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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 21:27:31 GMT -8
What's especially ironic about Davies' constant deification of the Doctor is that Davies is an atheist who, as far as I recall, has actually said that he DOES harbor an explicit grudge against religion. Enh, it's not that unusual. I'm an Atheist who feels that organized religion in general, and the Abrahamic religions in particular, are better described as crimes against humanity than as helpful parts of civilized society when you consider the totality of their actions. And yet I always end up playing Paladins in games. There's something attractive, at least to me, about a being who is godlike, who chooses to take on those responsibilities out of an obligation to do the right thing rather than hubris, and who, most importantly, can be yelled at until he admits to screwing up. Yes, but the problem with RTD's portrayal of the Doctor was that, except for some very brief moments, the rest of the cast ultimately wound up being a bit too worshipful of him for my tastes, to the point that Martha actually became his John the Baptist on the Master's Earth, whereas Moff, although he portrays the Doctor as mostly decent and extraordinarily gifted, has people call the Doctor out on his reputation and his mistakes all the time. You're coming at this from the standpoint of wanting an accountable and humane Jesus, whereas Davies made the Doctor less and less humane OR accountable as time went on, and again, with rare exceptions like "The Waters of Mars" and the long-term aftermath of Harriet Jones, our sympathies were clearly meant to lie with the Doctor.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 16, 2011 21:20:53 GMT -8
On the one hand, it's really hard not to read this as an implicit admission on Marvel's part that Slott has failed. On the other, what I've heard from a few independent sources In The Know is that it's much more indicative of the fact that Axel Alonso REALLY likes Joe Madureira, no matter how much of a lazy, worthless fuck of a manga-aping artist the guy is. Kirk, this offers you a unique opportunity to sabotage a comic book. Just send Joe Mad (anonymously, if you like) a computer game. Kill his productivity for the next 15 years. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 22:34:16 GMT -8
Of all things, Voyager actually touched upon how valuable replicators are, in its pilot episode.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 21:04:33 GMT -8
That cocksucking holodeck screwed the pooch goddamned near every time the writers weren't able to come up with any drama that actually derived from the characters' personalities, which was quite a lot in a future that was supposed to be as perfect as Roddenberry wanted it to be. On a scale of One to Ten, with One being Hannibal Smith's ability to make a plan come together, and Ten being Col. Klink's miserable administration of Stalag 13, the holodeck's average fuckup level hovered around a rating of Fredo Corleone.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:47:59 GMT -8
Ambush Bug was like the existentialist Deadpool for a while there.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:45:41 GMT -8
www.somethingpositive.net/sp04182011.shtmlSo, I'm thinking about this, and why people hate Barclay, who I think is an alright and even interesting character because of his flaws. But then I realize that because he's hated because he HAS flaws. In TNG, where the characters were not flawed at all. I'm sure there's a TVtropes term for it (and I'm sure that either Kirk or Jens will post what it is) for a character created by the show meant as a slam/critique of the fanbase, because that's what Reginald is. After all, he creates a holodeck simulation that' is LITERALLY SELF-INSERT FANFIC. It doesn't get much less subtle than that. And while he's shown as smart, resourceful, even imaginative on occassion, his petty failings and hobbies and fears and insecurities are meant as a reflection of the fanbase as the showrunners saw it. He falls far short of the near-perfection of the TNG crew, and as a glaring reminder that even in the future, we might still be prisoner to all these same failings. Still, I find him interesting for exactly that reason - yes, humanity can go far, and in the TNG universe, it's far indeed, but it's good to be humble and acknowledge that space exploration would not only be supremely terrifying, but it would also attract not-necessarily stable personalities. You know, flawed humans like the rest of us. More on a similar topic in the next post. I liked Reg, not in the least because he was played by H.M. Murdock, but a little of him went a long way, not in the least because most of his plots tied in rather heavily into the holodeck, which actually rivaled the transporter for a while as the single most overused deus ex machina in Star Trek history. Quite seriously, if I was ever made Starfleet Admiral, literally my VERY FIRST ORDER would be to gut every single starship in the fleet of its goddamned holodeck, because say what you will about any other recreation or entertainment program enjoyed by the military in the real world, but none of them has ever become "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:38:01 GMT -8
On the one hand, it's really hard not to read this as an implicit admission on Marvel's part that Slott has failed.
On the other, what I've heard from a few independent sources In The Know is that it's much more indicative of the fact that Axel Alonso REALLY likes Joe Madureira, no matter how much of a lazy, worthless fuck of a manga-aping artist the guy is.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:31:15 GMT -8
What's especially ironic about Davies' constant deification of the Doctor is that Davies is an atheist who, as far as I recall, has actually said that he DOES harbor an explicit grudge against religion.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:26:18 GMT -8
Added my two papers.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 15, 2011 20:19:28 GMT -8
Heh. Sorry 'bout that. The man just triggers my impulse for Jihad something fierce.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 11, 2011 23:20:58 GMT -8
Happy belated birthday.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 5, 2011 1:50:06 GMT -8
Huh. I was actually right about River.
Which is funny, because I hadn't even realized; Alex Kingston and Arthur Darvill have the exact same nose.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 4, 2011 23:38:29 GMT -8
Kirk, seriously. How can you possibly label Crisis as a failure? ooh! ooh! I've got this one. Because it didn't stick - because there were too many small details that writers ended up having to address, which ended up mortally screwing the continuity even moreso. I.e. Hawkman, the Legion of Superheroes. And because certain favorite stories were simply too beloved or too radioactive to retcon ("Hard travelling Heroes", Teen Titans continuity). And then you had the fact that certain people kept digging up the past and recreating their favorite pre-Crisis stories in order to set the mess up all over again (i.e. Jeph Loeb). Pretty much all of this, plus the fact that DC has been trying to patch it up since Zero Hour. If a retcon is actually effective, it shouldn't need to be RE-retconned with INCREASING frequency over the years. Quite literally, the last time the Flash's continuity got rebooted was LAST FUCKING YEAR.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 3, 2011 15:31:01 GMT -8
After reading through all these posts, I realized this was much more political than personal. Hence, the move.
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Post by K-Box on Jun 3, 2011 15:25:50 GMT -8
Brian Herbert. Owns the copyrights to Dune, and not only milked the franchise for all it's worth, but has depicted, in universe, that the original books are a fictional account of what REALLY happened (which, of course, can be found in the books he did with KJA). Oh, good ... I'd actually felt guilty about not keeping up with the Brian Herbert prequel novels, so it's good to know that I was actually retroactively justified.
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