Explaining Avery Brooks's joke on "The Captains" with William Shatner

Explaining Avery Brooks's joke on "The Captains" with William Shatner

There's a scene in The Captains that a lot of fans, and even Shatner, didn't get which has earned Brooks an unfair reputation as a kind of loopy eccentric, but he was actually just making a musical joke.

The scene:

Shatner: What happens when you die?

Brooks: Tell me.

Shatner: I wish I knew.

Brooks: [Plays the piano for 1 minute.] I wish I knew.

The song he played on the piano was a jazz standard called I wish I knew. That was his response to the question.

I had to have this explained to me a few years ago, because I don't know jazz and it does seem weird if you didn't know that that was the name of a song. But upon learning that, it changed my entire perception of the interview. So I thought I'd share it with the community.

u/Mister_Acula — 10 days ago
▲ 38 r/charmed

How long were the Halliwell Sisters watching that stripper being eaten by demons in "The Wedding from Hell"?

My first time watching this show. Been loving it so far, but this has to be the worst, most aggravating episode. They just stood at the window while these 4 demons transformed and ate that poor stripper. This was right after Prue said they were "defenders of the innocent" too. Was he not an innocent?

Sure, demons are scary, but up to this point they have literally never hesitated to jump in and protect someone, whether it's warlocks, dream sorcerers, or murderous gangsters. And all three of them were there, so they were at their strongest.

u/Mister_Acula — 1 month ago

Does Sisko have the complete lifetime of Benny Russell's memories or just a few incomplete visions of it?

u/Mister_Acula — 1 month ago

Why wasn't the "Dominion War" called the "Clone Wars"?

The Vorta are clones and are the primary commanders of the Dominion forces. The Jem'Hadar are essentially clones too, though they are cloned from a wider gene stock.

So given that one faction in the war uses clones, it only makes sense to call it the Clone War.

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u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago

Were the Greys jumpsuits or jackets or some futuristic technotextile that could seamlessly blend the two together?

u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago
▲ 246 r/buffy

I'm watching Legend of the Seeker and Cordelia just showed up as a Mord Sith

u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago

Did these guys have to stand in the back at the meeting because they showed up their ancient TNG era uniforms?

u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago
▲ 95 r/XFiles

Scully was a bad dog mom

How could Scully not immediately chase after what snatched poor Queequeg? She had her gun out! She was not even 20 feet away! How could she just go back to the cabin?

We've seen Scully selflessly charge in against countless dangers before, but when her own dog she freezes up?

Then she barely mentions it to Mulder. Isn't this the proof that there is a predator out there, even if it wasn't Big Blue? He would have gladly went out there searching for it.

Pets really went unloved in the 1900s.

u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago

Legend of the Seeker (2008)

The Legend of the Seeker is a fantasy action show created by Sam Raimi, who also brought us Hercules and Xena, and it's every bit as action-packed, campy, and epic. It's based on the book series by Terry Goodkind, but the tone is completely different.

I'm rewatching it now for probably 4th time and it's so fun and comfy. Everyone's performances are cranked up to 11. The plots are all very imaginative with creative uses for magic and mcguffins that I don't see very many shows do.

The main character, Richard Cypher, is a total boy scout who always tries to do what's right.

His side kick/love interest, Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell, has the power to turn any man she touches in a love slave, which means they can never be together without it turning into the movie Obsession.

They're joined by the wizard, Zeddicus Zul Zorander, who you might remember from Lord of the Rings as the Mouth of Sauron, or from Mad Max as the gyro pilot. And he his not shy about using his powers.

In season 2 they get another party member, who is like the evil version of Kahlan. She wears skin-tight, red leather and has the power to "train" people to fall in love with her through torture with her magic pain dildo. But she's good now.

I know those character descriptions kinda make it sound like it's porn, but it's not as outright horny as it sounds.

It has good special effects and good action and is just a fun show.

u/Mister_Acula — 2 months ago

Cinephiles, I have a movie day with the boys coming up, what are some pretentious ways I can talk about film to make me sound smart and them feel dumb?

After we finish our first movie I'm going to turn to them and ask, "So what did you think of the mise-en-scène?"

How else can I elevate this movie discussion?

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u/Mister_Acula — 3 months ago
▲ 82 r/scifi

Disclosure Day felt like a rehash of the ending of Spielberg's 2002 Taken miniseries, but worse

I keep seeing this Spielberg quote about how he had the idea of Disclosure Day for years, but never had the chance to do it. Except he did (as executive producer) with Taken in 2002.

If you haven't seen Taken it's a 10 episode Sci-Fi channel miniseries that follows multiple generations of the families of alien abductees and government agents from the Roswell crash to the present narrated by Dakota Fanning. Each episode jumps ahead about a decade. It's good. It won an Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries.

Taken Spoilers Below!

Like Disclosure Day, by the final episodes of Taken we're following a guy and girl who were both abducted by aliens and shared an experience aboard a flying saucer. They're both on the run from the MIB. Dakota Fanning has psychic alien powers like Emily Blunt and she even does the invisible escape trick, only with slight differences. Fanning turns invisible and escapes while projecting the image of a huge UFO abducting her. People come from all over to start worshiping her.

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u/Mister_Acula — 3 months ago

Did Future Odo really genocide a planet because he couldn't find a girlfriend in 200 years?

Just rewatched Children of Time, great episode, but what struck me this time around was that Future Odo must have been really unhappy there to unalive (this feels like the most accurate word for it) 8,000 people who he had been living with for 200 years.

Did he not have another girlfriend? He wasn't even together with Kira at the time of the crash and just a few episodes earlier he fell in love with that under cover cop. So it's not like his heart was only for Kira.

Also, Kira would have died of old age by this point in Odo's life anyway.

Who here would genocide a planet to save the life of your first crush who you were too chicken to ask out?

u/Mister_Acula — 3 months ago

The setup to S5E2: The Ship makes zero sense

I'm rewatching the Ship, one of my favorite episodes of DS9, but I noticed something weird about the setup.

They are surveying a planet in the GQ for potential mining operations, but the survey crew is massive. There are 6 people on the planet: Sisko, Dax, Worf, O'Brien, and 2 others. There are 3 more still on the runabout. 9 people total for a planetary survey.

Why is this their job? A space station captain and tactical officer aren't needed for this. This is a Dax and O'Brien mission at most. But really a dedicated survey ship should probably be handling this.

9 people on a runabout? Sure, those things are little bigger than they seem on the show, since we usually only see the cockpit, but 9 people is going to be a close quarters.

So why not bring the Defiant? In a previous episode they state that the Defiant is supposed to remain at the station in case of Klingon attack, but in this one they immediately call for it to help haul up the crashed Jem'Hadar ship, so that doesn't seem to be the case here.

Still, it's a great episode, but I just think the setup is a little nonsensical.

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u/Mister_Acula — 4 months ago