Author Topic: EP150: This, My Body  (Read 45841 times)

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Reply #50 on: April 18, 2008, 05:44:02 PM
Edible people are nothing new. Example:


Isn't that Data? Is he a "people"?



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Reply #51 on: April 18, 2008, 05:46:00 PM
Isn't that Data? Is he a "people"?
According to Measure of a Man, yes.

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Reply #52 on: April 18, 2008, 11:56:51 PM
Isn't that Data? Is he a "people"?
According to Measure of a Man, yes.

I consider Data to be a "people".  SPOILER (and embarrassment coverage): I never cry when vacuum cleaners and electronics "die".    :'(

But, my favorite Worf line (because it comes in handy all the time) was from the baseball episode of DS9; when Sisko calls for some chatter, and Worf bellows, "Death to the opposition!"

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Reply #53 on: April 19, 2008, 02:04:44 AM
Isn't that Data? Is he a "people"?
According to Measure of a Man, yes.

I consider Data to be a "people".  SPOILER (and embarrassment coverage): I never cry when vacuum cleaners and electronics "die".    :'(

But, my favorite Worf line (because it comes in handy all the time) was from the baseball episode of DS9; when Sisko calls for some chatter, and Worf bellows, "Death to the opposition!"

LOL

I had forgotten that line. And it's one of my favourite episodes of any flavour of Star Trek, too.

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Reply #54 on: August 03, 2008, 07:00:57 PM
I could have sworn I had replied to this thread already, but my post history says otherwise...

I had to read the preview to figure out that Steve was saying "assaisonment," but in retrospect his pronuncation was decent; I guess I just wasn't expecting to hear the word. But, as it means "seasoning," it's a great term for these people.

I was blown away by this story while I was listening to it. Strangely though, I'm not sure I would count it as one of my favorite EP episodes--but it was a very good listen. The story had a good flow to it, and the concept was rather fascinating.

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Reply #55 on: October 20, 2008, 08:14:02 PM
I enjoyed this storey.  It gave a new take on the link between food and sex as well as what happens when some is given too much time alone.



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Reply #56 on: March 25, 2010, 05:22:39 PM
Hmm...  I both liked and disliked this story. I knew this was SF from the moment that he willed himself to have an erection and it worked!  :)

The Good:  The flavored people is an interesting idea.  A future religion that modifies humans into sex-slaves to find God through gluttony and lust is an interesting take (and disturbing).  Well-written.

The sex-slavery is particularly disturbing and effective.  And the fact that the religion, which supposedly believes in finding God through orgasms (and food) deprives their own priests of the ability to orgasm. 

The Bad: 
Call me a prude, but in general I just don't see that much appeal in mixing sex and food.  Particularly when he rubbed the raw chicken on his body, and it had already mentioned that he doesn't bathe, I threw up in my mouth a little.  And throughout the whole thing, I just kept thinking "Now I know where the special sauce comes from!  Ew!"

I groaned when he arrived and the father explained to him the daughter was off-limits.  Not that it's not reasonable, but isn't there an old cliched plot where a traveler stops by a farmhouse looking for room and board.  The benevolent father gives him a room and board in exchange for helping out on the farm, but he has a beautiful daughter (often a virgin) who wants nothing more than to have sex with him?  I know I've seen it a million times, but the only two instances I can think of are an episode of Seinfeld and a chapter of the first Wheel of Time book.

The reveal about the other chef being a former food-monk came out of nowhere and then never actually was addressed other than the chef's single-line reveal.



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Reply #57 on: March 26, 2010, 06:24:19 AM
It's actually one of the oldest formula jokes around.  "The traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter" is a staple of bad jokes and bad porn alike.



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Reply #58 on: March 26, 2010, 07:10:48 AM
I groaned when he arrived and the father explained to him the daughter was off-limits.  Not that it's not reasonable, but isn't there an old cliched plot where a traveler stops by a farmhouse looking for room and board.  The benevolent father gives him a room and board in exchange for helping out on the farm, but he has a beautiful daughter (often a virgin) who wants nothing more than to have sex with him?  I know I've seen it a million times, but the only two instances I can think of are an episode of Seinfeld and a chapter of the first Wheel of Time book.

The oldest example I can think of is The Reeve's Tale, one of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. And, since I think the belief is that Chaucer mainly adapter existing tales rather than create them from scratch, that means this trope was familiar already at the 14th century.



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Reply #59 on: March 26, 2010, 01:33:55 PM
I groaned when he arrived and the father explained to him the daughter was off-limits.  Not that it's not reasonable, but isn't there an old cliched plot where a traveler stops by a farmhouse looking for room and board.  The benevolent father gives him a room and board in exchange for helping out on the farm, but he has a beautiful daughter (often a virgin) who wants nothing more than to have sex with him?  I know I've seen it a million times, but the only two instances I can think of are an episode of Seinfeld and a chapter of the first Wheel of Time book.

The oldest example I can think of is The Reeve's Tale, one of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. And, since I think the belief is that Chaucer mainly adapter existing tales rather than create them from scratch, that means this trope was familiar already at the 14th century.

Oh yeah!  I remember that one.  It involved a very memorable kiss if I do recall.  Anyway, it's a situation that's been so overdone over the years that I find it hard to take it seriously anymore.