I feel like someone should sit Ridley down, gently take his scripts away, say “well down thou good and faithful servant” and then lead him gently to a retirement home where all the residents believe they’re either actors, film crew or studio execs, then tell him he’s finally been given the unlimited funding and time…

Well thank goodness we chose a reality TV actor to get us through these uncertain times.

I know, right? It’s so unrealistic for gay people to exist without a reason. I mean, all of the gay people I know serve a narrative purpose in my life.

This week’s random musings:

To me, this episode made sense.

I really liked this one, but I’d also point to The City and the City. That’s a brilliant novel.

never realizing that if Carol holding the same beliefs as the homicidal maniac is a bad thing.

I call bullshit. This was honestly the WORST. EPISODE. EVER. It was also a terrible mid-season finale and a ridiculous place to leave off in the story.

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Cyberpunk is very much a child of the 1980’s and hasn’t been meaningful since the mid-90’s. These days classic cyberpunk is almost dead, so you really can’t blame it for your dislike for modern sci-fi.

It surprises/disappoints me that more people haven’t read the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy. Personally I like Count Zero more than Neuromancer. And it’s also where he started using the “seemingly unrelated plots come together for the climax” structure.

If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know the Farallons were used as a nuclear dump. But it’s not something that’s discussed much, so I can readily believe people who come to the area being freaked out:

I expect spoilers in articles themselves so wouldn't click through to any article (like this one) discussing an episode of a show I haven't seen yet, but could you have a little compassion for people who are fans of a show but who are a season behind because they are watching on NetFlix and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE not…

I know I'm going to sound like every other 30+ on the Internet, but I'll take these miniatures over the latest in computer generated effects every day and twice on Sunday.

Because he's a millennial who thinks nothing existed before digital, and can't be bothered to look things up?

"These aren't even photos, they're scans of slides, and you just would not think they were taken over 30 years ago .... They look like they were shot yesterday, on a very expensive modern camera."

I'd suggest that simply makes it harder for people to read. Having employed people in the past, I'd throw out any CV that didn't give me a simple chronology. I want to see that they've been either consistently employed or in education, plus haven't jumped around randomly from one thing to another. By ordering it by…

RANT:

THANK you! That was my thought on the subject. "HELP! I've racked up a zillion dollars in loads so I could take six years to finally get my bachelors in communications!"

Precisely. Where do people get off saying they should have their student loans "forgiven". What you are saying with that is that you should have a free education and be free of the responsibility for the decisions you made.