Stark Trek, meh, I’d say that out of all scifi shows that I’ve watched Farscape was the most entertaining. Yet it seems to be completely forgotten by now.
About DS9, it does get better once you move into season three. After a great pilot it goes downhill season one did go downhill rapidly, though the season one ending In The Hands Of The Prophets does foreshadow where the series would go, which was a darker place than TNG. Although there are some great episodes in season two, the opening Bajoran trilogy or the Wire, it was really season three that things really pick up with the threat of war with the Dominion and the Klingons looming. And bringing Worf in was a great move because he stopped being the sissy he was on TNG and really got to be a warrior.
Voyager was pretty awful as well, though I think it did have it’s moment round about season 3/4. I gave up on it before the end though and could never get into Enterprise because by that point Star Trek was feeling very tired. But I would recommend you check out DS9 again, and start with season 3, you don’t really need any back story to be able to follow what’s going on and it is a vast improvement over the crappy season one.
Oh, man, you’re fooling yourselves. Hardcore Trekkies are much more likely to hate Voyager and Enterprise than the average viewer. I know I have nothing but disdain for them for the most part. (Voyager has a number of great episodes, and you could put together one decent season out of four season’s worth of Enterprise episodes.)
I have to confirm what others have said: that DS9 gets much, MUCH better over time. But you knew that already. Although I prefer Babylon 5 as well, its first season was comparatively weak as well.
On the one hand, I knew Spoony couldn’t resist doing a commentary. On the other, this was far more restrained than I was expecting. So I guess Spoony really did say what he needed to say without going Transformers 2 on us. Either way, works for me.
Oh, and Spoony, about your intros and closings…have you considered creating a character specifically for this purpose? I’m thinking like the Crypt Keeper or Rod Serling in the Twilight Zone. Serling in particular was good at making sure every story had some kind of point. I think wearing the Spooning with Spoony jacket while doing your best Serling impression could be interesting.
If anybody else out here has better ideas, then by all means toss ‘em out.
For that matter, if you don’t know what character to go with, try any character that comes to mind and have them audition for the part until one sticks.
Oh god I thought I’d seen that sherrif before, Ive watched nearly every episode of DS9 and I cant even recognise one of my favorite characters, argh!
as for acting you say benzai is a pretty good actor but you can do very convincing rage, when you go into a furor I find it much more convincing than The Nerd or NC, especially the one in bloodwings, just from watching you I felt the need to track down a copy and stick it in my microwave.
I love pretty much everything you do, Noah, but I do have one little gripe: can you please work on not looking at the viewscreen on the camera so much? In this review, it seemed like you spent three quarters of the time looking at the screen instead of into the camera at the audience. It’s kind of distracting. I know you’re trying to be sure that you and whatever you’re holding is in frame, but it always feels like you’re talking to someone over my shoulder or reading off a cue card or something. Otherwise keep up the great work – this was hilarious!
To be honest, I felt that this kept true to some of your old reveiws. You only have some skits in the beggining and end, and for the most part its just you ranting and playing through the game! That is why I really liked your revewies when I first found your stuff! None the less, good job.
^Kevin Holsinger: Come to think of it, I kind of like the sound of that. Maybe Spoony could toss in a bit of MST3K by being put through Forrester-esque experiment of seeing how many shitty movies and games a man can take, by Dr. Insano or Burton or whoever. Buuut then again, Insano overexposure is probably a bit of a delicate subject, so yeah.
I have to say, of all the Star Trek shows, Deep Space 9 was my least favourite. I mean, I didn’t hate it but I’d have to agree that Babylon 5 was way better. I think I only watched it because it was coming out on video at the local video store. Because you can forget about watching sci-fi shows on actual TV. I don’t know about over there in the US but over here you’d be lucky if they showed half a season on TV in between the football and tennis seasons. They didn’t even show the full 6 and 7th seasons of Voyager. They showed half of season 6 and then skipped to half way through season 7 effectively cutting out a hold season.
