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Sidewinder wrote:I'm sure better stories titled 'The Swarm' have been done in Americomi (Japanese slang for American comics). That says VERY BAD THINGS about the writers for 'Voyager'.

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Sidewinder wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Right, because I'm sure no manga series have ever been artificially lengthened when they have become popular...

Oh... wait...
Manga are usually owned by their creators, who can decide, "Okay, I'm done with this series," when they think they've run out of ideas for one.
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That's a good one. Try telling Akira Toriyama that! :lol:
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Or how what's his name dragged out death note so he could have 108 chapters, because he wanted the symbolism?
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What's the symbolism of 108 chapters?
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:What's the symbolism of 108 chapters?
108 Sous/ Beads. I forget the details, but it's something to do with warding off evil. There might be other stuff as well. The japanese were never shy about mix and match myths.
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Rhoades wrote:I got a question. The aliens that attacked the shuttle in teaser, were they part of the swarm? Or does Voyager has a random encounter table?
Definitely the latter. Of course this is Trek, so its called a "Quantum Encounter Generator"
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108 is associated with death in Japan, just like 13 is associated with bad luck in American culture.
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It strikes me that the Swarm plot seems like a really bad attempt to harken back to the TOS episode The Tholian Web.
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Given your rant on their idiotic technobabble in this episode, I can't wait for the video review.
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