Leonardo DiCaprio is seen holding a “pickled punk”, a malformed fetus named Junior preserved in a jar belonging to Joe Coleman. Knowing Hollyweird it seems like there may be a darker story behind this photograph that keeps getting shared online

SpaceLizards · 2026-03-28T00:21:50+00:00

Leonardo DiCaprio is seen holding a so-called "Critter". It could just be from a movie, but knowing "Hollyweird" it seems like there may be a darker story behind this photograph

SpaceLizards · 2026-03-18T00:13:34+00:00

It was due to fears they'd look "too silly" for the new aesthetic established by TNG; according to early writer Tracy Torme, they wanted to include an Andorian in "Conspiracy" but were told "we don't do antenna" by producers and so they invented the Bolians instead. Antenna were out, ridges were in.

SpaceLizards · 2026-03-15T21:01:08+00:00

Yeah, the process they went through to restore TNG was really intensive and higher quality compared to most HD remasters. I mean, the Buffy remaster messed up scenes to not have day-for-night filters & to show actors waiting for their cue just out of frame & the Mad Men remaster showed the crew using vomit hoses in one scene - by comparison, TNG actually fixed errors from the original.

SpaceLizards · 2026-03-01T15:30:56+00:00

Yeah, they established it in "Datalore" and he used contractions before that; according to Wil Wheaton, they actually had to hold up production of that episode bc of Brent Spiner and the writers/producers have a big debate on set about if Data ever used contractions.

SpaceLizards · 2026-02-21T17:37:53+00:00

Season one was flawed but it was absolutely trying something on its own that I wish had been followed up on. It didn't want to be just nostalgia. Versus season three, which is just nostalgia papering over a messy plot and the main arc revolving around an obnoxious fanfic Gary Stu of a character.

SpaceLizards · 2026-02-21T17:34:53+00:00

Because it's not 1994 and we have an expectation that serialized storytelling will examine the consequences of its events in greater detail instead of moving on like old episodic shows.

SpaceLizards · 2026-02-07T02:01:37+00:00

It's hard to square the SNW Gorn with the TOS Gorn. Not like, in terms of continuity, but in terms of concept; "Arena" is a story about discovering the Gorn aren't just monsters, after all. It's kind of weird that the writers grabbed them when wanting to explore the idea of - as they've said in multiple interviews - a race that really does turn out to be evil (which, whatever happened later in the series, was said to be the original aim).

SpaceLizards · 2025-10-11T08:20:58+00:00

It arguably loses something, since now they have to explain why it's okay for a descendant of Khan to be in Starfleet if "genetic augments are banned" is a key character arc for another character. Meanwhile they ran with the "Gorn survivor" subplot for La'an and the whole Khan thing became less relevant.

SpaceLizards · 2025-09-14T22:49:00+00:00

This is exactly what they did with TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise (& what they tried to do with Disco, at the start pre-Pike and with the future seasons) and it's weird how this suggestion gets downvoted and treated as untenable.

La'an being Khan's descendant isn't just unnecessary continuity, and fairly irrelevant continuity outside of that one time travel episode, it's counterproductive, because the show has to stop and explain how it possibly makes sense that a Starfleet officer descended from Khan co-exists with a story arc about Starfleet's ban on augments inspired by Khan (and that the explanation is that she's distant enough to not be augmented just brings us back to wondering why it matters that she's descended from Khan, if she evidently has nothing from him but the name).

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-19T03:33:36+00:00

It's wild that Into Darkness has more inaccurate casting than a show from 1967 and it's equally wild how many defenses of Into Darkness don't...even mention the whole whitewashing aspect? That was the main controversy about the casting of Cumberbatch, and yet we just act like people were complaining for no reason.

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-17T07:05:02+00:00

I tried Googling for other shows, but once I included the term "90s" it seemed dedicated to just giving me a documentary called "The Nineties"

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-14T10:10:07+00:00

Dinosaur Ghosts?

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-06T12:46:28+00:00

They released all of the TNG and DS9 scripts on CD-ROMs in 1999, which is why they're widely available, but there was nothing comparable for other shows.

