Part of the issue is the binary thinking of “good guys” and “bad guys.” It’s possible for Dan Harmon (and Whedon, and even CK) to both have done a truly shitty thing *and* be generally a good person who cares about other people.
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It really is easier than ever to turn being kind of a shitty person into a paying profession.
This show was fantastic. Jessica Barden should be a star after this. Everybody was great, especially the two detectives and Barry Ward as Leslie stealing every scene he was in. I even grew to like Lawther by the end which wasn’t easy seeing as how I hate Shut Up And Dance. The end works as both a series and season…
There’s no “supposed” about it. I was fired from Google for merely corralling off all of my co-workers who I viewed as genetically inferior to the basement of my building and locking them in. Can’t discriminate against my political beliefs, yo!
“Hello, Inventorof? It’s your cousin Martin, Martin Karate! I think I’ve found the moves you’re looking for! Look at this!”
Dead Set the BBC zombie apocalypse meets Big Brother was fairly short and basically a movie in a few parts. Riz Ahmed was in it and fairly fun if you like that sort of thing.
Binged this on Sunday after Magfest. Really enjoyed it for the most part. But I want to talk about their use of internal monologue and voice over. Normally I HATE voice over in fictional movies and tv shows (e.g., Attack on Titan). Often it’s just a lazy shortcut to get across backstory or externalizing the internal…
Not only is this story *nothing* like the two you reference, but in the universe where it takes place, “re-sleeving” consciousness into other bodies is just everyday technology, not something strange and revolutionary that ends up as the whole focus of the story.
Seems like a really weird choice having the old man…
You do know that Altered Carbon is based on a 2002 book, right? It existed long before either of those movies. And the themes of living forever for the right price and swapping bodies have been in sci-fi even longer.
I really, really hope this turns out to be good, because the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy are some of my very favorite books and they deserve an adaptation that’s at least as good as stuff like The Expanse has been.
The cognitive dissonance in this article (plus the comments) in off the charts.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. I do think that the climax of the episode, with the Doctor trying to “be kind” and putting Clara in a horrible position, and her reaction to it, is really good stuff. It’s a shame the preceding 40 minutes weren’t a little tighter.
FFS, I’m really showing my age here, but I remember the tabloids and the more... shall we say, reactionary Whovians losing their shit from the moment the Beeb announced Russell T Davies — you know the openly gay man who best-known project at the time was Queer as Folk — had been hired as head writer and executive…
It’s a show about time travel... retcons are going to happen as The Doctor is constantly rewriting his own past. I personally think Moffat is an expert at providing explanations for some of the oddities of the show’s history.
what on earth was the point of re-litigating a silly, moot argument?
Ok no. There is no “both sides” to any “vaccination argument.” Vaccines prevent more maladies than they could ever be expected to cause and it’s moronic not to get them.
...and especially once you pick up on a theory that requires centuries of science to be a conspiracy and lie, it’s easier to segue into other groups similarly calling far more essential parts of science lies.
Yep—go to NYC, and he can just take an elevator to the top of the One World Trade Center building, which is 1776 feet tall. So give or take 25 feet. Or he could go to Khalifa Tower in Dubai, at 2772 feet.
It sounds like the start of a Rodney Dangerfield routine that ends with Rodney firing the guy because the agent could only find him solo work.