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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 12:59 PM
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18. Yeah, that's always dreadful
The only thing worse than "it was all just a dream" is "it was all just a dream. Or was it?"
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  -The lamest, laziest, most hackneyed plot device in science fiction Orrex  Aug-18-07 10:14 PM   #0 
  - Just about anything that involves interstellar politics  Frank Cannon   Aug-19-07 10:58 PM   #1 
  - Good call  Orrex   Aug-20-07 09:14 AM   #2 
  - Uh, would that be Isaac Asimov?  skepticscott   Aug-21-07 09:15 PM   #3 
  - Well, if he was first, then he gets a provisional pass, I guess  Orrex   Aug-21-07 09:56 PM   #4 
  - Well I really like the courtroom scene  qdemn7   Aug-23-07 12:04 AM   #5 
  - Not familiar with that one  Orrex   Aug-24-07 11:51 AM   #6 
     - Used as a major scene  qdemn7   Aug-24-07 08:00 PM   #7 
  - See, I like the idea of sci-fi courtroom scenes.  Orsino   Sep-01-07 12:29 PM   #8 
  - I summarily reject your argument because it's far too reasonable  Orrex   Sep-01-07 09:34 PM   #9 
     - Ah, yes. Shades of Bush v. Gore.  Orsino   Sep-02-07 07:17 AM   #10 
        - Good call, and I confess that I hadn't even thought of that  Orrex   Sep-02-07 08:23 PM   #11 
  - Written by Melinda Snodgrass if I recall, it was just as bad on original airing...  HypnoToad   Sep-04-07 09:28 PM   #12 
  - Ugh. I'd forgotten about "A Matter of Perspective"  Orrex   Sep-04-07 10:59 PM   #13 
     - Quite.  HypnoToad   Oct-02-07 08:32 PM   #19 
        - IIRC "The Quality of Life" featured the most blatantly phallic object ever shown in primetime  Orrex   Oct-02-07 11:56 PM   #20 
  - Courtroom scenes don't really bother me.  shenmue   Sep-19-07 05:39 AM   #14 
  - My exception  PetrusMonsFormicarum   Sep-19-07 06:24 PM   #15 
  - I'm happy to hear of exceptions to my "rule!"  Orrex   Sep-20-07 10:06 PM   #16 
  - Anything where it turns out to be a dream...  tomfodw   Sep-27-07 08:21 AM   #17 
  - Yeah, that's always dreadful  Orrex   Sep-27-07 12:59 PM   #18 
  - "It's some new kind of metal!"  Bornaginhooligan   Oct-24-07 07:00 PM   #21 
 

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