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Post by Calidore on Nov 23, 2020 20:16:06 GMT -5
I loved that first issue of Boris the Bear, and the series actually stayed good for a while. Favorite part of the issue for me was the lone survivor of Boris' rampage: Droopy.
"You can go. I like you."
"Thanks, bub."
I've mostly stuck with DVDs also unless the BR or 4K disc is a clear upgrade, either in terms of features or a spiffy new restoration or both. Suspiria and Apocalypse Now both have eye-popping (and ear-popping) recent 4K restorations, and I just bought the new Pitch Black 4K yesterday.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 23, 2020 22:47:47 GMT -5
Boris was pretty good satire. I wanted to enjoy E-Man, at First; but, without Nick Cuti, it didn't have that same edge and sense of fun it had, at Charlton, even with Staton. Boris ended up being sharper satire of the current market.
For the 90s, it was Lethargic Lad, for me. That was some funny and snarky stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 23:00:49 GMT -5
I prefer Star Trek: The Next Generation to the original series. Since I'm indoors more, might as well get the whole series.
There, I beamed up.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2020 7:48:51 GMT -5
I have a problem with Boris the Bear. He first appeared about a year after I'd circulated a strip proposal at the San Diego con called "Baer and Bear," about a living teddy bear who becomes a private eye. It may have been a coincidence, but I've always had my suspicions.
I agree with becca about the audio on some DVDs. I had to watch my copy of Spider-Man: Far from Home with the subtitles on because I couldn't hear the dialogue without cranking up the volume which made the sound effects ear-splitting.
I also prefer Next Gen over original Trek (I find many episodes unwatchable these days), but I prefer DS9 over either. I don't watch Voyager because I can't stand Kate Mulgrew. She's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
Cei-U!
I summon the odds 'n' ends!
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2020 7:54:24 GMT -5
I have been watching STNG lately on cable. I really enjoyed it but maybe I consider it equal to the Original. Voyager had a nice dynamic to it because of their being lost in space. I stopped watching after 4 seasons because my first marriage was falling apart at the time. I associate it with a bad time in my life.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2020 7:56:59 GMT -5
In most years, this forums' Twelve Days of Classic Comics Christmas is a highlight of the season and brings cheer and joy to this member, After the year that 2020 has been, I am particularly in need of cheer and looking forwars to Kurt's announcement of the topic, which usually occurs Thanksgiving weekend. Bring on the comic Christmas cheer!!! There I typed it. -M I second this emotion. I’m praying that nothing messes this Up also. It IS 2020 after all. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2020 8:11:26 GMT -5
Rest assured it'll take a lot more than COVID to stop Classic Comics Christmas '20 from happening. Nuclear war might do it. Maybe.
Cei-U!
I summon the essential tradition!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 24, 2020 9:25:03 GMT -5
I grew up with a aunt that was a huge Trekkie, and at that time OG ST was all there was so I grew up watching episodes of it she had all recorded on VHS.
My dad, mostly, was an avid watcher of STNG as it was airing on TV. I watched a lot of it and remember many of the episodes, but have never had the desire to go back and watch them. I can enjoy OG ST while still realizing it's campiness. In some episodes it actually is what makes the episode "good". My dad also watched DS9, but for me, it could never hold my interest as a teen. I found it incredibly boring, and have no interest to go back to that either.
I do really like First Contact. It's in my top 3 Star Trek (of any series) movies.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2020 9:49:34 GMT -5
Rest assured it'll take a lot more than COVID to stop Classic Comics Christmas '20 from happening. Nuclear war might do it. Maybe. Cei-U! I summon the essential tradition! Why did you have to bring up Nuclear war ?  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2020 9:51:58 GMT -5
I challenge the so called “campiness “ of STOS. How about some examples?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 24, 2020 11:05:51 GMT -5
I challenge the so called “campiness “ of STOS. How about some examples? Yeah, I agree; the only instance I can think of that could perhaps be described as campy is the famous 'space hippies' episode (which I love, by the way). |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2020 11:14:56 GMT -5
It isn't "campiness" that makes so many ST:TOS episodes unwatchable. It's the bad acting (especially Shatner's), occasionally hokey plotting (1920s gangster planet, Nazi planet, Roman Empire planet, etc.) and the general air of making do on a shoestring budget (particularly Season Three). But when it's good, it's really good, especially compared to its contemporaries.
Cei-U!
I summon one longtime Trekker's opinion!
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Post by impulse on Nov 24, 2020 11:32:05 GMT -5
Yeah, if the version is good enough, I've seen upscaled DVDs look damn-near indistinguishable from Blu-Ray. The quality of the file makes a bigger difference in the overall quality than the disc format. It's more that the newer formats have a higher potential top quality due to increased capacity and tech, and I'd say better average baseline floor, but that's purely anecdotal.
Audio on home releases remains frustrating. The audio is designed with theaters in mind, and most people don't have a theater-grade sound system as home. It's not even as simple as just doing a home mix, too, because there are so many different systems out there, and so many recent ones try to simulate surround sound they do not have. I wish all home releases had a general balanced regular stereo "you can hear the talking" audio option!
I love TNG. DS9 is also really good, but kind of exists with TNG, so you kind of need both to get the most impact.
I plan to eventually watch ST TOS but haven't gotten to it yet.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 11:44:22 GMT -5
I adored Quark in DS9....kindred spirit, always looking for profit. A bit short though  |
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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 24, 2020 11:49:12 GMT -5
I guess this is pretty self-selecting group but I too am watching STNG - in order with my 11 year old son. (We finished the TOS last month.) The one thing I am taking away from the show (apart from how bloody DULL the thing is) is the vast difference in acting styles. It's fun watching (Shakespearian actor) Patrick Stewart trying to invest his character with some depth while all the American TV actors surrounding him deliver their lines like postmen. Efficiently, in the right place at the right time, but that's about it. (Whassername delivering the Doctor's character's lines is particularly daytime soap.) We're watching TNG alternating episodes with the first series of Andromeda. Watching the two side by side it's obvious that the people who wrote Andromeda had read some SF at some point. The furniture of their universe is populated (to mix a metaphor) with 'Orbital Habitats', distances expressed in 'Light Minutes', 'Light Hours', A.I.'s are, if not common, then not unusual - The show's title character - not the hero - is the AI that IS the ship. And so on. OK, some of the stories are trite but at least someone, at some point in preproduction, picked a couple of the Culture novels and went through them with a highlighter pen. And, let's face it, Keith Hamilton Cobb is above and beyond wayyyy sexier than the entire crew of the Enterprise put together.
Alltogether now: "Fwaaaaar!"
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