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In reference to books words->minutes of film
Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Hobbit (in three parts and clocking in at a full eight hours) is an outlier, spending five minutes per 1000 in visualizing that story
CNN leaving the mics on so Elizabeth Warren could try and embarrass Bernie Sanders on national TV and hurt his campaign.
Firefly getting cancelled.
The Expanse getting cancelled.
I’m not a dumb man but I never could figure out the expanse, I’d always get lost of what was going on
I was upset about the expanse too. Talked to a coworker for a while about it and he said go read the books, just start at book 7 you really won't be missing much. So I did and immediately knew the 30 year time jump wouldn't have worked on screen. We still might get more a few years down the line when the actors age up. Also I'm glad I got into the books it was the spark that got me into audiobooks. Started listening to the expanse authors new series and I think that's getting picked up by Amazon as well.
Star wars. I just have such a love/frustration relationship with it. This includes stuff produced by George Lucas btw.
I feel like it tries to appease all crowds. The family friendly crowd, the autistic nerdy crowd, the politics obsessed crowd and so on.
Andor for example is peak star wars, because it's made specifically for one audience. No one's taking their 6yo to watch this.
The problem is when a kids' show has the prerequisite plot for a show with a totally different audience.
Take the clone wars for example. It started as nothing more than a kids' show. Then, it ended dark. Same with rebels. Look at episode 3. Amazing amazing plot with the transformation of the Republic into the empire. And then you have jar jar binks.
Let's not even begin to talk about Disney.
Star wars just has so much potential due to its huge world and the Jedi/sith stuff. But it's just so frustrating to see how such art can be wounded by the will to earn money.
I know this isn't "the most unforgivable sin" or whatever, but I suppose it's definitely up there. It's the sin of painting an angry face emoji on top of a beautiful and detailed painting of an unimaginabley cruel monster, just so that more toys can be sold.
Eh, all 3 movies were pretty good.
A lot of the original episodes of Pokemon were never dubbed in Danish. I will never forget. Never forgive.
Almost everything JJ Abrams has touched.
I would agree but with the caveat- everything jj Abrams has touched that he didn't make originally
His original works are fine. Super 8 is up there with some of the better modern scifi movies, his work on lost is legendary. But then you have both star trek and star wars... what a failure to both.
Aw. I actually liked his Star Treks...pretty much in the same way I like remixes or covers of my favorite songs, anyway.
I liked Lost for the most part, but he is way too fond of throwing out too many unresolved mystery boxes.
They canceled season 3 of Outer Range and I will never stop being pissed about that.
The Sci-Fi channel canceling Farscape.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion.
I think you are too late with that hope. If not directly Silmarillion, The Rings of Power does try to further exploit the story leading up to the age of LotR. And it is as bad as could be anticipated. I couldn't watch more than 3 episodes...
Crash of the Titans. Absolute travesty.
Media or entertainment? Kinda different animals.
Pretty much any book-to-movie adaptation. 90% are awful. It’s a rare case when they’re better or equal adaptations.
General media? The spinelessness of our news organizations across the board. A free press doesn’t exist, they bend a knee to their corporate billionaire overlords. They don’t tell the whole truth, they hold back, they don’t call a spade a spade. They should be part of the apparatus protecting the common person from the bullshit the rich and government try to sweep under the rug. At best, they’re complicit in their silence, at worst they’re active participants aiding the rich.
What I was going to say.
The "reputable" sources of information we were told to trust in school for our typical papers rate a solid F tier, with Wikipedia often providing both higher quality, accurate, and nuanced information despite being a tertiery source.
I can't name a single major news outlet in the USA worth watching or reading aside from maybe PBS.
Creating consent for the Gaza genocide
Anything star trek after ST:Enterprise
The movies were all dumbed down pew pew flare flare versions of previous star trek movies, the series were horrendously dumb and badly written, in a show that is about the stories, ethics, morale, etc.
It was awful and the only shining light was the series "The Orville" by Seth McFarlane who is a huge star trek fan and it shows.
People really need to start getting more brave with fresh new IPs. As much as I'd love to see old favourites rebooted/renewed you can tell when there's too many cooks in the kitchen and they ruin a good thing that's already reached a conclusion; good or not.
I like foundation, it gaves star trek vibes some episodes, more star wars lately
The foundation series is tough. It is simultaneously one of the absolutely least faithful and most disrespectful adaptations of science fiction literature of all time, and a really good show. I wish I could watch it without the lens of the books buuuut I can't.
Lower Decks was brilliant tho
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