Stay-at-home dad, former science teacher. Obsessed fairly equally with #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Godzilla, and #Transformers. He/him
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I find it noteworthy that WaPo has gone fascist because they were purchased by an oligarch for that purpose—other outlets have been silenced due to coming under oligarchic control—and NYT has gone fascist because they think it’s their sacred duty to rewrite reality so it doesn’t have “liberal bias.”
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
Share some of your favourite henchmen from film or TV 🎥📺 This one’s for @generaltekno.bttoons.com
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
just found out that they did Dash Rendar in Star Wars Black Series...and they gave him the wrong gun
as much as I admire your use of depth of field, I also admire the newspaper-comic-style gag of Billie just magically appearing 2 feet away on the same plane at the exact instant that it would be funniest
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1881
Strong, well-written, and moving piece on one of the biggest moral quandaries in human history.
This right here is why I’m glad the fan alt-mode vote went where it did Now we getting Seacon Shockwave or something like that
Even the guide didn’t help me and that cost a bundle (was otherwise worth it tho)
Man I loved that game but I couldn’t get all the golden bananas due to glitching and I couldn’t beat KRool with Lanky
Man I really need to see this one
YEP Also heard a shocking amount of “Moses Ingram can’t act” from The Other Fandom
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
Wha thee fuk
You could write a thesis on Quint’s evolving reactions to Brody and Hooper and how he splits their formerly-unbroken bond
shaking, sobbing, whispering “nooo”
Nothing else of Ritchie’s hits like this for me. SNATCH is just a singular comedic tour de force
It starts out as a hysterically funny workcom full of inside-baseball Trek jokes and that’s the FLOOR it just gets better and funnier after that
There’s also an amazing artifact that I don’t take at 100% face value but is enlightening and super entertaining…William Shatner’s documentary about early TNG, TROUBLE ON THE BRIDGE!
Of course Spock also famously bites back, whereas kicking Data is kicking a puppy
“These Are The Voyages” probably the definitive oral history of the whole pre-DIS franchise “Inside Star Trek: The Real Story” amazing for understanding TOS There are many resources, that’s just from the top of my head.
It took a De Kelley to make McCoy work despite his “Southern Doctor” persona even in THE 1960S, saddling Muldaur with similar schtick in the ‘90s was a deathblow to the character. By the time Pulaski starts being a worthwhile addition to the cast, Crusher is on her way back anyway (thankfully)
Thinking back to this era of the franchise / life, I wonder if that’s why Paris / Torres felt so refreshing They just ground their gears on each other, it really wasn’t anything special but the bar was low
Yeah…I wish somehow they’d kept Li Nalas around instead of the Bareil/ Shakaar “let’s check in on Bajor” dude
Nothing against Muldaur but, uh, once Maurice Hurley sexually harassed McFadden off the show, the big idea to replace her was “McCoy, but female.” Since there wasn’t a Spock around to be racist at, Data got the “pleasure.”
As a non-expert, from a casual perspective, realizing that the English just Did The Thing to Wales, then Scotland, then Ireland, then *everyone* really helped me get my head around imperialism and colonialism
I’m all for a contrarian, bare-knuckle take on DS9, but that’s just ridiculous bad faith out of the gate In a broader sense, a lot of commentators on TV/film don’t seem to accept that acting has styles at all
Love it lol
He’s phenomenal IN THE PILOT I understand if you did a scattershot rewatch through early DS9 you might miss his appeal for a little bit but that’s not what they’re doing His arc with Kira in S1 is so compelling—and as my little bro pointed out to me, a whole management style distinct from Picard’s
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And they detest Odo and nearly all the characters really
No, they just posted about how much they hate “House of Quark”
Just to point at a couple of very controversial big scifi projects—I have never EVER read anyone saying that Adam Driver can’t act. Or Henry Cavill. Even in highly critical screeds about their respective projects. But Black people? Women? Suddenly “can’t act” and “can’t write” enter the lexicon.
I’ve removed the identifying info but suffice it to say this is a youngish white academic who is paid to write about Star Trek With that context this seems like an insanely out-of-pocket thing to say about Brooks
Weird that professionals are still “tee-hee”-ing into these “mistakes” and backing off. Some kind of bellwethering maybe?
