Yeah, I think it's fair to say that the biggest "shame" of Universe was that right when it was starting to get some feet and figure out what the fans and audience actually might want, it was canned.
Which is a double edged sword. It absolutely deserved to be canned. It failed to be a good show. But right at the end you could see glimpses of potential that if they stuck with it, maybe they'd have worked out.
That said, I still found it baffling that they killed off all of the Lucien Alliance members, effectively undoing the whole arc of having them on the ship anyway.
Imagine simping for the state and therefore the safety net it always represents and calling anyone else a nigger.
Property tax is objectively more evil and unnecessary than income tax, but income tax is still evil.
3% income tax purely on landowners was considered enough to declare tyranny and go to war. Stop simping for the government, it will never benefit you, and deluding yourself that it will will only result in the noose tightening around your own neck and everyone else's with your idealism.
Counterpoint: While it will never be female, it will neither ever be a man.
They did the same thing with the vax passports, and it's usually enforced via "well here's a bunch of totally optional programs you can access via having digital ID, but we swear it's not mandatory".
This is the way they get around it all. They explicitly make it as difficult as possible and say "well technically, you can go without it", as if it isn't explicitly punitive when you don't.
Oh, no, it's all good, I get it now. I thought it was abolish the first and rely on the other two, but I gotcha now.
lower taxes by 80%
90%. The US fought a literal war over a 3% income tax solely on landowners. Now everyone pays on average around 30% minimum.
abolish child support, 50/50 division of assets and alimony.
Yes to the abolition of child support, but also abolish alimony. Alimony is the bigger crime, in my opinion. And division of assets 50/50? That incentivises divorce if that's the default.
make default child custody 50/50 with very limited means to change this
Agreed, potentially even restricting the ability to forfeit parenthood, unless there is very, very good reason (abuse being an obvious one, another being legitimately being incapable due to physical or severe mental disability, but these are exceptions to the rule)
There has never been a more dickless PM in recent memory for Australia. And we had Julia Gillard as PM for a while.
Then again, I don't think Australia has had a politician with a spine for a long time. Even our current populist, Pauline Hanson, is only better by comparison.
Show me a democracy that didn't succumb to universal suffrage or some other equally corrupt paradigm
Yeah, but that metric could be applied to any and all systems. They all have some level of vulnerability.
That isn't saying you're wrong, just that this argument isn't that great.
It highly depends on their reasoning, and how broad the subject matter is. But more often than not, I find doing the whole "enemy of my enemy" crap doesn't really benefit anyone but them.
I really like Firefly. I will also say that Firefly has to be the most over-rated piece of media out there and that the film was detrimental to the series.
What makes Firefly good? Its scarcity. But idiots who want more make it seem like it's the second coming of jesus, but really, it's just a standard Sci-Fi show of the time and little more. Had it had three, four, five seasons? It would have been on par with everything else. But it had one, and it became a meme as to just how good it really is.
I actually kind of love this video. Not because it's great, but it's a perfect masterclass of just how stupid the "everything is political" mantra is.
This is peak ideologue projecting what they want to hear onto a film. It's no more valuable an insight than people who push the idea that Tetris is some allegory for conformity and the erasure of achievements.
Do they not understand that they'll lose the old audience?
No, they don't understand that. They believe they'll gain more than they'll lose and they take the old audience for granted. Because let's be real, it's pretty rare that an IP loses a significant majority of its audience all at once to make a problem. It usually takes years of it.
Take Doctor Who for example. We can see the woke elements all the way back in Matt Smith, but it wasn't until Capaldi and Clara that people really started to complain, and it wasn't until Whitaker that people actually started leaving en masse. It took years.
The idea is that they can gain more than they'll lose. They're hoping it will be like a transaction. They're hoping they'll loose something like 10,000 followers in the hopes of enticing in a new 50,000, but it's just not going to happen. And that doesn't even look at the types of fans they're losing vs gaining. The 10,000 they lost? Probably more likely to engage in extra purchases and merchandise. The 50,000? Probably casual. But they don't care, because it's about making a cultural impact. And those 10,000 are the unwashed masses, not the refined culture. Ignore of course the fact that mass media is and always has been largely shallow.
"We want it to be more approachable."
FUCKING WHY!!!!!!!!!
It was already fucking approachable! You gained a massive fucking audience to begin with! The people who aren't approaching are not interested, and they will never be interested! Just fuck off with this stupid bullshit! It's absolutely fucking retarded!
Are they in the room with us right now? It's okay, so long as you keep wearing your foil hat, you'll be safe.
More evidence of their status as a home that even ghosts want to be there rather than the lifeless "modernist" (re:brutalist with a coat of paint) garbage we get now.
How many are dying right now from violent illegal immigrants? If two deaths is too many for enforcement, how many is "too many" for letting the illegals stay?
Two deaths is too much for enforcement? How many were raped or killed in that span of time BY the migrants?
Fuck off, pulling back is what will cost more lives, and those will be the innocent lives, not the lives of dissidents that seek to harm innocents.
Bingo.
There is SOME argument to be made about using her position to try and guide others to the Lord, but it's such a fine line that it's hard to truly believe it's genuine when walking that path without years of consistent behaviour at that point. Even a truly devout person would be pretty miserable having to constantly be under that level of scrutiny.
I do hope that she's legitimate, but I'm not holding my breath for it either. Salvation is an offer to all, but it must be legitimately sought after, not a PR stunt, and that PR can be just as scathing whether it's for the public opinion, or just the opinion of those immediately around you.
Star Wars was ruined with the obsession with diversity/girl power
Ironically enough, the EU did it better with both Leia and how she was trained while maintaining her politics, and fan favourite Mara Jade. It was already done. Fans already liked these ideas. The only ones who didn't were the executives like Rian and those at Disney.
In terms of result, they discriminated against merit. In terms of intent, they actively, openly, loudly and gleefully targeted white men.
Just once I want these interviews to actually get them to explain how. Directly quote back exactly what he said, and then ask him how he was mischaracterised.
But that would never happen. They just accept his belief as gospel, and nobody is ever expected to ever actually back up what they say.
I'm curious if there will be any provisions for generals that might have permanent physical disabilities born literally from service. Being a great military mind is not limited to physical prowess. Overall, this is a positive, but I've never been a fan of discarding valuable assets along with those that bring us down.
I don't know. I think they might have. In terms of engagement bait, it works. You're going to get all the bait posting, the virality, and then you're also getting the people who are saying 'yeah, but what is it'. And at the end of the day, they can definitely play innocent on this one.
Maybe I'm overthinking it too much, but this might have actually been a marketing 4D chess move.
The Lucien Alliance was definitely poorly handled. I guess the reason they were used was because the goa'uld were pretty much defeated and the replicators make a formidable threat, but not necessarily a nemesis or rival since they lack personality. I think the idea to use them was fine, it was just the execution.
And on that side note, I never really watched Star Trek all that much, and never touched Voyager, but I can see how they look alike. Personally, I didn't hate Eli as a counterpart to Rush. I get that Eli was definitely the audience insert we're meant to align or identify with, but even then, I think he was mostly fine once they moved past the whole swooning for Chloe crap. Just sucks how much time was dedicated to the drama.