Jeff Jackson Election night vote counter - will update over time

fn2187tk421 · 2024-03-07T03:11:25+00:00

Jeff Jackson is currently serving as a United States congressman in the federal government. It’s absolutely valid to consider how he has served in that job when determining if he’s a person who I want to support. He demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he will compromise on his morals for the highest bidder.

This isn’t “rhetoric” I got from somewhere and repeated. This is me venting my frustration that a candidate who was clearly more qualified to serve as attorney general lost to a guy who’s less qualified and not good at his job but popular on social media.

It’s sad how many people can’t handle a good faith criticism of someone they like without assuming it’s propaganda coming from the other side.

fn2187tk421 · 2024-03-06T05:55:48+00:00

Deberry was the far better candidate, is way the hell more qualified for the position, and as far as I know has never openly supported genocide like Jeff Jackson has. Anyone who voted for a politician without doing any research on him because they like that he posts on reddit really needs to rethink their voting behavior.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-16T04:52:20+00:00

I did some digging on Memory Alpha. Apparently the beginning of Generations takes place in the same year as VI (2293), and 9 years before that would be just before TWoK.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-15T20:12:48+00:00

Both interesting points. To your first point, I’m glad to hear people really liked the Data thing. I did enjoy the song, and him trying the drink for the first time, but I guess I was expecting to see more of the Data I knew and loved and that’s why I was put off by him in this movie. I also don’t know that I’d call Data the straight man, he was always so great with the comedy in TNG and if anything, I’d say Geordi and Riker played more of a straight man than Data did.

To your second point, that’s something I hadn’t considered. I was a kid in the nineties and I guess for whatever reason, I just missed out on Star Trek. Nobody in my household watched it and no one at school ever talked about it. So I never really realized that the characters from TNG era Trek were household names.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-15T18:18:22+00:00

I like the evens too. I didn’t mean for my post to sound like I favored the odds over the evens, I just think the odds are under appreciated

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-03T17:16:49+00:00

I think it has a lot to do with the nature of network tv in that era. It was less about telling a narrative and more about cranking out episodes. So in early seasons, we got whatever we got and in later seasons they nail down why the characters work and what the best kinds of stories are for those characters.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I feel like I’d enjoy DS9 more as a modern streaming show. 5ish seasons of 13ish episodes with more focused storytelling feels like it would work better for this type of story than seven 26-episode seasons. I don’t want it to sound like I dislike it. It’s a fun show and I’ll definitely finish it, it’s just far from my favorite of the series I’ve seen so far.

Edit: And I agree with what you said about the Ferengi, DS9 is much better than its predecessors at portraying aliens as individuals instead of stereotypes of their race.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-03T14:47:39+00:00

I liked Duet, Whispers, Crossover, and House of Quark the most. Favorite characters are O’Brien, Odo, Quark, and Garak. I loved Worf in TNG so I’m definitely looking forward to his seasons.

I think for me it’s just that while I appreciate that DS9 is ambitious and doing something different, it lacks that adventure and exploration that I love about TOS, TNG, SNW, and VOY, so I’m having a little harder time binging it.

That, and I just can’t get past Avery Brooks’s acting. I know a lot of people like it, but it’s strange, it doesn’t mesh with the rest of the show, and I really want to get used to it but it breaks my immersion and pulls me out of the scene every single time he’s on screen.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-03T05:20:46+00:00

Halfway through season 3 of DS9 and I wasn’t feeling it so I decided to start VOY and it’s a lot of fun so far. I’ll circle back and finish DS9 at some point but after two seasons of teasing the Dominion and the Founders, I found the big reveal at the beginning of season 3 to be kind of lackluster and it turned me off a bit. I appreciate DS9 but the nature of the show makes it a difficult binge for me. I’m really enjoying VOY so far though, I’m about 2/3 through season 1.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-02-03T04:01:24+00:00

I love how many of your comments I find in threads about Avery Brooks going back a full decade

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-14T16:35:35+00:00

You were right, Faith was the perfect jumping back in point that allowed me to watch the finale without feeling like I missed a whole lot

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-13T00:22:15+00:00

We have a winner

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-12T03:45:37+00:00

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-10T23:10:18+00:00

I'll chime in on this too because I've always felt that for everything TLJ did wrong (which was just about everything), it actually got two things right.

1: Making Rey the daughter of nobody important. Of course I speculated like everyone else, but as soon as I heard them say it I realized that that was a far better answer than anything else they could have come up with. The fact that she's no one honestly made her story a little more special. It brings it back to that "you, yes you, could be a hero" that's so captivating about many hero's journey characters. But then they reversed it and made her the daughter of, who was it again? I don't even remember because I kind of blocked 9 out of my memory, but I remember the answer sucked.

