Also, went to the comic shop last night. I managed to scrape some money together and got most of the current IDW monthlys.
I am tempted by those. John Byrne doing a regular book again? And, hey, the Tiptons have impressed me in the past.
And the Wild West? I actually had Wild West Don and Mike, they were kinda fun figures actually from a design exercise sort of way. There was no excuse for the Supermutant TMNT figures though, not the superhero-themed ones, the taller, thinner, more "exciting" physique figures
I am thinking we need a "Playmates TMNT figures all suck" thread.
Toy Biz figures had generally had accessories, not sure what you're thinking of, and I don't remember teams being remotely difficult to complete unless you wanted specific variants like non-clear Iceman.
Many of the accessories were....crap that had nothing to do with the comics. This was especially true early on in the line.
Toy Biz half-assed making complete teams in one unified look. You could only make complete teams if you accepted characters in uniforms that did not match and/or in off-scale sculpts. (Did they ever make a complete set of X-Factor for example?) Good luck getting all of Freedom Force. Hell, even the 4 guys they made did not fit together. Pyro was bigger than the Blob. And, the Crimson Commando was in his post-FF costume.
That kind of thing saved me a huge amount of money as a kid.
Except that wasn't its foundation at all, hence deconstruction. DS9 was great, but it viewed morality from a 20th-century lens, Sisko's line there was ignoring TOS' dealings with morality concerns of the future, when race and money weren't issues to humans anymore there were new problems to deal with, while DS9 stuck with race and money and shadiness. I think the writers didn't have the balls to make Sisko a willing violator on the Prime Directive, they'd let him break it then give him personal justification (TOS would let Kirk break it but for the greater good), but they wouldn't give Sisko any consequences for his choices, he got promoted while they were ignored.
The idea was the Sisko had to make compromises. He was a Federation Rep in a non-Federation area. He did not care about money. But, the people he was dealing with did, which ultimately made money valuable to him for its basic utility.
Good episode too, but definitely a great example of what makes DS9 good television but controversial Trek.
Well, it beats having tea with the Dominion, which is the solution that TNG would have used.
Harry Kim got killed and they used his alternate from a different timeline, that was the only really acceptable way to get away with replacing a main character,
Oh, that does not sound like bad fanfic at all....
I was just throwing out a way that the show could have avoided the crew shortage problem and still be cavalier about high body counts in every episode.
they know they're hacks, just lucky ones.
Points for honesty then.
The thing is that there are people who *really* like that writing style. There are people who want the predictable set-up and resolution. They like plots that they can keep time to.
I'd be curious to hear your take on it if you viewed it again for more specifics
If I get the chance to sit through it again....
While doing a little research writing this post, I came across mentions of Kes, whom I had entirely forgotten about being on Voyager. The way they mishandled that character was atrocious, but the way the blundered her leaving and final return was mind-numbing.
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"It's a FAKE!" is still one of my favority lines from Trek ever. And that really was a great episode. It showed a commander doing what was needed to win the war while finding a way to deal with the morality of what he was doing. Heavy stuff but very interesting.
Yeah. Sisko had to kill the guy after that. But, the necessity was problematic. (And, hey, it worked, right?)
FAO exclusives were a big burden for collectors, I remember that, they were disgustingly overpriced on exclusives. Playmates' Trek line from what I'm seeing online never had an FAO exclusive.
For regular figures, FAO was was more expensive than scalpers. Honey Bear and I used to treat them as scalpters. Every so often, one of use would break down and get an SW or BW figure there. But, we always felt dirty.
FAO exclusive were killer for obvious reasons. With "Star Trek", there may not have been FAO exclusives. But, the whole damned line was exclusive in some way. It was not even fun in the hypothetical.
They really didn't know what they hell they were doing. KB wasn't much better and they suffered for it too.
Class snobbery, plain and simple. They were banking that people of a certain class would spend extra money to avoid shopping with the rabble and masses. Of course, most of the people with FAO levels of money, (paying over $10 for a SW in the late 90s would be like paying around $20 now), did not have kids or buy toys. And, toy collectors are pretty economical about their hobby. (Yes, we spend money on non-essentials. But, we try to be cheap about it.)
FAO was a good last ditch attempt. But, even so, Honey Bear and I only went there maybe a half dozen times, and bought things even less.
Dom
-was not sorry to see FAO fail.
It's a bit like card collecting. I have a crap ton of Star Trek cards and I can garuantee that it's a big pile of worthless. Still, got some neat looking cards out of it though.