“So every song has to be booming bass and fanfare?”
Not every hit is loud. I’m talking about memorable, emotional hits. As the above poster mentioned - the twin sunset scene, with its haunting melody. Instantly memorable. Instantly stirring. The music did not need to grow on me.
I don’t really know why you linked that…
I think in particular, the storm scene stands out:
The originals didn’t need to grow on anyone. They hit you instantly.
Yet I have to say, as a classically trained musician who plays largely by ear... I can’t actually remember the music in Force Awakens, and I have the film on DVD.
I’d go so far as to say that its important in the context of Wrath of Khan. Those three films, Wrath to Voyage Home, represent a pretty epic single story arc, and after Kirk loses his son, and the Enterprise gets destroyed, and everything’s all doom and gloom and destruction... I’d say Voyage Home *had* to be what it…
The one major leadership flaw in all Star Trek -
Never send your highly trained crew to do a dangerous job when you can risk the ENTIRE COMMAND STAFF and leave the ship’s counselor, or Harry Kim, to keep an eye on everything while you’re gone.
And let’s not forget the Doctor, who went from a rather entertaining grumpy character... to a quite frankly *creepy* egomaniac who develops really inappropriate feelings for one of his patients, and once again confuses anyone with half a brain by being a sentient computer program running on a non-sentient computer (I…
The hate stems from disappointment - I think people sometimes forget just how potent disappointment is. It’s one of the most potent human emotions. It can be *crippling*. It can make you feel absolutely miserable - because it all boils down to basic chemistry. Anticipation leaves your brain buzzing with a lust for…
It is crazy how much love they’ve poured into that game... the fact that they even added space combat, and replaced their main menu with a customiseable ship you can walk around...
But then, it really was a labour of love for them. This was the game they always wanted to make:
I think most people who saw “infinite possibilities” knew it wasn’t actually true. But I think people were rather holding out hope that the procedural generation would have enough basic materials to work with that it might actually generate enough stuff to keep them feeling like their exploration actually meant…
I think I can trump everyone in this regard. I have 1582 hours in Skyrim. But that’s because I have 143 hours in the Creation Kit - I modded the hell out of it, trying to fix every one of its flaws as I encountered them, either myself or with someone else’s mods.
The problem was, I *kept encountering* flaws, all the…
Er, some pretty basic reasons too - a large percentage of the population would do any number of cruel things simply because they lack empathy and/or intelligence. And I’m not talking about psychopaths. I’m talking about *regular people*.
God was always a useful tool when it came to keeping people in line. A shorthand…
“Over time, Roadhog should be losing weight just from being so active...”
Or, you know... wouldn’t. Because that kind of serious obesity is the product of metabolic syndrome caused by sugar consumption, which cannot be fixed by straining a starving body even further...
No, this has been an entirely pointless argument in which Sarkeesian has pointed at the big-budget end of the mainstream gaming market and observed how shallow it is, as if this is some new concept, because that’s all she actually knows.
The truth is, video games as a whole are a great medium that everyone *can* enjoy,…
I think something in their design or management changed somewhere along the line - they used to make much more durable stuff. I’m still using a logitech keyboard, right now, which goes back about 10 years.
But yes, everything *since* then... cables break, mouse wheels behave erratically. I think they started cutting…
I think a few people need to go back and watch a certain Only Fools and Horses episode, in which he played “Detective Slater”; he’s very good at playing villains too yaknow...
Years ago I had a dog who, having seen me eating cold pizza for breakfast, then went out for his walk with my mother... and *pretended to be injured*, limping along, just so she’d take him back home.
The moment he came through the door, he immediately went in search of the pizza and the limp had vanished.
Then of course…
I would have picked the Bob’s Burgers episode. I mean, c’mon. How much more meta and genre-bendy can you get - that Archer loses his memory, has an episode that just happens to be a massive reference to a certain movie, while simultaneously being a direct, almost reality-warping reference to a role played by the same…
I loved all the little subtle things in that episode. Like when he asks the captain if he’s ever been interrogated before, and the reply is, “You’d be surprised.” Which I always assumed was a reference to the Jack the Ripper episode.
Very good episode that one. Somehow it worked, when it really shouldn’t have. And that…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the entire series should have started with that episode, and if you ever go back and watch the whole thing again, start with Season 2 Episode 16. It works perfectly - it doesn’t spoil anything, and when you then watch the series from the start, it’s like the whole first…
Bingo, this was the entire traumatic point for everyone - neither one was a clone (the villain said something along the lines of “exact duplicates” and that he “twinned” people), so when one of the Johns died, John really had died.