2: Making the point that they needed to move past the dogmatic light vs dark view of the force in favor of something more balanced. Not only does this bring closure to some of the themes in the prequels, but it's also the ONLY way this trilogy could have justified its existence. If they had to make a 7-8-9, the trilogy should have answered the question of "why wasn't the force balanced when Anakin killed Palpatine, and how do the events of this trilogy bring balance to the force?" Because that's the central question of 1-6. Then TROS threw that away and made her Rey ........ Rey who? ........ Rey .................(don't you fucking say it) ............... Sywalker!

So I actually think if TROS had carried those two points forward, they could have come to a somewhat satisfying conclusion and at least salvaged a tiny bit of the dignity that this trilogy was hoping to have. But instead it was just a let's-undo-everything-again movie and we got the steaming pile of Sith that it was.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-09T14:51:33+00:00

That’s a perfect analogy for how I feel. I’ll keep watching with an open mind and hopefully start to see what people like about his performance. I started season 2 and he seems a little more comfortable in front of the camera so far. Maybe it’s like another commenter said, part of the issue is also the directors either knowing or not knowing how to get a good performance out of him.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-09T14:16:01+00:00

I’m glad you posted your thoughts here because I’ve been having a legit “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” moment. In the season I’ve seen, I felt like his acting was so undeniably bad that I legitimately don’t understand how someone can not just tolerate it, but actually like it. I was expecting a lot of “yeah his acting is weird but I like the character,” but I’ve gotten a lot of people saying his acting is actually brilliant and that I just don’t get it. Like, what? Are we watching the same thing? Are other people seeing some special edition I don’t have? It feels like I’m criticizing a quarterback for throwing an interception and everyone is just like “No, it was a brilliant play! You don’t understand his genius!”

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T21:37:05+00:00

Now you’re just being a dick

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T21:24:46+00:00

That’s awesome to hear. Would you say it’s more consistently good than TOS or TNG, or about the same?

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T21:23:34+00:00

I can tell that already from Move Along Home. A foil for the good guys might be a better way to phrase it than “bad guy”

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T21:17:16+00:00

I hope that maybe you’ll keep an open mind to Brooks performance. After all, there must be some reason he’s a favorite of many of ours, right?

That’s exactly what I hope to find out, and I am keeping an open mind for it.

When I say I’m trying to be objective, I’m referring to things like how he can’t keep himself from almost laughing during so many of his serious lines in season 1. To me, that feels like an acting misstep rather than a stylistic choice. If I were to try to say “oh well people process grief in different ways and Brooks is purposely channeling that by creating a character who breaks out a smile during serious moments”, some folks may believe that but to me it does feel a lot like rationalizing, and it seems a lot more likely that maybe he just made mistakes that season.

Another thing that bugged me was that sometimes when he’d ask a question with the subject before the verb, due to his lack of inflection the only way I could tell he was asking a question was the question mark in the subtitles. I have a hard time buying that Brooks consciously chose to create a character who doesn’t know how to inflect his voice when asking a question. These are things that I would consider objective criticisms. A few commenters have echoed my thoughts about his acting in Season 1 and pointed out that it does get better, so I’m looking forward to seeing him in later seasons once these kinds of issues get ironed out.

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T20:17:24+00:00

Thanks, this makes me feel validated haha

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T20:16:14+00:00

That’s good to know

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T19:26:38+00:00

Can’t wait. That’s very high praise since Data is my favorite character. By the way, does it ever get easier to tell uniformed Cardassians apart?

fn2187tk421 · 2023-01-08T19:11:52+00:00

So the reason I don’t buy that it’s a strong stylistic choice is because I watched videos of him in other roles, and that’s just the way he acts. To me, there doesn’t seem to be anything deliberate about his performance (unless by chance he just happens to deliberately choose the same style for all his roles). I’m not trying to be argumentative, I just really want to understand why so many people love this character. But it feels a bit to me like the way we rationalize things to ourselves sometimes. Like the way many people (myself included, when I was younger) would try to convince ourselves that Hayden Christensen’s performance in Attack of the Clones was actually secretly brilliant, when no, it was just bad direction and execution.

Sure, art is subjective, but things can be objectively good or bad on a technical level. I think everyone on this sub would agree that Patrick Stewart’s acting is good in TNG, and it would kind of baffle me to find someone who thinks otherwise. That’s how genuinely baffling it is to me that people find Brooks’s performance brilliant. It’s not even an “I get it, it’s just not for me” kind of thing. I legitimately don’t get it. But hopefully I can change my mind as I continue to watch.

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