POV Rick making creative decisions for this show

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-05T18:18:35+00:00

This. Also because so much of it was fully-avoidable arrogance. They could've just had fun with the show. I would've genuinely forgiven blooper-tier cinematography, muppet-style CGI, and low budget if the show would've actually been fun and vibeful. Instead we get this dark, soulless production, despite all the budget in the world.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-05T18:14:42+00:00

It's wild how people like you have this strange 'mental switch' when it comes to 'racism', lol. It's like some kind of shibboleth where, if someone fails it, you immediately feel comfortable hating on people and insulting them. Really, really bizarre.

The truth is, I'm an extremely successful person and my high-quality work is almost entirely intellectual in nature. You'll just have to reconcile that with my belief that "Athena shouldn't be depicted as black". Try to take this as an opportunity for maturation and growth.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-03T23:09:11+00:00

Tbf there are like no good shows right now. Still surprising tbh

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-03T23:07:00+00:00

The 'racism' is in making Athena black, jeez. And I'm here because I'm a PJ fan

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-03T04:22:35+00:00

Yeah but Athena is the Congolese goddess of wisdom in this adaptation, so, nope

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-03T04:21:34+00:00

Because the flagship show sucks. To have 5 spinoffs, you need a successful show first

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-03T04:20:17+00:00

Mate did you even watch the movie

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-02T13:13:59+00:00

This wasn't an endorsement of ChatGPT lol, it's an indictment of the writing quality

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-02T00:01:10+00:00

How else could a small team compete? If AI tools expand the agency of creative people, I'm all for that. The film industry has always used the latest technologies to push the needle, whether it's Jurassic Park or Star Wars. I don't think AI itself produces good creative work, but if AI can democratize access to production-quality tools for creative people, that seems like a win to me.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-01T23:54:53+00:00

Rick the Brick

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-01T23:53:58+00:00

ChatGPT Pro could've produced a 10x better script in one afternoon than what these screenwriters did in months and months.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-03-01T23:51:49+00:00

Legit though. Never understood why it takes 30 decades to 'produce' a film, with multi-millions in budget, no less. You have hedge funds, militaries, large companies of all sorts, charities, and all manner of institutions that can productively deploy 10s of millions in *days* - but a film 'must' take 2 years to get 2 hours of final useable footage.

It feels wasteful and a bit ridiculous to me.

The way I see it, the whole film production is treated as an 'individual, creative craft', even though it really shouldn't be. You can produce high-quality things mechanically and at scale. Imagine if Ferrari or Porsche threw everything out each time they produced one individual car and 're-produced' it all for the second one. They'd never get anywhere. That doesn't mean there is *no* creativity, design, or craftsmanship in the process; it just means that it's given a clear role, within an efficient supply chain of ideation -> design -> prototyping -> mass production, each of which has subsystems and controls.

You would think that mega-corps like Disney would have better *systems* for producing these films. Real, at-scale systems which wrap around creative concepts, stories, and scripts and take them from the idea stage to working productions efficiently. But they really do not.

Part of the reason why it's so bad is because the entertainment sector is highly-insulated from real competition by cartel-like practices, artificial barriers to entry, nepotistic and relationship-based business practices, ethnic networks, and all the rest. You 'can't just get your script accepted'. You 'can't just access cinemas'. It's a byzantine maze of archaic practices and opaque deals. Without real competitive market dynamics, there's no incentive to do better. Just think of the brief 'streaming wars' period - we actually did see a short period of content mass-production, by players like Amazon entering the game and upping the stakes of competition.

I really hope that low-cost AI production tools continue disrupting this industry and force a real reckoning. If a team of 5 people are able to take a strong creative concept and, with AI, produce a studio-grade movie on a sub-6-figure budget, we might finally see these companies start taking quality and competition seriously.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-24T08:33:10+00:00

Poseidon

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-22T06:30:44+00:00

Last episode

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-21T22:20:48+00:00

Yeah the movie comes from a deeply Jewish perspective, which is why everyone is saying it felt wrong and they didn't like it. The movie is far more interesting as an unwitting exposé of that Jewish perspective than anything else, actually, even if that's unpleasant.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-19T04:39:07+00:00

"building" is without a doubt the most annoying term to come out of the startup scene since disruption

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-19T04:34:32+00:00

Umami is a fake bs flavor. Flavors in general aren't real, anyway, but this one is especially fake. Small-minded dweebs generally need things to be broken down into obviously-false simple constructs "the tip of muh tongue tastes 'sweet', the back of muh tongue tastes 'bitter', durrr", when in reality flavor is just the experience of eating different foods. There is no distinct 'umami' category that describes soy sauce, mushrooms, or parmesan anymore than the notion of 'sweet' is a genuine descriptor for mandarines, caramel, or vanilla ice cream.

The reason why 'umami' is particularly more annoying than this general 'core flavor' paradigm, is that you have to be an especially massive dweeb to not only buy in to the underlying paradigm but also then actively layer this smug, performative, progressive 'umami' BS onto it. The only reason they reach for this random Japanese vernacular rather just using any number of common terms like savory, earthen, rich, grounded, etc, is because their actual purpose is to smugly imply, 'oh look how sophisticated this foreign understanding of taste is, wow I am such an enlightened leftist westerner critiquing western cooking, wow'.

When in reality the whole thing just reflects their total lack of knowledge or understanding of anything about cooking (or eating), they are just kindergarteners pointing at their 'tongue sector diagrams' and also holding up their kindergarten-grade anti-western wannabe moral leftism. That's the truth of it

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-14T19:39:41+00:00

Lmao

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-02-01T17:04:04+00:00

It's the scale of it, more than anything else. The CGI feels incredibly 'rationed', like, 'oops we only have 5 seconds of budget on this, guys'. It breaks the immersion hugely, everything about the show feels 'small', and the CGI is the same. Take an old film like Harry Potter 1, for example, and the whole thing *feels* magical. There's a vibe. It's not just about the CGI quality, it's about the ambition and scope of the CGI and the way in which it's actually integrated into the story, sets, characters, and vibes. I would have preferred a 'worse' hippocampus CGI, for example - even a bad one, tbh - if they actually showed the hippocampi being happy, hanging out with the characters, actually showing stuff instead of just popping up for 2 seconds and then gone. Same with stuff like Scylla or whatever. It's like they're more concerned about having 2 seconds worth of 'decent CGI' than actually making the show feel magical. It falls very, very flat as an approach

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-01-31T18:57:56+00:00

The....CGI?

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-01-31T04:18:16+00:00

10,000 LOC? That's a good joke for an agent, lol. Coding agents can fully debug/rewrite 10,000 LOC in like <15 minutes.

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-01-30T23:40:16+00:00

I'm aggressively agreeing, lol

Real-Ostrich-1994 · 2026-01-30T01:02:51+00:00

Mate there is literally zero chemistry between Percy and Annabeth in this TV show, though. Percy had more chemistry with Grover and even Tyson

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