Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2)
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That NYC subway crime story is practically a reprint of a San Francisco crime story (car break-ins) from a decade ago.
I cringe whenever I have to consider going to sf these days.
Your rashness paid off. Some quids bunged in your tip jar.
“Stereotype”…
Plantbased neighbors?
Huh. I’ve had some odd neighbors in my mumble decades, but except for the robot wielding his leaf blower like he was caught in a programming loop, they were all meatbased. I think.
Your rashness paid off. Some quids bunged in your tip jar.
Bless you, sir. May foxes doze upon your lawn. Unless, of course, you’re a farmer or someone with a smallholding.
When leftists fight over who gets to take credit for making yet another personal activity political.
“Kill me now.”
https://twitter.com/SwanOfTuonela/status/1233493251140849668
“Kill me now.”
These people deserve to be slaves.
When leftists fight over who gets to take credit for making yet another personal activity political.
It’s stuff like that that reminds one what hot, seething messes of emotional and mental disorders leftists can be.
This just in:
Presumably, transgender people don’t have “genital preferences” and would be quite content with whatever genitals were attached to their persons.
Further to recent rumblings in the comments,
Robin Aitken on the biases of the BBC.
Thanks (again), David. Tip jar hit. 🙂
Thanks (again), David. Tip jar hit. 🙂
Bless you, sir. May your ego never be, as it were, balanced on a two-legged stool.
Presumably, transgender people don’t have “genital preferences” and would be quite content with whatever genitals were attached to their persons.
Evidently not or that individual who had a fake johnson attached wouldn’t be suing because her natural naughty bits were removed.
Somewhat related, “The Daily Beast” wonders why a certain person has an X over his no-no square.
Meanwhile, Lesbians on a rampage, though it may not have anything to do with TERFs.
I’m just going to leave this here, I think.
Fascinating…
Fascinating…
It occurs to me that The Sedentary Adventures of Old, Fat Data might have been slightly more compelling than what’s actually being broadcast.
As mentioned, my interest in Star Trek past the days of The One True Shatner™ are near zero, but I thought Data was some sort of robot, so how the hell would it either age or become body positive ?
If they just wanted to keep the general character, they could get a new one and explain that they downloaded the old one’s data (NPI) into the new one, but had to get a new one because Apple made the old one and they lost the charger, and of course the new ones didn’t fit it. That would be more believable than a geriatric curvy android.
The Sedentary Adventures of Old, Fat Data
LOL. Definitely sounds better than ‘Picard’.
Definitely sounds better than ‘Picard’.
I picture Data and Picard in matching rocking chairs on a porch at the chateau, comparing their various ailments at great length and attempting to recall their earlier, livelier times, the details of which now escape them.
And yes, it still sounds more enticing than anything belched out by Alex Hilary Kurtzman.
I thought Data was some sort of robot, so how the hell would it either age or become body positive
I imagine he lost CTRL bit by bit, was terminated from his regular gig, then RAM’d bytes of cookies until he crashed.
/ I paid my bar tab. SUFFER ME
Criticisms of contrivances, plot holes and deus ex machina storytelling from “The Great War”:
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/ I paid my bar tab. SUFFER ME
[ Feels weight of tip jar, gestures for henchlesbians to stand down. ]
It occurs to me that The Sedentary Adventures of Old, Fat Data might have been slightly more compelling than what’s actually being broadcast.
One possible thought just popped into mind:
Hey, Patrick, have you seen any of “Star Trek “”Discovery”””?—And Yeah, we keep having to add the quotes to keep from giggling.
Stewart: _)#*&$#)&$)_#&$_)@*#^*)(((((((@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, we’re calling ’cause we’ve got some script, and it’s really only on the second draft or so, but if we go with it now, then all the work you’ve done can have a better and different finish than being a lead in for “”Discovery””.
Stewart: I’m in, when can we start?
Having only filtered the newer Trek excretions through the RLM crew and that other alcoholic David posted, can someone clarify this for me:
Are we to understand that in a post-scarcity, technology-indiscernible-from-magic world where military vessels have booths that just materialize snacks for for every Tom, Dick, and Harriet, the military-industrial complex thought that the most efficient and secure means of constructing starships was to produce an army of sapient androids and then keep them as slave laborers?
Can’t be going and honoring women on International Women’s Day. That’s just transphobic!
(can’t just once these council critters just tell the bullies to f**k off?)
Lurking, a better rash, squirrels hurling themselves through space, these are a few of my favorite things.
Are we to understand that in a […]
Star Trek isn’t science fiction. It’s Greek morality play and/or Shakespearean drama tarted up with rocket ships and ray guns. Assuming it’s intended to present an internally consistent universe is missing the point.
Voyager wasn’t good for much, but I’ll give Berman and co. credit for making this explicitly clear.
Monthly.
Resubmerging to the lurking depths.
Star Trek isn’t science fiction. It’s Greek morality play and/or Shakespearean drama tarted up with rocket ships and ray guns.
Gene Roddenberry pitched the series to NBC as “Wagon Train to the Stars”.
Are we to understand that in a post-scarcity…
If you pull at that thread – and in the case of Picard, just about any thread – the whole thing comes unravelled. It’s not so much a story as an unstable pile of generic, half-baked ideas, most of which have been seen before, and few of which sit well together. It doesn’t cohere. It’s like the various bits were just swept into a corner and that was it.
Assuming it’s intended to present an internally consistent universe is missing the point.
