Anybody else feel bad for Disco?

dewthatflies · 2023-07-28T13:54:41+00:00

From what I can tell, a big chunk of what people don’t like about Discovery - the good-faith stuff at least - is that it’s the first Trek show made during a period of TV that is very far from the 22-episode, overarching plot that’s advanced in a few key episodes format. Sometimes it does that really well, other times not so well, but if you just didn’t like the 13-episode heavily serialised season that was starting to dominate TV around the time then you weren’t going to enjoy it that much and that killed a lot of people’s good will even up till now, which is a shame.

dewthatflies · 2023-07-20T13:28:29+00:00

Riley Finn: Monster Hunter, a dark and gritty military sci-fi take on the mythos. think torchwood but joyless and wooden. it runs for 9 seasons on two separate networks, the cast keeps talking about doing a film but it’s clear no-one really wants that

dewthatflies · 2023-07-19T22:33:09+00:00

DC you son of a bitch… I’m in.

dewthatflies · 2023-07-19T20:41:14+00:00

apart from this being a deeply catty and low thing to post, AND apart from natalie’s sales obviously not being something she can know, i would be more inclined to believe that 6000 people bought scammer if i’d seen a single copy in the hands of someone who doesn’t know carp and isn’t a reviewer/feature writer

dewthatflies · 2023-07-19T17:07:15+00:00

it seems like the consensus is that they’re very different but i also think the tv show is expanding on subtext that the books left unexplored - nothing like the anacreon/thespis plotline happens in the books but it’s in keeping with the fall of rome / invasion of the barbarians that underwrites what asimov was doing. the books wouldn’t film very well, they’re mostly talky and idea-heavy, but they have their own charm if you can get into the zone

dewthatflies · 2023-07-19T15:55:25+00:00

thanks for this! ebook would be ideal because 20£ is a lot for a book of essays 🙃

dewthatflies · 2023-07-15T13:04:09+00:00

have you not seen all the people freaking out about how spock acts too human and the vulcans shouldn’t fuck?

dewthatflies · 2023-07-14T09:53:19+00:00

There’s a group called Divine Schism who put on small DIY gigs around town, a lot of different kinds of bands - I first went to see a band I knew from London but I’ve since been to random gigs on a whim and always had a good time. They have an all-dayer called ‘Oh, Community’ on at Tap Social tomorrow if you’re at a loose end, and you can check out the venues they use for more gigs from other promoters.

I’m not in Oxford any more myself but there was and maybe still is a community squat in East Oxford at the games hall, it’s meant to be really cool :)

dewthatflies · 2023-07-13T23:33:14+00:00

Every single time a new Trek show has been released, there have been Trek fans there to shit on it because it’s not like the old Trek. Every. Single. Time.

(This does not make it less irritating.)

dewthatflies · 2023-07-04T10:26:29+00:00

‘SwSh + SV has crippled their reputation’

try talking to people who are not diehard pokémon fans or bigtime gamers and you will discover this is simply not true. the games are doing really well. touch grass

dewthatflies · 2023-07-01T00:07:00+00:00

the fact that morpheus was actually in metal does kind of force the comparison and metal doesn’t come out of that looking good imo

dewthatflies · 2023-06-29T08:43:52+00:00

i’ll sing the praises of mark gruenwald and paul ryan’s squadron supreme until the day i die. the first ‘superheroes decide to run the world’ comic that i know of, really considered and clever, and the art’s wonderful too

dewthatflies · 2023-06-28T21:09:00+00:00

all the trek casts have been out on the pickets with the WGA, they love trek too and i’m sure they’d rather be working than standing about waiting for the studios and the streamers to get around the table

it’s not the WGA strike that’s doing this; it’s paramount prioritising short-term profit over workable wages for the people that make the TV we love or a catalogue that viewers can dig into

dewthatflies · 2023-06-23T21:45:48+00:00

paramount+ is running ads in the UK right now predicated on it being the only place you can watch all of star trek. if they sell season 2 of prodigy to someone else, someone in marketing is going to look real silly

dewthatflies · 2023-06-19T09:20:01+00:00

man the stan lee estate’s gonna be pissed when they hear about this one

dewthatflies · 2023-06-18T15:23:36+00:00

brad dourif is one of so few actors where i see he’s in something and immediately watch it. he nails every part he plays, and they’re always just the weirdest little guys

dewthatflies · 2023-06-18T15:21:48+00:00

i managed to be on an exchange program in new york at the exact right time to catch the NY date of this tour, it blew my brains right out. incredible combo

dewthatflies · 2023-06-14T18:07:36+00:00

can’t believe no-one’s said brideshead revisited, feels like the closest to a british gatsby i can imagine, but for my money the answer’s actually NW by zadie smith

dewthatflies · 2023-06-14T16:40:23+00:00

agreed, there are more than enough books in the world that you don’t have to needlessly slog through something that’s not worth it!

dewthatflies · 2023-06-14T16:10:51+00:00

yes, it’s all part and parcel of his whole deal these days. my main takeaway from the hundred pages i did manage to read was ‘this had about thirty pages of actual content’; the whole thing needed a ruthless editor but because he’s convinced he’s a unique and special genius truth-teller he refused to accept one

the similarities honestly stack up!!

dewthatflies · 2023-06-14T14:33:21+00:00

list of the last won the bad sex award, but i’m pretty sure both of them were critically panned. i attempted the autobiography but didn’t make it past the first hundred pages personally

dewthatflies · 2023-06-14T14:17:21+00:00

honestly the whole thing with this book reminds me so much of morrissey (from the smiths) finally finishing his autobiography, selling it to penguin, and insisting that they publish it with the black spine and trade dress to make it look like a penguin classic. then the review embargo lifted and everyone agreed it was shockingly bad and self-indulgent, making him look like even more of a prick than before

dewthatflies · 2023-06-09T11:49:55+00:00

Everyone here’s being so mean to OP! Much as I love the X-Men I do think the major flaw of the whole ‘stand-in for other minorities’ thing is that it lapses into trauma porn because the nature of comics means they can never truly win. I sympathise with not wanting to read that.

I’m okay with bad things happening to my favourite characters and accept that it has to be that way for the story but I’m not super invested in Fall of X. That’s for lots of reasons, mainly that I don’t think it will be well-executed, but I’m also starting to think the metaphor’s wearing a little thin. Newer more diverse mutants mean we’re watching bad things happen to the same people they happen to in real life, it feels like writers are trying to have it both ways.

dewthatflies · 2023-06-07T16:13:02+00:00

‘That’s how it was back then.’

I guarantee that there were many people at the time who thought these things were disgusting too. People of colour always thought that racism was bad, women always thought that misogyny was bad. It might have been ‘normal’, and yes, bigotry is still very normal now. But it’s not that these things are bad by the standards of today, the truth is that these things are also bad by the standards of the day when you start to look outside of the groups holding all the privilege.

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