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I don't know, I kinda liked it. At least the twist didn't turn out that Data was getting the old mind-fuck from the multiphasic aliens or going crazy. He's actually right all along, even when he's stabbing Troi he's arguably doing the right thing.

Good news for all of us TNG geeks:
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It looks like they've actually gone back to the negatives for all of the live-action components and then created all-new effects to replace those that were made on video tape, which is definitely the right way to do it IMO. Upscaling those old video

Good point on the vaccines; that shit pisses me off to no end. There's NO proven link between vaccines and autism or aspergers, and every time someone skips a vaccination because some dumbass like Jenny McCarthy spouts a bunch of scary psuedo-science on TV they put us all at risk. And don't tell me that vaccines

The parent's explanation goes a long way to address the reason why they pressed charges when we were all speculating that they'd rather sweep it all under the rug, given all the underage drinking present in their house. It seems that they were a bit shocked that someone "with a record" ended up in their house, whereas

I've got no clue. It's baffling that the sound is so consistently bad on a show that is known for featuring a lot of top-tier musical acts and has a long history of good and great performances. I mean, I understand that the studio is designed for flexibility and not acoustics, so presumably that caused all sorts of

They're good enough, but it's really frustrating watching them in the wrong aspect ratio and in standard definition.

Yeah, this is clearly far inferior to the scene that made it into the movie.  That one nailed the balance between forced politeness and anger; Han and Leia were clearly angry with each other, and you could immediately tell that there's a mutual attraction that developed during the interim since "Star Wars". But they

It's mostly the conversation that Kirk has with Scotty's nephew while conducting the inspection in engineering, and some of Kirk and Scotty's conversation in sick bay when he dies. Not essential, but it does give Scotty a story beyond his typical role delivering the bad news re how fucked the engines during the battle

Don't worry, They'll probably do something CGI to whomever they get to play Montalban in the sequel next year.

Hell, why not just clone an army of Data's with the transporter? He's arguably got no soul to "split" as it were (and Riker suffered no ill effects from the process in "Second Chances"), so what could his objection be?

I wouldn't call intuition an emotion. The way I see it, Intuition is a form of cognition. It's more subtle and creative than a strictly rational analysis would be, but it's really just a different way of figuring something out. One could even argue that what Data displays as intuition is not really intuition at all,

I've got to disagree that Spock's a good Captain, or as good as Data. Sure, he's ultra competent, and that's got to be worth something. But I think it's been established that he doesn't have the feel for the nuances of the job, which even he acknowledges at times. Early onhe struggled when left in a command position

Yep, you've hit that on the nose. The only thing worse than people who tell you you've lost weight when you haven't is once you've lost the weight, and people act so amazed at how much you've lost. I never knew what a fat ass I must have been…

Only if you LITERALLY buy the baby. What you've got to do is  "compensate her for living expenses" while she's pregnant. It's like paying a hooker for "time and companionship". Surely Julia's speaking in jest when she refers to it that way, she'll know how to draw up the papers correctly when the time comes to close

Well they're not about to show him rubbin' one out in front of the lap top, you know…

Maybe not ALL the plot points, but they immediately answered about 3 questions that were left open at the end of the episode. Probably more accurate to say the plot points for the next couple of episodes.

Not much. more or less just tied up the story lines about the way you'd expect. Adam apologized to christina and may or may not go in with crosby on the studio, Sara had a cheesy conversation with her manic pixie dream guy, and Julia told Alex that he's going to be prosecuted for hitting the teenager, and Alex told

Yeah, for as often as Adam has to be everyone's steady guy to rely on, you can always count on him to completely miss the point when it counts - but atleast he comes around quickly enough once he realizes he's wrong.

Almost, but we started watching on the DVR while it was still showing, so I was able to set the evening news to record afterwards so we could catch the end. turns out you're better missing it, because the "coming up" promo immediately spoils 2 or three of the questions this episode leaves hanging. they're not major

I'd rather let my kids watch the old-school 80's style violent movies than the PG-13 CGI violence that dominates modern movies. At least then the violence was real, and there were consequences to it. Some guy gets his head blown off, and you know he's fucking dead. These days you'll watch and entire city block get