(Part 2) Best products from r/television

> Do you have specific instances?

Yes. Early on the hark about how rare their photon torpedo are and how many they have; Here's some dialogue from 'The Cloud'

> CHAKOTAY: We have a compliment of 38 photon torpedoes at our disposal, Captain.
> JANEWAY: And no way to replace them after they're gone.

They fired 85 photon torpedoes by shows end. Did they come across a stockpile? No. Did they have an episode that addressed how they made more? No. A stray line of dialogue even? No.

Voyager had a shuttle complement of 8 at full capacity. They blew up 10. Is this ever addressed, no?

More to the point, they are supposed to be lost and struggling for survival in the delta quadrant. That's kind of the whole premise right? Voyager looks brand new from first to last episode. After the first season 'surviving' in the practical sense is nothing more then lip service. For 99% of Voyager episodes they might as well be in the alpha quadrant.

Once the Maquis put on Starfleet uniforms (end of the second episode I believe) they are indistinguishable from the other crew members. Betraying it's premise of having two crews with different ideals and temperaments having to work together to survive. That's what it was supposed to be about. If it took a few seasons for that to happen, fine. That's progress. Two episodes is lazy. The Maquis is only mentioned in passing, maybe half a dozen times after the first season.

I could literally go on and on and on.

> "Can be boiled down to" is a weak argument

Eh, you're right and wrong. Yes, ultimately every character revolves around a few key features. Voyager is worse. Voyager made no attempt to push them out of those boundaries, that's the difference. (The Doctor is the exception here, I will give you the doctor). Need an example? Does Chakotay have any episodes that aren't based around being a native american? I'm not saying none of them should have been- but every single person who tried to do something with a Chakotay central episode that wasn't related to him being native american was shut down. There are numerous examples of this, from the actor himself who practically begged to do more then say 'yes ma'am' to janeway on the bridge to directors. Here are some segments from a Robert Beltran interview:

> ...I think writers have an obligation to fill out all the characters if they’re regular characters on a series. I think several of the characters were diminished – Chakotay and Tuvok and Kim and Neelix.

> I risked being fired because I wasn’t happy creatively.

Here is the director of the season two episode Initiations talking about this issue:

> My problem with the Chakotay character was that I wanted to forget the Indian aspect and make him the Maquis that he was supposed to be. I knew Chakotay would have to eventually cooperate on the ship, but I hoped he would do it unwillingly most of the time. I talked to the writers about it, why we weren't playing that conflict. They went with the Indian thing, which was kind of intriguing, but in my opinion, never paid off because it was done too subtly.

The same case can be made for Tuvok who can be described solely as 'vulcan.'

> I would say having a woman lead a Star Trek show is taking quite a chance.

That was neat, and I can appreciate that. But they cast a woman captain and then what did they do with her? Nothing. When they cast Avery Brooks the fact that he was black actually occasionally made it into the show in a meaningful and respectful way. It was great they cast Kate Mulgrew, but for 99% of episodes they could have given her lines to Archer and it wouldn't have made a difference.

> Bold statement, but it comes down to speculation.

This is patently false. This is not remotely speculation. I'm not going to comb through the book and pull out quotes right now but if you don't believe me read Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN. This is not up for debate. It is a fact.

> I'm going to need some sort of documentation on this. You make them out to be inept at worst, conniving at best and I just don't follow that.

Ok.

Here is Ronald Moore again:

> "When we were working on ‘Equinox Part II,’ I remember the pages coming in, and I would take notes, and send the notes back. There were just pages of it that I have no idea what’s going on. It was just page after page of, ‘Reroute the so-and-so, and engage the blankety-such, and the subspace dewop is doing its other thing.’ Just pages would go by, and in reading the script I’m flipping through it to find something of substance. It just fell on deaf ears.... The show was a little short, so they had to add some pages, which was nothing unusual."

Is that sufficient?

> Now, I think that's just speculation on your part, same as the UPN theory.

