where the cops are telepathic but have to find real world evidence. Another twist at the end.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (uhVAy)
No. We're not in a "post scarcity" world. If your choice is working in the local factory, working a farm, or military, lots of young guys will choose military. You get the GI bill. You get a good disposable income. You might get to play will expensive guns. For many decades, the US military was a pretty good option compared to some of the alternatives.
What's the sales pitch in Star Trek in a post scarcity world? You can go anywhere and do anything and you choose that?
Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (mkw2N)
Angels to some, demons to others.
(I got that joke from a commenter.)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (1wjle)
Refugees now: They won't get him go into the women's locker at the gym. Its literally genocide!
Posted by: 18-1
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One of the mentally ill ones is a woman who's -- I can't remember, something like "trans nonbinary." She's got 2 gender things going on, and somehow she has a partner.
Anyway, she's been on her channel sobbing hysterically as she throws away or gives away or sells all her stuff, leaves her office that she'd painted and decorated just so, says farewell to her family, because the Trans Krystallacht is coming. She just doesn't know what form it will take.
She makes it to Canada and immediately starts begging her followers for free or below-market rent, Must Have! a separate room for her office and allow a large dog.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (mmrXZ)
Some of those "escapees" are plain airheads and others are mentally ill.
Well the ones that are trannies are by definition mentally ill
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (TMNW7)
Patrick Stewart was my second favorite Ebanezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. George C Scott is my number one Scrooge.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (fzlJX)
Yeah I was talking to my aunt and she mentioned about this guy she knew who had a son born with no legs and no arms. He met a girl and married her.
I contemplated the pistol i have by the bed
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (BFjnM)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM
I'm partial to The Changeling, with George C. Scott and his then-wife. Early 80s atmospheric haunted house flick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (raF1/)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (Q8pAC)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:17 PM (1wjle)
That would be me. *preens*
I believe the actual quote is reversed, because the Hell Priest is teasing Kristie at the time, because he's a sadist, and maybe even the god of sadists.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (88C+u)
The second season is a bit downhill and I never watched any others, but its still a good 2 seasons. Caviezel was very effective and convincing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (BFjnM)
Posted by: I just watched it for the plot, yeah that's it, that's the ticket at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uWVZa)
Smith solved it with an irreplicable substance. DS9 had latinum, a liquid at room-temperature but could be encased in some noble metal that wouldn't alloy itself with it. This tended to be gold.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:14 PM (88C+u)
There was a pretty funny series of stories by John Brunner about a future "Consumer Reports" review of futuristic products. One was 'automatic twin-tube wishing machines' that could produce anything. One of the 'tubes' was the moderator that limited illegal or immoral wishes but one incident with a single tube model was a family on a planet whose 5 year old son, angry at being sent to his room started producing nuclear armed robots 3 meters high and took over the planet.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
"Fox News is suffering a catastrophic drop in viewership, which has plunged to historic lows just before the midterm elections, according to new data.
Preliminary Nielsen ratings obtained by Status ahead of their official release show that the Trump-friendly juggernaut is on track to post its lowest-rated month in total day viewers since December 2023, averaging just 1.1 million total viewers throughout October 2026. However, last year's ratings were buoyed by huge stories, including the Gaza ceasefire and the hostage release.
Among the key 25-54 demographic coveted by advertisers, the outlet is headed for its lowest-rated month in a quarter-century, averaging a paltry 98,000 viewers. It places third in that group, and fifth among 18-49 demos.
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The collapse represents a brutal 27 percent drop in total viewers and a 32 percent dive in the 25-54 demographic compared to last October.'
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (E4rtv)
Salem's LOT the 1979 tv version is the best
Stake Land, a indie movie about a vampire apocalypse
Them, Giant Ants
Tremors, love this dumb movie and I love Burt which is why I love the sequel more Burt
Ghost in the Cell a ghost starts to kill inmates and Guards gonna watch this after HOPE tonight.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Ql60S)
True story. I played in a company softball league when I first got out of school. After one game we went over to one of my teammates apartment to watch The Thing.
His former roommate showed up with his girlfriend and they brought a literal plastic garbage bag full of this new cheese popcorn thing they invented. It was delicious. A bunch of us powered through the whole bag.
They decided to take their popcorn idea and make it into a company. They called it Smartfood.
Now every time I eat Smartfood I watch the dog. Just in case.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (viF8m)
They need to go to the tongue in cheek Roger Moore era Bond again.
You already did grounded, gritty Bond.
Basically a slightly more serious Austin Powers version.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (XV/Pl)
We also saw "Clayface".
Fun movie. You will have a good time. Well, acted, directed, written, all good stuff.
Gory enough with some body horror to make a good Halloween flick, but not extreme.
The best of the comic book villain origin movies.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (YSUhf)
Naturally the planet is immediately plunged into a hellspace where nine year old boys are riding flying dinosaurs and jetplanes.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: I just watched it for the plot, yeah that's it, that's the ticket at October 29, 2026 05:21 PM (uWVZa)
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There was someone else in that movie other than the atomic hot alien vampiress bitch who was naked the whole movie?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Q8pAC)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2026 04:51 PM
I'm partial to The Changeling, with George C. Scott and his then-wife. Early 80s atmospheric haunted house flick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2026 05:20 PM (raF1/)
I always recommend Nefarious. The scariest and most real of all horror movies.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (lCppi)
I thought TNG was inferior to the original series, but Stewart was an able actor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (fzlJX)
I used to call it "The Love Boat" because of all the similarites - bald captain, black bartender, kids on the ship, and "Julie the Cruise Director" Troi.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: pity about the sequel at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (LOvBA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)
I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)
***
"Trump friendly"? I think they haven't watched Fox lately.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (lCppi)
Naturally the planet is immediately plunged into a hellspace where nine year old boys are riding flying dinosaurs and jetplanes.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 29, 2026 05:23 PM (88C+u)
_________
??????
Sounds perfectly wholesome to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (eRlcH)
Marco feeding baby Obama cheesecake:
https://tinyurl.com/k4t7s9ba
Posted by: beckster
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Hah. Baby oddly satisfied with the thing he was crying about.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (LOvBA)
That is my recollection of the movie as well. I am sure there were other people in that movie but its like how the sun blots out all the stars in the sky.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:26 PM (TMNW7)
* * *
Ha ha ha ha ha
In a society with replicators FREE EVERYTHING and nobody has to make anything or pay for it.
People were motivated to go into space for years, at risk of life, and take orders . . .
because of they could have holodeck sex. RIIIIIGHT. Cause sex simulations or the real thing would only be available on a space ship.
Naw bro. You can't have all that they had in a free society. Utopia is fake and gay. Those people were all under orders.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R)
Here's the problem I'd have with the show:
90+% of murders are just gang members and streets criminals shooting at each other randomly with their Glocks held sideways, often hitting bystanders.
Drivebys.
Fentanyl-addict liquor-store robberies gone bad.
Low-IQ pimps flying into a rage and killing their street hookers.
Etc. etc. etc.
And most of the remaining 10% of murder are semi-spur of the moment domestic violence flipouts.
Which leaves us with maybe 1%-2% of murders at most[/b[ that are premeditated Agatha-Christie-style planned murders. They're actually comparatively rare.
But in the show, it is depicted that all these thousands of murders can be "predicted" because they're "planned ahead of time." Nuh-uh. In the real world, it ain't like that.
Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (lCppi)
Which is why I think the numbers are down.. Their polls are outrageous and with the exception of a couple, not as Trump friendly as they used to be...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (HD2n/)
Posted by: Zombie Jean-Luc Picard at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2026 05:28 PM (9bQjB)
Posted by: anon to anon at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2026 05:19 PM (M+uMR)
I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)
I was there and disagree. Kirk was Kirk even before the movie was out, and the trinity of him, McCoy and Spock let them do humor, action, tension, anything. Wrath was just the apex of the TOS arc.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:30 PM (uhVAy)
My own favorite from the series isn't exactly a ghost or horror story; it's "The Town Where No One Got Off," with Jeff Goldblum. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:30 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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A friend of mine theorized that Chekhov was always using the restroom when Khan needed to use it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (anL5R)
There is an entire episode on TNG of Wesley applying to get into Starfleet.
They have to take be recommended, like West Point, and admitted after testing and other procedures.
They modeled Starfleet after the U.S. Navy/Air Force, not the Kriegsmarine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)
The Ghost and the Darkness. Val Kilmer Michael Douglas
Will. scare. you.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
Yes, but he could have been on the ship on a different watch and interacted. A starship runs for 24 hours.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)
Good movie, but "The Wicker Man"ishness of it robs it of a lot of tension.
