Paranoidfactoid
@Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free 7 hours ago:
This explains it:
- Comment on Pluto TV Celebrates William Shatner’s Birthday With Star Trek Takeover Including All The Movies Streaming Free 18 hours 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 2 days ago:
Nice info but I have given up on Reddit.
- 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 Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 days ago:
- Comment on Genius. 4 days ago:
Toast was all about finding ways to use stale bread again. It also kills mold.
- Comment on Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2 5 days ago:
I want my old Walkman back.
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 5 days ago:
👀
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 5 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 5 days ago:
- Comment on They gonna cat 5 days ago:
GIMME CAKE! Image
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 5 days ago:
WHATCHU TALKING 'BOUT, WILLIS!? Image
- Comment on Do cheezits come from a tree, like oranges, or underground, like potatoes? 5 days ago:
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 5 days ago:
CATS ARE NOT NICE GUYSImage
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 5 days ago:
He likes belly pets!
- Comment on UFOLOGY.... 5 days ago:
A colonoscopy comes next…
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- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 5 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 Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab) 1 week ago:
Thanks for linking to an archive of a Reddit post. Fuck Reddit.
- Comment on Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab) 1 week ago:
Good demonstration project though.
- Comment on Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit 1 week ago:
That’s what arbitration is and the companies rigged it.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
- 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.
