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7mo ago

Evil Riker

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It'll sometimes randomly pop into my head that Xanatos's first name is David. Fucking David and Goliath
- How tf have I never made that connection?!

Will Riker is the evil Will Riker.
Did you not see the beard?
- Arguably Thomas Riker is the evil one.
  
  He also has a beard.
  It's all evil Rikers.

I grew up thinking that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" was from a speech from some historical figure, centuries ago.
No. It was literally Spock from TOS.
- It was a speech from some historical figure, centuries to come.
- Really? It’s not from some kind of treatise on utilitarianism? That seems unlikely
- Ah yes, Spock from Trek of Stars.
- That happened to me with Yoda lifting the X-wing out of the swamp and Luke saying "I don't believe it."
  Totally thought it was from an age old tale about magic, but not after I rewatched the movies.

I always feel weird about these, like that dril quote. Shakespeare, Hobbes, Dril, and the people who worked on gargoyles all share the same thing: THEY ARE WRITERS. They know how to write good. They got paid to write good. They built their lives around writing good. These amazing quotes like "face god and walk backwards into hell" don't happen by accident, they are intentional creations by people who are doing their absolute best to write something memorable, and occasionally succeed.
- They know how to write good. They got paid to write good. They built their lives around writing good.
  They know how to write well. They got paid to write well. They built their lives around writing well.
  
  They know how to write. Well, they got paid to write. Well, they built their lives around writing. Well, ...
  
  They wrote about heroes saving the world, therefore they wrote good.
  That what they wrote is so memorable to us means they wrote well.
  
  Are you 16 getting an A in English class?
  
  Whooosh
- Not to mention they got deep in the lore of King Arthur and Macbeth and what not for information to write that show.
  
  [ Fox reads a book on Sartre while Hyena shoots cockroaches with a catapult.]
  Hyena: Why do you read that stuff?
  Fox: Because Nietzsche's too butch and Kafka reminds me of your little friends over there.

I loved those old 90’s cartoons that didn’t try to make the themes and storylines not too dark and complex for children. Reboot, Gargoyles, Batman from what I can remember… there were others but I’m old and I can’t remember.
- i think it's the opposite. the best ones didn't talk down to children and weren't afraid to go to some darker themes, if the story would better be served as such, not for the sake of being edgy. that's the difference between good 90s shows and the dumb cynical shit zack "having a moral code is childish" snyder comes up with.
  x-men dealt with racism, terrorism, loss of family, abduction, all sorts of shit. it was never cynical though. had a strong moral code, was full of hope and love and heart. the finale still makes me cry multiple times.
  
  Interesting writing aside, this was also the season Marvel outsourced animation to a tiny Filipino studio to save money during their impending bankruptcy.

"Silence, or you'll be held in contempt of this court!"
"I have nothing but contempt for this court"
Transformers animated series
- Voice actors are the heroes we deserved all along.

I am now sad that we never got a TNG mirror universe episode.
Would mirror Riker be goatee-Riker or fullbeard-Riker

Evil Riker plays the French Horn. Evilly.

Gargoyles is still one of my favorite animated shows ever. The Chronicles was not great.

Reminds me of spy kids 2 dropping one of the hardest lines of all time

Oh, what I would give for a proper HD remaster of Gargoyles.

So Thomas Riker?

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