I suggest you pair "Midsommar" with "The Menu" for a Flambe' Horror Saturday Night.
In certain ways they are mirrors of each other.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (YSUhf)
Yep, he's James Muthatfuckin' Tiberius Muthatfuckin' Kirk, by God.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)
I also have a painting of a 'Dune' but thought this more appropriate 😃
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (Ql60S)
alt.sf.startrek.wesly.crusher.die.die.die
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:29 PM (Fi81e)
I visited that a few times.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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Standard dodge: There were more people on ship than were shown in the scenes.
Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)
Ditto
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (2WIwB)
Never understood why the Muppets never did that one.
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 05:09 PM (Qugny)
Gory? Pikers.
Posted by: Apocalypto at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)
Better than the first "Joker"?
Posted by: pity about the sequel at October 29, 2026 05:24 PM (88C+u)
Yes.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (YSUhf)
Posted by: MOM!!!!! He's doing it again at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2026 05:32 PM (w6EFb)
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Indeed. The greatest of all starship captains.
Because.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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A friend of mine theorized that Chekhov was always using the restroom when Khan needed to use it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)
I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
Reuters
@Reuters
Brewers start to feel the costs of prolonged war in Iran
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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This guy gets it!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (amcLV)
Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)
TOS Enterprise had 430 crewmen. Obviously we never see all of them in a show.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)
The Ghost and the Darkness. Val Kilmer Michael Douglas
Will. scare. you.
Posted by: Star trek is for fascists at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)
One of my favorite movies.
Somewhere in the Top 20.
Wish they would release a 4K version of it.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (YSUhf)
From cops I know and have read about say the hardest murder to solve is the passing through. Two guys get in a fight or just road rage, or some crazy shoots someone as they pass through town and are in another state by the time the body is found.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 29, 2026 05:27 PM (LOvBA)
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Standard dodge: There were more people on ship than were shown in the scenes.
Otherwise, it's a well known gaffe.
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On the Andy Griffith show the traveling band with the last name "Fleet" shows up three times, across 3 different seasons. For 2 of those seasons it "Bobby Fleet", and for the 3rd its "Freddy Fleet" (or vice versa--can't recall).
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (amcLV)
I can see Khan spending all those years pissed at Chekov for not flushing all the way and using up the paper roll.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Uh, oh. I just had a thought experiment flash through my brain.
Most spaceships in science fiction television/movies have artificial gravity, right? (keeps budgets down)
So do they have standard toilets like we do here on Earth?
What happens when someone is using it and the artificial gravity fluctuates because of a technology glitch?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (FZ29D)
They have to take be recommended, like West Point, and admitted after testing and other procedures.
They modeled Starfleet after the U.S. Navy/Air Force, not the Kriegsmarine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)
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One of the places that TNG was "Beyond Stupid".
I'm definitely a TOS guy. I managed a season of TNG, while Roddenberry was alive that the script rules said "No arguments".
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)
But, his most recent offering is different. It's about the Israeli scheme to have Hezbollah carry exploding pagers.
It is aptly and hilariously entitled:
" PAGING HEZBOLLAH "
Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)
Navy really. They don't have any 'fighters' just shuttles i the TOS, though the wargame Starfleet battles introduced "Carriers"
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:37 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Chekov didn't have a square to spare in the next stall.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Q8pAC)
There's a point at the end where they talk about the Tsavo Lions exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, saying that even in that glass case, they'll scare you. Been there and seen that, and they do.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (q3u5l)
That is a good one, another of his that came out around that time was Next which I thought was really well done.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (TMNW7)
Flock cameras have helped solve those.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Ti9vn)
Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
Shades of the Jim the Vampire (Mark Hamill) episode (S2.6) in What We Do in the Shadows. Something about Jim and Lazlo Cravensworth having once been a thing until Lazlo left a deuce in the crapper in 1868.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: The_Hoser at October 29, 2026 05:39 PM (3VDCT)
If Lowden gets Bond then what happens to Slow Horses?
Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2026 05:05 PM (enNUy)
I just finished binge-watching Season 5, and I think they're setting up a possible ending for River in S6, just in case. Final S5 episode, he tells Louisa that he's leaving MI5. And Diana definitely said that she didn't want him back from Slough House, despite Lamb going to bat for him to return to regular service.
