That’s a Gene Roddenberry story. NBC’s issue was that he hired his mistress and they didn’t think she was a strong enough actor to be 2nd lead, although that was probably strongly colored by the first point.

Poe’s law!

McCoy wouldn’t be on board. He wasn’t the doctor until partway through S1 of TOS. If it matches the Enterprise of “The Cage”, it should be Dr Boyce.

I think this is one of those Your Mileage May Vary situations. I don’t love Enterprise, but I’ve watched it all the way through twice and think it has its moments. My wife and I started streaming Voyager on Netflix six years ago and still haven’t finished it. Rarely do we make it more than about three episodes (one a…

It seems to be a hotly contested point, who played bass and when on Helter Skelter. I’ve seen all three guitar playing Beatles credited in different places, but I’m almost entirely sure it isn’t George. The playing is sloppy as shit and the tone sounds like a Bass VI, which points to John (whose sloppy playing style…

It’s not like he’s doing nothing. He’s on panel shows all the time (he’s a “Big Fat Quiz” regular with Noel Fielding as his partner) and has “Travel Man” and “Gadget Man” on Channel4. He’s directed music videos and movies. He’s the new host of “The Crystal Maze” game show (also Channel4).

I think the issue is he’s not…

John was there playing the Fender Bass VI. Right before Ringo screams he asks “How’s that?” to the control booth.

Their drumming styles are different enough that I think it would be obvious if Paul tracked over Ringo.

Nope. It’s Ringo. They were recording take after take of the song at about 10-15 minutes each (final version edited down to about 4 minutes) and after all day of doing that his fingers were blistered and he was pissed off and threw his sticks and screamed that.

The Höfner came back out during the “Get Back” sessions, so most of “Let It Be” (except for the songs where George or John played a Fender Bass VI while Paul played piano) and songs from “Abbey Road” that date from the “Get Back” sessions use it, e.g. “Oh! Darling” and “Octopus’s Garden”.

Those Beatles anecdotes are utterly full of shit.

Ringo might not be the most exciting drummer ever, but he had an impeccable sense of rhythm and timing, and I remember reading about someone going back and listening to all of the raw Beatles recordings (not the albums but the original tapes with the bad takes and all)…

You’d be shocked at how well you’d do on a recall task where you have to say if you’ve seen one of those titles before. You catch quite a bit in your parafoveal view without consciously processing.

The implication of the article at least is that they’re unmasking how Netflix works, when the reality is that to a large extend they’re happy to tell you.

Profiles! I just share mine within my household but I’ve set up a profile for each of us. I can tell the difference with Amazon Prime, which has no concept of profiles and due to having a 6 year old my suggestions are littered with kids shows, whereas Netflix suggests kids shows to her and content vaguely in the…

I don’t think it’s for no reason. My guess about that is that by moving your list around they’re getting you to look at other rows of content that they could get you to add or watch. They’re probably measuring if in aggregate users are more likely to add/watch something new when they have to move above or below and by…

Not bothered to watch the video (shocking, I know), but it’s not exactly a dark, secret conspiracy. Netflix has a tech blog where they post stories with titles along the lines of “How we A/B test images to improve viewer engagement”.

I think what Fox meant was that they would be fair (to Republicans) and balance out the evil librul agenda of the rest of mainstream media. I’m not saying that as a joke. I think that was literally their intent with the slogan, but with the more anodyne reading when looked at without context.

The Roosevelts in general were close though. There were two branches of the family, both of which had homes in Manhattan, but were distinguished by whether they summered in Oyster Bay (on Long Island) or Hyde Park (Upstate). Teddy’s family were Oyster Bay, Franklin’s were Hyde Park. Teddy was one of Franklin’s heroes…

You’re giving the ever-churning TNG:S1 writers room too much credit if you think they were setting up Yar’s death. Denise Crosby just got fed up with the role quickly and thought she could do better if she left. If anything Yar’s death was hastily thrown together.

Well, she was the witch in “Room on the Broom”.