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Ha, Chuck tore that a new arsehole didn't he.

I recognized that potential murderer Irishman as one of the goofy Generals from Pentagon Wars lol

Sometimes when Chuck goes on a rant you can really feel his teacher instincts coming through as he performs the duty outlined by the comic on the previous page

still it was an interesting discussion on which holograms are alive and which aren't

What episode are you discussing?

I'm going to guess the episode of voyager where the doctor invents a fake family for himself on the holodeck
like all doctor episodes it's a pretty good one

naw it's Fair Haven

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-re ... ew-6632406

The episode where they create an idyllic Irish town and Janeway falls in love with the bartender

and then goes about almost completely rewriting his personality and changing his appearance and also deleting his wife from the program

it comes to a head when she wants to stop seeing him because she feels this fantasy is getting out of control but the Doctor says, "He's just as real as I am!"

which is a bit problematic because the bartender is really not sentient like the EMH but if he is that means Janeway just brainwashed him and murdered his wife

chuck's videos are one of the reliable highlights of my week

i'm not even kidding, i really enjoy them, especially when he goes into more detail like he did this week, or his excellent wrath of khan discussion, but even the mediocre "just recap the episode" ones are enjoyable to me

evilsoup wrote:
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I'm a bit late to the party, but I find this sort of bullshit personally offensive...

Chuck's pretty good. Though sometimes its clear he's just doing it for the donation revenue.

In fact, sometimes the better I know the material he's reviewing, the more disappointed i am in the review. To whit; the SG-1 and Batman Beyond videos.

On the other extreme, his recap/reviews of Avatar got me into that show and his review of Korra which I actually saw before the review came up was still interesting and insightful (well more than me, not exactly hard I admit)

soo...


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ

And this post was an utter waste of your time.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:A very patriotic chatbot

Patriotic? Yeah, it's stupid getting too tied into the successes and failures of a five hundred year old country populated by 70 million people, even if I get too irrational about historical stuff happening 50/100/300 years ago.

63 millions, not 70.

France is still more populated than the UK

If by "still" you mean "now for the first time since like the 1600s" :L

shush you

Quit being such a nationalist, Oxy.

That's my job.

adr wrote:chuck's videos are one of the reliable highlights of my week

i'm not even kidding, i really enjoy them, especially when he goes into more detail like he did this week, or his excellent wrath of khan discussion, but even the mediocre "just recap the episode" ones are enjoyable to me

chuck has two things going for him that keep me listening to his stuff. even in his more mundane reviews he can usually pull out at least one or two jokes that will get a chuckle out of me. and his normal voice (when he's not doing grouchy picard or janeway) is pleasant enough to listen to that I like putting some of his vids on and listening to it while I'm doing other stuff. And he's usually good about keeping screaming rageouts to a minimum, a rare quality among internet videos.

"They know the ship's been in a fight because the phaser banks are empty, despite assurances from phaser bankers that they're too big to fail."

That's why I like Chuck's work

So, having browsed through the first four Star Trek series on Hulu Plus, I have now begun watching Enterprise. I wonder if I should just skip to the third and fourth seasons, since those are the only ones that I remember having episodes that weren't complete shit.

the funniest joke of chuck's that i can remember was from a b5 review

"[some guy], backed by his many fans"

and there were many fans behind him


i completely lost it and had to pause the video for several minutes to finish laughing before continuing

such a simple joke but totally brilliant

I may see Chuck's review of TNG's "Timescape"

Also:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=IMPB-aqW9rU

So apparently Robert Orci's a bit of dick to people critising STID

Never did get around to seeing it. Though I remember being kind of appalled when I saw spoilers about the big bad starfleet superdreadnaught built by Section 31. Since it sounded like the dumbest missing the point fanwank ever.

So I just watched "These Are the Voyages" again, and Jesus Christ is this ever not the way to end a television series. I know that most people didn't care for Enterprise or it's characters, but reducing them to the status of guest stars in their own goddamn finale is just a giant middle finger to anyone who did. The only thing about the episode I liked was the bit at the very end where you saw all the Enterprises from the franchise (Except the A and E. No love for the movies?) while their respective captains did the "To boldly go" monologue. That felt like a decent send off for televised Star Trek, or at least as decent as it could be given how far it had fallen from the heights of late TNG and DS9.

listen to this whole interview if you haven't before:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/nich ... _trek.html

so much great stuff in there front to back

(Except the A and E. No love for the movies?)

Might be an issue with Paramount holding the rights.

That's right. I keep forgetting that it's different companies that hold the rights to T.V. trek and Movie Trek.

Don't feel bad. JJ Abrams did too.

I thought These Are The Voyages was made before the Paramount/Trek rights split (how the fuck did that one even happen??)