With Vagas, doesn’t it have some kind of thumbnail system? Whenever I start a project in it it takes at least a few minutes to proses the video into a thumbnail video that’s just used for editing. Though it I guess it might have something to do with all my footage being captured from camcorder DVDs.
Anyway, Loved your commentary and really liked the episode.
Well, overexposure with ANY character, not just Insano, could be a problem. Given that Spoony can go on for a minimum of twenty minutes per review, I don’t think he’d want to pull an AVGN and stay in character the entire time. So someone to open and close his reviews seems like the safest road to go.
You should give Nostalgia Critic some tips, your HD looks great and doesnt skip, dunno what’s wrong with NC vids these days but i can’t hardly watch them.
I loved this review, all the problems you had just made the review better and more umm…. Spoonier? Well without too much skits and more couch ranting.
She is the ‘boyfriend’ of some character? Oh my I had no idea she had one of those. XD Kidding I just heard that and this joke came to me. <.< Great commentary, and great review.
I’m with ya Spoony. I was a big fan of TNG, but DS9 started a big star trek downfall for me and B5 put the stake right through its heart. Voyager was mostly crap and I never really got back into Trek TV again. Even the movies were letting me down towards the end. Good thing they never made a DS9 movie like I heard rumors about.
And as for Soliel Moon Frye’s boobs….I sorta kinda wondered that myself. So I decided to check out some pics online and…..H O L Y S H ! T….she had PROBLEMS! Those things were HUGE! No wonder she got surgery. She’s hot, and I love boobs as much as the next guy, but I felt really bad for her. Her back musta been killing her. So, yeah, this movie was post op. She did it in ‘92 and this movie was in ‘94.
If I remember correctly, DS9 WAS a total Babylon 5 ripoff… Straczynski first tried to sell the show to Paramont, they said no, but when another studio then bought it, they immediately came up with their own show basically directly ripping off the proposition Straczynski had presented to them…
“Oh, man, you’re fooling yourselves. Hardcore Trekkies are much more likely to hate Voyager and Enterprise than the average viewer. I know I have nothing but disdain for them for the most part. (Voyager has a number of great episodes, and you could put together one decent season out of four season’s worth of Enterprise episodes.)”
I agree with you where Enterprise is concerned. Why would a hardcore trekkie hate that more than an average viewer? Because Enterprise completely ignored/contradicted the existing canon. Everything about that series, with the exception of the fourth season, doesn’t make sense when compared to the TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY timeline. That might have been excusable if Enterprise told interesting stories that attracted new fans, but it failed on both counts. It bombed and by the time they threw it to Coto for the fourth season, a guy who was actually interested in honoring the Star Trek canon while exploiting the prequel gimmick, the show was so unpopular that no one saw his work. Enterprise killed the Star Trek TV franchise and the original Star Trek timeline. How can trekkies not hate Enterprise for that?
I’m kinda a Trekkie and I liked DS9 – the cast is very good and Sisko is probably the most charismatic and bad-ass captain of them all. It started a bit slow and the last season (or two) were horrible but all in all it was far, FAR better than e.g. Voyager, which went back to the old starship formula (DS9 did too with the Defiant) but introduced a cast that was 100% unlikable (perhaps with the exception of the Doctor). DS9’s main problem, I think, was that it had this meta story-arc, where previous shows only had singled out episodes and recurring themes here and there or multi-part episodes for some longer stories.
My Star Trek (series) list would look like that:
1. The Next Generetion
2. Star Trek: The Original Series (very slightly behind TNG – it just depends what you like – it’s hilariously cheesy while TNG is quite deep and serious)
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
4. Star Trek: Enterprise (not far behind the rest – except for the title music and the last episode which shouldn’t have been made since the previous ones were fine enough for a finale I actually liked it)
6. Star Trek: The Animated Series (yes, I’m skipping 5, because it’s really is TOO cheesy)
893475983423984. Star Trek: Voyager
That’s coming from a guy who has a life-sized cardboard Mr. Spock standing in his living room. ^^
Man the fact you took the problems and turned it into a hilarious rant is awesome, honestly sometimes I think you’re at your best when you’re bitching about the topic at hand XD
But man, the stolen good things, and the cigarette instantly killing you, did they think they were making this game for kids? That they had to put in consequences for stealing and smoking? I mean it’s an R-rated movie, right!?