Given the writing talent on display, I doubt that a self-consistent story, even from one scene to the next, was ever on the cards. I mean, you can watch Picard and honestly wonder if you’ve passed out and missed entire scenes, entire character arcs. As a viewer, you’re continually being thrown out of the story by jumps, mismatches and incongruities. Why are these two characters, who have no connection or chemistry or discernible motive, suddenly shagging? Why is this other character needlessly doing the opposite of what he promised to do? Why does this Romulan, from the planet Romulus, have a heavy Oirish accent – at one point actually saying “cheeky feckers”?
Half of what you’re watching feels contrived, disjointed, arbitrary. It’s so badly stapled together.
these are a few of my favorite things.
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(can’t just once these council critters just tell the bullies to f**k off?)
A forlorn hope. I date the loss of the ability to say ‘No!’ and the crumbling of backbones to the early 80s, but probably because that’s when I began what I must laughingly call my career and became fully exposed to the lunacy afoot.
“Why are these two characters, who have no connection or chemistry or discernible motive, suddenly shagging? Why is this other character needlessly doing the opposite of what he promised to do?”
It’s probably based on real-life SJW social interactions.
It’s probably based on real-life SJW social interactions.
Heh. That may not be light years from the truth. It took me a while to realise that the Discovery character of Michael Burnham, a charmless Mary Sue, may actually be an ideal for the people for who wrote her.
Why are these two characters, who have no connection or chemistry or discernible motive, suddenly shagging?
That’s pretty much the story of my teens and twenties. (And thirties. Possibly.) Halcyon days.
Of course you are a racist, if you think you aren’t, you have just been using the wrong definition.
A mere 22 examples (just a small sample) at the link, so stop touching black peoples hair and get with the program, already.
Gene Roddenberry pitched the series to NBC as “Wagon Train to the Stars”.
And for decades, the way to get a TV show greenlit was to start your pitch with “It’s like The Fugitive, but…”
Everyone likes to bring up that quote, and I wonder how many of them have ever actually seen an episode of Wagon Train. Roddenberry was referrgin to the show’s episodic structure and rotating guest stars, which is ideally suited for television and syndication.
It’s not an accident that he cast two experienced Shakespearean actors to helm the first two shows, nor that Kirk was directed to deliver his lines in something close to iambic pentameter (you didn’t think Shatner actually talked like that, did you?)
As a viewer, you’re continually being thrown out of the story by jumps, mismatches and incongruities.
And two-dimensional villains. BONUS INCEST!
And two-dimensional villains. BONUS INCEST!
God, those scenes drag. Anything with Narek and Cartoon Evil Dominatrix Sister, or Narek and Soji, is awful. (They’ve managed to make visiting a Borg cube the most tiresome part of the show.) And after six episodes, more than half a season, Soji is still just an ill-defined MacGuffin, about which it’s hard to care, rather than an actual, you know, character.
Before abandoning the series, I found myself missing Picard’s Romulan housekeeper, even though she sounds like Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.
I wonder how many of them have ever actually seen an episode of Wagon Train
[raises hand]
As a child of the era, I loved all the westerns. Wagon Train, Sugarfoot, Paladin, Sky King, Cheyenne, The Rifle Man, Wanted: Dead or Alive (w Steve McQueen) … and my all time fave, Rawhide (with a very young Clint Eastwood, pre-spaghetti western)
That’s just the top of my head. Westerns dominated TV in the 50s & 60s.
By the way, this is me supposedly taking a few days off. As you can see, I’m not very good at it.
It’s like the various bits were just swept into a corner and that was it.
Could be worse. 🙂
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386120.php
Could be worse. 🙂
Oh my. I’d heard it was bad to the point of parody. The poor Doctor sounds done.
Also liked this, re Picard:
Heh.
The answer is to do the work – read things such as Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, Brit(ish), Natives, It’s Not About the Burqa and much much more. Listen to those around you, observe things, and call out problematic behaviours.
But, remember that you will never arrive at true racial awareness, it’s an ever-evolving process.
It’s not every day that they come right out and say it: “You need to give your money to the race-baiters, prop them up and amplify their voices. You need to be hyper-vigilant against imagined slights. You need to harass your family and friends. And even then, you will still, always and forever, be a racist.”
Gotta give ’em credit for pulling the curtain back.
Long essay, but oh so worth it.
Choice quotes:
and
Farnsworth,
#6 on that list is the winner.
even though she sounds like Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.
There was a TV movie in the 1980s about Vietnamese and Cambodian children adopted into the US, one of whom went on to win some kind of major spelling bee. The twist was that she’d been adopted by a West Texas family and had the corresponding accent.
One might assume that the Romulans learned English in, I don’t know, whatever’s left of northern Ireland in the 25th century. But truth is stranger than fiction, and much like Ben Mendelsohn’s Skrulladile Dundee, it doesn’t much matter if there’s a reasonable explanation for it. It just sounds ridiculous, and when suspension of disbelief is a cornerstone of your genre it’s a stumble out of the gate.
it doesn’t much matter if there’s a reasonable explanation for it. It just sounds ridiculous, and when suspension of disbelief is a cornerstone of your genre it’s a stumble out of the gate.
That. It’s hard to succumb to the drama, especially one so poorly written, if you’re continually raising an eyebrow at the incongruities and half expecting the Romulan housekeeper to say, cheerily, “Top o’ the morning, admiral.” For the most part, so far as I can see, the incongruities serve no obvious purpose, except to draw attention to their modish incongruity, thereby throwing you out of the story. As you say, it continually undermines any suspension of disbelief, any attempt at immersion. It’s not just some quirky aesthetic flourish; it’s a very basic mistake.