quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: Well if they put in a ZPM they could travel to other galaxies in 3 weeks.
It's 3 weeks without the ZPM- four days ith one (according to the season one finale of SGA).
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: You'd probably end up with something like The Office, in space.
Don't diss the Office - either country's version.
Er, I wasn't.
I will, US adaptations of UK shows, from my experience, rate slightly lower than, say, shitty.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: You'd probably end up with something like The Office, in space.
Don't diss the Office - either country's version.
Er, I wasn't.
I will.
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The American Office is hilarious. More than that, though, it really does a wonderful job developing the relationships between the characters and not becoming a caricature of itself.
I don't watch the British version, so I'm not able to judge it, and I'm not trying to say the American one is better. But it definitely is a good show and does not deserve to be dissed.
Not directed toward you, Lee, as I know you weren't doing that...
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"I will, US adaptations of UK shows, from my experience, rate slightly lower than, say, shitty."
The American version did a terrible job of imitating the British version. This is obvious from the first couple episodes, which recycled a couple scripts from the original. However, after those first couple episodes, the American version did a brilliant job of developing its own characters, loosely comparable to the original's.
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I haven't really had a chance to see much of The Office US. The Beeb showed the first season with all its less-than-par knock-offs as Tim mentioned, then lost interest. I've seen one or two episodes really late at night on ITV. It looks OK. The original UK version, I was pretty meh about.
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Hey! Our wayward son, Timo is in the Elkis thread!
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I only started watching The Office from Season 2, so I didn't realize it had gotten off to a rocky start. But yeah, it's been a great show since then, apart from a little dull stretch during part of the fourth season.
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quote:Originally posted by Dat: Regarding the E-J, Drexler estimates that the ship is around two miles in length, the crew uses site-to-site transporters to get to the distant parts of the ship, and the saucer itself is around 30 decks thick.
A thought occurs; a ship that size could have a sizeable cetacean habitat. In fact, weren't there supposed to be Xindi on the crew of this thing? Hell, it's big enough to have several alternate environments for Medusans, Tholians etc.
quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: I only started watching The Office from Season 2, so I didn't realize it had gotten off to a rocky start. But yeah, it's been a great show since then, apart from a little dull stretch during part of the fourth season.
I can't WAIT for the next episode - after the brilliant last episode with... Michael... not spoiling!
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quote:Originally posted by Dat: Regarding the E-J, Drexler estimates that the ship is around two miles in length, the crew uses site-to-site transporters to get to the distant parts of the ship, and the saucer itself is around 30 decks thick.
A thought occurs; a ship that size could have a sizeable cetacean habitat. In fact, weren't there supposed to be Xindi on the crew of this thing? Hell, it's big enough to have several alternate environments for Medusans, Tholians etc.
Hell yeah! It would be a miniature Federation all unto itself- truly representing the diversity of the UFP to all the species they encounter.
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