TheLeviathan
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I've always wondered if what made DS9 more successful at the narrative element was that it was a network staple as opposed to TNG's syndicated existence. (If I'm remembering that correctly that is) Either way I appreciate the Enterprise advice. I let Voyager destroy my Trek watching and never gave it a fair shot.
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You basically need to skip to the end of season 3 of DS9 - where they start to run into the Jem'hadar. Then the show picks up considerably. (Edit....yeah...basically what brock already said)
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I'll try and give Enterprise a shot, I never really did after Voyager.
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I actually just went back and watched the Dominion-centric episodes of that series because I remember how much I loved that. I would completely agree with you. TNG was the most watchable front to back, but if you can pick and choose than DS9 is awesome. I stand by Beverly Crusher being awful, even granting Troy being annoying.
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I'd really like to see them swap out Florimon on the 40 for someone like Bernier. We need to have an option if something happens again. Florimon is no longer an option.
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Beverly was WAY more annoying. Short of the entire cast of Voyager she may have been the worst Star Trek character ever. I always felt some of my Wesley hate stemmed from my much deeper hate for anything Beverly-centric.
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Right, my impression from some of those trade talks was to wonder why a guy would pick up the phone at all. Especially to Houston given some of those demands they were throwing around.
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The Twins haven't been unlucky with injuries. They're middle of the pack. It's simply a mistake to cite this as the team's problem.
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The clear lesson from this is GMs are calling around and asking for insane packages I had a dozen "Seriously you asked for that prospect for that player?" reactions It was video game dumb sometimes.
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DFA Florimon and put one of the other MI guys on the 40 man.
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5-9 and I feel like I might be generous.
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I thought this was very interesting from a variety of angles.
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That made me laugh, thanks for sharing.
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HOT TWINS PIC: Joe Mauer's Face
TheLeviathan replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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Yeah, I have to agree it's a bit of a combo. But if people think adding Plouffe and Nunez back is going to do something magical they should take a look at what the heart of our order has been doing. Morales has been only slightly better than Arcia. (Who has been awful) Willingham is only a bit better. Mauer has been a bit better lately but he's been pretty bleh all season. Escobar has reverted to expectations. Fuld's been Fuld which is why he should be a bench player. The squeaked one out today which is a good thing, but the offensive problems are dramatic and widespread.
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There's bad luck, no doubt. But this was a glaring problem before the season - offensive depth was a black hole after the starters. When you compound that existing problem with bizarre 25 man roster decisions out of ST.....that does matter too. I can't completely excuse them when many of these problems were self-inflicted. (Bad luck has just made a bad problem even worse)
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This roster is a mess right now.
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You are crushing that strawman. It's really an impressive effort.
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Hicks off DL, Optioned to New Britain
TheLeviathan replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Whatever minimal amount Hicks is an improvement over Fuld (And yes....it's VERY minimal) should be more than offset by doing what's right by an important asset. The only reason to have Hicks playing CF is to completely abandon the idea that he's an important part of the future. If you still believe he can be....then he's where he needs to be and hopefully he's there for an extended period of time. -
I think it's just appreciating the differences. The show is telling a better narrative. The books are building a more expansive and more interesting world. The narrative isn't enhanced at all by 25 pages devoted to what some dude from some house that has no power had for dinner at a tournament 30 years ago. The narrative, IMO, suffers by such sidetracking.
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Hicks off DL, Optioned to New Britain
TheLeviathan replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
We should take predictions on the next bizarre twist to this story. I'll nominate: Hicks petitions International League to use a tee during his at-bats left-handed. -
That's a good analogy. Still yet there are other times it feels like in Martin's hands Frodo and Sam might have ended up in Narnia for a book or two.
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Boy if I was going to go on a "defend Gardy about three catchers" campaign I'd at least try to have my facts straight first. Yeesh.
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There is a wide gap between a straight ahead quest and Martin's scattergun approach. I've read the first three books, they're great and they do provide a lot of necessary and valuable context. I've also literally felt like I've read chapters that were utterly worthless. Martin himself has admitted he started with a three book idea but gets "fascinated" with characters along the way and stops to admire them. Characters that have a minuscule chance of doing anything more than eating pages. It also has become obvious (and people tell me it becomes MUCH worse come book 4) that more and more time is spent on these cute deadends at the expense of the end-game. Cute deadends would make great ancillary books. As part of the main canon they tend to stretch out what really matters and pretty soon rather than walking the straight path you forgot you headed the wrong direction for a year or two.
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The books are very good and very worth reading. But the legions of internet trolls out there saying the books are vastly better are missing the forest for the trees. The show gets the forest. Martin is way too interested in meaningless trees.
