I have legitimately always been confused by the bodega thing for the same reason.
We have several chains that do exactly that and they’re just called “corner stores”.
“You can get eggs, toilet paper, and Gatorade”
Damn, that’s called a Spar, or Premier, or Londis.
Dark Souls is playing co-op with your friend, not knowing wtf is going on and he’s explaining all the lore to you.
The SpecTRe program is so good for storytelling purposes as it gives you a reason to do whatever you want while also giving you a strict mission guideline to do.
But it’s not a great thing to have when you really think about it.
The more the Batarians get genocided the nicer they become lol
It’s heavily implied in 3 that they’ll become good aliens after their entire civilisation was destroyed.
I like Taris a hell of a lot more than Peragus. At least there’s quests and such on Taris, a bit of variety.
The DS9 episode was Badda-Bing Badda-Bang and it was Vic Fontaine’s 1950s Vegas casino.
I always liked that moment as you said because it is someone acknowledging the problem created with historical programs in a world that has moved passed that history.
I like that Yates’ counter-argument is that it might be nice to experience history as it should have been, rather than how it really was.
I don’t really come down on either side but it’s an interesting way to look at it.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it was Avery Brooks who asked for the scene tbh. He was often vocally critical of some choices because he didn’t want to be just another black character they were they often written. It’s why he liked his relationship with Jake Sisko so much.
On a related note, the episode If Wishes Were Horses script was changed from a leprechaun into Rumplestiltskin because Colm Meaney objected to the Irish stereotype.
“No calls to, or celebration of, violence” is always selectively enforced.
It is always enforced in favour of the Western world and to the status quo. You can call for nuclear hellfire on billions of Chinese people, call for the mass death of people in the Middle East, suggest that Africa should be forcibly sterilised to counter-act “overpopulation”, but if you even express some joy that a dude responsible for widespread suffering throughout the world is now dead then your ass is banned and the thread is locked.
Not here though. Roast in fucking hell Rumsfeld, you should have gone sooner and that’s the only sadness I can conjure up.
The thing I like about T&T versus the new TOS-era Trek stuff is that T&T knows that TOS looks like crap, but it plays around with it and it feels very humble when showing its roots. It appreciates the old show while also poking fun at it.
Kurtzman Trek feels like it’s embarrassed by the fact that Star Trek was once a show that had buttons glued to cardboard sets and blinky lights, and the ship was a cute little model that flew past the camera. It’s just like “actually TOS never happened, everything was always cold blue-tinged steel and all displays and consoles were all floating holograms (don’t get me started on how much I hate transparent holograms as a display and touchscreen), and everyone was zipping around at infinite speed and all ships had a shuttle contingent of 10,000 (if that shitty Season 2 finale of DIS is to be taken seriously)”. Oh, and we also just have all this technology that people in the older shows said was brand new but now it’s been around for a century. Riker walking into the holodeck with wonder and awe was because he was an idiot who never saw this 100-year-old technology. What a dipshit.
Even the edgiest the show got in Berman-era with ENT still had a fair amount of care put into it to show that it was still a TOS-prequel. A great deal of attention was paid to the set to make it look both futuristic for the 00s but also like a precursor to sci-fi from the 60s. DIS and PIC just look like every other shitty sci-fi property out there.
There’s no love. They just treat old-Trek like something that you can harvest images, references, and iconography from.
Writing a prescription for this lady’s illness. It’s a sheet of paper that says “LOG OFF” on it.
Edit - She already covered this, saying that logging off was “digital suicide”. Holy shit. This is actually posting yourself into mental illness.
I’m not even joking. I genuinely think she should seek help because this is not a healthy way for someone to think. This is why you should genuinely “log off” lest your brain becomes wormed.
I always liked the Plinkett review of Crystal Skull for this reason. Stoklasa points out that both sides were doing what they believed would allow their ideology to win out in the Cold War.
He points out that the Soviet’s actions in the movie basically mirror the American’s, especially when Indiana Jones is actually harassed by the FBI for allegedly being a spy.
He points out that the scariness of a an alien mind control device is kind of lessened when one of the first things we see in the film is a America’s superweapon; an atomic bomb.
The lack of real conflict and consequences hurts the movie.
There’s also something of a “fuck you” about Americans making a film about the Soviets doing mind control doing the Cold War.
Reading is a bourgeoisie pastime.
Even the presence of literacy is a privilege that you so-called “leftists” never acknowledge.
I award you one yikes. Do better.
If you derive your personal self worth by the literal skin-deep appraisal of internet strangers then you are mentally unwell.
That’s not a “self-esteem booster” that’s you taking a hit of a “virtual drug” because you can’t produce your own self-esteem. You literally get high from it and then come crashing back down.
I was trapped in it once.