I’m glad you cut out the Black Hole thing, you don’t really need continuity man, we don’t care, even your Vlogs are great because you can just get in front of the camera and talk and still be interesting. But starting and ending anything is always hard, don’t be too hard on yourself. Well be a little hard on yourself, creative people have to :P
Like @33 Delthayre, I’m a fan of the structor/story you put into your videos. For example I’m a fan of Insano and loved some of the FFVIII videos where he had a big role. While there’s nothing wrong wih the earlier ones (Samurai Zombie Nation is one of my favourite reviews so far), I enjoy seeing all your videos tie together. They add some icing to an already awesome cake.
However if you chose to cut back on it, so be it. Long as the rants are enjoyable and the jokes split my sides I’m happy.
Also great job bringing in Linkara and Benzaie. Without a doubt they’re amoung my favourite talent on TGWTG.
I always like hearing your commentaries, and I never thought you would go on a killing rampage, if you did, you would’ve killed the entire Psygnosis team after the Microcosm review
Looks like some old Geanstealer picks stolen from some old 40K stuff at 4:55, space hulk maybe?. Games Workshop are extreamly protectove of their IP, so this game was obsure enough to escape their vigilant eyes;)
About Lance, in 3 and 4 he is supposed to be a ghost because if you summon Pumpkinhead you can’t go to heaven or hell and have to walk the earth forever or something like that.
I have been a fan of the first Pumpkinhead for years now. I was suprised to know you of all people hadn’t heard of it. I was also suprised that you liked it. I was waiting for you to tear into it briefly but was happy you thought it was good. XD
Awesome commentary btw!
I appreciate the continuity in your reviews, for what it’s worth. I like seeing how they all flow together and reference the past reviews – it doesn’t severely detract if you haven’t seen the others, but it adds to my enjoyment if I catch the references. Sort of like Terry Pratchett – you and he share a commonality that everything you do can be appreciated as a self-contained work, but if you watch/read in order, you also get to notice things others don’t.
I like voyager for just mindless entertainment lol, well a few episodes.. but I think the biggest thing that drew my attention at the time was big ol’ boobs (aka Jeri Ryan). DS9 was great when it got into the war.
I will agree though, Babylon 5 is superior to Star Trek and FAR FAR better than that piece of stolen shit, Star Wars.
Btw, youu forgot to talk about Linkara and why the green screen screwed up lol :P
He’s a tailor and spy-in-exile! He’s one of the most complex, interesting, compelling, and best-acted characters in ALL OF STAR TREK! Not to mention that, at the end of the series, he probably gets THE shortest end of the post-war stick.
1gb/min HD footage? Spoony, you have bigger problems in Vegas than RAM. Try preprocessing the captured footage into MP4 or something. At full 1920×1080 29.97 (or 60i, and 1440×1080 1.33PAR is for suckers), you should be seeing around 13gb an hour, not 60. Unless you got a RED…which’d be awesome… You can also try turning off dynamic preview so it doesn’t render into memory every single time you change one little thing. That’s what kills us over here, when you have 4 hours lined up and then nudge the first segment to insert a title and kaboom!
Heh, when I watched the review I remember thinking to myself that Linkara’s transparency was a neat effect. I never would have guessed it was a mistake.
I find DS9 to be the best science fiction series I have ever watched. You really need to watch the whole series. It builds up year after year, but the first two seasons drag because there are a lot of random science fiction episodes. Ds9 was at its best durings Seasons 1-2 when it focused on the characters and their backstories, not with the random episodes. Once the actual plot begins with the Dominion, and especially once Worf joins the cast, Ds9 is fantastic.Ds9 just ends well, much better than B5. Of course, Babylon 5 Seasons 2 -4 is some of the best science fiction I have ever watched, but the ending Season 5 drags, and like DS9 the first season is rough to watch. The thing about Ds9 is that it takes the ending storyline of Next Generation dealing with the Cardassians and the Bajorians and builds on that foundation. To me it felt like a continuation of a great show.By the way, Babylon 5 is the second best.
