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OK, so the humor level is about 6th Grade, but it's still more fun than watching the first Star Wars again.

Well if we're going back to middle school, why not pull out Puella Magi Madoka Magica? Probably the best five hours of entertainment of the 21st century. But don't take it from me, take it from snarky and cynical sci-fi critic Charles Sonnenburg (sfdebris.com) who said that he was "sorry to gush" but even though he was "snarling at the checkout - do you want to share this purchase with your friends on Facebook? Fuck you!!" and "this series had a lot to prove", he ultimately decided "if I could convince you to sample any one series that I've reviewed, this would be it." - ranking it above all incarnations of Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape, Babylon V, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Firefly, the Twilight Zone, and more.

(Hilariously, even the fact that this series is as awesome as it is, is kind of a major spoiler...)

"The Celestial Toymaker" you can watch the review here which includes the nigger line. You have to remember it was 1964 and the actor was in his 40s so its not like its shocking,just compared to our time.

Actually according to Chuck at SFDebris it WAS true at one time,late 80s/early 90s, but they were destroyed along with the TV station and half the countryside during the civil war.

Fair enough, I somehow assumed a slightly higher age for the kids (no offense intended!)

I wouldn't conciser it any sort of dad-fail myself.
In fact if anything I'd only suggest the 4th season ep "The Drumhead" (The Debris review) - A classic conspiracy story

I call bullshit, Braga may have caved but Berman was producer and had more clout. Its well known he is the one that made first contact a time travel movie (even wanted Borg in the middle ages, how retarded) and it was Berman that kept insisting on the reset button for Voyager. I wish I could find a link because I saw an interview with Beltran once (Chakotay) and he said that they basically refused to listen to the actors so much that Robert Picardo simply flat refused to say the horrible dialog they kept shoving him and simply wrote his own which is why the Doc usually had decent character development.

If you haven't watched it head over sometime to SFDebris and watch his reviews because he will often point out the behind the scenes stuff to show where and why things went right or wrong. Basically by the third season of Voyager Trek was the Berman and Braga show, with Berman giving all the retarded "More sex" bits (Jeri Ryan saying that Berman was actually upset when he found out after hiring her that her huge tits were the result of having just given birth when they returned to normal size the outfits got tighter to the point she couldn't hardly breathe) and Braga having no damned clue about character development and keeping each character basically the same as they were when they started. No growth, no changes, even when the Doc had a breakdown after having to choose between one crewman or another living it was never added to his character after that, just another reset by Braga.

To me what makes it extra sad is if they had just listened to the fans those two shows could have been fucking great. I remember reading that when Josh Whedon would get stuck on BtVS or Angel he would often head to the forums (under a different name of course) and simply ask THEM what they thought should happen next and he said damned if they didn't come up with excellent ideas and occasionally give him a smacking, such as he wanted to pursue commercialism with the double meat palace bit and they shot it down, saying it was demeaning to the character. If they would have simply asked the fans they would have known that Chakotay and Seven a couple was fucking retarded, everyone thought it would make more sense for the Doc or even Janeway, the fans would have gotten behind year of hell and thought it would have made for great character growth, seeing them make allies, fight and flee, but instead they just kept hitting the reset or in the case of Enterprise handing the idiot ball to Archer.

I personally don't think Blalock was a bad actress, it felt like that she like Beltran simply got pissed and decided to phone it in. The interview with Beltran he basically apologized to the fans but said they simply wouldn't let Chakotay grow or feel, he was just the smiling sidekick and he didn't have the pull that Picardo had so he couldn't just write his own dialog and thus gave up. he wanted to explore how being betrayed twice (Tuvok and Seska) would affect his ability to trust and lead, see how his crew and Janeway's would butt heads and try to become a group, but he said all his ideas were shot down and by the last 2 years it was the Seven Of nine show. Not that he blamed Ryan, he said she was sweet and great to work with, just that the B&B wanted to shove her tits and ass in the screen as much as possible so every other episode became her or the Doc on account of the fans loving Picardo.

Its just a damned shame, if they would have listened to the fans, especially on VOY, they could have had a truly great series that might have even been darker and with more thought provoking episodes than even DS9. Hell the fan fics were better than half the plots B&B came up with for the last years of VOY and ENT, and while I heard ENT got better by the last year frankly after watching the first two seasons and seeing the idiot ball handed to Archer so many times that any hope of that moron commanding a ship being believable was just gone for me by then, I loved trek but I just

Fans of this logical style might wish to study Monty Python: A lesson in logical thought"...

Cold Fusion?

Let's not burn any witches yet until we've without a doubt verified that they're indeed witches!

If it floats, it's a duck and thus must be a witch...If it sinks......

Actually, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, and therefore is a witch.