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My wife and I are watching the nomination roll call right now.
Haha, we were laughing at all of the old stuff (phones, TVs, etc.). Then I think I started to cry on the inside.
Really? That's a bit late to the party.
Much better than DS9 IMO. Like most things though, you'll need a few episodes to warm to the characters.
I watched several episodes so far and it's not too bad. It follows along the same lines at TOS and TNG in it style and storytelling which I like.
Even better, Captain Janeway seems very serious about her coffee. Much better than that drivel that Picard drank on TNG.
Just finished up on Orange is the New Black. A bit dull around series 2 and 3, but 1 and 4 were outstanding! I like how characters come and go in it, feels much more liberal in chucking them out unlike other shows I've seen.
And because I was in a lull after that I watched through Stranger Things. Simply magnificent. It's the X-Files, Tangerine Dream, Twin Peaks, ET, Goosebumps all rolled into one. I think I'm done with TV for a while now.
And because I was in a lull after that I watched through Stranger Things. Simply magnificent. It's the X-Files, Tangerine Dream, Twin Peaks, ET, Goosebumps all rolled into one. I think I'm done with TV for a while now.
I liked the idea of a female commanding officer, though I never quite got into watching Voyager - mostly because I was living way from home and didn't have a TV until my brother moved in with me.
That is true.
Yes, Captain Janeway was very serious about her coffee.
Captain Picard used to drink Earl Grey tea, which I always thought a pretty curious choice for a Frenchman.
I watched almost the entire first season so far and its not too bad, and I'll keep watching it too. I like how the premise so far has been that they were flung 75,000 light years away from the Alpha quadrant, Federation space, and are now in the Delta quadrant on the other side of the galaxy and trying to find a way back home, and along the way meet new life and new civilizations, they truly and boldly have gone where no one has gone before.
Actually, the Earl Grey that Picard drinks isn't drivel, I like it too, but I rarely drink tea.
No, I never thought that Earl Grey tea was drivel. Personally, I don't much like tea, or drink it that much, but, for tea aficionados, Earl Grey always ranked highly.
Rather, my surprise was reserved for Captain Picard, (and this was obviously Patrick Stewart's doing) who seemed to be an extremely Anglophile Frenchman, complete with a sophisticated palate for drinking tea.
Glad you are enjoying Voyager.
My sense was that it took a while - not so much to get into the characters - per se - but to get into the architecture and world of their universe.
In ST and STNG, and DS9, we know who the Klingons and Romulans and Vulcans are, and part of the fun is seeing how and showing how their interactions with one another - and show their societies interact with one another - affect the storyline. Likewise, when the Cardassians and Bajorans (and even the Ferengi) were introduced, it was in the form of an added dimension to an already fairly well known society.
The challenge for Voyager were not just new characters, and new plots, but a whole new world but people would come to invest in. Thus, the temptation would have been for each week's story to be new, but that format tires quickly; the most interesting stories are multi episode arcs, stories that manage to build upon a universe where some of the parameters are already known and understood.
Apocalypse: The Second World War Documentary (Netflix)- Narrated by Martin Sheen. A history of WWII. Impressive, but somber testiment to this failure of the human species, documentation of the cruelty we easily display towards one another.
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Match of the day shortly.
Essential Saturday night viewing, though I often watch the rerun on Sunday morning.
Essential Saturday night viewing, though I often watch the rerun on Sunday morning.
The Last Man on the Moon (2014)- watched on Netflix. Outstanding documentary about Gene Cernan and his experiences in the 1960s U.S. Space Program facing the challenges of space flight and landing on the moon. In 1968, I was 15 years old. Yes, it really happened!
Yes, it really happened!
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I'm going to add this to my queue right now.The Last Man on the Moon (2014)- watched on Netflix. Outstanding documentary about Gene Cernan and his experiences in the 1960s U.S. Space Program facing the challenges of space flight and landing on the moon. In 1968, I was 15 years old.