Voyager and Enterprise are simply torture. The biggest selling point of Voyager is Seven of Nine, and Enterprise, is Tupol. Voyager is by far the most incompentent crew of Starfleet and Enterprise deals so much with time travel that it even makes shows like Lost and Heroes seem subtle with time travel and they use time travel all the time. Rubbish.
Ugh. Deep Space 9 had no charismatic characters at all. That imposing bald black man just saying “The DEFIANT” in his low voice really ruined it for me. Also, there were way too many aliens such that it was a big freak show of hideus beings. Just a really dark, gloomy depressing show.
Voyager: WAY too sissy. Maybe Star Trek Ethics would be a better title for that series. I recall many many episodes where the holodeck nearly cost everyone their lives. After about the fouth time you’de think they’d take a slege hammer to the holodeck to prevent further problems.
I’d like to see what Spoony thinks of Adromena or whatever it was called. That has got to be one of the worst shows ever. The “heroes” just go around slaughtering people.
Soleil’s breasts were indeed fairly large, but I don’t believe the “36DD” measurements for a second, those things were Hs, maybe double or even triple. 36DD is bigger than average, but hardly huge, and certainly not of the proportions SMF was at. In any case, though part of my male chauvinist pig’s heart cries out at the loss of those magnificent breasts, it’s her choice at the end, and it’s a shame people just can’t respect it without making bad tit jokes.
Besides, not the end of the world. I’ve always got my beloved Milena Velba, Merilyn Sakova, Jana Defi, Rachel Aldana, Fuko, Hitomi Tanaka, Chloe Vevrier, Taylor Stevens, Christy Marks, Karina Hart, Michelle Monaghan, Lorna Morgan, Julia Nova, Maria Magdalena, Julia Sonnet, Ines Cudna, Nelli Roono, Bea Flora, Angela White, Nicole Peters…
(man, I totally have to turn in my Linkara Feminist Club membership card now…)
However there is some pretty good episodes in the first two seasons. The dialog and the characters were pretty good but only handicap by poor plot ideas and not taking advantages of the unique aspect of DS9 (not taking advantage of overarching themes, having standalone episodes and having TNG copycat episodes).
Also series one despite its relative poor standard. “Duet” is probably one of the best Star Trek episode of all time and it will be a disservice to skip that episode in watching DS9 series as it’s definitely in DS9 top ten episode and it’s also in my top 5 episodes of the entire Trek series of all time.
Just wanted to point out something about the bad green screen job.
You could’ve just as well created a matte out of the luminance values, Linkara was a lot darker than the brighter green.
You would’ve gotten better results.
Just to make a quick comment, I think your at your best when your trying to act psychotic and bewildered. And here’s one question, does this mean we won’t see the SpoonyBum anymore? I mean I know he isn’t the strongest character, but he’s still so adorably bad that I think we’d miss him!
One of your worst reviews? No, this is seriously one of your best reviews Spoony.
One reason beeing that you took something so godawful and made it so damm funny, thats your best point btw.
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Stark Trek, meh, I’d say that out of all scifi shows that I’ve watched Farscape was the most entertaining. Yet it seems to be completely forgotten by now.
About DS9, it does get better once you move into season three. After a great pilot it goes downhill season one did go downhill rapidly, though the season one ending In The Hands Of The Prophets does foreshadow where the series would go, which was a darker place than TNG. Although there are some great episodes in season two, the opening Bajoran trilogy or the Wire, it was really season three that things really pick up with the threat of war with the Dominion and the Klingons looming. And bringing Worf in was a great move because he stopped being the sissy he was on TNG and really got to be a warrior.
Voyager was pretty awful as well, though I think it did have it’s moment round about season 3/4. I gave up on it before the end though and could never get into Enterprise because by that point Star Trek was feeling very tired. But I would recommend you check out DS9 again, and start with season 3, you don’t really need any back story to be able to follow what’s going on and it is a vast improvement over the crappy season one.