It's not speculation. You now have proof.

> The first two seasons of TNG were wildly inconsistent in their writing, performances, and even set design and yet that whole show is lionized among superfans.

Yeah the first season of TnG is pretty tough. I'll stand by season two though as being more good then bad. The difference is TnG got better. Voyager got worse and stayed bad. It never improved.

> Voyager remains to be underappreciated. I'll take "Caretaker Pt. 1 and 2" over "Encounter at Farpoint" any day of the week.

Yeah, well Caretaker was a pretty decent pilot episode with a lot of promise that they show immediately threw out an airlock. I probably would too. But comparing two episodes like that is a pretty bad argument. You can take the best episode of Voyager (which by the way is Living Witness) and put it next to the worst episode of The Next Generation (Sub Rosa) but that doesn't mean Voyager is a good show.

It's not underrated. It deserves the flack.

• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (srsly. Sondheim's gonna guest this season). Netflix/CW.
  
• Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) and Bunheads (Amy Sherman-Palladino, who did Gilmore Girls) [Hulu/Freeform].
  
• She Loves Me (requires a BroadwayHD sub, though; long gone off PBS's app). Look, it's Supergirl's mom (Laura Benanti) and Chuck (Zachary Levi). :D Also, right about now, "Twelve Days to Christmas" would hit the damn spot so hard. If you don't know the show, it's the musical version of Shop Around the Corner.
  
• Six by Sondheim (HBO).
  
• Fraggle Rock (HBO). Because muppets will always make you feel better, and because each episode would always have at least one original song, if not two.
  
• 9-1-1 (Fox). Well, it's been making me happy, but may be not stress-free :). The showrunners, Falchuk & Murphy, also did Glee and Pose.
  
  Side note, as a Pushing Daisies fan, you may want to see Bryan Fuller's acceptance speech for his Outfest award on Youtube. All kindsa warm/fuzzy. :)

On a tangent, at the very end, when he says he doesn't drink coffee, she says she's got "Sanka." I had to google that and it turns out it's an early brand of instant decaf coffee. Amazon still sells it.

Their description makes me want Sanka like you wouldn't believe:

About the product

• Tastes like it's made from cornbread you just baked
  
  
• Quicker and easier to prepare than homemade stuffing
  
  
• Ready in just 5 minutes
  
  
• Versatile pantry staple; can be enjoyed as stuffing or as an ingredient in many dishes
  
  
• 110 calories per serving; 6 servings per package
  
  110 calories per cup and it tastes like fresh baked cornbread? Sign me up!

The entire season 1 dropped on Amazon, you can sign up for a free 30 day trial - https://www.amazon.com/The-Quest-Begins/dp/B01I2BBWQ4/

been waiting for today for a while! can't wait, episode 1 is GREAT

edit: must have prime for the free trial apparently! (if a family member (possibly friend) has prime, they can add you, this works because this is how I have prime!)

>It's been so long since something sci-fi came to me out of the blue and just left me reeling with its sheer awesomeness. These days it feels like I'm just appraising a show's take on a universe I already know and love.

I know what you mean, while I don't have any shows to recommend, I highly recommend reading (you mentioned the Babylon 5 books?) Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence. Hopefully a epic new universe for you, not nearly as well known as The Culture, I consider them to be equals.

Of course! Happy to help! Definitely recommend an instant read thermometer as well (I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OXHQL3Q/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

I typically remove the chicken at about 160f because meat will actually continue cooking after you remove it from the oven, so you'll get up to 165f by just letting it rest for 5-10 minutes after taking it out.

I don't know what area you're in, but there are DVD copies available at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Legacy-Anthony-Perkins/dp/B003THSXKU

I didn't know that doc existed. Now I want to watch it!

