So before, you were just using it?
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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x05 - "Choose Your Pain"
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The "this is so fucking cool!" just felt like it was thrown in there because we must tick off the cussing box.
I mean, Klingon beating someone's ass, I could see after the Klingon leaves the victim says, "Fucking Klingons," or "fuck me!". Or if a menacing ship arrives, "Oh fuck! Look at that."
But Miss Special Perkypants just has to scream it out for no real good reason. Yanked me right out of the show. It was as eye-rolling as Carol Marcus's gratuitous bra and panty shot in the Abrams movie. Totally stupid.
I mean, Klingon beating someone's ass, I could see after the Klingon leaves the victim says, "Fucking Klingons," or "fuck me!". Or if a menacing ship arrives, "Oh fuck! Look at that."
But Miss Special Perkypants just has to scream it out for no real good reason. Yanked me right out of the show. It was as eye-rolling as Carol Marcus's gratuitous bra and panty shot in the Abrams movie. Totally stupid.
mmmm.... bra and panties....
Miss Special Perkypants
I don't know. My biggest problem with the "fucking cool"-scene was that the science they together did beforehand was SUPER wonky, like warp-10 Salamander-wonky, and that it IMO wasn't as big a breakthrough to deserve such exclamation.
But with the f-word itself? I had no problem with it. Maybe because I fucking like to swear myself a lot...
Then again, might be because I'm European, cussing and nudity are a lot more accepted here, while violence usually is a bit more problematic. And indeed, I think the level of violence/gore on this show is a bit above of what I like in my corny space-opera. This ain't Full Metal Jacket (or BSG for that matter).
1. They may not be using Universal Translators. Either because they do not have them, or they don't want to use them during wartime, because of spies shouldn't get too much help blending in, or that they don't want the crew in a tower of babel situation if the power goes down. Universal translators get rid of curse words, or they can get rid of curse words depending on how prudish the person in charge is.
2. Tilly may be 16 years old.
2. Tilly may be 16 years old.
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Think I will go watch the film again, well a certain part of it anyway.
Hitler lived in Germany and would be able to see the show on Netflix - pretty sure this is a big continuity error.
T'Bonz characterized it correctly
It wasn't that it was shocking or unacceptable in a puritanical way (hell, I swear too much for my own good) - the f bomb was used out of place. It didn't feel natural.
Yeah. Comes totally out of the blue and didn't seem organic to the character at all. Tilly hadn't even used mild oaths before, had she?
Considering how rare such language seems to be in the Trek-verse, it made Tilly seem kinda dim.
He may also be able to see Downfall, which is a hell of a lot better than how out of hand these stupid YouTube videos have gotten.
Tilly loves feeling feelings.
Anti-Vulcan = Romulan.
Anti-Vulcan = Romulan.
What movie is this?
I like the idea - dropping the very first F-bomb in Star Trek in a positive way, while having a breakthrough in science no less - a lot more than the actual execution of this idea in this episode. IMO it would have been way more appropriate after, say, the very first spore-drive jump, or something equally impressive. As it were, the cause for the f-bomb seemed so... mundane... compared to other suff we already have seen on Star Trek. Nothing were an easily impressed character really would loose their shit.
It would have been funny had Zefram Cochrane used a pretty obvious obscenity right after the Phoenix first jumped to warp. I know it might no longer have been a PG film at that point and the studio wanted as family-friendly a Star Trek film as possible, but to have Cochrane say something like "HOLY S**T, THIS IS F-ING WILD" right as his ship breaks the light barrier would have been entertaining. Cut to Geordi and Riker smiling and looking at one another.
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She reminds me of a lot of college kids. Frankly, the fact she doesn't say "f-ing" more often makes me wonder if she's really a human female.
(*Starts "Tilly is Really a Klingon Spy" thread*)
(*Starts "Tilly is Really a Klingon Spy" thread*)
PG-13 movies can usually get away with one F-bomb that isn't used in a sexual way. It would have been the next logical step from Data's language in GEN.
I think society has actually gotten more prude about this over the years. In the old days, if a movie had educational/historic value, it could possibly get a more permissive rating on appeal... for instance, All the President's Men with twenty-five F-bombs in 1976, with a PG rating. I don't understand why The King's Speech didn't get the same treatment.
But anyway, it felt forced in STD. It would have made more sense in the Klingon prison ship scenes.
Kor
ID, ENT and Discovery have now all had their undies moment.
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