Oh, man, you’re fooling yourselves. Hardcore Trekkies are much more likely to hate Voyager and Enterprise than the average viewer. I know I have nothing but disdain for them for the most part. (Voyager has a number of great episodes, and you could put together one decent season out of four season’s worth of Enterprise episodes.)
I have to confirm what others have said: that DS9 gets much, MUCH better over time. But you knew that already. Although I prefer Babylon 5 as well, its first season was comparatively weak as well.
Good morning Spoony, and fellow Spooners.
On the one hand, I knew Spoony couldn’t resist doing a commentary. On the other, this was far more restrained than I was expecting. So I guess Spoony really did say what he needed to say without going Transformers 2 on us. Either way, works for me.
Oh, and Spoony, about your intros and closings…have you considered creating a character specifically for this purpose? I’m thinking like the Crypt Keeper or Rod Serling in the Twilight Zone. Serling in particular was good at making sure every story had some kind of point. I think wearing the Spooning with Spoony jacket while doing your best Serling impression could be interesting.
If anybody else out here has better ideas, then by all means toss ‘em out.
For that matter, if you don’t know what character to go with, try any character that comes to mind and have them audition for the part until one sticks.
Oh god I thought I’d seen that sherrif before, Ive watched nearly every episode of DS9 and I cant even recognise one of my favorite characters, argh!
as for acting you say benzai is a pretty good actor but you can do very convincing rage, when you go into a furor I find it much more convincing than The Nerd or NC, especially the one in bloodwings, just from watching you I felt the need to track down a copy and stick it in my microwave.
I love pretty much everything you do, Noah, but I do have one little gripe: can you please work on not looking at the viewscreen on the camera so much? In this review, it seemed like you spent three quarters of the time looking at the screen instead of into the camera at the audience. It’s kind of distracting. I know you’re trying to be sure that you and whatever you’re holding is in frame, but it always feels like you’re talking to someone over my shoulder or reading off a cue card or something. Otherwise keep up the great work – this was hilarious!
To be honest, I felt that this kept true to some of your old reveiws. You only have some skits in the beggining and end, and for the most part its just you ranting and playing through the game! That is why I really liked your revewies when I first found your stuff! None the less, good job.
^Kevin Holsinger: Come to think of it, I kind of like the sound of that. Maybe Spoony could toss in a bit of MST3K by being put through Forrester-esque experiment of seeing how many shitty movies and games a man can take, by Dr. Insano or Burton or whoever. Buuut then again, Insano overexposure is probably a bit of a delicate subject, so yeah.
I have to say, of all the Star Trek shows, Deep Space 9 was my least favourite. I mean, I didn’t hate it but I’d have to agree that Babylon 5 was way better. I think I only watched it because it was coming out on video at the local video store. Because you can forget about watching sci-fi shows on actual TV. I don’t know about over there in the US but over here you’d be lucky if they showed half a season on TV in between the football and tennis seasons. They didn’t even show the full 6 and 7th seasons of Voyager. They showed half of season 6 and then skipped to half way through season 7 effectively cutting out a hold season.
With Vagas, doesn’t it have some kind of thumbnail system? Whenever I start a project in it it takes at least a few minutes to proses the video into a thumbnail video that’s just used for editing. Though it I guess it might have something to do with all my footage being captured from camcorder DVDs.
Anyway, Loved your commentary and really liked the episode.
goodtimesfreegrog
Well, overexposure with ANY character, not just Insano, could be a problem. Given that Spoony can go on for a minimum of twenty minutes per review, I don’t think he’d want to pull an AVGN and stay in character the entire time. So someone to open and close his reviews seems like the safest road to go.
You should give Nostalgia Critic some tips, your HD looks great and doesnt skip, dunno what’s wrong with NC vids these days but i can’t hardly watch them.
I loved this review, all the problems you had just made the review better and more umm…. Spoonier? Well without too much skits and more couch ranting.
When Spoony started talking about Voyager, I immediately thought of Linkara telling Neelix to shut the hell up.
