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Yes, before it closed, Foundation Imaging moved to Paramount to do the SFX for Voyager: hence the criticism that "Species 8472" look like the Vorlons or Shadows. A nasty unfounded rumor that dogs the Voyager staff to this day.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
To be fair, the resemblance is there...I'd just chalk it up to accident and unintended rather than deliberate choice.
Its not like Voyager has enough well founded things that you can complains about :P
edited 3rd Jun '15 7:04:15 AM by 3of4
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The biggest problem with Season 5 of the show was no Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova. We probably all know the different versions of why she wasn't in it so there's no point in my rehashing. What's true is that the show was poorer without her.
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Capt. Lockey was good, Tracy Scoggins is a great actress (hard to believe she was Lana Lang in Lois & Clark and a Cardassian on Deep Space Nine). But the Byron arc would have been a little better with Ivanona in charge.
Byron was just so poorly written. He's like a vegan crossfit tumblr user lecturing someone who just wanted to sit and enjoy her candybar. There was good in season five but JMS and the series had been dicked around by the closer of PTEN and then by TNT.
Crusade was Firefly before Firefly: TNT didn't know what to do with it and screwed it badly.
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Mysterious Stranger
My biggest problem with Lochley was that for the beginning of the season she was just... there. They didn't seem to give her any character development until Day of the Dead, which is almost midseason.
Then there was the Byron arc. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really care about it that much either. Lyta got some development, which was good, but other than that I just kept hoping that Vir, G'Kar or Londo would be in the episode and/or get more screentime.
In the latter half of the season I got my wish, but it felt like it took forever to get there.
Part of the problem with Captain Lochley is that many of the scripts she appeared in originally featured Captain Ivanova, and had to be tweaked for the new character, rather than written with her in mind.
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Perpetually Confused
Oh no :(
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RIP Jerry Doyle, he's having a party with Tim Choate, Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs.
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RIP, mister Doyle. You were great.
Student of Story
Sad to see that. RIP Mr. Doyle.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
This thread reminds me, I need to start watching this show again with the missus. I got her started on it by telling her that Tron shows up in season 2. She's not hooked yet, but she's been generally interested by what she's seen so far (plus, I tend to geek out while watching the show, a trait she happens to find adorable).
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Are you watching all the episodes of season 1, or are you skipping the unimportant and forgettable ones?
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If I were to skip all of the unimportant and forgettable episodes of season one, that'd just knock out TKO, wouldn't it?
Last of the Stellarians
And Infection. And I'm pretty sure there were other pretty mediocre episodes in season 1 that contributed nothing to the overall Myth Arc.
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False. Infection has Ducky. And aside from a War of the Worlds joke, nothing else of value.
edited 5th Jan '17 6:48:29 PM by AFP
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Actually Infection sets up a lot of plot points:
- Despite what the wankers on Stardestroyer.net say, Organic Technology is awesome and the kind described in the episode is the holy grail of most races.
- Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped
- Sinclair's Death Seeker tendencies come up again.
- And yes the Ikarans fought the Big Bad - The Shadows.
Ducky is just a bonus.
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Last of the Stellarians
All the arc points in Infection are ultimately irrelevant foreshadowing that is covered so much better in later episodes. Also there is no Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped here, there's just the tired old hamfisted "war is bad" message.
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- He Who Fights Monsters: Sinclair says this about the Ikarrans:
Sinclair: You and the rest—you forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy!
And latter The Nightwatch would go down the same path....
edited 8th Jan '17 6:29:23 PM by TairaMai
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Enders Game?
it's a living
- "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them."— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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Weaponised Foe Yay. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Didn't Voyager then nap B5's SFX contractor?
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