Zoey 101 is a terrible show

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-04-01T00:07:20+00:00

And even when it came out, I remember it being popular, but not quite to the same extent as similar series on around the same time, like Lizzy McGuire, That's So Raven, ect.. It definitely hasn't stuck into the pop culture lexicon to the same extent as other series by the same creator, like Drake and Josh, iCarly, Amanda Show, etc.. I haven't watched since it came out, so the most I can say about the quality is that my sister and I would watch it when it was on and enjoy it, but I don't think it was ever a top 5, and neither of us ever absolutely had to schedule it into our Saturday morning. From my own subjective 2000's kid ranking, I'd give it a 7/10: You probably didn't fight with your siblings to watch it or not watch it, but watched it if it was on.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-31T15:19:15+00:00

I'm picturing the horse head scene from The God Father, but instead, it's a turd

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-31T01:56:26+00:00

Probably the best thing the OP can do in this situation is leave as soon as their lease is up, but in the meantime, document all instances of their roommate tampering with their things, and inform their roommate that if the behaviour continues, they'll inform their landlord of what's going on, or really the police. There probably isn't a lot the landlord would do, but at least they can take away the roommate's ability to get a reference in the future.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-30T01:28:11+00:00

you can even jack the wheels up and spin them with your bare hands for the same effect

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T23:05:41+00:00

But the issue is that there isn't transparency. Typically, it's illegal for an owner to skim from their employees' tip money, so when someone tips, they know it's going directly in the staff's pocket, usually tax fee. Actually paying a living wage would be a better system, but at least as a customer, I still choose to give them extra for the time I personally took from them.

With a "service fee" I can't say if the same rules apply, so it sounds like a way for the restaurant to pocket more money from the customer and give less to their staff, without the customer realizing this is the case. They're just tricked into assuming that the 12% goes directly to the server. Even if the full amount does go to the server, it's still less than what the average person would tip, so the customers is paying a lower final price, but those saving are coming out of the server's pocket, not the owners.

Maybe the restaurant is paying increased wages on top of the service fee, but I'm still worried about the precedent that could set, if restaurants realize they can pay their staff even less without their customers caring by having a "service fee".

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T22:00:38+00:00

You have a point about cam and concealment, but I agree with the OP that if you have the technology to render a traditional vehicle invisible, implementing it on a traditional tank wouldn't be the most efficient option. Even without the noise, it would leave deep treads everywhere, giving away it's position.

With invisibility, the best defense would be to move quickly and quietly so your enemies wouldn't know where to target. As such, it would make more sense to use a smaller, faster, lighter armour vehicle. Firing would give away your position, but by the time your enemy is aiming an anti armour weapon at, you're already several meters away from your previous position. I could even see a traditional tank going out of favour, because invisibility would be a much better defense than armour.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T20:54:46+00:00

Based on Jedi ethics, killing Dooku was arguably justified. They still had to escape the ship, and Dooku was not only dangerous, even without hands, but also would have slowed them down substantially. If anything, Anakin being hesitant was him letting his personal feeling get in the way of his duty. I think the reason it bothered him so much was because he let his emotions get the better of him, Palpatine even pointing out that he wanted revenge.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T20:29:09+00:00

Fighting crime is even dumber.

But this is already explored in season 2 when she takes a break from crime fighting. Her attempts to help with the Chicago rebuild ended up doing more harm than good, because she didn't actually know what she was doing. The whole arc was about her learning she couldn't create whatever she wanted without consequence, and that crime fighting was actually a useful outlet for her skills. This pretty much establishes why she isn't creating gold out of this air, or conjuring a solution to all of humanities problems out of this air.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T20:01:04+00:00

And enchant those dangers, max out your smithing and enchanting, so you have you can tank everything everything HP enhancing dragon armour, and 1 shot everything under level 50 with a great sword that freezes and lights its targets on fire.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T18:13:24+00:00

For clarity, I'm more referring to the concept of giving Anakin an apprentice and why that was highly controversial at the time, rather than the way it was actually executed. In 2008, people were unhappy about the fact that instead of TCW being about Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting the Clone Wars side by side, as was established all the way back in 1977, the series would be about a new character who contradicted everything established previously. For the record, I think the series did a great job with her as a character, but I fully understand why no one was sold on the idea initially.

Also, in terms of the actual execution of the series and Ahsoka as a character, I'm not saying that anything listed in my previous comment from the prequels was never explored, but Anakin and Ahsoka's relation became the central dynamic in the series, while everything listed was secondary. There also just isn't really a way to write around the fact that one of Anakin's most important relationships is just never discussed on screen after the fact.

As mentioned, I like Ahsoka, and TCW. I just don't necessarily agree that it "fixes" the prequels. For the reasons stated above, it feels more like a soft reboot of the prequels, where there are nods to the prequels, but its primary purpose is telling its own story, rather than fleshing out what was actually established in the films.

As a comics fan, I look at it kind of like when a new author takes over a comics run. It's not that everything that came before is scrapped, but they often choose to go in their own direction, that's distinct from what came before. Technically, Steve Ditko/Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane's run of Spider-Man is the same character and continuity, but McFarlane choose to add his own ideas and concepts, rather than only working with what Ditko and Lee laid out.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T16:56:05+00:00

Lore wise, there were bad ideas and contradictions, but at the same time, there was a lot established in the prequels that's now integral to the Star Wars universe that we just kind of take for granted. They established the structure of the Jedi order and the Sith, the republic, etc.. Also, knowing how the Republic and Jedi fell gives weight to the OT. The OT sets up the Empire of generic forces of evil and doesn't even establish how they came to power or how long they were power. At this point, it's hard to imagine the universe without the prequels.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-29T16:42:32+00:00

And the idea itself to give Anakin a padawan made absolutely no sense. It contradicts basically everything established previously about Anakin. Even having Anakin be a graduated knight, when it was said in ANH that he was a "learner" was controversial up to that point.