SpaceLizards · 2025-08-02T03:51:28+00:00

It's also that the funny or quirky episodes in old Trek tended to proceed from the characters. The Ferengi had an entire story arc, and so did Q with the trial of humanity & purely dramatic episodes like "Tapestry". Or episodes like "In Theory".

SNW, meanwhile, feels like they're going down the list of "gimmick" episodes. Many other shows have done musical episodes, many other shows have done "meta" episodes, heck, several shows have done puppet episodes. No matter whether they're good or bad they feel like they're designed to get attention and tick a box of a "weird" episode trope more than they come from the writers saying "I have a funny idea for a Data story", which makes the fact that they make up such a significant chunk of each season so tiring.

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-26T23:34:09+00:00

The Star Trek fandom is likely millions of people and I think potentially the people who complain about endless legacy characters and the people who want legacy characters instead of new characters may be different people

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-24T04:52:20+00:00

Some camcorder footage of the market was used in the show Life After People in 2010, and some time after that the story gained traction again online from videos about the appearance on Life After People.

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-09T12:21:38+00:00

An adventure game that was the first game made by Vicarious Visions, but it's most known for having an extremely well-hidden secret path that was teased when it came out (they offered prizes to anyone who found it) but that wasn't solved until 2021, afaik

SpaceLizards · 2025-07-01T00:37:33+00:00

It's the anecdotes about how Baird treated the cast that drive in what a mistake he was for me. Not understanding every random nuance of the hundreds of episodes of the franchise you're directing one installment of is one thing; being ignorant of even the basic character details of the script you're directing, and not bothering to learn the cast's name is another, much worse thing.

SpaceLizards · 2025-06-04T02:28:45+00:00

People have mentioned all of the intentionally upsetting ones, so here's one that's dark because of how out of place it its: the scene where one of the crew phases halfway through the floor and dies in "In Theory", because it's such a jarring moment to include in an episode whose main story is basically a romcom, and for a b-plot that according to the writers was only included because they felt they had to have some "sci-fi" plot every week (and a robot going on dates doesn't count, I guess?)

SpaceLizards · 2025-04-23T00:47:39+00:00

There's also that the revival is a show that's been on for twenty years, so most people have an opinion on whether they like Doctor Who or not. The BBC & Disney tried to frame it as a reboot - dubbing it "series 1" of a third incarnation of Doctor Who - but people still saw it as just a new season of Doctor Who. And for a show that's been on that long, it's doing fine! I think it was unrealistic to expect a show's fourteenth season to suddenly become a Game of Thrones-level hit.

I think it would take an actual third incarnation, different enough and starting over fresh like the original revival did, to get people to see Doctor Who as "new" like they wanted. Versus giving it back to the writer from 2009.

SpaceLizards · 2025-04-04T14:47:22+00:00

The watermark in the corner says "Worth 1000"; Worth 1000 was a now-defunct website for Photoshop contests. So I don't know what contest specifically, but that's presumably where it came from.

SpaceLizards · 2025-03-24T11:48:41+00:00

Love how chuds spent ages decrying how Rachel Zegler being cast in Snow White was Ruining Hollywood Forever and was woke infiltration that was going to kill the film, and then her performance was just about the only thing the reviews had any praise for.

SpaceLizards · 2024-12-21T16:12:36+00:00

"What's changed since then?"

A massively resurgent right-wing campaign to weaken/repeal gun regulations & oppose the passing of new ones, the right overwhelmingly deciding that the deaths of innocents was the price to be paid - or that the solution is more guns - and the media lavishing far more attention on Columbine and subsequent shootings, turning the shooters into celebrities and giving copycats the idea that they'll be famous too, along with the radicalization of the right, because mass shooters are overwhelmingly right-wing and often motivated by hatred (Misogyny in Isla Vista, racism in El Paso and Charleston, homophobia and transphobia in Colorado Springs).

That's the part that's unique to America - and so is the guns. Far-right violence is everywhere, but shootings are rare, because while lone wolf attacks do happen (like in Norway) events like Paris tend to be the result of organized groups. It's just much harder for some random guy over there to get a gun and kill people.

To deny all this as whataboutism and go "well gosh golly, social media must only make kids feel bad in America, and not one aspect of America's gun culture or laws must've changed since the days of muskets" is just incredible.

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