I HAVE TWO RELEVANT DEGREES 🤣
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Now she’s trying to help Moopsy escape the crib, truly a selfless heart
She rediscovered Moopsy
I’ve talked about liking MAN OF STEEL and RISE OF SKYWALKER enough that I’m fucked
But how could he resist returning to the iconic role of a guy who looks different in every movie and never does anything in any of the books or movies
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Man, is it? I feel like English people have lectured Americans about our flag-worship for ages…enough so that this feels jarring to me Regardless, this is off-putting af. The US and England are constantly exporting/importing new madnesses to each other
Maybe the largest contributor to our current moment globally is that bullies have all figured out that there are no consequences at all for cruelty. There are however mounds of penalties for kindness and bravery.
yeah, to clarify, I *like* "Ahsoka" I think it has some fairly bad structural and pacing issues that might feel less severe, or important, when a 2nd season and hopefully a 3rd comes out "Andor" is just lightning-in-a-bottle shit (also not enough people have seen "Rebels," full stop)
I do like TND and TWINE cause I saw them in the theater with my dad
More the fact that I don’t like the series as a whole
GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE are good Bits of some of the others that I have seen are interesting
I literally made myself beyond burgers with brioche buns for lunch today, they were pretty underwhelming Also the whole time this bit from RAIDERS was playing in my head: “They call him ‘Bellosch.’” “Ha! Belloq!”
This post turned out to be great mute/block bait for people who are like…very proud to be ignorant of filmmaking
Jeepers that blastoff looks eerily like Carnivac
“What if we killed a kid? What if we blew up a pregnant woman?” Ok You did What now? What did you say, you fucking adolescents? You took cinema’s 2nd-greatest monster and put it in a C-tier slasher with no irony or morality or any fucking thing at all. “Where can we afford to shoot? Ok do it.”
The film’s not bad because it’s mean—again, it’s an Alien installment It’s bad because there’s no humanity to give the meanness meaning It’s just FX guys fucking around
They ripped off THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD but without the goddamn teeth
The directors were so excited in the media blitz for this film “this Predator is THE WOLF and he gets down to BUSINESS no time for TROPHIES, this man” Then,
I watched the pilot when it aired and punched out after that As an adolescent boy, I felt pandered to
You just made me think that he could legitimately be a “What We Do In The Shadows”-type Energy Vampire
Who’s getting out of 2016-2028 thinking “that was a pretty good time?” OR thinking that that time was more influenced by Biden than Trump??
This kind of thing seems to preclude a path forward where he’s venerated after his fall. Reagan inherited a time of plenty and did most of his damage with a time-delay so that aside from certain marginalized groups, he can be viewed with nostalgia But it’s gonna be hard to paint a rosy narrative.
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
God sorry for the rant it’s just that every time one of the turds who launched a career by fucking my life up floats to the top of the toilet bowl it’s so hard not to be furious at how many apologies I’m owed that I won’t get and don’t want because they change absolutely nothing about my situation.
The other other thing is that it’s weird-trick-ism “Andor” is better than “Ahsoka” (if the word “better” means *anything* in the context of media criticism). Is that because “Ahsoka” has Jedi in it, or is it because of “Andor’s” creative team?
That’s up there with Orson Welles Unicron
"If you're not ready and eager to literally sacrifice trans people, then you're not on Team Democracy" is a line you're going to see more and more as fascism marches onward.
Even this is interesting, as it’s yes and no…in universe, “Anakin Skywalker” is a hero of the Clone Wars, and is thought to have no children. Sidious and Vader themselves erased his name, and Sidious later gloats over seeming to destroy “the last Skywalker.”
You’re allowed to say that you prefer your fiction to be set in a particular time, before or after particular fictional events, and with particular characters. That’s okay! It’s fictional!! I just get some Krennic vibes at times. “Their Holy City. The last reminder of the Jedi…gone.”
