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Oh boy just one more step towards Disney owning Warner bros. Finally! Wonka can meet The Hulk! I’m so excited!
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Gutcruncher posted:Oh boy just one more step towards Disney owning Warner bros. Star Wars versus Dune 2
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May 9, 2024 02:37
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Space Jam posted:for all mankind gets really dumb in the later seasons. i tapped out around the time one of the mars astronauts gets addicted to painkillers and nods off operating a crane and kills a bunch of people. First two seasons are fantastic alternate history stories. Then they decided “fusion power wouldve been invented in the 80s if the Russians landed on the moon first” and yes I know it’s just a tv show but bullshitttttttttttt
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Space Jam posted:for all mankind gets really dumb in the later seasons. i tapped out around the time one of the mars astronauts gets addicted to painkillers and nods off operating a crane and kills a bunch of people. Aw dang, you bailed before the amazing twist that North Korea beat everyone to Mars. If you read that and thought "That doesn't make any sense" then let me assure you, it doesn't make any sense within the context of the show, either. The following season was pretty bad and I'm kinda baffled it got renewed for a fifth.
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For All Mankind was created by Ronald D. Moore. He evolved. He rebelled. There are many seasons. And he has no plan.
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May 9, 2024 02:54
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I think I remember Kristen Schaal having to ask how to download a cartoon she was in because she wanted to show it to her kids but due to the state of streaming and licensing rights it was no longer available anywhere. I don't even think it was old or anything, it was released that year. We're simply returning to the way media used to be before the advent of VHS. TV shows and movies are only available for a short time before they're gone forever except in the archive of some group of weirdos who collect old bad movies for some reason.
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the other day I watched the straight story on disney plus and that movie is way too good to be on disney plus
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May 9, 2024 04:02
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PostNouveau posted:https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1788328172481552627 Lmao, silicon valley reinventing cable bundles.
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Gutcruncher posted:Oh boy just one more step towards Disney owning Warner bros. If you want to read about Timothee Chalamet spending time with large muscle men the internet has you well covered.
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May 9, 2024 04:11
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For All Mankind had a great premise that ended up being wasted because the people writing it are the kind of perhaps well-meaning but clueless morons that came up with poo poo like Forrest Gump and Mr Holland's Opus They are doing a spin-off set in the Soviet Union that I'm sure will be just as thoughtful
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May 9, 2024 04:17
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FeculentWizardTits posted:Aw dang, you bailed before the amazing twist that North Korea beat everyone to Mars. If you read that and thought "That doesn't make any sense" then let me assure you, it doesn't make any sense within the context of the show, either. The following season was pretty bad and I'm kinda baffled it got renewed for a fifth. now that’s the kind of stupid i can get behind, maybe i should finish it
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FeculentWizardTits posted:Aw dang, you bailed before the amazing twist that North Korea beat everyone to Mars. If you read that and thought "That doesn't make any sense" then let me assure you, it doesn't make any sense within the context of the show, either. The following season was pretty bad and I'm kinda baffled it got renewed for a fifth. What?
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What is there a different Dark Matter show? I thought Dark Matter was the spaceship show from like 10 years ago that felt like a Lost-esque mystery box smashed into a teen melodrama where everyone had their memories erased and then it got cancelled.
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Kingo Ligma posted:If you want to read about Timothee Chalamet spending time with large muscle men the internet has you well covered. Hmmm. One video game I’d always wanted to see as a movie was Muscle March…
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you gonna do alt history with a space tangent I'd rather they do fire on the mountain that'd be fun
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Coxswain Balls posted:I think I remember Kristen Schaal having to ask how to download a cartoon she was in because she wanted to show it to her kids but due to the state of streaming and licensing rights it was no longer available anywhere. I don't even think it was old or anything, it was released that year. the "good old days" and the "dark times" for media are reversed for studios and consumers. they want to go back to the days of total control, obviously, but critically now it is very clearly out in the open that these companies can consolidate and do whatever anticonsumer bullshit they want to become more profitable and this is actually a Good Thing because economy go brrrrr and everything become worse and want die
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Fire on the Mountain Rules. Years of Salt and Rice rule. Overall the alternate history genre does not, in fact, rule.
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TTBF posted:Fire on the Mountain Rules. Years of Salt and Rice rule. Overall the alternate history genre does not, in fact, rule. it’s a really funny genre for writers with broken brains, especially in books. harry turtledove wrote a book about dutch south africans inventing time travel and going back in time to give the confederates ak-47s.
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Space Jam posted:it’s a really funny genre for writers with broken brains, especially in books. harry turtledove wrote a book about dutch south africans inventing time travel and going back in time to give the confederates ak-47s. This was required reading at a school I went to once and like, what???
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Space Jam posted:it’s a really funny genre for writers with broken brains, especially in books. harry turtledove wrote a book about dutch south africans inventing time travel and going back in time to give the confederates ak-47s. As silly as Harry Turtledove is, his sympathies are pretty clear. His series on the Confederates winning the civil war has Abraham Lincoln become a socialist and in WWII the Confederates become the Nazis.
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harry turtledove writes dozens of books about the one time you had an idea like “what if this happened??” then immediately forget it seconds later
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sweet geek swag posted:As silly as Harry Turtledove is, his sympathies are pretty clear. His series on the Confederates winning the civil war has Abraham Lincoln become a socialist and in WWII the Confederates become the Nazis. socialist lincoln is cool as hell though Space Jam fucked around with this message at 07:38 on May 9, 2024 |
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i'll believe you that a man named harry turtledove exists..... for now
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dreezy posted:i'll believe you that a man named harry turtledove exists..... for now He didn't used to, but then time travel shenanigans happen, so yeah now that's just the reality we're in.  Pretty sure he even wrote a book about it.