Tuvok is a dick.
I found the review to be very enjoying. The excuses where justified on this game. :D
She is the ‘boyfriend’ of some character? Oh my I had no idea she had one of those. XD Kidding I just heard that and this joke came to me. <.< Great commentary, and great review.
I’m with ya Spoony. I was a big fan of TNG, but DS9 started a big star trek downfall for me and B5 put the stake right through its heart. Voyager was mostly crap and I never really got back into Trek TV again. Even the movies were letting me down towards the end. Good thing they never made a DS9 movie like I heard rumors about.
And as for Soliel Moon Frye’s boobs….I sorta kinda wondered that myself. So I decided to check out some pics online and…..H O L Y S H ! T….she had PROBLEMS! Those things were HUGE! No wonder she got surgery. She’s hot, and I love boobs as much as the next guy, but I felt really bad for her. Her back musta been killing her. So, yeah, this movie was post op. She did it in ‘92 and this movie was in ‘94.
so.. i just found out there is FOUR Pumpkin head films… the latest being made in 2007
crazy
If I remember correctly, DS9 WAS a total Babylon 5 ripoff… Straczynski first tried to sell the show to Paramont, they said no, but when another studio then bought it, they immediately came up with their own show basically directly ripping off the proposition Straczynski had presented to them…
Even if you didn’t watch DS9, he’s Sherriff Scorpio from Dirty Harry. COME ON
“Oh, man, you’re fooling yourselves. Hardcore Trekkies are much more likely to hate Voyager and Enterprise than the average viewer. I know I have nothing but disdain for them for the most part. (Voyager has a number of great episodes, and you could put together one decent season out of four season’s worth of Enterprise episodes.)”
I agree with you where Enterprise is concerned. Why would a hardcore trekkie hate that more than an average viewer? Because Enterprise completely ignored/contradicted the existing canon. Everything about that series, with the exception of the fourth season, doesn’t make sense when compared to the TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY timeline. That might have been excusable if Enterprise told interesting stories that attracted new fans, but it failed on both counts. It bombed and by the time they threw it to Coto for the fourth season, a guy who was actually interested in honoring the Star Trek canon while exploiting the prequel gimmick, the show was so unpopular that no one saw his work. Enterprise killed the Star Trek TV franchise and the original Star Trek timeline. How can trekkies not hate Enterprise for that?
I’m kinda a Trekkie and I liked DS9 – the cast is very good and Sisko is probably the most charismatic and bad-ass captain of them all. It started a bit slow and the last season (or two) were horrible but all in all it was far, FAR better than e.g. Voyager, which went back to the old starship formula (DS9 did too with the Defiant) but introduced a cast that was 100% unlikable (perhaps with the exception of the Doctor). DS9’s main problem, I think, was that it had this meta story-arc, where previous shows only had singled out episodes and recurring themes here and there or multi-part episodes for some longer stories.
My Star Trek (series) list would look like that:
1. The Next Generetion
2. Star Trek: The Original Series (very slightly behind TNG – it just depends what you like – it’s hilariously cheesy while TNG is quite deep and serious)
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
4. Star Trek: Enterprise (not far behind the rest – except for the title music and the last episode which shouldn’t have been made since the previous ones were fine enough for a finale I actually liked it)
6. Star Trek: The Animated Series (yes, I’m skipping 5, because it’s really is TOO cheesy)
893475983423984. Star Trek: Voyager
That’s coming from a guy who has a life-sized cardboard Mr. Spock standing in his living room. ^^
I’m not a hardcore trekkie, but I love Voyager. :P
I prefer it over TNG, to be honest.
My list goes:
TOS
Voy
TNG
Ent
DS9
Not seen any others, but yeah. I thought I’d hate Voyager, but when I watched it, I got really into it. XD
Man the fact you took the problems and turned it into a hilarious rant is awesome, honestly sometimes I think you’re at your best when you’re bitching about the topic at hand XD
But man, the stolen good things, and the cigarette instantly killing you, did they think they were making this game for kids? That they had to put in consequences for stealing and smoking? I mean it’s an R-rated movie, right!?
