Scythus
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Quote:This is the Internets. It's serious business!Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I suppose if Flarstux said the same thing about a Supperman movie with a brown-eyed Superman, he'd take just as much flak?
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Quote:Oh lord....Originally Posted by Verene
Don't worry, I'm sure the VIP server will feel like a hybrid of freedom and virtue.
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Like I said earlier, Atlas Park is like Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy whereas Galaxy City is Ensign John. Guess who's expendable?
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Quote:Oh horrors upon horrors, I agree with Venture again!Originally Posted by Venture
No Babylon 5 = epic fail.
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Quote:Getting a purple in Praetoria is unlikely.Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
I am trying to level up .. Of course I kill every mob on the map. LOL I want every drop of XP, every bit of potential salvage and every single recipes that ,MAY be attached to a mob in every mission.
And if you think that's silly I did an ITF once and we completed the TF taking down Rommi. About 3 or 4 of the members immediately disappeared outside while the rest of us cleaned up the remaining mobs near the plaza. I got a Purple drop during that short time that I sold for 300 million. Of course by that time the quick to run teammates were gone but don't you think they'd be kicking themselves wondering.. "If I'd stayed inside I might have gotten that!" LOL
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I think Flarstux needs to come with his own sarcasm disclaimer.
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Quote:See, you even misinterpret my dissection of your post to expose what I saw as egotistical as a compliment. You see the average person as stupid and you always see yourself as right when you may actually be in fact be wrong. That is what I was highlighting.Originally Posted by Durakken
I didn't say I was smart. How does saying the average person is stupid translate to I'm smart. Unless you think I'm not the average person and thus you hold the opinion I'm smart and defeat you're own argument >.> but like I said, let's stop yes?
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Quote:Um... that's a pretty inflated opinion of yourself.Originally Posted by Durakken
Also, considering how stupid the average person is .... just like saying I am wrong even when I'm not,
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Huh... Momoa looks like Conan to me. Hell, even Rodney McKay called his Ronon Dex character Conan.
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Quote:Considering how often I see you in this folder saying wrong things wrongly with everyone and their grandmother arguing with you, I don't think I'm the one in error here.Originally Posted by Durakken
There was quite a bit from what I remember. I'm not going to rewatch it to list it off. I don't commit these things to memory you know, but from what I remember there are large character changes. They aren't gradual and a lot of times they change from episode to episode.
Also I feel you are definitely blind to these things as they happen in every series to varying amounts. To say that there was none shows that you are blind to it, but that's ok. -
Quote:I frankly disagree. There was nothing wrong with the characterization. I'm pretty certain now that you're confusing Farscape with a completely different show. The characters as far as I could tell were pretty consistent in their developing stories.Originally Posted by Durakken
You are not reading what I said right.
Filler is not what makes it have those qualities which which is what you are arguing. I'm saying that there are a lot of bad characterization and things that were used as filler that didn't actually work within what they were doing.
Maybe it's the quaint concept character development that's striking you oddly? Y'know, subtle changes in personality to show that the character has grown. I know, it's a hard concept for some people to swallow.
....Quote:The plot points are all spot on, but just because it didn't matter to the overall plot, they took it as a license to just throw anything at the wall whether it clashed with what was going on or the characters or not.
You have just defined the very basics of a filler episode.
There was nothing like that in Farscape, so clearly you are talking about a completely different show.Quote:as a point of reference... those stupid numbers that everyone talks about when they talk about lost as if they ever meant anything. That's filler. -
Quote:Umm... but yes you did.Originally Posted by Durakken
I did not say filler.
You are so frelling full of drin.Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Just because it has over arching storylines doesn't mean it didn't just make a bunch of stuff up randomly to progress through those plotlines or as filler or that it had good writing. -
Quote:It's because Galaxy is the redshirt zone while Atlas is a "main character" type of zone. As you know from watching Star Trek, redshirts are expendable.Originally Posted by Flarstux
Why can't they just leave Galaxy City alone and put the big brouhaha in a whole new zone somewhere in the gaps between the existing zones? And if they simply MUST destroy an existing zone for dramatic effect, well, destroying Galaxy City is pretty meh. Why not go for the gusto and wipe out Atlas Park?
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Quote:If you're equating filler episodes with "making it up as they go along" then you might as well say that a show as tightly written as Babylon 5 was "making it up as they go." Filler episodes are filler episodes; they allow the writers a little more freedom to do something that isn't in the story bible. Every damn TV series has them!Originally Posted by Durakken
Just because it has over arching storylines doesn't mean it didn't just make a bunch of stuff up randomly to progress through those plotlines or as filler or that it had good writing.
The story arcs exist as a means of direction, and it was clear to me that as soon as Jim Henson Studios had all the elements they introduced over the course of the first season, they had a definite idea of where they wanted to go from there. And they stated as much. Hell, even during the DVD interviews from the first season set, they mention likely possibilities for future story arcs, and guess what? A lot of them wound up happening. They were not just playing it by ear.
