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I started watching the old tv series Sliders yesterday. Only watched two episodes so far, but in the Pilot, communism had taken over the United States, and in episode 2, a Pandemic had taken over the Earth. Looking through the list of episodes, there’s one where hippies rule the US, one where Men are viewed as the weaker sex, and Hilary Clinton is President, and that’s just in the first few episodes. I found it strange how prophetic the series was. The “sliders” are trying to escape these worlds that today’s Left are trying to create.

Oh. I thought about whether this should go in the dark rooms, but it’s really about a TV show rather than politics; so I put it here.
 
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I'm currently watching the Stargate SG1 series in order of season and episode. In the past I've only sporadically watched a few episodes; however, my wife and I moved to a different location last June. Temporarily using an over-the-air-TV-antenna while moving into the new home, I began watching COMET TV late at night after unpacking boxes all day long. I got hooked on the series. Interestingly, there was a total of 214 episodes in a 10 year period when the series was originally on. Now the reruns are running three episodes per night.

Other TV series that I enjoyed in the past was Continuum and also Star Trek Enterprise. It seems Star Trek Enterprise was not as well received by Trekies as well as other Star Trek series were. I liked it because there were occasional minor systems indications indicating they a system was not working correctly causing the crew would wonder, "What's it (the ship) doing now." Scenarios like this occurred most often when the ship was leaving a space port after the completion of repairs on ships systems. Then a short while later for no reason the system on its own would begin working perfectly and never failed again. Stuff like that happens occasionally on mechanically technical equipment in real life. I thought it cool that the director's technical advisers would incorporate situations like that in this TV series.
 
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Try re-watching Quantum Leap. It's hard.

Back when it came out I enjoyed MacGyver. I re-watched a few of the old episodes recently and didn't realize how much it was portraying the liberal agenda.

OTOH, the local throw-back channel has Buck Rogers on nazi repeat; every Saturday the play an episode, relooping the two seasons. The first season was fun. The second season kinda sucks. The Wilma character wore a lot more mini-skirts, and she had the legs for it, but I hated the way they tried to "soften" the character. They didn't need to. She was smoke'n hot in those skin tight spandex Lamé catsuits too. And the writing went from hit-or-miss in the first season to 99% miss. <feh!> But the same channel has Linda Carter's Wonder Woman. I had such a crush on her back in the day. Stories are, like Buck Rogers, hit-or-miss. Watch it on mute. :)

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
 
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There's so much crap on TV these days that I've stopped watching much of it, particularly new content.

I enjoy watching TCM type movies, particularly some of the Sam Spade type flicks and a lot of the Thin Man series. I've also watched a good bit of streaming shows. I watched Man in the High Castle. It was OK but I didn't really like the ending. I watched The Boys second season and hated the meta-message. I may not watch Season 3. I started Amazon's Utopia but stopped at episode 2 because I hated the murder of a character for no apparent reason other than to show the viewer that who they think are "good guys" aren't. Screw that. I don't watch fiction to see humans being horrible to each other. I've got the 6 o'clock news for that.

I did watch the last Terminator flick. It was pretty good but deleted the two or three prior flicks; which pissed me off.

I started to re-watch Affleck's Daredevil but it is a pretty meh movie. Made me re-start the Netflix MCU Daredevil series, which is excellent. The intro ha s my favorite Weeping Angle.

I'm still watching the Walking Dead and spinoffs. They seem to be mostly avoiding politics, I think. But we'll see how The World Beyond plays out.

But I spend more time doing martial arts and gun stuff than TV.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
 
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I'm still watching the Walking Dead and spinoffs. They seem to be mostly avoiding politics, I think. But we'll see how The World Beyond plays out.
I never thought I would watch a zombie series, but this (The Original Walking Dead) had alot of firearms featured, so many that I began to get interested in identifying them. In seasons 1-8 there were so many firearms shown, sorry no Hi-Points, then after Negan was defeated and we went 10 years later, no more firearms are seen, just spears and such. I can't see firearms vanishing after 10 years when we living people have firearms over 100 years old.
 
#12 ·
One of the channels should rerun the Star Trek universe in Chronological order... Enterprise, Discovery, ST original, TNG, then Deep Space Nine.
 
#13 ·
BBC America runs them.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
 
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I started watching the old tv series Sliders yesterday. Only watched two episodes so far, but in the Pilot, communism had taken over the United States, and in episode 2, a Pandemic had taken over the Earth. Looking through the list of episodes, there's one where hippies rule the US, one where Men are viewed as the weaker sex, and Hilary Clinton is President, and that's just in the first few episodes. I found it strange how prophetic the series was. The "sliders" are trying to escape these worlds that today's Left are trying to create.

Oh. I thought about whether this should go in the dark rooms, but it's really about a TV show rather than politics; so I put it here.
I'm watching it right now on Comet.
 
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According to the book series by Richard Hatch, it's because the Cylons in the series are not true Cylons. According to the books, Cylons are actually a race of reptilians, and were actually on the verge of extinction, and losing the thousand yahren war when they created the robotic versions in the form of the Colonial human because the body shape was more "efficient". The Cylon Centurion Warrior class androids were designed for mass production, and to follow orders without much capacity for independent thought, therefore necessitating three Cylons to operate the Cylon Raider ships. Even then, they were not a formidable foe. It seems the Cylons took the strategy of sheer numbers over fighting capability. (Think ants) They did, however design the IL series androids whose form was designed around a thinking computer, but it limited their fighting capabilities. This series (the same series that the robot Imperious Leaders were elected from) could think and reason, and directed strategies and combat from a central location, and viewed the Cylon Centurions as expendable. That's why a single Colonial Warrior could take out multiple Cylon Raiders without much effort.

Also in the books, the theory that the robot Cylons overthrew their biological counterparts was misinformation spread by true Cylons in order for them to settle back into unknown space and repopulate before returning many years later (in the books) to reclaim their rightful place.

OK, so I'm an Original Battlestar geek!
 
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