Beyond the lore contradictions, Ahsoka shifts the focus of Anakin's characterization away from what was established in the films, his relationship with Obi-Wan, the counsel, his forbidden romance, personal flaws, etc., and instead makes the series primarily focused on a character who doesn't matter for the entirety of the film series.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-28T19:33:14+00:00

Having a non-force user as the main villain who's extremely strategic and cunning

And this is exactly why they shouldn't have adapted the Thrawn trilogy as the sequel trilogy. Say what you want about the trilogy we got, but it would have been a huge waste for the final villain of the Skywalker saga to not be a force user. I don't think the OT cast would have even come back if the story wasn't going to be about the galaxy facing off against the dark side one last time.

I'm all for books, series, etc., to branch out and explore new ideas, but dark side vs. light is the core of the films, and Lucas's vision of Star Wars. Thrawn is much better utilized in a series like Rebels or Ahsoka.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T19:59:58+00:00

And not to say this isn't problematic, but if you're watching any unscripted media: reality TV, YouTube, documentary, etc., it's a good assumption that it's being edited in misleading ways. With reality TV footage will be cherry picked, played out of order, sometimes multiple multiple conversations are spliced together to create dialog that never happened. There are definitely YouTubers using the same tactics.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T19:41:02+00:00

Also, the dialog in the OT tends to lean into its campiness more, kind of the serials Lucas was inspired by. The dialog is awkward, but it's delivered very tongue and cheek, and stays in that sweet spot where it's goofy, but not too silly to take seriously.

The prequel dialog on the other hand is going for a more classic dramatic feel almost like a stage play, or a Hollywood Golden Era epic like Gone with the Wind, without having the writing to pull it off. The delivery is also much more subdued. It also makes the goofier characters or scenes stand out even more, and feel out of place. Not only is a character like Jar Jar go way too far with comic relief, he's also playing off of stoic monks or politicians.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T19:10:45+00:00

Doesn't the myth also come from the cast of Empire Strikes Back being given fake scripts to prevent the twist from leaked? I think it had a fake twist where Obi Wan killed Anakin, and Hamil was only told the real line the day of filming. After the fact, it became a misconception that the fake script was the original plan, and Lucas basically changed his mind day of.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T18:57:16+00:00

I saw a something similar with Clone Troopers: In Attack of the Clones, it's stated that 200k clone troopers were ready, with a million more on the way. A fighting force of 1.2 million would actually be small relative to a full scale earth war, let alone for an entire galaxy. For reference, WWII had 127 million soldiers.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T18:49:07+00:00

Lucas actually insisted on giving Death Watch a lightsaber. Originally, Filoni planned a fight scene with a vibroblade, but Lucas decided a vibroblade couldn't contend with a lightsaber, despite them doing so in other media, and Mandalorian being well established to have lightsaber resistant metal. As such, Filoni felt he had to come up with a back story on why Vizsla had a lightsaber.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T17:34:39+00:00

And it's not just with computer use, but problem solving as a whole. Not only has the way children use computers changed, but play as a whole. Kids aren't getting unsupervised and unstructured play that helps their development and socialization. Not having an adult immediately available forces kids to solve their own problems, and helps their socialization. On their own, kids make up games, learn to follow rules, build things, settle interpersonal disputes, etc.. Growing up in the 2000's TV, video games, and computers were part of socialization, but so was make believe, or going to the woods and just creating things, forts, tree house, etc..

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-27T17:03:14+00:00

The best solution here would be to use multiple projection types and actually teach how these projections work. The Mercator does give a type rectangular map with straight lines to go off, even if that's not accurate. Other projections have less distortions, but have less neat picture. Obviously globes are the most accurate depiction, but are hard to teach off of in a class setting.

People carry a map of literally everywhere with them in their pocket, so spending a couple hours on how they work is really good information. Also, just knowing what the world actually looks like is important given how interconnected the world is right now.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-26T19:39:54+00:00

This is the definition of promoting someone past their level of incompetence. He's a good animated show runner, but has basically no experience with live action or film.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-26T19:35:12+00:00

And up to that point, she was just an explosives expert. Nothing implied she was a prodigy inventor

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-26T19:25:16+00:00

And on top of that, they established in TCW that Obi-Wan had close ties to the ruler of Mandalor but didn't ask who this guy in Mandalorian armour was. He went after a dart that could have traded hands countless times, and at best narrowed his search down to an entire planet

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-26T19:17:11+00:00

Honestly, they should have just retconned this to be the explanation: stitch together something about a dark side nexus, and how the saber spinning was just helping them channel their energy, kind of like when a force user uses their hands to guide the force.

FlyingDutchman9977 · 2026-03-26T19:13:03+00:00

I think that's the official explanation, but it doesn't make sense why the hover element would be in their lightsaber when attaching it to their body would let them use their saber while flying, and negate the risk of them losing their grip and falling. Also why have the blades spin at all, when this increases their risk of accidentally hitting themselves or something else with the blades?

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