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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-23 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:09:59 -0700
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On 4/24/2024 8:50 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:21:26 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>> Still catching up on grading (getting there...)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>>
>> Hey, thanks for asking!
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> 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. 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. 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.
> 
> Any way, here are her words so you can judge for yourself.
> 
<massive snippage>  But apparently she doesn't feel Inclusiveness 
includes punctuation.


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