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Tom Bombadil posted...

You need to choose a gender, lol.

lmao

exactly
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That's one of my top ten as well. :P It is so weird seeing Data basically repeat the word "lawl" ad nauseam when Lal dies, though. But yeah. It is really, really good.

Anagram, I thiiiink I need more time on this assignment of yours. Narrowing down a top three on TNG is super hard! Pretty sure the "Redemption" two-parter is in there, but I'm not sure if I give it freebie points with the benefit of DS9 plot arc hindsight.
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good thing I've got time to let it brew as I write these three unforgettable clickbait articles for my client instead
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"Yesterday's Enterprise" is frequently cited as one of the very best episodes of the show. I don't quite love it that much, but it's good.
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That's a shame. Tricia Helfer is in that game!
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Tom Bombadil posted...

I wasn't really aware of him when I was watching SG-1 back in the day but I'm really entertained having watched MLP. He's basically the same character, just a chimera.

Heh, that's pretty great.

Anyway, his Stargate tenure only ran between the fifth and sixth seasons. But with John de Lancie's gravitas, he really shaped his "scummy conspiratorial bastard" archetype into something memorable, I think.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Frank_Simmons
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de Lancie's turns on Stargate SG-1 and Breaking Bad always had me hype as well. His role as Q (across three Star Trek shows!) really cemented him as an unforgettable actor.
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Yeah, social commentary in a cool setting really took a hit when the 1987-2005 television era of Trek went off the air. I learned so many things about so many things through Trek as a kid. This episode's a good example of that. TNG's initial run lasted from when I was three weeks old (yep) until when I was six, but whenever possible I tuned in anyway, and as I caught the reruns I began to understand the world around me better than one might typically expect from a small child watching space heroes.

One of the things which excites me about Star Trek: Discovery is that the developers are saying all the right things about a need to ask tough contemporary social questions and explore ethically challenging frontiers again.
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There are more. c:
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Oh, hey, "The Defector" is in my top 10 as well! Really love that one. The guest actor is phenomenal.
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Heh, female villain yay. Another reason to watch D -- ...broken record over here. :P
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Tom Bombadil posted...

I dunno, I'm finding their derpiness entertaining. I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to or not.

Heh heh, well, I'm actually a really easygoing Trek nerd as far as... well, Trek nerds are concerned. I don't hate 'em in TNG, either. They're goofy as heck but watchable.
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Yeah, I don't think anyone alive will argue with me on that front.

I mean, there are one or two episodes of TNG which are enjoyable despite Ferengi presence, but there's never anything remotely interesting about the Ferengi themselves in TNG. When Armin Shimerman, who had played a Ferengi one-off character on TNG, was hired to play the Ferengi bartender Quark on DS9, he took it upon himself to redeem that race... and he succeeded.
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Deep Space Nine saves the Ferengi from being one of the worst inventions in space opera history. It takes the framework and turns them into an entertaining commentary on extremist capitalism without much of TNG's total buffoonery re: the species.

For the time being, though, yeah, they're bad news.

"The Enemy" is pretty good, though!
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Worf starts out a bit weak but develops a fantastic arc and character journey beginning around Season 3 of TNG, yeah. And it has lasting impact on multiple shows... :D
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Sounds good!
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Heheh, well, you'll still see plenty of eating and drinking and good cheer on DS9 as well. But yes, I hear you. I am a fan of large-scale convoluted plots, but I'm just as much a fan of the myriad opportunities Trek and similarly-paced franchises can afford to let the viewer soak in the world, fully grasp the cast, see what it's like to live a day in the life of some fantastical and relatively optimistic idea of what the future may bring.

TNG has a ton of that and it's one of the reasons it's sort of ascended into this total classic of a show.
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Yeah, my scribes probably rush to my castle to inform me posthaste of every single Star Trek topic ever made
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DS9 is pretty much the one Trek series which feels like it has a more modern television approach. (The upcoming sixth series will no doubt make DS9 look its age, but yeah.) Although in the beginning it can be a difficult watch -- several S1 episodes are literally just retooled rejected TNG scripts and numerous characters are obviously pretty wooden for a little while -- it turns surprisingly serialized for 90's American TV as it goes on, and more time is spent on lasting character development and juggling several show-length narrative plot lines than you'll find in the other Trek stuff.

Anyway, you can sorta chart the beauty standards of the years these shows were produced as you follow along with them. 1989-90 was an ugly year, I guess. XD It's probably not until 1997 or so that multiple cast members in the 1987-2005 nonstop Trek-on-TV era stop looking so utterly dated. As a big space opera nerd it has always amused me how these future settings are so blatantly the year they were produced...but I suppose it is far better than the alternative of trying to manufacture unique hairstyles and looking even geekier for it.

Also, I should probably warn you now: I am likely to be very prolific in this topic. <_<; Star Trek is my favorite franchise!
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Obligatory mention that y'all should do DS9 too. It's my favorite show! Far less episodic than TNG once it gets going and it takes a lot of stuff introduced in TNG and fleshes it out.

