I thought they were Presbylutherans.
Under penalty of TORTURE.
These Are the Voyages, the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise. It’s bad enough that the show was starting to get really good in season 4 (when Bermaga stepped back), but the finale was an atrocity. Hell, it was a fucking lost episode of TNG. The entire show took place in the holodeck. Even the actors hated it.
Yup. This was Joss’ Very Special Episode on Female Genital Mutilation, I’m pretty sure. I was mildly surprised there wasn’t a URL for an appropriate NGO webpage at the end.
Sometimes, Joss tries a little too hard to be The Best Feminist Dude Ever.
No one has mentioned the episode of Dallas where “it was all a dream”?
Bai Ling was not in that episode to act. She was there to be hot. She did that very well, I thought.
Anyway, I’m in the minority that views “She” as a glorious failure. I don’t think we were meant to believe the women of the other world were super-horny. Rather, it was that they lived in an oppressive society in which the men hated the idea of women having independent sexuality (or independent anything). The growth the men sought to excise was basically the women’s equivalent of our frontal lobes; they were getting lobotomized.
I will agree, though, that the episode went wrong in presenting human men as being irresistably drawn to the alien women. It should have been made clearer that this was because humans weren’t use to such effects, as the men of that world would have been; in other words, the men of the alien world would not lose all control over their own genitalia. They’d have done better to just skip the bit about human men being aroused by the women.
But there’s still good stuff in the episode. Bai Ling is hot, as I have already opined, and appropriately mysterious. Angel is badass & goofy at the same time. I love his casual jump from a three story roof because he just can’t be arsed to take the stairs, and his spontaneous art lecture, and his inability to use a cell phone efficiently.
Also, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
How can we? It doesn’t exist.
Also, I am not currently prepared to watching any episode of Dallas, though I will concede to having once or twice glimpsed Victoria Principal in a swimsuit.
I don’t recall the episode exactly, but the one on Little House on the Prarie where Albert is addicted to morphine (I think) and gets over it, and then in her closing voiceover, Laura says something like, “Until Albert returned to Walnut Grove as Doctor Ingalls.”
[spoiler]Now,there’s nothing wrong here, actually, but later on, when they were doing the TV movie specials, there is one where Albert is studying to become a doctor, and has nosebleeds and finds out that he has some seemingly fatal disease.
All through it, I’m confidently going yeah, but he’ll beat it because he hasn’t become a doctor yet!! Ha, ha.
…and at the end…he DIES! WTF???
I was almost as incensed as some of the Dopers here were at the Battlestar Galactica finale.
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Episode? Wasn’t it a whole season?
I don’t know if that specifically means he was never in a camp, but yes, I always liked the Vietnam flashbacks.
“The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism.” In another episode it was revealed that the head of their sect is The Parson, which was also not particularly funny. At least one good joke did come out of it: the Presbylutherans split from another church in the 16th century because the Presbylutherans wanted to have the right to go to services with wet hair. They later abolished that right anyway.
It wasn’t an episode. It was Season 9. I think this is widely accepted as the worst retcon in TV history.
That episode wasn’t so bad - it was the remainder of the series after that which sucked sweaty donkey balls.
The entire 8th season of That '70s Show.
Spider-man never sold his marriage and his unborn child to the devil.
I’ve frequently argued that that episode should have been the finale, with no real resolution as to whether it was real or not :).
That episode of Bones last season where Booth thought he was talking to Stewie from Family Guy. That was just stupid.
ST DS9’s Sacrifice of Angels. I’ve always been partial to Gul Dukat as acharacter and I really him as the cool. collected and devious baddie, I liked him even better as the slightly ambiguous baddie, but I did NOT like him as the red eyed batshit insane Evil Maniac baddie. That was neither fun nor believable.
In fact I don’t like how they ramped up the series into a goodies against baddies War with lots Violence, Actions and Guns, when it had previously been so good at depicting all kinds of grey areas. But “The Rules” state one episode only, so that would be mine.
The Buffy ep where Xander stood up Anya at the alter. While it had some hilarious bits and pieces (the hideously ugly bridesmaids dresses & Buffy juggling in order to stall the ceremony) I just don’t buy it. Xander was a stand-up guy when the chips were down, not a stand-up the woman you love kind of guy.
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Okay, I hate to have to bring up Highlander movies, and no, this is not going where you think it’s going. The Highlander TV Series with Duncan McLeod (who came along several decades after Connor McLeod, the movie dude. So they are not supposed to be the same guy, they are just distant kinsmen), this stupid show was a guilty pleasure for me and my roommates at the time. They had a key character, Duncan’s girlfriend Tessa. A very likeable character too, our Tessa.
Important plot point for the history of the series is an episode called “The Darkness”. A psychic bumps into Tessa and freaks out because she sees darkness and death in Tessa’s future. This reminds Duncan of ::cue flashback:: decades ago he was dating a fortune teller, she dumps him when she reads his palm and sees he will never marry, ergo, he’s not serious about her. Duncan protests, but she insists: “You will never marry, Duncan McLeod!”
Duncan proposes to Tessa, and of course the psychic’s vision comes true, major character killed off. Duncan never marries.
In one of those piss-poor movies, they introduce you to an immortal… Duncan’s ex-wife? An ex-wife who pre-dates Tessa even! Pissed me right off! The canon is “Duncan never marries.” In fact, it was set up so his marriage proposal is what practically sealed Tessa’s fate. Jerks!
It’s not exactly an “episode”, but Ursula K. LeGuin’s original Earthsea trilogy did not gain anything from some of the revisionist ideas in her subsequent books in the series (Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind).
There are still lots of pieces of genuine Earthsea in the later books, but they come through like bits of old historical archives that have been heavily rewritten by a PC court historian.
I would be more specific, but I’m embarrassed to admit that I never figured out how to do a spoiler box. I’m going to go learn that and maybe come back later with details, unless this print-media digression is too far OT for this thread.
It works like this:
[noparse]OMG I’m totally spoiling thisalert![/noparse]
So without the noparse tags, you get something like this: