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 Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 05:33 PM
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| Johnny_Turbo wrote: | | Harry_Mudd wrote: |
Right, back to fighting the scourge that is TV Land! |
YES! Back to the priorities! Oh, and now TV Land has the audacity to broadcast 3rd Rock From The Sun! Why, I oughta....
Pre-1920's RULE, man!! We need to move ahead by looking back!! |
Whaddya mean TV Land has the audacity to broadcast 3rd Rock From The Sun? Why wasn't I notified of these things? |
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Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 05:46 PM
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Hee! Hee! I love New Jersey!
TV Land, in all it's self-righteous, sanctimonious zeal, has decided NOT to broadcast the episodes with Shatner. Just like showing The Beverly Hillbillies but only the B/W episodes!
TV Land is such a tease! |
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Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 07:37 PM
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| Johnny_Turbo wrote: | | Piglet wrote: |
Did anyone find a sense of humour any where???
Not yet, but there's still hope! Well, not for me, but...
I'm sure Star Trek IX will be a very good film and probably break lots of records. Hopefully not my Muddy Waters, "My Dog Can't Bark" record. It looks like the best film due to come out in the next 12 minutes. That's the U.S. for ya! Short attention span, A.D.D., O.D.D. (Obsessive Defiant Disorder, The Tanner)
And although I don't plan to go see it..I probably will you know what curiousity does.. Me too! I won't see it, yet I will see it. I can do this by peeping at it during regular intervals through my 3rd eye.
Anyway lightenup. Is this a racist statement??
Bills right when he says 'It's just a TV Show!'
It's just a Film...so....Get a Life will ya! 
And here I've been trying unsuccessfully, for years, to get a death!
Please do not get upset with me Sorry, too late! Why I'm upset? I haven't a clue, as with all other things in life!
People behind the scenes as well as infront of the camera will be working awfully hard to make sure everyone will enjoy the Film for the two or so hours that it's watched. They will want us the views to 'Enjoy the ride' so why don't we do just that.
It'll be a hoot,
Woodsy Owl??
Don't get so stressed.
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 Thanks for cheering me up.
Which(The photo below of Bill as Giant Head) reminds me 3rd Rock from the Sun - is it available on DVD? I haven't seen it yet!! Least ways not the episode Bill appears in. |
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Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 09:10 PM
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If I wasn't so against it, I'd suggest watching 3rd Rock on TV Land, but that's like asking someone to live in a post-1920's world! Torture!!
Probably someone on fleabay has the G. Big Head episodes. |
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Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 11:07 PM
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Lt. Pervis: We have no tower, sir.
Buck Murdock: No tower?
Lt. Pervis: Just a bridge, sir.
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 12:37 AM
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Remakes are always risky and most often do not rise to the level of the original.
But being open minded about the possibilities that a new set of actors bringing to today's audience a new and fresh approach to the series, well, Trek in the 60's influenced my life, whose to say that this cast will not do the same for today's youth.
I will surely spend CAD $5 to see a matinee and then I'll render an opinion that is based on fact and not supposition. |
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 12:46 AM
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| Dam they will be modernising the Battlestar Galactica next, oh thats right, they already did that and the world didn't end. |
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 08:06 AM
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| Johnny_Turbo wrote: | If I wasn't so against it, I'd suggest watching 3rd Rock on TV Land, but that's like asking someone to live in a post-1920's world! Torture!!
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 09:11 AM
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| ASB wrote: | I was born in 1961 and as a little kid in the UK, Singapore and Australia I used to watch this kids show Star Trek, it was on in the afternoon after School (about 5pm). Later it became one of those shows repeated over and over with Gilligans Island. When did it get so complicated.
It wasn't until TNG that Star Trek actually moved from a kids show to a peak viewing period show, I am not sure when it was on in America but it was definatly a kids show where I grew up. One thing I am pretty sure about was I never remember worrying about the History, I was just amazed at how the doors opened themselves. |
It was never a kid's show in America, despite what the critics said in the beginning. It ran in prime time on NBC. In fact, the whole point of the show was that it was a serious, adult, science fiction show.
Gods, I'm three years younger than you and I suddenly feel so old.... |
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 09:15 AM
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| ASB wrote: | | Dam they will be modernising the Battlestar Galactica next, oh thats right, they already did that and the world didn't end. |
Galactica only had one mediocre season and one horrid spinoff to jettison, not forty years of built up continuity, including five spinoff series, ten movies, and enough books and magazines to choke a Barnes & Noble into submission.
Big fat hairy difference. |
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| CaptainRobertApril wrote: | | ASB wrote: | | Dam they will be modernising the Battlestar Galactica next, oh thats right, they already did that and the world didn't end. |
Galactica only had one mediocre season and one horrid spinoff to jettison, not forty years of built up continuity, including five spinoff series, ten movies, and enough books and magazines to choke a Barnes & Noble into submission.