Streaming has been wonderful for documentaries. Before Netflix ventured into original programming, documentaries were my primary reason for subscribing.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie (which is the movie that was supposed to come out 15 years ago and finally wrapped up the huge cliffhangers the original series was left on) was released in November 2017, and you can get it for $5 on Amazon, Youtube, Vudu and iTunes. And the DVD is available for preorder on Amazon.

There's a petition going on for a 6th season now. Petitioning worked in getting The Jungle Movie made after all these years, so hopefully the same goes for season 6! Anyone who wants it should sign this. The show's creator, Craig Bartlett, really wants to do this, as does the rest of his team involved in it. We just need to show Nickelodeon that enough people want it, so that they'll allow Craig and his team to do it. There's over 12,000 signatures so far and we need 15,000. Spread the petition around if you can!

In addition to being an excellent thriller, Hannibal was an underrated cooking show. (No, really, Janice Poon really worked hard to create amazing plates for that show.)

I think an important point to mention here is that these viewers SAY they would cancel Netflix in this instance. It's easy to say whatever you want to a hypothetical poll.

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This book about Google was an interesting read expanding on how people lie about what they're doing online because we're anonymous on the internet and it's easy:

https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia?keywords=everybody+lies&pd_rd_i=0062390856&pd_rd_r=729c95c5-ba9c-4db4-b452-fa8c605a57e5&pd_rd_w=FB0Em&pd_rd_wg=IdYcs&pf_rd_p=f0479f98-a32d-45cd-9c12-7aaced42b1ec&pf_rd_r=5265D5ZMZNAX0FQW8AP5&qid=1557866692&s=gateway

The character description is interesting: "an honest but ambitious FBI agent willing to go to any length for his family." If they're going to make Season 3 like Born Again, then I suspect he's going to be a combination of Nick Manolis and Ben Urich (RIP on TV).

I haven't seen enough hype for this.

The pilot, released a year ago, was great.

95% on rotten tomatoes

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel

87% on metacritic

If you loved Gilmore Girls I highly recommend this, and even if you didn't unlike Bunheads (Amy's other show) it's not exactly the same feel.

A perfect Jewish housewife in 50's Manhattan has life fall apart and becomes a crude stand up comic.

You can watch the pilot now on prime streaming

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WPB59TM

the rest of the series will be available in 3 days.

Also Tony Shalhoub is in this

Fantastic! Amazing stuff. The horror of an invisible killer. Just knowing how much all those people are absorbing.

I had to do a quick physics lesson to brush up on my radiation.

So 200 roentgen/hr into mSv/hr would be 2000 mSv/hour. (Dont quote me on any of the radiation stuff said)

Y'all need to see this [radiation dose chart] (https://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/files/2011/03/radiation.png)


Check down in the red on the chart to see what the 2 Sv looks like. Go to the Yellow to see the 50 Sv you would receive standing next to the core for 10 min.


Here is the imgur album that has been floating around reddit for the past couple of years - Highly recommend this: https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

I started listening to this Audiobook the other night. It gave such a good background on the specific people, the night in the control room, everything. I am not finished but I highly recommend the book

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501134612/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_7No0CbHB03THX

• Here's some of the specs for developers.
  
  
• A detailed info page with comparison to other devices.
  
  
• List of supported apps (most of it coming soon and not part of the launch) which includes the youtube app.
  
  FireTV doesn't support iTunes and Google Play though. The only one that plays iTunes, Netflix and AmazonPrime is PS3 but has shit UI. The primary drawback for me with these devices is navigation and loading time. Fast functionality and a better interface is their main selling point, so they better deliver. But I'd love to see how it works in real time first rather than deciding from just seeing the ads.

Well, Band of Brothers was based off a book about the men of Easy Company. There is of course The Pacific if you're interested in another Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg/HBO collaboration.

Ah okay. The Vizio doesn't have a tuner, and that's a mandatory requirement to receive and decode OTA/Free TV signals. You'll need both an antenna AND a tuner. I've linked to some above to give you a rough idea of how much it'll cost you. There's no all-in-one devices that I'm aware of.

