Why modern movies suck - they teach us awful lessons

[Ryujin]

That is pretty in keeping with star trek logic which sounds good (Klingons were introduced as an alien race in the original series, but in the Next Generation, you have a Klingon serving aboard the ship). Do you think they were intentionally referencing the Next Generation episode with this character?

They might have been referencing the concept of the episode, but not the episode itself. If that makes any sense. They have taken several episodes to examine the culture of Bortis's people and the concept of the single sex species. It's not treated as a one-off.

 

[Ryujin]

I watched until they put the guy in the pain booth, and was like eh. Same as I watched Walking Dead until Glen was killed with a baseball bat, too gruesome (plus he was my favorite character on the show). I have seen too much weird, and bad stuff in real life, to watch it on television.

"The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" both became too much murder porn for me to stomach, so I walked away.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yes, I am sure I will run across it, and watch an episode here and there. I liked the characters pretty much, I think the Klingons could have been better, except over all, it doesn't look that bad, it just didn't grab me; then again my favorite Trek is TNG: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose ..."

My favorite TNG episode is Tapestry (the Picard / Q / heart episode).

When I first saw it when it aired, I was like .... meh. Whatever. But it's one of those episodes that keeps with you, and has continuing resonance as you get older, and then again as you see another generation come up.

 

[dragoner]

"The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" both became too much murder porn for me to stomach, so I walked away.

Yes, give me a haunting, cerebral horror film like Annihilation, over the graphic stuff.

 

[Sacrosanct]

"The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" both became too much murder porn for me to stomach, so I walked away.

Yep. I watched only to season 5. It felt too much like gore pron, and that's just not for me.

 

[billd91]

Bortus is %100 gay-married Worf. The only way I can figure it is Seth MacFarlane has an informal "no sue I" agreement with Paramount.

He’s different and parody-enough that I’m sure he’s fine for fair use.

 

[dragoner]

My favorite TNG episode is Tapestry (the Picard / Q / heart episode).

When I first saw it when it aired, I was like .... meh. Whatever. But it's one of those episodes that keeps with you, and has continuing resonance as you get older, and then again as you see another generation come up.

It is a good episode. TNG was well written, it resonates because of that, and it raised the bar for what comes after. Not every fan likes it though, and I am fine with that as well.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

It is a good episode. TNG was well written, it resonates because of that, and it raised the bar for what comes after. Not every fan likes it though, and I am fine with that as well.

I will always stan hard for TOS, but the best of TNG was really, really, really good.

(And I've heard that Patrick Stewart guy is a decent actor as well, even if they did have him playing the most English Frenchman ever)

 

[payn]

"The Walking Dead" and "Game of Thrones" both became too much murder porn for me to stomach, so I walked away.

Oh I wish I had. The last few seasons of GoT were bad. WD been bad for like 6 seasons now.

 

[dragoner]

I will always stan hard for TOS, but the best of TNG was really, really, really good.

(And I've heard that Patrick Stewart guy is a decent actor as well, even if they did have him playing the most English Frenchman ever)

That is hilarious.

I like TOS also, the interplay of the characters was great. What I find interesting as well, is that it probably had some more of the realistic combat scenes, as most of the guys were at least drafted, like Nimoy. Such as when they get attacked, first thing they do is take cover, instead of standing tall and shooting back, which is today the standard for Hollywood programs.