Big fat hairy difference. |
Yes, it is indeed strange how some who profess to being tos fans have absolutely no problem with altering 40 years of established continuity yet we are to understand that they are tos fans.........yeah, sure they are. |
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what does it matter, why get so uptight, this is what I never will understand, if watching the show you say your such a fan of causes you so much distress, don't watch it.
Its meant to be entertainment, discuss it, enjoy it but don't stress over it, its not real honnest. |
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| ASB wrote: | what does it matter, why get so uptight, this is what I never will understand, if watching the show you say your such a fan of causes you so much distress, don't watch it.
Its meant to be entertainment, discuss it, enjoy it but don't stress over it, its not real honnest. |
It's funny, when Playstation was the new game console, I enjoyed playing some games but at the same time, I'd get stressed, uptight and frustrated if I wrecked or died right before I was to complete a level.
I'm willing to give this movie a chance, like I did with many other sequels. I was very pleasantly surprised with the new James Bond movie, especially the scenes in Uganda.
However, there's something to be said with the 60's Trek. The actors, the writers. They had some really, really good stories. The stories were so good, it's like I forgot I was watching an outer space show. And with a Desilu budget, those people did a fantastic job!! Remember Mindmeld? " Is it in his contract? No, no. No phone!!" |
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| ASB wrote: | what does it matter, why get so uptight, this is what I never will understand, if watching the show you say your such a fan of causes you so much distress, don't watch it.
Its meant to be entertainment, discuss it, enjoy it but don't stress over it, its not real honnest. |
You`re not addressing the issue which is why should lifelong star trek fans go along with altering the very foundations of what was layed down on television 40+ years ago? Why is it okay to screw around with 40 years of established canon? You say because none of it is real. Well, that certainly addresses the issue. |
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| Case in point. The 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before". At the end of the episode a mutated Gary Mitchell prepares a grave for our hero James R. Kirk as it reads on the gravestone. So there`s an early example of something that was changed. Now lets take it a little further. It has been implied that the "blonde lab technician" mentioned to Kirk by Gary Mitchell in sickbay was Carol Marcus. I personally doubt that was ever in the minds of the geniuses behind Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It`s just a pleasant coincidental line of dialogue that has been used to reconcile Carol Marcus to tos. Now suppose...just suppose that David Marcus WAS NOT kirk`s son. He was Gary Mitchell`s boy! LOL! See how silly this screwing around with trek canon can get. With the dissimilar tos bridge set in star trek 11 Abrams is DESTROYING the visual continuity with tos. I don`t hold with it. |
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Ah now here we cross the divide from fan to full blown fanatic, when TOS was written no one really considered the history line and precise connections, it was a low budget sci fi show made in the studio next to where they made Mission Impossible. The history ws more a TNG creation due to the growth in the fan base and people like yourself wanting to know more and more, it was actually a lot more to do with merchandising, the release of huge volumes of information on the ship, the crew and more that was never really discussed on the screen
So in Trek 11 I was quite happy to accept that it was Kirks son, I am quite happy to accept that Kirk died in Generations but he still exists in the nexus after all Guinan existed both on the Enterprises and in the Nexus. I am also happy to accept when main characters get killed off in a series after all it can't always be the red shirts that die.
Oh a side note, why is it that Whoopi Goldberg was uncredited in the movie when she was a very important part of the story.
Does this make me less of a fan, no I am just a fan of Star Trek and Star Trek is far more than any one actor or character. Lets hope that the new movie is hugely successful and it generates interest in a new TV show like the movies in the 70;s did. |
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| ASB wrote: | Ah now here we cross the divide from fan to full blown fanatic, when TOS was written no one really considered the history line and precise connections, it was a low budget sci fi show made in the studio next to where they made Mission Impossible. The history ws more a TNG creation due to the growth in the fan base and people like yourself wanting to know more and more, it was actually a lot more to do with merchandising, the release of huge volumes of information on the ship, the crew and more that was never really discussed on the screen
So in Trek 11 I was quite happy to accept that it was Kirks son, I am quite happy to accept that Kirk died in Generations but he still exists in the nexus after all Guinan existed both on the Enterprises and in the Nexus. I am also happy to accept when main characters get killed off in a series after all it can't always be the red shirts that die.
Oh a side note, why is it that Whoopi Goldberg was uncredited in the movie when she was a very important part of the story.
Does this make me less of a fan, no I am just a fan of Star Trek and Star Trek is far more than any one actor or character. Lets hope that the new movie is hugely successful and it generates interest in a new TV show like the movies in the 70;s did. |
Yeah, but ASB, your thinking stems from a bias and that is that all things TNG should override all things tos. Why? Why should that be? Because paramount has opted for TNG over tos canon? That is Abrams`, Berman`s, Braga`s and paramount`s problen, not the whole of worldwide trek fandom`s. |
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