I’m glad you cut out the Black Hole thing, you don’t really need continuity man, we don’t care, even your Vlogs are great because you can just get in front of the camera and talk and still be interesting. But starting and ending anything is always hard, don’t be too hard on yourself. Well be a little hard on yourself, creative people have to :P
Like @33 Delthayre, I’m a fan of the structor/story you put into your videos. For example I’m a fan of Insano and loved some of the FFVIII videos where he had a big role. While there’s nothing wrong wih the earlier ones (Samurai Zombie Nation is one of my favourite reviews so far), I enjoy seeing all your videos tie together. They add some icing to an already awesome cake.
However if you chose to cut back on it, so be it. Long as the rants are enjoyable and the jokes split my sides I’m happy.
Also great job bringing in Linkara and Benzaie. Without a doubt they’re amoung my favourite talent on TGWTG.
I always like hearing your commentaries, and I never thought you would go on a killing rampage, if you did, you would’ve killed the entire Psygnosis team after the Microcosm review
Looks like some old Geanstealer picks stolen from some old 40K stuff at 4:55, space hulk maybe?. Games Workshop are extreamly protectove of their IP, so this game was obsure enough to escape their vigilant eyes;)
About Lance, in 3 and 4 he is supposed to be a ghost because if you summon Pumpkinhead you can’t go to heaven or hell and have to walk the earth forever or something like that.
I have been a fan of the first Pumpkinhead for years now. I was suprised to know you of all people hadn’t heard of it. I was also suprised that you liked it. I was waiting for you to tear into it briefly but was happy you thought it was good. XD
Awesome commentary btw!
@ Continuity
I appreciate the continuity in your reviews, for what it’s worth. I like seeing how they all flow together and reference the past reviews – it doesn’t severely detract if you haven’t seen the others, but it adds to my enjoyment if I catch the references. Sort of like Terry Pratchett – you and he share a commonality that everything you do can be appreciated as a self-contained work, but if you watch/read in order, you also get to notice things others don’t.
I like voyager for just mindless entertainment lol, well a few episodes.. but I think the biggest thing that drew my attention at the time was big ol’ boobs (aka Jeri Ryan). DS9 was great when it got into the war.
I will agree though, Babylon 5 is superior to Star Trek and FAR FAR better than that piece of stolen shit, Star Wars.
Btw, youu forgot to talk about Linkara and why the green screen screwed up lol :P
oh wait, my bad, you did get to it lol. Just got to the end (figured you’d have forgotten)
Cardassian barber?
BARBER?!?
He’s a tailor and spy-in-exile! He’s one of the most complex, interesting, compelling, and best-acted characters in ALL OF STAR TREK! Not to mention that, at the end of the series, he probably gets THE shortest end of the post-war stick.
Pff… barber…
1gb/min HD footage? Spoony, you have bigger problems in Vegas than RAM. Try preprocessing the captured footage into MP4 or something. At full 1920×1080 29.97 (or 60i, and 1440×1080 1.33PAR is for suckers), you should be seeing around 13gb an hour, not 60. Unless you got a RED…which’d be awesome… You can also try turning off dynamic preview so it doesn’t render into memory every single time you change one little thing. That’s what kills us over here, when you have 4 hours lined up and then nudge the first segment to insert a title and kaboom!
Heh, when I watched the review I remember thinking to myself that Linkara’s transparency was a neat effect. I never would have guessed it was a mistake.
Voyager is the only Star Trek movie I liked.
The sheriff also played the dad in Clive Barker’s first Hellraiser movie. He steals the show in the final scene of the movie: “Jesus wept…”
I literally almost choked to death on pizza when Spoony talked about the kids driving with their lights off
Voyager wasn’t that bad… and Enterprise Seasons 3 and 4 were pretty good.