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I believe it's french, and is actually Harry Turt Le Dove, which translates to "Turt The Dove". Such a romantic language.
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the names frank nuthatch and these are my boys, gary pigeon and phil pelican
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Oh, and for those wondering, actual turtle-doves although undeniably very cool looking, are still not nearly as cool as the name would suggest.  Although yeah, it would be a bit hard to figure out how a bird could have wings and a turtle shell. Ah well perhaps one day nature/genetic mad science'ing will find a way. 
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dr_rat posted:Oh, and for those wondering, actual turtle-doves although undeniably very cool looking, are still not nearly as cool as the name would suggest. 
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Coxswain Balls posted:I think I remember Kristen Schaal having to ask how to download a cartoon she was in because she wanted to show it to her kids but due to the state of streaming and licensing rights it was no longer available anywhere. I don't even think it was old or anything, it was released that year. Is that what Kristen Schaaling means? I've been using it wrong this entire time.
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Oh poo poo I forgot about my avatar when I said I have a passing fondness for Kristen Schaal. If I had to guess, Kristen Schaaling would mean getting typecast as a voice actor for psychotic little girls in cartoons.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Oh poo poo I forgot about my avatar when I said I have a passing fondness for Kristen Schaal. If I had to guess, Kristen Schaaling would mean getting typecast as a voice actor for psychotic little girls in cartoons. I completely forgot she did the voice of one of the main characters on Gravity falls! While she does seem to do pretty similar roles a lot, that seems to be a lot of comedians. I mean a lot of actors as well to be honest. Good for them picking up a pay check though. Also casting people/directors can be lazy sometimes, who knew! Although yeah It does make a lot of sense hiring a character actor you know's played the same role a bunch and always been great at it, to do that role.
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Regular Wario posted:this guy wrote books? Before mario senselessly killed him, yes. A tragic end to a
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PostNouveau posted:What? Season 3 is all about the US, USSR, and a private company racing to be the first to Mars. The US and USSR invest billions and develop new technologies and purpose-built spacecraft for it. In what seems like a one-off thing, the season kicks off with a chunk of debris from a "failed" North Korean rocket launch hitting a commercial space station. Once everyone gets to Mars and starts doing Mars things, it's revealed the North Korean rocket launch didn't fail at all and it was actually their Mars mission. They beat everyone else there by a significant margin (at least six months, possibly years?) but didn't realize it because the spacecraft was damaged during the launch and lost comms. Inexplicably, they did this using a tiny-rear end Soyuz-looking spacecraft that fit two people, one of whom died at some point during transit or landing. How did the remaining guy survive on Mars in the time between his landing and when the other countries' astronauts found him? How did he have enough food and water for not just the lengthy transit to Mars, but his extensive time spent on the surface? Where did he poop? Who knows. Season 1 was great and 2 was pretty good, but it's been a pretty sharp decline since then as the writers move further from established history and have to come up with compelling plotlines and do new world-building, which they largely fail at. The race to colonize the moon as an extension of the Cold War and the geopolitical tensions that result? Good poo poo. A joint mission to capture an asteroid full of a precious metal and bring it back to Earth so...countries can get a little richer? Boring poo poo, who cares. The show's gimmick of jumping ahead ~a decade every season doesn't help since it forces the writers to contort themselves trying to figure out why a guy who was a fighter pilot in the Korean War is still flying spaceships and running a Mars colony in 2003.
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For All Mankind feels like it should've ended in the 90s with maybe hints of what the future could contain.
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FeculentWizardTits posted:Season 3 is all about the US, USSR, and a private company racing to be the first to Mars. The US and USSR invest billions and develop new technologies and purpose-built spacecraft for it. In what seems like a one-off thing, the season kicks off with a chunk of debris from a "failed" North Korean rocket launch hitting a commercial space station. Once everyone gets to Mars and starts doing Mars things, it's revealed the North Korean rocket launch didn't fail at all and it was actually their Mars mission. They beat everyone else there by a significant margin (at least six months, possibly years?) but didn't realize it because the spacecraft was damaged during the launch and lost comms. Inexplicably, they did this using a tiny-rear end Soyuz-looking spacecraft that fit two people, one of whom died at some point during transit or landing. How did the remaining guy survive on Mars in the time between his landing and when the other countries' astronauts found him? How did he have enough food and water for not just the lengthy transit to Mars, but his extensive time spent on the surface? Where did he poop? Who knows. I called this at the beginning of that season and was very pleased with myself, I was less pleased with the writers who did absolutely nothing to justify it it would have been so simple: they just needed to establish some halfway believable way for the one astronaut to have enough supplies to make it to mars (like an extra module packed full of nutrient paste or something), once he was there he could have raided the drops from the three other teams who sent their supplies to land on mars ahead of time this would have been great because it would have created an interesting mystery and some believable tensions between the groups throughout the season, along with a reason for them to eventually pull together (each team is missing essential equipment and supplies, and only by joining together do any of them stand a chance of surviving) then when he shows up at the end of the season it would have been satisfying and resolved a bunch of lingering mysteries instead of just raising a bunch of questions that the show can't answer
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dreezy posted:i'll believe you that a man named harry turtledove exists..... for now Would you believe Matt Booty https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1788365611321508103?t=Lg_0glfnExaLYIGDFVh2kA&s=19
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