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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is FN P90, the most bisexual of all hand-held weapons, erasure, and I will not stand for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

cries in Zat'nik'tel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still argue the sonic screwdriver opening doors is more elegant than the lightsaber. Usually after the fact, the door can be closed and locked again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

C4 is the most elegant way of opening doors out of the four… there is no door, doorframe, or wall left after usage. You’ve kinetically remodeled the room!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stargate is one word, it's bothering me a perhaps unreasonable amount.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

open the irish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Diplomacy usually comes before the pew pew for Trek and the sonic moves the scene along without solving the problem in its entirety for The Doctor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I fell out of love with Doctor Who when I realized all the sci-fi bits were complete made-up bullshit. Kinda the same reason I don't much care for Star Wars.

Star Trek is at least plausible if far-fetched, and Stargate actually tries to make the technobabble compatible with theoretical physics, which is a major reason I've come to adore it.

And I came to hate the writing of Doctor Who because it has the same problem as BBC's Sherlock (which makes sense as they shared showrunners and writing staff): they make the main character seem clever by figuring out the mystery before the viewer, but only because they deliberately hide or obfuscate key details until they're ready for the big reveal. So the solution feels less like a brilliant show of deduction and more like a batshit insane ex Machina.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Star Wars just isn't sci-fi. Its technology should be treated the same way one treats magic in a fantasy story. Because that's what it is: a fantasy story. It's just space fantasy, rather than the more typical mediaeval or urban fantasy genres.

Sherlock Holmes is kinda meant to be that way. It's not the BBC version's fault, that's just faithful adaptation. Sherlock isn't meant to be a mystery series in the style of an Agatha Christie novel. It's more of a character study of a character so different from normal people. It's ok not to like Sherlock Holmes or adaptations of it (gods know...there's plenty of criticism out there for the BBC adaptation), but if you dislike it because it breaks Knox's rules of detective fiction, that's because you went into it with entirely the wrong expectations, rather than because it's poor storytelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i started watching The Orville recently and while it is quite good and gets many parts absolutely bang-on, it does pain me that they didn't also take the opportunity to take themselves more seriously.

Like haha yes star trek has technobabble that makes no sense, very funny, but imagine how fucking good the show would have been if it took the action from stargate! Maybe they do so more in the later seasons, but in the early episodes there are several extended scenes where i just have to skip past it entirely because i can feel my soul exiting my body through my ears.

It's sad because right after those scenes that inflict profound suffering on me, they have things that make me feel genuine non-agonizing emotions. Bortus and Klyden are amazing characters with brilliant actors, and i wouldn't have ended up watching the show without them in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

"Explosive placed!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The snake scepter thingies the Goa'uld use are basically those

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you just refer to a goa'uld staff weapon as a snake sceptre?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Snek stik pew pew

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's driving me crazy that the TNG officer has the TOS phaser, and the 10th Doctor has the 11th's screwdriver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's also Ben solo with Anakin Skywalker's saber.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All of these < Farscape < Babylon 5 < Cleopatra 2525

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How have I never heard of this before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Don't beat yourself up for what you didn't know in the past. Rather, use what you've learned to propel you into the future...

All the way to the year 2525!