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[MassivelyEffective0730]

How dare you mock firefly! lol

 

I didn't mock it. All I said was that I thought it was overrated.

[KaiserShep]

I used to be more of a kinda-sorta-not really browncoat, but as my tastes evolve and time goes on, I really question what I liked about the series as time goes on. It's a good show, but it's like how Lost is for J.J. Abrams. I never understood why it's counted among its creators' best works.

I love Firefly, but Lost is terrible. I wasn't surprised to see Abrams further destroy Star Trek.

[Jorji Costava]

I used to be more of a kinda-sorta-not really browncoat, but as my tastes evolve and time goes on, I really question what I liked about the series as time goes on. It's a good show, but it's like how Lost is for J.J. Abrams. I never understood why it's counted among its creators' best works.

 

Lost was just plain not good IMO, and Firefly was decent, but not what I'd call great or groundbreaking.

 

Probably a couple of things going on there. First, Firefly hit the ground running compared to Joss' other work; the first 13 episodes of Buffy, for instance, were far from the series' best. Second, the early cancellation created a bit of a mystique about the show. Think about how differently perceived a musician who releases one great album and then tragically dies will be versus a musician who releases one great album and then goes on to produce a bunch of not-great stuff. The former becomes legendary, while the latter, not so much. I'm not saying that more Firefly wouldn't have been good, but still, when a show like that gets cancelled so early, our imaginations have a tendency to fill in the blanks with unending awesomeness.

[Nightwriter]

Uhhh... EDI with Parasini, probably. She seems like she'd be fun to have on the team. Not totally sure she'd be up for heavy fighting, though, given that her normal work is white collar crime.

 

I couldn't possibly answer the other one. EDI with Doctor Who? EDI with Hermione Granger? Shepard can be like Ron-level stupid sometimes, it would probably really help if Hermione was around rolling her eyes and remembering to be smart for him. If she had been there from the beginning the Reaper threat would have probably been conclusively proven two games ago and Shepard would never have been incarcerated in ME3.

 

Poor EDI is my go-to replacer. I like her but I can remove her from the squad and still get the same basic amount of content so she is always the first to go in my replacement games.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Uhhh... EDI with Parasini, probably. She seems like she'd be fun to have on the team. Not totally sure she'd be up for heavy fighting, though, given that her normal work is white collar crime.

 

I couldn't possibly answer the other one. EDI with Doctor Who? EDI with Hermione Granger? Shepard can be like Ron-level stupid sometimes, it would probably really help if Hermione was around rolling her eyes and remembering to be smart for him. If she had been there from the beginning the Reaper threat would have probably been conclusively proven two games ago and Shepard would never have been incarcerated in ME3.

 

Poor EDI is my go-to replacer. I like her but I can remove her from the squad and still get the same basic amount of content so she is always the first to go in my replacement games.

 

Yeah; Parasini is cool, but she's a patent cop who's basically a lawyer with a gun (if she even needs it). She's killed by Anoleis, a guy who could best be described as possibly firing a machine gun wildly at Shepard, while Shepard in turn strides up calmly and kicks him down. There's an enormous leap from spying on a target, then going up to them and slapping a legal form representing some bureaucratic law that they're violating onto their lap during the confrontation to conducting a direct action special operations raid against a numerically larger and comparatively better equipped paramilitary/mercenary force that hijacked a civilian powerplant or even a small colony.

 

Hermione (and Harry Potter in general) is far too small time to handle what's going on around them. She'd have bucked under the first real warfare and violence that came in her direction. 