Tl;dr I finally stumbled onto what has always rubbed me the wrong way about a particular species of “Andor” commentary
Nearly all the other Jedi aren’t related to any other Jedi, or any other characters of note, since there’s actually in-universe rules to prevent that sort of dynasty from taking off
Fans have made more of this than the text has and they always have The Chosen One = “A prophecy that misread, could have been.” The Skywalker Bloodline *barely exists* and the one time someone got explicitly excited about it, the Jedi got killed off again
(PS—the exact guys who killed the Jedi also killed Clem Andor We think this wasn’t deliberate imagery? What are we DOING here?)
sure I think getting that headline out of what McGregor’s actually quoted to have said is just straight up bottom-feeding, even for entertainment journalism
And yes the Jedi and Skywalkers are fictional characters. So are Vulcans, and Romulans, and Augments. We are not dealing with real-world stakes, but sometimes we don’t realize what we sound like either.
8) I think this is what’s really bothering me…saying “Andor can be Truly Antifascist because it doesn’t include those Jedi and Skywalkers” feels like gloating over the absence of the exact people that the Galactic Empire devoted itself to destroying. “Andor” isn’t saying this—some of its fans are.
I don’t think we should confuse that with something “Andor” or its creators are *saying.* It’s no more embarrassed to be part of the broader Star Wars universe than BLACK WIDOW is embarrassed to be part of the MCU.
7) if you like “Andor” because there’s “no Jedi” and you want to cherish your love for it without involving yourself in the rest of the franchise, that’s wonderful. The value of a varied franchise is to produce different things for different folks. But…
6) when talking about the broader franchise being able to articulate that the Jedi Order were collaborators in fascism AND victims OF fascism is an entry level requirement Sorry (not actually sorry) like if this is tough watch 1-3 with your thinking cap on and/or watch “The Acolyte”
3) there’s literally a place called Jedha ffs can we be serious 4) a blind man uses sorcery to be immune to lasers in broad daylight 5) Cassian is literally a Force-prophesied hero, which we know because of a Force healer
You can like things for any reason at all but if you’re going to write about Gilroy!SW I think you should consider: 1) the “lack” is a required artifact of being an immediate prequel to ANH 2) RO repeatedly reminds us that the Jedi are victims of an ongoing genocide (and features Vader)
Gonna put on my Pet Peeve hat and observe that “Andor” and ROGUE ONE—which I love dearly—are not good *because* they lack Jedi and Skywalkers Because for one thing, they don’t even particularly lack Jedi and Skywalkers
maybe…actors saying “I liked my character and I’d love to play them again and getting paid is nice” is simply not news
something i've been on for years, because i'm always told to be Pragmatic and Realistic, is that i believe the dems could win without giving lefties like me much of anything policy wise if they just invested in basic fundamentals and infrastructure vis a vis getting people to vote.
I think that’s more of a knock-on effect. TX governor used to be famously weak. Then GWB used it as a springboard to POTUS. What changed was the propaganda machine rather than a massive increase in physical authority.
I know this is my weird crank political opinion but I don’t think this has been true since shortly after Nagasaki “President” used to mean “not a king” and now it means “guy who controls the nukes” which is more power than even the gods have in a lot of stories 🙃
At this point Tommy has a “Master Morpher” that freely accesses any of his prior transformations It’s not clear what advantage most of them have over each other, but they sure look cool
IIRC the Legend War didn’t include a lot of Sixth Heroes in the original shots, they weren’t really involved in the story till Gokai Silver came in, so no errant Dragon Ranger or Kiba Ranger shots. And since TJ can become the Red Turbo Ranger, the only big no-no is Red Zeo + Black Dino Charge Ranger
If there were any shots from Gokaiger that would have been an issue they would have been quick cuts, easy to leave out.
fucking hell this is still up lmao
It’s the natural outcome of politics-as-entertainment Actors are accustomed to being doubled as, at least, that’s the closest thing to a career Trump ever had
The Sentais started a yearly crossover tradition that PR used or ignored as appropriate—it gave us the well-regarded Alien Ranger / Zeo Ranger crossover, but I believe the infamous In Space / Lost Galaxy crossover was almost all US footage. (They used Psycho Pink as the villain and killed LG!Pink)
Forever Red is all-US footage and has Tommy!Red Zeo, TJ!Red Turbo, Andros!Red Space…it turned out pretty perfect even though those teams all overlapped
I’m not sure the Tommy problem really kicked them like that, they didn’t have a crossover between the Zeos and the Turbos which is the only place it would have really been a pain. (Even then there was a second non-Tommy Turbo Red)