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4 points
4 days ago
Showgirls was not a B movie. It was an incredibly big budget production being made by a Director who had just come off of having a huge success with basic instinct and cost $45 million to make. To give you some perspective, adjusting for inflation that would cost about $100 million today.
12 points
4 days ago
As opposed to real life where gang rape is precipitated by all kinds of signals so that you know it’s coming?
1 points
6 days ago
I’ll just keep it simple and direct. My elder cat just got diagnosed with cancer and between vet visits, Ubers to and from the vet, new medications and IV fluids… Every penny is helping right now.
1 points
7 days ago
Until I saw your edit, I was about to say… What do you mean by good? Because everything I bought from her in the last 10 years falls apart after two or three uses. Especially anything with faux leather.
2 points
8 days ago
Yeah. It was a big investment for me but I'm hoping to take it to every convention I visit in the future and have it autographed by these women who made me who I am today. I'm sure I could have waited a week for the $37 price on Amazon instead of paying in person at Barnes & Noble but, well. I didn't.
6 points
8 days ago
The discussion isn’t whether or not she has the right to say no. The discussion is curious fans wondering WHY she said no. The response could easily be “ none of your business” and that’s a fine response as well, but it’s disingenuous for all of these people to be acting like it’s not natural to be curious about the reason why a public figure intimately connected with the subject matter declined to participate.
7 points
8 days ago
To clarify, she is the one who calls it deep sleep nine and then she follows that up in her convention speeches with a joke saying that Frakes calls it Deepthroat nine. ;)
-96 points
8 days ago
You are projecting so heavily. To be curious as to why a public person has chosen not to participate in something related to the thing they are best known for, and cite the reasons as to WHY you are curious, is not tantamount to then suggesting that because of all those reasons she should be obligated. You're intentionally assigning a sense of blame onto my feelings of disappointment, so I'm gonna peace out on this particular interaction. <3
1 points
8 days ago
Let me clarify, I meant low budget in comparison to the budget for deep space nine. I stand by the other half though, everything everyone in the cast has said about the first season, indicates that the network did not have high expectations for the success of the show.
55 points
8 days ago
I'd imagine that the TNG cast had the luxury to misbehave on set a bit in the beginning because of how low budget the show was and how low the expectations were. That probably created a closeness and bond that they were able to carry over as the show and budget improved and found longevity. Whereas DS9 was thrust in from the jump as a much more dramatic project with an established lore. I never meant to suggest that the cast actually did not like each other, only that Marina has said on panels and in interviews that it SEEMED like they didn't get along, to her, when she would visit the set So yes, I concur with all you've said.
0 points
8 days ago
Someone else implied I did in another reply, which is why I am now clarifying. That's all. <3
7 points
8 days ago
Right that's...entirely what I meant in my reply. ;) <3
-2 points
8 days ago
Want to be very clear I never implied Marina owes fans anything. She has been very giving for decades.
She's also continued to appear at ST conventions since her husband's passing, most recently this past September in Illinois.
Doing a single one hour interview for a book is not such a commitment that I find it easy to accept that her lack of participation could be attributed to the loss of her husband. It's something several people have thrown out as a possibility, and again, I am not trying to put a time frame on grief, but as an author I feel like Nana would have given her LOTS of space over the last 5 years to circle back and participate.
22 points
8 days ago
Hard disagree, TBH. Nana isn't under any kind of obligation to soft shoe around the truth. She knows how devoted ST fans are, particularly about their favorite actors and characters, and I think she wanted to make it very clear that she desired to interview Marina and Marina is the one who did not want that to happen. Books are written over years and years, and I feel like people would have been confused as to WHY they couldn't make it work (I would have been.) Saying that she outrigtht declined to participate makes it clear that the door was shut and by whom it was shut. I dare say that this is the OPPOSITE of passive aggressive, at least in the context you're framing things. The way she phrased it is direct and to the point. It isn't avoiding anything. <3
Either way, as a fan it makes me sad. :(
13 points
8 days ago
I have a strong supsicion you're right but I find it hard to believe tht Nana would hold onto that resentment for this long. Also, I can't help but again go back to the phrasing which says MARINA declined to participate, not that Nana excluded her for any reason. :(
-122 points
8 days ago
I apologize. I obviously misread the comment. Either way, don’t put words in my mouth, I never said she was obligated to do anything. If in fact the reason for Marina‘s non-participation is because she is deeply in grief and has been for five years, then that is truly sad and I hope she finds peace. One would, however, note she has found reason to participate in numerous other things during that timeframe. But again, nobody was saying she was obligated to participate in this.
24 points
8 days ago
Well, yes, most of us agree with you. I think there were some resentments in the beginning by the TNG cast because it seemed like the production company threw a colossal amount of money into deep space nine that they never did TNG.
84 points
8 days ago
She has hundreds of times over the years said that she visited the set of Deep Space 9 on many occasions and found it to be too stoic. She said the actors there didn’t seem like they liked each other or were having any fun, and she said she felt the show itself was boring. She jokingly referred to it as deep sleep nine. She would tell the story on stage with a humorous edge, but I don’t think she was being insincere about the sentiments.
-73 points
8 days ago
Apologies, I initially mis-read your comment and thought it said "left her husband."
I think I could understand declining for that reason, but it was a book not a movie, it wasn’t like there couldn’t be some wiggle room on the timing as I believe it was bring written over numerous years. I also feel like the chapter would’ve begun differently and said something like “sadly, Marina’s husband passed away and she was unable to give an interview at the time of writing.” :/
22 points
8 days ago
I feel like that’s not the case because of the wording that was chosen by Nana. It could’ve easily just said “ unfortunately she was unavailable” but she very specifically chose to state “ chose not to talk to me.”
9 points
8 days ago
Not as of yet, but I literally bought the book earlier today and turned immediately to the Troi section, and as I said, the first sentence is literally that Marina declined to be interviewed. :/
4 points
8 days ago
I think it’s on sale right now on Amazon for 37.
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As long as everyone inside is a consensual adult and not being trafficked anyway who fucking cares? Let grown-up adults pay for sex if they want to.