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2019-02-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-12 05:37|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Riker truly sucked on the private trombone solo as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-12 05:56|| 2019-02-12 05:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course in the B-5 universe he would have been assigned to clean the methane breathers bathrooms.

Posted by Thrise Shomble3667 2019-02-12 07:59|| 2019-02-12 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 well he did save the Universe from the Borg

Posted by lord garth 2019-02-12 08:03|| 2019-02-12 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Patrick Stewart's verbal diarrhea on Trump is enough to sour me on the whole series.

Sycophantic article from Vanity Fair if you can stand it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/03/patrick-stewart-citizenship-donald-trump

Posted by Warthog 2019-02-12 09:22|| 2019-02-12 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Do we ask Trump for acting advice? Would we listen to it? Nope.

So why listen to hollyweird when they lecture us on things not related to pretending to be someone they are not?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-12 11:24|| 2019-02-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#6 'He wasn't like that before the beard.'

/obscure?

Posted by Raj 2019-02-12 11:25|| 2019-02-12 11:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Never liked that worthless, self circle jerking series anyway.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-12 11:49|| 2019-02-12 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 He was a metrosexual before there were metrosexuals.

Posted by jvalentour 2019-02-12 11:49|| 2019-02-12 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh, well done.

Enjoyed the series growing up, some good plot lines, and some real yawns. That's all in a little box over there as too many of the actors/tresses have turned out to be real wankers who overshadow their characters too much. Gurney doesn't appear much the badass when you know the actor tosses himself to politics.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-12 12:15|| 2019-02-12 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe Riker never really got those offers for promotion and star fleets socialist employee guidelines made it nearly impossible to fire him.

Maybe in a universe where anything can be created in replicators they found it very difficult to actually find folks willing to risk their life let alone command material.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2019-02-12 12:22|| 2019-02-12 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Grew up on STOS. Liked STNG a good bit. Sorta kinda liked STDS9. Can't even make myself watch any of the reboots since. Loved B5, having the "movies" use the same cast, sets and writers for what were basically long episodes worked well.

If I could rub a magic lamp I'd have Straczynski and the B5 team adapt The Gap Into books into 5 long movies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-12 12:30|| 2019-02-12 12:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually the trombone solos were pretty good B. As a former player I'll tell you what, pretty hard to pull off the muffled soft tones.

Years ago, many, I played with Dave Graff. Darn good fun.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-02-12 13:07|| 2019-02-12 13:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Hit tip to you Woodrow. If you played with Graff, you must have been pretty good. I still have my old Bach. Lip is shot, but I enjoy a little Miller once in a while...when no one is around.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-12 13:46|| 2019-02-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Loved the original series. Enjoyed Next Gen when it was on but never really had a desire to rewatch.

Babylon 5 opened my eyes to what Science Fiction television could be if it tried, and didn't take the audience for granted.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-02-12 15:12|| 2019-02-12 15:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Grew up on STOS, STG2 was ok - if a little tame. Enterprise was also ok and actually had a story arc.
Loved B5 though some of their episodes were really lame. Haven't really seen any of the recent remakes (Discovery?). Always wondered how many times can an alien take over your ship before you invent passwords or any kind of security.
The original Battlestar Galactia was good at the time (see it as pretty campy now that I'm much older...). At the time I also thought BG 1980 was terrible! (shudder!) The remake was also good.
Also like The Expanse. That seems a bit more accurate science-wise.

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-02-12 15:36|| 2019-02-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Who the f*ck cares what some play-actor thinks - if it thinks at all.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-12 16:02|| 2019-02-12 16:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Sorry but Wesley Crusher was wayyy more annoying

Posted by European Conservative 2019-02-12 19:57|| 2019-02-12 19:57|| Front Page Top

#18 I always read EC’s comments. Always.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-02-12 20:21|| 2019-02-12 20:21|| Front Page Top

#19 :-)

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