…I'm not sure which TNG you watched, but in the TNG that aired in MY timeline, the Wesley-centric episodes were heavily correlated with those with insufferably preachy stories - mostly because those two elements were heavily centered in Season 1.

…Buh?

Advertising isn't art. That is not a good comparison. Well, I guess it could be argued that some of the more transcendent and pervasive advertising can be art, but otherwise, I doubt you'll ever get anyone arguing that those kind of ads should be preserved except for maybe the nostalgia/schlock factor. Art and…

Yeah, I hear you. Though I did like "I, Borg" for the examination of the individuality aspect, though that really set the table for the deterioration, and by the time of "Descent" it was clear they were just robotic minions. I introduced my girlfriend to TNG over the last couple years and even she noticed this, and…

I'm a Doctor Who fan who would love to see missing episodes restored, though I have neither the time or interest to nerd out over the technical details. I thought I heard some theory about possibly cans of film surviving in war-torn African countries and thus being kind of, um, hard to retrieve at the moment (how they…

Considering the breakthroughs that have happened in medicine and science since then, I'd say it is.

I actually read an interesting theory once that in case of an EMP or other apocalyptic scenario, the more low-tech the method of preserving information, the more likely it is to survive. On one end of the spectrum, you have information carved in big-ass stone blocks, and on the other, you have, I guess, thumb drives.…

Yeah, it actually kind of irritates me that the versions of the TOS episodes that are most readily available on Netflix and everywhere are ones with remastered space and SFX footage. I'm a purist. If I'm watching a show from the '60s, I want to see it how it originally looked, not changed to how it might look if it…

I finally got around to finishing Voyager recently, after having written it off for so long. It wasn't as bad as I'd imagined, in fact I'd say most of the characters were likable, but the writing was godawful more often than not.

OK, you have a point, and I've never been a quality nerd. It just sounded like the person I was arguing with was asserting that preserving culture isn't important.

Yeah, but B5 was such a great story that I don't care. At least, once you get past the very rough first season. Hell, it took me a few tries just to make it through "The Gathering", and I can see people being turned off right there, but Seasons 2-4 were some of the best TV I've ever seen.

I know that comment was facetious, but it still would have sounded better in my head if you hadn't specifically said "titties".

It's called "preserving culture". Some people find value in such a thing even if it's not their "favorite" show, so to speak. Is culture not important? And are there any degrees of badness, to you, between "the end of the world", and "not bad at all"?

Ian Gillan? You mean the Deep Purple guy? Yeah, I liked Deep Purple. Not the band calling itself "Black Sabbath" when it was half Deep Purple.

Black Sabbath drinking game: Put on one of the first three albums and drink every time Ozzy says "Oh Lord yeah!" or "All right now!"

Kirk totally had a colony of nose-goblins starting new life on the underside of the Enterprise captain's chair. They could have done an episode on that.

Dude, face it, Ozzy is ageless. He and Keith Richards have immunity to death. When all other celebrities we know are dead of old age and/or the Trumpocalypse, those two will still be hanging out, feasting on dead souls.

I'll say it: Rhoads was better than Eddie Van Halen.

OK, granted. If we are only arguing semantics, then yes, your statement is not untrue.

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