Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2)
Or, In Which Your Host Learns Whether What He Does Is Of Value.
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Picard and Soji arrive on Nepenthe, a planet with “bunnycorns” which are bunnies with unicorn horns,
Well Star Trek did give us the Tribble. Are bunnycorns such a stretch?
Tribbles? Yer forgetting this one with a unihorn . . .
I doubt I’ll live long enough to find out the truth.
Wesley Willis called it “Unlistenable and un-eatable”, and Boyd Rice once said of the album, “Who?”, having unwittingly sampled several tracks without realizing they were recordings of music. Clearly bootlegs are out there, or Shatner has traveled in stranger circles than we’ve imagined.
Honestly I’m tempted to scorn watch supergirl after Daniel’s comments. Need something to fill the time before F1 starts up again.
if anyone has some code that needs debugging, rewritten, redesigned
How are you with containerized Ruby on Rails applications?
Honestly I’m tempted to scorn watch supergirl after Daniel’s comments
I can’t say the scorn-to-screen-time ratio is worth it, but it’s certainly multi-layered. On the surface there’s the pandering to the target demographic, and underneath there’s some ugly truths about that demographic.
For a higher cringe-to-episode-count, try Netflix’s H2O: Just Add Water, the moral of which appears to be that if you’re given magical mermaid powers, it’s entirely reasonable to use them to be a complete and utter shit to your friends, family and classmates.
…if you’re given magical mermaid powers…
Powers like the ability to lure sailors into water, and not having human genitals?
Do they often take cues from the writers of Knightboat?
https://youtu.be/uoV1-fsFCmw
Picard and Soji arrive on Nepenthe, a planet with “bunnycorns” which are bunnies with unicorn horns
Sheesh.
Sheesh.
I think I might have forgiven unicorn bunny pizza if the writers had managed to write a decent yarn. But as so often with Alex Kurtzman projects, the overall effect of the writing and editing is almost nihilistic. The writers don’t seem to feel obliged to make their own narratives make sense, or be in any way compelling. It’s slapdash. There’s a lack of competence, a lack of care. Accents are incongruous and distracting; characters make bizarre decisions in practically every episode; objects of plot importance given to one character inexplicably appear in the possession of another, despite the two being separated by 40,000 light years; and on and on.
It’s as though the script editor, assuming they had one, just gave up in despair.
Have put some spendable love in your tip jar. Keep up the great work, David.
Have put some spendable love in your tip jar.
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make a list of said blessings before you publish the fundraising post,
You can’t stop now. It’s a tradition. 🙂
You can’t stop now. It’s a tradition.
After hundreds of these things, I’m surprising myself.
“…but I was ultimately disappointed.”
I was about to say that this should be the motto for the 21st Century, but upon further reflection, it’s probably a universal statement on the human condition.
Happy Friday, everybody!