I'm starting S6 tonight, so I'm wondering where it's going from here.
As for Lowden, I think he'd make a pretty decent mid-level Bond, and he's the right age. Needs some creatine and gym time though, but if Amazon throws money at him, he'll put in the work.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (y9nCu)
So do they have standard toilets like we do here on Earth?
What happens when someone is using it and the artificial gravity fluctuates because of a technology glitch?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2026 05:36 PM (FZ29D)
In theory they could use the transporter to beam the poo out, but in the printed plans to the enterprise there were bathrooms in the cabins and toilet-equivalents. Never shown on camera.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)
The only time I know of it ever came up was in Undiscovered Country with the CGI blood droplets
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2026 05:41 PM (TMNW7)
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2026 05:35 PM (Ti9vn)
Luck is a business requirement for military commanders.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)
oh yeah, good movie.
also one of those movies that Nick Cage picked that few others would. Alas, there's a reason for that; it bombed.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)
There's a point at the end where they talk about the Tsavo Lions exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, saying that even in that glass case, they'll scare you. Been there and seen that, and they do.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:38 PM (q3u5l)
Yep, seen 'em too. As Goldman noted in one of his books, the taxidermist did a good job of making them look downright evil.
The really scary part is that they're about 3/4 size from when they were alive, based on the old photos.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 29, 2026 05:46 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2026 05:47 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)
Nah, he's a mensch in TOS.
Court Martial
Obsession
Ultimate Computer
Balance of Terror
Arena
And more!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
Luck is a business requirement for military commanders.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)
I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
Posted by: Napoleon Boney at October 29, 2026 05:49 PM (y9nCu)
I think Kirk has such a following mostly because of STII: The Wrath of Khan, rather than TOS. A perfect movie really.
Posted by: Tribble Monger at October 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pe2q3)
Nah, he's a mensch in TOS.
Court Martial
Obsession
Ultimate Computer
Balance of Terror
Arena
And more!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
Hell no, fuck that guy in particular.
Posted by: The Gorn at October 29, 2026 05:50 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)
This. Caesar was the luckiest asshole in history, but it is like he bent reality to his will.
Odd how that happens with the greats. Caesar, Napoleon, Lee. Until they aren't.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2026 05:54 PM (q3u5l)
oh yeah, good movie.
also one of those movies that Nick Cage picked that few others would. Alas, there's a reason for that; it bombed.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)
There’s a clip going around of Nick Cage plsying John Madden in an upcoming Prime bio-flick.
Somebody commented that Cage’s Madden impression is 10% Jimmy Stewart and 90% Nick Cage, which is a dead-on description.
It looks like an SNL skit with Cage in a fat suit, doing the cold opener waiting on him to say And Tonight Live From New York.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 29, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)
Or, a different song by the same name?
Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2026 04:47 PM (Qugny)
*****
Gary Moore wrote it and sang this song.
Love his voice and guitar. I'm fascinated with musicians who used to travel to the Delta of Mississippi to see blues singers at the origins. Or who grew up listening to albums. I had no idea of the connection til the last decade.
Gary Moore was Irish, loved blues but never went to MS. Tin Lizzy to the blues.
https://tinyurl.com/fnbjazec
The singers of note who traveled there to work with singers: Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top). Eric Clapton made and album with BB King.
Others were influenced by Blues Revival, such as Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones, growing up listening to their music. Some learned from blues/jazz singers/guitarists touring in the UK like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and BB King. Kim Simmons of Savoy Brown also grew up listening to R&B.
Marc Cohen visited, and I love this song:
Walking in Memphis (there really was a Muriel)
https://tinyurl.com/4mdu937e
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2026 05:58 PM (hzuYO)
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Oh its good.
Lamb gets into "you fk wif my joes and I'll do you" mode.
Posted by: MOM!!!!! He's doing it again at October 29, 2026 06:19 PM (anL5R)
So he uses the backdoor he built into the computer to tell it to send him the social security numbers, and only the social security numbers, of people The Machine predicts are either going to be the victim of serious violence, or the perpetrator.
Illegal immigrants don't have SSN's so that's why they're not caught!
Posted by: MikeInFairfax at October 29, 2026 06:20 PM (g+rzE)
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