He died last year.
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My first thought was that you might have been talking about Time's Arrow, but you might be referring to Thine Own Self, in which he's on a Renaissance-level planet and works the science out to figure out who he is.
I keep thinking this is the best way to adapt TV shows to the screen. I want a Simpsons movie like 22 Stories about Springfield, or a Star Trek movie like the games Judgement Rites or A Final Unity.
Okay then cast actual Iranians. Stars don't just appear out of nowhere. Someone has to take a risk at some point.
Perhaps Andrew Robinson should have played Dolenz instead of Liberace?
I think there were definitely ways to sneak the darker themes into an ABC sitcom. One aspect is that real-life Louis is basically like TV Louis in that he portrays himself that way to the public. But according to the book, that's a facade, and in private he's a passive-aggressive bully.
I remember The Dark Knight's pencil trick, Glasgow smile explanations, and nurse scene much more than the other references. I only saw Batman Begins once, in theaters, and I got there late, so that line might not have had the payoff intended for me.
I think the difference is that in the 70s-90s, there was a clear line between R-rated thrillers like the movies you cite, and the more family-friendly superhero movies. The problem is that pretty much all of these movies have met in the middle, roughly around hard-PG-13, so that now there really aren't suitable…
My problem is less about the dark events than the way newer films treat these events. Death happened in classics from the 70s through 90s, but it was shown as a bad thing to try to stop. Now, death is considered cheap, and vengeance considered a valid excuse for bending and breaking rules of fair play and justice.
Candy-colored movies where cities are routinely leveled. Comic book movies didn't really do that in the 90s, generally confining themselves to one city and more manageable stakes, instead of artificially inflating them and showing the heroes lose anyway. Actually, they're not even candy-colored anymore, as many of…
As much as I've railed against movies that treat the deaths of millions and billions as cheap, I've surprised myself at how much I think Independence Day generally has the lighter tone that I miss from 90s blockbusters—except for the billions killed. That movie was a big deal in 1996.
From what little I remember of the film, having snuck in to check out a bit of the first one, I wasn't a fan of its ideology. But the tone and the pacifistic brains over brawn philosophy are sorely needed today, when even the sunniest franchises like Superman and Star Trek are soaked in bleak destruction and violence.
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The NX-01 used their shipboard transporters, invented by human Emory Erickson, in the series premiere. They did eventually get photon torpedoes; they just called them photonic torpedoes and were at least on par with those developed by the Vulcans, but I don't think the Vulcans supplied that particular technology.
Fuller didn't have anything to do with ENT, so we can't know if he would have saved ENT. But they had all of those technologies, except shields.
The first episode will be broadcast on CBS, so that people can sample it before deciding to pay for the service.
Anything except for the JJ-era. Nero's incursion caused a divergent timeline, commonly referred to by fans, and Saldana's Uhura, as the "alternate reality." This means that anything after he appears can, and has, happened in a way completely different from history as it's known in the Star Trek universe since Kirk's…
What was new to the Federation was the revelation that Trill are a joined species. But McCoy had a relationship with Emony Dax, and surely at least Spock and Kirk knew Curzon, as an ambassador at Khitomer.
I hope not. Every generation has a death of an official Beatle: Stu Sutcliffe in 1962, John Lennon in 1980, and George Harrison in 2001. I think we're still probably at least five years away from another one, hopefully. Then again around 2040, then Pete Best will live to be 120.
DS9 struck the perfect balance, both in terms of serialization, and darkness. TV now is a bit too dark and a bit too serialized.