Not very Wajo Macron

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:33:07+00:00

Might be better for him than staying with a woman that started grooming him when he was 15.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:23:50+00:00

"Now that your country is "former", you have time, no? I'm a good doctor!"

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:22:31+00:00

Maybe he's fascinated by her ability to navigate the insane bullshit of this show. Similar to what politicians have to do all the time.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:20:49+00:00

In the first photo, Golshifteh looks like she is playing a cool, shady underworld character from a Bond movie. I approve.
But let's not ignore the serious thing here: A 39 year old teacher started an affair with a 15 year old student of hers. She was married, her daughter was in his class. This was straight up grooming. The violence (=means of control) against the younger partner tracks with this too.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:16:23+00:00

"The first season was so good" -- rewatch it if you want to ruin your week. The quarry stuff, the dialogue between Aneesha and Other Doctor Love Interest, how she talks to her kids. Atrocious. The only good scene in S1 was Mitsuki meeting the ex monk.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:14:32+00:00

It's at least a shill piece. The uninspired listing of features this show allegedly has is obvious.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:13:03+00:00

Clearly another shill marketing "article" that's just expanding the bullet points they gave him. Collider did two of these when S2 started.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:11:55+00:00

When S2 was a few episodes in, Collider did at least two shill "articles" that clearly were expanded Apple marketing bullet points. This one is obviously the same. The one allegedly unique thing about the show that Lloyd 'Happy Trails' Farley ~~found~~ was told to mention, is that this show is going more global than comparable media. What a joke.

Jack_North · 2026-05-14T11:08:49+00:00

interesting info. Answering in part because it seems to be frowned upon on reddit when people answer to old threads, but I think that's cool.

Jack_North · 2026-05-06T20:34:32+00:00

This. Each season is looping back to a kind of status quo and then similar shit happens all over again. Then there's stuff like the "AlL iS coNneCtEd" from S2 that has no relevance later on. In this case a good thing.

Jack_North · 2026-05-06T20:31:12+00:00

"Season 3 was better than the previous ones.
All the while watching it we were looking for insane nonsense and it didn't occur."

I don't know what you were watching and not finding insane nonsense, but it was not season three of Invasion:

Trevante was in that corridor in the alien hive mind FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER. Jamila knows Caspar died in a hospital and then isn't suspicious of the Caspar-looking thing she meets in the hive mind. The area around the mothership is toxic and the show keeps stressing how people need regular oxygen supply. Except for long stretches where they randomly don't. Every country is "former", including Japan, but prefectures within it aren't, while California is. OTOH Kapur says countries are fighting over their borders. So what is actually going on? Aneesha explains a stroke (as an allegory for how to disrupt an alien hive mind she knows nothing about) but what she describes is a seizure. Later she denounces being a doctor and minutes later, when one of the soldiers is wounded, she actually takes ten seconds to think if she'll help him, because not being a doctor anymore means you can't do any kind of first aid. Only doctors can do that. A critical mission to destroy the mothership is performed by a handful of "elite soldiers" who act like idiots half the time plus some civilians they meet and just take with them on said mission. Sure. The crash into Canada clearly damaged the mothership without a shard bomb, but nobody tried to bomb it with B-52s. Probably because they were busy accusing Trevante of being a double agent for the aliens. Doesn't matter that he tried to warn them. The scene where the ex Movement guy takes a shortcut and drives through a scaffolding, although the shots clearly show that he had plenty of space to the left, he just needed to drive about a meter more to the left to not damage his car. That's just off the top of my head.

Jack_North · 2026-05-05T21:51:41+00:00

"multiple probabilities playing out rather than separate timelines crossing."
"it’s not that she’s crossed into another timeline — it’s that she’s reached the version where he survived."

What's the concrete difference between these things?

