Universe fascinated me as a pastiche of the moment it was made. There was the “documentary style” direction (shaky camera, occasionally out of focus) lifted from the BSG reboot. Episodes often ended with slow pans across characters looking pensive while some slow song played, which is how a lot of drama shows ended. Plots were driven by mystery boxes like LOST or Heroes. Requisite LGBT representation. These days we’d accuse the show of being generated by AI since it was so much NOT its own thing.
I can imagine the Amazon exec getting increasingly frustrated as pitches came to they/them about combatting aliens in the Canadian wilderness instead of focusing on how queer the members of Stargate Command are. Maybe if they’d done a plot about refugees coming through the Stargate to start a new life on Earth and how evil conservatives oppose them. Or the evil system lord Ponald Drumpf and his Magalien army which attacks the capital building.
In a cozy game that features an electric camper so you can explore with no dangers and you pose no danger to the animals I feel like “body shape” is not only NOT offensive it’s downright appropriate. This game is absolutely made for the modern audience. The perfect thing to play while playing Mixtape.
"In the worst-case scenario, our medical system unravels as various licensed healthcare professionals — talk therapists, psychiatrists, and presumably anyone else who claims to utilize speech when administering treatments to patients — start broadly wielding their new-found constitutional right to provide substandard medical care." So for her it comes down to assuming anything that goes against the federal narrative that transitioning is double-plus good for kids is “substandard medical care.” Which is a great illustration for WHY the government shouldn’t be mandating treatment. I’m certain that Jackson can’t see past “LGBTQ+ is good” to recognize the potential threat of a government which, say, mandates therapists discourage people from marrying outside their race and polluting the bloodlines. Although someone in the comments of that article did point out that a case could be made for arguing the bill of rights shouldn’t apply to states, because it used to not be. While that ship has long since sailed, at least it would have been a novel approach. Jackson is just so damned predictable.
It’s baffling how liberals managed to capture the attention of companies so thoroughly when they have attitudes like this. The guy is basically arguing “how DARE you promote your product to as many potential customers as possible?” No wonder he’s a failure.
Is a generation of dipshits shouting “I can’t breathe” while resisting arrest going to be St. Floyd’s only contribution to the world? Well, I guess that’s more than I’ve contributed. But at least I never threatened to shoot a pregnant woman while robbing her. Also it’s funny how this “man” began demanding a female officer. How does it know none of those are female?
These days, producers fund two “seasons” up front. I’d guess it’s less expensive to make two season of 10 episodes each at once than to make one season, hard stop, and then wait on approval for a second season. Having downtime while contracts are renegotiated, schedules managed, and sets sit unused can get expensive.
Maybe it’s petty of me, but I’d like to think that even an earnest attempt to appeal to old fans will fall on deaf ears. Besides the fact everything Trek has been shit for almost 20 years now, Paramount made it very clear those old fans were no longer wanted. I would be fine with there never being anymore Trek. It’s a relic of a bygone era and simply can’t be repeated. But there were enough idiots with no pride who insisted “Picard season 3 is so great because it has old characters in it” so that won’t happen.
You know, I honestly never thought of it that way. Probably because I’m an intelligent person with morals. I would NEVER accept the premise that being a racist is the worst thing a person can be. Some old man sitting on his porch complaining about niggers in the neighborhood isn’t hurting anyone except mental deficients suffering trauma from experiences they never had. Being a murderer would be way worse. Or a rapist. Even a con artist robbing old people of their life savings is much worse. But just being racist in and of itself? No. That’s an insane premise.