I find DS9 to be the best science fiction series I have ever watched. You really need to watch the whole series. It builds up year after year, but the first two seasons drag because there are a lot of random science fiction episodes. Ds9 was at its best durings Seasons 1-2 when it focused on the characters and their backstories, not with the random episodes. Once the actual plot begins with the Dominion, and especially once Worf joins the cast, Ds9 is fantastic.Ds9 just ends well, much better than B5. Of course, Babylon 5 Seasons 2 -4 is some of the best science fiction I have ever watched, but the ending Season 5 drags, and like DS9 the first season is rough to watch. The thing about Ds9 is that it takes the ending storyline of Next Generation dealing with the Cardassians and the Bajorians and builds on that foundation. To me it felt like a continuation of a great show.By the way, Babylon 5 is the second best.
Voyager and Enterprise are simply torture. The biggest selling point of Voyager is Seven of Nine, and Enterprise, is Tupol. Voyager is by far the most incompentent crew of Starfleet and Enterprise deals so much with time travel that it even makes shows like Lost and Heroes seem subtle with time travel and they use time travel all the time. Rubbish.
Ugh. Deep Space 9 had no charismatic characters at all. That imposing bald black man just saying “The DEFIANT” in his low voice really ruined it for me. Also, there were way too many aliens such that it was a big freak show of hideus beings. Just a really dark, gloomy depressing show.
Voyager: WAY too sissy. Maybe Star Trek Ethics would be a better title for that series. I recall many many episodes where the holodeck nearly cost everyone their lives. After about the fouth time you’de think they’d take a slege hammer to the holodeck to prevent further problems.
I’d like to see what Spoony thinks of Adromena or whatever it was called. That has got to be one of the worst shows ever. The “heroes” just go around slaughtering people.
what? did nobody point out that the sheriff was also Kirsty’s father in Hellraiser?
Soleil’s breasts were indeed fairly large, but I don’t believe the “36DD” measurements for a second, those things were Hs, maybe double or even triple. 36DD is bigger than average, but hardly huge, and certainly not of the proportions SMF was at. In any case, though part of my male chauvinist pig’s heart cries out at the loss of those magnificent breasts, it’s her choice at the end, and it’s a shame people just can’t respect it without making bad tit jokes.
Besides, not the end of the world. I’ve always got my beloved Milena Velba, Merilyn Sakova, Jana Defi, Rachel Aldana, Fuko, Hitomi Tanaka, Chloe Vevrier, Taylor Stevens, Christy Marks, Karina Hart, Michelle Monaghan, Lorna Morgan, Julia Nova, Maria Magdalena, Julia Sonnet, Ines Cudna, Nelli Roono, Bea Flora, Angela White, Nicole Peters…
(man, I totally have to turn in my Linkara Feminist Club membership card now…)
The series picked up in series 3
However there is some pretty good episodes in the first two seasons. The dialog and the characters were pretty good but only handicap by poor plot ideas and not taking advantages of the unique aspect of DS9 (not taking advantage of overarching themes, having standalone episodes and having TNG copycat episodes).
Also series one despite its relative poor standard. “Duet” is probably one of the best Star Trek episode of all time and it will be a disservice to skip that episode in watching DS9 series as it’s definitely in DS9 top ten episode and it’s also in my top 5 episodes of the entire Trek series of all time.
Glad you’re ok, Spoony. I’ve been showing everyone I know your review, it’s so hilarious!
If you hate Voyager, or really any other bad Star Trek episode, checkout sfdebris on youtube.
Just wanted to point out something about the bad green screen job.
You could’ve just as well created a matte out of the luminance values, Linkara was a lot darker than the brighter green.
You would’ve gotten better results.
Just to make a quick comment, I think your at your best when your trying to act psychotic and bewildered. And here’s one question, does this mean we won’t see the SpoonyBum anymore? I mean I know he isn’t the strongest character, but he’s still so adorably bad that I think we’d miss him!
One of your worst reviews? No, this is seriously one of your best reviews Spoony.
One reason beeing that you took something so godawful and made it so damm funny, thats your best point btw.
Don’t lose heart over this, its awsome.
The line that cracked me up the most is when you said “I still feel dirty like I paid to have sex with a monkey, A Dude Monkey.” lmao!
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