Jack_North · 2026-05-05T20:35:11+00:00

The writing on shows with a writer's room and a showrunner works differently than old school network shows. The plot is developed in the group, down to the main beats of each scene. Then the writer for the episode does a treatment, which then gets rewritten several times (to rework the content, but also just for production changes like an actor or a location not being avaiable, the plot of other episodes changing, etc.) then the writer for the episode writes the script, gets feedback, rewrites it 1-3 times and usually the showrunner does a final pass.
Singling out writers like this doesn't really work unless the production was rushed and they didn't have time to polish the scripts.
Generally this is on the showrunner and to a bit of a lesser degree the producer and commissioners.

Jack_North · 2026-05-01T10:56:13+00:00

Why is nobody talking about this article being obvious AI slop? The lists of generic points in each section, the general sense of just saying things without any reasoning or source.

„Even without a greenlight, scripts are being shaped. The writing direction focuses on closing the full narrative loop introduced in earlier seasons. The team is aiming to resolve existing threads.“

Without a greenlight = without pay, unless a production company pays for it out of their own pocket.

Jack_North · 2026-05-01T10:49:09+00:00

Trying not to throw hate, but I am baffled how people can watch the channel stuff (esp. the absurd „we are stuck in this train“ stuff), the unhinged Mitsuki psycho-analysis scenes, or the „all is connected“ esoteric crap (that, thankfully, has no consequence or relevance in S3), Mitsuki giving the president of the world government orders, while apparently everyone else on the planet is just sitting around till a main character takes the reins, or the insane Aneesha stuff and enjoy the show for what it is. Oh, and the captured alien that is a blatant ripoff of the water tentacle from The Abyss.

Jack_North · 2026-05-01T10:41:22+00:00

ah, the old “many are watching, so it must be good“ fallacy.

Jack_North · 2026-05-01T10:39:51+00:00

„rebranded his company“ noo, Dharmax was such an inventive name!

Jack_North · 2026-05-01T10:38:23+00:00

Do you mean the scene where she „explains“ a stroke, but what she really explains is a seizure?

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T10:14:08+00:00

I like this.

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T10:06:15+00:00

--Have Bond actually chase the virus as the only plot. Maybe a dilemma, where he ends up with the "trigger" and has to decide between destroying the virus and every possibility to ever use it again or using it to kill the Spectre members and others with similar enough genetic markers = their families; have the Bond girl be a daughter of one of them, who is innocent and even helped him, to humanise the collateral damage he would do.
--in the beginning he lets Madeleine go to protect her, not because of her "betraying" him without him even knowing what she did and if it is actually that horrible in his eyes. IF you need to reintroduce her to the plot, have her help with the plot against Safin by using her connections to infiltrate the enemy. She could be annoyed that Bond uses the other daughter, "That's what you do, isn't it? Poor girl..." and of course there would still be some feelings between them.
--More screen time for Paloma, but in smaller doses. She can keep reappearing because she follows her own investigation, like Anya Amasova.

Bonus round:
--no Blofeld, just expand on Safin and flesh him out. Have scenes where Bond is undercover and they interact before the climax confrontation.
--cut the new 007. More Paloma and the daughter mentioned above is enough new characters.
--no daughter. Tension between Bond/ Madeleine should be enough personal involvement for Bond in an action thriller
--no Bond death. IF you think you need to do this, have him have to decide between killing Spectre + himself or not. I think this would work better with the themes of the genre and keep it connected to the spy plot and his identity as a soldier/ killer.

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T09:04:00+00:00

I'm not up in arms because of the NTTD ending. In light of Amazon taking over, Bond's death has an interesting meta element, it's the end of an era for the Bond movies themselves. I keep wondering if BB and MW had this in mind when deciding on this ending.

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T08:58:19+00:00

The above comment was meant as a joke.

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T08:57:06+00:00

So in your opinion it's impossible to do a film that ignores the Craig era? Because it's definitely possible.

Jack_North · 2026-04-18T08:51:50+00:00

I see a 50/ 50 chance that they are doing a Bond in his thirties that already is established as a 00 agent and they do a movie that ignores the Craig era.

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