Most disappointing sci-fi revelation?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2002-11-29 12:56am

What was the one question you wanted answered and was let down the most by the answer?

Mine would have to be the origin of Unicron in Transformers. Here I was thinking he was the equivalent of God and the Devil (he giveth, but you belong to him forever if you make a bargain with him), and that he had been around for millenia.

And then I find out he had just been created by some stupid-looking scientist.

Any similar experiences?

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-29 01:06am

Question: What makes Akira so great?
Answer: It's not.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-11-29 01:10am

data_link wrote:Question: What makes Akira so great?
Answer: It's not.

How true....

Anyway, my own disappointment would have to be Battlesatr Galactica 1980...they finally find earth and it SUCKS. I was so let down by this show that I never watched a single episode after the first two EVER again, even on reruns.

Omega-13 · Post by **Omega-13** » 2002-11-29 01:23am

midiclorians, ..or however you spell them
took the 'hope' and 'dreams' out of being a jedi, now you have to have a lot of these little bacteria....please

watch starwars a new hope, listen to the music and the feeling, and u got some hope there,

watch TPM, and your like...gay

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-11-29 01:26am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:What was the one question you wanted answered and was let down the most by the answer?

Mine would have to be the origin of Unicron in Transformers. Here I was thinking he was the equivalent of God and the Devil (he giveth, but you belong to him forever if you make a bargain with him), and that he had been around for millenia.

And then I find out he had just been created by some stupid-looking scientist.

Any similar experiences?

read the comics. In there, he is the dark god Unicron. The light god being Primus

Now I admit I haven't watched season 3 of G1, but where did yuo get this information that the cartoon unicron was created by a scientist?

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-29 01:29am

The medi-chlorian thing in TPM annoyed me. Same with the birth of Anakin.

I think the movie version of the X-files just killed my interest in the show.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2002-11-29 01:33am

Shadow WarChief wrote:
read the comics. In there, he is the dark god Unicron. The light god being Primus

Now I admit I haven't watched season 3 of G1, but where did yuo get this information that the cartoon unicron was created by a scientist?

http://www.claws-and-paws.com/tf/primacron.shtml

See what i mean?

Kind of like how there was no Cobra-La in the G.I. Joe comic, and Cobra Commander was human. The comics are always so much better in regards to 80s cartoons.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2002-11-29 01:48am

Why the Highlanders are the way they are, as answered in Highlander 2. Sometimes it's just best not to know the answer if the answer's stupid.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-29 01:50am

Why the Highlanders are the way they are, as answered in Highlander 2. Sometimes it's just best not to know the answer if the answer's stupid.

** SCREAMS LIKE HOMER SIMPSON **

I forgot about Highlander 2. Damn that was a movie that never needed to be made.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-11-29 02:19am

I'll add in with Chuck, Highlander II was a sickening mess.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2002-11-29 02:46am

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:I'll add in with Chuck, Highlander II was a sickening mess.

I don't remember it, other than it was just no damn' good. What was the sickening revelation?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2002-11-29 03:41am

That they were aliens.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2002-11-29 05:10am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:That they were aliens.

How in the hell is anybody supposed to fall for that? And the fact that I don't remember it AT ALL disturbs me to no end. It's been a while but still....

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2002-11-29 05:57am

Not exactly sci-fi, but the last episode of G Gundam was a huge let down. Generations was a let down, since they didn't give Kirk, one of the icons of science fiction a proper death.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2002-11-29 07:19am

Aya wrote:Not exactly sci-fi, but the last episode of G Gundam was a huge let down. Generations was a let down, since they didn't give Kirk, one of the icons of science fiction a proper death.

What did you expect? *Points finger at B&B*

The whole midichlorian situation is so... stupid.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2002-11-29 08:37am

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:That they were aliens.

Thank god all the other movies ignored that piece of crap (though III and IV both sucked anyway)

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2002-11-29 09:42am

Shadow WarChief wrote:
Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:What was the one question you wanted answered and was let down the most by the answer?

Mine would have to be the origin of Unicron in Transformers. Here I was thinking he was the equivalent of God and the Devil (he giveth, but you belong to him forever if you make a bargain with him), and that he had been around for millenia.

And then I find out he had just been created by some stupid-looking scientist.

Any similar experiences?
read the comics. In there, he is the dark god Unicron. The light god being Primus

Now I admit I haven't watched season 3 of G1, but where did yuo get this information that the cartoon unicron was created by a scientist?

It was an episode of the Transformers cartoon.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-11-29 10:08am

Midiwhasis...and seeing Anakin for the first time as a whiny, loud 10-year old.

Have no problem him being a regular ten year old kid, have a problem that they are trying way too hard for something I have yet to feel for him.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2002-11-29 10:56am

Hmm... hard question.

I think it was to see that the Death Star was designed by the Geonosians. I had always thought that it was designed by Imperial engineers.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2002-11-29 11:14am

"Godzilla" 1998 or as we affectionally refer to him, GINO (Godzilla In Name Only)

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2002-11-29 12:02pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Hmm... hard question.

I think it was to see that the Death Star was designed by the Geonosians. I had always thought that it was designed by Imperial engineers.

Been explained to death.

Just because they were contracted to do it doesn't mean they completed the contract...of course this is just part of George's bright Prequel one-species-per-thing brain bug. Cloners need to be a species, droids builders a species, and the Trade Fed all their own species. How retarded.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-29 12:44pm

Majin Gojira wrote:"Godzilla" 1998 or as we affectionally refer to him, GINO (Godzilla In Name Only)

GAAAAH!

BlackWarMewtwo · Post by **BlackWarMewtwo** » 2002-11-29 04:09pm

We NEVER found out what the Phantom Ranger's secret identity was.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-11-29 04:19pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Hmm... hard question.

I think it was to see that the Death Star was designed by the Geonosians. I had always thought that it was designed by Imperial engineers.
Been explained to death.

Just because they were contracted to do it doesn't mean they completed the contract...of course this is just part of George's bright Prequel one-species-per-thing brain bug. Cloners need to be a species, droids builders a species, and the Trade Fed all their own species. How retarded.

Actually in the AOTC commentary, GL does state that this answers the question raised by Jay and Silent Bob about Death star contractors that dies...they were all termite aliens so who really cares? He says it in the scene in the war room with Dooku and the cheif Geonosian. I love this commentary its really pissing in people's ears about things

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-29 04:20pm

Hmmm.... I want to say the homecomings in Voyager, Titan AE, and Battlestar Galactica, but I think I have to say it's the B5 "We need to blow up the station because it would be a menace to navigation." They had B4 floating around for hundreds of years without any problems, and the manner in which the station's life ended was such a let-down.

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