Friday Ephemera
Tinkles is a big boy. || Surprises down below. (h/t, Damian) || He does this better than you do. || Old-school bugging device. || What’s in the box? || Wobble of note. || Smart diapers detect dampness. || Critical Drinker recaps Picard. || It passes the time. || Determined soap dispenser. || Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Syndrome. || Film criticism. (h/t, Dicentra) || It’s a fixer-upper, only $495,000. (h/t, Things) || It fires toilet paper and now you want one. || Clash of the titans. || Turtle of terror. || Asteroids size comparison. || A comprehensive archive of Mark Zuckerberg’s hairstyles. || It’s all in the ankles. || He’s not sure what you are, either. || Forbidden love. || And finally, you may wince when ready.
Oopsie.
A YouTuber named The Script Doctor has pointed out how the unseen backstory . . . .
An educated guess is of the storytelling complications of when to reveal that the more ditzy than thou doctor is a member of Section 31, which has been chasing the Tal Shiar ever since the latter targeted the androids on Mars by way of double agents in Starfleet . . .
. . . . and an overall thought is that while the pacing is indeed being on the level of Le Carre, he quite prolly would have handled the storytelling a bit better. Mebbe.
The real reason I’d buy a missile silo in Benson, Arizona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-MzxDad2c
more interesting, and more ripe with potential, than anything in the actual story being offered
They’re not offering you a story, they’re offering you an agenda. The story’s just the carrier, and therefore less important.
They’re not offering you a story, they’re offering you an agenda. The story’s just the carrier, and therefore less important.
That might explain the apparent indifference to things not being done half as well as they could be.
[ Watches Picard episode five. ]
Something happened, at last. But, no, it did not get better.