Shoddy first couple of seasons, though, but TNG has the same conundrum. (Now that you're in S3, you'll likely note a general uptick in quality.)

If you've already watched DS9 and made it to the great parts and it's not to your taste, I'll probably cry a little bit, but I'll still enjoy this watchthrough!
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*Karl

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I thought he was aight!
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Peridiam posted...

I didn't bother to watch S6 but all of that sounds bad.

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It's a great season overall, though, IMO.
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I hear you on that. Actually, Season 6 is my second favorite season, even...! But even there, and certainly in Season 5 to a greater extent, there are questionably-built arcs with hohum conclusions more so on average than there were in 1-4.
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SEETHING back-half-of-the-series hate!

I don't really disagree with a lot of your criticisms, though. The Chained Dragon Queen in particular is a real bottomfeeder for me (I like the beginning of S4 and end of S5 for her but in the middle there is a mountain of fluff).
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The Mountain is worked on throughout the entirety of Season 5 and has one inconsequential action scene.

I maintain he's being held back to serve as player-killing 'boss fight' when Daenerys invades. I've actually felt that way since before Season 6, even, if only because I felt like the Faith Militant lacked any singular force interesting enough to try to topple him.
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Well, if this weren't the final season to possess ten episodes I'd probably be more in your camp with this decision. But considering we have 13 or so hours of television left in the tank with this series I had really hoped he'd reach the Citadel and begin a training arc. It felt so awkward that his scenes were so forward-moving and yet so infrequent and so slow in charting his course. It felt like we were back in Season 3 and this was one of the plots selected to move at a particularly glacial pace so as to pay off in spades in Season 4 -- except this time there's so much ground to cover in just seven episodes next season that it was a bit dizzying to me that they chose this path.
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Sam's arc sucked this year. I'm a big Season 6 defender but talk about a whole lotta nothing over there. There's this really sterling moment when Sam marches out of the room as a coward and then marches back into the room as a man reborn or whatever but aside from that there is pretty much nothing here that's outstanding. Some of his and Gilly's back-and-forths are fun but there's just nothing, nothing, nothing. Relative to so much stuff everywhere else. It's jarring and improper tempo and I hope it picks up next season.
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profDEADPOOL posted...

Jeff Zero posted...

The weirdest part about that is that there is literally a case earlier in the series (1x09) in which a woman (Shae) tells Tyrion he should have known Tysha wasn't being genuine since she climbed in bed with him just after narrowly escaping sexual assault.

Or maybe... That is foreshadowing and it will be revealed that Gilly has been manipulating Sam.

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The weirdest part about that is that there is literally a case earlier in the series (1x09) in which a woman (Shae) tells Tyrion he should have known Tysha wasn't being genuine since she climbed in bed with him just after narrowly escaping sexual assault.
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I don't know. Some key things I enjoy here, at least one of which will certainly be kind of controversial: Craster's intensely dislikable character actually comes off as hilarious to me because not a damn thing he ever says is anything less than squarely selfish and his actor chews every line for all it's worth. Ygritte's introduction is cute and funny and all-around great. Above all, though, I feel like the mutiny at Craster's Keep is pretty well-handled. The chaos, Rast seizing the moment, the introduction of future internet legend Karl Tanner (straight ahtta Gin Alley), Craster going down like the complete and utter chump he is.

This is definitely a middling arc at best given the inconsistencies and fairly dissatisfying Season 3 opener and the very subpar Jon story in Season 2. But I'd rank it, like, I don't know. 30th? I really enjoy that mutiny scene and get enough laughs off of Craster's terrible being-terrible show.
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thank god this came up in the bottom three at least

My favorite parts of Dorne actually come in Season 6, when Ellaria forces the coup by slaughtering Doran and Trystane. It's the only way you can justify such a weak ruler, and it's the only logical conclusion to what they've done. And the absolute hype when Varys shows up in 6x10 - oh yes.

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I could never rank Qarth so low because it gives us some of the most colorfully patently absurd names, faces, and twists in the entire show.

Xaro Xhoan Daxos. Daxos. Ducksauce. That alone has given my IRL friends and I more inside-joke laughs than possibly anything else in the series. Then there's purple-lipped Pyat Pree -- he who looks and acts almost exactly like that creepy dude in Lost Highway. The Spice King's flamboyant acting will have us all in tears if nothing else works and then there's Quaithe and her ridiculous fullmetal mask get-up.

When Daenerys enters Qarth, a certain key section of the show goes full-bonkers for several episodes in a way that nothing else really touches. It's a jungle in there, disorder and confusion everywhere.

It's not good television but it resonates with me for how incredulous it is relative to most other arcs.
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I certainly wouldn't rank that dead-last but that's a more thoughtful analysis than I've seen of the arc elsewhere. It helps though that Brienne and Podrick are two characters whose actors really boost them, though, and they have decent chemistry on-screen together.
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Wow, badassery. I've wanted to follow a project of yours for a while, too, but the ones I've seen were not shared interests of ours (I think).
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