I can't speak to the quality of the tuner, but that is the same antenna I have connected to my P607, and it works really well for me.

EDIT: I want my banana sticker for coming up with a solution!

Actually, they've got the Leviathan Wakes series in the pipe.

This is the single best production/executive decision SyFy has made in 15 years. If they don't fuck this up, it could catapult the channel into a new, top level of prominence.

Legend. One of my childhood heroes. I was such a big fan I read his book [Games You Can't Lose: A Guide for Suckers.] (https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Andersons-Games-Guide-Suckers/dp/067164727X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523927282&sr=8-1&keywords=harry+anderson+games)

Here's an [Oscar moment between him & John Larroquette on Night Court.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ93Rg8GhGM)

Here you go! The first one just came out recently, and the second will come out later. The audiobook is narrated by Kristen Bell, and you can get it for free on audible.com if you sign up for their free trial. Just make sure to cancel your membership before your card gets charged.

>Janice Poon, the food stylist for Hannibal and American Gods, has a blog where she discusses how she designs the meals. She also released a book a couple years ago.



Wow that's cool!

Dick!

I hope that enough people with money managed to see the quality in the Veronica Mars movie, and will give Rob Thomas the wherewithal to do whatever he's interested in.

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line - the Veronica Mars book was actually their first run at what they were considering making the movie about. As a result it seems to be a true sequel to the movie, definitely a good beach read for any VM fans out there.

There's actually a pretty good book about about the merger and all the behind the scenes drama: https://www.amazon.com/Season-Finale-Unexpected-Rise-Fall/dp/0061340995

SyFy gets a lot of good shows but unlike FX they dumpster them pretty quick. Exhibit A: Amazon's new show, The Expanse!

It's the comics run that this season is (loosely) based on. There are a few nods/hints to it through the trailer. It's written by Frank Miller and it's fucking excellent. Yours to own for just £11.70!!

THE EXPANSE! Best SciFi I’ve seen recently (after Sense8) https://www.amazon.com/The-Expanse-Season-1/dp/B018BZ3SCM

My favorites:

Malarkey: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Company-Soldier-Legendary-Sergeant/dp/031256323X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394469882&sr=8-1&keywords=donald+malarkey

Winters: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Band-Brothers-Memoirs-Winters/dp/0425213757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394469901&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+winters

Babe and Wild Bill: http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394469927&sr=1-1&keywords=babe+heffron

And Compton: http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Before-During-Brothers/dp/0425227871/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394469942&sr=1-1&keywords=buck+compton


http://www.amazon.com/Band-Brothers-Regiment-Airborne-Normandy/dp/074322454X

FWIW, I remember reading one of his books and it was excellent. Cheap now, too.

https://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Hannibal-Connoisseurs-Janice-Poon/dp/1783297662

That book is fantastic.

Here's a one time $30 cost for an antenna that picks up all the basic channels that carry big events like the Oscars and most of the important sports games. Also picks up about 50 other channels over the air.

And it's still available! I always thought it was something from a bygone era, but sure enough, I saw some in the coffee aisle at the grocery store just last weekend!

Apparently HarmonQuest was just released on Seeso and the first episode is free on Amazon.

If the fans want to make a big impact, they should buy the seasons (if they can). At Amazon or any of their preferred vendors.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BNVJK3R/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018BZ3SCM/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSZILS5/

People on reddit love to say "speak with your wallet" when trying to hurt a product for one reason or another, but it applies the other way around too.

It's included.

Very. https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-Expanse-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0047Y171G/

"Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook"
https://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Hannibal-Connoisseurs-Janice-Poon/dp/1783297662/

Check this out then

Janice Poon, the food stylist for Hannibal and American Gods, has a blog where she discusses how she designs the meals. She also released a book a couple years ago.

I've been thinking about buying this for myself

> Feeding Hannibal

Holy crap, how did I not know about that‽