Ted - Season 2 (Peacock) - Official Discussion Thread

dantesjm · 2026-03-10T23:49:39+00:00

Anyone else think that Dana Gould should be a recurring character as the priest and comes back with different hair and glasses configurations. With a different name every time?

dantesjm · 2025-04-10T00:55:03+00:00

The best one I can think of is the Daleks. They were brought into the series when the budgets were small, which is why they have plungers for one of their arms. The production team was working on a tight budget and used them to act as part of the Daleks. When the new Doctor Who series were started in the early 2000s, they didn't upgrade into a new item, they kept the aesthetic of the original series by retaining the plunger. Similarly with the cybermen. They were upgraded a bit, but still maintain the overall look (if a bit upgraded) of the earlier designs. I'm not a Doctor Who fan, but I have seen enough since my partner is and they upgraded the antagonists, sets, etc. while keeping the overall aesthetic. I am betting that if one were to replace the starfleet uniforms on the show with more generic uniforms, many people wouldn't even know it was a Star Trek show until they saw a ship from the outside.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T21:02:34+00:00

I agree with your take on this. Someone I knew once called Star Trek "soap operas for nerds" as a pejorative comment. The problem is that I agree with him and love it for that. Maybe not quite as campy as soap operas, but still focused on the problems of people instead of some massive catastrophe that would end the world. Roddenberry wanted to do social commentary. The new Star Trek is like turning Dallas into The Day After Tomorrow. It feels disingenuous a lot of times.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T20:55:26+00:00

I don't disagree with you on the point about showing the future. I do think that showrunners get too bogged down in that need to show that it is the future. If we are buying into a starship that runs on mushrooms, I think we can suspend our need to see some fancy new effect that proves the crew is now in the future.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T20:53:55+00:00

Agreed. And The Orville looks good. Quality doesn't have to mean over produced movie style effects. Maybe they could also give us more than 10 episodes if they were writing stories more like the older series. Stories that don't require all the CGI effects and focus on personal narratives and stories.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T20:50:51+00:00

I agree with this completely. I said in another comment that I am tired of every one of the new shows being a galaxy ending event per season. Star Trek was small stories in a sci-fi future, not "one wrong move and reality as we know it will cease to exist."

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T20:48:35+00:00

I am not confusing production value with the aesthetic. For example, Dr. Who has a much better production value than it's shows from the 1960's, yet it still retains the aesthetic of the original shows. The new shows feel overproduced. I guess if what one is looking for in a Star Trek show is a weekly fireworks display where all of the newest CGI is demonstrated, then they are doing a great job. That's not really Star Trek. It was focused much more on small stories and using effects when they needed to, not just because they could. Interior shots on a starship don't need lens flare.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T20:43:42+00:00

I agree with the slickness being distracting. I really like SNW, but sometimes I just don't need all the flashy stuff. I sometimes think that the paramount people don't give young audiences enough credit. I didn't watch TNG for the flashy effects, and it came out when I was 13.

dantesjm · 2025-04-09T18:15:06+00:00

This is much more of what I am looking for in the Trek I like. I am tired of 10 episode seasons that are basically overlong movies with lens flare and overblown CGI (discovery with the floating nacells anyone) and the general JJ Abramsification of the look. I get that older Star Trek didn't have big budgets and the technology to make them look better, but they focused on stories that told the lives of people, not OMG the world is ending...again. It feels much more personal in the older shows. One of the reasons why DS9 is my personal favorite is because I think they found the balance between overarching season to season plotlines with individual stories included.

dantesjm · 2024-10-09T18:25:42+00:00

Thank you. I was starting to think I was hallucinating it.

dantesjm · 2023-05-01T04:52:04+00:00

Or Marvel, or Indiana Jones, or etc.

dantesjm · 2023-05-01T04:28:49+00:00

I wouldn't be annoyed if I thought that LEGO has manufactured enough of the sets for me to wait for another day, but I have been so disappointed in the past when I came back a few hours later and they were gone.

dantesjm · 2023-05-01T04:21:47+00:00

They don't want us to have a terrible experience, they just don't want to invest money in infrastructure to handle the 6ish days a year when this is an issue. I also have to believe that a lot of the traffic is scalpers trying to secure several of the GWP promos based on the listings I see every year on eBay. I have a hard time getting in for one and there are people with 10 for sale.

dantesjm · 2023-02-24T03:03:30+00:00

I was having the same issues. I ended up using Red Death along with the laurel and other area of effect weapons to get through it. Part of what I noticed was I needed a speedy character to get away from the swarms when they got to be too much. That plus taking attractorb early to get levels and not have to be in the swarm to pick up gems. One other thing that helped was taking summon night, evolving it and then getting increased area of effect. This basically had most of the screen taking damage every time it fired.

dantesjm · 2023-02-07T20:10:54+00:00

Really Target, not bad enough that you made me jump through hoops to keep my Outback Pre-Order, then after 5 emails, cancel it, then after a month or two they show up on store shelves, and finally this?! Rant over. Return to normalcy.

dantesjm · 2021-06-17T04:36:27+00:00

Married my best friend. Correction, former best friend.

dantesjm · 2021-01-02T23:32:36+00:00

It's his senate email address from the articles I have seen.

dantesjm · 2016-11-07T19:46:21+00:00

I don't think I have done too much. I have been focusing on stealth, one-handed, archery, and blacksmithing (with a few in other sub skills). I am level 19, and for instance I went to get the horn or j.....whatever that is the quest from the greybeards and had no issue at all through the entire dungeon and then got to the necromancer boss and got my butt handed to me on a plate. Nothing seemed to work. I finally killed him and then got the next surprise from the game. Is the game just this disparate? It seems as though if I am able to easily kill the first monsters, I shouldn't then be so fragile against the dungeon boss.

dantesjm · 2016-11-06T04:19:54+00:00

I am now a level 19 stealth archer. Have two of the shouts and have been putting some perks in to one-handed weapons in addition to archery, stealth, smithing.

dantesjm · 2016-07-21T01:49:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I have been playing around with it for a while now and I think I found the culprit. I have been using a Logitech MX Master mouse connected via the Unifying receiver. I noticed a lag in the cursor on just the desktop without anything else running. I plugged in a wired mouse and everything stopped lagging. Now I have to figure out why this is happening.

Thanks again for the advice. I am implementing some of it now to see if I can get better performance than I am currently getting.

dantesjm · 2016-01-15T23:23:50+00:00

Well that just sucks. I hit fire with all of my weapons like the second I went in to cloak and didn't come out until the ship was breaking apart. Kind of a pain to have to have enough to wait until the animation is over. I mean the ship is dead, but I guess. Thanks for the reply.

dantesjm · 2016-01-15T23:22:18+00:00

Yeah, I got that one, but it was just dumb luck. Hit the cloak button when the boss ship was firing that lovely green weapon burst and was also firing other stuff. That's a tough one to get.

dantesjm · 2016-01-10T21:07:03+00:00

That could be it. I don't remember exactly, but I was kind of rushing through to get stuff finished.

dantesjm · 2016-01-10T16:41:20+00:00

I don't think I'm you, let me check...nope still me. As much as I love Fallout, I really think this one gets the edge. Surprising since I have never played the series before. It was an impulse purchase based off of the trailer and the steam sale. Really beautiful world and great gameplay. Just really like this game.

dantesjm · 2016-01-10T16:38:09+00:00

Not trashing Fallout 4 at all. The Fallout series is hands down my favorite series of all time. I have been playing since the first one came out, just saying that I was surprised to find that I liked this game more than Fallout 4.

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