State of the Game
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Fun fact: Fish boy there is the same actor who plays Saru. I'd like to ask him what job has been the most humiliating.
wait until the love scene with him and the vulcan president
edit: I hope they make it slow mo and really go all in on filming it like a full on scene from like a PG13 version of 50 shades.
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At least he's not getting typecast - the only other thing I know him from is playing the Fish Guy in Hellboy. Playing an alien in loads of makeup is completely different.
probably not something he'd complain about even if he was, considering how unique he looks and how many people never get as much as a semi-starring role in anything on tv / movies that look much more "hollywood pretty" .
He also played a strange tall alien in falling skies.
That was a pretty good series, up until the final season...
Oh dear- thats even worse
The moment Saru starts bumping uglies with the Vulcan president is the moment I stop hate-watching Disco.
it's an odd time we live in when star wars' child-like view on good and evil and phoned in plot has shows that have a more cohesive and enjoyable plot than star trek.
though, i am very interested in the direction they go in with Q in the next picard season. Q can turn something preachy and dull into an actually enjoyable episode. As long as it's not an episode where we teach Q lessons because he lost his powers episode.
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pretty certainly doesn't hurt for having a wider range of options than not "pretty".
I was put off star trek by the fans.
In the 90's I visited the star trek experience in Las Vegas and when the ride got to the point where we had to get in the shuttle, it broke down.
A large smelly man angrily yelled in klingon at some poor ride assistant who yelled back in the same nonsense language.
I wanted to go home but ended up trapped in a pretend spaceship with these weirdo's all chatting rubbish to each other.
Qarks bar would have been fun (I had a wrap of kahn) but even more of the weridos were hanging about pretend threatening people with stick things again chatting rubbish.
Also the Romulan ale made my poo go blue.
I left traumatised.
Star trek weirdo fans put me off.
In the 90's I visited the star trek experience in Las Vegas and when the ride got to the point where we had to get in the shuttle, it broke down.
A large smelly man angrily yelled in klingon at some poor ride assistant who yelled back in the same nonsense language.
I wanted to go home but ended up trapped in a pretend spaceship with these weirdo's all chatting rubbish to each other.
Qarks bar would have been fun (I had a wrap of kahn) but even more of the weridos were hanging about pretend threatening people with stick things again chatting rubbish.
Also the Romulan ale made my poo go blue.
I left traumatised.
Star trek weirdo fans put me off.
While I don't speak it, I'm pretty sure that by the 90s there was enough to Klingon for it to constitute a language. How do you know what they were saying was nonsense?
larping is definitely alive and well in the star trek universe. larping in general doesn't bother me. i can't get into such things that deeply myself, but it's amusing watching others.
ren faire is always fun for that as well. obviously. But star trek has a many decades long history of such things.
Probably the one that paid the least.
Haven't seen it. The absolute car crash that its turned into has meant I've not watched any of the new season at all. I liken it to injecting bleach directly into my eyeballs while herds of cats simultaneously claw at blackboards. The only way it could be redeemed at this point is if Ben Sisko and the crew of the Defiant appear through a wormhole (cos its always a @#$@# wormhole), blow the Discovery out of the sky killing every whiny member on board, and the final shot is Sisko dressed as a British army Colonel saying "That's enough of that, this was far too silly."
My current rule of thumb is that if Alex Kurtzman is involved with something, it's guaranteed to be awful.
I still have it in me to hate-watch it for a bit longer but I find myself skipping through a lot of the guff and only watching the bits relevant to the galaxy ending plot and how only Mike can save the day.