Meanwhile on the other hand, we have the X-Files where we have so much wandering garbage, I can't figure out if Mulder's sister was killed, a continued prisoner of the aliens, or ******* cloned. Nor am I able to figure out what's up with the aliens, whether the shapeshifters are greys or if they're separate from the greys or what the **** these "resistance" guys are with the sewn up orifices or if all the black oil are from greys or only some of it or if the Syndicate was working with or against the greys etc. etc. etc.
X-Files storylines were a ******* mess because they WERE making **** up as they went. Whereas I can watch Farscape from start to end (which I have, thanks to it having been syndicated once recently) and it all falls together rather nicely and I pick up hints in earlier episodes that are eventually explored in later episodes.
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Quote:I was also in my twenties when it was on. I also have seen the show in syndication since its complete run. I also have the first season on DVD. I have seen nothing that would imply that they were "making it up as they went along." As a matter of fact, it was even stated that each of the major arcs had been roughly planned out before most of the show. Hell, you remember the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries? If Syfylis hadn't cancelled the show before its fifth season, that was going to be one of its two major arcs, thus all the lead in from the fourth season with the Scarrans rattling their sabers.Originally Posted by Durakken
... Technically yes, but from the point of view of how one views it and what one brings to the table, probably not.
You probably saw farscape when it first came out and watched over the course of several years and probably haven't seen it since.
I saw farscape less than 12 months ago over the course of a few days.
Without including anything else like age, this means that when I saw it i developed my impression of the show and then saw how it changed almost instantly while you were less sensitive to the changes and more accepting because you created extra story in your head between viewings since each episode was a week or more apart and told over the span of several years.
Now if I assume you're around the same age as I am we likely had very different points of view since I saw this in my mid 20s and you in your mid to late teens. And not to mention we probably have very different world views, knowledge bases, and life experiences in general so even if we saw this at the same time over the same amount of time we'd likely see different things in the same series.
So whether we saw the same show or not... that's quite a hard question to answer.
The other major fifth season arc was going to be the long-awaited Chiana-centric storyline concerning the Nebari government's evil venereal disease plot that would frell up half the galaxy and the resistance that her brother was in.
As for the person who said it "went off the rails" in later seasons, someone clearly needs to watch the show again and consider all the wormhole plots and also pay special attention to the 4th season episode where they go to Earth. Both the wormhole stuff and the need to find Earth again had been omnipresent themes throughout the show since EPISODE 1!! -
Quote:Did we watch the same show? Because I frankly saw nothing of the sort.Originally Posted by Durakken
Actually, Farscape pretty much just made stuff up as they went along and a lot of it is readily apparent. There are a lot of continuity errors and characterization problems throughout.
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Ugh... Farscape at only number 8 and lower than the X-Files of all the shows they chose or omitted? Farscape was a million times better than the X-Files, which was frankly just making stuff up as it went along and had no distinct direction. The last few seasons of the X-Files were frankly unwatchable as you became more and more aware of this fact. Farscape, on the other hand had the whole brilliant concept of a beautiful, wandering journey to escape forces of evil that pursued the main characters while they discovered the strange secrets of wormholes and how they could be used as utterly devastating weapons and clear progression and destination with excellent character development.
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Quote:Um, because.... you don't have to? I only kill what gets in my way.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Um... Yeah. Why would I not?
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How the hell are you people managing to outlevel these arcs? Do you kill every damn mob on the map?
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When is this arc going to get fixed? Seriously, it has been bugged FOREVER. Allegedly a 20 - 24 level arc, it is nonetheless only active during the 25 -29 range... and it doesn't scale! I bug this ingame every time I come across it and it still has not been fixed It's like all the damn ingame bugging for this arc falls into a hole somewhere or the bug team is deliberately ignoring it.
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Yarrr. Then to the plank with ye.
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I like most of the music on villainside, but agree that most of the stuff heroside needs a tuneup with the rare exception of a few neighborhood zonesGrendel's Gulch in the Hollows comes to mind, as well as the various melodies in creepier zones like Croatoa or Dark Astoria. The Rikti War Zone also has some awesome stuff in it the farther north you go (such as the same Grendel's Gulch tune I'm so fond of).
But yeah, the rest of the music is crap and needs replacement. -
Quote:I like your thinking.Originally Posted by evertheskeptic
Not necessarily true. /"Martial Arts" is doable, I'm thinking a hybrid of MA and Trick Arrow. Here's a general idea
Thunder Kick
Entangling Arrow or Glue Arrow
Storm Kick
Build Up
Crane Kick
Flash Arrow
Ice Arrow or Cobra Strike
Oil Slick or Dragon's Tail
Eagle's Claw
Or throw in some Kinetic Melee in there (I'm not too familiar with it). They could also add an /Earth Manipulation secondary, then add a proper Earth Blast primary later like they did with Electric Assault and Electric Control -
Quote:About friggin' time. Just sayin'.Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Brute
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Quote:+1.Originally Posted by Flarstux
Fly around the planet really really fast and reset a failed mission!