Paranoidfactoid
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- Comment on Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free 18 hours ago:
This explains it:
- Comment on Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free 1 day ago:
There’s a new 4k Blueray that has extensive effects and scene updates.
- Comment on Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free 1 day ago:
The updated directors cut of TMP really improves that movie. It remains my favorite Trek film, with ST II: WoK a close second.
- Comment on Normal 3 days ago:
The animated actor who played that hot dog later wound up as a superhero car in this role:
- Comment on Genius. 5 days ago:
Toast was all about finding ways to use stale bread again. It also kills mold.
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 6 days ago:
👀
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 6 days ago:
Yes! Didn’t think.of it. But that would have been funny.
- Comment on fuck it, just paste your clipboard in the comments 6 days ago:
- Comment on They gonna cat 6 days ago:
GIMME CAKE! Image
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 6 days ago:
WHATCHU TALKING 'BOUT, WILLIS!? Image
- Comment on Do cheezits come from a tree, like oranges, or underground, like potatoes? 6 days ago:
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 6 days ago:
CATS ARE NOT NICE GUYSImage
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 6 days ago:
He likes belly pets!
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 6 days ago:
A colonoscopy comes next…
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- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 6 days ago:
Here is Pestilence taking a nap:
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 6 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
🎵 I’m an object, 🎵
🎵 She’s an object, 🎵
🎵 He’s an object, 🎵
🎵 We’re all objects, 🎵
🎵 Wouldn’t you like to be an object too? 🎵
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
So, fuck Nerdrotic and all the other overtly anti-woke political gatekeepers with a following. But I really like Steve Shives’ work, he’s focused on the storytelling, and has been fair in his criticisms (IMO). YouTube is a mixed bag, but there’s good content creators out there too.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
There were huge antiwar protests and National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
I saw enough to warrant walking away. Whatever Trek is, it’s not what it was. And what it gas become is not for me.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
For older stuff, I still think Farscape and the 2000s BSG remake still hold up too. I especially like the unreliable narrator thread in Farscape when Chriton had the brain implant. That was peak paranoia. Good stuff. The Expanse was good too.
I don’t think producers like JJ and Kurtzman are idiots. I think they have jobs. They know what their distributors want and give it to them. This is why they remain employed. They’re trusted by the money men. This, in contrast to actual geniuses like Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, John Carpenter, etc, who just want to make their visions come hell or high water.
For all I know, from a business standpoint Paramount execs might well be right. That is, chasing the youth market and hoping for a splash is the demo advertisers want. It’s their property, so good luck to them I guess.
I have a lot of respect for all the artists involved. The set and costume designers, vfx artists, grips and cinematography guys. They put a lot of work in and it visually shows. I hope they all get a good payday.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
I’ve never even made it through a single episode of LD. Just not my bag of tea.
I grew up to reruns of TOS. Watched TNG as it aired. Saw bits of DS9 and Voyager as it aired. And genuinely liked and watched Enterprise as it aired (one of a few).
I did not like JJ’s NuTrek nor the post NuTrek TV shows. I really wanted to like Discovery, because I wanted serial Trek. I think episodic television is boring. But it didn’t work for me. Too many plot holes, tone swings, and internal contradictions. Never mind not respecting Trek cannon, it didn’t even respect its own plot setups.
Like NuTrek, it eschews coherence for flashy action in the moment. It’s like Luc Besson’s Du Look French film movement from the late 80s. All style, no substance.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
OMG: Picard. I forgot about that show. I didn’t finish that one either.
I’ve liked Andor, Pluribus, and Severence. I honestly think the problem with Trek is Paramount execs. Kurtzman is just a symptom. He’s the figurehead to implement a policy of content by focus group. Never mind not knowing old trek or claims of pushing politics, the writers couldn’t write good material even if they wanted to because execs don’t care about that. They only want their target demographic.
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
I’ve given up. I didn’t finish Discovery. Got bored with SNW. Haven’t even seen any episodes of SA. I just don’t care about Star Trek any more. I’m not angry, just bored.
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- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 1 week ago:
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
I remember ARPANET before it was privatized. Before TBL made Mosaic and the first web server, when all there was was USENET discussions, FTP, and Gopher. I set up mail and news over uucp dialup for clients in the 80s. I ran System III Venix on a PDP-11. I was a sysadmin managing a dual CPU VAX 9000 with 192MB if RAM in 1990. Which was a lot back then. I’m old.
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 3 weeks ago:
No. There is nuance to the tax cut and tax levy argument. Circumstances matter. Cutting taxes on groceries would immediately lower food prices for everyone, the poor included.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 5 weeks ago:
Everybody sharts
