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On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:14:20 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:21:26 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>:
>>>Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>Awful stuff. Who is surprised?
>
>>>ORBITAL REDUX (Freevee)
>
>>>From 2018 comes this mini series (eight episodes) of many episodes,
>>>starring mini super cutie Yasmine Al-Bustami.
>
>>>Each installment begins with the statement:
>>>THE EPISODE YOU ARE ABOUT TO WATCH WAS FILMED WITH A LIVE AUDIENCE IN A
>>>SINGLE TAKE
>>>NO RESETS
>>>NO RESTARTS
>>>NO DO-OVERS
>
>>>This is demonstrably not true, especially in the pilot given that there are
>>>inserts of a CGI spaceship and shots of hands working controls and such
>>>that I bet were shot separately and put in later. Also, there are post
>>>edits where they removed language and such.
>
>>>Basically a two person Space series that takes place on one set (or
>>>possibly two, but I think they just revamped the main set after the pilot)
>>>with about the production values of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
>
>>>The IMDb proudly proclaims, that people who liked this also like THE ARK,
>>>which should tell you everything you need to know about the writing and the
>>>science.
>
>>>Two people in an earth/moon shuttle, carrying helium three an improbably
>>>short way into the future from now.
>
>>>Wackiness ensues.
>
>>>The secondary creative is named Lillian Diaz-Przybyl.  If you can trick her
>>>into saying her name backwards, she'll be sent home.
>
>>>The blurbs all say that the show was interactive, although I have no idea
>>>how that would possibly be, and that the CGI effects were done live and I
>>>don't believe that either.
>
>>>Remember the Supergirl "writer" who said that it didn't matter if you
>>>wrote a good script as long as you put in lots of woke messages? This
>>>is that script.
>
>>I thought that was a rarity. Then yesterday I was watching a Youtube
>>video about yet another person who cut by Disney who is suing the
>>company because she lost out on millions of dollars because they
>>cancelled the show she was supposed to run and cut some other projects
>>she was supposed to be involved with. She couldn't accept that the
>>Acolyte didn't have a good reaction with the fans and so Disney made
>>the decision to save money by cutting the project. They also cut back
>>on the other projects they had planned to have her involved in because
>>she wasn't seen as the money maker they thought she would be.
>>Partially because she was focused on DEI over story.
>
>But what about the show runners who started with good scripts but got
>notes from studio executives ordering them to ruin the scripts with
>social justice messaging? In that case, not being able to find an
>audience isn't the show runner's fault.

Oh, I agree about that. That's long been a case and certainly we see
from the CEO on down that Disney is pushing DEI on everyone. It's
clearly being forced to be added even if it makes no sense from a
story perspective. Hell, it's apparently what convinced Jenna Ortega
to not get involved with Disney. She apparently was set to be in the
next Pirates of Caribbean movie and very much wanted to be in the MCU
but when Disney kept talking about DEI and how it needed to be
involved in these movies over talking about the scripts and having a
good story, she bowed out.

>>Then we've got Mindy Kaling attacking fans who were upset with the
>>VELMA show because of the DEI agenda they followed where they changed
>>many of the original characters. She went on to attack the fans that
>>didn't support the changes they made.
>
>Velma WAS diversity for that era. I'm not sure what Fred was. He was
>costumed like a throwback to decades earlier and I'm surprised he wasn't
>wearing a racoon coat.
>
>>I don't understand why these people can't see why people would prefer
>>characters remain the same over the years when there's no story reason
>>for a change.
>
>Mindy, you are the producer. The consumer is supposed to express a
>preference by buying or not buying what you are selling. How very
>condescending of you that diversity hires have to be protected from the
>marketplace when given the opportunity to succeed. If they were hired,
>not to give them an opportunity but to fail, you have caused actual harm
>to the very people you are purporting to help.
>
>No entertainer is owed an audience. It doesn't work like that! It's
>never worked like that!

That's so unfair. You must watch what they produce because they are
trying to make the world a better place.

>>It's like the changes the BBC has been making to classic Shakespeare
>>stories with black actors being added to the productions even though
>>they clearly would not have been part of that world at that time.
>
>Shakespeare is filled with un-PC language. I hope they rewrote it all...
>and the guilty parties get the Vincent Price/Mrs. Peel treatment from
>Theater of Blood.
>
>>Any way, here are her words so you can judge for yourself.
>
>I've judged; I've judged.
>
>>. . .