 

The Doctor (who you will kindly refer to as such, as Doctor Who is not his name (Yes, I'm that anal of a fan )) meanwhile would just take the TARDIS back a few centuries and put the Reapers into a time lock while they were still in dark space. Or he'd reprogram with the sonic. Hell, it wouldn't be too hard for him. As a Time Lord, indoctrination probably wouldn't do much more than make him giggle a bit. Possibly, if he was feeling particularly angry, had traveled without a companion for too long, or (if he was in his Time Lord Victorious phase as Ten or just Eleven in general) was willing to make a Timey Wimey paradox where he completely altered an event while keeping the future timeline intact sans the Reapers existence, he could even go back in time and crush the Leviathan progenitor species as they crawled out of the primordial ooze. Or just stop their planet from ever forming. The TARDIS is a giant 'I Win' machine (inside a relatively tiny 'I Win' machine), and it speaks so much more about how the writers of DW are able to write a compelling and challenging story around that.

 

But yeah, EDI is utterly replaceable as a squadmate, because even if you replace her physically, she'd still be in the game and having the same role as a holographic phallic symbol (if BW mods don't like this description of her, maybe they shouldn't have put the description in the game).

[Ryriena]

I didn't mock it. All I said was that I thought it was overrated.

It's a joke. I said lol at the end

[Mordokai]

Traynor with Chambers.

[DeathScepter]

Everyone "loves" Kelly Chambers and She loves everyone if you know what I mean.

[Nightwriter]

Lolwut. Hermione stuck to her guns and came up with a plan to thwart the enemy even while like being brutally tortured.

[Bob from Accounting]

Hermione is competent, but she didn't do that.

[Nightwriter]

Does anyone else always have this dilemma when they go to respond to Bob, like "No that would be ad hominem... if you said that, that's ad hominem... and they said ad hominem was bad... but that's all I have in my response bank for him, ad hominems... what do I do...?"

[KaiserShep]

Does anyone else always have this dilemma when they go to respond to Bob, like "No that would be ad hominem... if you said that, that's ad hominem... and they said ad hominem was bad... but that's all I have in my response bank for him, ad hominems... what do I do...?"

 

It's like when the Joker tries to corrupt Batman. 

[Bob from Accounting]

My God. That is one holy hell of a compliment.

[Ryriena]

Hermione is competent, but she didn't do that.

Yes she did in fact.

[KaiserShep]

My God. That is one holy hell of a compliment.

 

It tastes like...heroism. 

 

[Ryriena]

It tastes like...heroism.

it tastes like a girl did the heroism...

[MassivelyEffective0730]

It tastes like...heroism. 

 

 

Eh, I just challenged what made his concept of heroism the right one in another thread. I already know how he's going to defend it, and I have my response prepared and waiting.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Does anyone else always have this dilemma when they go to respond to Bob, like "No that would be ad hominem... if you said that, that's ad hominem... and they said ad hominem was bad... but that's all I have in my response bank for him, ad hominems... what do I do...?"

 

I find it fun to just deconstruct everything he says by pointing out the logical fallacies in his arguments. Normally, I'd risk making a Fallacy Fallacy myself, but the topics are usually subjective enough, and his points either incoherent, self-serving, or insulting enough to not worry about it.

[Ryriena]

I find it fun to just deconstruct everything he says by pointing out the logical fallacies in his arguments. Normally, I'd risk making a Fallacy Fallacy myself, but the topics are usually subjective enough, and his points either incoherent, self-serving, or insulting enough to not worry about it.

I've noticed that when I look at post you written. Haha

[Sir DeLoria]

David is the great unifier. No matter what argument is going on, no matter who's fighting, as soon as David starts blabbering everyone unites against him.

Oh David, what would this forum be without you?

[MassivelyEffective0730]

David is the great unifier. No matter what argument is going on, no matter who's fighting, as soon as David starts blabbering everyone unites against him.

Oh David, what would this forum be without you?

 

A lot less toxic?

[KaiserShep]

David is the great unifier. No matter what argument is going on, no matter who's fighting, as soon as David starts blabbering everyone unites against him.

Oh David, what would this forum be without you?

 

[Sir DeLoria]

A lot less toxic?

Yep, that's for sure.

[Sir DeLoria]

Yes! I was hoping someone would post that gif.

Good job, Kaiser.

[wolfhowwl]

A lot less toxic?

 

But also a lot more boring.